Have we become so distanced from the reality of war that we forgotten that the army aims to kill people?
You aim, you fire, you kill.
That is why we got the police patrolling the streets and not the army. And that is why the army is not allowed out of the barracks except with extreme orders.
Really, I done cleaning, accidents and stuff and it is actually an okay job. No, it is not as challenging as doing a massive IT project or being a doctor, but lets face it, the fast majority of people don't have that kinda job anyway.
But regular cleaning sucks because not only is the hourly rate piss poor, but the working hours are bad as well. For instance 2 hours in the evening after public transport has stopped in some remote corner of a city with no travel expenses.
I have had people complain they couldn't get cleaners and they just didn't get the math that with the income minus the expenses, people would be paying to work. Geez, no wonder nobody wants it.
And then something happens what I call in Holland "turkefication", Turks are our LEGAL mexicans. They come and do the jobs nobody wants to do and organize them so they can still make something of a living, by for instance chaining different jobs together. They then work very hard and do a decent job. Good? No. Because now the boss is going to lower the pay even further, the old Turks don't complain because they are not the complaining kind but then after a while they get to old and the job by then has become so overloaded, there is absolutely no way ANYBODY is going to take it legally. Que illegal immigrants and an entire sector going out of control.
Gosh, I wonder how that happened?
Because you kept gutting the job till nobody but someone living in a car is even capable of taking it anymore.
It is well known that any student who spends less time studying will learn less then a student who spends more time.
Kids who spend a lot of time with sports, or have an artitic career tend to do less in academic pursuits. Of course there are exceptions but it ain't generally a surprise to find most jocks and girl/boy-bands to be dumb as shit.
There are other pursuits as well. Remember this one, the less sex you have in high school the more intelligent you are. (My IQ? 20... yes really. I swear... oh okay. 200)
Well no shit sherlock. There are 24 hours in a day, no matter how you try, you can only do so much in a single day and if you spend 30 seconds having sex, that is 30 seconds less study time.
So basically, kids who study less, learn slower. Shocking! Deny this study and you just look silly and are basically saying that a guy who spends all his time on the track should expect to be an A student.
What hospitable bill? I cleaned up after people who thought helmets are optional. Trust me. There is no hospital bill. The turban is a good thing however, it will keep the mess in. Makes it a bit easier for the person collecting the bits.
The demo looks good so far, but I know my MS, there is an angle. There always is. Some subtle way in which they screw it up. Royally. There must be. They have done it for over two decades. No ways after 8 major versions and several minor ones are they suddenly going to play nice.
Paranoid? It ain't paranoia if they are out to get you.
They seem to be really honest this time about following standards, admitting they are not there yet and that it is time they did... so where is the closed source proprietary crap you just know MS is going to insist on adding.
A while ago someone asked on a forum, what would it take to use a linux library for accessing MS services. And I said there was nothing they could do. No, opensourcing it wouldn't do it, because I know MS has in the past done that and then later added closed source extensions you couldn't get on anything but windows.
And before you mod me down, if Blair/Bush (in holland this doesn't apply, Bakellende is after 4 failed goverments still available for re-election) said they were sorry, they knew what they did wrong, know what to do know to fix everything and all they ask is for another chance, would you give it?
Lets face it, they knew since version 6 that they had created a beast that to this day and for years to come haunts them. And version 7 was a beast and version 8 was a beast. So, third time is a charm? This one won't be a beast? I remember when Windows 7 came out: "Oh wow, this is so good, it ain't as crappy as Vista, MS has finally got it." And now slowly the negative is getting out and SP1 is being launched in a rush to deal with all the issues that were overlooked before. IE7 and IE8 were hauled as great improvements on IE6, only for devs to then realize that they were still spending most of their time on getting sites to work with the crappy products of Microsoft.
Will IE9 be different? Will it finally have real dev tools? Will it finally respect standards? Will it finally not introduce a thousand new proprietary and conflicting features? Will it finally perform? Will it finally not have a security hole per day that goes unpatched for years? Will it finally render a page coded to standard correctly?
And will MS finally do something serious about forcing the upgrade of everyone to IE9? Like MS disabling access to all its own extra services to anyone with an obsolete browser and releasing IE9 for EVERY single windows version from 98 on so that everyone can finally switch?
