My partner used to keep rats as pets. Despite not being keen on having the little critters sitting on my shoulder, they were interesting to observe when in their (large and well provisioned) cage.
At one time, when we had three males, and the eldest was ill and lethargic, the younger rats would fetch him food and huddle up to him to keep him warm. I never though of it as empathy, though - I assumed that it was a sort of hierarchical respect shown by juveniles to an elder.
They are amusing little creatures, and do show distinct personality traits, so I suppose empathy is not entirely unlikely.
If you think the parody of the US flag was for your benefit, think again. It was aimed directly at the Iranian people and their few remaining friends. The propaganda win "on the Arab street" of this drone capture is likely pretty high, and caricaturing the flag is just part of that.
And the comms retooling? With luck, they have some encrypted comms hanging around that they can drop in in a few days or weeks. If not - well, you know how fast most government programs work...
In case you hadn't noticed, a couple of Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated by car bombs recently, and they have also suffered an explosion at their missile testing facility and one of their nuclear plants. This has spooked the Iranians something rotten, and they need the publicity for internal reasons.
And given that the US knew they were flying over Iranian territory when they suddenly lost control of the drone, and no doubt have locator beacons on these things, pretending you didn't have it isn't likely to give you much of an advantage. Much better to get the instant win of some good propaganda, and the popularity that comes from sticking it to The Man.
Even with the BBC, you have to recognise that they do impose a liberal slant on everything they report (Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson is not typical of the BBC).
That's not a problem, but it does lead to under-reporting of scandals involving the liberal elite, especially Labour MPs and peers. One example - Andy Burnham, the shadow Health minister, is currently employing as an adviser a health lobbyist who loaned him £21,000 for his campaign for the Labour leadership. This has gone unreported on the BBC, while if it had been Andrew Landesley the Tory Health minister, you can guarantee the comrades would be all over the story.
Firstly, thankyou for your considered and polite response. Spoken like a true socialist.
Secondly, how would you categorise the subsidy of wind farms and solar, if not allowing a private company (or a landowner) to cream off risk-free profits?
Allowing GE to create the first plant here, even if it costs a few hundred million in tax incentives and subsidy, would reduce the eventual cost of plutonium storage, provide a blueprint for future clean energy and provide a useful and much needed addition to the nation's base load capacity, which is fast becoming marginal.
If you're happy with relying on importing French electricity or Russian gas to run foreign owned generating plant, then that's up to you. The rest of us happen to be sane, and can see the benefits of this idea.
So you've downed a pristine intact drone from your mortal enemy. Do you A) keep it secret to have an upper hand and send it to a lab to analyze all of its weaknesses and offer this information to your allies or B) take pictures in front of it with propaganda surrounding it and show the world? Well, I guess when you don't know how to do A you have to go with B!
I guess they have the ability to do A, but given the recent assassinations of their nuclear scientists and the explosions at their rocket plant and centrifuges, option B is probably a better bet.
It will force the US to rejig the comms to their drones, and promote one hell of a fuss in the US command chain as arses are covered and blame transferred to the least well protected elements.
It also gives them something to crow about, and can legitimately be used to justify at least one retaliatory action.
Makes a change from Labour using public funds to create public sector non-jobs and as a by-product more Labour votes.
If it's feasible, I'd say go for it - better to use the stockpile to create energy than to waste the money on public sector pensions or windmills / solar.
I never post as AC, so can disclaim responsibility for any of the other "attacks" - but I notice that you have learned not to use all capitals, and appear to have taken the time to answer me properly, so apologise for my flippant quip, You must admit that you come across as one who likes to blow his own trumpet, though, so don't be surprised when people come along and wind you up.
I'm pretty sure that Outlook etc, don't have Noscript, but they do (last time I had to deal with them at least) have options to not display unwanted content.
Mind you, the topic is Firefox, so I'm not sure what that or your other two points have to do with the price of fish - NoScript does in fact block everything apart from what I choose to allow through, and allows finer-grained control than a simple black-holing of particular hosts / domains.
Keep well, and don't worry about the naysayers - it's just your style that attracts the occasional jibe;-)
All well and good, but "racetrack" memory, when all is said and done, is just a reimplementation of the mercury delay lines that were used for storage in the Leo machines back in the 1950s.
Different, but still the same concept of cycling the bits round a circuit and reading them sequentially.
Does anyone remember the drone that Iraq shot down on the morning of 11th Sept 2001? It was all over the news here in the UK just before some planes went awry. I wouldn't discount Iran's statements yet...
The European Parliament is indeed elected, but has absolutely no power whatsoever when it comes to making policy, budgets, or regulations.
