The point is that rural expectation of high speed internet access is as silly as expecting a choice of 15 movies playing in your area. If you want to live the rural lifestyle, you need to adjust to it and not expect "urban" amenities.
Just a bit of perspective to your bald comparisons:
In Hollywood, theaters play 1 movie that is sometimes 2 years old, and that for months on end. I've been there. It is a pain to find a theater with a good movie (and consequently we couldn't). In my home town, which is much smaller, and surrounded by vast amounts of rural area, they have 2 mega complexes, one with 26 and one with 22 (big) auditoria, and they play all kinds of international movies, shorts, docu's, boxoffice movies.. and NEXT to that, we have a dozen or so smaller theaters playing alternative, cult and art circuit movies. And to top it off, our cultural festival each summer organises open-air movie viewings near the river, free of charge.
The only reason for me to watch a TV series episode is because:
a) I've heard about it and my friends like it for some reason. b) It's vastly better than most of the crap out there, and doesn't give in to what the average Joe Sixpack can grasp in his nightly mental floss sessions.
So far I have not been able to come to appreciate none of that BWitched, WitchHereAndThere, BuffyTheVampireSlut and everything else in that department. What could get me arsed about watching TV were SOME (SOME!) episodes of Voyager, DS9, X-Files, Friends, Sex & The City and 24.
They seem eager to report things that are just plain wrong. For instance:
" Forrester Research on its main site currently leaves the question open of whether Linux is more secure than Windows. According to Forrester's count, Microsoft Windows had 128 flaws, Red Hat Linux - 229 flaws, Debian - 286, Mandrake Linux - 199, SUSE - 176. 100% of Microsoft flaws were fixed, while the number of fixes is 99,6% for Red Hat, 96,2% for Debian, 99% for Mandrake and 97,7% for SUSE. "
, the oldest post on the page, of april 20. Not trying to sound like a zealot, I think there is indeed a string of flaws and bugs to be fixed in *every* OS, but I sure as hell don't think that A) the majority of those flaws has been fixed in windows, B) windows has less unfixed flaws than Linux distro's, and C) that you can actually derive a notion of 'security' from those figures. If most of the faws are fixed half a year after the flaw is exploited, your security is pretty much non existant.
If that's the kind of reports they want me to believe are true they can better close shop cuz I ain't buyin.
I think David Attenborough once narrated in one of his exciting docu's on nature that the reason for mankind to become bipedal may well have been the floodig of most of the earth's surface as ice from the previous ice-age melted away. Sealevels near the penetrable coastlines rose dramatically, leaving most of the nutricious places flooded. In some area's our ancestors have been completely cut-off, and they were forced to wade up-right for long periods of time through the water. The water may even have helped them to learn how to do this, as you don't weigh so much.
I think it's time you folks learn about the virtues of eXtreme Programming: Short production cycles, testcases and frameworks, constant feedback loops..
It realy works. The only problem is getting your management to leave you this 'freedom' to choose your way of managing software production down to the smallest details.
..premature sighing when there hasn't even been a demoparty in the last 10 years, period.
If you US code monkey's are going to enjoy showing off your talent, then yes why not start commenting on the lack of sponsorship, the lack of linux, the lack of pinguins, the lack of sceners, the lack of productions, the lack of music, the lack of the good old days, the lack of easy miles to cross, the lack of holidays to spent, the lack of girls, the lack of money..
but hey, don't even think about hitting that keyboard with something constructive.. noooooo.....
What's so damn hard about making a secure terminal to vote on? We have electronic voting terminals replacing the pen and paper voting for more than 10 years!
In the land of the free, where democracy and freedom of speech and choice is king, the same land that prides itself time and time again on it's prosperous technological supremacy, the problems with the pen and paper voting looked like a total joke. And now it's the electronic voting which is a problem? Do you people even WANT to vote at all?
How difficult could it be to auto-mirror front page stories on/. itself?
