Hong Kong, which has universal health care, free education (minus token school fees), heavily-subsidized mass transit, heavily-subsidized government housing, is not socialist?
No, it's not. Hong Kong is more like a fascist paradise than anything. Margaret Thatcher thought it was wonderful.
The public transport isn't "heavily subsidised" for a start, it's just efficient and in a very densely populated city. If you think public schools are a symptom of "socialism", then the whole world is socialist. (The fees are more than "token", by the way, speaking as a parent.)
The unemployed have to fend for themselves. Many elderly people collect waste newspaper and aluminium cans in the street to supplement their pensions. There are no meaningful elections, the government is appointed by Beijing, and not communists, but real estate tycoons, get the ear of government. Trade unions are powerless political puppets, there is no minimum wage. Socialist? Give me a break.
Mickey Mouse is almost certainly copyrighted. According to US copyright law, all works before 1923 are in the public domain - Mickey Mouse, however, was created in 1928, so Disney has almost certainly renewed a few times since then. Plus, I'm not sure, but since they change how Mickey Mouse looks every so often to reflect changes in technology (black & white to color to digital, etc.), the original copyright on Mickey Mouse might expire...
Sorry, this is wrong. "Mickey Mouse" is not a "work", it's a concept. The various Mickey Mouse cartoons, TV shows, comic books are copyright works, but not the character itself. Copyright however includes "derivative works", and I'm sure Disney lawyers would come after you using that should you produce your own Mickey Mouse cartoon.
Mickey Mouse's appearance however can and has been trademarked. And trademarks do not expire. So even if early MM cartoons were to fall into the public domain, it would be a delicate process to sell copies of it without violating trademarks, but possible I think.
If you look at the capitalistic former-colony countries that didn't go through socialism/communism or, they tend to be a lot better off if they didn't go through a socialist or communist phase. Compare Malaysia with Cambodia, for example.
Yes, Malaysia wasn't bombed by the USAF, creating anarchy and an environment encouraging revolution. And consider Burma, a military dictatorship, gone from one of the richest countries in Asia as a British colony to the poorest. But at least they're not commies!
>Name one colony that is now prosperous that was liberated during the twentieth century without going through socialism.
Hong Kong. South Africa. Philippines. Canada, technically.
Hong Kong is rich and peaceful, but has no democracy. The Philippines is dirt poor and its politics is corrupt, violent and inefficient. I know less about South Africa, but it doesn't have a shining reputation. Canada "liberated"? It was granted independence in a completely peaceful and orderly process. No shock and awe required.
Random other person X takes a picture of you. Maybe you were standing in a public place and didn't know your picture was being taken. Person X uploads the photo and tags it with your name.
s. I DO mind, however, if a simple search for my real name can present the searcher with a look into my private life because some "friend" feels it necessary to catalogue the names of everyone in their photos.
So ask your friend to remove it.
A while ago I started to get spam, which because of the way it was addressed I tracked down to an acquaintance's webpage where he'd acknowledged some advice I'd given, quoting an email I'd sent with that address. So I asked him to pull it and after a while that spam died off.
Whatever the law says, this kind of thing will happen with the best intentions, you'll still have to take care of it yourself.
I'm pretty sure the original intent of IP protection was to allow a reasonable return on investment for the IP holder.
Originally, no. The idea was 1) to allow the governement to control information by restricting publishing to those given permission. 2) later it became more encouraging the transfer of information by allowing a period of exclusivity before knowledge passed into the public domain.
Now, yes, industry lobbies have made it about guaranteeing their profits regardless of the public good.
The average wages in HK is much lower, they aren't going to pay the same prices.
No, the average wages in Hong Kong aren't low. For many professions, higher than the UK. And CDs aren't particularly cheap here either. I'd guess CD Wow is shipping them through here, but really sourcing them in other countries. Locally produced CDs will have bilingual Chinese and English packaging.
So my question is... Why are the cd's being sold at such low prices in places like Hong Kong, where this company is buying them for resale in England. How are the artists getting a fair return selling their albums for such low prices in Hong Kong?
I live in Hong Kong. CDs aren't very cheap here, often more expensive than in the US. But they're apparently 10-20% cheaper than in the UK. That's the margin.
So, I suspect NeoOffice is actually the more buggy of the two if they are recommending MS Office.
No, he just has no incentive to bullshit. MS is in the business of selling MS Office. They hide their disclaimers in the small print you don't see until after you've bought it. If you want their support, have your credit card ready.
How complex a wordprocessor does a school student need?
For that matter, every office suite has far more features than needed by 95% of users. Thay probably spend more time dicking around with background textures and fonts and embedded Flash than just writing their reports.
Chinese speakers have fewer problems in this respect since their languages have separate L and R sounds...
