Being from Europe, I never quite got it why the Greens don't seem to get a chance in the government until someone pointed out that there is no propostional representation in Canada....
Oh well, let's hope they change it and they get into the discussion next time around.... NDP is out, so that only leaves the Tories and the Liberals to fight it out (riiiiight).
That depends on their tip (feder), The thinner ones I don't like, but I have a medium one and that just makes writing a joy.
I had fountain pens ever since I got into school (they were required, don't ask i guess they wanted to teach us good handwriting, at least with me they failed) and the Month Blanc has the nicest feel to it.
The funniest thing is that most people seem to assume that this is a cheap knock off (especially the ones who "should" know, you know the usual show-offs).
Love, it, that plus black ink and I can write.
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Which is exactly why I object so strongly to having a national ID. All it would do is make life easier for snoops, identity thieves, and meddlesome government. There is no benefit to the citizen, and plenty of downsides.
If you think that these days nobody can already build a complete profile of you you're pretty wrong.
the SSN and your drivers license alone are enough to track you.
What needs to be done is to re-do the privacy laws in the US (and Canada) instead of hoping that the companies are "honest" enough about their Privacy Policy they should be enfored by law etc.
Yes, not a very populare thing, but it always is scary to me to see that the speeding ticket I got last year will be on my drivers record forever.
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What are you trying to say? You still need a drivers license for DRIVING but not as an ID at a club or at a bank.
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So national IDs will just give you another ID that says that you are who you claim to be
Yes and no.
The national ID would be the only ID you would need. No more SSN or Drivers License (which is stupid anyways), no more haggeling over it, AND because the document is a federal government it should be harder to forge (doesn't mean it can't be).
The idea of a National ID card isn't that bad, the problem just is that the way data in the US is handled it won't accomplish a thing. At least not for the people who already have SSN Numbers and drivers licenses.
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dentity theft can be stopped in other ways, and it isn't even clear to me that a national ID card would do much to stop it here at all.
The problem with ID theft in North America is that the only way they tend to identify you is by using your SSN and drivers license.
Both are easy to get by and in the end nobody is really asking.
The CBC had an interview this week with someone who did ID theft for a couple of years as a living. It's almost chilling to hear how easy it is to loose your identity and get your credit rating trashed just because someone got your home address and Birth Date.
The other problem in North America is that there is no real way of what happens to data.
In Germany for example medical records are not allowed to be kept for more than 5 years (bit me in the ass a while ago when I tried to get some results from some years back), here? Nobody cares.
If I get a ticket in Germany (as long as I don't get points) the ticket diapears out of the system once I have paid it. Same thing for my driving record.
Things are not hauting me forever. Our "all knowning government" has a very short memory span.
On the other hand an ID card etc. in North America IS a lot more scary because the government / private companies never ever seem to get rid of the data they have collected, that is the problem, not the ID card(s).
Thanks for the insight. I don't play on my computer no more, got an XBOX and Dream Cast, thus I am not really affected by it either way (I doubt my PII 366 can handle it anyways;) ).
the reason there is not that much AC around is on the one hand the costs of electricity for sure, but at the same time it also isn't relaly needed.
Most large buildings in Europe do have HVAC but normal apartments? No, why? Usually it doesn't get that hot and even if, how would you install the AC? There are buildings that are several hundred years old, you can't just run central AC through it, and sticking a window unit in? Most windws are bigger than they are in the US (and usually there are no children "nets" either), so there is no way to PUT the AC.
I only knew one person in Germany who had a portable AC, and they only ran it maybe two weeks out of the year when it got way too hot.
It is always funny to see Americans talk about Europe without ever having been there, there seems to be the idea that Europe is somewhere in the middle ages while the US is enlightened and the bright light in a dark room. The reality is a lot different, but I guess we already saw the problem of misunderstanding over the Iraq discussion.
Why do you think every foreigner who can afford to, comes to US clinics for surgeries or treatments?
