You will find that travelling to the United Kingdom requires little more preparation than a visit to any other state.:-)
Consider your visit as you would to Delaware, only with PAL and and DVD Region 2.
Difficulties with Wireless are non-existant. Since laptops generally have auto-switching power supplies, a mains-adaptor for the socket is all you require. Get a proper, British one. These have a FUSE in the adaptor. British mains are of varying conditioning and quality. 240 Volts is manly, compared to a piddling 115v US, and arcs have occurred! The United lounge at Heathrow terminal one gave a nasty puff of ozone and a loud crack, when I unplugged from a socket there, last June.
Regarding customs inspections? Be reasonable. It is always harder dealing with the aggressive robots in U.S. ports than it is with the merely weary Sikh gentlemen and distracted, west-indian, ladies who will get there shift over as-soon-as-possible in Heathrow and Birmingham.
Funny. Pulp Fiction joke about the Gimp. I laugh EVERY time!
Rally thogh, there is a mild situational irony in moving Gimp from the Disc to an online annex...
The Gimp was orgiginally envisioned to demonstrate the power and flexibility of free, desktop systems. The creators wanted to show Linux and free software "stone soup" development was capable of producing and supporting software that rivaled what was available as commercial offerings.
One side effect of this was the generation of a new toolkit for the UI - GTK. It was so successful, that when the emerging KDE project chose the quasi-free Qt libraries, Miguel DeIcaza chose GTK as the cornerstone on which he would begin the GNOME UI - following many of the conventions and methods for contribution that made GIMP and early success.
Three Strikes without due-process was one of the major faults of this bill, tho' comparatively still a minor "smokescreen" to the real issue. Three Strikes was leaked from the secret negotiations, to attract the bulk of protest and citizen lobbying while the real doozy was held in reserve; "global DMCA".
What's the status of those provisions? I wouldn't celebrate too soon.
It is also their job to go out of business, when they fail. But they have so many moles in your government (Geithner, Obama, etc.) that you will bail them out for the next 80 years - as they pay themselves bonuses off of your children's former college fund.
You need to look up the definition of "Stockholm Syndrome" - then look hard in the mirror at yourself.
They are ALL jews. Whatever you call it. It can't be an accident. Any more than all the Cosa Nostra is Sicillian. But that isn't "anti-latininsm" if you point it out.
The ignorance of the poor is social engineering, not genetics.
The intelligence of the poor is on par with any other population - but the metrics are skewed for culture and training.
The rich ARE evil. One of the principal lacts of their evil is to sponsor a media-culture that gets ordinary schmucks like yourself to identify emotionally with them, aspire to their condition, and to assume an attack on the values of the truly rich to be a personal threat to your own status and mobility. You are also trained to revile those perceived as less fortunate/gifted as yourself - never suspecting that to the real rich, the difference between you and the homeless doesn't amount to a rounding error.
...In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting.
Goldman's sales and its clandestine wagers, completed at the brink of the housing market meltdown, enabled the nation's premier investment bank to pass most of its potential losses to others before a flood of mortgage defaults staggered the U.S. and global economies.
That's alright. I'll have another glass of this sherry, and warm me arse by the fire with the hounds.
By the time day is out, we'll have roused to the horns and have the skin of these planets stretched for the drying, before the groom is done brushing nettles from the tail of the ol' horse.
Now, where'd I lay that toothpick? I could use another one of those delightful sandwiches!
Forking awful. Drive too fast on the M1? Differencing cameras calculate your speed, by timing the interval your motor was snapped.
This began long before Brown. It is something almost native in the British (well, English) ache for conformity - twisted back on itself and distorted to monstrous proportion. Gordon Brown is a technocratic mumbler of the highest order - spinning behind the already brobdignagian momentum of this crushing wheel.
The real horror enetered our lives in the Thatcher years, of reactionary measure to public will and personal rights. It took the crusading neo-liberalism of the Blair stripe to bring this to its current state. He is the leader of te party that snuffed out a real difference in objective and values than the Tories - only differing in surface rhetoric. In this, Britain has adopted the model which has proved so succcessful in the United States: two parties in vicious oppositon to acheive the identical policy and result.
Emphasis on the "positive".:-) Medieval? There's a certain pride that the rights and privileges we are losing were established back in the Middle Ages. Hellooo... Magna Carta!
Funny, in the UK we had police smash into almost 7,000 safe-deposit boxes.
More than 500 officers smashed their way into thousands of safety-deposit boxes to retrieve guns, drugs and millions of pounds of criminal assets. At least, that's what was supposed to happen."
It was a warrant-expansion, from one of those "seizure of criminals assests" laws, that were started first in the States. Gone ALL wrong, 'tho'.
