Hmm. Gun control laws... I thought it was mandatory that every able citizen keep a fully automatic weapon+bullets in Switzerland.
Previous posters have addressed most of the points about that, but I'd like to add that said bullets are labeled as war ammo are kept sealed. It's a crime to break the seal or use this ammo without a direct order of the army.
Even so, there's an on going legislative process that intend to ban the "home" gun and ammo.
Switzerland is not a gun crazy country. Except for the police and embassy personnel, in 30 years I have never crossed any civilian, friend, family member, passers-by, security guard or just anyone carrying a gun. Pretty different from the situation in the US I think...
The Swiss "1 citizen = 1 gun" myth that some US pro-gun groups have been using as an argument is simply not real.
NO HD download service I'm aware that lets you burn the files and keep them forever to watch Ever heard about p2p ? Yes, it's illegal, and yes only a minority of people are actually downloading ripped HD content, but it's what people want. The video situation is what the audio situation was 10 years ago. Just like mp3 and DRM free music, people want DRM free downloadable HD content, they don't know it yet because they haven't had a taste. The true early adopters aren't blu-ray customers, they're people who torrent HD content and watch it in their living room.
a 3GB 720 file doesn't offer much more clarity than just a standard DVD Bullshit. A 4.3 Gig MPEG-4 AVC 720 file is already in a completely different league than standard resolution dvd.
Its just that easy and in the end might get you a few more years of healthy living. Thanks for solving the world obesity epidemic. Ah, those naive obese people, and to think all they had to do was to use the stairs!
Please don't stop there and tell us all about your 4 points plan to bring peace to the Middle East. Maybe there's easy solution but we are simply too lazy to think about it.
You could have far more influence over the government with that $1,000,000 than you ever will by voting. This is very true, and this is also the reason people that are in power in the US right now (republicans and democrats), who have worked very, very hard to be supported by wealthy elites and who have worked hard to secure their financing would rather die than allow the public to reduce the influence money has on politics.
There are a lot a ways that could be done: limit and audit campain financing (yes, limit it to an actual fixed number that would reduce the barrier of entry), ban paid political ads on TV & radio and replace them by debates on public TV. Allow any party representing more than a few % of a state population to participate in those debates etc.
"United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed... If you've got the money!"
Everytime I read the word "monetize" it makes me think of Bill Hicks:
"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.
Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourself.
Seriously, though. If you are, do. No, really. There's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, okay? Kill yourself. Seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No, this is not a joke, if you're going: "There's going to be a joke coming." There's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked, and you are fucking us. Kill yourself, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself. Planting seeds.
I know all the marketing people are going: "He's doing a joke." There's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations."
Let's keep this in perspective, this is both stupid and unacceptable but Germany is still the first country of Privacy International's Privacy index. Germany and Canada are the only countries in the world whose legislations are considered to have "Significant protections and safeguards"
The United States and the UK are respectively categorized as "Extensive surveillance societies" and "Endemic surveillance societies".
When commercials are "good" (sufficiently short, infrequent, and maybe even entertaining), people will watch them.
As far as I'm concerned no ad will ever be considered good and I will always do what I can to avoid them, not matter how infrequent, relevant or "entertaining" they are.
You speak as if the politicians are creating the divisions, rather than being the manifestation of them. Because I really believe that's the case. Some politicians do divide more than others. When you're president of a country, you're also supposed to stand for the people that did not vote for you and you should remember that people who voted for you probably don't agree with you on all issues. If you only pander to extreme elements of your political base, then yes, you're going to further alienate the part of the population that did not vote for you. Thus creating more division.
You have a country with a female Minister of Defense and an active Communist Party Active communist party ? They've got 1.93% of the votes in this presidential election, they're about as big as the libertarians or greens in the US. That would hardly qualify as "active" or influential.
Yes, there are other left-wing parties in france, but the communist party is just a ghost of the past now.
Think of Royal as George W. Bush being a socialist woman. Damn scary.
Actually, if someone has to be compared to George W. Bush it really is Nicolas Sarkozy. France is now as polarized as the US was after the Bush 2004 victory.
Many liberals in France were not conviced by Segolene Royal at all, just like many liberals in the US weren't conviced by John Kerry. They did not vote for a candidate but against someone else. The "lesser of two evil" syndrome that is so familiar in US politics.
Sarkozy won, but just like George W. Bush in 2004, the people that did not vote for him (half of the population) really hate him and what he stands for (pro big corporation, anti-immigration etc.).
He now is president of a deeply divided country... we all saw how well that worked out for the US.
I think more parties would really help. Just look at France where they had 5 candidates for their Presidency. It gives more options and better representation of the people. There was actually 12 candidates to the 2007 french election.
But I agree with you, having only 2 parties is smiliar to having no choice. The only thing both parties agree on is to not allow any change to the system.
Bipartisanship is just a pretty word for what is really a political cartel.
In the case of Europe it's not difficult to see why: in most countries there is a growing antagonism towards immigration - especially extra-european immigration, and this laws are a result of that.
