Well he was talking about gun 'ownership', if you look at the wikipedia numbers there are 90 guns for 100 residents, so obviously the US gun owners have more guns on average than a gun owner anywhere else in the world. I live in CA myself and I know very few people that actually have a gun, still too many to my own taste, but I don't deny their right to own one. So it's still plausible that more people in Canada *own* guns than in the US, the owners in Canada just don't stockpile them under the kids bed like you see on Cops (the tv show) once in a while.
If you look at the numbers you gave us US has 3.3 times more gun per inhabitant than Canada yet the US has 7.9 more murders by firearms. From this I would say that the US gun owners are at least twice as trigger happy than the Canadian gun owners.
Well if the country need a new law stating that strikes will not be paid, I guess it mean it happens.
Quotes from Sarkozy:
"strike days will not be paid"
"I respect the right to be on strike but if the strike days are paid, it means we do not respect the ones who work, because why work if you get paid for not working?"
OK my bad for not using preview and test the link, slashdot broke on the accented letter, but the Google Translate page work: Financing of trade unions in France
Here is a quote: "Some unions are also accused of having had recourse to occult financing, in particular by using work council funds, especially the CGT with the works council at EDF. At the beginning of 2000, this controversy has taken a turn justice on the one hand with the dismissal of the Director General of the CCAS, which had raised serious irregularities and malfunctions, and, secondly, by the submission of a complaint on behalf of agents. Bernard Thibault, secretary general of the CGT, has been heard by the court in July 2006 in connection with this case and a criminal investigation was opened for breach of trust, fraud, forgery and use of forgeries and misuse of company assets"
Also the workers are not on strike are subject to violent pressure, and many admit they go on strike so they tires don't get slashed, or so they can get promoted (some companies are union run, while not owned by the unions): If you don't join the strike we'll break your car.
My uncle was beat up and spent a few weeks in a hospital, ending up partially disabled because he was not pro-strike. He was minding his own business, closing his shop for the night at the time. I supposed that's what 'union' stand for: 3-4 guys 'unite' to beat someone up so he will see things their way.
If all the money was coming from the workers I would have no issue with that, but funds are actually stolen from the companies they work for. (in french)
It's hard to be on strike and lose many days of pay.
Actually the french unions have treasure funds so that the strikers do get compensation when thy go on strike. Wht I've sen pretty often as well is that once the strikers get all they wanted after weeks of strikes: pay us our strike days or we keep going. So no, strikes are not a financial burden on the strikers in many cases. On top of that unions often behave as mobs; torture, kidnaping and even eco-terrorism (dump toxic stuff in rivers) is not beyond them.
Most of the past governments have let strikes govern the country, but now people realize that the whole country is only getting crippled more and more after every year while strikes benefit a minority. There are many things I don't like about Sarcozy, but he is the only candidate I though could steer the country in a better direction.
I'm french and when people tell me France is great, I usually reply that France is so great that I live in California.
Looks like coding in Java (and other languages) where I often see function names that are over 40 chars... which is pretty much annoying when your company enforce the 80 chars max policy.
An iPhone isn't a standalone device like an iPod or a PSP -- it's a part of a fairly regulated network, and the FCC has some fairly specific rules as to what they can and can't do on a cell phone.
I call BS on that. There are plenty of phones that are open and can run any app you want
Linux phone I'm pretty sure you'll be able to customize the firmware without the FCC showing up
Also the PSP is WiFi enabled so is subject to the FCC. Heck I have a LinkSys wireless router with a custom firmware... is this illegal ? I don't understand how your post was flagged 'informative' just because you mentionned the FCC while giving a contradicting example.
If we really wanted a credit card on her name we would go with American Express (they did issue cards on her name is the past but that's a different story). My wife will have a work permit in a few months and we'll go get her SSN as soon as we receive it.
I did the paper version a few years ago and never ever received a credit card offer in the mail after that. Best 29 cents I ever spent (or whatever the stamp price was at the time).
