In Belgium there is a ban on FREE plastic bags. So you need to pay for one. There are different qualities that you can get. The cheapest ones are 10 cents a piece. However when they are broken or used up, you can exchange them for a new one in some (all?) supermarkets.
The companies where heavily against it. This because is would cost them money. Belgium was not the first country doing this and yet I have not heard anything about such an issue of people.
So who is funding the paper? Could well be that the companies are behind it, so it can be used to get back to plastic and make some extra money.
For those that do not understand why this has +5 insightful, what FOSS really needs is marketing. The general public has no idea what FOSS is, so they are not looking for it. And even if they have the demands, they have no idea where to look.
I have had a CEO who was fed up with the fact that he needed to pay each time when we wanted to change something on the Intranet website. He told me he wanted to own it himself. When I asked more, what he was saying that he wanted to move away from one company to another. Once that was formulated, it was clear that he was looking for a FOSS solution without ever having been aware that it existed.
And yes, we were talking about free as in speech.
If FOSS would have some marketing, some people will listen to it outside the nerds. It will probably start with Open Standards.
If you work in a big company (i.e. an employee), it is not your patent. If you work FOR a big company (i.e. a contractor or as an employee that dispatched from a subcontractor or similar), it depends on what your contact says and the specific situation. I am a lawyer and I can advice you. (Hey, I am on the Internets. I can be anything I like.)
OK, I'll bit. %0 states and shades of gray. You know where I going with this, right?
Seriously, this is the main problem, I think. There are only two parties and they are almost identical. The discussions can be compared to talking if Pepsi or Coke is better, but leaving out all the other drinks.
This isn't a republic democracy. It is a farce that holds up an image as if you have anything to say.
In the past there were people who were not happy with the way their government was running things, so they threw them out and made a new one according to the best ability and the situation they had at that moment.
here is no reason not to do that again. Saying "But they did a great job 200+ years ago." is like saying "But we are a kingdom and that went great fr more then 200 years."
In many parts of the world you have different shades of grey and even though this will cause different issues, it is great to have a voice.
In Belgium somebody said, when we were having problems getting together a government for more then a year, "It would be easier if we had only two parties like in the US." My answer was that it would be easier, but it should just be easy. It should be just.
How do you vote if you are pro gun and pro gay rights? Are you sure that the person you vote for will vote for a president who has the same ideas? Does the party you vote for give you that option? Does that party have any chance of ever being part of a government?
In Europe there are people from the Pirate Party who have a seat in governments. There are people from all over the place representing the people.
Trow out the General Manager in charge. Get in a new one. Let him get the department back into shape. This will mean some people will leave and some will get a new responsibility. Some might get fired after a restructuring.
When you trow out both the GM and the people below, you are interest in cost, not in efficiency.
Please do not say this aloud. People might think you are a socialist and socialism is bad for the economy. Just look at socialist countries like Greece, Cuba, Spain and Sweden.
Is there a reason you can not offer the customer an option on how to pay? e.g. Various credit cards, BitCoin, Paypall, Bank order, On delivery,... Just like it is possible to make a choice on how you want it deliverd.
That way the customer has the choice. Sure, each has its advantages and disadvantages and it is then upon you to see how you deal with the possible extra cost (e.g. extra charge or reduction) and then let the customer make his choice.
So if you want it in 24 hours and you do not care what the cost is, you get some priority DHL delivery and pay with your AmEx card. If cost is the important part, you pay via bank (which is free of charge in e.g. Belgium, but takes at least two days to process from/to a business account due to legal stuff) and have the postal service do the delivery. That way you will wait probably 2 weeks or so and you need to be where the package is delivered. Otherwise you need to go to the postal office. Cheaper, but not as easy.
And then there are all the options in between.
As long as I am not loosing money on payment and delivery, if my primary goal is sales, then I do not care and have the customer make a choice.
Are you working for free? That means that you are paying for their security. Great if you are willing to do that, but it also means that if you are out of town on a holiday with no cell reception and there is an issue, who are they going to call?