"Many of the clientele were families who had fled turmoil, pogroms, coups and wars and long had a cultural preference for locking away money and jewels, building up a vehement distrust for the integrity of traditional banks. Here, stepping down the spiral staircase at the back to the darkened boxes below, they felt reassured that their most important possessions were safe."
They will take the net down to prevent uncontrolled information sharing and disclosure. They are prepping this under the framework established in The Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced by Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), last April. This gives the president the ability to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any "critical" information network "in the interest of national security." The bill does not define a critical information network or a cybersecurity emergency. That definition would be left to the president, according to a Mother Jones report.
Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, dismissed the entire premise of the Cybersecurity Act when she pointed out the fact that granting centralized power to the government to control networks would in fact make the stability of the Internet less safe, because allowing one person to access all information on a network "makes it more vulnerable to intruders," she said. "You've basically established a path for the bad guys to skip down."
enator John Rockefeller betrayed the true intent behind the legislation when he stated, "Would it have been better if we'd have never invented the Internet," while fearmongering about cyber attacks on the U.S. government and how the country could be shut down.
Where's my goddamned time machine? Hey! Dr. John Bell! Would you quit yer damn' canoodling with 23rd century freemasons, and help me find the damn time machine? I left my electron microscope in the alternate omniverse, and can't see the damn time machine anymore!
Hurry, man! I have some more magnets to go break in Switzewhen.
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You will find that travelling to the United Kingdom requires little more preparation than a visit to any other state. :-)
Consider your visit as you would to Delaware, only with PAL and and DVD Region 2.
Difficulties with Wireless are non-existant. Since laptops generally have auto-switching power supplies, a mains-adaptor for the socket is all you require. Get a proper, British one. These have a FUSE in the adaptor. British mains are of varying conditioning and quality. 240 Volts is manly, compared to a piddling 115v US, and arcs have occurred! The United lounge at Heathrow terminal one gave a nasty puff of ozone and a loud crack, when I unplugged from a socket there, last June.
Regarding customs inspections? Be reasonable. It is always harder dealing with the aggressive robots in U.S. ports than it is with the merely weary Sikh gentlemen and distracted, west-indian, ladies who will get there shift over as-soon-as-possible in Heathrow and Birmingham.
No claim of reliance - just minor irony.
Funny. Pulp Fiction joke about the Gimp. I laugh EVERY time!
Rally thogh, there is a mild situational irony in moving Gimp from the Disc to an online annex...
The Gimp was orgiginally envisioned to demonstrate the power and flexibility of free, desktop systems. The creators wanted to show Linux and free software "stone soup" development was capable of producing and supporting software that rivaled what was available as commercial offerings.
One side effect of this was the generation of a new toolkit for the UI - GTK. It was so successful, that when the emerging KDE project chose the quasi-free Qt libraries, Miguel DeIcaza chose GTK as the cornerstone on which he would begin the GNOME UI - following many of the conventions and methods for contribution that made GIMP and early success.
No GIMP? Then no GNOME and prolly no Ubuntu.
Three Strikes without due-process was one of the major faults of this bill, tho' comparatively still a minor "smokescreen" to the real issue. Three Strikes was leaked from the secret negotiations, to attract the bulk of protest and citizen lobbying while the real doozy was held in reserve; "global DMCA".
What's the status of those provisions? I wouldn't celebrate too soon.
I'm not keeen on storing my stuff in a Google/Amazon cloud service - but I love the device.
I may get these and "hack away" to be my own provider. BTW: These do not yet appear on Amazon.
The article inclueds everything but a ship date. I'd order now, but I don't want to charge a card - then wait 10 weeks.
People don't become mega-rich except through piracy, theft, cheating, graft and bribery.
No one does an honest days work, commeasurately compensated, to th etune of a billion dollars.
Th eproperty rights of the ultra-rich are the same as those enjoyed by Blackbeard and Ghengiz Khan.
It is also their job to go out of business, when they fail. But they have so many moles in your government (Geithner, Obama, etc.) that you will bail them out for the next 80 years - as they pay themselves bonuses off of your children's former college fund.
You need to look up the definition of "Stockholm Syndrome" - then look hard in the mirror at yourself.
Funny how it infected me in 1960's Merthyr Tydfil...
They are ALL jews. Whatever you call it. It can't be an accident. Any more than all the Cosa Nostra is Sicillian. But that isn't "anti-latininsm" if you point it out.
The ignorance of the poor is social engineering, not genetics.
The intelligence of the poor is on par with any other population - but the metrics are skewed for culture and training.
