Further to ask, is, is there a correlation between the periods of massive growth of the social media platforms, their huge jump in share price, and the registrations of millions of fake accounts laying dormant ready to roll?
In which case they've all been built on a lie and that is the real truth here the likes of facebook/twitter etc's share price made them complicit in the action.
What the real surprise is not that democracy can be so easily bought, it is that it can be so easily given away for free.
Wow. Studied the arguments and "Leave was right", then don't actually try and name a single argument they were right about.
But onto the main bit. The clearly self delusional redefinition of what brexit means. This happens a lot with the quitters getting closer to the moment of reckoning..
It meant leaving the European Union. That has not happened yet. All the remain arguments were in relation to that. Leaving the European union. Br(itain) Exit(ing the EU).
Not the vote. (pre to this pound went from $1.65 to $1.40)
Not the win. (when the pound went from $1.40 to as low as $1.18).
Not the trigger of article 52. Starting the timer.
Not the initial negotiations, absolutely useless as those have been. (and we've broken that deal, reneged on the backstop).
Not the further negotiations. Utter pantomime that is.
It was Britain exiting the European Union. March 30th 2019 23:00 UK time.
I am not going to list the potential fun which will start then. Depends if we're delaying that hard brexit for 2 more years. Depends if we're going out in total chaos. Either way, that is what remain was warning about. No matter how much you have reinvented it as the vote/win/trigger/negotiation/Cinderella.
BTW, investment crashed, growth skydived, inflation up, high street retail in tatters, none of that was what the warnings of brexit was about. No matter how the quitters try and make the vote brexit, or the negotiations, or the 2.5 year slow dive into at best another 2 years of nonsense. That and looking like the country level equivalent of the orange toddler randomly shouting about blackmail (the guilty use that word) or bullied (the weak use that word). None of this.
I always find it ironic that the quitters never understood what Brexit is. But said it means Brexit.
It is what? $3.99 a comic nowadays, for the normal Marvel and DC comics, right?
1/3rd of those pages are adverts, so its usually about 30 odd pages. Their value is also worthless after buying, I think I have maybe fifty comics out of the ten thousand I have worth more than $10 nearly 30 years later, and that's more Sandman 1-10 and Hellblazer 1-10...
Just cut to the chase and publish them in graphic novels. Give away the first comic for free and absorb that into the price of the graphic novels.
High prices reduces demand and is a death spiral. My comic shop sells pop toys to actually make profit, and I expect it to eventually stop selling comics the same way it stopped selling games and dvds ten years ago...
There will definitely be a rise in fatalities with pedestrians who seem to unable to stop looking at their phones, walking out into traffic...
It could be darwinistic, might be a bunch of people injuring or killing themselves falling down unexpected basement stairs because they just can't take their eyes off their phones.
Buffering? Rewind? Internet dropouts? Often at the most dramatic bits.
Also I like to accumulate a list of films of interest and watch them later. I rip the disc, then watch in weeks often months later when I have the time. Time shifting in a way, only for movies. If I liked them enough, I will buy the original. Not been many worth buying for a while.
Also if I fall asleep during the movie, I've got proof and reminder of the movie I've not finished watching in the player.
My question is, why do people feel the need to stream everything?
Nope. None of the people I know (and I know a lot) are anywhere near the bottom end of the lowest amount...
Can't comment on the rest, but it strikes me that they took the US wage, and translated the figures into UK pounds, and gave us that. That's not how it works.
For reference - the UK NHS budget is £120m (USD$153m) for 65m people.
I can definitely see a US single payer programme costing way more per capita for many years (possibly decades) as the "old way of doing things" is unwound though.
There's that moment in TV Shows where they get the tech wrong and all the believability just disappears.
24 used to walk the fine line with this, but seemed to use basic gobbledegook interspersed with tech words so there wasn't a meaning...
Mr Robot shot it completely when its executive walked up to the main star and complimented him on the use of Gnome as a desktop. Gnome??? Versus what? KDE? If it was cinnamon, mate or Xfce, yeah, but "oh look you use one of the most popular desktops on linux"!
