There's also cellphones. Here in the US, it was common to call them "cells" for a while, though people seem to just call them "phones" now (which makes the most sense). The British call them "mobiles", which doesn't make much sense since that's a toy you hang over an infant's bed.
And we call them mobile phones, as mobility. Calling them mobiles differentiates from the other types of phones, mainly being pay phones and home phones (or landline). It's not complex.
so does this mean they were holding their tools and then put them down and stopped working, or does this mean someone was insulting the tools they were using or accusing them of using inferior tools.
Terrorists are known to breathe air. Therefore, anyone who breathes air is a potential terrorist and needs to be under surveillance.
Most terrorist acts, and indeed crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread. Anyone buying bread is therefore worthy of further investigation.
They were revolutionaries, or rebels to the British crown, not terrorists. I will also add that assertion that pops up from time to time is tediously stupid. Really, you can't think of any differences between the social-political order that America's Founding Fathers intended to establish compared to the minions of Bin Laden? Really?
One group wants foreigners out of their country to govern in the way they see fit, the others have been dead a couple hundred years? Look. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. It's all a question of perspective.
I wouldn't say it's untrue, drugs is probably just a small part of it and the politician wants a nice soundbite people can quickly understand and relate to. People do post drugs in, that's a fact, a long with all kinds of other things prisoners shouldn't have. If it's all packages I think mobile phones are a much bigger concern to prison staff than drugs but drugs sounds a lot worse than phones in the news room so that's what they go with. Then someone else says but you can also put books in packages therefore the gov are stopping prisoners from reading and then that becomes the counter line.
It might not be the best form of punishment but that's all we have. People don't get flogged anymore or have to walk around with a sign saying 'thief' or whatever, prison is what we have and it should be an experience people don't want to repeat. I fully agree rehabilitation is so much more important than punishment but there has to be some form of punishment, I can't think of anything better that's not some form of violence or public embarrassment, can you?
Spending their many hours locked in a cell reading, rather than just staring at the walls, does not sound like a leisure activity; it sounds like "Learn to read better so you can have something to do instead of nothing to do". By all means restrict format - solid hardcovers could be used to hit someone, paperbacks are probably OK. Encouraging reading might raise prisoners' ability to pursue education.
Again, no one is stopping them reading as far as I can tell, just people aren't allowed to post them books. They can still get books through the library or people can send the money for them to get a specific book through the prison. If I'm wrong and they're being stopped from reading then that's bullshit but as I understand it, that's not what's happening.
As you see, they are all about the restriction of privileges. The ministers comment about searching parcels for drugs is just a red herring. A lie. You should have been able to tell - his lips moved.
The problem that has been highlighted is that reading should not be considered to be a privilege, but part of rehabilitation.
A full review of the policy – the first for 10 years – was ordered by Minsters last year and was completed in April. From today the absence of bad behaviour will no longer be enough to earn privileges – prisoners must also actively work towards their own rehabilitation.
Other key changes include:
The introduction of a new IEP level – “Entry” – where privileges are restricted.
Certificate 18 DVDs and subscription channels banned from all prisons.
A national standardised list of items available for each level.
An automatic IEP review for bad behaviour, with a presumption of downgrading.
TVs turned off when prisoners should be engaged in work or other productive activity.
Prisoners who misbehave will lose their TV.
Again, that all seems fairly reasonable. The new entry level and no 18 films might be a bit off but they are there as a punishment as well as rehabilitation. Prison isn't a place to enjoy leisurely activities, you're supposed to not want to go back. Still, I don't see where it says that they're not allowed to read or having access to books pulled. One avenue sure but there are plenty still open.
Yeah, heaven forbid we should end up with well-read ex-cons. They'll be having ideas above their stations.
I must've missed the the part in TFM that says they're not allowed to read, or even read specific books. Just the part the limits a way for people to sneak drugs and all kinds of shit in. Because, of course, all prisoners are fine upstanding people that are there just for misunderstanding and sit around all day broadening their minds.
Of course it's reasonable. It's dead easy to hide stuff and secret messages in books or indeed other packages sent to prisoners, and at a time where they're going on about massive amounts of drugs in prisons. They're not being told they aren't allowed to read or something ridiculous, just people can't send in books. They can however send in money for the prisoner to buy the book through the prison or request it from libraries or maybe even get a digital copy. All that's really happened is they're not allowed to be sent big bulky packages and as they're in prison as a form of punishment as well as "keeping society safe from them" They should be grateful they can even do that.
Here's my theory, They've come up with some fancy new weapons system that they think can down a Nimitz-class, and they want something that actually looks like one for the demo.
