There are writers/editors who provide a biography service: they'll come over and talk about the past and write it all down. This helps you relive your memories while the biography is crated, and you get a limited edition biography to boot, that you can give to friends and loved ones.
True, but think of what 70% fuel usage reduction would bring. Fuel accounts for 30 - 40% of the ticket price, so a 70% reduction in fuel would cut ticket prices by 20 - 30%.
In Norway or Sweden (can't really remember which) there was also a trial with fuel efficient approaches, which reduce fuel consumption by up to 10% for shorter hauls. Instead of coming in high and fast, the plane would more gradually descend and decelerate, basically glide itself down to the airport. This requires stricter planning of approaches, though, and if you were to have to break off your approach for some reason the advantage would be completely lost...
Unfortunately, "man up and deal with it" is the only way to do this. That, and split up your keys in several bunches.
I've got a private bunch with my 3 house keys and my car key, and a work bunch with the 5 keys and 3 RFID tags that I need at work. The house bunch has a Toyota hanger from the dealership, and the work bunch has a nice metal hanger with the logo of my employer. Oh, and then I've got my bicycle key separately, with a handmade bronze crocodile hanger, souvenir from Sabou, Burkina Faso, where I sat the back of a live croc.
That way you generally only walk around with half your keys in the pocket, limiting the damage to your clothes. What's more, having a heavy bunch of keys in the pocket isn't very comfortable...
Agreed! I took a Scheidegger touchtyping course when I was around 10 years old, on one of ye olde electric typewriters, and it turns out that it is one of the most useful things I ever learned. Well, math and spelling are very useful too, of course, but touchtyping is a skill that has served me throughout my professional life.
The problem is that in elementary school, most teachers don't know how to touch type, so how could they teach the children? The teachers should be taught first!
The important words are "to the airline". Not to the US government.
In Europe there are laws that indicate that I have the right to demand any organisation or company what information they have of me, that I have the right to command changes in that information, and that I have the right to order that information to be removed, and that they are obliged to disclose to whom they have passed on what information.
Thus, I give the information to the airline, knowing that they will be careful with it, that I can at any time ask them exactly what they have done with my information, then in turn contact companies that they have given my information to and do the same, until no more trace of my information can be found. As a European citizen, I have that right.
Does the US government acknowledge that right?
If they do not, then they have no right to access my information. Since I only agreed to give that information to those organisations or companies that respect those rights.
Why, so it can be in the same database that got hacked by anonymous crackers, to even the field between European and American credit card security!
Seriously though, I'm surprised European governments are allowing such infriction on the privacy of us, its citizens, and by a foreign government no less, who has no business whatsoever sticking its nose into my personal data.
If they want the information, they should go get it on their own soil. Demand all passengers landing in the US to disclose their credit card numbers, for example. That would lead to passenger uproar, you say? So where is the difference between candidly asking a passenger his credit card number, and sneakily procuring it from his airline company behind his back and without his explicit consent or even knowledge?
My Commodore 16 (yes, an ancient ancestor of the more well-known C64) had Commodore keys (with the C= logo on it), that were generally used to create special characters. And I guess the Commodore 16 well outdates any Mac or PC:)
Actually, they have tried that, but it always resulted in death by various kinds of cancers.
The system that causes aging causes cells to not be able to divide more than a certain amount of times. This system does not exist to cause aging. Actually, aging is a side effect. Most probably, the real reason for this cell aging system is to prevent cancer. In cancers, cells will divide uncontrollably. Thus, eventually, they will reach their maximum number of divisions and die off.
Take away the aging system, and cancers can roam free...
Actually, when I sit down to work, I take off my watch. When I run off to take a little break, I generally leave it lying there. When I leave my watch on, I will get RSI-like pains in my left hand after a few minutes of work. Sometimes the same kind of problems occur in my ring finger, which dissipate quickly when I take off my ring.
Guess I'm not the kind of person who could use this particular gadget...
