Can this possibly be used as an argument for evolution?
Yes.
From TFA:
About 80 years ago, when the predators were all over the place, the Daphnia retrocurva extended the size of its helmet and spines to make itself less appetizing. Later, when the number of predators shrank, the animal reduced the size of those features, thus conserving its energy for other uses.
The researchers had hit pay dirt. The changes in Daphnia retrocurva were precisely what would have been expected as part of the predator-prey interaction.
Furthermore, DNA analysis shows that the changes were passed on genetically from one generation to the next, until they were no longer needed, thus confirming that the researchers had caught evolution in the act.
5, 10, 20 and 50 are common, but i haven't seen any 100, 200 and 500 notes yet. Most shops won't accept notes bigger than 50.
Most 100 notes are fakes, that's the problem. Even the cash machines don't issue them anymore. That's why they're introducing RFID chips in the notes (and why I microwave my notes). Counterfeit euros are very common unfortunately, probably due to the fact the printing plates got stolen from a European Central Bank facility a few months before the currency became legal tender.
OTOH, try to pay anything with a $100 note and you'll run into the same problem!
You're absolutely right. I've been in the IT business for the past 10 years, and as far as respect is concerned we're now seen little better than car mechanics. Ten years ago, we were gods ; five years ago we were Highly Qualified IT Engineers ; today we're just the guys they call when something goes wrong, the same way they'd bring their car for servicing. And in my corner, you get paid better as a mechanic than for most IT jobs.
Computers have become a commodity, there's nothing exceptional in them anymore, they're everywhere and everyone and his dog knows how to basically operate one. It's not like we know something that's terribly rare to come by these days. We've enjoyed being the first techs on some emergent technology, probably the same way the first telephone or television techs did. Magicians, wizards... nice status, huh!
It's quite depressing for those who, like me, jumped on the bandwagon of IT maintenance because it was fun and nice to be (nicely) paid for what was a hobby to begin with. Quite honnestly, we're either loathed or, at best, seen as a necessary evil nowadays. Respect? None.
I hate Logitech. Have you noticed how they've removed the Insert (Ins) key from all the layouts lately? Makes it a pain to use in console (the standard shortcut for pasting is alt+ins).
I recently bought an OEM keyboard from them, and noticed a defect on the product: 2 keys are wrongly labeled. Spotting a QA prob, I kindly informed them (thru their support site) and they kindly told me they'll have a look and contact me soon and offer me a replacement. Two months later, seeing nothing happening, I recontacted them and was basically told that they has aknowledged the problem and that I was SOL because it's an OEM product and they don't support them... FFS, they got keys with the wrong label and tell me it's not of their resort? WTF??
Note that their HQs aren't far from me (in Switzerland)... How's that for treating your home customers who, basically, help you make a better product? Fuck'em I say!
Other than that, I quite like my MX500 mouse... But their keyboards are crap!
Milka Budumir isn't a designer... She's just a seamstress who got her name / domain name given to her by her son for her birthday. It's not like she has a brand to defend ; OTOH she's not causing Kraft any harm.
Thing is, in France, trademark law will prevail when it comes to.fr domain names, which were only available to registered companies with a trademark brand name (you had to show paperwork), which certainly explains this ruling.
Country TLDs ownership rules differ from country to country, unlike the usual.com.org.net.info.biz so don't scream if you haven't read the legal mumbojumbo above the "I agree" button!
something like six or seven 120GB drives' worth of stuff every 2 weeks or so. (This in 1998)
I find it difficult to believe, given that back in '98 the largest HDD on the market was around 10-20GB!!! I still have a 10GB IBM drive I bought in '99 and it already was a big one then.
Well, software being smaller then it prolly amounts for the same amount of pirated stuff than it would on 120GB drives today... but still.
I can't find the reference right away, but I remember reading last year that MS bought a rather large part of Corel, which subsequently dropped their Linux distro a few months later...
Does your cost estimate include nuclear waste handling and storage (for the next few million years)? I guess not. Does it account for the cost of nuclear fuel over a period of 40 years? Environmental problems? Nope. Your guesstimate is just about *building* a nuclear reactor, not maintaining it and cleaning up afterwards.
This solar tower will not pollute [b]ever[/b] and will not leave our children and grandchildren (and so on) dealing with lethal byproducts. I think it's worth paying a little more at first for building it and not have to deal with nuclear crap for the next hundreds of years.
