Here the urban (unbundled) rate is 29.90€ for 5M/384k (TV-DSL and VoIP off) or 2M/384k (TV-DSL and VoIP on), and you can find providers starting at 12.99€/month for 512/128.
Outside of cities (non-unbundled rate), of course, the standard France Telecom gouging comes back, and prices are between 29.90€ for 1024/128 and 35€ for 512/128 (depending on the ISP, the base carrier being always FT).
The Peugeot FAP, initially mounted on the 607 and now trickling down to the 407 and, I think, some of the higher-end 307's, solves both the soot and the emptying. The soot, because it's a catalytic filter. The emptying, because every while and then, the engine runs a slightly different map, which causes the exhaust temperature to rise, and the soot to consume (into CO2, mostly).
Mercedes is now starting to mount similar stuff; I'd be surprised if it didn't originally come from Bosch (just as most first-gen high pressure common rails).
Precisely because proselytist display of religious symbols (a mere manifestation of religious opinions) in public, taxpayer-funded schools has been reckoned (rightly so IMO) to have crossed a threshold of "Trouble to public order", big time I would add.
Law-abiding Muslims (or Jews or Catholics or Satanists) are free to practice their religion if they want to, but in their own places, and without the help from my taxes, thank you very much.
The law does say (since 1881) that public schools are free, mandatory and laic (not in that order).
If extremist muslim families want their daughters to wear the veil in school, they can do so in privately-funded schools if they want. Not enough money to fund those schools? Comply with the rules then. In this country, the Republic takes precedence over prophets, popes and snake-oil vendors.
Personally, I'd vote for the return of uniforms in schools. This would get rid of this religious stoopidity problem AND the swoosh problem in a single step.
Oh yeah, you might find interesting to read http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/html/constitution/co nst01.htm articles 7, 8 and especially 9 (the "english" button on the top of the page doesn't seem to work; the Fish makes a terrible mess of this text, while Google's seems decent enough).
Le mini-bike is for you, waiting for you to dremel in a dynamo.
Such devices have been available for decades, litterally. This one is way fancier than the one that was at home during my childhood, but for 59.90 (VAT incl.) that's just a steal.
The creation of an unauthorised copy of a copyrighted work, in French law, is a form of counterfeiting ("you are creating illegitimate goods"). This just means he's indicted for a copyright violation and an attempt to conceal that he (allegedly) did.
Tough time for the guy. I hope he did things the right way (ie. that the allegations are proven false or falling within fair use), and has enough juice in the bank to countersue and prevail for his costs.
Well; most USB devices are still not bootable; a CD (R or RW) is (to the extent I explained above: a CD-R is more broadly bootable than a CD-RW, though depending on the vintage of the PCs you typically encounter, this can be only of marginal relevance).
There is a point to use CD-RWs, if you want to always have a fresh bootable LiveCD system, and keep updating it every other day. In that case, hell yeah a CD-RW makes sense. I, for one, burn a new LiveCD CD-R when I just can't find the previous one, or when it's really hopelessy too old. Burned about 5 or 8 in 2 years [counting Debian "netinst" disks as poor man's LiveCD, pre-Knoppix].
CDRW's don't boot in every CD-ROM player in existence. If you know you will be restricted to modern enough CD-ROM drives, fine, but if you want the broadest support, you have to burn on CD-R (even if you have to consider them as disposable items)
Well, my car has indeed been assembled in the UK, and I'm flattered to to see that I could sustain the impression for a few lines that I've been assembled there too, but my car did cross the Channel before it was eventually delivered to me. I'm using the spelling I've learned, that's all...
By the way, my right-hand side (passenger side) mirror is convex too, but there is no bullshit warning engraved on it:-)
Actually, the way it's done on the driver side, is that the outer edge (about 5cm) of the mirror is cylindric. Not exactly the same way as the passenger side, which is closer to spherical.
My Toyota Avensis has a convex left-side mirror; I must admit I'm now a junkie to this feature. Seems fairly standard across the market, in fact: I just didn't realise it until I graduated from a 205 and a Saxo...
Well; at least phased array radar sounds like rocket science enough to be marketable:-)
Well, the more birds you kill with the same stone, the most efficient use of that stone you made...
(showing good to Reagan during the summer of 1981 was critical. Keeping Marchais at arm length was critical. Making sure there was demand for nuclear power sure makes a helluva lot of sense. And you can certainly count on a half dozen other reasons.)
(on the side: The decision to go nuclear was taken after the Suez expedition: it was set to be a FR-IL-UK walk-through, and then Moscow started hinting at using nukes to stop that. And then Washington started hinting at being totally neutral, implying no nuclear protection^Wretaliation should Moscow being really upset at Egypt being stomped.... the writing was VERY quickly seen as being on the wall. The next step was at Reggane, Algeria in 1961, the largest "rookie" blast ever. The Brits were more advanced in their decision and design process, and played fire in Australia a bit earlier).
Or rather, Mitterrand likely demanded the DGSE and/or the DST a quick bargaining chip to convince Reagan that despite the Communists being in the government, they were not in a position to alter France's East/West alignment.
