Let me see if I understand, you are bitching that you are charged VAT on your subscription? Perhaps you should complain to those that passed it, not those that have to collect it.
That was the sound of the joke going RIGHT over your head. That CRASH you just heard was the result of the joke, after going over your head, hitting some of the Apple mods and killing them.
Rocket engine exhaust contains chemical compounds that react with ozone in the stratosphere. A new measurement program suggests that current space transportation activities only minimally affect Earth's protective ozone layer.
The above test is in BOLD at the top of the page you linked to. Perhaps you overstate the case?
Apple LIKES the riaa's tactics. It only helps drive more people to the itunes store.
Apple, for all their talk, is only about making as much money as possible. It's not about 'freedom', 'change' or anything else. All that is just a well executed PR campaign.
You will soon. Or are you overlooking the fact that several EU member states disregarded the wishes of those that sent them to Brussels and voted FOR SW patents?
Butcher Dave Stevens may mince meat, but not words.
"To us, an ounce is an ounce, and a pound is a pound," he affirms while slicing a skirt steak in The Chop Shop, Leigh-on-Sea, eastern England. "A kilogram is a foreign measure, and our customers don't understand what it means."
For Mr. Stevens and his business partner, Mandy Reilly, who describe themselves as "British to the core," threats of fines and the argument that the rest of Europe went metric long ago fall short. They are among thousands of British shopkeepers ready to take on Prime Minister Tony Blair's government - and the entire European Union - over the push to phase out Britain's old imperial measures. Says Ms. Reilly: "We aren't about to stop doing something we've been doing for centuries, just because Europe says so."
What the Federation of Small Businesses, representing 75,000 firms, has dubbed the "metric monster" began stalking Britain in 1971, when pounds, shillings, and pence were phased into a decimalized currency.
Pressure for a total conversion to metric has been building ever since. But there's a Churchill-like determination among old-standard stalwarts that echoes Sir Winston's 1940 speech, when he pledged that in the face of Hitler, Britain would "never surrender."
Holdouts found an ally in 1989; then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (no EU fan) won a 10-year reprieve, allowing British traders to sell loose goods exclusively in nonmetric quantities. But the Blair government, which favors closer EU integration, didn't seek an extension. So as of Jan. 1, the government warned traders they could be fined as much as 2,000 ($3,300) and have their weighing and measuring equipment confiscated if they didn't label everything in metric as well as nonmetric units. All but a few imperial measures are to be phased out over 10 years.
Britain has already found old habits die hard. Despite the switch to a decimal currency 29 years ago, the term guinea (meaning one pound and one shilling) is still used by some auction houses. And many British folk prefer to weigh themselves in "stones" (14 lbs.) rather than pounds or kilograms.
Americans have proved no keener on metrics. The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act requires the simultaneous use of American and metric units. Last year, taking account of resistance by business and consumer interests, the Clinton administration persuaded the EU that all goods exported to the US continue to be sold in both units at least until 2009.
The new British rules apply not just to pounds and ounces, but to linear measures as well, raising problems for traders long used to yards, feet, and inches. Jose O'Ware has been selling window furnishings from her east London store, Fourth Avenue Blinds, for 30 years. "I have 4,000 readymade labels, and they're all in inches," says Mrs. O'Ware. "It would cost me thousands of pounds [dollars] to change them."
And there's another problem, which she shares with customers: "Ask me for something that is 59 inches wide, and I can see it in my mind. But ask for 1.3 meters, and I can't even begin to think what it would look like."
O'Ware vows she won't give an inch. "What are they going to do, confiscate my tape measure?"
But Britain's Consumer Affairs Minister Kim Howells has warned, "Anyone determined to be a metric martyr will have to pay the price."
Early in the New Year, a trading standards officer from a local council turned up at The Chop Shop and served an "infringement notice," giving its owners 28 days to convert their scales to metric.
O'Ware has had no such visits - yet. Interviewed on French television earlier this month, she declared she was prepared to go "to prison if I have to. If a British government is willing to prosecute an Englishwoman for trying to save part of our way of life, then so be it."
These would be some of the same EU countries that went against the wills of it people in voting for the EU patent legslition? The same one that don't have a problem threating people with jail if they mark the meat they are selling in lbs but not kg? The same people that are developing laws that will outlay saying anything that might 'harm/upset' groups of people?
If bush understands the war why aren't we doing more to stop North Korea, Iran and China all countries that have nukes or are working on getting them? China and NK threaten to nuke us and next to nothing gets done.
