On a slightly related note, on the other side of the world -
Also, this was the font we were required to print our Swedish giros in, for the Swedish banking system, if we wanted them to be...yes - OCR'ed and handled automatically!
And we did. It's a lot simpler and a lot faster and we gets our money in a lot quicker.
I remember having to buy the font to get it to our Norwegian (don't ask) printers.
Dominic Monaghan (Merry) used his native Manchester dialect, and Billy Boyd (Pippin) used his native Scottish.
As for the two Americans; Sean Astin was taught how to speak his lines in rural southern England-kind of dialect and Elijah Wood used a more upper class-no-dialect English (as befits his status as a gentleman-hobbit).
Skoda these days is actually not bad, and keep getting quite good reviews. They do still have their image to contend with, though...
They are built by Volkswagen, and so have a lot of the basics in common with VWs and Audis.
Not that I would buy one, of course:) (it's the image thing...), but they are quite cheap - much cheaper than VWs and Audis - and so you get a lot of car for your money.
You would think that patent US5443036: Method of exercising a cat
[Warning: off-topic]
Hah!
At the end of the page is table of references to other, sort of, related patents.
The bottom one is
US5194007, held by The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy: "Semiconductor laser weapon trainer and target designator for live fire."
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the use and protection of works of the human spirit. These works -- intellectual property -- are expanding the bounds of science and technology and enriching the world of the arts. Through its work, WIPO plays an important role in enhancing the quality and enjoyment of life, as well as creating real wealth for nations.
With headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, WIPO is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations. It administers 23 international treaties dealing with different aspects of intellectual property protection.
Look here for their info on what they do with cybersquatting.
...we wish it was like that in Norway...Denmark has a student loan system that is way friendlier to the student than Norway.
Yes, college/university is free (except for private colleges). We also get student grants/loans which we use party on during our student years. everyone is eligible for it regardless of your parents' income. and you don't start paying back until after you've graduated. don't know the current percentage, but the ratio between the grant and the loan keeps changing in favour of the loan (in my time it was about 30/70 if I recall).
Danish students always had much higher grants than us, the cheats!
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In other parts of the world - Scandinavia (Norway, to be precise), all the things you mentioned above still apply, to a greater or lesser extent.
When it comes to women, children and the work place, it works like this:
You get 1 year parenting leave with 100% pay, or 2 years with 80 % pay (I think). Your employer pays some of the cost, your taxes pay the rest.
Og the parenting leave, the father (or someone in lieu of the father) has to take at least 1 month of it, but apart from that it is up to the parents to decide who takes out how much time.
In practice, the dad usually takes out only the one month, but practically ALL dads take out that one month (be they cabinet ministers or crown princes). Empirical evidence suggests that summer is a very common time for parental leave..;)
Also, the dad gets 2 weeks off at the time of birth
Socialist welfare state at work here!:-)
As mentioned above, we still have issues with hidden discrimination against women (asking about pregnancy is not allowed), but it's better than it might have been.
Practically all women who want to, work - barring our currently high unemployment rate at 4.6 % (I'm not kidding!).
A lot of kids are getting born, too. Women have on average 2.5 something children (which is the highest in Europe, I think).
Compare this with the birth rate in Italy, which is very low (1.something). There is very little in the work place to make it easier for women to have children and work at the same time, so women are more and more choosing not to have kids.
BTW, in 2003, more than half the children born in Norway were born to unmarried parents. Doesn't mean there aren't families, it's just that people live together without getting married. We do get married, but later rather than sooner.
Granted, it's somewhat of a pain, and as a student it is your duty to find ways to skip it ("oh no - that's not my TV, it's my dad's. honest", if you're stupid enough to buy one in your own name).
In Norway, same as in the UK, it funds NRK (www.nrk.no), the national broadcasting corp. At least there aren't any ads, sort of. There are "sponsors" attached to big sport events.
And no, you can't get around it by saying "but I don't watch NRK!". Officially, it's a licence for owning a TV or a VCR, limited to one licence per household, but the money is dedicated to funding NRK. They haven't gotten around to tackling PC with TV tuner cards yet...
Currently, it's about NOK 1200 ($160) a year, an amount set by Stortinget (the Norwegian parliament).
Also, they have some requirements on the type of programming they must support: good stuff for kids, educational/public , niche-stuff that wouldn't otherwise survive on a commercial channel.
