How many more times are we going to let the courts, Congress, the President, etc. surrender our national sovereignty like this?
Probably about as many times as the we will trample on the sovereignty of other peaceful nations. Remember when the US got Australia to turn over one of their citizens for breaking US law even when no Australian law was broken? If positions were reversed, Americans would have cried bloody murder.
They aren't covering up the history; they are trying to stem the popularity of neo-Nazi movements. Memorabilia can be used as icons for such things. Even European museums are relatively devoid of Nazi goods. Most exhibits consist of audio/video footage and are presented in a dry, factual manner.
With no French website and no local business units there would be no issue. They can still make content for and money from the French, but do it across the borders. Then it would be up to the government to block the content.
There's a simple solution: delete the Yahoo.fr site and shut down all French business units. If Yahoo has no presence in France, their laws won't apply. It's not like France is as imperialistic as America; they can't make their laws transcend their borders. Then the problem becomes the French governments' and how they might block Yahoo.
True, but what does it say about America when the level of care and protection of law one recieves is directly related to the size of your bank account? At least in Soviet Russia nearly everyone was treadted with an equal lack of care.
There is a primary difference between coal/oil and nuclear. Nuclear can't be cleaned up.
So how do we clean up the billions of metric tons of coal byproducts released into the atmosphere every year.
How about we put it in your backyard for starters?
Why do I always hear this back yard argument? If you took an average size suburban house and made it water tight, all of the nuclear waste made by all of mans reactors since the beginning of the nuclear age wouldn't even fill the basement.
Tell me, what have you read of experimental nuclear reactors called PBMR's? Read this and pay close attention to the section labeled "Gas turbines heated by nuclear furnaces. When people mention nuclear energy, all they can think of is some 1950's, slow neutron reactors. Because of careless mistakes by humans, not their machines, all development of nuclear research has been severely limited. The much safer and, fool proof, technology of the PBMR's could have replaced most of the older reactors in this country if it weren't for panicky people who rely on sensational news outlets for their education. Who knows what we would be capable of now if development hadn't ground to a halt.
Their healthcare system may not have been top notch for all people, but their doctors were just as dedicated and, dare I say, more imaginative. They knew how to do something, but didn't have the tools, sot they would devise ingenious substitutes. Have you ever seen anything about the ice surgeons performing heart surgery with no life support? They administer drugs to block adrenaline, and pour crushed ice around the body until the heart stops. From there they have about 60 minutes to get in and out. When they are done they wrap the person in heated blankets and heating pads and inject them with a large dose of adrenaline, maybe an electric shock if necessary. The lesson is that the tools are only half of the story; the doctors are the other half.
So you are saying that because the older generation had harder times to work through they have no interest in making society progress into a more tolerable, open state where more people can flourish? The "I had to do it, so you have to do it" mentality is where social development stops. Besides, if the elders are so worried about free hand-outs, they should abolish the social security system. Everyone knows it can't suport itself and the boomers long enough to be able to support my generation. I would hate to see the older people getting a hand out that I won't get when I'm there age. I'm going to have to work harder for my retirement than they did.
It must be something about my machine, but I find Firefox much more stable than IE. It also loads quicker, and renders quicker. I love tabs, programmable search bar, and the simplicity of its' extensions. No matter what features MS adds to IE, I won't switch back because I don't see them seperating the browser from the OS.
Then install Firefox and the extension "Open link in IE". If the link doesn't display right, use the quick link and open it in IE. Then close IE, and keep moving in firefox. It is a shame that MS is trying to break the HTML standard. I even wrote a script to email a pre-written comment to the webmaster of a page the renders wrong in firefox. This wouldn't be an issue if it weren't for lazy authors and shortcuts.
The headline gives the impression that this is about how to actually rid windows of IE (Possible in 9x/me, but doesn't seem to be in 2k/xp).
Which is why MS needs to take a few extra hours to write a stand alone app for windowsupdate instead of relying on IE and ActiveX. Then most people could leave IE installed and blocked by their firewall.
That's odd, because an old C program I wrote in college scored around the 78% by guessing the least likely answer and dropping it then randomly choosing one of the 3 left.
The SAT's are not a reliable way to score intelligence or potential. It is a culturally biased compilation of tests to reinforce the status quo. Hell, I scored perfect on my math and 12 short of perfect on the other half. Would you have guessed I dropped out after my sophomore year and started a moderately successful local computer repair and support business?
I would put more faith in his I.Q. score, but that's still a test devised by humans. More than anything else, I like to listen to him talk on topics and deduce his lack of intelligence from his ramblings instead of his vocabulary. My recent favorite is Mr. and Mrs. Bush's reason to stop stem cell research. They think that since the research is years from producing results, we shouldn't start so we don't give the already terminal false hope. His revolutionary idea of Reaganism is also laughable.
