Germany couln't win the war in Europe after the invasion of Russia, with or without American support to the British. The best they could have done would have to be a draw. They couldn't invade Britain, and they couldn't defeat Sovjet. They could perhaps have made it to the Ural mountains, but the german supplies lines where totaly overstreached as early as the attack on Moscow. Claiming that Germany could have taken Russia and Britain simultainly is a stupid claim.
When Hitler started the two front war, the best he could accomplish was a draw without a defeat of Britain.
American frigates and other naval units did patrul the convous to Europe well before they and Germany got into war. I think some ships even was sunk by German subs before the war started, during escort duties.
You are so correct, there is no need for a person to carry his ID all time. The police can easily check the identity without it. I am a bit suprised that Germany forces everyone to always where their ID.
For instance, in Sweden where I live we are issued a personal identification code. This is the base for all swedes identiy papers - whitout one you wouldn't exist. However, we are not forced to bring our IDs with us. The police can easily check our credentials if we tell them our name and id number.
Actually, the only time we are forced to have a identity card is when we drive - we don't even need to have our drivers license with us, just a valid id. The fun thing is that you are supposed to be fined 1000 kr (100 Euro) if you don't have an id with you when you drive. However, the police can't fine you if they can't get a positive ID on you. And by getting a positive ID they have identified you and checked that you have a drivers license, hence you can't be forced to pay the fine... that is a nice little legal loophole that few use every year since it isn't so well known...;-)
It is strange how this "polar bear" idea have come to become some kind of truth. However, there isn't polar bears in any region of Norden exept of a remote island group north of Norway and on Greenland.
Where I live we have ordinary brown bears, not white. The bears is also smaller than the North American grissly bear. Actually, they are quite harmless since they are very shy - I have never seen one live in nature.
The most dangerous large animal in most of Norden is actually ordinary elks since they have a tendency to put themself in front of cars on freeways... not a good combination.
It would cost Symantec customers who get feed up with the troubling hardware locks. And what do you do if you have more than one software that needs a dongle? Two dongles on one port? Don't sound like a promising future...
You say that everybody uses AIM - not true. Perhaps true where you live but here everyone uses ICQ with MSN second (or perhaps first nowdays). No one use AIM.
There is a service under XP that you can turn off. I don't remember it's name now but it is something like "webshare" or something like that. This is supposed to cache shares or something but it always gave me the same problem that you describe - application hangs in XP when reading from shares. After a suggestion I turned this service off and XP worked as good as win2k.
Could you please tell me how this feature is enabled?
I am using Suse 8.2 and I haven't seen this feature but I would like to use it - can you please tell me where it is hidden? I hope it isn't the "start new KDE session" function because that lock my computer and I have to reboot.
This is why it is better to be against the whole EU idea. The truth is that one simple directive (which DOESN'T need to be handled throught anything BUT the Eu commission) is more worth than your countrys constitution.
So when a country join EU they basicly throws democraty out. In my opinion so is it devasting to join a union where a directive from a non-elected commision has more value than the constitution of your country.
This is much better than the "go to jail" option. I am not sure if for instance England still practice this "go to jail if you can't pay" ideas, but when they did before all that happend was that special prisions ended up being full of people that couldn't pay their bills. Since they coulnd't work either, as they where imprisioned, they couldn't get money to pay the bill. A very stupid system.
Putting people in jail for bills is economical stupid. It is better to allow them to work the debt off or to take belonings from them to pay the debt. I don't want my tax to go for food, housing and other cost of holding a person imprisioned because he don't pays his bills.
Nice try but Tomas ass i covered in this case. Your e-mail will go to a registrator, probaly one of the secretaries at the justice department, and will become a public document.
You see, the Swedish parlament is ruled by the constitutional law "Regeringsformen" and that will override this new law when it comes to documents to the parlament and goverment. One of the laws in Regeringsformen says that all document sent to the goverment or parlament is public. Before some year ago you could even go to the parlament and make your own copy of something sent to the parlament but thanks to the "church" of scientology, you can't do that with copyrighted material anymore - you will have to read it in the parlament office.
So your picture will be perfact legal for everyone to view if they visist the parlament and request to see it. No justice minister will be fined.
The figure $4 per CD-R i wrong. The sum should be 0.007 SEK/MB = 31.20 kr / DVD±RW (a rewritable media). The sum for CD-R and other non-rewritable medium is lower, and I think it ends up with about 2 SEK for a CD-R.
