but if people are already coming here while Slashdot is still US centric, why bother?
Because it makes Americans look like ignorant idiots who do not realize there's places outside the glorious US of A? If you don't care, fine, but it's something that would motivate me.
Tob
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I find depriving a student of his 1st ammendment rights or his education not in his "best interest."
Actually it is. There's nothing that will teach students the importance of civil liberties the way a case like this does.
In my high school there was an official school paper (De Tand) that toed the party line. Students started producing their own paper(Bernrode Actueel), but after some criticism of teachers were forbidden to hand them out in school. They just started handing them out just outside the school gates. A few years later Bernrode Actueel replaced De Tand, and to the best of my knowledge it still has that place, 20 years later.
Stuff like that has taught me a lot about the world in a setting that is relatively safe.
But this happens, a lot. Some countries have gay marriage. Other more backward countries do not recognize these marriages. And in these cases the people involved can't even remarry in those countries.
Being legal to kill yourself must be a reason why the suicide rate in Europe is higher then in america.
I don't think so. The fact that it's legal does not make much difference in practice. Doctors will still keep you from killing you if they think you are not mentally capable to make a balanced decision. And wanting to kill yourself is in general a good indicator of being incapable (exceptions excluded of course).
I have no idea why reported suicide rates are higher here. Perhaps it is just an artificial difference cause by the fact that it's illegal (and immoral!) in the US, resulting in underreporting suicide. I know that a few decades ago it was much more common here for doctors to lie about the cause of death to save the family embarrasment.
This is the age old misunderstanding that forbidding something makes it occur less. - The Netherlands has very permissive abortion laws, Ireland very restrictive. Ireland has (used to have? see note 1) much higher abortion rates. It is commonly thought that there's an indirect cause and effect where more restrictive morals reduce education. - The Netherlands has a very different drug policy, separating soft (marihuana and friends) and hard (coke, heroine) drugs. Because of that we have fewer drugs related problems. Result may not be much less drugs use (don't know recent statistics), but it does mean the problems are better managed.
Regards, Tob
Note 1: Teenage pregnancy rates have gone up enormously recently. This has been mostly due to 'foreign' (what's the english word for allochtoon, non-aboriginal?) population. I don't know if abortion rates have gone up at the same time.
Taking a life? The life's mine, it should be mine to do with as I choose, at least if I'm mentally capable to make such a decision.
In most countries the state has stolen their civilians' lives by not allowing them humane deaths in the face of incurable illness. I'd rather pay more tax.:)
Suicide is not a crime in the Netherlands. Euthanasia under strict guidelines is legal. Assisting a suicide can be a crime.
I'd like to find the country that has the death penalty for attempted suicide.
Furthermore, in real languages 'there is' would actually be correct. It's only one couple. Is 'there are a couple' actually correct in all variants of english, or is this another difference between english and merkin?
Sorry, that's your misunderstanding. You must have been thinking of the word unreasonable. The word radical means that something differs markedly from the usual. Nothing to do with whether it is reasonable or not.
In normal speech it means quite a bit more. It may be the language barrier, but where I come from it means about the same as 'extreme', being about as far from the norm as you can get.
Extreme standpoints are unreasonable, not per definition, but in practice. If we had a world filled with radicals, it would be a very unpleasant place.
My system was much more 'ingenious', it involved connected the earth and the moon together through 2 huge semi-circular bars, with giant generators at the poles. Slightly harder to build than a normal space elevator, but could theoretically be made strong enough to keep the moon from crashing down.:)
I 'invented' this as a 10 year old (26 years ago), but even at that age I realised it was a bad idea.
At about the same time, I invented a system to take energy from the moon rotating around the earth. Figuring out why that would be a bad idea is left as an excercise for the reader, although the name 'Chicken Little' come to mind. I'm sure somebody is patenting this now as we speak though.
I really should start patenting all my 'great' ideas.:)
Wouldn't solar panels be a cheaper, more efficient, perhaps even sensible, solution. I know they do use them for low power roadside equipment like parking ticket dispensers. Should cause less wear and tear as well, although 2 m^2 solar panels mounted on streetlight might be a hurricane hazard in some areas.:)
Republic (res publica) and democracy (demos kratos) just mean the same thing. The one coming from latin, the other from ancient greek.
The inferred difference as if republic means a representative system and democracy a direct system is not something I ever heard before.
In ancient greece they did have direct democracies in some states for some time. At other times they had elected officials and still called it a democracy.
In Europe the difference between a republic and a not-republic is whether you have a president or a monarch. In.nl (as in many european countries) we have a monarch (queen) and republicans are those who'd rather have her and her family retire to somewhere else.
These monarchies are still governed by democratically elected officials, and we still call them democracies, as we do republics like france and germany.
Perhaps the key issue is that television is driven my marketing/advertising. The people who can't afford 75 euros for a basic set top box are going to be uninteresting to your customers (the advertisers) as they won't have money for luxuries... who cares if you lose them as viewers.