Also when I open a bank account I always make sure to tell that I don't want them to share my information with 'anyone'. Be proactive about it so you're sure you are not missing the fine prints about it. An ex Wells Fargo employee once told me that selling/auctioning customer information was their biggest income. She was so discussed about it that she had to quit.
Now my wife keep receiving pre-approved offers while she can't get a credit card on her name because has no SSN (legal alien).
When she applied (out of curiosity) she was deniedfor lack of SSN... go figure.
I could not believe all the job openings they have:
SCO Employment - An Equal Opportunity Employer
Current Open Positions
Job Title: Senior.Net UI Engineer
Location: New Delhi, India
at least 2 years of relevant experience, no more than 4 years experience.
Job Title: Senior Java UI Engineer
Location: New Delhi, India
at least 2 years of relevant experience, no more than 4 years experience.
I'm a H1-B holder myself, so I'm used to the They took our jobs! line, but how do get senior people if they can't have more than 4 years of experience ?
Also what's with the An Equal Opportunity Employer, this is clearly "we can only affoard an indian software engineer with as little experience as possible (dirt cheap better)".
My only experience with prostitution is what I see on TV (Cops). It seems that a lot of the 'customers' are not that wealthy... I've even seen 'customers' on bicycles. When you see how bad a $10 crack whore is looking, I can only imagine that wealthy customer go for the $100 'product'.
Cops (tv show) is a great way to learn about american culture when you're a foreigner by the way.
What if the woman had some meds in her bag for herpes or other potentially embarrassing problem?
Herpes is embarrassing? After seeing all these ads on TV I assumed that people with herpes where young couples that are very happy, go hiking and have a lot of fun activities
Well when I lived in europe herpes was a shameful thing to have and I guess not enough people have it to make it a subject of TV ads (unlike the US where 1 in 5 adult has genital herpes)
How do you pause in WoW ? Somehow pressing P does not put the AI on hold and all the NPCs keep moving.
I have to go to the bathroom with my laptop and make sure I tape mic to avoid disturbing noises. I can always pretend I'm an Ogre so I'm in character.
But seriously I would like to play when I'm bored and don't have anything better to do, and not plan my life around a clan. I guess you can't play MMO that much once you are married (Honey you're in the mood... but I can't my friends Conan269 and CromOnEarth are being attacked, I need to help them.).
Even during the pre-10.0 times the PPC on the desktop was in trouble (remember the g4 stuck around 400Mhz for over a year?), so they had to keep an exit door open. Freescale did not deliver on the long term, then came the G5 from IBM, full of promises ("3Ghz by next summer").
Motorola/Freescale spent the money on embeded and cell phone rather than on dektop CPUs. IBM moved their money to the high end servers and the cell... which I think is a HUGE disappointment.
I'm not saying Apple will stop making OS X working with n other CPU. They will do it internally, to force developers to not code specifically for x86 and keep the OS 'open'. I'm talking about publicly supporting the PPC machines. Having a dev version that kind-of works in the back (like the intel versions of OS X 10.0 through 10.3) and a version that works well like 10.4 is a whole lot different, and it took Apple a few month to get a 'stable' OS X Intel.
It cost a huge amount of money to R&D the motherboards.
By switching to Intel Apple not only got a predictable source of CPUs, but also got most of the work done for them for the motherboard designs. If you look at the Mac Pros, their motherboards are almost a copies of Intel boards. I'm sure that having PPC board along the Intel board would at least double their development cost (for the motherboards only), and with no financial advantage.
An other big reason is that Apple will drop support for PPC in a few years, so the longer they keep PPC around, the longer they have to spend money to support it.
Slashdot Mirror
Personally I always thought someone would've invented a good stun gun by now, bypassing the need to actually kill in defense
Like the torture devices a lot of US police officers are using ?
Well he was talking about gun 'ownership', if you look at the wikipedia numbers there are 90 guns for 100 residents, so obviously the US gun owners have more guns on average than a gun owner anywhere else in the world. I live in CA myself and I know very few people that actually have a gun, still too many to my own taste, but I don't deny their right to own one. So it's still plausible that more people in Canada *own* guns than in the US, the owners in Canada just don't stockpile them under the kids bed like you see on Cops (the tv show) once in a while.
