Theres lots of things you can do to reduce CO2 emissions without sacrificing one iota of comfort, like replacing lightbulbs with low energy lights or LED lights. Every bit helps if you want to reduce emissions.
We just dont understand the mechanisms of the global climate well enough to make any definite judgements either way. That said, it makes complete sense to get the CO2 emissions under control, in case the proponents of the Global Warming theories are even sligthly in the right.
Well,I am one of those statistical anomalies. I am a man and I teach kids 6-12 years old and I find that a lot more rewarding than when I taught in a high school. As for "women are generally more interested in teaching and being around small children than men", thats not true. Men like kids just as much as women, but its not considered macho enough by many to work with kids. Theres appearances to maintain, yes?
Nice idea, but it would be a total failure. Mathematicians have no idea how to teach math to kids. Remember that mathematicians are that top one percent of kids that love math and always has had an easy time of it. Its a bit like asking the olympic gold medal winners in track and field to develop a PE curriculum and set the standards for whats normal.
This autumn Datainspektionen will start monitoring how the IPRED law is applied when it comes to disclosure of personal information. A recent verdict in the RegeringsrÃtten, Swedens highest applicable court, has upheld Datainspektionens decision that IP adresses are to be considered personal information and therefore protected under law.
In 2005 Datainspektionen ruled that collecting and storing personal information online like copyright advocates were doing was a breach of the Swedish PUL, Personal information act, that regulates how and what kind of information that can be traced to a single individual that can be stored. The antipiracy organizations were quickly granted an exemption though, that expired march 31st. Starting april 1st this year IPRED allows holders of copyright to apply to the courts for this information.
Datainspektionen will now monitor closely how any personal information aquired from the courts in this manner is used by copyright holders.
Yes, there was a couple of factual errors in the original article. The upside is that IP numbers ARE now regarded as personal information in Sweden, the downside is that the IPRED law is still an abomination and a major infringement on our civil rights. Even more so now, really.
TingsrÃtten is the lowest court, all cases go before a judge and three lay assistants that judge the case on the evidence.
HovrÃtten is the next level, its the district appeals courts of Sweden. A large number of cases end up here and are judged by three judges. Pirate Bay was always going to end up there since its such a difficult case.
HÃgsta Domstolen is the Supreme Court of Sweden, it only handles very sticky cases and those that set precedents.
What has happened is that the lawyers for the Pirate Bay people have appealed to HovrÃtten and also put forward a claim that the original judge in TingsrÃtten is biased due to his membership in an association for copyright interests. The HovrÃtts-judge that was going to assess this claim has previously been a member of such an association and has because of this been recused. A panel of three senior judges in the HovrÃtt is now going to first assess the TingsrÃtten judges possible bias and then make a determination if the trial needs to be remade in TingsrÃtten with a new judge, or if it should be redone in HovrÃtten. These three have no affiliations with special interest groups on copyright and do not practice that kind of law.
Im quite pleased actually that our Judicial system is so carefully dealing with the whole Pirate Bay mess.
DS9 is a pale remix of babylon 5, complete with a commander who is perceived as a deity by aliens. Sheridan does the job ten times better than Sisko as well, and the stupid plotline of DS9 is not very trek at all. Most of Siskos problem are solved by letting the shapeshifter hide in a bucket and jump up and shout boo! at an opportune moment. Quite boring.
I had an Atari ST when I started University in -91. I did some experimentation with MiNT, a variety of MINIX, on it for a while. Then a year later I got an old Ericsson 286 and loaded that up with MINIX.
In 95 I built a new PC from discarded, begged and bargain basement pieces and loaded it up with RedHat, hated it and then found Slackware, which I liked a lot:)
Ever since then Ive been running mixed environments, macs, PC running windows and linux. Suits me fine, I like change.
A tablet like this one would be a very useful teaching tool. As a teacher I see many potential uses for it and with a low cost it might actually be able to pry loose the money for one per kid.
oh, the possibilities. Its going to be a few interesting months ahead when the ARM netbooks start to appear...
Sverigedemokraterna is a party with an ideology based on three cornerstones : Socialism, bigotry and racism. They have ties to global "White Power" movements and think that immigrants and refugees in Sweden are to blame for everything from acne to the price of beer.
Considering the state of the US budget deficit and the national debt I think you guys need all the taxes you can get...before something worse than taxes happens.
"Det Ãr viktigt att svenska staten har vÃckt det har Ã¥talet fÃr att slÃ¥ fast att det inte Ãr okej att bedriva en kommersiell verksamhet pÃ¥ andra mÃnniskors kreativitet."
