Since most of the German exports are durable goods i.e. cars, machines, appliances etc. I'd say that'll be a net gain for Germany given the current elevated prices for commodities (especially if the US pays for shipping).
It amuses me to see such constitution parsing efforts here on/. at a time that this great document is ever more reduced to a quaint piece of paper kept as yet another obsolete oddity in a backrooom shelve next to the Geneva convention.
You forgot one thing: China is a huge holder of US federal debt. So much in fact that they could seriously derail the dollar's valuation if they were to unload their dollar reserves. This is leverage on the scale of an economic nuclear bomb -just as effective as a detriment against US agression.
If American schools very any good you would know that Germany was a democracy before the Nazis came to power. They used emergency state law to legally send parliament into a recess of undefined length and that was the end of it.
The US did not bring democracy to Germany rather they helped to reinstate it.
Too bad. With your last paragraph you flushed all your credebility down the toilet. You may not hate Bush but you obviously have some major issues with Mr. G.
If you actually would have lived in France, Germany, Britain or Spain at the time (I lived in Germany) you'd know that only the latter two governmemts played along. But even living in Britain or Spain the MSM there would have bothered to inform you about this and the wide-spread anti Iraq war sentiment around the world.
You are truely an AC living under a rock if you still buy this spin.
I am currently going through the patching process.
It is pretty straightforward. Nevertheless this silly excercise reinforces my believe that DST is one of the single most stupid endeavors humanity ever engaged in. I just want it to go away.
... externalities prohibiting the adoption of Linux and other alternatives such as OSX in a wider enterprise setting. MS is well aware of this competitive advantage ad is actively fostering it. This article should really have been linked as an answer to an earlier/. story about why MS is still perceived as evil by so many in the IT community.
I am just surprised that this guy keeps trying - and I am also surprised that he than seems to blame Linux. This man is confused.
Well I guess you really don't venture much out of Manitoba? On my recent business trip to Montreal I was glad that my French was at least good enough to let the cap driver know where I wanted to go. He was obviously a recent immigrant from a francophone part of Africa and did not speak any English. I would have liked to be able to ask where he was from and carry a conversation with him alas my French is not up to that.
Appreciate the sentiment, but I am actually very fond of the way that the moderation system takes care of this. IMHO it is good that stuff like this is not deleted because it is very revealing in its own right.
Point well taken. Incidentelly all the Quebecoises I have met so far, including a 9 year old boy at our neighborhood playground, never had a problem to talk to me in English. Having been used to the French attitude to English this was is refreshing change to me.
Why should I bother with another language which I'll rarely ever be able to use, and have no desire to learn? I'd much rather learn ruby or python thank you very much.
I'll take it you don't like to travel, nor do you think the tons of material available on the Web in French could contain anything of interest to you?
I most confess your attitude just baffles me. Maybe you have to already be bilingual in order to understand how knowing a different language widens you perspective. There are certain things I can say so much more effectively in German because the language lends itself better to what I need to express. In that regard human language is actually quite similar to computer languages. Sure you can code in an object oriented manner in C but it is really not tailored for it. My wife is American but she picked up German quite nicely during the 4 years that we lived in Germany and there are some words and phrases in German that she still always likes to use just because there is no good equivalent for them in English. Of course the same thing goes for English. One of my favorite examples is "anyway". It is so wonderfully vague. German doesn't do vague very well.
Frankly it should be. And no I am not a French speaker. I am German and currently live in Toronto. My French is unfortunately pretty poor but Canada is supposed to be a bilingual country. I am tired of all those English speakers who seem to think it is such a terrible burden to learn another language. Mastering another language greatly enriches your life - stop acting like babies. Grow up and get over it.
The heat load of a city can be easily calculated since you know overall fuel consumption. You will find that cities are again mostly warmer because they change the radiation balance due to the building intensity. That is why the effect of warmer cities can be observed all year round even when people are not heating.
I'd be very much looking forward to a day when artificial heat load is the only environmental impact to worry about.
This is like arguing that the exhaust heat of car engines contribute to global warming rather than the exhaust gases. Direct heat dumping of mankind is negligible - even the hot wind passed in DC is more important. The latter will actually contain some green house gases. It's the gas stupid! CO2 and methane change the heat radiation equation of earth's atmosphere, that is the problem. GT just likes nuclear energy does not emit green house gases. That is why these are preferable power sources.
I cringe at the fact that this was moderated interesting. The collective IQ of/. really is going down the drain.
... of the positive vision for humanity that Roddenberry projected with Star Trek. This is just as bad as pissing on his grave. 9/11 may not have changed everything but it sure as hell ruined the Star Trek universe.
