Failing to tell the authorities about any terrorist conspiracy that you are aware of has been a serious crimial offence in the UK for quite some time. I believe that it predates 9/11 and was born out of 30 years of fighting terrorists from Northern Ireland. Which the USA had a habbit of sheltering and refusing to extradite.
Putting to one side the issue of whether it is currently possible, is it such a bad thing if the police and other relevant parties get notified if a club has to many people in it? Now assume that you are in the club, and a fire breaks out and there are to many people to evacuate in time and you are seriously injured as a result. This is the USA you would be suing everyone in sight, including the police.
I would add that I want the best possible reception you can get and be tri band. However I would also say that I do want text messaging, and it must do multi part messaging. Morse input would be a nice feature as well.
Actually all want is tri band version of my Nokia 5110 with multi part messaging.
Execpt the "King" can sign a law into existence without the conscent of the legislature. Further more they can if they so choose ignore the legislature. Now it has been quite some time since that last happened, but in 1775 it was only about 20 years.
Except the BPA has already said that they think it should be made legal. The problem the music industry in the U.K. has created is the "in for a penny in for a pound" scenario. If copying the music from my legally purchased CD to my iPod is illegal, why should I bother buying the CD in the first place. Why not just download it from the internet for free? Yes this is illegal as well and is not morally defensible like the copying your own CD's. However if trying to do the morally right thing is illegal as well why bother.
It will be a long climb back out of this particular hole for the media content generators.
Heck RedHat do that with their Enterprise Linux as well. Release 4 of their Enterprise Linux 4 had an upgrade to Firefox bringing it to 1.5 for example. Along with a raft of other none minor changes.
Rubbish, you can do what DjVu does in PDF. So you have scanned a page with some text and a colour photograph. To get a small file DjVu takes the image of the page and cuts out the photograph and saves it seperately as a JPEG say. It then converts the rest of the scanned page to a B&W image and puts the area of the photograph to blank and compresses it seperately. The DjVu reader when displaying the page firsts puts up the text, then displays the photograph.
News flash you can do the exact same process in PDF, get similar file sizes to DjVu while not requiring another viewer to read it. I have been doing it personally for years. DjVu brings nothing of value to the table that an improved workflow for creating PDF's out of scanned documents does. What would be helpfull is software to make the process easier. What we do not need is another document format.
But DAWEOO also have to cost the product to the end-of-life disposal if they want to sell it in the US. Hence the brands are all on an equal footing.
The best bet to stop outsorcing to China, is to introduce import taxes on the basis of how much CO2 is produced in the manufacture of the product. If we take Japan as the benchmark, we use about 5 times as much energy here in the EU, for the USA it is about 8 times and for China it is a staggering 11 times. Save the enviroment and stop manufacturing being outsourced. It should pass the WTO as it is non discrimitory. There is nothing stopping China becoming more energy efficient.
The other category of shrink wrapped books are classics. That nice hardback cloth bound copy of Lord of the Rings, or the complete works of Jane Austin etc. I know exactly what I am getting when I buy these, I want to buy them and further more the fact that they are going to be in pristene condition is a major plus point.
For over 30 years the USA harboured convicted terrorists and openly allowed them to fundraise. This included the current administration. It was not till 9/11 that they decided to clamp down on it. In the meantime hundreds of innocent victims in Western Europe suffered or died as a result of US financed terrorism. Oh I forgot the IRA are not terrorists because they are not Muslims. I believe the French had issues with some Algerian terrorists being given haven in the USA.
Not only that you could have high quality PDF versions of all the Harry Potter novels in less than 3MB for example. Though I guess the standard measure is probably Complete Works of Shakesphere or perhaps Libraries of Congress:-)
I agree however the price for ebooks is all wrong. You can produce high quality typeset PDF's on the cheapest computer you can buy from Dell using entirely free software, they are a total rip off.
Momentum is only conservered in perfectly elastic collisions, something that simply does not happen in the real world (ignoring photons and superconductors). If you had read the article you would realise that the trick is to get them to impart their momentum more favorably in one direction than another. However the amount of thrust generated is tiny, you feed in 700W of electricity and get a tiny 88mN of thrust. It does however compare favorably with an ion-drive, the ESA SMART-1 drive consuming the same amount of power produces 70mN of thrust. The ion drive also has 10 times the mass, and an operational life one tenth that of the electromagentic drive. As a thruster for a deep space probe it looks like a good candidate.
I would add that this article is *not* in the latest issue of New Scientist either, but the 9th of September issue, which is now two issues old.