(Like, "Comrade, I gather you were sitting in the former capitalistic Government when you fellow Government members arranged, by way of spying activities, to cause this pipe-line to explode here in Siberia. Therefore you are a spy as well". The least thing that'd surprise me, assuming all of this is true (which still requires a good helping of salt), is that people like Georges Marchais were informed by Mitterrand of this -- or that F.M. was prepared to tracably inform them, should them start to become too nuisible and he ran out of other leashes)).
Don't forget the time frame of the first intelligence handover. July 19th, 1981.
When the Reagan Administration first heard, in May 1981, that the Socialist candidate was elected, and then later in June, that the Socialist-Communist coalition won the House of Reps (trumps Senate here) election, they were <b>really</b> worried (from a French POV and with hindsight, I would say probably for naught, but I can't really blame foreigners at the time for not knowing that even the "Parti Socialiste" had little to do (in practice) with Karl Marx -- of course, the Commies from that coalition, led by Georges Marchais, were still unrepented Jacques Duclos spiritual heirs -- in other words, die-cast stalinists).
So, this intel handover was really a way of telling Reagan that we didn't switch sides in our alliances, just that the people got bored with the corruption, Pompidou-Giscard style (not that there wouldn't be any corruption afterwards, eh?), and that externally it was business as usual.
In fact, it quickly became business as usual internally as well.
Two-stage licence, fancy manoeuvers, special plates on the cars, and now limited initial point capital (6 instead of 12 during the first 3 years of your licence: get caught running a red or DUI, and your licence is shredded AND you have to wait 6 months before you're allowed to start taking it again from scratch).
Nothing really changed on the actual fatalities reports until they started running fine-o-matic devices like there are in the UK.
Slashdot Mirror
... and their stupid encoding for € (and slashcode for not TALKING and UNDERSTANDING UTF-8 properly, the way things should be)
damn, damn
Where are you locked in, Greece?
Here the urban (unbundled) rate is 29.90€ for 5M/384k (TV-DSL and VoIP off) or 2M/384k (TV-DSL and VoIP on), and you can find providers starting at 12.99€/month for 512/128.
Outside of cities (non-unbundled rate), of course, the standard France Telecom gouging comes back, and prices are between 29.90€ for 1024/128 and 35€ for 512/128 (depending on the ISP, the base carrier being always FT).
The Peugeot FAP, initially mounted on the 607 and now trickling down to the 407 and, I think, some of the higher-end 307's, solves both the soot and the emptying. The soot, because it's a catalytic filter. The emptying, because every while and then, the engine runs a slightly different map, which causes the exhaust temperature to rise, and the soot to consume (into CO2, mostly).
Mercedes is now starting to mount similar stuff; I'd be surprised if it didn't originally come from Bosch (just as most first-gen high pressure common rails).
Would you like to place bets on what those 6M transistor are for? ;-)
Now here's hoping Hans de Vries has some spare time...
I beg to disagree, if those guys can be trusted. Sure, a better FSB would clearly help, but look at what they achieve with a single-channel FSB100.
Here
(yeah, yeah, it's in French. Machine translate it for the text, and after all the pictures and chart don't need much of an explanation, do they?)
Aaah, now I found a use for all that depleted uranium stockpile...
Precisely because proselytist display of religious symbols (a mere manifestation of religious opinions) in public, taxpayer-funded schools has been reckoned (rightly so IMO) to have crossed a threshold of "Trouble to public order", big time I would add.
;-)
Law-abiding Muslims (or Jews or Catholics or Satanists) are free to practice their religion if they want to, but in their own places, and without the help from my taxes, thank you very much.
The law does say (since 1881) that public schools are free, mandatory and laic (not in that order).
If extremist muslim families want their daughters to wear the veil in school, they can do so in privately-funded schools if they want. Not enough money to fund those schools? Comply with the rules then. In this country, the Republic takes precedence over prophets, popes and snake-oil vendors.
Personally, I'd vote for the return of uniforms in schools. This would get rid of this religious stoopidity problem AND the swoosh problem in a single step.
Sweetly off-topic, isn't it?
It wouldn't benefit the Brits much, you know; you can't put a ¤ nor € just EUR in slashcode anyway.
at least, we have a written constitution.
o nst01.htm
Oh yeah, you might find interesting to read http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/html/constitution/c
articles 7, 8 and especially 9 (the "english" button on the top of the page doesn't seem to work; the Fish makes a terrible mess of this text, while Google's seems decent enough).
Such devices have been available for decades, litterally. This one is way fancier than the one that was at home during my childhood, but for 59.90 (VAT incl.) that's just a steal.
The creation of an unauthorised copy of a copyrighted work, in French law, is a form of counterfeiting ("you are creating illegitimate goods"). This just means he's indicted for a copyright violation and an attempt to conceal that he (allegedly) did.
Tough time for the guy. I hope he did things the right way (ie. that the allegations are proven false or falling within fair use), and has enough juice in the bank to countersue and prevail for his costs.
