Sure, it helped having the US on our side, but so did it help having the French, The Dutch, the Canadians, the Polish, the Russians, Australians, Indians, the many, many, many others on our side.
It is called an alliance for a reason. They were allies. They worked together.
They did not do it alone. None did it alone. It is a pity that that is forgotten so often.
Everybody is an atheist. Some just believe in one less God then others. The real fun starts when they believe in the SAME God, like Jews, Christians and Muslims who fight whose God is better. It is the same identical God.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
- Epicurus [341â"270 B.C.]
Theologians can pursuade themselves of anything. Anyone who can worship a trinity and insists that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
-Robert A. Heinlein, JOB: A Comedy of Justice
making it easy to fire someone makes it easier to hire someone
No, it isn't. Her in Belgium if you fire somebody, the rules are pretty clear, although there is some change. Basically it is 3 months per 5 years. So if somebody works 8 years for a company, he will get 6 months payment when you fire the person. This obviously means he was not stealing or not coming into work or being an absolute arse and not doing what is in your job description.
When you hire a person, they will be between 6 months and 1 year in trial. During that period the time to pay is 1 week.
This is so BOTH parties can test if they can work together in a nice way as expected.
So I see no reason why firing made easy would mean making it easier to hire.
Since people are already using brick and mortar stores as showrooms to try before buying online, maybe that's what BB needs to embrace in order to survive
So other then a gimmick, 3D is pretty useless. Color is another thing. It can add moods and accentuate things. 3D does nothing. If anything, it distracts from the story, perhaps the reason why Hollywood likes it so much.
It is forbidden to film where I am. They do not film us, so why would we film them? I have no desire to do so, nor have I heard of anybody else having that desire.
But then I live in Communist Europe where we tend to not have cubicles and instead can directly communicate with our boss and anybody else.
Sure, there are bosses who are complete assholes, but I am sure that there are employees who are complete assholes and the percentage is not that different. That includes CEOs of pretty large companies as well as the lowest in the treadmill.
The main difference is that if those in the lower regions don't behave ethically and fairly, people won't care. If they are higher up, they do.
I use security through less security. People are so trained that passwords are at least 6 characters long and often 8 that they will never try my SPACE as password.
I see that this is not the case in Belgium. The majority of people have their connections set up by their provider.
That provider configures the router. On the plus side, they configure it so others can use the router as well. On the minus side, only people who have an account at that provider will be able to use it as roaming and (free-)WiFi access.
Since they started doing this, the number of open networks is seriously reduced. Where a few years ago it was extremely easy to do wardriving, this is now a serious chalange. I have not studied it and, but from experience I would say that this is closer to 5% and of those I am not even sure how many are left open on purpose by stores to get people in (pubs and such) and people who are willing to give their access away.
This means that in a city it is not unpossible, but you have to look for it a bit more.
On a serious not, I think it is worrisome that the police did not care. To me even a convicted criminal has rights to privacy. I understand that many people say that as soon as a person is convicted (I am not even talking mugshots of arrested people) they should lose all their rights.
I hold myself to higher standards and will defend the privacy rights of everybody, including the worst mass murders and my ex-girlfriend.
If nothing else because of the "First they came for the criminals..." slippery-slope.
If I want to defend MY privacy, it means I must respect YOURS as well. The moment I get an excuse not to respect yours (e.g. you are a convicted killer) you will find an excuse not to respect mine.
The fact that my phone-number is in the phone-book does not mean you can write it on the wall in the mens-room.
I rather have that happen to ME that the MAN taking away my rights.
The real scary part is that people give up their rights so happily and easily, not that they take it. The problem is not the moment of slight humiliation. It is not the risk of a guard being attacked.
My rights is all I am. If they take that away, I am nothing.
When I was a teenager, I was looking up phone numbers of women and started calling them. I can bet you if that were true, they would call that extremely creepy.
When I was 16/17 we already had discussions about privacy and what should be allowed and what not. Showing friends who had clearly drank too much was considered clearly not done. No matter in how much of a public place it was done.
