I'm a professional scientist but I'm more pissed off by the "let's find a plot hole in a movie just to prove that I am smart"-people than the actual plot holes.
"RTFM" useful, because there is documentation written by people who have had your problem for the community to point you at.
RTFM assumes that you've already run into a problem.
In Windows installing new software means just a few clicks in the install shield. No RTFM. That's good software packaging. RTFM should be completely unnecessary.
What I ask do they do with the extra money? Can you tell me that?
"With the profits generated from receiving fair wages, coffee growers can invest in health, education, and environmental protection."
Other then splitting the lower class in two groups what have you accomplished?
Well, getting even one half of the lowest class up to the next ladder is a good start. Secondly, encouraging people to buy Fair Trade products, hits the profit margins of the exploitative producers driving them either towards fair trade practises or out of business. If they try to treat the farmers even more brutally, they'll lose them to the fair trade programs and start to get even worse publicity.
If the answer is "yes," then the problem is political, not economic. Perhaps you'd support an Iraq-style liberation? If the answer is "no," then it is not slavery!
So you've basically absolved yourself of any responsibility towards the people whose work brings a hot cup of coffee on your table every day? What a humanitarian.
But of course, if we don't bother ourselves with ethics, one can take that stance. Nothing however puts you in the position to criticize people who think the current situation is wrong and these people deserve a fair pay for their products.
I am one of the latter, simply because the economy is based on invidivual, voluntary trades, so why should those who choose not to participate benefit from others' trades?
Huh? And how does the Fair Trade concept violate these principles?
They ban US GM foods. Labelling isn't enough for Europe. They take away the choice from consumers.
The GM food is banned in Europe right now because US corps refuse to have their products labelled as GM. They'd rather not import the products at all and try to force the issue through WTO. Labelling is EU's only requirement.
I'm sure you see the difference, although I'm equally sure you'll refuse to acknowledge it on a conscious level, because you've conditioned yourself
Ah, a nice rhetorical play. If I see the difference, you've won. If I don't see any difference, I'm just conditioned and you win again.
What makes you think that the coffee producers are living in a free market not to the utopian kind of a free market in the existence of which you seem to believe in. In the countries these people live in it's just not possible to "do something else" and make a profit. They are not living in a free market because they cannot refuse to sell their product - even at a loss.
Government doesn't subisidize Fair Trade products - consumers do. The product is slightly more expensive, but this guarantees reasonable income to the producers.
I hope you do not have a problem with the consumer having a choice?
which is hardly "fair" since not everyone is allowed to compete.
Are you familiar with the concept of "Fair Trade Products"?
Many coffee farmers around the world receive market payments that are lower than the costs of production, forcing them into a cycle of poverty and debt. Intensive coffee farming can also lead to pesticide pollution and deforestation.
Fair Trade works to correct these imbalances by guaranteeing a minimum wage for small producers' harvests and by encouraging organic and sustainable cultivation methods. Fair trade farmers are provided badly needed credit and assured a minimum of $1.26 per pound. In comparison, the world price usually hovers around $1 per pound, but most farmers earn less than 50 cents per pound since they are forced to sell to exploitative middlemen. With the profits generated from receiving fair wages, coffee growers can invest in health, education, and environmental protection.
It's about giving the consumer a choice. A bit like forcing (at least here in Europe) the manufacturer of GM food to clearly label their frankenfood honestly as "Genetically Manipulated". Here, the "Fair Trade" label helps a socially conscientious consumer to avoid exploitative producers.
I don't know if the problem is with the modern day 3.5" drives then, but that scenario in my previous post has actually happened to me on many occasions.
Tape drives are fine and dandy if you want to pay $5000 for a 20/40GB DLT streamer.
I'd rather buy a proper IDE RAID (not some software based HighPoint-RAID you find on mobos these days) for $300, 8 drives (4 active, 4 hot spares). That's about 160 GB fully redundant drive space for you for $1000.
Alternatively I might buy storage space from a reliable hosting company (any suggestions?) and backup my stuff over the network.
In Europe the VoiP will be most likely banned because it cannot be regulated by the government (who is, of course, supposed to protect the consumer). So get off your high horse.
where energy comes in intensity distributions, not levels
But that's my point and that's what people don't often understand when it comes to matters of radiation.
Intensity does not matter because
Damage(E) = Intensity * Damage per photon(E)
If the energy (E) is too low to disrupt the DNA, "Damage per photon" goes to zero.
A (high) school physics example of this is the photoelectric effect in which the incoming photons extract electrons from metals. If the energy of a photon is less than the energy between a free electron state (=ejected electron) and a binding valence state (=electron in an atom), electrons do not get ejected no matter how intense your radiation is. You can replace the free-electron - valence electorn bandgap with the energy required to disrupt the DNA and the same reasoning applies.
The energy does not "accumulate" in the system either. The photon will only yield its payload of energy to the matter IF the payload is equivalent to the energy gap. Otherwise the interaction is negligible.
It's well documented that natural temperature variations in the brain are larger than anything induced by a modern cellphone.