Bob can continue to crack his crypto since this law will only appy to cracking copyrighted material like CD-copy protection. Bob owns the copyright on his password.
Bob even seams to be able to look at his bought DVD under Linux since it don't seam to make it against the law to crack DVD encryption for viewing, only to crack it for copying. And you will actually be permitted to take backup on your own DVDs but not to distribute them to your friends. You can also crack the DVD coding region whihout penalty since these forms of control was exempted from the protection in the law proposal.
Sweden don't have what you americans would recognize as a constitution. Our constitution is more weak and not as precise as the american. There is actually nothing that stops a Swedish parlament to pass a law that goes against the constitution. No court can remove the law, however they can ignore it if they think it violates the constitution.
Exactly what are you looking for? Sweden happends to have one of the most comprehensive statistic of all nations and it is rather hard to break it down. You can check it out yourself on www.scb.se (this is the official statistic of Sweden).
Total Swedish citizen 31 mars 2003: 8 946 304.
According to SCB so is 12% of the population in Sweden born outside Sweden. 6 percent is born with one swedish parent and 3% is born in Sweden with both parents born outside Sweden. Totaly there was 1 027 974 people 31 dec. 2001 that was born outside Sweden. This seams to include non swedish citizen living in Sweden.
2001 we where 8 433 142 Swedish citizen. Of these so had 1 395 735 persons at least one parent with foregin citizienship. These parents where of almost 300 nations. The most frequent nation was Finland (193 465), second was Yogoslavia with 73 274 and third was Iraq with 55 696. After this come Bosnien-Hercegovina and then Iran.
You can check this out for yourself http://www.scb.se/publkat/Filer/BE51ST0204.pdf
Of course, I am sure this don't impress you much. Unfortenaly I can't give you the statistic that you ask for since I can't find it. I am sure it is there but it drowns in all other statistic.
It isn't directly suprising that Finland has a big population in Sweden. Many started to work here during the 70is and they don't need to change citizenship. It isn't suprising that Yogoslavian and former Yogoslavian states is frequent either, you have perhaps heard of the war on Balkan?
Exactly what are you implying anyway? That we don't take our share of refuges or that we are white only soceity because we have more than 77% european descents? Can this perhaps be because we are europeans? To compare with USA isn't really fare since USA is almost 100% immigrants - it is easier to get a high percentage non europeans that way then start with 100% europeans and then add other continents.
Besides, what does this change the discussion anyway? Do you mean that people with other origin than europeans is harder to learn to read? Most foregin people I know read just fine. Perhaps they don't speak Swedish fluently but they usually understand it good and can read it without a problem. I don't see why it should be harder for a Somailian guy to learn Swedish than a Polish guy either - both languages isn't closley realated to swedish. Both have to learn it the same way.
I am sure that american taxes are lower than Swedish taxes.
With all the taxes and the high VAT in Sweden you can't have higher taxes than us. At least that is what our right wing is telling us - "USA is a paradise".
However, one thing that makes Swedish taxes a bit easier to live with is that we don't need a health insurance. Several americans I have talked to says that if you include all necessary inscurances, pension savings and so on you actually pays more in USA than in Sweden. It would be fun to see figures on this.
The biggest downside with the swedish system is that hard work and education don't really pays of since it means higher taxes.
I think the most troublesom part of her article is the fact that she think her proposed legislation is better than the current mess with European Patent Office policy.
What she basicly says is that BECAUSE EPO does things it ISN'T allowed to (handling out software patents the american way) she is going to change EUs policy towards EPOs. So she is basicly saying "yeah, they break the law. Lets change the law so it correspond to EPOs unlawfull actions"! What she should be doing is getting the responsible on EPO fired and prosecuted for handling out patents aginst EUs directive!
What I would like to know now is how I contact my parlament representative and tell him to make sure he votes no on this legislation.
I agree with Troed - almost everyone I know uses ICQ. And if they don't use ICQ then they sadly uses MSN. AIM seams to be pretty nonexistant here in Sweden (and perhaps Europe).
Maybe you can tell me where I can find a viewer from Microsoft that works in Linux? I don't even find one for Mac on that page. Perhaps it is so simple that Microsoft don't want to make viewers for this platform? How strange... So I still have to pay for the OS, even if I don't have to pay for Word to read a Word document.
Europes population is getting smaller. It actually is decreasing fastest in the southern catholic nations and slower in north. I find that a bit amusing since birth control and other thing is more of an issue there than in northern Europe and still southern is decreasing more rapidly.
