Well, the problem her is that Santa, actually has (at least) two extra days to go. Firstly in Scandinavia and Germany (and probably some other places), Santa arrives at the 24:th of December and not the 25:th that is common in the US. And the Dutch children doesn't get the real Santa at all (although he has been seen more and more there the last years), but instead Santas evil twin brother Sinterklaas arrives the first week of December assisted by his... umm... well... dark skinned servant Zwarte Piete (black Pete).
Well... no one said that the Dutch were sane anyway...
Go to http://www.stoppaovervakningen.nu/ (stop the monitoring) and type in your name, after "Jag heter", a number of webpages that you have visited, telephone numbers after "telefonnummer" an optional comment in the big textbox and finally your e-mail address.
When you click on the "Skicka"-button, the information will be sent to the Swedish minister of justice (the guy on the picture), so that he has access to the data immediatelly instead of having to look through the ISPs.
Now, the point with this protest is to make mr. Bodström realise how much data that is going to be stored. So, slashdot-people, you can do it.:)
I hope I can snatch: federalise.eu, long-live.eu, love.eu and finally "screw-ppl-against.eu" which redirects to "because-they-are-traitors-and-should-be-thrown-ou t-of.eu".
Yes, but the thing is: your evil drunk husband, mad parents, et.al. might force you to vote on something, which is less likely if you only had the option to go to a voting booth.
On the other hand, the fears of this happening is probably way to much overrated.
Most of these problems that we have with Esa, could be solved if the EU annexed it. Although, I doubt that the engineers there will like it since they would have to start paying income tax.
Yes, that is an issue with the system, since a secret ballot is a human right.
They had discussions on introducing online voting on the Internet in Sweden (owners of Estonia until 1721;) ) but the idea was scrapped since there was no way that you could prevent that other people could be sitting behind you and be influencing your vote (evil drunk husband, mad parents, et.al.).
Although, I think the general idea is pretty cool.
First of all, constitution as a word does not speak of superstate and federalism, bloody chess clubs have constitutions. But anyway...
As a euro federalist, I sure as hell didn't like the constitution; but it was a hell a lot better than what we have now. It sure had its positive sides, but a lot of murky ones as well, and a lot of regulations that is not really supposed to be in a constitution of a state but rather regulated by law.
Non the less, it was certainly a step forward.
The thing I find strange though is how the hell one can have national referendums on this topic, a common referendum for all of the EU would be acceptable but not national ones. At least, if the states decided to have national referendums as they did, PUT THEM ON THE BLOODY SAME DATE!!!
Yes sorta, and I agree that the EU should have a say in it. But over my dead body that China, Iran, North-Korea and other dictatorships have a say in it.
NO WAY!!!
Maybe a joint venture between the EU and the US would be a good idea.
Charlie McCreevy is right on in his critique. What McCreevy complained on was that the Swedish social model was protectionistic and un-european. The whole story has its roots in a blockade that the Swedish construction workers union conducted against a Lithuanian construction firm that had a contract to build a school in municipality close to Stockholm.
The thing is that the union claimed that their intrest was the workers on the Lithuanian firm (who had a pretty decent pay when including the fact that they were given free lodgings and food), mind you that the Lithuanian workers didn't go on any strike, they were prevented from working by the Swedish union.
In the end, the Lithuanian company went under and the workers lost their jobs.
The meaning of the word liberal in Europe is not the same as in the US. Here (in Europe) it's meaning is more related to libertarian, i.e. economical and individual freedom.
"strike varying balances between democracy and socialism"
Have you any idea what socialism have done to this continent? What it is doing now? Uniting under a more liberal flag is a good thing.
There can be no balance between democracy and socialism, they are by definition opposed to each other. And nations isn't a solution for Europe. Virtually all the evil in Europe (the last 100 years) have come from nationalism and socialism.
And no, the EU isn't ignoring its citizens interests, at least not the parliament (though I cannot say the same about the council).
Well we do have elected representatives in the EP. They lack power in notable areas in wich the unelected Council decides, something that the constitution was going to fix, but the French and the Dutch apparently didn't like parliamentary democracy.
And to the grand parent: Bitching about bad Union legislation is one thing, but claiming that national legislation is doing a better job is just plain BS. Go and have a look in your legislation, I'm sure you will find a lot of strange stuff that has come solely from the national level.
And don't come and claim that the EU was sold as a pure economic union, the very nature of the Schuman Declaration 1950 suggested that the only real solution for ensuring peace and prosperity in Europe was to build a European federation.
Yes, but not from the Apple-store. There are other stores however, but one must be aware that the shipping costs can eat up the savings you make. The best thing is to buy one in a store when you are out of state.
Also as a side note, the Apple-store is really not that friendly for a European living in another state than the one he was borne in. A little while ago I lived in the Netherlands when I bought an iPod Shuffle from the Apple store, the store however was in Dutch and it was a pain in the a** to figure it all out. Although, I did manage to decode enough of the site by just speaking Swedish.