Supersonic Cruise missles that are hidden in a launcher that looks just like a shipping container will do the job nicely. These exist now and will probable keep Carriers hundreds of miles from shore if combat breaks out. The naval defense systems may take out some of them, but not dozens launched at the same time.
Iran doesn't need supersonic cruise missiles they already have a carriers worst night mare in service. Two words: supercavitating torpedo.
In all good nature, you're funny, kid. I was 65 a year and a half years ago. Guess I don't know how to participate in slashdot. Or build my own desktop, build and operate my own server, or write embedded computer software either, for that matter.
No one cares about that. Go through each and every publicised failure of the F-111 then compare and contrast to the F-35 aaaaaaaand go.
It has Tom Cruise in it. He's a pilot, a pretty good pilot until he has a crisis of conscious and can't pilot anymore. Then he meets a girl who teaches him it's ok to pilot and he becomes the best pilot he can be. A lot like Days of Thunder or any other Cruise film but this one has jets, and latent repressed homosexuality but JETS!
I'm not attacking any man, straw or otherwise. That's what you said. Out of all the things MS has done and been indirectly or directly responsible for that's what you cited as their crimes? You don't seem to be equipped to debate with any one who doesn't agree with you.
Right, so MS is pure evil that has caused untold misery on the world because of wasted economic activity, wasted electricity and needless servers? Apple beats all that with the iphone/pod/pad alone. How many people have been driven to unemployment by apples (and many others) shameless abuse of cheap Chinese sweat shop workers to sell back to the western markets at grossly overinflated prices? I'm not saying MS are all nice with a rosy history, but they're not much, if even as, dirty as the people they stand beside. If you want to hate MS for whatever reason then go you, but take a step back and judge them all by the same standards is all I'm saying. If nothing less than the complete and utter dissolution of the company will satisfy you then you're starting from a very reasonable position and should do well.
The landscape has changed, but not enough. Microsoft have engineered a situation where the majority of people have little chance of finding a PC without Windows,
Well, that's just bullshit. Your average guy who doesn't know thing one about computers nowadays is much more likely to buy an apple based on popularity and general awareness because of the landscape Apple have engineered. If they want cheaper they go windows, which just wants to be apple now apparently. After that the only other option is DIY linux builds. Regardless of MS policies back in the day that may have had an impact on the competition they're a shadow of their former self and Apple is the one to keep your eye on with their overpriced, bundled, closed wall, simpleton 'app' environment that takes as much control away from the user as possible.
You'd have to be some kind of fucking moron to just throw up your hands and pretend that Microsoft doesn't deserve its reputation. Or, you know, a shill. Or of course both.
Guess which kind of person wrote this article?
Did you read the article? I mean/. so no but that's not what he's saying. What he's saying is it's a different company with different people doing different things and at some point you have to draw a line under it and start again. It's not like apple don't do now exactly what ms did then. They bundle all their stuff together and as far as I can tell won't rest until quicktime is on every computer that uses software even remotely related to apple.
Me. I pay 15€/month for 100Mbps down 10Mbps up over fiber in east Europe country. Another 6€ for TV and phone delivered on the same connection. The rest of the life here sucks, but that internet connection is great.
Don't rub it in. Telling Americans about European/RoW internet connections is like an American telling starving Africans all about the masses of food they have,
Actually, you're quite mistaken. Isaac Newton wrote more on Biblical prophesy than he did on science and he believed in creation. Are you saying he wasn't a scientist? Many "great" scientists whose theories we trust were creationists (Boyle, Kepler, Faraday,...). And to top it all, Francis Bacon, who is usually credited with formulating the scientific method was... wait for it... a creationist!
Evolution was a nice theory to try to explain away God. But IF God exists, no theory can explain Him away. The biggest issue with the teaching of evolution these days is that none of the conflicts that have arisen (e.g. DNA that should have disintegrated after millions of years, Carbon 14 in diamonds, fossilized trees crossing geologic layers, etc.) are presented to students.
Wait, so you're telling me these scientist who were mostly active in the 16th and 17th centuries didn't follow a theory that wasn't published til 1859? Only Faraday was alive then and that was about ten years before his death, well after he's formed his opinions on such things. Well, that's me convinced.
OK, kids. Today we're going to learn all about where humans came from. So it was either xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx o rxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx etc
804 km in any direction in the Netherlands would be a different country.
That's the good thing about the internet. If I was doing I'd have it all on the other side of the world. Isolated from myself as much as possible with everything done through fresh pseudonyms.
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There's also cellphones. Here in the US, it was common to call them "cells" for a while, though people seem to just call them "phones" now (which makes the most sense). The British call them "mobiles", which doesn't make much sense since that's a toy you hang over an infant's bed.
