1) Get couple.torrent files 2) Email them to your enemy 3) Report to Feds 4) Profit???
or better yet, of "dubious origins"... Send some joke powerpoint file as "PirateBoy" orsomething along those lines.
Wonder do they anything to protect ISPs, say you could ru ndown an ISP by ordering a bunch of servers putting some "dubious origins" material into the servers, and report to feds, there competition gone.
I am not sure are they allowed to save the data, but sure as hell they do use cell phone based locationing A LOT around here.
It's old news of services like locating your friends by visiting a website, getting closest restaurants, pubs, kiosks, supermarkets etc. to your phone as SMS from your service provider etc.
As well as police have the right to track all cell phones, and even lock out any cell phone permanently if stolen. (Some even claim that finnish cell phones have a destructive method to do that, frying the circuitry literally)
If you steal a cell phone around here, you are either insanely stupid, or VERY clever and know howto bypass all that, however, the cell phone locking might not be avoidable with all phones.
Also, it is rumoured that police here has so sophisticated hardware that they can pinpoint if a driver is speaking to a cell while driving and cut the connection.
Anyways, not sure can they store the data where you are, or even actively keep looking, but wouldn't really surprise me.
In my opinion, this actually encourages some people (who would otherwise pay for a product) to violate the terms of the EULA in one way or another. No matter the copy protection scheme, most cracks allow a user with average technical knowledge are able to easily circumvent a scheme. DAMN Right!
I think it was Need For Speed Underground 2 which i bought, but had to PIRATE to play online! That's right, it was so fucked up copy protection that bought version didn't work online. Why?
For some reason auto-updating didn't work, then it wouldn't connect to the servers, just giving some bullshit. I tried many times reinstalling etc.
So, i leeched off a torrent site, put in my PAID-FOR serial, and it worked flawlessly using a crack.
How screwed up that is? I think the leeched version with a pirate serial # even worked online, but bought version did not? Complete waste of 55euros or so.
That was the last EA game i bought, and played. I did buy overtime LFS, LFS2 and rFactor, these all had copy protection, but sensible prices and i liked them:) All downloadable online and can be registered online:)
Furthermore, only music i've bought in ~5years was a Space Junkies album bought online, no copy protections at all. Why? Convenience (downloadable), liked the music and wanted to support the artists. Rest, internet radio will be enough, not going to pay for DRM crap i can play only on "Certified Crap Players(tm)" filled with root kits, can't turn into MP3s, when i could have SINGLE cd on my car instead of say 10 DRM crappies which work only with some luck.
was just about to say that, but you beat me to the bunch!
Not only that, but Helium-3 is insanely expensive, i did some speculative maths a few years back, would it be profitable to mine helium-3 on moon and ship it back to earth, if there would be demand, can't remember exact results, but it had very real chances of being profitable.
http://www.direct.ca/trinity/helium3.htm "Helium-3 (He3) a rare particle on Earth but abundant on the Moons lunar surface (He3 is required for a fusion reactant - safe nuclear energy) has an energy value in today's dollars is $5.7 million per kilogram when compared to the value and energy potential of oil."
and as it seems someone else was aswell interested on that question.
"At $40,000 to $60,000 per kilo for transporting materials from Earth to the Moon, it is not cost effective to go to the Moon even for pure gold (Au), at today's price of $15,500 per kilogram. He3 equivalent energy value in todayâ(TM)s dollars is $5.7 Million per kilogram making this venture for the He3 fusion reactant worth the effort and cost. "
So, assume total costs rise even 10 times that upto, $600,000USD it would be real dead simple maths to go for that venture or not to go for that venture.
Now, who has the dough to kickstart this operation?;)
While my project wasn't FOSS, it was a browser strat game, keeping it running beyond personal interest for over a year longer was made to happen by the community support, we even almost finished up the next generation version of it (everything polished and updated, lots and lots of new content)
In the end in my case "life came", and i just didn't have the time nor motivation to keep maintaining it. But it did give the community almost a year more time to enjoy the game:)
As for donation suggestions, my 2cents:
something which increases productivity: User friendly application, something you use constantly and it saves you time.
Personally i'd look into putting cash on some of the "life saving" tools: Backup, Data Forensics/Recovery, Security apps, or maybe something which increases server performance or reliability
"Vegans have way smaller carbon footprint because they don't eat meat, nor any animal based foods."
Where food comes from has a far greater effect on its carbon footprint than the type of food. A vegan who eats fruit, nuts, and vegetables that are have to be transported over long distances will for example have a much higher carbon footprint than somebody who eats meat, eggs, etc, that are produced locally by animals that eat locally grown animal fodder.
"Animals consume way way way more food during their lifespan than what you get to eat"
Much of that food is however things we cannot eat, e.g. grass, hay (a by-product of wheat production), and various other things that they're equipped to handle, but we aren't. Some (e.g. pigs, chickens) are primarily fed on stuff that's not fit for human consumption, and would therefore be thrown away, to become food for colonies of bacteria that produce heat, methane, and CO2 without benefiting us in any way.
"What are they really good producing, constantly?"
The same stuff that the rotting plant matter would be producing if it wasn't consumed by animals whose stomachs contain bacteria which are similar to those that produce methane when breaking down dead plants outside the stomachs of animals. This is why swamps (which by their nature have few if any large grazing animals living in them) produce extremely large amounts of methane, and also the reason that pockets of it have always been a hazard in coal mines, as well as becoming a source of natural gas in the 20th century (clue: natural gas reserves were produced at a time when there were no animals more complex than insects on land).
"The point is, that it's eating meat whats the true biggest cause of global warming"
But shipping bananas over long distances in high-speed refrigerated ships is environmentally friendly because vegans eat them.
You should be rated Troll:)
Sure, some things comes over very long distances, but you completely bypass that the stuff those animals eat could be used in other things as well than feeding animals:)
New scientist article says: "A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home." http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19526134.500
You also bypass completely the fact that vegans do not eat exotic foods only, yes they are part as some things are simply not grown locally even if the climate would suit. You also completely bypass that vegans are not the only ones who eat stuff which comes over long distances, like bananas, rice, quite often soy. Furthermore, freighters quite often, or rarely are high-speed, more like tuned for fuel economy:) Have you ever seen a freighter go actually fast?
Furthermore, there's ongoing research to turn into alcohol all kinds of compostable stuff, a lot of the stuff which could have been fed to animals. And alcohol is good for what else than drinking and disinfectant? Yes, that's right, as a fuel. Atleast where i live was it 5% of all gas sold has to be alcohol, mixed into your normal DIN 95 octane or DIN 98 octane.
