However, they've been trying to do that with rabbits, boar and foxes for about 100 years now with no succes
They've also been trying it with the Aborigines. Australiains like to paint themselves as a fun-loving, easy going people. But they are among the most vicious racists in the world.
Go check out "Rabbit-Proof Fence" to get a taste of what the Aborigines have had to deal with.
...the second can't go anywhere because anyone who bought an iPod expecting the battery to last forever, or for Apple to change it for free, when they had said nothing of the kind, is an idiot.
Bullshit.
18 months is not "forever". For Apple to suggest that the best recourse of action was to just buy another iPod was absoultely ridiculous and they rightly were excoriated by the kid who made that famous video.
After Apple got a lot of negative press on the issue, they miraculously came up with a batttery replacement plan. Why? Because they knew they had been caught in the wrong.
The thing about this issue that repulses me and will prevent me from ever buying an Apple product is this was nothing more than planned obsolescence. Apple admits that they make no money on selling music. Their money is made from pushing iPods. They made a clear business decision to not provide a battery replacement plan because they wanted people to buy more iPods.
Aren't many of the companies in the e-voting business heavily funded and/or backed by Republican interests?
Republicans in the U.S. will basically do anything to preserve power. Let's not forget that Katherine Harris, the Florida Secretary of State charged with making sure the Florida election process was fair was the Florida co-Chairperson of the Bush Electtion team.
She swears she put the interests of the voters ahead of Bush's. She is now a congressperson contemplating running for Senator (thanks Jeb!)
Also, a cousin of Bush's, working at Fox News and head of the projection team charged with calling the states callled George Bush Jr. 5 times the evening of the election.
He swears he didn't give Bush any information. That wouldn't have been "Fair and Balanced", would it?
I questioned whether it was Alanis Morrisette-like irony or real irony that a company charged with securing internet voting had their servers hacked and also alluded to the possibility that the 2004 presidential election will make us all remiss for the stability of the 2000 elections.
It was actually one of my better submissions. It was funny and yet pithy. It had pith. Real pith.
How many hot girls do you know that love manga, anime and videogames ?
And please, no anecdotes about "my wife does!"...I'm talking in the general case. Walk into a bar on the Upper West Side talking about Castle in the Sky to the 6'0 Brazilian supermodel and she'll stare at you blankly while planning her escape.
Japan has a niche with a certain segment (nerdy people) but their culture doesn't have broad appeal to the masses. Sure, videogames pull in a lot of money but they're typically bought by young men.
The readers of this site will love the article because it will affirm something they want to believe in, but it doesn't really make it true.
I don't know how Sony in its present day, conglomerate form can survive. Not when it has disparate business interests that do not align well. The PSX is Sony's latest shism come to life.
Will it do well?
Who knows.
But I gaurantee there are a lot of people within Sony who pray for its death, notably those in consumer electronics, film and music. There are a lot of people at Matsushita who pray it succeeds.
Sony's recent showing at the Tokyo Consumer Electronics affirms Sony's current standing.
This debacle is really not surprising. They should stick to sending hairy little creatures into orbit. There are certainly an abundance of EUian women to fit the bill !
Outsourcing is not as pronounced because American companies have greater flexibility due to less regulation of employment practices. It has nothing to do with salary compensation.
If you look at the total compensation for employees in America and Europe, you won't find much difference as the higher American salaries are balanced by the higher outlays European companies make to finance the larger benefits and government taxes.
As I've indicated, outsourcing from Europe to America is marginal at best. So don't worry, your IT jobs will be going to India. At least this way you can feel better about yourself.
Over-regulated economies will always be a step behind economies like America's. Japan found that out the hard way in the late 80's and 90's.
Europe will find that out as its increasingly aged (and shrinking) population is faced with supporting a tremendous welfare state burdened by longer living retirees. I'm sure the Europeans that do remain in Europe(the less intellectually inclined) will be hard pressed to provide full pension benefits for people who've worked 27 years and are retired for 40 years.
