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It is supplied free of charge, when you lose it or it breaks you can pick a new one up for free at any of the branches.
"The disciplinary board decided that 'By choosing to reproduce aggressive foreign methods, intended to force payments, etc" Regarding your wish for freedom a very insightful comment from the disciplinary board...
I don't think we have to wonder who is meant by "foreign"
It is because of such evidence that some positions of power should be eliminated or have built-in checks that would at least require wide scope and unlikely collusion to perform.
Especially those positions of initiating war. Several countries I know of have such a system, it's called "Parliamentary Democracy", I can commend it!
Damn you are thick!
Switzerland is a neutral country, that means they'll have to stand on their own feet when it comes to (military) conflict.
The only thing that makes this difficult is they're a small country, otherwise they are quite ready for defence.
Corruption is inevitable in government, it will always be present at some level and it will be larger and ever more present as the size and scope of government is increased. I know of NO counter example to this principle from any time in all of human history. We in NW Europe and Scandinavia beg to differ.
Sure we see cases of corruption but they are dealt with by the system.
Executive and legislature are carefully separated and would one step over the line he'll not have a second chance.
Of course this has a lot to do with a healthy political system where a government is usually made up of a coalition, a major factor to prevent sleaze.
The safe level to work in for 8 hours per day (MAC value), 5 days per week has recently been dropped from 10 ppm to 2 ppm.
80 ppm of H2S is going to be lethal after 8 -24 hrs of exposure, much earlier you will be suffering bleeding and other very unpleasant effects.
At 500 ppm you're dead in 30 to 60 minutes and at 800 ppm you will not survive 2 minutes.
The kicker is at 1000 ppm, you're immediately unconscious and will die within seconds.
You'll start smelling it at about 0.1 ppm but at otherwise not lethal concentrations it will desensitise your nose and you will eventually not realise it's still around or getting stronger.
As a side effect it has a much wider range of explosiveness than regular hydrocarbon gasses and because it's heavier than air it will concentrate at low places.
Although my countryman ecotax seems to disagree I would make the point that our main right wing political party is the Liberal Party (VVD, presently opposition) who's agenda is indeed favouring a lot of personal and especially commercial freedom including the ones you mention:).
It's the Protestant (Evangelical) splinter groups (one of which is in the government coalition) that are against any of the freedoms you mentioned and on a political scale I would put them near classic communism.
And as a Dutchman I'm ashamed about your lack of understanding of recent history.
When you plan to put someone against the wall you better have your information right.
This is not to say that the Dutch military couldn't have done a better job but at the time in this highly politicised campaign they basically had their hands tied behind their back.
Although we now demand wider mandates from the UN we still shy away from setting our own standards/ bottom line when joining new military and humane campaigns.
This is probably in the same vein as the lack of official and wide public support for Wilders freedom of speech.
OK he might be a fake blond weirdo but it's totally unacceptable the way some Muslims threaten everything Dutch or even Western when they only hear the rumours about his film.
Why can't he publish it via the site of the parliament?
I could imagine the inverse results of this system being used to find grown-ups preying on kids.
Or even build in to certain sites to prevent this from happening.
This whole approach irritates me. snip
The world population was already in decline before these "runaway population" projection supporters tooted their horns. And since then, world population increase has been anything but exponential. China's population shrank markedly due to birth control; the Western countries (including Russia) have all shrunk substantially in population, and India is moving that way now. From what orifice do you pull this information?
The only significant country with a factual decline in population is Russia, or a little wider, parts of the Former Soviet Union.
China's population is still increasing rapidly even though the government does since decades it's best to control it, your statement to the opposite is plain stupid.
What we should be trending and looking at predicting is what the next politically-foisted, crack theory will be. Just look back over the past 5 years, and you'll see an obscene amount of variance in just the "global warming/cooling/etc." argument; look back 30 years, and they're using the same models to predict something different still: the globe is cooling, new ice age - oh wait, it's warming, and we'll all look like overdone chicken by 2010... oh, what's that? 2008 is the coldest year on record in 30+ years so far? That's what applied science is all about, you continually adjust your experiments with the latest knowledge.
And the latest knowledge (that's not the same as the last few years of data!) does indicate a troubled temperature balance on earth, contrary to a couple of cold and wet years in the mid-eighties of last century.
Would you be informed about the issues around global temperature you'd know it is a gradual process of many years, even decades and centuries.
Individual years, even more so seasons are insignificant.
