The elections are on the 10 of june, in little more than a week. I'd be very surprised to get a response before that time even if I rush off to the mailbox right now with this questionaire, and I can't really blame them.
It's like someone else said though, every time you change something on XP you seem to get Outlook Express, Messenger, and WMP back in the menus and desktop and reclaiming the default app position.
Want to have fun? Try manually deleting the Outlook Express folder in Program Files. It'll pretend to be deleted, t.hen copy itself back again! This works at least in win2k, but I wouldn't be surprised if this 'feature' is incorporated in all versions
I don't know how heavy the circuit breakers in the states generally are, but I run all my electrical devices on two breakers, both of them 16 amps, mains voltage here is 220, and I've never had a power outage. 16 amps @ 220 volts gives a power rating of 3520, a power consumation I won't ever reach with 2 computers and my lighting and stuff. The power intensive machines (washing machine, electrical oven and fridge) are on the other fuse. If I were in america, I'd probably consider using one of the 220 volt outlets found in the kitchen, take one phase and run it to my computer room, but still, I can't imagine computer equipment and electronics tripping a circuit breaker unless it's a really low amperage.
If the US government actually cared about human lives, it would be spending this type of attention on automobile safety (50k dead a year in US) or malaria (>1 million dead a year worldwide) or cancer (half a million dead in US per year).
Funny you mentioned malaria, cause I read the other day that Bill Gates just donated 168 million or so for malaria research.
So we have a government spending money on getting microsoft to store their list of 78,000 terrorists, money which was better spent on malaria research, but which is actually donated by Bill Gates, chairman of the above mentioned software company that money was spent on uselessly.
Anyone notice that the companies participating in HAVi are all either European or Asian? If this standard survives, it'll probably take a while to get to the states...
On a related note: philips already makes a programmable remote that you can program by pointing it at an other remote. You then press the button on the first remote and you can assign it to a button on the philips remote. Very handy.
Until he finally explained on page 2 that BS technology is an abreviation for Buckling Spring technology, I was reading Bullshit technology every time.
With K12 linux, I found this especially impressive:
"On the server side, two Compaq servers--a 933MHz dual-processor ML370 and a 1GHz dual-processor ML350--run Red Hat Linux and support about 220 concurrent users. "
220 users! Thats 220 times the price difference between a thin and a 'fat' client, minus the servers.
I just gave my dad a KNOPPIX cd to test linux with; a complete debian system with kde and all your standard stuff (openoffice, mozilla, etc) on one bootable CD. It's pretty nifty. It booted on my Dell Precision (which, accidentally, damn well isn't slower than any G5, lying apple sons-of-bitches), the same system which gave SuSE quite a few headaches at install time.
And with KNOPPIX you don't need an X-BOX, which are still manufactured by our evil arch enemy Microsoft, as far as I remember.
Apple turned off hyperthreading in the Dell precision machines, and disabled SSE2. These are modifications you're gonna notice using photoshop, so those benchmarks say nothing.
I've been buying a lot online in the States lately because of the bonus I now get with the Euro being valued so high against the dollar. This will neatly compensate for the savings I make on the exchange rate.
However, there's nothing really new actually, because officially you were supposed to pay the VAT taxes when the product went through custom. The thing was, some packages would be intercepted in customs, and you'd get a bill for the VAT, and others wouldn't. Profit!
Nah, nothing sneaky, I figure they know it might work father than 5 km from the exchange, but it doesn't always. And not always reads 'no' for any big company, because you're fucked if you promise things you can't make true. I'm sure Telstra are a bunch of idiots on a rope, but this, as you also say, is hitting them with the wrong stick. They acted fairly logical on this one.
This seems pretty silly to me as most teens here (Netherlands) are equipped with a mobile phone. It doesn't seem to have any added value over plain-vanilla SMS messages. Don't the States have a SMS service?
