The only effect globalization has is that the salary levels and working conditions is pushed DOWN. As soon as the workers of one country tries to raise their wages, the employers will move to another country. This is already happening to India - corporations move more and more work to China instead!
Globalization is a race to the bottom since there will always be a cheaper country and heance a for the rich to earn one dime more.
US forces could single handled defeat the ten (10) following nations when it comes to military strength. You don't think that means more military power than necessary?
I hope we are talking OS X machines here beacuse if we aren't, then I belive you to be wrong. Where I work we have mainly MacOS classic machines and they are simply a living hell to support. They needs matainiance far to often. Our PCs never needs maintainance and that is our small luck, else we wouldn't cope with the workload.
I have one simple question: why put all this data in the barcode? Adresses change, so does weight and other datas.
My drivers licens has one simple 1d barcode which I know what it contains - my personal identification number. Of course, since the goverment can crossreference this in 2ms, they know exactly everything about me by scanning it. This has to be smarter since this means that my adress and other data never will be out of date. Of course, this also mean that the goverment easily can know everything - but we already assume that here.
No, X2000 don't achieve 230-250 on regular tracks. If I recall correctly, the record is around 270 km/h on a test tour. The ordinary top speed is about 200 km/h.
200 km/h is NEVER achieved on old track. It is only achived on new track that is built specially for this. The highspeed parts of the system is newbuilt using hevier rails than before, less curves, hevier ballast, new overhead wires and new signal systems. Of course, when this modifications is made, you can run a convetional train almost as fast as X2000... Swedens Intercity trains runs at 160 km/h on the same track as X2000 runs 200 km/h on. I regualry choose them instead of X2000 since they are cheaper, more frequent and almost as fast.
I am sure the X2000 approach seams good but it has some problems.
X2000 is the only highspeed train where I live (Sweden) and frankly it isn't impressing. First of all, it DOES need new tracks or upgrades to the current lines. Not to run, but to run a top speed. X2000 service has been avaible for a long time now in Sweden but we still can't run the trains at flank speed on all lines that it serves.
I belive that China has even worse infrastructure than Sweden and this means massive rebuilding. You need to change signals, overhead powerlines (don't remember what they are called) and tons of other stuff to really run at full speed.
The top speed for X2000 is 200 km/h. Guess what? When you upgrade the lines to make this possible, Swedens ordinary trains pulled by RC3 or RC6 engines are capable of running 160 km/h on the same track. This is a minor difference in speed. Since X2000 runs less frequent so can I often get there faster by regular train.
Also, tilting trains like X2000 is more expensive to operate, having larger maintaniance bills. They are fewer than ordinary engines and has a higher price for spares. They also breaks more easily. It have happend to me several times that the tilting stops to work on a coach. This make it a wild ride to be in that coach...
I don't understand why you brought Sweden into this but let me give you some perspective of our current economy: * We have a huge unemployment. Especially in computer related jobs. * We are EUs third poorest country * We are some of the worst paid europeans * We have the highest taxes in the world * Our health care is going down the drain * Our polticians fucks us over and goes to EU and make wages that we will never get
We also see our work exported overseas each day. I belive that US standard of living already exceeds ours. Lets all wish for a better economy.
"As more leftists and Europeans protest America being the world police, I wish we (Americans) would stop giving foriegn aid to every backward ass country out there when they need help. We should just take care of ourselves."
Give us a break please. You are one of this people who belive that US is the country that gives most foregin aid, aren't you? Grow up! You are NOT. Not if we base it on percent of GNP, something we have to do to make it fare to compare. You doesn't even pay your part of UNs budget anymore.
"Do you think America should roll over and let China create space weapons without America doing the same?" Your own administration has told EU that you will attack our sattelites and other space equipment if you don't approve of your actions. We are supposed to be your allies.
"In other words, Reagan's Star Wars reinvented. Good, since it was a good idea." No, it wasn't. It was expensive, stupid, ineffective and leads to an arms race. It doesn't protect you from terrorists - a SUV with a nuclear bomb is much more of a threat than a terrorist getting hold of a ICBM. It doesn't protect you from Russia, China or any other nuclear power with ICBMs (beacuse they have to many) so what good is it for?
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"successful operation of an anti-tank weapon is not plug-and-play."
Isn't it? I have a different opinion. The standard anti-tank weapon of the swedish army takes no time to understand on how to use. It is simply a point and click weapon with no inteligence.
