The difference is, a private company owner/board is free to reep the proffits they make or set their own salary. While this is fine in the free market, ie where I choose to send my money, when it comes to the tax I have to pay I want to know that this money will be put to good use, I want the politicians and department heads to get a good salary for the work they do but no more. I want every penny that isn't used or is made in proffit to go back in to the system.
Heres an example: All the new busses in London have nice LCD screens because its great for advertising. However there are too few busses and overcroweding is bad (overcrowding = more revenue). Meanwhile ticket prices have been steadily rising above the rate of inflation (the mayor promised they wouldn't) and have almost doubled in 2 years, a recent headwave has left the busses un-usable because they have no air conditioning and yet the private companies who now own these routes have enough money for their bosses to get a hefty bonus. Fuck that is what I say, there is no 'choice' in what bus company you use, just as there is no choice in social security providers. They're given a free ride from your tax in various ways and provide a crappy service in return.
I thought it had been out-sourced to various companies including Lockheed Martin? could be mistaken... too lazy to check... prefer to insinuate first...
Of course they are going to support commercial P2P - it means making money without having to pay for any kind of hosting or network infrastructure!! Its just going to be a bitch if these sort of services are slow, unreliable or don't have enough sources. A smart thing to do (for the industry) would be to merge a P2P system with a centralised system so that you always get good speeds and sources and the P2P part becomes a load-balance. Then just make sure the file and IP list is stored on the central server so that it becomes the service you are paying for, and give it something that free P2P doesn't have - for example file requests - you would be able to request something that the store doesn't have and give the price you are willing to pay and the store will order it and add it to their database depending on popularity/asking-price.
There are certain services that governments should be providing, not private companies who cut corners and use your tax to make themselves richer while providing the absolute minimum quality of service they can get away with. Security has always been the last priority in just about every area of industry because it doesn't make money, prime example: this whole shambles will continue, no-one will assign a team to fix it.
Exactly, I agree with that article the whole thing is a joke but more to the point, is anyone else offended by the word 'sex offence'? it sounds like some Orwellian phrase like 'thought crime', and you could say the same about 'hate crime' or 'hate speech' or even 'terror'. The whole 'sex crime' scene is the modern witch hunt, in some countries people have even been burnt to death in the streets over it and what's worse is they were innocent! If we really have to have these blaitent propaganda words in law books then how about adding 'retard crime' for the act of forming a red-neck mob and going after anyone on a sex offenders register.
I don't really blame maps or lists, as long as they are made legally, the public should be able to handle this information and people should be concentrating on preventing things from happening in the first place. Im sure there have been cases where a kid was abducted or molested because the parent was inside busy making banners for the next lynching, just as im sure that some outraged parent will be flaming this.
The cost would be the same if they simply reduced the number of 'in sourced' workers - so for example an Indian call centre might have 1000 people, where as the same centre in the UK would have 100, at 10 times the salary of the Indian workers. So as I said, I don't mind being put on hold, having a call-back or simply getting customer services through email. Its very cruel and un-generous I know, I look out for my country as number one.
Im sure there are going to be many cases of maybe older people who have lived somewhere all their life being kicked out, and its very likely there will be a few armed show-downs with the owners holding their ground and eventually shooting themselves, cops or being taken down, its very sad. Younger people are less likely to be affected by this - they would be more likely to be moving around a bit, and perhaps moving into newer homes and apartment blocks that no-one intends to take down where as older folks who have property in an area that businesses have been eying up will be prime targets.
Hopefully the free market will sort this out - if you rape someone of their home, you should expect boycotts of your business by the local population, of course no-one can resist the low low prices of Walmart and so in reality people will just shrug and show you the deal they got on their new TV.
Hopefully they will clamp down hard on this. The data protection act is one of the best laws there are and I want it fully enforced, and I want call centre jobs back here - i don't care if theres a shortage of workers, i would rather wait 10 minutes on hold.
Did anyone actually pay for their content before? The only people i could see actually paying for news footage are other news agencies - as a user when i've clicked on videos on CNN before and found some stupid message to subscribe i just go to another site - its their loss of possible advertising revenue. Either way i still don't think most commercial news is a good idea, thats what leads to dumbing down of the masses and bias, although I respect Fox, CNN etc because they are a business and thats what they do to make money. In fact this is a perfect example of capitalism: the masses are getting what they want, everyone is happy. I just want the facts, presented by someone who is actually a journalist (not a model or 'tv personality') and has the integrity to cover all sides (no matter who it might piss off) and leave their own opinion at the door. I'd pay for that.
They've already made the database, CAS might just be prepaired to pay a 'randsom' for it so they can stop it being released for free, meanwhile NIH gets some money and arranges to be allowed to use the database they sold provided they dont give it to anyone else, and everyones happy.
One option would be to sell this new database to the competitor?
I agree the government should normally keep its hands off, but some things are either just too important or simply don't work well in a capitalist system (for example the police). Im not sure about this particular case, it seems like it probably shouldn't have been created in the first place and now its too late - why did a government department need to create this database if they could have just used the existing one? Although that has its own issues i.e. companies ripping of governments - if there's one un-patriotic thing to do its charging your government through the roof for your products/services, and sadly that's what most big business is about.
