The whole point of this stunt is to show how ridiculous the current allowances for religion are.
If some bloke wants to go into the jobcentre with a simple hood up, he's not allowed to. If a muslim woman with only a small slit in a veil showing her eyes wants to go into that same place, she IS allowed to.
A seikh can carry a dagger in London. He can even carry one into a school. If I get caught with my leatherman supertool and can't convince a police officer that I have good excuse for having it, I face jail. People have been convicted for carrying a dangerous weapon for carrying these and Gerbers.
I can't fill up my motorcycle at most petrol stations without removing my helmet, even though I wear a flip face model (I can get in and out of the country wearing this, but that's another story). A woman in a full veil is allowed to.
So yes, the whole Jedi thing is silly - but getting the apology proves a point - we have one rule for the pious and another rule for the rest of us.
It's a 'feature' if you're running the show. If you're a shitizen being governed by the show, it's a bug:D
We really need to move to an 'Open Source' government where as users we can fix these bugs. But most people are too dumb to vote, and those who do just vote for either of the two main parties.
Not really. Sony's PRS meets both of those requirements and they're not selling them by the boatload.
The problem eReaders are going to have for some time to come is publishers. They still think I'm going to be prepared to wait longer, then pay more for a book that I can do less with. I can't share it with my wife (I have the only reader in the house), I can't give it to my friends and I can't sell it on Amazon later. But they want more money for it.
Ah, but it's worse - catching someone for speeding gets you the same number of points as solving a rape or a murder. Not only that, but it also generates government revenue.
Where do you think the police solve the most crimes then ?
My big problem with that form is that you can't change your mind later. I mean, what if I am visiting the US on holiday, and I have only good intentions when I arrive, so I don't tick the box. But when I get there, I realise that the arrogant running imperial dogs must all die and decide to martyr myself for the cause.
Who do I see to get my form back to change the option? There are no contact details on the form and it seems to me that your government make it as hard as possible to update my details. So you see, it's not my fault that I have to break the law when I change my mind - you've forced me to this by not providing a simple way to update my details!
No they don't. A British judge already convicted a girl of terrorism for writing a bad poem. I still feel she should have been convicted for her abuse of poetry and the English language, but the terrorism conviction was a step too far for me.
How are you converting PDF with Calibre? I've got quite a few books that I'd like to move to my PRS-505, and I can't find a decent means to convert from PDF.
Most of the tools will convert to ePub or LRF but they do it as an image, which means I can't resize the text - being able to resize is one of the main reasons I read on an eReader.
I don't think that the GP was questioning whether or not the N900 did run Linux - I think he was responding to the 'and all that implies' statement. Not everyone will see that as a positive thing.
I've tried the N900 and I personally feel it is a steaming pile of unusable shit. It's not a phone I could hand to my parents and expect them to use. It's hard to use one-handed, too many applications do not support portrait mode and the Ovi store selection is dire.
The hardware is OK and the platform has potential, but as a consumer cell phone today, it doesn't cut it.
No idea why this got modd'd -1 Troll... The poster has a good argument as to why he should be allowed to look at his glowing cell phone screen at the movies.
Thirteen THOUSAND dollars for a motorized bicycle? My high performance sports bike cost a fraction of that and I still had hard times justifying it as I mostly use it to commute.
The politicians argued that they acted within the letter of the rules and it's not their fault that the rules were easy to abuse.
Several months earlier when Fred Goodwin made off from RBS with a major pension, Harriet Harperson said that the court of public opinion would stand for it. When the expenses scandal broke and she was found with her hand in the cookie jar, she backed off of all ideas of the court of public opinion and used the "I didn't break any rules" defence - the same defence that she lambasted Sir Fred for going with.
So in short, they got away scot free, and will continue to do so.
That case isn't the one I'm aware of that is cited in that respect.
The one I am aware of is the suit waaaay back in the day of Ford (when Henry Ford was still running it) where he wanted to lower the price of the cars and his shareholders sued him.
The equivalent precedent in the UK was set with a rail company vs its shareholders.
I really do... I've got nothing against the bloke personally, but this 'Special Relationship' that marches our soldiers to their death and fucks us every which way in our dealings with the US needs to die and that won't happen until the people in the street wake up and realise just how one-sided this relationship has been for a long time now.
