Squatters in S. Lorenzo suburb? (... ma che cazzo stai a di'...) Listen man, if there's a getnryfied, expensive, hip place in Rome, S. Lorenzo is one of them... a room with shared bathroom can go for 600/month, easily.
Yeah, the pope is german so what?! You Sir ARE an idiot...
come over here in Italy for some time and get a hang on the situation... pope, pope, priests, everywhere, anytime, these folks don't just say mass... they pretend and expect to have a say on italian policy and law... and the politicians just queue up to kiss the royal slipper.
So we get OUR representatives kneeling down to some guy that tells them that stem cell research is against God's will... so we don't, that Marriage is a Holy Covenant between a male and a female... end to any discusion on sexually indifferent civil unions (useful for things like visiting your partner in hospital, having a say on a partner's fate in case of dire illness, sharing legal responsibilities on property as a couple, hereditary benefits in case of death and so on...).
The best of all: the law on medically assisted reproduction - seems written off the Vatican - an absurd, demented and quite cruel piece of tripe written around the concept that the embryo is a human being with human legal status since genomic fusion, thus there can be no frozen embryo left out of the process: thus a woman undergoing the procedure MUST get all of them implanted - in batches of four - and since you can't freeze eggs, if a lap fails she goes through the whole process again (hormone therapy included).
Next in the crosshairs is abortion... once the preceding principle was settled they're going after the law allowing abortion (over here it's quite rigid, written around the principle of responsible parenthood and very effective about it) and since the UN moratorium on executions they've started a fuss on abortion moratoriums... execution == abortion... you get it?
So Mr, we're full of priests, they come from all over the world storming over Italy... the last pope was polish, this one is german... but they still mess around with our italian stuff...
not to mention famous Radio Maria... especially notable for it's high power trasmission sites outside of Rome pumping illegal levels of EM radiation in the neighbourhood and raising health concerns because of certain leukemia incidence statistics of the area. But of course, the station is extraterritorial so there's nothing to be done safe cutting the power lines on italian soil. Oh well, at least the people living there can hear it on their entry phones...
The uneven thickness was due to the production process that involved pouring a molten silica blob on a spinning disc and cutting out squares out od the resulting plate, current process involves distribution on a molten metal (lead I think) bath. I can't care to look up links but if you want to check out please do
I can't suffer drm tripe. I'm not an avid kleptomaniac, all I want is to listen to my stuff anywhere: on my ipod, my home mac or the business laptop I was given both in ubuntu and xp boot. I've bought stuff on itms only to torrent it just to get a drm free file compatible with my life. I've known people that kept libraries full of music raped off napster and they never listened to it... the collection was all that mattered, butterflies or white noise would have made no difference. I love itms when it says "your dld will be upped to 256 (your 30 gig 4th gen is obsolete, dood!) drm free for free!" because it will play on my equipment anywhere anytime. It's hard enough to find that tune at the right time without feeling a goof, tech shouldn't get in the way.
(participating to this long standing polemic makes me feel a broken record, an old dope... drm is going... we were right, and we won... kids don0t even understand why we heat up so much over the argument. This we I'll be slacking, my background music playing, my company around, that's my perspective, nothing else matters... that's why I'm an old fart)
Such an emerging band should sign up with something like Magnatune. They do the "promotion" and promote a "mentorship" attribute to the commercial transaction. I think they should merge with last.fm but the latter were bought out by a major so I donìt see it happening...
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Something similar, the Libra nose has been developed in Italy, at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". The article is slim on the transducer CalTech is using...
Alternate data streams are not hidden, they just doesn't show up in the explorer window, otherwise it's just as legitimate as a hidden index file in the directory. Just because it doesn't frequently occur in the programming tutorials doesn't make it deprecated. Actually I hate.DS_store and equivalent MS rubbish metadata stores or.whatever files in $HOME. It's there, it makes sense using it, why the hell throwing it away?
Recently some software vendors told us that because recent changes in US legislation they must be very careful on what they promise about the upcoming software they showcase. To make it short they said that spreading unsubstantiated FUD or keeping customers from choosing competing products with blanket promises that later go unfulfilled has been made equivalent to market manipulation and is punished harshly.
Would this "beware! there be dragons..." attitude of Microsoft constitute a violation of said US law? Is cutting air supply with vague patent threats a punishable behaviour?
