They don't. Facebook works as a "black box" for advertisers. The advertisers specify what kind of profile they want their ad to appear in. Facebook then puts the ad on said profiles, without giving any information back to to the advertiser.
Everybody speaks English. It's taught from 4th grade up. It's at the point where eastern europeans tend to learn more English than Norwegian when moving here.
If you've got any kind of advanced degree, I'm pretty sure we can put you to use. Engineers especially are highly sought after in Norway these days - as are IT people.
Just apply for a few jobs and within a few months you'll have a work visa on our "specialist import quota".
Now, there is a valid debate as to whether or not the US system, the socialist system, or some hybrid of the two is best, all have their advantages and disadvantages.
The US system has vastly higher costs for worse outcomes. The rest of the western world has gone with socialized medicine since it is obviously the better system, while the US suffers under heavy-handed lobbying from the corporate interests that are on the receiving end of said vastly higher costs.
I'd say Greece has got more of a problem with the fact that in 2011 the total tax paid was USD $1.2 billion, while unpaid taxes amount to USD $77 billion...
I'm talking about the weapon systems that Russia and China sell to despotic rulers of shitstain nations so they can feel powerful. That stuff. It's going to be worth much less if there's a system in place to defeat it.
So you're saying Russia and China are mad because the missile shield will interfere with their ability to sell nuclear ICBMs to small nations?
That's... I'm not sure whether to call it 'massively uninformed' or just bugfuck insane.
Not to mention the horde of climate change denialists who post the same bag of prewritten, misinformed crap under any article that mentions climate change.
It's a biased op-ed from a right-wing newspaper. To quote Forbes:
But the most amazing and telling evidence of the bias of the Wall Street Journal in this field is the fact that 255 members of the United States National Academy of Sciences wrote a comparable (but scientifically accurate) essay on the realities of climate change and on the need for improved and serious public debate around the issue, offered it to the Wall Street Journal, and were turned down. The National Academy of Sciences is the nation’s pre-eminent independent scientific organizations. Its members are among the most respected in the world in their fields. Yet the Journal wouldn’t publish this letter, from more than 15 times as many top scientists. Instead they chose to publish an error-filled and misleading piece on climate because some so-called experts aligned with their bias signed it. This may be good politics for them, but it is bad science and it is bad for the nation.
Sure, just like it's normal to take things that drop out of the sky and plug them into the wall.
Yup, that's normal.
According to a test run by Homeland Security:
Computer disks and USB sticks were dropped in parking lots of government buildings and private contractors, and 60% of the people who picked them up plugged the devices into office computers. And if the drive or CD had an official logo on it, 90% were installed.
I know a lot of people who's contracts were up and jumped ship on the news that AT&T was going to buy them. I don't know the percentage but every T-Mobile subscriber I know all moved to other carriers when they heard the initial announcement
That is why AT&T is going to pay them around 3 Billion in compensation.
So, T-Mobile is undersubscribed, (Wee, bandwidth!) and gets 3 billion to build up their network with... Invest 85/15% in infrastructure / the advertising campaign they're gonna need, and they might well become a significant player on the US market again, wouldn't you say?
And full speed LTE on a carrier with a solid network is a beautiful thing.
Those numbers are over a year old, when Spotify was still very young and few people signed up for the Premium service.
Today, these numbers, and by extension band income, have improved to the point where at least Fono (The association for independent Norwegian record companies) have reversed their stance from ~the time you specify, and now recommend artists embrace Spotify.
The deals Spotify sign are secret, so we don't know exactly how much they're getting - but income is improving and will likely improve even more - as the Free service has been reduced to 20 hours/month, and paying for Premium is required for things like streaming to your mobile (the feature that convinced me to upgrade).
So yes, the artists should celebrate getting paid ever growing amounts (as more Premium users enter the service) through an innovative service rather than people just downloading their stuff for free.
Not to mention that the most common 'legal alternative' is streaming both music and video from Youtube for free...
Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Dr. San Jose, CA 95134 USA
is also probably a good idea.
I mean, if they lay flat, fire the legal team in question and commit to publically planning how to ensure abuses of process of this scale, or even far lower scales will never happen again, that'd probably be a good move.
If they don't respond with a great amount of humility and regret, I know I'll stay as far away from Cisco and their surrounding chain of companies as practical, and make a habit of informing my customers on good reasons to avoid Cisco.
Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Dr. San Jose, CA 95134 USA
is also probably a good idea.
I mean, if they lay flat, fire the legal team in question and commit to publically planning how to ensure abuses of process of this scale, or even far lower scales will happen again, that'd probably be a good move.
If they don't respond with a great amount of humility and regret, I know I'll stay as far away from Cisco and their surrounding chain of companies as practical, and make a habit of informing my customers on good reasons to avoid Cisco.
The current judgement was only to apply the 'stay of proceedings' on the extradition request, as that was what the client sought. It appears Mr. Adekeye will be launching a claim against Cisco, and hopefully this will get the mainstream media on the story.