As the baby boomers begin to retire, and Bush leaves office, it's up to my generation to handle both. I'm paying for a social security system that cannot mathematically support such a large percentage of people becoming dependent on it in such a short period. It won't be there when I need it, so what reason do I have for paying for it? The environment, social concerns, international affairs, business laws, and education will have to be fixed by my generation because we all know the aging politicians of today are only interested in securing their own retirement.
Basically, Bush is missing the part of the brain that is able to plan for the very long term. Remember those refund checks he cut everyone at the beginning of his term? He is the president of instant gratification.
I'm not too scared of that. People have learned enough about thermonuclear weapons that the atimatter genie won't be let out ASAP. WWII was the reason nuclear weapons were produced so early. In the new era, ear isn't about inflicting total destruction at the largest scale. It's about surgical precision. That's why I'm more afraid of directed energy weapons than antimatter weapons.
It will help us, among other things, close the link between matter and energy. It sounds very star trek, I know, but it's one of mankind's greatest achievements waiting to happen. It's also a step closer to a working unification theory or (dis)proving string and superstring theory, supersymmetry, and m-theory. These may or may not be the follow-ups that can cast a shadow on general and special relativity, just like Einstein did to Newton.
The First Amendment guarantees the right to speak; it does not guarantee an audience. Spam forces you to be part of the audience. It does not respect your choice to be left alone and ignore the person exercising free speech. Spam is the equivalent of 20 door to door salesmen sitting in your living room waiting for you to come home after work. Just because you don't have steel doors and bars on the windows doesn't mean that they aren't encroaching on your property.
People at Best Buy get fired if they don't make their quota on the extended warranty and service plans. Last time I worked there (years ago) we got a small rip on the plans (like $2 for a $50 plan). The threat of termination is more of an incentive than commission on sales. Besides, commission provides for more knowledgable sales people. A good sales person can work that job and support their families for years. They can learn their job and policies inside and out because they are there for so long. It's also harder for them to lie, because it when it comes back to bite them, it will mean more to the older person than some punk kid that works because mommy and daddy don't give enough allowance. You just have to be able to see past the sales techniques.
In my younger days I used to work for both Circuit City and Best Buy. My experience in being the "man on the line" is that most customers are ignorant, either by choice or by apathy. Because I am the only person they will ever talk to I am the CEO, President, and store manager wrapped up in one. Towards the end of my days at both places I was so bitter that my most common response to a complaint was "I am a trained monkey with no authority. If you like, I can find a manager, but I can do nothing for you"
Most customers fail to realize that they are 'protesting' to a kid who probably has the same complaints they do, but management ties their hands. If I could have, I would have given every last person exactly what they wanted.
Circuit City has gone under many changes since I left. They used to have older, more knowledgeable people, but since they stopped paying their sales people on commission, high school and college students have filled in the ranks. This greatly reduces the quality of service since the more experienced and educated people can not afford to work there and support their families.
Their service plans are another example. People are actually fired for not meeting their quota on service plans. If you read the fine print and can comprehend it, there are actually certain pieces of hardware that everyone should get a service plan on, but it is useless for almost everything under $200 and stand alone commodity items. It's also good for people who don't have a clue what they are doing, and the manufacturer's support and warranty lifetime is too short (like computers).
All-in-all if you have a problem with something in any store, take it up with a manager. Even they may not have the authority to fix you problem, but you have better odds with them than the kid on the floor. Also, the quality of service is much better at locally owned and operated stores. You probably will pay more, but you are supporting your community instead of a large, heartless corporation that uses off-shore tax havens to avoid paying their taxes.
This is a nice to that makes a "Compose GMail" option when you click a mailto: link.
This is the GMail Notifier that I think the parent was referring to. It displays the simple text "Gmail" at the bottom right of the browser window by the down button on the scroll bar. Hovering over it displays the number of unread emails, single clicking it opens gmail in a new tab, and double clicking lets you add, change, ir remove gmail login info. You should know that Google has blocked this program at least twice before so don't be alarmed if it stops working, just keep an eye on the webpage for a newer version.
Also, another neat google plugin displays a thumbnail to the left of many search results. It too displays the simple text "GP" near the bottom right scroll button. Single click it to turn it on and off again.
If you still have that invite, I could use one. My friend just finished his tour of duty in the air force and a bit jealous that I have a gmail account and he doesn't.
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They aren't covering up the history; they are trying to stem the popularity of neo-Nazi movements. Memorabilia can be used as icons for such things. Even European museums are relatively devoid of Nazi goods. Most exhibits consist of audio/video footage and are presented in a dry, factual manner.
