The UK aw does include the right to self defense, as long as you don't use excessive force. You are allowed to kill someone who is trying to kill you if that could be considered the only means possible of stopping them. It would be considered excessive if you killed someone who was shouting at you.
The main problem with the UK system is that most of these laws were enacted when policemen still patrolled the streets on foot, and people felt generally safe. It's been a long long time since I last saw a British bobby walking the beat.
It's not that much better than my comment in real life. The last time I went from London to Cardiff (a road journey of 2 hours) it took the train nearly 6 hours to get there.
Judging by the state of the British rail network, a trip from Edinburgh to the south coast of england would hardly be possible. Going all the way to tangiers would take a month (29 days through Britain, 1 day through France, and 1 day through Spain and the tunnel).
I stopped contracting about 18 months ago, and since then I've been working from home. Now my wife works full-time, and I work at home in the morning, look after the kids in the afternoon, and if I'm busy, work some more in the evening. I'm having a great life doing this, I get to spend loads of time with my kids (much more than most other dads), I decide when I take my own free time, and I can pick and choose my work.
Newsreader Bruce Belfrage was on air when 500lbs of explosives hit Broadcasting House in October 1940. He paused as he heard the bomb go off during his nine o'clock bulletin - but continued as normal, as he was not allowed to react on air because of security reasons. Seven people were killed.
Regarding the details of rebroadcasting performances of music recorded especially for the BBC (like the Peel Sessions), I think you'll find that the bands had to sign a contract which gave the BBC rebroadcast rights. Now IANAL, but I think that the ambulance chasers at the Beeb will have been foresighted enough to makes sure that this contract contained a clause about rebroadcasting.
As for the length of time it will take to get some material online, I don't think there will be too much of a problem there, because the BBC already has an extensive library of broadcast programmes already stored in an online format. E.G. just about every radio show broadcast since the advent of the BBC radio player.
...is that most articles (ok, Dilbert) say that there is no better employee incentive than more money. Now this article says that higher paid contractors want stupid presents instead.
Some people are never happy. It's a simple enough equation:
Permanent: Shit pay, with benefits. Contract: Good pay, and sort out your own benefits.
Of course, if you are a temp who is earning shit money, then that's your own fault.
When I was contracting in New Zealand, we weren't invited to the staff Christmas party, so the contractors all joined together and organised their own. The work organised party was a very civilised dinner, with lots of corporate speeches, whereas the contractor party was the wildest nearly 24 hours of drunken debauchery I've ever been to.
A while ago, I would have totally disagreed with you over that Mandrake comment, but over the last few versions, the quality is really going downhill with Mandrake. the latest version is the poorest of them all in my opinion.
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Yes, but the Colossus doesn't run XP
The UK aw does include the right to self defense, as long as you don't use excessive force. You are allowed to kill someone who is trying to kill you if that could be considered the only means possible of stopping them. It would be considered excessive if you killed someone who was shouting at you.
The main problem with the UK system is that most of these laws were enacted when policemen still patrolled the streets on foot, and people felt generally safe. It's been a long long time since I last saw a British bobby walking the beat.
I thought I had the Aunt Tilly contract.
I'm patenting the use of the letter 't' in url's. I'll get paid at least once for ftp:// urls, and at least twice for http://.
I won't collect on news://, but hey, I'm not greedy.
In March?? Does this man have some sort of time machine?
...to learn how to debug. I only need my own sloppy code.
...like this?
...a search engine which can't handle a slashdotting.
It's not that much better than my comment in real life. The last time I went from London to Cardiff (a road journey of 2 hours) it took the train nearly 6 hours to get there.
Judging by the state of the British rail network, a trip from Edinburgh to the south coast of england would hardly be possible. Going all the way to tangiers would take a month (29 days through Britain, 1 day through France, and 1 day through Spain and the tunnel).
I stopped contracting about 18 months ago, and since then I've been working from home. Now my wife works full-time, and I work at home in the morning, look after the kids in the afternoon, and if I'm busy, work some more in the evening. I'm having a great life doing this, I get to spend loads of time with my kids (much more than most other dads), I decide when I take my own free time, and I can pick and choose my work.
Shouldn't the category for Microsoft Developers be:
Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers.
and shouldn't the logo be sweaty armpits?
I just lent my son a hammer for his school woodworking project.
If anyone asks for me, I'm in Mexico.
Shouldn't the icon be 'It's funny, laugh'?
I have no idea, but I like to think of Douglas Adams as the Lewis Carroll of the 20th century.
What? A paedophile?
...and I came across this paragraph
Newsreader Bruce Belfrage was on air when 500lbs of explosives hit Broadcasting House in October 1940. He paused as he heard the bomb go off during his nine o'clock bulletin - but continued as normal, as he was not allowed to react on air because of security reasons. Seven people were killed.
Did this man have balls of steel or what?
Regarding the details of rebroadcasting performances of music recorded especially for the BBC (like the Peel Sessions), I think you'll find that the bands had to sign a contract which gave the BBC rebroadcast rights. Now IANAL, but I think that the ambulance chasers at the Beeb will have been foresighted enough to makes sure that this contract contained a clause about rebroadcasting.
As for the length of time it will take to get some material online, I don't think there will be too much of a problem there, because the BBC already has an extensive library of broadcast programmes already stored in an online format. E.G. just about every radio show broadcast since the advent of the BBC radio player.
I can't begin to count the number of times that happens
Perhaps that's because the Vaio has burned your fingers off.
All of them, I think.
...is that most articles (ok, Dilbert) say that there is no better employee incentive than more money. Now this article says that higher paid contractors want stupid presents instead.
Some people are never happy. It's a simple enough equation:
Permanent: Shit pay, with benefits.
Contract: Good pay, and sort out your own benefits.
Of course, if you are a temp who is earning shit money, then that's your own fault.
When I was contracting in New Zealand, we weren't invited to the staff Christmas party, so the contractors all joined together and organised their own. The work organised party was a very civilised dinner, with lots of corporate speeches, whereas the contractor party was the wildest nearly 24 hours of drunken debauchery I've ever been to.
I've never been so happy to be excluded.
Surely it would be OS C
A while ago, I would have totally disagreed with you over that Mandrake comment, but over the last few versions, the quality is really going downhill with Mandrake. the latest version is the poorest of them all in my opinion.
It'll help if he doesn't spell it 'yurp'.
I think you're onto something here. Now if only there was some way we could reposition the wheels, so that they had a more lineal configuration.