The US has, by a very significant margin, the best health care system in the world
Citation needed. It is not true.
I think you need to read up on the countless tragedies about people in the US that don't have coverage who are stupid enough to get cancer or other expensive health problems...
Are you sure? I got the impression ZackShil wanted to demonstrate that the other Scandinavian countries are 'poor' compared to Norway since they have half the GDP per capita. Notice the extra linebreak before Norway... Or maybe I should just give it a rest before I get wooshed again.
You are right, according to the statistics non-western immigrants are not contributing as much as they should. However, the sustainability problem is with the immigration and integration policy, not with social democracy or the welfare system as such.
All the nordic countries have similar laws regarding overtime.. They don't have much in the way of natural resources. Seems to work out for them as well.
As long as I keep bringing in good money for the company, my clients are happy and I am not compromising the security of the company then they don't really care what I do with my (their) laptop.
With an up to date browser, a malware scanner and decent virus software there really isn't much of any significant damage from normal use of a company laptop. And if I should happen to catch a virus or something like that, the ten minutes that IT has to spend reimaging the maching really is peanuts compared to the money I bring in to the company.
What made you think I was lazy? I am not talking about doing personal stuff in my work time. I am talking about using a company laptop for personal tasks when I am not on the clock. Personally, I dont torrent from my company laptop, but I do pretty much everything else.
But yes; any employer that would seriously fire someone for doing something as innocent as using it for surfing the web, watching videos or (in moderation) playing games is petty and I would not want to work for them.
My answer: Yes, use it for personal use. Just dont install any trojans or malware. None of my employers have ever had any problems with personal use. I surf the net, watch videos, install tools and applications, and on very rare occasions install games. Frankly if my employer would fire someone over using a company laptop for personal use then I would know they don't value their employees and I would move on. (Posting from company laptop)
But we did invent the Internet. And until an American invented the IMG tag, the Web wasn't useable by most people. So take a hint, and show some gratitude, instead of your jealous spite. We're not cranking out this tech for your thanks, but you could at least show some dignity when you accept our gifts.
Cringe... Thank you Doc Ruby for bestowing your infinite wisdom and generosity upon us lowly non-americans!
Sure, there is a lot of great research and technology that have come out of the US, but the technologies that comprise what we call the Internet come from many different fields of research, institutions and countries.
Despite not wanting to get in to a polemic about the specifics, consider hypertext/HTML (T. Berners-Lee), CSS (W3C/Wium-Lie) etc. There are a myriad of protocols and infrastructure components that were not invented in the US that are needed to get your tripe posted to/.
US scientists, academics and politicians [sic] were pivotal in developing the internet, but it's only part of the story. Seriously mate get of your high horse: Your world view is embarassing.
No, do you understand the full workings of our global climate? No, me either, in fact nobody does.
Well, there are quite a few scientists that would disagree with you... We know how the most important cycles work and we know all too well how the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion is working. We dont entirely understand the laws of thermodynamics, but that doesn't stop us from being able to utilize what we DO know about it or to make correct predictions using what we know... Just because we don't know *everything* doesn't mean we don't know *anything*
Global warming has been studied for a few dacades now, and it seems that a lot of the people left saying 'Let us study it more before we move a finger' are the ones that supported the Iraq invasion based on the unresearched and poorly documented reasons provided by partisan intelligence... Maybe thats when you should have advocated due diligence and rational thought before action?
OK, so I am mixing topics and generalising, but it strikes me as odd why a whole demographic (conservative republicans), who are largely intelligent, educated and reflected individuals would all follow Bush line of rejecting accepted science in order to preserve some economic status quo of a select few (or whatever the motive is)..
Or am I wrong in assuming that the stance in the Iraq war and G.W. are based on the same motives?
Also, am I wrong in assuming that most of the; 'We don't know enough', 'The scientists are lying to get more grants', 'It would kill more people trying to fix it','Let's study it another 20 years first' proponents are in fact mostly republicans? As a non-american with an interest, I am actually wondering... Has the repulican party lost votes from scientist communities due to the 'anti-scientific' philosophy? Or is that just the black-and-white version of cons. republicans we are being fed overseas?
IIRC, XHTML strict doesn't allow inline event-handlers (like your onclick-attrib), so the correct way to do it would be to add the event-handler after the page has loaded. Or maybe it's the next version of XHTML I'm thinking of.
To be fair, DreamWeaver produces much cleaner and more standards compliant HTML than other visual web-editors (like FrontPage).
I'm inclined to agree with grandparent that this could be a move from Macromedia to make sure they stay in the 'application client development' game...
...launching that kind of tirade against Google without posting as AC (or was that a mistake?:)..
I agree, though...Google is gearing up to becoming a privacy killer, but they are paving the road with genuinely useful services and a devoted slashbot following..
