Can't you actually think for a change, instead of assuming I'm blaming the US. For fucks sake, how many more people will think this? Ye gods, I was merely saying that EU politicians can be just as much in the pockets of corporations as US politicians. Read my comment, think about it, read my replies to people accusing me of blaming the US and then just, oh just fuck off.
What I meant is that the US isn't the only place that passes laws based on the desires of the corporations. The difference here is that the tie between the corporation and the politician isn't money but marriage.
Neither a tool or a troll, just someone who reads the article and thinks about it. I guess I shouldn't be on/. really....;-)
Apologies for any confusion I've created - I'm not trying to blame anything on the US, I'm merely saying we're just as bad as the US;-)
Sadly I have no say in what this MEP does, as I'm British and she's French. Now, I've made it perfectly clear to my MP what my views are, and if I ever find out who the hell my MEP is I'll do the same there too.
Note that we're learning from the Americans in more ways than one....
"The European law was shepherded through the European Parliament by MEP Janelly Fourtou, wife of Jean-Rene Fourtou who is boss of media giant Vivendi Universal."
"I really think it's great that money's being put into space exploration again, but I'm nervous that the Kyoto Agreement was seen as being too expensive to ratify. The priorities _have_ to be to ensure that our own planet has a real future before we try anything else. We only have one Earth."
Not amazingly literate, but it sums up how I feel.
If it were a funny joke, I'd laugh. As it's just a boring over-used idea, I'll just assume you were trying to get an early post on here and not get it modded down.
I've recently had to either buy licences for MS Office or find an alternative. Neither Star Office or Open Office retained the formatting of an existing MS Word document. This sadly made them unusable.
I have no problem with using Open or Star Office, I actually like them, but until they deal with MS Office formats perfectly, I can't justify their use in my company. Sad really, especially as we'd get Star Office free. Hey, at least the educational licence for MS Office is lower than the full pricing.
They're always in front of me in the queue, and they always take ages to get their purses out and insist that they "have the right change, just hang on there..."
My old Amstrad PC1512 can read and write 5 1/4" floppies, but I don't even know if it works any more. 3 1/2" floppies will die a death soon enough, and the CD...? Who knows. In fifty years time even your latest super duper spanky-wank data storage medium might just be a lump of worthless crud.
Looking at file incompatabilty you might want to think about space mission tapes that can't be read because no-one's alive who know the decoding/reading system. Lots on ones and zeros, meaning nothing to anyone - a pity, seeing as now we have a better chance of using the data meaningfully, if only we could get to it....
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Heh... here at King's College London, I'm getting 550 kilobytes per second on my download of the SuSE 9.1 live CD. Swwet enough for me ;-)
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Oops, my mistake. Apologies. I must be lacking in laugh today, I'll try harder tomorrow.
Can't you actually think for a change, instead of assuming I'm blaming the US. For fucks sake, how many more people will think this? Ye gods, I was merely saying that EU politicians can be just as much in the pockets of corporations as US politicians. Read my comment, think about it, read my replies to people accusing me of blaming the US and then just, oh just fuck off.
Neither a tool or a troll, just someone who reads the article and thinks about it. I guess I shouldn't be on /. really.... ;-)
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Sadly I have no say in what this MEP does, as I'm British and she's French. Now, I've made it perfectly clear to my MP what my views are, and if I ever find out who the hell my MEP is I'll do the same there too.
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But you might ask what they have to do with the soft drinks industry.
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"The European law was shepherded through the European Parliament by MEP Janelly Fourtou, wife of Jean-Rene Fourtou who is boss of media giant Vivendi Universal."
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"Germany Nuzzles SCO"
I think it's time I went home.
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"I really think it's great that money's being put into space exploration again, but I'm nervous that the Kyoto Agreement was seen as being too expensive to ratify. The priorities _have_ to be to ensure that our own planet has a real future before we try anything else. We only have one Earth."
Not amazingly literate, but it sums up how I feel.
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If it were a funny joke, I'd laugh. As it's just a boring over-used idea, I'll just assume you were trying to get an early post on here and not get it modded down.
Mod down, it's flamebait! ;)
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I've recently had to either buy licences for MS Office or find an alternative. Neither Star Office or Open Office retained the formatting of an existing MS Word document. This sadly made them unusable.
I have no problem with using Open or Star Office, I actually like them, but until they deal with MS Office formats perfectly, I can't justify their use in my company. Sad really, especially as we'd get Star Office free. Hey, at least the educational licence for MS Office is lower than the full pricing.
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Okay, it's a lead, at least! Ta for that!
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My old Amstrad PC1512 can read and write 5 1/4" floppies, but I don't even know if it works any more. 3 1/2" floppies will die a death soon enough, and the CD...? Who knows. In fifty years time even your latest super duper spanky-wank data storage medium might just be a lump of worthless crud.
Looking at file incompatabilty you might want to think about space mission tapes that can't be read because no-one's alive who know the decoding/reading system. Lots on ones and zeros, meaning nothing to anyone - a pity, seeing as now we have a better chance of using the data meaningfully, if only we could get to it.... Tom.
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Eugh.
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