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Well, here in Europe, we have an supernational court that handles the abuses against human rights that is conducted by governments. This means that human rights legislation that is supernational overrides national legislation.
There have been several times, when especially individuals have had their rights trampled on by governments, after the national measures (of suing the government for example) are exhausted, one can turn to the ECHR and sue the state.
For a list of cases if you doubt the link between the right of suing the government and human rights, refer to http://www.echr.coe.int/echr
Also, it is a matter of principle and vital for the rule of law that no one, especially the law makers should be above the law. Not being able to sue the government makes the government above the law, which is a bad thing.
And if individuals should be able to sue the government, why should not companies be able to? Imagine, a one or two man firm that is damaged by the government unlawfully confiscating the firms' property. Should they not be able to complain about this in the legal system the same way as an individual. And what would make this any different from a large company suing the government?
The right of individuals and companies suing the government is vital to the rule of law, human rights and democracy, since it ensures that no one is above the law.
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Both, companies and individuals should be able to sue a country or a union of countries.
Do you really believe that states behave properly all the time?
The fact that these actions are possible is vital for guaranteeing human rights.
Have they sustained break-even point with this technology yet?
Not with laser ignited fusion such as this, but the JET tokamak in the EU has reached break even.
Have they produced a surplus -- actually generate electricity -- with this technology yet?
No electricity has been produced, this is a lesser problem though (basically a huge water boiler), the main problem is that one would like to achieve ignition and have fusion for more than a second. Iter will achieve this. There are also som problems relating to the tritium producing lithium blanket. The Iter will not generate electricity, but its successor DEMO will, and that should be built around 2030 (with a construction time of 10 years or so).
Umm... I don't get it, are the mobile phone network providers in the US selling phones? In Europe we buy a phone and use it with whatever network we like to. Although one could get a discount on the phone if it's locked to a specific provider, you never purchase the phone from the network provider.
In the constitution for the EU it was stated that the freedom of speech may not be prevented regardless of frontiers. But of course, thank the Dutch and the French who didn't want such laws.
Hopfully they will com to their sense sooner or later and approve it, but I'm not counting on it happening any time soon.
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Not really, the news is that the first Galileo satellite was launched yesterday.
Well, the problem her is that Santa, actually has (at least) two extra days to go. Firstly in Scandinavia and Germany (and probably some other places), Santa arrives at the 24:th of December and not the 25:th that is common in the US. And the Dutch children doesn't get the real Santa at all (although he has been seen more and more there the last years), but instead Santas evil twin brother Sinterklaas arrives the first week of December assisted by his... umm... well... dark skinned servant Zwarte Piete (black Pete).
Well... no one said that the Dutch were sane anyway...
Go to http://www.stoppaovervakningen.nu/ (stop the monitoring) and type in your name, after "Jag heter", a number of webpages that you have visited, telephone numbers after "telefonnummer" an optional comment in the big textbox and finally your e-mail address.
:)
When you click on the "Skicka"-button, the information will be sent to the Swedish minister of justice (the guy on the picture), so that he has access to the data immediatelly instead of having to look through the ISPs.
Now, the point with this protest is to make mr. Bodström realise how much data that is going to be stored. So, slashdot-people, you can do it.
I hope I can snatch: federalise.eu, long-live.eu, love.eu and finallyu t-of.eu".
"screw-ppl-against.eu" which redirects to "because-they-are-traitors-and-should-be-thrown-o
Obviously, here on slashdot we want to see the RIAA, MPAA and SCO (and MS as security consultants) design the waste disposal facilities.
Yes, but the thing is: your evil drunk husband, mad parents, et.al. might force you to vote on something, which is less likely if you only had the option to go to a voting booth.
On the other hand, the fears of this happening is probably way to much overrated.
Most of these problems that we have with Esa, could be solved if the EU annexed it. Although, I doubt that the engineers there will like it since they would have to start paying income tax.
Yes, that is an issue with the system, since a secret ballot is a human right.
;) ) but the idea was scrapped since there was no way that you could prevent that other people could be sitting behind you and be influencing your vote (evil drunk husband, mad parents, et.al.).
They had discussions on introducing online voting on the Internet in Sweden (owners of Estonia until 1721
Although, I think the general idea is pretty cool.
First of all, constitution as a word does not speak of superstate and federalism, bloody chess clubs have constitutions. But anyway...
As a euro federalist, I sure as hell didn't like the constitution; but it was a hell a lot better than what we have now. It sure had its positive sides, but a lot of murky ones as well, and a lot of regulations that is not really supposed to be in a constitution of a state but rather regulated by law.
Non the less, it was certainly a step forward.
The thing I find strange though is how the hell one can have national referendums on this topic, a common referendum for all of the EU would be acceptable but not national ones. At least, if the states decided to have national referendums as they did, PUT THEM ON THE BLOODY SAME DATE!!!
