It is hard to recognise him as anyone in the photos as one eye is out of place. The photos could be of a local goat herder with his face broken. The Pakistani government did not object to an attack on OBL, they are objecting to America constantly invading their country during a time of peace. Their objection do not verify who it was because they have no interest in who it was.
The main question that the photos raise in my mind is why did they need to attack an unarmed man so violently given the potential intelligence he could provide if he had been taken alive. What was the threat that he posed?
Just because there is a wealth of circumstantial evidence does not mean that there was a reason not to follow due process and provide evidence. Which still begs the question "Why?" It is about the proof. The OP did not say he did not believe that OBL is alive, what he said is that no evidence was produced and he makes a good and valid point. I find all the flamebait accusers etc. worrying in that they want to believe the propaganda so badly that anyone that questions the obvious inconsistencies is called a troll. Why are you all so frightened to know the truth? We are being spoon fed little tit bits to rally around and say "what a great guberment we got" but in reality we have seen nothing. What we have here could be another government fake. We have no idea because there is no clarity.
I live in Asia, it is not one country or one culture. Pakistan is a world apart from Japan. I Kazakhstan you are not even going to find a shop selling legit DVDs whereas in Japan you would not find a shop, openly, selling bootleg DVDs. I download shedloads. I also go out to watch live music and do lots of other stuff. Asia is a great place, much better than America, but it is not one place and the great thing is the diversity.
Wrong, the crime was committed in the UK. They were in the UK when they committed it therefore that is where it was committed. Just because your government is prone to logical fallacies does not mean that you all have to act stupid.
My hosting is up for renewal next month and I am already looking to move out of the US for security even though I do not think that I am doing anything of interest to them, I do not know what else is being done at my provider. It is not just bad guys that get taken down, everyone using that service suffered. I do not want to suffer when the jackboots arrive. I want somewhere safe and stable like Switzerland. I am sure that someone will post a reply quoting a bad incident in Switzerland but we could fill several pages with bad incidents in the US.
If they are going through your rubbish, they are not planning to enter your house again, they are going to use your identity to order a whole load of stuff on the internet and leave you with the bill. They can max out your credit cards in a day and all the goodies will be long gone before you even find out what they were. You have a real problem to deal with and cameras may look good in the occasional story where someone recognises the person but in the real world that will not happen. You will have a lovely photo of a guy that no one knows while you go bankrupt.
Normally businesses lower their prices to make more money. It is very simple math in the rest of the world but America is trying to buck against basic economics. If you lower your prices you increase your sales, get the balance right and you make more money. I do not mind paying for things but I want to get what I pay for so I would rather download a movie than buy something that I might not be able to play on my system or whatever I want to play it on. If they sold them for a lot less without DRM so that all computers etc. could play them, people would rather buy a disk than waste time downloading a movie that might not work. I know that I would happily buy good BR disks but I will not waste my money on rubbish.
Do you honestly think you know more about this than Steven Fry? Themed pubs are part of our culture and part of American culture and it is wrong that they are being litigated out of existence. They are not claiming to be official places, they are just pubs or restaurants and it is time that the legal system started defending them.
But as usual the summary is completely wrong. They switched many years ago and they are still going strong. The only thing that has changed now is that the printed version now only represents 1% of their revenue so they have decided to drop it. The company is still as strong as ever and has lots more markets in education etc. that it never had before and there is no competition for them yet. Wikipedia is not competition as it is not verified and most reputable universities and research institutes etc. will not accept citations from it, and who even knows where Encarta went.
But that is the point, this is a system that stops the pump from working if it cannot see a recognised number!!! So if you run out of petrol and walk to the petrol station with a can... it cannot see a number!!! If for any reason it decides that it does not like your number, i.e. it is dirty, broken or just the machine is having a bad day... you can walk for the rest of the year until DVLC can get a brain cell in gear to sort the problem out. As I said else where, I live abroad, I am often driving on foreign plates... I think this will be a right royal pain in the arse...
