Meh, people have been screwing around on one another for as long as they've had one another.
Putting aside the underlying puritanical bullshit, who broke the law here? Yes, that's right, the hackers and the extortionists. Wah wah wah, people have affairs and they'e evil people.. such moralizing bullshit. Neither Ashley Madison nor the people using the site broke any laws.
Yes, but remember those who used Ashley Madison set themselves up for this. No one forced them to use that service, they did so of their own accord knowing they were cheating on their partners.
I have no sympathy for them.
However the consequences that the blackmailee's want to avoid (no, I cant call them victims) is the financial consequences of their spouses finding out. They signed a legal agreement that gives them some financial liability, especially if they have children. This is what the cheaters fear and why the law doesn't really have any obligation to protect them beyond catching the blackmailers.
So stop making out like the people who used Ashley Madison are innocent. Just because they did not break any criminal laws does not make them saints.
If a computer were too expensive, I would replace components until it made financial sense to purchase a full system.
Something similar could happen with automobiles. The manufacturer could provide a refit program at least once during the typical life of the vehicle (perhaps 3 or 4 years in). It would bring in much of the latest technology for a much lower cost than purchasing a new vehicle, keeping customers happy and less likely to look at a competitor's latest model.
The manufacturer doesn't want you to do that, they want you to get a lopsided finance agreement to get a new car rather than fixing your old car.
However the process of refitting cars has been going on for ages without the manufacturers. Many cars get refitted with more modern equipment from infotainment systems to entire engines. There are a lot of popular swaps such as 2JZ and LS1 swaps into older cars. I've seen 2JZ's swapped into newer cars.
They would investigate anyone. The UK has a LONG history of dealing with non-muslim, non-arab terrorists.
[snip, sorry:)]
If you want, you can go back to the beginning of the '70s - just a bunch of white terrorists until July 2005.
Whilst yes, this is true there have been a disturbing number of over-reactions like this one directed against Muslims specifically that stand out from the increasing number of general over-reactions by the UK's various constabularies. I think that is the problem here.
During the troubles, when Ireland was sending bombers to England, were ordinary Irish harassed? When anti-GMO protests went on, did they stake out vegans?
It was a 10 year old boy who malpropped a word. The correct thing to do (and what would have been done in my day before the media made out like every Muslim is a terrorist) would have been for the teacher to ask little Achmed what he meant and corrected him. Even if the teacher over-reacted, the police should not have taken it as seriously as to raid someone's house.
Personally I blame the mass media, organisations like the Daily Mail that write at best, cliche laden, hyperbolic nonsense (or in most cases, cliche ridden, utter fabrications) to convince people that every brown person is a terrorist waiting behind a bush to do nasty things to them. Domestic violence is a bigger problem in the UK but the headline "Chavs, Stop Beating Your Wives" would eliminate their target audience and nothing sells papers like fear from unsubstantiated, unquantifiable and nebulous threats.
Norway and Sweden are closer to true communism than China,Cuba or russia(was).
Sounds like you dont know anything about Norway, Sweden, or Communism.
Under communism, everything is provided by the state. In Cuba, each person get X metres of fabric each and has to make their clothes out of that. In Sweden, you can go to the store and buy the clothes that you want with money you get by working in the choice of jobs you're skilled enough to do. Under true communism, money does not exist.
Spare us your "hur dur, swedes are communist" bollocks. They are anything but, which is why capitalist powerhouses like Ikea started out there.
There does seem to be an obsession with shriking engines below what is reasonable (3 cyl 1.0L in a Mondeo?? Hello Ford!) simply to meet CO2 emissions targets.
Actually its due to tax reasons in most places. Cars with big engines cost more to register.
In addition to this, engine efficiency has increased to the point where smaller engines are producing more power. The 1L Ecoboost produces in the Mondeo produces 92 KW. That's more than the 1.8L 4cyl Zetec in the first generation Mondeo which produced 88KW.
However the Mondeo is also available in the 150 and 180KW 2L Ecoboost if the 1L is not to your liking...
Besides this, the Mondeo is an economy family wagon, not a bleeding sports car. Low fuel usage is considered a huge plus by perspective buyers because people buy Mondeo's to move their kids around frugally, not to set lap records at Silverstone. If you want a hot Ford, they're making a new Focus RS with the 180KW engine and a much lighter body.