(or rather, in modern terms, WTO, how many stealth MIRVed ICBMs?)
Well; most USB devices are still not bootable; a CD (R or RW) is (to the extent I explained above: a CD-R is more broadly bootable than a CD-RW, though depending on the vintage of the PCs you typically encounter, this can be only of marginal relevance).
There is a point to use CD-RWs, if you want to always have a fresh bootable LiveCD system, and keep updating it every other day. In that case, hell yeah a CD-RW makes sense. I, for one, burn a new LiveCD CD-R when I just can't find the previous one, or when it's really hopelessy too old. Burned about 5 or 8 in 2 years [counting Debian "netinst" disks as poor man's LiveCD, pre-Knoppix].
Uhhh... no.
CDRW's don't boot in every CD-ROM player in existence. If you know you will be restricted to modern enough CD-ROM drives, fine, but if you want the broadest support, you have to burn on CD-R (even if you have to consider them as disposable items)
Well, my car has indeed been assembled in the UK, and I'm flattered to to see that I could sustain the impression for a few lines that I've been assembled there too, but my car did cross the Channel before it was eventually delivered to me. I'm using the spelling I've learned, that's all...
:-)
By the way, my right-hand side (passenger side) mirror is convex too, but there is no bullshit warning engraved on it
Actually, the way it's done on the driver side, is that the outer edge (about 5cm) of the mirror is cylindric. Not exactly the same way as the passenger side, which is closer to spherical.
My Toyota Avensis has a convex left-side mirror; I must admit I'm now a junkie to this feature. Seems fairly standard across the market, in fact: I just didn't realise it until I graduated from a 205 and a Saxo...
:-)
Well; at least phased array radar sounds like rocket science enough to be marketable
Well, the more birds you kill with the same stone, the most efficient use of that stone you made...
(showing good to Reagan during the summer of 1981 was critical. Keeping Marchais at arm length was critical. Making sure there was demand for nuclear power sure makes a helluva lot of sense. And you can certainly count on a half dozen other reasons.)
(on the side: The decision to go nuclear was taken after the Suez expedition: it was set to be a FR-IL-UK walk-through, and then Moscow started hinting at using nukes to stop that. And then Washington started hinting at being totally neutral, implying no nuclear protection^Wretaliation should Moscow being really upset at Egypt being stomped.... the writing was VERY quickly seen as being on the wall. The next step was at Reggane, Algeria in 1961, the largest "rookie" blast ever. The Brits were more advanced in their decision and design process, and played fire in Australia a bit earlier).
hey, that's clear!
One thing he sure did know, is how to leash his political allies tightly, whether they are commies or otherwise <grin/>
Or rather, Mitterrand likely demanded the DGSE and/or the DST a quick bargaining chip to convince Reagan that despite the Communists being in the government, they were not in a position to alter France's East/West alignment.
(Like, "Comrade, I gather you were sitting in the former capitalistic Government when you fellow Government members arranged, by way of spying activities, to cause this pipe-line to explode here in Siberia. Therefore you are a spy as well". The least thing that'd surprise me, assuming all of this is true (which still requires a good helping of salt), is that people like Georges Marchais were informed by Mitterrand of this -- or that F.M. was prepared to tracably inform them, should them start to become too nuisible and he ran out of other leashes)).
Don't forget the time frame of the first intelligence handover. July 19th, 1981.
When the Reagan Administration first heard, in May 1981, that the Socialist candidate was elected, and then later in June, that the Socialist-Communist coalition won the House of Reps (trumps Senate here) election, they were <b>really</b> worried (from a French POV and with hindsight, I would say probably for naught, but I can't really blame foreigners at the time for not knowing that even the "Parti Socialiste" had little to do (in practice) with Karl Marx -- of course, the Commies from that coalition, led by Georges Marchais, were still unrepented Jacques Duclos spiritual heirs -- in other words, die-cast stalinists).
So, this intel handover was really a way of telling Reagan that we didn't switch sides in our alliances, just that the people got bored with the corruption, Pompidou-Giscard style (not that there wouldn't be any corruption afterwards, eh?), and that externally it was business as usual.
In fact, it quickly became business as usual internally as well.
ISS: not true; it does have a set of thrusters and some manoeuvering capability, albeit the bulk of the pushes are done using Progress modules.
You do need to send something up regularly to resupply the ISS in various fluids, including fuel.
I remember in the old Shuttle-Mir days, how they actually had to LOWER Mir's orbit so that the shuttle would usefully be able to rendezvous...
Yeah, right.
Metal foams are actually manufactured right now -- at the very least, aluminium foams.
It is true that manufacturing this in 1G is creating some interesting challenges, but these products do exist.
Two-stage licence, fancy manoeuvers, special plates on the cars, and now limited initial point capital (6 instead of 12 during the first 3 years of your licence: get caught running a red or DUI, and your licence is shredded AND you have to wait 6 months before you're allowed to start taking it again from scratch).
Nothing really changed on the actual fatalities reports until they started running fine-o-matic devices like there are in the UK.