" Do all of these countries provide a guaranteed public education to every child under the age of 18?"
What soes that have to do with anything? I mean if you are educated privately or at home or ny osmosis what does it matter? If you can do maths you can do maths!
Your final point is the only valid one which is who is tested.
On a side note I must congratulate the US on being more murderous than Yemen. (24th vs 26th)
This is not stupid. If you dont like the question dont post. The question is that many vendors do not sell machines without Win preinstalled. This is a genuine question and deserves a genuine answer. I dont have this answer but some people probably do. I for one and interested in the answer.
I remember something in the EU regarding product bundling. I am not sure exactly so someone can probably explain but I was under the impression that there are rules regarding bundling of products. I mean I am not sure if it is legal to insist that before you sell someone a product you can demand that they buy another and refuse the sale if they dont.
As regards refund value I would imagine that if they have to refund they have to refund retail value. A judge would certainly insist that retail value be refunded.
"When was the last time someone without AIDS died from a cold."
So true infuenza is so much "better" than ebola at propagating. Influenza genaraly does not kill but has you running around sneezing viral particles over everyone. Ebola gets you so fast that it does not propagate too well, plus people tend to stay clear of anyone bleeding from every hole and writhing in agony.
The problems occur when we have mutant strains of infuenza. These spread like flu but can kill. That is when the shit really hits the fan. Look up the Spanish Flu from the begining of the 20th century.
It is very intersting actually the comarisons that can be made with IT and biology as IT gets more and more advanced. You can now use models of epidemiology for predicting viral infections of PCs. The stuff about vaccinations can be related to windows patches. It is important for your neighbours kids to be vaccinated as well as your own. It is important for your neighbours computer to be secure or he will waste your bandwidth.
>Mind you, that would explain why rebates are pretty rare in the UK.... I also think that we wouldnt stand for it. If I see some thing advertized for 100 and I get to the shop and they ask me to pay 150 I would have a very loud and public fit. I woulc ask for the manager and make a formal complaint.
The principle for any exchange is they will do what they can get away with.
In the same way in the EU telemarketers are pretty rare. We simply dont like it and will tell them so....OK yes I am interested in XYZ let me just get a pen and paper...and leave them on hold to make some tea and watch a movie.
good for him , if lots fo us did that then it would two effects. 1- we would all get our rebates without bullshit. 2- they woud drop all this rebate crap in the first place. You do not fuck with a judge.... Oh but your honour we never got it!...Yes you did!
I live in portugal and here many things are very primitve but the banking system and cell phones are not. For both being "late adopters" they had the advantage of getting better systems.
At a Portuguese ATM from ANY bank or ATM in a supermarket or petrol station there are NO charges at all. Furthermore you can pay all your bills by ATM and even check your balance and last 10 "account movements" from anywhere.
Now what they have is something amazing: You can buy from online retailers in Portugal and some of them will give you a code that you can take to an ATM and pay that way. You never enter any bank details online. Actually you can even charge your cellphone and pay taxes to the state.
Now how did they get this system.... well the banks all needed ATMS at the same time and it was much cheaper if they colaborated.
Dont get me worng many things here suck but some things (like the ATMs) are very good.
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" Do all of these countries provide a guaranteed public education to every child under the age of 18?"
What soes that have to do with anything? I mean if you are educated privately or at home or ny osmosis what does it matter? If you can do maths you can do maths!
Your final point is the only valid one which is who is tested.
On a side note I must congratulate the US on being more murderous than Yemen. (24th vs 26th)
" And what does math have to do with hacking?"
They both require clear consise logical thought with the ability to get to your desired result through a myriad of possibilities!
"Which is good, because if Dell (or whoever) starts losing money by only shipping Windows .."
I believe that it would be M$ that is liable for the refund not Dell. Could be wrong though!
This is not stupid. If you dont like the question dont post. The question is that many vendors do not sell machines without Win preinstalled. This is a genuine question and deserves a genuine answer. I dont have this answer but some people probably do. I for one and interested in the answer.
I remember something in the EU regarding product bundling. I am not sure exactly so someone can probably explain but I was under the impression that there are rules regarding bundling of products. I mean I am not sure if it is legal to insist that before you sell someone a product you can demand that they buy another and refuse the sale if they dont.