Finally, there is a replacement for displacement... they're called Turbochargers.
I suspect that the majority of brands do the same thing more or less, so I'm not surprised.
I suspected as much myself. Other manufacturers must have tested the VWs and found out about the cheating -- so why did the cheating stay secret for so long? Probably because everyone was doing the same.
Anyone with the slightest knowledge of how diesel engines worked was almost completely certain of it.
Diesel engines are dirty, they aren't efficient either. You only use them in applications where a petrol engine is unsuitable (I.E. things like heavy haulage, where pulling power is more important than any other consideration). You simply cant make a clean diesel, you can only try to make it less polluting.
...always swear themselves free of participation in this, in particular Android users. Not a troll post. Just think about what camp it is always bringing this up, in particular with fingers pointed on Apple, never Samsung, never LG, never HTC etc.
Such bitterness from Apple trolls.
All you've done there is throw together a bunch of random company names after a half baked accusation at Android users.
I dont hate to break this to you but a lot of companies actually take steps to ensure their components are sourced as best they can and that they are fair to their workers. LG in particular who Chinese workers get the same pay and conditions as their Taiwanese workers, same with Asus (both Taiwanese companies, the Taiwanese government comes down hard on companies abusing cheap labour in China).
However Apple gets, and deserves their ire because they are charging premium prices for thing assembled by the cheapest labour they could get away with... And people like you defend getting ripped off.
The initiative may allow owners of GM vehicles to give rides to other passengers who are commuting in the same direction."
I'd be careful about something like this. Consider situations like VHS vs Betamax. The more 'open' standard nearly always wins.
If non-GM drivers have the choice of Uber, while GM drivers have Uber and Maven, but Maven only works for people who own GM vehicles, that's something like 75% of potential drivers and customers gone. Nearly always you can't simultaneously restrict your user base AND achieve market dominance.
Not that I expect GM to realize this.
Although I dont expect GM to do anything with this, surely the logic is that GM owns the cars and just rents them out to a driver. The idea is that you can use economies of scale to save on maintenance, purchasing, fuel and what not whilst not having to actually employ anyone and making money of the hours they work.
If it works (which it wont because GM cant do anything right) it would take the wind out of Uber's sails because they'd be able to rent their cars out to cheaper drivers and offer lower prices.
Sounds like you're unfamiliar with the way GM works.
In all likelihood, all this started a while ago when Uber was still the darling company and GM said... "lets get in on the ground floor... who can we buy". Anyone with a chance in hell of becoming profitable (not that anyone in the "gig" taxi industry has) would have had an artificial value way too high so they picked up a failing company hoping to get something. However as the company continued to fail, GM refused to cut its losses and kept throwing good money after bad.
You must not know very many pre-teen and teen-age boys...they are pretty destructive. I know I was; I almost burned my house down a few times, we would shoot each other with BB guns, make our own "melee weapons" our of random metal pieces and fight in the back yard, toilet paper / egg people's houses, and other assorted madness. If drones had been flying around we most certainly have taken shots at them.
Ooooooh Kay.
The drone delivery market may not be successful in Bumfuck, Arkansas but that doesn't mean it wont be successful in civilised countries.
A bigger issue for Amazon is regulation. Airspace is heavily regulated, especially in major cities where an errant drone can cause a lot of chaos. Deliveries to countryside England wont be much of an issue, but central London? Where do they intend to land it, on the helmet of a bobby being urinated into by a pregnant lady?
Among all the stupid chauvinistic stories I read, this one tops all. Crescent wrenches are made all over the world, and the USA was not the first to manufacture one. The one I have has a scale, and I use it. Don't know where it was made, but judging its price it was not made in the USA.
The adjustable spanner (what the rest of the world calls a "crescent wrench") was invented in England in 1842 by Richard Clyburn. The first US patent on an adjustable spanner were not granted until 1885. The first adjustable spanner that is resembles today's adjustable spanners was made by a Swede, Johan Petter Johansson in 1891.
The whole region restricting scheme is just stupid and is much like the prohibition of alcohol in the US in the 20's - it feeds crime.
Add to it that it also discriminates - you can't bring movies with you that's only available in your home country if you live in another country in another region.
And de-facto illegal in my country.
It's "defacto" because Australian judges are smart enough to know that they cant dictate terms to American corporations, rather they go about things the other way. It is 100% legal to import media products from other nations and this includes circumventing geoblocking. Australian judges know they cant stop companies from region locking and geoblocking... but they've made it so they're unenforceable in Australia.
