Actually, as a swede living in the Netherlands, I can inform that we actually have health insurance here (for short term illnesses). The difference is that if you cannot afford to pay one you will get an allowance to cover for it. all long term illnesses are covered by the state. An insurer cannot reject you due to known health issues and the insurance must cover a minimum set of issues.
....maybe I should have given a small synopsis. The story is basically about the collapse of our ecosystem by removing some of the lower parts of the food chain. From the top Amazon review (by Tim F. Martin):
"The action begins when Richard Sinclair, a paleontologist, working at a scientific research facility near his Long Island home, narrowly escapes with his nine year old daughter Tam - purely by accident - an attack by an unknown entity on his neighborhood. Taking dozens of people by complete surprise, the entity looks like a living black carpet. Killing in minutes innocent bystanders, police officers, and later a television reporter crew (as well as Sinclair's wife), the media dubs the threat motes. As the area is quarantined, Sinclair and other scientists come to the conclusion after a harrowing trip into the infected town that the "motes" are mites, a massive horde of starving mites that attack and devour literally to the bone anyone that cannot escape them.
Sinclair and the other researchers of Brookhaven (also called the City of Dreams) discover that the threat of the motes - however bad - is merely the tip of the iceberg and not only the United States but all of humanity faces a grave threat. Looking at data from bee keepers - who were virtually of business - the astronomical rise in orange juice prices, and a host of other bits of data not previously integrated by researchers (bringing to mind for me some of the separate bits of intelligence prior to September 11th), Sinclair and the others come to a startling conclusion; the world's insect have vanished. They have all died out, disappeared completely, and this seemingly good bit of news (at least at first glance, to the uninitiated) rapidly produces vastly dire consequences. With the extinction of fungal gnats (a bit of data an entomologist died procuring), massive fungal blooms are spreading throughout the world's crops (aided by the fact that most of the world's crop plants are of extremely limited genetic diversity). With no insects to control the fungus (and farmers having gotten away from spraying their crops due the gradual decline in insect pests the last few years), the fungus spreads amok, first wiping out crops in India (precipitating an ugly war between it and Pakistan and Sri Lanka as India seeks to annex areas with uninfected croplands, dragging the U.S. into the conflict), later to other countries. Large numbers of animals die throughout the world - insect eating bats, later, fruit eating-bats (which as they die out no longer pollinate plants themselves), many omnivorous animals, freshwater fish that rely upon larval aquatic insects for food - and with no flies or other insect scavengers to remove the bodies, freshwater throughout the world is rendered toxic by the massive amounts of bacteria that now teem in it. Much of this runoff spreads into the sea, creating low or no oxygen areas, wiping out those fish species not already being depleted by frantic nations desperate to replace declining crops as a food source. Even the motes are a result of the end of insects; no longer held in check by insect predators nor having to compete with insects, reach plague proportions in some areas, once harmless mites killing hundreds of people.
Things of course in this novel get worse, much worse. The economy goes into a freefall in the United States as non-mote infected areas refuse to have anything to do with those under quarantine or even suspected of having a mote problem. Entire industries collapse, such as the trucking industry, while those reliant on trucking, such as grocery stores which need regular shipments of goods, collapse as well. As crops start to fail in the United States and as gasoline starts to become scarce thanks to a broken down transportation system, riots begin to happen. Stepping into these chaotic and turbulent times is Jerry Sigmond, a corrupt former talk-show host with unfortunately real skills in making others into fanatical followers of a new mass movement he begins to lead, one that sees scientists and engi
C# got lots of goodies,especially if you come from dynamically typed and functional languages. Shame it only officially runs on windows. I wish MS embraced or at least blessed mono properly. c# got stuff like anonymous functions/classes/lambdas/expressions trees/type inference/ and oter things I that I missed. Yes maybe java is a more enterprise and solid langauge, but c# is quite exiting.
If only they stopped insisting on having capitals at te beginning of eac method, arhh..
indeed , PHP can very much be 'good enough'. Nowadays I prefer other languages, but i struggle to understand the hate towards php. Yeah, it might have some warts, but it has a standard lib that does pretty much al you can ask for and it runs on pretty much all webhosters.
rubbish jsu tadd a polarized lense over the lense and you are good to go for 2D, others here mentioned using 2 cameras, suppose that works as well, but weems like a lot of work
I think the issue here is more that Amazon have the ability to reach into your kindle and remove books *after* you bought them. Amazon did sell these books and decided to stop, fair enough. but going into the device and remove it from everyone who bouight it digitally is a step over the line. It's a bit Amazon forcing themselves into your home and going through your bookshelf removing books it deems 'wrong'
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...idiots like this will make sure that it's only a question of time before drones are forbidden/regulated.
You can use the chip and pin cards for old-style transactions as well. If I go to the states with my card I just swipe and sign as everyone else.
Maybe we do not want to be dependent on something so important that is not under our control?
I did ARMv6 before it was mainstream.... ;-)
zeppelins got nothing on space-poo: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/mars-mission-to-use-astronaut-feces-as-radiation-shield/article4471834.ece
aha, Well, just shows how good I am at reading my own sources! :-)
yes, like threatening to cancel a 30m project due to parking lot stand-off
>Dutch: Do everything we ask, with a smile. "We'll make it work" attitude. "It's not a problem" attitude.