As regards refund value I would imagine that if they have to refund they have to refund retail value. A judge would certainly insist that retail value be refunded.
Indian=brown skin + beard
Bin Laden=brown skin + beard
therefore
Indian=Bin Laden
QED
I dont think that Bin Laden needs a job in an Indian call center!
Well said..let me expand on your analogy fot the /. crowd:
For your mission critical server do you run Debian Stable or Testing?
....Oh you mean Trek?
Enterprise NOT The Enterprise
"...using electricity from the utility company would be roughly FIVE times cheaper."
Because of course charging batteries is 100% efficient and electic motors are 100% efficient too.
Dont get me wrong I think this is great but we have to be realistic.
ITER. ...er thanks CAPTAIN JARGON... you have saved the day!
DEMO.
EFDA.
"When was the last time someone without AIDS died from a cold."
So true infuenza is so much "better" than ebola at propagating. Influenza genaraly does not kill but has you running around sneezing viral particles over everyone. Ebola gets you so fast that it does not propagate too well, plus people tend to stay clear of anyone bleeding from every hole and writhing in agony.
The problems occur when we have mutant strains of infuenza. These spread like flu but can kill. That is when the shit really hits the fan. Look up the Spanish Flu from the begining of the 20th century.
It is very intersting actually the comarisons that can be made with IT and biology as IT gets more and more advanced. You can now use models of epidemiology for predicting viral infections of PCs. The stuff about vaccinations can be related to windows patches. It is important for your neighbours kids to be vaccinated as well as your own. It is important for your neighbours computer to be secure or he will waste your bandwidth.
Depends on your defenition of alive. I have not seen a "perfect" definition yet.
Mine is the ability to adapt.
Yours is evidently metabolism.
Well I for one find this story great. I find it very interesting how the process is done. Finaly the 1st April shit is over.
>Mind you, that would explain why rebates are pretty rare in the UK. ... I also think that we wouldnt stand for it. If I see some thing advertized for 100 and I get to the shop and they ask me to pay 150 I would have a very loud and public fit. I woulc ask for the manager and make a formal complaint.
...OK yes I am interested in XYZ let me just get a pen and paper...and leave them on hold to make some tea and watch a movie.
The principle for any exchange is they will do what they can get away with.
In the same way in the EU telemarketers are pretty rare. We simply dont like it and will tell them so.
And you took bloody ages....well you are still the spawn of our loins. Many would argue that the best part of you left a stain on the mattress.
good for him , if lots fo us did that then it would two effects. 1- we would all get our rebates without bullshit. 2- they woud drop all this rebate crap in the first place. You do not fuck with a judge.... Oh but your honour we never got it!...Yes you did!
..you from UK ? ...sounds very English , Trading standards as opposed to the US style UFIA (or whatever they have)
NO
.."Steve Jobs and he does'nt even where mini-skirts...."
... the mental image! Please make it stop!
ARRRRG NOOOOO
..NO ...no self repecting geek would ever sell his gadgets. Never , never , never.
... I remember this last time you posted the exact same story. Quite a few places actualy.. see:
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/10/2/103735/
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83129&thres
So one and half years later... are you still in bussiness?
that is so cool. Were are you and which bank, may I ask?
well if they blagged a car they may as well get some gas for the trip.
The idea is that they have the cctv pictures of your car and its number plates!
I live in portugal and here many things are very primitve but the banking system and cell phones are not. For both being "late adopters" they had the advantage of getting better systems.
At a Portuguese ATM from ANY bank or ATM in a supermarket or petrol station there are NO charges at all. Furthermore you can pay all your bills by ATM and even check your balance and last 10 "account movements" from anywhere.
Now what they have is something amazing: You can buy from online retailers in Portugal and some of them will give you a code that you can take to an ATM and pay that way. You never enter any bank details online. Actually you can even charge your cellphone and pay taxes to the state.
Now how did they get this system.... well the banks all needed ATMS at the same time and it was much cheaper if they colaborated.
Dont get me worng many things here suck but some things (like the ATMs) are very good.
....err no!