Sio far as i Know Its not illegal to eat chewing gum in Sinagpore,reather import of chewing gum is banned and tghe giovy will not issue a manufacturing license for its proeuctionj.
I agree, outsourcing should be regulated. It not only hurts the American economy, but it hurts many foreign countries as well
Really.When did you come to this conclusion.Did you feel against free trade when the US govt forced govts world over to amend their patent laws and fuck cheap pharmaceauticals?Did u write to your representative and post to/. when foreign govt were forced to open their agriculture to monsanto and like?did u protest when they forced these markets open to american farmers receiving billions of dollars of subsidies?let me guess.you didnt.
Dont waste your time arguing against free trade.Having spent years in Promoting it via WTO the US govt is not likely to turn against it.Some are going to lose and some gain.Tough luck, at the moment you have lost a bit.
No, no, no.... What I need is a combination cell phone, pda, music player, swiss army knife, flash drive, bluetooth, wifi, digi camera, flash light, and salad shooter device. Only then would I truly be a tool.
all the way with you on this but i think the salad shooter is an overkill.A steak knife on the other hand would be really useful.
Want to fix the 'disposable' economy? Outlaw ridiculously short (90 day, 6 month) warranties and force - by consumer protection law - the manufacturers to make sure their stuff is *durable* by forcing them to replace it at no cost if it fails within the expected lifecycle of the product. End result is better, more durable products with only a slightly higher pricetag.
When most of us these days shop around at Super marts looking for the cheapest,Made in China equipment,what price that nobody,corporations or consumers will like or accept what you suggest.
Nobody will do anything for the environment if it costs them effort or money or causes them a wee bit inconvinience.Its only when an environmental degradation affects people directly in a major way that people do something about that.
I'm married and work for a living so, by Friday night, I'm too tired to do much of anything but either watch the tube or read slashdot
Well i am not married but i do work regular hours.But i am never too tired to prefer the tv or/. to some other recreations.But then again maybe its because i am not married.
While a moon base is a good place for launching things cheaply it costs a lot more energy to land something on moon than on earth.
On earth all we need to do is to place a robust heat shield and let the atmosphere do the job but on the moon we need to reduce the velocity using fuel all the way.
Moon does have an atmosphere but it sabout a million times less dense than our own.
If anything should serve as a base between here and Mars it should be ISS (after all it's a big reason we built the thing.)
I am afraid the orbit of ISS is such that it can neither serve as a Mars launching base nor as an observatory.The ISS is a shiny thing in space whose most useful purpose is to serve as a zero gravity lab.
I think this is American corporations borrowing British titles.
In Britain,there is a Chairman of the Board who has executive responsibilities and the Managing director who carries out the day to day operations.
In the US,there is a President of the Board who correspondingly is also the Chief Executive Officer and therefore there is a Chief Operating Officer for day to day running of the company.
I think the attempts to have a seperate Chairman and CEO/President are mere sops to the ego of the american oligarchs.
What i would like is a good eText to audio manager and a facility to covert my books easily from paper to electronic without having to use an OCR raeder page by page.
I wish the copy right law could be made more sensible so that Project gutenberg can have more and more of contemprorary literature.
I have always considered the TV licensing fee to be a breach of human rights.Amongst the rights we have, the right to information is amongst the foremost.I cant protest against the breach of rights of my fellow citizens if i dont know about it and in the present day world TV & radio are the most wisespread disseminators of news.By making me purchase a TV license the gov makes me pay to exercise a right of mine.And since this money is supposed to fund the BBC,it is making a choice for me.If i want to watch the Beeb let me decide,by charging me money dont make that decision for me.
We pay a charge for phone services,not for owning the bloody instrument,for god's sake.I will support abolition of the licence fee in the next review of the bbc charter.
OTT: I am getting increasingly frustated by this government's tax them to death tactics.The govt makes enough of our taxes to pay for our uni fees.plaese fund education in this country before funding other people's wars in some godforsaken place.I know the whitehall govtment is not to blame but the council tax fiasco is too much to take.My Borough(Wandsworth) increased it by a whopping 50% last year and this year they want a 18% increase.I fully support the OAP pensioners who are willing to go to prison than pay this blood money.Civil disobedience against unjust laws is the last and often the only resort.let's hope the present lot remember Martin Luther King and Gandhi.
In England though, the debit fee(2.5 % of the transaction value)is paid by the Retailer so you end up paying only the total amount.The reason Supermarts ask for Cash backs is that on debit cards the profit they make from the banks is good.The banks like it because their ATM servicing charges go down.
