There was no sensible opposition; a cartoon in the paper at the time summed it up quite well; Blair having, erm, intimate relations with Bush, the leader-de-jour of the Conservatives looking paranoid and saying "Watch out, watch out, there's an immigrant about!" and the Lib-dem leader in a drunken stupor. Blair, however, lost a LOT of ground, and by now should be fully aware that he needs to be careful.
Oh, frighteningly stupid people get degrees all the time... I know someone with a II.1 in CS from the country's top university who struggles with the idea of pointers.
Number 8 is dubious; it's very hard to see which side (if any) is in the right there; the history of the region was severely fucked up by the UK.
And in general, much as I hate to say it, the EU isn't far off being as obsessed with profit as the US is. Sure, we have better worker protection laws and social welfare systems, but we exploit the REST of the world nearly as much.
http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa
When accused of a given crime, in the US you are considerably more likely to be convicted, and face harsher penalties, if you are in a low-income group. Some states deny voting rights to ex-criminals.
As it is now the largest single market in the world, the US may feel some pressure to comply over time (as they did with the lead-in-chips ban and as they're expected to do with the cosmetic testing on animals ban)
Yep, it's basically aimed at people with minimal technical knowledge. It hadn't occured to me that many in the US wouldn't be able to use it at all tho (and might be confused by it). Must put up a note about it...
The model I use is the user uploads or chooses an image on a real computer, tells the system what phone they have (for resizing purposes and so on) and is then told what size the image is, and is given a URL to download it.
If you've got proper internet access, of course, you can just download the things. Hmm, now I think of it, I run a small website that allows people to upload images to have them put into a format that a phone is happy with. Then they can download the new image. I get an abnormally low number of US users. Maybe this is why.
And people continue to buy the phones?! Eek. There'd be war over here if they tried that. The closest thing I can think of to it is that on themable phones, vodafone includes their own theme as default; but it is easily changable.
While statistically, yes, she is very likely to go off and become an EVIL LAWYER, some lawyers do do quite a lot of good, you know. The courts provide a means to challenge unjust laws.
The idea is probably to produce data to justifiy funding for more downloads available; the have one of their 10-year contract reviews coming up soon with the government.
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There was no sensible opposition; a cartoon in the paper at the time summed it up quite well; Blair having, erm, intimate relations with Bush, the leader-de-jour of the Conservatives looking paranoid and saying "Watch out, watch out, there's an immigrant about!" and the Lib-dem leader in a drunken stupor. Blair, however, lost a LOT of ground, and by now should be fully aware that he needs to be careful.
Oh, frighteningly stupid people get degrees all the time... I know someone with a II.1 in CS from the country's top university who struggles with the idea of pointers.
And in general, much as I hate to say it, the EU isn't far off being as obsessed with profit as the US is. Sure, we have better worker protection laws and social welfare systems, but we exploit the REST of the world nearly as much.
Not quite; European law explicitly bans software patents, though some countries have attempted to weasel around this.
http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa When accused of a given crime, in the US you are considerably more likely to be convicted, and face harsher penalties, if you are in a low-income group. Some states deny voting rights to ex-criminals.
Actually, vibrating controllers are probably more of a conventional "invention" than a software patent issue.
Erm, the third world is not subject to European patent law anyway, tho it might provide a good role model.
As it is now the largest single market in the world, the US may feel some pressure to comply over time (as they did with the lead-in-chips ban and as they're expected to do with the cosmetic testing on animals ban)
Any given piece of software can be represented mathematically; this is sometimes even done, for sufficently important software.
Yep, it's basically aimed at people with minimal technical knowledge. It hadn't occured to me that many in the US wouldn't be able to use it at all tho (and might be confused by it). Must put up a note about it...
Actually, the council is indirectly elected; it is made up of the elected ministers of the constituent countries. The COMMISSION is unelected.
Or "harmonisation" in English-speaking Europe ;)
The model I use is the user uploads or chooses an image on a real computer, tells the system what phone they have (for resizing purposes and so on) and is then told what size the image is, and is given a URL to download it.
No, it certainly isn't the same everywhere; that's mad. The North American continent seems to get severely screwed over this stuff, for some reason.
If it's bluetooth, then it should hopefully be standard enough.Just install the bluez stack.
If you've got proper internet access, of course, you can just download the things. Hmm, now I think of it, I run a small website that allows people to upload images to have them put into a format that a phone is happy with. Then they can download the new image. I get an abnormally low number of US users. Maybe this is why.
And people continue to buy the phones?! Eek. There'd be war over here if they tried that. The closest thing I can think of to it is that on themable phones, vodafone includes their own theme as default; but it is easily changable.
Nothing wrong with nuclear :)
(At least, not compared to the competition).
But what about MIPS? Or Sparc? :)
We use the Euro in Ireland (our primary language is English). Most people say 'euro' for the plural; kids tend to say euros.
While statistically, yes, she is very likely to go off and become an EVIL LAWYER, some lawyers do do quite a lot of good, you know. The courts provide a means to challenge unjust laws.
Actually, many countries don't use British Common Law anyway.
If a few hundred kilos of metal at moderately high speed produced that much energy, we wouldn't need atom bombs.
No, it didn't say that. It said that the males can, under certain circumstances clone themselves (which is news to me, but seems to be true enough).
The idea is probably to produce data to justifiy funding for more downloads available; the have one of their 10-year contract reviews coming up soon with the government.