Well (yeah, yeah), with oil: they are getting more out of the oil fields because of improvements in technology.
Don't know the exact numbers here, but in the North Sea they were originally able to get something like 30% of the oil in a field up from the ocean. Now, with the improvements, they get something like 50% of the stuff up.
Which, on a complete offtopic sidebar, is great for my pension, since Norway's oil income is going to pay for my parents' pensions, and if I'm lucky, mine. But I'm not exactly counting on that and have decided to use the Calvin method: my dad works hard and gets rich (I hope!) and I inherit...
Norwegian rules are that commercials can only be shown between programs (which has led to some channels' enterprising idea of interrupting a movie with a news segment, around which they can have ads!).
Additionlly, some channels are broadcast from the UK, with UK ad rules (allowing program breaks).
Also, I remember the good old days, before we had commercial channels: Since there were no commercials on the telly, going to the cinema and seeing ads as part of the whole movie going experience was a Good Thing! I remember feeling cheated if the commercials were bad...
Also, won't there be a ceiling somewhere on the number of people who are actually able to use their TiVo properly for this?
Given the large number of people who own a VCR, and aren't actually able to program it to prerecord a show (don't have statistic), can't we expect lots of people not being able to do this with their TiVO (or related technology)?
I mean, today I suppose the TiVO people are reasonably savvy people, but in a few years?
Considering all the 'unenlightended' computer users out there (and TiVO is more "computer" than the VCR), once this really hits the mass market - what makes us think that they'll actually be able to do all this?
Yes, but surely the US cannot arbitrarily hold foreign nationals indefinetly, without charges, either?
The people held are citizens somewhere (well, a lot of 'em, anyway), and holding anyone, without any rights, charges, no access to legal councel or whatever can't excatly be something a country should do? At least not if you expect to be someone whose example others should follow...
One of the ones stuck is Swedish - imagine the outrage if Sweden did something similar to a US citizen!
[Shamelessly snipping from Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the State (1883)]
...at a community meeting...
Dr. Stockmann. Never, Mr. Aslaksen! It is the majority in our community that denies me my freedom and seeks to prevent my speaking the truth.
Hovstad. The majority always has right on its side.
Billing. And truth too, by God!
Dr. Stockmann. The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent man must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. But, good Lord!--you can never pretend that it is right that the stupid folk should govern the clever ones I (Uproar and cries.) Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not. I am in the right--I and a few other scattered individuals. The minority is always in the right. (Renewed uproar.)
Or, just come home with your brand new laptop and find that your neighbour has a totally insecure WLAN, conveniently sited in his living room right under yours..:)
Of course, his connection sucks - I checked his router (also VERY open), and it would seem that he has another visitor on his WLAN as well, using all the bandwidth (the rat!). So I've kept my wirefull ADSL.
I actually tried to use MS Access once, not very long ago, but gave up because I couldn't figure out how to use it...
I'm by no means a DBA, but I know about tables and queries and stuff. I had some data that I wanted to put into a few tables, and then run some queries to get it back out again in an orderly manner.
The problem was that the MS Access frontend was so full of wizards and whatnots, that I couldn't figure out how to get it to do what I wanted it to do - at least not everything.
Of course I didn't read any manuals or anything - I figured that if I needed to, the app had a problem:-) - but due to its own internal terminology I couldn't even use the help functionality to get reasonable answers to what I wanted to do...I didn't know how to ask in Access-speak!
I messed about with it for about an hour, before giving up. Feeling somewhat frustrated, I downloaded MySQL and the client (I forget the name) for setting up the databases, and was up and running (including importing all my data) within 45 minutes...
In different parts of the world, it's the same thing with avalanches.
Here in Norway, it gets cold during the winter. We have snow. Some valleys have quite a lot of avalanches. No suprises there - it's been that way for quite a long time.
So what happens from time to time is that big avalanches happen, and all the newer house get hit. Houses that are a few hundred years old, or are built on places where there have been buildings for several hundred years, don't...
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I'm a "leftist libertarian", rougly in the same area as Gandhi, the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela.
/me feeling holier than thou
*smirk*
<sarcasm on>
Although, as the test says, there "is no right answer". Yeah, right. And "there is no spoon", either.
</sarcasm off>
(Disclaimer: I live in a social democracy in Northern Europe, and my views could be sligthly coloured by that. And my spelling. I'll stop now.)
