Of course, the difference is that they were nutty muslim terrorists with hooks and eye patches,and not white middle class aspareger syndromes sufferers.
Quite right. The extradition treaty was for dealing with terrorists. McKinnon is not a terrorist.
Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger, current Pope) was a member of the Hitler Youth.
This makes him evil right?
The Hitler Youth 'thing' did him no harm - probably for the reasons you mentioned. Covering up child molestation, however, is what makes him less than perfect in my eyes. I'm not religious so I won't say he is evil but Catholicism has a lot to answer for and the child abuse issue demonstrates that fundamentalism is not limited to Muslims, The Westboro Baptist and their ilk.
Getting back on track, anybody should be able to say anything about anyone else's religion. If they take offence they can have a debate about it but responding with violence is unacceptable. It's no good saying "well, they were *really* cross" - there is no excuse.
Notice to religious fundamentalists: Do you really have to silence unbelievers with violence? Won't your god ensure that these unbelievers lead a short unhappy life and burn for eternity once their miserable unfulfilled life ends? Or do you just have a lot of time on your hands? Have you considered taking up a hobby? Knitting perhaps?
Quick, what does this mean regarding mammoth burgers?
It's still a possibility but it's still a way off. Time travel will be invented at some stage so you just need to go back to 500 years after the dinosaurs died out, allowing for a margin of safety of 21 years, take a sample and bring it back for reanimation via the 'usual methods'.
Simple.
(I anticipate a couple of whooshes so I have added some here for future use: whoosh whoosh)
Clearly they don't currently have "free speech rights" as the original poster was jailed yesterday for 12 weeks. Causing offence to strangers deliberately is okay? You live in a strange world..
Having now read that a screengrab of his wall (which presumably was public?) was posted on the 'find April' wall, the malicious intent is decreased somewhat. However, the joke was still ill-advised given the ongoing search for the 5 year old.
The person who posted the screengrab should also be charged.
It was in poor taste generally but particularly poor taste given that it was on *that* particular facebook wall.
On the grounds that the poster must have intended to cause upset and distress, he is likely to be found guilty under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.
Section 127 provides that it would be an offence (and thereby means that a person can be arrested, charged, convicted, sentenced, and obtain a criminal record) if a person sends "a message or other matter" which is "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character" by means of a "public electronic communications network".
(Description from here)
I agree with free speech but only in the case of your own liberty or the liberty of others. Making a callous joke directly to the people who have lost a child whose fate is as yet undetermined is *not* a case of free speech.
There was a similar case in the UK a couple of years ago. A person opened a website to allow others to berate lawyers and there were many comments posted - mostly by nutjobs or ill-educated individuals who had been through the mangle of the judicial system and wanted to blame somebody.
The difficulty with the site is that the owner offered to delete the comments upon payment of £299 (around $500). If the purpose of the site was genuine (to allow complaints to be 'heard') why was it possible to take comments down? And what is to stop fake comments from being posted to attract further payment?
Fortunately for the solicitors in England and Wales, action was taken by the Law Society and the owner of the site was forced to take the site down and suffer the consequences of poorly defended legal action.
That action was taken by the Law Society as the only option available to the libeled solicitors was to launch an individual libel claim. The owner of the site had to respond to such claims and didn't fair particularly well in these either, particularly when it was clear that he had offered to take the comments down for a payment (see paragraph 23).
Comment: There is merit in having an open forum for fair comment against a professional body and its members but it has to be regulated. Changes have recently occurred in the UK legal sector so that sanctions are now registered and it is possible to search against solicitors and see recent decisions.
Seems pretty hard to break something that just slides in and out of a hole.
That's what she said...
I think cable destruction is a combination of not understanding that there are USB ports on the front AND back of computers and that kicking the cable whilst plugged in or running over it with a wheeled chair does in fact reduce longevity.
Bearing in mind the profit margin on iProducts, Apple could break the cycle and move manufacturing to the West.
Alternatively, Apple could charge extra for moving the manufacturing. I'm sure the feel-good factor would sit well with the Apple fanbase even if they all had to pay an extra $20. The kudos to Appl;e for such a move would be immense.
More's the point, how many hours of MP3s fills 32Gb?? 'Choice paralysis' sets in after a while and you end up listening to the same music over and over (usually the newest). Either that or the MP3s are podcasts which are unlikely to be listened to more than once or twice.
