Just disappointed with the mediocrity of your attitude. Chopping bits off children does, in fact, matter. And if you're going to do it, have a better reason than 'god', 'my da had his done' or 'I really like having bits of fluff sticking to my glans'.
If you think that the british troops/sailors were not civilians, you need to look up the words 'conscript' and 'press-gang'. Please use your freedom to investigate the revisionist agenda about the war of independence you were indoctrinated with in school (you know.. the place where you are required to 'pledge allegiance'). Plenty of civilians who were loyal to his majesty got very thoroughly terrorised.
Basically the Right has only 'won' because it is the more violent and agressive side of politics. But in the end we'll all lose as it consumes the planet, then us, and finally itself.
Eventually there will be Murcdoc, Cheeney and the rest of them sitting in their 'arc' (ISS or the new Luxury South-Pole base) thinking they have 'won'. But then they'll find that one of them has been hoarding the remaining cans of beans and ammo. And eventually there will be one. Greed will have finally produced the ultimate Winner.
..or if I could have been bothered to realise the submitter was just quoting the prosecutor (who is doubtless very aware of this distinction, and will seek to blur it at every possibel oppertunity..)
Perhaps before you argue that something you don't know much about is useful, perhaps you should familiarize yourself with even the most basic rocketry terms like ISP.
I said almost exactly the same thing to my mum when she wanted to get on 'this internet thing'..
I don't have any special insight about why it's Northern Rock and not other banks, they are merely the one on everybody's radar since they actually got caught short.
However, your repeated claims they 'have the money' are false. They did not, (+ do not, and never will) 'have the money', and therefore they could not honour their creditors when they got nervey and tried to withdraw their money. Wham! Instacrisis.
Having the deeds on a lot of property on which you have lent Mortgages is not the same as having the actual money itself, since it's 'value' is wildly overinflated in our current economics. Basically they (and indeed most other 'geniuses' of the modern economics) are treating money reserves that have been unrealistically inflated by the housing bubble as if it is real, cash-in-your-pocket money.
This is the same root cause as the sub-prime crisis, the whole pack of cards is built on a fictional basis: 'lending money you don't have to people who cannot afford to repay it'.
It's easier to see in the Sub-Zero examples because the lending was done to obvious bad risks. Whereas with Northern Rock the lending is done to ostensibly affluent people who can easily be painted as 'good risks'. But in fact their debt is also crippling them and if there is any downturn in their income they're screwed, if it's a mass downturn in income the banks are screwed too. (Think: governments urging pay restraint to combat inflation and most people getting meagre pay-rises.)
Err.. No. This is basically caused by a wunch of bankers who loaned money they did not have to people who cannot afford to repay it.
It's merely the visible tip of the iceberg of debt that passes for a 'booming economy' in these times. Stop blaming the lookouts and meteorologists when it's the captain and his employers who set the course.
Unfortunately it won't be the Government, it will be your employer.. (with the help, of course, of a government program)
As for getting the kids 'treated' that's easy; our corporate overlords just insist that in the future they will not employ anyone who was not 'treated' near birth. After all, what sort of parent would possibly refuse? only 'bad' ones huh?
Yeah, but I was really objecting to the statement that -legal- torrents rarely come as ISO's.. I suspect that the majority of the legal stuff is actually in ISO form, but it is, of course, invisible in a sea of illegality.
legit, legal" torrents are seldom distributed as ISOs...... there's already a site specializing in "legit, legal" torrents. Notice that there are few if any ISOs to be had there, and no Linux distros.
Good grief, -all- the legit torrents I have got recently have been ISO's (as opposed to the other stuff, it tends to come in divx). They have all been F/OSS distros by the way, and why would I search when I can go direct to the relevant website to find them. The lack of linux distros on the site you list is all about relevance (or, to be more precise, a lack of it) to the people who would use such a site.
Humm, good prediction from someone then. Gmail launched by google on 1/Apr/2004, really! google it:-) gmail trademark in use by a firm running email services in 2002
I'll tell you something quite sad.. I actually panic'd after I sent that, because I did not click the 'post anonymously' button.