... such a system is truely scary. What's next? How about 24/7 machine assisted surveilance of all telepone calls just because it may help catch a terrorist? Oh, wait a sec =:-0
Setting a good example by starting to plan for reparation payments to Iraq would be a good start. And I am not talking about the land but all the death and injury and loss of assets that civilians had to endure because of this foolhardy war.
Sorry, pal but your claim, that the US lead in the Tsunami effort just does not hold up to scrutiny. Bush the elder and Clinton did a nice job of tapping into the wonderful generosity of Americans but Bush the junior needed much cajoling from abroad to get US military assets on the scene in Indonesia. This administration created a whole department headed by Karen Hughes to try to improve the image of the USA in the Islamic world. And then there is a huge televised catastrophe hitting the largest Islamic nation in Asia and this administration did not figure out by themselves that no money in the world could buy them as much goodwill as a massive US military relief effort. Same when a huge quake hit Pakistan. Who was on the scene and helped? Afghani Taliban for crying out loud. Just pathetic.
No need to suspect this since there are so many well documented examples for it. For instance many Congressmen are on record of having stated that they did not have time to read the Patriot Act before it was voted on. Then there is the popular procedural trick of the majority leaders to schedule a vote so close to finishing a draft that the opposition is caught of guard and does not have time to organize. One of the crassest examples for this despicable spectacle is the current budget bill that even contained a typo: http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items /2834
I closely observed the US media over the time that I last lived in the US (fall '03 until this summer when I moved on to Canada) because I wanted to figure out why it was such a white noise machine in comparison to what I was used to from Europe. I think I can say with certainty that a single senator can not get the media to run with a story. Even if the Democrats are united on an issue they seem to be very ineffectual to get the media to pick it up as a real issue. The best they can hope for is a "he said she said" "balanced" story where the Democratic point of view will be complemented with the White House spin. And the latter always comes out on top because they have outstanding political marketers. Of course that still does not absolve the Democrats for being such an ineffective opposition but I think a large part of this stems from the fact that for the longest time most of them were as much in denial as most of the country as to what a radical departure this administration has been making from everything the US is supposed to stand for.
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Slapdash. If you calculate that your empire lasts forever the most economic way to build is to engineer structures that last forever.
Since most of the German exports are durable goods i.e. cars, machines, appliances etc. I'd say that'll be a net gain for Germany given the current elevated prices for commodities (especially if the US pays for shipping).
You also seem to overestimate how much is exported to the US. It only accounts for 9% of the total exports. The bulk of it goes to other EU countries.
The constitution also states quite clearly:
/. at a time that this great document is ever more reduced to a quaint piece of paper kept as yet another obsolete oddity in a backrooom shelve next to the Geneva convention.
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
But such details hardly stop this administration as the Padilla case nicely illustrates.
It amuses me to see such constitution parsing efforts here on
in the US the goal is necessarily quite different.
Right, here it is just about locking in a permanent Republican majority. Totally different.
You forgot one thing: China is a huge holder of US federal debt. So much in fact that they could seriously derail the dollar's valuation if they were to unload their dollar reserves. This is leverage on the scale of an economic nuclear bomb -just as effective as a detriment against US agression.
If American schools very any good you would know that Germany was a democracy before the Nazis came to power. They used emergency state law to legally send parliament into a recess of undefined length and that was the end of it.
The US did not bring democracy to Germany rather they helped to reinstate it.
Too bad. With your last paragraph you flushed all your credebility down the toilet. You may not hate Bush but you obviously have some major issues with Mr. G.
If you actually would have lived in France, Germany, Britain or Spain at the time (I lived in Germany) you'd know that only the latter two governmemts played along. But even living in Britain or Spain the MSM there would have bothered to inform you about this and the wide-spread anti Iraq war sentiment around the world.
You are truely an AC living under a rock if you still buy this spin.
Because ever liver disease and kidney failure in these countries would have immediately been connected to the consumption of corn.
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Have you even put 2 seconds of thought process into this before typing your comment?
Did I mention that IMHO DTS is a monumentally stupid idea?
FYI - maybe you know this already - SUN as well as other JAVA vendors provide a tool to patch older JAVA versions.
I am currently going through the patching process.
It is pretty straightforward. Nevertheless this silly excercise reinforces my believe that DST is one of the single most stupid endeavors humanity ever engaged in. I just want it to go away.
... externalities prohibiting the adoption of Linux and other alternatives such as OSX in a wider enterprise setting. MS is well aware of this competitive advantage ad is actively fostering it. This article should really have been linked as an answer to an earlier /. story about why MS is still perceived as evil by so many in the IT community.
I am just surprised that this guy keeps trying - and I am also surprised that he than seems to blame Linux. This man is confused.
Well I guess you really don't venture much out of Manitoba? On my recent business trip to Montreal I was glad that my French was at least good enough to let the cap driver know where I wanted to go. He was obviously a recent immigrant from a francophone part of Africa and did not speak any English. I would have liked to be able to ask where he was from and carry a conversation with him alas my French is not up to that.