Which of these are more environmentally friendly:
- Meat produced locally
- Vegetary foods produced locally
- Regular vegan diet wh
It really does not matter AT ALL what kind of a car you use, how much you drive etc. if you eat meat daily, or even half of the time.
Vegans have way smaller carbon footprint because they don't eat meat, nor any animal based foods.
Why? Animals consume way way way more food during their lifespan than what you get to eat, they are living and breathing and moving creatures, who spend a lot of intaken energy on other things than building up mass. think about the cows... What are they really good producing, constantly?
don't have actual figures, but a google search should help ya there.
The point is, that it's eating meat whats the true biggest cause of global warming.
Disclaimer: Most of the time i eat like a vegan, but oh do i love a good steak or a burger, and i used to eat meat daily, now maybe couple times a month. Other times i don't consume any kind of animal related foods, no milk, no eggs, no nothing. And yes, it tastes good and isn't hard after getting used to. You can make quite a nice and tasty dish out of soy cream and mushrooms alone.
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Big in terms of WiFi antennaes, not big in terms of a regular satellite dish.
Maybe 50cm width? That ain't very big, especially if it's hooked in a tree, under the leaves you won't see it, and the signal goes very well through leaves:)
Usual WiFi antenna is like 5mm radius and 15cm long. compared to that 138x138mm is absolutely huge.
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Do not know the distance we are talking about, but sounds like there won't be anything prohibitive on line of sight.
Closest neighbour who can have a fast connection, arrange with them to setup a WiFi, but not with regular uni-directional antennae, use directional, big one.
More precise you can align the antennaes, the further you can reach with better bandwidth. To avoid the bad looks, you could hook it up in a tree too.
You actually can get quite damn good distances with this kind of setup, alternatively, you guys might want to ask if you could use signal boosters to amplify the strength of signal, but beware, there's very good reasons why by default the output is weak, but that's mostly directed towards to areas where there is other users.
Also, get the best hardware you can find on sane prices, using some cheap D-Link crap or something like that, is plain shooting yourself on the foot, they don't even work for 10 feets, nevermind 10miles no matter what kind of antenna you use.
Also, by nature WiFi is not very reliable, but setup well, it should work fine most of the time.
afaik yes Luxembourg is relaxed, one of the most, if not the most relaxed country to operate a fake bank like Paypal.
In some places Paypal does offer interest however:O
i got myself burned like that too:(
someones paypal account got phished, they sent the money to me, paypal acocunts real owner noticed and ocntacted me, according to paypal rules, i contacted paypal, as did she.
Never a reply, 3 months later my account was on negative from several hundreds of positive and email about that. Phishing victim never got her money back.
Never used paypal since.
However, i must still say the parent is obviously highly ignorant and likely republican. The kind of people who does rip your privacy away.
U.S. Govt watches your income just as well, they do collect tax, don't they?;) Last time i checked, they collected legal and ILLEGAL taxes:D Atleast, we have only LEGAL taxes.
Self-righteous republican bastards like bastard always says Europe is corrupt and socialist. However, your mails don't get read here, hell, you won't even get sued for millions for piracy around here, especially if you are 12yr old kid downloading 2 songs of your favourite artist (however, those higher up in distribution hierarchy of pirated content does get punished, and in some countries, they tend to be catched.)
Plus, you got to admit the perks of having * FREE * education and health-care, albeit some of it isn't the best, but it's still free, and good schools and healthcare for * FREE * does exist in large degree, you just got to pick where you go:) Nevermind the fact that they infact ** PAY YOU ** to goto school here and get educated, and govt ** PAYS ** for innovation, and sometimes for employing people too. Nevermind that no one even cares if you have a passport if you travel within EU in practice (tho, take it with you, rarely they do ask questions), snoops through all your stuff, collects passenger information, past associations, criminal records, professional records etc.
This has been known for years now, it's about damn time we hear about it more loudly!
I'm European, and damn i'm happy to be european and not live in the US these days. Where are all privacy and human rights? U.S. Govt is corrupted, and badly, starting from Mr. George W. Bush, who has the office for manipulation of the elections.
The elections even aren't completely democratic in nature over there, everyone's vote should count as much, and election should be done based on the majority of PEOPLE, not majority of STATES.
U.S. datamining has been rampant for a long time, and is still going very rampant, even more so, different organizations in US secretively snoops what they can without any respect given to legality or personal privacy rights. War against Terror, is being waged with TERROR. Acceptance is gained through Terror. Hell, it's even rather likely that 9/11 events were done by the same govt, U.S. Govt. for some bizarre reason, there was a practice going on at the same time, against exactly that event. Funny? Don't believe me? Do a couple google searches, like "9/11 Truth", "9/11 Conspiracy". There is an element of truth in there, just remember that mostly it is opposite side of propaganda, than the U.S. Govt propaganda, truth lies in the middle and likely is way more stunning than anything leaked to public combined. Furthermore, Google for Bush's family tree and Rockefellers, World Bank, and combine with the fact that World Bank lended money to Nazis and Vietnam to wage war, while lending money to US to wage war.:) Combine that with who's currency US Dollar really is, who issues it, and who collects your personal income tax, with the legality of the income tax and who pockets it. But, most of everything: Think For Yourself.
Snooping is going on everywhere in the US, and mostly secretive, only the very tip of the iceberg hits the media. For example, know Second Life? How about their age verification program? Well, it's NOTHING about age verification, and EVERYTHING about snooping. Hell, their practice is even illegal on many countries, yet they try to enforce it. Gullible, Ignorant people goes for it however. The company (Aristotle, http://www.aristotle.com/) very likely gives the data to U.S. Govt, while Linden Lab promises they do not store that data, only stores the return value from Aristotle, however, if you look carefully on Aristotle policies, you'll notice that they DO NOT promise confidentiality, only where they promise confidentiality is for surfing their website. Furthermore, it's not Linden Lab's legal obligation nor liability to verify the age of their customers, nor practically they can, only for a small minority. Kids stealing their dad's credit card to buy Linden Dollars, can just as easily use their Dad's information to fullfill the age verification. Aristotle is also heavily political company, not security company, but POLITICAL in nature.
Fortunately, we now have Wikileaks, and we have Europe here to rescue the day, along with highly ethical companies, like Qwest and Google, who dislike bending over and giving up their data, along with their customer's private data.:)
The problem with the fuss and complaints about this is that those who loose visitors due to this just doesn't bother to offer a splendid service.
