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by waps 13y ago
The EU commission has several directives MANDATING member states implement internet surveillance. If you think "human rights" means no surveillance ... Where do you even get that idea ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by waps 13y ago
Let's hope that at least this part of her work referenced in this article dies the quick death it deserves. She basically wants the global ability to impose EU laws, like worse copyright than the US, outlawing certain political views,
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by waps 13y ago
Exactly what they have been doing all along : complain about NSA spying. Wasn't that obvious from the press release ? > In the wake of large-scale Internet surveillance and reduced trust in the internet, the European Commission toda
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by waps 13y ago
This is just another example of Go's fundamental attitude. Stuff is available for the language designers, but not for you : * generic functions (e.g. append) * generic data types (e.g. slices) * exceptions (like illustrated above) * sp
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by waps 13y ago
Except of course that in every test ever European politicians have chosen to safeguard their power and jobs as opposed to the principles of the European state. Hell they've even gone against democracy itself. Btw : letting member state
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by waps 13y ago
France -> UK is the problematic direction.
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by waps 13y ago
I'd say : follow the money. Without immigrants, the population of the EU would be dropping, and quite quickly. That would destroy Europe, affecting a hell of a lot of politics. None of the people who think like this live in the cities.
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by waps 13y ago
Please don't call manual copy-paste code changes refactorings. Here is the definition of refactoring : > Typically, refactoring applies a series of standardised basic micro-refactorings, each of which is (usually) a tiny change in a
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by waps 13y ago
Another big exception is plastic, which covers the vast majority of usecases. Also we're nowhere near "peak" coal, so metal is not going to be a problem any time soon. Eventually, yes, but not this century. Frankly what happe
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by waps 13y ago
Ah come on. I'd say there's at least a 50% chance that the US military and the Department of Energy find a workable new energy source in that timeframe (I have -very- little faith in the European academics who have locked themselv
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by waps 13y ago
Have you looked around lately ? Worldwide, I'd say at least 50% of the population does not make economic sense. That number is going up, fast. What do you intend to do about them ?
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by waps 13y ago
Just correction a misconception here. The human brain "boots" on the 18th day after conception (you can set your watch to it). It is obvious on echo pictures that coherent thoughts are present on the 21st day after conception (e.g
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by waps 13y ago
> The debate is around "benefit tourism" - people travelling to other countries to claim welfare benefits. No it's not. It's about North African immigrants creating completely exclusive communities using violence. Or
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by waps 13y ago
So what you mean to say is that the EU politicians will show backbone, respect their principles and reject a potential of new power over a new state in order to safeguard European law ? That'll be a first. e.g. http://en.wik
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by waps 13y ago
Having just travelled from the France to the UK, there most definitely is NOT free traffic of persons or labour between the UK and Europe. Or rather, only in one direction. Try it sometime.
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by waps 13y ago
By which you mean Europe would claim that the international treaties they make superseed the will of the local voters by virtue of them being in Europe ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_(European_Union_law)
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by waps 13y ago
I wasn't aware of any such rejection. Nor you, nor a google search, nor my local library can find any reference to such a rejection. Furthermore it's easy to find fatwas agreeing with this. Care to point out at least one paper (th
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by waps 13y ago
Oh great an ad hominem. Now google "Asma Bint Marwan" (hardly the only one[1]), and if you have any integrity whatsoever, apologize. [1] Others executed for criticism ("poetry" about muhammad as it's generally calle
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by waps 13y ago
What exactly did you expect an islamist to do, other than declaring himself caliph and start to act like an islamist ? This has barely begun. This is only really about removing content. The last actual caliph in Turkey would get people summ
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by waps 13y ago
If we're going to quote official hardware requirements, then I'd say that Windows 3.0, the version that imho is comparable to OS/2 2.0) ran on a 286 with 384 kb of ram. Windows 3.1 ran on a 286 with 1 megabyte of ram. Both ra
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by waps 13y ago
Jabber support, in the sense of any client being able to connect to google talk, is perfectly active, hell I've got it open on my desktop right now. Federation, the ability for having your own jabber network contactable by google talk
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by waps 13y ago
> In that case, you have no idea what stable numbers means -- it means a species whose long-term average remains the same. Or do you think species are like dormant bank accounts, with constant balances to the penny? Given the examples I&
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by waps 13y ago
I note you failed to actually illustrate species with stable numbers. What the logistic function has to do with anything, I don't know. When reading through the reason they choose this function to model population growth it is exactly
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by waps 13y ago
Exactly. OS/2 was compatible only in the sense that with a vastly more expensive computer you could run windows, dos and os/2 apps. There were lots of DOS apps. A few windows apps. And no OS/2 apps. Windows always had compati
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by waps 13y ago
Not at all. A sovereign nation is a nation that has an organisation that decides what it wants to do that cannot be overridden (like the Bundestag). In practice the Bundestag has the following demands foisted upon it by the European constit
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by waps 13y ago
Can you give me an example of such a species ? Because I don't know any. The type of growth you're referring to would be like rabbits versus cats, and their numbers are anything but stable. And frankly, even if you can actually do
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by waps 13y ago
Look around your room. If you don't have any food lying there, everything you see is made of oil. The carpet on the floor, is manufactured using oil, and the paint, the only part you really see is oil. Same for walls. Every gadget you
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by waps 13y ago
I do truly wonder. I mean do you guys give absolutely zero consideration to the massive psychological difference in message ? What does evolution say ? Well, if one were to be really blunt, here's the message : First of all, the natur
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by waps 13y ago
It's not just that. Investment projects to increase oil output are having costs going through the roof : http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230327770... (just an example) But it's not jus
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by waps 13y ago
That depends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Righ... (note that the signatories to this treaty also signed the original treaty and obviously, that means they were lying at least once)

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