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p0tat03: I run multiple Macs at home... wireless sync? On that itself I'm sold
You have checked that sync works over wireless, and that it can connect to a Mac, right?
A Zune employee confirms that not only can you not sync over WiFi, but that you also require a Windows PC to sync at all. No Zune sync for you, Mr. Mac, WiFi or not!
My access point is in an upstairs bedrom. If I want direct line of sight from my shed, no signal, an old brick washhouse is in the way. So I got a thirty-quid repeater (actually just a regular access point switched into "repeater" mode) and installed that on the corner of the washhouse (in view of both the bedroom AND the shed). Now 100% signal in the shed.
There really isn't any magic to installing a WiFi repeater. Plug in to your PC, configure over a web browser with the SSID and encryption key, disconnect from your PC, plonk it somewhere where it can see both you and an original access point. Job done.
If I can figure this out in my 100-year-old farmworkers' cottage in rural England, I'm sure as hell you can figure it out in a modern US city gated community. It really, really isn't hard.
Top level domains should be about routing traffic competently.
Oh, come on. Do you really think that all websites under.to are geographically located in Tonga?
IP addresses and routing tables are about routing traffic. Domain names are about vanity.
The authority for.to is tonic.to tonic.to is 206.14.210.235 206.14.210.235 is a server in San Fransico, USA
Now I realise that Tonga isn't far from the US territory of American Samoa, but c'mon, geographic TLDs are most definitely NOT going to help you route data.
Politicians will simply ignore the facts and press ahead.
More importantly, us Brits will ignore the facts and vote for those kind of politicians. I know this, because I'm one of them. I just feel safer with security cameras around; they don't prevent crime, but they make it easier to solve it when it happens. Perhaps most relevant is that I don't feel I'm losing anything by having security cameras watch my every move. Frankly I don't care who knows my every move. You could track me by my mobile phone if you really wanted to.
The problem is that a lot of British criminals are too stupid to care whether they're going to get caught, and a lot of British policemen are mind-numbingly stupid underachievers who enjoy bullying people but aren't actually mentally competent enough to follow through a criminal procedure to an actual conviction.
The BBC doesn't manufacture televisions or write software for digital radios. It just picks a standard that any manufacturer can use, and leaves the rest to the market. Quite why it should be involved in writing software for domestic computers is totally beyond my comprehension.
All they need do is to pick from one of the squillions of codecs already available, or at worst define their own, and the job is done. If they need to restrict content by geography, there is a wealth of geo-IP services already available. As for having content automatically self-destruct after a period, or restrict copying, well they don't do this for existing digital and analogue content, so why start now? On the contrary, the BBC are founder members of Freeview Playback, a group dedicated to defining standards for digital video recorders, whose entire reason for being is to copy and store digital broadcast content indefinitely!
Previously it had been considered this was not illegal, since under the Computer Misuse act 1990 section 1.1, the misuse has to be "unauthorised"; which has been tested in court to mean that there was an authorisation system and that it was circumvented, for example using a username and password for which the perpetrator was not authorised. With unsecured WiFi, there is no authorisation system at all, it does not ask for a username or password, and so using it did not fall under the Computer Misuse Act.
Now the police have quoted the much more vague and untested Communications Act 2003 section 125.1 "dishonestly obtains an electronic communications service" for this new charge. "Dishonestly obtaining" hasn't been tested in court so far, and it will be alarming if it turns out that this is weaker than "unauthorised".
The problem is that many people run unsecured wireless internet hotspots deliberately for the benefit of the community (such as my free public hotspot), whilst others run them accidentally and unknowingly due to their own ignorance. My deliberate public hotspot does not ask for a username nor password, it is just open. It is impossible for a passing user to determine in advance whether an unsecured hotspot is deliberate or accidental.
Why not just count yum/apt repository/mirror hits by unique IP?
Okay so that underestimates those in big organisations who run their own mirror, and those running old distros that don't check for updates, but it would be a damn sight more accurate than most of the other methods.
The big distros (Red Hat, Ubuntu etc) could even sponsor an independent body to oversee the fair collection of the data from the repos and mirrors.
So what you're saying is that in order to get service from MS, you have to prove you're entitled to it, including giving up personal information?