All of the power lies (currently) in the Council of Europe, which is made up of the relevant ministers from the member states, the ECB which is notionally independent, the EU Commissioners which are appointed from the failed politicians of the member states, and the EU bureaucracy which contains the sort of technocrats you wouldn't want to take home to your mother in case they sold her. With the current problems in the Eurozone, it is likely that the EU bureaucracy will be in charge of national budgets for the member states as well unless it all falls apart.
If you think there is any scope for democracy in the EU, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
If it isn't political, kindly explain why none of the accusations against the Mirror have been widely reported, while every titbit about the News of the World is slavered over by the BBC and the non-Murdoch press.
Most people didn't give a monkeys about the "hacking" until the Millie Dowler thing came out - the whole inquiry is a sop to Labour but has at its root a desire to regulate free speech. I wouldn't bank on Leveson leaving the internet alone if I were you.
And no - I'm not McMullan, who in any case was a rather marginal and grubby individual writing for the Features department of NOTW, and hardly a journalist in any real sense of the word.
He circulated his statement around various friends and ex-colleagues before publication, so I doubt whether all of the references were his. One copy found its way to the Guido Fawkes website on Sunday, which caused Leveson to issue instructions on Monday that evidence to the inquiry was not to be circulated beforehand. Leveson was threatening to force the owner of the site to give evidence tomorrow on how he came to be in possession of Campbell's statement, but backed down this afternoon when it became clear that Campbell had circulated it widely.
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Be very careful how much respect you gain for both Campbell and Leveson - the inquiry has one aim and one aim only, and that is to come up with a framework for press and internet reporting restrictions. Campbell is only one of the chosen witnesses whose statements will be used to this end.
Bear in mind when reading Campbell's statement that this is the man who brought us the dodgy dossier and the 45 minutes to WMD claims. He's a master of selective statement and a propagandist worthy of Goebbels himself.
The main movers against Murdoch are the Labour Party. This is, of course, the same party whose chairman didn't know about loads of dodgy donations, the party who brought you the dodgy dossier, and in Tom Watson's case the same MP who was sitting next to Damien McBride when McBride was busy smearing all and sundry who didn't toe the party line.
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News International was allowed to do all their "hacking" under a Labour government, but made the mistake of not supporting the brothers at the last election.
Don't let anyone tell you this isn't political - it's nothing but politics.
Ok - just kidding. It was 20-odd years ago, so I guess they don't have a sodding great bit of nylon poking through the cervix any more. It was a very memorable injury, though.
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My partner used to keep rats as pets. Despite not being keen on having the little critters sitting on my shoulder, they were interesting to observe when in their (large and well provisioned) cage.
At one time, when we had three males, and the eldest was ill and lethargic, the younger rats would fetch him food and huddle up to him to keep him warm. I never though of it as empathy, though - I assumed that it was a sort of hierarchical respect shown by juveniles to an elder.
They are amusing little creatures, and do show distinct personality traits, so I suppose empathy is not entirely unlikely.
Are you stalking me with your erudite and witty responses?
You really are a tiresome and ill-mannered little boor. Please come back when you can debate like an adult.
If you think the parody of the US flag was for your benefit, think again. It was aimed directly at the Iranian people and their few remaining friends. The propaganda win "on the Arab street" of this drone capture is likely pretty high, and caricaturing the flag is just part of that.
And the comms retooling? With luck, they have some encrypted comms hanging around that they can drop in in a few days or weeks. If not - well, you know how fast most government programs work...
In case you hadn't noticed, a couple of Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated by car bombs recently, and they have also suffered an explosion at their missile testing facility and one of their nuclear plants. This has spooked the Iranians something rotten, and they need the publicity for internal reasons.
And given that the US knew they were flying over Iranian territory when they suddenly lost control of the drone, and no doubt have locator beacons on these things, pretending you didn't have it isn't likely to give you much of an advantage. Much better to get the instant win of some good propaganda, and the popularity that comes from sticking it to The Man.
Even with the BBC, you have to recognise that they do impose a liberal slant on everything they report (Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson is not typical of the BBC).
That's not a problem, but it does lead to under-reporting of scandals involving the liberal elite, especially Labour MPs and peers. One example - Andy Burnham, the shadow Health minister, is currently employing as an adviser a health lobbyist who loaned him £21,000 for his campaign for the Labour leadership. This has gone unreported on the BBC, while if it had been Andrew Landesley the Tory Health minister, you can guarantee the comrades would be all over the story.
Firstly, thankyou for your considered and polite response. Spoken like a true socialist.
Secondly, how would you categorise the subsidy of wind farms and solar, if not allowing a private company (or a landowner) to cream off risk-free profits?
Allowing GE to create the first plant here, even if it costs a few hundred million in tax incentives and subsidy, would reduce the eventual cost of plutonium storage, provide a blueprint for future clean energy and provide a useful and much needed addition to the nation's base load capacity, which is fast becoming marginal.