There are a dozen or more very distinct Chinese languages -- offically dialects as they share the same written form. The sounds in each are quite different, even a foreigner can distinguish between Cantonese, Beijingers, Shanghainese. (Thus it's quite amusing as US movies and TV shows almost always use Cantonese actors no matter where their characters are supposed to be.)
Beijingers use a very pronounced rolled-R sound; Cantonese don't distinguish between "n" and "l" most of the time, etc....
It appears that the guy tried to give the books to libraries but the ones he attempted to did not want them.
As a general rule, libraries don't want to deal with a random pile of donated used books. They have to spend time and money cataloguing, covering and perhaps repairing them That takes away from the budget for books they want to add to their collection, but don't have the budget for. Even worse, few have any storage space. To put a new book on the shelf they have to retire an old one. So to put this guy's random collection in a library would have a real cost and probably not end up with a net gain for the reading public.
There are undoubtedly some gems amongst the dross, but the problem is to find them. You're still going to be left with tons of books no one wants to read. It was dramatic, but irresponsible, to burn them. Books are made of paper, they can be pulped. Or at worst incinerated cleanly and used to make power.
you provide officer friendly the password, once logged in an auto overwrite process begins
Standard practice is to mirror the drive and work on an image. The image self destructs; restore backup. Then they'll just start pulling your fingernails out till you cough up the real password.
What weve wanted to do, quietly, is amass the largest real estate position on the Internet, which we feel we have, Mr. Conlin said.
A week ago we had the story of a similar scumbag, Kevin Ham.
from that FA at CNN Money:
The man at the top of this little-known hierarchy is Kevin Ham -- one of a handful of major-league "domainers" in the world and arguably the shrewdest and most ambitious of the lot.
So they're both the biggest. Journalisic exaggeration aside, it's disturbing that these parasites are celebrated by respectable financial reporters. These assholes are filling up the web with automatically generated pseudo-content, polluting search results to the point of uselessness. They're web-spammers with the same line of justification that email spammers used to use, they're "offering products that people might be interested in". A pest on both of them.
I edit for a living. It's hard to get all the errors on the first run through, especially when there are so many as this one. Best practice is to pass it to someone else with fresh eyes after the first round of corections have been made. If I'm doing it myself, I need to wait at least a few days before rereading.
better than the prequels. I mean, we don't expect convincing performances from a bunch of CG characters.
Really, the actors weren't the problem. It was the script. The actors had to dull their minds to utter it. A troupe of Oscar-winners couldn't have saved them.
Entertainingly enough, even native English speakers can never get prepositions correct. A more correct translation follows.
I was going for pointing out the gross errors rather than a rewrite. I did it in about 1 minute, most of that fiddling with tags, if Taco had any respect for his readers that's all he needs to do.
Less entertainingly (to me), both my posts have been modded to -1 Troll, so it seems that lèse majesté is still an offence here.
ISRO, Indian Space Research Organisation, is planning to send a robot for its mission to [the] moon.. It is probably going to be made by students and profs of IIT-Kanpur(For [for] those who dont [don't] know, its [it's the] Indian equivalent for MIT). The two-legged robot, fitted with sophisticated sensors and high-resolution cameras, is capable of recording information and images using laser beams. It can also detect the distance of a hindrance, enter a small crater, bring surface samples and return high resolution images to the lunar vehicle. So it seems [it] is pretty good. Although it needs some more sophisitication [sophistication] the cost of it is less than $50,000. Now that a penny infront [WTF??] of the obscene amounts of money NASA spends every day. Probably that can be saved to make this world a whole lot better. Way to go ISRO.
Yeah, I know, Taco thinks it gives a feeling of immediacy, gritty reality.
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No, it's not. Hong Kong is more like a fascist paradise than anything. Margaret Thatcher thought it was wonderful.
The public transport isn't "heavily subsidised" for a start, it's just efficient and in a very densely populated city. If you think public schools are a symptom of "socialism", then the whole world is socialist. (The fees are more than "token", by the way, speaking as a parent.)
The unemployed have to fend for themselves. Many elderly people collect waste newspaper and aluminium cans in the street to supplement their pensions. There are no meaningful elections, the government is appointed by Beijing, and not communists, but real estate tycoons, get the ear of government. Trade unions are powerless political puppets, there is no minimum wage. Socialist? Give me a break.
Sorry, this is wrong. "Mickey Mouse" is not a "work", it's a concept. The various Mickey Mouse cartoons, TV shows, comic books are copyright works, but not the character itself. Copyright however includes "derivative works", and I'm sure Disney lawyers would come after you using that should you produce your own Mickey Mouse cartoon.
Mickey Mouse's appearance however can and has been trademarked. And trademarks do not expire. So even if early MM cartoons were to fall into the public domain, it would be a delicate process to sell copies of it without violating trademarks, but possible I think.
Yes, Malaysia wasn't bombed by the USAF, creating anarchy and an environment encouraging revolution. And consider Burma, a military dictatorship, gone from one of the richest countries in Asia as a British colony to the poorest. But at least they're not commies!
