Here in France, the ballot box is transparent (plexiglas) and most of the time, vote are put in a envelope.
But it is also true that we are planning elections so that never more than two simultaneous consultations are done the same day (and never during Presidential Indecisions days).
I was assesseur (co-judge) in numerous elections, and we rarely have to count more than one hour for 2000 exprimed votes. I think symbolic transparency of the ballot box help to have more than 50% of participation for major elections (less are European votes, with 40%)
Oh... Just one thing : European countries are very small, and Movies/Sport rights are sold by countries. That means that if you want BskyB in France, you can't except by a portage via an UK address. Or if you are living in North Africa (french-speaking), you can't have Canal Satellite (Canal + sat tv operation), but a stripped down for Africa market... If there is a distribution system in your country (By example, Algeria during its troubled 1990s, was a big pirated viaccess "consumer").
For more comprehension about the story : Canal+ (main pay-channel in France, and very big group in pay sat tv) accused Murdoch to have helped hacking its signal. It was during the commercial aggressive war between TelePiu (Canal+ in Italy), Canal+España, Premiere and other subsets agains BskyB and other Murdoch's companies
Nobody remember the/. article about the guy that patented the Sum Process ? I was told he was suing the guy who patented the Multiplication Process. And Jesus.
I'm in France and before the launching of the GSM, we had a analogue radiotelephone system (commercial name was "Radiocom 2000"). In the beginning of the 1990s, my father got one in his car, and the number he had was a local one (attached to our town, namely was beginning in 61, latter, with new numbering plan, it would be 05 61, or "geographical" when starting with 01-05).
People who called him where paying a "normal" price (the monopolistic france telecom were running very excessive tarrifs at this moment), and he was charged of the price difference.
Because of the local number he was allocated, the consumer was believing his call charged as a landline one.
With the new numbering system, the "06" prefix was attached to mobile operations, pagers (still some), analogue, and the brand new GSM systems with a public (Itineris, aka France Telecom, finally named Orange) and a private operator (SFR). That prefix (and the ones like "08" for premium charged rates) are differently charged because they are not "geographic numbers". And so, GSM are not billed when they receive calls, but their correspondents are paying more, because they know that "06" is a mobile line.
When "triple play" FAI started their box (namely, Free.fr, with internet, tv, and phone), the new phone line you got from their modem had a 087x number attributed. A very big problem, because Free was advertising that their number have a local tarrif everywhere they are called, but France Telecom (historical operator, still proprietary of all the landlines, concurrent with the Wanadoo/Orange brand) was attributing thoses numbers until 1998 the premium numbers.
Because of the exploding demand onto these boxes, and to stop the confusion, since last years, all "degrouped" lines via triple-play FAI, have now 09 prefix. Don't think that Orange is raging about that : now they're happy because they hotlin have less angry phonecalls about inconsistent billings...
Sorry, but here, in France, i read "MUST RESIDE WITHIN THE U.S." on the NBC.com page. I don't want to use Microsoft Windows, I don't want to use MSIE, I don't want to use Windows Media Player, I don't want to live in a country that have secretive prisons with no applicable rules because of a president who used the same trick than Cole in season one finale.
So I must pay for viewing Heroes S02 (with 24 hours late but subtitles in French and no ads at all, ok, that worth it for my poor English skills...).
This is enough laughy (especially the final word). And I think Steve would be full red-face when she will start saying "when you was younger, you wasn't throwing chairs and you wasn't allowed to raise voice like that in front of strangers... who teach you to be so impolite?"
I think that Eudora staff will probably do the right stuff : Rethinking the keyboards shortcuts that are just sucking (i use a french locale, and sometimes, i have the worng focus, so instead of typing a mail, i do "something" with my inbox)
IMHO MoFo should be reorganized : the Xul Foundation, with everyone implied into (Firefox, Thunderbird, Songbird, CeltX, Disruptive Innovations,...) for-profit and non-profits organizations, and Firefox, FirefoxCom, Thunderbird should be independent corporations or foundations.
Not available here in France. The TF1 VOD service is also accessible via my Freebox (Free.fr FAI was the first one in Europe to have TVoIP, and actually, having more than 2 millions subscribers to their triple-play service), and I am nearly never giving my credit card number on the net, so I was very happy : I can watch it and paying via my FAI billing.
Oh, and it is in HD.
But I agree : it's very costly.
And perhaps Heroes would not have been so pirated in France, if it wasn't broadcast during summer, 3 episodes by Saturday evening, cut-a-lot and with a stupid song in the opening. You just go off for a weekend, and you miss 3 episodes. So what do you think happened ? audience downed from 7m to 3m viewers for the finale.
sorry... i said 1 Ohm capacitor, but the omega symbol (and everything out of US-ASCII) is filtered here. perhaps time come to make non-english quotes in sigs, hu ?
Heeeeemmm... Perhaps in the code there is a comment by a former employee about bad financial practices ?
And as nobody in the legal or the director department know how to code, they didn't remove it, incase the programmes don't work anymore.
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Here in France, the ballot box is transparent (plexiglas) and most of the time, vote are put in a envelope.
But it is also true that we are planning elections so that never more than two simultaneous consultations are done the same day (and never during Presidential Indecisions days).
I was assesseur (co-judge) in numerous elections, and we rarely have to count more than one hour for 2000 exprimed votes. I think symbolic transparency of the ballot box help to have more than 50% of participation for major elections (less are European votes, with 40%)
Zapavision : The ads are the show
Clippy didn't found Weapon Of Mass Disastrous
Slashdot raided ???
