Nope. Memory cards are very prone to failure and with a hi res camera they fill up fast. Travel to some remote place and finding a memory card is corrupted when you get home totally 100% sucks. Hard drives - vibration sensitive and memory sticks are not that great either.
Dump your photos onto BDRs and mail them home and you have a great backup against losing a hard drive or memory card or theft or loss of luggage.
The deal with a safe is that you can be compelled to turn over a key, but NOT a combination.
There is no law in the US regarding passwords. There is a case involving Ramona Fricosu working it's way up through the federal courts that may decide this.
What utter fucking bullshit. The rest of the world was under despotic or monarchistic systems of government where essentially nobody had any rights under law when the Constitution was written. It was a stunning advance that triggered revolutions and changes in government that are still happening around the world today.
You have no fucking clue as to what the standards of the time were and what the people who put forth the American Revolution were undertaking. Yes they were not morally perfect under their own standards, and the knew it. But change can only happen so fast, and what they did is a start that this planet is still not completely brought forward.
So when your country has advanced enough to elect a president or prime minister or grand vizier or whatever regardless of race or cultural origin let me know. Until then better look to your own house before insulting those that put their lives on the line on a daily basis to push forth the human ideals of freedom and equality that no society even today fully implements.
It's the European equivalent of the National Endowment for the Arts.
European tradition is that ruling bodies sponsor arts. It goes back at least to the 16th century where royalty would become patrons of composers orchestras scientists you name it.
This is a way to pay for such things. It has nothing to do with commercial music.
Not saying the US was being nice or anything for paying for defense of Europe in WWI WWII and Cold War. It is just the way we wanted it. You don't have to say thank you, just realize you would not exist if it didn't happen, and if we stop doing it Russia might just decide to cut off all your gas and oil and let you starve (your fertilizer is made from Russian nat gas) in the cold and dark for a while before invading. Lots of Russians would love their old empire back, and for it to include western as well as eastern Europe. So there is plenty of nationalism still going on.
The idea that the Euro is much stronger than the US dollar is just dumb silly. The Euro is not backed by a sovereign entity the way the US Dollar or Yen are, which is causing the financial mess that Europe is in. It's very vulnerable because of this. In addition the dollar is the world's reserve currency. The European economy sucks too because the growth is low and the Euro problems are dragging it into recession.
Thanks for reminding me about Ireland being a failed state. Mostly though that's due to stupid attempts to bail out banks they couldn't afford rather than economic or debt problems. The tax free thing was giving them a lot of nice jobs so their economy was growing. If they had ignored the banks they would have been fine.
Also you made a dumb comment that we owe you more money than you owe us. The US owes Europe very little money. Most of the foreign debt is to Japan China and OPEC. Of course the US is in an unusual situation in that since the dollar is the world's reserve currency we can just print dollars off to pay the debt anytime we want so there is no particular problem with this debt.
Europe because of the fractured political structure has all sorts of problems like Denmark owing France owing Spain owing Germany etc. We had a thing in the US before the Constitution like that. Good thing we got rid of it 200 years ago because it was a mess.
The US has donated a lot of money to the IMF which is in fact being used to prop up the Euro.
The original owners of the Americas were killed off by European invaders looking to steal their wealth, much like the original owners of Europe were killed off much earlier by Europeans. Much of this wealth was sent back to Europe by Spaniard and English pirates. After a while these invaders realized where they were was better and decided to ignore Europe and go their own way in the process establishing a great nation ruled by laws rather than kings (accounting for it's rapid progress henceforth).
Stealing European intellectual property is a rumor not born out by fact. Up until 1812 the US was primarily an agricultural nation that imported it's manufactured goods, however due to the embargo by Britain the US started to manufacture it's own goods - that required development of manufacturing tech and massive infrastructure in the US - rail, electricity etc. Unfortunately that had to be built from scratch because the original owners didn't have such ideas. Because of the embargo stealing European manufacturing technology was a small factor.
Europe needs the US for defense. Three times in the past 100 years Europe would have been overrun completely by despots if it weren't for the US. We still pay for Europe's defense.