I doubt it. Que the MS apologists who will claim this is finally it. They should be ready, they said it often enough before.
What money? People keep talking about China as if it is some huge source of profit for google. It is not. Google has a few side startups but its main business, advertising is NOT present in China. There are some chinese advetisers but they advertise OUTSIDE China.
The amount of revenue is around 300 million dollar. A pathetic amount and that is revenue, not profit.
The MBA's have long since declared China as some kind of holy grail, were the streets are made of gold and profits just happen. But it just ain't turning out that way.
For europeans, the US of A was much the same. Oh if we can only launch our product over there, we will have it made. Forget, if you are big in Holland then a flea can squash you in the US. You are nothing. Do 10 miljoen euro's and you will be a tiny blip as a Humvee drives over you. Conquer the german market, go south to france. Not instantly across the ocean, with insane transportation costs, gap in working hours, cultural differences.
Google did have long term plans for China, but they might be wondering that with the little result so far, it is actually worth the hassle.
And I think China might be bluffing as well. If Google moves out, they might not loose all that much, but others could start to examine their own future in China.
In itself, it is not unusual for a company to rethink its activities in a region.
Who can afford the lawyers? Now if they really wanted to make this work (don't forget that all parties in england have to pacify the media/content owners. Do you want to upset the content producers and then be ridiculed forever in every piece of content? Go ahead, suggest the BBC should be privatized, see how long your public image survives. Yesterday the BBC aired an entirely self serving copyright program that showed only the content owners point of view. How suprising)
If this was to work, then the content owners should setup a fund from which lawsuits against them could be funded, they should be rate limited to the amount they could spend on lawyers and be stopped from endlessly appealing. The damages should be high enough that it is a serious detterent against endless false claims and for any succesful claim, the pot for making claims against them is doubled.
Else it is just a hollow shell. Nobody can afford to sue the media companies. Don't let the lib-dems fool you.
Air travel is fast and all but also bloody inconvenient. Slower rail travel could be a lot easier, no chance of being diverted, more cargo, safer, more comfortable.
Air travel has gotten popular mainly because the alternatives are far worse and long distance rail travel is often impossible. But I have actually taken the train to Italy and swiss years ago, and damn it was comfortable. Yes, it takes longer, but if you are on a holiday, then just maybe doing the Orient Express as part of the journey is actually a bit intresting? More intresting then being a sardine for half a day?
Slashdot as a group is ALWAYS against what you are for.
Slashdot is filled with hippies/gun nuts.
Slashdot is filled with rabid republicans/demented democrats.
Slashdot is filled with MS apologists/BSD freaks/Apple fanboys. They are all seen as silly by the enlightened linux users who are well above this kind of shameful name calling what are after all their fellow human beings even if they are obviously less evolved.
Slashdot is filled with Trek nerds/People that hate Trek for being nerdy/Hate trek for not being nerdy enough.
Slashdot is filled with virgins/people who lie about having had sex.
Oh and the best way to make a claim that slashdot is against you? Claim you are going to be modded down for saying it. Then when you are modded up, don't change your mind.
There is nothing secret about it. Only the US government has problems following that money trail, probably because they are thrown of the scent by generous bundles of cash.
Else Apple HAS to sell me in Holland music for 1 dollar and NOT 1 euro. Or are there different rules for companies then for consumers?
And Nokia doesn't sell the licenses, it uses cross-licensing which every other player in the industry does all well to ensure against patent cases like this. But Apple has no patents. So, Apple is not asking to pay what everyone else pays because nobody else pays with just cash.
Jobs reality distortion field seems to be fully in effect on you.
Good crap argument. Of course there are things the public should not know about the affairs of the government. The launch codes, the password to the IRS servers, the exact thickness of the bulletprooof glas of the window the president will be sitting behind at 9:00AM. Even when an attack by its forces is supposed to happen.
But global trade negotations, secret wars, treatment of prisoners, these are thing the public should know.
There is nothing insighful about your post, just because a government needs to keep some things hidden doesn't excuse them hiding some things.