Simply point and fire - if you remeber to fire at the weakest points (the side and rear armor or upper armor) you are almost sure to make a kill in up to 300 meters on Russian tanks, however it is better at closer range.
Since the armor on a M1A1 is better I suppose you need to fire from a close range or hit it twice (you will need two weapons for this since it is a one shot weapon), but it is easy to use the weapon. Since the weapon cost about $10000 so is it also very cheap compared to the tank... A great weapon to even the playfield for infantry and artillery when confronted with armor.
I would like to point out that these weapons is common in most western armys and that they are rather easy to come across on the black market. Here it has even been used by rivalising MC-gangs to attack each others houses.
I have my masters and I am competing against others with masters and 10 years experience. Exactly what I earned by taking a master degree was higher dept.
Be sarcastic all you want but the parent post has a valid point: why does copyright extend BEYOND the physical existance of the creator?
The idea behind copyright is that the artist should get paid to be creative. Once you are dead you STOP being creative. So the idea to have copyright extend beyond the life of the artist goes against the whole basic fundation of copyright.
My question is this: what will happend with Linux support for FAT? And does it affect my Canon digital camera that I finaly managed to get to work in Linux?
The problem with this kind of argument is that we eventually end up with the fact that everyone should stay on a rather little part of Africa, since humans has moved and continues to move. We are a slowly migrating creature.
Actually, I belive we all owe much to the romans and the greeks. Even us who belong to the tribes defeated by them (ok, they never reached my country but they influenced it). All western civilization is based on roman practice.
We have gone throught this discussion on Slashdot before and come to terms with the fact that IM network usage is regional based.
Nobody uses AIM in Europe - if you wanna talk whith us you have to use ICQ or MSN. The major network in Europe is still ICQ.
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The only effect globalization has is that the salary levels and working conditions is pushed DOWN.
As soon as the workers of one country tries to raise their wages, the employers will move to another country.
This is already happening to India - corporations move more and more work to China instead!
Globalization is a race to the bottom since there will always be a cheaper country and heance a for the rich to earn one dime more.
US forces could single handled defeat the ten (10) following nations when it comes to military strength.
You don't think that means more military power than necessary?
I hope we are talking OS X machines here beacuse if we aren't, then I belive you to be wrong.
Where I work we have mainly MacOS classic machines and they are simply a living hell to support.
They needs matainiance far to often. Our PCs never needs maintainance and that is our small luck, else we wouldn't cope with the workload.
I know this is hard to belive for Mac lovers..
I have one simple question: why put all this data in the barcode? Adresses change, so does weight and other datas. My drivers licens has one simple 1d barcode which I know what it contains - my personal identification number. Of course, since the goverment can crossreference this in 2ms, they know exactly everything about me by scanning it. This has to be smarter since this means that my adress and other data never will be out of date. Of course, this also mean that the goverment easily can know everything - but we already assume that here.
You are probaly right - the greens of most nation seams to be a "back to the caves" elite.
Of some reason they don't embrace technology, they hate it.
No, X2000 don't achieve 230-250 on regular tracks.
If I recall correctly, the record is around 270 km/h on a test tour. The ordinary top speed is about 200 km/h.
200 km/h is NEVER achieved on old track. It is only achived on new track that is built specially for this. The highspeed parts of the system is newbuilt using hevier rails than before, less curves, hevier ballast, new overhead wires and new signal systems.
Of course, when this modifications is made, you can run a convetional train almost as fast as X2000...
Swedens Intercity trains runs at 160 km/h on the same track as X2000 runs 200 km/h on. I regualry choose them instead of X2000 since they are cheaper, more frequent and almost as fast.
I am sure the X2000 approach seams good but it has some problems.
X2000 is the only highspeed train where I live (Sweden) and frankly it isn't impressing. First of all, it DOES need new tracks or upgrades to the current lines. Not to run, but to run a top speed. X2000 service has been avaible for a long time now in Sweden but we still can't run the trains at flank speed on all lines that it serves.
I belive that China has even worse infrastructure than Sweden and this means massive rebuilding. You need to change signals, overhead powerlines (don't remember what they are called) and tons of other stuff to really run at full speed.
The top speed for X2000 is 200 km/h. Guess what? When you upgrade the lines to make this possible, Swedens ordinary trains pulled by RC3 or RC6 engines are capable of running 160 km/h on the same track. This is a minor difference in speed. Since X2000 runs less frequent so can I often get there faster by regular train.