Exactly how is that different from any other service contract?
If my car breaks down, I not only have to produce my recovery club membership card to the mechanic, but before I even get that far, I have to phone the call centre and give them my name, membership number, address, phone number, current location, car registration, and even very private stuff such as whether I'm alone, or whether there's any young children with me. Little of that stuff is actually relevent; all they really need to know is my current location and whether I consider my party to be vulnerable- the mechanic can validate my membership card and confirm our vulnerability when he arrives.
Much the same for my washing machine repair insurance. Or my travel insurance. Or, heck, the milkman delivering me my two 454ml of semi-skimmed every day- I only live half a mile from the bloody dairy, he doesn't need to know my exact address, I can just collect it from the top of the hill!
Thinking about it, software licencing is much more like insurance or rental or a service contract than purchasing. You don't actually purchase the software; you can't sell it or modify it, all you can do is use it and get it fixed when it goes wrong.
If you trust a company to take your money and provide a service, it seems somewhat churlish to not trust them to know your personal details. Actually, it looks rather like shutting the stable door long after the horse has buggered off with your cash.
But then I live in Europe, and we have data privacy laws which protect the individual, rather than the US ones which seem only to protect the company.
(Hell, what do I care, I switched to Ubuntu a couple of months back. I only boot into Windows for GTA:SA and Paint Shop Pro.)
No, mate, it isn't. I live in the UK and have a job which entails a reasonable amount of hanging around expensive US hotels watching US TV.
Analogue SD NTSC (525i) is unbearable. It gives me a headache. Fuzzy, overly-warm colours, like watching through a misty kaleidescope.
Analogue SD PAL (625i) is almost *indistinguishable* from 720i/p HD, and the gain with 1020 is just noticable, certainly not worth spending a thousand quid on. Digital SD PAL, which is available free over a normal aerial to more than 75% of the UK, with set-top boxes costing less than US$50, makes even HD 1020 very difficult to distinguish on all but the largest of plasmas.
The problem with comparing broadband:population density, is that it assumes that rural in a first-world country should be expected to be no better than rural in a third-world country.
Most of the online US population seems to be embarrassed by the religious backwardness of their bible-belt rural states, yet the US government seems to be doing little to boost broadband in these areas. Communication is key to learning, education, understanding and scientific achievement. State governments enforcing creationism wouldn't be news in third-world areas such as sub-Saharan Africa; it's only news because it is happening in the US. People believe in nutty superstitions because it is what their family and their community have taught them; without good communications, they are rarely going to hear a thorough opposing argument.
There's also the issue of US coastal population density. Due to waves of post-Roman tribal warfare, European countries tend to have relatively evenly-spread populations; even supposedly spartan locations such the Scottish Highlands are significantly more populous than most rural American areas. To give an example, the UK government considers "rural" to be defined as "more than 3 miles from the nearest pharmacist, doctor OR high school"- can you imagine that in the US?!? Whereas the US has massive population concentrations on the east and west coast, with almost bugger all in between. This skews the figures. Even rural areas of the UK, more than 99% of all telephone exchanges already provide broadband; lack of take-up is usually down to elderly population. Whereas in rural US, lack of take-up is usually due to lack of availability in the first place.
Geography really matters, and if the US is to stop embarrasing itself with its bible-belt country cousins, it needs to solve its own specific inland rural broadband problem using technology that is massively different from that used in coastal regions or Europe. Ironically the only other major country with similar geographic issues is China, often considered an enemy; the US either needs to invest more than, or invest in partnership with, China to solve this problem before China overtakes them and leaves them in the dust.
The difference is, most films are made in the USA, and few USA filmmakers provide translations into Polish.
Whereas most Polish films are already available with English subtitles (admittedly- or rather, thankfully- usually EN:GB).
This sounds like something the EU normally fixes. I'm surprised the EU haven't created a legal exemption in these kinds of cases. Translating into minority languages is normally heavily supported by the EU. I wouldn't bat an eyelid if the guys take it to the European Court or somesuch and win hands down.
I took a great deal of effort to toddler-proof my study. PC and laptop with exposed buttons at desk height or above. Synth moved from wobbly stand to sturdy wall-mounted shelf. Linux server, under my desk, rehomed into a blacker-than-black case, fancy lighting rig unplugged, all buttons, optical drives and recesses safely hidden behind a plain black door. O'Reilly Wall moved from bookcase to high shelves.
