http://w2.brreg.no/enhet/sok/detalj.jsp?orgnr=970551972
I do know it's easy to register as a religion in Norway (which I think is a good thing) - I once was seriously considering registering some religion with the sole purpose of getting government support and the sole function of gathering once a year and drinking beer for the gov. support money. I still think I could have pulled it off:-)
I was inspired by these geniouses: http://www.gateavisa.no/blekka/ga152/religion/152ralt.html
While I agree hinting to the war is unneccessarry, his point is valid: An independent media is absolutely necessary to keep the power of government in check.
When government is running the media, a huge conflict of interest exists. This problem is unfortunately not being taken seriously by the people in countries with government-run media (most of Europe, maybe?). It's even worse here in Norway, where the government operated media dominates TV and radio - only in newspapers is there some diversity and even most of those depend on government subsidies.
The problem here is that many public networks shy away from these documentaries BECAUSE of the clout of Scientology. However, ARD is supported by public euros and as such answers to nobody even the government. Many whine about having to pay a TV tax, but I gladly pay my monthly TV tax as it produces documentaries that ask hard hitting questions. Public networks would definitely not support it...
I am a supporter of free markets and capitalism, but at times we need the government.
Yes, at times we need the government - but journalism is clearly not a job for the government. Do you think we need a government newspaper, because the normal newspapers are too scared of pissing of corporations or religions? How do you explain away all the good and controversial journalistic work done by privately owned newspapers and TV-stations all over the world? Believe me, there are plenty of good journalists and editors in the private media.
Hopefully this also means that those three-strike laws wont be possible, since getting broadband access should be a legal right.
Legal rights and privileges are often conditional on good behavior - and they can be forfeit.
Your "Right to Travel" isn't a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.
Yes but it means, like the case is for jail, that an actual court needs to take away that right. Not your ISP based on a form letter from the content lobby.
I'm a peaceful Norwegian with two (many years ago) convictions for possession of small amounts (1-2 joints) of marihuana.
My grandmother wants to take me to visit our family in Boston next year, and I'm not looking forward to it at all because of one thing only: US border control and visa stupidity.
The US is the only country in the world to care about a stupid posession misdemeanor - I could go anywhere else without issue at all..
While I think your "capitalism cannot deal with massive projects" statement is false, I have to agree on sharing the connection: I happily leave my wifi unencrypted and unprotected. Use it all you want, neighbours!
Just a little addendum to the Wine-thing, for Ubuntu users: I had problems with playback stopping and stuttering before upgrading to the very latest wine (the one in the Ubuntu repos isn't new enough.)
Follow the instructions on winehq.org to add their repositories..
These kind of studies are largely pointless. We already know this, and the media industry will not believe it regardless of how many studies come to this conclusion.
You're right, but the important part is convincing society in general, and of course politicans. And at least some of them _do_ listen to/read academic papers.
As usual, non-metric units make no fucking sense at all.
Oblig. Grampa Simpson quote: "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it."
OK, I'll give you Canada then. But that sort of bullshit is certainly not common in Europe. Also: In Europe we usually don't separate between "crime" and "misdemeanor" - everything goes on our criminal records.
I found a link to "Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas"
http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/ineligibilities/ineligibilities_1364.html
As a potential Johnny foreigner, I will spend my hard won Euros somewhere else.
If you are going to be deterred from coming to the US over the requirement that you register online and cough up some fingerprints I suppose you really didn't care that much about coming in the first place anyway, did you?
I think this program is security theater more than anything else but our entry/exit requirements still aren't that onerous compared to other countries I can think of. In the end you'll have to weigh them against your reason for coming here. I'm in love with Italy and Italian culture -- I'd cough up my prints if that was the requirement to go there. New York State already has them anyway.....
But the US rules _are_ onerous compared to other countries. The US demands that everyone wanting a tourist visa need to have a clean criminal record. (And I'm not talkin about having done jail time, everything more serious that a traffic ticket and you're disqualified.)