This goes to help the user, and potentially directing users to BETTER services, and those who loose visitors due to this doesn't want to spend money to actually make a better service, ie. their sole intention is to only get money through the portion of their service on which they might loose visitors due to this.
However, likely the visitors they loose are already those who might not be their potential customers, by the example used on the summary, if they goto monster.com rather, they don't see as Washington Post's job listings as the #1 spot to begin with.
Furthermore, if google would be a smaller company, no one would care, but because Google is dominant in their field, this cause some loud noices. Being the dominant means that your ability to compete is crippled by media, regulators and the mainstream, for example the Microsoft antitrust case for delivering IE with Windows -> No one complained that Linux distros ship with a browser, but everyone complained that MS ships their browser with Linux. Why not complain that you cannot IE "easily" into any given linux distro? We would have in that regard 'worse' antitrust case if Linux was by one major company, for making it hard to use IE (Ie. not shipping with Wine preinstalled and configured for easy installation of IE, or pre-installed).
Big companies are NOT inherently evil, and just because they do things better than anyone else in their field, they should not be crippled, or when they roll out something beneficial people shouldn't complain, but embrace the new service (however with grain of salt like any product & service offering by any company, like usual).
I don't however mean that all anti-trust cases are bullshit, but most of them. For example, telling Microsoft to let people choose their email client, browser etc. was correct move, however, forcing them to let users use Firefox for some portion of one of their products is not right. A product vendor should be free to choose how their software works, for example say that a help system is done in HTML/XML optimized for IE, and Goverment tells that users must be able to use others than IE will raise development costs significantly, and that cost is directly away from something else.
That being said, some companies truly are evil, but Google nor Microsoft aren't.
Bottomline is, the loud noise caused by this new feature from Google has all to do with greed, nothing with user & customer satisfactory (like it should be).
Disclaimer: I'm not PRO Google nor Microsoft. Google also does somethings they should not be doing, maybe just because fighting against the goverments forcing them to do those things would be way too costly. I use Windows on desktop, Linux on servers, and i do use google's mail service and search daily. To me they are tools, and has nothing to do with philosophical nor ethical decisions, and use the best tool for any given task. Linux rawks as server, Windows rawks as productive environment, and Google's search is simply put the best search there is, and i do occasionally boot up Linux as desktop and fiddle around with it. I believe Linux is way more costly as productive desktop environment than Windows, due to the interoperability software license costs and decreased productivity using sub-optimal tools for specific tasks (Gimp Photoshop, Open Office can't handle BIG tables with BIG formulas like Excel can), while Windows as server is way more costly than Linux.
Now, i wonder do they sell anything i could as a foreigner buy so they get my support ^^
No censorship ty!:) It takes a lot of guts for a business to fight for this, every spend on the courts is away from their profitability directly, while the benefits in profitability are indirect and cannot be calculated, meanwhile, a good-faith-do-no-evil CEO recognizes something like this has priceless value, and it's a must to fight against censorship.
As an active user of Second Life, among other high bandwidth demanding applications (ie. Joost) etc. this would really suck.
Infact, i would be forced NOT to use Second Life etc. and forced to change providers, or not use net really at all, ultimately, leaving my workstation useless also.
I use upto 15Gb of bandwidth per day, WITHOUT downloading anything big. At other times, i might be churning backups from my servers, which can be upto 100Gb total, and i SHOULD take all those backups every couple weeks, but do it less often, except for databases. At this time, in 2days and 7hours 35minutes my computer has been on, upstream is 965Mb and downstream 13.97Gb, nevermind how much BW my GF uses.
I'm also assuming they ask something ridiculously high like 1USD per gig.
Hell, viewing a video or two each day on youtube would likely exhaust that 10Gb in a month.
I know in Germany they have/had something similar, without much success. They also tried here (Finland) but they just 'vanished' before even DSL or cable came popular, and was still very few ones luxury. Infact, uncapped, 10Mbps downstream cable was rather a norm if any broadband during the day.
VERY contrary tbh, film studios are having HUGE success there, and lots of viral potential. Movies like 300 and Transformers were advertised there, with quite a big fan fare, and it has been excellent for those movies, and more is coming along. The guys who made these builds, V3 Group, is telling that especially with movie 300 there was a huge viral marketing success via freebies, same happened with Transformers.
I personally know few of these who have been working on making those events and advertising happen.
This article that marketers would be leaving SL is quite a total bullshit. Hell, i even know who does marketing on SL, and they PROFIT, not via the impressions, but DIRECT profit with the marketing material they have! That case is a music producer/publisher, with online music store.
Now, what's up with Adidas and American Apparel store? Regular griefing attacks, nothing special there, or new. It might be disappopinting, but when i visited Adidas in-world location, it was made like they would be INVITING GRIEFERS! Of course they are going to have them in that case. Apart from that, Adidas shoes in SL are simply the BEST BUILT shoes of ANY there, they are simply an awesome piece of work. They ask a nominal 40L$ for the shoes, but personally, i would have been ready to pay many many times more for them. Needless to say, i used them for quite a while, and they got some viral marketing effect from it, many were simply stunned about those shoes.
The problem with these "failures" is, that they simply don't know "the rules", or how it works. With Adidas this was VERY apparent.
As for the resident numbers, yes they are inflated, and mostly there is only peaks of over 40,000 online at any given time, however, these figures are constantly on the rise, and there is hudnreds and hundreds of thousands of active 'residents'. And money moves.
And YES, i do run quite sizeable business within Second Life, am personally on every single day, and conducting business there every single day. I do also run an advertising network within Second Life, as a side-kick kind of thing. That isn't my main business there. And yes, i am helping people to succeed with their second life business journeys.
Funny thing is that the SSH tunnel is somewhat exactly the service i've been dreaming of making, even if it would only be for myself!
I'd want to make something so that all traffic is routed via a server i have, securely of course. My ISP seeing only secure connections to that location, and incoming illicit traffic (scans for mail relays etc.)
The thing is that i haven't arsed to look for the know-how to do it. I guess VPN would achieve this with routing tables made for it. But to make it easy for the end user?
Dunno, perhaps some day i'll take the time to look further into this, especially, if that legislation comes to reality, there's big bucks to be made for those offering such a service:D
Ever heard of PageRank? Ever heard of contextual advertising?
- Pagerank ensures they are atleast some what reputable
- Contextual advertising: highest paying advertiser most probably have a really successfull business and has to be atleast to some degree reputable.
Next:
that doesn't suck?
Sorry but can a intelligent person really fall for a shitty company like you describe? Just choose one of the bigger names and you are safe, if you want a smaller, there are many other things to check their reputability.