He's been trying to enter the U.S. for years, but would not break visa (which has also apparently been used against him, and Cisco attemting contempt of court pleadings even though they very clearly knew exactly why he was not there, and where he was.
Claiming he was a Nigerian citizen pretending to travel under a U.K. password and 'claiming to live in Switzerland'. This lie was repeated during the extradition request to the Canadian authorities, even though his completely valid U.K. passport had very recently spent 5 weeks in the London U.S. Embassy, a fact that was also known to Cisco and presumably Cisco's councel.
If the U.S. authorities wanted him arrested, the easiest way would have been to respond to one of his multiple and very recent requests to enter the U.S.
There's a lot more, if someone else who read the whole thing could respond with more highlights, that'd probably be informative.
In conclusion, what seems to have happened here is that Cisco, in retaliation for a lawsuit against them, has colluded illegally with the U.S. Justice Department on using deceit and lies, abuse of process and every legal bullshit tactic the nastiest lawyer team from hell could think up to put the defendant under maximum legal pressure since a company he is involved with had the audacity to sue Cisco. Oh, and the settlement in the lawsuit seems to have favored said company and not Cisco.
This is so nasty I'll be demanding a written response from Cisco on what measures they are taking to ensure this never happens again if I am to be in conscience ever to recommend a Cisco product again.
And I hope his suit for damages (and hopefully punitive damage) gets the attention it deserves and that he is awarded ample millions and Cisco and the Department of Justice a public and very heavy black eye. This is behavior we cannot accept from corporations or anyone.
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They don't. Facebook works as a "black box" for advertisers. The advertisers specify what kind of profile they want their ad to appear in. Facebook then puts the ad on said profiles, without giving any information back to to the advertiser.
Everybody speaks English. It's taught from 4th grade up. It's at the point where eastern europeans tend to learn more English than Norwegian when moving here.
If you've got any kind of advanced degree, I'm pretty sure we can put you to use. Engineers especially are highly sought after in Norway these days - as are IT people.
Just apply for a few jobs and within a few months you'll have a work visa on our "specialist import quota".
Link broken. Sorry about that, http://www.bengarvey.com/2012/03/31/list-of-interesting-places-in-8-bit-google-maps should work
Looks like http://www.bengarvey.com/2012/03/31/list-of-interesting-places-in-8-bit-google-maps/has a pretty good list of interesting places
Now, there is a valid debate as to whether or not the US system, the socialist system, or some hybrid of the two is best, all have their advantages and disadvantages.
The US system has vastly higher costs for worse outcomes.
The rest of the western world has gone with socialized medicine since it is obviously the better system, while the US suffers under heavy-handed lobbying from the corporate interests that are on the receiving end of said vastly higher costs.
What more is there to discuss?
I'd say Greece has got more of a problem with the fact that in 2011 the total tax paid was USD $1.2 billion, while unpaid taxes amount to USD $77 billion...
I'm talking about the weapon systems that Russia and China sell to despotic rulers of shitstain nations so they can feel powerful. That stuff. It's going to be worth much less if there's a system in place to defeat it.
So you're saying Russia and China are mad because the missile shield will interfere with their ability to sell nuclear ICBMs to small nations?
That's... I'm not sure whether to call it 'massively uninformed' or just bugfuck insane.
The law is 40 hours per week. 37.5 hrs/week is for unionized employees. However, most employers extend this to cover non-unionized labor as well.
Not to mention the horde of climate change denialists who post the same bag of prewritten, misinformed crap under any article that mentions climate change.
Umm, the Vlad Taltos series consists of 13 books. You've probably read the omnibus edition of the first 3. Much more to enjoy :-)
And soon gangsters are gonna need MRIs to ensure someone isn't carrying surveillance gear...
Check out the trailer for Iron Sky, http://www.ironsky.net/ - then check out their budget http://www.ironsky.net/site/support/finance/
This is their second film, the first one (the most popular film ever created in Finland) was mainly distributed (for free) over bittorrent.
Looks better than anything set to come out of Hollywood this year, IMO.
Conclusion: If Hollywood dies, we'll still have good movies. Not that there's much chance of that, seeing as they're making more money than ever...
It's a biased op-ed from a right-wing newspaper. To quote Forbes:
But the most amazing and telling evidence of the bias of the Wall Street Journal in this field is the fact that 255 members of the United States National Academy of Sciences wrote a comparable (but scientifically accurate) essay on the realities of climate change and on the need for improved and serious public debate around the issue, offered it to the Wall Street Journal, and were turned down. The National Academy of Sciences is the nation’s pre-eminent independent scientific organizations. Its members are among the most respected in the world in their fields. Yet the Journal wouldn’t publish this letter, from more than 15 times as many top scientists. Instead they chose to publish an error-filled and misleading piece on climate because some so-called experts aligned with their bias signed it. This may be good politics for them, but it is bad science and it is bad for the nation.
Sure, just like it's normal to take things that drop out of the sky and plug them into the wall.
Yup, that's normal.
According to a test run by Homeland Security:
Computer disks and USB sticks were dropped in parking lots of government buildings and private contractors, and 60% of the people who picked them up plugged the devices into office computers. And if the drive or CD had an official logo on it, 90% were installed.