You're in luck! Hauppauge has
a great tuner card that supports HDTV over cable. For help getting their cards to work under linux, check out their
Linux forums.
Actually Miller came up with the (magic) number 7 +/- 2 (5-9) as the average limit if units people can hold in short term memory. Units can be letters or numbers, but also words.
So according to Miller, we should be able to remember a seven word sentence as easily as a seven char password It's probably even easier to remember the passphrase if we also take into account our ability to conceptualize the contents of a sentence and use some context reinstatement (Ie. have an emotional or sensory association to the phrase). Consider having to remember 'JWSHBDHFGL' compared to 'this is where I need to type my new passphrase'
Although Millers study refers to short term memory, stuff isn't very likely of making it to long-term memory if it's forgotten immediately.
That not quite correct. "microsoft samba incompatibility" would still return all the normal results, just not any sponsored links from Linux companies... Unless of course the advertiser has samba in their paid keywords.
OK now I'm really not sure anymore... My sarcasm detector is confused:
Microsoft is hemorrhaging money right and left trying to beat AOL and Sony, and having their butts handed to them.
Since MS just posted record earnings the xbox is doing pretty well against PS2 I can't help but decide it has to be sarcasm after all. Your original post was funnier.
invalid XHTML is still XML...XHTML that is not well-formed on the other hand.... The MSN search page is well-formed (meaning it's valid XML), but is invalid according to the specified DTD (strict).. The latter is not a biggie in my book (at least it doesn't force browsers into quirk mode or tag-soup mode). They just used a proprietary attribute, that browsers or XML parsers will ignore if they don't know what to do with it. In comparison, just see how many people keep using href-target attrib despite being perfectly valid XHTML-strict otherwise. Not really defending use of proprietary markup, just feeling pedantic...
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The US has, by a very significant margin, the best health care system in the world
Citation needed. It is not true.
I think you need to read up on the countless tragedies about people in the US that don't have coverage who are stupid enough to get cancer or other expensive health problems...
WOOOOSH
Are you sure? I got the impression ZackShil wanted to demonstrate that the other Scandinavian countries are 'poor' compared to Norway since they have half the GDP per capita. Notice the extra linebreak before Norway... Or maybe I should just give it a rest before I get wooshed again.
You are right, according to the statistics non-western immigrants are not contributing as much as they should. However, the sustainability problem is with the immigration and integration policy, not with social democracy or the welfare system as such.
They are all still among the highest in the world... Not exactly poor. So what was your point?
All the nordic countries have similar laws regarding overtime.. They don't have much in the way of natural resources. Seems to work out for them as well.
Yes, then we'll be poor like Sweden, Denmark and Finland... oh wait...
As long as I keep bringing in good money for the company, my clients are happy and I am not compromising the security of the company then they don't really care what I do with my (their) laptop.
With an up to date browser, a malware scanner and decent virus software there really isn't much of any significant damage from normal use of a company laptop. And if I should happen to catch a virus or something like that, the ten minutes that IT has to spend reimaging the maching really is peanuts compared to the money I bring in to the company.
Why is everyone so aggressive here today?
What made you think I was lazy?
I am not talking about doing personal stuff in my work time. I am talking about using a company laptop for personal tasks when I am not on the clock. Personally, I dont torrent from my company laptop, but I do pretty much everything else.
But yes; any employer that would seriously fire someone for doing something as innocent as using it for surfing the web, watching videos or (in moderation) playing games is petty and I would not want to work for them.
My answer: Yes, use it for personal use. Just dont install any trojans or malware. None of my employers have ever had any problems with personal use. I surf the net, watch videos, install tools and applications, and on very rare occasions install games. Frankly if my employer would fire someone over using a company laptop for personal use then I would know they don't value their employees and I would move on. (Posting from company laptop)
Heh.. I always thought that one was true..
f lash.20010521.3.xml
But when I was trying to find a source for you, I found this:
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-05/sun
I preferred it when I thought it was true.
And the teen pregnancy rate is higher in the EU. Coincidence? I think not.
Bullshit
The other ones are plain old socialists and hippies and other liberals. Violent games are bad because they go against the peace-and-love worldview.
WTF does socialists and liberals have to do with peace-and-love? I think you got your wires crossed...
Most "Socialist and liberal" countries have MUCH more relaxed sex and violence censhorship on entertainment.
But we did invent the Internet. And until an American invented the IMG tag, the Web wasn't useable by most people. So take a hint, and show some gratitude, instead of your jealous spite. We're not cranking out this tech for your thanks, but you could at least show some dignity when you accept our gifts.
/.
Cringe... Thank you Doc Ruby for bestowing your infinite wisdom and generosity upon us lowly non-americans!
