If GM had spent that money on a bit of engineering to get their cars a bit closer to the efficiency of European cars, perhaps people would buy them more? No amount of avertising money will get enough people to buy yesterdecades technology cars
It's also abundantly clear from our history and countless opinion polls that Aussie's do not want or need a '2nd amendment', I for one kinda like the fact that both our most popular and most reviled politicians can walk the streets or go for their morning jog without the aide of helicopter gunships and snipers on rooftops.
And if I haven't convinced you yet that we don't need this shit pot stirred then I invite you to come and visit, enter via Perth 'international' airport and compare it to the US airport you left behind.
Nice thoughts, but I have been living in this land of Oz for the past 15 years, so no invitation required. I have diligently avoided all US airports ever since they invaded Iraq and embarked on this totalitarian downward spiral, though I miss my trips to conferences in beautiful Hawaii and Florida a bit. While I agree that Aussie international airports are still more pleasant places to enter a country than US international airports, both are rather unpleasant places compared to the majority of Asian and European ones in my experience. Both could do with a lesson in respect and politeness towards visitors from places like Singapore, Seoul and Osaka. Try entering any Australian airport without an Aussie passport and you'll learn very quickly that you are regarded as human 2nd class (but at least still human) to the authorities. Maybe Perth is better in that regard than Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne?
Haven't seen the most reviled politician (John Howard perhaps? Though Julia is trying hard to outdo him in that regard) running around without bodyguards either, though that could be due to me trying to stay well away from such beasts. If you don't think Australia needs human rights enshrined in it's constitution, try to picture yourself in the shoes of some kids in the detention centres, or try to picture yourself in the shoes of Joe Average 10 years down the track if the current trend continues.
So far China has never bothered invading countries far away from home (unlike the USA). And why should they? With a bit of patience and work they can have whatever they want at a fraction of the price of a war, and without the risks of one. China is patient and smart. Beats aggression any time.
So what for will this expensive toy be? To nuke file sharers hosting in countries that could not be subjugated, on behalf of the RIAA? Or perhaps for some offensive war nobody is expecting in order to gain access to the resources an essentially broke USA soon can't afford any more by other means?
Considering the news of the past few years, there must be a contest for the most hated country and the USA are fighting really hard to win. I seems this new move brings them closer to the top, now head to head with North Korea! Well done, Mr "Homeland Security" (I remember my birth country having had a similar security organization many decades ago, was called SS I think). I guess the USA can win this race to the bottom, they were never keen to come second (though Aussies are beating them now as the world's number one per-capita energy hog, na-nah-na-naa-nah!!)
I think people here don't seem to understand the Australian tax system. It is entirely designed to take money from productive individuals and hand it over to corporates, while cutting in the politicians who facilitate this. Then the government proceeds to hand over a few crumbs to the unwashed masses (a.k.a. taxpayers) from the sell-off of natural resources, while avoiding at all cost to invest anything in infrastructure. In such context, Google's contribution of $74,000 (which is less than half of the income taxes I pay as an individual Australian resident per year at the marginal rate of 48% for my income from hard work and lots of overtime) can be seen as a generous token, because most corporations seem to pay bugger all and just pocket obscene subsidies instead.
Many posters seem to ignore that the difference between "offensive" and "defensive" missile systems are nothing but marketing. Having USA missiles stationed anywhere in Eastern Europe is a threat both to Europe (because those missile stations will be first or retaliation strike targets) as well as a threat to Russia AND Europe because they can easily be used for offensive purposes, and being stationed that close almost impossible to intercept. How would the USA feel about Russian missiles stationed in Mexico close to the border?
I used to be strictly against the death penalty, and in principle I still am. However, there are some crimes that do not merely affect one or more people - they affect humanity as a whole for generations. Such crimes must be prevented with the harshest deterrents available.
The ramifications of a judgement that would make mere APIs copyrightable would throw back human development into the dark ages. The ensuing legal slaughter would not instantly terminate the majority of all free software development projects, but largely cripple the majority of commercial ones too. We are not just talking desktop software here - every little gadget with an embedded system is likely to use some API or other that might resemble some other API close enough for some demented judge to doom it.
I guess the lawyers feasting on the carcasses of the productive entities they destroyed with their court house word games will realize too late that parasites will not survive once their hosts have all died.
Considering what the current and last few governments did to America, I would presume anybody not giving those governments money (taxes) must dearly love America!