Sorry, we will explain this slowly for the hard of thinking. In the UK we do not pay extra tax for a trailer so there is no need for it to have its own plate. That is just in America so that your government can screw more money out of you. In the UK we have lots of people using trailers all the time, it is not complicated, you do not let someone use your number if they borrow your trailer, they use their number. If you have a tow bar fitted you get yourself an extra plate at the local car accessory shop for a couple of pounds and when you attach a trailer you put your number on the back of it. Make sure that you give the owner of the trailer his number so it does not get lost. When you give the trailer back you take your number off and put it back in your car. EASY... Much easier than having a different number on the same vehicle. If someone owns a trailer that they do not lend out they fix the number on properly. Most of my trailers have had the number fixed but on the horse box it was a clip so that other people could use it. It is also easier to have a clip if you have more than one vehicle but I always had a 4x4 for heavy stuff and an economy that was not an option for towing.
In the UK a trailer must bear the same number as the vehicle towing it. So the vehicle has the front number and the trailer has the same number on the rear. End of story, if the trailer has a different number you are breaking the law and deserve the problems. I still do not like this system though as it will give me problems when I am driving on foreign plates. Will I have to tape fake plates on to get petrol? People talk about the problems but do they really think about how bad it will be for a false flagged person that cannot use their car?
German law does not apply in the UK. This is in the UK and you are legally allowed to use your own name for your business regardless. Mc Donald's failed to shut down a McDonald's restaurant in Scotland because the owner was called McDonald and was legally allowed to use their name for their restaurant. However, changing your name to The Hobbit may be seen as a deliberate ploy and not accepted as a defence.
If their choice of hardware and ability of IT staff are good you will be unable to do anything as the settings should be locked (password protected) and it should not boot from anything other that the disk they set up. If they are useless enough to allow you in then I have little sympathy for them but they will not see it like that. I remember one company that I worked at where I could not do my job because I did not have the software I needed installed. After a few days I installed it myself (using the correct install disk which was waiting on my desk but involved changing the Admin password). It was 2 weeks before IT came along and I got into a lot of trouble. The fact that I would have been doing nothing for 2 weeks and I had customers that needed my work etc. did not count for anything against an established IT manager given that I was obviously a "Hacker". It is not really worth the risk unless you are a belligerent trouble maker like me.
If I had kharma points I would credit you. I am a fanboy of the Volt but it is out of my price range. There are a lot of hurdles to overcome with the car and they are not doing enough to make it attractive. If you live in an apartment or terrace, it is impractical etc.. If you have the ability it is still going to take some modifications like not everyone has power in the garage etc. So the overall cost is a big problem. I realise that this is an early concept and that prices will come down as people switch but I think that most people will agree with you.
The last Samsung I had spent more time back at the shop than in my pocket... I do not think that LG are as good as Apple but at half the price I think they are better value. I have a Sony Xperia in my pocket at the moment and it is good but only because it was free. I am a fanboy and prefer Apple but I am really fed up with all this BS and the price tags for what is now an old design.
Why should I have to go and get something that I have already bought, paid for and had delivered? Will they recompense me for my time and inconvenience? I doubt that but even if they did, unless they refunded the whole some by way of apology, I would still be pissed. This has all gone to far and I, as someone who had always been happy to buy lots of games in the past, download the cracked copy every time now because I do not want to put up with this BS. If I cannot play the game, when I want (i.e. no need for internet etc.) I would rather have a copy. If I am going to have to go online (to download half the game) I may as well download an entire game. I am not even prepared to put the CD into the drive every time I want to play (why should I? My CD drive is not internal!), I just want to play.
I have got about a cubic metre of games that I have bought in my room but now I download. I do not mind paying but I do mind having to put up with all the shit. If they provide good extras (manual maps etc.) I will buy it and download the crack. For me it is not about the money, it is about being able to play it when I want.
The best thing about SOPA and PIPA is that now people all over the world are seeing how dangerous it is to rely on the US for important services. We are switching to DNS servers that cannot be regulated by absurd US law suits. The internet is changing to an US and us internet whereby we can see things you cannot. The Great Firewall of the USA is being built and good luck to those in the US that are letting it happen. The idea is just as idiotic as the Chinese version and less workable.
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It is hard to recognise him as anyone in the photos as one eye is out of place. The photos could be of a local goat herder with his face broken. The Pakistani government did not object to an attack on OBL, they are objecting to America constantly invading their country during a time of peace. Their objection do not verify who it was because they have no interest in who it was.
The main question that the photos raise in my mind is why did they need to attack an unarmed man so violently given the potential intelligence he could provide if he had been taken alive. What was the threat that he posed?