And although this might be a fun project to work on, this is their livelihood you are experimenting with. And it is experimenting. Otherwise you would not ask the questions.
tell them this before that you will do a best effort, but that there are no guarantees that things either break down or that things do not go as you imagined they would happen. People are not recognizable because the camera was too high and not enough light in the place where the thief was. Too much light. Too low, so the staff filed a complaint about privacy invasion.
What happens if the internet connection is out? What if the power is out? What if the phone dies? What if the phone company kills the number, because they forgot to pay for the next installment in 5 years time?
The first thing you need to figure out why they broke into that store and not the one next door. Then you can start looking for ways to not want them to break in. Security camera's don't do anything and neither do motion detectors, unless they contact a security company.
The cheapest way to help them is to tell them to contact an expert who knows not only the technical stuff, but the rest as well. Where to put the camera's. Then propose them that you are there to ask all the technical questions to see if he knows what he is talking about and if you find any loopholes.
That way they can contact another small business owner and help the community as well as defend themselves. That person will be able what the advantages and disadvantages are, because of his experience.
Sure, not free, but cheaper then having not thought of one thing and closing the business because of it.
As we can see from various videos online, having a webcam is not a good enough solution to stop these people. First I would go for a high quality image that does not show grainy images. The reason for grainy images often is lightening, Second I would go for a low eye-level camera, so it looks people in the face. With the prices of HDs, I would not go for motion detectors. Just let the thing run 24/7. Also go for multiple camera's. One at the checkout, one at the entrance and one at the exit on eye level. One that shows an overview of the whole store if 1 camera can see everything.
Think about archiving. Do you really want to keep the images of last month if nothing has happened? Also think about privacy. There might or might not be laws, but even then it would be good to think about privacy. e.g. inform staff if there is any. Perhaps not needed by law where you are, but still nice to tell them what exists and why it exists. Do NOT use it to spy on your staff, unless you are an asshole.
In some countries it is forbidden to have camera's pointed at certain parts of a business if it means that you invade too much of their privacy. So no camera in the lunchroom or directly pointed at a desk.
See that if they use passwords that the keyboard is not visible. In any case, look if there are any laws concerning this. It is stupid to let people who were arrested go free because you did something that was in the law and they found that loophole.
Do understand that camera's will no stop people braking and entering. Use the motion detectors to start making a LOT of sound and light. The extra light is good to get good images.
yet be sure to have good camera's that have good night video as well.
When you stop working at the factory, does the factory still pay you? If they do, they have taken an insurance in your name. If you want to be payed after you die, take life insurance. That means paying while you are alive. This has nothing to do with copyright.
And no, the consumer does not want to have the cookie and eat it too. They just want to CONSUME (i.e eat) the cookie.
I called them and asked what they could do with my Mcintosh and the Apple store said that they were and unsupported product. Strange, because I thought it was great to make cider from.
I do not run anything on a high port, because to me that is security through obscurity. Blockhosts I also only use to keep the noise down.
As it looks now, I might just start white listing IPs and turn that off when I am traveling or look at knockd. Again this is security through obscurity.
Sure you can TRY to follow a business plan by doing it that way. However if that business plan fails, do not blame the people, blame your business plan.
After I'm dead the family can decide what to do with it all.
So they should be able to get some rights and turn that into money, just because you are a dead relative? What have THEY done? First you say it is about the individual copyright holder if he is maker of whatever the copyright is on and now suddenly somebody who has NO part in the process of the making and might not even have been born at that time is suddenly allowed to have a say in the matter. Still you think THAT is ok, but a company is evil? I see no difference in what you are saying and what the 'evil companies' are saying.
You have chosen your side. Unfortunately you can not have the cookie and eat it too.
I am from Belgium and I would think it to be an honor to be on the list with other countries that are more interested in the freedom of their people then the wealth of their US owned music companies.
An honor to be on the list. I hope that many other countries will get on that list, so it won't be a privilege.
They have them for insurance reasons. And if something happens, they will put it online. If there would be as many dashcams in the rest of the world, you would see a lot more of them from the rest of the world.