That's not what I said. What I said is individual heroics only work out in movies. In real world, in such situations, they just beat you up and throw you into jail if you as much as lift your arm to protect your child from the TSA ogres. Abuse of power must be resisted whenever it rears it's ugly head, but in an organized way.
I hate to wreck your heroic fantasies - but all over the world, at different times, brutal regimes have broken families, murdered children in front of their parents eyes, raped people... all in front of their watching powerless partners who could do bugger all. Heroic resistance of individuals is something that works only in Hollywood movies. Even in fairly recent times some so called "civilized Western" countries were still stealing children form their families for political reasons (eg google for stolen generation in Australia). It has happened in the past, is happening now, and unfortunately will probably still happen in the foreseeable future - and not just in bogeyman countries with third world dictators.
The USA has started on a downward spiral into a totalitarian regime with no regard whatsoever for human rights or life. I am not sure whether they are past the point of no return where simple and peaceful measures such as elections could still change something - but in any case, should the TSA molest your child, you will most likely be powerlessly sobbing while their henchmen hold you down, and afterwards probably ponder in jail what good your token resistance did while your child is raised in some state orphanage.
Not quite. The demonstrated "non-inferiority" means that (provided the study findings are valid for the general population) this approach is an alternative even in settings where conventional therapy is available.
Remission rates were higher in the SPARX arm (43.7% vs 26.4% remission with conventional therapy) which you can read in the abstract you quoted, but that alone does not prove superiority of the SPARX appproach (which wasn't what the study was designed to prove anyway)
Absolutely. Which is why I don't want the US to have nuclear capabilities either. To most of the rest of the world, the US of the last decade is simply batshit crazy
If and when the USA start respecting human rights and demonstrably enforce an even marginal privacy legislation where corporates cannot simply muscle their way into any private nook and cranny they take an interest in, I guess business entities in other countries would start seeing the USA as a viable competitor in the data storage business. Until then I guess they only rank marginally higher than North Korea for such purposes...
True. The worrying bit is that there was a time only some 2 decades ago, when life and government in the US was fundamentally different from those theocracies. People could really move and speak freely. Nowadays? It is more a question of degrees of difference.
The US still has a sizeable well educated and resourceful population that would create too much opposition to an openly totalitarian regime. Perhaps the reason why education over there is plummeting and why free communication and travel is made increasingly difficult by the increasingly totalitarian government?
I for one am glad that I don't have to live in any of those "crazy" countries. Australia is bad enough on paper - but at least politicians and their henchmen are so ludicrously incompetent that they don't pose any serious danger to their citizens and their citizen's freedom yet.
Ahhh, history repeating itself all over the globe? Not that long ago the US were doing exactly that with European "intellectual property", blatantly ignoring patents and copyrights whenever it suited them. Rather hypocritical indeed.
Well, who cares what Samsung does? ICS *IS* already available for the Galaxy S (http://www.theandroidsoul.com/android-4-0-update-for-galaxy-s-i9000-custom-rom/). That's actually the beauty and major difference compared to iOS: even if the original manufacturer proves to be a dickhead, you are free to upgrade your phone from other sources, and that often proves to be a major improvement over the original software too..
The big difference would be that the makers of Chrome and Firefox appear at least halfway competent in matters security and standards compliance, and few would distrust them implicitly in that regard
I am quite familiar with "SA". I wonder what the "T" in "TSA" stands for though. I am a bit surprised to find out that the USA lags some 80 years behind Germany in political developments - only discovering totalitarianism now? What took you so long? At that pace, it might take the USA at least another 3 years or so before they have proper concentration camps on the mainland, and not just their trials of one at Guantanamo.....
oops, meant of course freedom FROM war - English is my 5th language and I am still struggling with it. The UN should protect people from the shenanigans of various governments that would lead to war (I'd be all for putting the politicians into a cage and let them slug it out to their hearts content) or step in immediately once war breaks out
I think this just illustrates one thing - there is no such thing as a "good government". Regardless of political colour or country, politicians remain politicians - ruthless people drunk on power with the single objective of staying in power no matter at what human cost. I acknowledge that there are some major benefits in having a good administration and an independent arbitrator, but the way governments of all colours are usurping "total power" nowadays is not acceptable and should be fought by all means. I'd like to see the UN enforce freedom of war, freedom of speech, and freedom to move - if needs must with military power (but not to have any power in any other regard).
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Any specs or references to back this up?
