He must not be available in a country. Just point http://facebook.tr/ to a page explaining why you do not allow access anymore. Close shop there and be done with it.
And the explanation can be written in such a way that it is purely factual and will not offend anybody. e.g. Facebook is no longer able to operate in Turkey due to requests made by the Turkish government. We are sorry for this and hope to solve this as soon as possible.
Not admitting anything. Not offending anybody.
OTOH I would be jealous to not be living in a country without facebook.
This is so obviously bribery it isn't even funny anymore. Obviously nobody will do anything about that. There will be no investigation. There will be nobody actually trying to stop it.
The merger will go on and I would not be surprised if they did not even pay out their bribery.
I can imagine that some of the big shots will get a much larger bonus when the merger goes through.
I never have to pay for incoming calls (unless I am roaming in another country) here in Europe. So there is no cost. Yet I have NEVER received a cold call on my phone. Not once in the probably 10 years I have the number.
Either I am lucky, or cold calling is just not an issue in Belgium. I guess the reason is that calling me costs them money, not me. And the same price for them would happen if it were a mailbox or an actual call.
I can not speak for my land-line, as I do not have a phone connected to it. Just an ADSL modem.
I like it. Beauty is very personal. What they should do is have many different themes and easy to select, so people can choose what they want it to look like.
My issue, and this is not limited to Windows, is the use of the Toolbar. That think is almost always empty. e.g. this oneA pictogram, the name and three small things I can click. The image and the name is not something I need. That leaves the three buttons.
I rather use that space for something else. Lower the Minimize, Maximize and Close button and you have more space.
It will come. The thing is that those hotels depend heavily on corporate customers and they do not care as the company pays the bill.
To me what they charge is almost theft. Yes, there is some infrastructure ti be build, but nothing special. And then there is the cost of the line. Make that 500 EUR per month (On the high side) Now for a small hotel of say 100 rooms, that is 5 EUR per room for a month. Say 50% occupation and we get to 30 cents per day. Raise your price with 50 cents per room and you are making money, while including this.
For small hotels, the connection can be even cheaper. 50EUR for VDSL. That is probably less then what they pay in toilet paper.
That is 24%. That means your device could be 20% cheaper and they would STILL make more money then anybody else in percentage per product in the electronics world. So instead of 500USD for the Ipad2, you could be paying 400USD and they would still make money.
And some people don't think Apple is overpriced.
I bet the before and after tax is the same. Legal? Yes. Moral? Nope.
The main problem with rails is that you need a sliding contact.
You could use a wheel. As you will need at least three wheels and most likely more to hold the cage stable, each wheel could be a contact point and each rail could be a slider. Just look at any roller coaster and imagine the rails carrying the current and the wheels being the contact.
And even the slider has been resolved. Just look at trains.
The reason elevators use cables is because of the counterweight. That means less weight and thus less powerfull motors and thus cheaper.
However if the cable becomes heavier then the counterweight, it could become doable to use an on board electrical motor. The distance of 1 KM is nothing when you compare it to the distances metros, trams and trains travel each day.
Way more then just the website. More info on http://www.net-security.org/se... Not only the website, but "26,000 systems were found to be infected: email and share point servers, as well as the technical staff's workstations." Belgacom is the largest telecom operator and is also the largest ISP. I would guess almost all political individuals would at least use their phone system, but most likely also their internet.
Paranoia is when you THINK you are being watched. I KNOW I am being watched. Huge difference. People are getting fired because they said something on Facebook. Something people would never had to worry about in the past. You did something in a pub when drunk and a few people would laugh about it. Most would perhaps have no idea who you were and if you saw them at a job interview a week later and sober, they would have no idea. Now I have no idea if that will be the case. He could just have seen my picture on some random website.
So yeah, I WISH it was paranoia. Much more pleasant then what we have now.
And yet I do not post as AC. (Although perhaps I did and I am now replying to my own comment.)
This has nothing to do with Communism. It has everything to do with oversight and more about agencies abusing that oversight. Mind you, many western countries are running towards the same model where everybody is being watched and the slightest will make your life miserable. People will soon start to whisper. I already notice how I am wording things, because I know that in a few years what I said now WILL be used against me.
Would IPv6 not solve that? OTOH, why would providers go from IPv4 to IPv6 when soon there will be a shortage of numbers and they can charge (even more) extra for those who want a fixed IP with the excuse that they had with dial up.
Even now when I connect with my phone, I get a 10.x.x.x address. Why would they give up that control? I see only downsides for the providers and they are the ones that need to implement it.
Use it for road safety. e.g. make dangerous crossings less dangerous. Start building roundabouts with said money. Look where the dangerous points are and make them less dangerous.
