It is not just Europeans that drive more efficient cars - it seems to be a sizeable chunk of the planet, but...
It is "on average - eg
There seem to be some people in the USA who drive efficient cars - even ones that are not Prius'.
Drive an overpowered enough BMW for example and you may find that you are using nearly as much fuel as something from the US. You even get some weirdos who drive US cars here. I passed a tanklike Dodge Charger yesterday. The guy driving even wore a cowboy hat! I wondered at the time if he was using as much fuel as the old touring bus that was following him.
I am less concerned about them doing it because there is no secret there. I can be selective about what I do witheir products, or at least aware of what they might have.
It is big corporations that worry me. Big as Google? Maybe, maybe not but who knows how much info banks have on me. If it is as secure as their business models, I am in deep s**t. I know what Google seems to want to do with my info. Pretty much the same as spammers, but G. seems to be better organised. They are probably better organised than Microsoft etc as well and I still believe/hope that they have more principles. At least Google started with the intention of "do no evil". I have not heard many other companies with that motto.
He may have dissed Labour for several reasons
1. They were too far left for him. His politics are pretty right wing wo most people over here.
2. Tony Blair was GWBs poodle, not his. That is a bad start.
3. A lot od people in the USA have chips on their shoulder about the British Empire. Why should he be any different?
4. To help his popularity ratings in the USA
5. He is a rich lawyer. That makes him fit quite well with the Conservatives. Why do you think Tony Blair was not popular with a lot of "traditional" Labour supporters?.
Why have the conservatives had difficulties in finding political friends in Europe? Because they were to the right of anyone they could afford to be associated with? That is why I made that statement. I am not in the Labour party - yet...
An interesting effect of this is that your "left wing" president is in complete lock step with the UK Conservative party which has been accused of being the most right-wing mainstream political party in Europe.
I heard a rumour once that they have some advisers in common. Anyone know who?
Does this mean that these "unfortunates" have no WiFi at home? I suggest that it may be that is the cause - either poverty or parental dislike of anythink more technical than a wind-up alarm clock.
Many of the worlds problems can be traced to having the wrong number of young people. I imagine if the neanderthals had produced more young people we would look different now. In a few years, the world will have BIG problems with China. Rumour has it that they have enough young people, just not enough female ones.
In actual fact, possly no unnacountable, large and secretive organisation is 100% keen on individual privacy. Corporates are much better at lying about it though. They are less bothered by FOI requests.
Software being too old, insecure and barely compatible
old
What is the inherent problem with software just being old? Do some of the bits fall off? Some of the bytes?
insecure
Many people here would remind you that it is insecure because of what it is - MS Windows. If you are going to replace it with MS Windows, it will still be insecure. Large organisations spend a lot of time keeping it secure. That is why people tell me they are not happy about our rules on what you can connect to our network, rules on USB, security policies and much much more.
barely compatible
That is a lot better that Vista which is not compatible at all and Windows 7 which needs to run a virual machine to be able to run most "corporate" applications.
In fact, this is the big killer. We have completely avoided Vista because major applications would not work. Now we are being told that we need to roll out an operating system that will not run on a reasonable fraction of our estate. Then, to make things work, we need to have XP on all of them as well?
Yes, I know that if we have to have the applications rewritten, getting them to work in a grown-up operating system would be a good idea and making all web apps browser agnostic is a must. That costs money now. Carrying on pushes it into the future.
if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid
That is then used by opponents to indicate that the scientists are not sure of their opinion.
It may be that some of these opponents are not familiar with scientific method. Others are very familiar with it and also very familiar with manipulation of the media.
It it is curious to me that the country seen my most as the biggest producer of global warming, conains the biggest number of people who deny it.
On Second thoughts, it is not surprising at all...
I work in a corporate environment (hospital). A LOT of money is paid to give what I would describe as a site licence. Of course MS has their usual gobbledegook, but it means that.
This gives us the right to put whatever version of Windows on new PCs we like, as long as they have a sticker on them for something. This means that all our really old kit would have had XP Home licences stuck on them, newer ones had Vista home and new ones will be having Win7 stickers on them.
Every single one of these gets reimaged as soon as it comes out of the box to XP Pro SP3. MS calls it a downgrade licence. Having seen what Vista did to performance, it seemed more of an upgrade.
