Some (less than 10%...) of the "Fairtrade licence fee" goes indirectly to the farmers for training programs or communal infrastructure, but none directly as salaries or better prices. Most goes towards advertisement, awareness campaigns and administration in the consumer countries.
For evidence, just have a look at those fair trade associations' balance sheets... They don't have the fraud (obviously), but the part for advertisement and overhead is clearly visible. For indirect evidence of till tipping look for strange increases in expenditures for some services or supplies from one year to the next, especially where supplier happens to be related or married to a fairtrade employee and/or board member
Douchebags indeed. Did you know that the "extra" you pay for this free-trade coffee does not (directly) benefit the coffee farmers, but instead stays in the country of sale as a "licensing fee" for the local "fair trade association", which at best spends it on advertisements of the idea of fair-trade coffee, and at worst splits it amongst its board and senior staff via fake purchases of service?
Yes, but anything can trip a high acceleration value, so even if they have them, how do you propose differentiating the GPS falling to the ground because it wasn't placed correctly or someone hitting it with something by mistake with that swerve you were talking about?
Obviously, they will use built-in GPS units integrated into the dashboard, rather than those that you stick on the windshield with a suction cup.
Indeed, the biggest issue with external units are not falls, but rather "switched off and in the glove-box, because I'm just driving to work, and don't need satnav today".
Given how few people actually travelled on those rockets and space shuttels, those 17 lives are actually quite a huge percentage, much higher than any other mode of transportation.
The mechanims that the original posting paper is speculating, it that the way they made the graphene oxide (not pure graphene) membrane, it is has embedded capilaries which when wet (filled with water) allow for nearly unimpeded transport of water, but when these capilaries dry out, their diameter constricts so that nothing gets through (even helium).
... which would mean that helium dissolved in water would be able to pass (because there would still be enough water molecules to prop them tubes open), making it useless for filtering helium out of water.
Great if you just noticed that you accidentally typed your password into a non-obscured field while a coworker was looking over your shoulder...
That's when you call the IT help line and tell them you accidentally just shredded the post-it your new password was on.
Nice! Must remember this one:-)
Unless that's grounds for disciplinary action where you work... in which case, just say you forgot it.
Or even better: just forget about the incident... after all it's not your personal data that is at risk, but just the company's, and if the company doesn't care more, why should you?
See, they called Kader Arif a "Chief" when he's only the "rapporteur". From Techdirt on this subject [techdirt.com], 'A rapporteur is a person "appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue."', far from a "Chief".
maybe not a chief, but still a very important person to the proposal. The rapporteur is supposed to investigate the proposal, and then to present it to the deliberative body for approval, usually making a case in favor of the proposal. If now the rapporteur, who is supposed to defend the proposal, is already against it, this speaks volumes...
However, this doesn't mean that ACTA is dead yet. What will probably happen is that the MAFIAA will just chose another rapporteur (being more careful this time around...), and so the only effect will be that the vote will be slightly delayed, if even that.
The whole idea of a "news site" is to be openly accessible. A website on a non-standard port is still openly accessible, but only to those who know the site is accessibly through this port.
... and most importantly, it is only accessible to those not behind a coproate firewall which only lets 80 through.
This knowledge may either be direct or indirect (like through a link like here).
Well, the link was present in the Slashdot summary, so it's not a question about knowledge. And a link would have been needed even on a site hosted on port 80, as there are many pages on a site, and the link allows to directly go to the page of interest.
As for your open, trollishy questions, I'll say this. Many illegal activities that are performed on the web, regardless of their nature, do so on sites accessible only through nonstandard ports, like port 82, to hide the said activities from general view. Only those within intimate knowledge of the activities know the ports and can thus access those sites.
Indeed. Not only corporate firewalls think that all web sites are on port 80, so do many network sniffers. Thus using a non-standard port is a way to evade some of these sniffers.
Month 9: "New research suggests 95% of people have their password written on a post-it stuck to their screen!" ... which is understandable, because who is able to remember a password that is at least 8 characters long, no greater than 15 characters long, consist of letters and numbers, does not appear in any dictionary even if common number/letter substitutions are accounted for, does not contain the same character repeated more than twice, does not contain sequential letters or numbers, and is checked against the phone number we have on record for you to ensure it's not that, and which must change every 30 days (just when you got the hang of it) and can't use the same password twice in a year, nor any that is too similar to a previous one!
