This is why I loathe the euphemisms for death. I realised this when the man I sailed for (for over a decade) died. It wasn't a massive surprise, but still a shock. To most of us it was the end of an era. What struck me was that most of the others talked about "him passing", whereas I simply said " he died", and I caught a couple of glances when I said it like that.
As another example - my sister was with friends (in a marina on a friend's boat - we like our sailing) and a guy walks down the companionway and said "X is gone". My sister stops talking (people come and go from marinas all the time), and then continues talking. The guy says " are you stupid or what - X has died ", making her feel like a shit.
People die, it happens, but dispense with the euphemisms - there's nothing to be gained from them.
Yeah, but they're insanely good fun to drive - no traction control, no ABS and power-to-weight of more than 300bhp/tonne (483 for an Atom). You do have to accept that if you get hit by anything larger than a 4x4, you're probably not going to come out alive, so it certainly improved my driving technique: visibility, visibility, visibility & never assume that people realise how fast you can accelerate.
Ariel atoms weight about 600kg (1350lb), my old Westfield weighed 425kg (according to the DVLA), but now comparing it to the atom I'm not so sure. Is was probably more like 640kg.
You do realise the investigation into the deaths is related to a Tory MP from the 80s, don't you? It has no relation to the palace or Jeffrey Epstein. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... Your comment shows how badly this Anonymous campaign can go (if they actually bother to do it) - people find it a lot easier just to fling accusations around with no attempt to even do a simple fact check.
You joke, but I remember working in Dublin - there was a pretty steep hill I used to cycle down on the way to work - one day it was so windy I had to pedal hard to get down the hill. Was the wind the same direction that evening - like hell it was. So, does that count?
The root password - what desktop distro has one of those? Debian says "Enter your password for administrative tasks" when it needs to be elevated. I agree the Google Earth package is terrible, but it's pretty much the only one I've come across that doesn't manage its dependencies properly.
It's not the sparing 2 minutes, it's the fact that an installer looks (or says) like it will take 10 minutes to do something, so you walk off. When you come back you find a dialog asking to be clicked covering the progress bar that is still at 5%. This doesn't happen often, but it does enough to be incredibly annoying.
Another issue I have with Windows is the fact that the UAC window sometimes doesn't grab focus, so you sit there like a zombie waiting for something to happen, and then realise the UAC dialog has appeared behind everything, and the only notification is an extra icon in the task bar.
Also, the standalone installer doesn't actually contain chrome, it requests the current version. This is pretty handy as it means I have it on a USB stick along with reg keys for disabling the asinine "click to remove the overlay so you can decide who to log in as", etc, and still know it will be immediately up-to-date.
You have 10 minutes to evacuate your family Your family has been wiped out Your family has been crushed into a cube You have 30 minutes to remove your cube
Anyhow, this prompted me to have another look, and finally typed in the correct set of keywords to bring me to an explanation to sideload the OTA update - obviously my google foo has been weak, as I always seemed to find instructions on flash the firmware rather than updating. Anyhow, once I had 5.0 installed, it immediately gave me an update for 5.0.1, so I can only assume that you can't go from 4.4.4 to 5.0.1 without 5.0, and they've remove 5.0 from being received OTA, so unless you're happy using adb, then you're SOL.
* And if anyone is remotely interested - you still get the retarded "A third party is capable of monitoring your network activity..." warning, because it won't allow me to trust my own CA that I installed on my own device.
Even if Google were to patch 4.3, it's unlikely that it would ever hit anyone's device as the manufacturers are so shit at pushing out updates. Not that this is a defence for not patching it - Jelly Bean was only released 2.5 years ago.
And it's not just some manufacturers, Google is just as guilty - my [2013] Nexus 7 asked me whether I wanted to upgrade to Lollipop, I was busy at the time, so I hit no. Now I can't get the thing see that there *is* a new version - 5.0.2 was released 3 weeks ago, and it still says "Your system is up to date". Like fuck it is.