So: A note for any 'law and order' types reading this. the above was what educated people call 'really crappy satire', paraphrasing a quote from the popular science fiction cinema film 'Aliens'. If you believe otherwise then that is your delusion, not mine.
I know what you mean, I've been unsuccessfully arguing for years that we should return to the ship and nuke the pentagon from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
SWIFT is also HQ'd in Belgium, and the Belgies do not like being pushed around by bigger countries (legacy of being piggie in the middle for 2 world wars and several european ones). SWIFT will find itself under investigation in Belgium for this too (which could be fun if they fight a warrant to protect the US, the Belgian police are basically a full military outfit run by the judiciary). Depends on how corrupt the current Belgian legislature is.
It's what he did with them that remains hard to hammer out, and that's what he was spending so much time and energy trying to hide from everyone, despite signing an agreement allowing full inspection.
Just a wild suggestion... Maybe he actually destroyed them?
He didn't want a war because he knew he'd end up dead.. as will hopefully soon happen. Actually destroying these weapons, which he had no realistic prospect of using without instant obliteration now he was no longer a US ally against Iran, would certainly have been in his best interests.
But I do not dispute his desire and willingness to make and use them.. nor his future intention to do so either! Just his practical ability.
PS: The '500' mustard and sarin shells (disclosed in 1999, only wight ring prats call it recent, although the real figure is more like 650+) should be set against 50,000+ which the UN accepts were destroyed..
Privacy is controlled on a national level here in yrp, with the EU 'human Rights' legislation as a sort of umbrella over that. Levels of legal protection vary and so do levels of compliance/enforcement. But in Theory every countries Spook squad looks harder at foreign threats than at domestic ones. In Practice the politicians and the spooks are totally paranoid about domestic threats to their power and spend huge resources spying on their own citizens (and I think the US is going the same way, the Homeland Security BrownHats are now the third largest US gvt. department.)
The advantage the US has is it's constitution, which is something I admire a lot. I think it is interesting that your administration is trying to change it (gay marriage). Is this because they want to get people into the 'habit' of changing it in response to perceived 'threats to the American Way(tm)'; so that it can then be changed for 'the war on terror' (think more spooks with more powers, and probably stuff to buy off corporations).
The beauty of your constitution (apart from being drafted on hemp paper:-) is that it is short and to-the-point. They tried to get a 'constitution' passed here, hungreds of pages of waffle designed to promote the intrests of beaurocrats. It was so bad that even the French voters rejected it. Personally I will never vote in favour of any constitution longer than 2 A4 pages of 12pt type. And even then only if it takes power -from- the state, as much as giving power -to- it.
Totally OT. My parents brought a holiday place in the French village of Montcuq. Only afterwards did they learn that the place is famous in France for having a name that translates as 'my arse', or 'my bottom' in nice society. This stuff happens all the time.. A popular French fizzy drink when I was a kid was called 'Pisschitt'. etc.
They had a valid reason to contact me, I had an urgent action to take but why in hell do they use the same trick the spammers use?
Well, maybe it's the s(p/c)ammers using the same trick as the bank.. rather than the other war round.
End effect is the same though. It must be irritating for the banks, constantly having to change processes, and expensive. Especially since they're a bunch of dinosaurs with brains in their tails. Reactions are slooow.
What they should do, is only -ever- have one number for everything account related. Then phone you and leave a message saying 'please call the number printed on your card or statements' and promise NEVER to ask you to call any other number.
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One word: redundancy.
Just disappointed with the mediocrity of your attitude. Chopping bits off children does, in fact, matter. And if you're going to do it, have a better reason than 'god', 'my da had his done' or 'I really like having bits of fluff sticking to my glans'.
Go pester parents that aren't feeding their children properly or don't help them with their homework.
You misunderstand, they'll be pestered too! just like those who genitally mutilate their kids.
I think anybody who're response such mutilation is 'why does this matter?' should really be reported to the child protection agencies.
