My father got a promotion and lobbied for his raise to be slightly less so he would stay in the lower scale. Going to the higher scale would leave him ending up with less money.
This is the dutch system:
3 scales: - 25% - 45 or 50% (I dont remember and cant be bothered to look it up) - 60%
Yes, it says 60% there! Youre still making a heap of money though....
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I think that in the Netherlands the government put a ban on raising the prices for at least a month or so. The "Consumentenbond" (Official Consumers representation, dont know what to call it in English) comes down on shops changing the prices to more attractive prices. (Unless its down of course... hah, like that will ever happen)
(Ive been living in Portugal for more than a year now, so I havent been actively involved in the Dutch switch-over)
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1 slight problem:
There wouldnt be enough gold or silver.
Thats one of the reasons why we switched from intrinsic value silver to paper notes and nickel coins.... (The other being impracticallity)
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[quote]And as for the £350 pound [worth] Euro note, that'll be the crimelord special.[/quote]
Not likely. In Holland we had the 1000,- guilder note. (About £350 also..) Never heard anything about big trouble. Most stores wouldnt accept it, but its nice for paying building constructors/plumbers and so on.
I held one once. Weird having a piece of paper in your hand that could blow away so easily, thats worth that much! (One of those "what if" moments: Hmm, lighter in my pocket, 1000,- guilder bill,... what if..")
I'm really sorry to have to reply to this but secondstory.com is an DHTML-site...
Which is perfect because of all the bitmap (pixel)content. That's one of the points where flash gets abused.... It's a vector-animation tool that has the ability to have interactive content.
It's easy to build a site in flash without thinking about loading-time, interaction-design and all of that. Just as it is easy to make a bad HTML-site. If you ever started to make something in flash you'll know that...
Actually The CUBA part is just something these guys are toying with.As you can see their URL ends in.nl (As does mine) It's holland or the NetherLands. They're a bunch of guys interested in smoking weed and hacking the phonesystem. Nothing too interesting. (IMHO of course);-)
Follow the link if you want to, it's all in english (Most of it anyway)
As to your 2004 home: You could use your Playstation 2 to play the movies (It plays DVD-disks) and then record them on the DVD-recorder.... Couldn't you?
hmmm, the possibilities, I'd never get out of my house again...:
mind wander
I've got a cable modem, so my friends can see me online, I'd do all my shopping online too... And now I get almost theaterelike quality movies (With Swahili overdubs if I want it to) on my widescreen HDTV..... hmmm...
It would get on slashdot, but as an "Look what these guys did they are horrible"-story. Face it, even slashdot is P.C......
Furthermore, killing people is not what slashdot is about, but slashdot sure as h@ll is largely made up out of 25/30 year olds who remember textgames, 2d-topdown games on a $2000,- machine and the thrill of shooting a 3d-nazi.....
I know I do.... (Bang... Aaaargh, mein leben!!!!.... The wonders of a 8-bit soundblaster!!!)
Being Atheist myself (But not really a practicing one though) I am going to have to correct you on this.
The Christmastree may have been adopted by the christians, It originally came from from the (Skandinavian?) Light-fest, or mid-winter-fest. They wouldn't stop using the tree's so the christians decided to let them keep it.
Hold on! I think I played two Commander Keens.... One was called "Aliens ate (or was it "caught") my baby sitter"... I think it was Commander Keen II ?
Whatever.... I liked it... I think I read something about Commander Keen for the gameboy color?
Truth be said I'd rather have wolfenstein on the Gameboy Color, but I guess Nintendo caters to small kids here....)
Maybe memory serves me wrong but I think I once read (here on slashdot??) that the Linux-community was going to try and get Linux on the desktop-market. Some of the observations made then were that:
1) HELP is not cool (kewl/c00l);-) ("If you can't find it out by reading the manual or the README, thou art not worthy")
2) HELP-files are really hard to write. Big companies have people working for them doing nothing but making manuals, and these professionals are the people that make those incredibly clear, easy to read, VCR-manuals!!!
Truth is (IMHO) that if you guys want to give Linux a place on the desktop, you will have to cope with (l)users.....
What Linux probably needs is a "TESTGROUP" of some kind. Maybe just a bunch of (ex-)WIN users that are genuinely interested in Linux, but just can't get it working.
Truth is, I am such a person. I'd love to try and get Linux on my machine, but it's just too damn hard... Well, maybe I'm just a lazy bastard....
Bauke
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When you write "your" instead of "you're"...
Sorry, too easy....
Yes, but Executive Decision is also the first film in a long time that stars Segal, but where he's not producing.
Seriously. Most of the films he's in as a starring role have been produced by Mister Segal himself....
So true.
My mother had a lot of trouble with using a mouse when she started finally using a PC (at age 50) so I just introduced her to Solitaire...
Fokker is a dutch company.
You know, the country that had a minister-president called Kok?
Ah, but no.
I just read "I, robot" from Asimov.
If you take Asimovs reasoning:
An order given by the owner or highest authorithy will not be contradicted by an order from someone else.
Because that will mean "harm" to the owner/human.
"harm" is of course very broad, and one of Asimovs biggest plotdevices...
Actually.....
My father got a promotion and lobbied for his raise to be slightly less so he would stay in the lower scale. Going to the higher scale would leave him ending up with less money.
