You see, freedom's like this - you can purchase it. Or much easier, you can purchase politicians who will enact laws against some sorts of freedoms. Thrivel against Jews - go to Saudi Arabia. However, you can't speak against moslems there. Try to speak up against followers of the Religion of Peace - do this in Europe, or preferably America (speaking up against muslims can get you killed in Europe, like Theo Van Gogh or Pim Fortuyn (who didn't get killed by a follower of the RoP, but by a nutcase inspired by them)).
However, it is preferably to have complete freedom of speech, not just so-called 'freedom of speach'. In a true free democracy with equal access to information, people should be able to debunk myths, especially in today's information society.
In Singapore, the situation there is a bit different, though. That island's not known to be very large. They have a real multi-ethnic society over there. They've had racial/religious riots in the sixties. Somehow, they kept that problem at bay, and to everybody's surprise, it has stayed that way. You can go to church, or to a mosque, and not get bombed on the way to it. You don't have to be afraid that your christian children get beheaded like in Indonesia.
No, I don't love the way they did it. Yes, I think some of the things they do is great, like caning these dorks that repetively commit grave traffic felonies (IMO 1xRattan should happen after the first time as warning - this would encourage even tourists to follow the letter of the traffic law), or cracking down on drug crime. Keeping the place clean. And, yes, you can even buy alcohol over there (unlike Brunei). If I have to chose between a muslim hellhole, and Singapore, the latter will win out. But perfection isn't attained with just these two choices.
As stated before me, Singapore is a fine country.
If one wants more liberties, there's still the US. And no, I frankly don't need to go there, as liberty over there is relative as well. Electoral fraud? Probably true. Governments using tax money for propaganda? I don't know a democracy where that doesn't exist. Liberal gun laws? Liberal drug laws? Being able to engage in sexual practices that are not fit for human reproduction? There are better countries for this.
So the only option is to occupy some sparsely populated island and turn it into a new nation. Maybe Slashdottia. Get a few ICBMs in order to have some means against the international schoolyard bullies, though.
Probably much cheaper in the long run, and there isn't a possibility that all that CO2 these plants don't produce will resurface in one go, producing cubic kilometers of Perrier (with a bit more salt...).
And oh, they'll emit less radioactivity than coal plants.
If an oil embargo hit China, they wouldn't have too much chicken sechuan anymore.
If the Germans had some clout, they'd also stop exporting any high-tech stuff to China until the IP situation resolves, but looking at the German situation (especially after the latest elections), things won't improve soon.
by calling in air strikes on the locations marked, preferably with tactical nuclear weapons. Much better than trying to cope with a few muslim fanatics the US Army can't control....
I feel an Osborne lesson coming. I actually thought about buying a new Mac, but the day I thought it would be a good idea, Apple had the guts to state they were going to Intel in a year or so. Since I don't like buying hardware that gets depreciated in a year, I waited.
If lots of people do that, Apple won't be amused....
If caning was reinstated for juvenile drunk drivers (and adults as well), it could maybe improve. Technical measures only cost money and annoy the honest people.
that work, like Livelink for E-mail Archiving, that are easy to use and very well integrated into Exchange.
Also, there's a fulltext search available for that product that would make sure that 'lost' mails get found in a hurry.
I recently had the honor to find out what to buy next for a customer whose ERP system got too small hardware-wise. The customer is usually quite brand-loyal to Dell, and for their record, we had little trouble with the Dell machines apart from a dead PSU or so.
I basically had a few options since we need 64bit architecture withhin forseeable future.
- another Dell server. They have some nice offerings in the 64bit area - choose another brand.
Basically, since I abhor the idea of going with Windows again, this was the options I had.
Currently, I'm toying with the idea to buy a SunFire v40z server as they're not too expensive (16 GB RAM, 4 Opteron 852 CPUs are something like 34000 Euros) compared to Dell's offerings which cost me at least 2000 Euros more, and run on Itanium CPUs whose future is spotty compared to the Opteron.
And as long as it runs SAP fast, users won't complain. And to boot, the SUN boxes look cute.
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You see, freedom's like this - you can purchase it. Or much easier, you can purchase politicians who will enact laws against some sorts of freedoms. Thrivel against Jews - go to Saudi Arabia. However, you can't speak against moslems there. Try to speak up against followers of the Religion of Peace - do this in Europe, or preferably America (speaking up against muslims can get you killed in Europe, like Theo Van Gogh or Pim Fortuyn (who didn't get killed by a follower of the RoP, but by a nutcase inspired by them)).
However, it is preferably to have complete freedom of speech, not just so-called 'freedom of speach'. In a true free democracy with equal access to information, people should be able to debunk myths, especially in today's information society.
In Singapore, the situation there is a bit different, though. That island's not known to be very large. They have a real multi-ethnic society over there. They've had racial/religious riots in the sixties. Somehow, they kept that problem at bay, and to everybody's surprise, it has stayed that way. You can go to church, or to a mosque, and not get bombed on the way to it. You don't have to be afraid that your christian children get beheaded like in Indonesia.