I even got a "decoy" keyboard for my 11-month-old daughter to play with.
Of course, she found the UPS switch in seconds. It had a nice glowy LED above it, and was sitting on top of the Linux server just at her shoulder height.
All three PCs, the whole study, powered down, and not in a nice graceful apcupsd way, just a sudden BOINK, follwed by darkness and silence, penetrated only by a happy gurgle.
Thank heavens for Linux software RAID mirroring.
(A couple of months earlier, she managed to cause Windows to prompt "Add new hardware - Searching for drivers" [blur-o-matic cameraphone photo] by sucking the end of my iPod USB cable. Unfortunately I didn't have any Win2K drivers for a 9-month old baby. I bet Ubuntu installs them by default, even though the GNU crowd complain they're not truly free.)
Annabel is one on Sunday. Wish her happy birthday.
We had the middle ages. Europe was warmer, you could grow wine in regions you can't now.
Yes. I live in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK and in the Middle Ages, there was a large vineyard at Hailes Abbey just two miles from my house. Hopefully there will be again in my lifetime!
...OR, they didn't cock up the domestic economy as badly as the last lot.
Negative equity trumps any conservative:liberal argument, especially in the UK which has one of the highest home owners per capita in the world. It's not "greedy" to want to be able to clothe your children AND keep your home. CF. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
So long as Blair doesn't cock up the economy, he'll have pretty much a free hand to do what he likes. One of those two things will have to change before Labour are voted out; either Blair going away, or the economy failing. Blair has already said he's going to quit sometime this year.
Dun Malg: They sound like something out of a Monty Python skit!
Actually I suspect you're thinking of "Not The 9 O'Clock News" (Rowan Atkinson, Smith & Jones et al). "Wearing a loud shirt in a built-up area after the hours of darkness", "having an offensive wife" etc.
Off the coast of Essex, England, UK? In the North Sea?
I'm guessing you've never been to the east coast of England. It is sunny for approximately half an hour in the afternoon only of the third Wednesday after Pentecost.
A far, far faster method of obtaining fresh water in the North Sea would be to simply open your mouth and tilt your head skywards. It'll fill with fresh rainwater - no desalination required - in about six seconds.
Thank-you for your concern. Unfortunately you seem to forget that we have been dealing with terrorism in western Europe - notably, Spain and the UK - for several decades. Indeed, the Irish Republican bombing campaign was largely funded by an American charity.
And d'ya know what? Journalists complain, activists complain, but the vast majority of common people just carry on voting those kinds of laws back in. Because this loss of privacy actually does seem to save lives.
But the oddest thing of all, is that you guys aren't doing the thing that saved the most lives. Y'see, the thing that actually brought the Northern Ireland bombing campaign to a close was, we negotiated with the terrorists.
The answer: This case involves a large number of murders within a short space of time in a quiet semi-rural area where murders are exceptionally rare and crime very low.
Let's not kid ourselves that anyone (significant) cares about prostitutes, especially not drug-addicted ones. This is about five murders within a fortnight in a middle-class provincial town (100,000 folks). Ipswitch, contrary to London-based journalists misunderstanding, doesn't have a "red light district". It has a corner of a road near a truck stop. Not even one whole street. Think almost the furthest town you can imagine from The Bronx. Think Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple".
To give context, the town is only a few miles from where Constable painted The Hay Wain, possibly the most famous English countryside scene of all time. Imagine five naked dead women on the banks of that painting- the bodies were found in similar locations. THAT is why people suddenly care, because it is so incredibly unusual given the semi-rural location.
recall what happened when you put the dartboard up on the wall at the end of the hall and shot at it
I actually did this whilst at university, only against a door instead of a wall. The door in question was the front door, as this was the only corridor long enough to act as a range.
Although in the UK we only had air/CO2 powered pellet guns (albeit with 150m/s+ muzzle velocity, proper target pistols not BB guns), the stupidity of the situation did eventually dawn on us when the pizza guy rang the doorbell.