This video says it all: the guy was making a sort of statement, one in favour of Kerry as in "you're our man, why didn't you fight for us?" and people in the public were already clapping hands. Before he could finish off, thugs shut him off and carried him away, he made a fuss, a middle aged hippie woman stared incredulously and the zapper fired. At that point an off scene female voice demanded explanation expressing strong dissent and she was told to keep off as in "...or else, you're next..." Fine, bravi... we had G8 Genova, authorized demonstrators got batoned with the "tonfa", a kid was shot in the head and a dormitory raided in chilean style. It's the same idea: either march or rot... where's democracy? In war declaration preambles?:-( e
I don't think immigrants' sexual ratio is disproportioned. It's just that certain aggressive traits and behaviours are more prevalent in the male gender, especially in western countries where social pressure in overstating virility is the norm.
External pressure, social impediment in fulfilling it, cultural disorientation as in being in an in-between status between two heritages and unable to take anyone with the due grain of salt makes these poor sods an easy pick.
Western society, has always breeded this kind of anti-social behaviour in reaction to its non-inclusive attitude towards sub-cultures: gangs, hooligans, black blocks, etc... Given enough pressure even a tea kettle will burst.
and then, a search will land me on your site. Don't scream, don't complain if I don't rush out buying your product in my free time rather that taking care of myself. Just sit down, index yourself on the worldwide yellow pages and make sure I learn how cool your widget is when I stroll by looking for one. Otherwise... keep calm, relax, shut up and get out of my life.
I've heard stories of EU CEOs brought to tears at the sight of so many disciplined, docile and productive individuals. China is the testing ground for productivism, although it has a distinct taste to EU citizens, many don't learn lessons. WWII didn't really wipe out the idea, just made it clear that some extremes and a certain marketing strategies don't make good press. But as Mussolini used to say: "the media is the 4th armed force"... and we'll soon cheer at the Olympics and praise... and admire and cry at the discipline...
Perhaps that's because they grew up being told they'd have their share of the chick pool but instead they've been shunned as the a'rab guy that sweeps the f'ing streets clean and moves back to it's slum quarters. Hormones, sexually repressive upbringing while Britney/Hilton throws her clit at you on billboards is enough to drive someone with a chance half insane; add some loony priest and you get jihad.
Hi, I'm italian and i could bring examples of extremely poor public healthcare but I won't as I think it's mostly due to a cultural incapacity to get a good job correctly done without trying to cut corners and screw anyone whenever possible. We also have a kind of mixed system where doctors can, or used to until very recently, exercise their practice both in public and private structures so that, inevitably, the public service is treated as a hunting ground where to pick up patients for expensive private clinics. Also, slackers and nepotism plague the public institutions where barons, who often own the most prestigious clinics, sit on the top chairs with the sole purpose of driving and keeping everything firmly into the ground just for the sake of exercising their feudal power.
But this is not the contribution I wanted to make. I have a question: is all out competition, wide open free market always the solution? Will the fight for corporate survival always bring the best product on the market and the leanest execution? Hmm, I guess no. I don't want to take on good 'ol Microsoft we all hate, just let me mention another industry: mobile telephony. Do you americans already have a pervasive, standardized cellular network or are you just starting to after years of quarreling standards and vendor lock-ins. We, the EU, have had this GSM given from the beginning of the digital cellular rollout and today enjoy continental roaming and dirt cheap terminals since a decade. Sure, some of you will argue that GSM is so much worse than some other patented, exclusively licensed protocol you can only use with one operator (and good luck if you travel to a city where the incumbent went with the competing protocol) but I'm happy to travel anywhere on the continent and be sure that either by voice or SMS, there an infrastructure that'll work for me.
My point is sometimes fragmentation, darwinism, de- or lack of regulation, don't work at all and actually break the toy for everybody. Public safety, health care, unemployment subsidies are all systems that do work after all, will have their own set of gripes and pockets of inefficiency but still manage to make a better life for those that contribute and make use of it. Take me for example: I was hospitalized and had an appendix removed within 12 hr and all I had to pay for was a 15 EUR ticket (although I did risk getting mis-diagnosed... but that's more because of what I mentioned in the first paragraph...)
I'm italian, sicilian no less, and I know what mafia means. This Microsoft thing sounds like pizzo, a tip given to avoid having your stuff burnt to the ground or getting shot in the back while walking back home... fsck it...
I suppose a GPS receiver only works when placed on a car dashboard or hopelessly held like a rabdomant cane. Oh, don't forget to mention it doesn't have bluetooth+wifi+SD card reader+3 MPxl Zeiss zoom camera... and a kitchen sink. Relax, it's supposed to be an ipod+phone+other stuff normal people tend to use in the course of their social life, not some kind of new theodolite.
