It might have something to do with the fact that Royal never married her long-time partner and (as far as I know) father of her children.
Which is worse politically in France, having a difficult/broken marriage or ignoring the institution of marriage? (I ask this honestly, as an "ugly American". In the US, Royal's situation would be considered worse.)
The menu bar isn't just in the wrong place, the default setting doesn't even have it. Adding the drop-down menu bar takes up a whole bunch of screen space, of which 75% is completely wasted. I can't even drag other parts of the UI up to that menu bar like we could with IE6.
Additionally, if your identity = "U", and you develop Alzheimer's disease, you are going to be identical to "U - a". An implant would make you "U - a + i". Either way, you're starting with "U-a" at the get-go. So IMO this has few implications for identity or ethics if it is used only to treat diseased or incapacitated individuals.
My locality uses fill-in-the-dot (SAT style) ballots. Human readable, not as expensive as OCR. I suppose some fool could develop a "butterfly" layout that would be confusing, but hopefully those days are behind us.
A human-readable ballot is inserted into the machine, the machine validates (and spits out "overvote" ballots, try again.), records, and deposits ballot into locked safe.
One touch-screen machine is available for extremely handicapped voters, and any voter is allowed to ask for assistance from one of the officials present.
Speaking as a "free market type", several things are true about "sub prime" lending and markets generally.
1 - These loans, collectively, are the summation of individual choices from lenders and borrowers. Some lenders, and some borrowers, made bad choices. About 10-15 percent of subprime loans (themselves about 13 pc of all mortgage loans) will default. So over 80% of these borrowers will work it out, many of whom are just poor people trying to buy a home rather than pay rent forever.
2 - Long term, the market is self-correcting. In fact, that's what's happening right now. Those companies who made many poor loans are going bankrupt and are having their stocks de-listed. Companies with an appropriate amount of sub-prime exposure are doing just fine.
3 - Government intervention, as a general rule, is not guaranteed to make the situation any better than the market. And there's a very high probability that over-regulating sub prime loans will make it very difficult for people close to the margin to afford homes.
The most "religious" economics are socialist economics.
No tune ups necessary. I thought the summer blends were for pollution emissions, but I could be wrong. If it's about pollution, then the South would have different summer fuel.
One of the biggest problems with the summer blends is that there is more than one blend. The Gov't regulates which blends must be available in which regions, and it gets a little crazy with how many blends there are. This process makes the fuel less fungible, that is, less easy to buy and sell freely as the markets are controlled. This is one reason why the summer grades are more expensive than the standard winter grade fuel.
Bio-diesel, on the other hand, gels at a higher temperature than standard diesel so it's harder to use in cooler climates without special equipment to keep the fuel warm. I'm not sure if there is a seasonality to the bio-petro diesel blends...
Indeed, the Mohammad episode concluded with a purposely blasphemous hodge-podge of Jesus crapping on people and the like. Comedy Central let it through. (The cut Mohammad scene was an innocuous three-second clip of Mohammad handing a guy a fish.) When the usual folks complained about the depictions of Jesus they were making South Park's point for them - there wouldn't be a violent retaliation for the completely disgusting and inflammatory images they had portrayed.
But why switch at all? IIRC, MS has released "awareness" patches for certain older MSOffice versions, so until OOo version 3 comes out, there is absolutely zero reason to switch now.
Monster.com will accept a.doc but it looks extremely bad. It takes no other formats, though you'd think it could handle txt or rtf. For monster, one is better off using their stupid resume-maker.
MS offers a free-download Word Viewer. I've started using it to check layout in my OOo-edited.doc files. So far, so good. Anecdotally, I started with Word97, switched to OOo at version 2.0 when it was finally able to open my resume without mangling it terribly. (My resume is exactly the sort of formatting mess that word procs were not invented to handle.) The most recent MSWord viewer displays it just fine.
More recently I've seen job ads asking for either doc or pdf, but mostly doc, and those accepting pdf are not headhunters/job boards.
One thing I don't get about the whole plug-in-only concept is why these cars don't have Photo-voltaic cells to complement the battery system. Solar-only doesn't work, but in many areas you could squeeze out significantly more "miles per charge" with a solar panel. And for commuters, your car sits outside in the lot for most of the peak collecting hours anyway, not anywhere near a charger.
A - as I said, a significant part of the job was writing letters. No other position in the office was likely to have written the letter.
B - Of course that is the case. That wasn't my point. His/her job is to write letters that conform to standard English. Most of the letters this person would have written would have been of little value.
I once applied for a position where I would be doing a lot of correspondence with the public. My rejection letter, presumably written by the person who got that position, contained a blatant sentence fragment in the middle. Slap! I felt like copying it and forwarding it back to the hiring manager, and might have done so if not for a few bridges I'd rather not have burned at the time.
