To put it bluntly, if you live in an EU member nation, that is really tough shit. Your government, wielding power YOU (and all your fellows) give them by continuing to participate in your society ARE supporting them and participating on your behalf.
Your protestations do not change the fact that a portion of the money and power that they wield comes from you. You are not going to be going to live in the wilderness and scavage food, so until and unless you can convince the rest of your nation to withdraw, this situation is going to continue.
Unless you're going to move away, you should recognize this reality and endeavour to be involved in making whatever good can be made from it.
OpenOffice uses ODF. Office uses binary formats. The performance analysis quoted doesn't compare ODF and OpenXML. It states right in the article:
Here is a comparison with the standard 16-sheet SXC and XML sample file I've been using. The sample is in compressed XML format because it is smaller and easier for you to download. You'll have to convert the XML file to XLS and the SXC file to ODS to run the following test yourself.
XLS is a binary format. This study is irrelevant to the statements made. And it's the only data given to substantiate the claims made. So there is no data given at all.
All you can conclude from this is that OpenOffice 2.0, retrofitted recently for ODF, is much slower in a windows environment than Office 2003 using binary file formats. A far cry from any statements made either by Yates or by the summary.
This is a horrible idea. Especially since its just a money grab by a government.
Maybe the government should cut its spending if it wants to reduce its debt. I'd love to be able just to take someone else's money to pay my own debt off.
These sorts of ideas are what leads to all these fucked up taxes. The debt belongs to the people of the country. The money belongs to the people of the country. The spending is on behalf of the people of the country.
If people started identifying with their government, and had an interest in having the budget work for them rather than being small minded and thinking of how to keep the government from getting any more money out of them, they'd stop thinking of taxes as inherantly evil and participate in making fair and intelligent plans for raising and allocating collective funds for collective problems and obligations.
Governments raise their money by trying as many ways they can to get taxes in, and hopefully some of them slip under the radar and don't get too many people yelling "Nay", then see what they have to work with. It results in massive bureaucracy, wasted money, unbalanced taxation and blown budgets, and it's ALL because of this attitude.
This is a stupid tax. It adds bureaucracy and requires new infrastructure investment, provides a disincentive to communication between people which ALWAYS has a chilling effect on progress, and for all that, it's getting the money from the same source: the people who live there. Digging a new door into the treasury isn't going to get you more money. It's just hard work for nothing.
How about the freedom not to live in fear of starving to death? Or the freedom to not live in fear of being homeless?
The fight was never between communism and democracy. It was between totalitarianism and plutocracy. Eastern communism set the people free of coercion via deprivation, then controlled them by the threat of force. Western capitalist democracy sets the people free from coercion by the state, but exposes them to economic coercion via the threat of the deprivation of the basics of life.
The wars you mention were wars against countries who used the sort of techniques you describe on their citizens to create the sort of scared fanatical nationalists that would go to war against their neighbours because they are different.
Inasmuch as the US continues to do this to their citizenry and their brainwashed and frightened citizenry continue to support their governments aggression against those "different" people who are trying to destroy their nation, they embody the sort of dangerous nation that WWII was fought to remove from power and bring increased danger upon themselves.
Marriage is when two people stand before all their peers and swear to be faithful and true until death. No one forces you to get married. Why do we need divorce again? So we can have all those fucked up maladjusted selfish fuckers who aren't able to make a relationship work back in the dating pool?
If they can't grow up enough to have a healthy relationship with the one person that they chose to enter into marriage with, fuck em. I say, let them suffer together until they die or get some maturity and deal with their issues, whichever comes first.
No it isn't. It's not stealing of any sort. It's simple copyright enfringement. Please do not fall into the *AA trap of labeling this as "stealing."
No, it's not copyright infringement either. Citing text with attribution is not outlawed under copyright law, therefore, there is no infringement.
Using excerpts of what we learn from each other with proper source citation is what we are SUPPOSED to be doing. It is not illegal in any way. Profit doesn't even come into the equation.
Really, I mean why do people wear clothes for that matter? I mean we are all made of meat covered in skin. We all know what human bodies look like. Everyone should just go naked from now on. Who needs privacy when you have nothing to hide?
