Is post WWII the people in eastern germany were spied upon by the government and I thought we learned a lesson from that, but it seems I'm wrong. Most of the people are fine with being tracked, spied, logged and filed.
When you go to the US you have to fill out forms and if you eat halal in the plane you probably get your +1 terrorist bonus.
The cases where people got on THE LIST by accident or mistake are there and it ruins their life. And nobody gives a shit. Still.
Democracy (us, eu): The former system of the free.
"For $15,000, the radioactive contaminated soil from the Mayak plutonium facility on the shore of the Techa River in the Russian town of Muslyomova could be dug up..."
Then the pollution must be really small, because for $15,000, how much soil can you dig up, clean/store in a bunker, pay people to do it.
You'll need information to base your decisions on so you'll need to gather that information. Ask how projects are doing, ask how people are doing, aks if they see signals that things are going right or wrong.
If they don't tell you when things are going wrong, you won't know until it's too late and it's your job to do something about it before it's too late. So if things go wrong, don't start to blame, but start to solve.
You're depending on the developers, so you'll need them to trust you.
My point was like this: For years we're protecting our markets against cheap products. Products from China, products from Africa.
China somehow has managed to break through our protections (and we shouldn't whine if they're going to protect their markets, because that's exactly what we did too).
The other side of the coin is that African (and South-American countries aswell) produce a lot of goods, but we're protecting our markets so they don't get any opportunity to sell their products for a fair price.
But as long as economy is mainly a local thing we'll keep seing this, I think.
Ofcourse you realize that China here isn't the problem, but the IP system. Do you think any African country has even the slightest chance against us or eu companies and the effect they have on regulations in general?
I thought The Law was there to protect the people, but continuous harrasment of the people by organisations with $$$ is perfectly ok. Stealing is not ok, but the penalties are way out of proportion and should be in line with the people you're punishing ("feel" the punichment equally (*1)) and not with what the corporations want.
In Sweden AFAIK there is a system with fines that relate to your income. This sounds more fair to me.
The EU just hands over all kinds of passenger information to the department of homeworld security.
THAT is a scary axample of how the US runs the EU.
My conclusion is that as we the population, we have to STFU and consume, be a sheep and behave. Good consumer, nice consumer. And no complaints please.
Most of the reactions on this topic say the same thing and I think it's a shame.
I'm sure there are a lot of reasonable people living in the US and there are many nice and interesting places to visit, but the fact remains people are avoiding the US for these things and actually I'm quite afraid the EU will follow. We already have a digital picture in our passport and more will follow (but nothing a microwave can't fix)...
I made up my mind long ago. I refuse to be treated like a criminal and have my fingerprints taken. I'm not a criminal so don't treat me like that.
I think it's time to oppose this nonsence ^H^H^H play along and take pictures, fingerprints, bloodsamples and do cavitysearches for all trans-atlantic flights. The ones coming FROM the land formerly known as the land of the free.
It's not that interesting that they found that weapon. It's far more fascinating that those whales gwet that old. One more reason to stop than killing for 'research'.
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"CEO Richard Young says he can't believe the incident was purely a mechanical fault."
I can only agree with hing. You HAVE to install your service packs.
Is post WWII the people in eastern germany were spied upon by the government and I thought we learned a lesson from that, but it seems I'm wrong. Most of the people are fine with being tracked, spied, logged and filed.
When you go to the US you have to fill out forms and if you eat halal in the plane you probably get your +1 terrorist bonus.
The cases where people got on THE LIST by accident or mistake are there and it ruins their life. And nobody gives a shit. Still.
Democracy (us, eu): The former system of the free.
For the other $5000 you probably could find a small river to wash the dirt in, I think ;)
"For $15,000, the radioactive contaminated soil from the Mayak plutonium facility on the shore of the Techa River in the Russian town of Muslyomova could be dug up..."
Then the pollution must be really small, because for $15,000, how much soil can you dig up, clean/store in a bunker, pay people to do it.
I wonder. 1 m3? 2?
(the base of) TCP/IP was developed at CERN, but you knew this already ;)
Will 1337-5n1per kill the other player with one shot?
Stay tuned! More on this, right after this break....
I like this idea a lot :)
You'll need information to base your decisions on so you'll need to gather that information.
Ask how projects are doing, ask how people are doing, aks if they see signals that things are going right or wrong.
If they don't tell you when things are going wrong, you won't know until it's too late and it's your job to do something about it before it's too late. So if things go wrong, don't start to blame, but start to solve.
You're depending on the developers, so you'll need them to trust you.
My point was like this: For years we're protecting our markets against cheap products. Products from China, products from Africa.
China somehow has managed to break through our protections (and we shouldn't whine if they're going to protect their markets, because that's exactly what we did too).
The other side of the coin is that African (and South-American countries aswell) produce a lot of goods, but we're protecting our markets so they don't get any opportunity to sell their products for a fair price.
But as long as economy is mainly a local thing we'll keep seing this, I think.
Ofcourse you realize that China here isn't the problem, but the IP system.
Do you think any African country has even the slightest chance against us or eu companies and the effect they have on regulations in general?
The truth hurts :(
But there wil allways be Starcraft!
You mean you're guilty until there is evidence you didn't encrypt any data?
hacker : criminal :: freedomfighter : __________
I thought The Law was there to protect the people, but continuous harrasment of the people by organisations with $$$ is perfectly ok.
Stealing is not ok, but the penalties are way out of proportion and should be in line with the people you're punishing ("feel" the punichment equally (*1)) and not with what the corporations want.
In Sweden AFAIK there is a system with fines that relate to your income. This sounds more fair to me.
With enough rope and enough height for that weight to drop, you could build something to... ... TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!
(and demand like 1.000.000,= euro's)
Bit off-topic, but related...
The EU just hands over all kinds of passenger information to the department of homeworld security.
THAT is a scary axample of how the US runs the EU.
My conclusion is that as we the population, we have to STFU and consume, be a sheep and behave. Good consumer, nice consumer. And no complaints please.
A great benchmark will be the ultimate question and when the answer is 42, we know the system works.
Most of the reactions on this topic say the same thing and I think it's a shame.
I'm sure there are a lot of reasonable people living in the US and there are many nice and interesting places to visit, but the fact remains people are avoiding the US for these things and actually I'm quite afraid the EU will follow. We already have a digital picture in our passport and more will follow (but nothing a microwave can't fix)...
I'm afraid you're not the only one thinking like that. Tourism is down 15% compared to the rest of the world.
;)
You do the math.
Oh. You already did
I made up my mind long ago. I refuse to be treated like a criminal and have my fingerprints taken. I'm not a criminal so don't treat me like that.
I think it's time to oppose this nonsence ^H^H^H play along and take pictures, fingerprints, bloodsamples and do cavitysearches for all trans-atlantic flights. The ones coming FROM the land formerly known as the land of the free.
It's not that interesting that they found that weapon. It's far more fascinating that those whales gwet that old.
One more reason to stop than killing for 'research'.
It's probably just as legal as using a randomly available wifi signal...
Where did you have those 11111's added to your prime??? ;)
Buy my patch and gain inchezzz on your ring fingers, excell in math and work for NASA.
On top of that fine, I want him to pay me 1.= for each mail I got from him.