The only way that I can imagine the cell phone radiation causing damage is an extremely unlikely chance of a interference peak of several fields inside the skull cavity. But even that would be short-lived because of the extreme sensitivity of the interference pattern on the dimensions and spatial location of the skull and the transmitters.
Ever taken a look at the frequency the cell phones use? The energy these photons carry is nowhere near the limits required to disrupt the molecular bonds in DNA (which is the cause of the "radiation sickness" including the radiation induced cancer).
It doesn't matter how intense the radiation is if the energy carried by the photons does not cross the threshold of actually doing something.
3AM from people who say things like "What the @#$%!! Stop calling this number you @#$#tard!" or "Hello? Hello? STOP CALLING ME YOU PERVERT!"
Maybe your cellphone has been cloned. That would explain the huge bills and these calls. Have you ever asked for a listing of the calls made with your phone?
Yeah, Europe is not a country but EU sure is developing towards a European superstate.
It's now like a loose confederation but it probably will change more and more into a federation within the next few decades. This is only a good thing if the us-vs.-them mentality - that seems to be thriving both in the USA and Europe these days - can be restrained.
I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing a one world state with a thriving space program, but I have very little hope of seeing that in my lifetime.
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Huh? Hacker ethic and hardcore hackers? How do you expect a company of hackers to "stay honest"? How do you know it is honest at all and not just hacking anything you connect to their product or spreading viruses?
The fonts have been made small intentionally so that they'll save on bandwidth. Smaller fonts, less bits to move. It's been a common practise since the dotcom-bubble burst.
So, to recap. You left South America out since that would prove my point.
And you refused to accept/comment on my claim that the USA has not embarked on more military campaigns to secure financial gains than any large European nation has in its past. Why aren't you attacking the French for their rather nasty colonial past in Africa (or the Brits for that matter) or their more recent and still on-going profitable deals with various dictators and totalitarian governments? Or, if you insist on dealing with the past, how do you feel about your own country's shady armsdeals with the apartheid South Africa and India in the 80s? I bet you didn't know about those or then you've just too blinded by your ideology.
You aren't attacking these countries because it is easy and fashionable to bash the USA. You also clearly have some idealistic chip on your shoulder that makes you think that the USA is the primary cause of most of the suffering in the world.
The people of america should maybe start by raising their collective intelligence. 70% of all americans thought that Iraq had something to do with Sept 11.
And you can judge a nationful of people based on what you see and hear on your media? You can judge a nation and a government but you cannot judge people you've never met. Yet, in your previous post you state that you don't even want to get to know Americans first hand. You know what that is? Bigotry. Good old fashioned bigotry bordering on xenophobia and outright racism.
Because there is no point in getting into a pissing contest about which country in the world has the most atrocities in its history. Just a hint: it's not the USA but the empire-building, slave-trading Old World.
I'd rather ask you this: what should the Americans (the people, since you seem to be blatantly anti-American and not just anti-USA) do to get clean on your list?
threats of trade sanctions
Which I suppose you think is outside the rights of a sovereign nation?
And how many countries has the USA bombed in Europe recently to gain a financial advantage? How about Asia? Australia?
Don't be a tool to the euro federalists (US neocons) who keep whipping up the anti-American (anti-European) sentiment just to boost their own federalist/neo-colonialist ambitions. Stop spouting blind anti-American crap and look at the hard facts.
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I'm a professional scientist but I'm more pissed off by the "let's find a plot hole in a movie just to prove that I am smart"-people than the actual plot holes.
Hey, it's entertainment! Go with the flow!
Are you trying the mini-itx approach on Linux which does not have the proper drivers?
They don't want to post a SCO story because the next story would be about an open source zealot who DoSsed SCO.
RTFM assumes that you've already run into a problem.
In Windows installing new software means just a few clicks in the install shield. No RTFM. That's good software packaging. RTFM should be completely unnecessary.
"With the profits generated from receiving fair wages, coffee growers can invest in health, education, and environmental protection."
Other then splitting the lower class in two groups what have you accomplished?
Well, getting even one half of the lowest class up to the next ladder is a good start. Secondly, encouraging people to buy Fair Trade products, hits the profit margins of the exploitative producers driving them either towards fair trade practises or out of business. If they try to treat the farmers even more brutally, they'll lose them to the fair trade programs and start to get even worse publicity.
So you've basically absolved yourself of any responsibility towards the people whose work brings a hot cup of coffee on your table every day? What a humanitarian.
But of course, if we don't bother ourselves with ethics, one can take that stance. Nothing however puts you in the position to criticize people who think the current situation is wrong and these people deserve a fair pay for their products.
I am one of the latter, simply because the economy is based on invidivual, voluntary trades, so why should those who choose not to participate benefit from others' trades?
Huh? And how does the Fair Trade concept violate these principles?
The GM food is banned in Europe right now because US corps refuse to have their products labelled as GM. They'd rather not import the products at all and try to force the issue through WTO. Labelling is EU's only requirement.
Ah, a nice rhetorical play. If I see the difference, you've won. If I don't see any difference, I'm just conditioned and you win again.