However I dont expect anything more than a token effort from Netflix because if they do anything remotely effective they'll bleed customers as ordinary Australians go back to piracy (and the result of the DBC law suit where they technically won but financially lost has set a good precedent for others who want to use US style speculative invoicing to try to dissuade pirates).
Is it really too much to ask not to pollute the entire neighborhood with your noise? Especially when quieter, non-annoying alternatives are available?
Motor powered leaf blowers have advantages that electric ones don't, specifically the ability to operate for longer periods and away from power points, Especially if you're maintaining a large property that has a lot of greenery (I.E. an apartment block, commercial park or municipal building).
In Australia we have a simple solution. We classify all of these things as power tools and in residential areas we have a ban on power tool usage before and after a certain time (which time depends on the council who issued the ban). We accept that you can own loud tools, but you accept that using them at 10PM at night is not socially acceptable.
you don't know which culture is "better"? you may be a victim of political correctness. i'm not so let me help you a bit.
the one that doesn't believe in killing and raping the infidels is better.
the one that believes woman are equal to men is better.
the one that believes in not killing homo sexuals is better.
the list goes on, but it always comes back to western culture is better!
Having met a fair few Australian Muslims (no, none of them believe in that, that's why they came to Australia) if I could replace every one of my so-called countrymen who agreed with your comment with a Muslim, my country would be better for it.
Blind belief that a society was inherently better led to the worst atrocities ever committed... Especially in western culture.
Personally I think the western culture is more at risk of extreme right winger's taking us to a racially motivated war (a second Nazism) by using fear and misinformation than the "Moose Slims" turking all our womenfolk and bacon.
I think it means, if this trend keeps up, that EU culture, the Germans, the French, etc....will possibly start to disappear, being replaced with the Muslims that are pouring in,
Same Bollocks I've been hearing for ages. They said the same things when the Indians poured into Britain and Australia... Guess what, they've become part of our culture, same with various Asian cultures (Veit and Indo in Australia), Greek culture.
In fact, Australia treated Greeks pretty badly when they first started coming over... But they still integrated and are now part of Australian history and culture.
People like you have no clue. You've spouted the same nonsense for decades and every single time been proved wrong. You're less credible and more annoying that the "THEY TURK UR JERBS" crowd.
Do you actually live in Europe? Integration does not work. We have whole suburbs of "insert immigrant nationality" because they don't integrate. Even politicians have to admit that multiculturalism failed. The cultures are just too different and there are far too many at the same time.
Except when it does. If you have a large, secular society that orients more along the lines of politics than race, culture, or religion, than over time immigrants and more importantly the children of immigrants become part of the larger society. Some people are real jerks to outsiders no matter where they are or what culture they join--the idea is over generations to try to get their kids to be more and more accepting of outsiders, to be part of the larger community.
Integration is not an experiment that succeeds or fails. It's life, and people and even entire populations change across as little as fifty years. That explains everybody's racist uncle.
This.
If integration is such a failure, explain why England and Anglo cultures are still around? We've been integrating for literally centuries. When a new group of immigrants comes over, they slowly become part of the fabric of a nation. If they don't it is almost always the fault of the host nation for forcing them into ghettos and disallowing them the chance to participate in a nations culture.
Australia treated the Greeks pretty badly when they first started coming to Oz post-war. They were called "New Australians" and some stores flat out refused to serve New Australians. However the Greeks responded by becoming part of Australian society over time. They stopped being New Australians and just started being Australians. They adopted a lot of Australian traditions but this is a two way street. Some Greek traditions became part of Australian society. This process usually ends up with the best parts of a new culture being integrated in, usually food, celebrations and parts of the langauge as people travelling to a new country tend to only want to keep the parts they liked about a society.
Its the same with Italian Americans who bought pasta, not Fascism to the US or British Indians who bought curry, not bad hygiene to the UK.
The racists always complain that immigrants "dont speak the English" whilst this is ONLY partially true the racists like to ignore the fact that their children will speak English as their primary language if not, their only language. Integration is a process that takes a generation. Claiming it has failed after 5 years is stupidly short sighted.