Really, domain business imho isn't like Wild Wild West
You REALLY have to ask alternatives for GoDaddy? That's some hell of a marketing.
Hell, personally, i wouldn't touch GoDaddy with a long pole even! And always thought that way. Reason is obvious: They don't convey trust and technological excellency.
But what they have apparently got right is marketing, wouldn't have thought one would need to EVEN ask for alternatives to GoDaddy and yet know what registrar stands for.
And no, i am not trolling or trying to be flamebait. As for alternative places to register domains, some are:
- Enom - Joker - Mydomain - DirectI - RegisterFly
and huge amount of big players i can't remember right now
Plus on top of that there's been circulating versions with automated installation processes, almost nothing is being asked, and a lot of software installed right away like photoshop, IM clients, office etc. etc. Sounds really easy, i think it was called Nemesis.
Couldn't find with google anything else than a few forum posts, but i think i saw in some bigger news outlet something about it long ago.
Are you Finnish? Have you gone thru the Finnish schooling system? Have you seen someone close to you have a fatal illness? I've been there, i've done that.
It really isn't that rosy as the studies give impression.
Best part of Finnish school system? Free warm food every day. They say it's free, which is untrue completely! You pay it in form of education debt, low interest yes, but no one except you pay for the debt, and it's 300 per month. Plus you gotta spend your every vacation working, just to get by, but dare you earn too much! You gotta also work at higher education, to get points, to get to graduate at all.
Also, many of Finnish schools are riddled with mould, causing diseases, illness and allergies. My high school was one with mould, plus bad plumbing, and heating not working on one part of the school, now remember, here in (southern) Finland we might even see -30celsius. The school smelled terrible for A LONG time because smell locks for some reason either didn't exist or didn't work anywhere in the school, so many times during the class we had water running to stop the smell.
Plus mould caused cough for myself, and i know one who got allergy due to that and had to leave his job, he was assisting a handicapped person. Fortunately, after they got the kitchen redone, the food was EXCELLENT! That was the main thing i bothered to be there, i got my paper outta there, but worse numbers than promised me just couple months before graduation, and i DID work hard for the last couple months. You would think that those educating themselves would be supported better, as the money spent there will be returned with interest later on, in the form of taxes.
Remember, that's just the top of the iceberg!
As for the healthcare, even smallish things might take ages to be looked upon. For example, it's very common here that cancer isn't getting diagnosed as soon as it should be, because doctors can't be arsed to diagnose! You are in the neighbour region? Cut your finger so deep it hits the bone, goto a clinic, and all they do is say "goto your home region, you've got couple hours to get that fixed or you'll loose your finger", and travel alone takes approx. 30minutes, perhaps 45minutes, IF you have a car. Taking a train will take you over an hour to get to your area's clinic.
After a surgery, you can barely breathe and talk, and you have asthma. You gotta know to tell them to give your asthma medicine, and not only that, but HOW as one cannot hold the air in the lungs, and even after that you get 1 medicine at a time, even all of them were promised, and you gotta ask for every single one separately, and you get it after many hours of waiting. Fun? Try yourself to hold your breath 10secs, then breathe normally 10secs, hold 10secs and so forth.
And yes, there are Finnish troublemakers too at the trainstations, and they are always drunk and you can just walk by, or if they stop you, they usually tend to be quite funny guys and it can be a fun 30minutes:) It's rare they are going to attack you.
That's very much true. In fact, that's happening here too, those kids are called Nazis & Skinheads. They sometimes achieve making places secure, but i think they attack immigrants because they like to pick a fight mainly, and that they have done some bad stuff just justifies their means. Fortunately, by time, many of those grow up, and stop doing shit like that.
A nearby town was very insecure for a period of couple years, LOTS of immigrants, you name it, they were there, from any part of the world. The thing was that part of them hated Finns, so there was A LOT of robberies & fights and a few rapes got into the newspapers etc. Finally skinheads came in, beated the hell outta of those guys doing the main stuff, and they haven't come back.
There was also a lot of action on another nearby town, it was for months every now and then on the news, immigrants called us racists, media went along with them, except some smaller newspapers dared to release some statistics of that area AFAIK. Couple years later i moved to this very same town, i once saw a black guy running like hell, 1 minute later couple skinheads came from same direction, looked around and started running again and then 5 minutes later a police car drove by.
I've been attacked by immigrants too, almost without a reason, he stole something from me of value of under 1, and i said him to give it back to me, and he attacked me, directly jabbed with his forehead to my nose, i was lucky that my nose didn't break. Then again, i do know a few of those who are nice guys, they do their work, support their families and live their lifes like good people, like anyone else. It's just that, those people ain't visible to the masses! And thus the whole group is hated, as no one sees the other side of coin:(
Here you can have an unregistered car, altho, you cannot drive it in public roads, only closed areas, and i think you can drive it on your own private road too and of course on your own yard. Many here has unreg cars, mainly for "field cars" (for kids to learn to drive somewhat safely and have fun), race cars and of course show cars.
My grandpa is a car enthusiast, and it goes in the blood;) That's not a problem, but it costs 160e to re-register that car, and they are VERY TIGHT on what they allow back to the roads.
But the rules on what you can do to your car and drive it at public roads are VERY TIGHT, they loosened it couple years back fortunately to allow enhancing safety without modified percentages.
Also here costs when you own a house and mortgage is paid, living costs under half of what on rental, and many do so that they get mortgage to buy a house and they pay about the same as rental would be but paying away the debt. Personally, i hate all debts to a great degree.
But rights are quite limited as you say, and it would be really good if those would be relaxed, and you REALLY owned what you owned, meaning you could do anything with your house as long as it's not hazardous to neighbours, but nope. So you are right there, only thing you've paid for is to have one less landlord:(
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This is how you get rid of your worst enemy:
.torrent files
... Send some joke powerpoint file as "PirateBoy" orsomething along those lines.
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1) Get couple
2) Email them to your enemy
3) Report to Feds
4) Profit???
or better yet, of "dubious origins"
Wonder do they anything to protect ISPs, say you could ru ndown an ISP by ordering a bunch of servers putting some "dubious origins" material into the servers, and report to feds, there competition gone.
Didnt RTFA obviously
I am not sure are they allowed to save the data, but sure as hell they do use cell phone based locationing A LOT around here.
It's old news of services like locating your friends by visiting a website, getting closest restaurants, pubs, kiosks, supermarkets etc. to your phone as SMS from your service provider etc.
