I use Facebook for communicating with people I know IRL, but I use a plausible false name to prevent people I used to know IRL, but don't wish to know now, from finding me. I simply tell anyone I wish to communicate with what my Facebook name is, it's not that complex a system.
My thoughts exactly, there is a classic example of this involving a farmer who, believing his fruit trees were being affected by radio waves, surrounded them with wire mesh containing zinc.
The implication that the switchover to digital pay TV has no freedom-restricting consequences is inaccurate - millions of people have been forced to take out Sky or 'Free'view subscriptions in order to continue watching television for which they have already paid through the licence fee. I myself will be voting for the switchover to be reversed, and the costs reclaimed from the collaborators.
I'm upset to find that the coding system uses letters, and starts with 'b', eg 51 Pegasi b. I wanted them to use the numeric science fiction system where planets have codes like 'Sol 3' or 'Vega VIII'.
Unfortunately the less authoritarian attitude of the coalition government has yet to percolate through to all police officers - some of them clearly think New Labour are still in power. We need to get back without delay to a position where the police have to act within the law, rather than making it up as they go along.
We had this nonsense introduced in the UK, with the result that the police were arresting people to take their DNA, then releasing them without charge. But their data wasn't deleted from the database. And as the police control the whole forensic process, it's an easy matter for them, once they've got the sample, to use it to contaminate any evidence they want. Vindicating people's innocence will NOT be one of the results of this proposal.
More stuff is broken with each new version, I notice - I trialled the last release, and not only were half the config settings not preserved from the previous version, but the browser is still refusing to download executables because Internet Explorer is set not to do that. Keep your nose out of my IE settings and kindly attend to your own, they're different for a reason.
What other contract is available in this situation? These contract arguments assume an imaginary world of wealthy country gentlemen, equally able to afford lawyers, negotiating on equal terms.
A repeat of the 1859 event is a truly frightening prospect. Carrington was supposedly able to see the final part of the flares without instruments, so powerful were they.
Where mighty Throxeus once rolled, now there is only the ochre moss of the dead sea bottom. Oh bugger my flyer's crashing AGAIN, I really am going to speak to the maintenance guys when I eventually fight my way back to Helium
I understand everything there except the teeth and tan. There are plenty of pasty-faced men with snaggle teeth who seem to be doing very well indeed in the City.
I won't have anything to do with the BCS. I suspect them of constantly lobbying the government to gain recognition as an official chartering body, which would mean £££ for them and lots of hassle and paper form-filling for the rest of us.
0.6 arcmin is a very high figure which I suspect of being a theoretical maximum. The astronomer's rule of thumb for visual resolution is 1 arcmin, and that's optimistic.
If the US had been invaded by the Afghan army, with mass civilian slaughter and widespread torture, would your reasoning be 'Well, this ain't so bad, because at least when we aren't being tortured/killed, we've got these new roads, schools and hospitals?' I don't think so.
Good to see that howlin' mad Murdoch is taking the advice that I and so many other Slashdotters have offered him. He could have done this at any time if he'd really wanted his pages out of the indexes.
The other day I had the idea that I'd moved to a foreign country without knowing it, one where it was legitimate, indeed praiseworthy, for the police to carry electrotorture devices and use them on innocent people.
They brought this system in by stealth in the UK, and there are now 1 million innocent people on the police DNA database (2% of the population). Each time the database is searched, a false accusation is effectively made against each of these people.
The treaty in question is ridiculously biased - it was brought in by Tony Blair at the height of the Bush fellatio period. British subjects can be extradited to the US for torture on the unsupported word of the US terror police - needless to say there is no reciprocal arrangement!
Successive Firefox updates have been more and more careless in their side-effects - the one that made Firefox use the Internet Explorer security settings being a prime example. For an extra dose of irony, the 'don't update automatically' option is also broken.
If an effective uninstaller for Google Update was released, I'd be off to Chrome; if Flashblock and Torbutton were available for Opera, I'd be off to Opera.
The thermonuclear device in the sky is 100 million miles away. The nearest nuclear power station is 8 miles away. Guess which one I'm more concerned about.
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I use Facebook for communicating with people I know IRL, but I use a plausible false name to prevent people I used to know IRL, but don't wish to know now, from finding me. I simply tell anyone I wish to communicate with what my Facebook name is, it's not that complex a system.