With no French website and no local business units there would be no issue. They can still make content for and money from the French, but do it across the borders. Then it would be up to the government to block the content.
There's a simple solution: delete the Yahoo.fr site and shut down all French business units. If Yahoo has no presence in France, their laws won't apply. It's not like France is as imperialistic as America; they can't make their laws transcend their borders. Then the problem becomes the French governments' and how they might block Yahoo.
True, but what does it say about America when the level of care and protection of law one recieves is directly related to the size of your bank account? At least in Soviet Russia nearly everyone was treadted with an equal lack of care.
The difference is that if everyone were to disappear form the facility, a PBMR would fizzle out quickly. It's default is to not sustain istelf.
There is a primary difference between coal/oil and nuclear. Nuclear can't be cleaned up.
So how do we clean up the billions of metric tons of coal byproducts released into the atmosphere every year.
How about we put it in your backyard for starters?
Why do I always hear this back yard argument? If you took an average size suburban house and made it water tight, all of the nuclear waste made by all of mans reactors since the beginning of the nuclear age wouldn't even fill the basement.
Tell me, what have you read of experimental nuclear reactors called PBMR's? Read this and pay close attention to the section labeled "Gas turbines heated by nuclear furnaces. When people mention nuclear energy, all they can think of is some 1950's, slow neutron reactors. Because of careless mistakes by humans, not their machines, all development of nuclear research has been severely limited. The much safer and, fool proof, technology of the PBMR's could have replaced most of the older reactors in this country if it weren't for panicky people who rely on sensational news outlets for their education. Who knows what we would be capable of now if development hadn't ground to a halt.
Their healthcare system may not have been top notch for all people, but their doctors were just as dedicated and, dare I say, more imaginative. They knew how to do something, but didn't have the tools, sot they would devise ingenious substitutes.
Have you ever seen anything about the ice surgeons performing heart surgery with no life support? They administer drugs to block adrenaline, and pour crushed ice around the body until the heart stops. From there they have about 60 minutes to get in and out. When they are done they wrap the person in heated blankets and heating pads and inject them with a large dose of adrenaline, maybe an electric shock if necessary. The lesson is that the tools are only half of the story; the doctors are the other half.
...and why all Soviet people have such great-looking teeth?
By that analogy, the Brits must be carriers for every disease known.
I mean, it's not illegal to modify your own hardware now is it?
It depends on where you live.
Here it is.
So you are saying that because the older generation had harder times to work through they have no interest in making society progress into a more tolerable, open state where more people can flourish? The "I had to do it, so you have to do it" mentality is where social development stops. Besides, if the elders are so worried about free hand-outs, they should abolish the social security system. Everyone knows it can't suport itself and the boomers long enough to be able to support my generation. I would hate to see the older people getting a hand out that I won't get when I'm there age. I'm going to have to work harder for my retirement than they did.
It's not like too many people use it now. Most people rely on the auto-update applet.
It must be something about my machine, but I find Firefox much more stable than IE. It also loads quicker, and renders quicker. I love tabs, programmable search bar, and the simplicity of its' extensions. No matter what features MS adds to IE, I won't switch back because I don't see them seperating the browser from the OS.
Then install Firefox and the extension "Open link in IE". If the link doesn't display right, use the quick link and open it in IE. Then close IE, and keep moving in firefox. It is a shame that MS is trying to break the HTML standard. I even wrote a script to email a pre-written comment to the webmaster of a page the renders wrong in firefox. This wouldn't be an issue if it weren't for lazy authors and shortcuts.
The headline gives the impression that this is about how to actually rid windows of IE (Possible in 9x/me, but doesn't seem to be in 2k/xp).
Which is why MS needs to take a few extra hours to write a stand alone app for windowsupdate instead of relying on IE and ActiveX. Then most people could leave IE installed and blocked by their firewall.
You may have noted that people trend Liberal when young, and then trend Conservative as they age. The exceptions to these trends merely test them.
That's because as people age they tend to get bitter and jaded about social topics until they really don't give a damn.
That's odd, because an old C program I wrote in college scored around the 78% by guessing the least likely answer and dropping it then randomly choosing one of the 3 left.
The SAT's are not a reliable way to score intelligence or potential. It is a culturally biased compilation of tests to reinforce the status quo. Hell, I scored perfect on my math and 12 short of perfect on the other half. Would you have guessed I dropped out after my sophomore year and started a moderately successful local computer repair and support business?
