...when there is good, reliable, 3g coverage or better everywhere, and when data charges (especially when roaming abroad) are negligible.
Like (North-Western) Europe? Granted, Holland is a small country, but unlimited HSDPA getting me half to two Mb/s, nationwide, for ten euro a month.. sounds like "one day" isn't too far away for some of us.
From my point of view, the state/government should get out of the "marriage" business all together. It should be a religious state. Just have civil contracts to define "partners" rights.
Agreed.
However, governments insist on calling those contracts "civil marriage". And because of that wrong label same-sex couples cannot enter into such a contract together.
(Personally I don't care whether they fix the criteria or the label.)
Don't forget The Netherlands, independence declared 1581 and recognised 1648. Heck, together with the Brits we basically created the USA. We founded New York (New Amsterdam) 400 years ago this year, your constitution is based on ours.. sadly after Napoleon some smugs declared our republic to be a monarchy in 1815, but that's just cosmetics as the thrown had to let go of all real power in 1848 already.
Which proves my point, even though I have none to make really.
It's been my experience that people who whine about HTML email are people who are using ancient email readers that don't support it, and don't want to change tools. The number of luddites in the field of software development amazes me.
This Luddite doesn't want to waste cell phone battery power by having to load the browser component when reading e-mails.
Frame content doesn't bookmark nor spider very well, resulting in undesired situations. Users end up with bookmarks to entrance content instead of the desired content, or end up without navigation menus when search engines sent them directly to the frame content which didn't include the outerlying frames.
DHTML pages solve this by adding information about inner content into the anchor part of the URL, so every page loads entirely upon first entrance and Javascript takes care of the inner content. Nowadays you could probably make this work for frames as well, but back then it either wasn't possible or nobody thought about it because Javascript wasn't used as much.
I'm glad to see that we have so many software options for even the most basic computer functions that Average Joe User needs to hire a personal assistant to make intelligent decisions about what software packages to install.
Most of us here genuinely are, or should be. The more ICT jobs there are, the better.
Aren't the Germans glad they have a government that's powerful enough to worry about things like this?
The war on drugs is a good topic to start not to single out nation states. It's Germany now, but this is no exception. The rest of Europe isn't much better, except maybe Portugal who have actually decriminalised a lot. Even my Holland is slowly turning into a nanny state when it comes to drugs. Let's not even get started about the US, or the rest of the world for that matter.
Previous investment will slow down mass adoption, but nonetheless it's good to know more options are becoming available. Especially because we didn't really have that many for plastics as opposed to fuel. Developments like these are the ones that will make us laugh at peak oil in the future and I for one would rather be able to laugh at it than suffer from it.
Mercury that one broken bulb can raise airborne mercury levels in your house to above safe levels.
Light bulbs don't break during normal operation, let alone CFLs which are made of much sturdier glass. Unless you play your baseball indoors you probably have better things to worry about.
Like I said, your mileage may vary. In the UK ten pounds top-up on a pre-paid gets you ten pounds of calling credit plus 1000 free text messages.
Fair enough, I don't get free text messages with my plan here in the Netherlands (5c per text message), while my unlimited Internet plan is only 10 euro a month extra. As I use mobile Internet quite a lot it's cheaper for me this way, but I'm sure I could get a provider with a far cheaper texting plan if I wasn't using mobile Internet.
Ah, I forgot about college dorms. They're not that commonplace here in Europe, some universities have a campus but in most cities students who don't live at home just share a flat/house right in the middle of the rest of society.
Gay Strephon declares I'm the girl in his mind, If he proves fincere, I'll be conftant and kind, He vows that tomorrow he'll make me his wife, I'll fondly endeavour to blefs him for life, For all other fwains I care not a rufh, [b]One bird in the hand is worth two in the bufh.[/b]
Sadly, most people do not seem to understand this.
Off-topic, but why live with a roommate you don't get along with? Wouldn't it be easier to move out and find another flat, or share yours to someone you actually like?
Oh, and I don't know where people come-up with that $4000 figure. I spent about $100 on health last year, and that was just to get my teeth cleaned. Who the hell spends four thousand dollars every year???
The people with MS, cancer, HIV, lupus, Alzheimer, Parkinson, diabetes, kids with Down syndrome, those who are hospitalised for sustained periods after unfortunate incidents..
Indeed, what kind of idiot can afford those diseases.
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...when there is good, reliable, 3g coverage or better everywhere, and when data charges (especially when roaming abroad) are negligible.
Like (North-Western) Europe? Granted, Holland is a small country, but unlimited HSDPA getting me half to two Mb/s, nationwide, for ten euro a month.. sounds like "one day" isn't too far away for some of us.
From my point of view, the state/government should get out of the "marriage" business all together. It should be a religious state. Just have civil contracts to define "partners" rights.
Agreed.
However, governments insist on calling those contracts "civil marriage". And because of that wrong label same-sex couples cannot enter into such a contract together.
(Personally I don't care whether they fix the criteria or the label.)
God declares war on mankind on the first pages of Genesis and Jesus doesn't wait much longer with his threats of eternal torment in the New Testament.
The more historically accurate the Bible is, the more I object to worshipping that bastard.
