If you don't pay the property taxes on your home the people with guns make you give them your home.
Just like real life!
Stats on the German economy. 0.2% 3rd Q growth.
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A difficult year marked by slight hope Record losses at German blue chips, but restructuring and rationalization begin to show their effect
january Economics Minister Wolfgang Clement issues a special ministerial permit to allow the takeover of Ruhrgas, Germany's main natural gas supplier, by Eon, one of Germany's two dominant electric utilities. The ministerial intervention overrules the Federal Cartel Office, which had warned against impaired competition both in the electricity and gas markets.
february The stock market collapse, record insolvencies and belated restructuring and rationalization efforts have plunged German banks into a crisis. Commerzbank and Hypo-Vereinsbank both post the first annual losses in their corporate history. Experts predict drastic sectoral consolidation.
march At 4.7 million, unemployment reaches the third highest level since unification. The jobless rate stands at 11.3 percent. Dresdner Bank Chairman Bernd Fahrholz is sent packing as parent company Allianz publishes the first annual loss in its corporate history for 2002, with Dresdner being the biggest burden. Deutsche Telekom posts a record loss of EUR24.6 billion for fiscal 2002, the highest loss ever posted by a German company. Wella's founding family agrees to sell the world's second-largest maker of hair-grooming products to Procter & Gamble. The Bundestag decides to extend shop opening hours to 8 p.m. on Saturdays. The new regulation will take force on June 1.
april In their spring forecast, Germany's leading economic institutes project economic growth of 0.5 percent for 2003, revising downward their earlier forecast of 1.4 percent. The six think tanks expect the German deficit to reach 3.4 percent, exceeding the limit of the euro-zone Stability and Growth Pact. The government remains optimistic and issues only a slight downward revision of its growth forecast to 0.75 percent from 1 percent. Germany's most powerful industrial union, IG Metall, reshuffles its leadership. In a surprise move, the board nominates deputy head Jurgen Peters, a hardliner and ardent defender of Germany's extensive system of worker protection, as the successor to Klaus Zwickel. Frankfurt airport operator Fraport cancels its dividend and discloses a net loss of EUR120 million for 2002 after writing off an ill-starred airport project in Manila launched in partnership with business cronies of the discredited former ruler of the Philippines.
may The German economy slipped into recession in the first quarter of 2003. Finance Minister Hans Eichel publicly abandons his longtime goal of balancing the federal budget by 2006. The level of management pay in Germany becomes a subject of public debate. Federal Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries of the Social Democratic Party demands the disclosure of individual board member salaries to improve investor protection. WestLB posts a record loss for its 2002 business year after admitting that it had to increase risk provisions for its London project-financing arm over a risky deal with British television and radio leasing company Boxclever.
june Deutsche Borse closes the badly tainted Neuer Markt segment for young and supposedly fast-growing companies. A new, untarnished Tecdax index now serves as the benchmark for investors in stocks that would have been called new economy a few years ago. The collapse of life insurer Mannheimer Lebensversicherung becomes a first test of sectoral rescue company Protektor, which takes over all 345,000 contracts. West LB's multi-billion loss causes heads to roll. Public prosecutors investigate both its London group and several managers. Chairman Jurgen Sengera steps down, making way for interim Chairman Johannes Ringel. Robert Bosch acquires a majority of heating equipment maker Buderus, making Bosch the European market leader in this segment. Quelle becomes the first German mail-order company to sell cars over the Internet. After four weeks of industrial action, IG Metall boss Kl
Well, if mail carriers did their job properly, then perhaps the rest of the world would not make fun of them. I mean how hard is it to NOT bend/shove/force large packages into a standard size mail box?
And don't blaim the shipper. The packing I am talking about was a package of Priority Mail supplies mail BY the USPS. The envelope was so ripped that I had to carry everything into my house. Is it that hard to walk up to my door (no animals) and put the package on my doorstep?
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This runs as root. That means it can do ANYTHING to your system that it wants.
Why is this an issue?
Because these are the people that placed their sourcecode on sourceforge then closed the app, all the while using sourceforge resources to do it and kept the CVS open when they thought they had closed it. They have also lied about their linux version having a GUI. When people asked to help, they, rudely, said no because they were going to do it because that would have been the only way to keep the various platforms in shape. Big shock, they lied.
Remember all that when you run their closed source apps on your Gentoo box with full Root privilages!
It costs around 1.5 - 2.75 BILLION USD for a new chip fab. Intel isn't about to throw that away, they will just buy one of the smaller companies when/if the perfect this tech.
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If you don't pay the property taxes on your home the people with guns make you give them your home.
Just like real life!
A difficult year marked by slight hope
Record losses at German blue chips, but restructuring and rationalization begin to show their effect
january
Economics Minister Wolfgang Clement issues a special ministerial permit to allow the takeover of Ruhrgas, Germany's main natural gas supplier, by Eon, one of Germany's two dominant electric utilities. The ministerial intervention overrules the Federal Cartel Office, which had warned against impaired competition both in the electricity and gas markets.
february
The stock market collapse, record insolvencies and belated restructuring and rationalization efforts have plunged German banks into a crisis. Commerzbank and Hypo-Vereinsbank both post the first annual losses in their corporate history. Experts predict drastic sectoral consolidation.
march
At 4.7 million, unemployment reaches the third highest level since unification. The jobless rate stands at 11.3 percent.
Dresdner Bank Chairman Bernd Fahrholz is sent packing as parent company Allianz publishes the first annual loss in its corporate history for 2002, with Dresdner being the biggest burden.