Also, tilting trains like X2000 is more expensive to operate, having larger maintaniance bills. They are fewer than ordinary engines and has a higher price for spares. They also breaks more easily. It have happend to me several times that the tilting stops to work on a coach. This make it a wild ride to be in that coach...
I don't understand why you brought Sweden into this but let me give you some perspective of our current economy:
* We have a huge unemployment. Especially in computer related jobs.
* We are EUs third poorest country
* We are some of the worst paid europeans
* We have the highest taxes in the world
* Our health care is going down the drain
* Our polticians fucks us over and goes to EU and make wages that we will never get
We also see our work exported overseas each day. I belive that US standard of living already exceeds ours. Lets all wish for a better economy.
"As more leftists and Europeans protest America being the world police, I wish we (Americans) would stop giving foriegn aid to every backward ass country out there when they need help. We should just take care of ourselves."
Give us a break please. You are one of this people who belive that US is the country that gives most foregin aid, aren't you? Grow up! You are NOT.
Not if we base it on percent of GNP, something we have to do to make it fare to compare.
You doesn't even pay your part of UNs budget anymore.
"Do you think America should roll over and let China create space weapons without America doing the same?"
Your own administration has told EU that you will attack our sattelites and other space equipment if you don't approve of your actions. We are supposed to be your allies.
"In other words, Reagan's Star Wars reinvented.
Good, since it was a good idea."
No, it wasn't. It was expensive, stupid, ineffective and leads to an arms race.
It doesn't protect you from terrorists - a SUV with a nuclear bomb is much more of a threat than a terrorist getting hold of a ICBM.
It doesn't protect you from Russia, China or any other nuclear power with ICBMs (beacuse they have to many) so what good is it for?
"successful operation of an anti-tank weapon is not plug-and-play."
Isn't it? I have a different opinion. The standard anti-tank weapon of the swedish army takes no time to understand on how to use. It is simply a point and click weapon with no inteligence.
Simply point and fire - if you remeber to fire at the weakest points (the side and rear armor or upper armor) you are almost sure to make a kill in up to 300 meters on Russian tanks, however it is better at closer range.
Since the armor on a M1A1 is better I suppose you need to fire from a close range or hit it twice (you will need two weapons for this since it is a one shot weapon), but it is easy to use the weapon. Since the weapon cost about $10000 so is it also very cheap compared to the tank...
A great weapon to even the playfield for infantry and artillery when confronted with armor.
I would like to point out that these weapons is common in most western armys and that they are rather easy to come across on the black market. Here it has even been used by rivalising MC-gangs to attack each others houses.
I have my masters and I am competing against others with masters and 10 years experience.
Exactly what I earned by taking a master degree was higher dept.
You should, as all of us, be prepared to work a low wage work that you are not educated for until you drop.
Be sarcastic all you want but the parent post has a valid point: why does copyright extend BEYOND the physical existance of the creator?
The idea behind copyright is that the artist should get paid to be creative. Once you are dead you STOP being creative. So the idea to have copyright extend beyond the life of the artist goes against the whole basic fundation of copyright.
You should make sure to have a ICBM. Easier to hit England with that if you live in USA.
My question is this: what will happend with Linux support for FAT? And does it affect my Canon digital camera that I finaly managed to get to work in Linux?
It is the danes and norweigans who puts a slash through o. In Sweden we put dots about it instead. =)
The problem with this kind of argument is that we eventually end up with the fact that everyone should stay on a rather little part of Africa, since humans has moved and continues to move.
We are a slowly migrating creature.
But Darl has promised to go after BSD when he is finished with Linux.
So if we belive in SCO so isn't BSD a safe way either.
I doubt anyone could be stupid enough to commit suicide in that way. Sounds extreamly slow and painfull.
But with cheaper energy so could also the taxes be lowered.
Actually, I belive we all owe much to the romans and the greeks.
Even us who belong to the tribes defeated by them (ok, they never reached my country but they influenced it).
All western civilization is based on roman practice.
I am quite sure this happend quite often in occupied Europe when US and other allied troops drove Wermacht away during 1944 and 1945...
Do they still fly SR-71?
Isn't its role taken over completly by satelites?
"while attractice girls fling themselves at them".
Yeah. Right. What planet do you live on?
I am tall and I have never seen me having this effect on women.
Sir, I demand some proof of this theory.
We have gone throught this discussion on Slashdot before and come to terms with the fact that IM network usage is regional based. Nobody uses AIM in Europe - if you wanna talk whith us you have to use ICQ or MSN. The major network in Europe is still ICQ.