Germany is a special case there. Reunification was financed to a large extent from pension schemes. East Germans were free to draw state pensions although they had - of necessity - paid nothing in. That went to the German constitutional court and was given the green light there, it was a decision the government of the day was free to make.
This is happening all over the developed world. The root cause is competition from places like China, India, Vietnam or Thailand. US/EU/Whatever companies are free to farm work out to these countries (or import workers from there) and they simply work for less. A lot of jobs in the EU have also moved to countries like Hungary, Poland or Estonia.
I'm not sure you can blame any "greed-pig" class, many people here use websites to see where they can buy things for 10c less and that comes at a price.
Windows Firewall running on the same machine? Oh ye of far too much faith, Microsoft are reluctant to block their own traffic. You need an external firewall.
I need to run Windows (7) two or three times a month so two of machines are dual-boot, taking the main one: One of the applications I have relies on a vpn connection and is extremely sensitive. Both the virus-scanner update and Windows update require the vpn to be deactivated. All this means that I have to fire Windows up a day before I need it to get those oh so important functions out of the way. Factor in that some updates have broken my machine and were automatically backed out (and re-installed, and backed out), and that Windows will sometimes meditate for an hour or three before getting its update lists and another hour or three before performing the updates I permitted - I spend far more time administering the beast than using it. The bug where Windows 7 says that the network cable has been pulled, the one where you have to remove the power cord for 20-30 minutes? Seen that. Windows 10 requires you to install all updates, that would include the ones that put me into an update/back-out loop.
My laptop could possibly be a candidate for Windows 10. The vpn application does not work there anyway, and it goes into sleep-mode when I tell it to install the May updates. Yes - it waits so long for those updates that it gets bored and goes to sleep.
If - taking a country pretty much at random - Nigeria is corrupt, it does not affect me. If lobbyists in the US get to write their own laws and those laws are then exported to a country I live in via TTIP, that affects me personally. Capito?
If TTIP gets through, the US's broken system will be exported. By "broken" I mean the way that wealthy lobbying groups bribe/finance politicians to get them to pass the laws they want. Simple corruption.
And they do not even need to prove it. They make contact with the ISPs asking who had a particular IP Address at a particular time and . . . profit. If their software comes up with the wrong IP Address or they get the time wrong, it makes no difference. I think the minister who came up with that particular law was the woman who took her "official" car with her when she went to Spain on holiday - along with her driver - and the car was stolen. That happened shortly before an election and her party lost. Not the brightest bulb around.
In my case I was accused of file-sharing some porn film. It was a false positive but that does not make any difference under current German law, if their program says you were file-sharing then that is assumed to be the case.
An increasing number of jobs can be replaced by robots. Eventually everyone is out of work.
I sometimes lurk in a forum which has degenerated into a Tea Party session where they tell each other that the best thing to do is to save taxes by getting rid of most government jobs, I saw that the current target was the Department of Education a few days back.
What comes next? Butlerian Jihad? An army is a necessity because the excluded are going to revolt at some point.
If Firefox and Thunderbird are incompatible with each other, where does that leave Seamonkey? A Firefox fork - possibly starting from Firefox ESR - would be the way to go if it got sufficient resources.
Lets go the whole hog and fork Firefox at the same time. I have already moved to Firefox ESR because I can't stand the way the upstream version is going. The Seamonkey project would also benefit, they are going to be screwed once FF and TB diverge.
Moreover, Russia participates in the Eurovision Song Contest.
I heard somewhere that Australia was going to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest this year, and Israel has won the thing once so that is really not a criteria. Tajikistan borders on Afghanistan and China - along with some other post-Soviet states - so including it under Europe is just a tiny bit misleading. Most of Turkey is also in Asia.
I remember reading about someone called Isis a few weeks ago, her Facebook profile had repeatedly been deleted. What would happen here? The simplest solution is not to use this "service".
Btw, don't bombs cost more than $42 to make? A lot more?
Do they write compilers? Interpreters? 'Hey man, when you typed "mkae clena" I know you meant "make clean" so that is what I am going to do for you. Enjoy.'
Bring that attitude to C and the sky is the limit.
and you believed it? The location is known and has been excavated.
btw, The Flood was in Gloucestershire, and Noah was a boat builder on the Severn. That is why the English are God's chosen people. You read it here first 'cos I just made it up.
Pardon my iggerance (I'm not a citizen of the US and have never lived there), are the attendees not "delegates" and as such survivors of a positive-vetting process? Of course ISIL members are conservatives too - back to the perceived values of year 622. I had not realised that the Islamic year is around 354 days long and is based on moon phases. I wonder if that affects the year the planet was created, Islam also being based on the Old Testament.
What makes you think they would want to boot it? Reading it is supposed to be what they want to do. It seems a strange thing to say but John McCafee's comment about the cost of the NSA's backdoor seems to have introduced some sanity into the discussion, who would have thunk it?
Lufthansa sold most of their subsiduary Lufthansa Systems to IBM effective April 1 2015, I am not sure how many heads were involved but would guess at around 1000 although it could even be twice that. I see from the TFA that the current size of the company is just under 380 000 employees, what is "natural attrition" in a company of that size? Whatever - I don't see this figure as being that significant, not in the ways which are being floated here by people who have far less of a clue as to the workings of the company than even I do.
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Germany is a special case there. Reunification was financed to a large extent from pension schemes. East Germans were free to draw state pensions although they had - of necessity - paid nothing in. That went to the German constitutional court and was given the green light there, it was a decision the government of the day was free to make.
This is happening all over the developed world.