And we call them mobile phones, as mobility. Calling them mobiles differentiates from the other types of phones, mainly being pay phones and home phones (or landline). It's not complex.
downing their tools
putting down their tools
so does this mean they were holding their tools and then put them down and stopped working, or does this mean someone was insulting the tools they were using or accusing them of using inferior tools.
It means they said fuck this and fucked off.
downing tools, put down your tools i.e. stop working. Not that hard really, is it?
Terrorists are known to breathe air. Therefore, anyone who breathes air is a potential terrorist and needs to be under surveillance.
Most terrorist acts, and indeed crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread. Anyone buying bread is therefore worthy of further investigation.
They were revolutionaries, or rebels to the British crown, not terrorists. I will also add that assertion that pops up from time to time is tediously stupid. Really, you can't think of any differences between the social-political order that America's Founding Fathers intended to establish compared to the minions of Bin Laden? Really?
One group wants foreigners out of their country to govern in the way they see fit, the others have been dead a couple hundred years? Look. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. It's all a question of perspective.
I wouldn't say it's untrue, drugs is probably just a small part of it and the politician wants a nice soundbite people can quickly understand and relate to. People do post drugs in, that's a fact, a long with all kinds of other things prisoners shouldn't have. If it's all packages I think mobile phones are a much bigger concern to prison staff than drugs but drugs sounds a lot worse than phones in the news room so that's what they go with. Then someone else says but you can also put books in packages therefore the gov are stopping prisoners from reading and then that becomes the counter line.
It might not be the best form of punishment but that's all we have. People don't get flogged anymore or have to walk around with a sign saying 'thief' or whatever, prison is what we have and it should be an experience people don't want to repeat. I fully agree rehabilitation is so much more important than punishment but there has to be some form of punishment, I can't think of anything better that's not some form of violence or public embarrassment, can you?
Spending their many hours locked in a cell reading, rather than just staring at the walls, does not sound like a leisure activity; it sounds like "Learn to read better so you can have something to do instead of nothing to do". By all means restrict format - solid hardcovers could be used to hit someone, paperbacks are probably OK. Encouraging reading might raise prisoners' ability to pursue education.
Again, no one is stopping them reading as far as I can tell, just people aren't allowed to post them books. They can still get books through the library or people can send the money for them to get a specific book through the prison. If I'm wrong and they're being stopped from reading then that's bullshit but as I understand it, that's not what's happening.
Just the part the limits a way for people to sneak drugs and all kinds of shit in.
Ignore the minister's political excuses, and look at the complete set of changes in rules. They are here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/...
As you see, they are all about the restriction of privileges. The ministers comment about searching parcels for drugs is just a red herring. A lie. You should have been able to tell - his lips moved.
The problem that has been highlighted is that reading should not be considered to be a privilege, but part of rehabilitation.
A full review of the policy – the first for 10 years – was ordered by Minsters last year and was completed in April. From today the absence of bad behaviour will no longer be enough to earn privileges – prisoners must also actively work towards their own rehabilitation.
Other key changes include:
The introduction of a new IEP level – “Entry” – where privileges are restricted.
Certificate 18 DVDs and subscription channels banned from all prisons.
A national standardised list of items available for each level.
An automatic IEP review for bad behaviour, with a presumption of downgrading.
TVs turned off when prisoners should be engaged in work or other productive activity.
Prisoners who misbehave will lose their TV.
Again, that all seems fairly reasonable. The new entry level and no 18 films might be a bit off but they are there as a punishment as well as rehabilitation. Prison isn't a place to enjoy leisurely activities, you're supposed to not want to go back. Still, I don't see where it says that they're not allowed to read or having access to books pulled. One avenue sure but there are plenty still open.
Yeah, heaven forbid we should end up with well-read ex-cons. They'll be having ideas above their stations.
I must've missed the the part in TFM that says they're not allowed to read, or even read specific books. Just the part the limits a way for people to sneak drugs and all kinds of shit in. Because, of course, all prisoners are fine upstanding people that are there just for misunderstanding and sit around all day broadening their minds.
Of course it's reasonable. It's dead easy to hide stuff and secret messages in books or indeed other packages sent to prisoners, and at a time where they're going on about massive amounts of drugs in prisons. They're not being told they aren't allowed to read or something ridiculous, just people can't send in books. They can however send in money for the prisoner to buy the book through the prison or request it from libraries or maybe even get a digital copy. All that's really happened is they're not allowed to be sent big bulky packages and as they're in prison as a form of punishment as well as "keeping society safe from them" They should be grateful they can even do that.
Seriously? The best you could do is "fake boat"?
Here's my theory, They've come up with some fancy new weapons system that they think can down a Nimitz-class, and they want something that actually looks like one for the demo.
Supersonic Cruise missles that are hidden in a launcher that looks just like a shipping container will do the job nicely. These exist now and will probable keep Carriers hundreds of miles from shore if combat breaks out. The naval defense systems may take out some of them, but not dozens launched at the same time.