Publish the contents upon death? Now we only have to kill the user to get to his data without any inconvenient password cracking. Requires complete lack of conscience, but there are lots and lots of people who fulfill that requirement (heck, some people kill a friend over a fscking beer - let alone his encrypted pr0n collection), and it's a hell of a lot faster!
Recently there was a discussion on TV about the Internet destroying the Dutch language, how the Dutch language is becoming increasingly laced with English words. But Dutch has always been influenced by other languages, and it has always survived. Many words that are accepted as perfect Dutch by everybody alive today come from French, laced into Dutch during the Napoleonic occupation. Similarly some German words filtered into Dutch during the German occupation. The Internet occupation will probably do the same: some English terms will filter into Dutch, but the Dutch language will continue to live on.
The same will happen to Spanish. You cannot force languages. Languages will always evolve, will always be influenced by its neighbours. The Internet has made English every language's neighbour, so it's only logical that all languages on earth start adopting English words and terminology.
But also other stuff. In Dutch, people say "zie je", a literal translation of "see you" more and more often, while it is totally incorrect as pure Dutch. Words like "hi", "okay", "shit" and "fuck" have been seeping into Dutch for many decades already. The world is changing, and languages are changing with it. Languages have always changed, have always adopted, and have always survived. Spanish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Greek - they'll all survive the Internet, I'm sure of it, but they won't be quite the same either. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Yes, doubtlessly there is other life in the universe, and so doubtlessly there is also other intelligent life out there. The problem however is time scale.
It is only the last two centuries that humans have made any scientific advances towards space travel. For millions upon millions of years before that, humanity was just sitting there doing nothing, and for billions up on billions of years before that, there was no humanity at all.
With regards to other intelligent life, quite likely:
a) It still has to evolve, and will do so in a few billion years
b) It has gone beyond being human-like a few billion years ago and evolved into Goddess knows what
c) It has managed to destroy itself a few billion years ago with its own pollution and/or weapons of mass destruction
And even if there's a planet out there that chances to have intelligent life in a human-like stage of evolution, it's most likely that:
a) it will reach the space age in a few million years
b) it hass already gone beyond the space age a few million years ago
And even if there's one species out there that is human-like in evolutional development and just beyond our current space age, presuming they have faster than light travel to reach us, they will still likely be so different that we'd never have any hopes of communicating with them (I mean, come on, we can't even understand dolphins yet, let alone creatures from another planet). And that's the least of the problems. Maybe they'd die instantly in our atmosphere - and even if that's all compatible, then our common cold may be their ebola. Any alien race with enough intelligence to actually be able to reach us will also be intelligent enough to avoid us like the disease we'll probably be.
Example: If it weren't for car thieves we'd not have to bother locking our cars.
Nice analogy - except that there is no legal way to use a car without the owner's permission, so locking your car doesn't bar any legal activity.
In this case, the ISP's UAP explicitly states that distributing MP3 files is not accepted. So to hell with them. GZip some wave files instead, or distribute RealAudio or OGG Vorbis files instead, or, heck, why not store them as MPEG files without any video?
Or ofcourse, you could contact the ISP and explain to them that you're a DJ and that those MP3 files are all your own creation and are all legal. They might actually be reasonable and allow you to keep them.
"Copying any number of pieces of work without providing sources, in other words, copying any number of pieces of work and claiming it's your own, is plaggiarism. Copying any number of pieces of work and correctly providing the sources is research."
Actually, it's also rather like the system in the Netherlands. We've got basically a quadruple system here.
There's the monarch, who ofcourse isn't chosen.
Then there's the Tweede Kamer (2nd Chamber, Parliament), consisting of 150 seats voted directly by the people. The largest parties form a coalition. The prime minister will be chosen by the largest party out of their own ranks, the ministers and state secretaries (vice ministers) will be chosen by the coalition parties and the prime minister, out of their own ranks, during the formation period.