The press will have a field day, and critics will say "I told you so! Space is dangerous! Bring our boys home!"
Some days I think someone should just bitchslap the press and tell them to stfu. Of course space is dangerous! But so is building highrise buildings, flying aircraft, mining, etc. If we cowered in fear because of every potentially dangerous thing, we'd still be swinging from trees.
So are my arguments with the Missus but that never made the 10 'O Clock news.
Need is a pretty strong word. We need food, water and shelter. We don't need cell phones.
Cell phones have only existed for the last 15-20 years... people got along just fine before that.
Proper medical care has existed for only about 150 years.Do we need it?I am not overglorifying the imporatance of mobile phones but i think we dont need to disregard any thing importance/unimportance becaues they are recent discoveries/inventions.
You do not have the right to sit near me and disrupt my meal
Do you ask people sitting next to your table to shut up when you are having a meal?Do you keep quiet when you are having a meal?
I think using a cell phone in a normal voice(and remember people with good manners already lower their voices a bit when on the telephone) is perfectly alright.Its when people start making you a part of their conversations that one objects the same way one objects to the loud talkers in a public place.
Though as a matter of preference my phone is usually on silent and i receive a call only if i think it cant wait
that the salary of a professional musician,who has most probably spent years of training and hard work,working for a major west end production makes only 450 a week(and this figure is most probably gross).Waiters earn this sum working 7-8 shifts.I mean what happened to cultural society?
How many musicians give up just because they cant survive on these wages?I am appalled.
I never knew abt the drugs (well LSD) references in the song till i was in singapore.It was a big news when teh ministry of culture removed their ban on this song.
What I would like to see is a way to route my calls to someone who actually speaks English as a FIRST language
Sorry but here in England all our Service jobs are going to India.Dell is taking some of their call centres from India to the US but i havent met an american yet who could speak the queen's language without a strange mix of German,Italian,Irish and Scandinavian accents.
how soon CRT based TVs will become an antiquity we discuss with our grandchildren as they install their new high resolution, lightweight, affordable displays on their walls
they don't prevent crime, you only get to watch it afterwards.
Well this week on telly they showed the workings of police in Cardiff(Most important town in Wales:).And With Live CCTV coverage and Cops on the ground they showed how within minutes of a fight starting the police were on the scene.And a man who got the worst of it received a head injury.If the police werent so fast the fight would have gone on and resulted in maybe more serious damage to this lad atleast.So this time perhaps a death was prevented.
While i am not generally against Public surviellance I am definately not in favour of its pervasive presense.As more and more cameras are installed less and less is the control exercised over the use of that data because there is simply too much of it.
Once that oversight is watered down, what price you that a police officer who is under pressure,professional or personal,who doesnt like my face,who has to improve his crime detection rate,who has to protect the crook who bribed him yesterday, wont use that data to plant,forge and/or create evidence incriminating me which i would have no alibi against because he/she knows exactly where i was and what i was doing when.
Hence yes to surveillance but only in a guarded,controlled,oversighted,foolsafe manner.
BTW,if the most eminent Home Secretary of all times is to be believed mere travel(albeit frequent) to the Indian Subcontinent is unquestionable proof of a person's terrorist intent.Hence such people can be locked up with the now famous procedures of the cousins,developed by them to imprison anyone they dislike with a minimal of formality.Which means next time mum comes back i will be going to Broadmoor,not Heathrow.
Anybody wants to donate a copy of minority report to the Home Office?
I fail to understand why everybody waites for a subscription free link to NY times.Come on if we can register and login at Slashdot why cant we have nonsensical false name logins at NY times?
The estimated 72 million executed under Mao Ze Dong's rule, or the > 10 million under Stalin's rule far eclipses the misled people's mistakes during the crusades
I think your own point reinforces the point effectively that religion causes far more heinous crimes than anything else.The communism as practiced by then Chian and USSR was an all encompassing pseudo-religion.It had a recommended way of living,the socialist way and regular religious meetings i.e. the local party meeting with a preist who was the local party chieftain with a god -Marx
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Sio far as i Know Its not illegal to eat chewing gum in Sinagpore,reather import of chewing gum is banned and tghe giovy will not issue a manufacturing license for its proeuctionj.
He and I are on fairly good terms (I sit in the front and am the most active discussion participant in our class
Why do the words 'teacher' and 'pet' swirl around my mind.
