"The directive calls for collection points to be established where consumers can hand in used batteries - including those from toys, computers or mobile phones - and obliges shops to collect used batteries from consumers at no extra cost."
So basically when you go to buy new batteries, there will probably be a box to deposit old ones in.
Under the proposed legislation cordless power tools, medical equipment, and emergency or alarm systems will be excluded from the limits for mercury and cadmium.
I've already recieved one on the 9th April 2006 with my full name in the subject: "Important infomation to Mr Gavin {my surname}." and also in the body:
" Dear Gavin {my surname} ,
I am Barrister Atiko Benson, a senior advocate,personal attorney to Mr.Andrew {my surname},who used to work with Shell Development Company in Lome Togo. Herein after shall be referred to as my client.
On the 21st of April 2001, my client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a gastly car accident..."{continue classic nigerian scam}.
Similarly we've had several reports in the press about MI5/6 agents/staff leaving their laptops in Taxi's - whenever data is portable it is at risk of loss or theft...
They may have higher priced alcohol, but as I don't drink much Sweden is sounding more tempting than remaining in the UK, where some old musician (no doubt backed by our local music copyright organisation) is trying to extend the length of copyright again - as he neglected to save enough for his retirement...
Try this, given that it only shows 44 errors (compared to 80/115/120 using other doc types), I presume this is what the charset/doctype were supposed to be:
Some of the higher ranking offices are paid over £80,000 ($140,000 / Euro 116,000), although they are obviously relatively few, but glancing over any of the ranks that you could reach after a few years in the service a salary of £20-25,000 ($35-45,000 / Euro 30-36,000) is not unusual. Plus, as has been mentioned, there are the food, housing, clothing and laundary, training, and no doubt other costs I haven't thought of...
And I thought I was the only one worried about this when I read the article...
"In 2002, after weighing the report of the Rumsfeld space commission, President Bush withdrew from the 30-year-old Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which banned space-based weapons."
This seems to be a growing trend of seperatism by the US government. Treaties only have strength if a majority of nations sign up. It's similar with the Kyoto Agreement, US self-interest again rules, and with it the chances of trying to manage the future of the planet slip away.
"Rods From God, aims to hurl cylinders of tungsten, titanium or uranium from the edge of space to destroy targets on the ground, striking at speeds of about 7,200 miles an hour with the force of a small nuclear weapon."
So, if you lived in one of these countries that the US considers 'bad' (yes, some do have dictatorships which I disagree with, but the majority of people just live their lives...), wouldn't you want your government to match the US weaponary so the US wouldn't dare use it?
Hell, I live in the UK, one of the least likely targets for the US to attack, and I'm scared about this.
As for the supposed threat from China - I think they are more interested in their economic future and trading relations. War is bad for business, and as long as we don't try and bring down their (admittedly dictatorship) government, they are happy to just keep on as they are now...
All I can see this doing is pushing other non-allied countries (and maybe some of the allies too) to rush to get their own weapons into space to take out the US ones, target the US in another MAD scenario, or just keep up appearances and bluffing.
> If enough people (the masses) are doing something illegal, wouldn't that send out a very clear message > that something is wrong with the definition of legal?
Like how it is illegal to copy a cassette or video off a friend? (at least in UK law).
It would probably just make it less enforced as the courts go after bigger criminals, like the companies doing large scale pirating, not the home user who copies the occasional cassette.
I can only speak for the UK, but we have credit histories here. If you mess up, credit companies will be able to see it for ages... I can't recall what effect the data protection act has in relation to this though, appart from the obvious "access to data about yourself..."
ONE: Enough other nations start to catch up to the US and the USSR to put their feet to the fire
Europe and China are both making efforts to have a bigger presence in space and space exploration. However, I have yet to see sign of either of the superpowers hurrying on space exploration in reply to China's (or any other countries) blossoming space exploration. I also believe that Europe is sending (or has launched)a probe to Mars...
> Meanwhile, back in England, the people once defeated by an armed populous still take a dim
> view of citizens having the means to violently overthrow their divinely-ordained rulers, no
> matter how oppressive those rulers become.
Excuse me, but most people here don't look back that far into history when they decide whether guns are right or wrong. One of the reasons (IMO) that we take a dim view of public bearing arms is that we regularly hear stories on the news from the US like "12 dead as child pulls gun in school"; "Ex-employee shoots 4 colleagues dead"; etc. Also, closer to home, Northern Irelands long standing conflict has probably had an effect.
Strangely Slashdot's quote of the moment when I read you comment was:
"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. -- Abigail Van Buren"
If you've read (or in my case are waiting to read) Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel "The truth" you would know: 'the truth' is of course what the media publish. Then there's what actually happened...
Thank you for getting that in. I was about to say the same thing when I saw you'd got there first.
What the people in other countries don't understand when they get funny about TV licences is that the BBC is a publicly funded service and as such has (some) accountability to the public and what they want from it.
The BBC is also a big publisher of educational materials, and actually has a specific educational broadcasts slot each Sunday morning from the Open University (the main Campus of which is located in the city that I live in). I believe that, without the public funding, they would be less inclined to give back to the public in this way...
