In Belgium my bank (Fortis and probably all others) doesn't send out the pins anymore. They let you collect your card at the bank and let you put in a pin right there and then.
Given how practically every female main character seems to attract 3rd-party nude patches, and their advertising campaign being entirely based around "Look, Girls!!!", it's hard to believe they didn't see it coming.
Can't this be a ploy to get more press? More press = more sales (especially because people now know there are "forbidden" nude patches)
Yes, I do consider current moral an evolution to the better. Why? Simply because nudity is nothing to be ashamed of, we are all born the same way: nude. I'm sure that, were nudity considered natural and not obscene, there would be far fewer sex crimes.
Yes, the (Catholic) church sponsored a lot of religuous nude art because ie in the middle ages nudity was common, most farmers and their family worked their fields naked (to spare their clothes).
It was only when the puritan era began that the church began to perceive nudity as sinful.
Tell me, why is a picture of or seeing a breast in the nude considered more harmfull than seeing someones brains splattered over the screen?
Today, the majority of people (in Europe) aren't shocked at the depiction of nude people in statues, paintings,...
But there were other times, when nude statues/paintings were altered to "protect the innocent". There are even cases of nude crucifixes being alterd with a loin cloth.
Luckily, the morals have evolved beyond the hypocrisy of the church of old times
In the Ypres (South West Belgium) region (the scene of the first ever gas attack) every year several hundred unexploded shells of every kind are dug up by farmers.
This is 90 years after the start of WWI and still they are as dangerous as when they were fired. It's been a while since someone was killed but still
Achieving power by means of money (All your examples are about power bought with money, not necessarily money that is theirs)
Achieving power by means of having, preferably large, groups of people hearing AND subscribing to your thoughts.
E.g. I don't think dat Ghandi or King were, very, rich men but they did have a large following.
So, I think, that RMS has some of the second form of power. This kind of power is, as far as I'm concerned, the better kind (although it is as easy to abuse once you have a very large following AND can also easily turn into the first form of power)
If I started a business selling ten dollar bills for 9 dollars, I'm sure I'd have lots of revenue. I don't think anyone would say I was making money though.
Exactly, the German army, albeit the most modern and surely the most mechanized army of it's day in Europe, relied heavily on horses.
But in 1940 their panzers were inferior to e.g. the French, unfortunately the French used them in a way that was outdated (only in support of infantry, WWI style) while the Germans used them in a superior way (as the spear point of their army).
for example tracking people with a mortgage on a national level is done so that not-so-bright people do not get a second mortgage if they already are at their financial limit with the first one.
To be more precise it's just about every loan (personal, mortgage, credit opening,...) that is logged.
There is a positive and negative side to the registry (it's called the positive credit registry)
And believe me it is necessary, I work for a small bank and someone applied for a loan, when his credentials were checked with the registry it became obvious he had 14 applications or outstanding credits...
Needless to say another credit was promptly refused
Now more to the point, I doubt the Belgian government would be able to do anything with the collected information given the latest fuck up with the computerised administration for enterprises...
Well, in the Belgian Parliament an "interpellatie" (Dutch but origins probably French)is just questions asked about a subject in progress by members of parliament to members of the administration.
What you describe is done in special commissions being formed after events have happened (like e.g. the Ruanda genocide in the '90 or the Dutroux affair)
In Belgium we have ifpi (sorry Dutch or French) who a couple of years ago announced the very same thing as the RIAA is into now in the States. Apparently they collected several hundred/thousand of IP-adressess from people who shared and announced they would file a complaint against them.
A few days later the justice minister declared in parliament, after being interpellated (is this the same thing in English) that they had no plans whatsoever to go after (prosecute) file sharers as this was considered a priority of the lowest level.
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Maybe it's simply amusement? Not to be taken serious?
In Belgium my bank (Fortis and probably all others) doesn't send out the pins anymore. They let you collect your card at the bank and let you put in a pin right there and then.
It's called culture ... or the differences in cultures around the globe.
Can't this be a ploy to get more press? More press = more sales (especially because people now know there are "forbidden" nude patches)
The, ancient, Greek predate the "paradise" story by at least 1000 years.
Yes, I do consider current moral an evolution to the better.
Why? Simply because nudity is nothing to be ashamed of, we are all born the same way: nude.
I'm sure that, were nudity considered natural and not obscene, there would be far fewer sex crimes.
