That's odd... where else would they (you) be? Sweden seems (to me, at least) to a model of "Europeaness". The same attitude has crept into parts of Irish society (where I'm originally from) and I find it strange (because I just don't understand it). Would you please explain? Is it denial of geography, denial of identity, a strong streak of independent thinking or something else?
Yes, but to listen to a large segment of the UK political class, the UK is not "in" Europe. Remember the classic headline from a UK broadsheet, "Storms in English Channel, Europe Cut Off"?
Phil Zimmermann of PGP fame relocated to Dublin when he joined Hushmail. I think it's also legally headquartered there because of the afore-mentioned encryption laws. Not sure about other locations...
Yes -- but that isn't the Internet, it's Minitel content. I think they introduced gateway access to Internet content recently, but cannot comment on how effective that is as I haven't seen it. Minitel was cool enough in its day.
Simple answer - number of subscribers to the different standards. "Regular" GSM is used throughout Europe, the Middle East, the Orient, etc. North American GSM has a tiny installed base. Standardize with the rest of us and you can use these goodies too.
hushmail operates out of Ireland, where there is strong legal protection for private use of encryption (i.e., the security services cannot request the keys or demand that an encrypted communication be decrypted). Not an anonymizer service (unless they offer one, haven't been to their site in ages), but still, it offers some privacy.
I suspect that France has a much higher percentage of citizens with real ISPs than the United States, so naturally this idea would fly beter over there.
The reverse is actually true. France has one of the lowest levels of Internet penetration in the EU, much lower than in the US.
Hello, little idiot. With reference to the IRA, they carried out numerous attacks in (then) West Germany and the Netherlands in the 1980s, many more in Britain (the bigger island on the right, i.e., not Northern Ireland). As for property damage, may I refer you to Canary Wharf? The bombing of Manchester not too long ago? You are a fool. And by the way, I'm Irish -- and feel nothing but disgust for PIRA, IRA, CIRA, RIRA and their alphabet soup colleagues on the "other" side. Sickening, murdering, thuggish scum who cheapen the name of those they purport to represent.
And I think their decision to sell a closed-source proprietary version of the code would be hypocritical, except that they aren't a 100% open-source company any more. And *that* is the part that makes me the most sad.
I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. Surely it makes sense that they adaprt to changing conditions in order to survive, whilst trying to remain as true to their original goals as possible? This is just pragmatism, nothing to be emotional about. It is, after all, just business.
9% of the population of Germany was born outside of Germany. I lived in and visited districts of many medium - to large - size cities that had many people of colour. Perhaps in those three, long weeks in which you gained your enormous understanding of Germany, you didn't venture very far, didn't see very much?
But I have heard of apartment buildings burned down in Germany, with Turkish families inside. There is a history in the US of black homes and churches burned, but the last racial-arson deaths I recall were in the 1960's. We've still got nutcases who might want to do things like this, but they know they won't get away with it.
He said "PEOPLE OF COLOR" jackass, so unless you're a "black irishman" then you don't fall under his statement do you?
Do you honestly think all Irish people are white? Resorting to insults does nothing to further your argument. Why don't you tell me, what "colour" am I?
And his other statement was how many Turkish had been "murdered in Germany lately". You said you encountered "more racism" here than in Europe... did you experience "violent, racist crimes" (ie. murder)??
Yes, actually, I cannot recall a single instance of questionable police shootings of Turks in Frankfurt or Munich where I lived for five years. In the three years that I've lived in Saint Louis, there have been five.
If not, then your own example doesn't disprove his statements, and therefore doesn't prove your point!
And if you looked into those religious schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan a little more, you'd learn that they are almost entirely funded by rich Saudi Arabians, or the Saudi Arabian government. The Taliban has no money to spend on education, so the Saudi's are paying for them. And the latest info about the hijackers is that MOST of the ones who died on the planes WERE Saudi Arabian.
In other words, in Europe they protect your right to say whatever they think you should say. Not only that, but they interfere in private business to make sure you damn well can say anything on the government approved list without such petty things as "contracts" and "agreements" getting in the way. Lovely, makes me want to move to France now... will they perform the lobotomy at the consulate or do I have to do it at the border?
"They" being elected by the people in democratic societies, this would better phrased "we" protect our right to say what "we" feel is valid.
