Even in Switzerland where there are camera's everywhere they have switched over to using the physical presence of the police. -- "Never send a human to do a machine's job." - Agent Smith
Come to think of it, I have no idea what they do with Americans who drive on the 407. I suppose they can get the billing address from the DMV (I think that's what it's called in the U.S.), but I doubt they can enforce it.
We drove on it some years ago, with a non-Ontario plate (and without a transponder either). Never heard anything about it afterwards, even though we live in the city where the company who owns the highway is headquartered... (Ontarians are too stupid to manage their highways, they have to outsource the job!!!)
when you get charged for driving in london (visiting your mistress) and your wife opens up the bill with the revealing photo.
Well, actually, in France, photo-radar takes a picture of the FRONT of the car, showing the face of the driver.
It also used to show the face of the passenger, but this is now blanked-out, both not to violate the passenger's privacy (the frenchDOES care about human rights far more than anglo-saxons), and because when the ticket came in the mail, the wife would open it and start arguments about that chick besides her husband in the car...
in the rest of the UK are plagued with them. Same idea, but they take a snap of the back of your car as you drive by at whatever speed it is above the limit they are set to. A few weeks later, you get a photo in the post, and a speeding ticket. There are ways to appeal this, however.
I wonder how the authorities in the Netherlands found the address of that duck, which did'nt have any license plate on it's arse...
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Driving a motor-car is certainly not a right, but a mere privilege. And when one of the conditions of the privilege is that the proper fees for road upkeep are paid, there is no reason why any reasonable means necessary be employed to do so shall be met with resistance, including surveillance cameras.
I used to have a script that would play laugh.au on every Sparc in the lab down the hall. They'd all go a little out of sync. Very spooky late at night.
At a previous job, where we had Macintrashes, I once put a recording of Bugs Bunny laughing on my boss's computer (who likes Bugs Bunny). But one day, he kept trying to do something that did pop up the same error message with a beep. At the end he got so pissed at the machine laughing at him that he just punched the keyboard so hard that keystops ended up all over the place...
We once replaced someone's desktop wallpaper to one with a screenshot of the app he was debugging. He spent an hour trying to close it. Rebooted and everything. At one point he even said, "it's like it's part of the fucking wallpaper."
That was a favourite prank, back in the days of Windows 3.1 and the Program Manager.
I suppose you could do the same with the Macintosh Launcher...
On the subject of red staplers, why has the post WWII workplace insisted on mono-color conformity? It seems almost a conspiracy to ensure that office workers be isolated from as much visual stimulation as possible.
Puritanism. Anglo-saxon puritanism here is the keyword.
Colour means fantasy, free expression, fun and whatnot. Definitely not things you'd want to see within an office where you're supposed to work your ass off for the shareholders.
I have been reading the past 50 some odd comments, and I find it odd that nobody has asked the question: "How the _HELL_ did Italian authorities get the jurisdiction to put up a block on a site located in the U.S.?"
For the same reason an american could see his Germany-based DECSS site blocked. DECSS is legal in Germany (where Macrovision isn't), but the american whodunit is subject to american laws.
Blasphemy isn't just offensive, but it's a crime against definitely not innocent saints and martys who all were abused and murdered (and deserved it, too - don't mess with us pagans/wiccans/atheists/jews/christ scientists!) Whereas blasphemy is a crime against humanity, child molesting by catholic priests isn't.
Unfortunately, us westerners are uncomfortable in beliving that anybody but the uber-best deserves any fair treatment at all
Excuuuuuse me, but as a westerner I am profoundly offended by that comment. Perhaps anglo-saxons feel that only the best deserve to be treated fairly, but this is NOT the case of other westerners whose whole societies revolve around the notion that *** EVERYONE *** should be treated fairly.
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It also used to show the face of the passenger, but this is now blanked-out, both not to violate the passenger's privacy (the frenchDOES care about human rights far more than anglo-saxons), and because when the ticket came in the mail, the wife would open it and start arguments about that chick besides her husband in the car...
Driving a motor-car is certainly not a right, but a mere privilege. And when one of the conditions of the privilege is that the proper fees for road upkeep are paid, there is no reason why any reasonable means necessary be employed to do so shall be met with resistance, including surveillance cameras.
I wonder if it is Jarvis who fucks Mike, or is it Mike who fucks Jarvis???
Does Jarvis fucks Mike, or is it Mike who fucks Jarvis???
Does Mikefucks Jarvis, or is it Jarvis who fucks Mike???
Does Mike fucks Jarvis, or is it Jarvis who fucks Mike???
I suppose you could do the same with the Macintosh Launcher...
Colour means fantasy, free expression, fun and whatnot. Definitely not things you'd want to see within an office where you're supposed to work your ass off for the shareholders.
American DJ has been making CD-players with a built-in scratch box for a gooooood while . No need to gloat about old technology.
- Software.
- Engineering.
- Microsoft.
Pick any TWO of those.American DJ has been making CD-players with a built-in scratch box for a gooooood while. No need to gloat about it.
Blasphemy isn't just offensive, but it's a crime against definitely not innocent saints and martys who all were abused and murdered (and deserved it, too - don't mess with us pagans/wiccans/atheists/jews/christ scientists!) Whereas blasphemy is a crime against humanity, child molesting by catholic priests isn't.
Turn your extra calories into an alternate fuel...