We've been paying only $73 a copy at the university where I work for years.
Huh? MS Office 2007 Enterprise Edition costs you 8 (eight) Euros at my university's bookstores (but you need a student ID for that). I've always assumed that all universities get pretty much the same deal.
Since the earth currenlty has around 6.6 billion people, this would mean that you would have 1 episode for each person on the planet
Oh, I love nonsensical comparisons like that.
"The population of the UK has reached 60 million for the first time. If they were to stand on top of each other they would reach about 20 feet before toppling over." -- paraphrased from BBC Radio 4 News last August or September.
Note that there is a disclaimer that driving on the edge of buildings is fantasy, and should not be attempted, iirc - this is America, land of the lawyers
I always found this hilarious about American car commercials. In many states there are disclaimer like "Professional driver on closed track; do not attempt". I'd never seen anything like that before I went to the US.
Theorizing much? It seems that all of your prejudices about universal healthcare come from media coverage of the Canadian and British healthcare systems. Please take a look at some other European countries. Where I am there is good healthcare for everyone but if you want to you can of course have additional private medical insurance. There are no queues. You can choose your doctor (that's your right here). You can even find unaffiliated doctors and use your private insurance or pay cash if you so desire ("good doctors" if you will; this isn't necessary, some people just like to feel special). Where did you get the idea from that universal healthcare means that you can't have private insurance and find a doctor of your choice on your own?
And the best thing? We don't have millions of uninsured people here.
Without cars, the USA might start to look more like India.
Instead of 6 lanes of cars in lock-grid traffic - perhaps 6 lanes of rickshaws? or bicycles? Maybe we could have 60 lanes of bicylces... and healthier people?
Dude, have you ever been to India? Major Indian cities are full of motorized rickshaws. There is so much pollution that the air smells like burning garbage and that your eyes hurt after half a day (mine do anywas; you don't notice the smell after a couple of days). Sometimes you can't see the sun clearly because of the smog.
Let me say this: I've been to the US many times and I've been to India. Even Los Angeles is much less polluted than, say, Delhi (and they say that the situation, as bad as it is, has improved in recent years because they switched the rickshaws to natural gas). Don't hope that the US will look more like India. Seriously.
They are having a related problem in Cambodia where young people don't believe the Killings Fields ever happened.
Do you have sources for that? When I was in Cambodia it wasn't my impression that the Cambodian government tries to deny their country's past. You certainly can read all you want about the Khmer Rouge on the Internet there. Cambodia isn't anything like China, it's a constitutional monarchy with actual democratic elections (they try anyway).
But since you wrote "young people," maybe you're talking about changes to school curricula that I'm not aware of?
cheap green tea like bancha and all those chinese teas don't contain much caffeine
China is big. Very big. There are so many different kinds of tea in China that saying "all those Chinese teas" is like saying "all those brown beverages". It just doesn't make sense. There are plenty of Chinese greens that have a very high caffeine content.
you can get high on caffeine much faster with gyokuro than with espresso.
Thanks. Unfortunately you didn't get an answer; you got the usual "the Mac way is how it's supposed to work, what you want to do is wrong, here's what you should do instead" excuse. There's simply no reason why there can't be a setting somewhere for that behaviour. A window manager should be able to override application-specific window settings. I use an Apple laptop every day and "maximize it manually" just isn't an acceptable answer when all you have is a trackpad.
Those who moderated this 'Troll', please tell us how to maximize windows easily in Mac OS X. I don't know how to do it and it's driving me crazy. Well, that and the lack of decent keyboard navigation -- very inconvenient on a laptop.
And whats wrong with immigration limits? Most countries in the world have it FYI.
You don't get it, do you? There are immigration limits. The thing is, far-right parties here use immigrants (specifically Turks) as scapegoats and as an excuse to spread lies about immigrants and Islam in general. They more or less say "it's all the immigrants' fault" when there's absolutely nothing to back this up. And there are people who believe them and openly confront Muslims when they see them.
I grew up as a Mexican-American in the USA, and I am astounded how many people in the US (whether white or latino or etc.) are afraid to try a second language!
It's amazing, isn't it? In my opinion speaking multiple languages makes so much valuable information available to you that I can't understand why people would debate whether it's actually useful.
