Does someone have a good list of Danish products so that one can counter the boycott? Saudia Arabia, Iran, Libya and others have announced a boycott of Danish products. This just fuels the extremist in their mission and attempts to intimidate. There should be support for the Danes in this affair.
cost the danish government vast sums in lost export revenues
Is there a list of Danish products somewhere. This would be useful so that people can support the Danes in this affair.
Post it here and I will go out of my way to buy Danish products. I am sure - he he - that I could find the list on some islamic-facist site, but they would probably not list the good exported Danish beer!
Also note that several of the most offensive images were added by the Danish Imam to ensure the proper response from the faithful. Total disgusting.
Even more to your point several cartoons were added later presumably by the group of imams that toured the middle east with the intent of stirring up trouble. In a bbc article it is mentions that the most offensive cartoons were added by the imam delegation to strength their case. Why no anger at the imams? One has to wonder.
Yes, but why give Islam some special status here. I see contempt for the Christianity in many publications including evening sitcoms. This is offensive to Christians. So in your view should Editors, Presidents, Prime Ministers start off every morning apologizing for freedom of thought and expression that may have occured in the prior day.
If you kick a hornets' nest, you'll get stung.
So we should make our freedom's subject to the fear of reprisals. The Hamas leader said that if someone would have been successful in acting on the Ayatollah's fatah to kill the Novelist S. Rushdie then these cartoon would not happen.
Whatever one may think of the moslem world, this is simply not an honourable way to behave.
And burning embassies and issueing death threats to cartoonist for lines on a piece of paper is? Actually the death and kidnapping threats extended to any citizen from the countries that published these cartoons regardless of affiliation.
I sure hope you do not represent the average Danish thinking.
Varitek +10 for insightful. If google and yahoo did not make the internet so useful for the average joe then their dsl and dialup subscriber list would be a lot smaller. i say verizon should have to pay a surcharge to the content maintainers.
If the president had to sell the war on the cost up front there would have been no support whatever. The cost is now around $ 800 per citizen. If you are a middle class tax payer that is more around 2k per family member. Some are claiming much higher.
But Bush was able to sell the war on a deferred payment plan which includes record deficits and raiding surpluses. If Bush said we are going to war and we are going to tax petro an extra 10 cents a gallon to help pay for it he would have gotten booed of the stage. There should always be a cost for all citizens to go to war as some families are called to pay the ultimate sacrifice.
I swear the most important number on peoples mind is the price of gas at the pump. The president's approval rating inversely proportional to the price of gas that fuel pump.
When anyone questions the wisdom of rebuilding New Orleans they are labeled as uncaring and sacrilege, however it is the same people who demand that the federal taxes should cover the costs.
One thing I do not understand about the levees is why is it the sole responsibility of the federal goverment. I would think that the state of louisiana and the city New Orleans should bear the burden of the cost of protecting themselves from a hazard that is the result of some choices of where to build. The probability of a cat 3 or 4 huricane hitting New Orleans in a 50 year period is probably close to 1.
The current patent duration of 20 years was established in the prior revolution, the industrial revolution. It is way to long and benefits the major corporate holds the most. A patent in todays faster moving world should be short as is being proposed. That would reduced their importance and significance. Is an "innovative" idea like one click shopping significant enough to lock up for 20 years? I don't think so.
The whole idea behing the duration is to to help an inventor recover the cost of an invention and capitalize on it. Today's entrepreneurs can recover an investment much more quickly than in the past.
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"Perl's too loose and too messy" please provide some meat to that aspersion.
The typical response is to post some obsfustacted perl with a good reg exp thrown in for good measure and some cute comment about ascii explosions. These are red herrings. To these I say:
Any langauge can be obfusticated and C is perhaps the easiest to obfusticate.
Built in reg exp are extreme useful - learn to used them and do not fear them. Or good coding style requires you to document them. A single line reg exp can replace pages of code.
I remember the day well, I had just graduated from college and was working at Rocketdyne, the then maker of the Shuttle Main Engines (SSME). I worked in the section that built the turbopumps for the SSME.
Some time during the morning a message went over the intercom that there was a "system failure on flight 51". Heads popped up across the cubicle farm and people started talking but nobody surmised the extent of the problem. Most assumed that the the flight was scubbed.
The company or NASA shut down the phone lines coming into the building so that no one could report the incident to us. When some went out for lunch they were stunned to hear the news on TV's in the malls and on the radio. Some time in the afternoon all or the build books that documented the contruction of the turbopumps and the main engine itself were consficated and held behind armed guards. They were concerned that some engineer would go "oh oh maybe I let that torque go out of spec" and go back and alter the records. I spent the rest of the summer helping to prepare a report for Feynman.