Also Europe needs the US to help prop up it's useless currency you might know as the Euro which is collapsing big time. Already two governments (Greece Italy) have fallen because of it, others soon to come no doubt. My guess is the next one will be Spain.
So stop making stupid noises about the US and fix your own problems and learn to run a continent without blowing up every few years.
What a complete pile of shit. You come on here complaining about FCC regulation of airwave content as being an example of personal rights violation when Europe's free speech guarantees are far weaker.
You complain about US airport searches when Europe does the exact same thing.
You state the US has only two political parties when in fact anyone who goes to vote in the US gets to choose from several parties.
And the feeble attempts to link socialized medicine to democracy? Did you know that various US states have different medical plans depending what their citizens vote in? Some states, like Massachusetts and Vermont have fully socialized care, more so than most other European nations. The democratic process in the US lets people choose what they want, unlike Europe where you get no choice.
Right. And that agreement is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States of America, and the laws of various divers nations, and international treaties.
I find it inconceivable that Microsoft's technologists did not know of this prior art. Since patent law requires that prior art be disclosed at the time the patent application is filed, and not doing so is a violation of law sometimes turned patent fraud, I think the DOJ should go after these rat bastards for these violations.
So how is this scenario different from any other patent infringement?
Suppose I develop a brand new widget that increases gas mileage by 50%. By dint of my genius I feel I am deserved an exclusive franchise on this invention and use US law to obtain a patent on it.
Now some other person goes out and buys one of these widgets, and uses it as an example to produce many more of these. The manufacturing process includes sunshine, water and fertilizer as it's main inputs. This person decides to include these widgets as a freebie in boxes of Cracker Jack.
The right of free speech is not absolute - for example in cases of libel, slander or perjury, speech is limited and saying some things can have repercussions. I know of no place that is not true. In the US this extends to broadcast TV because when you buy or lease the frequency spectrum you assent to governance by the FCC. Put up your own CC TV system and you can say fuck all you want.
So anyway, what is the fucking extent of free speech in Europe? Is it part of the constitutions of the various states that make up Europe? Can I go on German TV dressed up funny with a small moustache under my nose and say lets kill all the non-Aryan people?
How the fuck is seizure of property the same thing as search requiring a warrant? In the case of aircraft the situation is that you volunteer for the search if you want to get on the plane. Nobody is forcing you to undergo a search. Just don't go through the check in point. Question for you - in Europe will they let you on a plane without a fucking search? Or do you have to put you bags on the belt and walk through the detector over there too?
I don't who told you that America has only two political parties, but whoever that is you should stop listening to them because they are fucking lying to you. America has many political parties, and occasionally the minor ones influence elections in strange ways. Look up Ralph Nader and Al Gore. Or Ross Perot. Or Theodore Roosevelt and the Bullmoose Party.
As far as socialized medicine and so on, the items you mentioned are open to much debate. For example the ways of measuring infant mortality are not standardized, so you can't compare them directly. But none of these have one fuck's worth of importance with regards to whether or not America is a democracy or the quality of the democracy. In America apparently most people are willing to be responsible for taking care of themselves than relying on some fucking Nanny Government to watch over them cradle to grave and tell them what kind of care they can have, and when.
As far as the best democracy (actually republic - nobody big has an actual democracy), opinions will of course vary depending on how chauvinistic the person is. But America has has had a big one for longer than pretty much anyone else, and all in all we've done pretty well. So we must be doing something fucking right.
Similar issue to do not call. Then politicians exempt themselves and you get swamped with very obnoxious robocalls with fake caller IDs before election day.
And then there are the agencies who just ignore the thing.
Microsoft stock is stagnant because they are incompetent in managing the great franchises they own. Instead of returning the cash it generates to their shareholders they fritter it away on money losing side projects and let it pile up in company coffers.
Companies like Microsoft should be sending that cash back to their shareholders in the form of dividends. MS could easily triple what they pay out, and this would drive their stock price up.
Their shareholders know this, but the executives won't do it because they would lose control. It's a classical corporate governance issue that would normally get dealt with by some corporate raider buying their way on to the board of directors. The problem of course is that Gates owns 40% of the stock. If you start running up the dividend Gates has to pay taxes on the dividend.