But damn it, we went after Iraq! The fact that doing so removed forces from the hunt from UBL ( you know, they guy behing 9/11) doesn't matter. And it did remove forces, mainly intel forces.
Our borders are not secure BUT bush understands the war.
Our country needs to spend more on the military (not on going ops more troops and equiptment) but we get a pill for old people plan that will cost 800 Billion to 1.1 Trillion. BUT bush understand the war.
Our country needs the DOJ to go ofter terrorists, but they have been using the PA to go after strip clubs and drug dealers even though we were told it would be only used to go at terrorists. BUT bush understands the war.
HINT, that pill plan for old people, parts of the farm bill and other programs ARE WELFARE. Just because he has a R by his name doesn't change the fact.
I don't want my kids, grand kids and great grand kids to have to pay debts that we ran up because we are too gready to cut spending. Check the budget and look how much NON DEFENSE spending has grown under bush and you will find that it has grown a lot more than DEF spending has.
The GOP wants a Feudal system too. Look at all hand outs that Bush has signed into law. Someone has to pay for all that crap and the generations that have to will be nothing more than serfs if something isn't done.
Perhaps if Bush doesn't win then the GOP in the house and senate will wake up and realize that they aren't Dems and stop acting and spending like them?
You can't be happy with what the GOP has become, can you?
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And our current president keeps saying he is doing EVERYTHING he can to protect the USA from evil doers, well everything but protect our borders.
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Please let me know which of my posts made you mark me as a foe.
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Let me see if I understand, you are bitching that you are charged VAT on your subscription? Perhaps you should complain to those that passed it, not those that have to collect it.
I mean D&D is only 30 years old...Oh damn, that would mean that MUDS are a rip off of D&D would it not?
Because Sex is fun and some people have an absolute fear that somewhere someone is having fun. They can't have that so they try to ban it.
Hell, look at the anti-porn threads on FreeRepublic.com some time.
These are some of the same type of people that think that teens should have the right to abort their babies with out telling their parents.
Killing babies is OK, Video games are bad. That is fscked up.
You know that WOSH sound you just heard?
That was the sound of the joke going RIGHT over your head. That CRASH you just heard was the result of the joke, after going over your head, hitting some of the Apple mods and killing them.
Rocket engine exhaust contains chemical compounds that react with ozone in the stratosphere. A new measurement program suggests that current space transportation activities only minimally affect Earth's protective ozone layer.
The above test is in BOLD at the top of the page you linked to. Perhaps you overstate the case?
You have a 3 digit UID and you just ordered ram with out know how well it was made?
;->
Sad, just sad. But, you are from Canada so perhaps that explains things
What do you think the penality will be? Fines and/or jail time and Jail time/loss of property if fines are not paid.
How about you do a google search?
Linux is taking off and you can buy laptops that come with Linux.
If you don't like it don't fscking use it.
No, that is a republic.
;->
Please learn basic civics before your respond again.
Yes, and if they majority of EU countries vote for something and yuor country votes against it. YOU LOSE and have to do what they wish.
If I buy the Win32 version how do I go about getting the xbox bins? ;->
But the goverment of your country doesn't matter if the EU votes for them. You have to do what the EU says.
Ain't it great!
Apple LIKES the riaa's tactics. It only helps drive more people to the itunes store.
Apple, for all their talk, is only about making as much money as possible. It's not about 'freedom', 'change' or anything else. All that is just a well executed PR campaign.
You will soon. Or are you overlooking the fact that several EU member states disregarded the wishes of those that sent them to Brussels and voted FOR SW patents?
http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/d urable/2000/01/27/p7s2.htm
Butcher Dave Stevens may mince meat, but not words.
"To us, an ounce is an ounce, and a pound is a pound," he affirms while slicing a skirt steak in The Chop Shop, Leigh-on-Sea, eastern England. "A kilogram is a foreign measure, and our customers don't understand what it means."
For Mr. Stevens and his business partner, Mandy Reilly, who describe themselves as "British to the core," threats of fines and the argument that the rest of Europe went metric long ago fall short. They are among thousands of British shopkeepers ready to take on Prime Minister Tony Blair's government - and the entire European Union - over the push to phase out Britain's old imperial measures. Says Ms. Reilly: "We aren't about to stop doing something we've been doing for centuries, just because Europe says so."
