Well, no. If a company goes tits-up it's by definition the fault of management - they failed at their job, managing things. Ifat the same time, they were also ripping off the shareholders by taking a bigger slice of the piehey are not just incompetant but also corrupt.
Also keep in mind the US had an interesting thing about 70ish years ago. They had WW2. In Europe people hid from the guns and tried not to fight the germans as they were pretty much taken over by 'blitzkrieg'. In the US however we sifted thru all of our able bodied men and sent them off to fight leaving behind a less healthy group
Fucking clown.
Military casualties in WW2.
USSR: 8,800,000-10,700,000 out of 168,524,000 population. USA: 416,800 out of 131,028,000 UK: 383,800 out of 47,760,000 France: 217,600 out of 41,700,000
The US had the lowest military casualty rate of any of the non-axis powers.
But we're not supposed to mention their crimes - which get automaticaly defined as "non-violent" no matter how many people suffer, and no matter how bad the suffering.
If Al Jazeera wants to capture US attention, they should buy ESPN and alternate between their news and ball games. Odds are most American sports fans won't have the initiative to get up and change the channel.
AJ Sports is a separate channel.
(Called "Bein" here in France. Bastards got the monopoly on the CAN).
The Canadian rules can be stupid too. If you're Canadian because you're born from Canadian parents outside of Canada, you need to be careful. Your children will only be Canadians if they are born in Canada.
Straight copy of the UK rules.
I have to remind my French born, UK citizen, kids of this from time to time.
So, frankly, by purest accident Linux hid a serious hardware problem from you.
This is nothing to do with Linux being more robust than Windows. It may mean that on your hardware Linux was using less (electrical) power than Windows, or it may have been simple chance.
Linux is also more robust. A flaky power supply will have Windows bluescreening, crashing, freezing, and/or rebooting (often with data loss or corruption), while Linux on the same machine will just slow down a little.
Is purest grade-A bullshit.
Broken hardware is broken hardware - neither Linux nor Windows has any means to work around a bad power supply.
you spend your time dicking with things that were solved 20 years ago but everyone thinks they need to reinvent and do differently without ever asking why it should be done differently in the first place
A better description of Windows has never been written.
The same goes between Lyon and Strasbourg you can go there but you have a stupid slow train that stops eveywhere and it might be faster to go through Paris. [...] Or at least it was like this in 2008
Also, despite having a good HSR trian system, all trip that do not go toward or away from paris are a nightmare (try a Lyon-Bordeaux or Lyon-Strasbourg for instance).
Lyon - Strasbourg:
Vendredi 28/12 Durée 03h41 Départ à : 10h04 De la gare de:LYON PART DIEU Transporteur:DB SNCF Numéro du train:9582 Services à bord Voiture bar Arrivée à:13h45 A la gare de : STRASBOURG GARE
Don't see your problem, frankly.
Lyon - Bordeaux
Vendredi 28/12 Durée 06h38 Départ à:09h04 De la gare de:LYON PART DIEU Transporteur:TGV DUPLEX Numéro du train:6610 Services à bord Voiture bar Arrivée à:11h02 A la gare de:PARIS GARE DE LYON Départ à:12h27 De la gare de:PARIS MONTPARNASSE 1 ET 2 Transporteur:TGV Numéro du train:8537 Services à bord Voiture bar Transport de vélo payant Arrivée à:15h42 A la gare de:BORDEAUX SAINT JEAN
Ok, that's pretty horrid. 6h38 to go less than 600 km. Bloody Paris.
I suggest the route is undoable in 10 hours if there is even a few stops unless the train spends a great deal of time at 300km/h.
Yes, you do understand the difference between average and top speed.
But how long do you think a high-speed train stop is? TGV's usualy stop for around 3 minutes. Even when you add in the time to slow down and speed up again a few stops in 2100 km isn't goint to take too much time.
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Also what is so different between blowing up planets and dropping bombs on people with drones?
When the people you are attacking live on the same planet you live on, the difference is that in the second case you tend to survive.
In the short term.
Well, no. If a company goes tits-up it's by definition the fault of management - they failed at their job, managing things. Ifat the same time, they were also ripping off the shareholders by taking a bigger slice of the piehey are not just incompetant but also corrupt.
Did I miss anything out?
Guns don't kill people.
Americans kill people.
Splendid.
Now come up with an unsupported hand-wave to explaing why the US has poorer health outcomes at all ages below 75, not just at birth.
Maybe the US has a different way of defining five year olds than other countries?
Also keep in mind the US had an interesting thing about 70ish years ago. They had WW2. In Europe people hid from the guns and tried not to fight the germans as they were pretty much taken over by 'blitzkrieg'. In the US however we sifted thru all of our able bodied men and sent them off to fight leaving behind a less healthy group
Fucking clown.
Military casualties in WW2.
USSR: 8,800,000-10,700,000 out of 168,524,000 population.
USA: 416,800 out of 131,028,000
UK: 383,800 out of 47,760,000
France: 217,600 out of 41,700,000
The US had the lowest military casualty rate of any of the non-axis powers.
"In Europe people hid from the guns".
You are beneath contempt.
? The lead to crime theory isn't based on facts, but trend statistics
so, it's not based on facts, it's merely based on facts.
No, that would be the rich.
