Allah as the Muslims call God and God (Yahweh) as the Christians and Jews see their deity are one and the same, it's according to all three scriptures the God of Abraham.
And that's what makes the disagreements between these three 'religions' so sad...
It's not the cameras per sé that are bad.
It's the (in some places like the USofA) complete lack of of privacy assurances for the use of the resulting footage that are cause for strong concern.
As long as strong national legal demands are in place about the use of the pictures this system can be of benefit.
Presently such laws are all but missing and abuse is just waiting to happen.
Of course, it is interesting that the EU makes Microsoft unbundle Windows Media Player for anti-trust reasons, and yet if you want to get their content, you have to install it. Seems to be a contradiction there.
I'm fairly sure you just hit the nail on the head...
I've got an external HD and it's USB cable has two connectors, the secon one is there just to tap power from a second USB port in case one cannot supply sufficient. I've seen other setups where an additional power cable could be plugged into the PS2 socket.
A charger can be capable of 850 vs. 500 mA.
It does not put it out.
The only damage you could get by a wrong power supply is when it's output Voltage is too high.
My first Pentium I, 66 mHz, came without an OS.
You could choose between OS2, DOS, Minix, Win 3.1 and even Win 95.
A few years earlier you'd pick one of the DOS'es.
I used it for a while with Win 3.11 and then upgraded to a dual boot with RH4 (if I remember correctly).
The last one was pretty nerdy, presently a non OEM install of XP is nerdy compared to installing *ubuntu.
OK. I'd settle for opt-out then. What really gets me is that money is forcibly taken from people for services which they do not use. I have a friend with five kids. All of them go to private school because he thinks that the public schools are crap. It is not right that he is still required to pay astronomically high property tax in order to support the failing public schools where he lives (among the worst in the country). He is basically forced to pay twice to get his kids an education. Let people who want to send their kids to public school pay the taxes and let the people who want to send their kids to a private school (where they can do simple things like fire underperforming teachers) not pay the taxes to support the system they don't use.
I Know the USofA reasonably well but am a Dutchman and by consequence are better aware of our systems.
Basic education paid from the general taxation is in my opinion a must for any society that looks at the future.
The amount of trouble you'd have due to an uneducated underclass would in future be a much bigger drain on your friends finances than the 'forced' payments he's making now.
If he'd be truly worried about the public schools he needs to get off his lazy but and get politically active to get things sorted, surely he's not alone with this problem in his city.
In The Netherlands we have a system where all schools are getting per pupil a comparable amount of money from the national government.
But parents, churges etc. are allowed to set up a school (and school board) themselves, as a result a lot of schools are not 'public' yet are still paid for by society as a whole.
All schools have to comply with minimum requirements re. the levels of education but if the parents (through the board) would for example give the schooling a catholic or muslim slant that is fine.
When parents want to make extra financial or other contributions that's also possible.
Only from the left we hear complaints that the 'real' public schools get the burden of receiving the majority of problematic pupils.
A strange argument as the schools with a private board generally cannot refuse entry to any pupil.
European law has the "Social Charter", it outlines among others working hours, holidays etc.
The Charter specifies a working week of max. 48 hrs. (averaged over 3 or 6 months) and annually 4 weeks of paid holidays.
There is one country, the UK, that has in the days of a Margaret Thatcher insisted on an opt-out for this charter.
More recently the UK has been (kind of) forced to enact a lot of those Charter rules because of the overriding European safety laws. These safety laws are based on studies that showed a direct (inverse) link between workers health vs. the hours they worked and the health expenses resulting.
There are still a few in the UK that see this as meddling in internal affairs by "Unelected Brussels Bureaucrats" but in most branches of industry the maximum working hours are welcomed.
And it should not surprise anyone as the countries with the strictest labour laws have consistently shown a much higher productivity than the UK.
Generally the contractual working week in Europe is between 35 and 40 hrs, anything more is paid as overtime (like 150% or so). In Europe your trade (typically management) might be exempted from these maximum hours but the standards are fairly rigorously watched by unions and legislature.
There is absolute truth and an absolute moral code. It's not defined by you and me. It's not defined by the legal system. It's not defined by any man, but by God. Maybe there is an absolute moral code, maybe it's defined by God.
The problem with this assumption is the question; your or his or maybe my God?
And what about those that do not know (a) God, are they per your (absolute!) code without moral?
According that definition, you are also morally wrong because you are saying that it is morally wrong to say porn is morally wrong, ie imposing your own morals on people.You conveniently forgot this bit: between consenting adults
Please don't try to polarize the issue. The spirit in which pornography is created and viewed promotes immorality.Damn!
Pretty strong to have these two sentences on one line.
If I'd be living in your neighbourhood I would consider moving to a more enlightened place.
And that's something these poor Chinese victims of your type of 'Morality' can't do.
"Some might view internet pornography as morally wrong but I wouldn't think it to warrant a lifetime sentence."
I find this part of the story submission rather peculiar.
What is morally wrong is to impose your own morality (like porn is bad) on others.
Regardless whether this imposition is by a government or by an institution.
As long as such a thing as the consumption and serving of porn is done between consenting adults there is morally absolutely nothing wrong.
(Yes I know some in Holland, Michigan differ with me but I'm from the Original Holland)
As long as a society, like here the Chinese, is of the opinion they can meddle in the private affairs of their people they are at best suspect.
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The fact that those books are explained differently by man is what I called sad.
Now you seem one of those sad men that instead of searching for what unites looks for what divides.
You are all mixing up Religion (the knowledge/teaching of God) and the church a thing of man and thus inherently flawed.
Allah as the Muslims call God and God (Yahweh) as the Christians and Jews see their deity are one and the same, it's according to all three scriptures the God of Abraham.
And that's what makes the disagreements between these three 'religions' so sad...