My thoughts exactly, there is a classic example of this involving a farmer who, believing his fruit trees were being affected by radio waves, surrounded them with wire mesh containing zinc.
The implication that the switchover to digital pay TV has no freedom-restricting consequences is inaccurate - millions of people have been forced to take out Sky or 'Free'view subscriptions in order to continue watching television for which they have already paid through the licence fee. I myself will be voting for the switchover to be reversed, and the costs reclaimed from the collaborators.
I'm upset to find that the coding system uses letters, and starts with 'b', eg 51 Pegasi b. I wanted them to use the numeric science fiction system where planets have codes like 'Sol 3' or 'Vega VIII'.
Unfortunately the less authoritarian attitude of the coalition government has yet to percolate through to all police officers - some of them clearly think New Labour are still in power. We need to get back without delay to a position where the police have to act within the law, rather than making it up as they go along.
We had this nonsense introduced in the UK, with the result that the police were arresting people to take their DNA, then releasing them without charge. But their data wasn't deleted from the database. And as the police control the whole forensic process, it's an easy matter for them, once they've got the sample, to use it to contaminate any evidence they want. Vindicating people's innocence will NOT be one of the results of this proposal.
More stuff is broken with each new version, I notice - I trialled the last release, and not only were half the config settings not preserved from the previous version, but the browser is still refusing to download executables because Internet Explorer is set not to do that. Keep your nose out of my IE settings and kindly attend to your own, they're different for a reason.
Religious hypocrisy at its very worst. And what happened to your whole separation of church and state thing anyway?
What other contract is available in this situation? These contract arguments assume an imaginary world of wealthy country gentlemen, equally able to afford lawyers, negotiating on equal terms.
A repeat of the 1859 event is a truly frightening prospect. Carrington was supposedly able to see the final part of the flares without instruments, so powerful were they.
Where mighty Throxeus once rolled, now there is only the ochre moss of the dead sea bottom. Oh bugger my flyer's crashing AGAIN, I really am going to speak to the maintenance guys when I eventually fight my way back to Helium
I understand everything there except the teeth and tan. There are plenty of pasty-faced men with snaggle teeth who seem to be doing very well indeed in the City.
I won't have anything to do with the BCS. I suspect them of constantly lobbying the government to gain recognition as an official chartering body, which would mean £££ for them and lots of hassle and paper form-filling for the rest of us.
0.6 arcmin is a very high figure which I suspect of being a theoretical maximum. The astronomer's rule of thumb for visual resolution is 1 arcmin, and that's optimistic.
If the US had been invaded by the Afghan army, with mass civilian slaughter and widespread torture, would your reasoning be 'Well, this ain't so bad, because at least when we aren't being tortured/killed, we've got these new roads, schools and hospitals?' I don't think so.
It rhymes and scans with 'metal firs'.
Sad to see the brave new coalition retaining the New Labour tendency to treat an accusation (or three accusations) as the equivalent of a conviction.
Good to see that howlin' mad Murdoch is taking the advice that I and so many other Slashdotters have offered him. He could have done this at any time if he'd really wanted his pages out of the indexes.
Ironic then that my main motivation for continuing to use Firefox is that it has Flashblock.
The other day I had the idea that I'd moved to a foreign country without knowing it, one where it was legitimate, indeed praiseworthy, for the police to carry electrotorture devices and use them on innocent people.
They brought this system in by stealth in the UK, and there are now 1 million innocent people on the police DNA database (2% of the population). Each time the database is searched, a false accusation is effectively made against each of these people.
The treaty in question is ridiculously biased - it was brought in by Tony Blair at the height of the Bush fellatio period. British subjects can be extradited to the US for torture on the unsupported word of the US terror police - needless to say there is no reciprocal arrangement!
Successive Firefox updates have been more and more careless in their side-effects - the one that made Firefox use the Internet Explorer security settings being a prime example. For an extra dose of irony, the 'don't update automatically' option is also broken. If an effective uninstaller for Google Update was released, I'd be off to Chrome; if Flashblock and Torbutton were available for Opera, I'd be off to Opera.
The thought of Voyager still on its way is an inspiring one. I can't visualise it without hearing the opening notes of the original Star Trek theme.
The thermonuclear device in the sky is 100 million miles away. The nearest nuclear power station is 8 miles away. Guess which one I'm more concerned about.