Silicon Valleys tech has always been a bit wobbly, though can be forgiven for making it funny. The tabs versus spaces thing just shot it to bits.
You use an editor which converts your tabs to spaces, auto indents and allows mass selection and auto formatting according to languages. Whoever fed the writers that needs to enter the 90s. It's not even a putty vs mobaxterm (which is no battle at all, mobaxterm).
While Adam Curtis's wonderful documentaries are all great and informative watches, highlights being:
Pandoras Box - The dangers of technocratic and political rationality.
The Mayfair Set - Looks at the birth of the global arms trade, the invention of asset stripping, and how buccaneer capitalists shaped the Thatcher years.
The century of the self - How Freud's theories on the unconscious led to the development of public relations by his nephew Edward Bernays;
The power of nightmares - Suggests a parallel between the rise of Islamism in the Arab world and neoconservatism in the United States, and their mutual need to create the myth of a dangerous enemy to gain support.
Bitter Lake - How Western leaders' simplistic good vs. evil narrative has failed in the complex post-war era, and how many Islamic terrorist groups have their origins in the US's long-standing alliance with Saudi Arabia.
Hypernormalisation - "How we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed and have no idea what to do".
But ultimately the most relevant to slashdot readers will be this one:
All watched over by machines of loving grace - Argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity, and instead have "distorted and simplified our view of the world around us". The title is taken from a 1967 poem of the same name by Richard Brautigan.
Well, the US has been having its consequences of a silly decision for president for a couple of months now (basically an inexperienced troll with a tentative grip on reality).
Now is the actual consequences of the group stupidity of the UK last June. A hundred reasons for doing it, half of them not logical (it was the conservatives who caused a lot of the pain suffered, but the EU got the blame)/"I wanted to hit out at Cameron" (by getting a worse deal for yourself?), and the rest seemed to end up with statements like "I love my country"(The Reich)....
I suspect what actually won it was the fact that a number of people just choose "Yes" by default, and don't read the question. Think of that, US, when you think your country is stupid.
But, despite experts and warnings, and 48% of the voters, it goes ahead. Which side of the country would you back? (*)
(* Pro brexit people would be claim that brexit had already happened, because it was the vote, not the trigger, that was Brexit. It isn't. Brexit is the leaving. Within the next two years. That's the bit the remainers were talking about the damage happening (**))
(** Also pro brexit people will point to the growth not dropping after the vote (as if brexit happened). Growth rising is a clear predictable immediate effect of a large currency devaluation, which happened when a lot of money was pulled out of the country. Of course they don't want to concentrate on the other predictable delayed effect, which is the dropping away of growth and rise of inflation, as all imports (including oil) rise by 30%. Inflation has momentum and will be with us much longer than that little growth spurt)
This isn't sanctioned by the uk government. It's a bank who, for some reason, has decided they don't to take a risk with Russia Today. There's nothing stopping Russia Today opening another bank account with another bank in the UK.
To say it's under the control of the uk government is wrong. They bailed this shoddy excuse for a financial institution in the last recession, and would likely sell it up if it ever got worth anything.
However, RT IS a voice of the Kremlin. They both share those chips on their shoulders. Indeed, it's quite bizarre when there's news about Ukranian rebels accused of shooting down a commercial airline on all the other news broadcasts. RT will not even mention this news even to deny it...
The problem with Season 6 is that Season 5 ended on such a good episode, indeed the rated number one episode of the show ever, that it was hard to beat it. I suspect Rob Grant just went, "well, that's it for me, I'm off".
Of course, the actual classic parts of the series was Series 2 to 5, and it lost a fair bit when Rob Grant left the series, so Seasons 6-9 were variable, what I've seen of Season 10 was good in the Season 6-9 scale.
Would have been nice for Rob Grant to have got back involved with it. I suppose some people just move on in the end.