Clean energy sure isn't cheap, but who said it'd be cheap to make sure our planet's still there in a few generations? We can't afford ruining our environment with short-term (profit!) visions any longer, we must make choices NOW, no matter the cost.
The government should do this more often. By simply rewriting the dictionary so that words now mean the opposite of what they did before, we can solve all the world's problems! War, famine, poverty, disease...
Have you been living in a cave for the past five years? They've already rewritten "democracy", "freedom", "elections" an "justice"... One more, one less, do you think the mass will notice?
Caldera had Tetris available for play during the install... Gotta say that was sweet! Nowadays it's so quick to install Linux, especially if you use someting like Mepis or Knoppix to install, like 3 to 5 minutes tops on a good system... no need for mid-flight entertainment.
I'd actually get rather pissed to have a perfectly valid tetris game interrupted by some mundane "Installation Finished" message.
I'm beginning to wonder whether/. editors have a grasp on the language they're supposedly using. Or maybe they've outsourced the job to some Philipino shop... Indians wouldn't have made such a grammatical mistake.
Well, there could be another reason... Quoth the same article:
"Under the terms of the Transaction Agreement and Plan of Amalgamation for the sale of Intelsat dated August 16, 2004, among Intelsat, Ltd., Intelsat (Bermuda), Ltd., Zeus Holdings Limited (Zeus Holdings), Zeus Merger One Limited and Zeus Merger Two Limited, the total loss of the IS-804 satellite gives Zeus Holdings the right to not consummate the acquisition of Intelsat. Zeus Holdings has advised Intelsat that it is evaluating the impact of the IS-804 failure."
First of all, the two sats were not manufactured by the same companies and are different in design, so it's not like a recurrent problem in a series of satellites.
Secondly, the first sat was recovered on dec. 3 as stated here: http://www.intelsat.com/aboutus/press/release_deta ils.aspx?year=2004&art=20041203_01_EN.xml&lang=en& footer=82
Reaching orbital altitude isn't the problem. After all, the ISS is cruising at around 200km altitude or so.
To put something in orbit you need speed. Lots of it. A helluvalot faster than what Rutan's SpaceShipOne (and Two) can ever get to without disintegrating, which I believe isn't on their agenda. They don't have to surpass NASA in every domain after all.
You may want to whip your favourite search engine, or even wikipedia, for something called "liberation speed" and stuff relating to re-entry speed and heat too. Hint: SpaceShipOne doesn't have any heat shield - guess why;)
Those vehicles are for sub-orbital flights and don't even reach hypersonic speeds. The Space Shuttle does Mach 30 or so at re-entry, SpaceShipOne barely Mach 3 (if that fast even).
I love the feeling when in (say) series 4 they reference something that happened way back in series 1. Totally mind blowing: "No way... that was planned that three years ahead!"
All five seasons of B5 were written before the shooting of the pilot episode. It allowed much deeper storylines and made B5 the most consistent sf serie ever, for it wasn't written to please advertisers or even modified to influence ratings. There lies the secret of a good series.
This technology is not already doomed because of politics...
Care to ellaborate? I actually RTFA and this technology really has strong arguments in its favor. It's low-risk (the reactor runs at max 50% power), has multiple uses (propulsion, super-propulsion and power generation) and relies on proved concepts such as the NERVA project.
Furthermore, it doesn't seem to be too expensive to develop, with a working prototype budget of about $ 1-2 billion. That's pocket money compared to, say, a 5-week vacation in Irak for 160.000 soliers;)
Should the USA decide not to use this technology (if it's a winner), rest assured other nations will gladly do it, like China, Europe, Russia or even India.
I think the WIPO stands mostly nowadays as a legal proxy to enforce big corporations' patents around the world, rather than making things equitable. Furthermore, it has consistently sided with big business in the past few years which, I believe, isn't really its primary goal (public, international organizations should NOT be at the service of a few megacorps). Look at what's happening in India with "proprietary" seeds and the resuslting extortion schemes agro-megacorps like Monsanto pull upon poor farmers "guilty" of having their fields polinized by a remote crop. Software patents are also a big topic and the WIPO has repeatedly shown whom it wants to side with (big $$$).