Yes sorta, and I agree that the EU should have a say in it. But over my dead body that China, Iran, North-Korea and other dictatorships have a say in it.
NO WAY!!!
Maybe a joint venture between the EU and the US would be a good idea.
Charlie McCreevy is right on in his critique. What McCreevy complained on was that the Swedish social model was protectionistic and un-european. The whole story has its roots in a blockade that the Swedish construction workers union conducted against a Lithuanian construction firm that had a contract to build a school in municipality close to Stockholm.
The thing is that the union claimed that their intrest was the workers on the Lithuanian firm (who had a pretty decent pay when including the fact that they were given free lodgings and food), mind you that the Lithuanian workers didn't go on any strike, they were prevented from working by the Swedish union.
In the end, the Lithuanian company went under and the workers lost their jobs.
A very nice social model indeed...
The meaning of the word liberal in Europe is not the same as in the US. Here (in Europe) it's meaning is more related to libertarian, i.e. economical and individual freedom.
"strike varying balances between democracy and socialism"
Have you any idea what socialism have done to this continent? What it is doing now? Uniting under a more liberal flag is a good thing.
There can be no balance between democracy and socialism, they are by definition opposed to each other. And nations isn't a solution for Europe. Virtually all the evil in Europe (the last 100 years) have come from nationalism and socialism.
And no, the EU isn't ignoring its citizens interests, at least not the parliament (though I cannot say the same about the council).
Well we do have elected representatives in the EP. They lack power in notable areas in wich the unelected Council decides, something that the constitution was going to fix, but the French and the Dutch apparently didn't like parliamentary democracy.
And to the grand parent:
Bitching about bad Union legislation is one thing, but claiming that national legislation is doing a better job is just plain BS. Go and have a look in your legislation, I'm sure you will find a lot of strange stuff that has come solely from the national level.
And don't come and claim that the EU was sold as a pure economic union, the very nature of the Schuman Declaration 1950 suggested that the only real solution for ensuring peace and prosperity in Europe was to build a European federation.
"You don't send someone into a reactor core for the T.V. ratings."
Well, you don't ORDER someone into a reactor core for the T.V. ratings. Sending volunteers is another question.
Yes, but not from the Apple-store. There are other stores however, but one must be aware that the shipping costs can eat up the savings you make. The best thing is to buy one in a store when you are out of state.
Also as a side note, the Apple-store is really not that friendly for a European living in another state than the one he was borne in. A little while ago I lived in the Netherlands when I bought an iPod Shuffle from the Apple store, the store however was in Dutch and it was a pain in the a** to figure it all out. Although, I did manage to decode enough of the site by just speaking Swedish.
Well, here in Europe, we have an supernational court that handles the abuses against human rights that is conducted by governments. This means that human rights legislation that is supernational overrides national legislation.
There have been several times, when especially individuals have had their rights trampled on by governments, after the national measures (of suing the government for example) are exhausted, one can turn to the ECHR and sue the state.
For a list of cases if you doubt the link between the right of suing the government and human rights, refer to http://www.echr.coe.int/echr
Also, it is a matter of principle and vital for the rule of law that no one, especially the law makers should be above the law. Not being able to sue the government makes the government above the law, which is a bad thing.
And if individuals should be able to sue the government, why should not companies be able to? Imagine, a one or two man firm that is damaged by the government unlawfully confiscating the firms' property. Should they not be able to complain about this in the legal system the same way as an individual. And what would make this any different from a large company suing the government?
The right of individuals and companies suing the government is vital to the rule of law, human rights and democracy, since it ensures that no one is above the law.
Both, companies and individuals should be able to sue a country or a union of countries.
Do you really believe that states behave properly all the time?
The fact that these actions are possible is vital for guaranteeing human rights.
Yes, IIRC MacDX, a library to ease the porting of windows-based games to the Mac, does this.
My guess is that wrapping DX over OpenGL yields a better performance than the oposite.
Umm... I don't get it, are the mobile phone network providers in the US selling phones? In Europe we buy a phone and use it with whatever network we like to. Although one could get a discount on the phone if it's locked to a specific provider, you never purchase the phone from the network provider.
It's sota like: An American is a person from the US, and that the US is often refereed to as simply America.
:)
In geographical Europe the Europeans are the citizens of the Union, and Europe is a common reference to the Union.
(And no, Norway and Switzerland are not part of Europe as I see it
In the constitution for the EU it was stated that the freedom of speech may not be prevented regardless of frontiers. But of course, thank the Dutch and the French who didn't want such laws.
Hopfully they will com to their sense sooner or later and approve it, but I'm not counting on it happening any time soon.
You don't need gravity for this, it can and has been done by creating a compressed plasma in a magnetic vacuum torus shaped chamber.
:)
You release energy by fusing atoms lighter than iron and splitting atoms heavier than iron. So there is no perpetual motion involved.
The JET fusion reactor in the EU has demonstrated most of the ideas and they work.
This is a great day for mankind (and the glory of Europe