Nope, it's a systemic effect, very specific for this situation. People will take a different route, so at one specific point the traffic gets really stuffed up. This has an effect on a second and a third road, which increases the jam at the first road. Without extra vehicles.
The question is always, what technology. As an experiment, you can also visit your local eco village and talk about exciting high-tech area's like solar cells, wind turbines, permaculture or integrated agriculture. You can also go to the local right-wing party and talk about these things. Note the difference in perception.
I think there are many more brands of environmentalists than the 'weird people' you talk about. I'm not into mythologizing, so i have less chance to meet people who mythologize. Anyways, the environmentalists i meet do not tend to mythologize nature. They know nature is cruel, but insist nature can live without man, but man can't live without nature. They like to spend time in nature, but who doesn't. A lot of them would never live outside a city.
Ireland is but a small country in the EU. Other member states see how Ireland gets revenue from taxes not paid in countries where the actual business was done. They will not think 'hey, that's fair, let them have that money, now let's listen what they have to say'. Other, more important member states will see the economic benefits from MS as stealing, not only from their own IT-business but also directly from their own treasure chest. And they are France, Germany and Italy, not Ireland. By evading taxes, MS might turn out to be penny wise, pound foolish.
Why would environmentalism be against technology and developing? Progression is not one-dimensional, you see. Almost all environmentalists i know, are really into technology and innovation. They like high-tech renewable energy-systems. Some develop lightweigt vehicles. You know what's the main reason for farmers to switch to organic farming? Theye're curious, they want to try something new. It's the conservative farmers and technicians that stick to unsustainable methods.
Environmentalists (even most from the dreadlock-type) want development and technology. They just want it to take another direction, a light-weight, energy-efficient and elegant route. They think one can have a high (or even higher) standard of living with much less environmental impact.
Here in Holland, many times i see the same problem. Close to where i live, the government wants to build a highway to relieve congestion on a parallel highway. So they hired scientists to study the effects of the new road. It turned out the road would make things worse: instead of relieving the congestion on the other road, it would increase congestion on every other main road in the surroundings. The scientists, knowing what would happen, leaked this result immediately to the press, but the final report got stowed away in a very deep drawer. Parliamant had a tough job to get the report out of this drawer again.
But. Then came the obligatory environmental impact study. In this study, the former report is completely ignored. The vast increase of congestion is not taken into account in an evironmental impact assessment!
If the politicians have it their way (and they must be quick, everyone knows they will get their asses kicked next elections) we'll have a road that increases the congestion, costs about a billion euro's of tax money and will terribly damage the environment and landscape. But the construction firms will be very happy.
Skeptics believe (like the majority here on slashdot) that the dangers posed by terrorism do not exceed the dangers posed by a corrupt government.
That's what history shows us. Terror of terrorists is simply dwarfed by terror of governments. Just looking at the past 150 years, I simply do not know one country which has not seen terror of state far worse than Al Qaida could only dream to accomplish.
1. Senators and congressmen of the US government cannot be voted out by non-americans. Many victims of the patriot act are not american civilians.
2. Senators and congressmen make massive use of television and newspapers. Most of their opponents do not have the same acces to mass-media. So they look for other, creative ways to get their message through. Like board games.
Nice try, dude. Won't help you. We just know you got something to hide. Could you please inform our agents what it is, without making trouble. And remember, you must provide us valid evidence of your misconduct. Please, do not make this so difficult, we just know it must be there.
The main point is, these programs are not used very often by an average user. How many times a year does your neighbour use Photoshop? How many booklets does she lay-out? The commercial tools on the MS-desktop are simply too expensive for such a rare use. Buying a legal version of Photoshop is not an option when you use it twice a year. People simply need trial-versions or, better, illegal versions. But that takes a lot of downloading-and-installing, or having friends who can help you with illegal versions.
Probably the biggest advantage of Linux-for-normal-people is the fact you do not have these problems. You simply háve all those programs you use only twice a year, and if you don't, aquiring & installing them is so much easier than on a MS-desktop. This advantage is seldom mentioned, but it is potentially the main reason to switch. TFA doesn't mention this either, instead it calls Ubuntu a mid-level desktop. But for the average user, it's more like a top-level desktop, since he can by default do so much more without friends having a pile of illegal software available.
Whenever i recieve an invitation for a social-networking site, i send an email: "Take care, you're computer is infected. Scan it now, or install Linux to get rid of it for ever."
Most people do know however, i hate football more than television or microsoft. I might escape this time.