As well as police have the right to track all cell phones, and even lock out any cell phone permanently if stolen. (Some even claim that finnish cell phones have a destructive method to do that, frying the circuitry literally)
If you steal a cell phone around here, you are either insanely stupid, or VERY clever and know howto bypass all that, however, the cell phone locking might not be avoidable with all phones.
Also, it is rumoured that police here has so sophisticated hardware that they can pinpoint if a driver is speaking to a cell while driving and cut the connection.
Anyways, not sure can they store the data where you are, or even actively keep looking, but wouldn't really surprise me.
I think it was Need For Speed Underground 2 which i bought, but had to PIRATE to play online! That's right, it was so fucked up copy protection that bought version didn't work online. Why?
For some reason auto-updating didn't work, then it wouldn't connect to the servers, just giving some bullshit. I tried many times reinstalling etc.
So, i leeched off a torrent site, put in my PAID-FOR serial, and it worked flawlessly using a crack.
How screwed up that is?
I think the leeched version with a pirate serial # even worked online, but bought version did not? Complete waste of 55euros or so.
That was the last EA game i bought, and played. I did buy overtime LFS, LFS2 and rFactor, these all had copy protection, but sensible prices and i liked them
Furthermore, only music i've bought in ~5years was a Space Junkies album bought online, no copy protections at all. Why? Convenience (downloadable), liked the music and wanted to support the artists. Rest, internet radio will be enough, not going to pay for DRM crap i can play only on "Certified Crap Players(tm)" filled with root kits, can't turn into MP3s, when i could have SINGLE cd on my car instead of say 10 DRM crappies which work only with some luck.
was just about to say that, but you beat me to the bunch!
;)
Not only that, but Helium-3 is insanely expensive, i did some speculative maths a few years back, would it be profitable to mine helium-3 on moon and ship it back to earth, if there would be demand, can't remember exact results, but it had very real chances of being profitable.
http://www.direct.ca/trinity/helium3.htm
"Helium-3 (He3) a rare particle on Earth but abundant on the Moons lunar surface (He3 is required for a fusion reactant - safe nuclear energy) has an energy value in today's dollars is $5.7 million per kilogram when compared to the value and energy potential of oil."
and as it seems someone else was aswell interested on that question.
"At $40,000 to $60,000 per kilo for transporting materials from Earth to the Moon, it is not cost effective to go to the Moon even for pure gold (Au), at today's price of $15,500 per kilogram. He3 equivalent energy value in todayâ(TM)s dollars is $5.7 Million per kilogram making this venture for the He3 fusion reactant worth the effort and cost. "
So, assume total costs rise even 10 times that upto, $600,000USD it would be real dead simple maths to go for that venture or not to go for that venture.
Now, who has the dough to kickstart this operation?
Spot on!
:)
That's so damn right!
While my project wasn't FOSS, it was a browser strat game, keeping it running beyond personal interest for over a year longer was made to happen by the community support, we even almost finished up the next generation version of it (everything polished and updated, lots and lots of new content)
In the end in my case "life came", and i just didn't have the time nor motivation to keep maintaining it. But it did give the community almost a year more time to enjoy the game
As for donation suggestions, my 2cents:
something which increases productivity: User friendly application, something you use constantly and it saves you time.
Personally i'd look into putting cash on some of the "life saving" tools: Backup, Data Forensics/Recovery, Security apps, or maybe something which increases server performance or reliability
"Vegans have way smaller carbon footprint because they don't eat meat, nor any animal based foods."
Where food comes from has a far greater effect on its carbon footprint than the type of food. A vegan who eats fruit, nuts, and vegetables that are have to be transported over long distances will for example have a much higher carbon footprint than somebody who eats meat, eggs, etc, that are produced locally by animals that eat locally grown animal fodder.
"Animals consume way way way more food during their lifespan than what you get to eat"
Much of that food is however things we cannot eat, e.g. grass, hay (a by-product of wheat production), and various other things that they're equipped to handle, but we aren't. Some (e.g. pigs, chickens) are primarily fed on stuff that's not fit for human consumption, and would therefore be thrown away, to become food for colonies of bacteria that produce heat, methane, and CO2 without benefiting us in any way.
"What are they really good producing, constantly?"
The same stuff that the rotting plant matter would be producing if it wasn't consumed by animals whose stomachs contain bacteria which are similar to those that produce methane when breaking down dead plants outside the stomachs of animals. This is why swamps (which by their nature have few if any large grazing animals living in them) produce extremely large amounts of methane, and also the reason that pockets of it have always been a hazard in coal mines, as well as becoming a source of natural gas in the 20th century (clue: natural gas reserves were produced at a time when there were no animals more complex than insects on land).
"The point is, that it's eating meat whats the true biggest cause of global warming"
But shipping bananas over long distances in high-speed refrigerated ships is environmentally friendly because vegans eat them.
You should be rated Troll :)
:)
:) Have you ever seen a freighter go actually fast?
Sure, some things comes over very long distances, but you completely bypass that the stuff those animals eat could be used in other things as well than feeding animals
Furthermore, it has been studied which is more environmentally friendly. Here's an article in Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/11/food.climatechange
Nevermind the vast amount of fossil fuels used by animal agriculture, sure totally vegetarian uses some too, but not as much. See: http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/f/fossilfuels.htm
New scientist article says:
"A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home." http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19526134.500
You also bypass completely the fact that vegans do not eat exotic foods only, yes they are part as some things are simply not grown locally even if the climate would suit. You also completely bypass that vegans are not the only ones who eat stuff which comes over long distances, like bananas, rice, quite often soy. Furthermore, freighters quite often, or rarely are high-speed, more like tuned for fuel economy
Furthermore, there's ongoing research to turn into alcohol all kinds of compostable stuff, a lot of the stuff which could have been fed to animals. And alcohol is good for what else than drinking and disinfectant? Yes, that's right, as a fuel. Atleast where i live was it 5% of all gas sold has to be alcohol, mixed into your normal DIN 95 octane or DIN 98 octane.
Which of these are more environmentally friendly:
- Meat produced locally
- Vegetary foods produced locally
- Regular vegan diet wh
Forgot vegans & vegetarians ;)
It really does not matter AT ALL what kind of a car you use, how much you drive etc. if you eat meat daily, or even half of the time.
Vegans have way smaller carbon footprint because they don't eat meat, nor any animal based foods.
Why? Animals consume way way way more food during their lifespan than what you get to eat, they are living and breathing and moving creatures, who spend a lot of intaken energy on other things than building up mass. think about the cows... What are they really good producing, constantly?
don't have actual figures, but a google search should help ya there.