So when we had photos developed, we would first show them to the person and he would decide if it was OK or not to be made public or not.
Privacy to me still means much more then 'behind closed doors'. To me it means everything about me and what makes me, regardless of where that happens and it should be MY decision with what happens to that information.
I agree with the chip and PIN thing. It is used all over the world. I have used the system with a new card number for each transaction online. However the problem with that is that there are only a limited amount of numbers available and they would run out FAST.
There are other systems that already exist for online transactions. At least one is using your own card reader or code generator that creates an extra code. Another is using it without an extra level where you have to enter another password for your transaction.
Basically one is a generated and the other is a self selected password. Basically the same as using your pin code during a terminal transaction with some added security.
The scammer does not handle the transaction and won't be able to get anything after the first scam, unless you go OK with a repeat payment.
Anti-virus programs are by large the biggest scammers in the world and they do it all above the table.
In Belgium this is 13 months. Not sure if this is a Belgium or European law. Yep, 13 months, not weeks or days. Stoopid socialist countries with their rights for consumers.
Yeah, because the best way to protect your privacy is to give all your data to Facebook.
I do agree with the sentiment of a law against invasion of your privacy. This should NOT be limited to employers and/or Facebook/websites. If such a thing would be asked in Europe, I would have several options: 1) Sue them (and win) 2) Ignore them and the sue them because they asked it (and win) 3) Give a fake one, take the job and if they fire me over it, sue them (and win)
In no way would an employer win a lawsuit asking me for my personal passwords. They can ask me not to post certain things as Facebook is not seen as private, but rather a public forum. But asking me to log in or asking for my password? Hell no!
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Having no intention to do something does not mean they won't do it.
Sure, it helped having the US on our side, but so did it help having the French, The Dutch, the Canadians, the Polish, the Russians, Australians, Indians, the many, many, many others on our side.
It is called an alliance for a reason. They were allies. They worked together.
They did not do it alone. None did it alone. It is a pity that that is forgotten so often.
Everybody is an atheist. Some just believe in one less God then others.
The real fun starts when they believe in the SAME God, like Jews, Christians and Muslims who fight whose God is better. It is the same identical God.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
- Epicurus [341â"270 B.C.]
Theologians can pursuade themselves of anything. Anyone who can worship a trinity and insists that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
-Robert A. Heinlein, JOB: A Comedy of Justice
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Where can I get my chocolate bar?
I always learned that a democracy should not be a ruling of the majority, but a protection of the minority.
This should have been +5 insightful. Not +5 Funny.
No, it isn't.
Her in Belgium if you fire somebody, the rules are pretty clear, although there is some change. Basically it is 3 months per 5 years. So if somebody works 8 years for a company, he will get 6 months payment when you fire the person.
This obviously means he was not stealing or not coming into work or being an absolute arse and not doing what is in your job description.
When you hire a person, they will be between 6 months and 1 year in trial. During that period the time to pay is 1 week.
This is so BOTH parties can test if they can work together in a nice way as expected.
So I see no reason why firing made easy would mean making it easier to hire.
They do. They even have an API: https://bbyopen.com/
So which other entities where you talking about, because as far as I know merchants and law enforcement are the same side of a coin.
I am sure you are aware that people have been saying no to 3-d since before color, right?
Although we are able to see 3-d, we are also very able to deduct 3-d situations from 2-d. Image: http://leakeysblog.edublogs.org/files/2010/12/IMG_2235-1du29wq.JPG
Nobody thinks that the girl in the back is really 1/3rd of the boy in the front.
So other then a gimmick, 3D is pretty useless. Color is another thing. It can add moods and accentuate things. 3D does nothing. If anything, it distracts from the story, perhaps the reason why Hollywood likes it so much.
It is forbidden to film where I am. They do not film us, so why would we film them? I have no desire to do so, nor have I heard of anybody else having that desire.
But then I live in Communist Europe where we tend to not have cubicles and instead can directly communicate with our boss and anybody else.
Sure, there are bosses who are complete assholes, but I am sure that there are employees who are complete assholes and the percentage is not that different. That includes CEOs of pretty large companies as well as the lowest in the treadmill.