I bought a SliMP3 myself when I bought my own home, and I really like it. It's basically a dumb terminal powered by a perl daemon running on my file server. It has great sound quality and a good display. I'm not quite finished building everything yet ( my plans include remotely switchable lighting and video to my tv ), but one big advantage of the SliMP3 is that I can hack the daemon code myself -- so I can use the remote of the SliMP3 to control other applications, e.g. a video stream from my computer and the lighting.
I wonder why people insist that the US should join the international court of justice? I don't care if they do or don't. I just don't want to them to hinder other countries that do think an international court of justice is a good idea. And honestly, don't you think it's a tad agressive to accept a law condoning an invasion in a allied country? I mean, where did 'we can work it out together' go?
They may have confirmed the existence of global warming, but there is absolutely no hard evidence that it is caused by geologically and climatologically insignifant human action Science knows no thing as 'hard evidence', only unrefuted theories. And as for now, the theory that global warming is caused by human activity has a stronger case than the reverse. Science works with consensus, and most scientists are convinced the current global warming is being caused for the most part by human activity.
"Broad international consensus" is just like "public opinion": largely irrelevant (and for a good reason). I beg to differ. Broad international consensus was in this case consensus among decision makers, not the public. As (like you have just pointed out) decision makers are in this case heads of sovereign nations, they can decide to circumvent the UN, and with good reason in the Kosovo case, but not so in the Iraq case. The original motivation to attack in Kosovo before the UN gave its blessing was the large stream of refugees and the fact that a fait accompli would be created with the ethnical cleansing of the region. You will most likely disagree with me, but I did not see any such time pressure in Iraq to circumvent the UN, which is also proven by the fact that Bush et al did try to get UN permission. And you, as an ex-pat, must be able to affirm that the Iraq intervention was much less accepted as necessary outside the US than was the Kosovo intervention.
I've been to the states on several occasions, my parents have been ex-pats in the States in the sixties, the eighties and the nineties, so I think I know my stereotypes =) You know as well as I do that the average american has very little to no knowlegde of what goes on outside the states.
Oh, you mean things like the Kyoto treaty and so called unilateral war with Iraq? Amongst others. I was also thinking about the non-proliferation agreement on biological weapons, the international court of justice (with special emphasis on the fact that the U.S. now has a law condoning it to attack the Netherlands if a U.S. citizen is taken prisoner by the court), world trade agreements (steel imports taxes), the what's-it-called agreement with russia on reducing nuclear warheads, etc, etc.
Why should we conform to a treaty that's supposed to address a phenomenon of which there is absolutely no scientific proof? Why would Bush ask a very respectable team of American scientists to advise him on the Greenhouse effect, only to ignore them when they confirm the existence of the global warming phenomenon?
As far as Iraq goes, I bet you were happy that we intervened in Kosovo -- you do remember that that also took place without the approval of the UN? I wasn't actually thinking about Iraq, but yes, I do remember Kosovo, and unlike you, I remember that there was broad consensus in the international community on a intervention and it was done in a combined effort lead by NATO.
Dude, try watching something different than Fox News and CNN, it might give you a perspective on things not American.
With the States current attitude towards international law & agreements, I can't see any form of global patent law being created, except if the U.S. forces the rest of the world to agree with it in some economic or political way.
Disrespect, cultural differances and violent dominance fosters terrorism. Once the seed of frustration has been planted, it will find a method disregardless of how hard people try to stop providing them. Please try to focus on the reasons for terrorism like the Israeli-Palestinian comflict and economic and political powerplay in sovereign countries by western forces in stead of going for an inevitable failure in suppressing the methods. I think Bin Laden c.s. have sufficiently proven they are creative enough to bypass any restrictions.
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The elections are on the 10 of june, in little more than a week. I'd be very surprised to get a response before that time even if I rush off to the mailbox right now with this questionaire, and I can't really blame them.
It's like someone else said though, every time you change something on XP you seem to get Outlook Express, Messenger, and WMP back in the menus and desktop and reclaiming the default app position. Want to have fun? Try manually deleting the Outlook Express folder in Program Files. It'll pretend to be deleted, t.hen copy itself back again! This works at least in win2k, but I wouldn't be surprised if this 'feature' is incorporated in all versions
I don't know how heavy the circuit breakers in the states generally are, but I run all my electrical devices on two breakers, both of them 16 amps, mains voltage here is 220, and I've never had a power outage.