The native language of a person from Philadelphia would be Sioux or Chippewa, if my history memory serves (we do study American history here in UK schools, but essentially it just about fills one Wednesday afternoon- so long as you include Mexico).
English is native only to England, and like most European languages it has a patchy history. It is a mix of older tribal languages and French. The most important contributions came from the Angles (a German tribe who invaded Britain around or before 500BC), the Saxons (another German tribe who booted the Romans out of Britain around 400AD) and the Normans (a French kingdom, which invaded in 1066AD). Prior to 1066, the phrase "Old English" or "Anglo-Saxon" is sometimes used to refer to the hybrid language used throughout much of what is current-day England. There is also a notable influence from Norse and Danish, via the Vikings.
Other native languages to England include Welsh (spoken in my home county of Shropshire, now part of England but originally mostly in Wales- especially spoken in the town of Oswestry and used in tourist signposts and literature there) and Cornish (but again, Cornwall wasn't originally in England). I believe there was also a Cumbrian native language (again, not originally part of England) which sadly has nothing like the modern-day following of Welsh or Cornish (for instance, some radio stations have programmes in Cornish).
The image in TFA merely indicates that the North Koreans are apparently very respectful of light pollution.
Obliterating our beautiful night skies with yucky orange glow should not be seen as a sign of civilisation.
Of course, the reality probably is that they aren't environmentally concious at all, but simply don't have much electricity; however, to use a dark night-time satellite image as proof to bolster that assumption, is pretty ignorant and Amer-Euro-centric[TM].
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p0tat03: I run multiple Macs at home ... wireless sync? On that itself I'm sold
You have checked that sync works over wireless, and that it can connect to a Mac, right?
A Zune employee confirms that not only can you not sync over WiFi, but that you also require a Windows PC to sync at all. No Zune sync for you, Mr. Mac, WiFi or not!
My WAP is invisible from downstairs.
Um... get a WiFi Repeater?
My access point is in an upstairs bedrom. If I want direct line of sight from my shed, no signal, an old brick washhouse is in the way. So I got a thirty-quid repeater (actually just a regular access point switched into "repeater" mode) and installed that on the corner of the washhouse (in view of both the bedroom AND the shed). Now 100% signal in the shed.
There really isn't any magic to installing a WiFi repeater. Plug in to your PC, configure over a web browser with the SSID and encryption key, disconnect from your PC, plonk it somewhere where it can see both you and an original access point. Job done.
If I can figure this out in my 100-year-old farmworkers' cottage in rural England, I'm sure as hell you can figure it out in a modern US city gated community. It really, really isn't hard.
Top level domains should be about routing traffic competently.
.to are geographically located in Tonga?
.to is tonic.to
Oh, come on. Do you really think that all websites under
IP addresses and routing tables are about routing traffic. Domain names are about vanity.
The authority for
tonic.to is 206.14.210.235
206.14.210.235 is a server in San Fransico, USA
Now I realise that Tonga isn't far from the US territory of American Samoa, but c'mon, geographic TLDs are most definitely NOT going to help you route data.
Politicians will simply ignore the facts and press ahead.
More importantly, us Brits will ignore the facts and vote for those kind of politicians. I know this, because I'm one of them. I just feel safer with security cameras around; they don't prevent crime, but they make it easier to solve it when it happens. Perhaps most relevant is that I don't feel I'm losing anything by having security cameras watch my every move. Frankly I don't care who knows my every move. You could track me by my mobile phone if you really wanted to.
The problem is that a lot of British criminals are too stupid to care whether they're going to get caught, and a lot of British policemen are mind-numbingly stupid underachievers who enjoy bullying people but aren't actually mentally competent enough to follow through a criminal procedure to an actual conviction.
Hear, hear - mod parent up.
The BBC doesn't manufacture televisions or write software for digital radios. It just picks a standard that any manufacturer can use, and leaves the rest to the market. Quite why it should be involved in writing software for domestic computers is totally beyond my comprehension.
All they need do is to pick from one of the squillions of codecs already available, or at worst define their own, and the job is done. If they need to restrict content by geography, there is a wealth of geo-IP services already available. As for having content automatically self-destruct after a period, or restrict copying, well they don't do this for existing digital and analogue content, so why start now? On the contrary, the BBC are founder members of Freeview Playback, a group dedicated to defining standards for digital video recorders, whose entire reason for being is to copy and store digital broadcast content indefinitely!
