The problem I can see with this is that young artists often take 10 years or more to get a name and (for musicians) be broadcast by mainstream media. Which means, by the time they hit a real potential for earning royalties, their first recordings are only 5 years away from going out of protection. In that sense, the main benefits would go to a few broadcasters (ClearChannel, MTV... ) that pick the music they want to broadcast, and minimize the royalties given to the artists in the long run, while maximizing profit.
The Wikipedia page for Polonium specifies how exceedingly rare Polonium is, with restricted applications such as a lightweight heat source to power thermoelectric cells in artificial satellites. So the theory of "accidental administration" is quite unlikely IMHO.
Wouldn't want to sound as a nitpicker, but asking whether "only the elders" or "the whole tribe" have authority on the language is like reducing the whole Mapuche people to a village of a few dozen inhabitants.
The grand-parent poster mentioned a figure of 600 000 speakers. That's quite a tribe, y'know ? For a comparison, that's about the same as the number of Welsh speakers in Wales.
I would like to be a fly on the wall at the airport in Cardiff, when you randomly pick up a Welsh speaker and ask him : "Lead me to your chief.":-)
(If the guy is a Welsh FOSS developer, he might lead you to Alan Cox, though -- swt mae, Alan ?;-)
Whenever you're on a business trip abroad, buy small plush toys at the airport to make gifts for your co-workers.
When you've done enough trips, everybody has at least one plus toy on its desk
Twice a day (possibly more), when the project manager is out of the room, yell : "PLUUUUUUUUUUUUSH FIGHT !"
Enjoy as the plush toys begin flying around.
If this does not decide your manager to create smaller, separated offices, at least it's a good way to have fun.;-)
This is really what happened daily a few years ago when I was working with some 20 other co-workers in an open space lab. Oh, and the fact that most of us were under 30 *did* help us enjoy it;-)
there are a few "sit ins" and some (not Samba) have learned to speak Welsh.
Just out of sheer interest, how is learning Welsh supposed to have any effect on the current US patent system, or how can it even pass as a "protest" ? I'm really interested, and if you can answer that question, I might actually join the movement too : learning Welsh wouldn't be too difficult for me since I already speak breton... but I seriously doubt the effectiveness of that action.
Learning and teaching Celtic languages is fun anyway, and I don't need an unrelated political cause to get into it.
No, as opposed to a secular agenda, where the principle of separation of Church and State actually applies to the government and the law makers. It's not just a paragraph on some piece of paper...
> Yeah, I'm sure BMW is keenly interested in distributing software in exchange for....nothing?
Well, this could surely be worked out. Just imagine if the default Firefox home page included a permanent ad for BMW... now, which car brand would refuse such a grand (and mostly free) advertising campaign ?
> remember that ms is a business which means (unlike Linux in general)
> it has marketers working for it.
I would like to make a difference here between two types of communication professionals.
When these professionals target consumers (individuals or businesses), you can call them marketeers.
When these professionals target political institutions (governments, elected commissions, federal agencies, and so on), you should call them lobbyists.
And, yes, it does make a big difference. As a consumer, I accept the fact that I am targeted by marketeers. As a citizen, I cannot accept that anything else than the voice of citizens should interfere with the decision process of our elected bodies and political institutions. Corporations are NOT citizens.
Sure, but the first step is certainly a hybrid diesel/sail propulsion to alleviate the rising costs of diesel fuel. And there are a few industrial projects around hybrid propulsion for cargo ships these days, one of the most interesting IMHO being Beluga Shipping. The towing kite would "cut a ship's fuel consumption by up to 50%" according to the article. A really interesting read.
Where are my mod points when I need them ? I can't agree more with everything you said, including the footnote.
This is true for every country where terrorism is being used as an excuse to cut down on the individual freedoms. I live in Europe, and although we don't have the PATRIOT Act here, with the new anti-terrorist measures, things are far from being fun and relaxed.
Maybe because Johnny, with the overabundance of software at hand, and lots of it is for free, does not have a real incentive to program his own software any more ?
I started programming in Basic on old Thomson TO7 computers when I was ten, then a few yaers later I switched to Pascal on an Olivetti PC, and it was always to build my own games : I had little pocket money to buy my own games, I had no access to any network whatsoever, and software piracy was not my favorite pastime (and would have been frowned upon by my parents).
So there. And if it hadn't been for that early programming itch, I would probably not be an IT consultant/developer these days.
And the one super-power on this planet, which the UN relies heavily upon, is definitely not setting the example these days, as far as human rights are concerned... This certainly does not help.
> What reason would anyone have to believe that the tally recorded in the
> memory card (and uploaded to the central tabulator) is the same as what
> is printed? Two different data paths. Enables two different results.
Well, what about the newspapers doing their jobs ? In my country (France), local newspapers publish all the tallies, per poll, then per voting district, then per departement (~county), which enables every citizen to check whether the actual figures match with what they've seen published at their voting place. And check the sums for every district, every departement, and eventually the whole country. And you can be damn sure that the people will buy the newspapers that day to see how the neighborhood voted in their areas.
That way, when every newspaper reports the figures on the printed trail, we can be sure that they match what is uploaded to the central tabulator. But then in this country, it also works because the polls are paper polls, that they are counted by hand (and checked twice) and the whole process is being watched by a local citizen committee, and it's open to anyone with a valid voter's card (i.e. pretty much anyone unless you have committed a serious offense in the last few years).
Yet I am the one openly admitting to knowing practically all there is to knpw about sex toys because my sex life is so pathetic. Wait, pathetic implies that I have one.