Rising up the bar aren't we first it was the text installer, the text boot or the "multitude" of package managers in linux world. Now it's clicking on an fat install icon all that makes the difference? Man, we aren't running out of arguments aren't we?
Listen... I've got a couple DBAs, people that struggle daily with Oracle RAC HP-UX, DB2 and MSSQL wastin' 2 business days hunting down drivers for an HP "Vista Ready" business (read, humdrum) laptop... and they're still dissatisfied... and these machines would run flawless on a good ubuntu, centos.
I've stopped caring, Linux isn't a donkey and your arguments aren't a good enough carrot.
All I know and see is that GNOME is becoming the poor man's OS X.
The paradox makes the anon post ever so more credible than you can imagine my friend. The purse is often in the hands of the clueless and all it takes to throw monoey in the wind is another illiterate with good social skills. Of course the ancestor poster's attitude usually helps to definitively bury the technically better option; that's why I always draw an ear to socially obnoxious nerds touting stuff: they may be onto something....
Hey, am I denying Sun and all stars are driven by fusion? I'm not an Electrical Universe proponent (although I do live in the EU... that usage of the acronym got me a bit confused) at all if that means claiming that stars are giant solid conductors shorting.
I do call bullshit on all this Big Bang, inflation, microwave background an echo of the Bang, gravitationally driven galaxies and super-massive black holes. This to me sounds like Creationism Mark II, unfalsifiable, unverifiable, experimentally unreproducible mumbo-jumbo.
If EM has a constant orders of magnitude stronger than G why the hell is it totally ignored in cosmological scale models? Because all mass is overall neutral (so is my laptop... yet I wouldn't spill coffee on it)? Oh, puh-lease! Why should I buy that the Great Wall (a layer of galactic systems bunched together on a very "thin" layer like the skin of a soap bubble) was caused by a freaking string during inflation? Please, experimentally prove it and no "Oh but it fits the model nicely" is not an answer.
If plasma sparks look terribly like galaxies, "walks like a duck, quacks like a duck..." comes to mind doesn't it?
... glad this story made it on the frontpage, his strips are awesome, I'm bookmarking the site. The one about the self assessment questionnaire is just pure genius!:)
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Squatters in S. Lorenzo suburb? (... ma che cazzo stai a di'...)
Listen man, if there's a getnryfied, expensive, hip place in Rome, S. Lorenzo is one of them... a room with shared bathroom can go for 600/month, easily.
Yeah, the pope is german so what?! You Sir ARE an idiot...
come over here in Italy for some time and get a hang on the situation... pope, pope, priests, everywhere, anytime, these folks don't just say mass... they pretend and expect to have a say on italian policy and law... and the politicians just queue up to kiss the royal slipper. So we get OUR representatives kneeling down to some guy that tells them that stem cell research is against God's will... so we don't, that Marriage is a Holy Covenant between a male and a female... end to any discusion on sexually indifferent civil unions (useful for things like visiting your partner in hospital, having a say on a partner's fate in case of dire illness, sharing legal responsibilities on property as a couple, hereditary benefits in case of death and so on...).
The best of all: the law on medically assisted reproduction - seems written off the Vatican - an absurd, demented and quite cruel piece of tripe written around the concept that the embryo is a human being with human legal status since genomic fusion, thus there can be no frozen embryo left out of the process: thus a woman undergoing the procedure MUST get all of them implanted - in batches of four - and since you can't freeze eggs, if a lap fails she goes through the whole process again (hormone therapy included).
Next in the crosshairs is abortion... once the preceding principle was settled they're going after the law allowing abortion (over here it's quite rigid, written around the principle of responsible parenthood and very effective about it) and since the UN moratorium on executions they've started a fuss on abortion moratoriums... execution == abortion... you get it?
So Mr, we're full of priests, they come from all over the world storming over Italy... the last pope was polish, this one is german... but they still mess around with our italian stuff...
not to mention famous Radio Maria... especially notable for it's high power trasmission sites outside of Rome pumping illegal levels of EM radiation in the neighbourhood and raising health concerns because of certain leukemia incidence statistics of the area. But of course, the station is extraterritorial so there's nothing to be done safe cutting the power lines on italian soil. Oh well, at least the people living there can hear it on their entry phones...
The uneven thickness was due to the production process that involved pouring a molten silica blob on a spinning disc and cutting out squares out od the resulting plate, current process involves distribution on a molten metal (lead I think) bath. I can't care to look up links but if you want to check out please do
This thread IS /.