That's quite an arrogant statement, isn't it? I doubt that every foreign would want to come to the US, most Western countries (or say 1st world countries) have quite good healthcare. In fact in all the western countries I have been I had better treatment from doctors outside the US as they weren't as much "on the clock" as their counterparts in the US.
Let's not forget the advantage of a social healthcare system where everybody (when properly funded) can get good treatment in time.
So yeah, you have the Mayo clinic and other places, but a lot of it is hype, I wouldn't mind going to Berlin and get an operation done there, as the equipment (and talent) surely exists.
(a) Buy stuff. Other folks are employed making it or serving it.
This is a very popular thing to say / do. On the same reasoning the governments are proposing "tax cuts" hoping / thinking that this money will make people go out and spend it.
In reality? I doubt it, most people are in debt, they want to get out of debt (if they are sane) and thus they will use any tax credit they get to pay back the money they owe (one might hope at least).
This method works. Simple, really.
Maybe, but I am just going the other way, I am trying to determine what do I really need and lately I am not buying much but some clothes, food and occasionally I do buy a book (libraries are great) mainly because I am not interrested in the rat race, nor do I believe in this "common good" like "buy buy buy, be happy, help others." that is so prevailant in todays society.
But that's of course everybodys choice, I just would like to point out that the world has no infinit resources and thus "shop 'till you drop" could mean you drop because you don't have any air to breath left (as an extreme example).
1988 I already had a PC but again, (at least in Germany) Microsoft wasn't all that interresting I remember someone having a Windows 2.0 Floppies but my computer at that time "came" with GEOS (anyone remember those?).
NT itself, was a spinoff of OS/2 and I do remember seeing that back in 1993 with NT 3.5 but also before at a company with NT 3.1.
I also remember a futile attempt of mine to get WfW stable.
And then of course there was OS/2 3.0 and that was a completly different thing and I do remember that pretty much everybody liked it a lot more than windows (even though for some apps we ended up running the Windows Emulator which pretty much didn't work anymore once WfW 3.11 came out and Microsoft broke things on purpose.
I remember the geeks cheering when MSFT crushed OS/2 to secure Windows' place on the desktop.
When where they cheering? In my circles at least nobody really liked Windows even back then, not even NT, OS/2 was way more interresting to play and tinker with (and so was DR-DOS, I still remember the book "DOS Unleashed").
If this issue truly mattered to him, he wouldn't work with EMI.
You never know what will happen to his next album. This one might have been already been "sold" to EMI before they made the decision.
He is speaking out against it on his Forum. In doubt I am not that much of a cynic to think he tells me he is against it. I made it clear upfront I won't buy the album in the current state, and if EMI get's the message too then good.
4. There are only 7 days in the week. And, why would you be listening to internet radio continuously? Wouldn't it grate on your nerves after a while? And, don't you have an FM radio? Or a stereo? Or cable TV?
Oh well...
I can't receive radio in the "bunker" as I call my home office, thus the radio. And di.fm isn't that bad, no talking.
Plus I can also "get" other stations from around the world (say, BBC Radio)
As for the days: Ever heard of time zones?;) (Yeah, lame excuse, what can I say, not enough coffee).
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With current technology, there is no need to kill civilians to win wars. Killing the opposing leadership, forces and infrastructure is sufficient
And killing the infrastructure is not killing civilians exactly how?
Civlians do rely on the infrastructure, water, electricity, gas.....
How do you think food gets into the stores? Roads etc.
How bad was it during the blackout? And that only lasted a couple of hours.
Being from Europe, I never quite got it why the Greens don't seem to get a chance in the government until someone pointed out that there is no propostional representation in Canada....
Oh well, let's hope they change it and they get into the discussion next time around.... NDP is out, so that only leaves the Tories and the Liberals to fight it out (riiiiight).
M.
Yes Pelikan makes nice Fountain Pens, I had some myself.
But at the end of it I liked the large Mont Blancs better, they fit better in my hand and I don't "cramp" as easily with as I would with my Pelikan.
