Couple this with the fact that I'm reasonably confident Europe's economy will continue to gradually decelerate under the growing burder of it's older, entitled population (coupled with ever decreasing child-bearing rates)
This was recently shown to be overrated. The ways of measuring demographics was based on bad data, and had to be corrected (one funny example from Germany: children born by unmarried women were not counted. Oops!).
In a few decades Europe is likely to either be in a semi-permenant recession, in social upheavel as young immigrant populations refuse to should outrageously high tax burdens to support elderly indigenous populations.
GDP (PPP) per capita is still lead by European countries. Well, and if those young immigrants you're quoting don't like the "high taxes", why would they even come in the first place? Besides, you also have to consider what you're getting for the money: for example, we have free education for everyone, and tuition for university is very low (e.g. about 500 USD per semester, where I live, and you can even be exempt if you don't have enough money).
Furthermore, I wouldn't be too sure about where the US is heading to. With all those wars you're fighting, you're currently building up some solid financial debt, and somewhen somebody will have to pay it. Also, the US seems to be pouring less and less money into higher education when compared to upcoming economies like China or India. Don't be surprised when the majority of scientific discoveries and innovations suddenly start to come from those countries. And this would mean direct economic impact.
Sure, if you prefer to work yourself to death, still not earning enough to make for a decent living, and be afraid of retirement where you don't know if you'll have enough money to sustain, stay where you are. If you, instead, prefer to work reasonable hours, enjoy your life, have rent after retirement, and can be assured that you're going to be supported if your company kicks you out, come over here.
Or come over here to Europe, where you have plenty of social safety, don't have to work the crazy hours US employers want to make you believe are required for the company to survive, plus you can get pretty wealthy never the less.
Over here in Europe the do this stuff all the time, but on T minus zero they don't launch a terrorist attack, but a product. And the shady people behind it are not Osamas, but marketing.
Looks like the goverments have finally won in making people believe in all this terrorist hysteria, just to roll out more laws to give the folks in power even more power.
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"Wengo is a thriving VoIP Service Provider from France."
No Sam here.
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Uhhm, Budweiser or Budweiser? Because, you know, the latter comes from Budweis, Czechia, and is indeed quite popular in Europe, though it has nothing to do with the American one (different company, entirely different beers), but both sold under the same name.
Read this:
In many countries, the beer produced by Budjovický Budvar is the only beer that may be sold as "Budweiser" - in those countries, the American Budweiser is usually marketed as "Bud." Since both Budjovický Budvar and Anheuser-Busch have trademarks for the name "Budweiser", they have been party to many lawsuits in a number of countries. In some places where it competes with the American Budweiser it is marketed with the names Budvar and Budweiser Budvar. Budjovický Budvar recently started having limited distribution in the USA and Canada under the name Czechvar.
Doesn't that just take you back to where you started
Well, that depends on how much you increase it. But nevertheless, every glyph is rendered using more pixels, therefore increasing sharpness etc. Furthermore, things which don't need to be that big then still leave you with more screen real estate.
Additionally, handing in school papers in 18pt tends to go somewhat frowned upon.
He hehe hehehehehe, hey man, this joke really just made my day!!:) Or, at least I hope you meant it as a joke, no? Because otherwise, you should turn in your geek card immediately (*mumbles something about n00bs and computers*).
[...] who wants to have a special CSS file for their webbrowser to increase the fonts to 20pt because your OS renders those fonts in the webbrowser so small
Preferences... -> Tab "Content" -> Section "Fonts & Colors" -> Size: 20. No need for custom CSS or other fancy stuff...
Don't lie to yourself... OSs do not support desktop scaling.
More pixels on most of our modern operating systems will make you go blind reading small fonts and probably most end users use a lower resolution on-top of those amazing native resolutions to be able to read stuff(I know my mom did).
I see this argument coming up again and again! What the hell is WRONG WITH YOU, PEOPLE??! Why don't you just go to the settings dialog and increase that damn system font size instead of whining about improved resolutions?? Jeez.
Very true! That's why I encourage people to look at DocBook. I've been using it for over a year now in lieu of LaTeX for documents ranging from simple HowTos, to design and specification documents, and some nearly book sized projects.
Paired with a sensible XML editor, you can be very productive!
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Couple this with the fact that I'm reasonably confident Europe's economy will continue to gradually decelerate under the growing burder of it's older, entitled population (coupled with ever decreasing child-bearing rates)
This was recently shown to be overrated. The ways of measuring demographics was based on bad data, and had to be corrected (one funny example from Germany: children born by unmarried women were not counted. Oops!).