Yes, the (Catholic) church sponsored a lot of religuous nude art because ie in the middle ages nudity was common, most farmers and their family worked their fields naked (to spare their clothes).
It was only when the puritan era began that the church began to perceive nudity as sinful.
Tell me, why is a picture of or seeing a breast in the nude considered more harmfull than seeing someones brains splattered over the screen?
Today, the majority of people (in Europe) aren't shocked at the depiction of nude people in statues, paintings, ...
But there were other times, when nude statues/paintings were altered to "protect the innocent". There are even cases of nude crucifixes being alterd with a loin cloth.
Luckily, the morals have evolved beyond the hypocrisy of the church of old times
albeit a very narrow one ...
burg in German is castle, berg in German has exactly the same meaning as in Dutch: Mountain.
In the Ypres (South West Belgium) region (the scene of the first ever gas attack) every year several hundred unexploded shells of every kind are dug up by farmers.
This is 90 years after the start of WWI and still they are as dangerous as when they were fired. It's been a while since someone was killed but still
Exactly, as Gaim has plugin support why not do a plugin for a/v ?
Power comes in many different forms:
Achieving power by means of money (All your examples are about power bought with money, not necessarily money that is theirs)
Achieving power by means of having, preferably large, groups of people hearing AND subscribing to your thoughts.
E.g. I don't think dat Ghandi or King were, very, rich men but they did have a large following.
So, I think, that RMS has some of the second form of power. This kind of power is, as far as I'm concerned, the better kind (although it is as easy to abuse once you have a very large following AND can also easily turn into the first form of power)
Wouldn't it be much much simpler just resizing the browser window to 800x600? That's the way I do it ...
That's how some money launderers operate.
Nah, the last part was just /me venting my disdain for paedophiles
Well, for every kiddie porn picture downloaded, somewhere a child was abused.
People who abuse children are the lowest of life forms and should either be put away for life (and preferably castrated) or downright eliminated.
Exactly, the German army, albeit the most modern and surely the most mechanized army of it's day in Europe, relied heavily on horses.
But in 1940 their panzers were inferior to e.g. the French, unfortunately the French used them in a way that was outdated (only in support of infantry, WWI style) while the Germans used them in a superior way (as the spear point of their army).
To be more precise it's just about every loan (personal, mortgage, credit opening,
There is a positive and negative side to the registry (it's called the positive credit registry)
And believe me it is necessary, I work for a small bank and someone applied for a loan, when his credentials were checked with the registry it became obvious he had 14 applications or outstanding credits
Needless to say another credit was promptly refused
Now more to the point, I doubt the Belgian government would be able to do anything with the collected information given the latest fuck up with the computerised administration for enterprises
Well, in the Belgian Parliament an "interpellatie" (Dutch but origins probably French)is just questions asked about a subject in progress by members of parliament to members of the administration.
What you describe is done in special commissions being formed after events have happened (like e.g. the Ruanda genocide in the '90 or the Dutroux affair)
In Belgium we have ifpi (sorry Dutch or French) who a couple of years ago announced the very same thing as the RIAA is into now in the States. Apparently they collected several hundred/thousand of IP-adressess from people who shared and announced they would file a complaint against them.
A few days later the justice minister declared in parliament, after being interpellated (is this the same thing in English) that they had no plans whatsoever to go after (prosecute) file sharers as this was considered a priority of the lowest level.
How's that for egg on the face?
Actually no, it's more similar to the Dutch word "kroep" which is a nasty disease (as someone mentioned here before)
kroep is a folkname for diphtheria (sp?) of the upper airways.
I imagine since Dutch and German are, very, close relatives it has exactly the same meaning.
An unfortenate working title to say the least
Actually, I think you could do both.
I think the added security (beds switched between chambers) in a hospital setting is absolutely necessary.
When in doubt the tag on the patients wrist has precedence.
In the article they mention the use of this in a hospital to push patient information to a handheld the doctor is carrying when doing rounds.
Instead of triangulating (requiring more power) wouldn't it be simpler and possibly quicker to outfit each bed with e.g. a rfid tag?
This seems an overly complex solution to a, relatively, simple problem.
The rfid would also be a plus when the patient is being transfered in his bed (from his room to the or)
Yes, the Swiss balloonist Picard (Bertrand not Jean-Luc)and the Brit Brian Jones did it, in 1999 I believe.
See the following link: Balloonists soar into history
Isn't Hormel suing because Spam Arrest trademarked the name "Spam Arrest", since SPAM would already be trademarked by Hormel.