I mean, data-wise, local websites probably take up anything under a 100 Meg, and only go a few pages deep. The rest of it can still link to the outside world, since the probability of people following over 2 pages deep links away from the actual report is small. So the outside server could easily survive, and is not forced to switch servers just because there is ONE spike./. itself Already takes the hit anyway, so it could easily sustain the traffic.
It seems a bit silly to force websites onto larger bandwidth servers because they get linked to from news sites such as these. It's nice for the advancement of broadband, but it's also wastefull in resources most of the time.
My salary? 35k a year. Granted our company sends us on a cruise every year, but still that amounts to below 40k.
I worked hard for where I am at, and if I had to do it over again, I would've gone into another field. It sucks because Computers were my passion. The blood-sucking money leeches who won't compsenate me for what I do is driving the passion of my job right out of me.
I hear you. Without ever having been a true nerd, computers are my passion, and I'm one of these programmers who can smell the actual cause for a bug from miles away. I'm known for providing todays typical helpdesk support before the internet or callcenter concepts had been born to friends and family. I was their wizzard long before the concept was formalised in help systems. I was around 15, and my dream would be to ever work in the games industry.
Today, I make around as much as you do. Management sucks, their decisions suck, some of the projects suck, and sometimes the atmosphere in general sucks. But boy do they know how to take advantage of you when it comes down to conditions. They have their lines ready: "hey, this is the games industry, you should be glad".. well.. that line only runs so far..
My friends in the telco industry, the ones with the supposedly rotten jobs, make over 3 times of what I make. They get to take their vacation, and they can really go for something decent. And after a few years of my sincere enthusiasm, seeing and hearing this over and over again realy starts to bite.
I think Schumacher wins because his car is more reliable, and because his crew manages to use the pitlane to get him ahead. Over the last 5 years or so, I haven't seen *any* interesting racing fight with him for 1st place. His team mate isn't even allowed to go for 1st place if Shumi is somewhere near it.
But he deserves to win, and gets my respect primarily because he has a way of telling his team what is wrong with the car, and how and where they can improve, better than anyone else. But don't tell me he is the best driver ever. There was only one and, he passed away racing.
As long as there are pirates, there will be free speech, and ultimately, better software, security, and more rights. Pirates are those people who make it possible for the poor man to experience a part of modern culture, which economic law and society has denied him. They are the opposition forces of society to the corporate globalist oppression of the free virtual world.
I don't defend stealing in general, but I do not believe in digital 'property' (especially not if it is being made public in theatres), hence digital information can not be stolen (or bought), only protected.
In the end, digital freedom is inevitable, and anything standing in it's way will make society ugly and complicated, and will eventually make it collapse.
I've written my national and regional MP of the department of Work and Economy, and she promissed me to make sure belgium would not vote yes to the proposal of the current Irish presidency. Belgium (my country) subsequently abstained from the vote, along with a few others. Germany, which was expected to at least abstain, and that had said it would vote no, in the end voted yes, which makes blocking the proposal a whole lot more difficult (but not impossible). I won't pretend my writing made the difference, but I would say that yes, it does pay off to make some noise.
The big problem here is that lawyers and rulemakers can be bought, and that the FFII does not represent the kapitalist industry that can apparently leverage any vote it wants, 'xcept for a few small stubborn but harmless ones.
So, open your eyes, ladies and gentlemen, because King Kapitalism, in this case, is ~BAD~. I'm not a commie nor a leftie, but I just wanted to say this loud and clear, so that some people at least for once get the message. And no, I'm not an Anti-globalist, but I very much *AM* a Different-globalist, who wants to bring the power back to the ones who need it (us, the people, in case you were wondering)
Write your MP today, and get your friends to write as well. It's not so difficult to write a well founded email, and at least they will be aware that some groups in society WILL have a problem and at least HAVE warned the EU of the consequences. It will make their case less convincing, and they will never be able to say "uh, we didn't know". Write today. Peace out.