The proposed WIWO clearly stands out as being more "compliant" with the idea of a global organization, such as the UN, working for the benefit of humankind. After all, we ALL contribute to the financing of these agencies since all countries pay for it through their UN contributions (or something close to it, you get the idea).
The concept of Intellectual Property is slowly eating itself up and will, sooner or later, collapse in great mayhem. How will we evolve if all the tools and procedures belong to a few greedy corporations dictating what or can't be invented or done? We NEED to keep an eye on our technology achievements and make sure such data isn't lost in the vaults of a company that will eventually disappear with everything it ever produced. There's tons of valuable work, studies, experiences and results that will never, ever benefit anyone because of some PROFIT motivations (the pharmaceutical industry is probably one of the most guilty in this regard).
It is an insult to humankind to deprive it from its own achievements solely on the selfish argument that "if I can't benefit from it, none shall benefit". We owe our civilization and most of its achievements to the exchange of ideas. Strangely, now that we have achieved the long-sought dream of global, instant communication we suddenly find ourselves threatened by greedy IP laws. Oh, the irony.
It's still time to change the course of things, else we'll soon find ourselves in a world forbidding personal freedom of thought and incapable of evolving at its natural pace.
Well, I happen to live in Geneva and, like it or not, one couldn't possibly avoid being in the demonstration at some point for it's quite a small town and it was blocking most of the downtown area for almost a week. The demonstration was against a G8 summit taking place in Evian, France, but the French authorities had tightly locked the whole place and no demo could take place there. Geneva being very close and a much bigger city than Evian, the bulk of the demo took place here. At some point there was a HUGE cross-border walk and I can assure you there were LOTS of people, for this summit was highly impopular due to the presence of Bush and Blair who are frankly hated here. Imagine a 10 miles long procession of peaceful protesters.
I took many photos - which are not online at the moment - but will gladly send you some should you request them and prove me you're not working for any government. Given the present censorship atmosphere in here, I'd rather not have them visible to all on a swiss-hosted server.
No, not funny. A police officer's job is stressful enough without having his/her house being a target of some asshole or paranoid schizophrenic who think's he's saving the world by harrassing your kids and your home. That's juvenile bullshit.
I think it's our duty as citizens to point at cops when, instead of doing their jobs properly, they start behaving like the ones they're supposed to arrest, even encouraging such conducts. These cops believe they can do whatever they wish and get their orders from a well-know right-wing Distict Attorney with no sympathy whatsoever for the anti-globalization movement. Several of Geneva's elected representatives (wearing OBSERVER vests in the demo) got gased and shot (with rubber bullets) and then procecuted for "encouraging civil unrest". Neo-Liberals used these events to undermine left-wing political parties ever since, dissing the fact the police had been terribly mismanaged and abusive in its response. Furthermore, the only cops who worked properly were German riot-cops "hired" by our authorities because no other state in the country agreed on helping our stupid local police force (nice feeling of national unity here...), whose commander declared he had never seen poorer management and judgement from local authorities ever.
Proof? This guy may be telling the truth, or he could be making up 95% of this. Unfortunately, Mr. Max Von H.'s post is so lacking in substance that we'll never know whether he's telling the truth or he's making up most of this to gain notoriety.
Well I hope I've managed to dissipate some of the doubt that seems to overcome every one of your brainfarts. I suppose you've never found yourself demonstrating for or against anything in your life, only to find some hysterical cops firing at you as an answer.
Don't you just love all those funky measurement units americans spew in press releases? Volkswagens (haven't seen one in ages, how big is it again?), Rhode Island, Libraries of Congress and now freakin' kitchen tables. What's next, chevettes, twinkies, W's IQ (only for negative values)?
I was in the incriminated demonstration (didn't have much choice, the whole city got into it) and clearly saw cops in civilian triggering some strange chains of events. On the right side we had peaceful demonstrators (about a million) and on the other a group of about 200 rioteers (the Black Block) helped by some suburb scum. The local police let them rampage most of the downtown area by lack of orders from their superiors (the cops just sat and watch the shopping district being looted...). On the second riot night, the cops begun acting on their own. Nasty. They pushed the rioteers near where a big indy center was hosting indy press offices etc. (nothing to do with the rioteers - it was a peaceful demo). Civilian cops suddenly burst into the building, breaking doors and everything worth anything (computers, music instruments), for no apparent reason. Those cops also beat up several of my friends with baseball bats, several of which ended up in hospital getting their heads stitched. The bad guys never really got to worry, since the "authorities" obviously had another agenda: undermining the peaceful demonstrator's organization.