What's wrong with a pencil or pen and a cross? You count the ballets manually, by hand as a massively parallel process. The UK gets 90% of it's votes counted in under 12 hours from close of polls on an entirely paper based system.
All true. However not once in over 200 years has the treasury in the U.K. managed to accurately predict the growth of the economy for the next 12 months. Where accurately is I believe within 0.1 of a percentage point. Given that it is rarely more than 3 percentage points in total this lack of ability is absolutely astounding. You might as well role dice, in 200 years you would expect to have got it right more than once!
So while there is lots of clever economic theories they are all a pile of worthless rubbish, as they cannot be used to predict a dam thing in the real world. If they are completely useless in the real world why bother learning about them? Heck a degree in Art Appreciation is more useful if you ask me, and I consider that an total waste of space degree.
As far as analog TV's go, nobody has made an NTSC only decoder chip for over a decade. It simply is not economic to do so. Take a look at the websites of the manufactures. Now the TV I have here is 110/240V multi standard, presumably works anywhere in the world, provided you fit the right plug. It was some cheapy from Asda (aka WalMart in the UK) and is seven years old. The manual is in about 20 languages, and talks about being setup for reception in the USA.
Of course for HD the situation is probably completely different however.
Well CD's are not region encoded at all. Thing of it as way of enforcing DRM on CD's that does not bugger things up, and stands a chance of working. The problem is the millions of unencumbered CD drives out there. I am sure these minor technicalities won't stop the likes the RIAA
Funny gas or petrol as we call it over here in the U.K. has not doubled. In fact prices are pretty similar to 2000, maybe 5 pence a litre more expensive. See the problem is that you pay next to no fuel duty, so any fluctations in the fuel price on the commodity market cause similar wild fluctuations in the pump prices.
Here in the U.K. fuel duty makes a substantial proportion of the pump price. The net effect is that this insulates us against these wild fluctuations. The killer is that the to a large degree the absolute price of petrol does not matter, the economy will structually adjust to it. So while while the current prices are not nice and a month ago they where more like 10 pence a litre more expensive, it is not the major issue it is in the USA.
I guess the problem in the end is that so many Americans are fond of driving cars with such poor fuel economy. Two weeks ago I did a 600 mile road trip, we got 49.8 mpg out of a 1.6l Ford Focus. I have personally seen Americans claiming that 25mpg is very good mileage... I know the gallon is smaller in the USA (3.8l instead of 4.5l), but even that "good mileage" is rubbish by European standards.
The contract is with the state, and it is binding for life. It is no different from an NDA. You agree to the contract and in exchange you get access to priviledged information, that you agree not to divulge to anyone without permission. He does not have permission to make the disclosures he wants to. He is a dishonarable gold digger, who sees a fast buck divulging the secrets.
Now my Grandfather who spent WWII interogating what he described as "odious people" (aka high ranking German officers) and then went onto Moscow after the war where we think he help uncover some spys back in the U.K. He would never say anything about it, because he had signed the official secrets act and it ment something. I am sure what he had to say would have been way more interesting that what this trator has to say, and he finished his life hard up.
He made a cross border payment to a "charity" in Afghanistan. There was a program on the T.V. in the U.K. less than a month ago that showed what some of these "charities" in occupied Palestine did with the money they where getting from the U.K. Lets just say it was *VERY* disturbing. Quite why you would make a cross border payment of 20GBP is another matter. It would have cost him more than that to make the payment, and there are plenty of reputable U.K. or international based charities working in Afghanistan that would have taken his money.
Did he do something suspicious, sure as hell he did. Is he innocent, quite possibly. However that does not change the fact that banks can and do routinely suspend accounts that have suspicious activity on them, and it does not just extend to terrorism. It happens all the time due to specious fraudulant activity, sometimes comited by random third party crimials.
Most modern platters seem to be coated with some protective material (plastic?). I tried to destroy a range of platters from inside some broken hard disks of unknown origin at work. They where placed in a fume cupboard, and some concentrated HCl pored on them and left for 24 hours. Some older ones (MFM era drives) where well gone, but the newer ones (think 80MB IDE) where still intact!
Now for sensitive data, I remove the platters from the drives, collect them up and once a year on the 5th of November I put them on the bonfire. I have never seen any evidence of them after that. Less sensitive drives get a full 34 pass overwritting, and go for proper WEEE disposal.
I have noticed in addition to all this that Dell now offer a "keep your hard drive" option if one fails. Odd thing is it costs the same no matter how many drives you put in the server...
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Failing to tell the authorities about any terrorist conspiracy that you are aware of has been a serious crimial offence in the UK for quite some time. I believe that it predates 9/11 and was born out of 30 years of fighting terrorists from Northern Ireland. Which the USA had a habbit of sheltering and refusing to extradite.
