The people of the Maldives had no problems surviving the 17th century, which was 50cm higher than now. Nor the last century, where it rose by 20cm. This bodes well for their prospects of surviving the next change.
I might be these suicides are not because FoxConn is a bad employer. They could be because FoxConn was trying too hard to be a good employer.
Foxconn revealed that it'll no longer be compensating families of dead employees as a move to discourage further suicides. CEO Terry Gou reasoned by exhibiting evidence that showed the money -- an amount almost equivalent to ten years' worth of salary -- was a major motivation for the suicides.
Abortion is wrong, because it's taking a human life. I'd suggest that your dismissal of that as 'arrogant and self centered behaviour' reflects 'views fucked up beyond belief' of your own.
Can you imagine New York traffic if all of those rail-riders were in cars?
Why would they be in cars? If you want to imagine the rail passengers on the road, why not imagine the rail-tracks replaced with bus lanes, and the rail passengers in buses, rather than cars?
I have adopted the best [suggestion] - an E-contact form that maximises my accessibility to constituents, but does not advertise my email address to lobbyists.
I would prefer to publish my email address, as I did until recently. So, I have also written to the Information Commissioner seeking clarification of the right to have an email address removed from the automated devices and distribution lists that lobby groups deploy to send clone emails.
In the UK, if you send an unstamped letter to someone, the recipient has to pay the postage.
One of my MEPs shot himself in the foot a couple of years ago, he sent out unstamped letters to his electors after the election, and they had to pay the postage (if they wanted the letter), only to discover it was junk mail! So we all got a follow up apology letter, with some unused stamps as compensation.:-)
The reason I stopped formally advertising my actual email address is that the Information Commissioner's Office advised me that, if I do, I am putting it in the public domain and then cannot ask for it to be removed from mass e-distribution lists or automated systems.
Hardware failures are just far more rare for Apple products than they are for the flimsy machines that everybody in the windows market makes.
Tosh.
Apple use the same components, and the same assemblers, as everyone else. The G3 iBook had a 70% failure rate. Early Intel MacBook Pro's had a 25% failure rate.
Brown didn't just use off balance sheet financing, Labour have been deficit spending since 2000. That's why every political party went into the last election promising government spending cuts to eliminate the 'structural' (permanent, not an effect of the recession) deficit.
...the OBR says the structural deficit - the part of the deficit that is not automatically reduced by economic growth - will widen from Labour's prediction of 7.3% of GDP in 2010-11 to 8%.
This 90% figure is pure fiction. A journalist at The Guardian (loss making competitor to The Times) speculates that they might have lost 90% of their online readership. He doesn't have access to The Times' numbers.
I certainly wouldn't hesitate to recommend Ubuntu to someone new to using computers.
I would. When they want buy the latest game, take a evening class that uses software, or run Sage/Quickbooks for their business they're going to find their new computer is only good for web browsing.
I've often come across inconveniences like this as a Mac user, Linux users must get it 24x7.
I remember Cringely suggesting that Microsoft got serious about security when they perceived their 'insecure software' reputation as a marketing problem.
I wouldn't expect gov't regulations to be any magic pill. They tend to become box ticking exercises, rather than proactive measures.
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I might be these suicides are not because FoxConn is a bad employer. They could be because FoxConn was trying too hard to be a good employer.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/foxconn-axes-suicide-compensation-relocating-some-production-to/
Abortion is wrong, because it's taking a human life. I'd suggest that your dismissal of that as 'arrogant and self centered behaviour' reflects 'views fucked up beyond belief' of your own.
Fifty years ago the masses used to use bikes. In a city, they can be a good choice.
That was just phase one
Tearing up rail lines, to be replaced by bus-only routes is phase 2 :-)
Why would they be in cars? If you want to imagine the rail passengers on the road, why not imagine the rail-tracks replaced with bus lanes, and the rail passengers in buses, rather than cars?
I suspect the Swedish railway system gets a substantial taxpayer subsidy. Would Californians want Swedish style taxes too?
Railways are a nineteenth century passenger solution. Today, bus lanes are a much cheaper alternative. New railways are just too expensive.
The city bike hire schemes, seem to be a cheaper, low tech version of those.
Spam?
If you read his side of the story, the most recent update says:
Please don't! The taxpayers would have to pay that bill.
In the UK, if you send an unstamped letter to someone, the recipient has to pay the postage.
One of my MEPs shot himself in the foot a couple of years ago, he sent out unstamped letters to his electors after the election, and they had to pay the postage (if they wanted the letter), only to discover it was junk mail! So we all got a follow up apology letter, with some unused stamps as compensation. :-)
He seems to have been following advice on how to opt-out of spam:
MacDonalds (uk) seem to have a good compromise. They have coin operated terminals, one per restaurant.
Tosh.
Apple use the same components, and the same assemblers, as everyone else. The G3 iBook had a 70% failure rate. Early Intel MacBook Pro's had a 25% failure rate.
Brown didn't just use off balance sheet financing, Labour have been deficit spending since 2000. That's why every political party went into the last election promising government spending cuts to eliminate the 'structural' (permanent, not an effect of the recession) deficit.
The quote below is from the BBC website:
There are some international rankings of universities. The USA dominates the top end.
The point I was trying to make is, that while you can get by without MS Windows, you save yourself a lot of aggravation by having MS Windows.
This 90% figure is pure fiction. A journalist at The Guardian (loss making competitor to The Times) speculates that they might have lost 90% of their online readership. He doesn't have access to The Times' numbers.
I would. When they want buy the latest game, take a evening class that uses software, or run Sage/Quickbooks for their business they're going to find their new computer is only good for web browsing.
I've often come across inconveniences like this as a Mac user, Linux users must get it 24x7.
I remember Cringely suggesting that Microsoft got serious about security when they perceived their 'insecure software' reputation as a marketing problem.
I wouldn't expect gov't regulations to be any magic pill. They tend to become box ticking exercises, rather than proactive measures.
Seconded. The MacBook I bought in December 2006 came installed with Mac OSX 10.4 (which no longer gets security updates).
Excuse my ignorance, but what is "a site's page cap"?
Webkit already supports canvas (which WebGL builds on), why does it need two drawing methods?