No, I don't love the way they did it. Yes, I think some of the things they do is great, like caning these dorks that repetively commit grave traffic felonies (IMO 1xRattan should happen after the first time as warning - this would encourage even tourists to follow the letter of the traffic law), or cracking down on drug crime. Keeping the place clean. And, yes, you can even buy alcohol over there (unlike Brunei). If I have to chose between a muslim hellhole, and Singapore, the latter will win out. But perfection isn't attained with just these two choices.
As stated before me, Singapore is a fine country.
If one wants more liberties, there's still the US. And no, I frankly don't need to go there, as liberty over there is relative as well. Electoral fraud? Probably true. Governments using tax money for propaganda? I don't know a democracy where that doesn't exist. Liberal gun laws? Liberal drug laws? Being able to engage in sexual practices that are not fit for human reproduction? There are better countries for this.
So the only option is to occupy some sparsely populated island and turn it into a new nation. Maybe Slashdottia. Get a few ICBMs in order to have some means against the international schoolyard bullies, though.
Build some nuke plants.
Probably much cheaper in the long run, and there isn't a possibility that all that CO2 these plants don't produce will resurface in one go, producing cubic kilometers of Perrier (with a bit more salt...).
And oh, they'll emit less radioactivity than coal plants.
would be if this virus just targetted lawyers, with 100% lethality rate...
"HP fully stands behind the products it makes."
Possibly with a big plate of chobham armor in-between?
If an oil embargo hit China, they wouldn't have too much chicken sechuan anymore.
If the Germans had some clout, they'd also stop exporting any high-tech stuff to China until the IP situation resolves, but looking at the German situation (especially after the latest elections), things won't improve soon.
by calling in air strikes on the locations marked, preferably with tactical nuclear weapons. Much better than trying to cope with a few muslim fanatics the US Army can't control....
given we have enough of these to to generate the power. Maybe they could power their own mp3 players that way....
Replace 'elected representatives' by 'paid lobbyists' and you can get the picture right this time.
Throw away the book about political theory since it doesn't apply anymore in the Western world.
The next thing they'll come after is hard disks and backup tapes, both used to conveniently store lots of data....
I think we rather need spammer vampire, coming at night and sucking the blood from spammers, therefore transforming them into more spammer vampires...
Do you mean something like that just replacing the department of homeland security with Billy's building in Redmond?
What I'd do is to force WBM to either become legally compliant (ie archive their data on WORM media) or not being admissible in court.
Problem solved since WBM can impossibly keep that much data on revision-proof media.
I feel an Osborne lesson coming. I actually thought about buying a new Mac, but the day I thought it would be a good idea, Apple had the guts to state they were going to Intel in a year or so. Since I don't like buying hardware that gets depreciated in a year, I waited.
If lots of people do that, Apple won't be amused....
Sounds nifty - just look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosgene
And I'm quite sure some enterprising chemist can produce that stuff in his home lab, and then hide it in iPods, laptops or other electronic appareil.
just image a telemarketer calls that phone number...
If caning was reinstated for juvenile drunk drivers (and adults as well), it could maybe improve. Technical measures only cost money and annoy the honest people.
Better translation for this type of kind: "Blockwart".
Everybody who's lived in the GDR will remember.
My Z syncs quite well with Mandriva Linux 2005 Limited Edition and you can easily get it to run, at least with KDE.
Why not just rip off the implement for their crime and let them be?
that work, like Livelink for E-mail Archiving, that are easy to use and very well integrated into Exchange. Also, there's a fulltext search available for that product that would make sure that 'lost' mails get found in a hurry.
...of this malware will be much smaller as it doesn't have to download the whole .NET package and the Servicepack ontop of it.
...all of the cluster turned into a huge super-spam-zombie.
Think about Night of the Living Dead. Think about the uberpsammer. Think about the spam leviathan.
I'm waiting for the first such incident where such a cluster might push out one million spams a second....
People are too dumb to realize this.
I happen to have download my ringtone via GPRS, but this still turned out to be cheaper than anything else.
I recently had the honor to find out what to buy next for a customer whose ERP system got too small hardware-wise. The customer is usually quite brand-loyal to Dell, and for their record, we had little trouble with the Dell machines apart from a dead PSU or so.
I basically had a few options since we need 64bit architecture withhin forseeable future.
- another Dell server. They have some nice offerings in the 64bit area
- choose another brand.
Basically, since I abhor the idea of going with Windows again, this was the options I had.
Currently, I'm toying with the idea to buy a SunFire v40z server as they're not too expensive (16 GB RAM, 4 Opteron 852 CPUs are something like 34000 Euros) compared to Dell's offerings which cost me at least 2000 Euros more, and run on Itanium CPUs whose future is spotty compared to the Opteron.
And as long as it runs SAP fast, users won't complain. And to boot, the SUN boxes look cute.
Do they really have engineering over there or just copy-and-paste?