The point is, that it's eating meat whats the true biggest cause of global warming.
Disclaimer: Most of the time i eat like a vegan, but oh do i love a good steak or a burger, and i used to eat meat daily, now maybe couple times a month. Other times i don't consume any kind of animal related foods, no milk, no eggs, no nothing. And yes, it tastes good and isn't hard after getting used to. You can make quite a nice and tasty dish out of soy cream and mushrooms alone.
Big in terms of WiFi antennaes, not big in terms of a regular satellite dish.
:)
Maybe 50cm width? That ain't very big, especially if it's hooked in a tree, under the leaves you won't see it, and the signal goes very well through leaves
Usual WiFi antenna is like 5mm radius and 15cm long. compared to that 138x138mm is absolutely huge.
Do not know the distance we are talking about, but sounds like there won't be anything prohibitive on line of sight.
:) Here's one: http://demi0urgos.livejournal.com/5924.html
Closest neighbour who can have a fast connection, arrange with them to setup a WiFi, but not with regular uni-directional antennae, use directional, big one.
More precise you can align the antennaes, the further you can reach with better bandwidth. To avoid the bad looks, you could hook it up in a tree too.
If you are DIY type, there's lots of DIY tutorials to make one yourself on the cheap, which is just as good or better than some which costs insane high bucks. Just google "DIY WiFi Directional Antenna"
Picture: http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=smalllabattstilt2nr.jpg
Used: Beer can, some copper wiring, and some household items.
You actually can get quite damn good distances with this kind of setup, alternatively, you guys might want to ask if you could use signal boosters to amplify the strength of signal, but beware, there's very good reasons why by default the output is weak, but that's mostly directed towards to areas where there is other users.
Also, get the best hardware you can find on sane prices, using some cheap D-Link crap or something like that, is plain shooting yourself on the foot, they don't even work for 10 feets, nevermind 10miles no matter what kind of antenna you use.
Also, by nature WiFi is not very reliable, but setup well, it should work fine most of the time.
afaik yes Luxembourg is relaxed, one of the most, if not the most relaxed country to operate a fake bank like Paypal. In some places Paypal does offer interest however :O
i got myself burned like that too :(
someones paypal account got phished, they sent the money to me, paypal acocunts real owner noticed and ocntacted me, according to paypal rules, i contacted paypal, as did she.
Never a reply, 3 months later my account was on negative from several hundreds of positive and email about that. Phishing victim never got her money back.
Never used paypal since.
someone mod parent troll. :)
;) Last time i checked, they collected legal and ILLEGAL taxes :D Atleast, we have only LEGAL taxes.
:) Nevermind the fact that they infact ** PAY YOU ** to goto school here and get educated, and govt ** PAYS ** for innovation, and sometimes for employing people too. Nevermind that no one even cares if you have a passport if you travel within EU in practice (tho, take it with you, rarely they do ask questions), snoops through all your stuff, collects passenger information, past associations, criminal records, professional records etc.
However, i must still say the parent is obviously highly ignorant and likely republican. The kind of people who does rip your privacy away.
U.S. Govt watches your income just as well, they do collect tax, don't they?
Self-righteous republican bastards like bastard always says Europe is corrupt and socialist. However, your mails don't get read here, hell, you won't even get sued for millions for piracy around here, especially if you are 12yr old kid downloading 2 songs of your favourite artist (however, those higher up in distribution hierarchy of pirated content does get punished, and in some countries, they tend to be catched.)
Plus, you got to admit the perks of having * FREE * education and health-care, albeit some of it isn't the best, but it's still free, and good schools and healthcare for * FREE * does exist in large degree, you just got to pick where you go
Never mind the fact that we DO NOT wiretap masses at will, we DO NOT track where you are by your cell phone at will if you do not approve. We do not kill prisoners neither at a whim, but actually punish them by having them to live for their actions. Neither do we torture ( http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/torture.htm, http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usai_torture, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/dec/10/usa.comment, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/apr/30/television.internationalnews) people at will, nor arrest without any due reason, or sentence without having proven quilty first. Nor do we stop you leaving the country DeCSS tattooed on your back
Nevermind the tiny fact that here our presidents are chosen by the people, not by the chosen few.
This has been known for years now, it's about damn time we hear about it more loudly!
:) Combine that with who's currency US Dollar really is, who issues it, and who collects your personal income tax, with the legality of the income tax and who pockets it. But, most of everything: Think For Yourself.
:)
I'm European, and damn i'm happy to be european and not live in the US these days. Where are all privacy and human rights? U.S. Govt is corrupted, and badly, starting from Mr. George W. Bush, who has the office for manipulation of the elections.
The elections even aren't completely democratic in nature over there, everyone's vote should count as much, and election should be done based on the majority of PEOPLE, not majority of STATES.
U.S. datamining has been rampant for a long time, and is still going very rampant, even more so, different organizations in US secretively snoops what they can without any respect given to legality or personal privacy rights. War against Terror, is being waged with TERROR. Acceptance is gained through Terror. Hell, it's even rather likely that 9/11 events were done by the same govt, U.S. Govt. for some bizarre reason, there was a practice going on at the same time, against exactly that event. Funny? Don't believe me? Do a couple google searches, like "9/11 Truth", "9/11 Conspiracy". There is an element of truth in there, just remember that mostly it is opposite side of propaganda, than the U.S. Govt propaganda, truth lies in the middle and likely is way more stunning than anything leaked to public combined. Furthermore, Google for Bush's family tree and Rockefellers, World Bank, and combine with the fact that World Bank lended money to Nazis and Vietnam to wage war, while lending money to US to wage war.
Snooping is going on everywhere in the US, and mostly secretive, only the very tip of the iceberg hits the media. For example, know Second Life? How about their age verification program? Well, it's NOTHING about age verification, and EVERYTHING about snooping. Hell, their practice is even illegal on many countries, yet they try to enforce it. Gullible, Ignorant people goes for it however. The company (Aristotle, http://www.aristotle.com/) very likely gives the data to U.S. Govt, while Linden Lab promises they do not store that data, only stores the return value from Aristotle, however, if you look carefully on Aristotle policies, you'll notice that they DO NOT promise confidentiality, only where they promise confidentiality is for surfing their website. Furthermore, it's not Linden Lab's legal obligation nor liability to verify the age of their customers, nor practically they can, only for a small minority. Kids stealing their dad's credit card to buy Linden Dollars, can just as easily use their Dad's information to fullfill the age verification. Aristotle is also heavily political company, not security company, but POLITICAL in nature.
