That may or may not happen in the land where the incoming president appoints all his oil business buddies to top government positions, but it sure as hell doesn't happen in the UK. We have a little matter of a Data Protection [dataprotection.gov.uk] regime.
Ever tried applying for credit? If so, then your worthiness will be decided based on information supplied by one of the two big Credit Reference Agencies (Experian and Equifax). One of the main ways they do this is by checking your address against the Voters Register.
Now me, I don't think that a document listing the names and current addresses (that we, as citizens of the UK, are required to fill out by law) of every person in the country should be available to these two big companies.
But it is, and they pay the local councils handsomely for the priviledge.
If the Government can make money by selling information, it will. That's just they way things are. Morals are not exactly at a premium with UK Politicians.
I'm not sure, but I think the guy going round shooting people at the moment has a gun.
So presumably if guns were made illegal, he wouldn't use one?
Well, this is just a guess, but I'm thinking that if guns were made illegal, he'd have a hell of a harder job getting one to use it.
Gun crime has gone up in this country (apparently the Govt. didn't take into consideration the fact that most guns used in crime are owned by criminals), but I'm still in favour of the ban. Very little gun crime is of the "street crime" variety (presumably because if you can afford to buy a gun, you aren't going to be involved with mugging people, you're going to be robbing banks and dealing drugs). Most shootings in this country (certainly in London) involve inter-gang warfare. The odds of an average citizen being shot in most of the UK are incredibly low.
Much as I would like to own a gun, I wouldn't trust anyone else in my neighbourhood with one.
I don't think it is the same brand but try Iwantoneofthose.com. They are selling something similar in the "Toys and Games" section for about twenty quid.
Don't worry, I hear heaven is nice for servers. They get to run bug-free operating systems up there in a dust-free environ and device drivers never conflict.
I'm sick of hearing of africas problems. I'm also sick of people criticizing america when it doesn't bail someone out, and then critcizing america again when we _do_ bail someone out.
Y'know, if America didn't fuck about with other countries quite so much, this wouldn't really be an issue...
Never mind, you don't want to hear and I can't be bothered to waste my time.
how do you stop the cookie monster virus? type "Cookie"...yeah, okay, right...
I haven't seen the movie, but does anyone else here remember the crappy old "cookie virus" for the BBC Master system? This is based on memory because it was about 13 years ago, but it emulated the prompt screen and replied "cookie" to every command you typed in. (Must have done something else as well to stop you from just rebooting the damn thing - can't remember what it was tho.).
Anyway, the only way to get out of the infinite loop was to type in "cookie" at the prompt. Thought I'd share that with you.
But then again, how possible is it that vampires roam the earth?
Heh. Good point. But I don't mind suspending disbelief for a film, as long as the film is internally consistant. In other words, I am quite prepared to accept that vampires are roaming the earth, vampirism is a disease that can be cured with DNA treatment etc. etc. What annoys me is when something happens in a movie that contradicts what has already been laid down as the "ground rules" for the movie.
And since Blade 2 is set in the real world where sewer walls don't reflect much light, katana blades would be damaged after blocking a swing with an iron pipe and nobody, no matter how big they are, could get away with calling themselves "Lighthammer"...
Buffy has, to coin a phrase, jumped the shark. Everything from the fourth series onwards stank, in terms of frankly boring story arcs, desperately bad attempts at humour and uninteresting characters.
Now maybe it gets better in series 6. But if it's the same as 4 and 5 then they should just drag the carcass of the show into the street and shoot it. "Buffy the Musical" indeed. Bloody hellfire...
Heh. Yeah, like "The Sun" counts as a paper. People only read it for the pretty pictures on page 3 and the sport.
For the non-brits : Half of the papers in the UK (including almost all the top selling ones) are owned by News International. As is Sky. This means that over 50% of our sources of news are controlled by one man - Richard Murdock. Who happens to be very cozy with Blair and his cronies.
I wouldn't trust this government as far as I could throw them.
The only mass outporings of democracy in recent times have been the fuel tax demonstrations. What happened then? The police and army were called in, emergency legislation was passed that meant that such action classed as terrorism, and the main guy behind it was hounded by the secret service until he backed down and quit. (Official story - "stepped down in order to spend more time with his family").
