A good idea, but I think they have to go a few steps further: you may not play a dwarf character unless you are really small, you may not impersonate a wizard unless you are one in real life, and you may not use any kind of weapon in game if you are not eligible to use one in the country you live in.
I mean, can you imagine how rediculous it would be, were you to act out a mere *fantasy* in a game? Pretending to be something you are not really? There mere thought of it...!
I own a short domain name (3 characters long) that is aparantly often hit by people who type in some random characters for their email address when they sign up somewhere. (like sdf@asddf.com, and no, this is not my domain:)
As a result I get all kinds of spam, newsletters, sign-up welcome messages etc.
I used to bounce all the mails, but that didn't work too good with my secondary MX. (For some reason about 25% of the mail comes in over the secondary MX...)
Right now I just pipe the messages through a statistics script:
Currently I receive one message every 16 seconds on average, resulting in about 130,000 emails a month, causing about 400MB of traffic.
In one point I agree with you: the more we know about
each other the better.
Since your argument seems to be that spying on your friends
is the right thing to do, I'm sure you have nothing against
other nations intercepting american communication.
On the other hand, history has proven that the US is using
the information they are gathering not just to verify that we
behave as they want us to, but also to give american companies
an advantage. Lets just call it what it is: industrial espionage.
With a "friend" like this, who needs enemies?
Why it is better for the government to invest in the industry instead of just giving the money to the people has already been said in the other posts.
I just wanted to state that whoever thinks Germany is socalist or sommunist has either a very poor understanding of socialism and communism, or knows next to nothing about Germany.
In an interview one of the AMD managers said that worker skill was more important than cost in this case.
AMD already has a chip fab in Dresden, employing about 2000.
> Therefore, I have the thesis that technical jobs > in the US are simply getting more and more > advanced, whlie "easier" technical jobs are > being moved overseas.
No, this just means that the US has either still better living conditions* or just better propaganda than India.
Indian engineers wanting to come to the US might just mean they are ill-informed about the US.
*actually, I think living in the US isn't too bad. If I could freely choose where to live the US would definitely be somewhere in the top 20.
It's funny how people react when they are beaten at their own game...:-)
Isn't that the american dream? Be successful by being more competitive? Oh, you mean that's only supposed to work for americans... ?
SMTPAUTH helps you not being an open relay. But if you want to receive any mail at all, you'll have to accept anonymous SMTP connections from any odd server out there. You just don't relay those mails.
I thought the standard american (US that is) unit of measurement is the football field.
On my last trip to Florida this was the running gag of the journey. (Sightseeing tour in the harbour of Maimi: "This cruise-ship is more than two football fields long!")
The highlight was when we vitited Kennedy Space Center, a lady asking us how long a football field was ("I want to tell my son how large this building is")
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A good idea, but I think they have to go a few steps further: you may not play a dwarf character unless you are really small, you may not impersonate a wizard unless you are one in real life, and you may not use any kind of weapon in game if you are not eligible to use one in the country you live in.
I mean, can you imagine how rediculous it would be, were you to act out a mere *fantasy* in a game? Pretending to be something you are not really? There mere thought of it...!
I own a short domain name (3 characters long) that is aparantly often hit by people who type in some :)
random characters for their email address when they sign up somewhere.
(like sdf@asddf.com, and no, this is not my domain
As a result I get all kinds of spam, newsletters, sign-up welcome messages etc.
I used to bounce all the mails, but that didn't work too good with my secondary MX. (For some reason about 25% of the mail comes in over the secondary MX...)
Right now I just pipe the messages through a statistics script:
Currently I receive one message every 16 seconds on average, resulting in about 130,000 emails a month, causing about 400MB of traffic.
In one point I agree with you: the more we know about each other the better. Since your argument seems to be that spying on your friends is the right thing to do, I'm sure you have nothing against other nations intercepting american communication. On the other hand, history has proven that the US is using the information they are gathering not just to verify that we behave as they want us to, but also to give american companies an advantage. Lets just call it what it is: industrial espionage. With a "friend" like this, who needs enemies?
Why it is better for the government to invest in the industry instead of just giving the money to the people has already been said in the other posts. I just wanted to state that whoever thinks Germany is socalist or sommunist has either a very poor understanding of socialism and communism, or knows next to nothing about Germany.
In an interview one of the AMD managers said that worker skill was more important than cost in this case. AMD already has a chip fab in Dresden, employing about 2000.
> Therefore, I have the thesis that technical jobs
> in the US are simply getting more and more
> advanced, whlie "easier" technical jobs are
> being moved overseas.
No, this just means that the US has either still better living conditions* or just better propaganda than India.
Indian engineers wanting to come to the US might just mean they are ill-informed about the US.
*actually, I think living in the US isn't too bad. If I could freely choose where to live the US would definitely be somewhere in the top 20.
It's funny how people react when they are beaten at their own game... :-)
Isn't that the american dream? Be successful by being more competitive? Oh, you mean that's only supposed to work for americans... ?
Don't believe everything you read.
:-)
(I assume with Americans you mean US-Americans?)
People over here can (and for the most part do) differentiate between the American people and their government.
However, be prepared for a few heated political discussions...
Sure, that'd be a nice base for some DDOs attacks. :-)
Just send out spam mentioning the web site you want to attack...
SMTPAUTH helps you not being an open relay.
But if you want to receive any mail at all, you'll have to accept anonymous SMTP connections from any odd server out there. You just don't relay those mails.
I thought the standard american (US that is) unit of measurement is the football field.
On my last trip to Florida this was the running gag of the journey. (Sightseeing tour in the harbour of Maimi: "This cruise-ship is more than two football fields long!")
The highlight was when we vitited Kennedy Space Center, a lady asking us how long a football field was ("I want to tell my son how large this building is")
The "Land of Freedom" ... yes ...
that was a great piece of propaganda, wasn't it?
And it still seems to work for some people. Simply amazing!