And the same thing applies to population hokum. You can not predict something this complex: there are simply too many factors, internal and external, which have sway. It is significantly more complex than the global warming/cooling argument, because it directly depends (and bases most of its assumptions) on the global warming/cooling expectations. Then you've got cultural changes (ie, women having fewer/almost no children - which is exactly what happens when countries become "westernized", and what was directly overlooked/unknown in the "explosive population" projections), wars, famines, poor land management, extinction of bees (needed to fertilize all flowering plants), epidemics/panemics, and any number of other things. Yes these predictions are difficult, but no where as impossible as you seem to think.
There are vasts amount of data available that link population against significant factors and many scientists are working on the important questions.
Should we stop making these projections just because a potential pandemic or big meteor could entirely change the outcome? I think not!
* while some of it was noble, it went about it in such a reckless, dishonest manner that the message was largely discredited through the approach. yet enough was absorbed by members of my generation that much of the stupid policies and beliefs impregnated in our minds at a young age, and have taken root now that we are adults. yay, brainwashing. In a place of power you would be a dangerous and reckless person!
Hehe, it's pretty obvious that man lacks self confidence and is suffering from selectively reading the well know British tabloids.
Plus the United Kingdom is only #51 on the list of population densities, for example The Netherlands is running one of the healthiest European economies from spot #25.
South Korea is in place #21 and doing extremely well.
Besides, the UK being an Island Nation seriously needs to stock up it's limited gene pool:)
Strife and even war has historically been caused by men wanting more, the kind of more (gold, fur, shiny stuff, bigger SUV) that woman expect him to deliver.
So behind every war there is an greedy woman... :/
But very few Europeans keep their money in British Pounds.
The British Pound is like the former Empire, a relic.
It is kept alive due to an ill educated population failing to see the benefits of mass that the Euro brings.
There are many more of these high fines given to European companies that, for example, think they are allowed to form cartels.
It has been made quite clear what is expected of Microsoft. (as if they don't have their own lawyers to interpret EU law!)
Microsoft seems hell-bent on breaking those rules, what makes them think they don't have to comply?
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Since many years my RABO bank uses the Random Reader of vasco.com
It is supplied free of charge, when you lose it or it breaks you can pick a new one up for free at any of the branches.
I don't think we have to wonder who is meant by "foreign"
Especially those positions of initiating war. Several countries I know of have such a system, it's called "Parliamentary Democracy", I can commend it!
Damn you are thick!
Switzerland is a neutral country, that means they'll have to stand on their own feet when it comes to (military) conflict.
The only thing that makes this difficult is they're a small country, otherwise they are quite ready for defence.
Sure we see cases of corruption but they are dealt with by the system.
Executive and legislature are carefully separated and would one step over the line he'll not have a second chance.
Of course this has a lot to do with a healthy political system where a government is usually made up of a coalition, a major factor to prevent sleaze.
You can use PDFedit for editing.
Not perfect but often sufficient.
But who would want a job where you are single handedly taking (over) responsibility for just about 100% of the world's existing computer viruses?
Does that affect silicone?
The Siafu concept notebook with it's tactile surface looks like a very nice idea.
It really makes me wonder how it would display, say, Pamela Anderson...
I don't want to melt an unsuspecting blogger's server so I'll just say search for Amsterdam police uses drone.
In the blog is a link to a BBC clip showing the drone like used in Amsterdam.
It is build by "Microdrones" in Germany and costs around $2,000.
The safe level to work in for 8 hours per day (MAC value), 5 days per week has recently been dropped from 10 ppm to 2 ppm.
80 ppm of H2S is going to be lethal after 8 -24 hrs of exposure, much earlier you will be suffering bleeding and other very unpleasant effects.
At 500 ppm you're dead in 30 to 60 minutes and at 800 ppm you will not survive 2 minutes.
The kicker is at 1000 ppm, you're immediately unconscious and will die within seconds.
You'll start smelling it at about 0.1 ppm but at otherwise not lethal concentrations it will desensitise your nose and you will eventually not realise it's still around or getting stronger.
As a side effect it has a much wider range of explosiveness than regular hydrocarbon gasses and because it's heavier than air it will concentrate at low places.
I wonder what made me change my sig a few days ago...
:)
Although my countryman ecotax seems to disagree I would make the point that our main right wing political party is the Liberal Party (VVD, presently opposition) who's agenda is indeed favouring a lot of personal and especially commercial freedom including the ones you mention :).
:).
It's the Protestant (Evangelical) splinter groups (one of which is in the government coalition) that are against any of the freedoms you mentioned and on a political scale I would put them near classic communism.
Yep the world is different in the USofA
And as a Dutchman I'm ashamed about your lack of understanding of recent history.
When you plan to put someone against the wall you better have your information right.
This is not to say that the Dutch military couldn't have done a better job but at the time in this highly politicised campaign they basically had their hands tied behind their back.