Appreciate the sentiment, but I am actually very fond of the way that the moderation system takes care of this. IMHO it is good that stuff like this is not deleted because it is very revealing in its own right.
Point well taken. Incidentelly all the Quebecoises I have met so far, including a 9 year old boy at our neighborhood playground, never had a problem to talk to me in English. Having been used to the French attitude to English this was is refreshing change to me.
Why should I bother with another language which I'll rarely ever be able to use, and have no desire to learn? I'd much rather learn ruby or python thank you very much.
I'll take it you don't like to travel, nor do you think the tons of material available on the Web in French could contain anything of interest to you?
I most confess your attitude just baffles me. Maybe you have to already be bilingual in order to understand how knowing a different language widens you perspective. There are certain things I can say so much more effectively in German because the language lends itself better to what I need to express. In that regard human language is actually quite similar to computer languages. Sure you can code in an object oriented manner in C but it is really not tailored for it. My wife is American but she picked up German quite nicely during the 4 years that we lived in Germany and there are some words and phrases in German that she still always likes to use just because there is no good equivalent for them in English. Of course the same thing goes for English. One of my favorite examples is "anyway". It is so wonderfully vague. German doesn't do vague very well.
Frankly it should be. And no I am not a French speaker. I am German and currently live in Toronto. My French is unfortunately pretty poor but Canada is supposed to be a bilingual country. I am tired of all those English speakers who seem to think it is such a terrible burden to learn another language. Mastering another language greatly enriches your life - stop acting like babies. Grow up and get over it.
The heat load of a city can be easily calculated since you know overall fuel consumption. You will find that cities are again mostly warmer because they change the radiation balance due to the building intensity. That is why the effect of warmer cities can be observed all year round even when people are not heating.
I'd be very much looking forward to a day when artificial heat load is the only environmental impact to worry about.
This is like arguing that the exhaust heat of car engines contribute to global warming rather than the exhaust gases. Direct heat dumping of mankind is negligible - even the hot wind passed in DC is more important. The latter will actually contain some green house gases. It's the gas stupid! CO2 and methane change the heat radiation equation of earth's atmosphere, that is the problem. GT just likes nuclear energy does not emit green house gases. That is why these are preferable power sources.
/. really is going down the drain.
I cringe at the fact that this was moderated interesting. The collective IQ of
... of the positive vision for humanity that Roddenberry projected with Star Trek. This is just as bad as pissing on his grave. 9/11 may not have changed everything but it sure as hell ruined the Star Trek universe.
... such a system is truely scary. What's next? How about 24/7 machine assisted surveilance of all telepone calls just because it may help catch a terrorist? Oh, wait a sec =:-0
Setting a good example by starting to plan for reparation payments to Iraq would be a good start. And I am not talking about the land but all the death and injury and loss of assets that civilians had to endure because of this foolhardy war.
Sorry, pal but your claim, that the US lead in the Tsunami effort just does not hold up to scrutiny. Bush the elder and Clinton did a nice job of tapping into the wonderful generosity of Americans but Bush the junior needed much cajoling from abroad to get US military assets on the scene in Indonesia. This administration created a whole department headed by Karen Hughes to try to improve the image of the USA in the Islamic world. And then there is a huge televised catastrophe hitting the largest Islamic nation in Asia and this administration did not figure out by themselves that no money in the world could buy them as much goodwill as a massive US military relief effort. Same when a huge quake hit Pakistan. Who was on the scene and helped? Afghani Taliban for crying out loud. Just pathetic.
No need to suspect this since there are so many well documented examples for it. For instance many Congressmen are on record of having stated that they did not have time to read the Patriot Act before it was voted on. Then there is the popular procedural trick of the majority leaders to schedule a vote so close to finishing a draft that the opposition is caught of guard and does not have time to organize. One of the crassest examples for this despicable spectacle is the current budget bill that even contained a typo: http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items /2834
I closely observed the US media over the time that I last lived in the US (fall '03 until this summer when I moved on to Canada) because I wanted to figure out why it was such a white noise machine in comparison to what I was used to from Europe. I think I can say with certainty that a single senator can not get the media to run with a story. Even if the Democrats are united on an issue they seem to be very ineffectual to get the media to pick it up as a real issue. The best they can hope for is a "he said she said" "balanced" story where the Democratic point of view will be complemented with the White House spin. And the latter always comes out on top because they have outstanding political marketers. Of course that still does not absolve the Democrats for being such an ineffective opposition but I think a large part of this stems from the fact that for the longest time most of them were as much in denial as most of the country as to what a radical departure this administration has been making from everything the US is supposed to stand for.