Nonsense. Cablecompanies are not the same as the media companies. My local (dutch) cable company actually gave decoders away to all subscribers. No premium subscription necessary. They do have their reasons though. They're non-profit. By giving everyone their decoder free they can more easily reduce their analog offering (went down to 24 channels). And with digital they have bandwidth for lots of extra channels that they can sell to various special interest groups: generic, maroccan, hindu, chinese, religious premium packages now exist. This of course not so much to increase profit, but to grow their organization.
If I remember correctly, the central chip (not the CPU) that did graphics and played central IO bus in the O2 has a 1500 pin ball grid array, which seems awfully similar to this LGA stuff.
The O2 was released around 1997? A brilliant design that resulted in a very badly performing cruddy system.
For people wondering how much further this can go? Well, at least 300 pins more than AMD is cramming in now, and that with 8 years old technology.
My prediction: the US will become a *very interesting place* within two years or so now. Watch what happens socially once the housing bubble pops and petroleum cracks 100$/barrel.......just a hunch, hope I am wrong of course.
I'm not sure about 2 years, but with current export deficits and lending/spending behaviour, the rest of the world may stop financing the US at some point. If that happens total collapse of civilisation is a real posibility. Imagine what would happen if the poorest 20% start using their saturday night specials in all out revolution?
100kips is actually enough to get 1Gbps throughput. 1 ethernet packet = 1500 bytes = 12k bits. 100k ethernet packets are 1.2Gbits.
In practice (did some testing 2 years ago, on very modern hardware for the time) you can do 70 MB/s NFS on an untuned Linux box. By tuning buffersizes and using jumboframes (9kB ethernet packets instead of 1.5kB) you can get 110MB/s which is amazing if you realize what kind of everhead is in that transfer (NFS, RPC, TCP, IP, Ethernet).
city of size of Seoul or Amsterdam suddenly wires up 10-15% of No, Amsterdam is 6-7% of.nl. But to be fair, all of the Randstad metropolitan area is basically one big city with a very large part of dutch population. And even rural areas in.nl are not exactly empty.
> I would also like to note that Microsoft has
> been quite forthcoming with details and
> admitting the problems and fixing them.
No they have not. This afternoon (about 8 hours ago) a Microsoft spokesman said on dutch radio that it was extremely unlikely that there would ever be a security hole in Passport. If I understand correctly, Microsoft already knew about this leak at that time. Once again, they've shown themselves liars and cheaters.
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Because it makes Americans look like ignorant idiots who do not realize there's places outside the glorious US of A? If you don't care, fine, but it's something that would motivate me.
Tob
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Actually it is. There's nothing that will teach students the importance of civil liberties the way a case like this does.
In my high school there was an official school paper (De Tand) that toed the party line. Students started producing their own paper(Bernrode Actueel), but after some criticism of teachers were forbidden to hand them out in school. They just started handing them out just outside the school gates. A few years later Bernrode Actueel replaced De Tand, and to the best of my knowledge it still has that place, 20 years later.
Stuff like that has taught me a lot about the world in a setting that is relatively safe.
Regards,
Tob
But this happens, a lot. Some countries have gay marriage. Other more backward countries do not recognize these marriages. And in these cases the people involved can't even remarry in those countries.
Tob
IANAL, but I thought in most countries attorney-client priviledge is not applicable to future (planned) crimes or crimes in progress.
Regards,
Tob
Tha clerk's a reader, not an poster.
Tob
I don't think so. The fact that it's legal does not make much difference in practice. Doctors will still keep you from killing you if they think you are not mentally capable to make a balanced decision. And wanting to kill yourself is in general a good indicator of being incapable (exceptions excluded of course).
I have no idea why reported suicide rates are higher here. Perhaps it is just an artificial difference cause by the fact that it's illegal (and immoral!) in the US, resulting in underreporting suicide. I know that a few decades ago it was much more common here for doctors to lie about the cause of death to save the family embarrasment.
This is the age old misunderstanding that forbidding something makes it occur less.
- The Netherlands has very permissive abortion laws, Ireland very restrictive. Ireland has (used to have? see note 1) much higher abortion rates. It is commonly thought that there's an indirect cause and effect where more restrictive morals reduce education.
- The Netherlands has a very different drug policy, separating soft (marihuana and friends) and hard (coke, heroine) drugs. Because of that we have fewer drugs related problems. Result may not be much less drugs use (don't know recent statistics), but it does mean the problems are better managed.
Regards,
Tob
Note 1: Teenage pregnancy rates have gone up enormously recently. This has been mostly due to 'foreign' (what's the english word for allochtoon, non-aboriginal?) population. I don't know if abortion rates have gone up at the same time.
Taking a life? The life's mine, it should be mine to do with as I choose, at least if I'm mentally capable to make such a decision.
In most countries the state has stolen their civilians' lives by not allowing them humane deaths in the face of incurable illness. I'd rather pay more tax.
Suicide is not a crime in the Netherlands. Euthanasia under strict guidelines is legal. Assisting a suicide can be a crime.
I'd like to find the country that has the death penalty for attempted suicide.