4 liters of water is not much when you do some sporting. Last winter i did a bicycling trip of about 250 km. I needed 7 liters during the trip, not to mention the water i drunk before and after. Imagine that in summer. The 1.5-2 liters is the norm if you don't move your ass.
The reason for that is that they have choked off the supply of works going in to the public domain. Historically, Hollywood has dipped into the public domain for ideas. Nothing new into the public domain = nothing new in Hollywood.
The greatest nonsens since the Precambrian. The Public Domain can take care of itself. It does not need Hollywood to gain new idea's. Especially when it comes to movies, since many of them are based on books or "true stories". Hollywood is not, has not been and will never be the major idea-generator, let alone the only source for new things in the Public Domain.
It's the duty of the EU to make sure European companies get something of a fair chance to compete. Without breaking the monopoly, there will never be many other companies.
1) For no rational reason, many people will think it's a better engine and use it
2) Strange, foggy tricks will push almost any other people to the ms-search engine
3) Everyone is getting trouble finding the right information on the web
4) Only geeks will remember Google and how good it was
5) Sysadmins will be spending 73% of their time doing searches using google for office-folks who can't find what their looking for
What are the odds you will find the exact text "50 letters is a sentence longer than this one is" in someone else's post or in some book? Possible, but very very remote.
The odds of finding a sentence like 'In Soviet Russia, intelligence designs YOU' are significant. Since/.ers don't tend to listen to each other, a common source is not very plausible.
Yes, so we have to ban porn from the internet. As long as there is porn on the internet, christians cannot use it. So, in order to make sure all americans are able to access the internet, we have to keep it clean! You don't want public space littered either don't you?
Freedom of speech is the freedom to say the right things.
i see them always use the most ugly cheap-ass nondescript 128Mb usbstick-players. Only my girlfriend has a nice one. A Samsung. Birthday present. Plays ogg vorbis, of course.
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Don't build it or they will come.
Nope, it's a systemic effect, very specific for this situation. People will take a different route, so at one specific point the traffic gets really stuffed up. This has an effect on a second and a third road, which increases the jam at the first road. Without extra vehicles.
The question is always, what technology. As an experiment, you can also visit your local eco village and talk about exciting high-tech area's like solar cells, wind turbines, permaculture or integrated agriculture. You can also go to the local right-wing party and talk about these things. Note the difference in perception.
I think there are many more brands of environmentalists than the 'weird people' you talk about. I'm not into mythologizing, so i have less chance to meet people who mythologize. Anyways, the environmentalists i meet do not tend to mythologize nature. They know nature is cruel, but insist nature can live without man, but man can't live without nature. They like to spend time in nature, but who doesn't. A lot of them would never live outside a city.
Ireland is but a small country in the EU. Other member states see how Ireland gets revenue from taxes not paid in countries where the actual business was done. They will not think 'hey, that's fair, let them have that money, now let's listen what they have to say'. Other, more important member states will see the economic benefits from MS as stealing, not only from their own IT-business but also directly from their own treasure chest. And they are France, Germany and Italy, not Ireland. By evading taxes, MS might turn out to be penny wise, pound foolish.
Why would environmentalism be against technology and developing? Progression is not one-dimensional, you see. Almost all environmentalists i know, are really into technology and innovation. They like high-tech renewable energy-systems. Some develop lightweigt vehicles. You know what's the main reason for farmers to switch to organic farming? Theye're curious, they want to try something new. It's the conservative farmers and technicians that stick to unsustainable methods.
Environmentalists (even most from the dreadlock-type) want development and technology. They just want it to take another direction, a light-weight, energy-efficient and elegant route. They think one can have a high (or even higher) standard of living with much less environmental impact.
Here in Holland, many times i see the same problem. Close to where i live, the government wants to build a highway to relieve congestion on a parallel highway. So they hired scientists to study the effects of the new road. It turned out the road would make things worse: instead of relieving the congestion on the other road, it would increase congestion on every other main road in the surroundings.
The scientists, knowing what would happen, leaked this result immediately to the press, but the final report got stowed away in a very deep drawer. Parliamant had a tough job to get the report out of this drawer again.
But. Then came the obligatory environmental impact study. In this study, the former report is completely ignored. The vast increase of congestion is not taken into account in an evironmental impact assessment!
If the politicians have it their way (and they must be quick, everyone knows they will get their asses kicked next elections) we'll have a road that increases the congestion, costs about a billion euro's of tax money and will terribly damage the environment and landscape. But the construction firms will be very happy.
