"lumbering, static" doesn't mean poor, it means unchanging. Unchanging is the one thing a fast-growing poor country like India or China or Turkey is not. 10 years of 7% income growth, and that hypothetical person wandering the streets pulling in a dollar a day will instead be making two; and when you're poor, that's a BIG difference.
I've been counting the votes:
The Socialists and Democrats [left-wing] (184 votes), the Greens/Free Alliance [basically, Greens and stateless minorities] (55 votes), the ALDE [think MUCH less radical libertarians] (84 votes), and the EUL-NGL [hard-left, and Scandinavian Greens] (35 votes) have come out against the treaty. These parties have cohesion rates (according to VoteWatch) in the mid-90 percent range, and put together are just 10 votes shy of a majority. The UKIP (a British eurosceptic party with 13 seats) seems from the blogospheres to be against the treaty on general principles (we ain't lettin' the EU give away anythin'!), and of the non-inscrits [independents], of whom there are 22, about half are far-left and will thus probably vote against the treaty, bringing opposition slightly into the majority, even without taking into account the rather fuzzy positions of the less extremely eurosceptic parties. Taking into account that, only the EPP (admittedly the largest single party, but still with only 265 votes out of 736) has actually made a clear public statement for the treaty. I don't think the final vote will be much more strongly against the TFTP treaty than the committee's 29-23, but I'm still fairly confident that it will be a thumbs-down.
I believe those are called "invasions", not "coups". (yes, for places like Ukraine and the South Caucasus too. The Soviet expansion into those areas generally involved the Red Army going in and overthrowing whatever short-lived government and army had been established in those areas in the meantime). In those invasions there were some other actions taken that just may have been a bit more important than taking over the media: killing off the existing governments, martial law, etc. Yes, they took over the media, but first they took the government and armed control of the territory.
Linux has this, but it's a bit of a pain to actually use it, as I've discovered trying to set up a home Ubuntu network. Macs have all these nice GUIs for setting up network services (printer sharing, SFTP, etc.) that also activate Bonjour for the service with some sane defaults just by marking a checkbox. Linux boxes, by default, contain Avahi, a few applications that use it (such as Empathy/Pidgin, which use it for local messaging, and the Remote Desktop Viewer, which is very polished in its Avahi integration), but that's about it. If you want to, say, set up a (non-Samba) fileshare and have it advertised over Avahi/Bonjour, you've got some quality time with config files ahead of you. Sharing a printer is a bit easier (at least it's GUIable!) but it's still a pain (one dialog box to set up "print server settings" so that shared printers are advertised, and another to actually say to share a printer).
Citation needed (for these supposed coup attempts). Only one I recall is the '91 one, and one case (a rather uncharacteristic one, seeing as it was the death knell of the Soviet state) doesn't give someone license to go ranting about "every time a coup was attempted in the USSR..."
The Chinese government is sensitive about Avatar not because of its Western resonances, but because of specific plot points that are important in the Chinese context: mainly, the idea of natives driven off the land by arbitrary fiat in favor of corporate development. It's a common practice in China these days, and probably one of the biggest issues that causes open dissent in China (actual people-on-the-street protests and legal campaigns against government decisions, not just publishing stuff the Party doesn't like)
And now on to wild speculation: my guess is, they pulled it from 2D and not 3D because the kind of people who have actually lost their land to government-backed development schemes are poor peasants (or newly-minted migrant workers) who aren't going to spend the extra money on fancy 3D movies. To the urban middle class that'll pay extra for the 3D experience, this movie's plot is just as meaningless as it is to an American or European.
RTFA. They're not continuing their lawsuit by still insisting that the tower radiation causes their health problems. Instead they're talking about how it obstructs their view, violates the zoning laws that preserve the picturesque image of their town, and in general lowers their property values. Turns out there are interests with money behind the hypochondriacs.
Singapore: 5 million people, an army, a decent-sized player in regional organizations, an economy based on actual production and trade.
Monaco: 30,000 or so people, an economy based on being a tax haven for the French, and no army (because the entire country is so small that, about a hundred years ago, they realized the entire country was within artillery range of the outside).
Bit of a difference, no?
What genocide of Palestinians? Four decades of occupation and the Palestinian population has grown by several times. Economic strangulation, the lack of independence, low-level war - yes, this all happens, but genocide is a wildly inappropriate description of what's going on in the Occupied Territories.
I don't think TFA is talking about a desktop workload - it's referring to data centers, where databases and such are precisely the kind of task that needs doing.
The thing is, this has to survive source code inspection - when your employer inspects this program you wrote for them, you have to be able to pass off this maliciousness as an innocent mistake. That's the real fun; invent a subtle bug that most people wouldn't catch!
But does it need as much power in vacuum? All of the sensors will be useless during the journey, and the communications system probably won't be sending back all that much to Earth. I'd guess that in vacuum, the engine will be purely devoted to propulsion.