Keeping records of the last 12 passwords is flawed, you should keep record of infinite passwords for a predetermined period of time otherwise the user can simply change their password repeatedly to expire the old ones from the cache.
That's why the stupider systems not only have maximum password change intervals ("you must change your password at least once every 42 days") but also minimum change intervals ("you can't change your password if you already changed it today or yesterday").
Great if you just noticed that you accidentally typed your password into a non-obscured field while a coworker was looking over your shoulder...
As a point of fact, at the federal level and in many states judges are not elected. Instead they are appointed (by someone or some group that was also elected), and are basically set for life.
... and so they will stay forever faithful to whichever party appointed them, which is not necessarily a good thing either.
Indeed a president in office during a period where lots of Supremes happen to retire and/or die has suddenly the power to (indirectly) set judicial policy for the next 30 years or so...
The MAFIAA and these other organizations/business groups buy off everyone.
Everyone? They can't buy off the pirates, which are now popping up in every European country, and firmly intend to participate in the 2014 European elections...
Ok, so you may say, pirates are not in parliament yet, and 2014 will be too late to stop ACTA. However, even now, pirates are already creating enough of a stir that the current political parties are feeling compelled to adopt some of their stances about the internet. Case in point: the recent commemorations against "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" (preemptive data logging), where the pirates found some rather unlikely allies, including some parties who voted in favor of this directive 6 years ago
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If you can't read the line above. Then you don't have UV vision.
I can read it, and my answer is: you lose, Anonymous Coward was 1 minute faster than you!
For evidence, just have a look at those fair trade associations' balance sheets... They don't have the fraud (obviously), but the part for advertisement and overhead is clearly visible. For indirect evidence of till tipping look for strange increases in expenditures for some services or supplies from one year to the next, especially where supplier happens to be related or married to a fairtrade employee and/or board member
Nice Godwyn there, by the way.
douchebags buying free trade coffe
Douchebags indeed. Did you know that the "extra" you pay for this free-trade coffee does not (directly) benefit the coffee farmers, but instead stays in the country of sale as a "licensing fee" for the local "fair trade association", which at best spends it on advertisements of the idea of fair-trade coffee, and at worst splits it amongst its board and senior staff via fake purchases of service?
I guess the moral of the story is that if you are going to flee to another country, try some place like Canada or Sweden first.
But if you choose Sweden, keep away from the women.
... and if you chose Canada, be sure not to cross the almighty Rotary Club...
You mean, will that keyboard fit in your pocket?
yes
sausages should be made public.
There's an alarming quantity of websites where people do exactly that.
There are other sausages than black pudding...
...delivered by pony express.
a, so that what the cheesy blinkers are for!
Yes, but anything can trip a high acceleration value, so even if they have them, how do you propose differentiating the GPS falling to the ground because it wasn't placed correctly or someone hitting it with something by mistake with that swerve you were talking about?
Obviously, they will use built-in GPS units integrated into the dashboard, rather than those that you stick on the windshield with a suction cup.
Indeed, the biggest issue with external units are not falls, but rather "switched off and in the glove-box, because I'm just driving to work, and don't need satnav today".
Only 17 lives lost in 50 years means
Given how few people actually travelled on those rockets and space shuttels, those 17 lives are actually quite a huge percentage, much higher than any other mode of transportation.
Oopsie, just noticed, it actually sounds more like "lady working in the horizontal business", so maybe the feminists do have a point...
My face when you don't understand a homophonic joke.
Nice!
For the easily wooshed feminists : that's an n and "horti" sounds like "horse to".
They had a similar thingy for oceans that would blast high pressure air into the sea floor.
Wouldn't that attract Kraken?
How do you know? Nowhere did he say he thinks about men when doing this exercise...
The mechanims that the original posting paper is speculating, it that the way they made the graphene oxide (not pure graphene) membrane, it is has embedded capilaries which when wet (filled with water) allow for nearly unimpeded transport of water, but when these capilaries dry out, their diameter constricts so that nothing gets through (even helium).
... which would mean that helium dissolved in water would be able to pass (because there would still be enough water molecules to prop them tubes open), making it useless for filtering helium out of water.
And most importantly, it allows to feel the nice jet of warm liquid in your ass, but without any diseases passing along with it. Groovy!
