The problem in the US is cultural. Everyone equates "prosperity", "progress" and "value" with "making more money". Therefore, it's not surprising that finance has become the central concern in business and indeed everyday life - enter the billions of MBA's to try to squeze every last penny out of every effort, the hordes of lawyers to defend those pennies, and the corrupt politicians to facilitate it all at the highest level.
It used to be that the central concern in business was how much value your proposition brought, and that the expectation was that more value would equate to higher financial benefit. Although money was certainly part of the thinking, it was by no means the central point in the proposition.
That's the fundamental change the american mind must undergo: it's not about how much you have, but how much *value* you provide (or, rather, how big your "(potential?) contribution to society" is). In essence, that's the true measure of how "great" (or not) a person or company is.
BTW: I heard not too long ago that in underdeveloped nations, the single largest slice of college graduates were from law school (a significantly larger slice than the 2nd place profession) - and that that fact could be taken as an indicator to determine a nation's development status. Would be interesting to see where that is in the US...
Cheers.
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Nobody can 'prescribe' euthanasia, it has to be a voluntary decision and requested by the patient him or her self.
There are strict rules assuring the sanity of the requester and it has to be reviewed by a medical doctor.
The doctor has to report and register the request with the local coroner and the procedure will be checked by a commission.
For example, German has grammatical cases, which both Dutch and English lack since centuries.
Non-native students of Dutch would disagree, although the cases have in Dutch not nearly a standing like in German they are certainly not abolished.
Some examples: Het huis (the house)
De vrouw (the woman)
Welke man (which man)
Welk kind (which child)
Dat hemd (that shirt)
Die krant (That newspaper)
Dutch is a fairly important language, both in number of user and in the commercial power of them.
A total of 23 million native speakers makes it the 6th. language in Europe, The combined GDP of The Netherlands and Flemish Belgium lands them around the 15-16th. spot in the world.
The part of Belgium where German is the official language was German (Prussian) until the Belgians annexed it after the first world war.
The part of Denmark where German is a recognised language was annexed by the Germans in 1866 after a war with Denmark and they actively settled Germans in this territory.
After the first world war the present Danish-German border was established from the outcome of a plebiscite, the German and Danish minorities on both sides of the new border were given certain rights like the use of their own language.
In other words, you can't compare these two regions.
No that's only offensive for a fraction of the 200 million Americans that speak English.
I mean the fraction that is familiar with what perverts think of when they see the word Gimp.
The rest of the world couldn't care less and moves on.
In the mean time Canonical has a neat package in their repositories called Pornview; "PornView is an image and movie viewer/manager with thumbnail previews."
The way the UK (Tory) government is pussy-footing this issue I would not be surprised when collusion between the Conservative Party and Rupert's gang is going to be uncovered.
I see you have trouble looking at the international picture, some countries with the highest taxes like Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark are presently doing best.
Money passed through taxes and the government is usually spend locally and thus of direct benefit to all.
Except that the problem has little to do with the currency in which the budgetary imbalance is expressed.
Investors are looking at the chances a nation has to relinquish their debts and the UK has huge debts.
The saving grace for the UK is that the present government looks willing to do some severe cuts to balance that budget.
Now we have to see if they are capable to pull it off, even with the option to devalue the Pound the UK is compared to N/W Europe not exactly a competitive place...
But I can't see why anyone would want a filtering system in place they have no control over.
Political and social history makes it painfully clear such a system will sooner than later be abused for other than the original intent.
It seems to me the legal concept of proportionality is out of the window even before a court has looked at it.
When the Apple store is so upset about someone installing a reasonably innocent piece of software on one of their publicly available computers that they need the Secret Service to handle it I get serious doubts about both the Secret Service's and Apple's sound judgement.
There might be a reason one of the cases is brought in Denmark where Visa is the de-facto monopoly(!) on debit payments.
Debit payments are in Europe vastly more important than CC and a Visa led consortium has bid to take over the debit payments in many other countries of the EU.
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The problem in the US is cultural. Everyone equates "prosperity", "progress" and "value" with "making more money". Therefore, it's not surprising that finance has become the central concern in business and indeed everyday life - enter the billions of MBA's to try to squeze every last penny out of every effort, the hordes of lawyers to defend those pennies, and the corrupt politicians to facilitate it all at the highest level.
