We're also the only developed country that relies on for-profit insurance companies for basic medical insurance.
The Netherlands aren't a developed country now? News to me. We definitely have mandatory health insurance over here. You get to pick your insurance company, but you have to pick one. The companies have to provide certain minimum coverage and can't discriminate based on age or health (but they get compensated by the government for having to take on riskier clients). The system seems to work quite well AFAICT.
What do you mean, a lower corporate tax rate in the US? According to Wikipedia, the 35% marginal US corporate tax rate Apple pays is topped by only a handful of countries: Bangladesh, Guyana, Cameroon and Japan. It looks to me like it has the highest corporate tax rate in the western world (not the developed world though, given that Japan was on that list), at least for companies the size of Apple.
Note that I'm not disputing how much (or little, as the case may be) non-US tax they pay.
Please note that much of Canada and Europe is not actually part of the United States, so money earned there is in fact earned in another nation than the one in question.
(The same goes for America, but that's a flamewar for another day)
Any sane person would agree that having access to a trained doctor is SLIGHTLY more important than having access to a trained lawyer.
Depends on your situation, since both legal and medical issues have ranges of severity and they overlap. Access to a trained lawyer on a death penalty case is probably SLIGHTLY more important than access to a trained doctor to have a look at your sprained ankle.
Of course, I don't have to worry about either since I live in a civilized country that has (a) abolished the death penalty a couple of decades ago (more if you ignore wartime), and (b) a health care system where you're required to get insurance, and insurers are required to provide at least basic coverage to everyone who requests it regardless of pre-existing conditions.
Granted, it's a pretty big country, but it's sparsely populated. Since the GP was talking about the market, population matters more than area. And the population is about as large as the Dutch-speaking populations of the Netherlands and Belgium combined (actually a bit smaller, according to Wikipedia). That's not even counting the 41% of the Belgian population speaking other languages (natively). Speaking globally, it probably qualifies as a "smaller market".
The original comment was tongue-in-cheek. But most computer date representation systems are prospective from modern zero date.
For example, Unix time was originally coded as elapsed whole seconds since midnight January 01, 1970 and represented time as an UNSIGNED 32-bit integer. Such systems still exist and will roll over on 2038.
Actually, unsigned 32-bit integers won't overflow until about 2106 or so. It's the signed ones that overflow in 2038.
Roses are also commonly referred to as "flowers" around the world (or their local translations). This does not mean a rose is meant whenever the word "flower" is used. Similarly, simply because the United States are commonly referred to as America does not mean every mention of America refers to them. As my links above show, it's a word with multiple meanings.
America is winning a worldwide race to the bottom.
This happened in Canada, dumbass.
America has many problems, including the fact that many of its citizens believe it to be the center of the Universe—if not the entirety of it.
Canada lies in (North-)America, dumbass.
The United States of America have many problems, including the fact that many of its citizens believe it to be the center of America—if not the entirety of it.
Now if MS would compile a database of offending sites and allow me to use it as a blacklist for my browser, that'd be even better. Unfortunately they'd probably only make it available for IE.
Which makes sense, as the large majority of the exploits only work on IE anyway.
[...] This way you can take a cut of their profits from the products already sold, and tell them that your own business is 'irreparably damaged' because of the confusion.
Why sue BEFORE any money has been made?!? That's just a warning.
I dunno, maybe they fear their business might actually be irreparably damaged? That's not a good thing, you know.
Hold your mouse over a square on the minesweeper field. Now look at the top left pixel of your screen. If it's white, the square doesn't contain a mine. If it's black, it does.
VoIP requires extra hardware (Not everyone has a microphone, though speakers are common enough). IM only requires a keyboard, a monitor and a network card, that's it. Plus some people don't speak too clearly, especially in anything other than their native language. (Let's not get into non-native spelling. Or native spelling for that matter, as some of the worst English spelling I have ever seen came from the keyboard of an American)
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We're also the only developed country that relies on for-profit insurance companies for basic medical insurance.
The Netherlands aren't a developed country now? News to me.
We definitely have mandatory health insurance over here. You get to pick your insurance company, but you have to pick one. The companies have to provide certain minimum coverage and can't discriminate based on age or health (but they get compensated by the government for having to take on riskier clients).
The system seems to work quite well AFAICT.
What do you mean, a lower corporate tax rate in the US? According to Wikipedia, the 35% marginal US corporate tax rate Apple pays is topped by only a handful of countries: Bangladesh, Guyana, Cameroon and Japan. It looks to me like it has the highest corporate tax rate in the western world (not the developed world though, given that Japan was on that list), at least for companies the size of Apple.