Borrowed from Bruce Schneier ( http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/06/yet_another_peo.html )
Obviously their fallback plan is to auto-telemarket us all if they ever run into trouble :-p
and has destroyed vital military property
time to lock him up with no trial and throw away the key
Nah. NASA has now invested $2 Billion into the education of this unfortunate soul. He'd better stay and do his best to make up for it :-P
I know a lot of people who's contracts were up and jumped ship on the news that AT&T was going to buy them. I don't know the percentage but every T-Mobile subscriber I know all moved to other carriers when they heard the initial announcement
That is why AT&T is going to pay them around 3 Billion in compensation.
So, T-Mobile is undersubscribed, (Wee, bandwidth!) and gets 3 billion to build up their network with... Invest 85/15% in infrastructure / the advertising campaign they're gonna need, and they might well become a significant player on the US market again, wouldn't you say?
And full speed LTE on a carrier with a solid network is a beautiful thing.
Mod parent up
Those numbers are over a year old, when Spotify was still very young and few people signed up for the Premium service.
Today, these numbers, and by extension band income, have improved to the point where at least Fono (The association for independent Norwegian record companies) have reversed their stance from ~the time you specify, and now recommend artists embrace Spotify.
The deals Spotify sign are secret, so we don't know exactly how much they're getting - but income is improving and will likely improve even more - as the Free service has been reduced to 20 hours/month, and paying for Premium is required for things like streaming to your mobile (the feature that convinced me to upgrade).
So yes, the artists should celebrate getting paid ever growing amounts (as more Premium users enter the service) through an innovative service rather than people just downloading their stuff for free.
Not to mention that the most common 'legal alternative' is streaming both music and video from Youtube for free...
Oh, and a good way to force Cisco to make some kind of statement would be to request them from your Cisco representatives, on Cisco forums like http://forums.cisco.com/ecom/web/sms3/forums/-/message_boards/category/13121 , etc.
Sending printed letters to
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134 USA
is also probably a good idea.
I mean, if they lay flat, fire the legal team in question and commit to publically planning how to ensure abuses of process of this scale, or even far lower scales will never happen again, that'd probably be a good move.
If they don't respond with a great amount of humility and regret, I know I'll stay as far away from Cisco and their surrounding chain of companies as practical, and make a habit of informing my customers on good reasons to avoid Cisco.
Minor correction :-p
Oh, and a good way to force Cisco to make some kind of statement would be to request them from your Cisco representatives, on Cisco forums like http://forums.cisco.com/ecom/web/sms3/forums/-/message_boards/category/13121 , etc.
Sending printed letters to
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134 USA
is also probably a good idea.
I mean, if they lay flat, fire the legal team in question and commit to publically planning how to ensure abuses of process of this scale, or even far lower scales will happen again, that'd probably be a good move.
If they don't respond with a great amount of humility and regret, I know I'll stay as far away from Cisco and their surrounding chain of companies as practical, and make a habit of informing my customers on good reasons to avoid Cisco.
The current judgement was only to apply the 'stay of proceedings' on the extradition request, as that was what the client sought. It appears Mr. Adekeye will be launching a claim against Cisco, and hopefully this will get the mainstream media on the story.
He's been trying to enter the U.S. for years, but would not break visa (which has also apparently been used against him, and Cisco attemting contempt of court pleadings even though they very clearly knew exactly why he was not there, and where he was.
Claiming he was a Nigerian citizen pretending to travel under a U.K. password and 'claiming to live in Switzerland'. This lie was repeated during the extradition request to the Canadian authorities, even though his completely valid U.K. passport had very recently spent 5 weeks in the London U.S. Embassy, a fact that was also known to Cisco and presumably Cisco's councel.
If the U.S. authorities wanted him arrested, the easiest way would have been to respond to one of his multiple and very recent requests to enter the U.S.
There's a lot more, if someone else who read the whole thing could respond with more highlights, that'd probably be informative.
In conclusion, what seems to have happened here is that Cisco, in retaliation for a lawsuit against them, has colluded illegally with the U.S. Justice Department on using deceit and lies, abuse of process and every legal bullshit tactic the nastiest lawyer team from hell could think up to put the defendant under maximum legal pressure since a company he is involved with had the audacity to sue Cisco. Oh, and the settlement in the lawsuit seems to have favored said company and not Cisco.
This is so nasty I'll be demanding a written response from Cisco on what measures they are taking to ensure this never happens again if I am to be in conscience ever to recommend a Cisco product again.
And I hope his suit for damages (and hopefully punitive damage) gets the attention it deserves and that he is awarded ample millions and Cisco and the Department of Justice a public and very heavy black eye. This is behavior we cannot accept from corporations or anyone.
It isn't just a cabal of child molesters.
The Catholic Church is probably happy with the poster of this +5 informative post.
Obviously, we need to be made aware of this fact.
What do you do that can use that much parallelization?
Having just spent $130 in processing time on Amazon EC2 to render a 50 second movie in 13 hours, I'd really like to have a few of these...