I don't think it affects my ability to visit the US. There's a big difference between my (European) country and some middle eastern mess of a country.
I know TFA deals with another European being denied travel, but at the moment we know nothing about the reasons (it could as well be a system failure somewhere).
Tegel. It did have a thorough security check at the gate when I was there 2 years ago, but last month when I flew from TXL to JFK one again, there was absolutely nothing. Zero. Nada. The only check I went through was a basic one in Prague on my way to Tegel.
I don't know if they checked ESTA electronically, they just scanned my boarding pass and the system gave a green light Instantaneously.
Regardless of the fact that I don't like Trump, I really don't think a travel ban on a few semi-working countries is going to do any real harm to the US.
He should've flown via Berlin. The airport is such a mess, nobody bothered to check my ESTA, and I also didn't go through *any* security checks during my layover there.
Actually, in my country, old mineworkers are being retrained as web developers after the mines started closing down. You would be surprised, but many of them already got new jobs, because they were willing to learn something new.
I don't feel any pity for those who are unwilling to adapt.
Sorry, but this is made up nonsense. Where, barring bankrupt states such as Spain or Greece, is unemployment headed towards 20 %? I live in Central Europe and currently we have the lowest unemployment numbers in over 25 years. I don't see jobs being automated away, I see new opportunities instead.
I find it rather funny that an NVIDIA guy (in the video) is explaining GPU passthrough as how things used to be done up until now.
The thing is both NVIDIA and AMD/ATI have been hard at work to block exactly this kind of use, and a crapload of hacks had to be introduced to fool their Windows drivers into functioning in this scenario.
I have a high end phone, I was dissatisfied with the Facebook app, so I tried Facebook Lite. And it doesn't even start! All I get to see is the splash screen.
Very lightweight indeed. If this is the way they're going...
My country has a stable influx of workers coming from the east (mostly from the Ukraine, but also from Vietnam) and they're well known as being hard working people. Nobody would be afraid if more of them started coming.
But if you check the employment rates and welfare collection rates in immigrants in west European countries, I don't think these folks are coming to get a job and work. I think they're coming to have an easier life at others' expense.
The question always is whether the immigrants will adapt to their new country or whether they will alter their new country to look more like the old one. For example, setting cars on fire is probably not an original pastime activity in Paris.
Poor in what way? The costs of living are a lot lower here. People in our country have the lowest chance of becoming impoverished in the whole EU. We have the best children healthcare in EU, even children from the UK fly here to get treated. Unlike all west European countries (e.g. Germany, France, UK), we've made it into the top 10 most peaceful countries in the world.
We wouldn't care about immigration problems (that the west is so reluctant to solve by protecting the borders), unless you weren't trying to shove "your" immigrants up our a** based on quotas you made up.
This is true if the number of people reduces across all age groups. But less children being born means old people becoming a larger and larger portion of the society. And THAT is a major problem.
One of the problems is almost non-existent state support for new families. They do almost nothing for them, and then they say, well, since you're not having children, we need to bring more migrants in.
If you check birth rates of East European countries before 1989, you'll notice that the rates were pretty good back then. Although communism sucked in every imaginable way, one of the good things was that the state had your back when you had children.
Nowadays, if you decide to have children, your family expenses grow a lot and you lose a single monthly income at the same time. That's enough to bring a middle-class family into poverty. Note that in some European countries, you do receive a pittance for a limited time as a substitute for the lost income, but it's still a joke.
Putting the child(ren) into daycare and working is a no-go (at least here) for women, because the new democratic governments closed down all state-run daycares and the private ones are so expensive, it would cost you the whole income for using them.
I'm strongly right-wing, but this is something that needs to change radically. The only other option I see is denying state pension to people that had no children or a single child, because they provided no future tax payers to keep the pension system functioning.
Then again, you can always properly register your SIM (in your "terrorist name") and then use encrypted VoIP. Hey, even unencrypted VoIP is a difficult problem for many authorities.
I work for one of the major ATM vendors in the world and replacing Windows with Linux has become one of the top priorities across the whole portfolio (which is now a lot of other things than just ATMs). The reason are obviously the costs associated with Windows licenses.
And why are the ATMs and other hardware still running Windows? Old and *very* messy codebase that is hard to port to Linux. But it's getting there.
At least for me, it is not only a matter of certificate. All I see on demonoid.com and demonoid.me are the contents of american stoner. WTF? That's a comeback?
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Yes, I did notice and I understand the reasons.
I don't think it affects my ability to visit the US. There's a big difference between my (European) country and some middle eastern mess of a country.
I know TFA deals with another European being denied travel, but at the moment we know nothing about the reasons (it could as well be a system failure somewhere).
Tegel. It did have a thorough security check at the gate when I was there 2 years ago, but last month when I flew from TXL to JFK one again, there was absolutely nothing. Zero. Nada. The only check I went through was a basic one in Prague on my way to Tegel.
I don't know if they checked ESTA electronically, they just scanned my boarding pass and the system gave a green light Instantaneously.
Regardless of the fact that I don't like Trump, I really don't think a travel ban on a few semi-working countries is going to do any real harm to the US.
