Six years? You idiot. In six years EVERY phone will be able to cook your dinner, drive you home, and then kick your ass for the hell of it. Six years ahead... Moron.
Fuck I hope you're not working for a phone company, most of us were waiting for the blowjob app.
Do you now the send electronic signals to the Space Station? I know, amazing, right? Did you know electronic signals can be used to get into a computer by a person who isn't even in the same room? I know,. shocking!
Do you know that encrypting the disk is a way of protecting against getting data from machines that are turned off and provides no protection at all against being hacked by remote access?
Nobody would dispute that the BBC is part of the establishment. So is the Anglican church. But the establishment is not the government.
Right, this turned out to be a semantic misunderstanding. In the US, the term "government" is used to describe what you call the "establishment". In your preferred terminology,
Well, no.
The UK concept of the "establishment" does not correspond the the US government.
As I said, the Anglican church is part of the establishment. The Royal Society for the Protecion of Birds could be considered part of the establishment.
I was never arguing that the BBC was a part of the government
Spad (470073) said:
The BBC is not state-run, it is a publicly (not government) funded independent body.
And you replied:
Isn't that kind of semantic? They have the power to tax. They "own" all of the airwaves. It may not be government by some technicality in law, but to a citizen the effect is the same.
and now you claim:
I was never arguing that the BBC was a part of the government
The license fee is set by the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, i.e. the Government, not the BBC.
Doesn't that make them even more government-affiliated?
But it means the BBC isn't raising taxes - the government is. Many non-government bodies get money from the government, that doesn't make them part of the government.
Yes you are mistaken. There are other TV broadcasters, ITV and Channel 4 for example.
Oopps! Forgot about ITV. Where would we be without Who Want to Be a Millionaire and X-Factor/American Idol?:) Sorry. Indeed that damages my point...
The Ministry for Television and Radio would be part of the government, the BBC isn't, it's independant.
I was told by another person that I'm using the wrong language for the UK, and I should say "the establishment". So what I mean is, the BBC is part of the establishment.
Nobody would dispute that the BBC is part of the establishment. So is the Anglican church. But the establishment is not the government.
You don't like the word tax, but the fact is that if you want to watch TV, you have to pay them their "fee". It's an establishment-imposed monopoly.
The license fee is set by the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, i.e. the Government, not the BBC.
You say they don't own the airwaves, yet they are the only TV available over the air. Am I mistaken?
Yes you are mistaken. There are other TV broadcasters, ITV and Channel 4 for example.
How in the world would it be different to a citizen if it were called the "Ministry of Television and Radio" and the fee was paid directly to the that ministry or whatever you blokes call such institutions? Besides calling it the MTR instead of the BBC I mean.
The Ministry for Television and Radio would be part of the government, the BBC isn't, it's independant.
the down-stream copies are configured with all the apps that you are likely to need and will automatically update these. The assumption is that Debian needs more things to be user-installed.
Because
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
is so hard.
Also I believe downstream apps do more to self-configure to the hardware - certainly Linux Mint installs without issues on my Lenovo E525 whereas Ubuntu needs some manual steps so I would assume that the setup is not in the Debian base.
So it seems Ubuntu at least doesn't do much more to self-configure the hardware.
I admit that I probably underestimate how difficult it is to install things - I installed Debian Sid on a Sony Vaio Z series.
Cinnamon is just a fork of Gnome Shell from Gnome3, but proper in appearance and operation and with actual working applets like Gnome2 and in general discarding all the garbage in the "real" Gnome Shell.
You're comparing apples and muffler bolts. The US is sitting on large amounts of oil.
"Proven oil reserves in the United States are 21 billion barrels"
The US consumes 18.8 million barrels per day (MBD)
So you think 3 years is "large amounts of oil"?
"Services under the U.S. Department of the Interior estimate the total volume of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in the United States to be roughly 134 billion barrels"
Ok, that looks more like it . 19 years. Still not exactly unlimited. Not going to be able to get it without the price going up a shitload though.
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Six years? You idiot. In six years EVERY phone will be able to cook your dinner, drive you home, and then kick your ass for the hell of it. Six years ahead... Moron.
Fuck I hope you're not working for a phone company, most of us were waiting for the blowjob app.
Do you now the send electronic signals to the Space Station? I know, amazing, right?
Did you know electronic signals can be used to get into a computer by a person who isn't even in the same room? I know,. shocking!
Do you know that encrypting the disk is a way of protecting against getting data from machines that are turned off and provides no protection at all against being hacked by remote access?
Nobody would dispute that the BBC is part of the establishment. So is the Anglican church. But the establishment is not the government.
Right, this turned out to be a semantic misunderstanding. In the US, the term "government" is used to describe what you call the "establishment". In your preferred terminology,
Well, no.
The UK concept of the "establishment" does not correspond the the US government.
As I said, the Anglican church is part of the establishment. The Royal Society for the Protecion of Birds could be considered part of the establishment.
I was never arguing that the BBC was a part of the government
Spad (470073) said:
The BBC is not state-run, it is a publicly (not government) funded independent body.
And you replied:
Isn't that kind of semantic? They have the power to tax. They "own" all of the airwaves. It may not be government by some technicality in law, but to a citizen the effect is the same.
and now you claim:
I was never arguing that the BBC was a part of the government
Yes you were.
