The students need to start monitoring blogs/... maintained by the local District Officials, and post/link-to any 'suspicious/...' entries from some well publicised blog/...
See how they like a dose of their own medicine, I can hear the howls of ''privacy violation'' now!
Can someone tell me what it costs to obtain the fuel needed for fusion ? I hear that we get duterium from sea water, where do we get tritium from & how ? OK: once fusion really takes off it is likely that demand will result in a drop if cost/kilogram, but what is today's price ?
I hear that there is enough duterium in sea water to provide enough for (essentially) ever, what about the tritium source ?
This is important: power has to be at an affordable cost.
GDP is not a measurement of money, it is a measurement of wealth,
Yes, but GDB is expressed in dollars. One dollar in a third world country will buy much more than it will in the USA or Europe. If the GDB was expressed in chickens or loaves of bread it might have more meaning for what I am doing.
Expressing it in dollars is only of interest if you want to buy goods from other countries, if you don't then it looses a lot of meaning.
If man A has a house with 3 bedrooms that cost him £100 in Nepal and man B has a 1 bed flat (appartment) that cost £200,000 in London - who has more wealth ? I give my vote to man A in Nepal.
More to the point: why are you shifting the debate away from the issue ?
We all, in the first world, consume more than our fair share of energy per head. The USA is the worst offender partly because it has such a large population.
Now - let's get back to the topic: Kyoto is dead, the USA not ratifying it was a large part of that.
Pollution is a huge worldwide issue. We need to fix it.
GDP is completely meaningless. GDP is all about how much money is generated. Salaries/income in the USA (and the first world) are much higher than elsewhere (in general); that means that a first world inhabitant produces more GDP than someone in the 3rd world.
I don't value people by how much money they produce.
Most of us in the first world (I Include myself (a Brit) in this) need to cut back on use of the world's resources. Until we come up with less polluting energy generation - that (to a large extent) means cutting back on energy use.
Why pick on the USA: it is a large country that is profligate in it's use of Energy.
In Europe there is a lot of work going on to reduce the consumption of natural resources. The USA only seems to be interested if it doesn't hit today's bottom line. That is short sighted.
Kyoto is effectively dead because the world's biggest user of energy (USA) refused to ratify it. The USA has 5% of the world's population but uses 25% of the energy.
When climate change really hits is the USA going to take the can ? No, it will suddenly decide that it is a global problem. Sorry guys: we all share this planet, don't use more than your fair share.
Katrina was worse because of global warming - far, far worse is to come.
The excuse for all of this is "the rise in global terrorism", well if that were really the reason then the terrorists have won, they have fundamentally changed our societies.
The reasons are deeper than that, terrorism is an excuse that is brought out as a bogey man to try to provide justification for further infringements of civil liberites. The Tony Blair, in the UK, is now pushing an act that will allow any government minister to change almost any bit of legislation without having to bother to pursuade parliament to agree.
We will suffer for sleep walking to a state where unelected civil servants have the power to snoop on us without any real oversight. This will be abused by these civil servants for their own personal ends.
You thought that Russia 20 years ago was bad - we will have it far worse.
We now know why the USA fought so hard to retain control of the root DNS servers (for the domain '.'). By having control of that they can switch any country off.
Time to start running my own '.' server. Can someone tell me how to get a complete copy of everything, the following command doesn't work (fails NOTAUTH):
What i would like to ask, is to show me any real evidence that the government has used information held on the population maliciously.
Do you trust the government officials to always do the right thing and none of them to be corrupt or have their own interests at heart ? I have lost thousands of pounds through corrupt civil servants pursuing their own ends. It happens.
Why should the government know all of this anyway ? Why treat me as guilty ?
None of the keypads look very expensive (== made to high security standard), I don't see that it would be difficult to take most of these apart and insert a few extra wires to record what digits got pressed... a small amount of work later and you have a reconstructed card with your PIN.