Ken Perlin actually sang a song at SIGGRAPH 2002 before he presented his "Improving Noise" paper, and didn't even fail to be funny, sadly I can't find the text anymore, but it was hillarious. This guy manages to bring technical stuff to a tired audience and getting the whole crowd to laugh with his witty lyrics, on the subject of something as interesting as noise.
Ken Perlin is also the guy who has brought together much of the talent that is responsible for the ongoing success of Pixar. I guess you could say he has a no(i)se for noise that makes the difference.
The old Amstrad Schneider PC 1512 came with 3 OS'es.. CP/M dos, MS Dos, and GEM. GEM was by far the most advanced OS of the 3, as it was a full featured window manager like on the AppleII2, but with some additional great ideas in it that only reappeared 5 years later with windows 3.1. It had fontlibraries, graphics, drawing programs, text editors, and most of all, Locomotive Basic-2, which ran the very first program I ever 'wrote' (line copied from tutors): stars.bas (drawing impressive line-based star doodles)
I still have the complete manual, and iirc the term 'window' was used all over the place to explain users how to navigate, where they could find all the options by right-clicking (yes, right-clicking, pre-MSWindows)
GEM was a fine system. I'm not sure why it never caught on. It was so much better than the 2 command line DOS OS'es, I never could understand why people wanted to write those dreadfully inpotent strings of batch files. I preferred TP and QuickBasic any time! The Borland tools also had 'windows', as did Tasword, Framework, db2, PageMaker,..
Firstly, as you say, yes; the problem of Muslim extremists does exist, and does have to be dealt with. However, you earlier claimed that the atmosphere of fear (I won't say terror) is being created by the US government. I would make the case to you that the atmosphere of fear was created on September 11th, that it sent very large and very real ripples through the very social fabric of the country, and even with no government prompting and no further attacks, will take decades to get back to 2000 normal.
This is simply wrong. The TradeCenter was the target of terrorists earlier with a bomb explosion going of in the basement area. Luckily back then, the structure remained intact. The US 'created' Osama, and both FBI, CIA and government were more 'aware' of the problem than they would like to admit publicly, so stating that 9/11 came out of the blue, or 'started' on it's own, is not accurate. Investigations are under way to see if the republicans 'used' the attacks to gain support for their 10 year old war plans.
What DID change was the fact that the world woke up with the acute knowledge that their civilians were no longer safe from harm, and that terrorism was getting more apt and proliferated every day.
Then you claim that the greenies were right all along. Well, not precisely. They've been right on some things, wrong on others, just like every other group out there. Global cooling, anyone?
Well, melting the icecaps is still going on. The sealevel is still rising. The ocean currents may be slowing down, wales are beginning to migrate to other locations and still reduce in numbers.
Do me and the world a favour, and vote for anything BUT republican or democrat, so that your country can, for once, truely experience the merrits of a multi-party democracy.
The game has been finished for over 3 months but talks to get it on the shelves have been kinda stalling so far..:/ Guess it gives us a chance to polish even more, which is also kinda cool.
I'll post a JE when the game gets out of the door in the coming months.
Well, I wrote to our government about my concerns and the concerns of the FFII, and this is the reply I got.
[..]
Niettemin hou ik er aan de krachtlijnen van het toenmalige
Belgische standpunt in herinnering te brengen. Het is immers
niet uitgesloten dat het Iers voorzitterschap het punt in de
loop van de maand mei op de Raad agendeert, en in dat geval zal
België naar deze krachtlijnen teruggrijpen.
[..]
De Belgische Regering bevestigt haar standpunt dat het voorstel
van richtlijn moet toelaten om octrooibescherming te verlenen
aan in computer geïmplementeerde uitvindingen. Deze
octrooibescherming kan zich echter niet uitstrekken tot de
bescherming van software "als dusdanig": een duidelijke link
met een technische omgeving, overeenkomstig de jurisprudentie
van het Europees Octrooibureau, moet aanwezig zijn.