Regards,
Tob
Furthermore, in real languages 'there is' would actually be correct. It's only one couple. Is 'there are a couple' actually correct in all variants of english, or is this another difference between english and merkin?
Regards,
Tob
In normal speech it means quite a bit more. It may be the language barrier, but where I come from it means about the same as 'extreme', being about as far from the norm as you can get.
Extreme standpoints are unreasonable, not per definition, but in practice. If we had a world filled with radicals, it would be a very unpleasant place.
Regards,
Tob
Sorry, but this just makes no sense. I always thought that being radical anything means you are not a reasonable person?
Regards,
Tob
My system was much more 'ingenious', it involved connected the earth and the moon together through 2 huge semi-circular bars, with giant generators at the poles. Slightly harder to build than a normal space elevator, but could theoretically be made strong enough to keep the moon from crashing down. :)
Tob
I count at least 10 in about 25 years (dos/win3/win95/win98/winMe/NT3/NT4/W2k/XP/2k3), leaving out many early and minor versions.
Regards,
Tob
I 'invented' this as a 10 year old (26 years ago), but even at that age I realised it was a bad idea.
:)
:)
At about the same time, I invented a system to take energy from the moon rotating around the earth. Figuring out why that would be a bad idea is left as an excercise for the reader, although the name 'Chicken Little' come to mind. I'm sure somebody is patenting this now as we speak though.
I really should start patenting all my 'great' ideas.
Wouldn't solar panels be a cheaper, more efficient, perhaps even sensible, solution. I know they do use them for low power roadside equipment like parking ticket dispensers. Should cause less wear and tear as well, although 2 m^2 solar panels mounted on streetlight might be a hurricane hazard in some areas.
Regards,
Tob
Republic (res publica) and democracy (demos kratos) just mean the same thing. The one coming from latin, the other from ancient greek.
.nl (as in many european countries) we have a monarch (queen) and republicans are those who'd rather have her and her family retire to somewhere else.
The inferred difference as if republic means a representative system and democracy a direct system is not something I ever heard before.
In ancient greece they did have direct democracies in some states for some time. At other times they had elected officials and still called it a democracy.
In Europe the difference between a republic and a not-republic is whether you have a president or a monarch. In
These monarchies are still governed by democratically elected officials, and we still call them democracies, as we do republics like france and germany.
Regards,
Tob
Is that what happened in Paris?
Tob
Nonsense. Cablecompanies are not the same as the media companies. My local (dutch) cable company actually gave decoders away to all subscribers. No premium subscription necessary. They do have their reasons though. They're non-profit. By giving everyone their decoder free they can more easily reduce their analog offering (went down to 24 channels). And with digital they have bandwidth for lots of extra channels that they can sell to various special interest groups: generic, maroccan, hindu, chinese, religious premium packages now exist. This of course not so much to increase profit, but to grow their organization.
Regards,
Tob
Tivo is Philips is dutch. I still have not seen Tivo systems for sale in the Netherlands. Your theory does not hold.
Tob
If I remember correctly, the central chip (not the CPU) that did graphics and played central IO bus in the O2 has a 1500 pin ball grid array, which seems awfully similar to this LGA stuff.
The O2 was released around 1997? A brilliant design that resulted in a very badly performing cruddy system.
For people wondering how much further this can go? Well, at least 300 pins more than AMD is cramming in now, and that with 8 years old technology.
Tob
I'm glad I'm on the other side of the pond.
Tob
Currently the US is one of the main human rights violating countries with the stuff that's happening in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and even domestically.
Tobias
100kips is actually enough to get 1Gbps throughput. 1 ethernet packet = 1500 bytes = 12k bits. 100k ethernet packets are 1.2Gbits.
In practice (did some testing 2 years ago, on very modern hardware for the time) you can do 70 MB/s NFS on an untuned Linux box. By tuning buffersizes and using jumboframes (9kB ethernet packets instead of 1.5kB) you can get 110MB/s which is amazing if you realize what kind of everhead is in that transfer (NFS, RPC, TCP, IP, Ethernet).
Tobias
city of size of Seoul or Amsterdam suddenly wires up 10-15% of .nl. But to be fair, all of the Randstad metropolitan area is basically one big city with a very large part of dutch population. And even rural areas in .nl are not exactly empty.
No, Amsterdam is 6-7% of
Tob
As most ( soon all, 'for their safety' ) schools have cameras everywhere...
:P
Not in developed countries they don't. Yes, I mean what I say, and the aid-workers are on their way.
Tob
Broccade is the biggest, some would say best and only, FC-AL (SAN) switch manufacturer. There is competition, but I've never seen any in the wild.
Tobias
> I would also like to note that Microsoft has
> been quite forthcoming with details and
> admitting the problems and fixing them.
No they have not. This afternoon (about 8 hours ago) a Microsoft spokesman said on dutch radio that it was extremely unlikely that there would ever be a security hole in Passport. If I understand correctly, Microsoft already knew about this leak at that time. Once again, they've shown themselves liars and cheaters.