I tried that. They sent a bunch of burly guys to force me into a striped one-piece jumpsuit.
NASA is pretty stupid, yeah. They've been using the wasteful, fuel inefficient beast with the tendency to explode and drop shit for a long time with no justification, after all.
Can you describe what it does in one short coherent sentence?
A predictable, easily configurable one stop place to initiate any new task with your computer, regardless of what it is doing at the time, allowing you to start any application regardless of what is currently running. Personally, I don't even look at the start menu anymore... it's in my finger muscle memory.
Sigh. That's what firewalls are for. Spyware is rendered useless if your firewall says, "Umm, no, you can't connect to the Internet. Aren't you a filesystem utility anyway? How naughty! No Internet for you!"
This is the modern users view of their computer. It is full of things that they don't understand, and they'd rather have some authority figure give them the illusion of safety so they can poke around oblivious than be burdened with the necessity to cultivate enough understanding to make intelligent choices. Even if they know that the authority figure is only peddling illusions, that will not sway their choice.
If you are going to eat meat you really ought to kill/clean/cook the animal yourself its almost guaranteed to be healthier for you the environment and more humane to the animal. As to the original topic I would say most illness (especially chronic ones) are related to stress and depression. Certain aspects of American society (less vacation, more work, fear inducing media) amp up stress and depression in our citizens. Crime rates have been declining for years but you'd never know it watching the news.
Heh... this is way off topic, but I do intend to live this way very shortly. My geneology loving aunt found a blood tie that allows me to get Metis status, which, while it doesn't get me any tax breaks, does by treaty allow me to live and work in the US and also grants me unlimited hunting rights on a small patch of ancestral land which happens to be a 20 minute drive from where I live. Once I get my hunting license so I have the right to own a gun, I intend to support the herds in that area, bag a couple of deer a year and stop participating in the meat industry. I'm not a zealot, I eat a lot of meat, but I'd be happier not eating animals that suffered their whole lives to make it to my plate, particularly if I can get meat cheaper and have it taste better in the process.:)
This is why I am lacto-ovo vegetarian. With beans, lentils, soya, ie. stuff that gives proteins, and milk and egg, you're better off on a vegetarian diet than meat.
Except, you forget one thing. In order for cows to lactate (that is to produce milk) they need to have a calf each year. That is right: you cannot have milk without having lots of calves produced.
And yes, obviously some of these calves can also be make into milk-cows, but I can promise you that at least half of them cannot. What do you propose that we do with all the bulls running around waiting to die of old age? In fact, you lacto-vegetarian diet can only work because of those of us who find that dead baby-cow goes well with a aromatic rose'.
You can of course keep your diet (as long as you don't preachy to the people who help consume the waste products of your milk production), but I would not recommend proposing it for the rest of the world.
That's bullshit. Hindus don't consume meat at all, it is illegal to kill a cow for meat or skin in India even for the non-Hindus, and milk is central to the Indian diet. They support a very large population in this fashion, and have for a very long time.
The problem is Vitamin B12. It's not naturally occurring in plants, but exclusively synthesised by bacteria. The only natural bioavailable sources of B12 are meat products. That's why vegans are advised to eat foods enriched with B12 (and calcium). Chronic B12 deficiency leads to anaemia, nerve damage and eventually death.
Slamming back the odd Red Bull will take care of it though.
Not to mention that there are trace elements essential to health that are only naturally available in sufficient concentrations in meat. This being why you need to take pill suppliments if you go vegan.
In the absense of those refined pills, a vegan diet will kill you in the long term. Clear evidence that a vegan diet is NOT natural.
Recent BSE incidents were the best thing to happen to the Canadian economy in a long time. Prior to those incidents, we were just shipping off our cattle to the US to be slaughtered and marked up. We didn't have the plants to slaughter and pack the meat.
Since the US closed the border, now we do. Now we have the jobs, now we have the markup, now we can sell frozen steak to the EU and make all the profit.
The US are not our friends. They are nothing but a weight around our neck, and when incidents like this arise, it becomes obvious even to the most conservative that selling off all our natural resources to the US is NOT in our best interest.
