I pay 5,99€/month, taxes included, for 30 GB and unlimited calls to Italy (land and mobile), Europe and almost every developed country — even the US, whether or not they satisfy that definition — (land).
What's wrong with you guys?
In the EU the seller has to handle all issues and warranty claims, for 2 years.
And Amazon deals with warranty replacement so much better than any local store that any comparison is embarrassing: with the latter the only way to get service is often to mention that as a member of a consumer protection organization I won't have to pay for my lawyer. With Amazon, reporting that an underwater camera after 13 months is not working properly meant a full refund "since we are not carrying any more that model".
American customer satisfaction + European customer protection is the way to go.
Actually, you usually get paid before the end of the month: in Italy, e.g., payday is on the 27 for private employees and on the 24 for public ones. So it's not that bad.
Whereas in most of Europe, sidewalk maintenance is considered the state's responsibility.
Construction maybe, but maintenance, certainly not. Case in point: In Luxembourg, residents are responsible for keeping "their" sidewalk snow and ice-free in the winter.
Here in Italy, the construction of a sidewalk in face of a new development is usually paid for (and built by) the developer. Maintenance could be up to the building owner for a number of years (it depends on the deal you stroke with the local municipality on the building permit) but is usually done by the municipality.
In theory residents are responsible for keeping their sidewalk snow and ice-free, and where I live you can even get free salt in order to do that. In practice, either someone does it out of fun (as I do), or someone reminds the building manager that it would be him the one charged with criminal negligence in case sh*t happens.
When I was a graduate student at Brown in the 90s, we gave it as a fact that students would have been cheating in hw assignments, so that the largest part of the final grade had to come from written examinations. On the other hand, we had to give HW assignments some influence on final grade, otherwise most students would have skipped them. 5% sounded about right.
Sometimes I wish I lived in Europe where a 2 week vacation is not considered a bad thing.
In Europe a 2 week vacation is considered a bad thing: most people get three weeks in the summer. You are also required by law to take your vacation (usually 4 weeks) every single year, it cannot be exchanged for money.
Indeed, even a rough reading of Tao's blog post shows that previous computer computations are an essential part of the proof:
The first refinement, which is only available in the five primes case, is to take advantage of the numerical verification of the even Goldbach conjecture up to some large (we take , using a verification of Richstein, although there are now much larger values of – as high as – for which the conjecture has been verified). As such, instead of trying to represent an odd number as the sum of five primes, we can represent it as the sum of three odd primes and a natural number between and . This effectively brings us back to the three primes problem, but with the significant additional boost that one can essentially restrict the frequency variable to be of size . In practice, this eliminates all of the major arcs except for the principal arc around . This is a significant simplification, in particular avoiding the need to deal with the prime number theorem in arithmetic progressions (and all the attendant theory of L-functions, Siegel zeroes, etc.).
In a similar spirit, by taking advantage of the numerical verification of the Riemann hypothesis up to some height , and using the explicit formula relating the von Mangoldt function with the zeroes of the zeta function, one can safely deal with the principal major arc . For our specific application, we use the value , arising from the verification of the Riemann hypothesis of the first zeroes by van de Lune (unpublished) and Wedeniswki. (Such verifications have since been extended further, the latest being that the first zeroes lie on the line.)
Where I live, in Europe, only some engineer would dare sport a digital watch, which would be considered quite bad taste by almost everyone else. This, at least, since mid '80s.
Cheap Swatches () may have something to do with that.
But what I would really appreciate from columbia would be a clear and detailled explanation of what parts or "kind of parts" of kermit-95 and why ? cannot be open sourced ?
Just read TFA and follow links:
Regular Kermit 95 binaries can not be made openly available because they include cryptography functions whose distribution is restricted by United States export law. Kermit 95 binaries that include encryption (SSH, SSL/TLS, and Kerberos) will have to be purchased and licensed, as before. Single copies can be purchased from Amazon.com, E-Academy.com, and other retailers. If the stock of shrinkwrapped copies runs out, Kermit 95 will continue to be available from E-Academy.com in both cryptographic and non-cryptographic (safe for export) versions.
most notably the catholic church and their instance that only the Pope can talk to God, which is in direct contradiction to the primary message of pretty much every book of the Bible
Since you clearly have no idea whatsoever about what the catholic church is and is not: the difference with some other denomination does not consist in the fact that only one person talks on God's cell phone each Sunday morning rather than each pastor rather than any believer that can manage to dial His number.
they also asserted in the past that only a properly educated person should be allowed to read the Bible
It's rather more on allowing any nutcase to form and teach his personal opinion on a huge book written in a variety of very ancient language, by people from a very different culture (one could argue about Paul, but everyone else was definitively a Jew), missing all vowels and with huge chunks corrupted beyond any hope (I know, some people say that KJ was God inspired; that belongs to my definition of nutcase).