De Belgische Regering vraagt uitdrukkelijk dat met de
amendementen van het Europees Parlement rekening wordt gehouden
voor wat betreft de nadere bepaling van de noties "technische
omgeving" en "technisch gebied", onder andere in die zin dat
een octrooieerbaarheid onmogelijk is voor software die
rechtstreeks of onrechtstreeks de automatische uitwisseling,
opslag en beheer van gegevens betreft.
[..]
Tot slot vraagt de Belgische Regering uitdrukkelijk dat het
Europees Parlement het voorstel van richtlijn verder bespreekt
en dat de geciteerde amendementen van het Europees Parlement
grondig worden bestudeerd en heroverwogen.
Ok, so that's a small country, but still.. there is some political momentum to vote against. If we can convince one mor member state to vote against, the vote will be dismissed.
The article mentionned this is the first time 'gang members use the internet' to fight their wars. How odd. I think it would be rather unique to have street gangs use profane and religious grounds to go out and have a fight with eachother. Not that religious wars are anything new, of course, but streetgangs in profane chat channels cursing at each other? That's just too much.
Blah anyway.. anyone uses the net for anything the se days, so why not gangwars. A bit like Guildwars but without the fancy graphics, right. Not really the big/. gold nugget of news I would say.
I believe people go into the woods for adventure. They come to the woods to be on their own. The whole adventure experience revolves around being able to 'be on your own in the woods and cope fine'. If you take that away, then you'd better convert your wood into picknick area's.
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The point is that rural expectation of high speed internet access is as silly as expecting a choice of 15 movies playing in your area. If you want to live the rural lifestyle, you need to adjust to it and not expect "urban" amenities.
Just a bit of perspective to your bald comparisons:
In Hollywood, theaters play 1 movie that is sometimes 2 years old, and that for months on end. I've been there. It is a pain to find a theater with a good movie (and consequently we couldn't). In my home town, which is much smaller, and surrounded by vast amounts of rural area, they have 2 mega complexes, one with 26 and one with 22 (big) auditoria, and they play all kinds of international movies, shorts, docu's, boxoffice movies.. and NEXT to that, we have a dozen or so smaller theaters playing alternative, cult and art circuit movies. And to top it off, our cultural festival each summer organises open-air movie viewings near the river, free of charge.
The only reason for me to watch a TV series episode is because:
a) I've heard about it and my friends like it for some reason.
b) It's vastly better than most of the crap out there, and doesn't give in to what the average Joe Sixpack can grasp in his nightly mental floss sessions.
So far I have not been able to come to appreciate none of that BWitched, WitchHereAndThere, BuffyTheVampireSlut and everything else in that department. What could get me arsed about watching TV were SOME (SOME!) episodes of Voyager, DS9, X-Files, Friends, Sex & The City and 24.
Must be getting old..
They seem eager to report things that are just plain wrong. For instance:
"
Forrester Research on its main site currently leaves the question open of whether Linux is more secure than Windows. According to Forrester's count, Microsoft Windows had 128 flaws, Red Hat Linux - 229 flaws, Debian - 286, Mandrake Linux - 199, SUSE - 176. 100% of Microsoft flaws were fixed, while the number of fixes is 99,6% for Red Hat, 96,2% for Debian, 99% for Mandrake and 97,7% for SUSE.
"
, the oldest post on the page, of april 20. Not trying to sound like a zealot, I think there is indeed a string of flaws and bugs to be fixed in *every* OS, but I sure as hell don't think that A) the majority of those flaws has been fixed in windows, B) windows has less unfixed flaws than Linux distro's, and C) that you can actually derive a notion of 'security' from those figures. If most of the faws are fixed half a year after the flaw is exploited, your security is pretty much non existant.