The bank will then say: "it was your pin and so it was either you or you told someone your PIN". There is a lot of talk about extra security -- it is the banks who have the extra security since they put the burden of proof onto their customers.
if it breaks the monopoly that the USA has taken for itself of the root DNS. It is quite simple to resolve, just have your DNS resolving scan both the ICANN root DNS and the chinese ones; as long as they don't serve up the same Top Level Domains there will not be a problem.
What would be a problem was if china started handing out IP addresses that had been allocated elsewhere.
So yet again the big boys gang up to wipe out the small guys.
If it costs $15,000/year to join the club many small companies who put PCs together are not going to be able to afford it.
If M$ Vista needs HDCP, the small guys are not going to sell boxes with M$ Vista.
A few years down the line the small guys go out of business.
The big guys clean up - can charge 'proper' prices for PCs since they don't have to compete against the small guys, only against each other - and they are all greedy.
MS then gets the big guys to implement their part of the deal: only boot trusted operating systems -- whoops, what do you mean Linux/BSD no longer works on those boxes ? Well, buy a different box.... errm, where from there are no independent PC manufacturers any more?
M$ gains. All the big guys are now happy & we all need to run virus ridden s/ware.
Yes, well of course - lots of money needs to be saved so that there will be the budget to blast Iraq in a few months time.
North Korea is making far bigger noises about making their own nuclear bombs, but no one seems to make such a fuss.... Oh, but wait a mo,.... does it have much oil underground ?
Just 'announcing' that the USA is just doing it is a pretty damn stupid statement; the reason even more so 'to keep it in safe hands'. Can you imagine anything more designed to inflame the rest of the world: Uncle Sam saying that you aren't grown up enough to share control of an important part of world infrastructure ?
This Monroe Document has virtually guaranteed that the rest of the world will now not rest until control of the DNS is out of USA hands -- controlled by some multinational body.
Nice one fellas! Do you really think that you can get away with it ?
This is sheer arrogance - the sort of thing that led to the misadventure that is Iraq, look how that is starting to unravel.
Mind you - Bush hasn't bombed anyone in a while; it must be grating on him seeing all that kit lieing idle.
By any chance: did Edward Whitacre work in the music industry ?
Pretty much sounds like it: trying to defend a business with an out of date business model by attempting to 'regulate' rather than trying to compete and give their customers what they want.
It may take a few years but unless he changes business tactics his company will slowly die, just as the dinosaurs did when conditions changed and they did not adapt fast enough.
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See how they like a dose of their own medicine, I can hear the howls of ''privacy violation'' now!
I hear that there is enough duterium in sea water to provide enough for (essentially) ever, what about the tritium source ?
This is important: power has to be at an affordable cost.
The examiner would, of course, be bound to secrecy other than answering the above question.
Need to get right: 1) who chooses the examiner (we don't want a gov't stooge); 2) who drafts the wording to the question to be answered.
OK: the above is a nice idea, but it won't happen - governments don't like their workings scrutinised.
Yes, but GDB is expressed in dollars. One dollar in a third world country will buy much more than it will in the USA or Europe. If the GDB was expressed in chickens or loaves of bread it might have more meaning for what I am doing.
Expressing it in dollars is only of interest if you want to buy goods from other countries, if you don't then it looses a lot of meaning.
If man A has a house with 3 bedrooms that cost him £100 in Nepal and man B has a 1 bed flat (appartment) that cost £200,000 in London - who has more wealth ? I give my vote to man A in Nepal.
We all, in the first world, consume more than our fair share of energy per head. The USA is the worst offender partly because it has such a large population.
Now - let's get back to the topic: Kyoto is dead, the USA not ratifying it was a large part of that. Pollution is a huge worldwide issue. We need to fix it.
Does the fact that Canadians pollute mean that it is OK for the USA to pollute ?
I don't value people by how much money they produce.
Most of us in the first world (I Include myself (a Brit) in this) need to cut back on use of the world's resources. Until we come up with less polluting energy generation - that (to a large extent) means cutting back on energy use.