Also, this was the font we were required to print our Swedish giros in, for the Swedish banking system, if we wanted them to be...yes - OCR'ed and handled automatically!
And we did. It's a lot simpler and a lot faster and we gets our money in a lot quicker.
I remember having to buy the font to get it to our Norwegian (don't ask) printers.
As for the two Americans; Sean Astin was taught how to speak his lines in rural southern England-kind of dialect and Elijah Wood used a more upper class-no-dialect English (as befits his status as a gentleman-hobbit).
All fairly English, except for the Scottish.
Also:
> fact that "sit down" sh...[snip]...I mean, how many languages in the world use this parituclar idiom, beside English?
Norwegian.
Swedish.
Danish.
(furiously nit-picking, and really not working)
They are built by Volkswagen, and so have a lot of the basics in common with VWs and Audis.
Not that I would buy one, of course :) (it's the image thing...), but they are quite cheap - much cheaper than VWs and Audis - and so you get a lot of car for your money.
[Warning: off-topic]
Hah!
At the end of the page is table of references to other, sort of, related patents. The bottom one is US5194007, held by The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy: "Semiconductor laser weapon trainer and target designator for live fire."
Poor kitty!
Cutting and pasting:
Look here for their info on what they do with cybersquatting.Yes, college/university is free (except for private colleges). We also get student grants/loans which we use party on during our student years. everyone is eligible for it regardless of your parents' income. and you don't start paying back until after you've graduated. don't know the current percentage, but the ratio between the grant and the loan keeps changing in favour of the loan (in my time it was about 30/70 if I recall).
Danish students always had much higher grants than us, the cheats!
When it comes to women, children and the work place, it works like this:
- You get 1 year parenting leave with 100% pay, or 2 years with 80 % pay (I think). Your employer pays some of the cost, your taxes pay the rest.
- Og the parenting leave, the father (or someone in lieu of the father) has to take at least 1 month of it, but apart from that it is up to the parents to decide who takes out how much time.
- In practice, the dad usually takes out only the one month, but practically ALL dads take out that one month (be they cabinet ministers or crown princes). Empirical evidence suggests that summer is a very common time for parental leave..;)
- Also, the dad gets 2 weeks off at the time of birth
Socialist welfare state at work here!:-)As mentioned above, we still have issues with hidden discrimination against women (asking about pregnancy is not allowed), but it's better than it might have been.
Practically all women who want to, work - barring our currently high unemployment rate at 4.6 % (I'm not kidding!).
A lot of kids are getting born, too. Women have on average 2.5 something children (which is the highest in Europe, I think).
Compare this with the birth rate in Italy, which is very low (1.something). There is very little in the work place to make it easier for women to have children and work at the same time, so women are more and more choosing not to have kids.
BTW, in 2003, more than half the children born in Norway were born to unmarried parents. Doesn't mean there aren't families, it's just that people live together without getting married. We do get married, but later rather than sooner.
Norway. And Sweden.
Granted, it's somewhat of a pain, and as a student it is your duty to find ways to skip it ("oh no - that's not my TV, it's my dad's. honest", if you're stupid enough to buy one in your own name).
In Norway, same as in the UK, it funds NRK (www.nrk.no), the national broadcasting corp. At least there aren't any ads, sort of. There are "sponsors" attached to big sport events.
And no, you can't get around it by saying "but I don't watch NRK!". Officially, it's a licence for owning a TV or a VCR, limited to one licence per household, but the money is dedicated to funding NRK. They haven't gotten around to tackling PC with TV tuner cards yet...
Currently, it's about NOK 1200 ($160) a year, an amount set by Stortinget (the Norwegian parliament).
Also, they have some requirements on the type of programming they must support: good stuff for kids, educational/public , niche-stuff that wouldn't otherwise survive on a commercial channel.
Well (yeah, yeah), with oil: they are getting more out of the oil fields because of improvements in technology.
Don't know the exact numbers here, but in the North Sea they were originally able to get something like 30% of the oil in a field up from the ocean. Now, with the improvements, they get something like 50% of the stuff up.
Which, on a complete offtopic sidebar, is great for my pension, since Norway's oil income is going to pay for my parents' pensions, and if I'm lucky, mine.
But I'm not exactly counting on that and have decided to use the Calvin method: my dad works hard and gets rich (I hope!) and I inherit...
