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  1. Re:Belgium on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 0

    Well you can't grow it in your front yard in Belgium, that is for sure. But you can grow a plant behind the kitchenwindow as long as the window is not facing the street or anything public. For tolerance, you won't get prosecuted for being in possesion of less then 5 grams of marijuana but if you are caught, they reposses the marijuana and they will give you an administrative fine, which is just a piece of paper and that is it. But if you get caught driving a car while smoking or having smoked marijuana, you will get prosecuted and you will get a penalty similar to drugposession.

  2. Re:New Zealand on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 0

    What are double happies?

  3. Brasil on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 0

    Just for the weather and those fine ladies.

  4. Re:Pollution = hurting other people on What Earth Without People Would Look Like · · Score: 0

    The traces I left in the smallest room today aren't permanent and are really hurting other people, why else they come out of it with tears in their eyes.

  5. Re:Don't worry its Belgium on Google News Removes Belgian Newspaper · · Score: 0

    The article you attached for Mercator does state he was born in Flanders. March 5, 1512 - December 2, 1594) was a German cartographer. He was born in Flanders in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation to parents from Gangelt in the Duchy of Jülich (modern Germany). He lived since 1552 in Duisburg. He is remembered for the Mercator projection named Mercator was a Flemish cartographer and NOT German. But the bit of English tekst above probably is written by germans anyway. Internationally accepted and known is that he is Flemish.

  6. Re:F**K OFF on Microsoft Fights the Flab as it Turns 30 · · Score: 0

    Most people start their 'middle age' when they reach 45. It doesn't mean they will hit 90, hope they do, but then you are about halfway your active life. Most people just are able to fully live their life when they are able to start working, and for most that are also going to school means about when they reach about 24 - 25 year. In Belgium before you can retire you have to work for at least 40 years and even after this you are still very active in other things except that where you are most active in before 25 ;-). So 25 +20 (half working life) = 45 This is in most circumstances also the age people have payed off most of their mortgage and see they can spend more money on other items and where most of the children are becoming mature, either going to college or university or going to work. When you are nearing 30 you are still one of the young adults, just peeping around the corner to see what is after the first 5 years of hard work, just having payed off your first new car or gotten married and started your family.

  7. Re:$headline =~ s/Appreciation/fear/; on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 0

    LOL

  8. No kidding on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 0

    That is why I could rtfm anyone today! They are all out celebrating.

  9. return flight on Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off · · Score: 0

    Now lets wait for the return flight! If they don't fry then we can surely say NASA solved the problem.

  10. Re:Boycott HP.. Horrible company on HP Fires Father of OOP · · Score: 0

    IBM is going through the same, laid of 16000 in Europe and is rehiring about 30000 in India. HP has always been hiring in the Asian market, when they have hired sufficient people to layoff a huge number of people in usa/europe they will do so, but not before these usa/europe guys have trained them to do their job.

  11. Re:And... on HP Fires Father of OOP · · Score: 0

    I was in 2003 one of them.

  12. Re:How difficult is that certification? on Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional · · Score: 0

    Aren't they multiple choice questions? What are the chances to just click the right answers? How many tries did this kid do? Is their any fraude involved?

  13. Re:compatibility on Why Doesn't the Itanium Get the Respect It's Due? · · Score: 0

    Wow, sounds like their profit margin on their products year after year : 1 - 2 - 4 - 8 - 16 - 32 - 64? - 128?

  14. Re:Umm, no on How P2P Can Taint a Career · · Score: 0

    Actually, I give the company a privilege to let me work there and sometimes it is a company that really can say they give the privilege to let you work there. But everybody has a right to work. For whom shouldn't matter, but as long as you are able to work, you are a resource of income for the government, so they will not be that happy to see it as a privilege rather than a right they provide.

  15. Re:mastercard commercial on 11-Nation Raid on Net Pirates · · Score: 0

    If I read the story from businessweek I can image why they want to crush our economy and have our companies bankrupt. If they don't they will be left with nothing because they can't keep such a sharade going for much longer.

  16. Re:Whew! on 11-Nation Raid on Net Pirates · · Score: 0

    Well I doubt they will be in prison for 10 years. The few that might have been arrested in Belgium for pirating probably only spend 6 months in prison if they go at all. The US judicial system is maybe harder, but I doubt they will do 10 years at all and will get out a lot sooner.

  17. Light please! on Lake spotted on Titan? · · Score: 0

    I dare you to light my cigar standing at that lake!

  18. Re:Holely Cheese on Viewing Files on the Web Considered Possession? · · Score: 0

    With all the adware and popups you get just surfing over a website that would send out illegal images you will never be safe for the law enforcement. You shouldn't need to clear your cache because it could contain images you actually didn't want to look at or download. But everybody should be aware on how to clear their cache from time to time to get rid of it.

  19. phew on Sun Buying StorageTek for $4.1B · · Score: 0

    Well at least they buy a good storage product unlike HP that moved to EVA pushing back their own XP storage product which was a state of the art product.

  20. Re:No, thank you on Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The US wouldn't have A-Bombs to test.

  21. Re:Everyone for themself on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: 1

    everybody does have their own AGENDA. But it does give mixed feelings when you know that your paycheck does not get payed next month because they now can have the same for free or for a fraction of the cost. And if you were on the open source project as well you might start thinking "this is not what I did it for"

  22. Re:Hmph on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: 1

    I do agree on this point. You write code because you like to code. If you can work on something worthwhile sharing with a community the greater the satisfaction of the coding. The more the software can do and the more people start working on it to improve really gives you a buzz. Open Source is nothing more then a vent for developpers and a cheap resource for the rest.

  23. Re:The Inverse on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: 1
    Open Source relies upon the nature of markets: contributing to the market with the expectation of equal or greater returns.
    This is rubish. The return from open source is never greater and surely can not equal. I would rather like to see an example where the contribution to the market resulted in greater return.
    Open Source functions because I have a need for software that doesn't exist, and I write that software (or portions of it)
    Even more rubbish. Open source functions because it can provide free alternatives on software that already exists. It functions because knowledge and effort is free. If it depends on open source, then software that doesn't exist will only be created when someone writes it himself or finds a way to commercialize and reap great benifits. On the other hand, Even Microsoft is not able to run open source into the ground financially.
  24. Re:The Inverse on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: 1

    What actually is meant in the article is that employment only can be increased in the IT industry by having IT giants do their own development of commercial products for an OS that can run open source software. Especially for Linux that is the case, although the use of linux in a lot of companies already increase the people with very linux knowledge to be hired the number could even be more higher if there also were more commercial products that could be sold for linux and increase employment as well. You have to bear in mind that payed employment is the only way anything will survive in this economy. Even linux with open source won't survive if it can't increase employment. Nobody benefits from free products unless someone is willing to pay the price and there is always some group of people that is paying the price.

  25. Re:Scholarly researchers? on Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive · · Score: 1

    I missed out on homework as well and hoped they wouldn't catch me while copying it from the one next to me, I excelled in most of my classes but still one class, french, which I could use some extra work, while for business french I also excelled as those were just things you could memorize. But the homework for students should be up to their level of understanding and some extra for those that need the extra work and reduce the obligatory homework teachers have to give according to their education plan they have to setup for each schoolyear. Doing homework is not always easy especially in specialty courses where most of the time you are still trying to figure out what you have to do to complete it.