I spent 25 years in a multinational corporation, and while I hate to deprive peoiple of their illusions, I have to inform you that none of them works withour not one, but two plans
The fact that you confuse a company having a plan with a planned economy indicates that you haven't got a clue what you're talking about.
Is ripping people's quotes out of context to make points a hobby of yours?
Is quoting intentionally misleading figures (22%) one of yours? The UK government is elected via universal adult suffrage, which is as a good enough definition of a democracy for me. You don't like the electoral system? Tough.
Someone mod this troll down.
Well I've learned somnething today. Not only is Slashdot a monarchy, but you were the heir apparant and the previous king just died. Big crybaby, calling anybody a troll just for disagreeing with your whining.
Anyway, it seems they modded the real troll down, too.
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio
Either you're bullshitting or Lincoln was. Not many years before, one European country (while busy fighting against another one) ran the US to a close draw.
Rubbish. The most obvious example is how governments pass laws about intarwebs when most politicians can't even switch computers on. Then there's Gordon Brown (the UK chancellor, i.e. finance minister) who's constantly fiddling round with business taxes, yet he's never run a business - in fact the only real job he's ever done outside politics was a few years teaching history.
What is "demand per unit"? Per what unit? If the damand for cars is 2000 cars, what's a unit? If the demand for beer is 1500 litres, what's the unit? If it's a car and a litre, in that order, your concept of "demand per unit" (I've never seen it in any economics text, which tells me something) is pretty useless as it tends to be, ummm, like, 1.
Thanks for the link, I'd heard the story and was looking for that. Problem was, I was looking in Brazil. I'd take my memory back for a refund, if only I could remember where I got it from.
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in the Windows world it's really language + MS add-ons, MS can cut the lifeline on a language for all practical purposes.
Next time someone tells me there's no such thing as vendor lock-in, can I quote you?
Nice sidestep. You wrote gift card, not "some special type of gift card". A gift card, like from HMV, Virgin or whatever, is merely a prepayment. Or you can consider it as a credit note. The retailer gets the money when someone buys the card. When that card is "cashed in" as you put it, that's not revenue for the music indistry - that will only happen when the retailer orders more stock. In fact revenue for the music industry won't happen at all if the card is spent on (say) video games.
But, is it really that much more dangerous for kids out there today
I guess you grew up like I did - before the widespread use of the intarwebs. If it wasn't for them doohickeys, there wouldn't be all those pedia^HH peado^HHH kiddy fiddlers. Just ask her off countdown what's good at sums.
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Well yes. That would possibly be because you're not a n00b with Linux (or indeed at stating the fucking obvious).
Does he have an amp that goes up to 11?
Anyway, it seems they modded the real troll down, too.
You a LibDem, by any chance?
In other news, world continues to turn, sky still up there. Film at 11.
Rubbish. The most obvious example is how governments pass laws about intarwebs when most politicians can't even switch computers on. Then there's Gordon Brown (the UK chancellor, i.e. finance minister) who's constantly fiddling round with business taxes, yet he's never run a business - in fact the only real job he's ever done outside politics was a few years teaching history.
What is "demand per unit"? Per what unit? If the damand for cars is 2000 cars, what's a unit? If the demand for beer is 1500 litres, what's the unit? If it's a car and a litre, in that order, your concept of "demand per unit" (I've never seen it in any economics text, which tells me something) is pretty useless as it tends to be, ummm, like, 1.
Can someone explain why orbits tend to be elliptical rather than circular?
Thanks for the link, I'd heard the story and was looking for that. Problem was, I was looking in Brazil. I'd take my memory back for a refund, if only I could remember where I got it from.
Especially if it's the gaseous sort. I heard it's both flammable and inflammable - imagine what could happen if it mixed with itself!
And two, it teaches nothing of the sort.
What flavour is it?
Whoever makes "common sense" should be prosecuted under the trade descriptions act. It's about as common as rocking-horse shit.
It's best appreciated in the original language - Klingon.