Building yet more roads is the solution to the traffic problem? That's been tried a 100 times before and it never *EVER* works.
Putting to one side the issue of whether it is currently possible, is it such a bad thing if the police and other relevant parties get notified if a club has to many people in it? Now assume that you are in the club, and a fire breaks out and there are to many people to evacuate in time and you are seriously injured as a result. This is the USA you would be suing everyone in sight, including the police.
I would add that I want the best possible reception you can get and be tri band. However I would also say that I do want text messaging, and it must do multi part messaging. Morse input would be a nice feature as well.
Actually all want is tri band version of my Nokia 5110 with multi part messaging.
They are also subjects as well. As are Canadians, Australians, and quite a few other places.
Execpt the "King" can sign a law into existence without the conscent of the legislature. Further more they can if they so choose ignore the legislature. Now it has been quite some time since that last happened, but in 1775 it was only about 20 years.
But what percentage are still in copyright? I too have lots of works older than 30 years, most of them passed out of copyright years ago.
Except the BPA has already said that they think it should be made legal. The problem the music industry in the U.K. has created is the "in for a penny in for a pound" scenario. If copying the music from my legally purchased CD to my iPod is illegal, why should I bother buying the CD in the first place. Why not just download it from the internet for free? Yes this is illegal as well and is not morally defensible like the copying your own CD's. However if trying to do the morally right thing is illegal as well why bother.
It will be a long climb back out of this particular hole for the media content generators.
Heck RedHat do that with their Enterprise Linux as well. Release 4 of their Enterprise Linux 4 had an upgrade to Firefox bringing it to 1.5 for example. Along with a raft of other none minor changes.
Rubbish, you can do what DjVu does in PDF. So you have scanned a page with some text and a colour photograph. To get a small file DjVu takes the image of the page and cuts out the photograph and saves it seperately as a JPEG say. It then converts the rest of the scanned page to a B&W image and puts the area of the photograph to blank and compresses it seperately. The DjVu reader when displaying the page firsts puts up the text, then displays the photograph.
News flash you can do the exact same process in PDF, get similar file sizes to DjVu while not requiring another viewer to read it. I have been doing it personally for years. DjVu brings nothing of value to the table that an improved workflow for creating PDF's out of scanned documents does. What would be helpfull is software to make the process easier. What we do not need is another document format.
But DAWEOO also have to cost the product to the end-of-life disposal if they want to sell it in the US. Hence the brands are all on an equal footing.
The best bet to stop outsorcing to China, is to introduce import taxes on the basis of how much CO2 is produced in the manufacture of the product. If we take Japan as the benchmark, we use about 5 times as much energy here in the EU, for the USA it is about 8 times and for China it is a staggering 11 times. Save the enviroment and stop manufacturing being outsourced. It should pass the WTO as it is non discrimitory. There is nothing stopping China becoming more energy efficient.
The other category of shrink wrapped books are classics. That nice hardback cloth bound copy of Lord of the Rings, or the complete works of Jane Austin etc. I know exactly what I am getting when I buy these, I want to buy them and further more the fact that they are going to be in pristene condition is a major plus point.
For over 30 years the USA harboured convicted terrorists and openly allowed them to fundraise. This included the current administration. It was not till 9/11 that they decided to clamp down on it. In the meantime hundreds of innocent victims in Western Europe suffered or died as a result of US financed terrorism. Oh I forgot the IRA are not terrorists because they are not Muslims. I believe the French had issues with some Algerian terrorists being given haven in the USA.
And in the E.U. that would be illegal product tieing anyway.
Not only that you could have high quality PDF versions of all the Harry Potter novels in less than 3MB for example. Though I guess the standard measure is probably Complete Works of Shakesphere or perhaps Libraries of Congress :-)
I agree however the price for ebooks is all wrong. You can produce high quality typeset PDF's on the cheapest computer you can buy from Dell using entirely free software, they are a total rip off.
Momentum is only conservered in perfectly elastic collisions, something that simply does not happen in the real world (ignoring photons and superconductors). If you had read the article you would realise that the trick is to get them to impart their momentum more favorably in one direction than another. However the amount of thrust generated is tiny, you feed in 700W of electricity and get a tiny 88mN of thrust. It does however compare favorably with an ion-drive, the ESA SMART-1 drive consuming the same amount of power produces 70mN of thrust. The ion drive also has 10 times the mass, and an operational life one tenth that of the electromagentic drive. As a thruster for a deep space probe it looks like a good candidate.
I would add that this article is *not* in the latest issue of New Scientist either, but the 9th of September issue, which is now two issues old.