Skeptics believe (like the majority here on slashdot) that the dangers posed by terrorism do not exceed the dangers posed by a corrupt government.
That's what history shows us. Terror of terrorists is simply dwarfed by terror of governments. Just looking at the past 150 years, I simply do not know one country which has not seen terror of state far worse than Al Qaida could only dream to accomplish.
1. Senators and congressmen of the US government cannot be voted out by non-americans. Many victims of the patriot act are not american civilians.
2. Senators and congressmen make massive use of television and newspapers. Most of their opponents do not have the same acces to mass-media. So they look for other, creative ways to get their message through. Like board games.
Nice try, dude. Won't help you. We just know you got something to hide. Could you please inform our agents what it is, without making trouble. And remember, you must provide us valid evidence of your misconduct. Please, do not make this so difficult, we just know it must be there.
The main point is, these programs are not used very often by an average user. How many times a year does your neighbour use Photoshop? How many booklets does she lay-out? The commercial tools on the MS-desktop are simply too expensive for such a rare use. Buying a legal version of Photoshop is not an option when you use it twice a year. People simply need trial-versions or, better, illegal versions. But that takes a lot of downloading-and-installing, or having friends who can help you with illegal versions.
Probably the biggest advantage of Linux-for-normal-people is the fact you do not have these problems. You simply háve all those programs you use only twice a year, and if you don't, aquiring & installing them is so much easier than on a MS-desktop. This advantage is seldom mentioned, but it is potentially the main reason to switch. TFA doesn't mention this either, instead it calls Ubuntu a mid-level desktop. But for the average user, it's more like a top-level desktop, since he can by default do so much more without friends having a pile of illegal software available.
There won't be a kernel 2.7 since it contains all the code stolen from SCO.
Whenever i recieve an invitation for a social-networking site, i send an email: "Take care, you're computer is infected. Scan it now, or install Linux to get rid of it for ever."
Most people do know however, i hate football more than television or microsoft. I might escape this time.
the difference between 'Deutsch' and 'Dutch'.
4 liters of water is not much when you do some sporting. Last winter i did a bicycling trip of about 250 km. I needed 7 liters during the trip, not to mention the water i drunk before and after. Imagine that in summer. The 1.5-2 liters is the norm if you don't move your ass.
The reason for that is that they have choked off the supply of works going in to the public domain. Historically, Hollywood has dipped into the public domain for ideas. Nothing new into the public domain = nothing new in Hollywood.
The greatest nonsens since the Precambrian. The Public Domain can take care of itself. It does not need Hollywood to gain new idea's. Especially when it comes to movies, since many of them are based on books or "true stories". Hollywood is not, has not been and will never be the major idea-generator, let alone the only source for new things in the Public Domain.
because I hate the EU and their Anti-Capitalist idealogy Where's that country? Where is it?!? I wanna move in!
It's the duty of the EU to make sure European companies get something of a fair chance to compete. Without breaking the monopoly, there will never be many other companies.
1) For no rational reason, many people will think it's a better engine and use it
2) Strange, foggy tricks will push almost any other people to the ms-search engine
3) Everyone is getting trouble finding the right information on the web
4) Only geeks will remember Google and how good it was
5) Sysadmins will be spending 73% of their time doing searches using google for office-folks who can't find what their looking for
In many places in Europe, 'liberal' is an euphemism for the far right.
What are the odds you will find the exact text "50 letters is a sentence longer than this one is" in someone else's post or in some book? Possible, but very very remote.
/.ers don't tend to listen to each other, a common source is not very plausible.
The odds of finding a sentence like 'In Soviet Russia, intelligence designs YOU' are significant. Since
In 1943 - 1945, the Germans tried to cheer themselves up by saying the Russians lost 6 soldiers for every German soldier wasted. Well...
Traditionally, fascist dictators always hated engineers and loathed industry. When technology enters a country, the military is doomed.
Is the doj incapable of coming up with their own search strings to defeat filters?
They're very capable, but would never admit.
Yes, so we have to ban porn from the internet. As long as there is porn on the internet, christians cannot use it. So, in order to make sure all americans are able to access the internet, we have to keep it clean! You don't want public space littered either don't you?
Freedom of speech is the freedom to say the right things.
is it has no "don't steal music" sticker on it.
i see them always use the most ugly cheap-ass nondescript 128Mb usbstick-players. Only my girlfriend has a nice one. A Samsung. Birthday present. Plays ogg vorbis, of course.