However, this means that the working Europeans will become fewer and the old ones more common. This isn't at all good for EU. It is actually even worse, since in many countries the statistic is so bad nowdays that it is almost impossible to turn it - Spain is one of these countries. In 2050 there will be far less spanish citizen than today. Actually, the only thing that can and will keep European population figures up and rescue the productivity is imigration.
Second, we will probaly never accept Russia in EU. This have been said by almost all European nations. I don't think that the new members, some of them occupied by Russia for 50 years, want Russia in EU either. Russia is simply far to big for EU - to much people, to much land. And to much economic and ecological problem. Besides, Russia is also rapidly going down when it comes to population figures. The expected lifetime of Russians have plummet since the USSR days. Russia of today is in bad shape and the only steady increase have been in mortailty due to drinking.
Well, we have some problems: First: The devices are actually having to have some licensing cost since we don't really have the money to fincanse this without it.
The other problem is that you seam to think that the addition of eastern Europe in EU is a economic good thing when it probaly is an economic nightmare. Poland will for instance give the EUs agricultar "politic" a sever headace when all these millions of small farmers wants cash.
Lets face it - Eastern Europe is in a economic bad state and will require huge investment. Germany haven't still lifted eastern Germany to western standards. This is one of the factors that has Germany in a severe economic chrises. Of all the EU contries so does several get more in benifit from EU than they pay. However, the countries that pays also have economic problems now. How we are going to get the cash needed for EUs new 10 member states is beyond me.
So you mean that USA could go to war with Europe? Isn't that a bit odd for even the most conservative of republicans? Perhaps you should have a look around and you will see that the ONLY other democratic allies you have still are Europe and that we still are your best friends, regardless you US current anger on France.
I honestly starts to feel a bit threathen by US more and more aggresive use of its force - what is next? Bombing of Hamburg because they had the Al Quadia cell responsible for september 11 on their university?
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Germany couln't win the war in Europe after the invasion of Russia, with or without American support to the British. The best they could have done would have to be a draw.
They couldn't invade Britain, and they couldn't defeat Sovjet. They could perhaps have made it to the Ural mountains, but the german supplies lines where totaly overstreached as early as the attack on Moscow. Claiming that Germany could have taken Russia and Britain simultainly is a stupid claim.
When Hitler started the two front war, the best he could accomplish was a draw without a defeat of Britain.
American frigates and other naval units did patrul the convous to Europe well before they and Germany got into war.
I think some ships even was sunk by German subs before the war started, during escort duties.
You are so correct, there is no need for a person to carry his ID all time.
;-)
The police can easily check the identity without it. I am a bit suprised that Germany forces everyone to always where their ID.
For instance, in Sweden where I live we are issued a personal identification code. This is the base for all swedes identiy papers - whitout one you wouldn't exist. However, we are not forced to bring our IDs with us. The police can easily check our credentials if we tell them our name and id number.
Actually, the only time we are forced to have a identity card is when we drive - we don't even need to have our drivers license with us, just a valid id. The fun thing is that you are supposed to be fined 1000 kr (100 Euro) if you don't have an id with you when you drive. However, the police can't fine you if they can't get a positive ID on you. And by getting a positive ID they have identified you and checked that you have a drivers license, hence you can't be forced to pay the fine... that is a nice little legal loophole that few use every year since it isn't so well known...
It is strange how this "polar bear" idea have come to become some kind of truth.
However, there isn't polar bears in any region of Norden exept of a remote island group north of Norway and on Greenland.
Where I live we have ordinary brown bears, not white. The bears is also smaller than the North American grissly bear. Actually, they are quite harmless since they are very shy - I have never seen one live in nature.
The most dangerous large animal in most of Norden is actually ordinary elks since they have a tendency to put themself in front of cars on freeways... not a good combination.
It would cost Symantec customers who get feed up with the troubling hardware locks. And what do you do if you have more than one software that needs a dongle? Two dongles on one port? Don't sound like a promising future...
No, please save us from dongles.
The dinasour book?
Could anyone give me a hint why this book have dinosaurs on it?
I have read it but I didn't grasp the dinasour bit..
You say that everybody uses AIM - not true.
Perhaps true where you live but here everyone uses ICQ with MSN second (or perhaps first nowdays). No one use AIM.
I was thinking to mod you down because of your sig but I am a to nice person.... ;-)
There is a service under XP that you can turn off.