Deutsche Telekom posts a record loss of EUR24.6 billion for fiscal 2002, the highest loss ever posted by a German company.
Wella's founding family agrees to sell the world's second-largest maker of hair-grooming products to Procter & Gamble.
The Bundestag decides to extend shop opening hours to 8 p.m. on Saturdays. The new regulation will take force on June 1.
april
In their spring forecast, Germany's leading economic institutes project economic growth of 0.5 percent for 2003, revising downward their earlier forecast of 1.4 percent. The six think tanks expect the German deficit to reach 3.4 percent, exceeding the limit of the euro-zone Stability and Growth Pact. The government remains optimistic and issues only a slight downward revision of its growth forecast to 0.75 percent from 1 percent.
Germany's most powerful industrial union, IG Metall, reshuffles its leadership. In a surprise move, the board nominates deputy head Jurgen Peters, a hardliner and ardent defender of Germany's extensive system of worker protection, as the successor to Klaus Zwickel.
Frankfurt airport operator Fraport cancels its dividend and discloses a net loss of EUR120 million for 2002 after writing off an ill-starred airport project in Manila launched in partnership with business cronies of the discredited former ruler of the Philippines.
may
The German economy slipped into recession in the first quarter of 2003. Finance Minister Hans Eichel publicly abandons his longtime goal of balancing the federal budget by 2006.
The level of management pay in Germany becomes a subject of public debate. Federal Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries of the Social Democratic Party demands the disclosure of individual board member salaries to improve investor protection.
WestLB posts a record loss for its 2002 business year after admitting that it had to increase risk provisions for its London project-financing arm over a risky deal with British television and radio leasing company Boxclever.
june
Deutsche Borse closes the badly tainted Neuer Markt segment for young and supposedly fast-growing companies. A new, untarnished Tecdax index now serves as the benchmark for investors in stocks that would have been called new economy a few years ago.
The collapse of life insurer Mannheimer Lebensversicherung becomes a first test of sectoral rescue company Protektor, which takes over all 345,000 contracts.
West LB's multi-billion loss causes heads to roll. Public prosecutors investigate both its London group and several managers. Chairman Jurgen Sengera steps down, making way for interim Chairman Johannes Ringel.
Robert Bosch acquires a majority of heating equipment maker Buderus, making Bosch the European market leader in this segment.
Quelle becomes the first German mail-order company to sell cars over the Internet.
After four weeks of industrial action, IG Metall boss Kl
Please go back to the RNC and continue spending my kids future away.
Thanks!
Pot Kettle Black.
The full hardware/software details of the test are there. If you don't trust it, you have the ability to rerun the tests yourself.
You have no journal, so I will ask you here.
Why did you mark me as a foe?
This is based on a quick scan of the paper.
Because this test appears to be a fully documented test. It doesn't appear to be a test rigged to make one platform look better than the other.
Why shoudn't we trust this test?
What happend to the Linux GUI that you promised in your forums?
Well, if mail carriers did their job properly, then perhaps the rest of the world would not make fun of them. I mean how hard is it to NOT bend/shove/force large packages into a standard size mail box?
And don't blaim the shipper. The packing I am talking about was a package of Priority Mail supplies mail BY the USPS. The envelope was so ripped that I had to carry everything into my house. Is it that hard to walk up to my door (no animals) and put the package on my doorstep?
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This runs as root. That means it can do ANYTHING to your system that it wants.
Why is this an issue?
Because these are the people that placed their sourcecode on sourceforge then closed the app, all the while using sourceforge resources to do it and kept the CVS open when they thought they had closed it. They have also lied about their linux version having a GUI. When people asked to help, they, rudely, said no because they were going to do it because that would have been the only way to keep the various platforms in shape. Big shock, they lied.
Remember all that when you run their closed source apps on your Gentoo box with full Root privilages!
Youare sticking up for a company that LIED MULTIPLE times!
They lie, yet you defend them.
Why?
You can now get Delivery Confirmation for 1st Class Mail from the USPS. I think it cost 0.45 per letter.
That makes it a little harder for them to claim they didn't get it.
It isn't a fscking loophole if the box says it comes with the service and it also comes with papers that say so.
Damn, do you work for the company?
That isn't what I said and you fscking know it.
But it is Christmas and you are not worth spending any more time on.
Merry Christmas!
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http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee410/A
Because Apple is only pro-open source to the extent that it makes them more profitable. Ogg doesn't do that.
We are not talking about science. We are talking about money.
That is what this is all about.
Majority:
2. The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
That would mean that the total number of *respected* scientific communities could not exceed 196 or so.
Somehow I think the world has more that 200 respected scientific communities.
" I have yet to figure out the reward mechanism for tilting against big business. "
Easy, scare enough voters into voting for people who will keep the grant money coming.
And the fact that you post such other bullshit show you don't want to have a productive discussion. You just want to piss people off.
And those same idiots have blocked EVERY single nuclear powerstation in the USA in the past 20-30 years.
The don't care about the environment. They care about power.
MIT, fujielectric, Cornell, and other have. Just do a google search.
The GNU project is probably still too busy getting rid of project maintainers that do not agree to use the restrictive, some would say unfree, GFDL.
Just read my journal. It explains some of what has happened.
It costs around 1.5 - 2.75 BILLION USD for a new chip fab. Intel isn't about to throw that away, they will just buy one of the smaller companies when/if the perfect this tech.
But not a lot of brains if he was running with a > 1000 USD laptop in a very cheap, free bag.
Not the smartest thing in the world to do.