If that's the kind of reports they want me to believe are true they can better close shop cuz I ain't buyin.
I think David Attenborough once narrated in one of his exciting docu's on nature that the reason for mankind to become bipedal may well have been the floodig of most of the earth's surface as ice from the previous ice-age melted away. Sealevels near the penetrable coastlines rose dramatically, leaving most of the nutricious places flooded. In some area's our ancestors have been completely cut-off, and they were forced to wade up-right for long periods of time through the water. The water may even have helped them to learn how to do this, as you don't weigh so much.
Another theory, totally natural and imaginable..
I think it's time you folks learn about the virtues of eXtreme Programming: Short production cycles, testcases and frameworks, constant feedback loops..
It realy works. The only problem is getting your management to leave you this 'freedom' to choose your way of managing software production down to the smallest details.
Now the public can chose what problems that it wants solved
Jesus, there's a horrible thought. I've met the public (and seen it's choice in TV). I'd rather have monkeys choose.
Well the idea is that, you, as a member of said public, take responsibility more serious instead of just dissing it because others do.
If you US code monkey's are going to enjoy showing off your talent, then yes why not start commenting on the lack of sponsorship, the lack of linux, the lack of pinguins, the lack of sceners, the lack of productions, the lack of music, the lack of the good old days, the lack of easy miles to cross, the lack of holidays to spent, the lack of girls, the lack of money..
but hey, don't even think about hitting that keyboard with something constructive.. noooooo.....
What's so damn hard about making a secure terminal to vote on? We have electronic voting terminals replacing the pen and paper voting for more than 10 years!
In the land of the free, where democracy and freedom of speech and choice is king, the same land that prides itself time and time again on it's prosperous technological supremacy, the problems with the pen and paper voting looked like a total joke. And now it's the electronic voting which is a problem? Do you people even WANT to vote at all?
How difficult could it be to auto-mirror front page stories on
I mean, data-wise, local websites probably take up anything under a 100 Meg, and only go a few pages deep. The rest of it can still link to the outside world, since the probability of people following over 2 pages deep links away from the actual report is small. So the outside server could easily survive, and is not forced to switch servers just because there is ONE spike.
It seems a bit silly to force websites onto larger bandwidth servers because they get linked to from news sites such as these. It's nice for the advancement of broadband, but it's also wastefull in resources most of the time.
Why no blatant plug for OpenUDS! ? :)
I've played around with the Farbraush tool last week (it was on scene.org since a week or so). Very impressive. Hope they open up the API.
My salary? 35k a year. Granted our company sends us on a cruise every year, but still that amounts to below 40k.
I worked hard for where I am at, and if I had to do it over again, I would've gone into another field. It sucks because Computers were my passion. The blood-sucking money leeches who won't compsenate me for what I do is driving the passion of my job right out of me.
I hear you. Without ever having been a true nerd, computers are my passion, and I'm one of these programmers who can smell the actual cause for a bug from miles away. I'm known for providing todays typical helpdesk support before the internet or callcenter concepts had been born to friends and family. I was their wizzard long before the concept was formalised in help systems. I was around 15, and my dream would be to ever work in the games industry.
Today, I make around as much as you do. Management sucks, their decisions suck, some of the projects suck, and sometimes the atmosphere in general sucks. But boy do they know how to take advantage of you when it comes down to conditions. They have their lines ready: "hey, this is the games industry, you should be glad".. well.. that line only runs so far..
My friends in the telco industry, the ones with the supposedly rotten jobs, make over 3 times of what I make. They get to take their vacation, and they can really go for something decent. And after a few years of my sincere enthusiasm, seeing and hearing this over and over again realy starts to bite.
I think Schumacher wins because his car is more reliable, and because his crew manages to use the pitlane to get him ahead. Over the last 5 years or so, I haven't seen *any* interesting racing fight with him for 1st place. His team mate isn't even allowed to go for 1st place if Shumi is somewhere near it.
