I suspect most of the European national security services (well, all except GCHQ) are delighted the NSA has taken the heat off them. A few insincere sound bytes from Merkel and Hollande and it's Vive la liberté—when all the time the deceitful bastards know fine well "there but for the grace of Snowden go I."
My point being that I have totally no reason to prefer snooping from by government over snooping by another.
We're talking about the BBC. If any part of the work was contracted out rather than being produced by a BBC employee, they would have bought the rights to it. Any generic music there might have been would be easy to change (c.f. the Quantum Leap DVDs).
OK, fair enough. The collusion part was what I missed. But what if we doing away with something further down the line: why can't Mr Big Drug Man just exchange the money directly with the Casino owner, who provides him with the necessary paperwork? Or are you saying every machine generates a record of who won what? I genuinely know next to nothing about casinos and have no idea how cashing a jackpot win works.
During a few weeks in my life when I had nothing going on, no job, no commitments, I just went to bed when I felt tired – or rather when I'd had enough of that particular day – with no regard for the clock. Over the space of a week, my living day had shifted by a full 12 hours. I found that quite amusing.
The man lied to Congress and is participating in illegal unconstitutional mass surveillance and seizure of every American's private data, all for the very limited success of saving less lives than that lost by slipping in the tub during a bath/shower.
Just out of interest, how much would it cost to give a free non-slip bath tub to every home in the country compared with the cost of spying on every home in the country?
I'm not sure royal babies are rich enough in content to keep a whole nation cooing for long. I'm sure most people probably won't even notice or care anyway regardless.
When I was with O2 in the UK five years ago these things were already opt-in.
Just wondering if you think Tony Blair still has any influence in the UK, or whether I just dreamt he stood down as PM in 2007 and his party lost power in 2010.
If I'd seen those ads first I wouldn't have bothered reading all the comments. It's now glaringly obvious why they had to make so many of the damn things.
...how their society came to be dystopian in the first place? A good warning message would convey the idea of "this is what the world ended up like because of [public apathy][people's gullibility][creeping decay][whatever]". If they don't do that then their message is reduced to "big nasties are making people's lives hell". This is a genuine question. I haven't read any of the mentioned books.
Given the choice, yeah sure, I'm definitely going to use a service whose name is synonymous with poor quality, malware ridden files. It's like resurrecting the name J. T. Ripper & Sons as a personal protection service for lone wimmin.
People are talking as though the whole of the UK has got together and decided to send their shite to Brazil. Though I don't doubt such a plan has its merits, the summary does makes it clear that it was SOME BRAZILIAN OUTFIT that perpetrated the misdeed: "We'll get rid of your waste for you. Don't worry. We have a safe place to put it."
No propblem. Let Brazil send it back, and let the Brazilians who initiated the wrongdoing take care of it.
You're right. Ludditism doesn't even come into it, even if one day electronic books beat the shit out of real physical books on every count. Books are something you can collect and appreciate for their simple presence on your bookshelf. It's not just Luddites who'd rather have Botticelli's Venus hanging in their room than a downloadable photograph they can look at on their laptops.
If they didn't have the right to sell the book, surely the morally correct action from Amazon would be to take full responsibility for their error and come to an agreement with the copyright owners for the right to allow people to keep the book. At Amazon's expense of course.
I think Amazon is great, but I'd never dream of using it (or any other supplier for that matter) for stuff I wasn't sure of being able to keep.
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errr ... that was meant to be "snooping by one government over snooping by another"
I suspect most of the European national security services (well, all except GCHQ) are delighted the NSA has taken the heat off them.
A few insincere sound bytes from Merkel and Hollande and it's Vive la liberté—when all the time the deceitful bastards know fine well "there but for the grace of Snowden go I."
My point being that I have totally no reason to prefer snooping from by government over snooping by another.
We're talking about the BBC. If any part of the work was contracted out rather than being produced by a BBC employee, they would have bought the rights to it.