If you think that the british troops/sailors were not civilians, you need to look up the words 'conscript' and 'press-gang'. Please use your freedom to investigate the revisionist agenda about the war of independence you were indoctrinated with in school (you know.. the place where you are required to 'pledge allegiance'). Plenty of civilians who were loyal to his majesty got very thoroughly terrorised.
Basically the Right has only 'won' because it is the more violent and agressive side of politics. But in the end we'll all lose as it consumes the planet, then us, and finally itself.
Eventually there will be Murcdoc, Cheeney and the rest of them sitting in their 'arc' (ISS or the new Luxury South-Pole base) thinking they have 'won'. But then they'll find that one of them has been hoarding the remaining cans of beans and ammo. And eventually there will be one. Greed will have finally produced the ultimate Winner.
..or if I could have been bothered to realise the submitter was just quoting the prosecutor (who is doubtless very aware of this distinction, and will seek to blur it at every possibel oppertunity..)
Nothing has been downloaded through the Pirate bay's site.
Plenty has been downloaded because of it.
All the legal arguments are going to hinge around this vital distinction, so it would help if the submitter could have been bothered to get it right.
Perhaps before you argue that something you don't know much about is useful, perhaps you should familiarize yourself with even the most basic rocketry terms like ISP.
I said almost exactly the same thing to my mum when she wanted to get on 'this internet thing'..
She called me a twat. And she was right.
Well, for a start, it's more relevant than you are...
WTF do all those acronyms stand for? Totally irrelavent to me.
I don't have any special insight about why it's Northern Rock and not other banks, they are merely the one on everybody's radar since they actually got caught short.
However, your repeated claims they 'have the money' are false. They did not, (+ do not, and never will) 'have the money', and therefore they could not honour their creditors when they got nervey and tried to withdraw their money. Wham! Instacrisis.
Having the deeds on a lot of property on which you have lent Mortgages is not the same as having the actual money itself, since it's 'value' is wildly overinflated in our current economics. Basically they (and indeed most other 'geniuses' of the modern economics) are treating money reserves that have been unrealistically inflated by the housing bubble as if it is real, cash-in-your-pocket money.
This is the same root cause as the sub-prime crisis, the whole pack of cards is built on a fictional basis: 'lending money you don't have to people who cannot afford to repay it'.
It's easier to see in the Sub-Zero examples because the lending was done to obvious bad risks. Whereas with Northern Rock the lending is done to ostensibly affluent people who can easily be painted as 'good risks'. But in fact their debt is also crippling them and if there is any downturn in their income they're screwed, if it's a mass downturn in income the banks are screwed too. (Think: governments urging pay restraint to combat inflation and most people getting meagre pay-rises.)
Err.. No. This is basically caused by a wunch of bankers who loaned money they did not have to people who cannot afford to repay it.
It's merely the visible tip of the iceberg of debt that passes for a 'booming economy' in these times. Stop blaming the lookouts and meteorologists when it's the captain and his employers who set the course.
Unfortunately it won't be the Government, it will be your employer.. (with the help, of course, of a government program)
As for getting the kids 'treated' that's easy; our corporate overlords just insist that in the future they will not employ anyone who was not 'treated' near birth. After all, what sort of parent would possibly refuse? only 'bad' ones huh?
Yeah, but I was really objecting to the statement that -legal- torrents rarely come as ISO's.. I suspect that the majority of the legal stuff is actually in ISO form, but it is, of course, invisible in a sea of illegality.
legit, legal" torrents are seldom distributed as ISOs ...... there's already a site specializing in "legit, legal" torrents. Notice that there are few if any ISOs to be had there, and no Linux distros.
Good grief, -all- the legit torrents I have got recently have been ISO's (as opposed to the other stuff, it tends to come in divx). They have all been F/OSS distros by the way, and why would I search when I can go direct to the relevant website to find them. The lack of linux distros on the site you list is all about relevance (or, to be more precise, a lack of it) to the people who would use such a site.
Humm, good prediction from someone then. :-)
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Gmail launched by google on 1/Apr/2004, really! google it
gmail trademark in use by a firm running email services in 2002
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Amen..
Thanks for that!
I'll tell you something quite sad..