Catholics opted for letting only experts deal with the Bible; Lutherans opted for educating people (clearly the wiser thing to do, in the long run); some others opted for the nutcases. Thanks to God most of them gathered in the USA.
Actually he predicted the earthquake to happen in Sulmona, some 50km away.
So, if people had actually evacuated, they could well have been in L'Aquila a week later.
IANAL and I don't know the specifics of German law, but EU state laws are quite similar, and I know a bit of the Italian ones. This is what would happen south of the Alps.
A contract to be valid requires that both parties agree and understand what they're into. Your friend was made to believe something different that what she could reasonably expect. We had similar scams going on for a long while (you thought you were signing to support something, while actually buying a 2000 euros encyclopedia): whoever went to court always won.
Almost anything which is not bought in a physical store can be returned for whatever reason for the following ten days. This follows from EU directive 85/577/CEE (which states a minimum of seven days)
In order to agree to mean stuff the law requires you to be really sure you're agreeing: here you have to sign twice, in France you have to hand write "lu et approuv'e", i.e., "read and understood"; most likely you have something similar in Germany, which could help. BTW this means EULAs have essentially no chance to survive in court.
So what I'd do would be to call the legal service of my consumer association now
The Commission is as much unelected as any government. The commissioners are appointed by the Council (which is formed by the national presidents and/or prime ministers) and they have to be OKed by the Parliament (which is elected).
If you remember that the US Senators were appointed by state legislatures until not so far ago, I'd agree that our system is not that much different from what the US was before the Civil war.
Since now it's possible for national Cabinet members to commute to Brussels, we don't need senators any more to represent the states. That's the main difference, with the other being not having an elected president.
Oh, BTW, here states do have the right to force companies in other states to collect taxes
I say bullshit: did you ever compair the build quality of a 1000$ vs a 2000$ laptop? Moreover, the price a school pays for CS is at most 600$ (that's the official price, but the real one could be half of that).
Comments!!!! Acrobat's ability to add comments to pdf files is one of the few things that make me ever think about using OSX (I cannot think of anything that would make me wish to run Windows, though:)
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I pay 5,99€/month, taxes included, for 30 GB and unlimited calls to Italy (land and mobile), Europe and almost every developed country — even the US, whether or not they satisfy that definition — (land). What's wrong with you guys?
You can set amazon.de to speak English to you
Just remap the right CMD as Meta, and live happily ever after.
In the EU the seller has to handle all issues and warranty claims, for 2 years.
And Amazon deals with warranty replacement so much better than any local store that any comparison is embarrassing: with the latter the only way to get service is often to mention that as a member of a consumer protection organization I won't have to pay for my lawyer. With Amazon, reporting that an underwater camera after 13 months is not working properly meant a full refund "since we are not carrying any more that model".
American customer satisfaction + European customer protection is the way to go.
Actually, you usually get paid before the end of the month: in Italy, e.g., payday is on the 27 for private employees and on the 24 for public ones. So it's not that bad.
Whereas in most of Europe, sidewalk maintenance is considered the state's responsibility.
Construction maybe, but maintenance, certainly not. Case in point: In Luxembourg, residents are responsible for keeping "their" sidewalk snow and ice-free in the winter.
Here in Italy, the construction of a sidewalk in face of a new development is usually paid for (and built by) the developer. Maintenance could be up to the building owner for a number of years (it depends on the deal you stroke with the local municipality on the building permit) but is usually done by the municipality. In theory residents are responsible for keeping their sidewalk snow and ice-free, and where I live you can even get free salt in order to do that. In practice, either someone does it out of fun (as I do), or someone reminds the building manager that it would be him the one charged with criminal negligence in case sh*t happens.
Eating meat nearly raw is mostly an American custom (ok, and some aboriginal groups'). So is drinking beer so cold you can't feel any taste.
Actually what you call rare in the US, is called well done in continental Europe.
When I was a graduate student at Brown in the 90s, we gave it as a fact that students would have been cheating in hw assignments, so that the largest part of the final grade had to come from written examinations. On the other hand, we had to give HW assignments some influence on final grade, otherwise most students would have skipped them. 5% sounded about right.
Sometimes I wish I lived in Europe where a 2 week vacation is not considered a bad thing.
In Europe a 2 week vacation is considered a bad thing: most people get three weeks in the summer. You are also required by law to take your vacation (usually 4 weeks) every single year, it cannot be exchanged for money.