Europeans will have to import North Africans and Southeast Asians by the millions in order to have a hope of maintaining their standards of living. As they are loathe to do this, this will cause much social upheaval. The immigrants that do come over are more and more refusing to fully integrate into European society and defined themselves through their muslim religion (See France and hijab problem).
Luckily for the US, immigration mostly comes from Mexico and Central America. As most American immigrants, after a generation or two they are often fully emersed into the American culture. Also, they aren't planning on setting up the next base for their planned caliphate.
I know this topic scares you, hence your anonymous posting, but don't worry. You probably won't live to see the worse of what Europe has in store for itself.
I sincerely doubt that EUian companies are outsourcing work to America (not too many Swedish meatballs making their way here), since our standard of living supercedes yours on many levels.
You should worry about the outsourcing of your jobs to India or China, although you have to worry about this to a lesser extent than Americans since EUian nations tend to have more tightly regulated (non-globally competitive) economies.
Americans have the least regulated free economy in the world. Unionized employees make up a far smaller percentage of employees compared to European countries.
As a result, you rarely see truckers or farmers or taxicab drivers striking or clogging up highways like they do in France.
American workers will adapt as they've always done. The question is whether the 2nd and 3rd world nations will adapt as their sub-living standards improve and they lose their only advantages.
Yeah, that's the official French line but everyone knows that it was directed towards the wearing of the hajib...oops, the veil. It appears France is even afraid to say the word "hajib".
Liberty seems to have a capricious definition in France these days.
Google "Jacques Chirac Saddam Hussein" and you'll find a picture of the two buddies from 1976. Should we blame France for not having a time machine to see what this despot would become 25 years later ?
What the US is doing here is ridiculous. Oppose the French solution, fine, but do it for technical or financial reasons, not political ones. The US is the only country doing this, which is even worse.
If this is what the US is doing, it is no different than what the EU did when it choose the French site over the Spanish site. The EU chose the French site over Spain because Spain supported the Iraq war.
If you don't like the injection of politics into matters of science, I'm sure you'll rebuke the EU for what they did to Spain.
Or perhaps you'll ignore it since it fits into your worldview.
The evidence that is available now may point out that Sadaam was a lying idiot but no one outside of Iraq knew that.
In fact, Sadaam clearly tried to play off of the perception that Iraq was tyring to manufacture bio-weapons and acquiring nuclear technology. Sadaam was asked after his capture why he refused UN inspections if he had no such weapons or programs. He replied that he thought it was beneficial to keep others guessing.
I guess he played his cards hoping others wouldn't call his bluff. He lost.
Or are you so deluded as to believe that a person's cultural background always implies that they mimic the opinions of that culture's leaders?
I don't know, maybe you should ask France. They seem to believe that is the case, hence their passing a law to outlaw the wearing of the veil in public schools.
When Europeans talk about WW2, they seem to think that it was all about Europe. They may remember something about Germans in Africa but by and large, they rarely seem to remember that the US was fighting in Europe AND IN THE PACIFIC AGAINST JAPAN
Let's make no mistake about this. The war against Japan was brutal. Vicious fighting took place to secure the smallest of islands. And the US supplied the majority of Allied forces in the Pacific battles and took most of the casualties.
The Japanese fought 10 times as hard as the Germans. They introduced the world to suicide bombing. Their own people jumped off cliffs rather than be taken capture by Americans.
SO yeah, the US's EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTIONS may not have been as overwhelming as Europeans might have liked. It was because they were busy elsewhere.
On behalf of the Americans from that generation, I apologize on their behalf for being so rude as to not pour all their resources on the European front.
Slashdot Mirror
Google has a Time Square-like ticker in their building that continually displays a sample of the search terms people enter.
The movie is based on a true story.
However, they've been trying to do that with rabbits, boar and foxes for about 100 years now with no succes
They've also been trying it with the Aborigines. Australiains like to paint themselves as a fun-loving, easy going people. But they are among the most vicious racists in the world.
Go check out "Rabbit-Proof Fence" to get a taste of what the Aborigines have had to deal with.