Iran doesn't need supersonic cruise missiles they already have a carriers worst night mare in service. Two words: supercavitating torpedo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoot_%28missile%29
Good luck installing a phalanx system under the water line.
Didn't the US military learn from past mistakes that trying to build one fighter for everyone is a stupid idea?
HAHAHAHA, good one.
In all good nature, you're funny, kid. I was 65 a year and a half years ago. Guess I don't know how to participate in slashdot. Or build my own desktop, build and operate my own server, or write embedded computer software either, for that matter.
No one cares about that. Go through each and every publicised failure of the F-111 then compare and contrast to the F-35 aaaaaaaand go.
It has Tom Cruise in it. He's a pilot, a pretty good pilot until he has a crisis of conscious and can't pilot anymore. Then he meets a girl who teaches him it's ok to pilot and he becomes the best pilot he can be. A lot like Days of Thunder or any other Cruise film but this one has jets, and latent repressed homosexuality but JETS!
I'm not attacking any man, straw or otherwise. That's what you said. Out of all the things MS has done and been indirectly or directly responsible for that's what you cited as their crimes? You don't seem to be equipped to debate with any one who doesn't agree with you.
That sounds like a company trying to get people to use it's stuff? That's what companies do.
Right, so MS is pure evil that has caused untold misery on the world because of wasted economic activity, wasted electricity and needless servers? Apple beats all that with the iphone/pod/pad alone. How many people have been driven to unemployment by apples (and many others) shameless abuse of cheap Chinese sweat shop workers to sell back to the western markets at grossly overinflated prices? I'm not saying MS are all nice with a rosy history, but they're not much, if even as, dirty as the people they stand beside. If you want to hate MS for whatever reason then go you, but take a step back and judge them all by the same standards is all I'm saying. If nothing less than the complete and utter dissolution of the company will satisfy you then you're starting from a very reasonable position and should do well.
Uh... not quite the same...
Not quite, no. American internet is shittier than the prospect of starvation.
The landscape has changed, but not enough. Microsoft have engineered a situation where the majority of people have little chance of finding a PC without Windows,
Well, that's just bullshit. Your average guy who doesn't know thing one about computers nowadays is much more likely to buy an apple based on popularity and general awareness because of the landscape Apple have engineered. If they want cheaper they go windows, which just wants to be apple now apparently. After that the only other option is DIY linux builds. Regardless of MS policies back in the day that may have had an impact on the competition they're a shadow of their former self and Apple is the one to keep your eye on with their overpriced, bundled, closed wall, simpleton 'app' environment that takes as much control away from the user as possible.
You'd have to be some kind of fucking moron to just throw up your hands and pretend that Microsoft doesn't deserve its reputation. Or, you know, a shill. Or of course both.
Guess which kind of person wrote this article?
Did you read the article? I mean /. so no but that's not what he's saying. What he's saying is it's a different company with different people doing different things and at some point you have to draw a line under it and start again. It's not like apple don't do now exactly what ms did then. They bundle all their stuff together and as far as I can tell won't rest until quicktime is on every computer that uses software even remotely related to apple.
Me. I pay 15€/month for 100Mbps down 10Mbps up over fiber in east Europe country. Another 6€ for TV and phone delivered on the same connection. The rest of the life here sucks, but that internet connection is great.
Don't rub it in. Telling Americans about European/RoW internet connections is like an American telling starving Africans all about the masses of food they have,
Actually, you're quite mistaken. Isaac Newton wrote more on Biblical prophesy than he did on science and he believed in creation. Are you saying he wasn't a scientist? Many "great" scientists whose theories we trust were creationists (Boyle, Kepler, Faraday, ...). And to top it all, Francis Bacon, who is usually credited with formulating the scientific method was ... wait for it ... a creationist!
Evolution was a nice theory to try to explain away God. But IF God exists, no theory can explain Him away. The biggest issue with the teaching of evolution these days is that none of the conflicts that have arisen (e.g. DNA that should have disintegrated after millions of years, Carbon 14 in diamonds, fossilized trees crossing geologic layers, etc.) are presented to students.
Wait, so you're telling me these scientist who were mostly active in the 16th and 17th centuries didn't follow a theory that wasn't published til 1859? Only Faraday was alive then and that was about ten years before his death, well after he's formed his opinions on such things. Well, that's me convinced.
OK, kids. Today we're going to learn all about where humans came from. So it was either xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx o rxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx etc
804 km in any direction in the Netherlands would be a different country.
That's the good thing about the internet. If I was doing I'd have it all on the other side of the world. Isolated from myself as much as possible with everything done through fresh pseudonyms.