Having grown up in Australia, I've heard all this bollocks before. First it was the Asians who would take all our jobs and destroy our culture, then it was the Indians, Now its the Muslims. Next decade, it'll be someone else. Same bollocks with a different target and not once have their predictions of doom and gloom come true. When I was 8, the local Racist league told me I'd never get a job because all the Gooks were coming over to take them. Guess what, I've been gainfully employed for the most part since I was 17 (which is over 15 years ago). I bet that same idiot is sitting in the same shitty part of Adelaide spewing the same nonsense... the only thing that has changed is "Gook" is now "Muslim".
Chrome advertises its Incognito mode as leaving no traces behind. Therefore, it should be responsible for wiping its framebuffer, just as it clears caches, cookies and history. It's like writing a file shredder that doesn't actually overwrite files, then blaming the OS and hard drive manufacturer for the oversight.
Copy/paste from Chromes incognito mode. The emphasis is theirs.
Pages that you view in incognito tabs won't stick around in your browser's history, cookie store or search history after you've closed all of your incognito tabs. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be kept. Learn more about incognito browsing
Going incognito doesn't hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider or the websites that you visit.
So they dont advertise that it leaves no traces behind. In fact it's quite obvious that it does leave things behind.
Australia, 38.29% of the US TV shows, 34.51% of the US Movies
And in unrelated news the movie industry is dismayed that piracy is such a problem in Australia and vow to intensively litigate their way into the hearts and minds of those criminals.
To be 100% fair, it's piss easy to watch American or British Netflix in Oz. This alone has dropped piracy rates significantly. Most people only need to pirate Porn and Game of Thrones these days.
If they liked the guy's work they wouldn't have fired him. It was probably only a contributing factor and a convenient reason to put on the HR form.
This.
Anyone who thinks it's impossible to fire someone in the EU (or Australia) is living in LaLa land.
If a company wants to dismiss you for any reason (I.E. pissing off the boss or just trying to downsize without redundancy) all they have to do is start putting you under the microscope. Even if they cant pin something on you, they'll just give you new tasks with difficult to impossible deadlines and each missed deadline becomes a written warning. Three warnings and it's out the door. We call this process "being managed out". Smart people get new jobs before getting managed out as a middle finger to their bosses.
I've been managed out before and pretty much got a new job straight away (and a better paying job) and to be honest, that month I spent between handing in my notice and leaving was the best time I've ever had working. I literally did nothing. If I wanted a sleep-in, I rocked up somewhere around 10am, 2 hour lunches, pretty much spending the entire work day browsing the internet. My manager didn't care as he knew the company wanted me gone (they were trimming the workforce before a merger) and they had gotten what they wanted.
In retrospect, it was a good thing. It was a shitty job with shitty pay and the one I went to had more opportunities and was a lot more prestigious. I understand that after the merger, the company was in court with Fair Work Australia over problems before the merger. I wasn't a part of that though.
in my experience, it was always the women who used company email for private communication. as a former admin of such things, it annoyed the hell out of me. whenever a new employee took over an old mailbox (with a new name alias), they had to (for years) deal with stupid emails about - Mindy's wedding, Georgina's ugly baby, meet me for coffee beautiful, my period is late, etc. i never understood why they did it. they were always told to keep their mailboxes in a condition that would allow other people to use them in their absence, yet without exception, they treated their mailboxes like personal property and cursed me to hell for letting other people access their emails. i hated that job. people... what a bunch of bastards.
Its not sexist because I've seen the same thing with mailboxes owned by men who dont care. Emails from lads mags, alerts from carsales, pics of some minging celebrity (OK, I'm pretty sure this kind of bollocks is unisex), sporting scores, betting sites, lotteries, so on and so forth.
Vain, vapid and idiotic men are just as annoying as vain, vapid, idiotic women.
Some people just dont get that when you use your companies services (phone, email and what not) there is no expectation to privacy. I'd go as far to say as conversations you have in the office or at client sites on company time have no expectation to privacy.
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Meh, people have been screwing around on one another for as long as they've had one another.
Putting aside the underlying puritanical bullshit, who broke the law here? Yes, that's right, the hackers and the extortionists. Wah wah wah, people have affairs and they'e evil people .. such moralizing bullshit. Neither Ashley Madison nor the people using the site broke any laws.
Yes, but remember those who used Ashley Madison set themselves up for this. No one forced them to use that service, they did so of their own accord knowing they were cheating on their partners.