The root of Indymedia's problems is that there are photos of some Swiss police agents (with their names and addresses, hehe) infiltrating the Black Block and triggering riots. There are photos of cops beating up people. There are photos of cops attacking a restaurant for no reason (firing CS grenades on a full terrace half a mile from the real events then shooting people with rubber bullets). Without these cops, there probably wouldn't have been that much damage to the downtown area of Geneva.
The Swiss authorities behaved in such a spastic way they don't want their stupid agents to be recognized, for they are not respectable in their actions and deliberately triggered events eventually costing millions to the community and injuring quite many innocents. I feel ashamed my government is turning to such tactics to undermine the anti-globalization movement.
It makes me smile though to see the incriminated images have now spread to about 400 mirrors worldwide instead of 2 or 3 sites. Our local authorities are going batshit about it, yelling they'll have ALL the servers containing those images seized... Tough luck, assholes!
I know that trick, but the radioShark doesn't have that kind of antenna, the device's casing doing the job itself. Still, the hack should be relatively easy but it'd be nice to have that function as a feature rather than voiding the warranty to perform an unsure hack.
I wish it featured an external signal input. Thing I get very bad radio reception at my place but I get near-digital quality (and free) radio through my cable TV outlet (there's 2 connectors, one for TV one for radio).
Why don't you confront the person face to face before unleashing some greedy lawyer onto the case? If the culprit's one of your housemates, I guess you can just talk it over... I mean, if the recordings were only done for private purposes and only involve adults, kicking the guy out and destroying the evidence sounds like a reasonable punishment.
Of course, if it's your landlord doing it and selling/sharing the stuff among sickos, it's another story.
Just remember that not everything in life should be judged in court, dialogues can solve many things without getting to ruin one's life with punitive damages or jailing. Someone watched your butt, it's not the end of the world for Khtuhlu's sake! You'll save yourself a lot of stress that way and probably live longer:)
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
From TFA:
5, 10, 20 and 50 are common, but i haven't seen any 100, 200 and 500 notes yet.
Most shops won't accept notes bigger than 50.
Most 100 notes are fakes, that's the problem. Even the cash machines don't issue them anymore. That's why they're introducing RFID chips in the notes (and why I microwave my notes). Counterfeit euros are very common unfortunately, probably due to the fact the printing plates got stolen from a European Central Bank facility a few months before the currency became legal tender.
OTOH, try to pay anything with a $100 note and you'll run into the same problem!
You're absolutely right. I've been in the IT business for the past 10 years, and as far as respect is concerned we're now seen little better than car mechanics. Ten years ago, we were gods ; five years ago we were Highly Qualified IT Engineers ; today we're just the guys they call when something goes wrong, the same way they'd bring their car for servicing. And in my corner, you get paid better as a mechanic than for most IT jobs.
Computers have become a commodity, there's nothing exceptional in them anymore, they're everywhere and everyone and his dog knows how to basically operate one. It's not like we know something that's terribly rare to come by these days. We've enjoyed being the first techs on some emergent technology, probably the same way the first telephone or television techs did. Magicians, wizards... nice status, huh!
It's quite depressing for those who, like me, jumped on the bandwagon of IT maintenance because it was fun and nice to be (nicely) paid for what was a hobby to begin with. Quite honnestly, we're either loathed or, at best, seen as a necessary evil nowadays. Respect? None.
I hate Logitech. Have you noticed how they've removed the Insert (Ins) key from all the layouts lately? Makes it a pain to use in console (the standard shortcut for pasting is alt+ins).
I recently bought an OEM keyboard from them, and noticed a defect on the product: 2 keys are wrongly labeled. Spotting a QA prob, I kindly informed them (thru their support site) and they kindly told me they'll have a look and contact me soon and offer me a replacement. Two months later, seeing nothing happening, I recontacted them and was basically told that they has aknowledged the problem and that I was SOL because it's an OEM product and they don't support them... FFS, they got keys with the wrong label and tell me it's not of their resort? WTF??
Note that their HQs aren't far from me (in Switzerland)... How's that for treating your home customers who, basically, help you make a better product? Fuck'em I say!