UK electricity generation by fuel: Nat Gas 38.7%, Coal 33.6% (source)
Total world electric generation by fuel: Coal 39.8%, Nat Gas 19.6% , Hyrdo 16.1%, Nuke 15.7%, Oil 6.7% (source)
Nations with high reliance on coal for electric generation (2005 unless stated): Poland 92%, South Africa 92% (2004), Australia 79% (or 85+%), China 78% (2004), Israel 75% (2004), Kazakhstan 70% (2004), India 69% (2004), Morocco 67% (2004), Czech Republic 61%, Greece 59%, USA 50%, Germany 49%
Debian really isn't that hard - even the install. Ubuntu's main advantage that I can see is newer and more frequent stable releases. I had a serious upgrade issue with Ubuntu (freezing gui) that I eventually reinstalled over. This was after attempting to avoid known upgrade errata. Running Debian unstable I only had a minor upgrade/dependency issue that was solved with a peek at the bboards, requiring only about three "apt-get" commands from the prompt. (iirc, "remove a", "upgrade b", "install a"). Heck, even the X11 to X.org switch was relatively simple. Not that ubuntu is bad, but I think there is a trade-off between usability and "stability" (in multiple senses of the word).
Circa 2002 I had to use a seriously underpowered XP machine at work. (I think it was technically under the minimum specs, but finessed to install - Mid 200mhz cpu, a healthy amount of RAM, onboard video) I turned off almost all the eye candy and went to Classic theme to make it somewhat usable. The biggest performance hit came when I forgot to turn off thumbnail generation when opening a folder full of image files. Other than that I could live with the performance, it was a reasonable upgrade from the crashiness of Win98.
Having since moved to better machines, I don't see any real advantage to using classic theme. I turn off many animations and task-grouping, but that's it.
If it really came down to another US civil war, I'm guessing that at least a third of the military would go renegade and take some cool toys with them. Not that they'd have the command and control infrastructure like the remaining military would, but it wouldn't just be a cake walk.
The sheer size of the US - geographically and population-wise - does mean that the military would have a very hard time controlling things.
Pennsylvania recently allowed beer distributors to open on Sundays. There is competitive pressure among the distributors to open on Sunday, and so most of them do, but the total volume of beer sold is about the same (since people used to just plan ahead and buy Saturday). So they've increased their costs (labor, lights, etc.) by working an extra day but haven't increased sales volume. Additionally, they have cannibalized some "six pack" shop (aka "bottle shop") sales who have always been allowed to sell on Sunday, but who are big customers of the distributors. Allowing Sunday sales has created a classic collective action problem in that everybody has a collective incentive to avoid work on Sunday but an individual motivation to do so.
If people really think they would fund this (and want to get a piece of the action), they should think about whether they would buy stock in Google or Rio Tinto Minerals (which mines quite a bit of the world's boron). Unfortunately, the Turkish boron mines seem to be state owned, and thus uninvestable.
If it really would be a $100B/yr business, it would be worth the five hundred bucks to buy just one share of google, and for the adventurous, the two hundred odd dollars for Rio Tinto.
So, that's the smell test slashdotters ought to be asking themselves. Forget all this pontificating about how google ought to take the plunge. Is it interesting enough to put up over 700 bucks for the smallest possible stock purchases? And if you aren't willing to put up 5 or 7 hundred, why should the Google boys put up millions?
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Which is worse politically in France, having a difficult/broken marriage or ignoring the institution of marriage? (I ask this honestly, as an "ugly American". In the US, Royal's situation would be considered worse.)
So sayeth this Firefox user.
Additionally, if your identity = "U", and you develop Alzheimer's disease, you are going to be identical to "U - a". An implant would make you "U - a + i". Either way, you're starting with "U-a" at the get-go. So IMO this has few implications for identity or ethics if it is used only to treat diseased or incapacitated individuals.
A human-readable ballot is inserted into the machine, the machine validates (and spits out "overvote" ballots, try again.), records, and deposits ballot into locked safe.
One touch-screen machine is available for extremely handicapped voters, and any voter is allowed to ask for assistance from one of the officials present.
1 - These loans, collectively, are the summation of individual choices from lenders and borrowers. Some lenders, and some borrowers, made bad choices. About 10-15 percent of subprime loans (themselves about 13 pc of all mortgage loans) will default. So over 80% of these borrowers will work it out, many of whom are just poor people trying to buy a home rather than pay rent forever.
2 - Long term, the market is self-correcting. In fact, that's what's happening right now. Those companies who made many poor loans are going bankrupt and are having their stocks de-listed. Companies with an appropriate amount of sub-prime exposure are doing just fine.
3 - Government intervention, as a general rule, is not guaranteed to make the situation any better than the market. And there's a very high probability that over-regulating sub prime loans will make it very difficult for people close to the margin to afford homes.
The most "religious" economics are socialist economics.
One of the biggest problems with the summer blends is that there is more than one blend. The Gov't regulates which blends must be available in which regions, and it gets a little crazy with how many blends there are. This process makes the fuel less fungible, that is, less easy to buy and sell freely as the markets are controlled. This is one reason why the summer grades are more expensive than the standard winter grade fuel.