Just because there is a wealth of circumstantial evidence does not mean that there was a reason not to follow due process and provide evidence. Which still begs the question "Why?" It is about the proof. The OP did not say he did not believe that OBL is alive, what he said is that no evidence was produced and he makes a good and valid point. I find all the flamebait accusers etc. worrying in that they want to believe the propaganda so badly that anyone that questions the obvious inconsistencies is called a troll. Why are you all so frightened to know the truth? We are being spoon fed little tit bits to rally around and say "what a great guberment we got" but in reality we have seen nothing. What we have here could be another government fake. We have no idea because there is no clarity.
I live in Asia, it is not one country or one culture. Pakistan is a world apart from Japan. I Kazakhstan you are not even going to find a shop selling legit DVDs whereas in Japan you would not find a shop, openly, selling bootleg DVDs. I download shedloads. I also go out to watch live music and do lots of other stuff. Asia is a great place, much better than America, but it is not one place and the great thing is the diversity.
Do you mean that SlashBI is not for bi-sexuals? As for the slash, is that for S&M or copros?
Wrong, the crime was committed in the UK. They were in the UK when they committed it therefore that is where it was committed. Just because your government is prone to logical fallacies does not mean that you all have to act stupid.
My hosting is up for renewal next month and I am already looking to move out of the US for security even though I do not think that I am doing anything of interest to them, I do not know what else is being done at my provider. It is not just bad guys that get taken down, everyone using that service suffered. I do not want to suffer when the jackboots arrive. I want somewhere safe and stable like Switzerland. I am sure that someone will post a reply quoting a bad incident in Switzerland but we could fill several pages with bad incidents in the US.
If they are going through your rubbish, they are not planning to enter your house again, they are going to use your identity to order a whole load of stuff on the internet and leave you with the bill. They can max out your credit cards in a day and all the goodies will be long gone before you even find out what they were. You have a real problem to deal with and cameras may look good in the occasional story where someone recognises the person but in the real world that will not happen. You will have a lovely photo of a guy that no one knows while you go bankrupt.
Normally businesses lower their prices to make more money. It is very simple math in the rest of the world but America is trying to buck against basic economics. If you lower your prices you increase your sales, get the balance right and you make more money. I do not mind paying for things but I want to get what I pay for so I would rather download a movie than buy something that I might not be able to play on my system or whatever I want to play it on. If they sold them for a lot less without DRM so that all computers etc. could play them, people would rather buy a disk than waste time downloading a movie that might not work. I know that I would happily buy good BR disks but I will not waste my money on rubbish.
Do you honestly think you know more about this than Steven Fry? Themed pubs are part of our culture and part of American culture and it is wrong that they are being litigated out of existence. They are not claiming to be official places, they are just pubs or restaurants and it is time that the legal system started defending them.
But as usual the summary is completely wrong. They switched many years ago and they are still going strong. The only thing that has changed now is that the printed version now only represents 1% of their revenue so they have decided to drop it. The company is still as strong as ever and has lots more markets in education etc. that it never had before and there is no competition for them yet. Wikipedia is not competition as it is not verified and most reputable universities and research institutes etc. will not accept citations from it, and who even knows where Encarta went.
and which planet do you live on where you actually get a real choice at the election? They are all the same pooh with a different tie on.
But that is the point, this is a system that stops the pump from working if it cannot see a recognised number!!! So if you run out of petrol and walk to the petrol station with a can... it cannot see a number!!! If for any reason it decides that it does not like your number, i.e. it is dirty, broken or just the machine is having a bad day... you can walk for the rest of the year until DVLC can get a brain cell in gear to sort the problem out. As I said else where, I live abroad, I am often driving on foreign plates... I think this will be a right royal pain in the arse...
Sorry, we will explain this slowly for the hard of thinking. In the UK we do not pay extra tax for a trailer so there is no need for it to have its own plate. That is just in America so that your government can screw more money out of you. In the UK we have lots of people using trailers all the time, it is not complicated, you do not let someone use your number if they borrow your trailer, they use their number. If you have a tow bar fitted you get yourself an extra plate at the local car accessory shop for a couple of pounds and when you attach a trailer you put your number on the back of it. Make sure that you give the owner of the trailer his number so it does not get lost. When you give the trailer back you take your number off and put it back in your car. EASY... Much easier than having a different number on the same vehicle. If someone owns a trailer that they do not lend out they fix the number on properly. Most of my trailers have had the number fixed but on the horse box it was a clip so that other people could use it. It is also easier to have a clip if you have more than one vehicle but I always had a 4x4 for heavy stuff and an economy that was not an option for towing.