16 amps @ 220 volts gives a power rating of 3520, a power consumation I won't ever reach with 2 computers and my lighting and stuff. The power intensive machines (washing machine, electrical oven and fridge) are on the other fuse.
If I were in america, I'd probably consider using one of the 220 volt outlets found in the kitchen, take one phase and run it to my computer room, but still, I can't imagine computer equipment and electronics tripping a circuit breaker unless it's a really low amperage.
If the US government actually cared about human lives, it would be spending this type of attention on automobile safety (50k dead a year in US) or malaria (>1 million dead a year worldwide) or cancer (half a million dead in US per year). Funny you mentioned malaria, cause I read the other day that Bill Gates just donated 168 million or so for malaria research. So we have a government spending money on getting microsoft to store their list of 78,000 terrorists, money which was better spent on malaria research, but which is actually donated by Bill Gates, chairman of the above mentioned software company that money was spent on uselessly.
Anyone notice that the companies participating in HAVi are all either European or Asian? If this standard survives, it'll probably take a while to get to the states ...
On a related note: philips already makes a programmable remote that you can program by pointing it at an other remote. You then press the button on the first remote and you can assign it to a button on the philips remote. Very handy.
Until he finally explained on page 2 that BS technology is an abreviation for Buckling Spring technology, I was reading Bullshit technology every time.
With K12 linux, I found this especially impressive:
"On the server side, two Compaq servers--a 933MHz dual-processor ML370 and a 1GHz dual-processor ML350--run Red Hat Linux and support about 220 concurrent users. "
220 users! Thats 220 times the price difference between a thin and a 'fat' client, minus the servers.
Go to menu view->view mode->KMOZILLA
And how do you imagine Apple did that?
Eeeeuh, they might have just turned off the option 'Hyperthreading' in the BIOS. And yes it's there, I can know, I own a precision myself.
I just gave my dad a KNOPPIX cd to test linux with; a complete debian system with kde and all your standard stuff (openoffice, mozilla, etc) on one bootable CD. It's pretty nifty. It booted on my Dell Precision (which, accidentally, damn well isn't slower than any G5, lying apple sons-of-bitches), the same system which gave SuSE quite a few headaches at install time.
And with KNOPPIX you don't need an X-BOX, which are still manufactured by our evil arch enemy Microsoft, as far as I remember.
Apple turned off hyperthreading in the Dell precision machines, and disabled SSE2. These are modifications you're gonna notice using photoshop, so those benchmarks say nothing.
I should have used the preview button =)
it's %sno/CTRL-V ENTER/CTRL-V ENTER/g
You can replace the DOS line endings in the scripts with vim. Load the file, and do: :sno///g
If you get an empty line between lines, forget the last ^M
sounds resonable?
What more is there to say?
I've been buying a lot online in the States lately because of the bonus I now get with the Euro being valued so high against the dollar. This will neatly compensate for the savings I make on the exchange rate.
However, there's nothing really new actually, because officially you were supposed to pay the VAT taxes when the product went through custom. The thing was, some packages would be intercepted in customs, and you'd get a bill for the VAT, and others wouldn't. Profit!
Nah, nothing sneaky, I figure they know it might work father than 5 km from the exchange, but it doesn't always. And not always reads 'no' for any big company, because you're fucked if you promise things you can't make true.
I'm sure Telstra are a bunch of idiots on a rope, but this, as you also say, is hitting them with the wrong stick. They acted fairly logical on this one.
"The core of our argument is to give money back to the sciences and let them do the planning," he said.
He says it himself. Stop deciding where to put the money and let science decide itself.
I saw that it could be google too, but anyhow, I made a username/password for y'all:
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Be wary however, I registered as a North Korean military R&D official under high salary.
