No, we paid you. You gave us a few measly destroyers that mostly didn't work and "Bundles for Britain". We gave you most of our overseas bases.
You were late into both wars, losing a few hundred thousand military personnel. We endured both wars for longer than you, lost millions of military and civil personnel.
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Currently, 3 out of 22 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
And IE
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As opposed to purchasing in a corporate, which depends on who the CEO last beat at golf.
Having worked in government, academia and private industry I can honestly say that there is little to choose between them. In all of them the acronym PEST applies:
Decisions are 60% Political, 30% Economic, 9% Social and 1% Technical.
> However, the 'city spread' I mentioned above, coupled with the fact that there's more to this country that the urban centres (exurbs, thinly populated states in the Midwest)
But isn't the development of the exurbs posited on cheap oil prices?
"They (those in favour of Software Patents) argue that intellectual property rights provide incentives for companies to innovate and invest in research and development."
Except that the pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than research.
It amuses me the way idealogues can always find an ad hoc reason why their theory doesn't work when evidence is presented. Hegelians and Marxists were particularly good at this (cf. "The Enemies of the Open Society" by Karl Popper).
Of course, if you want to go further back you could always look at the defenders of the Phlostigen theory.
If your arguments are true then American health care should be better than in countries that have a publicly provided health service. However:
Administrative costs for the UK health service are significantly lower than in the USA
Costs to the health service of prescription medicines are much lower in the UK than in the USA
Life expectancy is higher in the UK than the US. It is also increasing in the UK, while it is decreasing in the US.
Neo-natal mortality is higher in the US than in the UK. It is also increasing, while in the UK it is decreasing (MRSA not withstanding).
As for rationing of services. Yes, there is rationing in the UK. This increased enormously in the Thatcher years when the NHS was subject to "Market Forces". It is gradually getting better. We do have some rationing by price in the UK, but at least part of this is caused by NHS consultants who also have private practices. It is obviously in their interest to ensure that NHS waiting lists are long, so that people will pay to use their services privately.
Cleanliness is currently an issue in some UK hospitals. The major reason for this is that cleaning and maintenance was outsourced and the private contractors do not do a very good job.
There is an apocryphal story about someone from MKS and an MS flack giving a joint presentation on their UNIX toolkit for Windows.
During the bit about KSH an old guy at the back kept piping up with comments like "that feature wasn't implemented properly" and "that doesn't conform to the specification". Apparently the MS flack expostulated a lot and try to cast doubt on the old guy's qualifications. It was only then that it was pointed to him that the person making the comments was David Korn.
Interesting that they have already started to implement some of the proposed CSS 3 features and are fixing some CSS2 breakages.
That other browser can't even get CSS 1 right, and won't be implementing CSS 2 features in the edition that is supposed to be out this summer.
Speaking as somebody who has come close to throwing his PC out of the window this morning because IE doesn't do z-indexes properly, which means that I have to look for a yet another workaround to cope with its breakages.
> In fact, we just announced that we'll have a new version of the browser so we're innovating very rapidly there
So - does this mean that they are going to complete their CSS implementation and make it conform to standards, or does it mean that we will be seeing the "MS Internet" in the same way as we have "MS Kerberos", "MS LDAP" and "MS DCE"?
As others have pointed out switching GPS off after the event is at best pointless but more probably counter productive.
Either this is ill thought out or (fanfare on black helicopters) it is using a technique described by the Roman historian Polybius "Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order." Keeping people in a constant state of tension and fear means that they don't question the liberties they are losing, the economic burden their children are having imposed on them or the lack of competence of the government.
> I don't even know who my MEPs are, I did politics for 2 years (I also got a D in that subject though...).
I know mine. Unfortunately, one of them is Arlene McCarthy. What a Labour MEP is doing supporting this legislation is baffling, though she is a keen suppporter of our corporation loving Prime Minister.
You don't specify a country, so I assume you have an internationalist outlook:-)
Obviously a civil nuclear programme needs to be rolled out world wide, This includes the OPEC countries, since they will be out of oil sometime in the future. It also includes countries that have no native energy supplies and wish to advance to the same state as their neighbours.
So we should be promoting nuclear programmes in Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Burma, Palestine amongst others.
China decides that it doesn't want to hold American debt anymore and demands repayment on its dollar holdings.
Result - the US becomes an impoverished country that nobody wants to deal with anymore, especially after OPEC decides that they are going to price oil in Euros or Renimbi
What they are doing with this, and other announcements, is forking Windows. Remember this the next time they accuse Linux of forking because of all the different distros it has.
Plus all the people who change their UserAgent setting so that it works with the stupid browser sniffer that their bank/pr0n site uses and will only let them in if they are using Exploder.
In this situation complain to the management, not the the techies. Point out that they are losing over 10% of their prospective customers.
Because IE only sites tend to have lower accessiblity than properly designed sites it may also be worth mentioning that they do not comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (in the UK) or Section 508 (in the US).
Finally, point them to the CERT and SANS Institute reports and let them know that you are following their guidance and using a more secure browser. This is of advantage to both the supplier and you as a customer.
Don't rant on about M$ monopolies, or W3C compliance.
I have done this with a number of sites and it does have an effect.
Once they have a browser neutral site then you don't need your browser to advertise itself as something it isn't. As a result, alternative browser share will increase, if only by a small amount.
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No, we paid you. You gave us a few measly destroyers that mostly didn't work and "Bundles for Britain". We gave you most of our overseas bases.
You were late into both wars, losing a few hundred thousand military personnel. We endured both wars for longer than you, lost millions of military and civil personnel.
Proudhon
Too much gin on a Friday night.
Don't know whether you have it on that side of the big pond.
Shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic
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Mozilla Firefox 1.x with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Less critical
This is based on the most severe Secunia advisory, which is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database. Go to Unpatched/Patched list below for details.