What the Federation of Small Businesses, representing 75,000 firms, has dubbed the "metric monster" began stalking Britain in 1971, when pounds, shillings, and pence were phased into a decimalized currency.
Pressure for a total conversion to metric has been building ever since. But there's a Churchill-like determination among old-standard stalwarts that echoes Sir Winston's 1940 speech, when he pledged that in the face of Hitler, Britain would "never surrender."
Holdouts found an ally in 1989; then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (no EU fan) won a 10-year reprieve, allowing British traders to sell loose goods exclusively in nonmetric quantities. But the Blair government, which favors closer EU integration, didn't seek an extension. So as of Jan. 1, the government warned traders they could be fined as much as 2,000 ($3,300) and have their weighing and measuring equipment confiscated if they didn't label everything in metric as well as nonmetric units. All but a few imperial measures are to be phased out over 10 years.
Britain has already found old habits die hard. Despite the switch to a decimal currency 29 years ago, the term guinea (meaning one pound and one shilling) is still used by some auction houses. And many British folk prefer to weigh themselves in "stones" (14 lbs.) rather than pounds or kilograms.
Americans have proved no keener on metrics. The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act requires the simultaneous use of American and metric units. Last year, taking account of resistance by business and consumer interests, the Clinton administration persuaded the EU that all goods exported to the US continue to be sold in both units at least until 2009.
The new British rules apply not just to pounds and ounces, but to linear measures as well, raising problems for traders long used to yards, feet, and inches. Jose O'Ware has been selling window furnishings from her east London store, Fourth Avenue Blinds, for 30 years. "I have 4,000 readymade labels, and they're all in inches," says Mrs. O'Ware. "It would cost me thousands of pounds [dollars] to change them."
And there's another problem, which she shares with customers: "Ask me for something that is 59 inches wide, and I can see it in my mind. But ask for 1.3 meters, and I can't even begin to think what it would look like."
O'Ware vows she won't give an inch. "What are they going to do, confiscate my tape measure?"
But Britain's Consumer Affairs Minister Kim Howells has warned, "Anyone determined to be a metric martyr will have to pay the price."
Early in the New Year, a trading standards officer from a local council turned up at The Chop Shop and served an "infringement notice," giving its owners 28 days to convert their scales to metric.
O'Ware has had no such visits - yet. Interviewed on French television earlier this month, she declared she was prepared to go "to prison if I have to. If a British government is willing to prosecute an Englishwoman for trying to save part of our way of life, then so be it."
I have taken on greenpeace, apple and the EU in the past 2 weeks. It's fun ;-> It also doesn't hurt that I have the FACTS on my side.
These would be some of the same EU countries that went against the wills of it people in voting for the EU patent legslition? The same one that don't have a problem threating people with jail if they mark the meat they are selling in lbs but not kg? The same people that are developing laws that will outlay saying anything that might 'harm/upset' groups of people?
That EU?
Which country is that?
If bush understands the war why aren't we doing more to stop North Korea, Iran and China all countries that have nukes or are working on getting them? China and NK threaten to nuke us and next to nothing gets done.
But damn it, we went after Iraq! The fact that doing so removed forces from the hunt from UBL ( you know, they guy behing 9/11) doesn't matter. And it did remove forces, mainly intel forces.
Our borders are not secure BUT bush understands the war.
Our country needs to spend more on the military (not on going ops more troops and equiptment) but we get a pill for old people plan that will cost 800 Billion to 1.1 Trillion. BUT bush understand the war.
Our country needs the DOJ to go ofter terrorists, but they have been using the PA to go after strip clubs and drug dealers even though we were told it would be only used to go at terrorists. BUT bush understands the war.
HINT, that pill plan for old people, parts of the farm bill and other programs ARE WELFARE. Just because he has a R by his name doesn't change the fact.
I don't want my kids, grand kids and great grand kids to have to pay debts that we ran up because we are too gready to cut spending. Check the budget and look how much NON DEFENSE spending has grown under bush and you will find that it has grown a lot more than DEF spending has.
The GOP wants a Feudal system too. Look at all hand outs that Bush has signed into law. Someone has to pay for all that crap and the generations that have to will be nothing more than serfs if something isn't done.
Perhaps if Bush doesn't win then the GOP in the house and senate will wake up and realize that they aren't Dems and stop acting and spending like them?
You can't be happy with what the GOP has become, can you?
And our current president keeps saying he is doing EVERYTHING he can to protect the USA from evil doers, well everything but protect our borders.
Both sides lie.