I'm sick of the heterophobia and hypocrisy that's so popular in the media these days.
Heterophobia. Sure.
The media criticise people for being straight. The media believes that heterosexuality is 'flat out wrong'. They believe that heterosexuality is 'damaging to the nation'.
"If you don't believe that homosexuality is a normal thing that's absolutely wonderful for everybody then WE ATTACK YOU!...but don't you dare attack us. That violates our rights."
I lived in France for years, and I dearly love France and the French, but his story rings true to me.
It's not that the French are lazy or incompetent, it's that they suffer from a collective "can't do" attitude.
You must have experienced this everywhere from restaurants to shops to plumbers, and particularly from anyone who sits behind a desk: nothing is possible, the answer is (almost) always "non".
And don't get me started on French corporate hierarchy, where seniority is determined by age, time served, or nepotism. It's just not possible to get a foot in the door, work bloody hard, show your competence and advance quickly like it is in Britain and the US.
I'm not talking about this not being possible for a foreigner, but for French people.
Read about the French 'Barrez-vous!' (Get out!) movement, which advises young French people just to leave France to escape the ossified hierarchical culture:
Flashing amber is only used on pedestrian ('pelican') crossings.
On flashing amber, drivers can go if there are no pedestrians on the crossing. More time for pedestrians if there a lot of them, and shorter delays for driver if there aren't.
In the last ten years or so, the meaning of the traffic lights seems to have changed, at least in London: amber now means "accelerate to maximum speed, no matter how far you are from the junction", and red now means "Oh, go on then. Just a couple more"...
Google is changing it by coming an ISP. As soon as they offer service in a reasonable share of the market, they can refuse to pay anyone. If the ISP doesn't comply, they can't offer Google to their customers. Orange gets Internet lite. This gives me yet another reason to dislike France.
This is just a peering dispute. It's nothing to do with Google paying Orange to let their customers access Google services.
Which makes me wonder how many of your other reasons for disliking France are based on misconceptions.;-)
You mean that thing built with the cooperation of 10,000 scientists from over 1 hundred countries? The fact that it sits on European soil is incidental because there were a lot of people that poured their labor into it that were not Europeans.
The fact that it sits on European soil is no doubt due to the fact that CERN is almost completely funded by European nations. Incontrovertibly, this is a case of European nations working together on something technology related.
Another example off the top of my head is the European Space Agency. Obviously not a patch on NASA, but still an example of European cooperation on technology.
I mean seriously this reeks of paranoia. There's a very valid reason for banks cracking down on OWS. In the USA there are really only two ways to legally create a bank account...
You may not like the system or the laws, but they exist, and the banks and FBI are simply following them.
Insightful, my arse.
I'd like to say that you are living in cloud cuckoo land if you think this is anything to do with following banking regulations, but it's clear that in fact you're just bending reality to fit your dislike of OWS.
Some is, but you can find terrible beer pretty much everywhere, eg San Miguel in Spain, Kronenbourg in France, the stuff they sell as Stella Artois in the UK.
Strangely, these tend to be the most popular beers.
Dunno where TFA got the idea that beer is $2.45 a pint in France though: $6.50 is nearer the mark.
If that were really the problem in this case then the Facebook website would have exactly the same issues, and you'd have to download a Facebook client app for desktop use.
The real problem is that browsers on mobiles still suck.
UK Citizens unfortunately trust their government too much.
I don't know anyone in the UK who trusts the government.
But what to do? Vote for a Labour government, who lied about WMD, tuition fees and lots more, and introduced police-state bollocks like the RIPA?
Or opt for a Conservative-led government, who lied about the NHS, pension age, child benefit, reining in the banks, and lots more, then introduce police-state bollocks like the Draft Communications Bill?
I like UK citizens, and I think they're very very rational people, but they can't seem to grasp that no matter how reasonable and rational a politician might seem, they still want power over you, so they can't be trusted
Oh, they grasp this very well.
But the fact remains that the UK electorate has a choice between shit and shite, and the politicians know it.
I despair of the UK political landscape. And the rest of Europe is going exactly the same way.
There's plenty of research on herbal medicine. Searching pubmed for arnica alone gives me 15 pages of results. Among which I find this one which shows arnica to be less effective than placebo on muscle strains: it makes muscle strain worse.
With all the hundreds of billions a year that are spent on drugs there should be government testing on herbal remedies if for no other reason than saving money. The problem comes in the form of resistance from drug companies.