If you go to a deaker, all the employees will drive their own brand. And if you got a production plant, the vast majority of the cars will be of the brand produced there. Yes of course there are exceptions, you will see plenty of other cars brands outside the Ferrari plant. But if you work at Ford, you drive ford. And nobody at DAF would consider using anything but DAF trucks for their own company.
Since MS employees are highly likely to get a discount on MS products it is extremely telling that it can't even sell its own dog food to its own employees.
It just doesn't send the right message. You wouldn't think it normal if the vast majority of MS employees used Mac's would you?
You should hook your "Zune" up to a Mac. And might I say I think it is a bit silly to name your iPod "Zune". Does it have some special meaning?
On and offnote, I wonder what would happen if on your first day at MS, you would bring your Macbook along, listening to an iPod, while talking on the iPhone, and wrote your first email on gmail.:P
You are claiming that signing a donor card might make you more liable to die since the doctors would kill you for your organs. Your solution, give a monitory incentive for your killing as well.
Smart.
And this problem really ain't all that complex. If I refuse to pay taxes, can I claim social benefits? If I don't pay road taxes, can I drive on the public roads? If I don't have insurance, can I claim insurance?
People without donor cards who want a donated organ are the ultimate "do as I say, don't do as I do". And no, they don't deserve to life.
Perhaps next time you make a joke to Americans you should try something else then sarcasm. They don't have that over there. Like beer and cheese, the knowledge seems to have been left behind when we kicked their puritan asses out of the civilized world.
The moon missions did do a lot of research when the camera's were off. For instance part of it is in constant use, measuring the distance of the moon thanks to some reflectors placed at the last landing site.
Just because the played golf to please the punters who paid for the mission, doesn't mean they didn't do hard science.
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Have we become so distanced from the reality of war that we forgotten that the army aims to kill people?
You aim, you fire, you kill.
That is why we got the police patrolling the streets and not the army. And that is why the army is not allowed out of the barracks except with extreme orders.
Really, I done cleaning, accidents and stuff and it is actually an okay job. No, it is not as challenging as doing a massive IT project or being a doctor, but lets face it, the fast majority of people don't have that kinda job anyway.
But regular cleaning sucks because not only is the hourly rate piss poor, but the working hours are bad as well. For instance 2 hours in the evening after public transport has stopped in some remote corner of a city with no travel expenses.
I have had people complain they couldn't get cleaners and they just didn't get the math that with the income minus the expenses, people would be paying to work. Geez, no wonder nobody wants it.
And then something happens what I call in Holland "turkefication", Turks are our LEGAL mexicans. They come and do the jobs nobody wants to do and organize them so they can still make something of a living, by for instance chaining different jobs together. They then work very hard and do a decent job. Good? No. Because now the boss is going to lower the pay even further, the old Turks don't complain because they are not the complaining kind but then after a while they get to old and the job by then has become so overloaded, there is absolutely no way ANYBODY is going to take it legally. Que illegal immigrants and an entire sector going out of control.
Gosh, I wonder how that happened?
Because you kept gutting the job till nobody but someone living in a car is even capable of taking it anymore.
don't you get tired of the constant whoosh sound people make at you?
This study doesn't really show anything new.
It is well known that any student who spends less time studying will learn less then a student who spends more time.
Kids who spend a lot of time with sports, or have an artitic career tend to do less in academic pursuits. Of course there are exceptions but it ain't generally a surprise to find most jocks and girl/boy-bands to be dumb as shit.
There are other pursuits as well. Remember this one, the less sex you have in high school the more intelligent you are. (My IQ? 20... yes really. I swear... oh okay. 200)
Well no shit sherlock. There are 24 hours in a day, no matter how you try, you can only do so much in a single day and if you spend 30 seconds having sex, that is 30 seconds less study time.
So basically, kids who study less, learn slower. Shocking! Deny this study and you just look silly and are basically saying that a guy who spends all his time on the track should expect to be an A student.
What hospitable bill? I cleaned up after people who thought helmets are optional. Trust me. There is no hospital bill. The turban is a good thing however, it will keep the mess in. Makes it a bit easier for the person collecting the bits.
The demo looks good so far, but I know my MS, there is an angle. There always is. Some subtle way in which they screw it up. Royally. There must be. They have done it for over two decades. No ways after 8 major versions and several minor ones are they suddenly going to play nice.
