Although I agree with your (and the GP's) assessment that the fear for terrorism is extremely exaggerated, the statistics you give do not matter much for any person's fear of terrorism. The question is not what the likelihood is of some American dying of terrorism. The question is what my likelihood of dying from terrorism is.
Most people feel they can control lots of those other risks (or make them non-lethal) by caring for their health, eating well, thinking they are a superior driver, etc. However, they feel they have no control over "death by terrorist" which increases the fear of it by an important factor.
It still not worth all the fuss, but it can explain some of the irrational fear about it.
On 2 June at 19:45 Central European Summer Time (CEST), 17.45 UT ESA's Mars Express will be launched by a Soyuz launcher from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
It is now 13:05 CEST. So what the hell are you talking about?
All names in Asterix and Obelix resemble real word
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Asterix and Mobilix Redux
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This is actually quite ironic since allmost all names in the Asterix comic series are derived from real words (in French). Asterix comes from 'asterisque' (the * character), Obelix from 'obelisque' (a vertical monument, like a pillar), idefix (the dog) from 'idée fixe' (difficult to translate, something like an unchangeable opinion), assurancetourix (the chief IIRC) from 'assurance touts risques' (an insurance for all damages), etc...
And now they sue somebody cause a word they use looks like one of the names of their characters. It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid.
This is just silly. If one wants people to use Linux, you've got to eliminate barriers keeping them from doing so. WineX is a solution (although it may not be perfect) for lowering one of the most important barriers: 'Can I still use that Windows app that I use so much when I switch'. Read this interesting article by Joel Spolsky, about removing barriers for more info.
Furthermore, do you really think there are less people developing OSS because there's WineX. I don't think so, maybe fewer developers will try to rewrite a win application that works perfectly wih WineX, but they will develop something else instead (work enough if you ask me).
Here's a summary of the statement in English (from Dutch): -- A 26-year old man from Hengelo admitted sunday evening that he started a fire on wednesday 20th of November that incinerated 2 wings of the University of Twente building.
He was arrested after witnesses saw him at another small fire on campus.
Police can make no statements about why and how he did it. However the police confirms that he works at the University. --
Well, if you read the article you will see that they indeed say there are more reasons to choose Opera besides the "they're not MS"-argument. For example the fact that Symbian's OS for mobiles together with Opera is much more 'tweakable' and allows for more personalized software on the phones.
I guess they will (mainly) use the "Microsoft is an evil monopoly"-argument to convince the businness-guys and the other arguments for the tech guys.
For a second there I thought it said designing patents. I guess that's what happens when you spend more time reading/. than doing your actual programming work.:)
Knowing that project as I do, it will probably be a security issue.
Don't make personal claims when posting as Anonymous coward, it sucks all the credibility out of them. But, let me guess, there was probably not much credibility to begin with.
As you said, in Europe the general system is based around the fact the the calling party pays. However, since it's more costly to make international calls and since you do not always know where someone is when you call his cell phone, this system does not always apply when calling cell phones. In Belgium (and I think in other European countries as well), when you call somebody's cell phone when he's abroad, the caller pays the normal rate for calling a cell phone locally whereas the callee pays the extra charge for the international call.
According to this article on ZDNet, it wil probably NOT be the primary file format:
To make that happen, Microsoft is turning to what some analysts say is a risky strategy. The company is adopting Extensible Markup Language (XML) as a second file format in all Office applications, to enable better data exchange between the productivity suite and back-end software, such as databases.
Maybe they were afraid people wouldn't surf for porn anymore if they could be seen by the government and thus traffic would reduce with 60%:)
Stef
Soon there will be nothing left
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The Mozilla-based stripped down browser has now reached binary release 0.3. They are ripping out all the mail and news functions, composer functions, and IRC functions.
If they continue like this, there will be nothing left by 0.5:)
Homer: Agh! They're singing! They're singing, Marge! Why aren't they killing each other?
Bart: Yeah, their guns are right there.
Homer: Wait, wait, wait: here comes Lee Marvin. Thank God. He's always drunk and violent.
Although people may be violent, it sure as hell isn't the reason we're the dominating species. As mentioned before, the fact that we can make tools to fight of the animals that are stronger or more violent than us is one of those reasons. Furthermore, it is clear from history that societies or cultures who have an extended period of peace and stability can achieve the best results (see Pax Romana, Golden age of ancient Greece, etc...). Violence only leads to more violence, maybe you can ask the Israelites and the Palestinians about it.
As someone mentioned before, why the hell the parent was modded so highly is beyond me.