Until Gates sells there is no way I would buy MS stock. It's a dead end for investors.
Apple has the same issues except they are masked by the growth of the company. If Apple were to stop growing stockholders would be screaming about their cash hoard.
The stupidity of tax breaks to corps and the wealthy as job stimulus is that corps don't hire unless there is demand for their products. In a recession what you have as the prevailing economic environment is low demand and excess capacity.
In a low demand environment corps are just going to sit on the money, or use it to pay off debts or buy out other companies. No reason to hire because they already make as much as they can sell. And that is exactly what is happening now. Corporations are sitting on more cash than any other time in US history, mostly because they don't have anything productive to invest it in.
Real innovation doesn't happen at corporations for some simple reasons. It takes too long to bring a truly innovative product to market. A manager isn't likely to be in a job more than 5 years, and it takes 7+ years to bring a truly innovative product to market. Innovation is also very unpredictable. You may make a wonderful breakthrough but will your company be able to take advantage ? The research will benefit somebody but you can't predict who.
Competitive and free are mutually exclusive. A free market always ends up as a collection of monopolies or oligopolies due to the simple fact that free means no constraints on the advantages of scale and accumulated wealth to stamp out competition. The US prior to the Sherman act is an illustrative example.
A large component of the function used to allocate donations is holding public office. That is if the Republicans hold power, most donations go to Republicans.
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The times I have been in Europe drinking tap water led to dehydration.
Nope. Memory cards are very prone to failure and with a hi res camera they fill up fast. Travel to some remote place and finding a memory card is corrupted when you get home totally 100% sucks. Hard drives - vibration sensitive and memory sticks are not that great either.
Dump your photos onto BDRs and mail them home and you have a great backup against losing a hard drive or memory card or theft or loss of luggage.
If you travel with a high resolution camera you are going to want an optical drive to back up you photos.
I have pretty good luck finding seats with power outlets.
Copying data files leaves you vulnerable to copyright issues if your laptop is searched by a government agency.
Please let me know how you are going to play back movies etc while in an airplane at 30,000 feet.
The deal with a safe is that you can be compelled to turn over a key, but NOT a combination.
There is no law in the US regarding passwords. There is a case involving Ramona Fricosu working it's way up through the federal courts that may decide this.
What utter fucking bullshit. The rest of the world was under despotic or monarchistic systems of government where essentially nobody had any rights under law when the Constitution was written. It was a stunning advance that triggered revolutions and changes in government that are still happening around the world today.
Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man (1791), which was an refutation of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Edmund Burke says that true social stability arises if the nation's poor majority are governed by a minority of wealthy aristocrats, and that lawful inheritance of power (wealth, religious, governing) ensured the propriety of political power being the exclusive domain of the nation's élite social class â" the nobility - triggered a trial in absentia in England where he was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead for seditious libel.
You have no fucking clue as to what the standards of the time were and what the people who put forth the American Revolution were undertaking. Yes they were not morally perfect under their own standards, and the knew it. But change can only happen so fast, and what they did is a start that this planet is still not completely brought forward.
So when your country has advanced enough to elect a president or prime minister or grand vizier or whatever regardless of race or cultural origin let me know. Until then better look to your own house before insulting those that put their lives on the line on a daily basis to push forth the human ideals of freedom and equality that no society even today fully implements.
It's the European equivalent of the National Endowment for the Arts.
European tradition is that ruling bodies sponsor arts. It goes back at least to the 16th century where royalty would become patrons of composers orchestras scientists you name it.
This is a way to pay for such things. It has nothing to do with commercial music.
Not saying the US was being nice or anything for paying for defense of Europe in WWI WWII and Cold War. It is just the way we wanted it. You don't have to say thank you, just realize you would not exist if it didn't happen, and if we stop doing it Russia might just decide to cut off all your gas and oil and let you starve (your fertilizer is made from Russian nat gas) in the cold and dark for a while before invading. Lots of Russians would love their old empire back, and for it to include western as well as eastern Europe. So there is plenty of nationalism still going on.
