It's funny that I keep hearing all the time how we should have the same labour regulation of the US, because companies need to be able to fire anyone they please at their whims, because then they'll be less fussy about hiring people and that will lower the unemployment rate.
Why should I be trolling? We have a constitution, and the right to privacy is there. And we have a labour legislation that guarantees employers don't have fuck to do with their employees private lives. We don't need to write a specific law for something that's blatantly abusive!
I'm pretty sure the IMF will say something about that. And our puppet government will immediately create a law that forces every Portuguese to buy a certain monthly quantity of overpriced CDs containing shitty French and German music.
The billions of euros that we, the Portuguese taxpayers, dumped into saving banks? Banks that got themselves in dire straits because of serious criminal activities that lasted for years, right under the nose of the supervision authorities?
Just don't come here to work. Business and State are completely disorganised and pay is absolute shit, unless you are an executive. In that case, please come. We desperately need competent management. Not sure if the useless bloodsuckers we have now will yield their comfortable positions easily, though...
I can use encryption as much as I want just like I can keep anything I want inside my house
You can use encryption all you want--except when it matters: to keep your information secure from the government.
Yeah, because the big bad government is out to get ya! Did you forget to take your Lithium today?
Ah, I love the smell of anti-European bigotry in the morning. Yeah, we're truly miserable here
You are; I lived in Europe for many years, and my family immigrated from there. And the funny thing is that you're so ignorant, you don't even know what's going on in your own continent.
So, we're miserable? I wonder which European country you lived in, Albania? You bitch about big bad European governments wanting to spy on your data but you're so smug about living in the... USA??? WTF?
Recovering the wiped disks is a trivial job for the police so, if that's what happened, you not only have a corrupt congressman but also a really stupid one.
How does it translate to "encryption is illegal in Europe"???
If you keep your data encrypted and don't reveal it to the police, you get thrown in jail.
That doesn't make any sense. I can use encryption as much as I want just like I can keep anything I want inside my house. But if there's a judicial warrant to search my house, how is that different from searching my data? Jumping from that to the conclusion that "encryption is illegal in Europe" is simply a stupid exaggeration of somebody who desperately wants to bash Europe.
Seems pretty straightforward. I can't see anything unusual about this
If you're European, that is hardly surprising.
Ah, I love the smell of anti-European bigotry in the morning. Yeah, we're truly miserable here, I wish I could be free as a bird, just like you Americans with your Guantanamo, extraordinary renditions, illegal wiretapping, the TSA, and so on.
GP clearly said 'time value of money'. This sort of analysis is not presented by you. Therefore, your results are not comparable to his. If you are not familiar with this, essentially it is saying that 1 euro today is worth 1.25 euros tomorrow.
You're mistaking the Euro zone for Venezuela. We don't have that much inflation. Besides, the price of electricity and the price of incandescent lamps will go up with time too, so what's the big deal?
If you want to go so anal about it, nothing can really replace incandescent lights. But why would I want to emulate sunlight in my living room when I'm watching TV at night? Only to give me permanent insomnia.
Granted, cheap CFL and LED lamps have horrible CRI, so go and buy reasonable quality lamps. That's what I do. If you're really really anal, go spend a fortune in HQI halogens. Like every thing in life, it's a matter of a compromise between the results you want and the expense you're willing to pay for.
People, businesses and municipalities have been installing LED lighting like there's no tomorrow, here. I guess they made the math and know what they're doing. It makes all sense where the lights have to be on for a long time. And it saves shitloads of money in lamp replacement logistics. Incandescent traffic lights break all the time. It must be a logistic nightmare to take care of it all.
LEDs are expensive as hell, but it all depends on how many hours per day the lamps will be on. At least where I live, electricity is very expensive. And the LED prices have been going down big time in the last months.
So, if police has a warrant they can force you to decrypt your data so they can look at them. I can't see anything unusual about this. How does it translate to "encryption is illegal in Europe"???
If you do the calculation, the real thing including time value of money, you'd see that incandescents do in fact cost the least, at the moment, to own and operate, at least in the U.S.
