In Thailand, and at least there it's somewhat common practice I guess. When you order pizza they pack ketchup with it (so you can put it if you want to, just like oregano or chili), and pizza places have ketchup bottles. And in their advertisement videos I've seen them putting ketchup on them, but I have never done so. And yes, it sounds disgusting.
I live much of my time in Asia and tap water isn't drinkable there. However, bottled water is ridiculously cheap too. It's just a scam in western countries.
Prof Brian Ratcliffe, spokesman for the Nutrition Society, said dehydration was usually caused by a clinical condition and that one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking water.
He said: âoeThe EU is saying that this does not reduce the risk of dehydration and that is correct.
âoeThis claim is trying to imply that there is something special about bottled water which is not a reasonable claim.â
I don't know, I'm sure bottled water companies just wanted to use it as a misleading selling point and marketing. All other kinds of drinks prevent dehydration too, and tap water does too. Compared to countries where you can't actually drink tap water, the bottled waters are seriously overpriced here and they try to sell them by stating how they have minerals, are more healthier and so on.. All kinds of misleading marketing tactics. This decision only prevented the companies for using yet another misleading phrase.
And it really came as a shock to me that some people actually put ketchup on top of pizza. No one in my country does so, but after moving to Asia I noticed how the restaurants started packing ketchup with ordered pizzas and saw that people actually put ketchup on them. Why? There's tomato sauce already, and it tastes much better on a pizza than ketchup does. And no, ketchup is equivalent to tomato sauce.
As much as Slashdot crowd hates anything cloud, I think cloud based backups for small businesses would be perfect. They just have to make sure they get one with backup guarantee and SLA (ie., don't just get Dropbox - get actual quality one that tailors to such services).
I'm glad being a US citizen gives me the right to say just about anything I want. Europe doesn't provide you with those same protections. If you think it does trying saying the Holocaust didn't happen in Holland, or wear a Nazi symbol in Germany
You do know that it was US that made those laws, right?
US tries to censorship other countries. That EU thing would only optionally allow blocking child porn inside their own countries, and puts serious legal limitations on it. Two completely different things.
> I was in college during Tiananmen Square. Chinese students studying in America were persecuted for things they said on the internet here once they got back home.
China being China, why do you want to justify US actions based on their example? Are you living in United States of China, by chance?
Not only that, but it also interesting that China already had such a large internet monitoring system inside US back in the 1989.
You seem to think that it's living hell for Chinese, every day. It's not. Having lived there (and elsewhere in the Asia) for long time, it's really peaceful and nice. Even cops act like human beings, compared to the US mentality of shooting first, asking questions later. The only thing you cannot do is try to get a gathering of millions of people to riot on streets. Do you honestly think such a thing would be good in China, with billions of people? It would turn the country in turmoil. And besides, it wouldn't be allowed in US either. Hell, in US you apparently get arrested for dancing.
That's a little hard when ICANN and Verisign (the company that handles.com.net and even some other countries TLD's) are US companies, don't you think?
But your idea is good, in a way. We just need to move the control out of US. We should have done so ages ago. Move what ICANN and the global TLD's under some new body that only has certain established rules and doesn't mandate any single country's laws to their policies. Or move them under United Nations.
US can keep their.us TLD, which is the actual TLD given to United States.
There are several such projects, but nothing will ever come out of them because casual people just won't make the switch. That is why people need to demand that governments don't start censoring the internet, and tell them it's acceptable practice.
As an EU citizen, I find US practices completely unacceptable. Even China doesn't try to restrict other countries. They do what they have to do inside their country, but they have never tried to block or manipulate other countries to do the same. Yet US has the balls and hypocrisy to accuse China about its censorship practices, as do most US citizens here on Slashdot.
US is much worse than China. They try to force their views and laws globally. They install their own law enforcement agents inside other countries in the name of "providing training" to manipulate. They revoke IP addresses and domains used by non-US people. They try to extradite people from other countries to jail them for years in US soil. Have you noticed that most of world has actually sane amount of years you have to spend in jail if you do something bad? In US the minimum seems to be at least 10 years. Usually you can go in for life. Sometimes several lifes. In most civilized countries, you're only going to be spending more than 10 years if you kill somebody. In the same way, the sentences are longer if you physically harm someone. Not for downloading a fucking song off the internet.
This doesn't even only apply to copyright laws. This is just common practice with everything. For example, in most of Asia and South America there was nothing wrong with using some drugs. That is, before US started their whole war on drugs thing and couldn't just keep it within it's own borders. They had to start going around the world telling people what to do. Don't you seriously have better things to spend money on, like fixing your damn problems first? Regardless, there is nothing wrong with smoking some pot. It's both more relaxing and healthy than alcohol, which causes several health problems in people (and makes some people really aggressive).
And yet, US acts all surprised when they are told to get the fuck out, after which they bring out the guns and start shooting people. US is the only country in the world that has been constantly in war with at least one country. Usually there is several enemies. The whole world would be much saner, happier and peaceful place without US.
