Almost, It's more like us saying you have a gun in your pocket, you saying that you don't have a gun, the parts for a gun, letting you look in my trousers for the gun, or the parts for a gun, and then beating you up because you didn't let us grab your junk while looking for the gun.
Buy your movie ticket, turn up at the start of the film, then get your snacks.
Get your snacks from the shop down the road; It'll be cheaper, and you have 20 minutes to kill. You could just get Cola, or a couple of beers. Who will tell?
Yeah, but the other holds popular opinion. If Sir Elton, Sir Paul, and that other guy all state publicly, very publicly, that they oppose these measures, highlight the reasons why, and tell people to stop buying music until this proposed legislation is dead and gone, the music industry will cry like little girls to Sith Lord Mandy to shut-the-merry-hell up.
Imagine if MJ's last wish had been "Screw the record companies." MILLIONS of fans, of all ages, would just stop going to the record stores.
Now multiply that by the fans of the artists in this Featured Artists Coalition.
Even with syntactically correct, but otherwise spurious, credentials?
I remember this being featured in that wonderfully idiotic "thriller" The Recruit where Colin Farrel is "caught" and interrogated, being asked for the name of his instructor. He gives in after 3 days, and the back "wall" of the chamber he is held in moves away to reveal the rest of his classmates, watching his every move and choice while "captured."
Those Normans who invaded then became the English. They take on the nationality of their home land which, if an invading and colonising force, would change.
You Americans don't call yourselves English, or Irish, or Spanish after all, do you? Hell, you devote a whole day to celebrating not being English!
No, I mean that I'm English. England is the country, inhabited by the English, and the language of England is the English language. North Americans write in American English, a regional dialect (an extraordinarily large region) with great similarity, but significant differences, to English.
Great Britain is the main island forming the unitary state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Great, overload the network so you can't use the one feature of your phone which makes it an (almost) sound investment; The unlimited data plan.
You can't buy unlimited data in the UK for less than £30 a month on O2 only (and £184 up front for the iPhone) and then you can't use mobile data for:
Teathering
the continuous streaming of any audio / video content, enable Voice over Internet (Voip), P2P or file sharing; or
in such a way that adversely impacts the service to other O2 customers./li>
I'm fine with a low-data contract and a Cloud wifi subscription. I'm never more than 100m away from a Starbucks / McDonalds, and I can easily get reception outside of the premises without indulging in their chod produce.
In fact, if I can't get access to a Cloud / OpenZone access point, I'm probably in the peat bogs on Kinder Scout, and don't really need to check my email.
Let them. All current customers can quite fairly state "Change in contract terms, AT&T? That's great! No, I don't accept, and it's good that there's this lovely clause about early termination without penalty. Thanks for giving me this lovely iPhone. I'll be sure to get it jailbroken and on a network which isn't a complete pig."
Thanks to all those who sacrificed their hard-earned for this to be made possible, though!
Disclaimer: I'm English. Written from the perspective of a USian, apologies if I've mis(correctly)spelled some words.
Much like the chip-enabled passport, a few seconds in the microwave will render it all but useless in an electronic reader. Then it'll be just like the current driving license; Photo, DOB, name, maybe address, and no biometrics.
It's all about Ian Huntley. They fucked up once, and let a guy who'd been investigated in another police jurisdiction work as a caretaker (janitor) in a school. After this, they got "soft" information included in the check (Someone somewhere suggested that the person having the check may or may not have at some time seen a child in other than full clothing, possibly when bathing their own child, possibly at a beach, possibly because children are stupid and don't understand common decency and often just take their clothes off or run around with no clothes on, and reported it to the police). This isn't enough, as they still managed to fudge up March of this year with 1570 errors. I wouldn't dare suggest that this was done intentionally, but hey... That's a fair old whiff of rodent I'm getting from the Commons.
Why have it on the card? We could implement some kind of numerical coding system, and have it tattoed onto the skin to prevent theft of their unique identifier!
I thought this thread would be Godwin'd long before now.
Tories and Lib Dem will still keep the database, just scrap the card.