Every province has a governor, appointed by the monarch.
The provinicial government is chosen like the 2nd Chamber, directly by the people.
Every municipality has a mayor, appointed by the monarch and approved by the provincial governor.
The municipal government is chosen like the 2nd Chamber, directly by the people.
And then there's also the 1st Chamber, consisting of 52 (damn, I'm not even sure about that. gotta check my facts somewhere) seats, chosen by the States General, which is the collection of provincial governments. The 1st Chamber operates alongside the 2nd Chamber. They cross-check the bills that passed through the 2nd Chamber with the constitution and other already existing laws.
National law always precedes over provincial regulations. Provincial regulations always precede over municipal regulations.
So basically there are two systems functioning next to eachother. The ancient top-down system (monarch > governor > mayor) and the modern bottom-up system (municipal government > provincial government > 2nd Chamber) and then there are also strange cross-overs (the prime minister, the 1st Chamber). All this makes the Dutch political system one of the most complicated in the world - but it works. It has worked for hundreds of years, and it's still working as it was originally intended.
Then why do so many politicians keep saying the US is a democracy? Why do so many politicians say they want other countries to become democratic too? Why "too" if they don't think they're democratic aswell?
I can see the virtues of the electoral college, especially in a country as large as the US. A parliamental democracy slash constitutional monarchy as we have here (Netherlands) simply wouldn't function on that scale...
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There are writers/editors who provide a biography service: they'll come over and talk about the past and write it all down. This helps you relive your memories while the biography is crated, and you get a limited edition biography to boot, that you can give to friends and loved ones.
Same here. Local IT reports to Finance, which is a good thing, because all IT does in the views of the "bigwigs" is "spend money" anyway :D
True, but think of what 70% fuel usage reduction would bring. Fuel accounts for 30 - 40% of the ticket price, so a 70% reduction in fuel would cut ticket prices by 20 - 30%.
In Norway or Sweden (can't really remember which) there was also a trial with fuel efficient approaches, which reduce fuel consumption by up to 10% for shorter hauls. Instead of coming in high and fast, the plane would more gradually descend and decelerate, basically glide itself down to the airport. This requires stricter planning of approaches, though, and if you were to have to break off your approach for some reason the advantage would be completely lost...
Unfortunately, "man up and deal with it" is the only way to do this. That, and split up your keys in several bunches.
I've got a private bunch with my 3 house keys and my car key, and a work bunch with the 5 keys and 3 RFID tags that I need at work. The house bunch has a Toyota hanger from the dealership, and the work bunch has a nice metal hanger with the logo of my employer. Oh, and then I've got my bicycle key separately, with a handmade bronze crocodile hanger, souvenir from Sabou, Burkina Faso, where I sat the back of a live croc.
That way you generally only walk around with half your keys in the pocket, limiting the damage to your clothes. What's more, having a heavy bunch of keys in the pocket isn't very comfortable...
Agreed! I took a Scheidegger touchtyping course when I was around 10 years old, on one of ye olde electric typewriters, and it turns out that it is one of the most useful things I ever learned. Well, math and spelling are very useful too, of course, but touchtyping is a skill that has served me throughout my professional life.
The problem is that in elementary school, most teachers don't know how to touch type, so how could they teach the children? The teachers should be taught first!
What would be the effect of Chef (Southpark) converging his soup with the Swedish Chef's (Hergee Bergee Muppets Bork) walking spaghetti?
The important words are "to the airline". Not to the US government.
In Europe there are laws that indicate that I have the right to demand any organisation or company what information they have of me, that I have the right to command changes in that information, and that I have the right to order that information to be removed, and that they are obliged to disclose to whom they have passed on what information.
Thus, I give the information to the airline, knowing that they will be careful with it, that I can at any time ask them exactly what they have done with my information, then in turn contact companies that they have given my information to and do the same, until no more trace of my information can be found. As a European citizen, I have that right.
Does the US government acknowledge that right?
