But I thought they wanted to make all the speed cameras visible to make sure that people slow down.
You really shouldn know better than to believe that propoganda, when anybody should realise that the sole reason for speed cameras is to raise the revenues needed to buy more speed cameras
perhaps they should have all the GPS satellites painted day-glo yellow and red stripes?
Ahh, now there is a reason to re-start the UK space program....
I'm not really one for 'Me too' posts, but er, well, make this another vote for the original theatrical release. I am a serious fan of noir and sc-fi, so put the two together....
And I don't really buy the auteur business, In the case of Blade Runner I think the studio kept Scott under control. And for all you people who think Scott has the answers don't forget HE was changing PKDs vision.....
Actually we also pay Road Fund Tax (or whatever it's called now), which for my car is about 145 ukp p.a. This gives you a smallish piece of paper which is to be displayed in the bottom left corner of your windscreen. To get this you have to produce proof of insurance and (for cars more than three years old) a certificate of roadworthiness (called an MOT). Absence of this tax disc can cause the constabularly to start asking questions....
FYI here in the UK the fuel levy (gas tax to the US) is currently >80% of the forecourt price. I believe we have the highest fuel costs (or at least tax) in the world. And our lunatic fringe think that this isn't high enough.......
Don't forget the fringe benefits, we can scrap all the speed cameras and use the same system to automatically issue speeding fines and (temporary) driving bans. As the Home Secretary seems about to pick a fight with the Police he may like the option of reducing Police numbers while increasing revenue from the speeding taxes.
And as the UK has one of the most backward train systems in Europe
As a proud Brit I resent that slur, succesive Governments have striven long and hard to ensure that we have categorically the worst rail system in the E.U. and the present bunch are upholding this magnificent achivement well.
I sometimes wonder if the UK is being used as a giant experiment in behavioural psychology, I mean what other possible explanation could there be for a country which finally manages to have it's entire public transport system teetering on the brink of the abyss and then tries to push the electorate out of their nice reliable cars...
As Far As I Can Recall the artists have to pay tour expenses, production costs etc. Unless an artist becomes a huge success it's not that profitable, for most it's still better than routine work, but most musicians don't get rich.
Yeah well it's a shame that accepted practice is to wound enemy soldiers rather than kill them as this places a severe strain on the support services. It's more work to look after a wounded soldier than to handle a corpse.
I watched all of Blake's 7 when it came out, I was at University so that's some excuse. It wasn't bad for a BBC no-budget job, except for the truly execrable last episode-no make that series, but it was never that wonderful. Farscape on the other hand is becoming seriously interesting, from a pretty good start it keeps getting better. Admittedly for the first few episodes I was aware of the Henson connection but then I just saw Rygel and Pilot. The F/X are very good for a TV series, better than any trek series, and where another series would spend time explaining every last detail Farscape expects you to be able to keep up. Another thing I really like is that the plot development isn't predictable, nasty things happen and the characters have to live with the consequences. Even with the best intentions they screw up royally. Given the genre, it's believable. I'm not really someone who has 'favourite' series, but if I did Farscape would be my fave SciFi.
Agreed that they can't remove the GPL from the existing version, but as copyright holder they could release it (or an improved version) under a commercial licence, either doing the work themselves or selling the product to someone else who didn't want to develop it under the GPL.
And if they changed their TOS so that they acquire the copyright to any files they host? Would that be too high a price?
I'm not saying this will happen, but what's to stop them?
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And what about the patches that cause bigger problems than they fix? I don't download most new patches immediately (unless it's a major bugfix), I wait until the dust settles. MS have been known to release service packs that do just this.
Well I prefer Farscape... at least it's not as predictable as Trek, and it has the best time travel story I've seen - which was the episode at the Monastery. The characters screw up, and things stay screwed up. Oh, and it has enough continuity for anything this side of B5, as well as not all the aliens looking like a man with rubber prosthetics!
$5000 for an Apple 2? Yes, and it came with 4K. I know - it replaced our S-100 frankenstein, and was well worth every penny (okay, my Dad bought it), and it came with several programming environments (some on ROM, some on disk), and *full* *fold* *out* *schematics*, plus a manual that listed every IO memory address and gave a tutorial on how to access them. It's probably the most open personal computer in history, and likely will remain so.
