Haiku is UNIX? It's true what they say, you learn something new every day...
Oh, and Linux (not GNU/Linux for me, sorry) is not UNIX either. It's inspired by UNIX, absolutely, but it isn't technically related.
LOL at 'white supremacists'. Do you mean "White people who simply want to live around their own kind, without having any contact whatsoever with other races"?
I don't know if that's white supremacy, but it definitely is racism.
GP is probably talking about TTIP.
The kind that doesn't like his computer breaking randomly because MS decided they knew better for him than he did.
It's been many years since a Windows update broke one of my computers.
Now, I do know it happens every once in a while, but rarely.
But going forward Windows updates are tested by many more people then in the past due to the ongoing Insider program.
So the likelyhood of a Windows update breaking productive systems should go down.
On the other hand, Windows users that don't install security update because it is inconvenient and who put not only themselves but other people as well in jeopardy are aplenty.
the country was occupied and split. On the East side it was straight out annexed and made part of the USSR.
Strange... I grew up in Eastern Germany, yet I don't remember speaking Russian all day or my parents electing somebody to the Kremlin and it is kinda strange that the armed forces did not wear the red star of the Soviet forces.
But hey, I'm sure you know what you're talking about.
(Now, if you had written that the state that was founded out of the Soviet occupation zone was propped up and controlled by the Kremlin and made part of the eastern European system then yes, that would be in line with my experiences in my youth.)
Does that hold true if you take retirement age into account?
If Greeks retire 10 years (or whatever) earlier than Germans, you have to take into account the 10x 52x weekly hours (most Germans work some 37 hours a week, so we have to add something like 19.000 hours).
Actually, changing the current policies is what needs to happen.
Greece needs to get rid of corruption, tax evasion and excessive spending.
That would give them more money to spend on rebuilding their economy, while the pay their loans with the additional money borrowed.
Defaulting is the (somewhat) easy way out. The debtors loose their money (meaning that 500 million Europeans have to pay the tab for the miss -management by several Greece governments) and Greece will have to rebuild from nothing. Cause if they default, who will give them favorable credits after that?
Being German, I resent your comment.
People like you are the reason why we can't have nice things
Well, it would have been those citizens job to elect not the parties that promised them everything for nothing but the parties that were willing to to make the hard but necessary decisions.
When you borrow money you have to pay it back. Or at least honestly try to do your best to do so.
Borrowing money and then saying 'We can't pay you back. Sorry. Your problem now.' is not the way to go.
We're talking several hundred BILLION Euro here. If Greece defaults on that that money will be missing in the coffers of the other European countries. That's money that you take away from the other 500 Million EU citizen.
It would be nice if you are less carefree with other people's money.
Strange... I seem to remember that the current Greek government was elected by the Greek people. Also, if they the where instated by Bruessels, why didn't they do what Bruessels wants?
You are right on the current Greek secretary of finances, though. He is a corporate man who thinks the lies and deceptions he's used to work here as well as in his former job.
Untrue. Richer EU countries like the UK and Germany are in fact paying more into the EU coffers than poorer countries.
With affordable/budget computers soon to be secure boot locked to windows 10+ ONLY(no more linux etc).
Many Linux distributions are totally fine booting on a computer with activated secure boot, using a boot loader that was signed by Microsoft.
Do you have any source for your claim that that will not work anymore? Otherwise I call FUD.
Still don't see the harm if Apple and the publishers try to set prices. You. An either deal with Apple or not. It's up to the publishers if they want to make that deal.
It would help if you read up on this case...
Apple and the publishers did not only fix the prices you pay at Apples shop, but they also forced all other ebook retailers to follow the agency model that Apple wanted and pay at least what Apple payed to the publishers.
So this collusion harmed all retailers, and thus all consumers because it removed a lot of choice.
Why should digital sale not use the wholesale model?
I do not want the publishers to dictate the price, because they are removed from the customer and thus don't think of the customer when setting prices.
The publishers are the ones that first sell eBooks for the price of the hardcover paper book and only go down with the price when the paperback is released.
It doesn't make sense that the same eBook suddenly should be worth only a third of what I would have had to pay earlier.
Publishers don't understand the digital business and would only be trying to prop up the classic paper business that they are used to.
Strangely enough, on Kobobooks.com or Google Play for many books I can find 2 versions for different prices. Usually from different publishers.
Of course, it could be that this is only because I'm living in Europe and there is some overlap in publishing rights. But still.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