Currently, 3 out of 22 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
And IE
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Highly critical
This is based on the most severe Secunia advisory, which is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database. Go to Unpatched/Patched list below for details.
Currently, 19 out of 85 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
> That's government purchasing for you.
As opposed to purchasing in a corporate, which depends on who the CEO last beat at golf.
Having worked in government, academia and private industry I can honestly say that there is little to choose between them. In all of them the acronym PEST applies:
Decisions are 60% Political, 30% Economic, 9% Social and 1% Technical.
> However, the 'city spread' I mentioned above, coupled with the fact that there's more to this country that the urban centres (exurbs, thinly populated states in the Midwest)
But isn't the development of the exurbs posited on cheap oil prices?
"They (those in favour of Software Patents) argue that intellectual property rights provide incentives for companies to innovate and invest in research and development."
Except that the pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than research.
It amuses me the way idealogues can always find an ad hoc reason why their theory doesn't work when evidence is presented. Hegelians and Marxists were particularly good at this (cf. "The Enemies of the Open Society" by Karl Popper).
Of course, if you want to go further back you could always look at the defenders of the Phlostigen theory.
If your arguments are true then American health care should be better than in countries that have a publicly provided health service. However:
As for rationing of services. Yes, there is rationing in the UK. This increased enormously in the Thatcher years when the NHS was subject to "Market Forces". It is gradually getting better. We do have some rationing by price in the UK, but at least part of this is caused by NHS consultants who also have private practices. It is obviously in their interest to ensure that NHS waiting lists are long, so that people will pay to use their services privately.
Cleanliness is currently an issue in some UK hospitals. The major reason for this is that cleaning and maintenance was outsourced and the private contractors do not do a very good job.
There is an apocryphal story about someone from MKS and an MS flack giving a joint presentation on their UNIX toolkit for Windows.
During the bit about KSH an old guy at the back kept piping up with comments like "that feature wasn't implemented properly" and "that doesn't conform to the specification". Apparently the MS flack expostulated a lot and try to cast doubt on the old guy's qualifications. It was only then that it was pointed to him that the person making the comments was David Korn.
Interesting that they have already started to implement some of the proposed CSS 3 features and are fixing some CSS2 breakages.
That other browser can't even get CSS 1 right, and won't be implementing CSS 2 features in the edition that is supposed to be out this summer.
Speaking as somebody who has come close to throwing his PC out of the window this morning because IE doesn't do z-indexes properly, which means that I have to look for a yet another workaround to cope with its breakages.
Where is the life we have lost in living
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge
Where is the knowledge we have list in information
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Expert:
Derives from Ex - meaning, has been and
Spurt - meaning, drip under pressure
Oxford is not in London, Manchester is not in London and Edinburgh isn't in London either.
> The dataset on weather we have is pitifully small in geographic time,
Weather possibly, climate is another matter. Don't conflate the two.
But as well all know, war is God's way of teaching Americans Geography ;-)
> In fact, we just announced that we'll have a new version of the browser so we're innovating very rapidly there
So - does this mean that they are going to complete their CSS implementation and make it conform to standards, or does it mean that we will be seeing the "MS Internet" in the same way as we have "MS Kerberos", "MS LDAP" and "MS DCE"?
Isn't this all MS' anti-spyware software is? Just repartition your disk and re-install all your software.
:-)
I mean you have to do this every three months or so anyway don't you
As others have pointed out switching GPS off after the event is at best pointless but more probably counter productive.
Either this is ill thought out or (fanfare on black helicopters) it is using a technique described by the Roman historian Polybius "Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order." Keeping people in a constant state of tension and fear means that they don't question the liberties they are losing, the economic burden their children are having imposed on them or the lack of competence of the government.
> I don't even know who my MEPs are, I did politics for 2 years (I also got a D in that subject though...).
I know mine. Unfortunately, one of them is Arlene McCarthy. What a Labour MEP is doing supporting this legislation is baffling, though she is a keen suppporter of our corporation loving Prime Minister.
You don't specify a country, so I assume you have an internationalist outlook :-)
Obviously a civil nuclear programme needs to be rolled out world wide, This includes the OPEC countries, since they will be out of oil sometime in the future. It also includes countries that have no native energy supplies and wish to advance to the same state as their neighbours.
So we should be promoting nuclear programmes in Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Burma, Palestine amongst others.
Given the current situation in the USA, where corporations have the same rights as people then they should bear the same responsibilities.
As CEO of the company Warren Anderson is the person in which these responsiblities rest.
To extend the analogy - who effectively is responsible for Abu Ghraib?
China decides that it doesn't want to hold American debt anymore and demands repayment on its dollar holdings.
Result - the US becomes an impoverished country that nobody wants to deal with anymore, especially after OPEC decides that they are going to price oil in Euros or Renimbi
Weasel words again.
What they are doing with this, and other announcements, is forking Windows. Remember this the next time they accuse Linux of forking because of all the different distros it has.
Plus all the people who change their UserAgent setting so that it works with the stupid browser sniffer that their bank/pr0n site uses and will only let them in if they are using Exploder.
In this situation complain to the management, not the the techies. Point out that they are losing over 10% of their prospective customers.
Because IE only sites tend to have lower accessiblity than properly designed sites it may also be worth mentioning that they do not comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (in the UK) or Section 508 (in the US).
Finally, point them to the CERT and SANS Institute reports and let them know that you are following their guidance and using a more secure browser. This is of advantage to both the supplier and you as a customer.
Don't rant on about M$ monopolies, or W3C compliance.
I have done this with a number of sites and it does have an effect.
Once they have a browser neutral site then you don't need your browser to advertise itself as something it isn't. As a result, alternative browser share will increase, if only by a small amount.