I only see it now that you meant that 60 percent the other way around (Euro to Dollar).
It's still roughly 40 percent increase instead of 60 percent.
And the Yuan has gone up roughly 22.5 percent (not 20).
That last number combined with the 15 percent increase of Euro to Yuan is in line with the 40 percent increase of Euro to Dollar (1.15*1.225 ~ 1.4). So those data still contradict your point.
Again I'm no forex expert and didn't bother looking past the data you cited.
The Euro to Yuan is not fixed: according to the data linked by you it seems to have gone up from cca 9,3 to cca 10.7 - by about 15 percent.
Also the Dollar to Euro rate decreased by about 30 percent (and not 60).
Now, those are just rough calculations and IANASoros - so correct me if i'm wrong.
The site made me remember to the one-screen websites I saw mostly 8-9 years ago. They used onmouseover events to shrink the (otherwise lengthy) pages to the height of a fullscreen browser window (minus menus buttons etc.).
I'm sure there are many of them even today just didn't stumble into them nowadays.
An interesting demonstration of the idea is in an article on Alistapart.
"I've had friends in Europe claim that EDS are very respectable and professional experts, so perhaps there is something different in the US. But here, I was really unimpressed."
(My post may be late, but here in Europe it was 3 AM when the parent was written) Europe is no exception. One of my friends works for a big telco here, and that firm let their IT-staff work out their outsourcing (!). The deal was won by EDS, where the IT-employees of the telco (working on the contract) got fat jobs later. Of course it was just a coincidence;) And the outsourcing contract is extremely expensive.
OK, it's too late to reply to such an old post, but an e-voting system would be cheaper if you could use it more than once in four years. That would of course mean a departure from representative democracy towards more direct forms of that ugly-but-useful-political-system.
If I remember well my economics classes, public ownership can be a working solution if it's hard to exclude someone from benefiting from the given service - wireless access seems to be such a service.
"It was a joke."
Sorry I should improve my English:)
Btw:
"Communism on paper" actually prescribes an initial period of "dictatorship of the proletariat" over the other classes of society. Well 20th century witnessed that period in many countries - that was "communism on paper", the first stage that is.
because they think they have some say in US elections
Yes, they have. The result of the US elections are felt all over the world, that's why almost everyone has an opinion about Ami politics. And many of the a ROTW-people (ROTW to you, because to me - here in Europe - you are the ROTW fellah) even have the power of affecting US politics - think of Russian "businessmen" paying for presidential campaigns or terrorists with well timed attacks.
WHY would we spend for the research for others to get the "jobs of the future?"
This reminds me of the book "Unbound Prometheus" (by David Landes). It's mentioned somewhere in it that one of the reasons Germany developed faster than the UK after WW2 was that UK made more basic research - which could be later used also by German companies (that's my simplification of the text and I do not remember well).
My only problem with these "at least research will be done" mega-projects is that research can be done when you spend your money in a more reasonable way. E.g. cure for cancer (a'la Civ.:)) - technology advanced while healthcare improved. Or agricultural research or improving mass transit or or or...
"...then some of that cash will flow down to the national economy."
Isn't it more simple to give that money to consumers/companies etc.? Or still better leave it at the people, they are far better at "trickling it down" - and much fewer humans die in the process.
"You supported the murderous contras, red khemers and other death squads around the world."
I thought, that red khmers were communists themselves. It made me curious, could someone show me a link to the story, that the USA supported the extreme nazi-communist Pol Pot-ists? I suspect a misinformation here...
Cheaper, more friendly perhaps, but nothing so glamorous as what Cringely portrays him to be.
A cheap and friendly provider is quite glamorous in itself.
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Let's just hope the operators won't become numb seeing those pictures.
I wonder if there were any sentiments against long range missiles (where you don't even see the enemy).
I only see it now that you meant that 60 percent the other way around (Euro to Dollar).
It's still roughly 40 percent increase instead of 60 percent.
And the Yuan has gone up roughly 22.5 percent (not 20).
That last number combined with the 15 percent increase of Euro to Yuan is in line with the 40 percent increase of Euro to Dollar (1.15*1.225 ~ 1.4). So those data still contradict your point.