Companies which produce herbal remedies also have huge piles of money, why don't they spend some of that proving their remedies work? Hint: it's because they largely don't work.
Many effective pharmacological do compounds come from plants. These are isolated, tested for safety and effectiveness, and -- if shown to be both safe and effective -- become 'medicine': Not herbal medicine, but actual medicine. Think of taxominofen, isolated from yew plants.
'Herbal medicine' is the practice of prescribing unknown quantities of a substance of unknown purity without understanding the mechanism by which its' supposed to work. You can have that if you want, but I don't want the NHS paying for it.
My daughter, as a toddler, had one earache after another. Every time the doctor examined her ears, there was nothing wrong. Eventually he prescribed homoeopathic pills, on the NHS, it's not a new thing here. The pills looked and tasted like mints. The earaches stopped.
I don't doubt it.
I suggest that what happened was this:
Having found nothing wrong in your daughter's ears, the doctor ran out of ideas and/or patience, so prescribed a placebo in the form of homeopathy.
Your daughter's earaches then stopped due to the body healing itself, or due to the trigger for the pain passing. For example, tooth pain often presents as earache (it's called 'referred pain', in this case 'referred otalgia'), toddlers have emerging teeth, particular teeth finish emerging, otalgia goes away. The doctor could examine your daughter's ears as much as he likes: if the pain was referred, he would see "nothing wrong", as the problem is not in fact in the ears.
Result: homeopathy appears to work, but in fact doesn't.
Consider, that we started off with a massive release of energy, then the solar system coalesced from a cloud of dust and gas. As the Earth formed, vapors condensed into liquids, the land cooled and solidified, and the sky cleared (making the sun, moon, and stars visible). Plants developed, and then animals of increasing complexity developed, culminating in Man.
However, in Genesis 1, plants are created before the sun, moon and stars. Birds are created before land animals.
This doesn't make sense.
However, it is said that the Jatravartid People of Viltvodle Six believe that the universe was sneezed out of the nose of a being called The Great Green Arkleseizure. This picture of an inflationary universe is not inconsistent with the 'big bang' cosmological model.
So I shall teach my children a balanced view: to fear the Coming Of The Great White Handkerchief happening before the heat death of the universe.
Lordy. I know I shouldn't have RTFA, but this guy Horowitz comes across as the biggest asshole not featured on a.cx TLD.
When Steve came into my office I asked him a question: “Steve, do you know why I came to work today?” Steve: “What do you mean, Ben?” Me: “Why did I bother waking up? Why did I bother coming in? If it was about the money, couldn’t I sell the company tomorrow and have more money than I ever wanted? I don’t want to be famous, in fact just the opposite. ” Steve: “I guess.” Me: “Well, then why did I come to work.” Steve: “I don’t know.” Me: “Well, let me explain. I came to work, because it’s personally very important to me that Opsware be a good company. It’s important to me that the people who spend 12 to 16 hours/day here, which is most of their waking life, have a good life. It’s why I come to work.” Steve: “OK.” Me: “Do you know the difference between a good place to work and a bad place to work?” Steve: “Umm, I think so.” [continues to drone on in this patronising and insulting vein...]
Third world it may be, but Ecuador is not a dictatorship, it's a functioning representational democracy.
No doubt the US will be along soon to turn it into a dictatorship, as it did in Brazil, Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Chile, Argentina and Dominican Republic.
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I'm sick of the heterophobia and hypocrisy that's so popular in the media these days.
Heterophobia. Sure.
The media criticise people for being straight. The media believes that heterosexuality is 'flat out wrong'. They believe that heterosexuality is 'damaging to the nation'.
"If you don't believe that homosexuality is a normal thing that's absolutely wonderful for everybody then WE ATTACK YOU! ...but don't you dare attack us. That violates our rights."
This is a straw man. People don't say this.
I lived in France for years, and I dearly love France and the French, but his story rings true to me.
It's not that the French are lazy or incompetent, it's that they suffer from a collective "can't do" attitude.
You must have experienced this everywhere from restaurants to shops to plumbers, and particularly from anyone who sits behind a desk: nothing is possible, the answer is (almost) always "non".
And don't get me started on French corporate hierarchy, where seniority is determined by age, time served, or nepotism. It's just not possible to get a foot in the door, work bloody hard, show your competence and advance quickly like it is in Britain and the US.
I'm not talking about this not being possible for a foreigner, but for French people.