Other than that, I quite like my MX500 mouse... But their keyboards are crap!
Milka Budumir isn't a designer... She's just a seamstress who got her name / domain name given to her by her son for her birthday. It's not like she has a brand to defend ; OTOH she's not causing Kraft any harm.
.fr domain names, which were only available to registered companies with a trademark brand name (you had to show paperwork), which certainly explains this ruling.
.com .org .net .info .biz so don't scream if you haven't read the legal mumbojumbo above the "I agree" button!
Thing is, in France, trademark law will prevail when it comes to
Country TLDs ownership rules differ from country to country, unlike the usual
something like six or seven 120GB drives' worth of stuff every 2 weeks or so. (This in 1998)
I find it difficult to believe, given that back in '98 the largest HDD on the market was around 10-20GB!!! I still have a 10GB IBM drive I bought in '99 and it already was a big one then.
Well, software being smaller then it prolly amounts for the same amount of pirated stuff than it would on 120GB drives today... but still.
I can't find the reference right away, but I remember reading last year that MS bought a rather large part of Corel, which subsequently dropped their Linux distro a few months later...
If it is so, isn't this ruling a win-win for MS?
Does your cost estimate include nuclear waste handling and storage (for the next few million years)? I guess not. Does it account for the cost of nuclear fuel over a period of 40 years? Environmental problems? Nope. Your guesstimate is just about *building* a nuclear reactor, not maintaining it and cleaning up afterwards.
This solar tower will not pollute [b]ever[/b] and will not leave our children and grandchildren (and so on) dealing with lethal byproducts. I think it's worth paying a little more at first for building it and not have to deal with nuclear crap for the next hundreds of years.
Clean energy sure isn't cheap, but who said it'd be cheap to make sure our planet's still there in a few generations? We can't afford ruining our environment with short-term (profit!) visions any longer, we must make choices NOW, no matter the cost.
The government should do this more often. By simply rewriting the dictionary so that words now mean the opposite of what they did before, we can solve all the world's problems! War, famine, poverty, disease...
Have you been living in a cave for the past five years? They've already rewritten "democracy", "freedom", "elections" an "justice"... One more, one less, do you think the mass will notice?
Caldera had Tetris available for play during the install... Gotta say that was sweet! Nowadays it's so quick to install Linux, especially if you use someting like Mepis or Knoppix to install, like 3 to 5 minutes tops on a good system... no need for mid-flight entertainment.
I'd actually get rather pissed to have a perfectly valid tetris game interrupted by some mundane "Installation Finished" message.
"Timothy Miller has wrote plenty of drivers..."
;)
/. editors have a grasp on the language they're supposedly using. Or maybe they've outsourced the job to some Philipino shop... Indians wouldn't have made such a grammatical mistake.
"Timothy Miller has written plenty of drivers..."
would be better
I'm beginning to wonder whether
Well, there could be another reason... Quoth the same article:
"Under the terms of the Transaction Agreement and Plan of Amalgamation for the sale of Intelsat dated August 16, 2004, among Intelsat, Ltd., Intelsat (Bermuda), Ltd., Zeus Holdings Limited (Zeus Holdings), Zeus Merger One Limited and Zeus Merger Two Limited, the total loss of the IS-804 satellite gives Zeus Holdings the right to not consummate the acquisition of Intelsat. Zeus Holdings has advised Intelsat that it is evaluating the impact of the IS-804 failure."
First of all, the two sats were not manufactured by the same companies and are different in design, so it's not like a recurrent problem in a series of satellites.
a ils.aspx?year=2004&art=20041203_01_EN.xml&lang=en& footer=82
Secondly, the first sat was recovered on dec. 3 as stated here: http://www.intelsat.com/aboutus/press/release_det
Reaching orbital altitude isn't the problem. After all, the ISS is cruising at around 200km altitude or so.
;)
To put something in orbit you need speed. Lots of it. A helluvalot faster than what Rutan's SpaceShipOne (and Two) can ever get to without disintegrating, which I believe isn't on their agenda. They don't have to surpass NASA in every domain after all.
You may want to whip your favourite search engine, or even wikipedia, for something called "liberation speed" and stuff relating to re-entry speed and heat too. Hint: SpaceShipOne doesn't have any heat shield - guess why
Those vehicles are for sub-orbital flights and don't even reach hypersonic speeds. The Space Shuttle does Mach 30 or so at re-entry, SpaceShipOne barely Mach 3 (if that fast even).