Again I'm no forex expert and didn't bother looking past the data you cited.
The Euro to Yuan is not fixed: according to the data linked by you it seems to have gone up from cca 9,3 to cca 10.7 - by about 15 percent.
Also the Dollar to Euro rate decreased by about 30 percent (and not 60).
Now, those are just rough calculations and IANASoros - so correct me if i'm wrong.
Brain storm... gone with the wind.
The site made me remember to the one-screen websites I saw mostly 8-9 years ago. They used onmouseover events to shrink the (otherwise lengthy) pages to the height of a fullscreen browser window (minus menus buttons etc.). I'm sure there are many of them even today just didn't stumble into them nowadays.
An interesting demonstration of the idea is in an article on Alistapart.
Depends on which side I turn to the USA with.
Oh BTW (if anyone still reads) who are liberal-conservatives then?
-------Attila the Late
"I've had friends in Europe claim that EDS are very respectable and professional experts, so perhaps there is something different in the US. But here, I was really unimpressed." ;) And the outsourcing contract is extremely expensive.
(My post may be late, but here in Europe it was 3 AM when the parent was written) Europe is no exception. One of my friends works for a big telco here, and that firm let their IT-staff work out their outsourcing (!). The deal was won by EDS, where the IT-employees of the telco (working on the contract) got fat jobs later. Of course it was just a coincidence
OK, it's too late to reply to such an old post, but an e-voting system would be cheaper if you could use it more than once in four years. That would of course mean a departure from representative democracy towards more direct forms of that ugly-but-useful-political-system.
...leaking tips about its future strategy (like that previous news), and confusing the competition.
If I remember well my economics classes, public ownership can be a working solution if it's hard to exclude someone from benefiting from the given service - wireless access seems to be such a service.
most cellphones become pen-sized. Because most people were taught to write with a pen.
Is others' sin/amorality/infringing-of-rights an excuse for anyone to do the same?
"It was a joke." :)
Sorry I should improve my English
Btw: "Communism on paper" actually prescribes an initial period of "dictatorship of the proletariat" over the other classes of society. Well 20th century witnessed that period in many countries - that was "communism on paper", the first stage that is.
Now I see the reason of US govt's soft aproach to human right abuses there.
Maybe, that communism in any form is not acceptable. Just a guess.
because they think they have some say in US elections Yes, they have. The result of the US elections are felt all over the world, that's why almost everyone has an opinion about Ami politics. And many of the a ROTW-people (ROTW to you, because to me - here in Europe - you are the ROTW fellah) even have the power of affecting US politics - think of Russian "businessmen" paying for presidential campaigns or terrorists with well timed attacks.
WHY would we spend for the research for others to get the "jobs of the future?"
This reminds me of the book "Unbound Prometheus" (by David Landes). It's mentioned somewhere in it that one of the reasons Germany developed faster than the UK after WW2 was that UK made more basic research - which could be later used also by German companies (that's my simplification of the text and I do not remember well).
My only problem with these "at least research will be done" mega-projects is that research can be done when you spend your money in a more reasonable way. E.g. cure for cancer (a'la Civ. :)) - technology advanced while healthcare improved. Or agricultural research or improving mass transit or or or...
"...then some of that cash will flow down to the national economy."
Isn't it more simple to give that money to consumers/companies etc.? Or still better leave it at the people, they are far better at "trickling it down" - and much fewer humans die in the process.
"You supported the murderous contras, red khemers and other death squads around the world."
I thought, that red khmers were communists themselves. It made me curious, could someone show me a link to the story, that the USA supported the extreme nazi-communist Pol Pot-ists? I suspect a misinformation here...
Cheaper, more friendly perhaps, but nothing so glamorous as what Cringely portrays him to be.
A cheap and friendly provider is quite glamorous in itself.
Yeah, those good ol' websites back in the 1970'-s... :)
There's a link-collection about anti-personell lasers (including blinding ones) with similar stories. Seems old, but relevant.
It was not a laser (if I remember well), but a very strong "conventional" lamp.