I know you said 'virtually' all, but Australia and New Zealand certainly doesn't subsidise agriculture. In fact, its the main leader of the 'Cairns Group' (even the name is Australian), which wants to abolish agricultural subsidies in WTO countries.
The article that you provided did not provide any empirical research evidence that violence rose after the UK gun ban.
Instead, it provided anecdotal evidence that, "in my [the authors'] own experience counselling victims of crime in recent years, there has also recently been a marked increase in the use or the threatened use of dangerous weapons in burglaries and common assaults". The author does not attribute this to the UK gun ban or any form of gun control whatsoever.
This is in comparison to a number of empirical academic studies including the following which support the gun control hypothesis:
Gary Kleck and E. Britt Patterson (1993), "The Impact of Gun Control and Gun Ownership Levels on Violence Rates", Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 9(3) - this study found that gun prevalance did not decrease violence within a community, but gun control did effectively control 7 forms of crime effectively
A. Chapdelaine and P. Maurice (1996) , "Firearms injury prevention and gun control in Canada", Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol 155, Issue 9, p 1285-1289 - "The cost of the consequences of the improper use of firearms in Canada has been estimated at $6.6 billion per year. There is a correlation between access to guns and risk of death. The mere presence of a firearm in a home increases the risk of suicide, homicide and "accidental" death."
While this is a pleasing decision, as an Australian I am still appalled by the lack of even fair use rights in our copyright laws. It's technically illegal to backup our CDs or tape shows off of TV. It's absolutely ridiculous.
There are some corporations who make enormous amounts of money doing the same thing as Nick (or pretending to do it).
Some examples:
* News Corporation * Time Warner * Vivendi Universal * New York Times Co.
They would all love an investigative journalist with experience in the industry... Being sued is no obstacle to employment, especially as this suit is unlikely to be successful - its more a telltale sign that you're getting good stories.
Yeah, the same thing happens here in Australia... except the sopranos is usually at 10:30.... No soft core though, unless you count Channel 10's obsession with Jennifer Hawkins arse.
One sign that Intel is having trouble dancing to technology's current beat may be the world's most expensive disco ball.
For a company holiday party next month, a handful of engineers assembled a disco ball - with hundreds of small reflective devices - to hang above the dance floor. The mirrors are leftover projection-television chips from Intel's planned effort to enter the digital television market - an effort the company recently abandoned only 10 months after a splashy introduction at the Consumer Electronics Show last January.
The TV effort became yet another in a series of embarrassing stumbles for Intel. The company has publicly canceled a succession of high-profile projects, has replaced managers in money-losing ventures and has fallen behind its keen competitor Advanced Micro Devices in introducing technologies, like a feature that wards off viruses and worms, in markets that Intel has long dominated.
A.M.D. has been so successful in stealing the spotlight from Intel lately that Kevin B. Rollins, the president of one of Intel's biggest customers, Dell Computer, said at a financial conference call this month that Dell was considering adding computers with A.M.D. chips to its product line.
For two decades, Intel has been the most sure-footed of Silicon Valley companies. But lately, it seems to have lost its way. "They have made many wrong decisions and now it's time for soul-searching and structural, not cosmetic, changes," said Ashok Kumar, a financial analyst at Raymond James & Associates.
This all portends an interesting inauguration for Intel's 50-year-old president, Paul S. Otellini, the longtime Intel marketing executive tapped by the board this month to become only the fourth chief executive in the company's history.
Mr. Otellini does not officially take the job until May. But next week in one of his first official acts as the designated chief executive, he plans to present his strategy to Wall Street analysts. He may have a lot to answer for, including the 25 percent decline in Intel's stock price this year.
Mr. Otellini will tell analysts that he plans to focus on four areas for growth: international markets for desktop personal computers, mobile and wireless applications, the digital home, as well as a new initiative aimed at large corporate computing markets that Intel is calling the Digital Office.