To add a bit of context here, it's not the concept of ID cards that most privacy groups object to. There are two major bones of contention that I know of about the scheme
1) The talk of serious problems if you cannot produce your card on demand. (Remember, this is the country of "guilty until proven innocent". cf RIP act et al for examples)
2) The amount of data they are looking to put on the "smart chip" on the card. I got no objection to having a card with my photo, name and some sort of ID number on it. But why on earth do they need to store my DOB, Home address, Mothers maiden name, Blood type etc. etc.? What if someone steals it?
Oh, and as for the cameras? I'd be a lot more inclined to accept them if it was the police controlling them. It ain't. It's some minimum wage guy hired by a private company. I'd rather have more police on the beat than a camera any day.
That is like saying guns are bad, not the people that kill others with them. So, following that, if we got rid of the guns, there would be no murder right?
By law in the UK, from what I understand, you can be ordered by a court to disclose keys/passwords to your information
And that is exactly why Freenet is so funky. It is one of the few cases where you can prove that you don't know the password, thereby neatly sidestepping the RIP bill.
(BTW If this sounds like having to prove your innocence, then you would be correct).
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However, I would like to indicate that I am working against everything the Tories are trying to achieve.
Wait, they're trying to achieve something now?
That may or may not happen in the land where the incoming president appoints all his oil business buddies to top government positions, but it sure as hell doesn't happen in the UK. We have a little matter of a Data Protection [dataprotection.gov.uk] regime.
Ever tried applying for credit? If so, then your worthiness will be decided based on information supplied by one of the two big Credit Reference Agencies (Experian and Equifax). One of the main ways they do this is by checking your address against the Voters Register.
Now me, I don't think that a document listing the names and current addresses (that we, as citizens of the UK, are required to fill out by law) of every person in the country should be available to these two big companies.
But it is, and they pay the local councils handsomely for the priviledge.
If the Government can make money by selling information, it will. That's just they way things are. Morals are not exactly at a premium with UK Politicians.
I'm not sure, but I think the guy going round shooting people at the moment has a gun.
So presumably if guns were made illegal, he wouldn't use one?
Well, this is just a guess, but I'm thinking that if guns were made illegal, he'd have a hell of a harder job getting one to use it.
Gun crime has gone up in this country (apparently the Govt. didn't take into consideration the fact that most guns used in crime are owned by criminals), but I'm still in favour of the ban. Very little gun crime is of the "street crime" variety (presumably because if you can afford to buy a gun, you aren't going to be involved with mugging people, you're going to be robbing banks and dealing drugs). Most shootings in this country (certainly in London) involve inter-gang warfare. The odds of an average citizen being shot in most of the UK are incredibly low.
Much as I would like to own a gun, I wouldn't trust anyone else in my neighbourhood with one.
I don't think it is the same brand but try Iwantoneofthose.com. They are selling something similar in the "Toys and Games" section for about twenty quid.
Nothing sums up your technical ability more succinctly than "what teh heck was IPX" (typo intact).
How can I hire you to assemble and configure *my* mission critical server?
But what teh heck IS IPX?
Um... I'm guessing we're talking about DVDs rather than going to see a movie. The "extras" things and all...
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Neither darts nor mini-golf, nor billiards are a sport. Bowling and Snooker are, but not billiards or pool.
The definition of a sport is "Any competitive event that cannot be undertaken whilst smoking."
You bastards have been systematically killing, imprisoning, and torturing the Irish for centuries.
Ah, they love it really. Little minxes.
Don't worry, I hear heaven is nice for servers. They get to run bug-free operating systems up there in a dust-free environ and device drivers never conflict.
Silicon Heaven : Where The Calculators Go.
>> Jesus fucking Christ.
Lemme guess...
You want to cut into the front of the line going to hell.
If that was true, he'd have said "Jesus Cum-Guzzling Christ".
This is a fun game, anyone else want to play?
I'm sick of hearing of africas problems. I'm also sick of people criticizing america when it doesn't bail someone out, and then critcizing america again when we _do_ bail someone out.