The US needs us. We do not need the US. And after every painful transition period where we do not have the US market available for our resources, we come out better off for it.
Personally, I'd like to see economic sanctions against the US. But when all the old fuckers with the money have all their retirements invested in US companies, it's a hard sell even when people do understand.
I remember when I got my first web development job. I had the skills but no experience, and a piece of paper from a closed school in another country. The interview consisted of 10 minutes of chatting, after which they asked me to implement a simple web app that did reads, inserts, updates and deletes on a database. I asked if they minded me using the reference bookshelf in the process, as I was a little rusty, and it wasn't a problem. I skimmed through the books, refreshed my memory, and had the thing built in about twenty minutes... it wasn't particularly challenging, particularly when I had the books on hand.
I was the last of seven applicants, and the only one without a university degree in computer science. I was also the only one to complete the project. From what I was told, it took all the other applicants with their certifications at least 6 hours to not succeed in a simple task that they weren't familiar with. I got hired on the spot.
Certifications don't mean shit. If I was hiring someone, I'd be looking at their project experience. What I'd be looking for is a series of successful projects that were NOT all the same. THAT is what demonstrates your capacity to fix problems.
Cut your losses. Take the blackberry service out of the US. Instantly. Leave every single blackberry owner, including the entire government, hanging out to dry. Use RIM patents to prevent anyone else from servicing them, ensure that where this is concerned, they are well, truly and permanently fucked as a consequence of their screwed up society. Refuse to penny up a dime. That's what should have been done in the first place. The US is not a suitable place to do business. On the contrary, to do business with the US is to fund the most aggressive nation in the world and contribute to global unrest. Just don't do it.
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To put it bluntly, if you live in an EU member nation, that is really tough shit. Your government, wielding power YOU (and all your fellows) give them by continuing to participate in your society ARE supporting them and participating on your behalf.
Your protestations do not change the fact that a portion of the money and power that they wield comes from you. You are not going to be going to live in the wilderness and scavage food, so until and unless you can convince the rest of your nation to withdraw, this situation is going to continue.
Unless you're going to move away, you should recognize this reality and endeavour to be involved in making whatever good can be made from it.
This stuff doesn't even make sense.
OpenOffice uses ODF. Office uses binary formats. The performance analysis quoted doesn't compare ODF and OpenXML. It states right in the article:
Here is a comparison with the standard 16-sheet SXC and XML sample file I've been using. The sample is in compressed XML format because it is smaller and easier for you to download. You'll have to convert the XML file to XLS and the SXC file to ODS to run the following test yourself.
XLS is a binary format. This study is irrelevant to the statements made. And it's the only data given to substantiate the claims made. So there is no data given at all.
All you can conclude from this is that OpenOffice 2.0, retrofitted recently for ODF, is much slower in a windows environment than Office 2003 using binary file formats. A far cry from any statements made either by Yates or by the summary.
What a pile of crap journalism.
This is a horrible idea. Especially since its just a money grab by a government.
Maybe the government should cut its spending if it wants to reduce its debt. I'd love to be able just to take someone else's money to pay my own debt off.
These sorts of ideas are what leads to all these fucked up taxes. The debt belongs to the people of the country. The money belongs to the people of the country. The spending is on behalf of the people of the country.
If people started identifying with their government, and had an interest in having the budget work for them rather than being small minded and thinking of how to keep the government from getting any more money out of them, they'd stop thinking of taxes as inherantly evil and participate in making fair and intelligent plans for raising and allocating collective funds for collective problems and obligations.
Governments raise their money by trying as many ways they can to get taxes in, and hopefully some of them slip under the radar and don't get too many people yelling "Nay", then see what they have to work with. It results in massive bureaucracy, wasted money, unbalanced taxation and blown budgets, and it's ALL because of this attitude.
This is a stupid tax. It adds bureaucracy and requires new infrastructure investment, provides a disincentive to communication between people which ALWAYS has a chilling effect on progress, and for all that, it's getting the money from the same source: the people who live there. Digging a new door into the treasury isn't going to get you more money. It's just hard work for nothing.
How about the freedom not to live in fear of starving to death? Or the freedom to not live in fear of being homeless?