As a potential Johnny foreigner, I will spend my hard won Euros somewhere else.
So will I! The U.S. makes it so damn difficult getting into their country that it hardly seems worth the effort any more.. The worst part is that they deny visa (even 3 months of tourist visa) to ppl like me who have a small thing ($400 dollar fine) on our criminal record. A US citizen with the same record I have will have no problem entering my country (Norway).
That would have been a good point, except that you're wrong: For the purpose of a server OS (and probably most other purposes) OS X is so far removed from it's BSD ancestry that your point is not valid at all.
Seriously, you don't? Largely because of the music industry's reluctance to use distribution methods and pricing that makes buying music "legally" attractive, we now have a situation where everything may end up on p2p. If you are happy living with the risk that one of your purchased iTunes Plus files will end up on a file sharing network and you getting sued for it, then you must be on Valium.,.
And also considering Paul McC's new project is sold without DRM in a choice between mp3, FLAC and Apple Lossless from his own site: http://www.thefiremanmusic.com/purchase
..if they really were using OS X server they were obviously idiots and doomed to fail.
PS: Not saying OS X is not pretty good on the desktop/laptop, just that for your servers you should use Linux or possibly Solaris or BSD, but not OS X or Windows.
NTFS support on Ubuntu is really pretty good. The performance is not quite as good as native, but I think saying that "neither works particularly well in their non-native environments" is going to far, as functionality and stability is very good.
You can even run Ubuntu easily on NTFS with wubi. Check out this review: http://www.linux.com/feature/130713
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http://w2.brreg.no/enhet/sok/detalj.jsp?orgnr=970551972 I do know it's easy to register as a religion in Norway (which I think is a good thing) - I once was seriously considering registering some religion with the sole purpose of getting government support and the sole function of gathering once a year and drinking beer for the gov. support money. I still think I could have pulled it off :-)
I was inspired by these geniouses: http://www.gateavisa.no/blekka/ga152/religion/152ralt.html
Mod parent up!
I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong: Scientology is registered as a religion ("trossamfunn") in Norway.
While I agree hinting to the war is unneccessarry, his point is valid: An independent media is absolutely necessary to keep the power of government in check. When government is running the media, a huge conflict of interest exists. This problem is unfortunately not being taken seriously by the people in countries with government-run media (most of Europe, maybe?). It's even worse here in Norway, where the government operated media dominates TV and radio - only in newspapers is there some diversity and even most of those depend on government subsidies.
The problem here is that many public networks shy away from these documentaries BECAUSE of the clout of Scientology. However, ARD is supported by public euros and as such answers to nobody even the government. Many whine about having to pay a TV tax, but I gladly pay my monthly TV tax as it produces documentaries that ask hard hitting questions. Public networks would definitely not support it...
I am a supporter of free markets and capitalism, but at times we need the government.
Yes, at times we need the government - but journalism is clearly not a job for the government. Do you think we need a government newspaper, because the normal newspapers are too scared of pissing of corporations or religions? How do you explain away all the good and controversial journalistic work done by privately owned newspapers and TV-stations all over the world? Believe me, there are plenty of good journalists and editors in the private media.
Antonov and Convers is out of Spyker - GM wouldn't sell SAAB to them otherwise.
You're of course right about that.. Sorry for the lack of fact-checking.
Fact: Mercedes and BMW still use only rear or four wheel drive.
"circumventing a copyright protection mechanism" is illegal in most of Europe as well... Thanks for the inspiration, Mr. Sam.
Hopefully this also means that those three-strike laws wont be possible, since getting broadband access should be a legal right.
Legal rights and privileges are often conditional on good behavior - and they can be forfeit.
Your "Right to Travel" isn't a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.
Yes but it means, like the case is for jail, that an actual court needs to take away that right. Not your ISP based on a form letter from the content lobby.