I love the feeling when in (say) series 4 they reference something that happened way back in series 1. Totally mind blowing: "No way ... that was planned that three years ahead!"
All five seasons of B5 were written before the shooting of the pilot episode. It allowed much deeper storylines and made B5 the most consistent sf serie ever, for it wasn't written to please advertisers or even modified to influence ratings. There lies the secret of a good series.
This technology is not already doomed because of politics...
;)
Care to ellaborate? I actually RTFA and this technology really has strong arguments in its favor. It's low-risk (the reactor runs at max 50% power), has multiple uses (propulsion, super-propulsion and power generation) and relies on proved concepts such as the NERVA project.
Furthermore, it doesn't seem to be too expensive to develop, with a working prototype budget of about $ 1-2 billion. That's pocket money compared to, say, a 5-week vacation in Irak for 160.000 soliers
Should the USA decide not to use this technology (if it's a winner), rest assured other nations will gladly do it, like China, Europe, Russia or even India.
I think the WIPO stands mostly nowadays as a legal proxy to enforce big corporations' patents around the world, rather than making things equitable. Furthermore, it has consistently sided with big business in the past few years which, I believe, isn't really its primary goal (public, international organizations should NOT be at the service of a few megacorps). Look at what's happening in India with "proprietary" seeds and the resuslting extortion schemes agro-megacorps like Monsanto pull upon poor farmers "guilty" of having their fields polinized by a remote crop. Software patents are also a big topic and the WIPO has repeatedly shown whom it wants to side with (big $$$).
The proposed WIWO clearly stands out as being more "compliant" with the idea of a global organization, such as the UN, working for the benefit of humankind. After all, we ALL contribute to the financing of these agencies since all countries pay for it through their UN contributions (or something close to it, you get the idea).
The concept of Intellectual Property is slowly eating itself up and will, sooner or later, collapse in great mayhem. How will we evolve if all the tools and procedures belong to a few greedy corporations dictating what or can't be invented or done? We NEED to keep an eye on our technology achievements and make sure such data isn't lost in the vaults of a company that will eventually disappear with everything it ever produced. There's tons of valuable work, studies, experiences and results that will never, ever benefit anyone because of some PROFIT motivations (the pharmaceutical industry is probably one of the most guilty in this regard).
It is an insult to humankind to deprive it from its own achievements solely on the selfish argument that "if I can't benefit from it, none shall benefit". We owe our civilization and most of its achievements to the exchange of ideas. Strangely, now that we have achieved the long-sought dream of global, instant communication we suddenly find ourselves threatened by greedy IP laws. Oh, the irony.
It's still time to change the course of things, else we'll soon find ourselves in a world forbidding personal freedom of thought and incapable of evolving at its natural pace.
It's just an ad for some virtual host that looks like a howto.
Bleh.
There's absolutely no reason to believe you.
Well, I happen to live in Geneva and, like it or not, one couldn't possibly avoid being in the demonstration at some point for it's quite a small town and it was blocking most of the downtown area for almost a week. The demonstration was against a G8 summit taking place in Evian, France, but the French authorities had tightly locked the whole place and no demo could take place there. Geneva being very close and a much bigger city than Evian, the bulk of the demo took place here. At some point there was a HUGE cross-border walk and I can assure you there were LOTS of people, for this summit was highly impopular due to the presence of Bush and Blair who are frankly hated here. Imagine a 10 miles long procession of peaceful protesters.
I took many photos - which are not online at the moment - but will gladly send you some should you request them and prove me you're not working for any government. Given the present censorship atmosphere in here, I'd rather not have them visible to all on a swiss-hosted server.
No, not funny. A police officer's job is stressful enough without having his/her house being a target of some asshole or paranoid schizophrenic who think's he's saving the world by harrassing your kids and your home. That's juvenile bullshit.
