You know the European Parliament is parody of a parliament right? The MEP we elect cannot propose a EU directive (only the commission can). They do not have the last word in law making, as the commission can strip the amendments voted by the parliament.The EU parliament only real power is to reject a directive, but that can happen only where it is involved, and for many fields, the EU parliament is not involved at all.
MEP also do not say their word on EU budget. And of course they have to operate within the bounds of EU treaties, where most of the economic policy is hard coded. In fact a MEP is mostly useless, except perhaps to inform the public about what is going on. And even on that front, there are issues. MEP have not seen the commission mandate for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
As a french citizen, I am getting more and more upset to see the European flag used instead of France's one for stories about France. 10 years ago I was very fond of the EU, but now I realized EU is not a democracy and I am not a EU citizen. It is quite the contrary, as EU project is to destroy democracy.
I wish Slashdot could add a logo for France, even something full of clichés, it will make me more comfortable.
Here is another flame war for free speech supporters (mostly Americans), and hate-speech prohibition law supporters (mostly Europeans).
IMO, sovereignty is the point that is often missed from both side. There is no natural law for free speech or hate speech prohibition. The laws exist only because there are national consensus that they are good. They are just of consequence of democracy.
That experience made everyone think twice about web statistics. Even upper management understood how unreliable it is, and does not consider it strategic anymore now.
I had a first had experience of this with visitors statistics. I had the root of a web site redirecting to a page that fits the language of the browser. Just that redirection slashed the web traffic by a factor 2.
Most visitors are bots, and many of them just probe and fail to follow the redirection.
The poles are private, but stand in public space, right? If AT&T does not want to comply with City will, perhaps there is a way to ask payment for the use of public space? A payment high enough to convince them to cooperate, I mean.
The point is not Canada surface, it is only twice the surface of EU. What makes door delivery expensive is that Canada population is much more sparse the in Europe.
Anyway, this is a sad regression. There was a time where western nations were able to do things for the public good, without whining everyday about the costs.
Summary says this was done to preserve pensions. That really advocates for a nation-wide public pension system, just like EU countries have. If some random company or city goes bankrupt while other companies and cities thrive, then there no money problem for pensions, provided the system is not segmented the way it is in US.
Anyone red the papet and can explain where the leak is? All the interesting stuff is supposed to occur outside of browser reach, so how did they did it?
Fortunately, France agriculture is not only focused on mediocre products that could not be sold without EU subsides. There are also quality products that will find buyers even without EU help.
IMO the problem is not that EU agricultural policy helps France too much, the problem is that it helps mediocre products that are exported and unfairly compete with third world products, pushing the farmers out of business.
It is true for people that alternate fasten and a normal diet. The body reacts by storing for the next time. But one can also get fat by eating junk food with high GI carbs and fats with low omega 3 / omega 6 ratio.
I previously understood that personalized therapy could not get approved by FDA because it was impossible to perform studies on a large number of people (since the treatment is for one). I am glad it is nonetheless used, but what changed?
OpenID enabled websites offer you the opportunity to go further: send no password at all over the network.
OpenID relies on an Identity Provider (IdP) to validate your identity. You can set up your own IdP, and if you have a PKCS11 compliant smart card, your web browser can use it to perform client certificate authentication to the IdP using the certificate and private key stored in the smart card.
Easy to build is one thing - easy to build AND make them viable is another.
Problem is: nuclear is not viable on the long term. Of course it brings you power without carbon footprint, and this is good. But nuclear fuel is not available in infinite supply. On the long term, renewable are the only viable sources.
You can't go 'on strike' because nobody is buying your product.
French are used to have a strong state that has some economical involvment. They often go on strike to call for state action, which would here be protectionism and/or subventions. Of course within today's EU, state cannot do much, and this is a reason why people are increasingly rejecting EU.
The body obeys laws of thermodynamics, but it is a complex system with feedback loops. Eat less, and the body reduce the energy it spends so that you do not loose fat.
There are tricks to game body feedback rules, however.
USA and EU will probably have to harmonize patent law for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. It should normally be legislator's job, but sometimes it does not work, and ourt have to do the job.
For instance, EU countries signed a treaty in 1974 saying that computer programs are not patentable, and as a result they all have this provision in state laws. That did not prevent patent offices to grant software patent in EU, that just makes them difficult to enforce.
International treaties are a convenient way for executives to push unwanted legislation through legislator's throat. European Union citizen now know that trick very well. You can even have people refusing thing by referendum, and have it adopted by an international treaty 3 years later.
Maybe "leaky gut syndrome" is to blame for some things. Or maybe it isn't. Scientific research isn't even sure it exists, which your post conveniently omits.
Leaky gut syndrome can be assessed, by looking at normally non digested sugars in urine. Here is a paper on the topic, and you can find many other ones.
(Also, allergies and autoimmune diseases are not the same thing as autism.)
I never said they were. I just pointed that in some case they have the same cause.
Of course gut microbe play a role. Some aggressive species are able to attack the gut's cells, which cause the leaky gut syndrome, where food proteins not completely digested can enter the bloodstream. The immune system will seek and destroy them, every day, on every meal. That can trigger allergies and autoimmune diseases.
Moreover proteins from milk and wheat contains sequences that are hard to break down, and that can activate morphine receptors in the brain. They are called caseomorphins and gliadomorphins. Some (but not all) autists have success in reducing their symptoms by adopting a diet without diary product and gluten, and it is suspected this is for that reason.
Do I understand the thing right? They encrypt for communication but store the data in plain text on their server? That does not look very efficient to guard against the NSA, especially since MS is part of the PRISM program.
