Sounds more like someone in the military is a big fan of Dolph Lundgren/Jean Claude Van Damme co-starring vehicles: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105698/
What about people, like me, born IN 1980. Should I maintain a chip on my shoulder or a smug sense of my own superiority? Should I install unauthorised software or not? AAARGH! The duality is tearing me apart...
I don't see your point in highlighting that part of the post. Maiming is not killing, by its very definition! In this case, the laser could burn off a crew member's leg (which would have a comparable long-term effect to being shot and losing the use of the leg).
But if you are burning holes in vehicles there is the possiblity that you end up maiming someone inside when the beam penetrates. I think that a few issues are being side-stepped here!
I thought that the use of lasers was outlawed by international conventions. Though perhaps that is only against direct use on people (such as pilots) and not on materiel.
"IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black is an interesting read when considering the Ethics of Big Business and IT in particular. I made use of it for a similar assignment for a B.Sc.
There is a website for the book that might be useful if you can't get a copy (or read it) in time. http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
About 3 years ago it was reported that the Sellafield reprocessing plant in the UK has lost kilos of materials. It was soon suggested that it was only 'accounting mistakes' that caused the discrepancy (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4272691.stm), but the fact that these mistakes can occur is worrying in itself.
That said, I used to live a few miles from Sellafield and I am in favour of nuclear energy.
I would just like to make it known that I have never, and will never, use the word 'loo'. It is a pointless euphemism only used by the ever-squemish middle-class. The word 'toilet' is far superior (and more accurate for those who have constipation!) and has the bonus of being easily translatable to other languages, e.g. French.
Bathroom is often an inaccurate word to use as there are few public places that actually have baths next to the stalls/traps and (if you're male) urinals/troughs. It is another pointless euphemism, and one that has the (very limited) potential to confuse.
Remember, its illegal in the UK to use a TV without a BBC license, regardless of what channels you watch or purpose you have for using it
Exactly! I know several people who have received numerous letters accusing them of not having a TV licence and essentially breaking the law when they don't even have any TV-receiving equipment. The vans come round to check periodically, and still the letters keep coming. That sort of sounds like persecution to me - even if it is just 'freaks' who don't watch telly.
I also remember the poster campaign that showed local postcodes and how many houses there didn't have a licence as if they were automatically breaking the law!
This isn't really comparable to MPAA-type restrictions. In the UK there is a TV licence fee that goes to fund the BBC, this means that if you pay the fee then you have already payed to view the content. In this case the BBC is making the content available to its 'subscribers' via a different route - that's all.
People overseas haven't paid the fee, so therefore the BBC doesn't feel obliged to provide access to the content (not to mention the money eventually made through global licensing agreements). The BBC also persecutes people in the UK who it feels may be 'stealing' their content (even though they may not have a TV).
What about Ask? Those guys are so clever that they created a time machine, went back centuries and created a verb so that their company name would be in common use by the time the web was founded. Now that is a genius promotion strategy!!!!
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Sounds more like someone in the military is a big fan of Dolph Lundgren/Jean Claude Van Damme co-starring vehicles: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105698/
Galileo Figaro!
I thought that WalMart was the 52nd state, further demoting good old Blighty to 53rd.
What about people, like me, born IN 1980. Should I maintain a chip on my shoulder or a smug sense of my own superiority? Should I install unauthorised software or not? AAARGH! The duality is tearing me apart...
I don't see your point in highlighting that part of the post. Maiming is not killing, by its very definition! In this case, the laser could burn off a crew member's leg (which would have a comparable long-term effect to being shot and losing the use of the leg).
But if you are burning holes in vehicles there is the possiblity that you end up maiming someone inside when the beam penetrates. I think that a few issues are being side-stepped here!
I thought that the use of lasers was outlawed by international conventions. Though perhaps that is only against direct use on people (such as pilots) and not on materiel.
Oh, winking! I read it as something else and wondered what the latest Hollywood scandal was going to be.
I prefer the other.
"IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black is an interesting read when considering the Ethics of Big Business and IT in particular. I made use of it for a similar assignment for a B.Sc.
There is a website for the book that might be useful if you can't get a copy (or read it) in time. http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
Ah, you mean a Ray Winstone cluster, or maybe a Christopher Lambert cluster!
About 3 years ago it was reported that the Sellafield reprocessing plant in the UK has lost kilos of materials. It was soon suggested that it was only 'accounting mistakes' that caused the discrepancy (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4272691.stm), but the fact that these mistakes can occur is worrying in itself.
That said, I used to live a few miles from Sellafield and I am in favour of nuclear energy.
I would just like to make it known that I have never, and will never, use the word 'loo'. It is a pointless euphemism only used by the ever-squemish middle-class. The word 'toilet' is far superior (and more accurate for those who have constipation!) and has the bonus of being easily translatable to other languages, e.g. French.
Bathroom is often an inaccurate word to use as there are few public places that actually have baths next to the stalls/traps and (if you're male) urinals/troughs. It is another pointless euphemism, and one that has the (very limited) potential to confuse.
Ha! That line was actually his prophesizing his own death and the fact that his "suicide" wasn't...
Just ask yourself who stood to gain (or watch Nick Broomfield's 'Kurt and Courtney' - investigative journalism at its best!)
[P.S. I am joking, OK Courtney.]
Exactly! I know several people who have received numerous letters accusing them of not having a TV licence and essentially breaking the law when they don't even have any TV-receiving equipment. The vans come round to check periodically, and still the letters keep coming. That sort of sounds like persecution to me - even if it is just 'freaks' who don't watch telly.
I also remember the poster campaign that showed local postcodes and how many houses there didn't have a licence as if they were automatically breaking the law!
This isn't really comparable to MPAA-type restrictions. In the UK there is a TV licence fee that goes to fund the BBC, this means that if you pay the fee then you have already payed to view the content. In this case the BBC is making the content available to its 'subscribers' via a different route - that's all. People overseas haven't paid the fee, so therefore the BBC doesn't feel obliged to provide access to the content (not to mention the money eventually made through global licensing agreements). The BBC also persecutes people in the UK who it feels may be 'stealing' their content (even though they may not have a TV).
I am Spartacus...erm...Ian!
More importantly - how many football pitches does that equate to???
Aren't traffic wardens exmples of anti-social behaviour!
Bunch of no-marks with authority fetishes!
Though Virgin obviously isn't a verb. (perhaps it could be though..."I'd love to virgin that"...Nah, forget it)
What about Ask? Those guys are so clever that they created a time machine, went back centuries and created a verb so that their company name would be in common use by the time the web was founded. Now that is a genius promotion strategy!!!!
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See also: Virgin, Shell, Total,