But it does show that BBC cannot produce decent comedy nowadays. They don't seem to want to fund Red Dwarf, yet will fund appalling horrors such as Citizen Khan and Mrs Brown Boys (and My Hero, My Family and various substandard BBC3 'yoof' comedies). Any idea that the BBC was some sort of source of good comedy disappeared in the late 90's. Channel 4 produces something, sometimes (IT Crowd, for instance), but not that much.
No, I don't count panel shows as this. Scripted adlibs, unless containing Frankie Boyle, are just spacefillers. Been 20 years since Have I Got News For You had an actual joke in it.
Indeed, the TV Channel Dave, despite it being full of repeats, does produce this as well as Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish, which is great.
This sort of thing is often ignored by people wanting to analyse passwords
Some people don't care about the account being secure. Its not important. Sure, I want a secure password on my bank account, my email account, but for a whole bunch of forums I've posted on once, I just use a standard simple password. You can hack it. Pretend to be me. Get banned. It doesn't matter to me.
Complicated passwords are by their nature insecure, without photographic memory, the hundred and fifty passwords I have would be unmanageable without password weakness and repetition. I'd have to write them down if every one was strong and different, and that in itself is the biggest password weakness...
Its all part and parcel of the culture of denial at large in Britain at the moment. Its aim to have a Calvinist state where our purity will save us...
BBFC denies adults things because we can't be trusted. We must be children.
The salt has been removed from our food because we can't be trusted to measure it for ourselves. The BBC news seems obsessed about smoking, salt and childhood obesity.
Brown tells us all the problems of britain are all our fault. Its too much salt. Too much video game violence. We should just live on fresh air and think clean thoughts.
And of course, this does nothing to stop the rise of violence and drug addiction in the UK.
Of course not, we're not thinking pure enough thoughts to stop it...
I bloody well hope they don't do it to GTA IV. I'd hate to _have_ to pirate a video game.
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Further to ask, is, is there a correlation between the periods of massive growth of the social media platforms, their huge jump in share price, and the registrations of millions of fake accounts laying dormant ready to roll?
In which case they've all been built on a lie and that is the real truth here the likes of facebook/twitter etc's share price made them complicit in the action.
What the real surprise is not that democracy can be so easily bought, it is that it can be so easily given away for free.
Wow. Studied the arguments and "Leave was right", then don't actually try and name a single argument they were right about.
But onto the main bit. The clearly self delusional redefinition of what brexit means. This happens a lot with the quitters getting closer to the moment of reckoning..
It meant leaving the European Union. That has not happened yet. All the remain arguments were in relation to that. Leaving the European union. Br(itain) Exit(ing the EU).
Not the vote. (pre to this pound went from $1.65 to $1.40)
Not the win. (when the pound went from $1.40 to as low as $1.18).
Not the trigger of article 52. Starting the timer.
Not the initial negotiations, absolutely useless as those have been. (and we've broken that deal, reneged on the backstop).
Not the further negotiations. Utter pantomime that is.
It was Britain exiting the European Union. March 30th 2019 23:00 UK time.
I am not going to list the potential fun which will start then. Depends if we're delaying that hard brexit for 2 more years. Depends if we're going out in total chaos. Either way, that is what remain was warning about. No matter how much you have reinvented it as the vote/win/trigger/negotiation/Cinderella.
BTW, investment crashed, growth skydived, inflation up, high street retail in tatters, none of that was what the warnings of brexit was about. No matter how the quitters try and make the vote brexit, or the negotiations, or the 2.5 year slow dive into at best another 2 years of nonsense. That and looking like the country level equivalent of the orange toddler randomly shouting about blackmail (the guilty use that word) or bullied (the weak use that word). None of this.
I always find it ironic that the quitters never understood what Brexit is. But said it means Brexit.
It is what? $3.99 a comic nowadays, for the normal Marvel and DC comics, right?
1/3rd of those pages are adverts, so its usually about 30 odd pages. Their value is also worthless after buying, I think I have maybe fifty comics out of the ten thousand I have worth more than $10 nearly 30 years later, and that's more Sandman 1-10 and Hellblazer 1-10...
Just cut to the chase and publish them in graphic novels. Give away the first comic for free and absorb that into the price of the graphic novels.