Having said that I managed to go through 3 Pelikans (Grade 1 - 10) and so far my Mont Blanc is holding up (though I do write less by hand these days).
M.
That depends on their tip (feder), The thinner ones I don't like, but I have a medium one and that just makes writing a joy.
I had fountain pens ever since I got into school (they were required, don't ask i guess they wanted to teach us good handwriting, at least with me they failed) and the Month Blanc has the nicest feel to it.
Wouldn't trade mine for anything.
Best investment I ever made.
The funniest thing is that most people seem to assume that this is a cheap knock off (especially the ones who "should" know, you know the usual show-offs).
Love, it, that plus black ink and I can write.
Which is exactly why I object so strongly to having a national ID. All it would do is make life easier for snoops, identity thieves, and meddlesome government. There is no benefit to the citizen, and plenty of downsides.
If you think that these days nobody can already build a complete profile of you you're pretty wrong.
the SSN and your drivers license alone are enough to track you.
What needs to be done is to re-do the privacy laws in the US (and Canada) instead of hoping that the companies are "honest" enough about their Privacy Policy they should be enfored by law etc.
Yes, not a very populare thing, but it always is scary to me to see that the speeding ticket I got last year will be on my drivers record forever.
What are you trying to say? You still need a drivers license for DRIVING but not as an ID at a club or at a bank.
So how happy are you with the election outcome?
So national IDs will just give you another ID that says that you are who you claim to be
Yes and no.
The national ID would be the only ID you would need. No more SSN or Drivers License (which is stupid anyways), no more haggeling over it, AND because the document is a federal government it should be harder to forge (doesn't mean it can't be).
The idea of a National ID card isn't that bad, the problem just is that the way data in the US is handled it won't accomplish a thing. At least not for the people who already have SSN Numbers and drivers licenses.
dentity theft can be stopped in other ways, and it isn't even clear to me that a national ID card would do much to stop it here at all.
The problem with ID theft in North America is that the only way they tend to identify you is by using your SSN and drivers license.
Both are easy to get by and in the end nobody is really asking.
The CBC had an interview this week with someone who did ID theft for a couple of years as a living. It's almost chilling to hear how easy it is to loose your identity and get your credit rating trashed just because someone got your home address and Birth Date.
The other problem in North America is that there is no real way of what happens to data.
In Germany for example medical records are not allowed to be kept for more than 5 years (bit me in the ass a while ago when I tried to get some results from some years back), here? Nobody cares.
If I get a ticket in Germany (as long as I don't get points) the ticket diapears out of the system once I have paid it. Same thing for my driving record.
Things are not hauting me forever. Our "all knowning government" has a very short memory span.
On the other hand an ID card etc. in North America IS a lot more scary because the government / private companies never ever seem to get rid of the data they have collected, that is the problem, not the ID card(s).
/me no programmer :)
;) ).
Thanks for the insight. I don't play on my computer no more, got an XBOX and Dream Cast, thus I am not really affected by it either way (I doubt my PII 366 can handle it anyways
I wonder if that source would allow someone to port it, say to Linux?
Maybe we'll see a Linux port now after all?
He's making it up.
the reason there is not that much AC around is on the one hand the costs of electricity for sure, but at the same time it also isn't relaly needed.
Most large buildings in Europe do have HVAC but normal apartments? No, why? Usually it doesn't get that hot and even if, how would you install the AC? There are buildings that are several hundred years old, you can't just run central AC through it, and sticking a window unit in? Most windws are bigger than they are in the US (and usually there are no children "nets" either), so there is no way to PUT the AC.
I only knew one person in Germany who had a portable AC, and they only ran it maybe two weeks out of the year when it got way too hot.
It is always funny to see Americans talk about Europe without ever having been there, there seems to be the idea that Europe is somewhere in the middle ages while the US is enlightened and the bright light in a dark room. The reality is a lot different, but I guess we already saw the problem of misunderstanding over the Iraq discussion.