I actually panic'd after I sent that, because I did not click the 'post anonymously' button.
So: A note for any 'law and order' types reading this. the above was what educated people call 'really crappy satire', paraphrasing a quote from the popular science fiction cinema film 'Aliens'. If you believe otherwise then that is your delusion, not mine.
I know what you mean, I've been unsuccessfully arguing for years that we should return to the ship and nuke the pentagon from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
SWIFT is also HQ'd in Belgium, and the Belgies do not like being pushed around by bigger countries (legacy of being piggie in the middle for 2 world wars and several european ones). SWIFT will find itself under investigation in Belgium for this too (which could be fun if they fight a warrant to protect the US, the Belgian police are basically a full military outfit run by the judiciary).
Depends on how corrupt the current Belgian legislature is.
Oh no, he bought that Big Mac the other day, SEND IN THE AUTHORITIES
The way corporate states ar going these days, it will actually be;
Oh no, he he cooked his own food and did not buy that Big Mac the other day, SEND IN THE AUTHORITIES
It's what he did with them that remains hard to hammer out, and that's what he was spending so much time and energy trying to hide from everyone, despite signing an agreement allowing full inspection.
Just a wild suggestion... Maybe he actually destroyed them?
He didn't want a war because he knew he'd end up dead.. as will hopefully soon happen. Actually destroying these weapons, which he had no realistic prospect of using without instant obliteration now he was no longer a US ally against Iran, would certainly have been in his best interests.
But I do not dispute his desire and willingness to make and use them.. nor his future intention to do so either! Just his practical ability.
PS: The '500' mustard and sarin shells (disclosed in 1999, only wight ring prats call it recent, although the real figure is more like 650+) should be set against 50,000+ which the UN accepts were destroyed..
Privacy is controlled on a national level here in yrp, with the EU 'human Rights' legislation as a sort of umbrella over that. Levels of legal protection vary and so do levels of compliance/enforcement. But in Theory every countries Spook squad looks harder at foreign threats than at domestic ones. In Practice the politicians and the spooks are totally paranoid about domestic threats to their power and spend huge resources spying on their own citizens (and I think the US is going the same way, the Homeland Security BrownHats are now the third largest US gvt. department.)
:-) is that it is short and to-the-point. They tried to get a 'constitution' passed here, hungreds of pages of waffle designed to promote the intrests of beaurocrats. It was so bad that even the French voters rejected it. Personally I will never vote in favour of any constitution longer than 2 A4 pages of 12pt type. And even then only if it takes power -from- the state, as much as giving power -to- it.
The advantage the US has is it's constitution, which is something I admire a lot. I think it is interesting that your administration is trying to change it (gay marriage). Is this because they want to get people into the 'habit' of changing it in response to perceived 'threats to the American Way(tm)'; so that it can then be changed for 'the war on terror' (think more spooks with more powers, and probably stuff to buy off corporations).
The beauty of your constitution (apart from being drafted on hemp paper
Correction: when _you_ start using up a lot of memory Linux totally sucks. When I start using up a lot of memory, Linux acts exactly as I expect,
What? you -expect- it to suck...
weird.
Totally OT.
My parents brought a holiday place in the French village of Montcuq. Only afterwards did they learn that the place is famous in France for having a name that translates as 'my arse', or 'my bottom' in nice society. This stuff happens all the time.. A popular French fizzy drink when I was a kid was called 'Pisschitt'. etc.
They had a valid reason to contact me, I had an urgent action to take but why in hell do they use the same trick the spammers use?
Well, maybe it's the s(p/c)ammers using the same trick as the bank.. rather than the other war round.
End effect is the same though.
It must be irritating for the banks, constantly having to change processes, and expensive. Especially since they're a bunch of dinosaurs with brains in their tails. Reactions are slooow.
What they should do, is only -ever- have one number for everything account related. Then phone you and leave a message saying 'please call the number printed on your card or statements' and promise NEVER to ask you to call any other number.
You can either:
1) Give some references, or
2) Accept the Troll moderation you are about to recieve.
Your choice..