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I can't suffer drm tripe. I'm not an avid kleptomaniac, all I want is to listen to my stuff anywhere: on my ipod, my home mac or the business laptop I was given both in ubuntu and xp boot. I've bought stuff on itms only to torrent it just to get a drm free file compatible with my life. I've known people that kept libraries full of music raped off napster and they never listened to it... the collection was all that mattered, butterflies or white noise would have made no difference. I love itms when it says "your dld will be upped to 256 (your 30 gig 4th gen is obsolete, dood!) drm free for free!" because it will play on my equipment anywhere anytime. It's hard enough to find that tune at the right time without feeling a goof, tech shouldn't get in the way.
(participating to this long standing polemic makes me feel a broken record, an old dope... drm is going... we were right, and we won... kids don0t even understand why we heat up so much over the argument. This we I'll be slacking, my background music playing, my company around, that's my perspective, nothing else matters... that's why I'm an old fart)
e
Such an emerging band should sign up with something like Magnatune. They do the "promotion" and promote a "mentorship" attribute to the commercial transaction. I think they should merge with last.fm but the latter were bought out by a major so I donìt see it happening... e
Something similar, the Libra nose has been developed in Italy, at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". The article is slim on the transducer CalTech is using...
Alternate data streams are not hidden, they just doesn't show up in the explorer window, otherwise it's just as legitimate as a hidden index file in the directory. Just because it doesn't frequently occur in the programming tutorials doesn't make it deprecated. Actually I hate .DS_store and equivalent MS rubbish metadata stores or .whatever files in $HOME. It's there, it makes sense using it, why the hell throwing it away?
Recently some software vendors told us that because recent changes in US legislation they must be very careful on what they promise about the upcoming software they showcase. To make it short they said that spreading unsubstantiated FUD or keeping customers from choosing competing products with blanket promises that later go unfulfilled has been made equivalent to market manipulation and is punished harshly.
Would this "beware! there be dragons..." attitude of Microsoft constitute a violation of said US law? Is cutting air supply with vague patent threats a punishable behaviour?
e
This video says it all: the guy was making a sort of statement, one in favour of Kerry as in "you're our man, why didn't you fight for us?" and people in the public were already clapping hands. :-(
Before he could finish off, thugs shut him off and carried him away, he made a fuss, a middle aged hippie woman stared incredulously and the zapper fired. At that point an off scene female voice demanded explanation expressing strong dissent and she was told to keep off as in "...or else, you're next..."
Fine, bravi... we had G8 Genova, authorized demonstrators got batoned with the "tonfa", a kid was shot in the head and a dormitory raided in chilean style. It's the same idea: either march or rot... where's democracy? In war declaration preambles?
e
I don't think immigrants' sexual ratio is disproportioned. It's just that certain aggressive traits and behaviours are more prevalent in the male gender, especially in western countries where social pressure in overstating virility is the norm.
External pressure, social impediment in fulfilling it, cultural disorientation as in being in an in-between status between two heritages and unable to take anyone with the due grain of salt makes these poor sods an easy pick.
Western society, has always breeded this kind of anti-social behaviour in reaction to its non-inclusive attitude towards sub-cultures: gangs, hooligans, black blocks, etc... Given enough pressure even a tea kettle will burst.
We need more Woodstocks...
and then, a search will land me on your site. Don't scream, don't complain if I don't rush out buying your product in my free time rather that taking care of myself. Just sit down, index yourself on the worldwide yellow pages and make sure I learn how cool your widget is when I stroll by looking for one. Otherwise... keep calm, relax, shut up and get out of my life.
thank you,
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I've heard stories of EU CEOs brought to tears at the sight of so many disciplined, docile and productive individuals. China is the testing ground for productivism, although it has a distinct taste to EU citizens, many don't learn lessons. WWII didn't really wipe out the idea, just made it clear that some extremes and a certain marketing strategies don't make good press. But as Mussolini used to say: "the media is the 4th armed force"... and we'll soon cheer at the Olympics and praise... and admire and cry at the discipline...
Perhaps that's because they grew up being told they'd have their share of the chick pool but instead they've been shunned as the a'rab guy that sweeps the f'ing streets clean and moves back to it's slum quarters. Hormones, sexually repressive upbringing while Britney/Hilton throws her clit at you on billboards is enough to drive someone with a chance half insane; add some loony priest and you get jihad.
What about Scalix?
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What did you get to replace the Shark? Just curious... not Hitachi, I guess... e
Hi, I'm italian and i could bring examples of extremely poor public healthcare but I won't as I think it's mostly due to a cultural incapacity to get a good job correctly done without trying to cut corners and screw anyone whenever possible. We also have a kind of mixed system where doctors can, or used to until very recently, exercise their practice both in public and private structures so that, inevitably, the public service is treated as a hunting ground where to pick up patients for expensive private clinics. Also, slackers and nepotism plague the public institutions where barons, who often own the most prestigious clinics, sit on the top chairs with the sole purpose of driving and keeping everything firmly into the ground just for the sake of exercising their feudal power.