...the second can't go anywhere because anyone who bought an iPod expecting the battery to last forever, or for Apple to change it for free, when they had said nothing of the kind, is an idiot.
Bullshit.
18 months is not "forever". For Apple to suggest that the best recourse of action was to just buy another iPod was absoultely ridiculous and they rightly were excoriated by the kid who made that famous video.
After Apple got a lot of negative press on the issue, they miraculously came up with a batttery replacement plan. Why? Because they knew they had been caught in the wrong.
The thing about this issue that repulses me and will prevent me from ever buying an Apple product is this was nothing more than planned obsolescence. Apple admits that they make no money on selling music. Their money is made from pushing iPods. They made a clear business decision to not provide a battery replacement plan because they wanted people to buy more iPods.
Aren't many of the companies in the e-voting business heavily funded and/or backed by Republican interests?
Republicans in the U.S. will basically do anything to preserve power. Let's not forget that Katherine Harris, the Florida Secretary of State charged with making sure the Florida election process was fair was the Florida co-Chairperson of the Bush Electtion team.
She swears she put the interests of the voters ahead of Bush's. She is now a congressperson contemplating running for Senator (thanks Jeb!)
Also, a cousin of Bush's, working at Fox News and head of the projection team charged with calling the states callled George Bush Jr. 5 times the evening of the election.
He swears he didn't give Bush any information. That wouldn't have been "Fair and Balanced", would it?
<hides from Fox legal>
I questioned whether it was Alanis Morrisette-like irony or real irony that a company charged with securing internet voting had their servers hacked and also alluded to the possibility that the 2004 presidential election will make us all remiss for the stability of the 2000 elections.
It was actually one of my better submissions. It was funny and yet pithy. It had pith. Real pith.
...
But this submission is ok, I guess...
How many hot girls do you know that love manga, anime and videogames ?
And please, no anecdotes about "my wife does!"...I'm talking in the general case. Walk into a bar on the Upper West Side talking about Castle in the Sky to the 6'0 Brazilian supermodel and she'll stare at you blankly while planning her escape.
Japan has a niche with a certain segment (nerdy people) but their culture doesn't have broad appeal to the masses. Sure, videogames pull in a lot of money but they're typically bought by young men.
The readers of this site will love the article because it will affirm something they want to believe in, but it doesn't really make it true.
I haven't been paying attention to the Billboard top 100 recently, but are there some Japanese rock bands that i don't know about ?
Literally.
I don't know how Sony in its present day, conglomerate form can survive. Not when it has disparate business interests that do not align well. The PSX is Sony's latest shism come to life.
Will it do well?
Who knows.
But I gaurantee there are a lot of people within Sony who pray for its death, notably those in consumer electronics, film and music. There are a lot of people at Matsushita who pray it succeeds.
Sony's recent showing at the Tokyo Consumer Electronics affirms Sony's current standing.
#!/bin/sh curl $1 > paraphrase > slant -liberal -mindless > bbc_news_story.txt
This debacle is really not surprising. They should stick to sending hairy little creatures into orbit. There are certainly an abundance of EUian women to fit the bill !
Outsourcing is not as pronounced because American companies have greater flexibility due to less regulation of employment practices. It has nothing to do with salary compensation.
If you look at the total compensation for employees in America and Europe, you won't find much difference as the higher American salaries are balanced by the higher outlays European companies make to finance the larger benefits and government taxes.
As I've indicated, outsourcing from Europe to America is marginal at best. So don't worry, your IT jobs will be going to India. At least this way you can feel better about yourself.
Over-regulated economies will always be a step behind economies like America's. Japan found that out the hard way in the late 80's and 90's.
Europe will find that out as its increasingly aged (and shrinking) population is faced with supporting a tremendous welfare state burdened by longer living retirees. I'm sure the Europeans that do remain in Europe(the less intellectually inclined) will be hard pressed to provide full pension benefits for people who've worked 27 years and are retired for 40 years.