The idea that the Euro is much stronger than the US dollar is just dumb silly. The Euro is not backed by a sovereign entity the way the US Dollar or Yen are, which is causing the financial mess that Europe is in. It's very vulnerable because of this. In addition the dollar is the world's reserve currency. The European economy sucks too because the growth is low and the Euro problems are dragging it into recession.
Thanks for reminding me about Ireland being a failed state. Mostly though that's due to stupid attempts to bail out banks they couldn't afford rather than economic or debt problems. The tax free thing was giving them a lot of nice jobs so their economy was growing. If they had ignored the banks they would have been fine.
Also you made a dumb comment that we owe you more money than you owe us. The US owes Europe very little money. Most of the foreign debt is to Japan China and OPEC. Of course the US is in an unusual situation in that since the dollar is the world's reserve currency we can just print dollars off to pay the debt anytime we want so there is no particular problem with this debt.
Europe because of the fractured political structure has all sorts of problems like Denmark owing France owing Spain owing Germany etc. We had a thing in the US before the Constitution like that. Good thing we got rid of it 200 years ago because it was a mess.
The US has donated a lot of money to the IMF which is in fact being used to prop up the Euro.
The original owners of the Americas were killed off by European invaders looking to steal their wealth, much like the original owners of Europe were killed off much earlier by Europeans. Much of this wealth was sent back to Europe by Spaniard and English pirates. After a while these invaders realized where they were was better and decided to ignore Europe and go their own way in the process establishing a great nation ruled by laws rather than kings (accounting for it's rapid progress henceforth).
Stealing European intellectual property is a rumor not born out by fact. Up until 1812 the US was primarily an agricultural nation that imported it's manufactured goods, however due to the embargo by Britain the US started to manufacture it's own goods - that required development of manufacturing tech and massive infrastructure in the US - rail, electricity etc. Unfortunately that had to be built from scratch because the original owners didn't have such ideas. Because of the embargo stealing European manufacturing technology was a small factor.
Europe needs the US for defense. Three times in the past 100 years Europe would have been overrun completely by despots if it weren't for the US. We still pay for Europe's defense.
Also Europe needs the US to help prop up it's useless currency you might know as the Euro which is collapsing big time. Already two governments (Greece Italy) have fallen because of it, others soon to come no doubt. My guess is the next one will be Spain.
So stop making stupid noises about the US and fix your own problems and learn to run a continent without blowing up every few years.
What a complete pile of shit. You come on here complaining about FCC regulation of airwave content as being an example of personal rights violation when Europe's free speech guarantees are far weaker.
You complain about US airport searches when Europe does the exact same thing.
You state the US has only two political parties when in fact anyone who goes to vote in the US gets to choose from several parties.
And the feeble attempts to link socialized medicine to democracy? Did you know that various US states have different medical plans depending what their citizens vote in? Some states, like Massachusetts and Vermont have fully socialized care, more so than most other European nations. The democratic process in the US lets people choose what they want, unlike Europe where you get no choice.
You are a complete idiot.
Right. And that agreement is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States of America, and the laws of various divers nations, and international treaties.
The Internet may well survive without America, but Europe won't.
I find it inconceivable that Microsoft's technologists did not know of this prior art. Since patent law requires that prior art be disclosed at the time the patent application is filed, and not doing so is a violation of law sometimes turned patent fraud, I think the DOJ should go after these rat bastards for these violations.
So how is this scenario different from any other patent infringement?
Suppose I develop a brand new widget that increases gas mileage by 50%. By dint of my genius I feel I am deserved an exclusive franchise on this invention and use US law to obtain a patent on it.
Now some other person goes out and buys one of these widgets, and uses it as an example to produce many more of these. The manufacturing process includes sunshine, water and fertilizer as it's main inputs. This person decides to include these widgets as a freebie in boxes of Cracker Jack.
Is this stealing or is it competition?
The right of free speech is not absolute - for example in cases of libel, slander or perjury, speech is limited and saying some things can have repercussions. I know of no place that is not true. In the US this extends to broadcast TV because when you buy or lease the frequency spectrum you assent to governance by the FCC. Put up your own CC TV system and you can say fuck all you want.