I thought under the last Democrat president the USA deficit actually went down, or am I missing something?
What's wrong with a pencil or pen and a cross? You count the ballets manually, by hand as a massively parallel process. The UK gets 90% of it's votes counted in under 12 hours from close of polls on an entirely paper based system.
All true. However not once in over 200 years has the treasury in the U.K. managed to accurately predict the growth of the economy for the next 12 months. Where accurately is I believe within 0.1 of a percentage point. Given that it is rarely more than 3 percentage points in total this lack of ability is absolutely astounding. You might as well role dice, in 200 years you would expect to have got it right more than once!
So while there is lots of clever economic theories they are all a pile of worthless rubbish, as they cannot be used to predict a dam thing in the real world. If they are completely useless in the real world why bother learning about them? Heck a degree in Art Appreciation is more useful if you ask me, and I consider that an total waste of space degree.
As far as analog TV's go, nobody has made an NTSC only decoder chip for over a decade. It simply is not economic to do so. Take a look at the websites of the manufactures. Now the TV I have here is 110/240V multi standard, presumably works anywhere in the world, provided you fit the right plug. It was some cheapy from Asda (aka WalMart in the UK) and is seven years old. The manual is in about 20 languages, and talks about being setup for reception in the USA.
Of course for HD the situation is probably completely different however.
Well CD's are not region encoded at all. Thing of it as way of enforcing DRM on CD's that does not bugger things up, and stands a chance of working. The problem is the millions of unencumbered CD drives out there. I am sure these minor technicalities won't stop the likes the RIAA
Funny gas or petrol as we call it over here in the U.K. has not doubled. In fact prices are pretty similar to 2000, maybe 5 pence a litre more expensive. See the problem is that you pay next to no fuel duty, so any fluctations in the fuel price on the commodity market cause similar wild fluctuations in the pump prices.
Here in the U.K. fuel duty makes a substantial proportion of the pump price. The net effect is that this insulates us against these wild fluctuations. The killer is that the to a large degree the absolute price of petrol does not matter, the economy will structually adjust to it. So while while the current prices are not nice and a month ago they where more like 10 pence a litre more expensive, it is not the major issue it is in the USA.
I guess the problem in the end is that so many Americans are fond of driving cars with such poor fuel economy. Two weeks ago I did a 600 mile road trip, we got 49.8 mpg out of a 1.6l Ford Focus. I have personally seen Americans claiming that 25mpg is very good mileage... I know the gallon is smaller in the USA (3.8l instead of 4.5l), but even that "good mileage" is rubbish by European standards.
The contract is with the state, and it is binding for life. It is no different from an NDA. You agree to the contract and in exchange you get access to priviledged information, that you agree not to divulge to anyone without permission. He does not have permission to make the disclosures he wants to. He is a dishonarable gold digger, who sees a fast buck divulging the secrets.
Now my Grandfather who spent WWII interogating what he described as "odious people" (aka high ranking German officers) and then went onto Moscow after the war where we think he help uncover some spys back in the U.K. He would never say anything about it, because he had signed the official secrets act and it ment something. I am sure what he had to say would have been way more interesting that what this trator has to say, and he finished his life hard up.
He made a cross border payment to a "charity" in Afghanistan. There was a program on the T.V. in the U.K. less than a month ago that showed what some of these "charities" in occupied Palestine did with the money they where getting from the U.K. Lets just say it was *VERY* disturbing. Quite why you would make a cross border payment of 20GBP is another matter. It would have cost him more than that to make the payment, and there are plenty of reputable U.K. or international based charities working in Afghanistan that would have taken his money.
Did he do something suspicious, sure as hell he did. Is he innocent, quite possibly. However that does not change the fact that banks can and do routinely suspend accounts that have suspicious activity on them, and it does not just extend to terrorism. It happens all the time due to specious fraudulant activity, sometimes comited by random third party crimials.
Most modern platters seem to be coated with some protective material (plastic?). I tried to destroy a range of platters from inside some broken hard disks of unknown origin at work. They where placed in a fume cupboard, and some concentrated HCl pored on them and left for 24 hours. Some older ones (MFM era drives) where well gone, but the newer ones (think 80MB IDE) where still intact!
Now for sensitive data, I remove the platters from the drives, collect them up and once a year on the 5th of November I put them on the bonfire. I have never seen any evidence of them after that. Less sensitive drives get a full 34 pass overwritting, and go for proper WEEE disposal.
I have noticed in addition to all this that Dell now offer a "keep your hard drive" option if one fails. Odd thing is it costs the same no matter how many drives you put in the server...