I've been told by many reliable sources, including Iraqi expats, that Iraqi women were very emancipated by Arab standards (and even some Western standards) before this whole Saddam mess. Most of the older female Iraqi expats I know are either medical doctors or engineers (educated in Iraq), and the impression I got from them was that it was not all that uncommon for women to choose these kinds of careers. It will be interesting to see what will happen to the girls and women of Iraq now, and what kind of careers the girls and young women end up choosing.
...are the ones on this Norwegian job-hunting site set up for expats. People can leave their CVs there and I've taken a look at some of them.
Aside from things like too much information (3+ pages without any real reason to have such a long CV) and very poor layout, I've seen CVs in Norwegian written by expats where the Norwegian is well beyond abysmal. And of course in some section or other, the person in question claims to be fluent in Norwegian.
Brilliant score - kudos to Howard Shore! Such powerful music is rare in these times when "music" is more about shaking your ass and tits on MTV than creating something that sends that chill up your spine, that takes your breath away, that fills you with emotions...
Congrats to the rest of the ROTK gang as well! Good going!
We have laws (and moral and ethics) to deal with the not-so-great aspects.
Where are you in the world that you can afford to make such a statement? Do you believe that privacy protection works where you are?
So, if you do not want WalMart or anyone else to infringe on your privacy then get some goddamn laws to protect your privacy
In certain countries, as long as privacy protection stands in the way of profits (among other things), there will be either little or no interest in creating strong privacy laws, as the politicians are luxury whores purchased by big business. They don't care about "the people" or their right to privacy.
- beacuse your REAL concern is protecting your privacy, not the usage of the next-gen barcode.
So you believe that privacy protection and the use of RFID tags are completely separate things that don't cross and affect one another?
Early in the article, we read: Consumer advocates, meanwhile, wanted to know whether the chips would invade customers' privacy.
Yes, we want to know whether the chips would invade customers' privacy. Yet nowhere in the article is this issue truly addressed. Privacy is again mentioned further down in the article:
RFID has a dazzling allure in the retail industry, where enthusiasts envision every product having a digital tag instead of a bar code. A can of soda, for instance, could be tracked from manufacture to warehouse to store to a customer's RFID-equipped refrigerator.
That scenario unnerves privacy advocates, who worry about a corporation's being able to track a customer's every move.
Wal-Mart's plan, thus far, is nowhere close to that vision, Dillman said in an interview at the company's northwest Arkansas headquarters.
Does the "thus far" bother you as much as it bothers me? They say that the chips will be attached to boxes/packages/crates, not individual products. Great for people who buy individual products rather than by the box or crate (yeah, some people do buy crates of pop or deodorant or whatever). And even if the chips are only on crates now, how long will it be until chips on the individual products is the rule, not the exception? Because those without chips on individual products would be deemed as "in the technological dark ages?" "Left behind?"
I thought about that, at the very least calling my answering machine and spewing out my ideas. But I have this feeling that all I'm going to get is some kind of gurgled blah blah blah blah...kind of like the adults in the Peanuts cartoons on TV.
Otherwise, a voice recorder can be fun to have when your SO is talking in his sleep. Or for proving once and for all that his snoring is loud enough to wake the dead...
I'll tell ya what sucks. Waking up in the middle of the night with all the world's greatest ideas and solutions to all the world's problems, and 1) not having a pencil and some paper nearby to write these ideas down, 2) being too lazy/groggy to get up and look for a pencil and paper, and 3) falling back asleep only to have forgotten everything when the alarm goes off.
What's worse is when you actually do have pencils and paper nearby and you manage to scribble something down at 3 am., it's either illegible or utterly surreal at 8 am.
He was elected in a democratic election. There may have been problems with that election, he may not have had the popular vote, but he was elected by a democratic proccess,
Please explain to me (and I'm sure many others here) how the electoral college system is "democratic." Because I don't think it is. Bush was elected by the electoral college, not by the people. Had it been an election by the people for the people, Gore would be president.
Well, my travel habits are personal and the airline tickets I buy are between me and the airline only. My shopping habits are personal, what I read is personal, who I associate with is personal, etc. For others, including and especially the government, this information is none of your fucking business.
If the government/police want information on my habits, they better damn well be using it in connection with a real investigation on me, with specific charges. And this information had better damn well benn obtained via court order.