The strategy is a significant shift - a "right-hand turn," as Mr. Otellini likes to say - from Intel's long-term obsession with making ever-faster computer chips. Instead, the company is now concentrating on what he calls platforms: complete systems aimed at both computing and consumer electronics markets.
Mr. Otellini insists that the recent missteps, including the premature introduction he himself made of the digital project, are simply a result of over-optimistic marketing.
"What was wrong was that I made the decision to go public on it at the Consumer Electronics Show," he said in a recent interview in Intel's Santa Clara headquarters. "Error of judgment. Mea culpa. I learned a lesson."
The decision to preannounce an unproven technology was an uncharacteristic one for Intel, said G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research Inc., and a longtime observer of the company. However, he said, it has been Mr. Otellini's ascendancy at the company that has changed the way it markets technology.
"As he came into power Intel tried to become a more aggressive marketing company," he said. "They never seemingly made mistakes before and that was simply because they didn't preannounce. This is the classic failure of a company where the marketing guys are pushing the manufacturing guys more than what's there."
Intel is still a technology giant, the global leader in semiconductors, with revenue last year of more than $30 billion. The company retains an unrivaled manufacturing capacity, control of a powerful desktop computing standard, and an enviable international growth rate which shows no sign of slowing anytime soon.
But some of the company's marketing problems may become more acute before they are re
Centrelink will only use the least effective and highest cost system, otherwise Australians might actually get paid the welfare the government promises.
And that would mean more ditzy daqiuri doddering dole deadbeats.
So, my fellow Slashdotters, expect a system employing Windows Advanced Server 2003, with.NET extensions and implemented by John Howard's kid's spam company.
Slashdot Mirror
I know you said 'virtually' all, but Australia and New Zealand certainly doesn't subsidise agriculture. In fact, its the main leader of the 'Cairns Group' (even the name is Australian), which wants to abolish agricultural subsidies in WTO countries.
Instead, it provided anecdotal evidence that, "in my [the authors'] own experience counselling victims of crime in recent years, there has also recently been a marked increase in the use or the threatened use of dangerous weapons in burglaries and common assaults". The author does not attribute this to the UK gun ban or any form of gun control whatsoever.
This is in comparison to a number of empirical academic studies including the following which support the gun control hypothesis:
- A. Chapdelaine and P. Maurice (1996) , "Firearms injury prevention and gun control in Canada", Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol 155, Issue 9, p 1285-1289 - "The cost of the consequences of the improper use of firearms in Canada has been estimated at $6.6 billion per year. There is a correlation between access to guns and risk of death. The mere presence of a firearm in a home increases the risk of suicide, homicide and "accidental" death."
Get some REAL evidence and then make your claims.>> I wish they would make a Metal iPod. >It's called the iPod mini. Which is no longer manufactured
Or Richard Nixon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NixonResignati onLetter.gif):
Dear Mr Secretary:
I hereby resign the Office of President of the United States.
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
While this is a pleasing decision, as an Australian I am still appalled by the lack of even fair use rights in our copyright laws. It's technically illegal to backup our CDs or tape shows off of TV. It's absolutely ridiculous.
What about Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan? :P
No. It's still invite only.
Take one and try it out: http://mail.google.com/mail/a-29268a69d8-b67e279c4 4-c24c8d5d08
There are some corporations who make enormous amounts of money doing the same thing as Nick (or pretending to do it).
Some examples:
* News Corporation
* Time Warner
* Vivendi Universal
* New York Times Co.
They would all love an investigative journalist with experience in the industry... Being sued is no obstacle to employment, especially as this suit is unlikely to be successful - its more a telltale sign that you're getting good stories.
Yeah, the same thing happens here in Australia... except the sopranos is usually at 10:30.... No soft core though, unless you count Channel 10's obsession with Jennifer Hawkins arse.
Soviet Russia jokes are soooooooo 2003. You gotta go with the in Korea jokes.