This seems pretty silly to me as most teens here (Netherlands) are equipped with a mobile phone. It doesn't seem to have any added value over plain-vanilla SMS messages. Don't the States have a SMS service?
I bought a SliMP3 myself when I bought my own home, and I really like it. It's basically a dumb terminal powered by a perl daemon running on my file server. It has great sound quality and a good display. I'm not quite finished building everything yet ( my plans include remotely switchable lighting and video to my tv ), but one big advantage of the SliMP3 is that I can hack the daemon code myself -- so I can use the remote of the SliMP3 to control other applications, e.g. a video stream from my computer and the lighting.
I wonder why people insist that the US should join the international court of justice?
I don't care if they do or don't. I just don't want to them to hinder other countries that do think an international court of justice is a good idea. And honestly, don't you think it's a tad agressive to accept a law condoning an invasion in a allied country? I mean, where did 'we can work it out together' go?
They may have confirmed the existence of global warming, but there is absolutely no hard evidence that it is caused by geologically and climatologically insignifant human action
Science knows no thing as 'hard evidence', only unrefuted theories. And as for now, the theory that global warming is caused by human activity has a stronger case than the reverse. Science works with consensus, and most scientists are convinced the current global warming is being caused for the most part by human activity.
"Broad international consensus" is just like "public opinion": largely irrelevant (and for a good reason).
I beg to differ. Broad international consensus was in this case consensus among decision makers, not the public. As (like you have just pointed out) decision makers are in this case heads of sovereign nations, they can decide to circumvent the UN, and with good reason in the Kosovo case, but not so in the Iraq case.
The original motivation to attack in Kosovo before the UN gave its blessing was the large stream of refugees and the fact that a fait accompli would be created with the ethnical cleansing of the region. You will most likely disagree with me, but I did not see any such time pressure in Iraq to circumvent the UN, which is also proven by the fact that Bush et al did try to get UN permission.
And you, as an ex-pat, must be able to affirm that the Iraq intervention was much less accepted as necessary outside the US than was the Kosovo intervention.
I've been to the states on several occasions, my parents have been ex-pats in the States in the sixties, the eighties and the nineties, so I think I know my stereotypes =) You know as well as I do that the average american has very little to no knowlegde of what goes on outside the states.
This is euro trash signing off.
Oh, you mean things like the Kyoto treaty and so called unilateral war with Iraq?
Amongst others. I was also thinking about the non-proliferation agreement on biological weapons, the international court of justice (with special emphasis on the fact that the U.S. now has a law condoning it to attack the Netherlands if a U.S. citizen is taken prisoner by the court), world trade agreements (steel imports taxes), the what's-it-called agreement with russia on reducing nuclear warheads, etc, etc.
Why should we conform to a treaty that's supposed to address a phenomenon of which there is absolutely no scientific proof?
Why would Bush ask a very respectable team of American scientists to advise him on the Greenhouse effect, only to ignore them when they confirm the existence of the global warming phenomenon?
As far as Iraq goes, I bet you were happy that we intervened in Kosovo -- you do remember that that also took place without the approval of the UN?
I wasn't actually thinking about Iraq, but yes, I do remember Kosovo, and unlike you, I remember that there was broad consensus in the international community on a intervention and it was done in a combined effort lead by NATO.
Dude, try watching something different than Fox News and CNN, it might give you a perspective on things not American.
Have a nice day!
With the States current attitude towards international law & agreements, I can't see any form of global patent law being created, except if the U.S. forces the rest of the world to agree with it in some economic or political way.
Disrespect, cultural differances and violent dominance fosters terrorism. Once the seed of frustration has been planted, it will find a method disregardless of how hard people try to stop providing them. Please try to focus on the reasons for terrorism like the Israeli-Palestinian comflict and economic and political powerplay in sovereign countries by western forces in stead of going for an inevitable failure in suppressing the methods. I think Bin Laden c.s. have sufficiently proven they are creative enough to bypass any restrictions.
"his how-to book published do to fears with DMCA"