I don't really buy into the theory that man is responsible for global warming. Or at least I don't think we should do anything like wasting billions upon billions of dollars to slow down the effect for a few years. If we are going to get the CO2 emissions down we must force the developing countries to stop developing.
Up until the seventies(?) scientists believed we were heading for another ice age. What has changed since the seventies except the temperature? What kind of breakthroughs (appart from a higher temperature) has been made that invalidates the previous conclusion?
To me who has very little knowledge about climatology it just seems like they extrapolated the down going trend in the seventies and are doing the same thing now.
I assume the original quote is talking about real democracies not restricted ones. The only unrestrained democracy I can think of is Athens. According to wikipedia there have been a few more (Ireland, Iceland) but I don't know enough about them to comment.
They have lots of backward compatability, they just want the extension authors to check that nothing has changed for them. Most of my "broken" extensions work if I change the version number with nightly tester tools.
If you look at your keyboard you will notice that some keys are placed next to each other. If the user is unattentive he might accidently press the wrong key i.e. n instead of m. If the user is unattentive once again when he reads through his post he might miss the typo.
In conclusion: I am a somewhat sloppy proof reader (did I mention that I'm English isn't my first language?) and I'm sorry for that. However you are an asshole.
I'm not disputing that fake pharmaceuticals exist even in the west world but they are very rare.
The GP basically stated that capitalism can't handle fake pharmaceuticals and used Asia as an example. This implies that Asia somehow the epitome of capitalism. Yet Asia has loads more fake pharmaceuticals that Europe or north America. If you practice caveat emptor it is very very unlikely that you will get fake pharmaceuticals.
The GP's argument is not an argument against capitalism.
NB: I use capitalism with the libertarian definition.
Never?
I haven't recieved any fake pharmaceutical ads except viagra and that's hardly a medicine that would kill you if it was counterfeited (unless the substitute was poisonous).
When is the last time you heard a news story with hundreds of dead due to counterfeit medicine in the west?
We are slipping. Swedens financial sucess is mostly due to war profiteering anyhow combined with low taxes. The state didn't go bezerk until Olof Palme came to power in the seventies. Before that the taxes were pretty low and we were still reaping the benefits of having intact infrastructure after the second world war. Now we are exposed to more competition and have no war to benefit from. Assuming the state isn't cut back soon we will get pwned by Latvia and Estonia in about 20 years.
Also, please note that taxes are purely parasitical. The money is always taken from somewhere.
Yeah, too bad there is a waiting period for getting almost any surgery. I think the waiting time is about two months for a new hip joint. There is also a monopoly on all medication including things that don't need a prescription. I think Sweden and North Korea are the only countrys left with a pharmaceutical monopoly.
Also with socialised health care you get real nice legislation against (some) things that are harmful like tobacco, alcohol and the like. That's because "I shouldn't have to pay for someone who voluntarily destroys his body". Well if you paid your own insurance you wouldn't have to you goddamn retard.
I would imagine I would rather live in Cleveland than in Sweden but if I could choose it would be New Hampshire.
I don't think there is anything exempt from VAT in Sweden except books (and that just happened a few years ago). I think some kinds of entertainment like concerts and the like are "only" 6%. But there are taxes on everything else.
If you like taxes Sweden is the place to go. First you the employer pays a tax for having an employee (it's basically hidden income tax). Then the worker gets to pay income tax of about 30-40%. Then you have VAT and the other nice little taxes. All those taxes ammounts to about 60% of the average persons income. The ammount of taxation of the BNP is a little more than 49%. Some things are even taxed several times. First theres a tax on gas then you pay VAT on the total cost including the original tax. The same goes for things like electricity and tobacco.
The best part is that the VAT was supposed to be temporary and originally was 5% if i remmeber correctly.
Are you trying to say that it would be a good thing if the weaknesses of your messed up legal system isn't brought to light?
We have a 25% VAT on non-food goods (food is only 12%) and the best way to see the actual difference it makes is by seeing products from other countries. It usually pisses me off when I see how cheap everything is but then I remember the VAT and get even more pissed off.
High blood pressure is a side effect of being a libertarian in Sweden.
Here is my quick and dirty translation of the salient parts:
John [John Hargelid of DICE] told me that it's an integrated module in the game that's only active when you play. This is used to gather statistics on the ads that will be in Battlefield 2142.
John says that there are no connections what so ever to spyware and that the code doesn't send information about your surfing habits. The information that is transmitted to DICE/EA has nothing to do with your personal surfing habits.
In conclusion: No information regarding your surfing habits will be transmitted and the program is only active when you play Battlefield 2142. The only statistics that are sent are from the in game ads in Battlefield 2142.
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I don't really buy into the theory that man is responsible for global warming. Or at least I don't think we should do anything like wasting billions upon billions of dollars to slow down the effect for a few years. If we are going to get the CO2 emissions down we must force the developing countries to stop developing.
Up until the seventies(?) scientists believed we were heading for another ice age. What has changed since the seventies except the temperature? What kind of breakthroughs (appart from a higher temperature) has been made that invalidates the previous conclusion?
To me who has very little knowledge about climatology it just seems like they extrapolated the down going trend in the seventies and are doing the same thing now.
I assume the original quote is talking about real democracies not restricted ones. The only unrestrained democracy I can think of is Athens. According to wikipedia there have been a few more (Ireland, Iceland) but I don't know enough about them to comment.