(I posted this on dumb laws in August, as a rebuttal that it was a 'dumb law', but no one came back to me: On their suggestions board )
>Highlight with the left button and paste with the middle button.
...Except when you highlight with the left button and press ctrl-c then have to paste with ctrl-v; or highlight with the left button and paste with the right button (yes I have a 3-button mouse...).
Until Windows Millenium, I used Win95 (B) because I found it more stable than Win98(+SE). I had no problems with installing up to date OpenGL support (although my current machine will quite happily run anything in software mode...).
Win2K I like (and use as my desktop at work), but I could not get it to run the correct graphics drivers without crashing, even the recent ones...
On the Linux side (just to show I'm not one OS man), I'm working with Mandrake 7.2 at the moment to try and set it up how I want it.
>users would be forced to learn something about computers.
Oh I can just see it now:
User accosts me as I am passing.
"My computer crashed, so I copied the core dump and emailed it to you, OK? Oh and then I reformated the disk, only... What do you mean I shouldn't have those Micky Mouse fridge magnets on top? They look nice..."
I've got the earlier GForce256. Although I downloaded the NVidia Linux (XFree 4) drivers I have yet to get them working.
However, after I installed Mandrake 7.2 it used the (S)VGA driver and still gave me 1024x768 at a decent colour depth, so I haven't bothered. Can't get Parsec's Lan demo working on it, but that isn't a problem...
My suggestion would be to go with Mandrake (or any other ditribution that manages this - I haven't tried many others, having switched after Redhat 6.2). KDE 2 (included) also has a 'control panel' and between that and DrakConf it provides a fairly easy way to configure a fair amount of stuff. I did have an issue creating a ReiserFS drive with DiskDrak (would not format - had to do it from a console), but unless you plan to try that you should be fine.
Slashdot Mirror
This seems fairly straight-forward:
"The directive calls for collection points to be established where consumers can hand in used batteries - including those from toys, computers or mobile phones - and obliges shops to collect used batteries from consumers at no extra cost."
So basically when you go to buy new batteries, there will probably be a box to deposit old ones in.
Under the proposed legislation cordless power tools, medical equipment, and emergency or alarm systems will be excluded from the limits for mercury and cadmium.
You shouldn't need to do a dist-update, upgrade should be fine - debian maintainers will almost ceratainly backport this if required.
I've already recieved one on the 9th April 2006 with my full name in the subject: "Important infomation to Mr Gavin {my surname} ." and also in the body:
" Dear Gavin {my surname} ,
I am Barrister Atiko Benson, a senior advocate,personal attorney to Mr.Andrew {my surname},who used to work with Shell Development Company in Lome Togo. Herein after shall be referred to as my client.
On the 21st of April 2001, my client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a gastly car accident..."{continue classic nigerian scam}.
I hope it would support British English correctly, else:
"One Hundred and Nineteen Pounds":
119#s
"Backspace, Backspace, left, left, left, Pound":
#119
"Backspace, Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Character Map, down, down, down, down, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, select, copy, close, paste":
£119
Ouch... Think 'repetative forehead banging injury'.
Similarly we've had several reports in the press about MI5/6 agents/staff leaving their laptops in Taxi's - whenever data is portable it is at risk of loss or theft...
They may have higher priced alcohol, but as I don't drink much Sweden is sounding more tempting than remaining in the UK, where some old musician (no doubt backed by our local music copyright organisation) is trying to extend the length of copyright again - as he neglected to save enough for his retirement...
Try this, given that it only shows 44 errors (compared to 80/115/120 using other doc types), I presume this is what the charset/doctype were supposed to be:
t tle-ok.gov%2F&charset=iso-8859-1&doctype=HTML+4.01 +Transitional
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftu
On a side note - why won't the euro symbol appear in comments - or at least it didn't in preview?
Here is the "Armed Forces Pay Review Body Report" with all the details you could want (note: PDF).
Some of the higher ranking offices are paid over £80,000 ($140,000 / Euro 116,000), although they are obviously relatively few, but glancing over any of the ranks that you could reach after a few years in the service a salary of £20-25,000 ($35-45,000 / Euro 30-36,000) is not unusual. Plus, as has been mentioned, there are the food, housing, clothing and laundary, training, and no doubt other costs I haven't thought of...
In a situation like that, your peers _are_ the international community. Judgement by those who are not parties to the issue.
And I thought I was the only one worried about this when I read the article...
"In 2002, after weighing the report of the Rumsfeld space commission, President Bush withdrew from the 30-year-old Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which banned space-based weapons."
This seems to be a growing trend of seperatism by the US government. Treaties only have strength if a majority of nations sign up. It's similar with the Kyoto Agreement, US self-interest again rules, and with it the chances of trying to manage the future of the planet slip away.
"Rods From God, aims to hurl cylinders of tungsten, titanium or uranium from the edge of space to destroy targets on the ground, striking at speeds of about 7,200 miles an hour with the force of a small nuclear weapon."