If GM had spent that money on a bit of engineering to get their cars a bit closer to the efficiency of European cars, perhaps people would buy them more? No amount of avertising money will get enough people to buy yesterdecades technology cars
It's also abundantly clear from our history and countless opinion polls that Aussie's do not want or need a '2nd amendment', I for one kinda like the fact that both our most popular and most reviled politicians can walk the streets or go for their morning jog without the aide of helicopter gunships and snipers on rooftops.
And if I haven't convinced you yet that we don't need this shit pot stirred then I invite you to come and visit, enter via Perth 'international' airport and compare it to the US airport you left behind.
Nice thoughts, but I have been living in this land of Oz for the past 15 years, so no invitation required. I have diligently avoided all US airports ever since they invaded Iraq and embarked on this totalitarian downward spiral, though I miss my trips to conferences in beautiful Hawaii and Florida a bit. While I agree that Aussie international airports are still more pleasant places to enter a country than US international airports, both are rather unpleasant places compared to the majority of Asian and European ones in my experience. Both could do with a lesson in respect and politeness towards visitors from places like Singapore, Seoul and Osaka. Try entering any Australian airport without an Aussie passport and you'll learn very quickly that you are regarded as human 2nd class (but at least still human) to the authorities. Maybe Perth is better in that regard than Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne?
Haven't seen the most reviled politician (John Howard perhaps? Though Julia is trying hard to outdo him in that regard) running around without bodyguards either, though that could be due to me trying to stay well away from such beasts. If you don't think Australia needs human rights enshrined in it's constitution, try to picture yourself in the shoes of some kids in the detention centres, or try to picture yourself in the shoes of Joe Average 10 years down the track if the current trend continues.
It means that in Australia, the government doesn't even have to pretend to care about human rights
So far China has never bothered invading countries far away from home (unlike the USA). And why should they? With a bit of patience and work they can have whatever they want at a fraction of the price of a war, and without the risks of one. China is patient and smart. Beats aggression any time.
So what for will this expensive toy be? To nuke file sharers hosting in countries that could not be subjugated, on behalf of the RIAA?
Or perhaps for some offensive war nobody is expecting in order to gain access to the resources an essentially broke USA soon can't afford any more by other means?
Considering the news of the past few years, there must be a contest for the most hated country and the USA are fighting really hard to win. I seems this new move brings them closer to the top, now head to head with North Korea! Well done, Mr "Homeland Security" (I remember my birth country having had a similar security organization many decades ago, was called SS I think). I guess the USA can win this race to the bottom, they were never keen to come second (though Aussies are beating them now as the world's number one per-capita energy hog, na-nah-na-naa-nah!!)
I think people here don't seem to understand the Australian tax system.
It is entirely designed to take money from productive individuals and hand it over to corporates, while cutting in the politicians who facilitate this. Then the government proceeds to hand over a few crumbs to the unwashed masses (a.k.a. taxpayers) from the sell-off of natural resources, while avoiding at all cost to invest anything in infrastructure.
In such context, Google's contribution of $74,000 (which is less than half of the income taxes I pay as an individual Australian resident per year at the marginal rate of 48% for my income from hard work and lots of overtime) can be seen as a generous token, because most corporations seem to pay bugger all and just pocket obscene subsidies instead.
Exactly
Many posters seem to ignore that the difference between "offensive" and "defensive" missile systems are nothing but marketing.
Having USA missiles stationed anywhere in Eastern Europe is a threat both to Europe (because those missile stations will be first or retaliation strike targets) as well as a threat to Russia AND Europe because they can easily be used for offensive purposes, and being stationed that close almost impossible to intercept.
How would the USA feel about Russian missiles stationed in Mexico close to the border?
I used to be strictly against the death penalty, and in principle I still am. However, there are some crimes that do not merely affect one or more people - they affect humanity as a whole for generations. Such crimes must be prevented with the harshest deterrents available.
The ramifications of a judgement that would make mere APIs copyrightable would throw back human development into the dark ages. The ensuing legal slaughter would not instantly terminate the majority of all free software development projects, but largely cripple the majority of commercial ones too. We are not just talking desktop software here - every little gadget with an embedded system is likely to use some API or other that might resemble some other API close enough for some demented judge to doom it.
I guess the lawyers feasting on the carcasses of the productive entities they destroyed with their court house word games will realize too late that parasites will not survive once their hosts have all died.
Considering what the current and last few governments did to America, I would presume anybody not giving those governments money (taxes) must dearly love America!
I guess this is because there is no modding option of "fact"
That's not what I said. What I said is individual heroics only work out in movies. In real world, in such situations, they just beat you up and throw you into jail if you as much as lift your arm to protect your child from the TSA ogres.