Moreover, the U.S. is 82% urbanized while Finland is only 63%, so the U.S. population is more concentrated into compact areas.
Not necessarily. Some of the U.S. suburbs I've been to had lower densities than places I'd consider to be rural in Europe.
Don't forget The Netherlands, independence declared 1581 and recognised 1648. Heck, together with the Brits we basically created the USA. We founded New York (New Amsterdam) 400 years ago this year, your constitution is based on ours.. sadly after Napoleon some smugs declared our republic to be a monarchy in 1815, but that's just cosmetics as the thrown had to let go of all real power in 1848 already.
Which proves my point, even though I have none to make really.
It's been my experience that people who whine about HTML email are people who are using ancient email readers that don't support it, and don't want to change tools. The number of luddites in the field of software development amazes me.
This Luddite doesn't want to waste cell phone battery power by having to load the browser component when reading e-mails.
But he is staying on the grid. Not that everyone and their uncle has access to his creditcard transaction log, but he's not going hermit on us.
Cygnet ECM might work for you.
Frame content doesn't bookmark nor spider very well, resulting in undesired situations. Users end up with bookmarks to entrance content instead of the desired content, or end up without navigation menus when search engines sent them directly to the frame content which didn't include the outerlying frames.
DHTML pages solve this by adding information about inner content into the anchor part of the URL, so every page loads entirely upon first entrance and Javascript takes care of the inner content. Nowadays you could probably make this work for frames as well, but back then it either wasn't possible or nobody thought about it because Javascript wasn't used as much.
I'm glad to see that we have so many software options for even the most basic computer functions that Average Joe User needs to hire a personal assistant to make intelligent decisions about what software packages to install.
Most of us here genuinely are, or should be. The more ICT jobs there are, the better.
Aren't the Germans glad they have a government that's powerful enough to worry about things like this?
The war on drugs is a good topic to start not to single out nation states. It's Germany now, but this is no exception. The rest of Europe isn't much better, except maybe Portugal who have actually decriminalised a lot. Even my Holland is slowly turning into a nanny state when it comes to drugs. Let's not even get started about the US, or the rest of the world for that matter.
People claimed Bush was able to stage/provoke 9/11 in just nine months. It's perfectly fair to blame this on Obama, it's all part of the job.
Previous investment will slow down mass adoption, but nonetheless it's good to know more options are becoming available. Especially because we didn't really have that many for plastics as opposed to fuel. Developments like these are the ones that will make us laugh at peak oil in the future and I for one would rather be able to laugh at it than suffer from it.
Mercury that one broken bulb can raise airborne mercury levels in your house to above safe levels.
Light bulbs don't break during normal operation, let alone CFLs which are made of much sturdier glass. Unless you play your baseball indoors you probably have better things to worry about.
Like I said, your mileage may vary. In the UK ten pounds top-up on a pre-paid gets you ten pounds of calling credit plus 1000 free text messages.
Fair enough, I don't get free text messages with my plan here in the Netherlands (5c per text message), while my unlimited Internet plan is only 10 euro a month extra. As I use mobile Internet quite a lot it's cheaper for me this way, but I'm sure I could get a provider with a far cheaper texting plan if I wasn't using mobile Internet.
Differences:
- SMS is available: it's built-in, e-mail is not present on every phone and relies on a third-party service provider plus settings
- SMS is faster: because there is no GPRS/TCP/IP/SMTP/IMAP/POP connection and transfer overhead
- SMS is clean: no risk of having to retrieve large attachements, hardly any spam due to sender costs
- SMS is cheaper: most plans offer a sufficient amount of free messages a month for most users, e-mail requires an additional GPRS data plan
YMMV but SMS is not as bad as some people claim.
Ah, I forgot about college dorms. They're not that commonplace here in Europe, some universities have a campus but in most cities students who don't live at home just share a flat/house right in the middle of the rest of society.
Nor do I understand the difference between Slashdot and other Internet forums. I must be new here. Really, [b]???
Gay Strephon declares I'm the girl in his mind,
If he proves fincere, I'll be conftant and kind,
He vows that tomorrow he'll make me his wife,
I'll fondly endeavour to blefs him for life,
For all other fwains I care not a rufh,
[b]One bird in the hand is worth two in the bufh.[/b]
Sadly, most people do not seem to understand this.
Off-topic, but why live with a roommate you don't get along with? Wouldn't it be easier to move out and find another flat, or share yours to someone you actually like?
Hanging is one of the quickest ways to die.
How about a bullet straight through the head? It's ironic how a country so full of guns doesn't consider using them for the death penalty.
Based on what I hear from my friends, they're already testing the software in California?
No, it doesn't depend on where you are, at the moment of writing it's 14:51 UTC. Everywhere.
Oh, and I don't know where people come-up with that $4000 figure. I spent about $100 on health last year, and that was just to get my teeth cleaned. Who the hell spends four thousand dollars every year???
The people with MS, cancer, HIV, lupus, Alzheimer, Parkinson, diabetes, kids with Down syndrome, those who are hospitalised for sustained periods after unfortunate incidents..
Indeed, what kind of idiot can afford those diseases.
If they have enough money to do this project, why haven't we cut their budget yet?
Because government controls the masses, not the other way around.