No, hate laws in Europe are the results of a fascist government exterminating six million people and ruining a continent.
Believing or not that banning hate speech is the right solution to stop fascism attaining state power is one thing, but please remember what Europe has gone through and why these laws were created in the first place.
At some point europeans had to say "never again", and that's why most countries in europe have some form of "hate speech" law.
The Imus case is a perfect illustration:
Europe: Hate speech is banned by law (state censorship)
US of A: Hate speech is curtailed through auto-censorship (commercial censorship)
The question is, in the end, which model is the more restrictive one ?
from http://www.iraqbodycount.org/background.php:
The count includes civilian deaths caused by coalition military action and by military or paramilitary responses to the coalition presence (e.g. insurgent and terrorist attacks).
It also includes excess civilian deaths caused by criminal action resulting from the breakdown in law and order which followed the coalition invasion.
You have to remember that iraqbodycount.org only take into account casualties that are reported by the media.
From their website faq:
"Our maximum therefore refers to reported deaths - which can only be a sample of true deaths unless one assumes that every civilian death has been reported. It is likely that many if not most civilian casualties will go unreported by the media. That is the sad nature of war."
That is why their numbers are so low.
The Bloomberg School study recently published in the Lancet is probably closer to the actual truth (655,000 dead iraqis).
Good stuff gets reproduced, reviewed, studied, dissected, etc. and survives.
Wrong. Popular stuff gets reproduced, reviewed, studied, dissected
Look at emulation, it has worked wonders at preserving video games because a lot of people care about it. Do you see the same amount of effort being put in to preserving local or federal records?
In about 50 years from now, lots of copies of Star Trek movies and TV shows will be available in a variety of digital formats because the stuff is popular. Do you think digital records (emails etc.) about the Iraq war produced by the current U.S. administration will be if we let the problem sort itself?
Digital preservation is an issue that urgently needs to be addressed, what kind of record would we have of the web if the Internet Archive didn't take matters into their own hands in 1996? Simply nothing.
Digital preservation is not some kind sci-fi "let's send a message to the 27th century" project. It's about being able to access our digital records in a meaningful way 20 or 30 years from now. Letting the problem solve itself is a recipe for disaster.
It seems like a lot of Slashdot posters think that the best thing human beings could do is just junk whatever moral notions they have about the dignity of the human person, and just do a lot of crazy whizbang scientific experiments just because they are there.
Welcome to the a world ruled by religious beliefs were trying to cure people is described as "crazy whizbang scientific experiments"
What saddens me it that it's the second time that the swiss authorities (sharereactor anyone ?) acted as **AA watchdogs, raiding someone who wasn't actually sharing any files. It does not feel nice when your state bows to lobbyists...
Ogg, Wavpack, FLAC and MPC can all be played on Ipod (Color/Photo and Nano only for now) thanks to the recent Rockbox firmware port
No only that but with Rockbox ibloat is no longer needed (or any other special software for that matter) to load/unload audio files
And this has been made possible by the work of the iPodLinux Project.
How do I uninstall the software?
If at some point you wish to remove the software from your machine simply contact customer service through this link. You will, though, be unable to use the disc on your computer once you uninstall the components.
Having to contact customer service just to *uninstall* a piece of software ? Seems to me like a an evil spyware-adware company trick...
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Previous posters have addressed most of the points about that, but I'd like to add that said bullets are labeled as war ammo are kept sealed. It's a crime to break the seal or use this ammo without a direct order of the army.
Even so, there's an on going legislative process that intend to ban the "home" gun and ammo.
Switzerland is not a gun crazy country. Except for the police and embassy personnel, in 30 years I have never crossed any civilian, friend, family member, passers-by, security guard or just anyone carrying a gun. Pretty different from the situation in the US I think...
The Swiss "1 citizen = 1 gun" myth that some US pro-gun groups have been using as an argument is simply not real.
The quickest way to make your extensions work with the new versions (without having to edit anything) is to use the Nightly Tester Tools:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543
a 3GB 720 file doesn't offer much more clarity than just a standard DVD Bullshit. A 4.3 Gig MPEG-4 AVC 720 file is already in a completely different league than standard resolution dvd.
It's funny... 'cause it's true.
>This is xenophobia pure and simple and will kill whatever tourist industry Japan was trying to get with their "Yokoso Japan!" campaign.
How about getting of of these fingerprint-friendly "Yokoso Japan!" t-shirts?
In order to let the Government of Japan and the airport drones know how you feel about their latest "effort".
Please don't stop there and tell us all about your 4 points plan to bring peace to the Middle East. Maybe there's easy solution but we are simply too lazy to think about it.
There are a lot a ways that could be done: limit and audit campain financing (yes, limit it to an actual fixed number that would reduce the barrier of entry), ban paid political ads on TV & radio and replace them by debates on public TV. Allow any party representing more than a few % of a state population to participate in those debates etc.
"United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed... If you've got the money!"
Everytime I read the word "monetize" it makes me think of Bill Hicks:
"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.
Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourself.