For those of us in the UK the BBC micro would be an equally good contender. Came with circuit diagrams and everything you needed to hack it (in the original sense). The OS used vectors (pointer indirection) for everything possible, so you just overwrote the vector to jump to your own routine and then jump to the original destination when you were done. It was an absolutely brilliant machine on which to learn how computers work. All the interfaces were fully documented and programmable - disk, serial (RS423, not 232), printer, casette and the tube (a nifty port for communicating with a second processor) Acorn were amazing, I remember being unimpressed with the original PC in '84 because it was slower than my beeb (which had a Motorola 6502A) and didn't do colour. The beeb was a lot cheaper too, but still about three times the cost of a Spectrum. Games were good too, the king being Elite, which has been ported to many other platforms, strangely this includes EMACS too...... (Yes, I've still got mine, and several emulators)
They weren't just written for background. JRRT's first love was languages and he just wanted to create Elvish etc, and the Silmarillion etc was a spin-off from that.....
I am glad that Kafka's executor ignored his wishes too as a body of great (even in translation) work would have been lost . I think it's about time for a new film version of 'The Trial' too.
I wish John Lloyd had done more (or I was familiar with it). His Hordes of the Things was brilliant, I suspect that his involvement is why I much prefer the radio series to the books etc, apart from knowing them first.
BTW how many versions of HHGG were there? I've heard the radio series, read the book, seen the play and TV series and got the records (12" vinyl, not the same as the cds of the radio show) and they're all different. Any more?
P.S. I think the play came before the book, certainly before the huge success, and when I went the cast were working essentially for free. The theatre (the Rainbow in Finsbury Park) couldn't sit people in the circle as this was full of FX gear. The Book was a guy in a descending gondola over he audience (plus two attractive women in tin foil bikinis) and the bit with the whale was done by him throwing an inflatable pool dolphin at us!
It was fun, in a suitably surreal way. I think it closed a dew weeks later.
I always feel sorry for Stephen Moore (Marvin) who was shut in a cupboard so they could process his voice in real time. He couldn't even see the other actors.... But my favourite was Roy Hudd (older British Comic & Stand Up) doing an improv for Max Quordlepleen (sp?) , he was very familiar with the theatre having worked there every week for years. Trouble was he was used to an audience and trying to do his usual business in an empty auditorium nearly sent him batty, poor guy. But he recoverd well:-)
It's highly unlikey that Christianity is mentioned in Deuteronomy, that being in the Old Testament. I believe Deuteronomy 13 refers to 'other gods'
The Numbers 5:11-29 verses I wouldn't necessarily characterize as sadistic as it's a curse on bitter water that the woman is to drink, I would normally use sadistic to refer to physical abuse but I suppose it depends on where your definition of sadism as mental cruelty begins.
Leviticus 19:20 doesn't mention rape. It refers to 'sleeping with' or 'lieth carnally with' a woman 'who is a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom'. It may be non-consensual but it doesn't limit itself to that.Of course the issue of slavery is common in the OT as well.
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And I'll take the better movie - in this case the Original Theatrical Release.
And I don't really buy the auteur business, In the case of Blade Runner I think the studio kept Scott under control. And for all you people who think Scott has the answers don't forget HE was changing PKDs vision.....
Actually we also pay Road Fund Tax (or whatever it's called now), which for my car is about 145 ukp p.a.
This gives you a smallish piece of paper which is to be displayed in the bottom left corner of your windscreen. To get this you have to produce proof of insurance and (for cars more than three years old) a certificate of roadworthiness (called an MOT). Absence of this tax disc can cause the constabularly to start asking questions....
FYI here in the UK the fuel levy (gas tax to the US) is currently >80% of the forecourt price. I believe we have the highest fuel costs (or at least tax) in the world. And our lunatic fringe think that this isn't high enough.......
Don't forget the fringe benefits, we can scrap all the speed cameras and use the same system to automatically issue speeding fines and (temporary) driving bans. As the Home Secretary seems about to pick a fight with the Police he may like the option of reducing Police numbers while increasing revenue from the speeding taxes.