Previously it had been considered this was not illegal, since under the Computer Misuse act 1990 section 1.1, the misuse has to be "unauthorised"; which has been tested in court to mean that there was an authorisation system and that it was circumvented, for example using a username and password for which the perpetrator was not authorised. With unsecured WiFi, there is no authorisation system at all, it does not ask for a username or password, and so using it did not fall under the Computer Misuse Act.
Now the police have quoted the much more vague and untested Communications Act 2003 section 125.1 "dishonestly obtains an electronic communications service" for this new charge. "Dishonestly obtaining" hasn't been tested in court so far, and it will be alarming if it turns out that this is weaker than "unauthorised".
The problem is that many people run unsecured wireless internet hotspots deliberately for the benefit of the community (such as my free public hotspot), whilst others run them accidentally and unknowingly due to their own ignorance. My deliberate public hotspot does not ask for a username nor password, it is just open. It is impossible for a passing user to determine in advance whether an unsecured hotspot is deliberate or accidental.
My free public hotspot in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK: www.nam-vets.org/frampton
But one way of changing a law is to make it completely unenforceable by a mass civil disobedience campaign
Never, ever, assume that "not being able to execute huge numbers of people fast enough" is equivalent to "unenforcable".
Why not just count yum/apt repository/mirror hits by unique IP?
Okay so that underestimates those in big organisations who run their own mirror, and those running old distros that don't check for updates, but it would be a damn sight more accurate than most of the other methods.
The big distros (Red Hat, Ubuntu etc) could even sponsor an independent body to oversee the fair collection of the data from the repos and mirrors.
So what you're saying is that in order to get service from MS, you have to prove you're entitled to it, including giving up personal information?
Exactly how is that different from any other service contract?
If my car breaks down, I not only have to produce my recovery club membership card to the mechanic, but before I even get that far, I have to phone the call centre and give them my name, membership number, address, phone number, current location, car registration, and even very private stuff such as whether I'm alone, or whether there's any young children with me. Little of that stuff is actually relevent; all they really need to know is my current location and whether I consider my party to be vulnerable- the mechanic can validate my membership card and confirm our vulnerability when he arrives.
Much the same for my washing machine repair insurance. Or my travel insurance. Or, heck, the milkman delivering me my two 454ml of semi-skimmed every day- I only live half a mile from the bloody dairy, he doesn't need to know my exact address, I can just collect it from the top of the hill!
Thinking about it, software licencing is much more like insurance or rental or a service contract than purchasing. You don't actually purchase the software; you can't sell it or modify it, all you can do is use it and get it fixed when it goes wrong.
If you trust a company to take your money and provide a service, it seems somewhat churlish to not trust them to know your personal details. Actually, it looks rather like shutting the stable door long after the horse has buggered off with your cash.
But then I live in Europe, and we have data privacy laws which protect the individual, rather than the US ones which seem only to protect the company.
(Hell, what do I care, I switched to Ubuntu a couple of months back. I only boot into Windows for GTA:SA and Paint Shop Pro.)
That's laughable.
No, mate, it isn't. I live in the UK and have a job which entails a reasonable amount of hanging around expensive US hotels watching US TV.
Analogue SD NTSC (525i) is unbearable. It gives me a headache. Fuzzy, overly-warm colours, like watching through a misty kaleidescope.
Analogue SD PAL (625i) is almost *indistinguishable* from 720i/p HD, and the gain with 1020 is just noticable, certainly not worth spending a thousand quid on. Digital SD PAL, which is available free over a normal aerial to more than 75% of the UK, with set-top boxes costing less than US$50, makes even HD 1020 very difficult to distinguish on all but the largest of plasmas.
The problem with comparing broadband:population density, is that it assumes that rural in a first-world country should be expected to be no better than rural in a third-world country.
Most of the online US population seems to be embarrassed by the religious backwardness of their bible-belt rural states, yet the US government seems to be doing little to boost broadband in these areas. Communication is key to learning, education, understanding and scientific achievement. State governments enforcing creationism wouldn't be news in third-world areas such as sub-Saharan Africa; it's only news because it is happening in the US. People believe in nutty superstitions because it is what their family and their community have taught them; without good communications, they are rarely going to hear a thorough opposing argument.