But he deserves to win, and gets my respect primarily because he has a way of telling his team what is wrong with the car, and how and where they can improve, better than anyone else. But don't tell me he is the best driver ever. There was only one and, he passed away racing.
something..
I know I'm gonna take a hit for this, but..
As long as there are pirates, there will be free speech, and ultimately, better software, security, and more rights. Pirates are those people who make it possible for the poor man to experience a part of modern culture, which economic law and society has denied him. They are the opposition forces of society to the corporate globalist oppression of the free virtual world.
I don't defend stealing in general, but I do not believe in digital 'property' (especially not if it is being made public in theatres), hence digital information can not be stolen (or bought), only protected.
In the end, digital freedom is inevitable, and anything standing in it's way will make society ugly and complicated, and will eventually make it collapse.
I've written my national and regional MP of the department of Work and Economy, and she promissed me to make sure belgium would not vote yes to the proposal of the current Irish presidency. Belgium (my country) subsequently abstained from the vote, along with a few others. Germany, which was expected to at least abstain, and that had said it would vote no, in the end voted yes, which makes blocking the proposal a whole lot more difficult (but not impossible). I won't pretend my writing made the difference, but I would say that yes, it does pay off to make some noise.
The big problem here is that lawyers and rulemakers can be bought, and that the FFII does not represent the kapitalist industry that can apparently leverage any vote it wants, 'xcept for a few small stubborn but harmless ones.
So, open your eyes, ladies and gentlemen, because King Kapitalism, in this case, is ~BAD~. I'm not a commie nor a leftie, but I just wanted to say this loud and clear, so that some people at least for once get the message. And no, I'm not an Anti-globalist, but I very much *AM* a Different-globalist, who wants to bring the power back to the ones who need it (us, the people, in case you were wondering)
Write your MP today, and get your friends to write as well. It's not so difficult to write a well founded email, and at least they will be aware that some groups in society WILL have a problem and at least HAVE warned the EU of the consequences. It will make their case less convincing, and they will never be able to say "uh, we didn't know". Write today. Peace out.
Ken Perlin actually sang a song at SIGGRAPH 2002 before he presented his "Improving Noise" paper, and didn't even fail to be funny, sadly I can't find the text anymore, but it was hillarious. This guy manages to bring technical stuff to a tired audience and getting the whole crowd to laugh with his witty lyrics, on the subject of something as interesting as noise.
Ken Perlin is also the guy who has brought together much of the talent that is responsible for the ongoing success of Pixar. I guess you could say he has a no(i)se for noise that makes the difference.
The old Amstrad Schneider PC 1512 came with 3 OS'es.. CP/M dos, MS Dos, and GEM. GEM was by far the most advanced OS of the 3, as it was a full featured window manager like on the AppleII2, but with some additional great ideas in it that only reappeared 5 years later with windows 3.1. It had fontlibraries, graphics, drawing programs, text editors, and most of all, Locomotive Basic-2, which ran the very first program I ever 'wrote' (line copied from tutors): stars.bas (drawing impressive line-based star doodles)
I still have the complete manual, and iirc the term 'window' was used all over the place to explain users how to navigate, where they could find all the options by right-clicking (yes, right-clicking, pre-MSWindows)
GEM was a fine system. I'm not sure why it never caught on. It was so much better than the 2 command line DOS OS'es, I never could understand why people wanted to write those dreadfully inpotent strings of batch files. I preferred TP and QuickBasic any time! The Borland tools also had 'windows', as did Tasword, Framework, db2, PageMaker,..
Firstly, as you say, yes; the problem of Muslim extremists does exist, and does have to be dealt with. However, you earlier claimed that the atmosphere of fear (I won't say terror) is being created by the US government. I would make the case to you that the atmosphere of fear was created on September 11th, that it sent very large and very real ripples through the very social fabric of the country, and even with no government prompting and no further attacks, will take decades to get back to 2000 normal.
