I'm not sure, but as far as I know, other companies, such as Alcatel with its acquisitions, hold a significanty share or the interconnecting market, at least outside of the US. And I also think Alcatel is number one of ADSL, at least in Europe.
Once again, I'm not sure. If somebody has actual numbers...
> If it were, the websites of the KKK, NRA, and > other hate groups would be illegal. > Racism is not a crime. Acts of discrimination, > assault, et cetera based on racism ARE > crimes,but you can not be prosecuted for > personal beliefs. > Part of the US idea of basic rights is not > prosecuting unpopular ideas.
I know that, but here we're talking about the French laws. And by the way, what can be prosecuted in France is not one's racist or antisemitic ideas, but the "incitation to racial hate". In other words the fact that you create a web site in which you explain that black, arabic or jews are enemies of society and must be banned. Get the difference?
However, given the fact that you started insulting me at the end of your message simply because you assumed I was French, I'm not surprised that you are more attached to this type of freedom rather than to the right for a human being, black, jew, French, anything, not to be insulted and pointed at just because of its origins. Let's say we have different ideals.
> we've had to bail their asses out twice in last hundred years.
Please, learn history of WWI. Then come back.
And be happy your country did not have several hundred miles of ground frontier with Germany during these world wars. It's way easier to laugh in your position.
BTW, in WWII, Germany lost the war in Stalingrad. Not in Normandy. Yeah, thanks commies. Sound weird, doesn't it?
> even the poor in the US are remarkably wealthy > by the standards of the rest of the world
Well, no, I was talking about poverty as measured in an "absolute sense", and not relatively to the rest of the population of the country. That is, I'm talking about poverty as defined by the United Nations. In other words, someone who sadly "qualifies" as a poor in the US is supposed to be in a similar situation as someone who "qualifies" as a poor in Europe.
And, according to this index, there are approximately 15% of poors in the US, and 8% in a western continental country such as Scandinavian countries or France. But you're right, of course, this is due to more "egalitarian" choices. These countries also have much less rich people than US does. Depends on what matters most...
Otherwise I basically agree with the rest of your message.
> > So do we 'own' democracy the same way we 'own' the internet? > > England and France both observed our idea of > democracy and tried to reverse-engineer it for > their own use. Of course their implementations > leave a great deal to be desired
If this _really_ what you were taught in school? I doubt it. Sounds to me like Microsoft explaining it has created the Internet, component programming and symbolic links.
Before making such absurd claims, please learn a bit about the roots of democracy, will you? Learn about what happened in Switzerland in the 13th century. Then learn about the English revolution and Cromwell. Then, the most important, learn about the 18th century and the Enlightenment, learn about who were the inspirators of Franklin, Jefferson and Washington.
Learn about Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot and Paine. Learn about the American and the French revolution, and the birth of both republics. And then realize how absurd your ethnocentric "reverse-engineering" blabla is.
Until then, shut up and stay humble. It's a shame that an American like you doesn't even know the basic history of his own country.
Among other points : > England and France are socialist countries, but > if they didn't have crude forms of democracy in > place they'd be much, much poorer than they are. >
Never, never forget that, for all the smoke and bluster, US has way more many poors than France and continental Europe in general.
A good cover on the use of wavelets for still image compression and video compression is chapter 11 of Mallat's book, here: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/mallat/book.html. To avoid confusion, for those of you who don't know about that, lossy compression (usually the case for image, sound, video, and in general signal compression, jpegs norms and mpegs norms are 2 examples) is a completely different thing than lossless compression (as provided by gzip or bzip2). Wavelets are mostly used for lossy compression, yet some research are currently conducted for lossless compression with wavelets, but don't expect a drop-in replacement for gzip or bzip2. This may just be useful for compression of transient signals such as natural images, there are still a few areas in which photo-interpreters refuse lossy compression (this is less and less the case, even medical imaging is now opening arms to lossy compression for image storing).
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> I believe the nazis pioneered the use of
> propaganda towards children.
Pretty close, but actually Mussolini and the Italian fascists did, a few years before nazis.
I'm not sure, but as far as I know, other companies, such as Alcatel with its acquisitions, hold a significanty share or the interconnecting market, at least outside of the US. And I also think Alcatel is number one of ADSL, at least in Europe.
Once again, I'm not sure. If somebody has actual numbers...
> If it were, the websites of the KKK, NRA, and
> other hate groups would be illegal.