Have you ever been in a boat? If the wind only blows one way, you tack against it (if you want to go close to directly opposite wind direction - slow but it does work) or just set your sails right to get propelled whichever way you want to go roughly perpendicular to wind direction. Or you can always run with the wind if you'd actually like to go wherever the wind blows. Really, sailing on the seas of Titan with a constant wind direction would be damned easy. If there are storms, on the other hand... but (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think we've seen any big ones in our studies of the atmosphere.
I think they're also required to include a notice that the code is GPLed (so that a distributor can't just mislead people into thinking they can't request the source).
Provides another method for verification of a card's authenticity - you can pass the card through a reader, verify that (a) such a person actually exists, (b) that their information (picture, biometric info) is the same as that on the card, so then when (c) you check that the information on the card matches the appearance and biometric info of the actual person, you can be more sure that it's actually correct. For terrorism problems, this means that a terrorist can't just pay $50 for a fake Israeli ID card (they're notoriously easy to forge) and get through security checkpoints as an Israeli citizen.
Well, there's been a mandatory national ID in Israel for at least several decades now, as in countries like Belgium, Estonia, Germany, etc. (It's actually more common than countries like the US that don't require people to have a national ID card)
The Nazis did their thing even (in fact mostly) in occupied territory throughout Europe where the local governments didn't keep biological information on every citizen. This association of everything the Nazis did with Nazism is getting on my nerves. (Hitler was a vegetarian. The Nazis built the Autobahns. Are either of those evil?)
In which case he will have made his point - that the law allowing non-commercial backups has been nullified by these DRM antics, and can't act as a sop for the record companies to say "hey, look, these laws are totally reasonable! They let you do some things!"
But it doesn't mean their accuser is honest or right - which actually was what the parent was saying, as opposed to whatever more reasonable thing you mentally inserted instead.
Not so distorted, given that a lot of that capital cost was guns, and that their voyages included a lot of shooting at local authorities who didn't appreciate the intrusion.
Because all the money won't help you if an angry mob comes at you where you live demanding their share. Especially since, in Somalia, that angry mob happens to have guns.
Remember - these pirates steal from Westerners, but that's because they don't have to live in the West afterwards. They do have to live in Somalia, with Somalis. They can't afford to antagonize their neighbors by stealing in their own backyard.
Nope - the only reason international vessels can shoot at pirates in international waters is because the various treaties governing the high seas explicitly authorize it. They say nothing about accomplices (you'd need a UNSC resolution to authorize that).
Only when it's directly tied to a responsibility of the federal government laid out in the constitution (that was the reasoning in the supreme court case)
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"lumbering, static" doesn't mean poor, it means unchanging. Unchanging is the one thing a fast-growing poor country like India or China or Turkey is not. 10 years of 7% income growth, and that hypothetical person wandering the streets pulling in a dollar a day will instead be making two; and when you're poor, that's a BIG difference.
I've been counting the votes: The Socialists and Democrats [left-wing] (184 votes), the Greens/Free Alliance [basically, Greens and stateless minorities] (55 votes), the ALDE [think MUCH less radical libertarians] (84 votes), and the EUL-NGL [hard-left, and Scandinavian Greens] (35 votes) have come out against the treaty. These parties have cohesion rates (according to VoteWatch) in the mid-90 percent range, and put together are just 10 votes shy of a majority. The UKIP (a British eurosceptic party with 13 seats) seems from the blogospheres to be against the treaty on general principles (we ain't lettin' the EU give away anythin'!), and of the non-inscrits [independents], of whom there are 22, about half are far-left and will thus probably vote against the treaty, bringing opposition slightly into the majority, even without taking into account the rather fuzzy positions of the less extremely eurosceptic parties. Taking into account that, only the EPP (admittedly the largest single party, but still with only 265 votes out of 736) has actually made a clear public statement for the treaty. I don't think the final vote will be much more strongly against the TFTP treaty than the committee's 29-23, but I'm still fairly confident that it will be a thumbs-down.
I believe those are called "invasions", not "coups". (yes, for places like Ukraine and the South Caucasus too. The Soviet expansion into those areas generally involved the Red Army going in and overthrowing whatever short-lived government and army had been established in those areas in the meantime). In those invasions there were some other actions taken that just may have been a bit more important than taking over the media: killing off the existing governments, martial law, etc. Yes, they took over the media, but first they took the government and armed control of the territory.
Linux has this, but it's a bit of a pain to actually use it, as I've discovered trying to set up a home Ubuntu network. Macs have all these nice GUIs for setting up network services (printer sharing, SFTP, etc.) that also activate Bonjour for the service with some sane defaults just by marking a checkbox. Linux boxes, by default, contain Avahi, a few applications that use it (such as Empathy/Pidgin, which use it for local messaging, and the Remote Desktop Viewer, which is very polished in its Avahi integration), but that's about it. If you want to, say, set up a (non-Samba) fileshare and have it advertised over Avahi/Bonjour, you've got some quality time with config files ahead of you. Sharing a printer is a bit easier (at least it's GUIable!) but it's still a pain (one dialog box to set up "print server settings" so that shared printers are advertised, and another to actually say to share a printer).