Fortunately, we now have Wikileaks, and we have Europe here to rescue the day, along with highly ethical companies, like Qwest and Google, who dislike bending over and giving up their data, along with their customer's private data.
The problem with the fuss and complaints about this is that those who loose visitors due to this just doesn't bother to offer a splendid service.
This goes to help the user, and potentially directing users to BETTER services, and those who loose visitors due to this doesn't want to spend money to actually make a better service, ie. their sole intention is to only get money through the portion of their service on which they might loose visitors due to this.
However, likely the visitors they loose are already those who might not be their potential customers, by the example used on the summary, if they goto monster.com rather, they don't see as Washington Post's job listings as the #1 spot to begin with.
Furthermore, if google would be a smaller company, no one would care, but because Google is dominant in their field, this cause some loud noices. Being the dominant means that your ability to compete is crippled by media, regulators and the mainstream, for example the Microsoft antitrust case for delivering IE with Windows -> No one complained that Linux distros ship with a browser, but everyone complained that MS ships their browser with Linux. Why not complain that you cannot IE "easily" into any given linux distro? We would have in that regard 'worse' antitrust case if Linux was by one major company, for making it hard to use IE (Ie. not shipping with Wine preinstalled and configured for easy installation of IE, or pre-installed).
Big companies are NOT inherently evil, and just because they do things better than anyone else in their field, they should not be crippled, or when they roll out something beneficial people shouldn't complain, but embrace the new service (however with grain of salt like any product & service offering by any company, like usual).
I don't however mean that all anti-trust cases are bullshit, but most of them. For example, telling Microsoft to let people choose their email client, browser etc. was correct move, however, forcing them to let users use Firefox for some portion of one of their products is not right. A product vendor should be free to choose how their software works, for example say that a help system is done in HTML/XML optimized for IE, and Goverment tells that users must be able to use others than IE will raise development costs significantly, and that cost is directly away from something else.
That being said, some companies truly are evil, but Google nor Microsoft aren't.
Bottomline is, the loud noise caused by this new feature from Google has all to do with greed, nothing with user & customer satisfactory (like it should be).
Disclaimer: I'm not PRO Google nor Microsoft. Google also does somethings they should not be doing, maybe just because fighting against the goverments forcing them to do those things would be way too costly. I use Windows on desktop, Linux on servers, and i do use google's mail service and search daily. To me they are tools, and has nothing to do with philosophical nor ethical decisions, and use the best tool for any given task. Linux rawks as server, Windows rawks as productive environment, and Google's search is simply put the best search there is, and i do occasionally boot up Linux as desktop and fiddle around with it. I believe Linux is way more costly as productive desktop environment than Windows, due to the interoperability software license costs and decreased productivity using sub-optimal tools for specific tasks (Gimp Photoshop, Open Office can't handle BIG tables with BIG formulas like Excel can), while Windows as server is way more costly than Linux.
Hurray for Tele2 to standup!
:) It takes a lot of guts for a business to fight for this, every spend on the courts is away from their profitability directly, while the benefits in profitability are indirect and cannot be calculated, meanwhile, a good-faith-do-no-evil CEO recognizes something like this has priceless value, and it's a must to fight against censorship.
:)
Now, i wonder do they sell anything i could as a foreigner buy so they get my support ^^
No censorship ty!
Hurray for Tele2!
As an active user of Second Life, among other high bandwidth demanding applications (ie. Joost) etc. this would really suck.
Infact, i would be forced NOT to use Second Life etc. and forced to change providers, or not use net really at all, ultimately, leaving my workstation useless also.
I use upto 15Gb of bandwidth per day, WITHOUT downloading anything big. At other times, i might be churning backups from my servers, which can be upto 100Gb total, and i SHOULD take all those backups every couple weeks, but do it less often, except for databases. At this time, in 2days and 7hours 35minutes my computer has been on, upstream is 965Mb and downstream 13.97Gb, nevermind how much BW my GF uses.
I'm also assuming they ask something ridiculously high like 1USD per gig.
Hell, viewing a video or two each day on youtube would likely exhaust that 10Gb in a month.
I know in Germany they have/had something similar, without much success. They also tried here (Finland) but they just 'vanished' before even DSL or cable came popular, and was still very few ones luxury. Infact, uncapped, 10Mbps downstream cable was rather a norm if any broadband during the day.
VERY contrary tbh, film studios are having HUGE success there, and lots of viral potential.
Movies like 300 and Transformers were advertised there, with quite a big fan fare, and it has been excellent for those movies, and more is coming along. The guys who made these builds, V3 Group, is telling that especially with movie 300 there was a huge viral marketing success via freebies, same happened with Transformers.
I personally know few of these who have been working on making those events and advertising happen.
This article that marketers would be leaving SL is quite a total bullshit. Hell, i even know who does marketing on SL, and they PROFIT, not via the impressions, but DIRECT profit with the marketing material they have! That case is a music producer/publisher, with online music store.
Now, what's up with Adidas and American Apparel store? Regular griefing attacks, nothing special there, or new. It might be
disappopinting, but when i visited Adidas in-world location, it was made like they would be INVITING GRIEFERS! Of course they
are going to have them in that case. Apart from that, Adidas shoes in SL are simply the BEST BUILT shoes of ANY there, they are
simply an awesome piece of work. They ask a nominal 40L$ for the shoes, but personally, i would have been ready to pay many many
times more for them. Needless to say, i used them for quite a while, and they got some viral marketing effect from it, many were
simply stunned about those shoes.
The problem with these "failures" is, that they simply don't know "the rules", or how it works. With Adidas this was VERY apparent.
As for the resident numbers, yes they are inflated, and mostly there is only peaks of over 40,000 online at any given time,
however, these figures are constantly on the rise, and there is hudnreds and hundreds of thousands of active 'residents'. And
money moves.
And YES, i do run quite sizeable business within Second Life, am personally on every single day, and conducting business there every single day. I do also run an advertising network within Second Life, as a side-kick kind of thing. That isn't my main business there. And yes, i am helping people to succeed with their second life business journeys.
Funny thing is that the SSH tunnel is somewhat exactly the service i've been dreaming of making, even if it would only be for myself!
:D
I'd want to make something so that all traffic is routed via a server i have, securely of course. My ISP seeing only secure connections to that location, and incoming illicit traffic (scans for mail relays etc.)
The thing is that i haven't arsed to look for the know-how to do it. I guess VPN would achieve this with routing tables made for it.