If you're referring to the events of September 11th, the number murdered is closer to 5,000 than 7,000. The "program of hate" you refer to is taught in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan, not Saudi Arabia. The vast majority of the Taliban attended those schools, not school in Saudi Arabia.
I suggest YOU check the numbers for violent, racist crimes and compare numbers in the US vs. Western Europe. I'm Irish, spent years living in various German cities until 1996 and I can assure that I encounter far more racism, institutionalised and general, here in the USA than I ever did in Germany, or any other Western European country for that matter. Rather than just saying "Germany is more racist", I suggest you back this up with facts.
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And you respond to that? Hmmm.
Well, I'm more than happy with it.
That's odd... where else would they (you) be? Sweden seems (to me, at least) to a model of "Europeaness". The same attitude has crept into parts of Irish society (where I'm originally from) and I find it strange (because I just don't understand it). Would you please explain? Is it denial of geography, denial of identity, a strong streak of independent thinking or something else?
Yes, but to listen to a large segment of the UK political class, the UK is not "in" Europe. Remember the classic headline from a UK broadsheet, "Storms in English Channel, Europe Cut Off"?
Phil Zimmermann of PGP fame relocated to Dublin when he joined Hushmail. I think it's also legally headquartered there because of the afore-mentioned encryption laws. Not sure about other locations...
Yes -- but that isn't the Internet, it's Minitel content. I think they introduced gateway access to Internet content recently, but cannot comment on how effective that is as I haven't seen it. Minitel was cool enough in its day.
Pillock! Ireland is far from socialist. Rampant free-marketeering and a completely open economy are the order of the day.
And your point is?
Simple answer - number of subscribers to the different standards. "Regular" GSM is used throughout Europe, the Middle East, the Orient, etc. North American GSM has a tiny installed base. Standardize with the rest of us and you can use these goodies too.
hushmail operates out of Ireland, where there is strong legal protection for private use of encryption (i.e., the security services cannot request the keys or demand that an encrypted communication be decrypted). Not an anonymizer service (unless they offer one, haven't been to their site in ages), but still, it offers some privacy.
I think you meant to say "liberal", not "libertarian".
I refer you to the Netherlands, Ireland, Portugal -- each has unemployment 5% and strong social protection.
That's because France is a republic, not a *federal* republic. Germany, however, *IS* a federal republic with ~80M people and has managed to do this.
The EU population is ~400M, some ~175M larger than the US.
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I suggest you read "Biohazard" by Ken Alibek, the former second-in-command of the the Soviet Union's bioweaponry programme. He would beg to differ.
Nonsense. The IRA murdered some 2,400 British citizens between August 1969 and the present day.
Hello, little idiot. With reference to the IRA, they carried out numerous attacks in (then) West Germany and the Netherlands in the 1980s, many more in Britain (the bigger island on the right, i.e., not Northern Ireland). As for property damage, may I refer you to Canary Wharf? The bombing of Manchester not too long ago? You are a fool. And by the way, I'm Irish -- and feel nothing but disgust for PIRA, IRA, CIRA, RIRA and their alphabet soup colleagues on the "other" side. Sickening, murdering, thuggish scum who cheapen the name of those they purport to represent.
Do you honestly think all Irish people are white? Resorting to insults does nothing to further your argument. Why don't you tell me, what "colour" am I?
Yes, actually, I cannot recall a single instance of questionable police shootings of Turks in Frankfurt or Munich where I lived for five years. In the three years that I've lived in Saint Louis, there have been five.
If not, then your own example doesn't disprove his statements, and therefore doesn't prove your point!
Where did I disagree with this?
If you're referring to the events of September 11th, the number murdered is closer to 5,000 than 7,000. The "program of hate" you refer to is taught in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan, not Saudi Arabia. The vast majority of the Taliban attended those schools, not school in Saudi Arabia.
I suggest YOU check the numbers for violent, racist crimes and compare numbers in the US vs. Western Europe. I'm Irish, spent years living in various German cities until 1996 and I can assure that I encounter far more racism, institutionalised and general, here in the USA than I ever did in Germany, or any other Western European country for that matter. Rather than just saying "Germany is more racist", I suggest you back this up with facts.