I once had an American tell me that it's not true that Americans don't speak foreign languages; he said he did speak a foreign language, he just chose Latin -- how useful. So did I, but in addition to the other two foreign languages that most people learn (to speak fluently BTW) in school here.
It would be interesting to compare the dementia rates in bilingual people in unilingual(?) cultures and bilingual people in bilingual cultures, but it looks like this study was limited to a couple of hundred people at a single mental health clinic.
Well, sure, in some countries people speak multiple languages because they need them every day. In other countries it's more about education than culture. In many European countries you can get by if you only speak one language (many people do) yet most people who made it through school will speak at least one or two foreign languages.
BTW, lame old joke related to your use of "unilingual":
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? - Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? - Trilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks one language? - American.
And you can't just say "sea level"; you'd need to define a standard temperature and pressure too.
I thought that was implied. Pressure at sea level is roughly 1 bar (that's how the SI unit "bar" is defined), water has its highest density at 4 deg C. So one liter of water has a mass of 1000 grams at a pressure of 1 bar and a temperature of 4 deg C. Per definition.
A couple of years ago I stayed at a hotel in Laos. They had house rules in both Lao and English. One of the rules read (in English): "Visitors will not be laundered or cooked in the room."
The best 100W incandescent light bulbs I have found produce 1750 lumens. CFLs which are advertised as equivalent to a 100W bulb produce only, if I remember correctly, 1100 lumens
So buy those CFLs that claim to be equivalent to 120W incandescents (I can't actually get incandescents here that are higher than 100W but I definitely have CFLs that are brighter than 100W incandescents).
Also, anyone knows what's up with ceiling light sockets that only accept 60W bulbs?
I find it unlikely that any given country is going to be the first to say "You know what? Fuck it, no ID at our borders, anyone can come in, we don't care."
Funny that you should say that. Border checkpoints don't exist anymore between countries that signed the Schengen Agreement, i.e. between EU member states that joined prior to the 2004 expansion except for the UK and Ireland but including Iceland and Norway (which aren't EU members). It will soon include Switzerland and Liechtenstein (not in the EU) and recent EU member states. Even before that there were no border checkpoints between Norway, Sweden and Finland for quite a while. If you don't look closely you don't even notice that you cross the border (happened to me a couple of times this year).
Countries like to control their borders, and you can argue that's one of their primary jobs.
Some countries also like free movement of goods and people.
The problem is that many Americans that I've talked to just don't know what their government is doing to visiting foreigners (ridiculous visa requirements, fingerprints even if you don't need a visa, requesting personal information from airlines etc.) because they never experience it. I think it's important that Americans know what their country is turning into.
Now, I've been to dozens of countries on all continents including supposedly "evil" and communist countries like Syria and Vietnam. Nowhere have I been harassed more both when immigrating and while in the country than in the US.
I was in Texas just days before the Iraq war started. You may remember that it was very fashionable at the time to publicly bash Europeans. As if that wasn't bad enough, while on the bus I got checked a couple of times by "border patrol", even hundreds of miles away from any border, which involved them interrogating me for a couple of minutes (I'm a citizen of an EU member state and always traveled to the US using the visa waiver program). People, you already have your police state. That would be unthinkable in most other countries and it's something that I certainly never experienced elsewhere. I choose to no longer travel to the US and I'm not alone. Many conferences are already moving out of the US -- this is something that directly harms the US economy and academia.
A close second would be immigration to the UK. I had an incident this summer that involved a particularly knee-jerkish reaction to a Syrian tourist visa in my passport (I figure it was the Arabic writing that ticked them off, they probably didn't know it was Syrian). That delayed me for more than an hour. But no more harassment once I was in the UK.
It was possible to get OS/2 pre-installed, or as an optional extra, but it was expensive.
In 1994 (I think, maybe 1995) my parents bought a Vobis (Highscreen) PC. While MS DOS and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 were preinstalled the package included OS/2 Warp 3 install disks. It wasn't an optional and/or expensive extra either; it was part of their standard software package and came with many computers that they sold at the time. You couldn't choose whether you wanted the system with or without OS/2.
Which does raise an interesting question - how do Europeans pay for goods and services online?
I do have a credit card but to answer your question: bank transfers (initiated either by the sender or the vendor) are fast, easy and cheap within the EU if you use automatic routing information (BIC/IBAN) and most online vendors will give you that option -- even in the UK, same system, but many Brits don't know that and won't accept or use bank transfers from other EU countries.