Privacy policies in the US aren't worth the bandwidth they waste. And they will continue to be worthless unless they're backed by strong national (not just state) privacy legislation similar to the Norwegian Personal Data Act or the EU Personal Data Directive.
That way, people don't have to be worried about "loopholes" in privacy policies such as the one indicated in a NYT article on the same subject:
The company said in a statement: "Our privacy policy commits Northwest not to sell passenger information to third parties for marketing purposes. This situation was entirely different, as we were providing the data to a government agency to conduct specific scientific research related to aviation security and we were confident that the privacy of passenger information would be maintained."
According to for example Norwegian law, this transfer would be unlawful unless the data subjects consented to the transfer.
I just read this article about an accidental genetic engineering of a two-headed fluorescent zebrafish. The hope is to use research results to develop drugs to cure muscular dystrophy.
While aerobic exercise is good for aiding in fat loss, muscle-building exercise is better in the long run, as muscle increases metabolism and fat burning, even when you're not exercising.
The traditional way of doing aerobics (low impact long duration) only burns fat for the duration of the session but it doesn't do anything for after you have exercised. It has been shown in lots of peer-reviewed studies that high-intensity interval training (mix of sprints and lower intensity running/cycling etc) is superior for fat burning because after a workout session, your body continues to burn fat, whereas you do not achieve this during a low impact low intensity workout.
One thing to think about - look at sprinters and look at marathon runners. Sprinters are lean and mean. They train for explosive power. Marathon runners on the other hand, while skinny, are rather flabby...
...that I can get fit and strong by playing computer games the same way I can get a six pack while watching TV by wearing one of those electro-shock belts?
You'll notice that the only group of people he didn't mention were the p2p users themselves.
I did notice this and I was going to mention it but decided not to. I was afraid I was going to be asked what I'm about to ask you. How will you do it? Who are you going to pick as the p2p users representatives? What will be the criteria? Or will any p2p user be allowed to attend, as long as there are enough seats?
Is there a p2p user interest organization in existence?
The Minnesota Republican said the answers to protecting copyrighted material are more likely to be found through technological innovation rather than passage of more laws.
Yes...and...
"I believe we need the technology experts, the computer industry, the peer-to-peer industry, the software industry, the entertainment industry, the privacy experts and the business experts to come together and discuss positive and meaningful solutions to this challenge facing a major segment of our economy," said Coleman.
Finally, someone who is on the right track, thinking rationally. It is important to have matter-of-fact, and hopefully civilized discussion with all the parties involved in this manner. My belief is the only way you'll find the answers to protecting copyrighted material is to involve everyone from the techies to the entertainment industry to privacy experts and everyone in between. You are not going to find answers by writing one-sided laws and suing 6th graders and pensioners.
I'm not sure what's going to come out of a meeting like this. My pessimistic side is afraid it's going to end up being more for show than anything. Lip service galore. But we'll see...
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I've been told by many reliable sources, including Iraqi expats, that Iraqi women were very emancipated by Arab standards (and even some Western standards) before this whole Saddam mess. Most of the older female Iraqi expats I know are either medical doctors or engineers (educated in Iraq), and the impression I got from them was that it was not all that uncommon for women to choose these kinds of careers. It will be interesting to see what will happen to the girls and women of Iraq now, and what kind of careers the girls and young women end up choosing.
Are there any female Linux users/Linux Users Group members in Iraq? If so, how many? How old are they?
Aside from things like too much information (3+ pages without any real reason to have such a long CV) and very poor layout, I've seen CVs in Norwegian written by expats where the Norwegian is well beyond abysmal. And of course in some section or other, the person in question claims to be fluent in Norwegian.
Congrats to the rest of the ROTK gang as well! Good going!
I can see it now. Mars water for longevity weight loss penis-enchancement boob-growth SPAM!
Where are you in the world that you can afford to make such a statement? Do you believe that privacy protection works where you are?
So, if you do not want WalMart or anyone else to infringe on your privacy then get some goddamn laws to protect your privacy
In certain countries, as long as privacy protection stands in the way of profits (among other things), there will be either little or no interest in creating strong privacy laws, as the politicians are luxury whores purchased by big business. They don't care about "the people" or their right to privacy.
- beacuse your REAL concern is protecting your privacy, not the usage of the next-gen barcode.
So you believe that privacy protection and the use of RFID tags are completely separate things that don't cross and affect one another?