Read about the French 'Barrez-vous!' (Get out!) movement, which advises young French people just to leave France to escape the ossified hierarchical culture:
http://barrez-vo2.us/site/
I still love France though, and intend to go back despite these problems.
So, maybe you need to vote for some other party or reform the voting in your own country instead?
Indeed.
UK voters should note that all four MEPs mentioned in TFA are from the Conservative Party, and vote accordingly for the other lizards in the future.
Flashing amber is only used on pedestrian ('pelican') crossings.
On flashing amber, drivers can go if there are no pedestrians on the crossing. More time for pedestrians if there a lot of them, and shorter delays for driver if there aren't.
In the last ten years or so, the meaning of the traffic lights seems to have changed, at least in London: amber now means "accelerate to maximum speed, no matter how far you are from the junction", and red now means "Oh, go on then. Just a couple more"...
Google is changing it by coming an ISP. As soon as they offer service in a reasonable share of the market, they can refuse to pay anyone. If the ISP doesn't comply, they can't offer Google to their customers. Orange gets Internet lite. This gives me yet another reason to dislike France.
This is just a peering dispute. It's nothing to do with Google paying Orange to let their customers access Google services.
Which makes me wonder how many of your other reasons for disliking France are based on misconceptions. ;-)
You mean that thing built with the cooperation of 10,000 scientists from over 1 hundred countries? The fact that it sits on European soil is incidental because there were a lot of people that poured their labor into it that were not Europeans.
The fact that it sits on European soil is no doubt due to the fact that CERN is almost completely funded by European nations. Incontrovertibly, this is a case of European nations working together on something technology related.
Another example off the top of my head is the European Space Agency. Obviously not a patch on NASA, but still an example of European cooperation on technology.
Racist jingoistic fucktard
I think I see where this is coming from.
google cache of page
I mean seriously this reeks of paranoia. There's a very valid reason for banks cracking down on OWS. In the USA there are really only two ways to legally create a bank account...
You may not like the system or the laws, but they exist, and the banks and FBI are simply following them.
Insightful, my arse.
I'd like to say that you are living in cloud cuckoo land if you think this is anything to do with following banking regulations, but it's clear that in fact you're just bending reality to fit your dislike of OWS.
Some is, but you can find terrible beer pretty much everywhere, eg San Miguel in Spain, Kronenbourg in France, the stuff they sell as Stella Artois in the UK.
Strangely, these tend to be the most popular beers.
Dunno where TFA got the idea that beer is $2.45 a pint in France though: $6.50 is nearer the mark.
I once paid €10 for a 'pint' in Paris ($12.87).
Yet removing one container ship from the shipping industry would be the equivalent of removing 50 million automobiles [gas2.org].
This claim is about SOx and particulate matter, so is concerned with acid rain and smog, not global warming.
If that were really the problem in this case then the Facebook website would have exactly the same issues, and you'd have to download a Facebook client app for desktop use.
The real problem is that browsers on mobiles still suck.
Here's a link.
Would have thought the editors could have done this...
... I accept free-market principles...
I reject the idea that CO2 is going to cause global warming...
Another data point supports the correlation!
UK Citizens unfortunately trust their government too much.
I don't know anyone in the UK who trusts the government.
But what to do? Vote for a Labour government, who lied about WMD, tuition fees and lots more, and introduced police-state bollocks like the RIPA?
Or opt for a Conservative-led government, who lied about the NHS, pension age, child benefit, reining in the banks, and lots more, then introduce police-state bollocks like the Draft Communications Bill?
I like UK citizens, and I think they're very very rational people, but they can't seem to grasp that no matter how reasonable and rational a politician might seem, they still want power over you, so they can't be trusted
Oh, they grasp this very well.
But the fact remains that the UK electorate has a choice between shit and shite, and the politicians know it.
I despair of the UK political landscape. And the rest of Europe is going exactly the same way.
There's plenty of research on herbal medicine. Searching pubmed for arnica alone gives me 15 pages of results. Among which I find this one which shows arnica to be less effective than placebo on muscle strains: it makes muscle strain worse.
With all the hundreds of billions a year that are spent on drugs there should be government testing on herbal remedies if for no other reason than saving money. The problem comes in the form of resistance from drug companies.
Companies which produce herbal remedies also have huge piles of money, why don't they spend some of that proving their remedies work? Hint: it's because they largely don't work.