I sometimes wonder if the UK is being used as a giant experiment in behavioural psychology, I mean what other possible explanation could there be for a country which finally manages to have it's entire public transport system teetering on the brink of the abyss and then tries to push the electorate out of their nice reliable cars...
As Far As I Can Recall the artists have to pay tour expenses, production costs etc. Unless an artist becomes a huge success it's not that profitable, for most it's still better than routine work, but most musicians don't get rich.
Yeah well it's a shame that accepted practice is to wound enemy soldiers rather than kill them as this places a severe strain on the support services. It's more work to look after a wounded soldier than to handle a corpse.
I watched all of Blake's 7 when it came out, I was at University so that's some excuse. It wasn't bad for a BBC no-budget job, except for the truly execrable last episode-no make that series, but it was never that wonderful.
Farscape on the other hand is becoming seriously interesting, from a pretty good start it keeps getting better. Admittedly for the first few episodes I was aware of the Henson connection but then I just saw Rygel and Pilot. The F/X are very good for a TV series, better than any trek series, and where another series would spend time explaining every last detail Farscape expects you to be able to keep up.
Another thing I really like is that the plot development isn't predictable, nasty things happen and the characters have to live with the consequences. Even with the best intentions they screw up royally. Given the genre, it's believable. I'm not really someone who has 'favourite' series, but if I did Farscape would be my fave SciFi.
Agreed that they can't remove the GPL from the existing version, but as copyright holder they could release it (or an improved version) under a commercial licence, either doing the work themselves or selling the product to someone else who didn't want to develop it under the GPL.
Would that be too high a price?
I'm not saying this will happen, but what's to stop them?
And what about the patches that cause bigger problems than they fix? I don't download most new patches immediately (unless it's a major bugfix), I wait until the dust settles.
MS have been known to release service packs that do just this.
You have to pay to get infected by a MS product...
Well I prefer Farscape... at least it's not as predictable as Trek, and it has the best time travel story I've seen - which was the episode at the Monastery.
The characters screw up, and things stay screwed up. Oh, and it has enough continuity for anything this side of B5, as well as not all the aliens looking like a man with rubber prosthetics!
(Yes, I've still got mine, and several emulators)
Don't bet on it......
They weren't just written for background. JRRT's first love was languages and he just wanted to create Elvish etc, and the Silmarillion etc was a spin-off from that.....
I am glad that Kafka's executor ignored his wishes too as a body of great (even in translation) work would have been lost . I think it's about time for a new film version of 'The Trial' too.
BTW how many versions of HHGG were there? I've heard the radio series, read the book, seen the play and TV series and got the records (12" vinyl, not the same as the cds of the radio show) and they're all different. Any more?
P.S. I think the play came before the book, certainly before the huge success, and when I went the cast were working essentially for free. The theatre (the Rainbow in Finsbury Park) couldn't sit people in the circle as this was full of FX gear. The Book was a guy in a descending gondola over he audience (plus two attractive women in tin foil bikinis) and the bit with the whale was done by him throwing an inflatable pool dolphin at us! It was fun, in a suitably surreal way. I think it closed a dew weeks later.
I always feel sorry for Stephen Moore (Marvin) who was shut in a cupboard so they could process his voice in real time. He couldn't even see the other actors.... :-)
But my favourite was Roy Hudd (older British Comic & Stand Up) doing an improv for Max Quordlepleen (sp?) , he was very familiar with the theatre having worked there every week for years. Trouble was he was used to an audience and trying to do his usual business in an empty auditorium nearly sent him batty, poor guy. But he recoverd well
The Numbers 5:11-29 verses I wouldn't necessarily characterize as sadistic as it's a curse on bitter water that the woman is to drink, I would normally use sadistic to refer to physical abuse but I suppose it depends on where your definition of sadism as mental cruelty begins.
Leviticus 19:20 doesn't mention rape. It refers to 'sleeping with' or 'lieth carnally with' a woman 'who is a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom'. It may be non-consensual but it doesn't limit itself to that.Of course the issue of slavery is common in the OT as well.