They are competing unfairly using government subisdies The complete lack of proof in your post notwithstanding... welcome to the rest of the world. The US has done exactly that for decades - look no further than most primary industries like farming for examples. And even the US's closest "special relationship" friend who subscribe to the so-called "Free Trade Agreements" continue to get shafted by those same subsidies.
You reap what you sow, and I'm not at all surprised you've only just noticed that your own medicine tastes a lot like sour grapes.
You do not need electrical engineering certification to wire up a house. See your local hardware store for all the requisite DIY equipment.
Here in the UK you do not even need training to rewire mains plugs for appliances. Companies are required to supply equipment with plugs that can be opened by the user (possibly to change the fuse inside, I'm not sure of the reason why). Any muppet with a screwdriver can do it.
If the software controlling the space shuttle crashes, people die.
If an electrical engineering fault causes a cheap pocket calculator to crash, nobody gets hurt.
In essense I agree that dangerous work should be done by certified people, but I fail to see how anything else you said really illustrates that point. My point is that the certification requirement should be applied to the danger rather than the specific field of work, as most fields of work will cover many levels of danger.
They used to do that at my local Sainsbury's, but they stopped a few months ago. Now they always get the customer to swipe/insert the card (into the appropriate slot on the keypad terminal). Even Nectar cards too.
Good point... just make sure you son't sign any extradition treaties. Or expect to travel anywhere. And learn to swim in case your loan sharks (pun intended) decide to "kneecap" the oil platform.
Surely a server room that resembled the Bog of Eternal Stench is every BOFH's wet dream? (BYO Halon system of course...) It's keep the gefingerpoken mit spitzensparken to a minimum, and could be a handy form of punishment...
Do you think it's sane and/or reasonable to mandate that CD players can't come with music? TVs can't come with bundled DVD sets? Etc.? I, personally, don't. Yes, because the "bundled" music/DVDs are almost certainly something I don't want, and are likely complete crap. I don't need yet another copy of Kenny G's Greatest Hits. Oh wait, I've said too much...
"Well, if you change wife to Mom." Good thing too, because the other way around is illegal. I'm intrigued... just how do you propose to achieve the first way?
Since the Myth devs never put out a release that's worth anything all of us distro packagers have to constantly keep on top of all the patches that are necessary to actually make MythTV function.
No, let's not. He has not provided one shred of verifiable evidence. Additionally, elsewhere on his site he has stated:
Over the coming weeks I am going to be attempting my very first viral campaign... Firstly I need to find something that is going to get a reaction from people and get them talking. I have already chosen what this will be. Next step is to create a site that is going to get your point across and act as a call to action for the readers. After that will be the promotion of the site via related sites. Ending with a mass press release to relevant sources. The goal is similar to the butterfly effect, meaning that everyone who reads the site is a potential spokesman for your site. If enough people become spokesmen then the site can really snowball.
I'd give you the link, but ironically that would boost his pagerank, so instead you can search for it yourself if you care that much. If you insist on linking to his site, you could at least Googlebomb it... let's say, to something like "fabricating tosser" (assuming that one hasn't already been allocated to a politician somewhere).
In one case, the blind has an offset sight for someone else to sight the weapon. So, there would be TWO people trying to sneak through the environment to find game, making it more difficult to actually find the game. Once found, the sighted person would ensure the target is game and not another hunter.
My question - who gets tried for murder when you kill another hunter? The sighted guy who lined up the target, or the blind guy who pulled the trigger?
In another case, laser sighting is allowed. This enables those who can barely see, (but are still legally blind,) to sight and shoot. The legally blind person would still need to be able to see good enough out of at least a portion of his field of vision to discern that the laser is hitting the target.
As a fellow hunter, can I please suggest that "seeing well enough to determine a laser dot is on the target" is not good enough. If you cannot positively identify what your fucking target is it is an unsafe shot, regardless of whether or not your aim is correct. If you already require a sighted person to line up the shot, I fail to see how adding lasers in any way improves the safety of the situation.
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You reap what you sow, and I'm not at all surprised you've only just noticed that your own medicine tastes a lot like sour grapes.
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Yeah, Apple may be a big nasty company, but Cisco is bigger and nastier.
My money is on Cisco.
So that would be 400 quatloos on the newcomer then?
What self-respecting geek would carve pumpkins with anything other than a Dremel? Turn your card in at the door, sir...
In essense I agree that dangerous work should be done by certified people, but I fail to see how anything else you said really illustrates that point. My point is that the certification requirement should be applied to the danger rather than the specific field of work, as most fields of work will cover many levels of danger.
They used to do that at my local Sainsbury's, but they stopped a few months ago. Now they always get the customer to swipe/insert the card (into the appropriate slot on the keypad terminal). Even Nectar cards too.
...but I couldn't eat a whole one. At least, not without some fava beans and a nice chianti to wash it down...
Good point... just make sure you son't sign any extradition treaties. Or expect to travel anywhere. And learn to swim in case your loan sharks (pun intended) decide to "kneecap" the oil platform.
Well I hope his webserver isn't one of those machines... Making it to the /. front page, his kids are probably boiling quite nicely now otherwise!
At least he got the priority order right though ;-)
Or, the "Help --> Report Web Forgery" menu in Firefox?
Or, the "Report phishing" option in the dropdown menu in Gmail?
How exactly to you think they should improve availability of this function?
Surely a server room that resembled the Bog of Eternal Stench is every BOFH's wet dream? (BYO Halon system of course...) It's keep the gefingerpoken mit spitzensparken to a minimum, and could be a handy form of punishment...
Sorry, I just read "Hell phase transition" and wondered if someone had finally advanced current thinking on the physics of the supernatural...
First time I've seen a photo of Mark Russinovich. Anyone else think that photo bears more than a passing resemblance to Neo?
Sorry, Henry Ford already has prior art on that concept...
Just because it's prior art, doesn't make it non-obvious...
So you're saying it's a bit hit-and-myth then?
...you do realise providing a link to his site from Slashdot is only going to boost his pagerank further, don't you?
I'd give you the link, but ironically that would boost his pagerank, so instead you can search for it yourself if you care that much. If you insist on linking to his site, you could at least Googlebomb it... let's say, to something like "fabricating tosser" (assuming that one hasn't already been allocated to a politician somewhere).
My question - who gets tried for murder when you kill another hunter? The sighted guy who lined up the target, or the blind guy who pulled the trigger?
As a fellow hunter, can I please suggest that "seeing well enough to determine a laser dot is on the target" is not good enough. If you cannot positively identify what your fucking target is it is an unsafe shot, regardless of whether or not your aim is correct. If you already require a sighted person to line up the shot, I fail to see how adding lasers in any way improves the safety of the situation.
Heh... just ask Don Knuth...