The only reason for the change is that more socially skilled persons have started using computers at an young age, and continued doing so (and even started programming) while still maintaining their social skills. Don't worry - if you were socially awkward before, you're still as uncool as you even were.
One of the reasons is also that geeks in general don't understand good manners. They view down to people with other interests (how many times have you read here on Slashdot some rants about how stupid people are because they don't know everything about computers), go on and on about their own interests (computers, programming, RPG games..) without even thinking if the other side is interested to talk about that. Geeks cannot grasp the concept of being and acting friendly to other people. It doesn't make only you feel awkward - it makes the other side feel awkward too.
I have enjoyed programming since I was 7-8 years old. I still kind of do. However, it has never been my whole life. There's one great thing growing up in computer generations. Since I turned 20, I've been traveling the world while working on the side. Since all I need for my work is a computer and an internet access, I can do it on the road. Along the way I've met lots of interesting people (and especially girls) who I've all told to that I do programming for a living and it's also how I can travel around the world and live on the road. If anything, that has made people interested. And I really don't myself as an uncool guy, nor do all the women I've met along.
Like it or not, social skills are.. well, skills. If you suck at them, you should try to improve them any way you can. It's not that other people think programmers are uncool, it just comes from the fact that those people often cannot act socially. If an otherwise social and successful person tells he likes programming, does anyone care? No. It's just a matter of being social and not having the only interest in your life be programming.
Why would I use this when I can use Spotify? For that matter, Google Music doesn't even work outside US, which is incredibly stupid as it is your own collection of music, not some streaming service.
No, Oracle databases are about performance and features that other database solutions don't offer. They have always been. "There are dozens of small ways in which the tool is more thorough and sophisticated than the simpler NoSQL projects." not only holds true for this Oracle product, it's true for all their products. Yes, they cost a lot, but also offer things anyone else don't. Your website project will probably be ok with MySQL, but enterprises have different needs.
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In Thailand, and at least there it's somewhat common practice I guess. When you order pizza they pack ketchup with it (so you can put it if you want to, just like oregano or chili), and pizza places have ketchup bottles. And in their advertisement videos I've seen them putting ketchup on them, but I have never done so. And yes, it sounds disgusting.
I live much of my time in Asia and tap water isn't drinkable there. However, bottled water is ridiculously cheap too. It's just a scam in western countries.
Prof Brian Ratcliffe, spokesman for the Nutrition Society, said dehydration was usually caused by a clinical condition and that one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking water. He said: âoeThe EU is saying that this does not reduce the risk of dehydration and that is correct. âoeThis claim is trying to imply that there is something special about bottled water which is not a reasonable claim.â
There are lots of other laws and regulations making sure people aren't taken advantage of. Hell, that's the basis for all laws.
As a stupid marketing phrase to buy bottled water instead of drinking tap water?
I don't know, I'm sure bottled water companies just wanted to use it as a misleading selling point and marketing. All other kinds of drinks prevent dehydration too, and tap water does too. Compared to countries where you can't actually drink tap water, the bottled waters are seriously overpriced here and they try to sell them by stating how they have minerals, are more healthier and so on.. All kinds of misleading marketing tactics. This decision only prevented the companies for using yet another misleading phrase.
And it really came as a shock to me that some people actually put ketchup on top of pizza. No one in my country does so, but after moving to Asia I noticed how the restaurants started packing ketchup with ordered pizzas and saw that people actually put ketchup on them. Why? There's tomato sauce already, and it tastes much better on a pizza than ketchup does. And no, ketchup is equivalent to tomato sauce.
So, you're telling him to him warez as a gift? I thought the point of giving open source was so it's legal.
Then they mess up their computer trying to install it, probably destroying all their personal files in the process. What a nice xmas gift. :P
Or ladyboys. Everyone likes ladyboys.
But it's not under $10/year. It's $200, and companies have to register product names, typos etc too.
As much as Slashdot crowd hates anything cloud, I think cloud based backups for small businesses would be perfect. They just have to make sure they get one with backup guarantee and SLA (ie., don't just get Dropbox - get actual quality one that tailors to such services).
I'm glad being a US citizen gives me the right to say just about anything I want. Europe doesn't provide you with those same protections. If you think it does trying saying the Holocaust didn't happen in Holland, or wear a Nazi symbol in Germany
You do know that it was US that made those laws, right?
US tries to censorship other countries. That EU thing would only optionally allow blocking child porn inside their own countries, and puts serious legal limitations on it. Two completely different things.
> I was in college during Tiananmen Square. Chinese students studying in America were persecuted for things they said on the internet here once they got back home.
China being China, why do you want to justify US actions based on their example? Are you living in United States of China, by chance?
Not only that, but it also interesting that China already had such a large internet monitoring system inside US back in the 1989.
GP i just talking out of his ass.