I recognise different value systems - where did i say that they couldn't be offended by lingerie?
In this case lingerie had nothing to do with it, it was just a load of school girls trying to get out of their burning school while the police stopped anyone from helping or unlocking the doors because of their lack of proper dress, while being fully aware of these people burning to death. It wouldn't make any difference if they were naked. You can hide behind 'different value systems' but after a point you have to cut the political correctness - some Saudi Arabian value systems, laws and beliefs are just wrong, disgusting, primitive, insane, take your pick. Now whether we should interfere is a different matter.
As for paedophiles, im not one of those ignorant masses that goes around in lynch mobs threatening people on sex-offender lists.
I think this system would be a good idea because its simple crime prevention without trampling rights or going over the top.
Chat-room paedophiles are like email viruses - it can easily be stopped but everyone is too stupid. Ok so the paedophiles shouldn't be around in the first place, but that's not the point: bad people _do_ exist and that will never ever change so its about fucking time that parents took some responsibility to stop it at their end. I see no reason why a private chat system couldn't be set up were all users are pre-screened or identified. Its very simple: to join kid-safe-chat.com parents would provide ID such as a credit card or kids could get their school to do it. The kid can then choose whatever screen name they want and the parents wont know it. Chats are monitored/logged but privacy is maintained so that parents/teachers etc can't read the logs or do any monitoring other than what they could do by simply creating their own account (otherwise your kids will just walk right around it). If anyone dodgy gets on they will know that anything they say or do on this chat system can be fully linked back to their real identity.
I think its probably about time to point out that The Sun is a brand of toilet paper with funny pictures and words printed on it to entertain while you take a dump. To quote it in with any seriousness outside the bathroom just isn't done.
OK space only extends as far as the furthest energy has reached - ie after the big bang or whatever a sphere of light/energy would have expanded and is still expanding today and we will never reach the edge of it as long as it continues to expand - that much i can understand - after all if the light you see from stars is millions of years old then it stands to reason that if you go far out enough into space you will get to a point where you cant see any starts because their light hasn't reached out that far yet.
But past that limit, were even light from billions of years ago hasn't reached there must still be nothing and that nothing can go on forever because its nothing - space by definition is nothing.
Except in practice (my bad), the space in our part of the universe has light and various other radiation passing through it all the time (if you can see stars then the space you're in must have light passing through it) so in fact if you did manage to remove a chunk of space you would be taking out the bit of light that was passing through that chunk and an observer watching you would see a lack of light for a fraction of time...
Isn't space exactly that? - the space between matter/energy? If you were in air then you might leave a vacume behind but surely taking a chunk out of empty space leaves empty space? Otherwise how could space go on for infinity if its actually made up of something?
Agreed, I think the whole fading out thing is just a writers tool to show the audience that they have indeed changed time and to make sure the characters know so they can try and look surprised.
Well obviously if some mischievous time traveller had been messing with the past then our minds would have been changed along with everything else, nothing would suddenly 'fade out' you would simply believe everything was normal and that the memories in your head had always been there - which they had. Any sudden change wouldn't be noticeable because you instantly would have lived with that change for the whole of your life. In fact the change to the time line would be similar to pulling a string - as you make changes to your current time (the past) the repercussions filter trough to the future (where you came from) instantly, just like when you pull a string the other end moves instantly, so i guess they are theorising that if you were 'attached' to this string, travelling back in time would create a 'loop' that would stop you from pulling anything - imagine if you tie a string to your arm then get someone to walk it round a tree and pass it back to you, if you tug on it its going no-where. This string basically represents any change you can make to the time line (in fact it would be many, possibly an infinite number of strings), so in fact absolutely anything you do from breathing to even just being there - even attempting in any way to 'materialise' your time-ship would be a pull on this string of change. By that reasoning you can forget about your grandfather - time travel itself would be paradox and therefore absolutely impossible. Thinking about it this does make sense, since just about any small thing you changed in the past would have a big effect on the future you can bet your ass there are an insanely great number of things you can do that would prevent you from being born or from travelling back, not just killing your dad. Its hardly a stretch of the imagination to think that just the act of time travelling alone would be the paradox.
But then there's the slightly less Hollywood theory that time lines are on an infinite number of parallel universes and any change you make in the past will simply unfold in the separate universe isolated from your original universe. But that would mean you disappeared from your universe at the point of time travel and arrived in another. Wouldn't that break conservation of energy?