I think it's our duty as citizens to point at cops when, instead of doing their jobs properly, they start behaving like the ones they're supposed to arrest, even encouraging such conducts. These cops believe they can do whatever they wish and get their orders from a well-know right-wing Distict Attorney with no sympathy whatsoever for the anti-globalization movement. Several of Geneva's elected representatives (wearing OBSERVER vests in the demo) got gased and shot (with rubber bullets) and then procecuted for "encouraging civil unrest". Neo-Liberals used these events to undermine left-wing political parties ever since, dissing the fact the police had been terribly mismanaged and abusive in its response. Furthermore, the only cops who worked properly were German riot-cops "hired" by our authorities because no other state in the country agreed on helping our stupid local police force (nice feeling of national unity here...), whose commander declared he had never seen poorer management and judgement from local authorities ever.
Oh really, where are these supposed mirrors?
Here's one of many
And here's some sites with lots of photos from the events:
here and here (in French).
Proof?
This guy may be telling the truth, or he could be making up 95% of this. Unfortunately, Mr. Max Von H.'s post is so lacking in substance that we'll never know whether he's telling the truth or he's making up most of this to gain notoriety.
Well I hope I've managed to dissipate some of the doubt that seems to overcome every one of your brainfarts. I suppose you've never found yourself demonstrating for or against anything in your life, only to find some hysterical cops firing at you as an answer.
You're a Bush supporter, aren't you?
Congrats, you just made me spill beer!
Don't you just love all those funky measurement units americans spew in press releases? Volkswagens (haven't seen one in ages, how big is it again?), Rhode Island, Libraries of Congress and now freakin' kitchen tables. What's next, chevettes, twinkies, W's IQ (only for negative values)?
come_ON_!
I was in the incriminated demonstration (didn't have much choice, the whole city got into it) and clearly saw cops in civilian triggering some strange chains of events. On the right side we had peaceful demonstrators (about a million) and on the other a group of about 200 rioteers (the Black Block) helped by some suburb scum. The local police let them rampage most of the downtown area by lack of orders from their superiors (the cops just sat and watch the shopping district being looted...). On the second riot night, the cops begun acting on their own. Nasty. They pushed the rioteers near where a big indy center was hosting indy press offices etc. (nothing to do with the rioteers - it was a peaceful demo). Civilian cops suddenly burst into the building, breaking doors and everything worth anything (computers, music instruments), for no apparent reason. Those cops also beat up several of my friends with baseball bats, several of which ended up in hospital getting their heads stitched. The bad guys never really got to worry, since the "authorities" obviously had another agenda: undermining the peaceful demonstrator's organization.
The root of Indymedia's problems is that there are photos of some Swiss police agents (with their names and addresses, hehe) infiltrating the Black Block and triggering riots. There are photos of cops beating up people. There are photos of cops attacking a restaurant for no reason (firing CS grenades on a full terrace half a mile from the real events then shooting people with rubber bullets). Without these cops, there probably wouldn't have been that much damage to the downtown area of Geneva.
The Swiss authorities behaved in such a spastic way they don't want their stupid agents to be recognized, for they are not respectable in their actions and deliberately triggered events eventually costing millions to the community and injuring quite many innocents. I feel ashamed my government is turning to such tactics to undermine the anti-globalization movement.
It makes me smile though to see the incriminated images have now spread to about 400 mirrors worldwide instead of 2 or 3 sites. Our local authorities are going batshit about it, yelling they'll have ALL the servers containing those images seized... Tough luck, assholes!
I know that trick, but the radioShark doesn't have that kind of antenna, the device's casing doing the job itself. Still, the hack should be relatively easy but it'd be nice to have that function as a feature rather than voiding the warranty to perform an unsure hack.
I wish it featured an external signal input. Thing I get very bad radio reception at my place but I get near-digital quality (and free) radio through my cable TV outlet (there's 2 connectors, one for TV one for radio).
Nice gadget anyway!
Why don't you confront the person face to face before unleashing some greedy lawyer onto the case? If the culprit's one of your housemates, I guess you can just talk it over... I mean, if the recordings were only done for private purposes and only involve adults, kicking the guy out and destroying the evidence sounds like a reasonable punishment.
:)
Of course, if it's your landlord doing it and selling/sharing the stuff among sickos, it's another story.
Just remember that not everything in life should be judged in court, dialogues can solve many things without getting to ruin one's life with punitive damages or jailing. Someone watched your butt, it's not the end of the world for Khtuhlu's sake! You'll save yourself a lot of stress that way and probably live longer
Maybe shutting down the space program and restarting it 5 years later is just what we need.
;)
Do you mean Microsoft's behind the NASA?