If both parties are within the Eurozone it's even free (that means cheaper than credit cards for businesses), recipients in the UK will typically pay a pound or two to recieve Euro transfers.
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I guess that explains why Scandinavian countries don't have railway systems to speak of, right?
"The population of the UK has reached 60 million for the first time. If they were to stand on top of each other they would reach about 20 feet before toppling over." -- paraphrased from BBC Radio 4 News last August or September.
Theorizing much? It seems that all of your prejudices about universal healthcare come from media coverage of the Canadian and British healthcare systems. Please take a look at some other European countries. Where I am there is good healthcare for everyone but if you want to you can of course have additional private medical insurance. There are no queues. You can choose your doctor (that's your right here). You can even find unaffiliated doctors and use your private insurance or pay cash if you so desire ("good doctors" if you will; this isn't necessary, some people just like to feel special). Where did you get the idea from that universal healthcare means that you can't have private insurance and find a doctor of your choice on your own?
And the best thing? We don't have millions of uninsured people here.
Let me say this: I've been to the US many times and I've been to India. Even Los Angeles is much less polluted than, say, Delhi (and they say that the situation, as bad as it is, has improved in recent years because they switched the rickshaws to natural gas). Don't hope that the US will look more like India. Seriously.
But since you wrote "young people," maybe you're talking about changes to school curricula that I'm not aware of?
Espresso is probably cheaper in most places
Thanks. Unfortunately you didn't get an answer; you got the usual "the Mac way is how it's supposed to work, what you want to do is wrong, here's what you should do instead" excuse. There's simply no reason why there can't be a setting somewhere for that behaviour. A window manager should be able to override application-specific window settings. I use an Apple laptop every day and "maximize it manually" just isn't an acceptable answer when all you have is a trackpad.
What's the difference these days?
Those who moderated this 'Troll', please tell us how to maximize windows easily in Mac OS X. I don't know how to do it and it's driving me crazy. Well, that and the lack of decent keyboard navigation -- very inconvenient on a laptop.
I once had an American tell me that it's not true that Americans don't speak foreign languages; he said he did speak a foreign language, he just chose Latin -- how useful. So did I, but in addition to the other two foreign languages that most people learn (to speak fluently BTW) in school here.
BTW, lame old joke related to your use of "unilingual":
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? - Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? - Trilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks one language? - American.
Don't you guys learn that in school?
That's great. I really love Engrish.
A couple of years ago I stayed at a hotel in Laos. They had house rules in both Lao and English. One of the rules read (in English): "Visitors will not be laundered or cooked in the room."
Heat?
The problem is that many Americans that I've talked to just don't know what their government is doing to visiting foreigners (ridiculous visa requirements, fingerprints even if you don't need a visa, requesting personal information from airlines etc.) because they never experience it. I think it's important that Americans know what their country is turning into.
Now, I've been to dozens of countries on all continents including supposedly "evil" and communist countries like Syria and Vietnam. Nowhere have I been harassed more both when immigrating and while in the country than in the US.
I was in Texas just days before the Iraq war started. You may remember that it was very fashionable at the time to publicly bash Europeans. As if that wasn't bad enough, while on the bus I got checked a couple of times by "border patrol", even hundreds of miles away from any border, which involved them interrogating me for a couple of minutes (I'm a citizen of an EU member state and always traveled to the US using the visa waiver program). People, you already have your police state. That would be unthinkable in most other countries and it's something that I certainly never experienced elsewhere. I choose to no longer travel to the US and I'm not alone. Many conferences are already moving out of the US -- this is something that directly harms the US economy and academia.
A close second would be immigration to the UK. I had an incident this summer that involved a particularly knee-jerkish reaction to a Syrian tourist visa in my passport (I figure it was the Arabic writing that ticked them off, they probably didn't know it was Syrian). That delayed me for more than an hour. But no more harassment once I was in the UK.
Well, there's always eComStation.
That wasn't in the UK however so YMMV.
At least if you mean the Vienna that I live in and if by "local language" you mean German.
Yeah, their speech recognition solutions can even read your thoughts. In fact, let's set so double the killer delete select all.
If both parties are within the Eurozone it's even free (that means cheaper than credit cards for businesses), recipients in the UK will typically pay a pound or two to recieve Euro transfers.