> Racism is not a crime. Acts of discrimination,
> assault, et cetera based on racism ARE
> crimes,but you can not be prosecuted for
> personal beliefs.
> Part of the US idea of basic rights is not
> prosecuting unpopular ideas.
I know that, but here we're talking about the French laws. And by the way, what can be prosecuted in France is not one's racist or antisemitic ideas, but the "incitation to racial hate". In other words the fact that you create a web site in which you explain that black, arabic or jews are enemies of society and must be banned. Get the difference?
However, given the fact that you started insulting me at the end of your message simply because you assumed I was French, I'm not surprised that you are more attached to this type of freedom rather than to the right for a human being, black, jew, French, anything, not to be insulted and pointed at just because of its origins. Let's say we have different ideals.
> we've had to bail their asses out twice in last hundred years.
Please, learn history of WWI. Then come back.
And be happy your country did not have several hundred miles of ground frontier with Germany during these world wars. It's way easier to laugh in your position.
BTW, in WWII, Germany lost the war in Stalingrad. Not in Normandy. Yeah, thanks commies. Sound weird, doesn't it?
Individual right to put illegal contents (racism, pedophilia, etc..) without individual responsibility? Interesting.
> even the poor in the US are remarkably wealthy
> by the standards of the rest of the world
Well, no, I was talking about poverty as measured in an "absolute sense", and not relatively to the rest of the population of the country. That is, I'm talking about poverty as defined by the United Nations. In other words, someone who sadly "qualifies" as a poor in the US is supposed to be in a similar situation as someone who "qualifies" as a poor in Europe.
And, according to this index, there are approximately 15% of poors in the US, and 8% in a western continental country such as Scandinavian countries or France. But you're right, of course, this is due to more "egalitarian" choices. These countries also have much less rich people than US does. Depends on what matters most...
Otherwise I basically agree with the rest of your message.
> > So do we 'own' democracy the same way we 'own' the internet?
>
> England and France both observed our idea of
> democracy and tried to reverse-engineer it for
> their own use. Of course their implementations
> leave a great deal to be desired
If this _really_ what you were taught in school? I doubt it. Sounds to me like Microsoft explaining it has created the Internet, component programming and symbolic links.
Before making such absurd claims, please learn a bit about the roots of democracy, will you? Learn about what happened in Switzerland in the 13th century. Then learn about the English revolution and Cromwell. Then, the most important, learn about the 18th century and the Enlightenment, learn about who were the inspirators of Franklin, Jefferson and Washington.
Learn about Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot and Paine. Learn about the American and the French revolution, and the birth of both republics. And then realize how absurd your ethnocentric "reverse-engineering" blabla is.
Until then, shut up and stay humble. It's a shame that an American like you doesn't even know the basic history of his own country.
Among other points :
> England and France are socialist countries, but
> if they didn't have crude forms of democracy in
> place they'd be much, much poorer than they are.
>
Never, never forget that, for all the smoke and bluster, US has way more many poors than France and continental Europe in general.
A good cover on the use of wavelets for still image compression and video compression is chapter 11 of Mallat's book, here: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/mallat/book.html. To avoid confusion, for those of you who don't know about that, lossy compression (usually the case for image, sound, video, and in general signal compression, jpegs norms and mpegs norms are 2 examples) is a completely different thing than lossless compression (as provided by gzip or bzip2). Wavelets are mostly used for lossy compression, yet some research are currently conducted for lossless compression with wavelets, but don't expect a drop-in replacement for gzip or bzip2. This may just be useful for compression of transient signals such as natural images, there are still a few areas in which photo-interpreters refuse lossy compression (this is less and less the case, even medical imaging is now opening arms to lossy compression for image storing).
> The US has the richest poor people of any country on the planet.
No. Just for info, at least Switzerland, Luxemburg, Denmark and Norway have richer people.
For Norway, this is mainly due to huge natural resources (gas, oil, fishing), _plus_ a very clever management of these resources,
Switzerland and Luxemburg are wealthy mostly thanks to foreign and illegitimate money poured in their black holes usually called "banks".
I don't know of any obvious structural explanation for Denmark.
> I am quite fond of award myself. Award and Phoenix have merged in september 1998. See http://www.award.com/ That's some work for judge Jackson.
> I am quite fond of award myself. Award and Phoenix have merged in september 1998. See http://www.award.com/ That's some work for judge Jackson.