So, if you lived in one of these countries that the US considers 'bad' (yes, some do have dictatorships which I disagree with, but the majority of people just live their lives...), wouldn't you want your government to match the US weaponary so the US wouldn't dare use it?
Hell, I live in the UK, one of the least likely targets for the US to attack, and I'm scared about this.
As for the supposed threat from China - I think they are more interested in their economic future and trading relations. War is bad for business, and as long as we don't try and bring down their (admittedly dictatorship) government, they are happy to just keep on as they are now...
All I can see this doing is pushing other non-allied countries (and maybe some of the allies too) to rush to get their own weapons into space to take out the US ones, target the US in another MAD scenario, or just keep up appearances and bluffing.
Try Czech:
Strc prst skrz krk (Czech sentence: "Put your finger through your throat")
from http://www2.iap.fr/users/esposito/words.html
> If enough people (the masses) are doing something illegal, wouldn't that send out a very clear message
> that something is wrong with the definition of legal?
Like how it is illegal to copy a cassette or video off a friend? (at least in UK law).
It would probably just make it less enforced as the courts go after bigger criminals, like the companies doing large scale pirating, not the home user who copies the occasional cassette.
Reminds me of this Userfriendly strip.
I can only speak for the UK, but we have credit histories here. If you mess up, credit companies will be able to see it for ages... I can't recall what effect the data protection act has in relation to this though, appart from the obvious "access to data about yourself..."
ONE: Enough other nations start to catch up to the US and the USSR to put their feet to the fire
Europe and China are both making efforts to have a bigger presence in space and space exploration. However, I have yet to see sign of either of the superpowers hurrying on space exploration in reply to China's (or any other countries) blossoming space exploration. I also believe that Europe is sending (or has launched)a probe to Mars...
> Meanwhile, back in England, the people once defeated by an armed populous still take a dim
> view of citizens having the means to violently overthrow their divinely-ordained rulers, no
> matter how oppressive those rulers become.
Excuse me, but most people here don't look back that far into history when they decide whether guns are right or wrong. One of the reasons (IMO) that we take a dim view of public bearing arms is that we regularly hear stories on the news from the US like "12 dead as child pulls gun in school"; "Ex-employee shoots 4 colleagues dead"; etc. Also, closer to home, Northern Irelands long standing conflict has probably had an effect.
Strangely Slashdot's quote of the moment when I read you comment was:
"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. -- Abigail Van Buren"
which I feel was somewhat appropriate...
If you've read (or in my case are waiting to read) Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel "The truth" you would know: 'the truth' is of course what the media publish. Then there's what actually happened...
Thank you for getting that in. I was about to say the same thing when I saw you'd got there first.
What the people in other countries don't understand when they get funny about TV licences is that the BBC is a publicly funded service and as such has (some) accountability to the public and what they want from it.
The BBC is also a big publisher of educational materials, and actually has a specific educational broadcasts slot each Sunday morning from the Open University (the main Campus of which is located in the city that I live in). I believe that, without the public funding, they would be less inclined to give back to the public in this way...
(I posted this on dumb laws in August, as a rebuttal that it was a 'dumb law', but no one came back to me: On their suggestions board )
>Highlight with the left button and paste with the middle button.
...Except when you highlight with the left button and press ctrl-c then have to paste with ctrl-v; or highlight with the left button and paste with the right button (yes I have a 3-button mouse...).
Confused?
Until Windows Millenium, I used Win95 (B) because I found it more stable than Win98(+SE). I had no problems with installing up to date OpenGL support (although my current machine will quite happily run anything in software mode...).
Win2K I like (and use as my desktop at work), but I could not get it to run the correct graphics drivers without crashing, even the recent ones...
On the Linux side (just to show I'm not one OS man), I'm working with Mandrake 7.2 at the moment to try and set it up how I want it.
>If you make a system so easy an idiot can use
>it, you should not be surprised that idiots are
>using it.
Hmm... So the kick-arse graphics card driver programmer who can't find how to configure his linux box to be really secure is an idiot?
>users would be forced to learn something about computers.
Oh I can just see it now:
User accosts me as I am passing.
"My computer crashed, so I copied the core dump and emailed it to you, OK? Oh and then I reformated the disk, only... What do you mean I shouldn't have those Micky Mouse fridge magnets on top? They look nice..."
(So speaks a harassed Sys Admin)
I've got the earlier GForce256. Although I downloaded the NVidia Linux (XFree 4) drivers I have yet to get them working.
However, after I installed Mandrake 7.2 it used the (S)VGA driver and still gave me 1024x768 at a decent colour depth, so I haven't bothered. Can't get Parsec's Lan demo working on it, but that isn't a problem...
My suggestion would be to go with Mandrake (or any other ditribution that manages this - I haven't tried many others, having switched after Redhat 6.2). KDE 2 (included) also has a 'control panel' and between that and DrakConf it provides a fairly easy way to configure a fair amount of stuff. I did have an issue creating a ReiserFS drive with DiskDrak (would not format - had to do it from a console), but unless you plan to try that you should be fine.