Although we now demand wider mandates from the UN we still shy away from setting our own standards/ bottom line when joining new military and humane campaigns.
This is probably in the same vein as the lack of official and wide public support for Wilders freedom of speech.
OK he might be a fake blond weirdo but it's totally unacceptable the way some Muslims threaten everything Dutch or even Western when they only hear the rumours about his film.
Why can't he publish it via the site of the parliament?
Hehe, I see it the other way around.
I don't like having to fend off thousands of malwares with an OS that implemented networking as an afterthought.
I could imagine the inverse results of this system being used to find grown-ups preying on kids.
Or even build in to certain sites to prevent this from happening.
No, it's Lord Haw Haw's Yahoo link that's attacking windows machines. /. to running such a thing :)
But then, who in is right mind would admit on
Will someone please think of the kids!
snip
The world population was already in decline before these "runaway population" projection supporters tooted their horns. And since then, world population increase has been anything but exponential. China's population shrank markedly due to birth control; the Western countries (including Russia) have all shrunk substantially in population, and India is moving that way now. From what orifice do you pull this information?
The only significant country with a factual decline in population is Russia, or a little wider, parts of the Former Soviet Union.
China's population is still increasing rapidly even though the government does since decades it's best to control it, your statement to the opposite is plain stupid. What we should be trending and looking at predicting is what the next politically-foisted, crack theory will be. Just look back over the past 5 years, and you'll see an obscene amount of variance in just the "global warming/cooling/etc." argument; look back 30 years, and they're using the same models to predict something different still: the globe is cooling, new ice age - oh wait, it's warming, and we'll all look like overdone chicken by 2010... oh, what's that? 2008 is the coldest year on record in 30+ years so far? That's what applied science is all about, you continually adjust your experiments with the latest knowledge.
And the latest knowledge (that's not the same as the last few years of data!) does indicate a troubled temperature balance on earth, contrary to a couple of cold and wet years in the mid-eighties of last century.
Would you be informed about the issues around global temperature you'd know it is a gradual process of many years, even decades and centuries.
Individual years, even more so seasons are insignificant. And the same thing applies to population hokum. You can not predict something this complex: there are simply too many factors, internal and external, which have sway. It is significantly more complex than the global warming/cooling argument, because it directly depends (and bases most of its assumptions) on the global warming/cooling expectations. Then you've got cultural changes (ie, women having fewer/almost no children - which is exactly what happens when countries become "westernized", and what was directly overlooked/unknown in the "explosive population" projections), wars, famines, poor land management, extinction of bees (needed to fertilize all flowering plants), epidemics/panemics, and any number of other things. Yes these predictions are difficult, but no where as impossible as you seem to think.
There are vasts amount of data available that link population against significant factors and many scientists are working on the important questions.
Should we stop making these projections just because a potential pandemic or big meteor could entirely change the outcome? I think not! * while some of it was noble, it went about it in such a reckless, dishonest manner that the message was largely discredited through the approach. yet enough was absorbed by members of my generation that much of the stupid policies and beliefs impregnated in our minds at a young age, and have taken root now that we are adults. yay, brainwashing. In a place of power you would be a dangerous and reckless person!
Hehe, it's pretty obvious that man lacks self confidence and is suffering from selectively reading the well know British tabloids.
:)
Plus the United Kingdom is only #51 on the list of population densities, for example The Netherlands is running one of the healthiest European economies from spot #25.
South Korea is in place #21 and doing extremely well.
Besides, the UK being an Island Nation seriously needs to stock up it's limited gene pool
I think you're both wrong.
:/
Strife and even war has historically been caused by men wanting more, the kind of more (gold, fur, shiny stuff, bigger SUV) that woman expect him to deliver.
So behind every war there is an greedy woman...
Please don't be an idiot (or literally The Devils Advocate) and allow Scientology to continue their ludicrous claim of being a religion.
Without a clear disclaimer Religion and Scientology don't even belong in the same sentence, as a minimum it'd be bad grammar.
But very few Europeans keep their money in British Pounds.
The British Pound is like the former Empire, a relic.
It is kept alive due to an ill educated population failing to see the benefits of mass that the Euro brings.
Indeed that's what I was thinking of.
:)
In hindsight maybe not the most reliable source...
Thanks for finding it, I was racking my brain where I read it
Are you a troll?
There are many more of these high fines given to European companies that, for example, think they are allowed to form cartels.
It has been made quite clear what is expected of Microsoft. (as if they don't have their own lawyers to interpret EU law!)
Microsoft seems hell-bent on breaking those rules, what makes them think they don't have to comply?