The jeans feel like a damn tent when I try to wear them. Just what do you classify as "skinny"?! Something not morbidly obese?
If only there were something between skinny and morbidly obese..
Seriously, skinny jeans are for people with skinny legs. Comfort/loose fit for those with large thighs. You do realise that humans are available in different formats don't you?
Why Apple doesn't use a standard connector is anybody's guess. The number of people in my office who are constantly asking for an iPhone charger is astounding.
Without exception, they all mash the living shit out of one or both ends. The path from perfect cable to visible silver braiding to "it's not charging" is about 3 months.
I'm not sure if this says more about the quality of the cables, the users or the battery life of iDevices (which I understood was meant to be pretty good).
I can't agree on the rectangle with rounded edges issue. Desks, keyboards, crockery, remote controls, hole punchers, plastic containers - all these things have rounded corners (and all of which are in my area of view as I type so my list is not exhaustive). Rounding off corners prevents injury and resolves the issue of weakness where an angle would produce a point e.g. a credit card.
The shape of electronic devices is unremarkable as a tablet/e-book/smartphone generally has the shape of a piece of paper - A4, legal, fullscap - there or thereabouts i.e. somewhere around the golden ration of 1:1.6. A smartphone is very similar to a (paper) notebook or slightly wider. There is no innovation in a rectangle - it is simply the most convenient and pleasing shape.
I will give it to Apple though, they made the touch interface popular as it worked very well. I couldn't bear the interface per se as it didn't really work all that well. ATMs were a pain to use as was the control panel of my Toyota Soarer (1991 vintage). The precise nature of the touche screen opened up a whole new market.
My late father used to say, rather succinctly, "it might be idiot-proof, but it's not cunt-proof".
Windows 7 is a great OS but a BSOD is more difficult to deal with as the 'easy' BSODs are fixed by the OS.
Windows 8 I'm sure will build on the reliability but will also add an additional layer of complexity that will alienate the less technical users. OS X is similar in this respect - completely reliable..until the point that it fails in which case most people are pissing into the wind.
There is such a thing as over-complication which even Ubuntu is guilty of...although it is the most popular(?) linux distro. I wonder is there is a corollary between these factors?
On my previous cellphone (Nexus One) and a friends Galaxy S the AMOLEDs Pentile matrix looked atrocious.
You say "atrocious" but is that an overstatement? The degree of variance between a selection of phones in the same class e.g. HTC Desire HD, Samsung Galaxy II, iPhone 4, is not that wide.
There is merit in the argument over battery usage but berating one screen over another is nit-picking at best.
I would imagine that FedEx requires you to comply with certain conditions where you specify that the contents of the packages that you send are yours to send or that you have authority to send them.
I can't imagine that drug mules have a similar contract based system ("..the packages that I am to swallow definitely do not contain drugs? In that case, pass me the KY jelly and the prophylactics!" - I would imagine that each drug mule is culpable of joint venture and is as guilty as the drug supplier. They may be pressured into such ventures through threat or otherwise which will help in mitigation but they are nevertheless guilty.
You probably don't suffer from 'choice paralysis' as a result. I find that with a vast choice of music I end up listening to the last few albums I purchased.
The phenomenon has been observed in advertising where a customer is more likely to purchase an item where the range has been limited to 3 or 4 items rather than a full range of, say, 10 or 20.
I stopped carting around all of my music collection in favour of an 8Gb MP3 player with a few albums and some podcasts.
TV producers *must* take account of DVD sales for fans who want to own or wish to give away as gifts or for people who are willing to wait. Similarly, for people with a large family and has a cinema room or for those who have difficulty getting to the cinema, it makes sense to wait a few months and purchase the DVD. Arguing that people who wait for the DVD are jeopardising future planned seasons is only half the story.
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Ok, I'll bite. Just how are they planning to renew those volcanoes once they use them up?
Just turn the hob back on - it works with soup.
Note: I am not a science major.
Of course, the difference is that they were nutty muslim terrorists with hooks and eye patches,and not white middle class aspareger syndromes sufferers.
Quite right. The extradition treaty was for dealing with terrorists. McKinnon is not a terrorist.
Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger, current Pope) was a member of the Hitler Youth. This makes him evil right?
The Hitler Youth 'thing' did him no harm - probably for the reasons you mentioned. Covering up child molestation, however, is what makes him less than perfect in my eyes. I'm not religious so I won't say he is evil but Catholicism has a lot to answer for and the child abuse issue demonstrates that fundamentalism is not limited to Muslims, The Westboro Baptist and their ilk.
Getting back on track, anybody should be able to say anything about anyone else's religion. If they take offence they can have a debate about it but responding with violence is unacceptable. It's no good saying "well, they were *really* cross" - there is no excuse.
Notice to religious fundamentalists: Do you really have to silence unbelievers with violence? Won't your god ensure that these unbelievers lead a short unhappy life and burn for eternity once their miserable unfulfilled life ends? Or do you just have a lot of time on your hands? Have you considered taking up a hobby? Knitting perhaps?
Quick, what does this mean regarding mammoth burgers?
It's still a possibility but it's still a way off. Time travel will be invented at some stage so you just need to go back to 500 years after the dinosaurs died out, allowing for a margin of safety of 21 years, take a sample and bring it back for reanimation via the 'usual methods'. Simple. (I anticipate a couple of whooshes so I have added some here for future use: whoosh whoosh)
Hey bro, don't talk about our mom like that.
Clearly they don't currently have "free speech rights" as the original poster was jailed yesterday for 12 weeks. Causing offence to strangers deliberately is okay? You live in a strange world..
Having now read that a screengrab of his wall (which presumably was public?) was posted on the 'find April' wall, the malicious intent is decreased somewhat. However, the joke was still ill-advised given the ongoing search for the 5 year old.
The person who posted the screengrab should also be charged.
It was in poor taste generally but particularly poor taste given that it was on *that* particular facebook wall.
On the grounds that the poster must have intended to cause upset and distress, he is likely to be found guilty under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.
Section 127 provides that it would be an offence (and thereby means that a person can be arrested, charged, convicted, sentenced, and obtain a criminal record) if a person sends "a message or other matter" which is "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character" by means of a "public electronic communications network". (Description from here)
I agree with free speech but only in the case of your own liberty or the liberty of others. Making a callous joke directly to the people who have lost a child whose fate is as yet undetermined is *not* a case of free speech.
There was a similar case in the UK a couple of years ago. A person opened a website to allow others to berate lawyers and there were many comments posted - mostly by nutjobs or ill-educated individuals who had been through the mangle of the judicial system and wanted to blame somebody.
The difficulty with the site is that the owner offered to delete the comments upon payment of £299 (around $500). If the purpose of the site was genuine (to allow complaints to be 'heard') why was it possible to take comments down? And what is to stop fake comments from being posted to attract further payment?
Fortunately for the solicitors in England and Wales, action was taken by the Law Society and the owner of the site was forced to take the site down and suffer the consequences of poorly defended legal action.
That action was taken by the Law Society as the only option available to the libeled solicitors was to launch an individual libel claim. The owner of the site had to respond to such claims and didn't fair particularly well in these either, particularly when it was clear that he had offered to take the comments down for a payment (see paragraph 23).
Or course, the internet will find a way as sites do pop back up out of the court's jurisdiction
Comment: There is merit in having an open forum for fair comment against a professional body and its members but it has to be regulated. Changes have recently occurred in the UK legal sector so that sanctions are now registered and it is possible to search against solicitors and see recent decisions.
Yet, it still looks like a macro shot of a granite composite kitchen work surface. Remarkable!
But, there are FIVE rows of apps. That's the point isn't it? It doesn't matter that there are borders when using apps does it? FIVE rows.. count 'em.
Seems pretty hard to break something that just slides in and out of a hole.
That's what she said...
I think cable destruction is a combination of not understanding that there are USB ports on the front AND back of computers and that kicking the cable whilst plugged in or running over it with a wheeled chair does in fact reduce longevity.
Bearing in mind the profit margin on iProducts, Apple could break the cycle and move manufacturing to the West.
Alternatively, Apple could charge extra for moving the manufacturing. I'm sure the feel-good factor would sit well with the Apple fanbase even if they all had to pay an extra $20. The kudos to Appl;e for such a move would be immense.