"It is important that the swedish state has taken this step to make sure that its not OK to profit from others peoples creativity"
(My translation)
The quote is from a spokesman for the swedish anti-piracy bureau, a privately funded entity ( read record labels, microsoft and the movie companies) that is a major player in the Pirate bay trial. The funny bit is that his own benefactors are doing exactly what he wants the trial to stop....
Free market works well where the market is indeed free, but on utilities it is a crap idea. The investments needed to create a parallell infrastructure for any real utility such as sewers, electricity distribution or landline communications is prohibitively large if any such infrastructure(s) already exists.
Without some reasonable regulations it would be "Screw the consumers". Imagine your sewage line getting restricted cause you have take too many dumps this week.
The right to bear firearms is constitutionally protected. Thats completely logical, because millions of people die in laptop-related incidents every year. Compared to laptops handguns are practically harmless. Right ?
If this was a CIA manual noone would lift an eyebrow, but this is apparently a field manual for an Army unit. But I keep forgetting, unless you are an american citizen you lack rights in the eyes of Uncle Sam. Sad, really.
This is of course very unfair.
In the future everyone should be required to wear a pair of monochrome contact lenses or a small device on the optic nerve that randomly changes the color signals from the eyes.
Shooting down satellites is a trivial exercise for any country with access to scud-level technology and/or decent sounding rockets. Just load the rocket with a few hundred pounds of ballbearings and a minor bursting charge and satellites will start going to pieces left and right. This is such a cheap thing that you can repeat it until you have swept the sky clean.
Whats not such a trivial exercise is shooting down specific satellites and avoiding damage to your own.
In order for all of the interesting ideas in here to work the computer needs to be on. Now thats fine as long as you only need access to these distributed storage bits during office hours. For 24/7 efficiency and reasonable performance all the networked computers would need to be powered and online always. The power costs would more than double from say 1.5KwH for 10Hours (assuming a power consumption of 150W per computer) to roughly 3.5kWh per day. Assuming a power cost of 15 cents US, thats 37.5 cents a day per computer: 12$, per month. Probably cheaper to lease an additional storage server pr an offsite backup in the long run, not to mention that the extra power is mostly wasted and unneccesarily contributes to pollution...
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Yes, its a phone. Several tech journalists in Sweden has tried it out and it DOES make calls.
Theres lots of things you can do to reduce CO2 emissions without sacrificing one iota of comfort, like replacing lightbulbs with low energy lights or LED lights. Every bit helps if you want to reduce emissions.
We just dont understand the mechanisms of the global climate well enough to make any definite judgements either way. That said, it makes complete sense to get the CO2 emissions under control, in case the proponents of the Global Warming theories are even sligthly in the right.
...real fireworks for them instead. The real thing beats just about everything and eyebrows grow back, you know. :)
No metal detectors yet, violence isnt a major issue but it does occur. High School isnt mandatory either, but 95% or so complete it anyway.
Heh, Im actually Swedish. Our culture when it comes to gender issues is pretty different from the US.
In education research the kind of students hes dreaming of are often referred to as "Rockwellian learners"...
Well,I am one of those statistical anomalies. I am a man and I teach kids 6-12 years old and I find that a lot more rewarding than when I taught in a high school. As for "women are generally more interested in teaching and being around small children than men", thats not true. Men like kids just as much as women, but its not considered macho enough by many to work with kids. Theres appearances to maintain, yes?
Nice idea, but it would be a total failure. Mathematicians have no idea how to teach math to kids. Remember that mathematicians are that top one percent of kids that love math and always has had an easy time of it. Its a bit like asking the olympic gold medal winners in track and field to develop a PE curriculum and set the standards for whats normal.
A short summary in english.
This autumn Datainspektionen will start monitoring how the IPRED law is applied when it comes to disclosure of personal information. A recent verdict in the RegeringsrÃtten, Swedens highest applicable court, has upheld Datainspektionens decision that IP adresses are to be considered personal information and therefore protected under law.
In 2005 Datainspektionen ruled that collecting and storing personal information online like copyright advocates were doing was a breach of the Swedish PUL, Personal information act, that regulates how and what kind of information that can be traced to a single individual that can be stored. The antipiracy organizations were quickly granted an exemption though, that expired march 31st. Starting april 1st this year IPRED allows holders of copyright to apply to the courts for this information. Datainspektionen will now monitor closely how any personal information aquired from the courts in this manner is used by copyright holders.
The original article has been removed due to a few errors. The new version is the one you found.
Yes, there was a couple of factual errors in the original article. The upside is that IP numbers ARE now regarded as personal information in Sweden, the downside is that the IPRED law is still an abomination and a major infringement on our civil rights. Even more so now, really.
