And I don't buy the argument that guns are specifically designed to kill/injure people. They're designed to hurl small chunks of metal, accurately, for long distances, and at very high velocities.
Thats a bit like like saying that an electric chair is just designed for passing high currents through anything that happens to be fastened to the correct contact points, but if governments want to starp people into them then it's their own business.
In other words you're talking bullshit. The main driver of the development of firearms over the last few hundred years has been to make them more efficient killers of people.
I don't mean to nitpick your nitpick (which means, of course, that I do wish to nitpick) but didn't Iceland have its Parliament (Thing) long before Simon de Montfort got it together with some other nobles ?
I would have thought that because there's an island belonging to Spain (so they claim) lying a bout a hundred yards from Morocco's coast, it shouldn't be too hard for them to manage
If she's willing to come over here to the UK she could easiy win against Tony Blair. She could come and stay at my house and we could..er.. sorry... getting carried away.
Why is it that everytime a story about some problem with voting machines comes up yet another Slashdotter (yawn) comes up with yet another idea (yawn)for building a system that anyone could pick holes in in less than five minutes when the answer is that voting machines are not needed for elections?
The way to design any system is to start off by defining what it is that a system is supposed to achieve. The only answer that you can then come up with is a secret ballot on paper voting slips.
How hard is it to understand people? Names and boxes on paper, a pencil and ballot boxes and a counting that is open to verification are all the are needed.
er.. the first one who was allowed to take his suit off, although Valentina Tereshkova probably could have gotten away with some strategic "rubbing" if she'd felt like it. Or maybe it was Ham ?
Bollocks and double bollocks. Any company using software from a third party which doesn't get it's legal department to check through any licences, so that they have a clear and umabiguous understanding of any licencing issues is guilty of extreme negligence and senior management should get a major bollocking from the shareholders.
I've been involved in releasing software which linked with LGPLed libraries and legal people went through the LGPL with a fine tooth comb and told us exactly what we had to do to comply with it. Anything else is, as I said, negligence and deserves to be treat as such.
I hate to say this, but have you ever considered that he people who are saying "Makes you wonder..." may not be the the same people who are saying "The police are computer dummies..." or has there been a Slashdot poll to find out the official Slashdot politburo party line on this subject and I missed it.
You want to findout what is really going on in the world's economies without spin, government propaganda or money porn (*cough* Forbes *cough*)?
Then read the "Economist" http://www.economist.com.
It also has some the best tech articles outside of the specialist press. In fact they're better than a lot of articles in the tech press. You'll also learn a lot about world politics as well.
It was an editorial in the Economist that finally convinced me that the US should got to war in Iraq
yes, but court cases are not decided on public opinion. And thank God for that I say.
I have no worries about RMS appearing in court (if i ever comes to that, a subpeona, as far as I understand the american legal system, is a request for information) he'll be well prepared, knows his stuff and doesn't need to lie, bluster or bullshit.
apart from the British ones who have been getting smashed legally for a couple of years and illegally for even longer. And in some parts of Britain viruses are grandchildren already
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And I don't buy the argument that guns are specifically designed to kill/injure people. They're designed to hurl small chunks of metal, accurately, for long distances, and at very high velocities.
Thats a bit like like saying that an electric chair is just designed for passing high currents through anything that happens to be fastened to the correct contact points, but if governments want to starp people into them then it's their own business.
In other words you're talking bullshit. The main driver of the development of firearms over the last few hundred years has been to make them more efficient killers of people.
Hey! Most analogies break down after a while. Your's breaks down before the first sentence is over. Yow!
I don't mean to nitpick your nitpick (which means, of course, that I do wish to nitpick) but didn't Iceland have its Parliament (Thing) long before Simon de Montfort got it together with some other nobles ?