In a few decades Europe is likely to either be in a semi-permenant recession, in social upheavel as young immigrant populations refuse to should outrageously high tax burdens to support elderly indigenous populations.
GDP (PPP) per capita is still lead by European countries. Well, and if those young immigrants you're quoting don't like the "high taxes", why would they even come in the first place? Besides, you also have to consider what you're getting for the money: for example, we have free education for everyone, and tuition for university is very low (e.g. about 500 USD per semester, where I live, and you can even be exempt if you don't have enough money).
Furthermore, I wouldn't be too sure about where the US is heading to. With all those wars you're fighting, you're currently building up some solid financial debt, and somewhen somebody will have to pay it. Also, the US seems to be pouring less and less money into higher education when compared to upcoming economies like China or India. Don't be surprised when the majority of scientific discoveries and innovations suddenly start to come from those countries. And this would mean direct economic impact.
Sure, if you prefer to work yourself to death, still not earning enough to make for a decent living, and be afraid of retirement where you don't know if you'll have enough money to sustain, stay where you are. If you, instead, prefer to work reasonable hours, enjoy your life, have rent after retirement, and can be assured that you're going to be supported if your company kicks you out, come over here.
Or come over here to Europe, where you have plenty of social safety, don't have to work the crazy hours US employers want to make you believe are required for the company to survive, plus you can get pretty wealthy never the less.
Over here in Europe the do this stuff all the time, but on T minus zero they don't launch a terrorist attack, but a product. And the shady people behind it are not Osamas, but marketing.
Looks like the goverments have finally won in making people believe in all this terrorist hysteria, just to roll out more laws to give the folks in power even more power.
"Wengo is a thriving VoIP Service Provider from France."
No Sam here.
Your id indicates otherwise, but, you must be new here!
Who the fuck modded this flamebait?? This post even contains links to back its theses!
Yes, we are. Now head back to your cave on Digg Avenue, troll.
Very well spoken, bro.
Maybe, but where I live, you have to go out of your way to buy a "Bud". OTOH, Budvar is sold in nearly every bigger store.
No, you aren't, because you might, in a sudden urge, use it against yourself.
Heh, sure he did. And 10 years later, Apple actually switched!
Heh, but not this one story! Unless you are REALLY drunk!!
Living in Europe, I really can't understand this 21 thingy. Here, we can drink beer and wine starting from 16, and harder stuff starting from 18.
Same goes for cigarettes, starts with 16 here. But hey, if you're younger, then there's always a vending machine near you which can't check IDs.
Oh, those were the days, sweet memories and all (or sometimes no memories at all...).
Uhhm, Budweiser or Budweiser? Because, you know, the latter comes from Budweis, Czechia, and is indeed quite popular in Europe, though it has nothing to do with the American one (different company, entirely different beers), but both sold under the same name.
Read this:
Well, in fact prostatalex is the most active submitter on slashdot, with nearly as double as much posts than the number two. See for yourself.
Well, if the icons get smaller, you gain screen real estate. That's the very idea behind it. Now that squirting on web pages you keep talking about...
Well, that depends on how much you increase it. But nevertheless, every glyph is rendered using more pixels, therefore increasing sharpness etc. Furthermore, things which don't need to be that big then still leave you with more screen real estate.
He hehe hehehehehe, hey man, this joke really just made my day!! :) Or, at least I hope you meant it as a joke, no? Because otherwise, you should turn in your geek card immediately (*mumbles something about n00bs and computers*).
Preferences... -> Tab "Content" -> Section "Fonts & Colors" -> Size: 20. No need for custom CSS or other fancy stuff...
Desktop -> Preferences -> Font -> whatever you want.
Sorry, but I don't see your problem.
Ever thought about increasing the font size, dude?
I see this argument coming up again and again! What the hell is WRONG WITH YOU, PEOPLE??! Why don't you just go to the settings dialog and increase that damn system font size instead of whining about improved resolutions?? Jeez.
Very true! That's why I encourage people to look at DocBook. I've been using it for over a year now in lieu of LaTeX for documents ranging from simple HowTos, to design and specification documents, and some nearly book sized projects.
Paired with a sensible XML editor, you can be very productive!
Yeah, /me wanted to say attribute.
You may also do some searches on Google Scholar.