Norwegian rules are that commercials can only be shown between programs (which has led to some channels' enterprising idea of interrupting a movie with a news segment, around which they can have ads!).
Additionlly, some channels are broadcast from the UK, with UK ad rules (allowing program breaks).
Also, I remember the good old days, before we had commercial channels: Since there were no commercials on the telly, going to the cinema and seeing ads as part of the whole movie going experience was a Good Thing! I remember feeling cheated if the commercials were bad...
Also, won't there be a ceiling somewhere on the number of people who are actually able to use their TiVo properly for this?
Given the large number of people who own a VCR, and aren't actually able to program it to prerecord a show (don't have statistic), can't we expect lots of people not being able to do this with their TiVO (or related technology)?
I mean, today I suppose the TiVO people are reasonably savvy people, but in a few years?
Considering all the 'unenlightended' computer users out there (and TiVO is more "computer" than the VCR), once this really hits the mass market - what makes us think that they'll actually be able to do all this?
ah! I geddit. :)
No he's not.
He would if the octopus was an "octopius".
again, it's the "-ius" that is changed, not the "-us".
*** spoiler alert ***
It's pretty well established that the Grey Havens are indeed in the film.
ah, but you're missing part of the point!
Legolas is pretty. We LIKE seeing Legolas doing cool stuff on the screen (jumping on horses, shooting watercreatures, sliding down stairs).
The LOTR films are great chick flicks:
- Aragorn: the strong, silent, hunky one
- Legolas: the pretty one
- Eomer, Faramir, Boromor: the dishy ones...
yummy!
Yes, but surely the US cannot arbitrarily hold foreign nationals indefinetly, without charges, either?
The people held are citizens somewhere (well, a lot of 'em, anyway), and holding anyone, without any rights, charges, no access to legal councel or whatever can't excatly be something a country should do?
At least not if you expect to be someone whose example others should follow...
One of the ones stuck is Swedish - imagine the outrage if Sweden did something similar to a US citizen!
Well, at least he only has a couple of months left, before the Irish take over...
[Shamelessly snipping from Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the State (1883)]
...at a community meeting...
Dr. Stockmann. Never, Mr. Aslaksen! It is the majority in our
community that denies me my freedom and seeks to prevent my
speaking the truth.
Hovstad. The majority always has right on its side.
Billing. And truth too, by God!
Dr. Stockmann. The majority never has right on its side. Never, I
say! That is one of these social lies against which an
independent, intelligent man must wage war. Who is it that
constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the
clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the
fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely
overwhelming majority all the world over. But, good Lord!--you
can never pretend that it is right that the stupid folk should
govern the clever ones I (Uproar and cries.) Oh, yes--you can
shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has
might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not. I am in
the right--I and a few other scattered individuals. The minority
is always in the right. (Renewed uproar.)
Daleks?
It's probably been ToRN'ed (theonering.net)...
Or, just come home with your brand new laptop and find that your neighbour has a totally insecure WLAN, conveniently sited in his living room right under yours..:)
Of course, his connection sucks - I checked his router (also VERY open), and it would seem that he has another visitor on his WLAN as well, using all the bandwidth (the rat!). So I've kept my wirefull ADSL.
I actually tried to use MS Access once, not very long ago, but gave up because I couldn't figure out how to use it...
:-) - but due to its own internal terminology I couldn't even use the help functionality to get reasonable answers to what I wanted to do...I didn't know how to ask in Access-speak!
I'm by no means a DBA, but I know about tables and queries and stuff. I had some data that I wanted to put into a few tables, and then run some queries to get it back out again in an orderly manner.
The problem was that the MS Access frontend was so full of wizards and whatnots, that I couldn't figure out how to get it to do what I wanted it to do - at least not everything.
Of course I didn't read any manuals or anything - I figured that if I needed to, the app had a problem
I messed about with it for about an hour, before giving up.
Feeling somewhat frustrated, I downloaded MySQL and the client (I forget the name) for setting up the databases, and was up and running (including importing all my data) within 45 minutes...
In different parts of the world, it's the same thing with avalanches.
Here in Norway, it gets cold during the winter. We have snow. Some valleys have quite a lot of avalanches. No suprises there - it's been that way for quite a long time.
So what happens from time to time is that big avalanches happen, and all the newer house get hit. Houses that are a few hundred years old, or are built on places where there have been buildings for several hundred years, don't...