I actually did the calculations, and CFLs are cheaper. Just an example: A € 7 CFL costs less than ten € 1 incandescents, and saves 80% of the electricity.
The "energy spent like hell" was at the factory -- that's why they cost more. They take more energy to make. That's all there's to it. Just because the energy is spent elsewhere doesn't mean it's not spent and you of course pay for it. Up front, no less. Energy = money, in the grand scheme of things.
They cost more because they are more complex than incandescent, which are extremely simple. They have electronics, and they have glass tubes covered with fluorescent material. They don't spend all that energy producing a lamp! That's crazy.
As for incandescents needing to be replaced "all the time": for me they last about half as long as CCFLs do. Due to their low purchase cost, it's not an issue. And I do keep good track of it.
This is clearly bullshit, unless you buy shit cheap CFLs.
So, your whole post is just a pile of unsubstantiated bullshit. But you'll probably get modded up by the "Ugh, it saves energy, so it must be commie pot-smoking muslim abortionist lesbian america-hating faggy latte-drinking liberal smelly hippie, kill the muthafucka!" crowd.
Please stand by while we attempt to correct the problem...
You better do it. I'm Portuguese, I need some escaping routes;-) Canada was on one of the top items in my list until some time ago when I noticed what was going on there.
Still, I believe you'll be able to fix it there before we do it here...
I live in Europe and fail to see this "hoarding" thing. I call bullshit. Most people I know have been using CFLs for years. Who wants to use lamps that:
What happened over there in Canada? I mean, you actually voted for this scum. Were you bored of having one of the best standards of living in the world?
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Don't you have anything better to do, asshole?
It's funny that I keep hearing all the time how we should have the same labour regulation of the US, because companies need to be able to fire anyone they please at their whims, because then they'll be less fussy about hiring people and that will lower the unemployment rate.
Yeah, it shows pretty well.
Why should I be trolling? We have a constitution, and the right to privacy is there. And we have a labour legislation that guarantees employers don't have fuck to do with their employees private lives. We don't need to write a specific law for something that's blatantly abusive!
I think this may be a test to spot employees that will put the company's security at risk without even thinking twice about it.
I find it really incredible that you Americans need a specific law for this. This is outright illegal in my country.
Tell that to Brazil...
I'm pretty sure the IMF will say something about that. And our puppet government will immediately create a law that forces every Portuguese to buy a certain monthly quantity of overpriced CDs containing shitty French and German music.
Why would you want to come to Portugal? You already have what we have, great beaches and a shit economy.
He lives in Denmark. I'm pretty sure taxes are a lot lower here in Portugal. The same happens with salaries, though :-(
What bribe are you talking about?
The billions of euros that we, the Portuguese taxpayers, dumped into saving banks? Banks that got themselves in dire straits because of serious criminal activities that lasted for years, right under the nose of the supervision authorities?
Because that money was interest free.
Don't forget many others greats:
Just don't come here to work. Business and State are completely disorganised and pay is absolute shit, unless you are an executive. In that case, please come. We desperately need competent management. Not sure if the useless bloodsuckers we have now will yield their comfortable positions easily, though...
I figure this much is true... we have lost our greatest weapon against tyranny: A completely free press.
That's an illusion. The press is mostly in the hands of a few very powerful economic groups, more or less the same groups that own your government.
Not that it's any different around here in Europe, anyway.
I hope Romney wins, so drones can have open able windows, for a change.
You can use encryption all you want--except when it matters: to keep your information secure from the government.
Yeah, because the big bad government is out to get ya! Did you forget to take your Lithium today?
You are; I lived in Europe for many years, and my family immigrated from there. And the funny thing is that you're so ignorant, you don't even know what's going on in your own continent.
So, we're miserable? I wonder which European country you lived in, Albania? You bitch about big bad European governments wanting to spy on your data but you're so smug about living in the... USA??? WTF?
Recovering the wiped disks is a trivial job for the police so, if that's what happened, you not only have a corrupt congressman but also a really stupid one.
