America invented the 20th century between 1950 and 1970, during a time when the average wage doubled.
If you look closely, it almost seems like the other "big" countries were a wreck during that period... as if they were recovering from a devastating war.
Well, no.
The period from 1945 to 1975 is known as "Les Trente Glorieuses" (the Glorious 30) in France - during that time there was full employment, growing wages. It can be argued that the war (or, more exactly the recovery from it) was the basis of this period of growth rather than being a drag.
I think you're misreading the talk about remakes - they were in response to the claim that France has no culture, not an excuse for the tax.
The remakes are not "rip offs", Hollywood is pretty serious about not getting involved in "Intelectual Property" disputes with anyone with enough money to pay for serious lawyers. I think you'll find that the people who own the rights to the original film get paid before the remake is made.
The phone I've been using since 2009 does its software updates by "apt-get update/apt-get upgrade". There is no primitive idiocy of "roms" or "flashing".
Mind you, emphasis on the bleeding there. It really is at the edge of technological development - and isn't the sort of phone you buy if you don't enjoy tinkering, frequent reboots and weekly flashing the firmware:)
Android is a joke.
"flashing the firmware".
WTF.
Don't they have a package manager? What's wrong with apt-get update/apt-get upgrade (or similar incantations for yum).
I'll never forget the CIA film of Saddam Hussein assembling Anyone Who's Anyone In Iraq into an auditorium then calling out names of individuals, who , when they appropriately stood up having been addressed, were escorted away by security personnel to their summary executions.
Even among academics, most people believe that these government activities are in the public interest. Y'all are a minority. Deal with it.
Do you understand that in order to make it easier for the NSA to read "terrorists" email they've made it easier for criminals to hack your bank account?
Slashdot Mirror
Sea ice has been steadily increasing, despite the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's gloomy forecasts.
And that, folks is why only an idiot would read the Australian. (Or any other Murdoch rag).
Hint - total sea ice extent is decreasing. Antartic sea ice extent is increasing, but not as fast as Artic sea ice extent is decreasing.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/nsidc-seaice-s/mean:12/plot/nsidc-seaice-n/mean:12
Its not easy to validate when you cannot get your hands on their raw data. You only get summary reports from the "climate scientists"!
You can't?
Have you tried?
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/#Climate_data_raw
What exciting analysis are you going to do with this data now I've told you how to get it?
How come you didn't find it using Google? It's the first result.
Signed,
- A Slashdotter who's actually been to many many strip clubs and was friends with a dancer (really).
Hi Edward. How's Moscow?
Have you considered that you've confused cause and effect?
Government social spending rises as the population gets poorer. How amazing.
America invented the 20th century between 1950 and 1970, during a time when the average wage doubled.
If you look closely, it almost seems like the other "big" countries were a wreck during that period... as if they were recovering from a devastating war.
Well, no.
The period from 1945 to 1975 is known as "Les Trente Glorieuses" (the Glorious 30) in France - during that time there was full employment, growing wages. It can be argued that the war (or, more exactly the recovery from it) was the basis of this period of growth rather than being a drag.
As I understand it, Twitter is a place where vapid idiots can post short throwaway bits of random verbal diarrhea for other vapid idiots to read.
Will that suffice, sir?
Nope, 146 characters.
I think you're misreading the talk about remakes - they were in response to the claim that France has no culture, not an excuse for the tax.
The remakes are not "rip offs", Hollywood is pretty serious about not getting involved in "Intelectual Property" disputes with anyone with enough money to pay for serious lawyers. I think you'll find that the people who own the rights to the original film get paid before the remake is made.
The purveyors of cat videos should be taxed to support the production of works more substantive than cat videos.
"Works more substantive than cat videos"? Heretic! Burn him!
And arguably both went beyond the "shootyshooty bang bang special fx" crapfest that seem to come out of holywood.
shooty shooty bang bang is Luc's speciality!
Taxi 1,2,3 ...
The Transporter 1,2,3
Taken 1,2
And that's just the letter "t".
If you have 1000 EUR bills there is a 100% probability that they're fakes.
The largest Euro bill issued is the 500.
I've never understood how some apparently very creative people - especially hardware geeks - have such atrocious spelling and grammar.
Maybe they have creative spelling and grammar?
No, only when they're beaten (repeatedly) by a Ni-clang.
For some reason the Swedish International Development Agency has problems giving away it's Teeshirts in French speaking West Africa.
Early AIDS joke - The hardest part about catching AIDS is trying to convince your parents you're Haitian.
Some idiot thinks my comment is a troll.
No, you moron, it's serious.
The phone I've been using since 2009 does its software updates by "apt-get update/apt-get upgrade". There is no primitive idiocy of "roms" or "flashing".
Mind you, emphasis on the bleeding there. It really is at the edge of technological development - and isn't the sort of phone you buy if you don't enjoy tinkering, frequent reboots and weekly flashing the firmware :)
Android is a joke.
"flashing the firmware".
WTF.
Don't they have a package manager? What's wrong with apt-get update/apt-get upgrade (or similar incantations for yum).
CDDB
Been there, seen that.
Digital data can be easily copied and archived
Can be. But mostly isn't.
And he'd be right to do so. Here's the thing people don't get about Snowden: He's not a revolutionary, or a hero. He's a coward.
Accusations of "cowardice" are the confession that you have no argument to make. Play the ball, not the man.
You do know that there were NSA whistleblowers before Snowden? Oh, no you don't, they rarely get reported.
It looks like Snowdens "cowardice" was the right thing to do.
I'll never forget the CIA film of Saddam Hussein assembling Anyone Who's Anyone In Iraq into an auditorium then calling out names of individuals, who , when they appropriately stood up having been addressed, were escorted away by security personnel to their summary executions.
CIA film? That was Saddam's film!
Perfect thread hijack. You working for the NSA?
Even among academics, most people believe that these government activities are in the public interest.
Y'all are a minority. Deal with it.
Do you understand that in order to make it easier for the NSA to read "terrorists" email they've made it easier for criminals to hack your bank account?
Is that in the public interest?
Most countries in the world would trade places with Greece, never mind Germany.
Apple does this by coming up with a nifty and effective and useful interface. Everyone else just makes arbitrary changes.
Magsafe vs Magsafe2?
Yup, it's part of the patent - only trannies are allowed to examine the hardware.