This is simply wrong. The TradeCenter was the target of terrorists earlier with a bomb explosion going of in the basement area. Luckily back then, the structure remained intact. The US 'created' Osama, and both FBI, CIA and government were more 'aware' of the problem than they would like to admit publicly, so stating that 9/11 came out of the blue, or 'started' on it's own, is not accurate. Investigations are under way to see if the republicans 'used' the attacks to gain support for their 10 year old war plans.
What DID change was the fact that the world woke up with the acute knowledge that their civilians were no longer safe from harm, and that terrorism was getting more apt and proliferated every day.
Then you claim that the greenies were right all along. Well, not precisely. They've been right on some things, wrong on others, just like every other group out there. Global cooling, anyone?
Well, melting the icecaps is still going on. The sealevel is still rising. The ocean currents may be slowing down, wales are beginning to migrate to other locations and still reduce in numbers.
Do me and the world a favour, and vote for anything BUT republican or democrat, so that your country can, for once, truely experience the merrits of a multi-party democracy.
Hey thanks for that nice comment!
The game has been finished for over 3 months but talks to get it on the shelves have been kinda stalling so far..
I'll post a JE when the game gets out of the door in the coming months.
Well, I wrote to our government about my concerns and the concerns of the FFII, and this is the reply I got.
[..]
Niettemin hou ik er aan de krachtlijnen van het toenmalige
Belgische standpunt in herinnering te brengen. Het is immers
niet uitgesloten dat het Iers voorzitterschap het punt in de
loop van de maand mei op de Raad agendeert, en in dat geval zal
België naar deze krachtlijnen teruggrijpen.
[..]
De Belgische Regering bevestigt haar standpunt dat het voorstel
van richtlijn moet toelaten om octrooibescherming te verlenen
aan in computer geïmplementeerde uitvindingen. Deze
octrooibescherming kan zich echter niet uitstrekken tot de
bescherming van software "als dusdanig": een duidelijke link
met een technische omgeving, overeenkomstig de jurisprudentie
van het Europees Octrooibureau, moet aanwezig zijn.
De Belgische Regering vraagt uitdrukkelijk dat met de
amendementen van het Europees Parlement rekening wordt gehouden
voor wat betreft de nadere bepaling van de noties "technische
omgeving" en "technisch gebied", onder andere in die zin dat
een octrooieerbaarheid onmogelijk is voor software die
rechtstreeks of onrechtstreeks de automatische uitwisseling,
opslag en beheer van gegevens betreft.
[..]
Tot slot vraagt de Belgische Regering uitdrukkelijk dat het
Europees Parlement het voorstel van richtlijn verder bespreekt
en dat de geciteerde amendementen van het Europees Parlement
grondig worden bestudeerd en heroverwogen.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Fientje Moerman
(Federal Minister of Work)
Your move.
Ok, so that's a small country, but still.. there is some political momentum to vote against. If we can convince one mor member state to vote against, the vote will be dismissed.
There's also the yearly return of ever delicious boothbabes.
And since my company PlayLogicGames also exhibited it's line-up on the show, thought I'd say hi.
The article mentionned this is the first time 'gang members use the internet' to fight their wars. How odd. I think it would be rather unique to have street gangs use profane and religious grounds to go out and have a fight with eachother. Not that religious wars are anything new, of course, but streetgangs in profane chat channels cursing at each other? That's just too much.
Blah anyway.. anyone uses the net for anything the se days, so why not gangwars. A bit like Guildwars but without the fancy graphics, right. Not really the big
I know perfectly well it will be the lawyers and legislators. But what are they actually thinking, and why?
"This is a hold-up! Gimme all your money!"
I believe people go into the woods for adventure. They come to the woods to be on their own. The whole adventure experience revolves around being able to 'be on your own in the woods and cope fine'. If you take that away, then you'd better convert your wood into picknick area's.