Abuse of power must be resisted whenever it rears it's ugly head, but in an organized way.
I hate to wreck your heroic fantasies - but all over the world, at different times, brutal regimes have broken families, murdered children in front of their parents eyes, raped people ... all in front of their watching powerless partners who could do bugger all. Heroic resistance of individuals is something that works only in Hollywood movies. Even in fairly recent times some so called "civilized Western" countries were still stealing children form their families for political reasons (eg google for stolen generation in Australia). It has happened in the past, is happening now, and unfortunately will probably still happen in the foreseeable future - and not just in bogeyman countries with third world dictators.
The USA has started on a downward spiral into a totalitarian regime with no regard whatsoever for human rights or life. I am not sure whether they are past the point of no return where simple and peaceful measures such as elections could still change something - but in any case, should the TSA molest your child, you will most likely be powerlessly sobbing while their henchmen hold you down, and afterwards probably ponder in jail what good your token resistance did while your child is raised in some state orphanage.
Not quite. The demonstrated "non-inferiority" means that (provided the study findings are valid for the general population) this approach is an alternative even in settings where conventional therapy is available.
Remission rates were higher in the SPARX arm (43.7% vs 26.4% remission with conventional therapy) which you can read in the abstract you quoted, but that alone does not prove superiority of the SPARX appproach (which wasn't what the study was designed to prove anyway)
The cited article is not informative. Read the original source at http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2598
It answers most of the questions in the comments.
You can view the trailer or learn more about the game as such at http://www.sparx.org.nz/
Absolutely. Which is why I don't want the US to have nuclear capabilities either. To most of the rest of the world, the US of the last decade is simply batshit crazy
If and when the USA start respecting human rights and demonstrably enforce an even marginal privacy legislation where corporates cannot simply muscle their way into any private nook and cranny they take an interest in, I guess business entities in other countries would start seeing the USA as a viable competitor in the data storage business. Until then I guess they only rank marginally higher than North Korea for such purposes ...
True. The worrying bit is that there was a time only some 2 decades ago, when life and government in the US was fundamentally different from those theocracies. People could really move and speak freely. Nowadays? It is more a question of degrees of difference.
The US still has a sizeable well educated and resourceful population that would create too much opposition to an openly totalitarian regime. Perhaps the reason why education over there is plummeting and why free communication and travel is made increasingly difficult by the increasingly totalitarian government?
I for one am glad that I don't have to live in any of those "crazy" countries. Australia is bad enough on paper - but at least politicians and their henchmen are so ludicrously incompetent that they don't pose any serious danger to their citizens and their citizen's freedom yet.
Ahhh, history repeating itself all over the globe? Not that long ago the US were doing exactly that with European "intellectual property", blatantly ignoring patents and copyrights whenever it suited them. Rather hypocritical indeed.
Well, who cares what Samsung does? ICS *IS* already available for the Galaxy S (http://www.theandroidsoul.com/android-4-0-update-for-galaxy-s-i9000-custom-rom/). That's actually the beauty and major difference compared to iOS: even if the original manufacturer proves to be a dickhead, you are free to upgrade your phone from other sources, and that often proves to be a major improvement over the original software too..
The big difference would be that the makers of Chrome and Firefox appear at least halfway competent in matters security and standards compliance, and few would distrust them implicitly in that regard
I am quite familiar with "SA". I wonder what the "T" in "TSA" stands for though. .....
I am a bit surprised to find out that the USA lags some 80 years behind Germany in political developments - only discovering totalitarianism now? What took you so long?
At that pace, it might take the USA at least another 3 years or so before they have proper concentration camps on the mainland, and not just their trials of one at Guantanamo
oops, meant of course freedom FROM war - English is my 5th language and I am still struggling with it.
The UN should protect people from the shenanigans of various governments that would lead to war (I'd be all for putting the politicians into a cage and let them slug it out to their hearts content) or step in immediately once war breaks out
I think this just illustrates one thing - there is no such thing as a "good government". Regardless of political colour or country, politicians remain politicians - ruthless people drunk on power with the single objective of staying in power no matter at what human cost. I acknowledge that there are some major benefits in having a good administration and an independent arbitrator, but the way governments of all colours are usurping "total power" nowadays is not acceptable and should be fought by all means. I'd like to see the UN enforce freedom of war, freedom of speech, and freedom to move - if needs must with military power (but not to have any power in any other regard).