This is the dutch system:
3 scales:
- 25%
- 45 or 50% (I dont remember and cant be bothered to look it up)
- 60%
Yes, it says 60% there! Youre still making a heap of money though....
I think that in the Netherlands the government put a ban on raising the prices for at least a month or so. The "Consumentenbond" (Official Consumers representation, dont know what to call it in English) comes down on shops changing the prices to more attractive prices. (Unless its down of course... hah, like that will ever happen)
(Ive been living in Portugal for more than a year now, so I havent been actively involved in the Dutch switch-over)
1 slight problem:
There wouldnt be enough gold or silver.
Thats one of the reasons why we switched from intrinsic value silver to paper notes and nickel coins.... (The other being impracticallity)
[quote]And as for the £350 pound [worth] Euro note, that'll be the crimelord special.[/quote]
... what if..")
Not likely. In Holland we had the 1000,- guilder note. (About £350 also..) Never heard anything about big trouble. Most stores wouldnt accept it, but its nice for paying building constructors/plumbers and so on.
I held one once. Weird having a piece of paper in your hand that could blow away so easily, thats worth that much! (One of those "what if" moments: Hmm, lighter in my pocket, 1000,- guilder bill,
I'm really sorry to have to reply to this but secondstory.com is an DHTML-site...
Which is perfect because of all the bitmap (pixel)content. That's one of the points where flash gets abused.... It's a vector-animation tool that has the ability to have interactive content.
It's easy to build a site in flash without thinking about loading-time, interaction-design and all of that. Just as it is easy to make a bad HTML-site. If you ever started to make something in flash you'll know that...
I think the wu -guys have like 3 names each, don't they?
Big Wicker Ventriloquist That's me....
Now lets kick some sucky video game a$$!
hmmm...., well maybe not...
Totally offtopic but just clarifing something:
.nl (As does mine) It's holland or the NetherLands. They're a bunch of guys interested in smoking weed and hacking the phonesystem. Nothing too interesting. (IMHO of course) ;-)
Actually The CUBA part is just something these guys are toying with.As you can see their URL ends in
Follow the link if you want to, it's all in english (Most of it anyway)
As to your 2004 home: You could use your Playstation 2 to play the movies (It plays DVD-disks) and then record them on the DVD-recorder.... Couldn't you?
hmmm, the possibilities, I'd never get out of my house again...:
mind wander
I've got a cable modem, so my friends can see me online, I'd do all my shopping online too... And now I get almost theaterelike quality movies (With Swahili overdubs if I want it to) on my widescreen HDTV..... hmmm...
/mind wander
It was The Fifth Element,
It was used to spy on the president by Gary Oldmans character...
I'm guessing Hemos tried to write "Mein leben" wich is what the german SS-officers in the original wolfenstein by Id cried out once you shot them.
I might be wrong here and you might be right...
Hemos?
"Bang..... Aaaaaargh... Mein leben!" yeah!
I guess you would be wrong there.
.....
It would get on slashdot, but as an "Look what these guys did they are horrible"-story. Face it, even slashdot is P.C.
Furthermore, killing people is not what slashdot is about, but slashdot sure as h@ll is largely made up out of 25/30 year olds who remember textgames, 2d-topdown games on a $2000,- machine and the thrill of shooting a 3d-nazi.....
I know I do.... (Bang... Aaaargh, mein leben!!!!.... The wonders of a 8-bit soundblaster!!!)
Okay Slashdotters:
;-)
vote for the name Xut (Pronounced Zoot or whatever)
Subject has to be: "Name the Penguin Contest"
Lets see the power of slashdot work for something this time!
I can see the bumperstickers now:
"I voted Xut!"
see this reply:
#22
seems okay for now...
besides, i'm an atheist
Being Atheist myself (But not really a practicing one though) I am going to have to correct you on this.
The Christmastree may have been adopted by the christians, It originally came from from the (Skandinavian?) Light-fest, or mid-winter-fest. They wouldn't stop using the tree's so the christians decided to let them keep it.
Euh Scott,
;-)
I think you've slashdotted Marissa's page into oblivion.... (I think We did....)
Hold on! I think I played two Commander Keens....
One was called "Aliens ate (or was it "caught") my baby sitter"... I think it was Commander Keen II ?
Whatever.... I liked it... I think I read something about Commander Keen for the gameboy color?
Truth be said I'd rather have wolfenstein on the Gameboy Color, but I guess Nintendo caters to small kids here....)
Maybe memory serves me wrong but I think I once read (here on slashdot??) that the Linux-community was going to try and get Linux on the desktop-market. Some of the observations made then were that:
1) HELP is not cool (kewl/c00l);-) ("If you can't find it out by reading the manual or the README, thou art not worthy")
2) HELP-files are really hard to write. Big companies have people working for them doing nothing but making manuals, and these professionals are the people that make those incredibly clear, easy to read, VCR-manuals!!!
Truth is (IMHO) that if you guys want to give Linux a place on the desktop, you will have to cope with (l)users.....
What Linux probably needs is a "TESTGROUP" of some kind. Maybe just a bunch of (ex-)WIN users that are genuinely interested in Linux, but just can't get it working.
Truth is, I am such a person. I'd love to try and get Linux on my machine, but it's just too damn hard... Well, maybe I'm just a lazy bastard....
Bauke
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Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.