But to make it easy for the end user?
Dunno, perhaps some day i'll take the time to look further into this, especially, if that legislation comes to reality, there's
big bucks to be made for those offering such a service
And they are quite reputable, it's not the ideology what matters, dude.
Nothing for you to Troll here, move along!
Ever heard of PageRank? Ever heard of contextual advertising?
- Pagerank ensures they are atleast some what reputable
- Contextual advertising: highest paying advertiser most probably have a really successfull business and has to be atleast to some degree reputable.
Next:
that doesn't suck?
Sorry but can a intelligent person really fall for a shitty company like you describe?
Just choose one of the bigger names and you are safe, if you want a smaller, there are many other things to check their reputability.
Really, domain business imho isn't like Wild Wild West
You REALLY have to ask alternatives for GoDaddy? That's some hell of a marketing.
Hell, personally, i wouldn't touch GoDaddy with a long pole even! And always thought that way.
Reason is obvious: They don't convey trust and technological excellency.
But what they have apparently got right is marketing, wouldn't have thought one would need to EVEN ask for alternatives to
GoDaddy and yet know what registrar stands for.
And no, i am not trolling or trying to be flamebait.
As for alternative places to register domains, some are:
- Enom
- Joker
- Mydomain
- DirectI
- RegisterFly
and huge amount of big players i can't remember right now
Plus on top of that there's been circulating versions with automated installation processes, almost nothing is being asked, and
a lot of software installed right away like photoshop, IM clients, office etc. etc.
Sounds really easy, i think it was called Nemesis.
Couldn't find with google anything else than a few forum posts, but i think i saw in some bigger news outlet something about it long ago.
Are you Finnish? Have you gone thru the Finnish schooling system? Have you seen someone close to you have a fatal illness?
:) It's rare they are going to attack you.
I've been there, i've done that.
It really isn't that rosy as the studies give impression.
Best part of Finnish school system? Free warm food every day.
They say it's free, which is untrue completely! You pay it in form of education debt, low interest yes, but no one except you
pay for the debt, and it's 300 per month. Plus you gotta spend your every vacation working, just to get by, but dare you earn
too much! You gotta also work at higher education, to get points, to get to graduate at all.
Also, many of Finnish schools are riddled with mould, causing diseases, illness and allergies. My high school was one with mould,
plus bad plumbing, and heating not working on one part of the school, now remember, here in (southern) Finland we might even see
-30celsius. The school smelled terrible for A LONG time because smell locks for some reason either didn't exist or didn't work
anywhere in the school, so many times during the class we had water running to stop the smell.
Plus mould caused cough for myself, and i know one who got allergy due to that and had to leave his job, he was assisting a
handicapped person. Fortunately, after they got the kitchen redone, the food was EXCELLENT! That was the main thing i bothered
to be there, i got my paper outta there, but worse numbers than promised me just couple months before graduation, and i DID work
hard for the last couple months.
You would think that those educating themselves would be supported better, as the money spent there will be returned with
interest later on, in the form of taxes.
Remember, that's just the top of the iceberg!
As for the healthcare, even smallish things might take ages to be looked upon. For example, it's very common here that cancer
isn't getting diagnosed as soon as it should be, because doctors can't be arsed to diagnose! You are in the neighbour region? Cut
your finger so deep it hits the bone, goto a clinic, and all they do is say "goto your home region, you've got couple hours to get
that fixed or you'll loose your finger", and travel alone takes approx. 30minutes, perhaps 45minutes, IF you have a car. Taking
a train will take you over an hour to get to your area's clinic.
After a surgery, you can barely breathe and talk, and you have asthma. You gotta know to tell them to give your asthma medicine,
and not only that, but HOW as one cannot hold the air in the lungs, and even after that you get 1 medicine at a time, even
all of them were promised, and you gotta ask for every single one separately, and you get it after many hours of waiting. Fun?
Try yourself to hold your breath 10secs, then breathe normally 10secs, hold 10secs and so forth.
And yes, there are Finnish troublemakers too at the trainstations, and they are always drunk and you can just walk by, or if
they stop you, they usually tend to be quite funny guys and it can be a fun 30minutes
That's very much true. In fact, that's happening here too, those kids are called Nazis & Skinheads.
:(
They sometimes achieve making places secure, but i think they attack immigrants because they like to pick a fight mainly, and that
they have done some bad stuff just justifies their means. Fortunately, by time, many of those grow up, and stop doing shit like
that.
A nearby town was very insecure for a period of couple years, LOTS of immigrants, you name it, they were there, from any part of
the world. The thing was that part of them hated Finns, so there was A LOT of robberies & fights and a few rapes got into the
newspapers etc. Finally skinheads came in, beated the hell outta of those guys doing the main stuff, and they haven't come back.
There was also a lot of action on another nearby town, it was for months every now and then on the news, immigrants called us
racists, media went along with them, except some smaller newspapers dared to release some statistics of that area AFAIK. Couple
years later i moved to this very same town, i once saw a black guy running like hell, 1 minute later couple skinheads came from
same direction, looked around and started running again and then 5 minutes later a police car drove by.
I've been attacked by immigrants too, almost without a reason, he stole something from me of value of under 1, and i said him
to give it back to me, and he attacked me, directly jabbed with his forehead to my nose, i was lucky that my nose didn't break.
Then again, i do know a few of those who are nice guys, they do their work, support their families and live their lifes like good
people, like anyone else. It's just that, those people ain't visible to the masses! And thus the whole group is hated, as no one
sees the other side of coin
Here you can have an unregistered car, altho, you cannot drive it in public roads, only closed areas, and i think you can drive it
;) That's not a problem, but it costs 160e to re-register that car, and
:(
on your own private road too and of course on your own yard. Many here has unreg cars, mainly for "field cars" (for kids to learn to drive somewhat safely and have fun), race cars and of course show cars.
My grandpa is a car enthusiast, and it goes in the blood
they are VERY TIGHT on what they allow back to the roads.
But the rules on what you can do to your car and drive it at public roads are VERY TIGHT, they loosened it couple years back
fortunately to allow enhancing safety without modified percentages.
Also here costs when you own a house and mortgage is paid, living costs under half of what on rental, and many do so that they
get mortgage to buy a house and they pay about the same as rental would be but paying away the debt. Personally, i hate all
debts to a great degree.
But rights are quite limited as you say, and it would be really good if those would be relaxed, and you REALLY owned what you
owned, meaning you could do anything with your house as long as it's not hazardous to neighbours, but nope.
So you are right there, only thing you've paid for is to have one less landlord