robot_dave: June 2011 Archives
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Will Chinese programs be compatible with Windows 7 Home Premium? - Microsoft Answers
What a scummy decision from Microsoft.
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In Windows Home Premium you will not be able to change display language except French, Spanish, German, Japanese, and English.
To change your display language to Chinese you will have to buy Windows 7 Upgrade Ultimate License.
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China News Headlines | Hong Kong's premier newspaper online | SCMP.com
"A final version of Qianhai's administrative regulation approved by the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen People's Congress on Monday deleted almost all the bold experimental measures that promised to learn from Hong Kong's experience. These included the appointment of two Hong Kong members to its 11-member decision-making committee, having a Hong Kong-style independent commission against corruption and an ombudsman, and requiring all senior officials to declare their incomes and financial records."
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Hong Kong News Headlines | Hong Kong's premier newspaper online | SCMP.com
- As a five-year-old boy's death was confirmed as the second from scarlet fever, Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, head of microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, said the abuse of antibiotics might have led to the emergency of a highly contagious, deadly mutant strain of the disease.
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Three arguments against the singularity - Charlie's Diary
- Libertarianism is a superficially comprehensive theory of human behaviour that is based on flawed axioms and, if acted upon, would result in either failure or a hellishly unpleasant state of post-industrial feudalism.
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The Sun Is the Best Optometrist - NYTimes.com
- Parents concerned about their children’s spending time playing instead of studying may be relieved to know that the common belief that “near work” — reading or computer use — leads to nearsightedness is incorrect. Among children who spend the same amount of time outside, the amount of near work has no correlation with nearsightedness. Hours spent indoors looking at a screen or book simply means less time spent outside, which is what really matters.
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Pakistan's religious minorities suffer under blasphemy laws - The Irish Times - Mon, Jun 20, 2011
I'm pretty sure that The Punjab is not in the northwest of Pakistan.
- Aasia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother of five children from Pakistan, is facing execution for her religious beliefs. Despite international outcry over her sentence, Aasia remains in an isolation cell in a jail in Punjab, a state in the northwest of Pakistan.
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One Foot Tsunami: After All, We're All Somebody's Father
We should have had a Star Wars marathon, because SW is all about fatherhood, and how sucky examples thereof are better than being raised by your uncle.
- This is truly brilliant. With this single card, the male domination of Father's Day which has stood for too long has been smashed. Even after expanding to cards for grandfathers, uncles, brothers and the like, over 50% of the market was going untapped. No longer!
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- The IMF’s official job sounds simple and attractive. It is supposedly there to ensure poor countries don’t fall into debt, and if they do, to lift them out with loans and economic expertise. It is presented as the poor world’s best friend and guardian. But beyond the rhetoric, the IMF was designed to be dominated by a handful of rich countries – and, more specifically, by their bankers and financial speculators. The IMF works in their interests, every step of the way.
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17 Basic Syndromes of Organization Dysfunction
- 14. The Rat Race: They Keep Moving the Cheese. The culture of the enterprise, either by design or by the style of a particular industry or business sector, burns out its most talented people. A prevailing notion that one must sacrifice his or her personal well being in order to get ahead, possibly in pursuit of big financial rewards, definitely creates a goal focus, but at the expense of cooperation, esprit de corps, and individual humanity. A reduction in the commissions or other elements of the financial cheese creates a sense of victimization and resentment, not a sense of shared fate.
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Hong Kong News Headlines | Hong Kong's premier newspaper online | SCMP.com
- The smokers, including women, have been jailed for up to three months for the assaults. The department's Tobacco Control Office said the number of inspectors assaulted rose from five in 2008 and four in 2009 to 10 last year. There were five cases in the first four months of this year.
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