We are trying all our internal applications on Win7. Mostly web apps on IE8 to deal with still to go. Then all we have to do is make an image that has got all the garbage & pretty stuff tidied away. Maybe we will move to office 2007 at that point too.
I am not sure what a cross or a flag has to do with it. I would be more than happy to have a flag for everyone used in future exploration but suspect that this would go down in some parts of the US about as well as a national leader who actally knows that 96% of the human race are from outside the USA.
Like I said, investigation is good because it brings knowledge, but that is a different thing from exploration. No, I am not talking about colonisation. Exploration is when a sentient being goes somewhere they have not been before. It might be a kid exploring or it might be someone wandering accross Antartica. Colonisation is when they stay there. We have explored (A tiny bit of) the moon but I don't believe there are colonies there.
Yes, it may be a bit semantic, but that is what we are doing here - using words. Sometimes exploration might not be possible/affordable/safe. That doesn't mean that investigation is the same thing. Soldiers might send in a machine to investigate a building. This is good. We all hate our people dying. Once the robot or whatever has checked it out, then humans go in.
Most of the world sees their government and its subsidiaries as more answerable than a corporate or multinational.
You can vote out a government, but a corporate monopolist is here to stay - until they get bought out by another one.
I have heard of this organisation before. If it is a choice between corporate pirates or a Quango I will usually try and avoid the corporates. In the UK, we are just about to close a load of quangos that have outstayed their welcome. I imagine that there are many here on/. who would love to close down Microsoft. Too bad. They are not going anytime soon and they are just one of many.
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I have guns for the same reason they knew Saddam once had WMDs.
So you are saying that you do not have guns then?
Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
In schoolboy terms "they started it!"
This reminds me of some 1970s grafitti in Paris.
Someone had written "Mort Au Shah" and someone else had added
"et vive les souris"
It is not just Europeans that drive more efficient cars - it seems to be a sizeable chunk of the planet, but...
It is "on average - eg
There seem to be some people in the USA who drive efficient cars - even ones that are not Prius'.
Drive an overpowered enough BMW for example and you may find that you are using nearly as much fuel as something from the US. You even get some weirdos who drive US cars here. I passed a tanklike Dodge Charger yesterday. The guy driving even wore a cowboy hat! I wondered at the time if he was using as much fuel as the old touring bus that was following him.
Citation needed.
I once saw a pre WWII Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck that used "American" this way.
I can't remember which one though.
I am less concerned about them doing it because there is no secret there. I can be selective about what I do witheir products, or at least aware of what they might have.
It is big corporations that worry me. Big as Google? Maybe, maybe not but who knows how much info banks have on me. If it is as secure as their business models, I am in deep s**t. I know what Google seems to want to do with my info. Pretty much the same as spammers, but G. seems to be better organised. They are probably better organised than Microsoft etc as well and I still believe/hope that they have more principles. At least Google started with the intention of "do no evil". I have not heard many other companies with that motto.
He may have dissed Labour for several reasons
1. They were too far left for him. His politics are pretty right wing wo most people over here.
2. Tony Blair was GWBs poodle, not his. That is a bad start.
3. A lot od people in the USA have chips on their shoulder about the British Empire. Why should he be any different?
4. To help his popularity ratings in the USA
5. He is a rich lawyer. That makes him fit quite well with the Conservatives. Why do you think Tony Blair was not popular with a lot of "traditional" Labour supporters?.
Why have the conservatives had difficulties in finding political friends in Europe? Because they were to the right of anyone they could afford to be associated with? That is why I made that statement. I am not in the Labour party - yet...
Too late...
An interesting effect of this is that your "left wing" president is in complete lock step with the UK Conservative party which has been accused of being the most right-wing mainstream political party in Europe.
I heard a rumour once that they have some advisers in common. Anyone know who?
Does this mean that these "unfortunates" have no WiFi at home? I suggest that it may be that is the cause - either poverty or parental dislike of anythink more technical than a wind-up alarm clock.
Have a look at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Shakers for an example.
Many of the worlds problems can be traced to having the wrong number of young people. I imagine if the neanderthals had produced more young people we would look different now. In a few years, the world will have BIG problems with China. Rumour has it that they have enough young people, just not enough female ones.
Well it certainly is not a right wing bias!
In actual fact, possly no unnacountable, large and secretive organisation is 100% keen on individual privacy. Corporates are much better at lying about it though. They are less bothered by FOI requests.