I have no sympathy for them.
However the consequences that the blackmailee's want to avoid (no, I cant call them victims) is the financial consequences of their spouses finding out. They signed a legal agreement that gives them some financial liability, especially if they have children. This is what the cheaters fear and why the law doesn't really have any obligation to protect them beyond catching the blackmailers.
So stop making out like the people who used Ashley Madison are innocent. Just because they did not break any criminal laws does not make them saints.
If a computer were too expensive, I would replace components until it made financial sense to purchase a full system.
Something similar could happen with automobiles. The manufacturer could provide a refit program at least once during the typical life of the vehicle (perhaps 3 or 4 years in). It would bring in much of the latest technology for a much lower cost than purchasing a new vehicle, keeping customers happy and less likely to look at a competitor's latest model.
The manufacturer doesn't want you to do that, they want you to get a lopsided finance agreement to get a new car rather than fixing your old car.
However the process of refitting cars has been going on for ages without the manufacturers. Many cars get refitted with more modern equipment from infotainment systems to entire engines. There are a lot of popular swaps such as 2JZ and LS1 swaps into older cars. I've seen 2JZ's swapped into newer cars.
What's the point of an obsidian-tipped club? :D
Consistency. You dont get to fly 100,000 light years to fuck around with the genes on an alien planet unless at least some of you are completely OCD.
They would investigate anyone. The UK has a LONG history of dealing with non-muslim, non-arab terrorists. [snip, sorry :)]
If you want, you can go back to the beginning of the '70s - just a bunch of white terrorists until July 2005.
Whilst yes, this is true there have been a disturbing number of over-reactions like this one directed against Muslims specifically that stand out from the increasing number of general over-reactions by the UK's various constabularies. I think that is the problem here.
During the troubles, when Ireland was sending bombers to England, were ordinary Irish harassed? When anti-GMO protests went on, did they stake out vegans?
It was a 10 year old boy who malpropped a word. The correct thing to do (and what would have been done in my day before the media made out like every Muslim is a terrorist) would have been for the teacher to ask little Achmed what he meant and corrected him. Even if the teacher over-reacted, the police should not have taken it as seriously as to raid someone's house.
Personally I blame the mass media, organisations like the Daily Mail that write at best, cliche laden, hyperbolic nonsense (or in most cases, cliche ridden, utter fabrications) to convince people that every brown person is a terrorist waiting behind a bush to do nasty things to them. Domestic violence is a bigger problem in the UK but the headline "Chavs, Stop Beating Your Wives" would eliminate their target audience and nothing sells papers like fear from unsubstantiated, unquantifiable and nebulous threats.
Sadly, no mod points today.
Norway and Sweden are closer to true communism than China,Cuba or russia(was).
Sounds like you dont know anything about Norway, Sweden, or Communism.
Under communism, everything is provided by the state. In Cuba, each person get X metres of fabric each and has to make their clothes out of that. In Sweden, you can go to the store and buy the clothes that you want with money you get by working in the choice of jobs you're skilled enough to do. Under true communism, money does not exist.
Spare us your "hur dur, swedes are communist" bollocks. They are anything but, which is why capitalist powerhouses like Ikea started out there.
There does seem to be an obsession with shriking engines below what is reasonable (3 cyl 1.0L in a Mondeo?? Hello Ford!) simply to meet CO2 emissions targets.
Actually its due to tax reasons in most places. Cars with big engines cost more to register.
In addition to this, engine efficiency has increased to the point where smaller engines are producing more power. The 1L Ecoboost produces in the Mondeo produces 92 KW. That's more than the 1.8L 4cyl Zetec in the first generation Mondeo which produced 88KW.
However the Mondeo is also available in the 150 and 180KW 2L Ecoboost if the 1L is not to your liking...
Besides this, the Mondeo is an economy family wagon, not a bleeding sports car. Low fuel usage is considered a huge plus by perspective buyers because people buy Mondeo's to move their kids around frugally, not to set lap records at Silverstone. If you want a hot Ford, they're making a new Focus RS with the 180KW engine and a much lighter body.
Finally, there is a replacement for displacement... they're called Turbochargers.
I suspected as much myself. Other manufacturers must have tested the VWs and found out about the cheating -- so why did the cheating stay secret for so long? Probably because everyone was doing the same.
Anyone with the slightest knowledge of how diesel engines worked was almost completely certain of it.