But this is not the contribution I wanted to make. I have a question: is all out competition, wide open free market always the solution? Will the fight for corporate survival always bring the best product on the market and the leanest execution? Hmm, I guess no. I don't want to take on good 'ol Microsoft we all hate, just let me mention another industry: mobile telephony. Do you americans already have a pervasive, standardized cellular network or are you just starting to after years of quarreling standards and vendor lock-ins. We, the EU, have had this GSM given from the beginning of the digital cellular rollout and today enjoy continental roaming and dirt cheap terminals since a decade. Sure, some of you will argue that GSM is so much worse than some other patented, exclusively licensed protocol you can only use with one operator (and good luck if you travel to a city where the incumbent went with the competing protocol) but I'm happy to travel anywhere on the continent and be sure that either by voice or SMS, there an infrastructure that'll work for me.
My point is sometimes fragmentation, darwinism, de- or lack of regulation, don't work at all and actually break the toy for everybody. Public safety, health care, unemployment subsidies are all systems that do work after all, will have their own set of gripes and pockets of inefficiency but still manage to make a better life for those that contribute and make use of it. Take me for example: I was hospitalized and had an appendix removed within 12 hr and all I had to pay for was a 15 EUR ticket (although I did risk getting mis-diagnosed... but that's more because of what I mentioned in the first paragraph...)
If it had no SIM slot it couldn't be a GSM/GPRS/UMTS thingie. It's like having to be redbook compliant to call your piece of plastic a Compact Disc.
You're off track my friend...
I'm italian, sicilian no less, and I know what mafia means. This Microsoft thing sounds like pizzo, a tip given to avoid having your stuff burnt to the ground or getting shot in the back while walking back home... fsck it...
I suppose a GPS receiver only works when placed on a car dashboard or hopelessly held like a rabdomant cane.
Oh, don't forget to mention it doesn't have bluetooth+wifi+SD card reader+3 MPxl Zeiss zoom camera... and a kitchen sink.
Relax, it's supposed to be an ipod+phone+other stuff normal people tend to use in the course of their social life, not some kind of new theodolite.
e
Rising up the bar aren't we first it was the text installer, the text boot or the "multitude" of package managers in linux world. Now it's clicking on an fat install icon all that makes the difference? Man, we aren't running out of arguments aren't we?
Listen... I've got a couple DBAs, people that struggle daily with Oracle RAC HP-UX, DB2 and MSSQL wastin' 2 business days hunting down drivers for an HP "Vista Ready" business (read, humdrum) laptop... and they're still dissatisfied... and these machines would run flawless on a good ubuntu, centos.
I've stopped caring, Linux isn't a donkey and your arguments aren't a good enough carrot.
All I know and see is that GNOME is becoming the poor man's OS X.
The paradox makes the anon post ever so more credible than you can imagine my friend. The purse is often in the hands of the clueless and all it takes to throw monoey in the wind is another illiterate with good social skills. Of course the ancestor poster's attitude usually helps to definitively bury the technically better option; that's why I always draw an ear to socially obnoxious nerds touting stuff: they may be onto something....
e
Hey, am I denying Sun and all stars are driven by fusion? I'm not an Electrical Universe proponent (although I do live in the EU... that usage of the acronym got me a bit confused) at all if that means claiming that stars are giant solid conductors shorting.
I do call bullshit on all this Big Bang, inflation, microwave background an echo of the Bang, gravitationally driven galaxies and super-massive black holes. This to me sounds like Creationism Mark II, unfalsifiable, unverifiable, experimentally unreproducible mumbo-jumbo.
If EM has a constant orders of magnitude stronger than G why the hell is it totally ignored in cosmological scale models? Because all mass is overall neutral (so is my laptop... yet I wouldn't spill coffee on it)? Oh, puh-lease! Why should I buy that the Great Wall (a layer of galactic systems bunched together on a very "thin" layer like the skin of a soap bubble) was caused by a freaking string during inflation? Please, experimentally prove it and no "Oh but it fits the model nicely" is not an answer.
If plasma sparks look terribly like galaxies, "walks like a duck, quacks like a duck..." comes to mind doesn't it?
... glad this story made it on the frontpage, his strips are awesome, I'm bookmarking the site. The one about the self assessment questionnaire is just pure genius! :)