Software being too old, insecure and barely compatible
old
What is the inherent problem with software just being old? Do some of the bits fall off? Some of the bytes?
insecure
Many people here would remind you that it is insecure because of what it is - MS Windows. If you are going to replace it with MS Windows, it will still be insecure. Large organisations spend a lot of time keeping it secure. That is why people tell me they are not happy about our rules on what you can connect to our network, rules on USB, security policies and much much more.
barely compatible
That is a lot better that Vista which is not compatible at all and Windows 7 which needs to run a virual machine to be able to run most "corporate" applications.
In fact, this is the big killer. We have completely avoided Vista because major applications would not work. Now we are being told that we need to roll out an operating system that will not run on a reasonable fraction of our estate. Then, to make things work, we need to have XP on all of them as well?
Yes, I know that if we have to have the applications rewritten, getting them to work in a grown-up operating system would be a good idea and making all web apps browser agnostic is a must. That costs money now. Carrying on pushes it into the future.
if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid
That is then used by opponents to indicate that the scientists are not sure of their opinion.
It may be that some of these opponents are not familiar with scientific method. Others are very familiar with it and also very familiar with manipulation of the media.
It it is curious to me that the country seen my most as the biggest producer of global warming, conains the biggest number of people who deny it.
On Second thoughts, it is not surprising at all...
I work in a corporate environment (hospital). A LOT of money is paid to give what I would describe as a site licence. Of course MS has their usual gobbledegook, but it means that.
This gives us the right to put whatever version of Windows on new PCs we like, as long as they have a sticker on them for something. This means that all our really old kit would have had XP Home licences stuck on them, newer ones had Vista home and new ones will be having Win7 stickers on them.
Every single one of these gets reimaged as soon as it comes out of the box to XP Pro SP3. MS calls it a downgrade licence. Having seen what Vista did to performance, it seemed more of an upgrade.
We are trying all our internal applications on Win7. Mostly web apps on IE8 to deal with still to go. Then all we have to do is make an image that has got all the garbage & pretty stuff tidied away. Maybe we will move to office 2007 at that point too.
For a long time, when we get new machines, the first thing we do is upgrade them from Vista to XP. This is likely to continue.
I am not sure what a cross or a flag has to do with it. I would be more than happy to have a flag for everyone used in future exploration but suspect that this would go down in some parts of the US about as well as a national leader who actally knows that 96% of the human race are from outside the USA.
Like I said, investigation is good because it brings knowledge, but that is a different thing from exploration. No, I am not talking about colonisation. Exploration is when a sentient being goes somewhere they have not been before. It might be a kid exploring or it might be someone wandering accross Antartica. Colonisation is when they stay there. We have explored (A tiny bit of) the moon but I don't believe there are colonies there.
Yes, it may be a bit semantic, but that is what we are doing here - using words. Sometimes exploration might not be possible/affordable/safe. That doesn't mean that investigation is the same thing. Soldiers might send in a machine to investigate a building. This is good. We all hate our people dying. Once the robot or whatever has checked it out, then humans go in.
Until human beings actually go somewhere "out there", it is not exploration. It is investigation.
Sending a robotic device to the moon is good preliminary investigation, but until people go back there, exploraion will not have restarted.
Mars is completely unexplored. A lot of time & money has been well used on investgating it but the next stage needs to start.
Come on! You work in IT. That is 9.81ms^-1
Feet? You will be calculating volume in acre feet next...
The only thing I have seen Macs being good at is not being Windows.
They do their work at home and have the choice of emailing it in, bringing it on a USB or Google Docs or the like.
Or is there something that they will be doing on the Mac that you can't do on normal compuers?
We have managed to do it in the UK.
Next, we can look forward to proportional representation that should keep it this way.
Most of the world sees their government and its subsidiaries as more answerable than a corporate or multinational.
You can vote out a government, but a corporate monopolist is here to stay - until they get bought out by another one.
I have heard of this organisation before. If it is a choice between corporate pirates or a Quango I will usually try and avoid the corporates. In the UK, we are just about to close a load of quangos that have outstayed their welcome. I imagine that there are many here on /. who would love to close down Microsoft. Too bad. They are not going anytime soon and they are just one of many.
everything on the internet that does not agree with my religion removed from the internet.
Who will I start with...