There's also the issue of US coastal population density. Due to waves of post-Roman tribal warfare, European countries tend to have relatively evenly-spread populations; even supposedly spartan locations such the Scottish Highlands are significantly more populous than most rural American areas. To give an example, the UK government considers "rural" to be defined as "more than 3 miles from the nearest pharmacist, doctor OR high school"- can you imagine that in the US?!? Whereas the US has massive population concentrations on the east and west coast, with almost bugger all in between. This skews the figures. Even rural areas of the UK, more than 99% of all telephone exchanges already provide broadband; lack of take-up is usually down to elderly population. Whereas in rural US, lack of take-up is usually due to lack of availability in the first place.
Geography really matters, and if the US is to stop embarrasing itself with its bible-belt country cousins, it needs to solve its own specific inland rural broadband problem using technology that is massively different from that used in coastal regions or Europe. Ironically the only other major country with similar geographic issues is China, often considered an enemy; the US either needs to invest more than, or invest in partnership with, China to solve this problem before China overtakes them and leaves them in the dust.
The difference is, most films are made in the USA, and few USA filmmakers provide translations into Polish.
Whereas most Polish films are already available with English subtitles (admittedly- or rather, thankfully- usually EN:GB).
This sounds like something the EU normally fixes. I'm surprised the EU haven't created a legal exemption in these kinds of cases. Translating into minority languages is normally heavily supported by the EU. I wouldn't bat an eyelid if the guys take it to the European Court or somesuch and win hands down.
I took a great deal of effort to toddler-proof my study. PC and laptop with exposed buttons at desk height or above. Synth moved from wobbly stand to sturdy wall-mounted shelf. Linux server, under my desk, rehomed into a blacker-than-black case, fancy lighting rig unplugged, all buttons, optical drives and recesses safely hidden behind a plain black door. O'Reilly Wall moved from bookcase to high shelves.
I even got a "decoy" keyboard for my 11-month-old daughter to play with.
Of course, she found the UPS switch in seconds. It had a nice glowy LED above it, and was sitting on top of the Linux server just at her shoulder height.
All three PCs, the whole study, powered down, and not in a nice graceful apcupsd way, just a sudden BOINK, follwed by darkness and silence, penetrated only by a happy gurgle.
Thank heavens for Linux software RAID mirroring.
(A couple of months earlier, she managed to cause Windows to prompt "Add new hardware - Searching for drivers" [blur-o-matic cameraphone photo] by sucking the end of my iPod USB cable. Unfortunately I didn't have any Win2K drivers for a 9-month old baby. I bet Ubuntu installs them by default, even though the GNU crowd complain they're not truly free.)
Annabel is one on Sunday. Wish her happy birthday.
We had the middle ages. Europe was warmer, you could grow wine in regions you can't now.
Yes. I live in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK and in the Middle Ages, there was a large vineyard at Hailes Abbey just two miles from my house. Hopefully there will be again in my lifetime!
I have hedged my bets across to continents
I'm guessing you don't have kids, right?
Families aren't as mobile as batchellors, and governments get voted in by families- they have more at stake.
...OR, they didn't cock up the domestic economy as badly as the last lot.
Negative equity trumps any conservative:liberal argument, especially in the UK which has one of the highest home owners per capita in the world. It's not "greedy" to want to be able to clothe your children AND keep your home. CF. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
So long as Blair doesn't cock up the economy, he'll have pretty much a free hand to do what he likes. One of those two things will have to change before Labour are voted out; either Blair going away, or the economy failing. Blair has already said he's going to quit sometime this year.
Indeed, we should well remember the 5th of November.
One man took on the government, got caught, the government hanged him, arranged for his still living body to be pulled apart by horses and his remains placed on public display.
Of course, they didn't mention THAT in the film of the comic book.
Dun Malg: They sound like something out of a Monty Python skit!
Actually I suspect you're thinking of "Not The 9 O'Clock News" (Rowan Atkinson, Smith & Jones et al). "Wearing a loud shirt in a built-up area after the hours of darkness", "having an offensive wife" etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoSqPxsNtU
bladesjester: the sun do its work
Off the coast of Essex, England, UK? In the North Sea?