If they do not, then they have no right to access my information. Since I only agreed to give that information to those organisations or companies that respect those rights.
Why, so it can be in the same database that got hacked by anonymous crackers, to even the field between European and American credit card security!
Seriously though, I'm surprised European governments are allowing such infriction on the privacy of us, its citizens, and by a foreign government no less, who has no business whatsoever sticking its nose into my personal data.
If they want the information, they should go get it on their own soil. Demand all passengers landing in the US to disclose their credit card numbers, for example. That would lead to passenger uproar, you say? So where is the difference between candidly asking a passenger his credit card number, and sneakily procuring it from his airline company behind his back and without his explicit consent or even knowledge?
My Commodore 16 (yes, an ancient ancestor of the more well-known C64) had Commodore keys (with the C= logo on it), that were generally used to create special characters. And I guess the Commodore 16 well outdates any Mac or PC :)
Actually, they have tried that, but it always resulted in death by various kinds of cancers.
The system that causes aging causes cells to not be able to divide more than a certain amount of times. This system does not exist to cause aging. Actually, aging is a side effect. Most probably, the real reason for this cell aging system is to prevent cancer. In cancers, cells will divide uncontrollably. Thus, eventually, they will reach their maximum number of divisions and die off.
Take away the aging system, and cancers can roam free...
Actually, there's nothing wrong with the word "cult".
In French, any religious stream is called a "culte", and any church or temple is called a "lieu de culte" which literally means "cult location".
Unfortunately the word cult in the English language has had a rather painful encounter with the ACME Word Twister (TM).
Actually, when I sit down to work, I take off my watch. When I run off to take a little break, I generally leave it lying there. When I leave my watch on, I will get RSI-like pains in my left hand after a few minutes of work. Sometimes the same kind of problems occur in my ring finger, which dissipate quickly when I take off my ring.
Guess I'm not the kind of person who could use this particular gadget...
Publish the contents upon death? Now we only have to kill the user to get to his data without any inconvenient password cracking. Requires complete lack of conscience, but there are lots and lots of people who fulfill that requirement (heck, some people kill a friend over a fscking beer - let alone his encrypted pr0n collection), and it's a hell of a lot faster!
Recently there was a discussion on TV about the Internet destroying the Dutch language, how the Dutch language is becoming increasingly laced with English words. But Dutch has always been influenced by other languages, and it has always survived. Many words that are accepted as perfect Dutch by everybody alive today come from French, laced into Dutch during the Napoleonic occupation. Similarly some German words filtered into Dutch during the German occupation. The Internet occupation will probably do the same: some English terms will filter into Dutch, but the Dutch language will continue to live on.
The same will happen to Spanish. You cannot force languages. Languages will always evolve, will always be influenced by its neighbours. The Internet has made English every language's neighbour, so it's only logical that all languages on earth start adopting English words and terminology.
But also other stuff. In Dutch, people say "zie je", a literal translation of "see you" more and more often, while it is totally incorrect as pure Dutch. Words like "hi", "okay", "shit" and "fuck" have been seeping into Dutch for many decades already. The world is changing, and languages are changing with it. Languages have always changed, have always adopted, and have always survived. Spanish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Greek - they'll all survive the Internet, I'm sure of it, but they won't be quite the same either. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity
bullsh.it
:)
damn.it
funny, actually
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This is a nice example that it is definitely allowed elsewhere: fuck.it.
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This sudden change could have had something to do with a severe lack of sleep lately, though...
No... Remember those nuclear tests the French did? They shipped some samples over to Metz to see how call centre agents would react to it.
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity
Yes, doubtlessly there is other life in the universe, and so doubtlessly there is also other intelligent life out there. The problem however is time scale.
It is only the last two centuries that humans have made any scientific advances towards space travel. For millions upon millions of years before that, humanity was just sitting there doing nothing, and for billions up on billions of years before that, there was no humanity at all.