Here? Nobody. But now EVERYBODY knows that it isn't your real name. On Facebook, it will be your mom, or some old friend from school who you befriended on Facebook, but who still holds a grudge and reports you. I used to have an account, but there was NOTHING I liked about the daily drivel of the what people were doing. Finding old friends? There is a reason they are not my friends anymore. People part their ways for various reasons and the only things I got out of it was : "So what are you doing now? Wow. 3 kids and a dog? We must meet in real life." In all cases I was the person who was looking for them and not even via Facebook. Just using Google. For then I was the person who they sometimes talk about and wonder "How would houghi be doing?" without actually being interested in it.
So using facebook was not very appealing and I canceled my account (with 200+ people on my list. I explained them how they would be able to contact me. None who did not already contact me before did so afterward.)
For me there is a simple reason I do not want to use my own name. Nothing I say, I can be held responsible for concerning past, present or future employers about anything I say/said in the past, present or future.
I do understand that that is not a free-card to say anything I desire. I am still responsible for my own words.
Another reason is that things WILL be taken out of context and I WILL change my mind and opinion about certain things and I do not want some old idea I used to have and that I think now is wrong haunt me for the rest of my life. I also do not want to be afraid to express my opinion now, because I might change my mind in the future.
I rather have my screen in landfscape when reading PDF and DOCS. I just see to it that I can have two pages next to each other. I can easily have two pages next to each other on my 24" 1920x1200 and read them as if I were reading a book or a magazine with the ability to see the pages next to each other.
So on one monitor I can read the dual pages or have whatever I want to see (e.g. browser with the page). On an other monitor I do the actual work. Terminals, gimp,.... The third one I use for monitoring and tailing logfiles.
I do my job because of economic difficulty. I am sure that most do. If I would not be doing it, I would be pretty hungry. I rather would be doing something else, but I do my job because of the money.
The real issue is that you cal it 'sad' that they do the job that they do. There is nothing 'sad' in it. It is a job like any other job. I would not want to do it, but then I would not want to be a policeman either. That does not make the policeman 'sad'.
The real problem is the view that the general public has of the job. That people think it is sad and degrading.
Make it legal (and acceptable) and the abuse will stop, because then these people can go to the police and tell them that somebody hit them and something will actually be done about it.
Stop the abuse not by hiding it. Stop the abuse by showing it and embracing the victims. Show them that they are part of humanity.
in none of the places I have been to in Europe I have not seen any cubicles. (Perhaps they do exist, I just have never seen them in the many companies I have seen). The closest what I have see was where they had high walls between the desks. This meant no being able to see the person on the other side.
Normally they are low walls, so you can see the other person when you are sitting.
So the one place that had these high walls, I decided to remove them. Before they were removed, the people were complaining to keep them. After they were removed, they were extremely happy.
Less noise, because you did not need to shout if the other person did not respond. You saw he was on the phone or not even there. A LOT more light. Especially for those not sitting next to the windows. Amazement at how big their desk actually was. More human interaction, so less stress between cow orkers.
This did not mean that we had one big floor with only desks in it. We had plants break the space and other things to do that.
All at minimal cost. And everybody had always at least some sort of window view. And even if they would not have that, people in at least Belgium have by law 10 minutes break in the morning, 10 in the afternoon and half an hour during lunch on their 8 hour workday. (Lunch is not payed, breaks are) so enough time to take a break and stand outside with the (other) smokers. 30 minute lunch is a minimum. Some have longer lunches, but that means you get home later.
But cubicles? Nope. I would feel guilty if I would block another persons view or block myself out/in from any contact.
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You will make that choice. The majority will just say: ....
Use IE Version XYZ
Use Flash
Use cookies
Use 3D
Use
Nothing will change in the mindset of the people making the websites.
In Belgium there is a ban on FREE plastic bags. So you need to pay for one. There are different qualities that you can get. The cheapest ones are 10 cents a piece. However when they are broken or used up, you can exchange them for a new one in some (all?) supermarkets.