I would put more faith in his I.Q. score, but that's still a test devised by humans. More than anything else, I like to listen to him talk on topics and deduce his lack of intelligence from his ramblings instead of his vocabulary. My recent favorite is Mr. and Mrs. Bush's reason to stop stem cell research. They think that since the research is years from producing results, we shouldn't start so we don't give the already terminal false hope. His revolutionary idea of Reaganism is also laughable.
As the baby boomers begin to retire, and Bush leaves office, it's up to my generation to handle both. I'm paying for a social security system that cannot mathematically support such a large percentage of people becoming dependent on it in such a short period. It won't be there when I need it, so what reason do I have for paying for it? The environment, social concerns, international affairs, business laws, and education will have to be fixed by my generation because we all know the aging politicians of today are only interested in securing their own retirement.
Basically, Bush is missing the part of the brain that is able to plan for the very long term. Remember those refund checks he cut everyone at the beginning of his term? He is the president of instant gratification.
I'm not too scared of that. People have learned enough about thermonuclear weapons that the atimatter genie won't be let out ASAP. WWII was the reason nuclear weapons were produced so early. In the new era, ear isn't about inflicting total destruction at the largest scale. It's about surgical precision. That's why I'm more afraid of directed energy weapons than antimatter weapons.
It will help us, among other things, close the link between matter and energy. It sounds very star trek, I know, but it's one of mankind's greatest achievements waiting to happen. It's also a step closer to a working unification theory or (dis)proving string and superstring theory, supersymmetry, and m-theory. These may or may not be the follow-ups that can cast a shadow on general and special relativity, just like Einstein did to Newton.
The First Amendment guarantees the right to speak; it does not guarantee an audience. Spam forces you to be part of the audience. It does not respect your choice to be left alone and ignore the person exercising free speech. Spam is the equivalent of 20 door to door salesmen sitting in your living room waiting for you to come home after work. Just because you don't have steel doors and bars on the windows doesn't mean that they aren't encroaching on your property.
People at Best Buy get fired if they don't make their quota on the extended warranty and service plans. Last time I worked there (years ago) we got a small rip on the plans (like $2 for a $50 plan). The threat of termination is more of an incentive than commission on sales. Besides, commission provides for more knowledgable sales people. A good sales person can work that job and support their families for years. They can learn their job and policies inside and out because they are there for so long. It's also harder for them to lie, because it when it comes back to bite them, it will mean more to the older person than some punk kid that works because mommy and daddy don't give enough allowance. You just have to be able to see past the sales techniques.
In my younger days I used to work for both Circuit City and Best Buy. My experience in being the "man on the line" is that most customers are ignorant, either by choice or by apathy. Because I am the only person they will ever talk to I am the CEO, President, and store manager wrapped up in one. Towards the end of my days at both places I was so bitter that my most common response to a complaint was "I am a trained monkey with no authority. If you like, I can find a manager, but I can do nothing for you"
Most customers fail to realize that they are 'protesting' to a kid who probably has the same complaints they do, but management ties their hands. If I could have, I would have given every last person exactly what they wanted.
Circuit City has gone under many changes since I left. They used to have older, more knowledgeable people, but since they stopped paying their sales people on commission, high school and college students have filled in the ranks. This greatly reduces the quality of service since the more experienced and educated people can not afford to work there and support their families.
Their service plans are another example. People are actually fired for not meeting their quota on service plans. If you read the fine print and can comprehend it, there are actually certain pieces of hardware that everyone should get a service plan on, but it is useless for almost everything under $200 and stand alone commodity items. It's also good for people who don't have a clue what they are doing, and the manufacturer's support and warranty lifetime is too short (like computers).
All-in-all if you have a problem with something in any store, take it up with a manager. Even they may not have the authority to fix you problem, but you have better odds with them than the kid on the floor. Also, the quality of service is much better at locally owned and operated stores. You probably will pay more, but you are supporting your community instead of a large, heartless corporation that uses off-shore tax havens to avoid paying their taxes.
That's the old, non-functional version. Please go to the homepage and get the latest one.
This is a nice to that makes a "Compose GMail" option when you click a mailto: link.
This is the GMail Notifier that I think the parent was referring to. It displays the simple text "Gmail" at the bottom right of the browser window by the down button on the scroll bar. Hovering over it displays the number of unread emails, single clicking it opens gmail in a new tab, and double clicking lets you add, change, ir remove gmail login info. You should know that Google has blocked this program at least twice before so don't be alarmed if it stops working, just keep an eye on the webpage for a newer version.
Also, another neat google plugin displays a thumbnail to the left of many search results. It too displays the simple text "GP" near the bottom right scroll button. Single click it to turn it on and off again.
If you still have that invite, I could use one. My friend just finished his tour of duty in the air force and a bit jealous that I have a gmail account and he doesn't.