Note that I'm not disputing how much (or little, as the case may be) non-US tax they pay.
Please note that much of Canada and Europe is not actually part of the United States, so money earned there is in fact earned in another nation than the one in question.
(The same goes for America, but that's a flamewar for another day)
Any sane person would agree that having access to a trained doctor is SLIGHTLY more important than having access to a trained lawyer.
Depends on your situation, since both legal and medical issues have ranges of severity and they overlap.
Access to a trained lawyer on a death penalty case is probably SLIGHTLY more important than access to a trained doctor to have a look at your sprained ankle.
Of course, I don't have to worry about either since I live in a civilized country that has (a) abolished the death penalty a couple of decades ago (more if you ignore wartime), and (b) a health care system where you're required to get insurance, and insurers are required to provide at least basic coverage to everyone who requests it regardless of pre-existing conditions.
Btw, I think the sentence should be life in prison or possibly death penalty. So what's half of life sentence or death penalty?
It's not the death penalty. Abolition of capital punishment is a condition for entry into the European Union, of which France is a member.
Granted, it's a pretty big country, but it's sparsely populated. Since the GP was talking about the market, population matters more than area. And the population is about as large as the Dutch-speaking populations of the Netherlands and Belgium combined (actually a bit smaller, according to Wikipedia). That's not even counting the 41% of the Belgian population speaking other languages (natively).
Speaking globally, it probably qualifies as a "smaller market".
The original comment was tongue-in-cheek. But most computer date representation systems are prospective from modern zero date.
For example, Unix time was originally coded as elapsed whole seconds since midnight January 01, 1970 and represented time as an UNSIGNED 32-bit integer. Such systems still exist and will roll over on 2038.
Actually, unsigned 32-bit integers won't overflow until about 2106 or so. It's the signed ones that overflow in 2038.
Roses are also commonly referred to as "flowers" around the world (or their local translations). This does not mean a rose is meant whenever the word "flower" is used.
Similarly, simply because the United States are commonly referred to as America does not mean every mention of America refers to them. As my links above show, it's a word with multiple meanings.
America is winning a worldwide race to the bottom.
This happened in Canada, dumbass.
America has many problems, including the fact that many of its citizens believe it to be the center of the Universe—if not the entirety of it.
Canada lies in (North-)America, dumbass.
The United States of America have many problems, including the fact that many of its citizens believe it to be the center of America—if not the entirety of it.
Note the first link on that Wikipedia page.
Of course, there are also a more authorative sources
Now if MS would compile a database of offending sites and allow me to use it as a blacklist for my browser, that'd be even better. Unfortunately they'd probably only make it available for IE.
Which makes sense, as the large majority of the exploits only work on IE anyway.
[...] This way you can take a cut of their profits from the products already sold, and tell them that your own business is 'irreparably damaged' because of the confusion.
Why sue BEFORE any money has been made?!? That's just a warning.
I dunno, maybe they fear their business might actually be irreparably damaged? That's not a good thing, you know.
Ehm, yes they did. Here's the full quote from TFA:
Just because you're telling them to do something else than you wanted to tell them to do, doesn't mean they did something wrong :)
If someone told you, they wouldn't be undisclosed anymore, now would they?
Hold your mouse over a square on the minesweeper field. Now look at the top left pixel of your screen. If it's white, the square doesn't contain a mine. If it's black, it does.
Just tried it on Win2K and WinXP, still works.
Minesweeper is NP-Complete, which is basically a haughty way of saying "it's probably very difficult, but if you can prove whether it is or not, there's a million bucks in it for you"
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I'd rather hack all desktop stuff out of Ubuntu [...]
No need. It's called a custom installation. It gives you a minimal system, just apt-get anything else you need.
And so will you.
VoIP requires extra hardware (Not everyone has a microphone, though speakers are common enough). IM only requires a keyboard, a monitor and a network card, that's it.
Plus some people don't speak too clearly, especially in anything other than their native language.
(Let's not get into non-native spelling. Or native spelling for that matter, as some of the worst English spelling I have ever seen came from the keyboard of an American)
Give someone a off the shelf computer from an store and give them a XP cd and a Linux cd (any flavour), lets see how far they get.
My guess: they put the CDs in a drawer somewhere and boot the computer to the pre-installed XP...
Isn't that what SSH is for?
What kind of a geek are you? Alderaan was in a galaxy far far away. (It was blown up a long, long time ago, you know)
Let me guess: you have a blue car? ;)
I only read Threat Matrix 15 and above
RTFA: The red box indicates the threat level on a scale of 1-10
Of course, we're talking about Bush here, so that might not stop him from saying that...