Since I live in Paris and I used to live in one of those poor suburbs, my humble opinion might be worth more than 2 cents, so here it comes: 1. There is no country in Europe that does not struggle with immigrants and children from immigrants from African origin. France has the largest number of them, hence the biggest problems. (This is also correlated to the anti-semitism problem in France: the largest arabic and the largest jewish populations of Europe are in France and anti semitism in France comes overwhelmingly from this arabic population) 2. Many of those rioters are simply criminals that do not want the police to be present in these suburbs and are demonstrating that it is their territory. 3. Islam has nothing to do with these rioters. If they were white, would we say it's because of christianity? These criminals are not muslim. 4. These bloggers were calling for physically hurting policemen, burning cars, schools,... They were not just discussing the problems. 5. What is this bullshit about journalists not talking about the causes of the social problems? All French newspapers, TV and radio news are just talking about that! 6. These riots happen almost exclusively in the poor suburbs of France, 99% of the French population has only seen burning cars on TV.
Your comment about nationality is totally wrong. In most of the EU, being born in one country gives you automatically the nationality of this country (this is not the case for Germany, though). It is certainly the case for France even if both parents are not French.
AFAIK, Ubuntu was not developed in South Africa, but founded by Mark Shuttleworth, a south african. That's a bit different. It's like saying that Gnome is Mexican because it was started by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena who are both from Mexico.
The BBC got it slightly wrong. The Italian bridge will be the highest bridge in the world. The current record is the Millau bridge in France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_viaduct) build by the company that was created by Eiffel!
voIP in an office document? That's pretty pointless, or am I missing something? You can put images in any modern format. Video or audio can at least be linked to from a document, the rest can be put as an image. Obviously owning a software suite and deciding on the format to use give you a big advantage over those who want to conform to standards that take time to write and to agree upon. But companies or governments that rely on ONE company and closed formats for their documents are crazy. What if they want to read these documents in 10, 20 years from now? What if MS decides to stop supporting these formats? I mean, it's crazy to think that MS does not have the means to create (at the very least) office viewers for other platforms than Windows! It's a choice, a commercial and strategic choice to lock you on their platform.
Making stuff is the big deal. Most chemicals are made from petrol nowadays and the chemical companies are searching for a way out of this dependency on petrol. One way is plants (as raw material) + bacteria(for their enzymatic reactions). Quite a few microbiology labs are now working in discovery, selection and bio-engeneering of bacteria for this very purpose. Personally, I think the discovery part is very important since we know close to nothing about the biodiversity of bacteria. A number I heard recently is that 70% of the biomass of this planet is made of bacteria, and most of them live in the ground and are very difficult to isolate and study and thus mostly unknown. Look up metagenomic in google for more info.
I thought the same at first, but then I realised they mean the major recording, not the Majors. Which means that if you select the alternatives, you will get other versions of the same song.
Finally, I'd like to add that I am proud to be doing this as a service for my country.
Wouldn't you be more proud if you did this service entirely voluntarily instead of as part of a compulsary military service? Anyone in the western world with some skills (in about anything) can voluteer to do some work in Africa or elsewhere.
AFAI understand, they are talking about a tax for domain names. Domain names are not free anyway, so I suppose, perhaps wrongly, that a small tax would not make much difference.
Every country is represented at the UN, so you can still call you representative or your governement.
Good point. Although I guess China would be better of, in this case, to block access to the root DNS and make one for Chinese access where all the "offending" sites would be blocked.
The United States developed the internet, with many large investments (DARPA etc.), and now we are expected to just give it up? Well, the scots created the TV, give up your cable network now! The United States has perhaps the most to lose, economically, if the internet were to "go down(whatever that means)" Every country has something to lose. The universal access tax scares me. You don't need a tinfoil hat to see why a worldwide tax is a bad idea and an awful precedent. Don't you pay now to get an internet address? What's the difference with a tax? The internet has become a security issue- Aside from all the defense networks etc, we need to be able to keep tabs on extremist groups on the web, note that there is a widely circulating how to video about how to cause the most damage with a b#mb on a bus. Somehow I expected the terrorist issue to be raised! It's irrelevent to the subject of ICANN As popular as "America is an Imperialist" sentiment has become, we still believe in freedom of speech. What happens when China decides that no one should use the word democracy? What happens when France decides that the word Nazi can't be used What has this got to do with domain names? Just some thoughts. You managed to mention terrorists AND nazis. Congratulations.
Reading the FAQ gives plenty of reasons not to use this service: - No ipod support: No, unfortunately Peer Impact(TM) does not support iPod technology at this time. - Songs format: Songs purchased in Peer Impact(TM) are provided in Windows Media Application format (WMA) and are protected via Microsoft DRM. - Firewall: If your PC is protected by a firewall, you can still act as a source of content to other users and earn Peer Cash. However, PCs seen as firewalls can only act as a source to non-firewalled users, never to other firewalled PCs. Therefore, to MAXIMIZE YOUR EARNING POTENTIAL, you should really make an effort to open your firewall.
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I was not aware that had changed in France.
Since it happened to my mother who was born in 1946, it has changed a very long time ago!
But can someone of color ever really be "French"?
or American? (yep, mod me flamebait)
Since I live in Paris and I used to live in one of those poor suburbs, my humble opinion might be worth more than 2 cents, so here it comes: ... They were not just discussing the problems.
1. There is no country in Europe that does not struggle with immigrants and children from immigrants from African origin. France has the largest number of them, hence the biggest problems. (This is also correlated to the anti-semitism problem in France: the largest arabic and the largest jewish populations of Europe are in France and anti semitism in France comes overwhelmingly from this arabic population)
2. Many of those rioters are simply criminals that do not want the police to be present in these suburbs and are demonstrating that it is their territory.