More's the point, how many hours of MP3s fills 32Gb?? 'Choice paralysis' sets in after a while and you end up listening to the same music over and over (usually the newest). Either that or the MP3s are podcasts which are unlikely to be listened to more than once or twice.
The jeans feel like a damn tent when I try to wear them. Just what do you classify as "skinny"?! Something not morbidly obese?
If only there were something between skinny and morbidly obese..
Seriously, skinny jeans are for people with skinny legs. Comfort/loose fit for those with large thighs. You do realise that humans are available in different formats don't you?
Why Apple doesn't use a standard connector is anybody's guess. The number of people in my office who are constantly asking for an iPhone charger is astounding.
Without exception, they all mash the living shit out of one or both ends. The path from perfect cable to visible silver braiding to "it's not charging" is about 3 months.
I'm not sure if this says more about the quality of the cables, the users or the battery life of iDevices (which I understood was meant to be pretty good).
Each to their own. I was more into HL than Unreal - people tend to prefer one or the other.
I can't agree on the rectangle with rounded edges issue. Desks, keyboards, crockery, remote controls, hole punchers, plastic containers - all these things have rounded corners (and all of which are in my area of view as I type so my list is not exhaustive). Rounding off corners prevents injury and resolves the issue of weakness where an angle would produce a point e.g. a credit card.
The shape of electronic devices is unremarkable as a tablet/e-book/smartphone generally has the shape of a piece of paper - A4, legal, fullscap - there or thereabouts i.e. somewhere around the golden ration of 1:1.6. A smartphone is very similar to a (paper) notebook or slightly wider. There is no innovation in a rectangle - it is simply the most convenient and pleasing shape.
I will give it to Apple though, they made the touch interface popular as it worked very well. I couldn't bear the interface per se as it didn't really work all that well. ATMs were a pain to use as was the control panel of my Toyota Soarer (1991 vintage). The precise nature of the touche screen opened up a whole new market.
My late father used to say, rather succinctly, "it might be idiot-proof, but it's not cunt-proof".
Windows 7 is a great OS but a BSOD is more difficult to deal with as the 'easy' BSODs are fixed by the OS.
Windows 8 I'm sure will build on the reliability but will also add an additional layer of complexity that will alienate the less technical users. OS X is similar in this respect - completely reliable..until the point that it fails in which case most people are pissing into the wind.
There is such a thing as over-complication which even Ubuntu is guilty of...although it is the most popular(?) linux distro. I wonder is there is a corollary between these factors?
On my previous cellphone (Nexus One) and a friends Galaxy S the AMOLEDs Pentile matrix looked atrocious.
You say "atrocious" but is that an overstatement? The degree of variance between a selection of phones in the same class e.g. HTC Desire HD, Samsung Galaxy II, iPhone 4, is not that wide.
There is merit in the argument over battery usage but berating one screen over another is nit-picking at best.
I would imagine that FedEx requires you to comply with certain conditions where you specify that the contents of the packages that you send are yours to send or that you have authority to send them.
I can't imagine that drug mules have a similar contract based system ("..the packages that I am to swallow definitely do not contain drugs? In that case, pass me the KY jelly and the prophylactics!" - I would imagine that each drug mule is culpable of joint venture and is as guilty as the drug supplier. They may be pressured into such ventures through threat or otherwise which will help in mitigation but they are nevertheless guilty.
Nice retort. You are truly gifted.
'fewer choices' not 'less choices'. Less refers to a single item ('less choice'), fewer refers to the plural.
Other than that your point is well observed :-)
You probably don't suffer from 'choice paralysis' as a result. I find that with a vast choice of music I end up listening to the last few albums I purchased.
The phenomenon has been observed in advertising where a customer is more likely to purchase an item where the range has been limited to 3 or 4 items rather than a full range of, say, 10 or 20.
I stopped carting around all of my music collection in favour of an 8Gb MP3 player with a few albums and some podcasts.
TV producers *must* take account of DVD sales for fans who want to own or wish to give away as gifts or for people who are willing to wait. Similarly, for people with a large family and has a cinema room or for those who have difficulty getting to the cinema, it makes sense to wait a few months and purchase the DVD. Arguing that people who wait for the DVD are jeopardising future planned seasons is only half the story.