I don't remember it's name now but it is something like "webshare" or something like that.
This is supposed to cache shares or something but it always gave me the same problem that you describe - application hangs in XP when reading from shares.
After a suggestion I turned this service off and XP worked as good as win2k.
Could you please tell me how this feature is enabled?
I am using Suse 8.2 and I haven't seen this feature but I would like to use it - can you please tell me where it is hidden?
I hope it isn't the "start new KDE session" function because that lock my computer and I have to reboot.
This is why it is better to be against the whole EU idea. The truth is that one simple directive (which DOESN'T need to be handled throught anything BUT the Eu commission) is more worth than your countrys constitution.
So when a country join EU they basicly throws democraty out. In my opinion so is it devasting to join a union where a directive from a non-elected commision has more value than the constitution of your country.
This is much better than the "go to jail" option.
I am not sure if for instance England still practice this "go to jail if you can't pay" ideas, but when they did before all that happend was that special prisions ended up being full of people that couldn't pay their bills. Since they coulnd't work either, as they where imprisioned, they couldn't get money to pay the bill. A very stupid system.
Putting people in jail for bills is economical stupid. It is better to allow them to work the debt off or to take belonings from them to pay the debt. I don't want my tax to go for food, housing and other cost of holding a person imprisioned because he don't pays his bills.
Nice try but Tomas ass i covered in this case.
Your e-mail will go to a registrator, probaly one of the secretaries at the justice department, and will become a public document.
You see, the Swedish parlament is ruled by the constitutional law "Regeringsformen" and that will override this new law when it comes to documents to the parlament and goverment. One of the laws in Regeringsformen says that all document sent to the goverment or parlament is public.
Before some year ago you could even go to the parlament and make your own copy of something sent to the parlament but thanks to the "church" of scientology, you can't do that with copyrighted material anymore - you will have to read it in the parlament office.
So your picture will be perfact legal for everyone to view if they visist the parlament and request to see it. No justice minister will be fined.
The figure $4 per CD-R i wrong.
The sum should be 0.007 SEK/MB = 31.20 kr / DVD±RW (a rewritable media).
The sum for CD-R and other non-rewritable medium is lower, and I think it ends up with about 2 SEK for a CD-R.
Bob can continue to crack his crypto since this law will only appy to cracking copyrighted material like CD-copy protection. Bob owns the copyright on his password.
Bob even seams to be able to look at his bought DVD under Linux since it don't seam to make it against the law to crack DVD encryption for viewing, only to crack it for copying. And you will actually be permitted to take backup on your own DVDs but not to distribute them to your friends.
You can also crack the DVD coding region whihout penalty since these forms of control was exempted from the protection in the law proposal.
Sweden don't have what you americans would recognize as a constitution. Our constitution is more weak and not as precise as the american. There is actually nothing that stops a Swedish parlament to pass a law that goes against the constitution. No court can remove the law, however they can ignore it if they think it violates the constitution.
Exactly what are you looking for? Sweden happends to have one of the most comprehensive statistic of all nations and it is rather hard to break it down.
You can check it out yourself on www.scb.se (this is the official statistic of Sweden).
Total Swedish citizen 31 mars 2003: 8 946 304.
According to SCB so is 12% of the population in Sweden born outside Sweden. 6 percent is born with one swedish parent and 3% is born in Sweden with both parents born outside Sweden.
Totaly there was 1 027 974 people 31 dec. 2001 that was born outside Sweden. This seams to include non swedish citizen living in Sweden.
2001 we where 8 433 142 Swedish citizen. Of these so had 1 395 735 persons at least one parent with foregin citizienship. These parents where of almost 300 nations.
The most frequent nation was Finland (193 465), second was Yogoslavia with 73 274 and third was Iraq with 55 696. After this come Bosnien-Hercegovina and then Iran.
You can check this out for yourself http://www.scb.se/publkat/Filer/BE51ST0204.pdf
Of course, I am sure this don't impress you much. Unfortenaly I can't give you the statistic that you ask for since I can't find it. I am sure it is there but it drowns in all other statistic.
It isn't directly suprising that Finland has a big population in Sweden. Many started to work here during the 70is and they don't need to change citizenship. It isn't suprising that Yogoslavian and former Yogoslavian states is frequent either, you have perhaps heard of the war on Balkan?
Exactly what are you implying anyway? That we don't take our share of refuges or that we are white only soceity because we have more than 77% european descents? Can this perhaps be because we are europeans?