The root cause is competition from places like China, India, Vietnam or Thailand. US/EU/Whatever companies are free to farm work out to these countries (or import workers from there) and they simply work for less. A lot of jobs in the EU have also moved to countries like Hungary, Poland or Estonia.
I'm not sure you can blame any "greed-pig" class, many people here use websites to see where they can buy things for 10c less and that comes at a price.
Windows Firewall running on the same machine? Oh ye of far too much faith, Microsoft are reluctant to block their own traffic. You need an external firewall.
I need to run Windows (7) two or three times a month so two of machines are dual-boot, taking the main one: One of the applications I have relies on a vpn connection and is extremely sensitive. Both the virus-scanner update and Windows update require the vpn to be deactivated. All this means that I have to fire Windows up a day before I need it to get those oh so important functions out of the way. Factor in that some updates have broken my machine and were automatically backed out (and re-installed, and backed out), and that Windows will sometimes meditate for an hour or three before getting its update lists and another hour or three before performing the updates I permitted - I spend far more time administering the beast than using it. The bug where Windows 7 says that the network cable has been pulled, the one where you have to remove the power cord for 20-30 minutes? Seen that.
Windows 10 requires you to install all updates, that would include the ones that put me into an update/back-out loop.
My laptop could possibly be a candidate for Windows 10. The vpn application does not work there anyway, and it goes into sleep-mode when I tell it to install the May updates. Yes - it waits so long for those updates that it gets bored and goes to sleep.
If - taking a country pretty much at random - Nigeria is corrupt, it does not affect me. If lobbyists in the US get to write their own laws and those laws are then exported to a country I live in via TTIP, that affects me personally. Capito?
If TTIP gets through, the US's broken system will be exported. By "broken" I mean the way that wealthy lobbying groups bribe/finance politicians to get them to pass the laws they want. Simple corruption.
A better way of putting this: She is one of the 96% of lawyers who give the others a bad name.
if they had acted ethnically.
Do you mean "ethically" or what you actually wrote? If this piece was not about immigration the answer would be obvious.
His philanthropy may even be what is irritating them, who knows?
And they do not even need to prove it. They make contact with the ISPs asking who had a particular IP Address at a particular time and . . . profit. If their software comes up with the wrong IP Address or they get the time wrong, it makes no difference. I think the minister who came up with that particular law was the woman who took her "official" car with her when she went to Spain on holiday - along with her driver - and the car was stolen. That happened shortly before an election and her party lost. Not the brightest bulb around.
In my case I was accused of file-sharing some porn film. It was a false positive but that does not make any difference under current German law, if their program says you were file-sharing then that is assumed to be the case.
An increasing number of jobs can be replaced by robots.
Eventually everyone is out of work.
I sometimes lurk in a forum which has degenerated into a Tea Party session where they tell each other that the best thing to do is to save taxes by getting rid of most government jobs, I saw that the current target was the Department of Education a few days back.
What comes next? Butlerian Jihad? An army is a necessity because the excluded are going to revolt at some point.
If Firefox and Thunderbird are incompatible with each other, where does that leave Seamonkey? A Firefox fork - possibly starting from Firefox ESR - would be the way to go if it got sufficient resources.
Lets go the whole hog and fork Firefox at the same time.
I have already moved to Firefox ESR because I can't stand the way the upstream version is going. The Seamonkey project would also benefit, they are going to be screwed once FF and TB diverge.
Moreover, Russia participates in the Eurovision Song Contest.
I heard somewhere that Australia was going to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest this year, and Israel has won the thing once so that is really not a criteria.
Tajikistan borders on Afghanistan and China - along with some other post-Soviet states - so including it under Europe is just a tiny bit misleading. Most of Turkey is also in Asia.
I remember reading about someone called Isis a few weeks ago, her Facebook profile had repeatedly been deleted. What would happen here?
The simplest solution is not to use this "service".
Btw, don't bombs cost more than $42 to make? A lot more?
Well - it recognised Joseph Mengele, although describing him as a "Nazi leader" is ridiculous.
I last saw this sordid tale yesterday.
Do they write compilers? Interpreters?
'Hey man, when you typed "mkae clena" I know you meant "make clean" so that is what I am going to do for you. Enjoy.'
Bring that attitude to C and the sky is the limit.
Butlerian Jihad.
and you believed it? The location is known and has been excavated.
btw, The Flood was in Gloucestershire, and Noah was a boat builder on the Severn. That is why the English are God's chosen people. You read it here first 'cos I just made it up.
Pardon my iggerance (I'm not a citizen of the US and have never lived there), are the attendees not "delegates" and as such survivors of a positive-vetting process?
Of course ISIL members are conservatives too - back to the perceived values of year 622.
I had not realised that the Islamic year is around 354 days long and is based on moon phases. I wonder if that affects the year the planet was created, Islam also being based on the Old Testament.
Did you not RTFA? It only claims to encrypt the data, but does not actually do it.
What makes you think they would want to boot it? Reading it is supposed to be what they want to do.
It seems a strange thing to say but John McCafee's comment about the cost of the NSA's backdoor seems to have introduced some sanity into the discussion, who would have thunk it?
Lufthansa sold most of their subsiduary Lufthansa Systems to IBM effective April 1 2015, I am not sure how many heads were involved but would guess at around 1000 although it could even be twice that. I see from the TFA that the current size of the company is just under 380 000 employees, what is "natural attrition" in a company of that size?
Whatever - I don't see this figure as being that significant, not in the ways which are being floated here by people who have far less of a clue as to the workings of the company than even I do.