The fight was never between communism and democracy. It was between totalitarianism and plutocracy. Eastern communism set the people free of coercion via deprivation, then controlled them by the threat of force. Western capitalist democracy sets the people free from coercion by the state, but exposes them to economic coercion via the threat of the deprivation of the basics of life.
The robber barons won. Yay.
The wars you mention were wars against countries who used the sort of techniques you describe on their citizens to create the sort of scared fanatical nationalists that would go to war against their neighbours because they are different.
Inasmuch as the US continues to do this to their citizenry and their brainwashed and frightened citizenry continue to support their governments aggression against those "different" people who are trying to destroy their nation, they embody the sort of dangerous nation that WWII was fought to remove from power and bring increased danger upon themselves.
Marriage is when two people stand before all their peers and swear to be faithful and true until death. No one forces you to get married. Why do we need divorce again? So we can have all those fucked up maladjusted selfish fuckers who aren't able to make a relationship work back in the dating pool?
:P
If they can't grow up enough to have a healthy relationship with the one person that they chose to enter into marriage with, fuck em. I say, let them suffer together until they die or get some maturity and deal with their issues, whichever comes first.
Offtopic much?
No it isn't. It's not stealing of any sort. It's simple copyright enfringement. Please do not fall into the *AA trap of labeling this as "stealing."
No, it's not copyright infringement either. Citing text with attribution is not outlawed under copyright law, therefore, there is no infringement.
Using excerpts of what we learn from each other with proper source citation is what we are SUPPOSED to be doing. It is not illegal in any way. Profit doesn't even come into the equation.
Really, I mean why do people wear clothes for that matter? I mean we are all made of meat covered in skin. We all know what human bodies look like. Everyone should just go naked from now on. Who needs privacy when you have nothing to hide?
I tried that. They sent a bunch of burly guys to force me into a striped one-piece jumpsuit.
Anti-trust legistation in marital relationships... are you by chance a feminist?
NASA is pretty stupid, yeah. They've been using the wasteful, fuel inefficient beast with the tendency to explode and drop shit for a long time with no justification, after all.
Can you describe what it does in one short coherent sentence?
A predictable, easily configurable one stop place to initiate any new task with your computer, regardless of what it is doing at the time, allowing you to start any application regardless of what is currently running. Personally, I don't even look at the start menu anymore... it's in my finger muscle memory.
Sigh. That's what firewalls are for. Spyware is rendered useless if your firewall says, "Umm, no, you can't connect to the Internet. Aren't you a filesystem utility anyway? How naughty! No Internet for you!"
This is the modern users view of their computer. It is full of things that they don't understand, and they'd rather have some authority figure give them the illusion of safety so they can poke around oblivious than be burdened with the necessity to cultivate enough understanding to make intelligent choices. Even if they know that the authority figure is only peddling illusions, that will not sway their choice.
Kind of depressing, really...
You don't have to be a hippy, you can continue to eat fast food and potato chips, just not in large quantities.
Yeah, but why the hell would you want to if you can afford not to?
If you are going to eat meat you really ought to kill/clean/cook the animal yourself its almost guaranteed to be healthier for you the environment and more humane to the animal. As to the original topic I would say most illness (especially chronic ones) are related to stress and depression. Certain aspects of American society (less vacation, more work, fear inducing media) amp up stress and depression in our citizens. Crime rates have been declining for years but you'd never know it watching the news.
:)
Heh... this is way off topic, but I do intend to live this way very shortly. My geneology loving aunt found a blood tie that allows me to get Metis status, which, while it doesn't get me any tax breaks, does by treaty allow me to live and work in the US and also grants me unlimited hunting rights on a small patch of ancestral land which happens to be a 20 minute drive from where I live. Once I get my hunting license so I have the right to own a gun, I intend to support the herds in that area, bag a couple of deer a year and stop participating in the meat industry. I'm not a zealot, I eat a lot of meat, but I'd be happier not eating animals that suffered their whole lives to make it to my plate, particularly if I can get meat cheaper and have it taste better in the process.
Sorry, I meant to say they don't consume beef at all.
This is why I am lacto-ovo vegetarian. With beans, lentils, soya, ie. stuff that gives proteins, and milk and egg, you're better off on a vegetarian diet than meat.