High prices reduces demand and is a death spiral. My comic shop sells pop toys to actually make profit, and I expect it to eventually stop selling comics the same way it stopped selling games and dvds ten years ago...
Don't we already know this???
Right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ9EWcaS7II
(Which the band Oasis ripped off with their song Whatever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly-3jIrlkYQ)
Seems to be a focus on those inside cars.
There will definitely be a rise in fatalities with pedestrians who seem to unable to stop looking at their phones, walking out into traffic...
It could be darwinistic, might be a bunch of people injuring or killing themselves falling down unexpected basement stairs because they just can't take their eyes off their phones.
Buffering? Rewind? Internet dropouts? Often at the most dramatic bits.
Also I like to accumulate a list of films of interest and watch them later. I rip the disc, then watch in weeks often months later when I have the time. Time shifting in a way, only for movies. If I liked them enough, I will buy the original. Not been many worth buying for a while.
Also if I fall asleep during the movie, I've got proof and reminder of the movie I've not finished watching in the player.
My question is, why do people feel the need to stream everything?
Nope. None of the people I know (and I know a lot) are anywhere near the bottom end of the lowest amount...
Can't comment on the rest, but it strikes me that they took the US wage, and translated the figures into UK pounds, and gave us that. That's not how it works.
When George R. R. Martin writes something.
In the uk the term seems to apply to a cosplay and specialised toys/jewelery fair...
For reference - the UK NHS budget is £120m (USD$153m) for 65m people.
I can definitely see a US single payer programme costing way more per capita for many years (possibly decades) as the "old way of doing things" is unwound though.
£123 BILLION pounds.
There's that moment in TV Shows where they get the tech wrong and all the believability just disappears.
24 used to walk the fine line with this, but seemed to use basic gobbledegook interspersed with tech words so there wasn't a meaning...
Mr Robot shot it completely when its executive walked up to the main star and complimented him on the use of Gnome as a desktop. Gnome??? Versus what? KDE? If it was cinnamon, mate or Xfce, yeah, but "oh look you use one of the most popular desktops on linux"!
Silicon Valleys tech has always been a bit wobbly, though can be forgiven for making it funny. The tabs versus spaces thing just shot it to bits.
You use an editor which converts your tabs to spaces, auto indents and allows mass selection and auto formatting according to languages. Whoever fed the writers that needs to enter the 90s. It's not even a putty vs mobaxterm (which is no battle at all, mobaxterm).
While Adam Curtis's wonderful documentaries are all great and informative watches, highlights being:
Pandoras Box - The dangers of technocratic and political rationality.
The Mayfair Set - Looks at the birth of the global arms trade, the invention of asset stripping, and how buccaneer capitalists shaped the Thatcher years.
The century of the self - How Freud's theories on the unconscious led to the development of public relations by his nephew Edward Bernays;
The power of nightmares - Suggests a parallel between the rise of Islamism in the Arab world and neoconservatism in the United States, and their mutual need to create the myth of a dangerous enemy to gain support.
Bitter Lake - How Western leaders' simplistic good vs. evil narrative has failed in the complex post-war era, and how many Islamic terrorist groups have their origins in the US's long-standing alliance with Saudi Arabia.
Hypernormalisation - "How we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed and have no idea what to do".
But ultimately the most relevant to slashdot readers will be this one:
All watched over by machines of loving grace - Argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity, and instead have "distorted and simplified our view of the world around us". The title is taken from a 1967 poem of the same name by Richard Brautigan.
Just last year, given they paid about 3% in UK tax.
Well, the US has been having its consequences of a silly decision for president for a couple of months now (basically an inexperienced troll with a tentative grip on reality).
Now is the actual consequences of the group stupidity of the UK last June. A hundred reasons for doing it, half of them not logical (it was the conservatives who caused a lot of the pain suffered, but the EU got the blame)/"I wanted to hit out at Cameron" (by getting a worse deal for yourself?), and the rest seemed to end up with statements like "I love my country"(The Reich)....