Oh... Just one thing : European countries are very small, and Movies/Sport rights are sold by countries. That means that if you want BskyB in France, you can't except by a portage via an UK address. Or if you are living in North Africa (french-speaking), you can't have Canal Satellite (Canal + sat tv operation), but a stripped down for Africa market... If there is a distribution system in your country (By example, Algeria during its troubled 1990s, was a big pirated viaccess "consumer").
For more comprehension about the story : Canal+ (main pay-channel in France, and very big group in pay sat tv) accused Murdoch to have helped hacking its signal. It was during the commercial aggressive war between TelePiu (Canal+ in Italy), Canal+España, Premiere and other subsets agains BskyB and other Murdoch's companies
What is the impact on the environment to produce SSD ?
Nobody remember the /. article about the guy that patented the Sum Process ? I was told he was suing the guy who patented the Multiplication Process. And Jesus.
I don't remember any time where a paper document on microsoft.com was also accessible in PDF. ...
He didn't learn the lesson from... HIS... MASTERS
ahaha mind control
And you never told them that you are a complete FEMALE ?
Castro is the only communist (and not only Communist) dictator to have official sponsorship by Adidas !
YEAH ! Futbooooooooooooooooooooool !
And the only "civilised" country that doesn't have soccer as a main cultural event is USA.
I'm in France and before the launching of the GSM, we had a analogue radiotelephone system (commercial name was "Radiocom 2000"). In the beginning of the 1990s, my father got one in his car, and the number he had was a local one (attached to our town, namely was beginning in 61, latter, with new numbering plan, it would be 05 61, or "geographical" when starting with 01-05). People who called him where paying a "normal" price (the monopolistic france telecom were running very excessive tarrifs at this moment), and he was charged of the price difference. Because of the local number he was allocated, the consumer was believing his call charged as a landline one. With the new numbering system, the "06" prefix was attached to mobile operations, pagers (still some), analogue, and the brand new GSM systems with a public (Itineris, aka France Telecom, finally named Orange) and a private operator (SFR). That prefix (and the ones like "08" for premium charged rates) are differently charged because they are not "geographic numbers". And so, GSM are not billed when they receive calls, but their correspondents are paying more, because they know that "06" is a mobile line. When "triple play" FAI started their box (namely, Free.fr, with internet, tv, and phone), the new phone line you got from their modem had a 087x number attributed. A very big problem, because Free was advertising that their number have a local tarrif everywhere they are called, but France Telecom (historical operator, still proprietary of all the landlines, concurrent with the Wanadoo/Orange brand) was attributing thoses numbers until 1998 the premium numbers. Because of the exploding demand onto these boxes, and to stop the confusion, since last years, all "degrouped" lines via triple-play FAI, have now 09 prefix. Don't think that Orange is raging about that : now they're happy because they hotlin have less angry phonecalls about inconsistent billings...
Sorry, but here, in France, i read "MUST RESIDE WITHIN THE U.S." on the NBC.com page.
I don't want to use Microsoft Windows, I don't want to use MSIE, I don't want to use Windows Media Player, I don't want to live in a country that have secretive prisons with no applicable rules because of a president who used the same trick than Cole in season one finale.
So I must pay for viewing Heroes S02 (with 24 hours late but subtitles in French and no ads at all, ok, that worth it for my poor English skills...).
Network Neutrality ? Squad ?
Terrorist Buzzword Threat Advisory : Yellow
May rain bananas during the evening
Yeah... no way to saturate my 100Mb/100Mb FiOS here in Toulouse. (offered by Orange, price is 45E monthly)
Have i seen a goatse ? (0'43")
This is enough laughy (especially the final word). And I think Steve would be full red-face when she will start saying "when you was younger, you wasn't throwing chairs and you wasn't allowed to raise voice like that in front of strangers... who teach you to be so impolite?"
And having a (masculine) hard-core coder would not be too offensive for institutions, universities, big companies, medias ?
I think that Eudora staff will probably do the right stuff : Rethinking the keyboards shortcuts that are just sucking (i use a french locale, and sometimes, i have the worng focus, so instead of typing a mail, i do "something" with my inbox)
IMHO MoFo should be reorganized : the Xul Foundation, with everyone implied into (Firefox, Thunderbird, Songbird, CeltX, Disruptive Innovations,...) for-profit and non-profits organizations, and Firefox, FirefoxCom, Thunderbird should be independent corporations or foundations.
Not available here in France.
The TF1 VOD service is also accessible via my Freebox (Free.fr FAI was the first one in Europe to have TVoIP, and actually, having more than 2 millions subscribers to their triple-play service), and I am nearly never giving my credit card number on the net, so I was very happy : I can watch it and paying via my FAI billing.
Oh, and it is in HD.
But I agree : it's very costly.
And perhaps Heroes would not have been so pirated in France, if it wasn't broadcast during summer, 3 episodes by Saturday evening, cut-a-lot and with a stupid song in the opening.
You just go off for a weekend, and you miss 3 episodes. So what do you think happened ?
audience downed from 7m to 3m viewers for the finale.
Eeeeh yes. And sorry. pfff... need to sleep, we're in the middle of the afternoon.
sorry... i said 1 Ohm capacitor, but the omega symbol (and everything out of US-ASCII) is filtered here. perhaps time come to make non-english quotes in sigs, hu ?
Go tell this to US' National Stupidity Department
Here in France, 1 capacitor are not sold anymore in stores.... but you can find ones in old laundry machines. Have you ever tried to overcharge one ?
Heeeeemmm... Perhaps in the code there is a comment by a former employee about bad financial practices ? And as nobody in the legal or the director department know how to code, they didn't remove it, incase the programmes don't work anymore.
A lit'l more RAM and it can run Windows Vista. By itself.