Except, you forget one thing. In order for cows to lactate (that is to produce milk) they need to have a calf each year. That is right: you cannot have milk without having lots of calves produced.
And yes, obviously some of these calves can also be make into milk-cows, but I can promise you that at least half of them cannot. What do you propose that we do with all the bulls running around waiting to die of old age? In fact, you lacto-vegetarian diet can only work because of those of us who find that dead baby-cow goes well with a aromatic rose'.
You can of course keep your diet (as long as you don't preachy to the people who help consume the waste products of your milk production), but I would not recommend proposing it for the rest of the world.
That's bullshit. Hindus don't consume meat at all, it is illegal to kill a cow for meat or skin in India even for the non-Hindus, and milk is central to the Indian diet. They support a very large population in this fashion, and have for a very long time.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=vegan+diet+b12
The problem is Vitamin B12. It's not naturally occurring in plants, but exclusively synthesised by bacteria. The only natural bioavailable sources of B12 are meat products. That's why vegans are advised to eat foods enriched with B12 (and calcium). Chronic B12 deficiency leads to anaemia, nerve damage and eventually death.
Slamming back the odd Red Bull will take care of it though.
Not to mention that there are trace elements essential to health that are only naturally available in sufficient concentrations in meat. This being why you need to take pill suppliments if you go vegan.
In the absense of those refined pills, a vegan diet will kill you in the long term. Clear evidence that a vegan diet is NOT natural.
The #1 problem with Macs: Associating with snobs.
:D
Perhaps that's the real reason they went with *NIX... an effort to bring all the snobs together under one banner
Sounds like a great idea in theory, but I expect there are a few 1000 people in Waterloo that would disagree with you when they lose their jobs.
Only if they lose. This isn't softball, and they've already shown that they've got the stones for hardball at RIM.
Recent BSE incidents were the best thing to happen to the Canadian economy in a long time. Prior to those incidents, we were just shipping off our cattle to the US to be slaughtered and marked up. We didn't have the plants to slaughter and pack the meat.
Since the US closed the border, now we do. Now we have the jobs, now we have the markup, now we can sell frozen steak to the EU and make all the profit.
The US are not our friends. They are nothing but a weight around our neck, and when incidents like this arise, it becomes obvious even to the most conservative that selling off all our natural resources to the US is NOT in our best interest.
The US needs us. We do not need the US. And after every painful transition period where we do not have the US market available for our resources, we come out better off for it.
Personally, I'd like to see economic sanctions against the US. But when all the old fuckers with the money have all their retirements invested in US companies, it's a hard sell even when people do understand.
The only one doing any serious invading at the moment is the US. Who is going to save our asses from YOU?
I remember when I got my first web development job. I had the skills but no experience, and a piece of paper from a closed school in another country. The interview consisted of 10 minutes of chatting, after which they asked me to implement a simple web app that did reads, inserts, updates and deletes on a database. I asked if they minded me using the reference bookshelf in the process, as I was a little rusty, and it wasn't a problem. I skimmed through the books, refreshed my memory, and had the thing built in about twenty minutes... it wasn't particularly challenging, particularly when I had the books on hand.
I was the last of seven applicants, and the only one without a university degree in computer science. I was also the only one to complete the project. From what I was told, it took all the other applicants with their certifications at least 6 hours to not succeed in a simple task that they weren't familiar with. I got hired on the spot.
Certifications don't mean shit. If I was hiring someone, I'd be looking at their project experience. What I'd be looking for is a series of successful projects that were NOT all the same. THAT is what demonstrates your capacity to fix problems.
Cut your losses. Take the blackberry service out of the US. Instantly. Leave every single blackberry owner, including the entire government, hanging out to dry. Use RIM patents to prevent anyone else from servicing them, ensure that where this is concerned, they are well, truly and permanently fucked as a consequence of their screwed up society. Refuse to penny up a dime. That's what should have been done in the first place. The US is not a suitable place to do business. On the contrary, to do business with the US is to fund the most aggressive nation in the world and contribute to global unrest. Just don't do it.
Um... don't tell my ex.