Exactly, a Fatwa falls under "inciting violence as it is explicitly calling for somebody's murder, which *should be* illegal in the UK - it's illegal to order a contract killing. Unfortunately, as we've seen in the past, the CPS doesn't charge people issuing them, probably for the same reasons that the authorities didn't want to investigate the Rotherham sex abuse because, as past MP Denis MacShane said "I think there was a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat if I may put it like that."
Do you really have to be "really good" to do that. Standard method for me debugging issues is to tail -f both the access and error logs while making requests. Factor in wireshark with the server's private key loaded (if over https) if I'm really struggling.
Yup, somebody else has mentioned this - I most likely copied and pasted the the wrong name. I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for my pesky habit of trying to give credit where it due!
Maybe I've been living outside The Republic for a bit too long - I never knew that abortion in the North was different from the rest of the UK. However when I was growing up, I never thought of the IRA trying to set up a catholic state, to me it was always about independence. The fact NI's policy is different shouldn't really surprise me, catholic dogma still has a massive political sway in the [whole] island, but I do wonder if this case is more of a correlation versus causation issue.
Consider this, if religion is the cause of the problem, then how do we explain away the other 1 billion muslims that aren't engaging in any such terrorism and are living lives no less peaceful than that of your typical atheist?
That's a very valid point, and I look back at what I would have written a year ago and slightly worry that I'm becoming more reactionary than I should. Likewise, you mention buddhist led massacres - I'm aware of those and it has changed my view of it being a "completely" peaceful religion. The difference is that I've only heard non-buddhists referring to buddhism as a peaceful religion (though I admit I don't know any buddhists), whereas muslims regularly describe islam as a religion of peace. It's a bit like a country with "Democratic" in the name, it tends to mean they're not.
I don't think we should blame 1 billion muslims for terrorism, but I do feel that the muslim communities in the West should realise that it's not just our problem, it's theirs too, and simply saying "they're fake muslims" will not make the issue go away. Muslim communities have to explain to those who are likely to become radicalised that freedom of expression is a core tenet of our society, and satire and criticism is not victimisation - everybody has to deal with it.
Well for one thing, Choudary et al have become very good at making sure they're not actually advocating the actual death of homosexuals, infidels, etc. They tend to go with the "Koran says so..." approach. I agree, it's very easy to infer what is meant, but [IMO] inference starts to get a little too close to thought crime for my liking. Keep in mind, they have been charged in past over inciting actual violence.
I appreciate I'm treading a very fine line between giving these fuckers too much freedom, and defending what our society stands for. It's just that I loath the idea that these people are responsible for altering [in any way] the way we are allowed to live our lives.
I'll go on record as saying that I disagree with laws criminalising holocaust denial. As someone who is half-German, and who has been to Bergen Belsen (visit doesn't feel like the right word) I can understand why they can be desirable, but it doesn't change my opinion. Besides, I've seen how David Irving is received in the UK, his name is mud, because of his views - freedom of expression is often dangerous for extremists - it's all to easy to hang yourself with it.
Likewise with charges of anti-semitism or islamophobia which very often are used to deflect legitimate criticism. I don't see why certain sections of society should be above criticism.
Exactly, it's not like everybody can just watch the recordings when ever they want. Also, as long it's stored safely along with all of the data they store on us, then they have nothing to worry about. Right? Right...
I have also seen interviews where ex-servicemen are reviewing footage of police performing conflict-escalation - by aiming their weapons at unarmed civilians - apparently (at least according to this guy) the military are trained not to do this, as it vastly reduces the chances of the situation being defused safely.
It kind of agrees with the ROE card that a friend of mine (Royal Navy Reservist) had, although I had to laugh at the choice of line breaks. On his card, the first side ended with "you may only fire at a person", the 2nd side had the qualifiers.
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It's a perfectly cromulent pastime.
The best euphemism I've heard of is "achieved room temperature".
This is why I loathe the euphemisms for death. I realised this when the man I sailed for (for over a decade) died. It wasn't a massive surprise, but still a shock. To most of us it was the end of an era. What struck me was that most of the others talked about "him passing", whereas I simply said " he died", and I caught a couple of glances when I said it like that.
