Don't get me wrong - the people here are really nice, it's very peaceful and there's little crime. It's also beautiful - building is so well controlled that everything looks very nice...
Aie, Amsterdam does rock for that. Worked there for a bit, reminded me of home (but with more obvious weed and prostitution). That's not the norm, though.
Gelderland. Little village called Lunteren, specifically.
Pretty much everything here (i.e. within 15km) closes on Sunday. Only pubs are open. I know that in the massive cities you can still buy fuel and some supermarkets are open, but that's hardly countrywide..
I move from the UK (Warwick specifically, this my name here) to the Netherlands. It's a nice place, but reality is far removed from the commonly held picture of the country.
For a start, it's very very Christian here. Very conservative. So that means that absolutely nothing happens on Sunday. You can't even wash your car. Oh, I lie - you can go to the pub. That's it, though.
Socially, there are some problems. The country's pretty full. It has a perceived immigration issue, mainly from North Africans. For what claims to be a socialist country, it does tend to swing to the right..
Trains here are terrible - they're cheap compared to England, but completely unreliable. Roads too - thanks to the Dutch love of tailgating (especially when it's wet), there are regularly huge traffic jams on the major highways. It's as bad/worse than the M25 in rush hour, only it's everywhere.
Worst of all, there are hardly any Balti houses:-(
Some things are nice - people are healthier here, meaning the vast majority of the ladies are fit. People are generally pleasent. Beer here is excellent (thanks Belgium!). Retail isn't dominated by the supermarkets as much as it is in UK/US. Internet's dead fast. You can receive BBC 1/2 (so quality TV and news ensured). Oh, and Amsterdam's not far away for all your weed and hooker needs.
We do vaccinate against all of the usual suspects - MMR, TB, Tetinus etc.
However, thanks to Rupert Murdock's rag http://www.thesun.co.uk/ a large number of parents became afraid of the MMR jab, and thus let their children go without.
All of that flies in the face of the scientific evidence, and of the risks - i.e. your kids are at more risk from the diseases themselves than they are a reaction to the MMR vaccine.
So, why am I accusing that BBC journalist of being lazy? Well, the Carver has appeared on the BBC excellent flagship car show Top Gear http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/prog19/carver.shtml>. You really would expect that a BBC Journalist reporting on automobiles would have some knowledge of them. Or, at the very least, have watched Top Gear for a couple of years.
When I was born, in 1980, it was still common for only one person to work. Morgage payments took up the lions share of the salary.
Twenty years later, we'd changed culturally. It was now common for both husband and wife to have full time jobs. You know, so you have that little extra money to live much easier. Morgage payments took up the lions share of the salaries.
The problem is that as wealth has increased, it has transferred almost completely into house prices. So we're doing far more work now, yet we're not really seeing anything for it.
That's not so much of a problem for anyone owning a house before the steep rises (doubled in 5 years) - it's good for them because their asset has appreciated greatly. It's for those - like me - who weren't on the housing ladder at that time that it's a problem for..
The "problem" with America is the wealth distribution: it might be the wealthiest country in the world, but when that wealth is focussed on a small percentage of the population it's not good.
UK's getting closer to the US, though it's tempered a bit by Europe.
The Scandinavians - particularly the Danish - have a much better mix. Denmark has one of the lowest networth varients in the world - there aren't the extremes of rich and poor as there are in the rest of the world.
Still, what we'd consider "poor" in the Western world (i.e. on benefits) would be considered rich in Africa:-/
Do employment laws vary it vary state-to-state, like the age of consent, death penalty and some other important stuff?
We've got something like 20 days min. standard holiday, the bank holidays technically can be part of this though in practise they're never included. Except for seriously abused workers. Even "temps" get them.
"Spread out over 50 work weeks, that results in a total savings of over 30 hours a year - the equivalent of about a 38% boost to my existing 80 hours of vacation."
Now I'm always hearing how "good" we have it in Europe, what with 25 days (187.5 hours) holiday each year plus 8-10 bank holidays.
Finally something us Brits do better than the Yanks (even the US version of our Office is better).
As everyone knows, the Dutch have "legalised" pot. I say "legalised" as it's technically illegal, they just let everyone smoke it. So in practise it's legalised..
- Record music - Release in format A and charge - Make a new format - Release in format B and charge again - Make a new format - Release in format C and charge again
Only to them, someone else made the new format, and allowed users to convert from their old formats into the new format.
Which, obviously, breaks their business model.
The question is, was copyright designed to allow the copyright owner to obtain the benifit of their work multiple times from the same person? At the cost of that person - not just in the copyright costs, but in the massively inflated harware costs required to "control" their copyright?
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Don't get me wrong - the people here are really nice, it's very peaceful and there's little crime. It's also beautiful - building is so well controlled that everything looks very nice...
Aie, Amsterdam does rock for that. Worked there for a bit, reminded me of home (but with more obvious weed and prostitution). That's not the norm, though.
Balti = Indian food.
Gelderland. Little village called Lunteren, specifically.
Pretty much everything here (i.e. within 15km) closes on Sunday. Only pubs are open. I know that in the massive cities you can still buy fuel and some supermarkets are open, but that's hardly countrywide..
there should be a D on the end of move :-(
I move from the UK (Warwick specifically, this my name here) to the Netherlands. It's a nice place, but reality is far removed from the commonly held picture of the country.
:-(
For a start, it's very very Christian here. Very conservative. So that means that absolutely nothing happens on Sunday. You can't even wash your car. Oh, I lie - you can go to the pub. That's it, though.