The companies where heavily against it. This because is would cost them money. Belgium was not the first country doing this and yet I have not heard anything about such an issue of people.
So who is funding the paper? Could well be that the companies are behind it, so it can be used to get back to plastic and make some extra money.
For those that do not understand why this has +5 insightful, what FOSS really needs is marketing.
The general public has no idea what FOSS is, so they are not looking for it. And even if they have the demands, they have no idea where to look.
I have had a CEO who was fed up with the fact that he needed to pay each time when we wanted to change something on the Intranet website. He told me he wanted to own it himself. When I asked more, what he was saying that he wanted to move away from one company to another. Once that was formulated, it was clear that he was looking for a FOSS solution without ever having been aware that it existed.
And yes, we were talking about free as in speech.
If FOSS would have some marketing, some people will listen to it outside the nerds. It will probably start with Open Standards.
Stoopid him. It is a patent, not a song.
If you work in a big company (i.e. an employee), it is not your patent.
If you work FOR a big company (i.e. a contractor or as an employee that dispatched from a subcontractor or similar), it depends on what your contact says and the specific situation. I am a lawyer and I can advice you. (Hey, I am on the Internets. I can be anything I like.)
OK, I'll bit. %0 states and shades of gray. You know where I going with this, right?
Seriously, this is the main problem, I think. There are only two parties and they are almost identical. The discussions can be compared to talking if Pepsi or Coke is better, but leaving out all the other drinks.
This isn't a republic democracy. It is a farce that holds up an image as if you have anything to say.
In the past there were people who were not happy with the way their government was running things, so they threw them out and made a new one according to the best ability and the situation they had at that moment.
here is no reason not to do that again. Saying "But they did a great job 200+ years ago." is like saying "But we are a kingdom and that went great fr more then 200 years."
In many parts of the world you have different shades of grey and even though this will cause different issues, it is great to have a voice.
In Belgium somebody said, when we were having problems getting together a government for more then a year, "It would be easier if we had only two parties like in the US." My answer was that it would be easier, but it should just be easy. It should be just.
How do you vote if you are pro gun and pro gay rights? Are you sure that the person you vote for will vote for a president who has the same ideas? Does the party you vote for give you that option? Does that party have any chance of ever being part of a government?
In Europe there are people from the Pirate Party who have a seat in governments. There are people from all over the place representing the people.
Trow out the General Manager in charge. Get in a new one. Let him get the department back into shape. This will mean some people will leave and some will get a new responsibility. Some might get fired after a restructuring.
When you trow out both the GM and the people below, you are interest in cost, not in efficiency.
Please do not say this aloud. People might think you are a socialist and socialism is bad for the economy. Just look at socialist countries like Greece, Cuba, Spain and Sweden.
Uh, wait. Uhm. Socialism is bad! M'kay?
Is there a reason you can not offer the customer an option on how to pay? ...
e.g. Various credit cards, BitCoin, Paypall, Bank order, On delivery,
Just like it is possible to make a choice on how you want it deliverd.
That way the customer has the choice. Sure, each has its advantages and disadvantages and it is then upon you to see how you deal with the possible extra cost (e.g. extra charge or reduction) and then let the customer make his choice.
So if you want it in 24 hours and you do not care what the cost is, you get some priority DHL delivery and pay with your AmEx card.
If cost is the important part, you pay via bank (which is free of charge in e.g. Belgium, but takes at least two days to process from/to a business account due to legal stuff) and have the postal service do the delivery. That way you will wait probably 2 weeks or so and you need to be where the package is delivered. Otherwise you need to go to the postal office. Cheaper, but not as easy.
And then there are all the options in between.
As long as I am not loosing money on payment and delivery, if my primary goal is sales, then I do not care and have the customer make a choice.
Are you working for free? That means that you are paying for their security. Great if you are willing to do that, but it also means that if you are out of town on a holiday with no cell reception and there is an issue, who are they going to call?
