Hell your own President thinks they speak Mexican south of the border
While I am not a fan George W. Bush's policies, I will come to his defense on this one. Bush speaks Spanish, and has given political speaches in that language.
Bush also named his oil exploration company Arbusto Energy - Arbusto is the Spanish word for Bush.
Geroge's brother, Jeb Bush is even more fluent in Spanish, and is married to a Mexican woman who he met while living in that country.
So I think you have really out your foot in this one, and have shown a great deal of ignorance.
But nowhere did it say that MOST cars (that is, over 50%) in Europe
Hmmm I don't think I said that most cars in Europe are subcompacts. Rather that most of them are small cars with less than stellar built quality.
If the Megane is currently the best selling car in Europe, I think my point is made. This is a compact car by US standards. Also, Renault has never been a quality manufacturer. The Megane has a well-known spotty quality history, having earned the nickname 'Migrane'.
Yes, but does the EU have any juristiction re: DeBeers?
DeBeers is a cartel that buys diamonds and then markets them. DeBeers' dominance comes from getting just about all diamond producers to sell to them via a wide variety of tactics.
Clearly there aren't any diamond producers in the EU.
Right, and as their economy grows they are going to find they are going to need every one of their smart people for internal needs, and some outsourcing besides.
With glabalization, demand for smart people is going to exceed supply, big time. It's just a matter of pulling China and India out of the swamp.
Most of that is due to low interest rates. Investors sell their dollars for a currency like Yen or Euro that offers higher returns for the bonds in that currency.
It isn't all doom and gloom in manufacturing, and it won't be in other careers either.
Do you know who is losing manufacturing jobs the fastest? China. Wages are going up, and their lack of automation/infrastructure has made them uneconomic compared to many other choices.
The problem with these change cycles is that the adjustments are very painful on a personal basis. That is an issue with the government not doing it's job.
So your claim that most cars sold in Europe are subcompacts, is simply mistaken.
Here is an interview with the head of Hyundai where he describes how Hyundai is doing very well with subcompacts in Europe, and not in the US.
http://www.iht.com/IHT/DK/98/dk061598.html
Here is an article describing several Japanese manufacturer's plans for Europe. Note that they are all introducing subcompacts and something known as a minicar.
Just because car is amall doesn't mean that they are "cheaply made wind-up toys". And also just becuase car is big, it doesn't mean that it's of high quality.
I am sure that one can make a well made small car. The Japanese car makers have proven that. It's the Citronettas, Fiat Pandas, Volkswagon Foxes and so on are the vast majority of what you find on the road in Europe. Well made cars, large or small are just not in evidence in a large percentage.
I pretty much consider all American cars as being pretty amusingly bad.
I've been to Europe. While there are very nice cars made there (BMW is to be admired), the average car you see on the road in Europe is some sort of miniature that would quickly end up as a squashed bug on the grill of half the cars on the roads in the US. These are cheaply made windup toys.
The quality of the average car on American roads is much better.
Eh... I always carry a couple of flash cards when I go out on a photo shoot with my digital camera (on Earth). If I was sightseeing on Mars I'd go whole hog and bring half a dozen in my kit. The air fare is so ungodly expensive.
Everbody knows these things crash every now and then and you need to carry spares. I hope Spirit is set up so it doesn't just have one flash RAM device. I'd hate to loose those pictures.
This close approach was truly historic; the last time Earth and Mars were this close was 60,000 years ago. Moderately close approaches are more common, but it will still be 284 years until the next such very close approach event.
He merely wants to find some way around the draconian restrictions on derivative works.
Fine and dandy. But if you weaken copyrights too much the creators will protect their works using other means, including DRM. It's their choice, after all.
The Italian Navigator built and ran the first fission reactor using wooden sticks to calculate how far to pull out the dampening rods. It sort of makes you realize that the human mind has very few real limits.
between my chemistry set and rock collection (as in minerals, not music).
Yeah, it's just different in scale. 600 tons of liquified chorine running around in pipes, 25 tons of asbestos slurry in the electrode room and 75 tons of mercury amalgam running through the electrolyzers.
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DeBeers is headquartered in England.
England is part of the EU.
That's nice, but what does that have to do with DeBeers' monopolistic practices? As far as I can tell they occur outside the EU.
Hell your own President thinks they speak Mexican south of the border
While I am not a fan George W. Bush's policies, I will come to his defense on this one. Bush speaks Spanish, and has given political speaches in that language.
Bush also named his oil exploration company Arbusto Energy - Arbusto is the Spanish word for Bush.
Geroge's brother, Jeb Bush is even more fluent in Spanish, and is married to a Mexican woman who he met while living in that country.
So I think you have really out your foot in this one, and have shown a great deal of ignorance.
Not according to the average American who thinks there is nothing outside the US except terrorists...
You have just proven that at least one person in Australia is a moron, not a terrorist.
Congratulations.
Don't forget Canadia
How could we forget the Maple Leaf state.
But nowhere did it say that MOST cars (that is, over 50%) in Europe
Hmmm I don't think I said that most cars in Europe are subcompacts. Rather that most of them are small cars with less than stellar built quality.
