you are living in the country on earth that spends the most $$$/inhabitant on healthcare, yet bungles somewhere around Cuba in elementary healthcare statistics like child mortality and cancer survival rates. You firmly believe in printing your own money backed by a gold standard, but are posting from a shiny laptop you could never have bought if your government wasn't borrowing shitloads of money from the chinese. You have absolutely no clue about the damages which alcohol abuse historically have done in ALL countries close to the polar circle. Therefore you couldn't imagine that in a very thin spread population, in a country with tons of gravel roads, "I'm homeschooling my kids", could easily mean "I 'm too drunk to drive them to school.". The social and pedagogical effects of a child growing up on a remote vulcano and never meeting other kids is totally lost on you. Oh fuck it, this is boring...
Moved from VB6 to VB.NET. Say what you want, but as a chemical engineer, it was an accessible way of getting things done. Most VB apps I wrote will just run on their WinNT 4.0 computers until the infrastructure they are part of dies. The one I needed to migrate was of course royally fucked. VB.NET is less likely to go the same way, as they would have to drop support for all.NET languages, which would even piss off a core of C++ devs.
Because of the.NET framework, VB is now a full featured language, even has support for fancy multi-threading shit.
Sure this will be used in datacenters and in between them. But for the humble desktop, haven't we passed the "good enough" mark at properly switched, full duplex 100 Mbit? anybody here needs more than 100M on his office desk?
+ A DNA test takes 3 days if you are paying for it and Mss Noodlepoops first needs to fill out some paperwork straight after her coffee break.
+ You can take some blood, dump the body and analyze afterwards
Here in my home state, the state government subsidises CAR travel so the commuters only pay less than 25% of the actual value. You see: they get the roads for free. The argument of road vs. rail is ridiculous. Tell your local truckdriver that from now on he has to build his own roads and lets see how long he stays competitive.
Renting a summer cottage in spain without the owner being afraid I am going to run from the bill. Open a bank account when I become expat for a few years. Selling my car to someone who lives just on the other side of the border. Applying for an education abroad. I didn't say NECESSARY, I said COMFORTABLE.
...it's the database behind the card. Being able to prove who you are is actually a very comfortable luxury. But what data will be held apart from your name and date of birth? And who will control that rules are obeyed and data gets deleted on time?
Live in Denmark and signed up for it. Government keeps both public and private key, I identify myself with a one time pad. Electronic gizmos are promised for Really Soon Now. Use it for my bank account, contacting government and municipality, and signing emails (there is a plugin for thunderbird). It is more secure than a password as it adds "something you have", and I can use it on a library computer without too much worry, a keylogger won't hurt me, you need very fancy man-in-the-middle shit. Of course I have no illusions about using it for hiding from big brother. In the end it saves me from a lot of hassle as I can do Official Paperwork stuff like tax forms over the internetz. It also saves me a lot of stamps, as more and more people accept the digital signature.
maybe the church should shut up about homosexuals and preach against anal sex. A quick tour to youporn will teach you it's not just the guys who take it up the sewer...
And with a population explosion threatening our very future, the church would be advised to ease up on the requirements for "life-giving" aspects...
there were only about 620 total laws (religious, civil and criminal) in the Old Testament. The jewish tribes could not empty a bottle in a river and kill off an entire ecosystem 100 km downstream. They couldn't mount a Ponzi scheme big enough to tear an entire nation down in its fall. Welcome to the 21th century...
Apple is worth how many times their yearly profit? Thirty-something? Meaning if I buy a share I will statistically start making a profit when I'm 75.
For Facebook it will probably be 156. Don't get me wrong, Facebook will in time become a huge money-machine. But the first investers will be one-cell brained "Facebook is big: must buy" kind of people. The more I learn to know bankers, the more I despise them. We are warming up for the next round of "let's kill people savings for fun".
If enough people have it, you can focus on areas where 10 people "bumped" at exactly the same place and throw out everything else.
Running over grandma in peace you will do...
Bill Gates is not heading an organisation which systematically has indulged in child abuse? Yeah ok, Microsoft fucks their customers over. And their suppliers. And their partners. And the lawmakers. But those are all ADULTS!!!
But I can imagine quite a market for 14-million year-old bottled water contaminated with plastic additives which leaked from the bottle and metals from the tanker who shipped it from the south pole, and detergents from the bottling plant and... Seriously!
their top-phones beat an iphone in any hardware category available at a lower price, and they still sell more phones than anybody else. If they can make a more flashy UI, they can become a serious problem for Apple, Retaking control of their OS is the first step
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so you shouldn't clean your own house if you live next to a sob? the guy is an Austrian trying to improve Austrian law.