The license fee is set by the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, i.e. the Government, not the BBC.
Doesn't that make them even more government-affiliated?
But it means the BBC isn't raising taxes - the government is. Many non-government bodies get money from the government, that doesn't make them part of the government.
Yes you are mistaken. There are other TV broadcasters, ITV and Channel 4 for example.
Oopps! Forgot about ITV. Where would we be without Who Want to Be a Millionaire and X-Factor/American Idol? :) Sorry. Indeed that damages my point...
The Ministry for Television and Radio would be part of the government, the BBC isn't, it's independant.
I was told by another person that I'm using the wrong language for the UK, and I should say "the establishment". So what I mean is, the BBC is part of the establishment.
Nobody would dispute that the BBC is part of the establishment. So is the Anglican church. But the establishment is not the government.
Could you... elaborate?
You don't like the word tax, but the fact is that if you want to watch TV, you have to pay them their "fee". It's an establishment-imposed monopoly.
The license fee is set by the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, i.e. the Government, not the BBC.
You say they don't own the airwaves, yet they are the only TV available over the air. Am I mistaken?
Yes you are mistaken. There are other TV broadcasters, ITV and Channel 4 for example.
How in the world would it be different to a citizen if it were called the "Ministry of Television and Radio" and the fee was paid directly to the that ministry or whatever you blokes call such institutions? Besides calling it the MTR instead of the BBC I mean.
The Ministry for Television and Radio would be part of the government, the BBC isn't, it's independant.
Isn't that kind of semantic? They have the power to tax
False
They "own" all of the airwaves.
False
It may not be government by some technicality in law,
The tecnicality of having no power
but to a citizen the effect is the same.
No it isn't.
try 78, so you can email it.
No, 72 to leave space for the sequence number.
I mean, how else are you going to sort your deck after you drop it?
What does that mean exactly?
Based on the "marketing" of Ubuntu and others
and one should always believe marketing,
the down-stream copies are configured with all the apps that you are likely to need and will automatically update these. The assumption is that Debian needs more things to be user-installed.
Because
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
is so hard.
Also I believe downstream apps do more to self-configure to the hardware - certainly Linux Mint installs without issues on my Lenovo E525 whereas Ubuntu needs some manual steps so I would assume that the setup is not in the Debian base.
So it seems Ubuntu at least doesn't do much more to self-configure the hardware.
I admit that I probably underestimate how difficult it is to install things - I installed Debian Sid on a Sony Vaio Z series.
No English or US one here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-derived_alphabet
Not trying very hard, are you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alphabet
There's no the alphabet.
There is according to wikipedia! (joke).
Yet another Debian based distribution that tries to keep quiet about it.
Why not just run the real thing?
My perception of debian (which may be wrong) is that it is not as user-friendly as the down-stream copies
What does that mean exactly?
, and has a slow release cycle that means that it often runs with older versions of packages.
No Debian based distro has a faster release cycle than Sid!
I have heard other people express the same thing, so even if it is wrong it is probably why many people don't use it.
Me too. I've just never had anyone tell me exactly what "unfriendly" means.
Cinnamon is just a fork of Gnome Shell from Gnome3, but proper in appearance and operation and with actual working applets like Gnome2 and in general discarding all the garbage in the "real" Gnome Shell.
What garbage?
though I still prefer Mint's Debian Edition to the Ubuntu-based versions.
Well, obviously, it's closer to the real thing.
Though I can't imagine why you don't just run the real thing.
Here's a hint for you: N is the 14th letter of the alphabet.
Depends on what alphabet you use.
Which is relevant considering how short the US one will last.
There's a US alphabet now? How does it differ from the English one?
Yet another Debian based distribution that tries to keep quiet about it.
Why not just run the real thing?
That's a small monitor, sorry.
I wish I had mod points. As it is, I wish I knew who you are, because you owe me a new keyboard.
See, you should be posting from an iPad.
The difference is that the Japanese are well aware of the dangers inherent in their natural environment,
And Godzilla has destroyed Tokyo how many times? NY only once.
I'd just build nuclear reactors and electric trains everywhere, large but gradually increasing taxes on polluters, and subsidies for clean power.
But we did that in the '70s-'80s.
Oh, sorry, you don't live in France.
You're comparing apples and muffler bolts. The US is sitting on large amounts of oil.
"Proven oil reserves in the United States are 21 billion barrels"
The US consumes 18.8 million barrels per day (MBD)
So you think 3 years is "large amounts of oil"?
"Services under the U.S. Department of the Interior estimate the total volume of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in the United States to be roughly 134 billion barrels"
Ok, that looks more like it . 19 years. Still not exactly unlimited. Not going to be able to get it without the price going up a shitload though.
You think southern Portugal is cool?
Wow.
Blackmail. As the head of the CIA, he was right to resign. He probably resigned because someone tried to blackmail him.
Yeah. The FBI probably.
Ah yes, but if you don't inhale?
apt-get install kvm
qemu-img create hda.img 8G
kvm -cdrom sid.iso -hda hda.img -boot d
there is this, the fact that the numbers on the birth records are out of sequence
Hahahha
When Arpaio dispatched Zullo for the second trip, the assignment was kept confidential for Zullo’s safety
Teehee
Monckton?
WTF?
He's maybe an expert on SUDOKU, but document analysis?