With regards to other intelligent life, quite likely:
a) It still has to evolve, and will do so in a few billion years
b) It has gone beyond being human-like a few billion years ago and evolved into Goddess knows what
c) It has managed to destroy itself a few billion years ago with its own pollution and/or weapons of mass destruction
And even if there's a planet out there that chances to have intelligent life in a human-like stage of evolution, it's most likely that:
a) it will reach the space age in a few million years
b) it hass already gone beyond the space age a few million years ago
And even if there's one species out there that is human-like in evolutional development and just beyond our current space age, presuming they have faster than light travel to reach us, they will still likely be so different that we'd never have any hopes of communicating with them (I mean, come on, we can't even understand dolphins yet, let alone creatures from another planet). And that's the least of the problems. Maybe they'd die instantly in our atmosphere - and even if that's all compatible, then our common cold may be their ebola. Any alien race with enough intelligence to actually be able to reach us will also be intelligent enough to avoid us like the disease we'll probably be.
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity
Reason enough for you that the AUP literally states storage and distribution of MP3 files is not allowed? :)
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity
Example: If it weren't for car thieves we'd not have to bother locking our cars.
Nice analogy - except that there is no legal way to use a car without the owner's permission, so locking your car doesn't bar any legal activity.
In this case, the ISP's UAP explicitly states that distributing MP3 files is not accepted. So to hell with them. GZip some wave files instead, or distribute RealAudio or OGG Vorbis files instead, or, heck, why not store them as MPEG files without any video?
Or ofcourse, you could contact the ISP and explain to them that you're a DJ and that those MP3 files are all your own creation and are all legal. They might actually be reasonable and allow you to keep them.
)O(
Never underestimate the power of stupidity
gotcha! :)
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity
Hey Jurri, how are things in Metz? :)
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity
No, it goes like this:
"Copying any number of pieces of work without providing sources, in other words, copying any number of pieces of work and claiming it's your own, is plaggiarism. Copying any number of pieces of work and correctly providing the sources is research."
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity
Actually, it's also rather like the system in the Netherlands. We've got basically a quadruple system here.
There's the monarch, who ofcourse isn't chosen.
Then there's the Tweede Kamer (2nd Chamber, Parliament), consisting of 150 seats voted directly by the people. The largest parties form a coalition. The prime minister will be chosen by the largest party out of their own ranks, the ministers and state secretaries (vice ministers) will be chosen by the coalition parties and the prime minister, out of their own ranks, during the formation period.
Every province has a governor, appointed by the monarch.
The provinicial government is chosen like the 2nd Chamber, directly by the people.
Every municipality has a mayor, appointed by the monarch and approved by the provincial governor.
The municipal government is chosen like the 2nd Chamber, directly by the people.
And then there's also the 1st Chamber, consisting of 52 (damn, I'm not even sure about that. gotta check my facts somewhere) seats, chosen by the States General, which is the collection of provincial governments. The 1st Chamber operates alongside the 2nd Chamber. They cross-check the bills that passed through the 2nd Chamber with the constitution and other already existing laws.
National law always precedes over provincial regulations. Provincial regulations always precede over municipal regulations.
So basically there are two systems functioning next to eachother. The ancient top-down system (monarch > governor > mayor) and the modern bottom-up system (municipal government > provincial government > 2nd Chamber) and then there are also strange cross-overs (the prime minister, the 1st Chamber). All this makes the Dutch political system one of the most complicated in the world - but it works. It has worked for hundreds of years, and it's still working as it was originally intended.
)O(
Never underestimate the power of stupidity
Then why do so many politicians keep saying the US is a democracy? Why do so many politicians say they want other countries to become democratic too? Why "too" if they don't think they're democratic aswell?
I can see the virtues of the electoral college, especially in a country as large as the US. A parliamental democracy slash constitutional monarchy as we have here (Netherlands) simply wouldn't function on that scale...
)O(
Never underestimate the power of stupidity