Why pick on the USA: it is a large country that is profligate in it's use of Energy.
In Europe there is a lot of work going on to reduce the consumption of natural resources. The USA only seems to be interested if it doesn't hit today's bottom line. That is short sighted.
When climate change really hits is the USA going to take the can ? No, it will suddenly decide that it is a global problem. Sorry guys: we all share this planet, don't use more than your fair share.
Katrina was worse because of global warming - far, far worse is to come.
The excuse for all of this is "the rise in global terrorism", well if that were really the reason then the terrorists have won, they have fundamentally changed our societies.
The reasons are deeper than that, terrorism is an excuse that is brought out as a bogey man to try to provide justification for further infringements of civil liberites. The Tony Blair, in the UK, is now pushing an act that will allow any government minister to change almost any bit of legislation without having to bother to pursuade parliament to agree.
We will suffer for sleep walking to a state where unelected civil servants have the power to snoop on us without any real oversight. This will be abused by these civil servants for their own personal ends.
You thought that Russia 20 years ago was bad - we will have it far worse.
Time to start running my own '.' server. Can someone tell me how to get a complete copy of everything, the following command doesn't work (fails NOTAUTH):
Do you trust the government officials to always do the right thing and none of them to be corrupt or have their own interests at heart ? I have lost thousands of pounds through corrupt civil servants pursuing their own ends. It happens.
Why should the government know all of this anyway ? Why treat me as guilty ?
But then I thought a bit, Blair's head is stuck so far up Bush's ass that he would find some way of supporting his war mongering buddy.
March this Saturday in London: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/March18.htm .
The bank will then say: "it was your pin and so it was either you or you told someone your PIN". There is a lot of talk about extra security -- it is the banks who have the extra security since they put the burden of proof onto their customers.
3.5oz - not going to yeild much petrol, is this for bonsai cars perhaps ?
What would be a problem was if china started handing out IP addresses that had been allocated elsewhere.
If it costs $15,000/year to join the club many small companies who put PCs together are not going to be able to afford it.
If M$ Vista needs HDCP, the small guys are not going to sell boxes with M$ Vista.
A few years down the line the small guys go out of business.
The big guys clean up - can charge 'proper' prices for PCs since they don't have to compete against the small guys, only against each other - and they are all greedy.
MS then gets the big guys to implement their part of the deal: only boot trusted operating systems -- whoops, what do you mean Linux/BSD no longer works on those boxes ? Well, buy a different box .... errm, where from there are no independent PC manufacturers any more?
M$ gains. All the big guys are now happy & we all need to run virus ridden s/ware.
OK, so that is where we get the duterium from, but where do we ''mine'' the tritium ? Can we, perhaps, get it by irradiating duterium ?
Anyone know the answer ?
North Korea is making far bigger noises about making their own nuclear bombs, but no one seems to make such a fuss .... Oh, but wait a mo, .... does it have much oil underground ?
Well, I suppose that you had better report it to Dell as being out of spec and still in Warranty -- ask them to replace it.
Needed in the Japanese version for the Sony employees (music/CD division).
Previous pandemics were slowed by the slower speed of travel in years gone, today it could be upon us before we realise.
If registration is required, there will be a registration fee. That should bring New York City a few more tax dollars.
This Monroe Document has virtually guaranteed that the rest of the world will now not rest until control of the DNS is out of USA hands -- controlled by some multinational body.
Nice one fellas! Do you really think that you can get away with it ?
This is sheer arrogance - the sort of thing that led to the misadventure that is Iraq, look how that is starting to unravel.
Mind you - Bush hasn't bombed anyone in a while; it must be grating on him seeing all that kit lieing idle.
Pretty much sounds like it: trying to defend a business with an out of date business model by attempting to 'regulate' rather than trying to compete and give their customers what they want.
It may take a few years but unless he changes business tactics his company will slowly die, just as the dinosaurs did when conditions changed and they did not adapt fast enough.
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