And although this might be a fun project to work on, this is their livelihood you are experimenting with. And it is experimenting. Otherwise you would not ask the questions.
tell them this before that you will do a best effort, but that there are no guarantees that things either break down or that things do not go as you imagined they would happen. People are not recognizable because the camera was too high and not enough light in the place where the thief was. Too much light. Too low, so the staff filed a complaint about privacy invasion.
What happens if the internet connection is out? What if the power is out? What if the phone dies? What if the phone company kills the number, because they forgot to pay for the next installment in 5 years time?
The first thing you need to figure out why they broke into that store and not the one next door. Then you can start looking for ways to not want them to break in. Security camera's don't do anything and neither do motion detectors, unless they contact a security company.
The cheapest way to help them is to tell them to contact an expert who knows not only the technical stuff, but the rest as well. Where to put the camera's. Then propose them that you are there to ask all the technical questions to see if he knows what he is talking about and if you find any loopholes.
That way they can contact another small business owner and help the community as well as defend themselves. That person will be able what the advantages and disadvantages are, because of his experience.
Sure, not free, but cheaper then having not thought of one thing and closing the business because of it.
As we can see from various videos online, having a webcam is not a good enough solution to stop these people.
First I would go for a high quality image that does not show grainy images. The reason for grainy images often is lightening,
Second I would go for a low eye-level camera, so it looks people in the face. With the prices of HDs, I would not go for motion detectors. Just let the thing run 24/7.
Also go for multiple camera's. One at the checkout, one at the entrance and one at the exit on eye level. One that shows an overview of the whole store if 1 camera can see everything.
Think about archiving. Do you really want to keep the images of last month if nothing has happened? Also think about privacy. There might or might not be laws, but even then it would be good to think about privacy. e.g. inform staff if there is any. Perhaps not needed by law where you are, but still nice to tell them what exists and why it exists. Do NOT use it to spy on your staff, unless you are an asshole.
In some countries it is forbidden to have camera's pointed at certain parts of a business if it means that you invade too much of their privacy. So no camera in the lunchroom or directly pointed at a desk.
See that if they use passwords that the keyboard is not visible.
In any case, look if there are any laws concerning this. It is stupid to let people who were arrested go free because you did something that was in the law and they found that loophole.
Do understand that camera's will no stop people braking and entering. Use the motion detectors to start making a LOT of sound and light. The extra light is good to get good images.
yet be sure to have good camera's that have good night video as well.
When you stop working at the factory, does the factory still pay you?
If they do, they have taken an insurance in your name.
If you want to be payed after you die, take life insurance.
That means paying while you are alive. This has nothing to do with copyright.
And no, the consumer does not want to have the cookie and eat it too. They just want to CONSUME (i.e eat) the cookie.
I called them and asked what they could do with my Mcintosh and the Apple store said that they were and unsupported product.
Strange, because I thought it was great to make cider from.
I use http://www.aczoom.com/blockhosts.
Just remember: never rely on only one line of defense.
I do not run anything on a high port, because to me that is security through obscurity. Blockhosts I also only use to keep the noise down.
As it looks now, I might just start white listing IPs and turn that off when I am traveling or look at knockd. Again this is security through obscurity.
Sure you can TRY to follow a business plan by doing it that way. However if that business plan fails, do not blame the people, blame your business plan.
So they should be able to get some rights and turn that into money, just because you are a dead relative? What have THEY done?
First you say it is about the individual copyright holder if he is maker of whatever the copyright is on and now suddenly somebody who has NO part in the process of the making and might not even have been born at that time is suddenly allowed to have a say in the matter.
Still you think THAT is ok, but a company is evil? I see no difference in what you are saying and what the 'evil companies' are saying.
You have chosen your side. Unfortunately you can not have the cookie and eat it too.
I am from Belgium and I would think it to be an honor to be on the list with other countries that are more interested in the freedom of their people then the wealth of their US owned music companies.
An honor to be on the list. I hope that many other countries will get on that list, so it won't be a privilege.
They have them for insurance reasons. And if something happens, they will put it online. If there would be as many dashcams in the rest of the world, you would see a lot more of them from the rest of the world.