We have no privacy laws in the UK, but I have a right under of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (now the European Charter of Human Rights ) against "arbitrary interference with his privacy... nor attacks upon his honour and reputation." Criminals have their biometric data recorded so they can be easily identified if they reoffend, making it taking the data a deterrant. I am not a criminal, I have no PNC-held data, and I pass the Enhanced CRB check for working with children and vulnerable adults (working in a Special School, for fuck's sake) every time I am required to take it, which is currently two years where I work. I've also worked in three other schools prior to this current posting, in a different borough.
I object to being treated like a criminal, and I object to having my privacy being invaded. I don't have store discount cards for this very reason; What I buy is my own business. If people want to find that information out, they can pay me for it, not tie me in with store-specific loyalty schemes.
Exactly what I've just commented above. Spot an advert, remember it, don't buy from that company. You can guarantee that the products advertised will be tailored to gamers, so avoiding their products stops their revenue stream dead.
Nooooo no no no, don't interfere with the game in any way. Let the advertisments come.
Set up a website / RSS Feed / (I find your thoughts interesting, and would like to subscribe to your) newsletter of companies who advertise with the system, and stop buying theirproducts. When the lost revenue from gamers (which will be the target demographic from all the companies who wish to advertise) drops through the floor this whole idea will be scrapped. Keep Blizzard / Activision as they make good games. Just cripple the advertising model.
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What will they advertise to women in a burqa? Fabric softener?
Not racist, not flamebait, just pointing out flaws.
Almost, It's more like us saying you have a gun in your pocket, you saying that you don't have a gun, the parts for a gun, letting you look in my trousers for the gun, or the parts for a gun, and then beating you up because you didn't let us grab your junk while looking for the gun.
Buy your movie ticket, turn up at the start of the film, then get your snacks.
Get your snacks from the shop down the road; It'll be cheaper, and you have 20 minutes to kill. You could just get Cola, or a couple of beers. Who will tell?
It's a team match; All of your friends need to be fragged before you mass respawn on the next map.
Indeed. My sincerest apolowgeez for the inconweenience.
Yeah, but the other holds popular opinion. If Sir Elton, Sir Paul, and that other guy all state publicly, very publicly, that they oppose these measures, highlight the reasons why, and tell people to stop buying music until this proposed legislation is dead and gone, the music industry will cry like little girls to Sith Lord Mandy to shut-the-merry-hell up.
Imagine if MJ's last wish had been "Screw the record companies." MILLIONS of fans, of all ages, would just stop going to the record stores.
Now multiply that by the fans of the artists in this Featured Artists Coalition.
So quote figures of how much small artists signed to big labels make.
My anecdote-ometer says that it's close to, if not absolutely, zero.
Even with syntactically correct, but otherwise spurious, credentials?
I remember this being featured in that wonderfully idiotic "thriller" The Recruit where Colin Farrel is "caught" and interrogated, being asked for the name of his instructor. He gives in after 3 days, and the back "wall" of the chamber he is held in moves away to reveal the rest of his classmates, watching his every move and choice while "captured."
Who cares when some random guy gets home and wonders whats for dinner
From "The Departed"
COLIN
Don't you have to call your mother and tell her you're not gonna be home for supper?
ON FITZY. He looks up at the CCTV camera.
COLIN (CONT'D)
The cameras are off.
(gently puts phone on the table)
Call your mother.
Fitzy hesitates.
COLIN (CONT'D)
Lookit. They're in there suiting up for a raid. I don't know where they are going, but they do. And so do you.
Call your mum.
COLIN puts a cellphone on the table. FITZY takes up the phone and punches in a number. It is answered.
FITZY
Mum, I'm not gonna make it for supper. I got held up. Yeah, talk to you later.
INT. A HOUSE WHERE DRUGS ARE BEING HANDLED. CONTINUOUS
BILLY looks up at MISTER FRENCH, who is on the phone. Other men are frozen, holding bags of Ex.
INT. INTERROGATION ROOM. CONTINUOUS.
FITZY closes the cellphone. He puts it into COLIN'S hand.
INT. A HOUSE WHERE DRUGS ARE BEING HANDLED. CONTINUOUS
MISTER FRENCH
Everybody out. Move.
You want one of those modern flat-screen TVs, then.
You know, like this one from e Beam inc.
Those Normans who invaded then became the English. They take on the nationality of their home land which, if an invading and colonising force, would change.
You Americans don't call yourselves English, or Irish, or Spanish after all, do you? Hell, you devote a whole day to celebrating not being English!