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Although I agree with your (and the GP's) assessment that the fear for terrorism is extremely exaggerated, the statistics you give do not matter much for any person's fear of terrorism. The question is not what the likelihood is of some American dying of terrorism. The question is what my likelihood of dying from terrorism is.
Most people feel they can control lots of those other risks (or make them non-lethal) by caring for their health, eating well, thinking they are a superior driver, etc.
However, they feel they have no control over "death by terrorist" which increases the fear of it by an important factor.
It still not worth all the fuss, but it can explain some of the irrational fear about it.
yeah, it seems to be stuck on 0 all the time.
(yeah, yeah, I know water is not always at sea level, it's a joke)
It is now 13:05 CEST.
So what the hell are you talking about?
This is actually quite ironic since allmost all names in the Asterix comic series are derived from real words (in French). Asterix comes from 'asterisque' (the * character), Obelix from 'obelisque' (a vertical monument, like a pillar), idefix (the dog) from 'idée fixe' (difficult to translate, something like an unchangeable opinion), assurancetourix (the chief IIRC) from 'assurance touts risques' (an insurance for all damages), etc ...
And now they sue somebody cause a word they use looks like one of the names of their characters. It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid.
This is just silly. If one wants people to use Linux, you've got to eliminate barriers keeping them from doing so. WineX is a solution (although it may not be perfect) for lowering one of the most important barriers: 'Can I still use that Windows app that I use so much when I switch'.
Read this interesting article by Joel Spolsky, about removing barriers for more info.
Furthermore, do you really think there are less people developing OSS because there's WineX. I don't think so, maybe fewer developers will try to rewrite a win application that works perfectly wih WineX, but they will develop something else instead (work enough if you ask me).
Stef
Beating up geeks to steal their lunch (money) will become much more profitable.
Here's a summary of the statement in English (from Dutch):
--
A 26-year old man from Hengelo admitted sunday evening that he started a fire on wednesday 20th of November that incinerated 2 wings of the University of Twente building.
He was arrested after witnesses saw him at another small fire on campus.
Police can make no statements about why and how he did it. However the police confirms that he works at the University.
--
Well, if you read the article you will see that they indeed say there are more reasons to choose Opera besides the "they're not MS"-argument. For example the fact that Symbian's OS for mobiles together with Opera is much more 'tweakable' and allows for more personalized software on the phones.
I guess they will (mainly) use the "Microsoft is an evil monopoly"-argument to convince the businness-guys and the other arguments for the tech guys.
/.ed already
Off course I didn't RTFA, but I guess it says that Bush ate a lot of genetically altered corn. That sure explains a lot
For a second there I thought it said designing patents. I guess that's what happens when you spend more time reading /. than doing your actual programming work. :)
Don't make personal claims when posting as Anonymous coward, it sucks all the credibility out of them. But, let me guess, there was probably not much credibility to begin with.
As you said, in Europe the general system is based around the fact the the calling party pays. However, since it's more costly to make international calls and since you do not always know where someone is when you call his cell phone, this system does not always apply when calling cell phones.
In Belgium (and I think in other European countries as well), when you call somebody's cell phone when he's abroad, the caller pays the normal rate for calling a cell phone locally whereas the callee pays the extra charge for the international call.
just use "http://www.google.com/en"
Maybe they were afraid people wouldn't surf for porn anymore if they could be seen by the government and thus traffic would reduce with 60%
Stef
How to see the difference between a fake and a real redhead 101
:)
I'm sure this might boost the number of Anesthesiologists a bit in the future
DRM in rocket launching chips might indeed have strange effects
... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... LIFT OFF
Operator:
Launch System: launch operation aborted, you do not have the rights to "the final countdown"
This still seems Japanese to me :-)
thank you babelfish
(English -> Japanese -> English)
The babelfish appreciate in you
actually, today's dilbert sums up my thoughts about this space tourism thing quite well.
Although people may be violent, it sure as hell isn't the reason we're the dominating species. As mentioned before, the fact that we can make tools to fight of the animals that are stronger or more violent than us is one of those reasons. ...). Violence only leads to more violence, maybe you can ask the Israelites and the Palestinians about it.
Furthermore, it is clear from history that societies or cultures who have an extended period of peace and stability can achieve the best results (see Pax Romana, Golden age of ancient Greece, etc
As someone mentioned before, why the hell the parent was modded so highly is beyond me.
just letting you know that Malaysia might not be so happy being considered a third world country
Off course this doesn't change anything to the fact that Microsoft does rack in the money just by pressuring some countries or companies.