Well, how on Earth could anyone deny them this right? If you or your system is sending me personal information, then you can assume it's been stored somewhere, multiple times, and will be used for whatever purpose forever, and can't be deleted. THAT'S common sense
Maybe it's common sense where you live.
Within the EU it is without mutual agreement distinctly illegal and Germany is part of this EU, we EU citizen expect our privacy to be respected by the companies we get in touch with, even more so by those we do business with.
The drunk one I saw in Houston did not need to argue with the police, even though she was hardly able to stand up in the line waiting for their car outside the nightclub.
When her Porsche turned up the Cop for Hire helped her behind the wheel and was clearly heard as he told her "Now you stay between the white lines".
That night a video would have been nice for road safety.
You live in a weird country, when this policy was enacted it most certainly included the obligation to seed the land with a rotating species, be it clover or other Nitrogen inducing plants.
In the context of crop regulation and protection of arable land 'fallow' does most certainly not mean 'neglected'.
Indeed, as a farmer's son I can tell you Europe is quite well capable to double it's agricultural output without any GM involved.
Most GM farmers know their yields are barely if at all higher than with common prime seeds, it's just the cost of pesticides that gets exchanged for the dearer GM seeds.
All it takes to increase agricultural output is a slight hike in prices and the will to farm instead of leaving land fallow 'for nature', just look at the expanses of hardly farmed land in the eastern EU and you know it.
Although total net privacy is these days nigh-impossible, attempting to spread or fragment your presence over many different systems might help some way, at least it's better than throwing all in the lap of a single vendor like Google, MS or God forbid, FB.
I am fortunate to be with a very privacy and security focussed ISP (xs4all.nl) and keep my mail addresses with them because of my dislike of harvesting by the 'free' mail providers.
It is not that I try to hide at every expense, like I use my real name on Usenet, but I'm surely not going to make it easy on the harvesters.
As I said, there were significant problems in society and she rightfully tackled them.
But just the same you mention the closed shop agreements, that's where action was required, not with unionisation as such.
The fact she got an opt-out for the EU social charter has not helped the British, only a minority of irresponsible employers reap the benefit.
Take the example of working hours regulation, the EU rule allowed exceptions for groups like the police and military, her government extended it to the oil industry, surely the last that needed or needs such 'support' over the backs of the workers.
The way I read history she was the instigator of BSE or mad cow disease.
Because her government started a relentless drive for less regulation the Brits decided to limit the rules on the reduction of offal to cattle feed.
Although Scrapie and it's transmission is still not fully understood, in the day there was sufficient evidence it was related to a human syndrome called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The rules for offal use were mainly about the time and minimum temperature it had to be processed to become acceptable as cattle feed, Maggie's government lowered both the time exposure and the minimum temperature resulting in Scrapie jumping the barrier to first cows and next humans.
When Mrs. Thatcher came to office the country was in a deplorable state and changes were long over due.
But the way she's gone on about them is not fit for a repeat, the all but destruction of the unions has left the country as an outsider in Europe re. workers rights. Even now it's become quite obvious the well regulated German system is superior her party is still strictly adhering to the path she set.
The issues with her government are not with the subjects she tackled but with the rigorous and often cold-blooded way she did.
Using standard LED's is still a way off using a room's main lights.
The way I understand it is they use off the shelf visible-light LED's in stead of the for communication more regular UV or IR version.
Cool and one day it might end up in a room's primary illumination, meaning there's no network during daylight hours:)
A couple of centuries ago this guy Mohammed wanted to see the mountain and when it didn't show up on his doorstep instead he went to the mountain.
And would your present smart phone have the same speed and options as the one of 10 years ago it would probably last a lot longer now.
Come on, how many of those people really know about the command line and more specifically one of the Linux command lines?
When they ever see a computer running Linux it's with a nice desktop, be it by means of Android or something KDE or Gnome and most wouldn't know any different.
I'm regularly at places with weird network restrictions and am one of the few able to get on it, if people borrow this Kubuntu computer and use Firefox or Opera their only comment is "Thanks, b.t.w, why is yours working?"
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Such respect is very good if not essential for all involved.