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You know the European Parliament is parody of a parliament right? The MEP we elect cannot propose a EU directive (only the commission can). They do not have the last word in law making, as the commission can strip the amendments voted by the parliament.The EU parliament only real power is to reject a directive, but that can happen only where it is involved, and for many fields, the EU parliament is not involved at all.
MEP also do not say their word on EU budget. And of course they have to operate within the bounds of EU treaties, where most of the economic policy is hard coded. In fact a MEP is mostly useless, except perhaps to inform the public about what is going on. And even on that front, there are issues. MEP have not seen the commission mandate for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
This summary displays the European Union flag
As a french citizen, I am getting more and more upset to see the European flag used instead of France's one for stories about France. 10 years ago I was very fond of the EU, but now I realized EU is not a democracy and I am not a EU citizen. It is quite the contrary, as EU project is to destroy democracy.
I wish Slashdot could add a logo for France, even something full of clichés, it will make me more comfortable.
Here is another flame war for free speech supporters (mostly Americans), and hate-speech prohibition law supporters (mostly Europeans).
IMO, sovereignty is the point that is often missed from both side. There is no natural law for free speech or hate speech prohibition. The laws exist only because there are national consensus that they are good. They are just of consequence of democracy.
That experience made everyone think twice about web statistics. Even upper management understood how unreliable it is, and does not consider it strategic anymore now.
I had a first had experience of this with visitors statistics. I had the root of a web site redirecting to a page that fits the language of the browser. Just that redirection slashed the web traffic by a factor 2.
Most visitors are bots, and many of them just probe and fail to follow the redirection.
The poles are private, but stand in public space, right? If AT&T does not want to comply with City will, perhaps there is a way to ask payment for the use of public space? A payment high enough to convince them to cooperate, I mean.
The point is not Canada surface, it is only twice the surface of EU. What makes door delivery expensive is that Canada population is much more sparse the in Europe.
Anyway, this is a sad regression. There was a time where western nations were able to do things for the public good, without whining everyday about the costs.
It is weird we need to gather data to discover that insecticids kills insects, and that bees are insects.
Summary says this was done to preserve pensions. That really advocates for a nation-wide public pension system, just like EU countries have. If some random company or city goes bankrupt while other companies and cities thrive, then there no money problem for pensions, provided the system is not segmented the way it is in US.
Anyone red the papet and can explain where the leak is? All the interesting stuff is supposed to occur outside of browser reach, so how did they did it?
Is that likely to give us an insight of were Mars' water has gone?
Fortunately, France agriculture is not only focused on mediocre products that could not be sold without EU subsides. There are also quality products that will find buyers even without EU help.
IMO the problem is not that EU agricultural policy helps France too much, the problem is that it helps mediocre products that are exported and unfairly compete with third world products, pushing the farmers out of business.
It is true for people that alternate fasten and a normal diet. The body reacts by storing for the next time. But one can also get fat by eating junk food with high GI carbs and fats with low omega 3 / omega 6 ratio.
I previously understood that personalized therapy could not get approved by FDA because it was impossible to perform studies on a large number of people (since the treatment is for one). I am glad it is nonetheless used, but what changed?
OpenID enabled websites offer you the opportunity to go further: send no password at all over the network.
OpenID relies on an Identity Provider (IdP) to validate your identity. You can set up your own IdP, and if you have a PKCS11 compliant smart card, your web browser can use it to perform client certificate authentication to the IdP using the certificate and private key stored in the smart card.
Easy to build is one thing - easy to build AND make them viable is another.
Problem is: nuclear is not viable on the long term. Of course it brings you power without carbon footprint, and this is good. But nuclear fuel is not available in infinite supply. On the long term, renewable are the only viable sources.
You can't go 'on strike' because nobody is buying your product.
French are used to have a strong state that has some economical involvment. They often go on strike to call for state action, which would here be protectionism and/or subventions. Of course within today's EU, state cannot do much, and this is a reason why people are increasingly rejecting EU.
The body obeys laws of thermodynamics, but it is a complex system with feedback loops. Eat less, and the body reduce the energy it spends so that you do not loose fat.
There are tricks to game body feedback rules, however.
USA and EU will probably have to harmonize patent law for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. It should normally be legislator's job, but sometimes it does not work, and ourt have to do the job.
For instance, EU countries signed a treaty in 1974 saying that computer programs are not patentable, and as a result they all have this provision in state laws. That did not prevent patent offices to grant software patent in EU, that just makes them difficult to enforce.
International treaties are a convenient way for executives to push unwanted legislation through legislator's throat. European Union citizen now know that trick very well. You can even have people refusing thing by referendum, and have it adopted by an international treaty 3 years later.
Maybe "leaky gut syndrome" is to blame for some things. Or maybe it isn't. Scientific research isn't even sure it exists, which your post conveniently omits.
Leaky gut syndrome can be assessed, by looking at normally non digested sugars in urine. Here is a paper on the topic, and you can find many other ones.
(Also, allergies and autoimmune diseases are not the same thing as autism.)
I never said they were. I just pointed that in some case they have the same cause.
Of course gut microbe play a role. Some aggressive species are able to attack the gut's cells, which cause the leaky gut syndrome, where food proteins not completely digested can enter the bloodstream. The immune system will seek and destroy them, every day, on every meal. That can trigger allergies and autoimmune diseases.
Moreover proteins from milk and wheat contains sequences that are hard to break down, and that can activate morphine receptors in the brain. They are called caseomorphins and gliadomorphins. Some (but not all) autists have success in reducing their symptoms by adopting a diet without diary product and gluten, and it is suspected this is for that reason.
Do I understand the thing right? They encrypt for communication but store the data in plain text on their server? That does not look very efficient to guard against the NSA, especially since MS is part of the PRISM program.
The cobalt source is said to have been found in a rural area. What about the exposure of the people who found it?