Why do you think every foreigner who can afford to, comes to US clinics for surgeries or treatments?
That's quite an arrogant statement, isn't it? I doubt that every foreign would want to come to the US, most Western countries (or say 1st world countries) have quite good healthcare. In fact in all the western countries I have been I had better treatment from doctors outside the US as they weren't as much "on the clock" as their counterparts in the US.
Let's not forget the advantage of a social healthcare system where everybody (when properly funded) can get good treatment in time.
So yeah, you have the Mayo clinic and other places, but a lot of it is hype, I wouldn't mind going to Berlin and get an operation done there, as the equipment (and talent) surely exists.
(a) Buy stuff. Other folks are employed making it or serving it.
This is a very popular thing to say / do. On the same reasoning the governments are proposing "tax cuts" hoping / thinking that this money will make people go out and spend it.
In reality? I doubt it, most people are in debt, they want to get out of debt (if they are sane) and thus they will use any tax credit they get to pay back the money they owe (one might hope at least).
This method works. Simple, really.
Maybe, but I am just going the other way, I am trying to determine what do I really need and lately I am not buying much but some clothes, food and occasionally I do buy a book (libraries are great) mainly because I am not interrested in the rat race, nor do I believe in this "common good" like "buy buy buy, be happy, help others." that is so prevailant in todays society.
But that's of course everybodys choice, I just would like to point out that the world has no infinit resources and thus "shop 'till you drop" could mean you drop because you don't have any air to breath left (as an extreme example).
Michael
1988 I already had a PC but again, (at least in Germany) Microsoft wasn't all that interresting I remember someone having a Windows 2.0 Floppies but my computer at that time "came" with GEOS (anyone remember those?).
NT itself, was a spinoff of OS/2 and I do remember seeing that back in 1993 with NT 3.5 but also before at a company with NT 3.1.
I also remember a futile attempt of mine to get WfW stable.
And then of course there was OS/2 3.0 and that was a completly different thing and I do remember that pretty much everybody liked it a lot more than windows (even though for some apps we ended up running the Windows Emulator which pretty much didn't work anymore once WfW 3.11 came out and Microsoft broke things on purpose.
Found this short history of NT:
I remember the geeks cheering when MSFT crushed OS/2 to secure Windows' place on the desktop.
When where they cheering? In my circles at least nobody really liked Windows even back then, not even NT, OS/2 was way more interresting to play and tinker with (and so was DR-DOS, I still remember the book "DOS Unleashed").
M.
You're right. "NO"
So why then?
Why is the US supporting a convicted war criminal?
Because the US didn't convict him, and they don't care about what the rest of the world thinks, no?
M.
If this issue truly mattered to him, he wouldn't work with EMI.
You never know what will happen to his next album. This one might have been already been "sold" to EMI before they made the decision.
He is speaking out against it on his Forum. In doubt I am not that much of a cynic to think he tells me he is against it. I made it clear upfront I won't buy the album in the current state, and if EMI get's the message too then good.
David Ushers Managment was a lot quicker to reply (to me at least).
Can't really be encrypted. Last time I checked none of my CD players came with a chip to "decrypt" anything.
If anything it is "Security through obscurity"
I guess it depends on how loud you scream. In my case my boss talked to his boss who talked to the CIO at our parent company who then called Sun.
;)
It's just a question on how high the shit flies before the vendor bends over backwards
4. There are only 7 days in the week. And, why would you be listening to internet radio continuously? Wouldn't it grate on your nerves after a while? And, don't you have an FM radio? Or a stereo? Or cable TV?
;) (Yeah, lame excuse, what can I say, not enough coffee).
Oh well...
I can't receive radio in the "bunker" as I call my home office, thus the radio. And di.fm isn't that bad, no talking.
Plus I can also "get" other stations from around the world (say, BBC Radio)
As for the days: Ever heard of time zones?
Sorry, it's a special edition, and they are only available for a limited time.