YOu clearly never worked / interacted with dutch business....
source: I live in Amsterdam
I believe you're only allowed to work 35 hours/week in france
source: http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/export-to/europe/14173-employment-law-guide-france
The whoosh is strong in this one...
...personally I prefer this one as it shows on a map where in the station you are, an hour' s tour as well!!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBm0Dpfj_k
...you can make an omelett without breaking some eggs...
Actually, as a swede living in the Netherlands, I can inform that we actually have health insurance here (for short term illnesses). The difference is that if you cannot afford to pay one you will get an allowance to cover for it. all long term illnesses are covered by the state.
An insurer cannot reject you due to known health issues and the insurance must cover a minimum set of issues.
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherlands
....maybe I should have given a small synopsis. The story is basically about the collapse of our ecosystem by removing some of the lower parts of the food chain. From the top Amazon review (by Tim F. Martin) :
"The action begins when Richard Sinclair, a paleontologist, working at a scientific research facility near his Long Island home, narrowly escapes with his nine year old daughter Tam - purely by accident - an attack by an unknown entity on his neighborhood. Taking dozens of people by complete surprise, the entity looks like a living black carpet. Killing in minutes innocent bystanders, police officers, and later a television reporter crew (as well as Sinclair's wife), the media dubs the threat motes. As the area is quarantined, Sinclair and other scientists come to the conclusion after a harrowing trip into the infected town that the "motes" are mites, a massive horde of starving mites that attack and devour literally to the bone anyone that cannot escape them.
Sinclair and the other researchers of Brookhaven (also called the City of Dreams) discover that the threat of the motes - however bad - is merely the tip of the iceberg and not only the United States but all of humanity faces a grave threat. Looking at data from bee keepers - who were virtually of business - the astronomical rise in orange juice prices, and a host of other bits of data not previously integrated by researchers (bringing to mind for me some of the separate bits of intelligence prior to September 11th), Sinclair and the others come to a startling conclusion; the world's insect have vanished. They have all died out, disappeared completely, and this seemingly good bit of news (at least at first glance, to the uninitiated) rapidly produces vastly dire consequences. With the extinction of fungal gnats (a bit of data an entomologist died procuring), massive fungal blooms are spreading throughout the world's crops (aided by the fact that most of the world's crop plants are of extremely limited genetic diversity). With no insects to control the fungus (and farmers having gotten away from spraying their crops due the gradual decline in insect pests the last few years), the fungus spreads amok, first wiping out crops in India (precipitating an ugly war between it and Pakistan and Sri Lanka as India seeks to annex areas with uninfected croplands, dragging the U.S. into the conflict), later to other countries. Large numbers of animals die throughout the world - insect eating bats, later, fruit eating-bats (which as they die out no longer pollinate plants themselves), many omnivorous animals, freshwater fish that rely upon larval aquatic insects for food - and with no flies or other insect scavengers to remove the bodies, freshwater throughout the world is rendered toxic by the massive amounts of bacteria that now teem in it. Much of this runoff spreads into the sea, creating low or no oxygen areas, wiping out those fish species not already being depleted by frantic nations desperate to replace declining crops as a food source. Even the motes are a result of the end of insects; no longer held in check by insect predators nor having to compete with insects, reach plague proportions in some areas, once harmless mites killing hundreds of people.
Things of course in this novel get worse, much worse. The economy goes into a freefall in the United States as non-mote infected areas refuse to have anything to do with those under quarantine or even suspected of having a mote problem. Entire industries collapse, such as the trucking industry, while those reliant on trucking, such as grocery stores which need regular shipments of goods, collapse as well. As crops start to fail in the United States and as gasoline starts to become scarce thanks to a broken down transportation system, riots begin to happen. Stepping into these chaotic and turbulent times is Jerry Sigmond, a corrupt former talk-show host with unfortunately real skills in making others into fanatical followers of a new mass movement he begins to lead, one that sees scientists and engi
See amazon entry. It's quite a fantastic read although very bleak.
Funny fact: they play around with things reassembling ipads in the book
*before* the beard? where there ever a time before the beard?!?!
bah, const is for wimps!
yup, apple copied the android pull-down status bar from android for example
C# got lots of goodies,especially if you come from dynamically typed and functional languages. Shame it only officially runs on windows. I wish MS embraced or at least blessed mono properly.
c# got stuff like anonymous functions/classes/lambdas/expressions trees/type inference/ and oter things I that I missed. Yes maybe java is a more enterprise and solid langauge, but c# is quite exiting.
If only they stopped insisting on having capitals at te beginning of eac method, arhh..
indeed , PHP can very much be 'good enough'. Nowadays I prefer other languages, but i struggle to understand the hate towards php. Yeah, it might have some warts, but it has a standard lib that does pretty much al you can ask for and it runs on pretty much all webhosters.
... one might argue that Samsung have prior art to the iphone...
Or you can just buy yourself an ol' T-800 and tell it to suit through the film and record it...
rubbish jsu tadd a polarized lense over the lense and you are good to go for 2D, others here mentioned using 2 cameras, suppose that works as well, but weems like a lot of work
I think the issue here is more that Amazon have the ability to reach into your kindle and remove books *after* you bought them.
Amazon did sell these books and decided to stop, fair enough. but going into the device and remove it from everyone who bouight it digitally is a step over the line. It's a bit Amazon forcing themselves into your home and going through your bookshelf removing books it deems 'wrong'
more importantly, does it run linux?