A man gave way to a car and no accident happened.
Are we in such a bad shape that NOT compromising personal data has become the news worthy factor?
Here? Nobody. But now EVERYBODY knows that it isn't your real name.
On Facebook, it will be your mom, or some old friend from school who you befriended on Facebook, but who still holds a grudge and reports you.
I used to have an account, but there was NOTHING I liked about the daily drivel of the what people were doing. Finding old friends? There is a reason they are not my friends anymore. People part their ways for various reasons and the only things I got out of it was : "So what are you doing now? Wow. 3 kids and a dog? We must meet in real life."
In all cases I was the person who was looking for them and not even via Facebook. Just using Google. For then I was the person who they sometimes talk about and wonder "How would houghi be doing?" without actually being interested in it.
So using facebook was not very appealing and I canceled my account (with 200+ people on my list. I explained them how they would be able to contact me. None who did not already contact me before did so afterward.)
For me there is a simple reason I do not want to use my own name. Nothing I say, I can be held responsible for concerning past, present or future employers about anything I say/said in the past, present or future.
I do understand that that is not a free-card to say anything I desire. I am still responsible for my own words.
Another reason is that things WILL be taken out of context and I WILL change my mind and opinion about certain things and I do not want some old idea I used to have and that I think now is wrong haunt me for the rest of my life.
I also do not want to be afraid to express my opinion now, because I might change my mind in the future.
Thanks for that. And it is perfect for typing XNXX.
So that is the reason so many strippers I meet are accepted into college.
I rather have my screen in landfscape when reading PDF and DOCS.
I just see to it that I can have two pages next to each other.
I can easily have two pages next to each other on my 24" 1920x1200 and read them as if I were reading a book or a magazine with the ability to see the pages next to each other.
So on one monitor I can read the dual pages or have whatever I want to see (e.g. browser with the page). On an other monitor I do the actual work. Terminals, gimp, .... The third one I use for monitoring and tailing logfiles.
I do my job because of economic difficulty. I am sure that most do.
If I would not be doing it, I would be pretty hungry.
I rather would be doing something else, but I do my job because of the money.
The real issue is that you cal it 'sad' that they do the job that they do. There is nothing 'sad' in it. It is a job like any other job. I would not want to do it, but then I would not want to be a policeman either. That does not make the policeman 'sad'.
The real problem is the view that the general public has of the job. That people think it is sad and degrading.
Make it legal (and acceptable) and the abuse will stop, because then these people can go to the police and tell them that somebody hit them and something will actually be done about it.
Stop the abuse not by hiding it. Stop the abuse by showing it and embracing the victims. Show them that they are part of humanity.
in none of the places I have been to in Europe I have not seen any cubicles. (Perhaps they do exist, I just have never seen them in the many companies I have seen). The closest what I have see was where they had high walls between the desks. This meant no being able to see the person on the other side.
Normally they are low walls, so you can see the other person when you are sitting.
So the one place that had these high walls, I decided to remove them. Before they were removed, the people were complaining to keep them. After they were removed, they were extremely happy.
Less noise, because you did not need to shout if the other person did not respond. You saw he was on the phone or not even there.
A LOT more light. Especially for those not sitting next to the windows.
Amazement at how big their desk actually was.
More human interaction, so less stress between cow orkers.
This did not mean that we had one big floor with only desks in it. We had plants break the space and other things to do that.
All at minimal cost. And everybody had always at least some sort of window view. And even if they would not have that, people in at least Belgium have by law 10 minutes break in the morning, 10 in the afternoon and half an hour during lunch on their 8 hour workday. (Lunch is not payed, breaks are) so enough time to take a break and stand outside with the (other) smokers. 30 minute lunch is a minimum. Some have longer lunches, but that means you get home later.
But cubicles? Nope. I would feel guilty if I would block another persons view or block myself out/in from any contact.
Mod parent up till +6.
From the Kopimi page:
kopimi (copyme), symbol showing that you want to be copied.
How about a complete non-story.