In Korea, satellite radio is for old people!
One sign that Intel is having trouble dancing to technology's current beat may be the world's most expensive disco ball. For a company holiday party next month, a handful of engineers assembled a disco ball - with hundreds of small reflective devices - to hang above the dance floor. The mirrors are leftover projection-television chips from Intel's planned effort to enter the digital television market - an effort the company recently abandoned only 10 months after a splashy introduction at the Consumer Electronics Show last January. The TV effort became yet another in a series of embarrassing stumbles for Intel. The company has publicly canceled a succession of high-profile projects, has replaced managers in money-losing ventures and has fallen behind its keen competitor Advanced Micro Devices in introducing technologies, like a feature that wards off viruses and worms, in markets that Intel has long dominated. A.M.D. has been so successful in stealing the spotlight from Intel lately that Kevin B. Rollins, the president of one of Intel's biggest customers, Dell Computer, said at a financial conference call this month that Dell was considering adding computers with A.M.D. chips to its product line. For two decades, Intel has been the most sure-footed of Silicon Valley companies. But lately, it seems to have lost its way. "They have made many wrong decisions and now it's time for soul-searching and structural, not cosmetic, changes," said Ashok Kumar, a financial analyst at Raymond James & Associates. This all portends an interesting inauguration for Intel's 50-year-old president, Paul S. Otellini, the longtime Intel marketing executive tapped by the board this month to become only the fourth chief executive in the company's history. Mr. Otellini does not officially take the job until May. But next week in one of his first official acts as the designated chief executive, he plans to present his strategy to Wall Street analysts. He may have a lot to answer for, including the 25 percent decline in Intel's stock price this year. Mr. Otellini will tell analysts that he plans to focus on four areas for growth: international markets for desktop personal computers, mobile and wireless applications, the digital home, as well as a new initiative aimed at large corporate computing markets that Intel is calling the Digital Office. The strategy is a significant shift - a "right-hand turn," as Mr. Otellini likes to say - from Intel's long-term obsession with making ever-faster computer chips. Instead, the company is now concentrating on what he calls platforms: complete systems aimed at both computing and consumer electronics markets. Mr. Otellini insists that the recent missteps, including the premature introduction he himself made of the digital project, are simply a result of over-optimistic marketing. "What was wrong was that I made the decision to go public on it at the Consumer Electronics Show," he said in a recent interview in Intel's Santa Clara headquarters. "Error of judgment. Mea culpa. I learned a lesson." The decision to preannounce an unproven technology was an uncharacteristic one for Intel, said G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research Inc., and a longtime observer of the company. However, he said, it has been Mr. Otellini's ascendancy at the company that has changed the way it markets technology. "As he came into power Intel tried to become a more aggressive marketing company," he said. "They never seemingly made mistakes before and that was simply because they didn't preannounce. This is the classic failure of a company where the marketing guys are pushing the manufacturing guys more than what's there." Intel is still a technology giant, the global leader in semiconductors, with revenue last year of more than $30 billion. The company retains an unrivaled manufacturing capacity, control of a powerful desktop computing standard, and an enviable international growth rate which shows no sign of slowing anytime soon. But some of the company's marketing problems may become more acute before they are re
It's because Google is one of the mighty forces of good fighting the evils of the world, Microsoft and AOL. Duh.
Centrelink will only use the least effective and highest cost system, otherwise Australians might actually get paid the welfare the government promises.
.NET extensions and implemented by John Howard's kid's spam company.
And that would mean more ditzy daqiuri doddering dole deadbeats.
So, my fellow Slashdotters, expect a system employing Windows Advanced Server 2003, with
Let me put it this way:
A proud American guy might say "I root for that team"
A far, far more proud Australian guy might say "I rooted all the cheerleaders of that team"
Have a good day rooting for whomever you please!
Aaron
Instead of Google reading your e-mail, the Mossad will. You mean instead of the NSA...