Using a left/right descript is one-dimensional, and adding lables as "liberal" doesn't help one bit.
For one thing, I'm 99.7% certain that most liberal parties in Europe would be upset being labled Socialists...
The two-dimensional division shown on http://www.politicalcompass.org/ gives you a better idea of the political spectrum, in my humble opinion anyway:-)
Well, don't know about France and Belgium, but in Denmark it's the same.
Of course, they don't hand you the passport when you leave. They don't send it to the address you specified. They send it to the address that is stored in the central registry of people.
Sure, you could probably change that address for a random person, but I'm fairly certain he'd notice in the two to four weeks it takes to get a passport.
Of course, the next step is then to fake a person who is out of the country for a month or so vacationing...
Speaking of the ten commandments. I believe George Carlin said it best:
Here is my problem with the ten commandments- why exactly are there 10?
You simply do not need ten. The list of ten commandments was artificially and deliberately inflated to get it up to ten. Here's what happened:
About 5,000 years ago a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to try to figure out how to control people and keep them in line. They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so they announced that God had given them some commandments, up on a mountain, when no one was around.
Well let me ask you this- when they were making this shit up, why did they pick 10? Why not 9 or 11? I'll tell you why- because 10 sound official. Ten sounds important! Ten is the basis for the decimal system, it's a decade, it's a psychologically satisfying number (the top ten, the ten most wanted, the ten best dressed). So having ten commandments was really a marketing decision! It is clearly a bullshit list. It's a political document artificially inflated to sell better. I will now show you how you can reduce the number of commandments and come up with a list that's a little more workable and logical. I am going to use the Roman Catholic version because those were the ones I was taught as a little boy.
Let's start with the first three:
I AM THE LORD THY GOD THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN
THOU SHALT KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH
Right off the bat the first three are pure bullshit. Sabbath day? Lord's name? strange gods? Spooky language! Designed to scare and control primitive people. In no way does superstitious nonsense like this apply to the lives of intelligent civilized humans in the 21st century. So now we're down to 7. Next:
HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER
Obedience, respect for authority. Just another name for controlling people. The truth is that obedience and respect shouldn't be automatic. They should be earned and based on the parent's performance. Some parents deserve respect, but most of them don't, period. You're down to six.
Now in the interest of logic, something religion is very uncomfortable with, we're going to jump around the list a little bit.
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS
Stealing and lying. Well actually, these two both prohibit the same kind of behavior- dishonesty. So you don't really need two you combine them and call the commandment "thou shalt not be dishonest". And suddenly you're down to 5.
And as long as we're combining I have two others that belong together:
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTRY
THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE
Once again, these two prohibit the same type of behavior. In this case it is marital infidelity. The difference is- coveting takes place in the mind. But I don't think you should outlaw fantasizing about someone else's wife because what is a guy gonna think about when he's waxing his carrot? But, marital infidelity is a good idea so we're gonna keep this one and call it "thou shalt not be unfaithful". And suddenly we're down to four.
But when you think about it, honesty and infidelity are really part of the same overall value so, in truth, you could combine the two honesty commandments with the two fidelity commandments and give them simpler language, positive language instead of negative language and call the whole thing "thou shalt always be honest and faithful" and we're down to 3.
THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR"S GOODS
This one is just plain fuckin' stupid. Coveting your neighbor's goods is what keeps the economy going! Your neighbor gets a vibrator that plays "o come o ye faithful", and you want one too! Coveting creates jobs, so leave it alone. You throw out coveting and you're down to 2 now- the big honesty and fidelity commandment and the one we haven't talked about yet:
Okay, it's been a while ('98) since I dabbled in chemistry, but don't you hit a kind of asymptote at some point?
As far as I remember, pH is only valid in a water sollution (although there might not be much actual water), and at some point you simply cannot make it more acidic/basic, as the H+ or OH- ions have absolutely nothing to bond with.
Wouldn't it be rather fun, if all the conspiracy nuts got together with all the hackers and gave ALL the votes in an election to the politicians who wants to introduce a paper trail in elections? If no such politician can be found, just make them all blank votes/write-in for 'Ficus'.
I mean, the other politicians can't really cry foul, because they said themselves "paper trails aren't nescesary" and in effect "we trust the effectiveness of the system"...
Heh ... chip tuning has been for quite a while
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At least in Denmark.
Especially truckers like it as they get better fuel economy and more horse power. Same is true for regular cars.
The thing is, and this is what the car manufacturers are complaining about, is
1) Chip tuned cars run hotter, thereby wearing out the engine far faster than usual 2) Chip tuned cars have far higher emisions than non-tuned cars
Number 1 is an issue for the manufacturer because people complain that their car breaks down faster.