If you look at the numbers you gave us US has 3.3 times more gun per inhabitant than Canada yet the US has 7.9 more murders by firearms. From this I would say that the US gun owners are at least twice as trigger happy than the Canadian gun owners.
Oh wait, Slashdot has ads ?
... nah I'll keep my ad blocker on.
Let me check
ping yahoo.com
I don't know why but I always ping yahoo to troubleshoot my network connection. I guess I'll have to switch to ping 'google.com'
Well if the country need a new law stating that strikes will not be paid, I guess it mean it happens.
Quotes from Sarkozy:
OK my bad for not using preview and test the link, slashdot broke on the accented letter, but the Google Translate page work:
Financing of trade unions in France
Here is a quote:
"Some unions are also accused of having had recourse to occult financing, in particular by using work council funds, especially the CGT with the works council at EDF. At the beginning of 2000, this controversy has taken a turn justice on the one hand with the dismissal of the Director General of the CCAS, which had raised serious irregularities and malfunctions, and, secondly, by the submission of a complaint on behalf of agents. Bernard Thibault, secretary general of the CGT, has been heard by the court in July 2006 in connection with this case and a criminal investigation was opened for breach of trust, fraud, forgery and use of forgeries and misuse of company assets"
Also the workers are not on strike are subject to violent pressure, and many admit they go on strike so they tires don't get slashed, or so they can get promoted (some companies are union run, while not owned by the unions):
If you don't join the strike we'll break your car.
My uncle was beat up and spent a few weeks in a hospital, ending up partially disabled because he was not pro-strike. He was minding his own business, closing his shop for the night at the time. I supposed that's what 'union' stand for: 3-4 guys 'unite' to beat someone up so he will see things their way.
If all the money was coming from the workers I would have no issue with that, but funds are actually stolen from the companies they work for. (in french)
Actually the french unions have treasure funds so that the strikers do get compensation when thy go on strike. Wht I've sen pretty often as well is that once the strikers get all they wanted after weeks of strikes: pay us our strike days or we keep going. So no, strikes are not a financial burden on the strikers in many cases. On top of that unions often behave as mobs; torture, kidnaping and even eco-terrorism (dump toxic stuff in rivers) is not beyond them.
Most of the past governments have let strikes govern the country, but now people realize that the whole country is only getting crippled more and more after every year while strikes benefit a minority. There are many things I don't like about Sarcozy, but he is the only candidate I though could steer the country in a better direction.
I'm french and when people tell me France is great, I usually reply that France is so great that I live in California.
I've stopped using extensions a while ago and just use Privoxy.
But do you realize that in the US, having interaction with the law is much worse than in Europe?
Looks like coding in Java (and other languages) where I often see function names that are over 40 chars ... which is pretty much annoying when your company enforce the 80 chars max policy.
At least we get CamelCase while German does not.
- sodul
Off topic: why do you keep referring to Vonage as Vontage ?
- Treo 650 (Palm OS apps)
- Treo 700W (WindowsMobile
... or whatever it's called this week)
- All the Symbian stuff
- Linux phone I'm pretty sure you'll be able to customize the firmware without the FCC showing up
Also the PSP is WiFi enabled so is subject to the FCC. Heck I have a LinkSys wireless router with a custom firmwareYes it did not work.
If we really wanted a credit card on her name we would go with American Express (they did issue cards on her name is the past but that's a different story). My wife will have a work permit in a few months and we'll go get her SSN as soon as we receive it.
I did the paper version a few years ago and never ever received a credit card offer in the mail after that. Best 29 cents I ever spent (or whatever the stamp price was at the time).
Also when I open a bank account I always make sure to tell that I don't want them to share my information with 'anyone'. Be proactive about it so you're sure you are not missing the fine prints about it. An ex Wells Fargo employee once told me that selling/auctioning customer information was their biggest income. She was so discussed about it that she had to quit.