They have lots of backward compatability, they just want the extension authors to check that nothing has changed for them. Most of my "broken" extensions work if I change the version number with nightly tester tools.
Nice try.
If you look at your keyboard you will notice that some keys are placed next to each other. If the user is unattentive he might accidently press the wrong key i.e. n instead of m. If the user is unattentive once again when he reads through his post he might miss the typo.
In conclusion: I am a somewhat sloppy proof reader (did I mention that I'm English isn't my first language?) and I'm sorry for that. However you are an asshole.
I wasn't aware of this, I just guessed what the domain was.
Nothing will change much. The movies will get deleted faster than before but the material will still be there unless something really nasty happens.
I thought I was pessimistic.
Hah! That's easy.
Just do this (assuming you aren't sure of the directory structure of the ftp)
windows button + r
>cmd
>ftp ftp.mozilla.org
>anonynous
>whatever
>ls
>cd pub
>ls
>cd mozilla.org
>ls
>cd firefox
>ls
>cd releases
>ls
>cd. 2.0
>ls
>cd win32
>ls
>cd en-US
>ls
>get Firefox Setup 2.0.exe
Then you just have to run the exe. It's as easy as pie, my grandmother could do it.
How can a post that equates to: "libertarians are doodie heads" without a shred of proof be modded insightful?
I'm not disputing that fake pharmaceuticals exist even in the west world but they are very rare.
The GP basically stated that capitalism can't handle fake pharmaceuticals and used Asia as an example. This implies that Asia somehow the epitome of capitalism. Yet Asia has loads more fake pharmaceuticals that Europe or north America. If you practice caveat emptor it is very very unlikely that you will get fake pharmaceuticals.
The GP's argument is not an argument against capitalism.
NB: I use capitalism with the libertarian definition.
Never? I haven't recieved any fake pharmaceutical ads except viagra and that's hardly a medicine that would kill you if it was counterfeited (unless the substitute was poisonous). When is the last time you heard a news story with hundreds of dead due to counterfeit medicine in the west?
I'm not talking about malaria or similar tropical diseases. I'm talking about counterfeit pharmaceuticals in general.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Gc0pcQWvw
Here's a music video that showcases the lipsync and emotions that the HL2 engine is capable of.
How come this isn't really a problem in developed countries?
Thank you very much for the link to the rat experiment. I found it highly interesting.
Ever hear of Afghan blacksmiths making small arms?
Would you call that stone age technology?
I can't see how taxes are not inherently parasitical. I can see how they can be more or less damaging but taxes must be parasitical.
I do agree that IP is severely damaging.
We are slipping. Swedens financial sucess is mostly due to war profiteering anyhow combined with low taxes. The state didn't go bezerk until Olof Palme came to power in the seventies. Before that the taxes were pretty low and we were still reaping the benefits of having intact infrastructure after the second world war. Now we are exposed to more competition and have no war to benefit from. Assuming the state isn't cut back soon we will get pwned by Latvia and Estonia in about 20 years.
Also, please note that taxes are purely parasitical. The money is always taken from somewhere.
Yeah, too bad there is a waiting period for getting almost any surgery. I think the waiting time is about two months for a new hip joint. There is also a monopoly on all medication including things that don't need a prescription. I think Sweden and North Korea are the only countrys left with a pharmaceutical monopoly.
Also with socialised health care you get real nice legislation against (some) things that are harmful like tobacco, alcohol and the like. That's because "I shouldn't have to pay for someone who voluntarily destroys his body". Well if you paid your own insurance you wouldn't have to you goddamn retard.
I would imagine I would rather live in Cleveland than in Sweden but if I could choose it would be New Hampshire.
I don't think there is anything exempt from VAT in Sweden except books (and that just happened a few years ago). I think some kinds of entertainment like concerts and the like are "only" 6%. But there are taxes on everything else.
If you like taxes Sweden is the place to go. First you the employer pays a tax for having an employee (it's basically hidden income tax). Then the worker gets to pay income tax of about 30-40%. Then you have VAT and the other nice little taxes. All those taxes ammounts to about 60% of the average persons income. The ammount of taxation of the BNP is a little more than 49%. Some things are even taxed several times. First theres a tax on gas then you pay VAT on the total cost including the original tax. The same goes for things like electricity and tobacco.
The best part is that the VAT was supposed to be temporary and originally was 5% if i remmeber correctly.
Are you trying to say that it would be a good thing if the weaknesses of your messed up legal system isn't brought to light? We have a 25% VAT on non-food goods (food is only 12%) and the best way to see the actual difference it makes is by seeing products from other countries. It usually pisses me off when I see how cheap everything is but then I remember the VAT and get even more pissed off. High blood pressure is a side effect of being a libertarian in Sweden.
There seem to be a small error in the summary so I fixed it.
'Ultimately, we're trying to protect consumers from being sold hardware that is cheaper than what can be bought locally'
MDMA is ecstacy. I don't see how MDMA can cause violence though, at least not compared to ethyl alcohol.
Here is my quick and dirty translation of the salient parts:
This looks like a dupe from an earlier post located here: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/2 2/0228226
I mean like inflation. Property Tax is not usually argued to be good for the economy but inflation for some reason is. I blame Keynes.