Casual inspection will show beyond doubt that it is reasonable to obey treaties you freely agreed to. It is unreasonable to be forced into treaties by bullying.
- I am referring to the US bullying Europe into accepting genetically modified food products, despite the fact that the voters here don't want them, and will not re-elect politicians who agree to this. People will not buy GM products other than General Motors (which is called Vauxhall or Opel here anyway) unless the fact that they are GM is concealed. Yet the US threatens trade sanctions unless we import this stuff.
Yes - here in the UK, playing music loudly into the street is considered "broadcasting", and requires the payment of royalties. But then, in the UK, signalling to neighbours across the street by opening your curtains is considered to be "transmitting by the modulation of electromagnetic radiation" and requires a licence, or it certainly used to.
Actually, letting forgers print the notes for you is just the US government's way of saving money. They have no interest in stopping forgers. They just need to pretend to stop it.
Many years ago, in the olden days I thought about this, and was quickly redirected to the "one true path" - it may be marginally more helpful TO ENGLISH SPEAKERS to have meaningful commands, directory names, etc - but unix is multi-user, and supports multiple locales, and the traditional commands, paths may not be meaningful, but can easily be aliased - each user can provide his own names, in his/her own language, but at least the standard ones are standard.
You are welcome to alias them to whatever you want, but it wont help you understand your next door neighbour's Unix system, or your next employer's either.
I don't know which country that is, but here in the UK, leasing is popular, because the tax structure is massively rigged in its favour. If you have a car on a company lease, you effectively avoid taxes of 30%, and possibly considerably more.
Dont forget - every spam or virus you recieve goes through more than one Cisco router, and more spam and viruses means more bandwidth, and more bandwidth means more Cisco routers sold. Who benefits most from spam on the whole planet?...
Why, yes, its CISCO.
And who could stop all all the spam in the world if they wanted to, with simple, anti spam software?...
The reason for a lot of gears is to allow the driver to select the peak part of the performance curve for power or economy according to requirement. The more gears, the narrower the part of peak that can be used. You doint need to use them all - typically with an 8 speed box, you use 2-4-6-7-8. Starting uphill, you might use 1-3-4-5-6-7-8, and starting downhill 3-5-7-8.
Incidentally in diesel electric rail locos, the engines run at either 750RPM while idling, or 1500 RPM on power. All parts of the air flow are tuned to the appropriate frequencies. There is no "power band" there is one resonant frequency, and the octave higher. This means great efficiency. In the 60s and 70s they tried diesel hydraulic transmissions (Like auto transmission in cars) it was very unreliable.
Us oldies grew up with EDSAC, ENIAC, and remember valves (tubes to Americans). We remember subroutines and microprogramming being INVENTED, and I personally knew the people that invented them. The fact that we were there when all the inventions occurred, (eg memory management, RISC, bytes, variable word length, etc) gives an insight the youth of today will never have.
We have also seen untold numbers of progects get stuffed, and remember why it happened.
However, it does not give us a job with companies who think hours_at_work==productive_hours, and we still need to earn a living.
As to all these young people in call centres, do you want your company's image to be one that appearance matters more than substance? If the call centre staff can't grasp the issue, they do not provide a service to the caller, they are just an irritant. Rember the Malibu advert where the guy is slapped round the face with a wet fish? Would a slap round the face with a wet fish make you buy MY products? [if yes, please e-mail Michael Dell, he needs your business.]
You all may be interested to know that in about 1990, I tried to sell this concept through a company called "Cambridge Intellectual Properties Ltd" in Cambridge, England, run by an American called Herman (or Hyman) Gross.
After refusing to sign contracts in which I would have agreed to all accounts being kept in the Cayman Islands, and other dubious things, I let it lapse. It seems they did not let it lapse. About 5 years later, I saw a film, director named something Gross, showing the system being demonstrated in Spain.
Moral of this story: Some people are unspeakable sh*te, with no redeeming features.
Incidentally, there is a far better way of extracting the energy than a chimney and turbine. I just put those in the papers to illustrate the concept. Obviously I won't reveal it here. And to those who say "Why did you not patent it?" Look at the dates! A patent would have expired by now!
Would any buisness make an important descision based on these shills ?
Yes, many do... because the decision maker can avoid knowing anything, and still cover his ass.
For middle management in a large organisation, its not the reality that counts, its the bullsh*t.
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Is the warranty is actually worth more than the savings in repairing it?
Here in the UK, taking a car back under warranty wastes a mass of time, and often costs so much in time off work, and general agro, you often have to wonder if its worth it. Also, there are all the exclusions "You used it on a public road? That means you shared the road with another user - clearly invalidating your warranty!" On top of that, there is all this high tech stuff that even the main dealer can't understand. The manufacturer's strategy is to raise the complexity of the minimum replaceable module No longer do you replace a light bulb, now you have to replace the entire cluster. Soon, you will also have to replace the headlamp cluster's dual processor motherboard and RAID assembly.
The way things are going, I can see us buying imported copies of 1970s cars made in india, simly because they are repairable! (Yes, I do drive an old, mechanically injected, diesel)
If Apple really did do it first then no one else can patent it anyway
Well, NO if they did, they would have had to do it before 1990, when I saw it done by people working at Cambridge University Maths Lab, and whoever did do it first, the patent would have run out by now.
Just a hint... Suphur is the same Brimstone that is spake about in ye olde testament, and is the main ingredient of acid rain.
