Comment Re:Vote (Score 2) 707
I live in Holland. Big government and taxes keep my feet dry when it storms.
I live in Holland. Big government and taxes keep my feet dry when it storms.
"Shareholder value" is a mistake. The profit should be invested in the company, not given to the shareholders. Shareholders have no interest in innovation and company longevity, only in profit.
Top companies invest in themselves, mediocre companies in dividend.
At least this way his 'school' got slashdotted.
That was the option I was looking for.
I suspect I could have learned a lot more in my young days if it was without classrooms.
Also, teach people actual trades, not management-without-content.
I wonder, are the global warming deniers the same that are rushing to get at the resources in Greenland and the Arctic Ocean and the Northern Passage?
Then, aren't they expecting the pole to freeze over again soon, making the effort pointless?
I just found some flowers starting to bloom that I didn't expect to do so until early March.
Probably just 'chance', like a fair number of years in the last decade...
... because none of us expected it.
Except when you are, like me, Cardinal Ximinez.
10% is more than a handful in my case. Quite a lot more.
Daily I wish people would indeed stop doing this.
Ever since I used speech recognition software for a while for entering text, I have worried that it would become popular and take us back to the noisy days of typewriters. Except this time for people talking to their electronic devices all the time.
I recently bought a zoomfloppy to connect a 1571 drive to USB:
http://store.go4retro.com/products/ZoomFloppy.html
I'm up to about 200 C64/C128 floppies from around 1990 backed up, and about 90% still work.
€600 ($820) for a basic device, about €1200 ($1640) for a good device, and up to €2500 ($3420) for a superior hearing aid in Holland:
http://www.hetgehoor.net/info/hoorapparaten-prijzen
http://www.optiekvangorp.be/index.php?id_wp=46&id_ws=1
The US price situation looks like a cartel to me then.
The Dutch national library has been storing every book and magazine published in Holland since 1974 (and has the majority of works published before that), now about 100km of paperwork.
Digitisation is under way.
http://kb.nl/index-en.html
Interesting, thanks.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion