Brilliant idea. Float it down the Thames to provide cheap starter homes for the people who can't afford to live in the centre of the capital. Or they could put social housing on for the people who are about to be forced to move due to housing benefit cuts.
While I can't take away from your excellent post, you actually mis-read the post you were replying to, and the person was simply saying that people ignored Wikileaks in the beginning, and that they got better at releasing data in such a way as to make people pay attention. You cite some of the press organisations who were given exclusive access to the data.
This is nonsense. The general public are not well-equipped to work out what is important or not. It is great we can see what is spent, and it is only right. But people can now see that we spent £1000 on a jewel-encrusted dog collar. This looks stupid. The headlines can say we wasted a grand on a dog collar. Aren't we so powerful now, eh?
Except we waste, literally, millions of times more money than this. I don't care about a dog collar when we are buying a £2.5 billion aircraft carrier that has no aircraft.
We still need professional auditors to sort this sort of thing out. It is a full time job for large teams of people to work out where the real waste is.
Just as a thought - how do you define 35 years of computer time? Like, which computer? I mean that's a pretty stupid definition because 35 years of my crappy desktop could be done quite easily whereas 35 years of a Cray XT5 Jaguar system might be a little trickier.
Well done for doing a side though. I can't even do that.
Not only are you not cheap, your reaction is normal for most people. This card won't be worth $300 next year though so you have the last laugh by not buying it.
I bought a DVD containing samples for my synthesizer. They're in a special format on my synth can read. Some other customers of his got the DVD and put the samples up online and shared them. He found his revenue plummeted and he gave up ever producing another sample set for my synth.
The sounds were, I should say, very good, and it takes AGES to do them. They're a specialist creative work and this person lost out financially due to file-sharing.
There is no Apple Remote Desktop app for iPhone/iPad as yet and so they're probably quite happy to encourage apps like VNC Viewer as it helps people use their Mac desktops. That alone protects VNC I think.
This is completely true in my view. Murdoch hates the BBC. OK, fine. But he will use political presure to complain about unfair competition in, I reckon, 5 years.
It won't be Rupert Murdoch himself of course. It will be his rottweiller of a son who will get whichever government of the day to reduce the budget and scope of the BBC News website. It's not the beginning of the end but it is the beginning of the beginning of the end if you get my drift.
"Jedi" is not, and has never been, a recognised religion in the UK. You can put "Pastafarian follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" in the UK census and it does not affect which religions are officially recognised.
Er no you're misunderstanding. Singh is entirely happy to back his claims up. That's why he made them. He is going through this hell because Justice Eady decided that Singh had said that the BCA were knowingly dishonest. That is not at all clear from what he wrote and you have performed some not-so-clever misdirection in your argument by comparing the word "bogus" as applied to chriopractic treatments and as applied to people who are deemed "bogus" *in themselves*. Anyone would think you're a) a chiropractor or b) Justice Eady. Or a bit dim.
It is entirely fair to say your argument is bogus. That isn't to say you deliberately misprepresented British libel law and intended to confuse things. Maybe you're just thick. But do you see the difference? Your argument is rubbish but you might just be innocently peddling it anyway.
"Descending into autism" is an awfully broad term. It's sure as hell not scientific. Just right for anecdotal evidence really.
The scientific studies conducted over hundreds of thousands of people that showed no evidence that MMR caused autism may carry more weight than what your friends say.
What you deem "polite behaviour" was in fact entirely without any legitimacy. People chose to use the game differently to how the makers intended. That's fine in itself. It's also fine to play the game as the makers intended. Arguably more so.
The only way to view this is not to assign "good" or "bad" tags to any particular behaviour. The Professor is not bad but neither is he "good". He just acted in a certain way.
The players who got upset were upset because someone had spoiled their party, essentially. They were having fun doing their thing and the someone turned up who thought differently about how the game should he played.
Bear in mind that to act in this way in reality is a whole lot different to a game. Nothing happens to you in a game. The worst is that you lose time or whatever.
Some people will take it all too seriously but catering for those people opens up way more problems than it solves.
Not being funny but all my Aussie friends say it's one of the most over-regulated countries anywhere. I've not got time to do any research. Why might they think this?
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Great. Remove copyright and we can all forget about open source software.
Brilliant idea. Float it down the Thames to provide cheap starter homes for the people who can't afford to live in the centre of the capital. Or they could put social housing on for the people who are about to be forced to move due to housing benefit cuts.
While I can't take away from your excellent post, you actually mis-read the post you were replying to, and the person was simply saying that people ignored Wikileaks in the beginning, and that they got better at releasing data in such a way as to make people pay attention. You cite some of the press organisations who were given exclusive access to the data.
This is nonsense. The general public are not well-equipped to work out what is important or not. It is great we can see what is spent, and it is only right. But people can now see that we spent £1000 on a jewel-encrusted dog collar. This looks stupid. The headlines can say we wasted a grand on a dog collar. Aren't we so powerful now, eh?
Except we waste, literally, millions of times more money than this. I don't care about a dog collar when we are buying a £2.5 billion aircraft carrier that has no aircraft.
We still need professional auditors to sort this sort of thing out. It is a full time job for large teams of people to work out where the real waste is.
Great that they make it available however.
Since when has a low UID meant anything? Or, indeed, positive karma?
They're trolling, pure and simple. And quite well given you took the bait!
Just as a thought - how do you define 35 years of computer time?
Like, which computer? I mean that's a pretty stupid definition because 35 years of my crappy desktop could be done quite easily whereas 35 years of a Cray XT5 Jaguar system might be a little trickier.
Well done for doing a side though. I can't even do that.
Not only are you not cheap, your reaction is normal for most people. This card won't be worth $300 next year though so you have the last laugh by not buying it.
I can think of one direct counter-example.
I bought a DVD containing samples for my synthesizer. They're in a special format on my synth can read. Some other customers of his got the DVD and put the samples up online and shared them. He found his revenue plummeted and he gave up ever producing another sample set for my synth.
The sounds were, I should say, very good, and it takes AGES to do them. They're a specialist creative work and this person lost out financially due to file-sharing.
There is no Apple Remote Desktop app for iPhone/iPad as yet and so they're probably quite happy to encourage apps like VNC Viewer as it helps people use their Mac desktops. That alone protects VNC I think.
I think that story is one of the best examples of British tabloid journalism you'll find. It's almost perfectly written, in fact.
Base, trashy and possibly bollocks. You can only find this high quality of bullshit in the British press. It's just got more...style.
The BBC are having to slim down at the moment, losing websiteas and radio stations. And that's a Labour government who Murdoch doesn't like anymore.
If I had mod points....
This is completely true in my view. Murdoch hates the BBC. OK, fine. But he will use political presure to complain about unfair competition in, I reckon, 5 years.
It won't be Rupert Murdoch himself of course. It will be his rottweiller of a son who will get whichever government of the day to reduce the budget and scope of the BBC News website. It's not the beginning of the end but it is the beginning of the beginning of the end if you get my drift.
"Jedi" is not, and has never been, a recognised religion in the UK. You can put "Pastafarian follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" in the UK census and it does not affect which religions are officially recognised.
Er no you're misunderstanding. Singh is entirely happy to back his claims up. That's why he made them. He is going through this hell because Justice Eady decided that Singh had said that the BCA were knowingly dishonest. That is not at all clear from what he wrote and you have performed some not-so-clever misdirection in your argument by comparing the word "bogus" as applied to chriopractic treatments and as applied to people who are deemed "bogus" *in themselves*. Anyone would think you're a) a chiropractor or b) Justice Eady. Or a bit dim.
It is entirely fair to say your argument is bogus. That isn't to say you deliberately misprepresented British libel law and intended to confuse things. Maybe you're just thick. But do you see the difference? Your argument is rubbish but you might just be innocently peddling it anyway.
Did you read the book or did you just scan every other word in each sentence?
"Descending into autism" is an awfully broad term. It's sure as hell not scientific. Just right for anecdotal evidence really.
The scientific studies conducted over hundreds of thousands of people that showed no evidence that MMR caused autism may carry more weight than what your friends say.
They suggested IE7 as it is a better browser.
Er, killed a load of people and set fire to the compound.
That is what you might consider "pretty harsh".
Too right. Well said. Even the Daily Mail thinks this is silly which is a first.
The funniest story from Strawberry Fair is the houseboat owner who came out one day to find a guy shooting up on his roof.
You're suggesting people in the UK defend themselves against the police with handguns? Do you get off on firearm violence or something?
Quite. I can VNC into my desktop at work quite happily from home and use it like I was sat there. Not perfect but I can and do work with it.
What you deem "polite behaviour" was in fact entirely without any legitimacy. People chose to use the game differently to how the makers intended. That's fine in itself. It's also fine to play the game as the makers intended. Arguably more so.
The only way to view this is not to assign "good" or "bad" tags to any particular behaviour. The Professor is not bad but neither is he "good". He just acted in a certain way.
The players who got upset were upset because someone had spoiled their party, essentially. They were having fun doing their thing and the someone turned up who thought differently about how the game should he played.
Bear in mind that to act in this way in reality is a whole lot different to a game. Nothing happens to you in a game. The worst is that you lose time or whatever.
Some people will take it all too seriously but catering for those people opens up way more problems than it solves.
Not being funny but all my Aussie friends say it's one of the most over-regulated countries anywhere. I've not got time to do any research. Why might they think this?
Scotland has reasonable roaming laws. This makes it a lot more fun to go walking in than England it has to be said.