If you're happy with relying on importing French electricity or Russian gas to run foreign owned generating plant, then that's up to you. The rest of us happen to be sane, and can see the benefits of this idea.
By the way, I prefer the Telegraph to the Mail ;-)
I've always thought perl should be renamed SOS - Self-Obfuscating Scripting. But then again I prefer languages to be human-readable.
So you've downed a pristine intact drone from your mortal enemy. Do you A) keep it secret to have an upper hand and send it to a lab to analyze all of its weaknesses and offer this information to your allies or B) take pictures in front of it with propaganda surrounding it and show the world? Well, I guess when you don't know how to do A you have to go with B!
I guess they have the ability to do A, but given the recent assassinations of their nuclear scientists and the explosions at their rocket plant and centrifuges, option B is probably a better bet.
It will force the US to rejig the comms to their drones, and promote one hell of a fuss in the US command chain as arses are covered and blame transferred to the least well protected elements.
It also gives them something to crow about, and can legitimately be used to justify at least one retaliatory action.
Makes a change from Labour using public funds to create public sector non-jobs and as a by-product more Labour votes.
If it's feasible, I'd say go for it - better to use the stockpile to create energy than to waste the money on public sector pensions or windmills / solar.
Wrong sort of grass!
I never post as AC, so can disclaim responsibility for any of the other "attacks" - but I notice that you have learned not to use all capitals, and appear to have taken the time to answer me properly, so apologise for my flippant quip, You must admit that you come across as one who likes to blow his own trumpet, though, so don't be surprised when people come along and wind you up.
I'm pretty sure that Outlook etc, don't have Noscript, but they do (last time I had to deal with them at least) have options to not display unwanted content.
Mind you, the topic is Firefox, so I'm not sure what that or your other two points have to do with the price of fish - NoScript does in fact block everything apart from what I choose to allow through, and allows finer-grained control than a simple black-holing of particular hosts / domains.
Keep well, and don't worry about the naysayers - it's just your style that attracts the occasional jibe ;-)
All well and good, but "racetrack" memory, when all is said and done, is just a reimplementation of the mercury delay lines that were used for storage in the Leo machines back in the 1950s.
Different, but still the same concept of cycling the bits round a circuit and reading them sequentially.
I'd shout "Prior Art" at it.
Is there a hosts file to block APK spam posts?
Honestly, the idea of a massive hosts file just to do what NoScript does by default seems... silly.
GCHQ has just announced that they are to lead the UK's cybersecurity push. I guess they need some reverse engineering skills in a hurry.
Does anyone remember the drone that Iraq shot down on the morning of 11th Sept 2001? It was all over the news here in the UK just before some planes went awry. I wouldn't discount Iran's statements yet...
The European Parliament is indeed elected, but has absolutely no power whatsoever when it comes to making policy, budgets, or regulations.
All of the power lies (currently) in the Council of Europe, which is made up of the relevant ministers from the member states, the ECB which is notionally independent, the EU Commissioners which are appointed from the failed politicians of the member states, and the EU bureaucracy which contains the sort of technocrats you wouldn't want to take home to your mother in case they sold her. With the current problems in the Eurozone, it is likely that the EU bureaucracy will be in charge of national budgets for the member states as well unless it all falls apart.
If you think there is any scope for democracy in the EU, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
If it isn't political, kindly explain why none of the accusations against the Mirror have been widely reported, while every titbit about the News of the World is slavered over by the BBC and the non-Murdoch press.
Most people didn't give a monkeys about the "hacking" until the Millie Dowler thing came out - the whole inquiry is a sop to Labour but has at its root a desire to regulate free speech. I wouldn't bank on Leveson leaving the internet alone if I were you.
And no - I'm not McMullan, who in any case was a rather marginal and grubby individual writing for the Features department of NOTW, and hardly a journalist in any real sense of the word.
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Remind me never to buy one of your apps.
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Be very careful how much respect you gain for both Campbell and Leveson - the inquiry has one aim and one aim only, and that is to come up with a framework for press and internet reporting restrictions. Campbell is only one of the chosen witnesses whose statements will be used to this end.
Bear in mind when reading Campbell's statement that this is the man who brought us the dodgy dossier and the 45 minutes to WMD claims. He's a master of selective statement and a propagandist worthy of Goebbels himself.
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News International was allowed to do all their "hacking" under a Labour government, but made the mistake of not supporting the brothers at the last election.
Don't let anyone tell you this isn't political - it's nothing but politics.
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Ok - just kidding. It was 20-odd years ago, so I guess they don't have a sodding great bit of nylon poking through the cervix any more. It was a very memorable injury, though.
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Trust me on this - it's painful and annoying.
More likely to get a cholera outbreak with all those crusties in tents.
Don't most iPhoneys carry handbags anyway?