I'm a peaceful Norwegian with two (many years ago) convictions for possession of small amounts (1-2 joints) of marihuana. My grandmother wants to take me to visit our family in Boston next year, and I'm not looking forward to it at all because of one thing only: US border control and visa stupidity. The US is the only country in the world to care about a stupid posession misdemeanor - I could go anywhere else without issue at all..
While I think your "capitalism cannot deal with massive projects" statement is false, I have to agree on sharing the connection: I happily leave my wifi unencrypted and unprotected. Use it all you want, neighbours!
Just a little addendum to the Wine-thing, for Ubuntu users: I had problems with playback stopping and stuttering before upgrading to the very latest wine (the one in the Ubuntu repos isn't new enough.) Follow the instructions on winehq.org to add their repositories..
These kind of studies are largely pointless. We already know this, and the media industry will not believe it regardless of how many studies come to this conclusion.
You're right, but the important part is convincing society in general, and of course politicans. And at least some of them _do_ listen to/read academic papers.
As someone else mentioned, an imperial gallon is greater than a US gallon.
40MP(imperial)G * .8327(US)G/(imperial)G = ~33.3 MP(US)G.
As usual, non-metric units make no fucking sense at all.
Oblig. Grampa Simpson quote: "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it."
it makes me feel physically sick that a bunch of Swedish criminal hippies.
Is that you, Nixon?
+1 funny if I'd had mod points!
OK, I'll give you Canada then. But that sort of bullshit is certainly not common in Europe. Also: In Europe we usually don't separate between "crime" and "misdemeanor" - everything goes on our criminal records. I found a link to "Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas" http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/ineligibilities/ineligibilities_1364.html
As a potential Johnny foreigner, I will spend my hard won Euros somewhere else.
If you are going to be deterred from coming to the US over the requirement that you register online and cough up some fingerprints I suppose you really didn't care that much about coming in the first place anyway, did you?
I think this program is security theater more than anything else but our entry/exit requirements still aren't that onerous compared to other countries I can think of. In the end you'll have to weigh them against your reason for coming here. I'm in love with Italy and Italian culture -- I'd cough up my prints if that was the requirement to go there. New York State already has them anyway.....
But the US rules _are_ onerous compared to other countries. The US demands that everyone wanting a tourist visa need to have a clean criminal record. (And I'm not talkin about having done jail time, everything more serious that a traffic ticket and you're disqualified.)
As a potential Johnny foreigner, I will spend my hard won Euros somewhere else.
So will I! The U.S. makes it so damn difficult getting into their country that it hardly seems worth the effort any more.. The worst part is that they deny visa (even 3 months of tourist visa) to ppl like me who have a small thing ($400 dollar fine) on our criminal record. A US citizen with the same record I have will have no problem entering my country (Norway).
That would have been a good point, except that you're wrong: For the purpose of a server OS (and probably most other purposes) OS X is so far removed from it's BSD ancestry that your point is not valid at all.
I don't see the problem.
Seriously, you don't? Largely because of the music industry's reluctance to use distribution methods and pricing that makes buying music "legally" attractive, we now have a situation where everything may end up on p2p. If you are happy living with the risk that one of your purchased iTunes Plus files will end up on a file sharing network and you getting sued for it, then you must be on Valium.,.
And also considering Paul McC's new project is sold without DRM in a choice between mp3, FLAC and Apple Lossless from his own site: http://www.thefiremanmusic.com/purchase
PS: Not saying OS X is not pretty good on the desktop/laptop, just that for your servers you should use Linux or possibly Solaris or BSD, but not OS X or Windows.
NTFS support on Ubuntu is really pretty good. The performance is not quite as good as native, but I think saying that "neither works particularly well in their non-native environments" is going to far, as functionality and stability is very good. You can even run Ubuntu easily on NTFS with wubi. Check out this review: http://www.linux.com/feature/130713