TingsrÃtten is the lowest court, all cases go before a judge and three lay assistants that judge the case on the evidence.
HovrÃtten is the next level, its the district appeals courts of Sweden. A large number of cases end up here and are judged by three judges. Pirate Bay was always going to end up there since its such a difficult case.
HÃgsta Domstolen is the Supreme Court of Sweden, it only handles very sticky cases and those that set precedents.
What has happened is that the lawyers for the Pirate Bay people have appealed to HovrÃtten and also put forward a claim that the original judge in TingsrÃtten is biased due to his membership in an association for copyright interests. The HovrÃtts-judge that was going to assess this claim has previously been a member of such an association and has because of this been recused. A panel of three senior judges in the HovrÃtt is now going to first assess the TingsrÃtten judges possible bias and then make a determination if the trial needs to be remade in TingsrÃtten with a new judge, or if it should be redone in HovrÃtten. These three have no affiliations with special interest groups on copyright and do not practice that kind of law.
Im quite pleased actually that our Judicial system is so carefully dealing with the whole Pirate Bay mess.
DS9 is a pale remix of babylon 5, complete with a commander who is perceived as a deity by aliens. Sheridan does the job ten times better than Sisko as well, and the stupid plotline of DS9 is not very trek at all. Most of Siskos problem are solved by letting the shapeshifter hide in a bucket and jump up and shout boo! at an opportune moment. Quite boring.
I had an Atari ST when I started University in -91. I did some experimentation with MiNT, a variety of MINIX, on it for a while. Then a year later I got an old Ericsson 286 and loaded that up with MINIX. In 95 I built a new PC from discarded, begged and bargain basement pieces and loaded it up with RedHat, hated it and then found Slackware, which I liked a lot :)
Ever since then Ive been running mixed environments, macs, PC running windows and linux. Suits me fine, I like change.
A tablet like this one would be a very useful teaching tool. As a teacher I see many potential uses for it and with a low cost it might actually be able to pry loose the money for one per kid. oh, the possibilities. Its going to be a few interesting months ahead when the ARM netbooks start to appear...
Sverigedemokraterna is a party with an ideology based on three cornerstones : Socialism, bigotry and racism. They have ties to global "White Power" movements and think that immigrants and refugees in Sweden are to blame for everything from acne to the price of beer.
Considering the state of the US budget deficit and the national debt I think you guys need all the taxes you can get...before something worse than taxes happens.
"It is important that the swedish state has taken this step to make sure that its not OK to profit from others peoples creativity" (My translation)
The quote is from a spokesman for the swedish anti-piracy bureau, a privately funded entity ( read record labels, microsoft and the movie companies) that is a major player in the Pirate bay trial. The funny bit is that his own benefactors are doing exactly what he wants the trial to stop....
Free market works well where the market is indeed free, but on utilities it is a crap idea. The investments needed to create a parallell infrastructure for any real utility such as sewers, electricity distribution or landline communications is prohibitively large if any such infrastructure(s) already exists. Without some reasonable regulations it would be "Screw the consumers". Imagine your sewage line getting restricted cause you have take too many dumps this week.
The right to bear firearms is constitutionally protected. Thats completely logical, because millions of people die in laptop-related incidents every year. Compared to laptops handguns are practically harmless. Right ?
If this was a CIA manual noone would lift an eyebrow, but this is apparently a field manual for an Army unit. But I keep forgetting, unless you are an american citizen you lack rights in the eyes of Uncle Sam. Sad, really.
This is of course very unfair. In the future everyone should be required to wear a pair of monochrome contact lenses or a small device on the optic nerve that randomly changes the color signals from the eyes.
Shooting down satellites is a trivial exercise for any country with access to scud-level technology and/or decent sounding rockets. Just load the rocket with a few hundred pounds of ballbearings and a minor bursting charge and satellites will start going to pieces left and right. This is such a cheap thing that you can repeat it until you have swept the sky clean. Whats not such a trivial exercise is shooting down specific satellites and avoiding damage to your own.
In order for all of the interesting ideas in here to work the computer needs to be on. Now thats fine as long as you only need access to these distributed storage bits during office hours. For 24/7 efficiency and reasonable performance all the networked computers would need to be powered and online always. The power costs would more than double from say 1.5KwH for 10Hours (assuming a power consumption of 150W per computer) to roughly 3.5kWh per day. Assuming a power cost of 15 cents US, thats 37.5 cents a day per computer: 12$, per month. Probably cheaper to lease an additional storage server pr an offsite backup in the long run, not to mention that the extra power is mostly wasted and unneccesarily contributes to pollution...