Diesel engines are dirty, they aren't efficient either. You only use them in applications where a petrol engine is unsuitable (I.E. things like heavy haulage, where pulling power is more important than any other consideration). You simply cant make a clean diesel, you can only try to make it less polluting.
...always swear themselves free of participation in this, in particular Android users. Not a troll post. Just think about what camp it is always bringing this up, in particular with fingers pointed on Apple, never Samsung, never LG, never HTC etc.
Such bitterness from Apple trolls.
All you've done there is throw together a bunch of random company names after a half baked accusation at Android users.
I dont hate to break this to you but a lot of companies actually take steps to ensure their components are sourced as best they can and that they are fair to their workers. LG in particular who Chinese workers get the same pay and conditions as their Taiwanese workers, same with Asus (both Taiwanese companies, the Taiwanese government comes down hard on companies abusing cheap labour in China).
However Apple gets, and deserves their ire because they are charging premium prices for thing assembled by the cheapest labour they could get away with... And people like you defend getting ripped off.
The initiative may allow owners of GM vehicles to give rides to other passengers who are commuting in the same direction."
I'd be careful about something like this. Consider situations like VHS vs Betamax. The more 'open' standard nearly always wins.
If non-GM drivers have the choice of Uber, while GM drivers have Uber and Maven, but Maven only works for people who own GM vehicles, that's something like 75% of potential drivers and customers gone. Nearly always you can't simultaneously restrict your user base AND achieve market dominance.
Not that I expect GM to realize this.
Although I dont expect GM to do anything with this, surely the logic is that GM owns the cars and just rents them out to a driver. The idea is that you can use economies of scale to save on maintenance, purchasing, fuel and what not whilst not having to actually employ anyone and making money of the hours they work.
If it works (which it wont because GM cant do anything right) it would take the wind out of Uber's sails because they'd be able to rent their cars out to cheaper drivers and offer lower prices.
It seems a poor deal for GM
Sounds like you're unfamiliar with the way GM works.
In all likelihood, all this started a while ago when Uber was still the darling company and GM said... "lets get in on the ground floor... who can we buy". Anyone with a chance in hell of becoming profitable (not that anyone in the "gig" taxi industry has) would have had an artificial value way too high so they picked up a failing company hoping to get something. However as the company continued to fail, GM refused to cut its losses and kept throwing good money after bad.
If you're buying an AMD processor, it's for price. If you're buying an Intel processor, it's for performance.
It wasn't even 10 years ago when you said the reverse.
20 years ago it was "you buy Intel and pay through the nose". Personally I'd rather not return to a CPU monopoly.
You must not know very many pre-teen and teen-age boys...they are pretty destructive. I know I was; I almost burned my house down a few times, we would shoot each other with BB guns, make our own "melee weapons" our of random metal pieces and fight in the back yard, toilet paper / egg people's houses, and other assorted madness. If drones had been flying around we most certainly have taken shots at them.
Ooooooh Kay.
The drone delivery market may not be successful in Bumfuck, Arkansas but that doesn't mean it wont be successful in civilised countries.
A bigger issue for Amazon is regulation. Airspace is heavily regulated, especially in major cities where an errant drone can cause a lot of chaos. Deliveries to countryside England wont be much of an issue, but central London? Where do they intend to land it, on the helmet of a bobby being urinated into by a pregnant lady?
Among all the stupid chauvinistic stories I read, this one tops all. Crescent wrenches are made all over the world, and the USA was not the first to manufacture one. The one I have has a scale, and I use it. Don't know where it was made, but judging its price it was not made in the USA.
The adjustable spanner (what the rest of the world calls a "crescent wrench") was invented in England in 1842 by Richard Clyburn. The first US patent on an adjustable spanner were not granted until 1885. The first adjustable spanner that is resembles today's adjustable spanners was made by a Swede, Johan Petter Johansson in 1891.
as soon as there is a hint of flexibility or laxity in the oversight, will slip through lower quality where ever they think they can get away with
That's my understanding. It's an East versus West thing - Eastern mindset is "if you don't catch me cheating I'm a clever businessman"
What makes you think that mindset isn't prevalent in the west?
If anything, western "businessmen" will be more likely to cheat you if they think they can get away with it.
The whole region restricting scheme is just stupid and is much like the prohibition of alcohol in the US in the 20's - it feeds crime.