3. Islam has nothing to do with these rioters. If they were white, would we say it's because of christianity? These criminals are not muslim.
4. These bloggers were calling for physically hurting policemen, burning cars, schools,
5. What is this bullshit about journalists not talking about the causes of the social problems? All French newspapers, TV and radio news are just talking about that!
6. These riots happen almost exclusively in the poor suburbs of France, 99% of the French population has only seen burning cars on TV.
Your comment about nationality is totally wrong. In most of the EU, being born in one country gives you automatically the nationality of this country (this is not the case for Germany, though). It is certainly the case for France even if both parents are not French.
AFAIK, Ubuntu was not developed in South Africa, but founded by Mark Shuttleworth, a south african. That's a bit different. It's like saying that Gnome is Mexican because it was started by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena who are both from Mexico.
The BBC got it slightly wrong. The Italian bridge will be the highest bridge in the world. The current record is the Millau bridge in France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_viaduct) build by the company that was created by Eiffel!
For me, like for many people here, TV is already dead.
Well, it's pretty obvious! It will run IN the toolbar.
In other words they have embedded ed in the toolbar.
Now let's wait for the Gates foundation to buy these linux laptops for 3rd world kids.
The main difference between the ipod and this player is that the ipod plays AAC files (and not WMA) and this dell player plays WMA (and not AAC).
voIP in an office document? That's pretty pointless, or am I missing something?
You can put images in any modern format. Video or audio can at least be linked to from a document, the rest can be put as an image.
Obviously owning a software suite and deciding on the format to use give you a big advantage over those who want to conform to standards that take time to write and to agree upon.
But companies or governments that rely on ONE company and closed formats for their documents are crazy. What if they want to read these documents in 10, 20 years from now? What if MS decides to stop supporting these formats?
I mean, it's crazy to think that MS does not have the means to create (at the very least) office viewers for other platforms than Windows! It's a choice, a commercial and strategic choice to lock you on their platform.
And obviously these free office viewers work on other systems than windows? No.
You still need to buy MS system to view them.
It does not work for the brain though. Blondes will scream discrimation! if they can pronounce the word.
Making stuff is the big deal. Most chemicals are made from petrol nowadays and the chemical companies are searching for a way out of this dependency on petrol. One way is plants (as raw material) + bacteria(for their enzymatic reactions). Quite a few microbiology labs are now working in discovery, selection and bio-engeneering of bacteria for this very purpose. Personally, I think the discovery part is very important since we know close to nothing about the biodiversity of bacteria. A number I heard recently is that 70% of the biomass of this planet is made of bacteria, and most of them live in the ground and are very difficult to isolate and study and thus mostly unknown. Look up metagenomic in google for more info.
I'd go and visit Hugh Huffner's tombstone when he dies!
Replying to myself: forget what I just wrote above. I'm should go back to bed!
From TFA:
"CJ," as he's known by his pals, is black -- and to some in the video game industry, that's a problem.
But in GTA: Vice City, Tommy Vercetti is Italian, and that's OK?
And in GTA San andreas, CJ is the main character, and is black. I think that's why it is a problem!
I thought the same at first, but then I realised they mean the major recording, not the Majors. Which means that if you select the alternatives, you will get other versions of the same song.
Finally, I'd like to add that I am proud to be doing this as a service for my country.
Wouldn't you be more proud if you did this service entirely voluntarily instead of as part of a compulsary military service?
Anyone in the western world with some skills (in about anything) can voluteer to do some work in Africa or elsewhere.
If you zoom to the maximum you find out that the Swiss were there first!
AFAI understand, they are talking about a tax for domain names. Domain names are not free anyway, so I suppose, perhaps wrongly, that a small tax would not make much difference.
Every country is represented at the UN, so you can still call you representative or your governement.
Good point. Although I guess China would be better of, in this case, to block access to the root DNS and make one for Chinese access where all the "offending" sites would be blocked.
The United States developed the internet, with many large investments (DARPA etc.), and now we are expected to just give it up?
Well, the scots created the TV, give up your cable network now!
The United States has perhaps the most to lose, economically, if the internet were to "go down(whatever that means)"
Every country has something to lose.
The universal access tax scares me. You don't need a tinfoil hat to see why a worldwide tax is a bad idea and an awful precedent.
Don't you pay now to get an internet address? What's the difference with a tax?
The internet has become a security issue- Aside from all the defense networks etc, we need to be able to keep tabs on extremist groups on the web, note that there is a widely circulating how to video about how to cause the most damage with a b#mb on a bus.
Somehow I expected the terrorist issue to be raised! It's irrelevent to the subject of ICANN
As popular as "America is an Imperialist" sentiment has become, we still believe in freedom of speech. What happens when China decides that no one should use the word democracy? What happens when France decides that the word Nazi can't be used
What has this got to do with domain names?
Just some thoughts.
You managed to mention terrorists AND nazis. Congratulations.
Reading the FAQ gives plenty of reasons not to use this service:
- No ipod support: No, unfortunately Peer Impact(TM) does not support iPod technology at this time.
- Songs format: Songs purchased in Peer Impact(TM) are provided in Windows Media Application format (WMA) and are protected via Microsoft DRM.
- Firewall: If your PC is protected by a firewall, you can still act as a source of content to other users and earn Peer Cash. However, PCs seen as firewalls can only act as a source to non-firewalled users, never to other firewalled PCs. Therefore, to MAXIMIZE YOUR EARNING POTENTIAL, you should really make an effort to open your firewall.
Great advise there guys!
Maybe some linux distrib could have free world names:
Debian democracy
Gentoo tiananmen square massacre
Mandriva voting rights
Fedora free speech
it also has brought many problems, such as sex
I think they are taking this one child policy a bit too far!