This rule would still have to be approved by the European Parliament for it to become law. If you're an EU citizen, do like the FA says and write your MEP:
drill down the map until you get to the member page; there are three postal addresses at the bottom of page. I'd either write to them in Brussels or their constituency address, since they're only usually in Strasbourg once a month. There's an email contact too, at the top.
On a side note, I've actually been in the mailroom at the EP building in Brussels, and it's really nice. It's in a prominent position right on one of the main corridors between the offices and the hemicycle.
Actually, if you were going to pick some creature to go with whales, it would be the Jonah. In the historical chain that you can establish with the Old Testament, Jonahs got into the whales for three days. But as someone noted below, this article is about papers that come out of "religious" whaling -- which is really just a cover for the Japanese to hunt the endangered species for cash. So I guess they went with cows, because they are pretty cheap and it's probably easier to do whatever phony-religion you want (e.g., because of televangelists, getting your cow blessed is probably somthing you can just mail in.)
Beware! My knowledge of creationism and minor prophets comes only from Pat Robertson books which I last read like three years ago (I highly recommend The New World Order, if you've already read the classics like The Secret Kingdom,and Answers to 100 of Life's Most Probing Questions.)
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Dell was still migrating DOMS onto Dell machines at the turn of the last century, IIRC. That's about the time my father retired from them (He'd worked there since late 1984 (!)).
I do remember one of his subordinate field sales using a DOS client to interface with the order management, and about how it had proved difficult to make anything better.
Sorry if I sounded catty or anything, I just did want to point out that Dell has in the past used outside stuff, and might still.
Dell was still using their homebrew DOMS (Dell Order Management System) on Tandem mainframes for several years after Tandem was bought by Compaq, so I really doubt parent's statement about supposed 'internal company policy'.
Michael Powell came to his current position under the Clinton administration, so I'm not sure how he can somehow be considered a 'puppet' for 'all-conquering Darth Bush', as you imply.
He's actually done a fairly good job with the FCC, this censorship bit and the Broadcast Flag notwithstanding.
People like myself that use LiteStep for a shell under Win32 don't have to deal with the memory overhead of a web-enabled shell, or these web-based exploits.
It's pretty cool and it's open source and stable (unlike Windows sometimes) and has a decent-size user base, eventhough most of the themes are pretty worthless. (Then again, for any themable program, aren't the bulk of the themes crap?)
Anyhow, people that are stuck using Windows like I am (Lycoris' Tablet PC version of Linux is next to featureless) should give it a try, if nothing else but as a preventative measure against future bugs like this.
Since this is the Japanese government the article is talking about, here's the relevant bit of their constitution (predicated on the English translation at E2 being fairly accurate):
Article 16 - Right to Petition
Every person shall have the right to peacefully petition for the redress of damage, for the removal of public officials, for the enactment, repeal or amendment of laws, ordinances or regulations, and for other matters; nor shall any person be in any way discriminated against for sponsoring such a petition.
So, if, say, Linux could be proven to have damaged a person (it doesn't say corporation, but I'm no laywer) could sue for, or petition for redress of, damages.
Although it would be interesting to make it easier to send mail to another country, this isn't something that's very likely to be adopted, especially as it's being put together by some company wanting to sell a product as opposed to a standards organization.
Even if several countries were to adopt this, it's still doubtful that the USPS would. Aside from the fact that the US isn't exactly big on coforming to other sorts of international methods of reckoning, the fact that the Post Office doesn't even realize the address they assigned to my house is imaginary (since the road changes names and numberings due to a short jaunt into another county) isn't very encouraging.
Actually, this aircraft carrier has an 'angled deck', not an 'angled ramp'.
An angled deck means that the landing path is angled (15 or 30 degrees) from the centerline of the ship. In the picture, it's the part of the deck closest to the camera that juts out (the part that juts out even farther, at least, on an American carrier, is where the landing control guys watch the incoming planes-- it's either that or an elevator, it's hard to tell from the picture).
This prevents an airplane that is aborting its landing from crusing down the deck and running into aircraft that are parked or are taking off at the front of the deck. This was a lesson learned from WWII-era straight-decked carriers, sometimes you can see for yourself what happens on shows on History Channel and such.
Though it'd be interesting to see an unangled ramp:-) it doesn't really matter if it's the deck or a ramp on the deck that's angled, a Harrier could still easily take off, with its mystic ninja VSTOL powers.
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This rule would still have to be approved by the European Parliament for it to become law. If you're an EU citizen, do like the FA says and write your MEP:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members.do?language=EN
drill down the map until you get to the member page; there are three postal addresses at the bottom of page. I'd either write to them in Brussels or their constituency address, since they're only usually in Strasbourg once a month. There's an email contact too, at the top.