Sure, there is a lot of great research and technology that have come out of the US, but the technologies that comprise what we call the Internet come from many different fields of research, institutions and countries.
Despite not wanting to get in to a polemic about the specifics, consider hypertext/HTML (T. Berners-Lee), CSS (W3C/Wium-Lie) etc. There are a myriad of protocols and infrastructure components that were not invented in the US that are needed to get your tripe posted to
US scientists, academics and politicians [sic] were pivotal in developing the internet, but it's only part of the story. Seriously mate get of your high horse: Your world view is embarassing.
No, do you understand the full workings of our global climate? No, me either, in fact nobody does.
Well, there are quite a few scientists that would disagree with you... We know how the most important cycles work and we know all too well how the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion is working. We dont entirely understand the laws of thermodynamics, but that doesn't stop us from being able to utilize what we DO know about it or to make correct predictions using what we know... Just because we don't know *everything* doesn't mean we don't know *anything*
Global warming has been studied for a few dacades now, and it seems that a lot of the people left saying 'Let us study it more before we move a finger' are the ones that supported the Iraq invasion based on the unresearched and poorly documented reasons provided by partisan intelligence... Maybe thats when you should have advocated due diligence and rational thought before action?
OK, so I am mixing topics and generalising, but it strikes me as odd why a whole demographic (conservative republicans), who are largely intelligent, educated and reflected individuals would all follow Bush line of rejecting accepted science in order to preserve some economic status quo of a select few (or whatever the motive is)..
Or am I wrong in assuming that the stance in the Iraq war and G.W. are based on the same motives?
Also, am I wrong in assuming that most of the; 'We don't know enough', 'The scientists are lying to get more grants', 'It would kill more people trying to fix it','Let's study it another 20 years first' proponents are in fact mostly republicans? As a non-american with an interest, I am actually wondering... Has the repulican party lost votes from scientist communities due to the 'anti-scientific' philosophy? Or is that just the black-and-white version of cons. republicans we are being fed overseas?
Commonly known as TLAS Syndrome (Three Letter Acronym Syndrome Syndrome)...
"Windows: Built on NT Technology", is another one..
Something about a bowl of fish...?
(ghoti = fish, according to G.B. Shaw)
I can beat you all day and you'll never tell me the password.
I don't know about that... Would you be wearing latex?
IIRC, XHTML strict doesn't allow inline event-handlers (like your onclick-attrib), so the correct way to do it would be to add the event-handler after the page has loaded. Or maybe it's the next version of XHTML I'm thinking of.
To be fair, DreamWeaver produces much cleaner and more standards compliant HTML than other visual web-editors (like FrontPage).
I'm inclined to agree with grandparent that this could be a move from Macromedia to make sure they stay in the 'application client development' game...
...launching that kind of tirade against Google without posting as AC (or was that a mistake? :)..
I agree, though...Google is gearing up to becoming a privacy killer, but they are paving the road with genuinely useful services and a devoted slashbot following..
You're in luck! Hauppauge has a great tuner card that supports HDTV over cable. For help getting their cards to work under linux, check out their Linux forums.
Actually Miller came up with the (magic) number 7 +/- 2 (5-9) as the average limit if units people can hold in short term memory. Units can be letters or numbers, but also words.
So according to Miller, we should be able to remember a seven word sentence as easily as a seven char password
It's probably even easier to remember the passphrase if we also take into account our ability to conceptualize the contents of a sentence and use some context reinstatement (Ie. have an emotional or sensory association to the phrase). Consider having to remember 'JWSHBDHFGL' compared to 'this is where I need to type my new passphrase'
Although Millers study refers to short term memory, stuff isn't very likely of making it to long-term memory if it's forgotten immediately.
That not quite correct. "microsoft samba incompatibility" would still return all the normal results, just not any sponsored links from Linux companies... Unless of course the advertiser has samba in their paid keywords.
OK now I'm really not sure anymore... My sarcasm detector is confused:
Microsoft is hemorrhaging money right and left trying to beat AOL and Sony, and having their butts handed to them.
Since MS just posted record earnings the xbox is doing pretty well against PS2 I can't help but decide it has to be sarcasm after all. Your original post was funnier.
invalid XHTML is still XML...XHTML that is not well-formed on the other hand....
The MSN search page is well-formed (meaning it's valid XML), but is invalid according to the specified DTD (strict).. The latter is not a biggie in my book (at least it doesn't force browsers into quirk mode or tag-soup mode). They just used a proprietary attribute, that browsers or XML parsers will ignore if they don't know what to do with it. In comparison, just see how many people keep using href-target attrib despite being perfectly valid XHTML-strict otherwise. Not really defending use of proprietary markup, just feeling pedantic...