Well, how on Earth could anyone deny them this right? If you or your system is sending me personal information, then you can assume it's been stored somewhere, multiple times, and will be used for whatever purpose forever, and can't be deleted. THAT'S common sense
Maybe it's common sense where you live.
Within the EU it is without mutual agreement distinctly illegal and Germany is part of this EU, we EU citizen expect our privacy to be respected by the companies we get in touch with, even more so by those we do business with.
But you can easily apply the highly developed traditional methods to other EU countries and gain a doubling of real food output.
And I repeat, GM has hardly a significant influence on the long-term food production, it's mainly about the short-term cost of production.
When her Porsche turned up the Cop for Hire helped her behind the wheel and was clearly heard as he told her "Now you stay between the white lines".
That night a video would have been nice for road safety.
In the context of crop regulation and protection of arable land 'fallow' does most certainly not mean 'neglected'.
Most GM farmers know their yields are barely if at all higher than with common prime seeds, it's just the cost of pesticides that gets exchanged for the dearer GM seeds.
Please remember one of the largest (in monetary value) exporters of agricultural produce is The Netherlands, a tiny country compared to the next one up, the USofA.
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-top-ten-agricultural-exporters-map.html
All it takes to increase agricultural output is a slight hike in prices and the will to farm instead of leaving land fallow 'for nature', just look at the expanses of hardly farmed land in the eastern EU and you know it.
Yes I cry for the missing serial port, anything USB needs drivers and these are not always easily available.
What's news for some is old-hat for others.
Nice to see active grown-ups on this site!
Between you remembering '50 and '51, your nick and your ID something tells me you're tired :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy
I had not heard such from their spokesperson but at least he/she understands it's not Windows.
I am fortunate to be with a very privacy and security focussed ISP (xs4all.nl) and keep my mail addresses with them because of my dislike of harvesting by the 'free' mail providers.
It is not that I try to hide at every expense, like I use my real name on Usenet, but I'm surely not going to make it easy on the harvesters.
But just the same you mention the closed shop agreements, that's where action was required, not with unionisation as such.
The fact she got an opt-out for the EU social charter has not helped the British, only a minority of irresponsible employers reap the benefit.
Take the example of working hours regulation, the EU rule allowed exceptions for groups like the police and military, her government extended it to the oil industry, surely the last that needed or needs such 'support' over the backs of the workers.
Because her government started a relentless drive for less regulation the Brits decided to limit the rules on the reduction of offal to cattle feed.
Although Scrapie and it's transmission is still not fully understood, in the day there was sufficient evidence it was related to a human syndrome called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The rules for offal use were mainly about the time and minimum temperature it had to be processed to become acceptable as cattle feed, Maggie's government lowered both the time exposure and the minimum temperature resulting in Scrapie jumping the barrier to first cows and next humans.
When Mrs. Thatcher came to office the country was in a deplorable state and changes were long over due.
But the way she's gone on about them is not fit for a repeat, the all but destruction of the unions has left the country as an outsider in Europe re. workers rights. Even now it's become quite obvious the well regulated German system is superior her party is still strictly adhering to the path she set.
The issues with her government are not with the subjects she tackled but with the rigorous and often cold-blooded way she did.
The way I understand it is they use off the shelf visible-light LED's in stead of the for communication more regular UV or IR version. :)
Cool and one day it might end up in a room's primary illumination, meaning there's no network during daylight hours
A couple of centuries ago this guy Mohammed wanted to see the mountain and when it didn't show up on his doorstep instead he went to the mountain.
And would your present smart phone have the same speed and options as the one of 10 years ago it would probably last a lot longer now.
I've just put in my patent application for * to include 'via light'.
Next week you can find me on my personal tropical island.
Where did you read they want to use the regular/primary room lights for this sort of communication?
I fart in your general direction.
That's largely Methane, four Hydrogen atoms for every Carbon one. :)
When they ever see a computer running Linux it's with a nice desktop, be it by means of Android or something KDE or Gnome and most wouldn't know any different.
I'm regularly at places with weird network restrictions and am one of the few able to get on it, if people borrow this Kubuntu computer and use Firefox or Opera their only comment is "Thanks, b.t.w, why is yours working?"
Linux, it just works.
This is about the 'international' area at the airport.
Duh, conscripts :)
I think the word you're looking for is Infectious'.