No, I mean that I'm English. England is the country, inhabited by the English, and the language of England is the English language. North Americans write in American English, a regional dialect (an extraordinarily large region) with great similarity, but significant differences, to English.
Great Britain is the main island forming the unitary state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
I take off my hat and pedants' cloak...
You can't buy unlimited data in the UK for less than £30 a month on O2 only (and £184 up front for the iPhone) and then you can't use mobile data for:
So, in a word, no.
I'm fine with a low-data contract and a Cloud wifi subscription. I'm never more than 100m away from a Starbucks / McDonalds, and I can easily get reception outside of the premises without indulging in their chod produce.
In fact, if I can't get access to a Cloud / OpenZone access point, I'm probably in the peat bogs on Kinder Scout, and don't really need to check my email.
Let them. All current customers can quite fairly state "Change in contract terms, AT&T? That's great! No, I don't accept, and it's good that there's this lovely clause about early termination without penalty. Thanks for giving me this lovely iPhone. I'll be sure to get it jailbroken and on a network which isn't a complete pig."
Thanks to all those who sacrificed their hard-earned for this to be made possible, though!
Disclaimer: I'm English. Written from the perspective of a USian, apologies if I've mis(correctly)spelled some words.
Much like the chip-enabled passport, a few seconds in the microwave will render it all but useless in an electronic reader. Then it'll be just like the current driving license; Photo, DOB, name, maybe address, and no biometrics.
It's all about Ian Huntley. They fucked up once, and let a guy who'd been investigated in another police jurisdiction work as a caretaker (janitor) in a school. After this, they got "soft" information included in the check (Someone somewhere suggested that the person having the check may or may not have at some time seen a child in other than full clothing, possibly when bathing their own child, possibly at a beach, possibly because children are stupid and don't understand common decency and often just take their clothes off or run around with no clothes on, and reported it to the police). This isn't enough, as they still managed to fudge up March of this year with 1570 errors. I wouldn't dare suggest that this was done intentionally, but hey... That's a fair old whiff of rodent I'm getting from the Commons.
In that case, my apologies to the Lib Dems. I'll read that bill and see where it fits in with my views, and look at other policies they have.
Why have it on the card? We could implement some kind of numerical coding system, and have it tattoed onto the skin to prevent theft of their unique identifier!
I thought this thread would be Godwin'd long before now.
Tories and Lib Dem will still keep the database, just scrap the card.
We have no privacy laws in the UK, but I have a right under of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (now the European Charter of Human Rights ) against "arbitrary interference with his privacy... nor attacks upon his honour and reputation." Criminals have their biometric data recorded so they can be easily identified if they reoffend, making it taking the data a deterrant. I am not a criminal, I have no PNC-held data, and I pass the Enhanced CRB check for working with children and vulnerable adults (working in a Special School, for fuck's sake) every time I am required to take it, which is currently two years where I work. I've also worked in three other schools prior to this current posting, in a different borough.
I object to being treated like a criminal, and I object to having my privacy being invaded. I don't have store discount cards for this very reason; What I buy is my own business. If people want to find that information out, they can pay me for it, not tie me in with store-specific loyalty schemes.
I will not have biometric ID card, and I will resign over it.
I'm currently writing to my MP, my Union representitive, donating to NO2ID, and looking very seriously at becomming a member of the Pirate Party UK.
Exactly what I've just commented above. Spot an advert, remember it, don't buy from that company. You can guarantee that the products advertised will be tailored to gamers, so avoiding their products stops their revenue stream dead.
Nooooo no no no, don't interfere with the game in any way. Let the advertisments come.
Set up a website / RSS Feed / (I find your thoughts interesting, and would like to subscribe to your) newsletter of companies who advertise with the system, and stop buying theirproducts. When the lost revenue from gamers (which will be the target demographic from all the companies who wish to advertise) drops through the floor this whole idea will be scrapped. Keep Blizzard / Activision as they make good games. Just cripple the advertising model.
Observe the marvelous precision displayed as it cuts the doctor's hand and peels its skin to make itself a costume."
*: My first spelling of that as 'precious post' probably means I need even more caffeine.
Wasn't "Precious" the name of Buffallo Bill's dog in Silence of the Lambs? Freud would have been elated to have met you...
This is the best explaination of why it's so difficult that I've read. If this wasn't a reply to my own post, I'd mod you up.