Hong Kong. South Africa. Philippines. Canada, technically.
Hong Kong is rich and peaceful, but has no democracy. The Philippines is dirt poor and its politics is corrupt, violent and inefficient. I know less about South Africa, but it doesn't have a shining reputation. Canada "liberated"? It was granted independence in a completely peaceful and orderly process. No shock and awe required.
How does X know who you are?
So ask your friend to remove it.
A while ago I started to get spam, which because of the way it was addressed I tracked down to an acquaintance's webpage where he'd acknowledged some advice I'd given, quoting an email I'd sent with that address. So I asked him to pull it and after a while that spam died off.
Whatever the law says, this kind of thing will happen with the best intentions, you'll still have to take care of it yourself.
And people used to say TV rots the mind. Well, you showed them.
Either
1) I'm stupid or
2) I was being facetious.
Whichever it was, you were being a dick.
Reminds me of the 60s BBC series Misleading Cases. Might be worth hunting down the original books.
blogroll defined by wikipedia [google define:blogroll]A blogroll is a collection of links to other weblogs. Blogrolls are found on most weblogs.
Don't know why it's different from "links", but I'm not a blogger.
Believe what you like.
Next up: pinball tilt scandal!
It's news to those who play it. They have game forums. Let them talk about it there. Two stories in a week on this pastime is too many.
Originally, no. The idea was 1) to allow the governement to control information by restricting publishing to those given permission. 2) later it became more encouraging the transfer of information by allowing a period of exclusivity before knowledge passed into the public domain.
Now, yes, industry lobbies have made it about guaranteeing their profits regardless of the public good.
No, the average wages in Hong Kong aren't low. For many professions, higher than the UK. And CDs aren't particularly cheap here either. I'd guess CD Wow is shipping them through here, but really sourcing them in other countries. Locally produced CDs will have bilingual Chinese and English packaging.
I live in Hong Kong. CDs aren't very cheap here, often more expensive than in the US. But they're apparently 10-20% cheaper than in the UK. That's the margin.
No, he just has no incentive to bullshit. MS is in the business of selling MS Office. They hide their disclaimers in the small print you don't see until after you've bought it. If you want their support, have your credit card ready.
How complex a wordprocessor does a school student need?
For that matter, every office suite has far more features than needed by 95% of users. Thay probably spend more time dicking around with background textures and fonts and embedded Flash than just writing their reports.
There are a dozen or more very distinct Chinese languages -- offically dialects as they share the same written form. The sounds in each are quite different, even a foreigner can distinguish between Cantonese, Beijingers, Shanghainese. (Thus it's quite amusing as US movies and TV shows almost always use Cantonese actors no matter where their characters are supposed to be.)
Beijingers use a very pronounced rolled-R sound; Cantonese don't distinguish between "n" and "l" most of the time, etc....
As a general rule, libraries don't want to deal with a random pile of donated used books. They have to spend time and money cataloguing, covering and perhaps repairing them That takes away from the budget for books they want to add to their collection, but don't have the budget for. Even worse, few have any storage space. To put a new book on the shelf they have to retire an old one. So to put this guy's random collection in a library would have a real cost and probably not end up with a net gain for the reading public.
There are undoubtedly some gems amongst the dross, but the problem is to find them. You're still going to be left with tons of books no one wants to read. It was dramatic, but irresponsible, to burn them. Books are made of paper, they can be pulped. Or at worst incinerated cleanly and used to make power.
Standard practice is to mirror the drive and work on an image. The image self destructs; restore backup. Then they'll just start pulling your fingernails out till you cough up the real password.
A week ago we had the story of a similar scumbag, Kevin Ham. from that FA at CNN Money: So they're both the biggest. Journalisic exaggeration aside, it's disturbing that these parasites are celebrated by respectable financial reporters. These assholes are filling up the web with automatically generated pseudo-content, polluting search results to the point of uselessness. They're web-spammers with the same line of justification that email spammers used to use, they're "offering products that people might be interested in". A pest on both of them.
I edit for a living. It's hard to get all the errors on the first run through, especially when there are so many as this one. Best practice is to pass it to someone else with fresh eyes after the first round of corections have been made. If I'm doing it myself, I need to wait at least a few days before rereading.
Really, the actors weren't the problem. It was the script. The actors had to dull their minds to utter it. A troupe of Oscar-winners couldn't have saved them.
I was going for pointing out the gross errors rather than a rewrite. I did it in about 1 minute, most of that fiddling with tags, if Taco had any respect for his readers that's all he needs to do.
Less entertainingly (to me), both my posts have been modded to -1 Troll, so it seems that lèse majesté is still an offence here.
I was criticising the EDITORS, not the submitter. Editors are SUPPOSED to be grammar Nazis.