The rich ARE evil. One of the principal lacts of their evil is to sponsor a media-culture that gets ordinary schmucks like yourself to identify emotionally with them, aspire to their condition, and to assume an attack on the values of the truly rich to be a personal threat to your own status and mobility.
You are also trained to revile those perceived as less fortunate/gifted as yourself - never suspecting that to the real rich, the difference between you and the homeless doesn't amount to a rounding error.
Goldman's sales and its clandestine wagers, completed at the brink of the housing market meltdown, enabled the nation's premier investment bank to pass most of its potential losses to others before a flood of mortgage defaults staggered the U.S. and global economies.
Only later did investors discover that what Goldman had promoted as triple-A rated investments were closer to junk...
Fishing? Different sport all together, man!
A Trove of these things:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/
Promising:
http://atomic.eyedropvideo.com/remote1.shtml
Non-X woth graphical browsing:
http://blueflops.sourceforge.net/
That's alright. I'll have another glass of this sherry, and warm me arse by the fire with the hounds.
By the time day is out, we'll have roused to the horns and have the skin of these planets stretched for the drying, before the groom is done brushing nettles from the tail of the ol' horse.
Now, where'd I lay that toothpick? I could use another one of those delightful sandwiches!
Yep.
Forking awful. Drive too fast on the M1? Differencing cameras calculate your speed, by timing the interval your motor was snapped.
This began long before Brown. It is something almost native in the British (well, English) ache for conformity - twisted back on itself and distorted to monstrous proportion. Gordon Brown is a technocratic mumbler of the highest order - spinning behind the already brobdignagian momentum of this crushing wheel.
The real horror enetered our lives in the Thatcher years, of reactionary measure to public will and personal rights. It took the crusading neo-liberalism of the Blair stripe to bring this to its current state. He is the leader of te party that snuffed out a real difference in objective and values than the Tories - only differing in surface rhetoric. In this, Britain has adopted the model which has proved so succcessful in the United States: two parties in vicious oppositon to acheive the identical policy and result.
Rightly said.
I think I know the Mail... ;-) And the Sun. And the Mirror.
Emphasis on the "positive". :-) Medieval? There's a certain pride that the rights and privileges we are losing were established back in the Middle Ages. Hellooo... Magna Carta!
Funny, in the UK we had police smash into almost 7,000 safe-deposit boxes.
More than 500 officers smashed their way into thousands of safety-deposit boxes to retrieve guns, drugs and millions of pounds of criminal assets. At least, that's what was supposed to happen."
It was a warrant-expansion, from one of those "seizure of criminals assests" laws, that were started first in the States. Gone ALL wrong, 'tho'.
"Many of the clientele were families who had fled turmoil, pogroms, coups and wars and long had a cultural preference for locking away money and jewels, building up a vehement distrust for the integrity of traditional banks. Here, stepping down the spiral staircase at the back to the darkened boxes below, they felt reassured that their most important possessions were safe."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1222777/The-raid-rocked-Met-Why-gun-drugs-op-6-717-safety-deposit-boxes-cost-taxpayer-fortune.html
'Specially with an open WiFi, pulling pr0n torrents for the spoodge blasters, down the hall.
This is propaganda, disinfo, lies and bullshit.
They will take the net down to prevent uncontrolled information sharing and disclosure. They are prepping this under the framework established in The Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced by Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), last April. This gives the president the ability to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any "critical" information network "in the interest of national security." The bill does not define a critical information network or a cybersecurity emergency. That definition would be left to the president, according to a Mother Jones report.
Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, dismissed the entire premise of the Cybersecurity Act when she pointed out the fact that granting centralized power to the government to control networks would in fact make the stability of the Internet less safe, because allowing one person to access all information on a network "makes it more vulnerable to intruders," she said. "You've basically established a path for the bad guys to skip down."
enator John Rockefeller betrayed the true intent behind the legislation when he stated, "Would it have been better if we'd have never invented the Internet," while fearmongering about cyber attacks on the U.S. government and how the country could be shut down.
See him rave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8PCmLPPVnA&feature=player_embedded
It is now the only courageous, moral and ethical stance.
OK.
You have your demographic here. You eed only remind them that there are breaks for coding between bouts of gaming and pizza ingestion.
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/
http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?CorporatePersonhood
Where's my goddamned time machine? Hey! Dr. John Bell! Would you quit yer damn' canoodling with 23rd century freemasons, and help me find the damn time machine? I left my electron microscope in the alternate omniverse, and can't see the damn time machine anymore!
Hurry, man! I have some more magnets to go break in Switzewhen.
OOOHHH! HATE SPEECH!
We have laws to deal with those who think as you do! Never forget: Corporations are persons and have all the rights of personhood, as enshrined (entombed?) in law. You are a hate-criminal, and probably therefore a violent extremist.