Sequestor was a political posture. It's reducing the INCREASE in spending, there si still a net increase in spending from FY12 to FY13 so don't believe the fear-mongering. If they were to say, "if we can't fix the budget we'll automatically close the Pentagon and eliminate the 'Affordable' Health Care Act." I bet that'd be horrific enough to get politicians to act, but then again who knows as they are hard to read and don't do what's logical.
I was upgrading ye olde Amiga 1000 from 68000 to 68010 and when I was done I realized I left the power on the whole time. Funny thing is it worked like a champ.
I've been saying that war is too civil, too precise, and not horrific enough. War has become tolerable with attacks that kill exactly who you want with little collateral damage (usually). If war was more horrible people would do more to prevent it. Reminds me of the Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon" which is a great episode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon).
Buildings suspected to harboring haxors should be napalmed (just kidding...we should counter-hack them).
I made an error trying to recall something I wrote in college few years ago about stoichiometry and had gasoline and diesel flip-flopped. It seems it's cool to call names and pretend to be better than others in the world and especially in/.
My bad, I forgot to kiss the ring of the beloved six-digit users who are obviously, by virtue of having one less digit, far superior in all ways than us lowly seven-digit users. How about you take your arrogant attitude somewhere else although it does seem to fit in well here.
Hmmm...I remember researching stoichimetric ratios and at the time (2004-ish) my.gov web site cited gasoline as having a higher energy per gallon rating but I see that's not the case now. Good catch.
Windows 8 is pretty good if you install a third party Start Menu program that allows you to skip the Metro start screen at login. With Windows 8 sales lagging, I bet MS will add something like Start8 to Windows 8...overall Windows 8 is better than Windows 7 in all aspects except Metro (on anything that's not a phone or tablet).
Regarding Linux, I'd go with any Distro that uses Cinnamon or KDE.
It's "leave France" not "leave Europe." It's the money grab that's annoying...do you hear about countries outside of Europe taxing and suing corporations as much as the Euros do? It kind of gets tiresome to hear so many similar stories about countries essentially shaking foreign companies down for cash.
...and France would be speaking German if not for the US...playing these games is idiotic. Both countries have done great things and both countries have done stupid things. I'm disputing the argument that Skype should be taxed and went on to say they should have seen it coming because France tax rates are very high and that's their way of thinking. Not saying it's bad (I don't like it but the French people do and it doesn't affect me so why should I care) but it should have been predicted and Skype should threated to leave.
Exactly. The progression of society isn't to remain socialist...at some point the French government will not have enough money to redistribute due to either the rich leaving (as they are) or the middle class realizing they can stop working and just collect free stuff. This results in the French government taking all the earnings of everyone and spreading that around (e.g. communism). After a few decades of this and seeing the politicians living in mansions the people will rise up and you'll go back to feudalism. This has been seen at numerous points throughout history but you don't see it. It's happening in America (we're at the phase where we lean from capitalism to socialism).
To repeat AC and roman_mir above and verifying on other web sites, it does appear France has some of the highest tax rates in Europe on average.
That point (e.g. French tax rate is high) was added to my OP to show that the modus operandi of the French government is to take from the rich and give to the poor so this (e.g. taking from Skype) would not be a stretch and would fall right in line with their way of thinking.
It's the mentality I'm seeing with the high taxes which would mean to me that they are trying to bring in as much revenue as taxpayers can tolerate to pay for those services French citizens get. I'd much prefer a civil discussion, if I'm wrong then educate me, but for the love of God please don't assume I'm a wacko, a nut job, or uneducated in general.
France seems like a nice enough place but why are you so defensive?
As I've said before...when a country tries to extort money from a company that company should threaten to cease operations within that country so call their bluff...if they are not bluffing then the company just ceases to operate.
France taxes the crap out of its citizens so we should have seen this coming.
TFA says, "Thankfully for the rest of us, the cashed-up winners will disclose the holes quietly to Microsoft, Mozilla, Google and Oracle, and the proof of concept attack code will remain in the hands of organisers only." Who wants to bet the organisers are China?
No it's not, but if they felt they were being taken to the cleaners I would at least threaten to leave. This has happened to numerous other companies but they have tried OpenOffice and felt they had to go back to Microsoft Office so I think MS has some clout there. At least enough to make parts of Europe reconsider some of the fines. For the record, I didn't mean MS should leave Europe, just those countries that they felt were trying to get their money for lame laws.
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Sequestor was a political posture. It's reducing the INCREASE in spending, there si still a net increase in spending from FY12 to FY13 so don't believe the fear-mongering. If they were to say, "if we can't fix the budget we'll automatically close the Pentagon and eliminate the 'Affordable' Health Care Act." I bet that'd be horrific enough to get politicians to act, but then again who knows as they are hard to read and don't do what's logical.