Add to it that it also discriminates - you can't bring movies with you that's only available in your home country if you live in another country in another region.
And de-facto illegal in my country.
It's "defacto" because Australian judges are smart enough to know that they cant dictate terms to American corporations, rather they go about things the other way. It is 100% legal to import media products from other nations and this includes circumventing geoblocking. Australian judges know they cant stop companies from region locking and geoblocking... but they've made it so they're unenforceable in Australia.
However I dont expect anything more than a token effort from Netflix because if they do anything remotely effective they'll bleed customers as ordinary Australians go back to piracy (and the result of the DBC law suit where they technically won but financially lost has set a good precedent for others who want to use US style speculative invoicing to try to dissuade pirates).
Is it really too much to ask not to pollute the entire neighborhood with your noise? Especially when quieter, non-annoying alternatives are available?
Motor powered leaf blowers have advantages that electric ones don't, specifically the ability to operate for longer periods and away from power points, Especially if you're maintaining a large property that has a lot of greenery (I.E. an apartment block, commercial park or municipal building).
In Australia we have a simple solution. We classify all of these things as power tools and in residential areas we have a ban on power tool usage before and after a certain time (which time depends on the council who issued the ban). We accept that you can own loud tools, but you accept that using them at 10PM at night is not socially acceptable.
you don't know which culture is "better"? you may be a victim of political correctness. i'm not so let me help you a bit.
the one that doesn't believe in killing and raping the infidels is better.
the one that believes woman are equal to men is better.
the one that believes in not killing homo sexuals is better.
the list goes on, but it always comes back to western culture is better!
Having met a fair few Australian Muslims (no, none of them believe in that, that's why they came to Australia) if I could replace every one of my so-called countrymen who agreed with your comment with a Muslim, my country would be better for it.
Blind belief that a society was inherently better led to the worst atrocities ever committed... Especially in western culture.
Personally I think the western culture is more at risk of extreme right winger's taking us to a racially motivated war (a second Nazism) by using fear and misinformation than the "Moose Slims" turking all our womenfolk and bacon.
A video store? Do you stop by it on your way home from the arcade in your Firebird?
I'm pretty sure you need a DeLorean to get to a video store these days.
I think it means, if this trend keeps up, that EU culture, the Germans, the French, etc....will possibly start to disappear, being replaced with the Muslims that are pouring in,
Same Bollocks I've been hearing for ages. They said the same things when the Indians poured into Britain and Australia... Guess what, they've become part of our culture, same with various Asian cultures (Veit and Indo in Australia), Greek culture.
In fact, Australia treated Greeks pretty badly when they first started coming over... But they still integrated and are now part of Australian history and culture.
People like you have no clue. You've spouted the same nonsense for decades and every single time been proved wrong. You're less credible and more annoying that the "THEY TURK UR JERBS" crowd.
Do you actually live in Europe? Integration does not work. We have whole suburbs of "insert immigrant nationality" because they don't integrate. Even politicians have to admit that multiculturalism failed. The cultures are just too different and there are far too many at the same time.
Except when it does. If you have a large, secular society that orients more along the lines of politics than race, culture, or religion, than over time immigrants and more importantly the children of immigrants become part of the larger society. Some people are real jerks to outsiders no matter where they are or what culture they join--the idea is over generations to try to get their kids to be more and more accepting of outsiders, to be part of the larger community.
Integration is not an experiment that succeeds or fails. It's life, and people and even entire populations change across as little as fifty years. That explains everybody's racist uncle.
This.
If integration is such a failure, explain why England and Anglo cultures are still around? We've been integrating for literally centuries. When a new group of immigrants comes over, they slowly become part of the fabric of a nation. If they don't it is almost always the fault of the host nation for forcing them into ghettos and disallowing them the chance to participate in a nations culture.
Australia treated the Greeks pretty badly when they first started coming to Oz post-war. They were called "New Australians" and some stores flat out refused to serve New Australians. However the Greeks responded by becoming part of Australian society over time. They stopped being New Australians and just started being Australians. They adopted a lot of Australian traditions but this is a two way street. Some Greek traditions became part of Australian society. This process usually ends up with the best parts of a new culture being integrated in, usually food, celebrations and parts of the langauge as people travelling to a new country tend to only want to keep the parts they liked about a society.