But we're not supposed to mention their crimes - which get automaticaly defined as "non-violent" no matter how many people suffer, and no matter how bad the suffering.
Ah, wilding - roaming gangs of feral (black) youth raping and beating nice (white) women.
Turned out to be one white psycho rapist - the so called "wilding" gang were innocent.
Its not like it has a big market share.
If Al Jazeera wants to capture US attention, they should buy ESPN and alternate between their news and ball games. Odds are most American sports fans won't have the initiative to get up and change the channel.
AJ Sports is a separate channel.
(Called "Bein" here in France. Bastards got the monopoly on the CAN).
"Al Jazeera, its audience, and progressives all support terrorism!" --BlueStrat's fuckwit implication of the day.
I never said nor implied that. Nice strawman you've made there, why do you beat it so?
Nope, you said
So, I guess exploiting middle-east oil money and radical Islamic terrorism are more "aligned" with Al Gores' and Reason TVs' views.
"By their actions, ye shall know them."
No similarity whatsoever.
The Canadian rules can be stupid too. If you're Canadian because you're born from Canadian parents outside of Canada, you need to be careful. Your children will only be Canadians if they are born in Canada.
Straight copy of the UK rules.
I have to remind my French born, UK citizen, kids of this from time to time.
Slashdot. The only site where Wikipedia trumps reality (at least the OP posted it tongue in cheek).
...and where Wikipedia is treated as a reliable substitute for knowledge.
No, wikipedia is a substitute for ignorance. If you have a better source cite it.
Funny how most people who whine about using wikipedia as a source of information are usually wrong.
Two days later nothing would boot.
So, frankly, by purest accident Linux hid a serious hardware problem from you.
This is nothing to do with Linux being more robust than Windows. It may mean that on your hardware Linux was using less (electrical) power than Windows, or it may have been simple chance.
I would happily put up with that and more just for the credit of being one of the select few who get to work on the kernel.
Select few? Fucking thing even has some code I wrote in it.
The guy who made the commit wasn't a fool - he made a mistake. If he was a fool, then Linus was a fool to grant him commit access.
Not a just a fool, a knave.
And what is this "commit access" of which you speak? Linux isn't developed using CVS you know.
I'm a GNU/Linux fanboy, but this:
Linux is also more robust. A flaky power supply will have Windows bluescreening, crashing, freezing, and/or rebooting (often with data loss or corruption), while Linux on the same machine will just slow down a little.
Is purest grade-A bullshit.
Broken hardware is broken hardware - neither Linux nor Windows has any means to work around a bad power supply.
you spend your time dicking with things that were solved 20 years ago but everyone thinks they need to reinvent and do differently without ever asking why it should be done differently in the first place
A better description of Windows has never been written.
The same goes between Lyon and Strasbourg you can go there but you have a stupid slow train that stops eveywhere and it might be faster to go through Paris. [...] Or at least it was like this in 2008
But 2008 was such a long time ago!
Also, despite having a good HSR trian system, all trip that do not go toward or away from paris are a nightmare (try a Lyon-Bordeaux or Lyon-Strasbourg for instance).
Lyon - Strasbourg:
Vendredi 28/12 Durée 03h41 :LYON PART DIEU :DB SNCF :9582 :13h45
Départ à : 10h04
De la gare de
Transporteur
Numéro du train
Services à bord Voiture bar
Arrivée à
A la gare de : STRASBOURG GARE
Don't see your problem, frankly.
Lyon - Bordeaux
Vendredi 28/12 Durée 06h38 :09h04 :LYON PART DIEU :TGV DUPLEX :6610 :11h02 :PARIS GARE DE LYON :12h27 :PARIS MONTPARNASSE 1 ET 2 :TGV :8537 :15h42 :BORDEAUX SAINT JEAN
Départ à
De la gare de
Transporteur
Numéro du train
Services à bord Voiture bar
Arrivée à
A la gare de
Départ à
De la gare de
Transporteur
Numéro du train
Services à bord Voiture bar Transport de vélo payant
Arrivée à
A la gare de
Ok, that's pretty horrid. 6h38 to go less than 600 km. Bloody Paris.
Wouldn't have happened to a TGV.
Pitty the Chinese decided to copie ICE instead of TGV.
I suggest the route is undoable in 10 hours if there is even a few stops unless the train spends a great deal of time at 300km/h.
Yes, you do understand the difference between average and top speed.
But how long do you think a high-speed train stop is? TGV's usualy stop for around 3 minutes. Even when you add in the time to slow down and speed up again a few stops in 2100 km isn't goint to take too much time.
Then a terrorist couldn't take out thousands of people with one bomb
When has a terrorist ever taken out thousands of people with one bomb on a train?
The Madrid bombings were on commuter lines, not high speed lines, and took 10 bombs to kill 191 people.
In 1983 a bomb on a French TGV killed two people, not the thousands you imagine.
Its cost prohibitive to build new railbeds today, due to the cost of land
It's funny how America is sparsely populated and large compared to overcrowded, tiny, Europe - until it comes time to build a railway line.
That's okay, a huge percentage of games are crap.
90% of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon.
Or more likely, I have an IQ around 140
Way to miss the point of the article.
If you believe their research you don't have an IQ at all never mind one of "140".