Number 2 is an issue for society as a whole, because the cars pollute FAR FAR worse than normal. We're not talking 5 - 15% more, we're talking 500 to 1,500% more according to the studies I've seen from independent testers in Denmark.
So no - chip tuning a cars isn't as innocent as overclocking your CPU.
Even if you work on saturdays, this means you're in from 8 am to 6 pm... when do you relax, chill, have fun away from work?
Granted, I'm from Denmark, so we have completely different work rules (371/2 hour work week in general), but even the bosses at my old fairly small company, 15 employees, put in less than 60 hours a week. Far less. I think one of them said he'd be damned if he had to put in more than 40 hours just because he was one of the owners...
Now, I personally put in quite a few hours more than the norm (usually 50 hours or so), but not because I had to - I simply didn't have anything better to do with my time. But I was 25 and didn't have any family or anything to come home to.
You said it yourself - you're an old coder. How can a family cope with 60+ hours a week? And do both parrents work this much? If so, mightn't that be one of the reasons kids are apparently growing more violent etc.?
We have a completely different culture here, so I'm not trolling - I'm genuinely curious.
You can't remove your chipset without ruining your motherboard, and removing all of your RAM pretty much renders the computer useless as anything but a space heater.
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Using a left/right descript is one-dimensional, and adding lables as "liberal" doesn't help one bit.
...
:-)
For one thing, I'm 99.7% certain that most liberal parties in Europe would be upset being labled Socialists
The two-dimensional division shown on http://www.politicalcompass.org/ gives you a better idea of the political spectrum, in my humble opinion anyway
A collision is a near-miss.
*boom* Look. They nearly missed
Appologies to George Carlin
Well, don't know about France and Belgium, but in Denmark it's the same.
...
Of course, they don't hand you the passport when you leave. They don't send it to the address you specified. They send it to the address that is stored in the central registry of people.
Sure, you could probably change that address for a random person, but I'm fairly certain he'd notice in the two to four weeks it takes to get a passport.
Of course, the next step is then to fake a person who is out of the country for a month or so vacationing
Speaking of the ten commandments. I believe George Carlin said it best:
Here is my problem with the ten commandments- why exactly are there 10?
You simply do not need ten. The list of ten commandments was artificially and deliberately inflated to get it up to ten. Here's what happened:
About 5,000 years ago a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to try to figure out how to control people and keep them in line. They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so they announced that God had given them some commandments, up on a mountain, when no one was around.
Well let me ask you this- when they were making this shit up, why did they pick 10? Why not 9 or 11? I'll tell you why- because 10 sound official. Ten sounds important! Ten is the basis for the decimal system, it's a decade, it's a psychologically satisfying number (the top ten, the ten most wanted, the ten best dressed). So having ten commandments was really a marketing decision! It is clearly a bullshit list. It's a political document artificially inflated to sell better. I will now show you how you can reduce the number of commandments and come up with a list that's a little more workable and logical. I am going to use the Roman Catholic version because those were the ones I was taught as a little boy.
Let's start with the first three:
I AM THE LORD THY GOD THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN
THOU SHALT KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH
Right off the bat the first three are pure bullshit. Sabbath day? Lord's name? strange gods? Spooky language! Designed to scare and control primitive people. In no way does superstitious nonsense like this apply to the lives of intelligent civilized humans in the 21st century. So now we're down to 7. Next:
HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER
Obedience, respect for authority. Just another name for controlling people. The truth is that obedience and respect shouldn't be automatic. They should be earned and based on the parent's performance. Some parents deserve respect, but most of them don't, period. You're down to six.
Now in the interest of logic, something religion is very uncomfortable with, we're going to jump around the list a little bit.
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS
Stealing and lying. Well actually, these two both prohibit the same kind of behavior- dishonesty. So you don't really need two you combine them and call the commandment "thou shalt not be dishonest". And suddenly you're down to 5.
And as long as we're combining I have two others that belong together:
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTRY
THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE
Once again, these two prohibit the same type of behavior. In this case it is marital infidelity. The difference is- coveting takes place in the mind. But I don't think you should outlaw fantasizing about someone else's wife because what is a guy gonna think about when he's waxing his carrot? But, marital infidelity is a good idea so we're gonna keep this one and call it "thou shalt not be unfaithful". And suddenly we're down to four.
But when you think about it, honesty and infidelity are really part of the same overall value so, in truth, you could combine the two honesty commandments with the two fidelity commandments and give them simpler language, positive language instead of negative language and call the whole thing "thou shalt always be honest and faithful" and we're down to 3.
THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR"S GOODS
This one is just plain fuckin' stupid. Coveting your neighbor's goods is what keeps the economy going! Your neighbor gets a vibrator that plays "o come o ye faithful", and you want one too! Coveting creates jobs, so leave it alone. You throw out coveting and you're down to 2 now- the big honesty and fidelity commandment and the one we haven't talked about yet:
THOU SHALT NOT K
Heh ... same here (Denmark)
My score:
Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62
I'm surprised I'm that far from Chirac and Blair, but on the other hand, they are from different cultures (even though they're both european).
I'd be interested in seeing where the political parties in Denmark would end up.
It could be worse ...
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I read the subject as mono
Okay, it's been a while ('98) since I dabbled in chemistry, but don't you hit a kind of asymptote at some point?
As far as I remember, pH is only valid in a water sollution (although there might not be much actual water), and at some point you simply cannot make it more acidic/basic, as the H+ or OH- ions have absolutely nothing to bond with.
Or am I just talking out of my ass here?
Wouldn't it be rather fun, if all the conspiracy nuts got together with all the hackers and gave ALL the votes in an election to the politicians who wants to introduce a paper trail in elections? If no such politician can be found, just make them all blank votes/write-in for 'Ficus'.
...
I mean, the other politicians can't really cry foul, because they said themselves "paper trails aren't nescesary" and in effect "we trust the effectiveness of the system"
Nobody expects the Spanish Intermission!
I see three reasons for electronic voting in the US:
:-)
... flambait ...
1) US citizens can't count
2) US citizens are too stupid to use pen and paper
3) US politicians wants to fuck over the citizens
I'm guessing you can pick any two
yeah, yeah
Yeah, Willow with Xander as a side kick.
Willow the Chicklayer and Xander the Bricklayer.
I'll second that motion. With personal experience.
... :-/
:)
Ouch
But hey - at the time, I knew it was true. Like you said yourself - reality is perception
http://www.mst.dk/default.asp?Sub=http://www.mst.d k/udgiv/publikationer/2004/87-7614-115-2/html/
:-)
Of course, it's in Danish
At least in Denmark.
Especially truckers like it as they get better fuel economy and more horse power. Same is true for regular cars.
The thing is, and this is what the car manufacturers are complaining about, is
1) Chip tuned cars run hotter, thereby wearing out the engine far faster than usual
2) Chip tuned cars have far higher emisions than non-tuned cars
Number 1 is an issue for the manufacturer because people complain that their car breaks down faster.
Number 2 is an issue for society as a whole, because the cars pollute FAR FAR worse than normal. We're not talking 5 - 15% more, we're talking 500 to 1,500% more according to the studies I've seen from independent testers in Denmark.
So no - chip tuning a cars isn't as innocent as overclocking your CPU.
I can't browse anymore without find-as-you-type, a feature that only Moz/Firefox has (to the best of my knowledge).
:-)
I was surprised to find out that Opera has it as well. It's called "In-line find" and is a check-box in the Edit menu.
And yes - it's a great feature
They're paying in stock ... unless you offered stale used gum your offer will be worth more next year ...
I have a completely unrelated question ...
... when do you relax, chill, have fun away from work?
...
Why do you guys put up with 60 hour work weeks?
Even if you work on saturdays, this means you're in from 8 am to 6 pm
Granted, I'm from Denmark, so we have completely different work rules (371/2 hour work week in general), but even the bosses at my old fairly small company, 15 employees, put in less than 60 hours a week. Far less. I think one of them said he'd be damned if he had to put in more than 40 hours just because he was one of the owners
Now, I personally put in quite a few hours more than the norm (usually 50 hours or so), but not because I had to - I simply didn't have anything better to do with my time. But I was 25 and didn't have any family or anything to come home to.
You said it yourself - you're an old coder. How can a family cope with 60+ hours a week? And do both parrents work this much? If so, mightn't that be one of the reasons kids are apparently growing more violent etc.?
We have a completely different culture here, so I'm not trolling - I'm genuinely curious.
It was a joke ...
You can't remove your chipset without ruining your motherboard, and removing all of your RAM pretty much renders the computer useless as anything but a space heater.
There's a conflict between your RAM blocks and your chipset.
;-)
You should either remove your chipset or all of your RAM.
My favorite from that post?
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"Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows)"
I think Duke Nuke'em Forever has some catching up to do
The following five items have no place in a football game:
1) Helmets
2) Body armour
3) Tackling off the ball
4) PICKING UP the ball
5) Americans
[not sure who I got this from though]
Not much, but based on personal experience, having sex with more than three supermodels at a time seems just plain impossible.
Well, at least Goofy isn't an annoying git!
Opera sure can.
Just click 'g' before going to the website, and no pictures will be downloaded at all.
Of course, this kinda ruins the who idea of a photography site, but hey - maybe they have cool ASCII-art trains.