Not to worry. This is Slashdot, and you certainly have company here.
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The Wikipedia page for Polonium specifies how exceedingly rare Polonium is, with restricted applications such as a lightweight heat source to power thermoelectric cells in artificial satellites. So the theory of "accidental administration" is quite unlikely IMHO.
The grand-parent poster mentioned a figure of 600 000 speakers. That's quite a tribe, y'know ? For a comparison, that's about the same as the number of Welsh speakers in Wales.
I would like to be a fly on the wall at the airport in Cardiff, when you randomly pick up a Welsh speaker and ask him : "Lead me to your chief." :-)
(If the guy is a Welsh FOSS developer, he might lead you to Alan Cox, though -- swt mae, Alan ? ;-)
- Whenever you're on a business trip abroad, buy small plush toys at the airport to make gifts for your co-workers.
- When you've done enough trips, everybody has at least one plus toy on its desk
- Twice a day (possibly more), when the project manager is out of the room, yell : "PLUUUUUUUUUUUUSH FIGHT !"
- Enjoy as the plush toys begin flying around.
- If this does not decide your manager to create smaller, separated offices, at least it's a good way to have fun.
;-)
This is really what happened daily a few years ago when I was working with some 20 other co-workers in an open space lab. Oh, and the fact that most of us were under 30 *did* help us enjoy itI actually liked your kind of flaimebait. Could you please give us some more ?
Indeed, the labeling of non-believers by the majority of believers has always been a means to segregate against them.
My moderation : "+1, sarcastic", and my hat off to you, kind sir. ;-)
Somehow this thread is on its way to reach the Allahwin point...
Yup, there's just a different meaning to "open arms" in Korea.
(* ducks for cover *)
Which is certainly a precise description of Margaret Thatcher's political action. (*ducks for cover, not being a hero myself*)
Learning and teaching Celtic languages is fun anyway, and I don't need an unrelated political cause to get into it.
No, as opposed to a secular agenda, where the principle of separation of Church and State actually applies to the government and the law makers. It's not just a paragraph on some piece of paper...
Well, this could surely be worked out. Just imagine if the default Firefox home page included a permanent ad for BMW... now, which car brand would refuse such a grand (and mostly free) advertising campaign ?
> I've found that just saying the smart things in a really dumb
> or ambivalent tone/voice will really confuse the hell out of most people.
Good for you, and even better if you manage so say those smart things using simple words. That's the main problem for passing a message sometimes...
And your download time goes through the roof. Sorry to say that, but it's the sad truth. Besides, chances are that the Tor IP port is firewalled too.
How should we call them ? SlimeZilla ? SnailZilla ?
An appropriate title.
> Here is a hint. Land gained in war is just.
OK, so please give back Kuwait to the republic of Iraq. After all, they declared a war and invaded that tiny country in not time, didn't they ?
Oh, and leave China alone about Tibet. Tell that Mr Lama to give it a rest.
And also, a good half of Europe rightfully belongs to the French, since Napoleon successfully conquered it.
So long, and thanks for all the troll food :-)
The correct answer is : "Amen, sucker !" ;-)
> it has marketers working for it.
I would like to make a difference here between two types of communication professionals.
When these professionals target consumers (individuals or businesses), you can call them marketeers.
When these professionals target political institutions (governments, elected commissions, federal agencies, and so on), you should call them lobbyists.
And, yes, it does make a big difference. As a consumer, I accept the fact that I am targeted by marketeers. As a citizen, I cannot accept that anything else than the voice of citizens should interfere with the decision process of our elected bodies and political institutions. Corporations are NOT citizens.
Sure, but the first step is certainly a hybrid diesel/sail propulsion to alleviate the rising costs of diesel fuel. And there are a few industrial projects around hybrid propulsion for cargo ships these days, one of the most interesting IMHO being Beluga Shipping. The towing kite would "cut a ship's fuel consumption by up to 50%" according to the article. A really interesting read.
This is true for every country where terrorism is being used as an excuse to cut down on the individual freedoms. I live in Europe, and although we don't have the PATRIOT Act here, with the new anti-terrorist measures, things are far from being fun and relaxed.
Cheers.
I started programming in Basic on old Thomson TO7 computers when I was ten, then a few yaers later I switched to Pascal on an Olivetti PC, and it was always to build my own games : I had little pocket money to buy my own games, I had no access to any network whatsoever, and software piracy was not my favorite pastime (and would have been frowned upon by my parents).
So there. And if it hadn't been for that early programming itch, I would probably not be an IT consultant/developer these days.
And the one super-power on this planet, which the UN relies heavily upon, is definitely not setting the example these days, as far as human rights are concerned... This certainly does not help.
> memory card (and uploaded to the central tabulator) is the same as what
> is printed? Two different data paths. Enables two different results.
Well, what about the newspapers doing their jobs ? In my country (France), local newspapers publish all the tallies, per poll, then per voting district, then per departement (~county), which enables every citizen to check whether the actual figures match with what they've seen published at their voting place. And check the sums for every district, every departement, and eventually the whole country. And you can be damn sure that the people will buy the newspapers that day to see how the neighborhood voted in their areas.
That way, when every newspaper reports the figures on the printed trail, we can be sure that they match what is uploaded to the central tabulator. But then in this country, it also works because the polls are paper polls, that they are counted by hand (and checked twice) and the whole process is being watched by a local citizen committee, and it's open to anyone with a valid voter's card (i.e. pretty much anyone unless you have committed a serious offense in the last few years).
Not to worry. This is Slashdot, and you certainly have company here.