Never read a post with linguistics, economics and multivariate statistics in a single paragraph. I salute you
you are living in the country on earth that spends the most $$$/inhabitant on healthcare, yet bungles somewhere around Cuba in elementary healthcare statistics like child mortality and cancer survival rates. You firmly believe in printing your own money backed by a gold standard, but are posting from a shiny laptop you could never have bought if your government wasn't borrowing shitloads of money from the chinese. You have absolutely no clue about the damages which alcohol abuse historically have done in ALL countries close to the polar circle. Therefore you couldn't imagine that in a very thin spread population, in a country with tons of gravel roads, "I'm homeschooling my kids", could easily mean "I 'm too drunk to drive them to school.". The social and pedagogical effects of a child growing up on a remote vulcano and never meeting other kids is totally lost on you. Oh fuck it, this is boring...
Moved from VB6 to VB.NET. Say what you want, but as a chemical engineer, it was an accessible way of getting things done. Most VB apps I wrote will just run on their WinNT 4.0 computers until the infrastructure they are part of dies. The one I needed to migrate was of course royally fucked. VB.NET is less likely to go the same way, as they would have to drop support for all .NET languages, which would even piss off a core of C++ devs.
Because of the .NET framework, VB is now a full featured language, even has support for fancy multi-threading shit.
Sure this will be used in datacenters and in between them. But for the humble desktop, haven't we passed the "good enough" mark at properly switched, full duplex 100 Mbit? anybody here needs more than 100M on his office desk?
+ A DNA test takes 3 days if you are paying for it and Mss Noodlepoops first needs to fill out some paperwork straight after her coffee break.
+ You can take some blood, dump the body and analyze afterwards
Here in my home state, the state government subsidises CAR travel so the commuters only pay less than 25% of the actual value. You see: they get the roads for free. The argument of road vs. rail is ridiculous. Tell your local truckdriver that from now on he has to build his own roads and lets see how long he stays competitive.
Renting a summer cottage in spain without the owner being afraid I am going to run from the bill. Open a bank account when I become expat for a few years. Selling my car to someone who lives just on the other side of the border. Applying for an education abroad. I didn't say NECESSARY, I said COMFORTABLE.
...it's the database behind the card. Being able to prove who you are is actually a very comfortable luxury. But what data will be held apart from your name and date of birth? And who will control that rules are obeyed and data gets deleted on time?
anyone in for some LOIC?
GPS doesn't reach indoor very well. Hard to sync the kitchen clock that way
Live in Denmark and signed up for it. Government keeps both public and private key, I identify myself with a one time pad. Electronic gizmos are promised for Really Soon Now. Use it for my bank account, contacting government and municipality, and signing emails (there is a plugin for thunderbird). It is more secure than a password as it adds "something you have", and I can use it on a library computer without too much worry, a keylogger won't hurt me, you need very fancy man-in-the-middle shit. Of course I have no illusions about using it for hiding from big brother. In the end it saves me from a lot of hassle as I can do Official Paperwork stuff like tax forms over the internetz. It also saves me a lot of stamps, as more and more people accept the digital signature.
maybe the church should shut up about homosexuals and preach against anal sex. A quick tour to youporn will teach you it's not just the guys who take it up the sewer...
And with a population explosion threatening our very future, the church would be advised to ease up on the requirements for "life-giving" aspects...
Hope they do it like in Denmark, by forging DNS records. Switch your home router to another DNS server, done.
Danish post will start the same concept. The codes will be read by handwriting-capable OCR and will only be valid 8 days.
Interesting experiment...
yes
there were only about 620 total laws (religious, civil and criminal) in the Old Testament.
The jewish tribes could not empty a bottle in a river and kill off an entire ecosystem 100 km downstream. They couldn't mount a Ponzi scheme big enough to tear an entire nation down in its fall. Welcome to the 21th century...
Apple is worth how many times their yearly profit? Thirty-something? Meaning if I buy a share I will statistically start making a profit when I'm 75. For Facebook it will probably be 156. Don't get me wrong, Facebook will in time become a huge money-machine. But the first investers will be one-cell brained "Facebook is big: must buy" kind of people. The more I learn to know bankers, the more I despise them. We are warming up for the next round of "let's kill people savings for fun".
If enough people have it, you can focus on areas where 10 people "bumped" at exactly the same place and throw out everything else. Running over grandma in peace you will do...
Bill Gates is not heading an organisation which systematically has indulged in child abuse? Yeah ok, Microsoft fucks their customers over. And their suppliers. And their partners. And the lawmakers. But those are all ADULTS!!!
But I can imagine quite a market for 14-million year-old bottled water contaminated with plastic additives which leaked from the bottle and metals from the tanker who shipped it from the south pole, and detergents from the bottling plant and... Seriously!
There, fixed that for ya..
Cool. I'd love to move to Europe. What's a good English speaking country there?
France
it detected the sticky keys...
Head over to Jon Stewart. His coverage is, as always, hilarious. The guy who saw it followed it for ten minutes. Do the math: 10 minutes x Mach 4 =...
their top-phones beat an iphone in any hardware category available at a lower price, and they still sell more phones than anybody else. If they can make a more flashy UI, they can become a serious problem for Apple, Retaking control of their OS is the first step