Seriously, though. If you are, do. No, really. There's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, okay? Kill yourself. Seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No, this is not a joke, if you're going: "There's going to be a joke coming." There's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked, and you are fucking us. Kill yourself, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself. Planting seeds.
I know all the marketing people are going: "He's doing a joke." There's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations."
Let's keep this in perspective, this is both stupid and unacceptable but Germany is still the first country of Privacy International's Privacy index. Germany and Canada are the only countries in the world whose legislations are considered to have "Significant protections and safeguards"
The United States and the UK are respectively categorized as "Extensive surveillance societies" and "Endemic surveillance societies".
As far as I'm concerned no ad will ever be considered good and I will always do what I can to avoid them, not matter how infrequent, relevant or "entertaining" they are.
The three letter acronym MSM can refer to:
Maastricht School of Management, in Maastricht, the Netherlands
Metal-semiconductor-metal junction.
Miami Sound Machine
Men who have sex with men
Million Skirted Men, a movement advocating men's right to wear skirts.
If by "important politician" you mean Class A war criminal, you are absolutely right.
It would be akin to having the grandson of high ranking Nazi official as chancellor of Germany... Yes, Japan is that much depoliticized.
Yes, there are other left-wing parties in france, but the communist party is just a ghost of the past now.
Actually, if someone has to be compared to George W. Bush it really is Nicolas Sarkozy. France is now as polarized as the US was after the Bush 2004 victory.
Many liberals in France were not conviced by Segolene Royal at all, just like many liberals in the US weren't conviced by John Kerry. They did not vote for a candidate but against someone else. The "lesser of two evil" syndrome that is so familiar in US politics.
Sarkozy won, but just like George W. Bush in 2004, the people that did not vote for him (half of the population) really hate him and what he stands for (pro big corporation, anti-immigration etc.).
He now is president of a deeply divided country... we all saw how well that worked out for the US.
But I agree with you, having only 2 parties is smiliar to having no choice. The only thing both parties agree on is to not allow any change to the system.
Bipartisanship is just a pretty word for what is really a political cartel.
No, hate laws in Europe are the results of a fascist government exterminating six million people and ruining a continent.
Believing or not that banning hate speech is the right solution to stop fascism attaining state power is one thing, but please remember what Europe has gone through and why these laws were created in the first place.
At some point europeans had to say "never again", and that's why most countries in europe have some form of "hate speech" law.
The Imus case is a perfect illustration:
Europe: Hate speech is banned by law (state censorship)
US of A: Hate speech is curtailed through auto-censorship (commercial censorship)
The question is, in the end, which model is the more restrictive one ?
No, they don't make that distinction.
from http://www.iraqbodycount.org/background.php:
The count includes civilian deaths caused by coalition military action and by military or paramilitary responses to the coalition presence (e.g. insurgent and terrorist attacks). It also includes excess civilian deaths caused by criminal action resulting from the breakdown in law and order which followed the coalition invasion.
You have to remember that iraqbodycount.org only take into account casualties that are reported by the media.
From their website faq: "Our maximum therefore refers to reported deaths - which can only be a sample of true deaths unless one assumes that every civilian death has been reported. It is likely that many if not most civilian casualties will go unreported by the media. That is the sad nature of war."
That is why their numbers are so low.
The Bloomberg School study recently published in the Lancet is probably closer to the actual truth (655,000 dead iraqis).
Look at emulation, it has worked wonders at preserving video games because a lot of people care about it. Do you see the same amount of effort being put in to preserving local or federal records?
In about 50 years from now, lots of copies of Star Trek movies and TV shows will be available in a variety of digital formats because the stuff is popular. Do you think digital records (emails etc.) about the Iraq war produced by the current U.S. administration will be if we let the problem sort itself?
Digital preservation is an issue that urgently needs to be addressed, what kind of record would we have of the web if the Internet Archive didn't take matters into their own hands in 1996? Simply nothing.
Digital preservation is not some kind sci-fi "let's send a message to the 27th century" project. It's about being able to access our digital records in a meaningful way 20 or 30 years from now. Letting the problem solve itself is a recipe for disaster.
Welcome to the a world ruled by religious beliefs were trying to cure people is described as "crazy whizbang scientific experiments"
What saddens me it that it's the second time that the swiss authorities (sharereactor anyone ?) acted as **AA watchdogs, raiding someone who wasn't actually sharing any files. It does not feel nice when your state bows to lobbyists...
And yet switzerland is supposed to be one of the world's least corrupted state...
Ogg, Wavpack, FLAC and MPC can all be played on Ipod (Color/Photo and Nano only for now) thanks to the recent Rockbox firmware port
No only that but with Rockbox ibloat is no longer needed (or any other special software for that matter) to load/unload audio files
And this has been made possible by the work of the iPodLinux Project.
from the sony "content protected discs" faq:
How do I uninstall the software?
If at some point you wish to remove the software from your machine simply contact customer service through this link. You will, though, be unable to use the disc on your computer once you uninstall the components.
Having to contact customer service just to *uninstall* a piece of software ? Seems to me like a an evil spyware-adware company trick...