Europeans will have to import North Africans and Southeast Asians by the millions in order to have a hope of maintaining their standards of living. As they are loathe to do this, this will cause much social upheaval. The immigrants that do come over are more and more refusing to fully integrate into European society and defined themselves through their muslim religion (See France and hijab problem).
Luckily for the US, immigration mostly comes from Mexico and Central America. As most American immigrants, after a generation or two they are often fully emersed into the American culture. Also, they aren't planning on setting up the next base for their planned caliphate.
I know this topic scares you, hence your anonymous posting, but don't worry. You probably won't live to see the worse of what Europe has in store for itself.
I sincerely doubt that EUian companies are outsourcing work to America (not too many Swedish meatballs making their way here), since our standard of living supercedes yours on many levels.
You should worry about the outsourcing of your jobs to India or China, although you have to worry about this to a lesser extent than Americans since EUian nations tend to have more tightly regulated (non-globally competitive) economies.
Americans have the least regulated free economy in the world. Unionized employees make up a far smaller percentage of employees compared to European countries.
As a result, you rarely see truckers or farmers or taxicab drivers striking or clogging up highways like they do in France.
American workers will adapt as they've always done. The question is whether the 2nd and 3rd world nations will adapt as their sub-living standards improve and they lose their only advantages.
The French are not only cowards, they are the worst fighters ever. They were killed because they refused to fight.
The Japanese should have surrendered. War is hell.
While I agree it's terrible that such measures may need to be taken, if they are applied evenly to all then they are at least fair.
Rather than taking away the rights of people to wear certain symbols, perhaps France can force them to wear the same symbol.
Like a Yellow Star.
Yeah, that's the official French line but everyone knows that it was directed towards the wearing of the hajib...oops, the veil. It appears France is even afraid to say the word "hajib".
Liberty seems to have a capricious definition in France these days.
Don't make me laugh.
Google "Jacques Chirac Saddam Hussein" and you'll find a picture of the two buddies from 1976. Should we blame France for not having a time machine to see what this despot would become 25 years later ?
What the US is doing here is ridiculous. Oppose the French solution, fine, but do it for technical or financial reasons, not political ones. The US is the only country doing this, which is even worse.
If this is what the US is doing, it is no different than what the EU did when it choose the French site over the Spanish site. The EU chose the French site over Spain because Spain supported the Iraq war.
If you don't like the injection of politics into matters of science, I'm sure you'll rebuke the EU for what they did to Spain.
Or perhaps you'll ignore it since it fits into your worldview.
The evidence that is available now may point out that Sadaam was a lying idiot but no one outside of Iraq knew that.
In fact, Sadaam clearly tried to play off of the perception that Iraq was tyring to manufacture bio-weapons and acquiring nuclear technology. Sadaam was asked after his capture why he refused UN inspections if he had no such weapons or programs. He replied that he thought it was beneficial to keep others guessing.
I guess he played his cards hoping others wouldn't call his bluff. He lost.
Or are you so deluded as to believe that a person's cultural background always implies that they mimic the opinions of that culture's leaders?
I don't know, maybe you should ask France. They seem to believe that is the case, hence their passing a law to outlaw the wearing of the veil in public schools.
Please post the quotes. I would love to read them since I didn't find them in the BBC article.
When Europeans talk about WW2, they seem to think that it was all about Europe. They may remember something about Germans in Africa but by and large, they rarely seem to remember that the US was fighting in Europe AND IN THE PACIFIC AGAINST JAPAN
Let's make no mistake about this. The war against Japan was brutal. Vicious fighting took place to secure the smallest of islands. And the US supplied the majority of Allied forces in the Pacific battles and took most of the casualties.
The Japanese fought 10 times as hard as the Germans. They introduced the world to suicide bombing. Their own people jumped off cliffs rather than be taken capture by Americans.
SO yeah, the US's EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTIONS may not have been as overwhelming as Europeans might have liked. It was because they were busy elsewhere.
On behalf of the Americans from that generation, I apologize on their behalf for being so rude as to not pour all their resources on the European front.
Are you happy now ?