Any generic music there might have been would be easy to change (c.f. the Quantum Leap DVDs).
When *anything* is broadcast, nobody can be sure whether one day it will be part of our cultural legacy. Even when there's a time machine in it.
OK, fair enough. The collusion part was what I missed.
But what if we doing away with something further down the line: why can't Mr Big Drug Man just exchange the money directly with the Casino owner, who provides him with the necessary paperwork? Or are you saying every machine generates a record of who won what?
I genuinely know next to nothing about casinos and have no idea how cashing a jackpot win works.
The French have laws for just about everything you can imagine. Highly detailed laws too. No relying on common law for them.
So why doesn't he just make his living out of broken machines and forget the drug bit?
During a few weeks in my life when I had nothing going on, no job, no commitments, I just went to bed when I felt tired – or rather when I'd had enough of that particular day – with no regard for the clock.
Over the space of a week, my living day had shifted by a full 12 hours. I found that quite amusing.
You get cool reader, that's how.
It's the language. I use it it but not through choice, and all I can say is WTF.
Do you sometimes wish you'd replied in the right thread?
Doesn't matter whose fault it was. The texter disrupted traffic for no good cause and someone died.
Now, how many fingers am I holding up?
The man lied to Congress and is participating in illegal unconstitutional mass surveillance and seizure of every American's private data, all for the very limited success of saving less lives than that lost by slipping in the tub during a bath/shower.
Just out of interest, how much would it cost to give a free non-slip bath tub to every home in the country compared with the cost of spying on every home in the country?
How can Brits just take this silently ?
Whoa, at least give us a day or two to react.
I'm not sure royal babies are rich enough in content to keep a whole nation cooing for long.
I'm sure most people probably won't even notice or care anyway regardless.
When I was with O2 in the UK five years ago these things were already opt-in.
Nanny state. Pan. Water. Frog. Heat.
Just wondering if you think Tony Blair still has any influence in the UK, or whether I just dreamt he stood down as PM in 2007 and his party lost power in 2010.
If I'd seen those ads first I wouldn't have bothered reading all the comments.
It's now glaringly obvious why they had to make so many of the damn things.
...how their society came to be dystopian in the first place?
A good warning message would convey the idea of "this is what the world ended up like because of [public apathy][people's gullibility][creeping decay][whatever]".
If they don't do that then their message is reduced to "big nasties are making people's lives hell".
This is a genuine question. I haven't read any of the mentioned books.
I think you might mean Kobo?
Kobo is pretty good although the Kobo store is a bit bitchy.
You can however sideload.
What if it's 20% off compared with the standard retail price?
Given the choice, yeah sure, I'm definitely going to use a service whose name is synonymous with poor quality, malware ridden files.
It's like resurrecting the name J. T. Ripper & Sons as a personal protection service for lone wimmin.
People are talking as though the whole of the UK has got together and decided to send their shite to Brazil.
Though I don't doubt such a plan has its merits, the summary does makes it clear that it was SOME BRAZILIAN OUTFIT that perpetrated the misdeed: "We'll get rid of your waste for you. Don't worry. We have a safe place to put it."
No propblem. Let Brazil send it back, and let the Brazilians who initiated the wrongdoing take care of it.
Blame where blame is due, please. :rolls eyes:
You're right. Ludditism doesn't even come into it, even if one day electronic books beat the shit out of real physical books on every count.
Books are something you can collect and appreciate for their simple presence on your bookshelf.
It's not just Luddites who'd rather have Botticelli's Venus hanging in their room than a downloadable photograph they can look at on their laptops.
If they didn't have the right to sell the book, surely the morally correct action from Amazon would be to take full responsibility for their error and come to an agreement with the copyright owners for the right to allow people to keep the book. At Amazon's expense of course.
I think Amazon is great, but I'd never dream of using it (or any other supplier for that matter) for stuff I wasn't sure of being able to keep.