Does UK plan to contribute to the MATRIX?Our reichfuhrer David Blunkett has always favoured keep all citizens on Surviellance methods.
/contribute to this?
On a more Topical note:do the Countries which are closely allied with US such as UK,Canada and Australia plan to join
I agree, outsourcing should be regulated. It not only hurts the American economy, but it hurts many foreign countries as well
Really.When did you come to this conclusion.Did you feel against free trade when the US govt forced govts world over to amend their patent laws and fuck cheap pharmaceauticals?Did u write to your representative and post to /. when foreign govt were forced to open their agriculture to monsanto and like?did u protest when they forced these markets open to american farmers receiving billions of dollars of subsidies?let me guess.you didnt.
Dont waste your time arguing against free trade.Having spent years in Promoting it via WTO the US govt is not likely to turn against it.Some are going to lose and some gain.Tough luck, at the moment you have lost a bit.
No, no, no.... What I need is a combination cell phone, pda, music player, swiss army knife, flash drive, bluetooth, wifi, digi camera, flash light, and salad shooter device. Only then would I truly be a tool.
all the way with you on this but i think the salad shooter is an overkill.A steak knife on the other hand would be really useful.
Want to fix the 'disposable' economy? Outlaw ridiculously short (90 day, 6 month) warranties and force - by consumer protection law - the manufacturers to make sure their stuff is *durable* by forcing them to replace it at no cost if it fails within the expected lifecycle of the product. End result is better, more durable products with only a slightly higher pricetag.
When most of us these days shop around at Super marts looking for the cheapest ,Made in China equipment,what price that nobody,corporations or consumers will like or accept what you suggest.
Nobody will do anything for the environment if it costs them effort or money or causes them a wee bit inconvinience.Its only when an environmental degradation affects people directly in a major way that people do something about that.
I'm married and work for a living so, by Friday night, I'm too tired to do much of anything but either watch the tube or read slashdot
Well i am not married but i do work regular hours.But i am never too tired to prefer the tv or /. to some other recreations.But then again maybe its because i am not married.
While a moon base is a good place for launching things cheaply it costs a lot more energy to land something on moon than on earth.
On earth all we need to do is to place a robust heat shield and let the atmosphere do the job but on the moon we need to reduce the velocity using fuel all the way.
Moon does have an atmosphere but it sabout a million times less dense than our own.
So a moon base will be more or less one way.
If anything should serve as a base between here and Mars it should be ISS (after all it's a big reason we built the thing.)
I am afraid the orbit of ISS is such that it can neither serve as a Mars launching base nor as an observatory.The ISS is a shiny thing in space whose most useful purpose is to serve as a zero gravity lab.
How do anti monoploy laws apply to organisations such as MPAA and RIAA?
I think this is American corporations borrowing British titles.
In Britain,there is a Chairman of the Board who has executive responsibilities and the Managing director who carries out the day to day operations.
In the US,there is a President of the Board who correspondingly is also the Chief Executive Officer and therefore there is a Chief Operating Officer for day to day running of the company.
I think the attempts to have a seperate Chairman and CEO/President are mere sops to the ego of the american oligarchs.
What i would like is a good eText to audio manager and a facility to covert my books easily from paper to electronic without having to use an OCR raeder page by page.
I wish the copy right law could be made more sensible so that Project gutenberg can have more and more of contemprorary literature.
I have always considered the TV licensing fee to be a breach of human rights.Amongst the rights we have, the right to information is amongst the foremost.I cant protest against the breach of rights of my fellow citizens if i dont know about it and in the present day world TV & radio are the most wisespread disseminators of news.By making me purchase a TV license the gov makes me pay to exercise a right of mine.And since this money is supposed to fund the BBC,it is making a choice for me.If i want to watch the Beeb let me decide,by charging me money dont make that decision for me.
We pay a charge for phone services,not for owning the bloody instrument,for god's sake.I will support abolition of the licence fee in the next review of the bbc charter.
OTT:
I am getting increasingly frustated by this government's tax them to death tactics.The govt makes enough of our taxes to pay for our uni fees.plaese fund education in this country before funding other people's wars in some godforsaken place.I know the whitehall govtment is not to blame but the council tax fiasco is too much to take.My Borough(Wandsworth) increased it by a whopping 50% last year and this year they want a 18% increase.I fully support the OAP pensioners who are willing to go to prison than pay this blood money.Civil disobedience against unjust laws is the last and often the only resort.let's hope the present lot remember Martin Luther King and Gandhi.