Citation needed (for these supposed coup attempts). Only one I recall is the '91 one, and one case (a rather uncharacteristic one, seeing as it was the death knell of the Soviet state) doesn't give someone license to go ranting about "every time a coup was attempted in the USSR..."
The Chinese government is sensitive about Avatar not because of its Western resonances, but because of specific plot points that are important in the Chinese context: mainly, the idea of natives driven off the land by arbitrary fiat in favor of corporate development. It's a common practice in China these days, and probably one of the biggest issues that causes open dissent in China (actual people-on-the-street protests and legal campaigns against government decisions, not just publishing stuff the Party doesn't like)
And now on to wild speculation: my guess is, they pulled it from 2D and not 3D because the kind of people who have actually lost their land to government-backed development schemes are poor peasants (or newly-minted migrant workers) who aren't going to spend the extra money on fancy 3D movies. To the urban middle class that'll pay extra for the 3D experience, this movie's plot is just as meaningless as it is to an American or European.
RTFA. They're not continuing their lawsuit by still insisting that the tower radiation causes their health problems. Instead they're talking about how it obstructs their view, violates the zoning laws that preserve the picturesque image of their town, and in general lowers their property values. Turns out there are interests with money behind the hypochondriacs.
Singapore: 5 million people, an army, a decent-sized player in regional organizations, an economy based on actual production and trade. Monaco: 30,000 or so people, an economy based on being a tax haven for the French, and no army (because the entire country is so small that, about a hundred years ago, they realized the entire country was within artillery range of the outside). Bit of a difference, no?
What genocide of Palestinians? Four decades of occupation and the Palestinian population has grown by several times. Economic strangulation, the lack of independence, low-level war - yes, this all happens, but genocide is a wildly inappropriate description of what's going on in the Occupied Territories.
I don't think TFA is talking about a desktop workload - it's referring to data centers, where databases and such are precisely the kind of task that needs doing.
The thing is, this has to survive source code inspection - when your employer inspects this program you wrote for them, you have to be able to pass off this maliciousness as an innocent mistake. That's the real fun; invent a subtle bug that most people wouldn't catch!
Good news, then - I've seen tablets in the construction/architecture business at work sites, and they seem pretty rugged to me...
But does it need as much power in vacuum? All of the sensors will be useless during the journey, and the communications system probably won't be sending back all that much to Earth. I'd guess that in vacuum, the engine will be purely devoted to propulsion.
Have you ever been in a boat? If the wind only blows one way, you tack against it (if you want to go close to directly opposite wind direction - slow but it does work) or just set your sails right to get propelled whichever way you want to go roughly perpendicular to wind direction. Or you can always run with the wind if you'd actually like to go wherever the wind blows. Really, sailing on the seas of Titan with a constant wind direction would be damned easy. If there are storms, on the other hand... but (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think we've seen any big ones in our studies of the atmosphere.
I think they're also required to include a notice that the code is GPLed (so that a distributor can't just mislead people into thinking they can't request the source).
Provides another method for verification of a card's authenticity - you can pass the card through a reader, verify that (a) such a person actually exists, (b) that their information (picture, biometric info) is the same as that on the card, so then when (c) you check that the information on the card matches the appearance and biometric info of the actual person, you can be more sure that it's actually correct. For terrorism problems, this means that a terrorist can't just pay $50 for a fake Israeli ID card (they're notoriously easy to forge) and get through security checkpoints as an Israeli citizen.
Well, there's been a mandatory national ID in Israel for at least several decades now, as in countries like Belgium, Estonia, Germany, etc. (It's actually more common than countries like the US that don't require people to have a national ID card)
Except that the Israeli state explicitly defines itself as the state of the Jewish ethnic nation.
The Nazis did their thing even (in fact mostly) in occupied territory throughout Europe where the local governments didn't keep biological information on every citizen. This association of everything the Nazis did with Nazism is getting on my nerves. (Hitler was a vegetarian. The Nazis built the Autobahns. Are either of those evil?)
In which case he will have made his point - that the law allowing non-commercial backups has been nullified by these DRM antics, and can't act as a sop for the record companies to say "hey, look, these laws are totally reasonable! They let you do some things!"
But it doesn't mean their accuser is honest or right - which actually was what the parent was saying, as opposed to whatever more reasonable thing you mentally inserted instead.
Not so distorted, given that a lot of that capital cost was guns, and that their voyages included a lot of shooting at local authorities who didn't appreciate the intrusion.
Because all the money won't help you if an angry mob comes at you where you live demanding their share. Especially since, in Somalia, that angry mob happens to have guns. Remember - these pirates steal from Westerners, but that's because they don't have to live in the West afterwards. They do have to live in Somalia, with Somalis. They can't afford to antagonize their neighbors by stealing in their own backyard.
Nope - the only reason international vessels can shoot at pirates in international waters is because the various treaties governing the high seas explicitly authorize it. They say nothing about accomplices (you'd need a UNSC resolution to authorize that).
Only when it's directly tied to a responsibility of the federal government laid out in the constitution (that was the reasoning in the supreme court case)