Socially, there are some problems. The country's pretty full. It has a perceived immigration issue, mainly from North Africans. For what claims to be a socialist country, it does tend to swing to the right..
Trains here are terrible - they're cheap compared to England, but completely unreliable. Roads too - thanks to the Dutch love of tailgating (especially when it's wet), there are regularly huge traffic jams on the major highways. It's as bad/worse than the M25 in rush hour, only it's everywhere.
Worst of all, there are hardly any Balti houses
Some things are nice - people are healthier here, meaning the vast majority of the ladies are fit. People are generally pleasent. Beer here is excellent (thanks Belgium!). Retail isn't dominated by the supermarkets as much as it is in UK/US. Internet's dead fast. You can receive BBC 1/2 (so quality TV and news ensured). Oh, and Amsterdam's not far away for all your weed and hooker needs.
.. Bears shit in the woods..
We do vaccinate against all of the usual suspects - MMR, TB, Tetinus etc.
However, thanks to Rupert Murdock's rag http://www.thesun.co.uk/ a large number of parents became afraid of the MMR jab, and thus let their children go without.
All of that flies in the face of the scientific evidence, and of the risks - i.e. your kids are at more risk from the diseases themselves than they are a reaction to the MMR vaccine.
It really needs noting exactly how poorly researched the BBC News article on that car is.
. You really would expect that a BBC Journalist reporting on automobiles would have some knowledge of them. Or, at the very least, have watched Top Gear for a couple of years.
Drivetrain asside, the vehicle is effectively a clone the dutch-designed Carver http://www.carver-europe.com/.
So, why am I accusing that BBC journalist of being lazy? Well, the Carver has appeared on the BBC excellent flagship car show Top Gear http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/prog19/carver.shtml>
It's the same problem in England.
When I was born, in 1980, it was still common for only one person to work. Morgage payments took up the lions share of the salary.
Twenty years later, we'd changed culturally. It was now common for both husband and wife to have full time jobs. You know, so you have that little extra money to live much easier. Morgage payments took up the lions share of the salaries.
The problem is that as wealth has increased, it has transferred almost completely into house prices. So we're doing far more work now, yet we're not really seeing anything for it.
That's not so much of a problem for anyone owning a house before the steep rises (doubled in 5 years) - it's good for them because their asset has appreciated greatly. It's for those - like me - who weren't on the housing ladder at that time that it's a problem for..
The "problem" with America is the wealth distribution: it might be the wealthiest country in the world, but when that wealth is focussed on a small percentage of the population it's not good.
:-/
UK's getting closer to the US, though it's tempered a bit by Europe.
The Scandinavians - particularly the Danish - have a much better mix. Denmark has one of the lowest networth varients in the world - there aren't the extremes of rich and poor as there are in the rest of the world.
Still, what we'd consider "poor" in the Western world (i.e. on benefits) would be considered rich in Africa
Do employment laws vary it vary state-to-state, like the age of consent, death penalty and some other important stuff?
We've got something like 20 days min. standard holiday, the bank holidays technically can be part of this though in practise they're never included. Except for seriously abused workers. Even "temps" get them.
"Spread out over 50 work weeks, that results in a total savings of over 30 hours a year - the equivalent of about a 38% boost to my existing 80 hours of vacation."
Now I'm always hearing how "good" we have it in Europe, what with 25 days (187.5 hours) holiday each year plus 8-10 bank holidays.
Finally something us Brits do better than the Yanks (even the US version of our Office is better).
Is that eBay will be forced to stop screwing their customers http://www.paypalsucks.com/ and improve their service.
Oh the joys of competition.
Oh boy, surprised no-one got it.
Philips are a Dutch company.
As everyone knows, the Dutch have "legalised" pot. I say "legalised" as it's technically illegal, they just let everyone smoke it. So in practise it's legalised..
See kids, this is why we shouldn't legalise pot.
Nah, Microsoft don't make music players which are bricked after a year due to the (non user replacable) battery.
With Microsoft, they'd just force you to upgrade the entire car every two years.
The Apple Car: looks great, but you need to buy a new engine every year......
Or the Spelling Police locking up /. posters who can't spell simple words like audacity. Or teh ;-)
The Pope sueing anyone called Matthew, Mark, Luke or John?
Bill Borg sueing anyone who has the ordacity to install "Outside Viewing Portals" in their home?
Their business model is:
- Record music
- Release in format A and charge
- Make a new format
- Release in format B and charge again
- Make a new format
- Release in format C and charge again
Only to them, someone else made the new format, and allowed users to convert from their old formats into the new format.
Which, obviously, breaks their business model.
The question is, was copyright designed to allow the copyright owner to obtain the benifit of their work multiple times from the same person? At the cost of that person - not just in the copyright costs, but in the massively inflated harware costs required to "control" their copyright?
..posting your site on /. if it's going to fall over within 5 posts.
Mod parent up.
RecordSet's another extremely common pattern which is implemented in most modern languages.
This is old news.
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We've been using the Orange SPV M2000 and SPV M500 Windows Mobile smartphones for the past year.
On Orange, they provide full Outlook integration, complete with "push" technology - so, like Blackberry, when you receive a mail, you know.
Works great, and the cost isn't huge. Heavy users cost £20 / month including line rental.
So not exactly expensive.
TheRegister have a review of the M500 here:
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Ahh, timeless classic.
$20,000 to restore some backups?
Now I know how IBM manages to make so much money.