On a side note, I've actually been in the mailroom at the EP building in Brussels, and it's really nice. It's in a prominent position right on one of the main corridors between the offices and the hemicycle.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
No, in Russian Federation, you manually land Soyuz. In Soviet Russia, Soyuz landed YOU.
Actually, if you were going to pick some creature to go with whales, it would be the Jonah. In the historical chain that you can establish with the Old Testament, Jonahs got into the whales for three days. But as someone noted below, this article is about papers that come out of "religious" whaling -- which is really just a cover for the Japanese to hunt the endangered species for cash. So I guess they went with cows, because they are pretty cheap and it's probably easier to do whatever phony-religion you want (e.g., because of televangelists, getting your cow blessed is probably somthing you can just mail in.) Beware! My knowledge of creationism and minor prophets comes only from Pat Robertson books which I last read like three years ago (I highly recommend The New World Order, if you've already read the classics like The Secret Kingdom,and Answers to 100 of Life's Most Probing Questions.) This message brought to you by the Kansas Board of Education.
Oh kremvax. Best April fools' ever.
If I had mod points, you'd get some.
Care to write/link to a howto? homesync doesn't seem to be enabled without some hacks.
Dell was still migrating DOMS onto Dell machines at the turn of the last century, IIRC. That's about the time my father retired from them (He'd worked there since late 1984 (!)). I do remember one of his subordinate field sales using a DOS client to interface with the order management, and about how it had proved difficult to make anything better. Sorry if I sounded catty or anything, I just did want to point out that Dell has in the past used outside stuff, and might still.
Dell was still using their homebrew DOMS (Dell Order Management System) on Tandem mainframes for several years after Tandem was bought by Compaq, so I really doubt parent's statement about supposed 'internal company policy'.
Michael Powell came to his current position under the Clinton administration, so I'm not sure how he can somehow be considered a 'puppet' for 'all-conquering Darth Bush', as you imply. He's actually done a fairly good job with the FCC, this censorship bit and the Broadcast Flag notwithstanding.
Who doesn't use firefox, though? :)
People like myself that use LiteStep for a shell under Win32 don't have to deal with the memory overhead of a web-enabled shell, or these web-based exploits.
It's pretty cool and it's open source and stable (unlike Windows sometimes) and has a decent-size user base, eventhough most of the themes are pretty worthless. (Then again, for any themable program, aren't the bulk of the themes crap?)
Anyhow, people that are stuck using Windows like I am (Lycoris' Tablet PC version of Linux is next to featureless) should give it a try, if nothing else but as a preventative measure against future bugs like this.
13:37 in the afternoon, huh?
Saturday, January 10, some big iron datacenter in Silicon Valley
Tech: What's this? ERROR 2393: HAXX0rS HAEV STOELN YUOR MEGAHURTZ!
I love you Jeff K.
Since this is the Japanese government the article is talking about, here's the relevant bit of their constitution (predicated on the English translation at E2 being fairly accurate): So, if, say, Linux could be proven to have damaged a person (it doesn't say corporation, but I'm no laywer) could sue for, or petition for redress of, damages.
Not like that'll ever happen, though.
Although it would be interesting to make it easier to send mail to another country, this isn't something that's very likely to be adopted, especially as it's being put together by some company wanting to sell a product as opposed to a standards organization.
Even if several countries were to adopt this, it's still doubtful that the USPS would. Aside from the fact that the US isn't exactly big on coforming to other sorts of international methods of reckoning, the fact that the Post Office doesn't even realize the address they assigned to my house is imaginary (since the road changes names and numberings due to a short jaunt into another county) isn't very encouraging.
Actually, this aircraft carrier has an 'angled deck', not an 'angled ramp'.
:-) it doesn't really matter if it's the deck or a ramp on the deck that's angled, a Harrier could still easily take off, with its mystic ninja VSTOL powers.
An angled deck means that the landing path is angled (15 or 30 degrees) from the centerline of the ship. In the picture, it's the part of the deck closest to the camera that juts out (the part that juts out even farther, at least, on an American carrier, is where the landing control guys watch the incoming planes-- it's either that or an elevator, it's hard to tell from the picture).
This prevents an airplane that is aborting its landing from crusing down the deck and running into aircraft that are parked or are taking off at the front of the deck. This was a lesson learned from WWII-era straight-decked carriers, sometimes you can see for yourself what happens on shows on History Channel and such.
Though it'd be interesting to see an unangled ramp