Y'know, if America didn't fuck about with other countries quite so much, this wouldn't really be an issue...
Never mind, you don't want to hear and I can't be bothered to waste my time.
Just be happy.
how do you stop the cookie monster virus? type "Cookie"...yeah, okay, right...
I haven't seen the movie, but does anyone else here remember the crappy old "cookie virus" for the BBC Master system? This is based on memory because it was about 13 years ago, but it emulated the prompt screen and replied "cookie" to every command you typed in. (Must have done something else as well to stop you from just rebooting the damn thing - can't remember what it was tho.).
Anyway, the only way to get out of the infinite loop was to type in "cookie" at the prompt. Thought I'd share that with you.
But then again, how possible is it that vampires roam the earth?
Heh. Good point. But I don't mind suspending disbelief for a film, as long as the film is internally consistant. In other words, I am quite prepared to accept that vampires are roaming the earth, vampirism is a disease that can be cured with DNA treatment etc. etc. What annoys me is when something happens in a movie that contradicts what has already been laid down as the "ground rules" for the movie.
And since Blade 2 is set in the real world where sewer walls don't reflect much light, katana blades would be damaged after blocking a swing with an iron pipe and nobody, no matter how big they are, could get away with calling themselves "Lighthammer"...
Well, the "light bending around corners" scene from Blade 2 immediately springs to mind...
Grimlock.
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Well, don't simulataneously click both mouse buttons at the same time on a card, several times really fast then!
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Wait a second!!! Buffy plotlines suck ass!!!
Buffy has, to coin a phrase, jumped the shark. Everything from the fourth series onwards stank, in terms of frankly boring story arcs, desperately bad attempts at humour and uninteresting characters.
Now maybe it gets better in series 6. But if it's the same as 4 and 5 then they should just drag the carcass of the show into the street and shoot it. "Buffy the Musical" indeed. Bloody hellfire...
Apparently he was then sued by the insurance company for arson. And no it isn't.
Heh. Yeah, like "The Sun" counts as a paper. People only read it for the pretty pictures on page 3 and the sport.
For the non-brits : Half of the papers in the UK (including almost all the top selling ones) are owned by News International. As is Sky. This means that over 50% of our sources of news are controlled by one man - Richard Murdock. Who happens to be very cozy with Blair and his cronies.
I wouldn't trust this government as far as I could throw them.
The only mass outporings of democracy in recent times have been the fuel tax demonstrations. What happened then? The police and army were called in, emergency legislation was passed that meant that such action classed as terrorism, and the main guy behind it was hounded by the secret service until he backed down and quit. (Official story - "stepped down in order to spend more time with his family").
To add a bit of context here, it's not the concept of ID cards that most privacy groups object to.
There are two major bones of contention that I know of about the scheme
1) The talk of serious problems if you cannot produce your card on demand. (Remember, this is the country of "guilty until proven innocent". cf RIP act et al for examples)
2) The amount of data they are looking to put on the "smart chip" on the card. I got no objection to having a card with my photo, name and some sort of ID number on it. But why on earth do they need to store my DOB, Home address, Mothers maiden name, Blood type etc. etc.? What if someone steals it?
Oh, and as for the cameras? I'd be a lot more inclined to accept them if it was the police controlling them. It ain't. It's some minimum wage guy hired by a private company. I'd rather have more police on the beat than a camera any day.
That is like saying guns are bad, not the people that kill others with them. So, following that, if we got rid of the guns, there would be no murder right?
Must... Resist... Stating... Blindingly... Obvious.....
I'm quite sure that UK is a democratic society and with democracy goes the freedom of choice.
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Racism is blatent, not subtle.
If only the world were as simple as you think! You obviously never heard of british upper class manners
That's not racism, that's simple paranoid xenophobia. We know we're better than everyone else in the world...
By law in the UK, from what I understand, you can be ordered by a court to disclose keys/passwords to your information
And that is exactly why Freenet is so funky. It is one of the few cases where you can prove that you don't know the password, thereby neatly sidestepping the RIP bill.
(BTW If this sounds like having to prove your innocence, then you would be correct).