Paranoid? It ain't paranoia if they are out to get you.
They seem to be really honest this time about following standards, admitting they are not there yet and that it is time they did... so where is the closed source proprietary crap you just know MS is going to insist on adding.
A while ago someone asked on a forum, what would it take to use a linux library for accessing MS services. And I said there was nothing they could do. No, opensourcing it wouldn't do it, because I know MS has in the past done that and then later added closed source extensions you couldn't get on anything but windows.
And before you mod me down, if Blair/Bush (in holland this doesn't apply, Bakellende is after 4 failed goverments still available for re-election) said they were sorry, they knew what they did wrong, know what to do know to fix everything and all they ask is for another chance, would you give it?
Lets face it, they knew since version 6 that they had created a beast that to this day and for years to come haunts them. And version 7 was a beast and version 8 was a beast. So, third time is a charm? This one won't be a beast? I remember when Windows 7 came out: "Oh wow, this is so good, it ain't as crappy as Vista, MS has finally got it." And now slowly the negative is getting out and SP1 is being launched in a rush to deal with all the issues that were overlooked before. IE7 and IE8 were hauled as great improvements on IE6, only for devs to then realize that they were still spending most of their time on getting sites to work with the crappy products of Microsoft.
Will IE9 be different? Will it finally have real dev tools? Will it finally respect standards? Will it finally not introduce a thousand new proprietary and conflicting features? Will it finally perform? Will it finally not have a security hole per day that goes unpatched for years? Will it finally render a page coded to standard correctly?
And will MS finally do something serious about forcing the upgrade of everyone to IE9? Like MS disabling access to all its own extra services to anyone with an obsolete browser and releasing IE9 for EVERY single windows version from 98 on so that everyone can finally switch?
I doubt it. Que the MS apologists who will claim this is finally it. They should be ready, they said it often enough before.
What money? People keep talking about China as if it is some huge source of profit for google. It is not. Google has a few side startups but its main business, advertising is NOT present in China. There are some chinese advetisers but they advertise OUTSIDE China.
The amount of revenue is around 300 million dollar. A pathetic amount and that is revenue, not profit.
The MBA's have long since declared China as some kind of holy grail, were the streets are made of gold and profits just happen. But it just ain't turning out that way.
For europeans, the US of A was much the same. Oh if we can only launch our product over there, we will have it made. Forget, if you are big in Holland then a flea can squash you in the US. You are nothing. Do 10 miljoen euro's and you will be a tiny blip as a Humvee drives over you. Conquer the german market, go south to france. Not instantly across the ocean, with insane transportation costs, gap in working hours, cultural differences.
Google did have long term plans for China, but they might be wondering that with the little result so far, it is actually worth the hassle.
And I think China might be bluffing as well. If Google moves out, they might not loose all that much, but others could start to examine their own future in China.
In itself, it is not unusual for a company to rethink its activities in a region.
Who can afford the lawyers? Now if they really wanted to make this work (don't forget that all parties in england have to pacify the media/content owners. Do you want to upset the content producers and then be ridiculed forever in every piece of content? Go ahead, suggest the BBC should be privatized, see how long your public image survives. Yesterday the BBC aired an entirely self serving copyright program that showed only the content owners point of view. How suprising)
If this was to work, then the content owners should setup a fund from which lawsuits against them could be funded, they should be rate limited to the amount they could spend on lawyers and be stopped from endlessly appealing. The damages should be high enough that it is a serious detterent against endless false claims and for any succesful claim, the pot for making claims against them is doubled.
Else it is just a hollow shell. Nobody can afford to sue the media companies. Don't let the lib-dems fool you.
Air travel is fast and all but also bloody inconvenient. Slower rail travel could be a lot easier, no chance of being diverted, more cargo, safer, more comfortable.
Air travel has gotten popular mainly because the alternatives are far worse and long distance rail travel is often impossible. But I have actually taken the train to Italy and swiss years ago, and damn it was comfortable. Yes, it takes longer, but if you are on a holiday, then just maybe doing the Orient Express as part of the journey is actually a bit intresting? More intresting then being a sardine for half a day?