I'm guessing you've never been to the east coast of England. It is sunny for approximately half an hour in the afternoon only of the third Wednesday after Pentecost.
A far, far faster method of obtaining fresh water in the North Sea would be to simply open your mouth and tilt your head skywards. It'll fill with fresh rainwater - no desalination required - in about six seconds.
Dear Americans,
Thank-you for your concern. Unfortunately you seem to forget that we have been dealing with terrorism in western Europe - notably, Spain and the UK - for several decades. Indeed, the Irish Republican bombing campaign was largely funded by an American charity.
We've already seen massive loss of personal privacy to cope with that, including the world's largest CCTV camera to population ratio, imprisonment without open trial and even imprisonment with no trial whatsoever, plus a chip & pin payment system that ensures all CC payments are made electronically trackable rather than the old paper-and-ink slips.
And d'ya know what? Journalists complain, activists complain, but the vast majority of common people just carry on voting those kinds of laws back in. Because this loss of privacy actually does seem to save lives.
But the oddest thing of all, is that you guys aren't doing the thing that saved the most lives. Y'see, the thing that actually brought the Northern Ireland bombing campaign to a close was, we negotiated with the terrorists.
pembo13: Why do people suddenly care?
The answer: This case involves a large number of murders within a short space of time in a quiet semi-rural area where murders are exceptionally rare and crime very low.
Let's not kid ourselves that anyone (significant) cares about prostitutes, especially not drug-addicted ones. This is about five murders within a fortnight in a middle-class provincial town (100,000 folks). Ipswitch, contrary to London-based journalists misunderstanding, doesn't have a "red light district". It has a corner of a road near a truck stop. Not even one whole street. Think almost the furthest town you can imagine from The Bronx. Think Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple".
To give context, the town is only a few miles from where Constable painted The Hay Wain, possibly the most famous English countryside scene of all time. Imagine five naked dead women on the banks of that painting- the bodies were found in similar locations. THAT is why people suddenly care, because it is so incredibly unusual given the semi-rural location.
recall what happened when you put the dartboard up on the wall at the end of the hall and shot at it
I actually did this whilst at university, only against a door instead of a wall. The door in question was the front door, as this was the only corridor long enough to act as a range.
Although in the UK we only had air/CO2 powered pellet guns (albeit with 150m/s+ muzzle velocity, proper target pistols not BB guns), the stupidity of the situation did eventually dawn on us when the pizza guy rang the doorbell.
Yes.
The native language of a person from Philadelphia would be Sioux or Chippewa, if my history memory serves (we do study American history here in UK schools, but essentially it just about fills one Wednesday afternoon- so long as you include Mexico).
English is native only to England, and like most European languages it has a patchy history. It is a mix of older tribal languages and French. The most important contributions came from the Angles (a German tribe who invaded Britain around or before 500BC), the Saxons (another German tribe who booted the Romans out of Britain around 400AD) and the Normans (a French kingdom, which invaded in 1066AD). Prior to 1066, the phrase "Old English" or "Anglo-Saxon" is sometimes used to refer to the hybrid language used throughout much of what is current-day England. There is also a notable influence from Norse and Danish, via the Vikings.
Other native languages to England include Welsh (spoken in my home county of Shropshire, now part of England but originally mostly in Wales- especially spoken in the town of Oswestry and used in tourist signposts and literature there) and Cornish (but again, Cornwall wasn't originally in England). I believe there was also a Cumbrian native language (again, not originally part of England) which sadly has nothing like the modern-day following of Welsh or Cornish (for instance, some radio stations have programmes in Cornish).
The image in TFA merely indicates that the North Koreans are apparently very respectful of light pollution.
Obliterating our beautiful night skies with yucky orange glow should not be seen as a sign of civilisation.
Of course, the reality probably is that they aren't environmentally concious at all, but simply don't have much electricity; however, to use a dark night-time satellite image as proof to bolster that assumption, is pretty ignorant and Amer-Euro-centric[TM].
Did you think countries of religious fundamentalism were restricted to poor 3rd world countries?
No, we just thought they were restricted to America.
Boom-cha! Thank-you, I'll be here all night.