I was upgrading ye olde Amiga 1000 from 68000 to 68010 and when I was done I realized I left the power on the whole time. Funny thing is it worked like a champ.
Hehehe...don't think they caught what you did...I was thinking of something clever then I gave up when I read your post. Touche!
I've been saying that war is too civil, too precise, and not horrific enough. War has become tolerable with attacks that kill exactly who you want with little collateral damage (usually). If war was more horrible people would do more to prevent it. Reminds me of the Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon" which is a great episode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon).
Buildings suspected to harboring haxors should be napalmed (just kidding...we should counter-hack them).
I use OpenDNS...works well and works regardless sof browser.
What a wonderful person you must be.
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I made an error trying to recall something I wrote in college few years ago about stoichiometry and had gasoline and diesel flip-flopped. It seems it's cool to call names and pretend to be better than others in the world and especially in
My bad, I forgot to kiss the ring of the beloved six-digit users who are obviously, by virtue of having one less digit, far superior in all ways than us lowly seven-digit users. How about you take your arrogant attitude somewhere else although it does seem to fit in well here.
Hmmm...I remember researching stoichimetric ratios and at the time (2004-ish) my .gov web site cited gasoline as having a higher energy per gallon rating but I see that's not the case now. Good catch.
Diesel is not more energy dense than gasoline.
The Mini's a sweet little car. My wife's 1994 Honda Civic got 40 to 45 mpg depending on how close we were to the ocean which I thought odd.
BazQux isn't free...$9/year or more.
There's still ads in Feedly which makes it annoying.
Windows 8 is pretty good if you install a third party Start Menu program that allows you to skip the Metro start screen at login. With Windows 8 sales lagging, I bet MS will add something like Start8 to Windows 8...overall Windows 8 is better than Windows 7 in all aspects except Metro (on anything that's not a phone or tablet).
Regarding Linux, I'd go with any Distro that uses Cinnamon or KDE.
It's "leave France" not "leave Europe." It's the money grab that's annoying...do you hear about countries outside of Europe taxing and suing corporations as much as the Euros do? It kind of gets tiresome to hear so many similar stories about countries essentially shaking foreign companies down for cash.
No, but there should be consequences, even if they're just minor like a services company leaving.
...and France would be speaking German if not for the US...playing these games is idiotic. Both countries have done great things and both countries have done stupid things. I'm disputing the argument that Skype should be taxed and went on to say they should have seen it coming because France tax rates are very high and that's their way of thinking. Not saying it's bad (I don't like it but the French people do and it doesn't affect me so why should I care) but it should have been predicted and Skype should threated to leave.
Exactly. The progression of society isn't to remain socialist...at some point the French government will not have enough money to redistribute due to either the rich leaving (as they are) or the middle class realizing they can stop working and just collect free stuff. This results in the French government taking all the earnings of everyone and spreading that around (e.g. communism). After a few decades of this and seeing the politicians living in mansions the people will rise up and you'll go back to feudalism. This has been seen at numerous points throughout history but you don't see it. It's happening in America (we're at the phase where we lean from capitalism to socialism).
To repeat AC and roman_mir above and verifying on other web sites, it does appear France has some of the highest tax rates in Europe on average.
That point (e.g. French tax rate is high) was added to my OP to show that the modus operandi of the French government is to take from the rich and give to the poor so this (e.g. taking from Skype) would not be a stretch and would fall right in line with their way of thinking.
It's the mentality I'm seeing with the high taxes which would mean to me that they are trying to bring in as much revenue as taxpayers can tolerate to pay for those services French citizens get. I'd much prefer a civil discussion, if I'm wrong then educate me, but for the love of God please don't assume I'm a wacko, a nut job, or uneducated in general.
France seems like a nice enough place but why are you so defensive?
As I've said before...when a country tries to extort money from a company that company should threaten to cease operations within that country so call their bluff...if they are not bluffing then the company just ceases to operate.
France taxes the crap out of its citizens so we should have seen this coming.
Free Mars...with purchase of another Mars of equal or lower price.
They also omitted that the procedure was done by Cyberdyne Systems.
That was one of the funnier comments I've read here...too bad I'm all out of mod points.
TFA says, "Thankfully for the rest of us, the cashed-up winners will disclose the holes quietly to Microsoft, Mozilla, Google and Oracle, and the proof of concept attack code will remain in the hands of organisers only." Who wants to bet the organisers are China?
Obviously nobody on /. has the clout MS has.
No it's not, but if they felt they were being taken to the cleaners I would at least threaten to leave. This has happened to numerous other companies but they have tried OpenOffice and felt they had to go back to Microsoft Office so I think MS has some clout there. At least enough to make parts of Europe reconsider some of the fines. For the record, I didn't mean MS should leave Europe, just those countries that they felt were trying to get their money for lame laws.