If the Megane is currently the best selling car in Europe, I think my point is made. This is a compact car by US standards. Also, Renault has never been a quality manufacturer. The Megane has a well-known spotty quality history, having earned the nickname 'Migrane'.
Uhhh ...
Debian might have the largest percentage gain, but that is very misleading - RedHat added more than twice as many servers.
Yes, but does the EU have any juristiction re: DeBeers?
DeBeers is a cartel that buys diamonds and then markets them. DeBeers' dominance comes from getting just about all diamond producers to sell to them via a wide variety of tactics.
Clearly there aren't any diamond producers in the EU.
Why have all those 's dirtying up my code, only to enforce strong typing on my collections?
Because compile time errors suck much less than run time errors.
1. The only requirement is that you disclose any prior art that you know about when filing.
2. Yes. If you don't it's fraud.
3. It's up to the patent office and anyone contesting the patent to find the prior art.
If it weren't for the cost of litigating a patent this wouldn't be a problem.
But it is.
Love-em. I get lots of good stuff cheap from pur spellars.
There's 1.1 Billion of 'em.
Right, and as their economy grows they are going to find they are going to need every one of their smart people for internal needs, and some outsourcing besides.
With glabalization, demand for smart people is going to exceed supply, big time. It's just a matter of pulling China and India out of the swamp.
the US dollar has fallen a lot
Most of that is due to low interest rates. Investors sell their dollars for a currency like Yen or Euro that offers higher returns for the bonds in that currency.
It isn't all doom and gloom in manufacturing, and it won't be in other careers either.
Do you know who is losing manufacturing jobs the fastest? China. Wages are going up, and their lack of automation/infrastructure has made them uneconomic compared to many other choices.
The problem with these change cycles is that the adjustments are very painful on a personal basis. That is an issue with the government not doing it's job.
So your claim that most cars sold in Europe are subcompacts, is simply mistaken.
Here is an interview with the head of Hyundai where he describes how Hyundai is doing very well with subcompacts in Europe, and not in the US.
http://www.iht.com/IHT/DK/98/dk061598.html
Here is an article describing several Japanese manufacturer's plans for Europe. Note that they are all introducing subcompacts and something known as a minicar.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02
And here is an article describing something very bizarre - a subcompact minivan which is anticipated to soon own the European minivan market.
http://taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2
And then we have this thing; hard to classify much above a motorized skateboard.
http://www.ardmoreite.com/stories/042197/news/n
Best-selling car in whole of Europe is (IIRC) Renault Megane.
Looks to me like it's the Puegeot 206, a subcompact.
www.peugeotclub.org/peugeot/archive/ 20n/2002/Sep/0009.html
Just because car is amall doesn't mean that they are "cheaply made wind-up toys". And also just becuase car is big, it doesn't mean that it's of high quality.
I am sure that one can make a well made small car. The Japanese car makers have proven that. It's the Citronettas, Fiat Pandas, Volkswagon Foxes and so on are the vast majority of what you find on the road in Europe. Well made cars, large or small are just not in evidence in a large percentage.
I pretty much consider all American cars as being pretty amusingly bad.
I've been to Europe. While there are very nice cars made there (BMW is to be admired), the average car you see on the road in Europe is some sort of miniature that would quickly end up as a squashed bug on the grill of half the cars on the roads in the US. These are cheaply made windup toys.
The quality of the average car on American roads is much better.
Eh ... I always carry a couple of flash cards when I go out on a photo shoot with my digital camera (on Earth). If I was sightseeing on Mars I'd go whole hog and bring half a dozen in my kit. The air fare is so ungodly expensive.
Everbody knows these things crash every now and then and you need to carry spares. I hope Spirit is set up so it doesn't just have one flash RAM device. I'd hate to loose those pictures.
This close approach was truly historic; the last time Earth and Mars were this close was 60,000 years ago. Moderately close approaches are more common, but it will still be 284 years until the next such very close approach event.
And that Digitally Restricted Medium won't be legally protected.
I am sure that a shrink wrap license would also be involved.
He merely wants to find some way around the draconian restrictions on derivative works.
Fine and dandy. But if you weaken copyrights too much the creators will protect their works using other means, including DRM. It's their choice, after all.
Lessig maintains that overbroad restrictions on preparing derivative works discourages creation.
That is very different from advocating the abolishment of IP rights, which Lessig does NOT advocate.
If there were no copyrights, there'd be no New York Times.
You would have to agree to an NDA before you bought a copy.
If there were no copyrights, you can bet the NYT would not be putting content on the Internat unless it was protected with DRM.
Yes, but Enrico Fermi didn't have a calculator.
The Italian Navigator built and ran the first fission reactor using wooden sticks to calculate how far to pull out the dampening rods. It sort of makes you realize that the human mind has very few real limits.
between my chemistry set and rock collection (as in minerals, not music).
Yeah, it's just different in scale. 600 tons of liquified chorine running around in pipes, 25 tons of asbestos slurry in the electrode room and 75 tons of mercury amalgam running through the electrolyzers.
A clor-alkali plant. Mercury, asbestos and chlorine.
'Nuff said.