Many effective pharmacological do compounds come from plants. These are isolated, tested for safety and effectiveness, and -- if shown to be both safe and effective -- become 'medicine': Not herbal medicine, but actual medicine. Think of taxominofen, isolated from yew plants.
'Herbal medicine' is the practice of prescribing unknown quantities of a substance of unknown purity without understanding the mechanism by which its' supposed to work. You can have that if you want, but I don't want the NHS paying for it.
My daughter, as a toddler, had one earache after another. Every time the doctor examined her ears, there was nothing wrong. Eventually he prescribed homoeopathic pills, on the NHS, it's not a new thing here. The pills looked and tasted like mints. The earaches stopped.
I don't doubt it.
I suggest that what happened was this:
Having found nothing wrong in your daughter's ears, the doctor ran out of ideas and/or patience, so prescribed a placebo in the form of homeopathy.
Your daughter's earaches then stopped due to the body healing itself, or due to the trigger for the pain passing. For example, tooth pain often presents as earache (it's called 'referred pain', in this case 'referred otalgia'), toddlers have emerging teeth, particular teeth finish emerging, otalgia goes away. The doctor could examine your daughter's ears as much as he likes: if the pain was referred, he would see "nothing wrong", as the problem is not in fact in the ears.
Result: homeopathy appears to work, but in fact doesn't.
Far more likely than magic being real, IMO.
UK (imperial) pints aren't the same size as US liquid pints: UK pint is 568mL, US pint is 473mL. In other words, a UK pint is 19.2 US fl oz.
And an imperial fluid ounce is a 20th of an imperial pint, but a US fluid ounce is a 16th of a US pint.
Draught beer can only be sold in pints or halves in the UK, by law.
Please explain to a dumb non-american...
If freedom of expression is absolute, and not partial, why is Bradley Manning in prison?
And presumably the SCOTUS has ruled that threats against the president are a-ok?
Freedom of speech is not guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence.
Are you perhaps thinking of the Bill of Rights, specifically the first amendment to the constitution?
I'm not even american and I know this.
Check your facts.
Consider, that we started off with a massive release of energy, then the solar system coalesced from a cloud of dust and gas. As the Earth formed, vapors condensed into liquids, the land cooled and solidified, and the sky cleared (making the sun, moon, and stars visible). Plants developed, and then animals of increasing complexity developed, culminating in Man.
However, in Genesis 1, plants are created before the sun, moon and stars. Birds are created before land animals.
This doesn't make sense.
However, it is said that the Jatravartid People of Viltvodle Six believe that the universe was sneezed out of the nose of a being called The Great Green Arkleseizure. This picture of an inflationary universe is not inconsistent with the 'big bang' cosmological model.
So I shall teach my children a balanced view: to fear the Coming Of The Great White Handkerchief happening before the heat death of the universe.
The world is a complex place, and only children have the luxury of viewing it in black and white terms.
Lordy. Talk about the pot calling the kettle beige.
And if you need to carry a tool to open handcuffs, why not just carry the tool designed for the job: a handcuff key?
Also, I'm not too keen on Elton's latest wig.
Lordy. I know I shouldn't have RTFA, but this guy Horowitz comes across as the biggest asshole not featured on a .cx TLD.
When Steve came into my office I asked him a question: “Steve, do you know why I came to work today?”
Steve: “What do you mean, Ben?”
Me: “Why did I bother waking up? Why did I bother coming in? If it was about the money, couldn’t I sell the company tomorrow and have more money than I ever wanted? I don’t want to be famous, in fact just the opposite. ”
Steve: “I guess.”
Me: “Well, then why did I come to work.”
Steve: “I don’t know.”
Me: “Well, let me explain. I came to work, because it’s personally very important to me that Opsware be a good company. It’s important to me that the people who spend 12 to 16 hours/day here, which is most of their waking life, have a good life. It’s why I come to work.”
Steve: “OK.”
Me: “Do you know the difference between a good place to work and a bad place to work?”
Steve: “Umm, I think so.”
[continues to drone on in this patronising and insulting vein...]
He sounds like a reject from a 50s infomercial.
What an insufferable prick.
"I think I speak for the majority of Brits"
You don't.
Personally...
So you are the majority of Brits now?
Third world it may be, but Ecuador is not a dictatorship, it's a functioning representational democracy.
No doubt the US will be along soon to turn it into a dictatorship, as it did in Brazil, Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Chile, Argentina and Dominican Republic.