The main difference is that if those in the lower regions don't behave ethically and fairly, people won't care. If they are higher up, they do.
I use security through less security. People are so trained that passwords are at least 6 characters long and often 8 that they will never try my SPACE as password.
Why? What do you have to hide? You MUST be guilty.
I am sure they are looking for a fighter like they do here
They only protect the bloodstream. What you need is a metalic hat protector made from a very thin strip of tin. http://s.houghi.org/xs2t4f.png
I see that this is not the case in Belgium. The majority of people have their connections set up by their provider.
That provider configures the router. On the plus side, they configure it so others can use the router as well. On the minus side, only people who have an account at that provider will be able to use it as roaming and (free-)WiFi access.
Since they started doing this, the number of open networks is seriously reduced. Where a few years ago it was extremely easy to do wardriving, this is now a serious chalange. I have not studied it and, but from experience I would say that this is closer to 5% and of those I am not even sure how many are left open on purpose by stores to get people in (pubs and such) and people who are willing to give their access away.
This means that in a city it is not unpossible, but you have to look for it a bit more.
On a serious not, I think it is worrisome that the police did not care. To me even a convicted criminal has rights to privacy. I understand that many people say that as soon as a person is convicted (I am not even talking mugshots of arrested people) they should lose all their rights.
I hold myself to higher standards and will defend the privacy rights of everybody, including the worst mass murders and my ex-girlfriend.
If nothing else because of the "First they came for the criminals ..." slippery-slope.
If I want to defend MY privacy, it means I must respect YOURS as well. The moment I get an excuse not to respect yours (e.g. you are a convicted killer) you will find an excuse not to respect mine.
The fact that my phone-number is in the phone-book does not mean you can write it on the wall in the mens-room.
No, it means they are afraid that somebody else has.
I rather have that happen to ME that the MAN taking away my rights.
The real scary part is that people give up their rights so happily and easily, not that they take it. The problem is not the moment of slight humiliation. It is not the risk of a guard being attacked.
My rights is all I am. If they take that away, I am nothing.
When I was a teenager, I was looking up phone numbers of women and started calling them. I can bet you if that were true, they would call that extremely creepy.
When I was 16/17 we already had discussions about privacy and what should be allowed and what not. Showing friends who had clearly drank too much was considered clearly not done. No matter in how much of a public place it was done.
So when we had photos developed, we would first show them to the person and he would decide if it was OK or not to be made public or not.
Privacy to me still means much more then 'behind closed doors'. To me it means everything about me and what makes me, regardless of where that happens and it should be MY decision with what happens to that information.
They will do something about it as soon as it will benefit the important people. And remember, companies are people too.
I agree with the chip and PIN thing. It is used all over the world.
I have used the system with a new card number for each transaction online. However the problem with that is that there are only a limited amount of numbers available and they would run out FAST.
There are other systems that already exist for online transactions. At least one is using your own card reader or code generator that creates an extra code. Another is using it without an extra level where you have to enter another password for your transaction.
Basically one is a generated and the other is a self selected password. Basically the same as using your pin code during a terminal transaction with some added security.
The scammer does not handle the transaction and won't be able to get anything after the first scam, unless you go OK with a repeat payment.
Anti-virus programs are by large the biggest scammers in the world and they do it all above the table.
In Belgium this is 13 months. Not sure if this is a Belgium or European law. Yep, 13 months, not weeks or days.
Stoopid socialist countries with their rights for consumers.
Yeah, because the best way to protect your privacy is to give all your data to Facebook.
I do agree with the sentiment of a law against invasion of your privacy. This should NOT be limited to employers and/or Facebook/websites.
If such a thing would be asked in Europe, I would have several options:
1) Sue them (and win)
2) Ignore them and the sue them because they asked it (and win)
3) Give a fake one, take the job and if they fire me over it, sue them (and win)
In no way would an employer win a lawsuit asking me for my personal passwords. They can ask me not to post certain things as Facebook is not seen as private, but rather a public forum. But asking me to log in or asking for my password? Hell no!