One does not exclude the other. In Belgium the police often announces when they are going to do alcohol checks or speed checks. Many fixed camera's on the highway are indicated by signs that there is a camera. Next to that they also do unannounced speed controls. However that might be just a camera. On the radio they are often announced where they are. For that reason they stay there one or maximum two hours and go to the next place.
So one does not exclude the other. They can be out in public AND stealty at the same time.
As for the tickets. In Finland the tickets are linked to your income. So if some billionaire gets a ticket, he will pay a LOT and he will feel it. (No, he will not go bankrupt)
I am old and I don't know anybody personally in that range. And approaching does not mean you are there. And it get harder and harder to approach it.
When I look at the people that retired that I know and have done full payment on their house, then perhaps 500.000 EUR. And that is where the money is, in their houses.
For the Billionaire, it depends on how you got there. By itself it means nothing, but if you got it over the backs of others, then yes, that is a problem.
If you scam people and then get money from the government if your scam fails, you are a problem. If you buy out the government and get laws that favor you, but hurt all the rest, then you are a problem. If you are a shareholder in a company and you have millions your staff needs food coupons to survive, you are a problem.
Everybody knows that by just working hard, you won't become a billionaire. Perhaps a millionaire, but not a billionaire.
And sure, what they did might all be legal. But morality has nothing to do with legality.
I just bought my first Windows PC since Win95. The first thing I did was download a browser. The second thing i did was install Classic Shell on my 8.1.
That said, I never understood the 'start' button that is used on Linux as well. Why only one button? Luckily under XFCE I am able to have several 'start' buttons. Each one has a few programs that I often start grouped by how I like it. So no whole tree that I need to go past.
It is inferior in that when trying to do a middle click (e.g. for a paste function in Linux) you also do a scroll up or down. This means that you paste it to the wrong place. As this did not happened when there was no scroll.
If something is not an issue for you does not mean there is no issue for anybody.
I solved it by using a multi-button trackball and assigning the middle click to another button.
You can buy mice with more then 3 buttons. (4 and 5 often are scroll up and down). Buy one where your thumb also has a function like on on this one and there are many, many more mice like that. Cheap and expensive both.
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He must not be available in a country. Just point http://facebook.tr/ to a page explaining why you do not allow access anymore. Close shop there and be done with it.
And the explanation can be written in such a way that it is purely factual and will not offend anybody. e.g. Facebook is no longer able to operate in Turkey due to requests made by the Turkish government. We are sorry for this and hope to solve this as soon as possible.
Not admitting anything. Not offending anybody.
OTOH I would be jealous to not be living in a country without facebook.
This is so obviously bribery it isn't even funny anymore. Obviously nobody will do anything about that. There will be no investigation. There will be nobody actually trying to stop it.
The merger will go on and I would not be surprised if they did not even pay out their bribery.
I can imagine that some of the big shots will get a much larger bonus when the merger goes through.
I never have to pay for incoming calls (unless I am roaming in another country) here in Europe. So there is no cost. Yet I have NEVER received a cold call on my phone.
Not once in the probably 10 years I have the number.
Either I am lucky, or cold calling is just not an issue in Belgium. I guess the reason is that calling me costs them money, not me. And the same price for them would happen if it were a mailbox or an actual call.
I can not speak for my land-line, as I do not have a phone connected to it. Just an ADSL modem.
If only.
I like it. Beauty is very personal. What they should do is have many different themes and easy to select, so people can choose what they want it to look like.
My issue, and this is not limited to Windows, is the use of the Toolbar. That think is almost always empty. e.g. this oneA pictogram, the name and three small things I can click. The image and the name is not something I need. That leaves the three buttons.
I rather use that space for something else. Lower the Minimize, Maximize and Close button and you have more space.
Again: Not only a Windows issue.
It will come. The thing is that those hotels depend heavily on corporate customers and they do not care as the company pays the bill.
To me what they charge is almost theft. Yes, there is some infrastructure ti be build, but nothing special. And then there is the cost of the line. Make that 500 EUR per month (On the high side)
Now for a small hotel of say 100 rooms, that is 5 EUR per room for a month. Say 50% occupation and we get to 30 cents per day.
Raise your price with 50 cents per room and you are making money, while including this.
For small hotels, the connection can be even cheaper. 50EUR for VDSL. That is probably less then what they pay in toilet paper.
He won a prize, not a contract.
That is 24%. That means your device could be 20% cheaper and they would STILL make more money then anybody else in percentage per product in the electronics world.
So instead of 500USD for the Ipad2, you could be paying 400USD and they would still make money.
And some people don't think Apple is overpriced.
I bet the before and after tax is the same. Legal? Yes. Moral? Nope.
You could use a wheel. As you will need at least three wheels and most likely more to hold the cage stable, each wheel could be a contact point and each rail could be a slider.