Now my wife keep receiving pre-approved offers while she can't get a credit card on her name because has no SSN (legal alien). ... go figure.
When she applied (out of curiosity) she was deniedfor lack of SSN
1) Does the seller have the "burden of proof" to prove that he uninstalled his copy and is not violating his license or
Guilty until proven innocent?
2) Is the seller to be given the "benefit of the doubt" and assumed to have uninstalled his copy, unless information is found to indicate otherwise?
Innocent until proven guilty.
So which one is applied by the modern court system?
So does that mean I'll have to get the cracked version from BittTorrent in order to NOT infect my machine ?
It is very sad that the underground world is nicer than the official one. It's Demolition Man all over again.
SCO Employment - An Equal Opportunity Employer
Current Open Positions
Job Title: Senior .Net UI Engineer
Location: New Delhi, India
at least 2 years of relevant experience, no more than 4 years experience.
Job Title: Senior Java UI Engineer
Location: New Delhi, India
at least 2 years of relevant experience, no more than 4 years experience.
I'm a H1-B holder myself, so I'm used to the They took our jobs! line, but how do get senior people if they can't have more than 4 years of experience ?
Also what's with the An Equal Opportunity Employer, this is clearly "we can only affoard an indian software engineer with as little experience as possible (dirt cheap better)".
My only experience with prostitution is what I see on TV (Cops). It seems that a lot of the 'customers' are not that wealthy ... I've even seen 'customers' on bicycles. When you see how bad a $10 crack whore is looking, I can only imagine that wealthy customer go for the $100 'product'.
Cops (tv show) is a great way to learn about american culture when you're a foreigner by the way.
What if the woman had some meds in her bag for herpes or other potentially embarrassing problem?
Herpes is embarrassing? After seeing all these ads on TV I assumed that people with herpes where young couples that are very happy, go hiking and have a lot of fun activities
Well when I lived in europe herpes was a shameful thing to have and I guess not enough people have it to make it a subject of TV ads (unlike the US where 1 in 5 adult has genital herpes)
Not a mirror but a short article on the case here.
United States Government
Navy Department Of The
Master Clock Time Announcement
Washington, DC 20001
202-762-1401
How do you pause in WoW ?
... but I can't my friends Conan269 and CromOnEarth are being attacked, I need to help them.).
Somehow pressing P does not put the AI on hold and all the NPCs keep moving.
I have to go to the bathroom with my laptop and make sure I tape mic to avoid disturbing noises. I can always pretend I'm an Ogre so I'm in character.
But seriously I would like to play when I'm bored and don't have anything better to do, and not plan my life around a clan. I guess you can't play MMO that much once you are married (Honey you're in the mood
Even during the pre-10.0 times the PPC on the desktop was in trouble (remember the g4 stuck around 400Mhz for over a year?), so they had to keep an exit door open. Freescale did not deliver on the long term, then came the G5 from IBM, full of promises ("3Ghz by next summer").
Motorola/Freescale spent the money on embeded and cell phone rather than on dektop CPUs. IBM moved their money to the high end servers and the cell... which I think is a HUGE disappointment.
I'm not saying Apple will stop making OS X working with n other CPU. They will do it internally, to force developers to not code specifically for x86 and keep the OS 'open'. I'm talking about publicly supporting the PPC machines. Having a dev version that kind-of works in the back (like the intel versions of OS X 10.0 through 10.3) and a version that works well like 10.4 is a whole lot different, and it took Apple a few month to get a 'stable' OS X Intel.
It cost a huge amount of money to R&D the motherboards.
By switching to Intel Apple not only got a predictable source of CPUs, but also got most of the work done for them for the motherboard designs. If you look at the Mac Pros, their motherboards are almost a copies of Intel boards. I'm sure that having PPC board along the Intel board would at least double their development cost (for the motherboards only), and with no financial advantage.
An other big reason is that Apple will drop support for PPC in a few years, so the longer they keep PPC around, the longer they have to spend money to support it.