He does not, but he needs an ESTA registration (visa waiver) and his application seems to have been retrospectively rejected.
He should've flown via Berlin. The airport is such a mess, nobody bothered to check my ESTA, and I also didn't go through *any* security checks during my layover there.
So explain to me why countries with no Muslim minorities never get "culturally enriched" with bombings and terror?
Meanwhile, countries that refuse to accept Musims are enjoying a terror-free life and civil liberties at the same time.
Actually, in my country, old mineworkers are being retrained as web developers after the mines started closing down. You would be surprised, but many of them already got new jobs, because they were willing to learn something new.
I don't feel any pity for those who are unwilling to adapt.
Sorry, but this is made up nonsense. Where, barring bankrupt states such as Spain or Greece, is unemployment headed towards 20 %? I live in Central Europe and currently we have the lowest unemployment numbers in over 25 years. I don't see jobs being automated away, I see new opportunities instead.
This does have a certain disadvantage. On many occasions, I saw stupid people stopping their cars and standing still on blinking green light.
I find it rather funny that an NVIDIA guy (in the video) is explaining GPU passthrough as how things used to be done up until now.
The thing is both NVIDIA and AMD/ATI have been hard at work to block exactly this kind of use, and a crapload of hacks had to be introduced to fool their Windows drivers into functioning in this scenario.
I have a high end phone, I was dissatisfied with the Facebook app, so I tried Facebook Lite. And it doesn't even start! All I get to see is the splash screen.
Very lightweight indeed. If this is the way they're going...
The question is whether we should be trying to feed every mouth in the world, given the overpopulation issues in some corners of the world.
My country has a stable influx of workers coming from the east (mostly from the Ukraine, but also from Vietnam) and they're well known as being hard working people. Nobody would be afraid if more of them started coming.
But if you check the employment rates and welfare collection rates in immigrants in west European countries, I don't think these folks are coming to get a job and work. I think they're coming to have an easier life at others' expense.
The question always is whether the immigrants will adapt to their new country or whether they will alter their new country to look more like the old one. For example, setting cars on fire is probably not an original pastime activity in Paris.
I really wouldn't mind Hispanic people the way I mind muslims. They tend not to blow themselves up. And I already speak Spanish.
If you say that all European culture is American, then you know nothing. Culture is not what you see on the TV or on your phone!
Poor in what way? The costs of living are a lot lower here. People in our country have the lowest chance of becoming impoverished in the whole EU. We have the best children healthcare in EU, even children from the UK fly here to get treated. Unlike all west European countries (e.g. Germany, France, UK), we've made it into the top 10 most peaceful countries in the world.
We wouldn't care about immigration problems (that the west is so reluctant to solve by protecting the borders), unless you weren't trying to shove "your" immigrants up our a** based on quotas you made up.
This is true if the number of people reduces across all age groups. But less children being born means old people becoming a larger and larger portion of the society. And THAT is a major problem.
One of the problems is almost non-existent state support for new families. They do almost nothing for them, and then they say, well, since you're not having children, we need to bring more migrants in.
If you check birth rates of East European countries before 1989, you'll notice that the rates were pretty good back then. Although communism sucked in every imaginable way, one of the good things was that the state had your back when you had children.
Nowadays, if you decide to have children, your family expenses grow a lot and you lose a single monthly income at the same time. That's enough to bring a middle-class family into poverty. Note that in some European countries, you do receive a pittance for a limited time as a substitute for the lost income, but it's still a joke.
Putting the child(ren) into daycare and working is a no-go (at least here) for women, because the new democratic governments closed down all state-run daycares and the private ones are so expensive, it would cost you the whole income for using them.
I'm strongly right-wing, but this is something that needs to change radically. The only other option I see is denying state pension to people that had no children or a single child, because they provided no future tax payers to keep the pension system functioning.
Seriously, the difference between the US and Italian / Irish cultures is nothing compared to the difference between Europeans and Arabs / Africans.
So are they killing the Android builds of Chrome as well, or does the summary suck as usual?
If Firefox is becoming a clone of Chrome, then why use the clone and not the real thing? (BTW, I don't like Chrome.)
Then again, you can always properly register your SIM (in your "terrorist name") and then use encrypted VoIP. Hey, even unencrypted VoIP is a difficult problem for many authorities.
Before you say that someone is hiring a hitman to kill him, you should know that Lennart is referring to this IRC comment:
Feb 14 18:21:51 <kerio> how expensive is a hitman?
Feb 14 18:22:03 <kerio> we can pool some bitcoins
The whole thing is greatly exaggerated.
I work for one of the major ATM vendors in the world and replacing Windows with Linux has become one of the top priorities across the whole portfolio (which is now a lot of other things than just ATMs). The reason are obviously the costs associated with Windows licenses. And why are the ATMs and other hardware still running Windows? Old and *very* messy codebase that is hard to port to Linux. But it's getting there.
At least for me, it is not only a matter of certificate. All I see on demonoid.com and demonoid.me are the contents of american stoner. WTF? That's a comeback?