There's an old saying in my country that goes like this:
Quando um gajo não sabe foder, até os colhões atrapalham.
When a guy doesn't know how to fuck, even the balls get in the way.
How does it translate to "encryption is illegal in Europe"???
If you keep your data encrypted and don't reveal it to the police, you get thrown in jail.
That doesn't make any sense. I can use encryption as much as I want just like I can keep anything I want inside my house. But if there's a judicial warrant to search my house, how is that different from searching my data? Jumping from that to the conclusion that "encryption is illegal in Europe" is simply a stupid exaggeration of somebody who desperately wants to bash Europe.
Seems pretty straightforward. I can't see anything unusual about this
If you're European, that is hardly surprising.
Ah, I love the smell of anti-European bigotry in the morning. Yeah, we're truly miserable here, I wish I could be free as a bird, just like you Americans with your Guantanamo, extraordinary renditions, illegal wiretapping, the TSA, and so on.
GP clearly said 'time value of money'. This sort of analysis is not presented by you. Therefore, your results are not comparable to his. If you are not familiar with this, essentially it is saying that 1 euro today is worth 1.25 euros tomorrow.
You're mistaking the Euro zone for Venezuela. We don't have that much inflation. Besides, the price of electricity and the price of incandescent lamps will go up with time too, so what's the big deal?
If you want to go so anal about it, nothing can really replace incandescent lights. But why would I want to emulate sunlight in my living room when I'm watching TV at night? Only to give me permanent insomnia.
Granted, cheap CFL and LED lamps have horrible CRI, so go and buy reasonable quality lamps. That's what I do. If you're really really anal, go spend a fortune in HQI halogens. Like every thing in life, it's a matter of a compromise between the results you want and the expense you're willing to pay for.
People, businesses and municipalities have been installing LED lighting like there's no tomorrow, here. I guess they made the math and know what they're doing. It makes all sense where the lights have to be on for a long time. And it saves shitloads of money in lamp replacement logistics. Incandescent traffic lights break all the time. It must be a logistic nightmare to take care of it all.
LEDs are expensive as hell, but it all depends on how many hours per day the lamps will be on. At least where I live, electricity is very expensive. And the LED prices have been going down big time in the last months.
So, if police has a warrant they can force you to decrypt your data so they can look at them. I can't see anything unusual about this. How does it translate to "encryption is illegal in Europe"???
If you do the calculation, the real thing including time value of money, you'd see that incandescents do in fact cost the least, at the moment, to own and operate, at least in the U.S.
I actually did the calculations, and CFLs are cheaper. Just an example: A € 7 CFL costs less than ten € 1 incandescents, and saves 80% of the electricity.
The "energy spent like hell" was at the factory -- that's why they cost more. They take more energy to make. That's all there's to it. Just because the energy is spent elsewhere doesn't mean it's not spent and you of course pay for it. Up front, no less. Energy = money, in the grand scheme of things.
They cost more because they are more complex than incandescent, which are extremely simple. They have electronics, and they have glass tubes covered with fluorescent material. They don't spend all that energy producing a lamp! That's crazy.
As for incandescents needing to be replaced "all the time": for me they last about half as long as CCFLs do. Due to their low purchase cost, it's not an issue. And I do keep good track of it.
This is clearly bullshit, unless you buy shit cheap CFLs.
So, your whole post is just a pile of unsubstantiated bullshit. But you'll probably get modded up by the "Ugh, it saves energy, so it must be commie pot-smoking muslim abortionist lesbian america-hating faggy latte-drinking liberal smelly hippie, kill the muthafucka!" crowd.
Please stand by while we attempt to correct the problem...
You better do it. I'm Portuguese, I need some escaping routes ;-) Canada was on one of the top items in my list until some time ago when I noticed what was going on there.
Still, I believe you'll be able to fix it there before we do it here...
I live in Europe and fail to see this "hoarding" thing. I call bullshit. Most people I know have been using CFLs for years. Who wants to use lamps that:
What happened over there in Canada? I mean, you actually voted for this scum. Were you bored of having one of the best standards of living in the world?