As another example - my sister was with friends (in a marina on a friend's boat - we like our sailing) and a guy walks down the companionway and said "X is gone". My sister stops talking (people come and go from marinas all the time), and then continues talking. The guy says " are you stupid or what - X has died ", making her feel like a shit.
People die, it happens, but dispense with the euphemisms - there's nothing to be gained from them.
Yeah, but they're insanely good fun to drive - no traction control, no ABS and power-to-weight of more than 300bhp/tonne (483 for an Atom). You do have to accept that if you get hit by anything larger than a 4x4, you're probably not going to come out alive, so it certainly improved my driving technique: visibility, visibility, visibility & never assume that people realise how fast you can accelerate.
No, what he's saying is that 71% of everything is crap. Society would crumble without cat videos.
Ariel atoms weight about 600kg (1350lb), my old Westfield weighed 425kg (according to the DVLA), but now comparing it to the atom I'm not so sure. Is was probably more like 640kg.
According to this website, their FW400 with a carbon fibre monocoque was 400kg.
http://westfield-world.com/inf...
Right click on the Firefox tab in the task bar and close all windows. Using keys only - I have no idea.
You do realise the investigation into the deaths is related to a Tory MP from the 80s, don't you? It has no relation to the palace or Jeffrey Epstein.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Your comment shows how badly this Anonymous campaign can go (if they actually bother to do it) - people find it a lot easier just to fling accusations around with no attempt to even do a simple fact check.
You joke, but I remember working in Dublin - there was a pretty steep hill I used to cycle down on the way to work - one day it was so windy I had to pedal hard to get down the hill. Was the wind the same direction that evening - like hell it was. So, does that count?
The root password - what desktop distro has one of those? Debian says "Enter your password for administrative tasks" when it needs to be elevated. I agree the Google Earth package is terrible, but it's pretty much the only one I've come across that doesn't manage its dependencies properly.
It's not the sparing 2 minutes, it's the fact that an installer looks (or says) like it will take 10 minutes to do something, so you walk off. When you come back you find a dialog asking to be clicked covering the progress bar that is still at 5%. This doesn't happen often, but it does enough to be incredibly annoying.
Another issue I have with Windows is the fact that the UAC window sometimes doesn't grab focus, so you sit there like a zombie waiting for something to happen, and then realise the UAC dialog has appeared behind everything, and the only notification is an extra icon in the task bar.
Also, the standalone installer doesn't actually contain chrome, it requests the current version. This is pretty handy as it means I have it on a USB stick along with reg keys for disabling the asinine "click to remove the overlay so you can decide who to log in as", etc, and still know it will be immediately up-to-date.
You have 10 minutes to evacuate your family
Your family has been wiped out
Your family has been crushed into a cube
You have 30 minutes to remove your cube
The main reason to upgrade is for development, as well as the desire to be able to install my own CA (without having the constant "network may be monitored by third party" warning*)
Anyhow, this prompted me to have another look, and finally typed in the correct set of keywords to bring me to an explanation to sideload the OTA update - obviously my google foo has been weak, as I always seemed to find instructions on flash the firmware rather than updating. Anyhow, once I had 5.0 installed, it immediately gave me an update for 5.0.1, so I can only assume that you can't go from 4.4.4 to 5.0.1 without 5.0, and they've remove 5.0 from being received OTA, so unless you're happy using adb, then you're SOL.
* And if anyone is remotely interested - you still get the retarded "A third party is capable of monitoring your network activity..." warning, because it won't allow me to trust my own CA that I installed on my own device.
Even if Google were to patch 4.3, it's unlikely that it would ever hit anyone's device as the manufacturers are so shit at pushing out updates. Not that this is a defence for not patching it - Jelly Bean was only released 2.5 years ago.
And it's not just some manufacturers, Google is just as guilty - my [2013] Nexus 7 asked me whether I wanted to upgrade to Lollipop, I was busy at the time, so I hit no. Now I can't get the thing see that there *is* a new version - 5.0.2 was released 3 weeks ago, and it still says "Your system is up to date". Like fuck it is.