I suspect what actually won it was the fact that a number of people just choose "Yes" by default, and don't read the question. Think of that, US, when you think your country is stupid.
But, despite experts and warnings, and 48% of the voters, it goes ahead. Which side of the country would you back? (*)
(* Pro brexit people would be claim that brexit had already happened, because it was the vote, not the trigger, that was Brexit. It isn't. Brexit is the leaving. Within the next two years. That's the bit the remainers were talking about the damage happening (**))
(** Also pro brexit people will point to the growth not dropping after the vote (as if brexit happened). Growth rising is a clear predictable immediate effect of a large currency devaluation, which happened when a lot of money was pulled out of the country. Of course they don't want to concentrate on the other predictable delayed effect, which is the dropping away of growth and rise of inflation, as all imports (including oil) rise by 30%. Inflation has momentum and will be with us much longer than that little growth spurt)
That "Donald Trump has the best words."
This isn't sanctioned by the uk government. It's a bank who, for some reason, has decided they don't to take a risk with Russia Today. There's nothing stopping Russia Today opening another bank account with another bank in the UK.
To say it's under the control of the uk government is wrong. They bailed this shoddy excuse for a financial institution in the last recession, and would likely sell it up if it ever got worth anything.
However, RT IS a voice of the Kremlin. They both share those chips on their shoulders. Indeed, it's quite bizarre when there's news about Ukranian rebels accused of shooting down a commercial airline on all the other news broadcasts. RT will not even mention this news even to deny it...
Use your eyes. And brain.
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please.
The problem with Season 6 is that Season 5 ended on such a good episode, indeed the rated number one episode of the show ever, that it was hard to beat it. I suspect Rob Grant just went, "well, that's it for me, I'm off".
Of course, the actual classic parts of the series was Series 2 to 5, and it lost a fair bit when Rob Grant left the series, so Seasons 6-9 were variable, what I've seen of Season 10 was good in the Season 6-9 scale.
Would have been nice for Rob Grant to have got back involved with it. I suppose some people just move on in the end.
But it does show that BBC cannot produce decent comedy nowadays. They don't seem to want to fund Red Dwarf, yet will fund appalling horrors such as Citizen Khan and Mrs Brown Boys (and My Hero, My Family and various substandard BBC3 'yoof' comedies). Any idea that the BBC was some sort of source of good comedy disappeared in the late 90's. Channel 4 produces something, sometimes (IT Crowd, for instance), but not that much.
No, I don't count panel shows as this. Scripted adlibs, unless containing Frankie Boyle, are just spacefillers. Been 20 years since Have I Got News For You had an actual joke in it.
Indeed, the TV Channel Dave, despite it being full of repeats, does produce this as well as Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish, which is great.
This sort of thing is often ignored by people wanting to analyse passwords
Some people don't care about the account being secure. Its not important. Sure, I want a secure password on my bank account, my email account, but for a whole bunch of forums I've posted on once, I just use a standard simple password. You can hack it. Pretend to be me. Get banned. It doesn't matter to me.
Complicated passwords are by their nature insecure, without photographic memory, the hundred and fifty passwords I have would be unmanageable without password weakness and repetition. I'd have to write them down if every one was strong and different, and that in itself is the biggest password weakness...
I worked this out years ago. It is not in Microsofts interest to sell a safe and stable operating system...
It needs the bugs. It needs the flaws. Otherwise it doesn't get to sell that same product to you over and over again.
Its all part and parcel of the culture of denial at large in Britain at the moment. Its aim to have a Calvinist state where our purity will save us...
BBFC denies adults things because we can't be trusted. We must be children.
The salt has been removed from our food because we can't be trusted to measure it for ourselves. The BBC news seems obsessed about smoking, salt and childhood obesity.
Brown tells us all the problems of britain are all our fault. Its too much salt. Too much video game violence. We should just live on fresh air and think clean thoughts.
And of course, this does nothing to stop the rise of violence and drug addiction in the UK.
Of course not, we're not thinking pure enough thoughts to stop it...
I bloody well hope they don't do it to GTA IV. I'd hate to _have_ to pirate a video game.