It's the (in some places like the USofA) complete lack of of privacy assurances for the use of the resulting footage that are cause for strong concern.
As long as strong national legal demands are in place about the use of the pictures this system can be of benefit.
Presently such laws are all but missing and abuse is just waiting to happen.
I'm fairly sure you just hit the nail on the head...
Your kind of saying the European voter can watch the show on TV but only when it's made by (say) Philips.
No Sony viewers allowed!
Ah OK, I have a Dutch version and it's capitalised too.
As a Good Slashdotter you'd be quite well off having the whole basement to yourself
Oh you mean your own kid?
Hmm sorry to upset you but that takes at least a GF, if not a wife...
I've got an external HD and it's USB cable has two connectors, the secon one is there just to tap power from a second USB port in case one cannot supply sufficient.
I've seen other setups where an additional power cable could be plugged into the PS2 socket.
A charger can be capable of 850 vs. 500 mA.
It does not put it out.
The only damage you could get by a wrong power supply is when it's output Voltage is too high.
OK, XP is run in the fancy mode, with all the tellytubby bling but it's still 'Standard'.
Another that's trying to take us (Europeans) for a ride is Adobe, Distiller is about twice the US price...
Guess were we shop.
Well, it is prettier than most!
:)
My first Pentium I, 66 mHz, came without an OS.
You could choose between OS2, DOS, Minix, Win 3.1 and even Win 95.
A few years earlier you'd pick one of the DOS'es.
I used it for a while with Win 3.11 and then upgraded to a dual boot with RH4 (if I remember correctly).
The last one was pretty nerdy, presently a non OEM install of XP is nerdy compared to installing *ubuntu.
OK. I'd settle for opt-out then. What really gets me is that money is forcibly taken from people for services which they do not use. I have a friend with five kids. All of them go to private school because he thinks that the public schools are crap. It is not right that he is still required to pay astronomically high property tax in order to support the failing public schools where he lives (among the worst in the country). He is basically forced to pay twice to get his kids an education. Let people who want to send their kids to public school pay the taxes and let the people who want to send their kids to a private school (where they can do simple things like fire underperforming teachers) not pay the taxes to support the system they don't use.
I Know the USofA reasonably well but am a Dutchman and by consequence are better aware of our systems.Basic education paid from the general taxation is in my opinion a must for any society that looks at the future.
The amount of trouble you'd have due to an uneducated underclass would in future be a much bigger drain on your friends finances than the 'forced' payments he's making now.
If he'd be truly worried about the public schools he needs to get off his lazy but and get politically active to get things sorted, surely he's not alone with this problem in his city.
In The Netherlands we have a system where all schools are getting per pupil a comparable amount of money from the national government.
But parents, churges etc. are allowed to set up a school (and school board) themselves, as a result a lot of schools are not 'public' yet are still paid for by society as a whole.
All schools have to comply with minimum requirements re. the levels of education but if the parents (through the board) would for example give the schooling a catholic or muslim slant that is fine. When parents want to make extra financial or other contributions that's also possible.
Only from the left we hear complaints that the 'real' public schools get the burden of receiving the majority of problematic pupils.
A strange argument as the schools with a private board generally cannot refuse entry to any pupil.
Come on don't be so negative, although their new OS is dubious at best I really like my Microsoft mouse, that makes it no worse than 50/50 for them!
The Charter specifies a working week of max. 48 hrs. (averaged over 3 or 6 months) and annually 4 weeks of paid holidays.
There is one country, the UK, that has in the days of a Margaret Thatcher insisted on an opt-out for this charter.
More recently the UK has been (kind of) forced to enact a lot of those Charter rules because of the overriding European safety laws.
These safety laws are based on studies that showed a direct (inverse) link between workers health vs. the hours they worked and the health expenses resulting.
There are still a few in the UK that see this as meddling in internal affairs by "Unelected Brussels Bureaucrats" but in most branches of industry the maximum working hours are welcomed.
And it should not surprise anyone as the countries with the strictest labour laws have consistently shown a much higher productivity than the UK.
Generally the contractual working week in Europe is between 35 and 40 hrs, anything more is paid as overtime (like 150% or so).
In Europe your trade (typically management) might be exempted from these maximum hours but the standards are fairly rigorously watched by unions and legislature.
Maybe there is an absolute moral code, maybe it's defined by God.
The problem with this assumption is the question; your or his or maybe my God?
And what about those that do not know (a) God, are they per your (absolute!) code without moral?
Now who is imposing on others?
According that definition, you are also morally wrong because you are saying that it is morally wrong to say porn is morally wrong, ie imposing your own morals on people.You conveniently forgot this bit: between consenting adults
I hazard the guess He is also known as the God of Abraham.
In that case I declare you are the perfect example of a Pharisee.
Pretty strong to have these two sentences on one line.
If I'd be living in your neighbourhood I would consider moving to a more enlightened place.
And that's something these poor Chinese victims of your type of 'Morality' can't do.
Two-faced weasel is a pretty close translation.
But Troll will be the verdict.
I find this part of the story submission rather peculiar.
What is morally wrong is to impose your own morality (like porn is bad) on others.
Regardless whether this imposition is by a government or by an institution.
As long as such a thing as the consumption and serving of porn is done between consenting adults there is morally absolutely nothing wrong.
(Yes I know some in Holland, Michigan differ with me but I'm from the Original Holland)
As long as a society, like here the Chinese, is of the opinion they can meddle in the private affairs of their people they are at best suspect.
Stop right there!
When Microsoft lawyers write to the EU (likely to obscure their real intentions) they use *much* bigger words.
That explains also why big words are by definition (like lawyers) very expensive.
A quick way of entering or editing IPTC data and becoming aware of the options is to use IrfanView (and it runs under wine).