Running Fedora and BusyBox on other machines.
The first refinement, which is only available in the five primes case, is to take advantage of the numerical verification of the even Goldbach conjecture up to some large (we take , using a verification of Richstein, although there are now much larger values of – as high as – for which the conjecture has been verified). As such, instead of trying to represent an odd number as the sum of five primes, we can represent it as the sum of three odd primes and a natural number between and . This effectively brings us back to the three primes problem, but with the significant additional boost that one can essentially restrict the frequency variable to be of size . In practice, this eliminates all of the major arcs except for the principal arc around . This is a significant simplification, in particular avoiding the need to deal with the prime number theorem in arithmetic progressions (and all the attendant theory of L-functions, Siegel zeroes, etc.). In a similar spirit, by taking advantage of the numerical verification of the Riemann hypothesis up to some height , and using the explicit formula relating the von Mangoldt function with the zeroes of the zeta function, one can safely deal with the principal major arc . For our specific application, we use the value , arising from the verification of the Riemann hypothesis of the first zeroes by van de Lune (unpublished) and Wedeniswki. (Such verifications have since been extended further, the latest being that the first zeroes lie on the line.)
Where I live, in Europe, only some engineer would dare sport a digital watch, which would be considered quite bad taste by almost everyone else. This, at least, since mid '80s. Cheap Swatches () may have something to do with that.
But what I would really appreciate from columbia would be a clear and detailled explanation of what parts or "kind of parts" of kermit-95 and why ? cannot be open sourced ?
Just read TFA and follow links:
Regular Kermit 95 binaries can not be made openly available because they include cryptography functions whose distribution is restricted by United States export law. Kermit 95 binaries that include encryption (SSH, SSL/TLS, and Kerberos) will have to be purchased and licensed, as before. Single copies can be purchased from Amazon.com, E-Academy.com, and other retailers. If the stock of shrinkwrapped copies runs out, Kermit 95 will continue to be available from E-Academy.com in both cryptographic and non-cryptographic (safe for export) versions.
That's completely bogus: they would just need contributors to upload a source app, and sell it for a reasonable distribution price.
For those using sensible units: 6800 USD/m2 or 5000 EUR/m2
Or at least, nothing fancier than a microscope or an electronic keyboard. Definitively no computing equipment.
Is there any place where it is not sufficient to have a judge agreeing to the search?
most notably the catholic church and their instance that only the Pope can talk to God, which is in direct contradiction to the primary message of pretty much every book of the Bible
Since you clearly have no idea whatsoever about what the catholic church is and is not: the difference with some other denomination does not consist in the fact that only one person talks on God's cell phone each Sunday morning rather than each pastor rather than any believer that can manage to dial His number.
they also asserted in the past that only a properly educated person should be allowed to read the Bible
It's rather more on allowing any nutcase to form and teach his personal opinion on a huge book written in a variety of very ancient language, by people from a very different culture (one could argue about Paul, but everyone else was definitively a Jew), missing all vowels and with huge chunks corrupted beyond any hope (I know, some people say that KJ was God inspired; that belongs to my definition of nutcase). Catholics opted for letting only experts deal with the Bible; Lutherans opted for educating people (clearly the wiser thing to do, in the long run); some others opted for the nutcases. Thanks to God most of them gathered in the USA.
Actually he predicted the earthquake to happen in Sulmona, some 50km away. So, if people had actually evacuated, they could well have been in L'Aquila a week later.
So what I'd do would be to call the legal service of my consumer association now
The Commission is as much unelected as any government. The commissioners are appointed by the Council (which is formed by the national presidents and/or prime ministers) and they have to be OKed by the Parliament (which is elected).
If you remember that the US Senators were appointed by state legislatures until not so far ago, I'd agree that our system is not that much different from what the US was before the Civil war.
Since now it's possible for national Cabinet members to commute to Brussels, we don't need senators any more to represent the states. That's the main difference, with the other being not having an elected president.
Oh, BTW, here states do have the right to force companies in other states to collect taxes
I say bullshit: did you ever compair the build quality of a 1000$ vs a 2000$ laptop? Moreover, the price a school pays for CS is at most 600$ (that's the official price, but the real one could be half of that).
A satellite flying at 7.5 km of altitude sound quite bizarre to me.
Good luck writing a parser that will work flawlessly for every form returned: most likely it's faster and cheaper to pay a human to enter those data.
Comments!!!! Acrobat's ability to add comments to pdf files is one of the few things that make me ever think about using OSX (I cannot think of anything that would make me wish to run Windows, though :)
It looks like it's a planned feature of evince.