So anyway, what is the fucking extent of free speech in Europe? Is it part of the constitutions of the various states that make up Europe? Can I go on German TV dressed up funny with a small moustache under my nose and say lets kill all the non-Aryan people?
How the fuck is seizure of property the same thing as search requiring a warrant? In the case of aircraft the situation is that you volunteer for the search if you want to get on the plane. Nobody is forcing you to undergo a search. Just don't go through the check in point. Question for you - in Europe will they let you on a plane without a fucking search? Or do you have to put you bags on the belt and walk through the detector over there too?
I don't who told you that America has only two political parties, but whoever that is you should stop listening to them because they are fucking lying to you. America has many political parties, and occasionally the minor ones influence elections in strange ways. Look up Ralph Nader and Al Gore. Or Ross Perot. Or Theodore Roosevelt and the Bullmoose Party.
As far as socialized medicine and so on, the items you mentioned are open to much debate. For example the ways of measuring infant mortality are not standardized, so you can't compare them directly. But none of these have one fuck's worth of importance with regards to whether or not America is a democracy or the quality of the democracy. In America apparently most people are willing to be responsible for taking care of themselves than relying on some fucking Nanny Government to watch over them cradle to grave and tell them what kind of care they can have, and when.
As far as the best democracy (actually republic - nobody big has an actual democracy), opinions will of course vary depending on how chauvinistic the person is. But America has has had a big one for longer than pretty much anyone else, and all in all we've done pretty well. So we must be doing something fucking right.
It did say Federal Trade Commission was part of this.
Similar issue to do not call. Then politicians exempt themselves and you get swamped with very obnoxious robocalls with fake caller IDs before election day.
And then there are the agencies who just ignore the thing.
And then the enforcement is lax.
Thanks, but I'll use my own tricks too.
Microsoft issues stock like crazy in the form of options for compensation, plus they have split the stock many times.
That kind of thing works when the company is growing very rapidly. Microsoft isn't so investors are stuck with a stagnant stock.
Microsoft stock is stagnant because they are incompetent in managing the great franchises they own. Instead of returning the cash it generates to their shareholders they fritter it away on money losing side projects and let it pile up in company coffers.
Companies like Microsoft should be sending that cash back to their shareholders in the form of dividends. MS could easily triple what they pay out, and this would drive their stock price up.
Their shareholders know this, but the executives won't do it because they would lose control. It's a classical corporate governance issue that would normally get dealt with by some corporate raider buying their way on to the board of directors. The problem of course is that Gates owns 40% of the stock. If you start running up the dividend Gates has to pay taxes on the dividend.
Until Gates sells there is no way I would buy MS stock. It's a dead end for investors.
Apple has the same issues except they are masked by the growth of the company. If Apple were to stop growing stockholders would be screaming about their cash hoard.
The French are one of the world leaders in the field of industrial espionage. This should not be a surprise.
The stupidity of tax breaks to corps and the wealthy as job stimulus is that corps don't hire unless there is demand for their products. In a recession what you have as the prevailing economic environment is low demand and excess capacity.
In a low demand environment corps are just going to sit on the money, or use it to pay off debts or buy out other companies. No reason to hire because they already make as much as they can sell. And that is exactly what is happening now. Corporations are sitting on more cash than any other time in US history, mostly because they don't have anything productive to invest it in.
Real innovation doesn't happen at corporations for some simple reasons. It takes too long to bring a truly innovative product to market. A manager isn't likely to be in a job more than 5 years, and it takes 7+ years to bring a truly innovative product to market. Innovation is also very unpredictable. You may make a wonderful breakthrough but will your company be able to take advantage ? The research will benefit somebody but you can't predict who.
Competitive and free are mutually exclusive. A free market always ends up as a collection of monopolies or oligopolies due to the simple fact that free means no constraints on the advantages of scale and accumulated wealth to stamp out competition. The US prior to the Sherman act is an illustrative example.
Glad to see you admit that you don't care.
A large component of the function used to allocate donations is holding public office. That is if the Republicans hold power, most donations go to Republicans.