One thing that I still can't understand is that I thought Obama was all about change. Why is his administration still pushing for this extradition? All the democrats told me that America would be perfect again once Obama got in >:(
The simple solution for most stuff is Browser ID strings and in some cases, MAC address prefixes. I know that in the UK, I could convince the O2 cloud to let me surf the web using wifi from my laptop on my free iPhone bandwidth simply by changing my laptop MAC address and browser ID to be mobile safari.
I'm not sure how they would detect other apps, but as soon as you fire up a standard browser, it would be pretty easy to spot if you haven't changed this.
What's been done is that the three strikes part has been removed from the EU directive. However, previously there was language in that directive that would forbid any country from implementing a 3 strikes law on their own (remember, the EU passes some laws, but member countries can still pass their own)
The removal of this text now makes it possible for member countries to implement their own three strikes laws.
It's true that people in the UK worry way too much about crime, but it's also true that the state is seen to be ineffective when it comes to punishment (commonly regarded as dealing it out ham-fistedly and at the wrong targets). Personally I would argue it works most of the time, but when it fails it does so spectacularly.
I'd stop worrying about crime if the following two conditions were met.
1. I stopped being a victim of crime
2. The police gave a shit on any of the 3 occasions that I was a victim of crime
So far, I'm out of pocket to the tune of about £3000 pounds in extra insurance premiums, gaps between what the insurers paid out and what I had to pay to replace things and medical bills.
Add this to the Tony Martin farce (man defends his home against a burglar with over 25 convictions and goes to jail for it), and I worry a lot. The police won't defend me. I'm not allowed to defend myself.
But if I download some music, I lose my job? Niiiiice!
Good luck with that with most corporate firewalls - your solution would mean that loads of ports would need to be open outbound for SSL websites - companies want to restrict outbound access.
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The whole point of this stunt is to show how ridiculous the current allowances for religion are.
If some bloke wants to go into the jobcentre with a simple hood up, he's not allowed to. If a muslim woman with only a small slit in a veil showing her eyes wants to go into that same place, she IS allowed to.
A seikh can carry a dagger in London. He can even carry one into a school. If I get caught with my leatherman supertool and can't convince a police officer that I have good excuse for having it, I face jail. People have been convicted for carrying a dangerous weapon for carrying these and Gerbers.
I can't fill up my motorcycle at most petrol stations without removing my helmet, even though I wear a flip face model (I can get in and out of the country wearing this, but that's another story). A woman in a full veil is allowed to.
So yes, the whole Jedi thing is silly - but getting the apology proves a point - we have one rule for the pious and another rule for the rest of us.
Sheeiiit - And I thought Neal Stephenson was getting verbose with his last couple of tomes - Foo begat bar who begat baz, father of .... *snore*
It's a 'feature' if you're running the show. If you're a shitizen being governed by the show, it's a bug :D
We really need to move to an 'Open Source' government where as users we can fix these bugs. But most people are too dumb to vote, and those who do just vote for either of the two main parties.
Not really. Sony's PRS meets both of those requirements and they're not selling them by the boatload.
The problem eReaders are going to have for some time to come is publishers. They still think I'm going to be prepared to wait longer, then pay more for a book that I can do less with. I can't share it with my wife (I have the only reader in the house), I can't give it to my friends and I can't sell it on Amazon later. But they want more money for it.
Guess where most of my books come from then ?
Ah, but it's worse - catching someone for speeding gets you the same number of points as solving a rape or a murder. Not only that, but it also generates government revenue.
Where do you think the police solve the most crimes then ?
Love the sig... Ties nicely to the username :D
My big problem with that form is that you can't change your mind later. I mean, what if I am visiting the US on holiday, and I have only good intentions when I arrive, so I don't tick the box. But when I get there, I realise that the arrogant running imperial dogs must all die and decide to martyr myself for the cause.
Who do I see to get my form back to change the option? There are no contact details on the form and it seems to me that your government make it as hard as possible to update my details. So you see, it's not my fault that I have to break the law when I change my mind - you've forced me to this by not providing a simple way to update my details!
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No they don't. A British judge already convicted a girl of terrorism for writing a bad poem. I still feel she should have been convicted for her abuse of poetry and the English language, but the terrorism conviction was a step too far for me.