Bio-diesel, on the other hand, gels at a higher temperature than standard diesel so it's harder to use in cooler climates without special equipment to keep the fuel warm. I'm not sure if there is a seasonality to the bio-petro diesel blends...
Indeed, the Mohammad episode concluded with a purposely blasphemous hodge-podge of Jesus crapping on people and the like. Comedy Central let it through. (The cut Mohammad scene was an innocuous three-second clip of Mohammad handing a guy a fish.) When the usual folks complained about the depictions of Jesus they were making South Park's point for them - there wouldn't be a violent retaliation for the completely disgusting and inflammatory images they had portrayed.
If a Lexus gets to be called luxury, so does a Caddy. We can't all drive Maybachs now, can we?
But why switch at all? IIRC, MS has released "awareness" patches for certain older MSOffice versions, so until OOo version 3 comes out, there is absolutely zero reason to switch now.
Use PDF. They'll never know how you made it.
MS offers a free-download Word Viewer. I've started using it to check layout in my OOo-edited .doc files. So far, so good. Anecdotally, I started with Word97, switched to OOo at version 2.0 when it was finally able to open my resume without mangling it terribly. (My resume is exactly the sort of formatting mess that word procs were not invented to handle.) The most recent MSWord viewer displays it just fine.
More recently I've seen job ads asking for either doc or pdf, but mostly doc, and those accepting pdf are not headhunters/job boards.
One thing I don't get about the whole plug-in-only concept is why these cars don't have Photo-voltaic cells to complement the battery system. Solar-only doesn't work, but in many areas you could squeeze out significantly more "miles per charge" with a solar panel. And for commuters, your car sits outside in the lot for most of the peak collecting hours anyway, not anywhere near a charger.
B - Of course that is the case. That wasn't my point. His/her job is to write letters that conform to standard English. Most of the letters this person would have written would have been of little value.
I once applied for a position where I would be doing a lot of correspondence with the public. My rejection letter, presumably written by the person who got that position, contained a blatant sentence fragment in the middle. Slap! I felt like copying it and forwarding it back to the hiring manager, and might have done so if not for a few bridges I'd rather not have burned at the time.
oops, first link (UK data) should be here.
UK electricity generation by fuel: Nat Gas 38.7%, Coal 33.6% (source)
Total world electric generation by fuel: Coal 39.8%, Nat Gas 19.6% , Hyrdo 16.1%, Nuke 15.7%, Oil 6.7% (source)
Nations with high reliance on coal for electric generation (2005 unless stated): Poland 92%, South Africa 92% (2004), Australia 79% (or 85+%), China 78% (2004), Israel 75% (2004), Kazakhstan 70% (2004), India 69% (2004), Morocco 67% (2004), Czech Republic 61%, Greece 59%, USA 50%, Germany 49%
Moore even mentioned Minority Report influencing the "hybrid" idea in his podcast.
Debian really isn't that hard - even the install. Ubuntu's main advantage that I can see is newer and more frequent stable releases. I had a serious upgrade issue with Ubuntu (freezing gui) that I eventually reinstalled over. This was after attempting to avoid known upgrade errata. Running Debian unstable I only had a minor upgrade/dependency issue that was solved with a peek at the bboards, requiring only about three "apt-get" commands from the prompt. (iirc, "remove a", "upgrade b", "install a"). Heck, even the X11 to X.org switch was relatively simple. Not that ubuntu is bad, but I think there is a trade-off between usability and "stability" (in multiple senses of the word).
Of course we're living in a simulation.
Having since moved to better machines, I don't see any real advantage to using classic theme. I turn off many animations and task-grouping, but that's it.
And if they're not, why the heck aren't they everywhere! (Movie theaters, restaurants, etc.)
The sheer size of the US - geographically and population-wise - does mean that the military would have a very hard time controlling things.
1998 Pontiac Grand Prix SE
Pennsylvania recently allowed beer distributors to open on Sundays. There is competitive pressure among the distributors to open on Sunday, and so most of them do, but the total volume of beer sold is about the same (since people used to just plan ahead and buy Saturday). So they've increased their costs (labor, lights, etc.) by working an extra day but haven't increased sales volume. Additionally, they have cannibalized some "six pack" shop (aka "bottle shop") sales who have always been allowed to sell on Sunday, but who are big customers of the distributors. Allowing Sunday sales has created a classic collective action problem in that everybody has a collective incentive to avoid work on Sunday but an individual motivation to do so.
If it really would be a $100B/yr business, it would be worth the five hundred bucks to buy just one share of google, and for the adventurous, the two hundred odd dollars for Rio Tinto.
So, that's the smell test slashdotters ought to be asking themselves. Forget all this pontificating about how google ought to take the plunge. Is it interesting enough to put up over 700 bucks for the smallest possible stock purchases? And if you aren't willing to put up 5 or 7 hundred, why should the Google boys put up millions?