In the UK a trailer must bear the same number as the vehicle towing it. So the vehicle has the front number and the trailer has the same number on the rear. End of story, if the trailer has a different number you are breaking the law and deserve the problems. I still do not like this system though as it will give me problems when I am driving on foreign plates. Will I have to tape fake plates on to get petrol? People talk about the problems but do they really think about how bad it will be for a false flagged person that cannot use their car?
German law does not apply in the UK. This is in the UK and you are legally allowed to use your own name for your business regardless. Mc Donald's failed to shut down a McDonald's restaurant in Scotland because the owner was called McDonald and was legally allowed to use their name for their restaurant. However, changing your name to The Hobbit may be seen as a deliberate ploy and not accepted as a defence.
If their choice of hardware and ability of IT staff are good you will be unable to do anything as the settings should be locked (password protected) and it should not boot from anything other that the disk they set up. If they are useless enough to allow you in then I have little sympathy for them but they will not see it like that. I remember one company that I worked at where I could not do my job because I did not have the software I needed installed. After a few days I installed it myself (using the correct install disk which was waiting on my desk but involved changing the Admin password). It was 2 weeks before IT came along and I got into a lot of trouble. The fact that I would have been doing nothing for 2 weeks and I had customers that needed my work etc. did not count for anything against an established IT manager given that I was obviously a "Hacker". It is not really worth the risk unless you are a belligerent trouble maker like me.
it all depends on the type of porn they look at.
If I had kharma points I would credit you. I am a fanboy of the Volt but it is out of my price range. There are a lot of hurdles to overcome with the car and they are not doing enough to make it attractive. If you live in an apartment or terrace, it is impractical etc.. If you have the ability it is still going to take some modifications like not everyone has power in the garage etc. So the overall cost is a big problem. I realise that this is an early concept and that prices will come down as people switch but I think that most people will agree with you.
and Mr. Obama maintained that he would provide a new style of government (I guess he did)...
The last Samsung I had spent more time back at the shop than in my pocket... I do not think that LG are as good as Apple but at half the price I think they are better value. I have a Sony Xperia in my pocket at the moment and it is good but only because it was free. I am a fanboy and prefer Apple but I am really fed up with all this BS and the price tags for what is now an old design.
Apple and Samsung are both overpriced but while they fight it out LG are quietly bringing out some really good cheap and cheerful phones with all the bells and whistles at much better prices.
http://www.lg.com/uk/mobile-phones/all-lg-phones/all-lg-phones.jsp
yes rabbits would be a good idea. They are smaller and cuter than elephants and they eat grass as well...
Why should I have to go and get something that I have already bought, paid for and had delivered? Will they recompense me for my time and inconvenience? I doubt that but even if they did, unless they refunded the whole some by way of apology, I would still be pissed. This has all gone to far and I, as someone who had always been happy to buy lots of games in the past, download the cracked copy every time now because I do not want to put up with this BS. If I cannot play the game, when I want (i.e. no need for internet etc.) I would rather have a copy. If I am going to have to go online (to download half the game) I may as well download an entire game. I am not even prepared to put the CD into the drive every time I want to play (why should I? My CD drive is not internal!), I just want to play.
I have got about a cubic metre of games that I have bought in my room but now I download. I do not mind paying but I do mind having to put up with all the shit. If they provide good extras (manual maps etc.) I will buy it and download the crack. For me it is not about the money, it is about being able to play it when I want.
The best thing about SOPA and PIPA is that now people all over the world are seeing how dangerous it is to rely on the US for important services. We are switching to DNS servers that cannot be regulated by absurd US law suits. The internet is changing to an US and us internet whereby we can see things you cannot. The Great Firewall of the USA is being built and good luck to those in the US that are letting it happen. The idea is just as idiotic as the Chinese version and less workable.
If you look at the settings on Vuze you will find that this is already a normal thing to do.