To compare with USA isn't really fare since USA is almost 100% immigrants - it is easier to get a high percentage non europeans that way then start with 100% europeans and then add other continents.
Besides, what does this change the discussion anyway? Do you mean that people with other origin than europeans is harder to learn to read?
Most foregin people I know read just fine. Perhaps they don't speak Swedish fluently but they usually understand it good and can read it without a problem. I don't see why it should be harder for a Somailian guy to learn Swedish than a Polish guy either - both languages isn't closley realated to swedish. Both have to learn it the same way.
Mister, you are dead wrong!
Sweden have been the nordic country with the HIGHEST immigration during the last 20 year.
More than 10% of Swedens population, or about 1 million, is either an immigrant or have at least one immigrant parent.
So we are really not "100% lily-white". Pay a visit and see for yourself.
I am sure that american taxes are lower than Swedish taxes. With all the taxes and the high VAT in Sweden you can't have higher taxes than us. At least that is what our right wing is telling us - "USA is a paradise". However, one thing that makes Swedish taxes a bit easier to live with is that we don't need a health insurance. Several americans I have talked to says that if you include all necessary inscurances, pension savings and so on you actually pays more in USA than in Sweden. It would be fun to see figures on this. The biggest downside with the swedish system is that hard work and education don't really pays of since it means higher taxes.
I think the most troublesom part of her article is the fact that she think her proposed legislation is better than the current mess with European Patent Office policy.
What she basicly says is that BECAUSE EPO does things it ISN'T allowed to (handling out software patents the american way) she is going to change EUs policy towards EPOs. So she is basicly saying "yeah, they break the law. Lets change the law so it correspond to EPOs unlawfull actions"!
What she should be doing is getting the responsible on EPO fired and prosecuted for handling out patents aginst EUs directive!
What I would like to know now is how I contact my parlament representative and tell him to make sure he votes no on this legislation.
I agree with Troed - almost everyone I know uses ICQ. And if they don't use ICQ then they sadly uses MSN. AIM seams to be pretty nonexistant here in Sweden (and perhaps Europe).
Maybe you can tell me where I can find a viewer from Microsoft that works in Linux?
I don't even find one for Mac on that page.
Perhaps it is so simple that Microsoft don't want to make viewers for this platform? How strange...
So I still have to pay for the OS, even if I don't have to pay for Word to read a Word document.
I think you have some facts wrong:
Europes population is getting smaller. It actually is decreasing fastest in the southern catholic nations and slower in north. I find that a bit amusing since birth control and other thing is more of an issue there than in northern Europe and still southern is decreasing more rapidly.
However, this means that the working Europeans will become fewer and the old ones more common. This isn't at all good for EU. It is actually even worse, since in many countries the statistic is so bad nowdays that it is almost impossible to turn it - Spain is one of these countries. In 2050 there will be far less spanish citizen than today.
Actually, the only thing that can and will keep European population figures up and rescue the productivity is imigration.
Second, we will probaly never accept Russia in EU. This have been said by almost all European nations. I don't think that the new members, some of them occupied by Russia for 50 years, want Russia in EU either. Russia is simply far to big for EU - to much people, to much land. And to much economic and ecological problem.
Besides, Russia is also rapidly going down when it comes to population figures. The expected lifetime of Russians have plummet since the USSR days.
Russia of today is in bad shape and the only steady increase have been in mortailty due to drinking.
Well, we have some problems:
First: The devices are actually having to have some licensing cost since we don't really have the money to fincanse this without it.
The other problem is that you seam to think that the addition of eastern Europe in EU is a economic good thing when it probaly is an economic nightmare.
Poland will for instance give the EUs agricultar "politic" a sever headace when all these millions of small farmers wants cash.
Lets face it - Eastern Europe is in a economic bad state and will require huge investment. Germany haven't still lifted eastern Germany to western standards. This is one of the factors that has Germany in a severe economic chrises. Of all the EU contries so does several get more in benifit from EU than they pay. However, the countries that pays also have economic problems now. How we are going to get the cash needed for EUs new 10 member states is beyond me.
So you mean that USA could go to war with Europe?
Isn't that a bit odd for even the most conservative of republicans? Perhaps you should have a look around and you will see that the ONLY other democratic allies you have still are Europe and that we still are your best friends, regardless you US current anger on France.
I honestly starts to feel a bit threathen by US more and more aggresive use of its force - what is next? Bombing of Hamburg because they had the Al Quadia cell responsible for september 11 on their university?