Exactly, a Fatwa falls under "inciting violence as it is explicitly calling for somebody's murder, which *should be* illegal in the UK - it's illegal to order a contract killing. Unfortunately, as we've seen in the past, the CPS doesn't charge people issuing them, probably for the same reasons that the authorities didn't want to investigate the Rotherham sex abuse because, as past MP Denis MacShane said "I think there was a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat if I may put it like that."
Do you really have to be "really good" to do that. Standard method for me debugging issues is to tail -f both the access and error logs while making requests. Factor in wireshark with the server's private key loaded (if over https) if I'm really struggling.
Yup, somebody else has mentioned this - I most likely copied and pasted the the wrong name. I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for my pesky habit of trying to give credit where it due!
Maybe I've been living outside The Republic for a bit too long - I never knew that abortion in the North was different from the rest of the UK. However when I was growing up, I never thought of the IRA trying to set up a catholic state, to me it was always about independence. The fact NI's policy is different shouldn't really surprise me, catholic dogma still has a massive political sway in the [whole] island, but I do wonder if this case is more of a correlation versus causation issue.
Consider this, if religion is the cause of the problem, then how do we explain away the other 1 billion muslims that aren't engaging in any such terrorism and are living lives no less peaceful than that of your typical atheist?
That's a very valid point, and I look back at what I would have written a year ago and slightly worry that I'm becoming more reactionary than I should. Likewise, you mention buddhist led massacres - I'm aware of those and it has changed my view of it being a "completely" peaceful religion. The difference is that I've only heard non-buddhists referring to buddhism as a peaceful religion (though I admit I don't know any buddhists), whereas muslims regularly describe islam as a religion of peace. It's a bit like a country with "Democratic" in the name, it tends to mean they're not.
I don't think we should blame 1 billion muslims for terrorism, but I do feel that the muslim communities in the West should realise that it's not just our problem, it's theirs too, and simply saying "they're fake muslims" will not make the issue go away. Muslim communities have to explain to those who are likely to become radicalised that freedom of expression is a core tenet of our society, and satire and criticism is not victimisation - everybody has to deal with it.
Did not realise that - thanks.
Well for one thing, Choudary et al have become very good at making sure they're not actually advocating the actual death of homosexuals, infidels, etc. They tend to go with the "Koran says so..." approach. I agree, it's very easy to infer what is meant, but [IMO] inference starts to get a little too close to thought crime for my liking. Keep in mind, they have been charged in past over inciting actual violence.
I appreciate I'm treading a very fine line between giving these fuckers too much freedom, and defending what our society stands for. It's just that I loath the idea that these people are responsible for altering [in any way] the way we are allowed to live our lives.
I'll go on record as saying that I disagree with laws criminalising holocaust denial. As someone who is half-German, and who has been to Bergen Belsen (visit doesn't feel like the right word) I can understand why they can be desirable, but it doesn't change my opinion. Besides, I've seen how David Irving is received in the UK, his name is mud, because of his views - freedom of expression is often dangerous for extremists - it's all to easy to hang yourself with it.
Likewise with charges of anti-semitism or islamophobia which very often are used to deflect legitimate criticism. I don't see why certain sections of society should be above criticism.
Exactly, it's not like everybody can just watch the recordings when ever they want. Also, as long it's stored safely along with all of the data they store on us, then they have nothing to worry about. Right? Right...
I have also seen interviews where ex-servicemen are reviewing footage of police performing conflict-escalation - by aiming their weapons at unarmed civilians - apparently (at least according to this guy) the military are trained not to do this, as it vastly reduces the chances of the situation being defused safely.
It kind of agrees with the ROE card that a friend of mine (Royal Navy Reservist) had, although I had to laugh at the choice of line breaks. On his card, the first side ended with "you may only fire at a person", the 2nd side had the qualifiers.
Well that's this discussion settled then - tqusasar had a good experience with a cop.