Hence disposing of these things will rot the environment and invoke the wrath of the Lord. If you buy one, you'd best keep it forever, or else you can reasonably expect at least three plagues, and probably being struck by lightning and turned to stone as well.
Its not about preventing terrorism, credit card scams or anything to do with security whatsoever. It is about taking another $100 of every man, woman and child in the country.
the fact that you get a pointless piece of plastic, with a worthless security feature, is just enough for some dodgy "security" firm to justify a great, fat juicy contract. This is a compulsory fleecing of the public to line a few pockets.
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- I am referring to the US bullying Europe into accepting genetically modified food products, despite the fact that the voters here don't want them, and will not re-elect politicians who agree to this. People will not buy GM products other than General Motors (which is called Vauxhall or Opel here anyway) unless the fact that they are GM is concealed. Yet the US threatens trade sanctions unless we import this stuff.
Yes - here in the UK, playing music loudly into the street is considered "broadcasting", and requires the payment of royalties. But then, in the UK, signalling to neighbours across the street by opening your curtains is considered to be "transmitting by the modulation of electromagnetic radiation" and requires a licence, or it certainly used to.
a) The one with the most money wins the court case and "legal" is in the purse of the beholder
b) People think avoiding being shot at is a bigger priority than looking for web servers
c) Where the "fullest extent of the law" is 1 mile outside the town.
I think you need to travel a bit more - Even Dorothea knew there IS a world outside of Kansas.
Actually, letting forgers print the notes for you is just the US government's way of saving money. They have no interest in stopping forgers. They just need to pretend to stop it.
Surely its already named the "WTF" key?
Perhaps they will call it "Darjeeling?"
You are welcome to alias them to whatever you want, but it wont help you understand your next door neighbour's Unix system, or your next employer's either.
I am confident its pronounced "Make A Fee" by most people who have seen their priced ;-}
I don't know which country that is, but here in the UK, leasing is popular, because the tax structure is massively rigged in its favour. If you have a car on a company lease, you effectively avoid taxes of 30%, and possibly considerably more.
Why, yes, its CISCO.
And who could stop all all the spam in the world if they wanted to, with simple, anti spam software?...
why, Yes, its CISCO.
Next time you get a spam, thank CISCO for it.
Incidentally in diesel electric rail locos, the engines run at either 750RPM while idling, or 1500 RPM on power. All parts of the air flow are tuned to the appropriate frequencies. There is no "power band" there is one resonant frequency, and the octave higher. This means great efficiency. In the 60s and 70s they tried diesel hydraulic transmissions (Like auto transmission in cars) it was very unreliable.
We have also seen untold numbers of progects get stuffed, and remember why it happened.
However, it does not give us a job with companies who think hours_at_work==productive_hours, and we still need to earn a living.
As to all these young people in call centres, do you want your company's image to be one that appearance matters more than substance? If the call centre staff can't grasp the issue, they do not provide a service to the caller, they are just an irritant. Rember the Malibu advert where the guy is slapped round the face with a wet fish? Would a slap round the face with a wet fish make you buy MY products? [if yes, please e-mail Michael Dell, he needs your business.]
After refusing to sign contracts in which I would have agreed to all accounts being kept in the Cayman Islands, and other dubious things, I let it lapse. It seems they did not let it lapse. About 5 years later, I saw a film, director named something Gross, showing the system being demonstrated in Spain.
Moral of this story: Some people are unspeakable sh*te, with no redeeming features.
Incidentally, there is a far better way of extracting the energy than a chimney and turbine. I just put those in the papers to illustrate the concept. Obviously I won't reveal it here. And to those who say "Why did you not patent it?" Look at the dates! A patent would have expired by now!
We all know "640k should be enough for anyone", so they have a way to go before universal acceptability.
Well dont give them ideas .. I really dont want my kids having a case of "The Blue Tooth of Death"
The whole world has really been waiting for this!
Thats what cruise missiles are for.
Yes, many do ... because the decision maker can avoid knowing anything, and still cover his ass.
For middle management in a large organisation, its not the reality that counts, its the bullsh*t.
Here in the UK, taking a car back under warranty wastes a mass of time, and often costs so much in time off work, and general agro, you often have to wonder if its worth it. Also, there are all the exclusions "You used it on a public road? That means you shared the road with another user - clearly invalidating your warranty!" On top of that, there is all this high tech stuff that even the main dealer can't understand. The manufacturer's strategy is to raise the complexity of the minimum replaceable module No longer do you replace a light bulb, now you have to replace the entire cluster. Soon, you will also have to replace the headlamp cluster's dual processor motherboard and RAID assembly.
The way things are going, I can see us buying imported copies of 1970s cars made in india, simly because they are repairable! (Yes, I do drive an old, mechanically injected, diesel)
Well, NO if they did, they would have had to do it before 1990, when I saw it done by people working at Cambridge University Maths Lab, and whoever did do it first, the patent would have run out by now.
Hence disposing of these things will rot the environment and invoke the wrath of the Lord. If you buy one, you'd best keep it forever, or else you can reasonably expect at least three plagues, and probably being struck by lightning and turned to stone as well.
Prepare to be pissed.
Not only that, since they explode on contact with water, Al Quaida can use them as wepons of mass destruction.
With the prices in Sweden, no one could afford to invade. They probably need a stealth ship to avoid the taxes.
the fact that you get a pointless piece of plastic, with a worthless security feature, is just enough for some dodgy "security" firm to justify a great, fat juicy contract. This is a compulsory fleecing of the public to line a few pockets.
Can you say "Gravy Train?"
I knew you could!