Its the same with Italian Americans who bought pasta, not Fascism to the US or British Indians who bought curry, not bad hygiene to the UK.
The racists always complain that immigrants "dont speak the English" whilst this is ONLY partially true the racists like to ignore the fact that their children will speak English as their primary language if not, their only language. Integration is a process that takes a generation. Claiming it has failed after 5 years is stupidly short sighted.
Having grown up in Australia, I've heard all this bollocks before. First it was the Asians who would take all our jobs and destroy our culture, then it was the Indians, Now its the Muslims. Next decade, it'll be someone else. Same bollocks with a different target and not once have their predictions of doom and gloom come true. When I was 8, the local Racist league told me I'd never get a job because all the Gooks were coming over to take them. Guess what, I've been gainfully employed for the most part since I was 17 (which is over 15 years ago). I bet that same idiot is sitting in the same shitty part of Adelaide spewing the same nonsense... the only thing that has changed is "Gook" is now "Muslim".
Chrome advertises its Incognito mode as leaving no traces behind. Therefore, it should be responsible for wiping its framebuffer, just as it clears caches, cookies and history. It's like writing a file shredder that doesn't actually overwrite files, then blaming the OS and hard drive manufacturer for the oversight.
Copy/paste from Chromes incognito mode. The emphasis is theirs.
Pages that you view in incognito tabs won't stick around in your browser's history, cookie store or search history after you've closed all of your incognito tabs. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be kept. Learn more about incognito browsing
Going incognito doesn't hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider or the websites that you visit.
So they dont advertise that it leaves no traces behind. In fact it's quite obvious that it does leave things behind.
Australia, 38.29% of the US TV shows, 34.51% of the US Movies
And in unrelated news the movie industry is dismayed that piracy is such a problem in Australia and vow to intensively litigate their way into the hearts and minds of those criminals.
To be 100% fair, it's piss easy to watch American or British Netflix in Oz. This alone has dropped piracy rates significantly. Most people only need to pirate Porn and Game of Thrones these days.
If they liked the guy's work they wouldn't have fired him. It was probably only a contributing factor and a convenient reason to put on the HR form.
This.
Anyone who thinks it's impossible to fire someone in the EU (or Australia) is living in LaLa land.
If a company wants to dismiss you for any reason (I.E. pissing off the boss or just trying to downsize without redundancy) all they have to do is start putting you under the microscope. Even if they cant pin something on you, they'll just give you new tasks with difficult to impossible deadlines and each missed deadline becomes a written warning. Three warnings and it's out the door. We call this process "being managed out". Smart people get new jobs before getting managed out as a middle finger to their bosses.
I've been managed out before and pretty much got a new job straight away (and a better paying job) and to be honest, that month I spent between handing in my notice and leaving was the best time I've ever had working. I literally did nothing. If I wanted a sleep-in, I rocked up somewhere around 10am, 2 hour lunches, pretty much spending the entire work day browsing the internet. My manager didn't care as he knew the company wanted me gone (they were trimming the workforce before a merger) and they had gotten what they wanted.
In retrospect, it was a good thing. It was a shitty job with shitty pay and the one I went to had more opportunities and was a lot more prestigious. I understand that after the merger, the company was in court with Fair Work Australia over problems before the merger. I wasn't a part of that though.
warning: may seem sexist but it's my experience
in my experience, it was always the women who used company email for private communication. as a former admin of such things, it annoyed the hell out of me. whenever a new employee took over an old mailbox (with a new name alias), they had to (for years) deal with stupid emails about - Mindy's wedding, Georgina's ugly baby, meet me for coffee beautiful, my period is late, etc. i never understood why they did it. they were always told to keep their mailboxes in a condition that would allow other people to use them in their absence, yet without exception, they treated their mailboxes like personal property and cursed me to hell for letting other people access their emails. i hated that job. people... what a bunch of bastards.
Its not sexist because I've seen the same thing with mailboxes owned by men who dont care. Emails from lads mags, alerts from carsales, pics of some minging celebrity (OK, I'm pretty sure this kind of bollocks is unisex), sporting scores, betting sites, lotteries, so on and so forth.
Vain, vapid and idiotic men are just as annoying as vain, vapid, idiotic women.
Some people just dont get that when you use your companies services (phone, email and what not) there is no expectation to privacy. I'd go as far to say as conversations you have in the office or at client sites on company time have no expectation to privacy.