What you need is to grow a pair and shoot the bastards responsible for this.
Unfortunately, here in Europe, we don't have a Second Amendment yet: we only get the crap laws from the US, never the good stuff!
Great if you just noticed that you accidentally typed your password into a non-obscured field while a coworker was looking over your shoulder...
That's when you call the IT help line and tell them you accidentally just shredded the post-it your new password was on.
Nice! Must remember this one :-)
Unless that's grounds for disciplinary action where you work... in which case, just say you forgot it.
Or even better: just forget about the incident... after all it's not your personal data that is at risk, but just the company's, and if the company doesn't care more, why should you?
See, they called Kader Arif a "Chief" when he's only the "rapporteur". From Techdirt on this subject [techdirt.com], 'A rapporteur is a person "appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue."', far from a "Chief".
maybe not a chief, but still a very important person to the proposal. The rapporteur is supposed to investigate the proposal, and then to present it to the deliberative body for approval, usually making a case in favor of the proposal. If now the rapporteur, who is supposed to defend the proposal, is already against it, this speaks volumes...
However, this doesn't mean that ACTA is dead yet. What will probably happen is that the MAFIAA will just chose another rapporteur (being more careful this time around...), and so the only effect will be that the vote will be slightly delayed, if even that.
The whole idea of a "news site" is to be openly accessible. A website on a non-standard port is still openly accessible, but only to those who know the site is accessibly through this port.
... and most importantly, it is only accessible to those not behind a coproate firewall which only lets 80 through.
This knowledge may either be direct or indirect (like through a link like here).
Well, the link was present in the Slashdot summary, so it's not a question about knowledge. And a link would have been needed even on a site hosted on port 80, as there are many pages on a site, and the link allows to directly go to the page of interest.
As for your open, trollishy questions, I'll say this. Many illegal activities that are performed on the web, regardless of their nature, do so on sites accessible only through nonstandard ports, like port 82, to hide the said activities from general view. Only those within intimate knowledge of the activities know the ports and can thus access those sites.
Indeed. Not only corporate firewalls think that all web sites are on port 80, so do many network sniffers. Thus using a non-standard port is a way to evade some of these sniffers.
"News sites" hosted on port 82 set off some alarm bells.
... and they also tend to crumble lots quicker under the slashdot...
Looks like a classic case of "Push the red button and then then run into hiding to avoid the angry mob".
Vada a bordo, cazzo!
Month 9: "New research suggests 95% of people have their password written on a post-it stuck to their screen!"
... which is understandable, because who is able to remember a password that is at least 8 characters long, no greater than 15 characters long, consist of letters and numbers, does not appear in any dictionary even if common number/letter substitutions are accounted for, does not contain the same character repeated more than twice, does not contain sequential letters or numbers, and is checked against the phone number we have on record for you to ensure it's not that, and which must change every 30 days (just when you got the hang of it) and can't use the same password twice in a year, nor any that is too similar to a previous one!
Keeping records of the last 12 passwords is flawed, you should keep record of infinite passwords for a predetermined period of time otherwise the user can simply change their password repeatedly to expire the old ones from the cache.
That's why the stupider systems not only have maximum password change intervals ("you must change your password at least once every 42 days") but also minimum change intervals ("you can't change your password if you already changed it today or yesterday").
Great if you just noticed that you accidentally typed your password into a non-obscured field while a coworker was looking over your shoulder...
As a point of fact, at the federal level and in many states judges are not elected. Instead they are appointed (by someone or some group that was also elected), and are basically set for life.
... and so they will stay forever faithful to whichever party appointed them, which is not necessarily a good thing either.
Indeed a president in office during a period where lots of Supremes happen to retire and/or die has suddenly the power to (indirectly) set judicial policy for the next 30 years or so...
The MAFIAA and these other organizations/business groups buy off everyone.
Everyone? They can't buy off the pirates, which are now popping up in every European country, and firmly intend to participate in the 2014 European elections...
Ok, so you may say, pirates are not in parliament yet, and 2014 will be too late to stop ACTA. However, even now, pirates are already creating enough of a stir that the current political parties are feeling compelled to adopt some of their stances about the internet. Case in point: the recent commemorations against "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" (preemptive data logging), where the pirates found some rather unlikely allies, including some parties who voted in favor of this directive 6 years ago