I would have thought that because there's an island belonging to Spain (so they claim) lying a bout a hundred yards from Morocco's coast, it shouldn't be too hard for them to manage
Read the Economist. I don't know if the guys who write the tech articles are tech journalists or economic journalists but they certainly "get it"
If she's willing to come over here to the UK she could easiy win against Tony Blair. She could come and stay at my house and we could..er.. sorry... getting carried away.
Why is it that everytime a story about some problem with voting machines comes up yet another Slashdotter (yawn) comes up with yet another idea (yawn)for building a system that anyone could pick holes in in less than five minutes when the answer is that voting machines are not needed for elections?
The way to design any system is to start off by defining what it is that a system is supposed to achieve. The only answer that you can then come up with is a secret ballot on paper voting slips.
How hard is it to understand people? Names and boxes on paper, a pencil and ballot boxes and a counting that is open to verification are all the are needed.
er.. the first one who was allowed to take his suit off, although Valentina Tereshkova probably could have gotten away with some strategic "rubbing" if she'd felt like it. Or maybe it was Ham ?
Whats an "F". Is that some funny Amercian unit of temperature or is that NASA dumming things down for Joe Public
Bollocks and double bollocks. Any company using software from a third party which doesn't get it's legal department to check through any licences, so that they have a clear and umabiguous understanding of any licencing issues is guilty of extreme negligence and senior management should get a major bollocking from the shareholders.
I've been involved in releasing software which linked with LGPLed libraries and legal people went through the LGPL with a fine tooth comb and told us exactly what we had to do to comply with it. Anything else is, as I said, negligence and deserves to be treat as such.
Admit it. You haven't read it have you ?
I hate to say this, but have you ever considered that he people who are saying "Makes you wonder ..." may not be the the same people who are saying "The police are computer dummies ..." or has there been a Slashdot poll to find out the official Slashdot politburo party line on this subject and I missed it.
Parent insightful? Pah!
"I, who categorize myself into the category of people that believe that most communists should probably be summarily shot"
What? you mean you're a totalitarian or a fascist?
Free and Open source software is nothing to do with socialism, or would you say that, say, Physics is socialism ?
Hi Mr Kettle,
there's more than that mistake. The finding of further grammatical errors is left as an exercise for the reader
No1 No! No! No! No!
No fucking machines !
Bits of paper where you make a cross on which are counted by people with other people watching. What's so cimplicated about that ?
Do these wankers actually get paid for writing this?
They're worse than fucking estate agents (I think amercians call then real estatet salesman or something)
You want to findout what is really going on in the world's economies without spin, government propaganda or money porn (*cough* Forbes *cough*)?
Then read the "Economist" http://www.economist.com.
It also has some the best tech articles outside of the specialist press. In fact they're better than a lot of articles in the tech press. You'll also learn a lot about world politics as well.
It was an editorial in the Economist that finally convinced me that the US should got to war in Iraq
the British say that the committee meet.
Oh, no we don't !
At least I don't and none of my friends or aquaintances do. But then, we went to Grammar School and don't try to talk like Australian soap stars.
but can the ministers of the EU be bought or threatened?
Is the Pope a catholic ?
Have you been smoking some of tha SCO crack. What the fuck are you on about?
:-)
And who are the big gins?
I thought Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother were dead
yes, but court cases are not decided on public opinion. And thank God for that I say.
I have no worries about RMS appearing in court (if i ever comes to that, a subpeona, as far as I understand the american legal system, is a request for information) he'll be well prepared, knows his stuff and doesn't need to lie, bluster or bullshit.
I hope this goes out live on TV
Am I the only one who found this slightly amusing?
I doubt it, this is Slashdot, home of the prison anal rape fantasists
I'm no expert, but I'm prtty sure he did "edit" some of his own family
Stealing Music?
Could you please explain what "stealing music" is ?
You're allowed to use legal terminology if you wish, though I somehow doubt that you know the meaning of any legal terms
apart from the British ones who have been getting smashed legally for a couple of years and illegally for even longer. And in some parts of Britain viruses are grandchildren already