If Google would have held to their guns this incident would generated significant goodwill and there would have been a huge positive press coverage. It would have engendered curiosity by their chinese audience who will find increasingly creative ways to get around the great wall of China and may have ended up increasing their market share in the long run.
But more importantly it would have been a defining moment for company and would have become legend.
What about finding hominid bones (or other modern mammal) inside the fossilized rib cage of a t-rex or finding a verifiable mammal footprints in a trilobite bed or any other such out place fossil situations? Some may say "out of place" fossils have been found but those few can be explained by fossil relics being washed into a different strata or as is typical out-and-out forgeries.
The complexity arguement is vague and taking the position "we have not worked that out yet" is a better position than just assigning God to the gap in the knowledge. Actually those gaps in our knowledge are the areas where the current theories are making predictions. Some of those predictions have come true recently with new fossil finds, such as finding predicted intermediates in Whale evolution.
Can you imagine the buzz and notoriety that Google would have received from this news if they had stuck to their guns. They would have made Microsoft and Yahoo look like fools and unreliable. Not only that the Chinese netizens would have respected google and found ways to search on google.
The censorship will not last on the internet and Google would have been legendary in refusing to compromise.
Unfortunately these inventions are always bought up by the powerful french wine cartel and shelved. Or worse sometimes these inventors meet their untimely demise. So sad.
I would guess that this is probably the original origin of the "overlord" cliche.
Some little pip-squeak sitting around the communal fire, 2-million years ago trys to be cool and impress his commrades by announcing "I for one welcome our new avian menance overlords" Snicker snicker snicker. After months of repeating this phase with multiple variations his brained cracked skullcase somehow ended in the fire pit.
At one time McBride was proud of the fact of all the articles generated about SCO and linked that to SCO's relevancy.
Here on slashdot at first every SCO story would generate greater than 1000 replies. Today SCO does not even generate a 100. Good to see. McBride must be suffering from a lack of attention so we can probably expect some bazaar antic.
Clearly a warp engine in the garage would more than make up for science and progress failure for not delivering a practical flying car and dishwashing robots.
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Thanks. I forgot about Lego and Carlsberg beer.
Does someone have a good list of Danish products so that one can counter the boycott? Saudia Arabia, Iran, Libya and others have announced a boycott of Danish products. This just fuels the extremist in their mission and attempts to intimidate. There should be support for the Danes in this affair.
cost the danish government vast sums in lost export revenues
Is there a list of Danish products somewhere. This would be useful so that people can support the Danes in this affair.
Post it here and I will go out of my way to buy Danish products. I am sure - he he - that I could find the list on some islamic-facist site, but they would probably not list the good exported Danish beer!
Also note that several of the most offensive images were added by the Danish Imam to ensure the proper response from the faithful. Total disgusting.
Even more to your point several cartoons were added later presumably by the group of imams that toured the middle east with the intent of stirring up trouble. In a bbc article it is mentions that the most offensive cartoons were added by the imam delegation to strength their case. Why no anger at the imams? One has to wonder.
Yes, but why give Islam some special status here. I see contempt for the Christianity in many publications including evening sitcoms. This is offensive to Christians. So in your view should Editors, Presidents, Prime Ministers start off every morning apologizing for freedom of thought and expression that may have occured in the prior day.
If you kick a hornets' nest, you'll get stung.
So we should make our freedom's subject to the fear of reprisals. The Hamas leader said that if someone would have been successful in acting on the Ayatollah's fatah to kill the Novelist S. Rushdie then these cartoon would not happen.
Whatever one may think of the moslem world, this is simply not an honourable way to behave.
And burning embassies and issueing death threats to cartoonist for lines on a piece of paper is? Actually the death and kidnapping threats extended to any citizen from the countries that published these cartoons regardless of affiliation.
I sure hope you do not represent the average Danish thinking.
Varitek +10 for insightful. If google and yahoo did not make the internet so useful for the average joe then their dsl and dialup subscriber list would be a lot smaller. i say verizon should have to pay a surcharge to the content maintainers.
Scorned Women sure does bite back.
If the president had to sell the war on the cost up front there would have been no support whatever. The cost is now around $ 800 per citizen. If you are a middle class tax payer that is more around 2k per family member. Some are claiming much higher.
But Bush was able to sell the war on a deferred payment plan which includes record deficits and raiding surpluses. If Bush said we are going to war and we are going to tax petro an extra 10 cents a gallon to help pay for it he would have gotten booed of the stage. There should always be a cost for all citizens to go to war as some families are called to pay the ultimate sacrifice.
I swear the most important number on peoples mind is the price of gas at the pump. The president's approval rating inversely proportional to the price of gas that fuel pump.