No, they don't match any other places. They're just for calibration. US has similar ones in Arizona.
You seem to think that it's living hell for Chinese, every day. It's not. Having lived there (and elsewhere in the Asia) for long time, it's really peaceful and nice. Even cops act like human beings, compared to the US mentality of shooting first, asking questions later. The only thing you cannot do is try to get a gathering of millions of people to riot on streets. Do you honestly think such a thing would be good in China, with billions of people? It would turn the country in turmoil. And besides, it wouldn't be allowed in US either. Hell, in US you apparently get arrested for dancing.
That's a little hard when ICANN and Verisign (the company that handles .com .net and even some other countries TLD's) are US companies, don't you think?
.us TLD, which is the actual TLD given to United States.
But your idea is good, in a way. We just need to move the control out of US. We should have done so ages ago. Move what ICANN and the global TLD's under some new body that only has certain established rules and doesn't mandate any single country's laws to their policies. Or move them under United Nations.
US can keep their
There are several such projects, but nothing will ever come out of them because casual people just won't make the switch. That is why people need to demand that governments don't start censoring the internet, and tell them it's acceptable practice.
As an EU citizen, I find US practices completely unacceptable. Even China doesn't try to restrict other countries. They do what they have to do inside their country, but they have never tried to block or manipulate other countries to do the same. Yet US has the balls and hypocrisy to accuse China about its censorship practices, as do most US citizens here on Slashdot.
US is much worse than China. They try to force their views and laws globally. They install their own law enforcement agents inside other countries in the name of "providing training" to manipulate. They revoke IP addresses and domains used by non-US people. They try to extradite people from other countries to jail them for years in US soil. Have you noticed that most of world has actually sane amount of years you have to spend in jail if you do something bad? In US the minimum seems to be at least 10 years. Usually you can go in for life. Sometimes several lifes. In most civilized countries, you're only going to be spending more than 10 years if you kill somebody. In the same way, the sentences are longer if you physically harm someone. Not for downloading a fucking song off the internet.
This doesn't even only apply to copyright laws. This is just common practice with everything. For example, in most of Asia and South America there was nothing wrong with using some drugs. That is, before US started their whole war on drugs thing and couldn't just keep it within it's own borders. They had to start going around the world telling people what to do. Don't you seriously have better things to spend money on, like fixing your damn problems first? Regardless, there is nothing wrong with smoking some pot. It's both more relaxing and healthy than alcohol, which causes several health problems in people (and makes some people really aggressive).
And yet, US acts all surprised when they are told to get the fuck out, after which they bring out the guns and start shooting people. US is the only country in the world that has been constantly in war with at least one country. Usually there is several enemies. The whole world would be much saner, happier and peaceful place without US.
The only reason for the change is that more socially skilled persons have started using computers at an young age, and continued doing so (and even started programming) while still maintaining their social skills. Don't worry - if you were socially awkward before, you're still as uncool as you even were.
One of the reasons is also that geeks in general don't understand good manners. They view down to people with other interests (how many times have you read here on Slashdot some rants about how stupid people are because they don't know everything about computers), go on and on about their own interests (computers, programming, RPG games..) without even thinking if the other side is interested to talk about that. Geeks cannot grasp the concept of being and acting friendly to other people. It doesn't make only you feel awkward - it makes the other side feel awkward too.
I have enjoyed programming since I was 7-8 years old. I still kind of do. However, it has never been my whole life. There's one great thing growing up in computer generations. Since I turned 20, I've been traveling the world while working on the side. Since all I need for my work is a computer and an internet access, I can do it on the road. Along the way I've met lots of interesting people (and especially girls) who I've all told to that I do programming for a living and it's also how I can travel around the world and live on the road. If anything, that has made people interested. And I really don't myself as an uncool guy, nor do all the women I've met along.
Like it or not, social skills are.. well, skills. If you suck at them, you should try to improve them any way you can. It's not that other people think programmers are uncool, it just comes from the fact that those people often cannot act socially. If an otherwise social and successful person tells he likes programming, does anyone care? No. It's just a matter of being social and not having the only interest in your life be programming.
Better send the $50K to Iran, as they were able to do it in 1978...Oh, wait, that involved computors, not computers.
Actually, people were called computers before computers started meaning actual machines. They did the same job, and were usually woman.
Why would I use this when I can use Spotify? For that matter, Google Music doesn't even work outside US, which is incredibly stupid as it is your own collection of music, not some streaming service.
Even if you give an Lamborghini to an uncool guy, it doesn't get him woman or make him cool.. oh wait
No, Oracle databases are about performance and features that other database solutions don't offer. They have always been. "There are dozens of small ways in which the tool is more thorough and sophisticated than the simpler NoSQL projects." not only holds true for this Oracle product, it's true for all their products. Yes, they cost a lot, but also offer things anyone else don't. Your website project will probably be ok with MySQL, but enterprises have different needs.