You then end up paying a debit fee instead
In England though, the debit fee(2.5 % of the transaction value)is paid by the Retailer so you end up paying only the total amount.The reason Supermarts ask for Cash backs is that on debit cards the profit they make from the banks is good.The banks like it because their ATM servicing charges go down.
The press will have a field day, and critics will say "I told you so! Space is dangerous! Bring our boys home!"
Some days I think someone should just bitchslap the press and tell them to stfu. Of course space is dangerous! But so is building highrise buildings, flying aircraft, mining, etc. If we cowered in fear because of every potentially dangerous thing, we'd still be swinging from trees.
So are my arguments with the Missus but that never made the 10 'O Clock news.
Need is a pretty strong word. We need food, water and shelter. We don't need cell phones. Cell phones have only existed for the last 15-20 years... people got along just fine before that.
Proper medical care has existed for only about 150 years.Do we need it?I am not overglorifying the imporatance of mobile phones but i think we dont need to disregard any thing importance/unimportance becaues they are recent discoveries/inventions.
You do not have the right to sit near me and disrupt my meal
Do you ask people sitting next to your table to shut up when you are having a meal?Do you keep quiet when you are having a meal?
I think using a cell phone in a normal voice(and remember people with good manners already lower their voices a bit when on the telephone) is perfectly alright.Its when people start making you a part of their conversations that one objects the same way one objects to the loud talkers in a public place.
Though as a matter of preference my phone is usually on silent and i receive a call only if i think it cant wait
that the salary of a professional musician ,who has most probably spent years of training and hard work ,working for a major west end production makes only 450 a week(and this figure is most probably gross).Waiters earn this sum working 7-8 shifts.I mean what happened to cultural society?
How many musicians give up just because they cant survive on these wages?I am appalled.
I never knew abt the drugs (well LSD) references in the song till i was in singapore.It was a big news when teh ministry of culture removed their ban on this song.
What I would like to see is a way to route my calls to someone who actually speaks English as a FIRST language
Sorry but here in England all our Service jobs are going to India.Dell is taking some of their call centres from India to the US but i havent met an american yet who could speak the queen's language without a strange mix of German,Italian ,Irish and Scandinavian accents.
how soon CRT based TVs will become an antiquity we discuss with our grandchildren as they install their new high resolution, lightweight, affordable displays on their walls
First,Find Me a Girl.
they don't prevent crime, you only get to watch it afterwards.
Well this week on telly they showed the workings of police in Cardiff(Most important town in Wales:).And With Live CCTV coverage and Cops on the ground they showed how within minutes of a fight starting the police were on the scene.And a man who got the worst of it received a head injury.If the police werent so fast the fight would have gone on and resulted in maybe more serious damage to this lad atleast.So this time perhaps a death was prevented.
While i am not generally against Public surviellance I am definately not in favour of its pervasive presense.As more and more cameras are installed less and less is the control exercised over the use of that data because there is simply too much of it.
,not Heathrow.
Once that oversight is watered down, what price you that a police officer who is under pressure,professional or personal,who doesnt like my face,who has to improve his crime detection rate,who has to protect the crook who bribed him yesterday, wont use that data to plant,forge and/or create evidence incriminating me which i would have no alibi against because he/she knows exactly where i was and what i was doing when.
Hence yes to surveillance but only in a guarded,controlled,oversighted,foolsafe manner.
BTW,if the most eminent Home Secretary of all times is to be believed mere travel(albeit frequent) to the Indian Subcontinent is unquestionable proof of a person's terrorist intent.Hence such people can be locked up with the now famous procedures of the cousins,developed by them to imprison anyone they dislike with a minimal of formality.Which means next time mum comes back i will be going to Broadmoor
Anybody wants to donate a copy of minority report to the Home Office?
I fail to understand why everybody waites for a subscription free link to NY times.Come on if we can register and login at Slashdot why cant we have nonsensical false name logins at NY times?
The estimated 72 million executed under Mao Ze Dong's rule, or the > 10 million under Stalin's rule far eclipses the misled people's mistakes during the crusades
I think your own point reinforces the point effectively that religion causes far more heinous crimes than anything else.The communism as practiced by then Chian and USSR was an all encompassing pseudo-religion.It had a recommended way of living,the socialist way and regular religious meetings i.e. the local party meeting with a preist who was the local party chieftain with a god -Marx