Just look at any roller coaster and imagine the rails carrying the current and the wheels being the contact.
And even the slider has been resolved. Just look at trains.
The reason elevators use cables is because of the counterweight. That means less weight and thus less powerfull motors and thus cheaper.
However if the cable becomes heavier then the counterweight, it could become doable to use an on board electrical motor. The distance of 1 KM is nothing when you compare it to the distances metros, trams and trains travel each day.
And here I am, imagining Obama yelling : "GET OF MY LAWN!"
http://imgur.com/gallery/ILX0g... That is boston.
It could easily carry 3 or 4 nail files and we know how dangerous they are.
Minor slap? When did that happen? All I heard was that they were called a very, very naughty boy. A slap would be going in the right direction.
Way more then just the website.
More info on http://www.net-security.org/se...
Not only the website, but "26,000 systems were found to be infected: email and share point servers, as well as the technical staff's workstations."
Belgacom is the largest telecom operator and is also the largest ISP. I would guess almost all political individuals would at least use their phone system, but most likely also their internet.
Paranoia is when you THINK you are being watched. I KNOW I am being watched. Huge difference.
People are getting fired because they said something on Facebook. Something people would never had to worry about in the past. You did something in a pub when drunk and a few people would laugh about it. Most would perhaps have no idea who you were and if you saw them at a job interview a week later and sober, they would have no idea.
Now I have no idea if that will be the case. He could just have seen my picture on some random website.
So yeah, I WISH it was paranoia. Much more pleasant then what we have now.
And yet I do not post as AC. (Although perhaps I did and I am now replying to my own comment.)
Let the free market sort it out.
Let God sort it out.
Let Darwinism sort it out.
See? Everybody is against forbidding people into dangerous situations.
This has nothing to do with Communism. It has everything to do with oversight and more about agencies abusing that oversight.
Mind you, many western countries are running towards the same model where everybody is being watched and the slightest will make your life miserable. People will soon start to whisper. I already notice how I am wording things, because I know that in a few years what I said now WILL be used against me.
Would IPv6 not solve that? OTOH, why would providers go from IPv4 to IPv6 when soon there will be a shortage of numbers and they can charge (even more) extra for those who want a fixed IP with the excuse that they had with dial up.
Even now when I connect with my phone, I get a 10.x.x.x address. Why would they give up that control? I see only downsides for the providers and they are the ones that need to implement it.
Use it for road safety. e.g. make dangerous crossings less dangerous. Start building roundabouts with said money. Look where the dangerous points are and make them less dangerous.
But indeed do NOT give it to the police.
One does not exclude the other. In Belgium the police often announces when they are going to do alcohol checks or speed checks. Many fixed camera's on the highway are indicated by signs that there is a camera.
Next to that they also do unannounced speed controls. However that might be just a camera.
On the radio they are often announced where they are. For that reason they stay there one or maximum two hours and go to the next place.
So one does not exclude the other. They can be out in public AND stealty at the same time.
As for the tickets. In Finland the tickets are linked to your income. So if some billionaire gets a ticket, he will pay a LOT and he will feel it. (No, he will not go bankrupt)
I am old and I don't know anybody personally in that range. And approaching does not mean you are there. And it get harder and harder to approach it.
When I look at the people that retired that I know and have done full payment on their house, then perhaps 500.000 EUR. And that is where the money is, in their houses.
For the Billionaire, it depends on how you got there. By itself it means nothing, but if you got it over the backs of others, then yes, that is a problem.
If you scam people and then get money from the government if your scam fails, you are a problem. If you buy out the government and get laws that favor you, but hurt all the rest, then you are a problem. If you are a shareholder in a company and you have millions your staff needs food coupons to survive, you are a problem.
Everybody knows that by just working hard, you won't become a billionaire. Perhaps a millionaire, but not a billionaire.
And sure, what they did might all be legal. But morality has nothing to do with legality.
I just bought my first Windows PC since Win95. The first thing I did was download a browser. The second thing i did was install Classic Shell on my 8.1.
That said, I never understood the 'start' button that is used on Linux as well. Why only one button? Luckily under XFCE I am able to have several 'start' buttons. Each one has a few programs that I often start grouped by how I like it. So no whole tree that I need to go past.
It is inferior in that when trying to do a middle click (e.g. for a paste function in Linux) you also do a scroll up or down. This means that you paste it to the wrong place.
As this did not happened when there was no scroll.
If something is not an issue for you does not mean there is no issue for anybody.
I solved it by using a multi-button trackball and assigning the middle click to another button.
You can buy mice with more then 3 buttons. (4 and 5 often are scroll up and down). Buy one where your thumb also has a function like on on this one and there are many, many more mice like that. Cheap and expensive both.