What makes you think that the coffee producers are living in a free market not to the utopian kind of a free market in the existence of which you seem to believe in. In the countries these people live in it's just not possible to "do something else" and make a profit. They are not living in a free market because they cannot refuse to sell their product - even at a loss.
You would have made a good slave-trader some centuries ago.
Government doesn't subisidize Fair Trade products - consumers do. The product is slightly more expensive, but this guarantees reasonable income to the producers.
I hope you do not have a problem with the consumer having a choice?
Are you familiar with the concept of "Fair Trade Products"?
It's about giving the consumer a choice. A bit like forcing (at least here in Europe) the manufacturer of GM food to clearly label their frankenfood honestly as "Genetically Manipulated". Here, the "Fair Trade" label helps a socially conscientious consumer to avoid exploitative producers.
Uh, actually I wasn't.
I don't know if the problem is with the modern day 3.5" drives then, but that scenario in my previous post has actually happened to me on many occasions.
I'd rather buy a proper IDE RAID (not some software based HighPoint-RAID you find on mobos these days) for $300, 8 drives (4 active, 4 hot spares). That's about 160 GB fully redundant drive space for you for $1000.
Alternatively I might buy storage space from a reliable hosting company (any suggestions?) and backup my stuff over the network.
Take a new floppy. Write a file on it. Put the floppy in your pocket. Drive 10 min to your workplace. Try reading the file and it's corrupt already.
In Europe the VoiP will be most likely banned because it cannot be regulated by the government (who is, of course, supposed to protect the consumer). So get off your high horse.
Eric S. Raymond gets mad SCO - and his rant sounds like that of a drunken, militant gun-nut.
But that's my point and that's what people don't often understand when it comes to matters of radiation.
Intensity does not matter because
Damage(E) = Intensity * Damage per photon(E)
If the energy (E) is too low to disrupt the DNA, "Damage per photon" goes to zero.
A (high) school physics example of this is the photoelectric effect in which the incoming photons extract electrons from metals. If the energy of a photon is less than the energy between a free electron state (=ejected electron) and a binding valence state (=electron in an atom), electrons do not get ejected no matter how intense your radiation is. You can replace the free-electron - valence electorn bandgap with the energy required to disrupt the DNA and the same reasoning applies.
The energy does not "accumulate" in the system either. The photon will only yield its payload of energy to the matter IF the payload is equivalent to the energy gap. Otherwise the interaction is negligible.
It's well documented that natural temperature variations in the brain are larger than anything induced by a modern cellphone.
The only way that I can imagine the cell phone radiation causing damage is an extremely unlikely chance of a interference peak of several fields inside the skull cavity. But even that would be short-lived because of the extreme sensitivity of the interference pattern on the dimensions and spatial location of the skull and the transmitters.
It doesn't matter how intense the radiation is if the energy carried by the photons does not cross the threshold of actually doing something.
Maybe your cellphone has been cloned. That would explain the huge bills and these calls. Have you ever asked for a listing of the calls made with your phone?
It's now like a loose confederation but it probably will change more and more into a federation within the next few decades. This is only a good thing if the us-vs.-them mentality - that seems to be thriving both in the USA and Europe these days - can be restrained.
I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing a one world state with a thriving space program, but I have very little hope of seeing that in my lifetime.
Huh? Hacker ethic and hardcore hackers? How do you expect a company of hackers to "stay honest"? How do you know it is honest at all and not just hacking anything you connect to their product or spreading viruses?
The fonts have been made small intentionally so that they'll save on bandwidth. Smaller fonts, less bits to move. It's been a common practise since the dotcom-bubble burst.
And you refused to accept/comment on my claim that the USA has not embarked on more military campaigns to secure financial gains than any large European nation has in its past. Why aren't you attacking the French for their rather nasty colonial past in Africa (or the Brits for that matter) or their more recent and still on-going profitable deals with various dictators and totalitarian governments? Or, if you insist on dealing with the past, how do you feel about your own country's shady armsdeals with the apartheid South Africa and India in the 80s? I bet you didn't know about those or then you've just too blinded by your ideology.
You aren't attacking these countries because it is easy and fashionable to bash the USA. You also clearly have some idealistic chip on your shoulder that makes you think that the USA is the primary cause of most of the suffering in the world.
The people of america should maybe start by raising their collective intelligence. 70% of all americans thought that Iraq had something to do with Sept 11.
And you can judge a nationful of people based on what you see and hear on your media? You can judge a nation and a government but you cannot judge people you've never met. Yet, in your previous post you state that you don't even want to get to know Americans first hand. You know what that is? Bigotry. Good old fashioned bigotry bordering on xenophobia and outright racism.
Because there is no point in getting into a pissing contest about which country in the world has the most atrocities in its history. Just a hint: it's not the USA but the empire-building, slave-trading Old World.
I'd rather ask you this: what should the Americans (the people, since you seem to be blatantly anti-American and not just anti-USA) do to get clean on your list?
threats of trade sanctions
Which I suppose you think is outside the rights of a sovereign nation?
Don't be a tool to the euro federalists (US neocons) who keep whipping up the anti-American (anti-European) sentiment just to boost their own federalist/neo-colonialist ambitions. Stop spouting blind anti-American crap and look at the hard facts.