Yes it is a "if" and not "when"
When anyone questions the wisdom of rebuilding New Orleans they are labeled as uncaring and sacrilege, however it is the same people who demand that the federal taxes should cover the costs.
One thing I do not understand about the levees is why is it the sole responsibility of the federal goverment. I would think that the state of louisiana and the city New Orleans should bear the burden of the cost of protecting themselves from a hazard that is the result of some choices of where to build. The probability of a cat 3 or 4 huricane hitting New Orleans in a 50 year period is probably close to 1.
Am I missing something here? Why not just make the pig skins from green pigs in the first place. Try replicating that in your backyard.
The current patent duration of 20 years was established in the prior revolution, the industrial revolution. It is way to long and benefits the major corporate holds the most. A patent in todays faster moving world should be short as is being proposed. That would reduced their importance and significance. Is an "innovative" idea like one click shopping significant enough to lock up for 20 years? I don't think so. The whole idea behing the duration is to to help an inventor recover the cost of an invention and capitalize on it. Today's entrepreneurs can recover an investment much more quickly than in the past.
The typical response is to post some obsfustacted perl with a good reg exp thrown in for good measure and some cute comment about ascii explosions. These are red herrings. To these I say:
Any langauge can be obfusticated and C is perhaps the easiest to obfusticate.
Built in reg exp are extreme useful - learn to used them and do not fear them. Or good coding style requires you to document them. A single line reg exp can replace pages of code.
So with the google bar in china display mao rank instead of page rank?
I remember the day well, I had just graduated from college and was working at Rocketdyne, the then maker of the Shuttle Main Engines (SSME). I worked in the section that built the turbopumps for the SSME.
Some time during the morning a message went over the intercom that there was a "system failure on flight 51". Heads popped up across the cubicle farm and people started talking but nobody surmised the extent of the problem. Most assumed that the the flight was scubbed.
The company or NASA shut down the phone lines coming into the building so that no one could report the incident to us. When some went out for lunch they were stunned to hear the news on TV's in the malls and on the radio. Some time in the afternoon all or the build books that documented the contruction of the turbopumps and the main engine itself were consficated and held behind armed guards. They were concerned that some engineer would go "oh oh maybe I let that torque go out of spec" and go back and alter the records. I spent the rest of the summer helping to prepare a report for Feynman.
If Google would have held to their guns this incident would generated significant goodwill and there would have been a huge positive press coverage. It would have engendered curiosity by their chinese audience who will find increasingly creative ways to get around the great wall of China and may have ended up increasing their market share in the long run. But more importantly it would have been a defining moment for company and would have become legend.
What about finding hominid bones (or other modern mammal) inside the fossilized rib cage of a t-rex or finding a verifiable mammal footprints in a trilobite bed or any other such out place fossil situations? Some may say "out of place" fossils have been found but those few can be explained by fossil relics being washed into a different strata or as is typical out-and-out forgeries.
The complexity arguement is vague and taking the position "we have not worked that out yet" is a better position than just assigning God to the gap in the knowledge. Actually those gaps in our knowledge are the areas where the current theories are making predictions. Some of those predictions have come true recently with new fossil finds, such as finding predicted intermediates in Whale evolution.
Can you imagine the buzz and notoriety that Google would have received from this news if they had stuck to their guns. They would have made Microsoft and Yahoo look like fools and unreliable. Not only that the Chinese netizens would have respected google and found ways to search on google.
The censorship will not last on the internet and Google would have been legendary in refusing to compromise.
Are you perhaps searching from within China?
The results are completely different
From google.com search the first hit is
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With images displayed of the protest
From a google.cn search the first hit is the tourist friendly
Beijing Tiananmen: ChinaVista
Unfortunately these inventions are always bought up by the powerful french wine cartel and shelved. Or worse sometimes these inventors meet their untimely demise. So sad.
No bull shit check out these guys putting rfid in cows. Looks like they check the cows health and if she is in heat!
It is always easier to imitate than to innovate.
I would guess that this is probably the original origin of the "overlord" cliche.
Some little pip-squeak sitting around the communal fire, 2-million years ago trys to be cool and impress his commrades by announcing "I for one welcome our new avian menance overlords" Snicker snicker snicker. After months of repeating this phase with multiple variations his brained cracked skullcase somehow ended in the fire pit.
At one time McBride was proud of the fact of all the articles generated about SCO and linked that to SCO's relevancy. Here on slashdot at first every SCO story would generate greater than 1000 replies. Today SCO does not even generate a 100. Good to see. McBride must be suffering from a lack of attention so we can probably expect some bazaar antic.
Clearly a warp engine in the garage would more than make up for science and progress failure for not delivering a practical flying car and dishwashing robots.
Or maybe we could just shape Hurricane tajectories so that they hit cancun instead of new orleans :)