Yes, we want to know whether the chips would invade customers' privacy. Yet nowhere in the article is this issue truly addressed. Privacy is again mentioned further down in the article:
RFID has a dazzling allure in the retail industry, where enthusiasts envision every product having a digital tag instead of a bar code. A can of soda, for instance, could be tracked from manufacture to warehouse to store to a customer's RFID-equipped refrigerator.
That scenario unnerves privacy advocates, who worry about a corporation's being able to track a customer's every move.
Wal-Mart's plan, thus far, is nowhere close to that vision, Dillman said in an interview at the company's northwest Arkansas headquarters.
Does the "thus far" bother you as much as it bothers me? They say that the chips will be attached to boxes/packages/crates, not individual products. Great for people who buy individual products rather than by the box or crate (yeah, some people do buy crates of pop or deodorant or whatever). And even if the chips are only on crates now, how long will it be until chips on the individual products is the rule, not the exception? Because those without chips on individual products would be deemed as "in the technological dark ages?" "Left behind?"
Otherwise, a voice recorder can be fun to have when your SO is talking in his sleep. Or for proving once and for all that his snoring is loud enough to wake the dead...
What's worse is when you actually do have pencils and paper nearby and you manage to scribble something down at 3 am., it's either illegible or utterly surreal at 8 am.
Please explain to me (and I'm sure many others here) how the electoral college system is "democratic." Because I don't think it is. Bush was elected by the electoral college, not by the people. Had it been an election by the people for the people, Gore would be president.
...they will have the right to vote. No taxation without representation.
I thought it was adults that pretended to be thirteen year old boys and girls...
and porn star boobs. They'll never leave their cell...
Make them use the products they push. Each and every one...
*sigh*
Show of hands for all of you out there who are sick and tired of reading stuff like this combined with lack of action to deal with the matter.
If the government/police want information on my habits, they better damn well be using it in connection with a real investigation on me, with specific charges. And this information had better damn well benn obtained via court order.
That way, people don't have to be worried about "loopholes" in privacy policies such as the one indicated in a NYT article on the same subject:
The company said in a statement: "Our privacy policy commits Northwest not to sell passenger information to third parties for marketing purposes. This situation was entirely different, as we were providing the data to a government agency to conduct specific scientific research related to aviation security and we were confident that the privacy of passenger information would be maintained."
According to for example Norwegian law, this transfer would be unlawful unless the data subjects consented to the transfer.
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, reports from the women themselves, etc.
Here's an example of Saudi Arabian barbarism towards women and girls: Religious police make girls die in fire because they aren't wearing headscarves
I just read this article about an accidental genetic engineering of a two-headed fluorescent zebrafish. The hope is to use research results to develop drugs to cure muscular dystrophy.
The traditional way of doing aerobics (low impact long duration) only burns fat for the duration of the session but it doesn't do anything for after you have exercised. It has been shown in lots of peer-reviewed studies that high-intensity interval training (mix of sprints and lower intensity running/cycling etc) is superior for fat burning because after a workout session, your body continues to burn fat, whereas you do not achieve this during a low impact low intensity workout.
One thing to think about - look at sprinters and look at marathon runners. Sprinters are lean and mean. They train for explosive power. Marathon runners on the other hand, while skinny, are rather flabby...
Woohoo! Bring it on!
I did notice this and I was going to mention it but decided not to. I was afraid I was going to be asked what I'm about to ask you. How will you do it? Who are you going to pick as the p2p users representatives? What will be the criteria? Or will any p2p user be allowed to attend, as long as there are enough seats?
Is there a p2p user interest organization in existence?
Yes...and...
"I believe we need the technology experts, the computer industry, the peer-to-peer industry, the software industry, the entertainment industry, the privacy experts and the business experts to come together and discuss positive and meaningful solutions to this challenge facing a major segment of our economy," said Coleman.
Finally, someone who is on the right track, thinking rationally. It is important to have matter-of-fact, and hopefully civilized discussion with all the parties involved in this manner. My belief is the only way you'll find the answers to protecting copyrighted material is to involve everyone from the techies to the entertainment industry to privacy experts and everyone in between. You are not going to find answers by writing one-sided laws and suing 6th graders and pensioners.
I'm not sure what's going to come out of a meeting like this. My pessimistic side is afraid it's going to end up being more for show than anything. Lip service galore. But we'll see...
And yes, they're for my nephews and nieces!
Amateurs! I know people who are on for longer than 15.8 hours per day!