How are you converting PDF with Calibre? I've got quite a few books that I'd like to move to my PRS-505, and I can't find a decent means to convert from PDF.
Most of the tools will convert to ePub or LRF but they do it as an image, which means I can't resize the text - being able to resize is one of the main reasons I read on an eReader.
I don't think that the GP was questioning whether or not the N900 did run Linux - I think he was responding to the 'and all that implies' statement. Not everyone will see that as a positive thing.
I've tried the N900 and I personally feel it is a steaming pile of unusable shit. It's not a phone I could hand to my parents and expect them to use. It's hard to use one-handed, too many applications do not support portrait mode and the Ovi store selection is dire.
The hardware is OK and the platform has potential, but as a consumer cell phone today, it doesn't cut it.
No idea why this got modd'd -1 Troll... The poster has a good argument as to why he should be allowed to look at his glowing cell phone screen at the movies.
Shouldn't it have been '-1, Utter Cunt' ?
Thirteen THOUSAND dollars for a motorized bicycle? My high performance sports bike cost a fraction of that and I still had hard times justifying it as I mostly use it to commute.
Can anyone point me to the "+1 - WOOOOOSH!" moderation option please?
Just compare
the cn version with the one that the rest of the world sees
This is very foolish of the studio's because Netflix is more on their side then RedBox is.
Right down near the bottom...
About half way down
The politicians argued that they acted within the letter of the rules and it's not their fault that the rules were easy to abuse.
Several months earlier when Fred Goodwin made off from RBS with a major pension, Harriet Harperson said that the court of public opinion would stand for it. When the expenses scandal broke and she was found with her hand in the cookie jar, she backed off of all ideas of the court of public opinion and used the "I didn't break any rules" defence - the same defence that she lambasted Sir Fred for going with.
So in short, they got away scot free, and will continue to do so.
That case isn't the one I'm aware of that is cited in that respect.
The one I am aware of is the suit waaaay back in the day of Ford (when Henry Ford was still running it) where he wanted to lower the price of the cars and his shareholders sued him.
The equivalent precedent in the UK was set with a rail company vs its shareholders.
A-frikkin-men!
Too many people seem to 'want' to be classified with some kind of disorder or use it as an excuse. Your post is spot on.
I really do... I've got nothing against the bloke personally, but this 'Special Relationship' that marches our soldiers to their death and fucks us every which way in our dealings with the US needs to die and that won't happen until the people in the street wake up and realise just how one-sided this relationship has been for a long time now.
One thing that I still can't understand is that I thought Obama was all about change. Why is his administration still pushing for this extradition? All the democrats told me that America would be perfect again once Obama got in >:(
Obama - SAME we can believe in.
The simple solution for most stuff is Browser ID strings and in some cases, MAC address prefixes. I know that in the UK, I could convince the O2 cloud to let me surf the web using wifi from my laptop on my free iPhone bandwidth simply by changing my laptop MAC address and browser ID to be mobile safari.
I'm not sure how they would detect other apps, but as soon as you fire up a standard browser, it would be pretty easy to spot if you haven't changed this.
What's been done is that the three strikes part has been removed from the EU directive. However, previously there was language in that directive that would forbid any country from implementing a 3 strikes law on their own (remember, the EU passes some laws, but member countries can still pass their own)
The removal of this text now makes it possible for member countries to implement their own three strikes laws.
It's true that people in the UK worry way too much about crime, but it's also true that the state is seen to be ineffective when it comes to punishment (commonly regarded as dealing it out ham-fistedly and at the wrong targets). Personally I would argue it works most of the time, but when it fails it does so spectacularly.
I'd stop worrying about crime if the following two conditions were met.
1. I stopped being a victim of crime
2. The police gave a shit on any of the 3 occasions that I was a victim of crime
So far, I'm out of pocket to the tune of about £3000 pounds in extra insurance premiums, gaps between what the insurers paid out and what I had to pay to replace things and medical bills.
Add this to the Tony Martin farce (man defends his home against a burglar with over 25 convictions and goes to jail for it), and I worry a lot. The police won't defend me. I'm not allowed to defend myself.
But if I download some music, I lose my job? Niiiiice!
Good luck with that with most corporate firewalls - your solution would mean that loads of ports would need to be open outbound for SSL websites - companies want to restrict outbound access.