Which raw resources? We don't have any. Europe has been importing all its stuff for decades.
Slashdot as a group is ALWAYS against what you are for.
Slashdot is filled with hippies/gun nuts.
Slashdot is filled with rabid republicans/demented democrats.
Slashdot is filled with MS apologists/BSD freaks/Apple fanboys. They are all seen as silly by the enlightened linux users who are well above this kind of shameful name calling what are after all their fellow human beings even if they are obviously less evolved.
Slashdot is filled with Trek nerds/People that hate Trek for being nerdy/Hate trek for not being nerdy enough.
Slashdot is filled with virgins/people who lie about having had sex.
Oh and the best way to make a claim that slashdot is against you? Claim you are going to be modded down for saying it. Then when you are modded up, don't change your mind.
There is nothing secret about it. Only the US government has problems following that money trail, probably because they are thrown of the scent by generous bundles of cash.
Else Apple HAS to sell me in Holland music for 1 dollar and NOT 1 euro. Or are there different rules for companies then for consumers?
And Nokia doesn't sell the licenses, it uses cross-licensing which every other player in the industry does all well to ensure against patent cases like this. But Apple has no patents. So, Apple is not asking to pay what everyone else pays because nobody else pays with just cash.
Jobs reality distortion field seems to be fully in effect on you.
Signed, Bush Jr.
Co-signed, every republican and a lot of democrats who have failed to arrest the president who authorized it.
Good crap argument. Of course there are things the public should not know about the affairs of the government. The launch codes, the password to the IRS servers, the exact thickness of the bulletprooof glas of the window the president will be sitting behind at 9:00AM. Even when an attack by its forces is supposed to happen.
But global trade negotations, secret wars, treatment of prisoners, these are thing the public should know.
There is nothing insighful about your post, just because a government needs to keep some things hidden doesn't excuse them hiding some things.
He was a LATE adaptor. If he had bought his palm pilot at the beginning, then he would have had one for a long time before the color version.
And if you buy an E-ink device now, you are also a late adaptor. Bleeding edge was passed long ago.
If you go to a deaker, all the employees will drive their own brand. And if you got a production plant, the vast majority of the cars will be of the brand produced there. Yes of course there are exceptions, you will see plenty of other cars brands outside the Ferrari plant. But if you work at Ford, you drive ford. And nobody at DAF would consider using anything but DAF trucks for their own company.
Since MS employees are highly likely to get a discount on MS products it is extremely telling that it can't even sell its own dog food to its own employees.
It just doesn't send the right message. You wouldn't think it normal if the vast majority of MS employees used Mac's would you?
You should hook your "Zune" up to a Mac. And might I say I think it is a bit silly to name your iPod "Zune". Does it have some special meaning?
On and offnote, I wonder what would happen if on your first day at MS, you would bring your Macbook along, listening to an iPod, while talking on the iPhone, and wrote your first email on gmail. :P
Oh this one. Geez, never heard about it, never would have, except now they sue so the entire world hears about it.
Streisand Effect anyone?
When we shipped the religious nutters to the colonies, the understanding was that they were supposed to stay there. Not come back!
You are claiming that signing a donor card might make you more liable to die since the doctors would kill you for your organs. Your solution, give a monitory incentive for your killing as well.
Smart.
And this problem really ain't all that complex. If I refuse to pay taxes, can I claim social benefits? If I don't pay road taxes, can I drive on the public roads? If I don't have insurance, can I claim insurance?
People without donor cards who want a donated organ are the ultimate "do as I say, don't do as I do". And no, they don't deserve to life.
He served his maximum of two terms. How can you be booted if your maximum contract that cannot be renewed has ended?
Stop lying to yourself.
Perhaps next time you make a joke to Americans you should try something else then sarcasm. They don't have that over there. Like beer and cheese, the knowledge seems to have been left behind when we kicked their puritan asses out of the civilized world.
The moon missions did do a lot of research when the camera's were off. For instance part of it is in constant use, measuring the distance of the moon thanks to some reflectors placed at the last landing site.
Just because the played golf to please the punters who paid for the mission, doesn't mean they didn't do hard science.
You forgot gamers, that was your first and last mistake.
That is what you get from burning your trees behind you.