It used to be that the central concern in business was how much value your proposition brought, and that the expectation was that more value would equate to higher financial benefit. Although money was certainly part of the thinking, it was by no means the central point in the proposition.
That's the fundamental change the american mind must undergo: it's not about how much you have, but how much *value* you provide (or, rather, how big your "(potential?) contribution to society" is). In essence, that's the true measure of how "great" (or not) a person or company is.
BTW: I heard not too long ago that in underdeveloped nations, the single largest slice of college graduates were from law school (a significantly larger slice than the 2nd place profession) - and that that fact could be taken as an indicator to determine a nation's development status. Would be interesting to see where that is in the US...
Cheers.
+5 Insightful.
Just a shame this Anonymous rant was invisible to those browsing the lazy way.
Or just avoid derelict neighbourhoods.
There are strict rules assuring the sanity of the requester and it has to be reviewed by a medical doctor.
The doctor has to report and register the request with the local coroner and the procedure will be checked by a commission.
For example, German has grammatical cases, which both Dutch and English lack since centuries.
Non-native students of Dutch would disagree, although the cases have in Dutch not nearly a standing like in German they are certainly not abolished.
Some examples:
Het huis (the house)
De vrouw (the woman)
Welke man (which man)
Welk kind (which child)
Dat hemd (that shirt)
Die krant (That newspaper)
A total of 23 million native speakers makes it the 6th. language in Europe, The combined GDP of The Netherlands and Flemish Belgium lands them around the 15-16th. spot in the world.
The part of Denmark where German is a recognised language was annexed by the Germans in 1866 after a war with Denmark and they actively settled Germans in this territory.
After the first world war the present Danish-German border was established from the outcome of a plebiscite, the German and Danish minorities on both sides of the new border were given certain rights like the use of their own language.
In other words, you can't compare these two regions.
I mean, only trolls can call this a business case.
You see how close IP and patents are?
Heathen go forth!
I mean the fraction that is familiar with what perverts think of when they see the word Gimp.
The rest of the world couldn't care less and moves on.
In the mean time Canonical has a neat package in their repositories called Pornview; "PornView is an image and movie viewer/manager with thumbnail previews."
This does not hurt anyone except the Pharisees.
The way the UK (Tory) government is pussy-footing this issue I would not be surprised when collusion between the Conservative Party and Rupert's gang is going to be uncovered.
Money passed through taxes and the government is usually spend locally and thus of direct benefit to all.
Investors are looking at the chances a nation has to relinquish their debts and the UK has huge debts.
The saving grace for the UK is that the present government looks willing to do some severe cuts to balance that budget.
Now we have to see if they are capable to pull it off, even with the option to devalue the Pound the UK is compared to N/W Europe not exactly a competitive place...
They could have used the main breaker for the building...
These places suffer a fundamental lack of infrastructure like fiber and power, the reason is obvious, there's no authority to protect your property.
Now you do find sites registered in such places but they are usually hosted in more developed countries where Interpol can act.
(also, mathematical laws are discovered, not invented).
For the same reason we should strongly reject patents on DNA of natural occurring organisms.
Few nations and police forces would like to be in the news for refusing such assistance.
But I can't see why anyone would want a filtering system in place they have no control over.
Political and social history makes it painfully clear such a system will sooner than later be abused for other than the original intent.
The result would be plain old censorship.
Once the movie is out they'll start going after the owners of the original consoles for infringement.
Because of the same tracking I get a Wall Street Journal ad.
When the Apple store is so upset about someone installing a reasonably innocent piece of software on one of their publicly available computers that they need the Secret Service to handle it I get serious doubts about both the Secret Service's and Apple's sound judgement.
Debit payments are in Europe vastly more important than CC and a Visa led consortium has bid to take over the debit payments in many other countries of the EU.
Usually countries make smaller or larger adjustments to fit the local/national situation.
Yes there are exemptions for things like CD's you could copy and continue to use the copy even when the original has been 'returned'.
Yes people have different needs and views of the world...
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