The problem is, and im sure Microsoft and the US government will agree with me: most people are retards. The masses can't be trusted with anything, if they could then we would just have a referendum a couple of times a year and vote on all the relevant issues. The idea of a democratically elected government is that only the reasonably competent among us will manage to get in to power. Now I know most people would hesitate to categorise George W Bush as reasonably competent, but he does have a group of advisers (you can see them burying their faces in their hands at some of his speeches) and legal experts and most decisions have a bit of time spent on them. The masses don't understand simple concepts - ie 'If you don't like what's on the Internet, get an ISP with filtering or don't use it' and its absolutely amazing how many people equate any kind of computer 'hacking' to witch-craft - those evil hackers can magically put dangerous viruses onto peoples computers and that scares people. Another example is terrorism - the dirty bomb for example is actually predicted to do very little damage, the most injuries would come from mass panic and there would likely be a total break down in law and order and organised rescue and clean-up, its because people are fucking lemmings and some of them need to be put in their place. Often politicians scare me when they say stupid things, but ive come to realise that even the party you don't like in power is a million times better than randomly selecting 100 people off the streets - which brings me neatly back to this randomly sampled poll as proof.
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She needs to get her kit off for the late-night Christmas special thats for sure..
Yes and this is why privatisation of the government is a stupid idea. Why should greedy idiots get public funds so they can cut corners and turn a profit, when the whole point of the government is to organise and run the bloody country themselves - that's what we pay them for, or at least that's what we should be paying them for.
Yes I know how capitalism works, I just think the government is generally an exception.
There's no way this could work without shear stupidity - are they using Outlook? is it running scripts? are they opening executable attachments? For fucks sake, why is my tax money being wasted when it clearly needs to be spent, today, on some 30 minute training, to educate government computer users on some very simple and very effective ways of defeating this sort of crap. This country used to be run like clockwork, its going down the drain.
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The difference is, a private company owner/board is free to reep the proffits they make or set their own salary. While this is fine in the free market, ie where I choose to send my money, when it comes to the tax I have to pay I want to know that this money will be put to good use, I want the politicians and department heads to get a good salary for the work they do but no more. I want every penny that isn't used or is made in proffit to go back in to the system.
Heres an example: All the new busses in London have nice LCD screens because its great for advertising. However there are too few busses and overcroweding is bad (overcrowding = more revenue). Meanwhile ticket prices have been steadily rising above the rate of inflation (the mayor promised they wouldn't) and have almost doubled in 2 years, a recent headwave has left the busses un-usable because they have no air conditioning and yet the private companies who now own these routes have enough money for their bosses to get a hefty bonus. Fuck that is what I say, there is no 'choice' in what bus company you use, just as there is no choice in social security providers. They're given a free ride from your tax in various ways and provide a crappy service in return.
I thought it had been out-sourced to various companies including Lockheed Martin? could be mistaken... too lazy to check... prefer to insinuate first...
Of course they are going to support commercial P2P - it means making money without having to pay for any kind of hosting or network infrastructure!! Its just going to be a bitch if these sort of services are slow, unreliable or don't have enough sources. A smart thing to do (for the industry) would be to merge a P2P system with a centralised system so that you always get good speeds and sources and the P2P part becomes a load-balance. Then just make sure the file and IP list is stored on the central server so that it becomes the service you are paying for, and give it something that free P2P doesn't have - for example file requests - you would be able to request something that the store doesn't have and give the price you are willing to pay and the store will order it and add it to their database depending on popularity/asking-price.
There are certain services that governments should be providing, not private companies who cut corners and use your tax to make themselves richer while providing the absolute minimum quality of service they can get away with. Security has always been the last priority in just about every area of industry because it doesn't make money, prime example: this whole shambles will continue, no-one will assign a team to fix it.
Exactly, I agree with that article the whole thing is a joke but more to the point, is anyone else offended by the word 'sex offence'? it sounds like some Orwellian phrase like 'thought crime', and you could say the same about 'hate crime' or 'hate speech' or even 'terror'. The whole 'sex crime' scene is the modern witch hunt, in some countries people have even been burnt to death in the streets over it and what's worse is they were innocent! If we really have to have these blaitent propaganda words in law books then how about adding 'retard crime' for the act of forming a red-neck mob and going after anyone on a sex offenders register.
I don't really blame maps or lists, as long as they are made legally, the public should be able to handle this information and people should be concentrating on preventing things from happening in the first place. Im sure there have been cases where a kid was abducted or molested because the parent was inside busy making banners for the next lynching, just as im sure that some outraged parent will be flaming this.
The cost would be the same if they simply reduced the number of 'in sourced' workers - so for example an Indian call centre might have 1000 people, where as the same centre in the UK would have 100, at 10 times the salary of the Indian workers. So as I said, I don't mind being put on hold, having a call-back or simply getting customer services through email. Its very cruel and un-generous I know, I look out for my country as number one.
Im sure there are going to be many cases of maybe older people who have lived somewhere all their life being kicked out, and its very likely there will be a few armed show-downs with the owners holding their ground and eventually shooting themselves, cops or being taken down, its very sad. Younger people are less likely to be affected by this - they would be more likely to be moving around a bit, and perhaps moving into newer homes and apartment blocks that no-one intends to take down where as older folks who have property in an area that businesses have been eying up will be prime targets.
Hopefully the free market will sort this out - if you rape someone of their home, you should expect boycotts of your business by the local population, of course no-one can resist the low low prices of Walmart and so in reality people will just shrug and show you the deal they got on their new TV.
Hopefully they will clamp down hard on this. The data protection act is one of the best laws there are and I want it fully enforced, and I want call centre jobs back here - i don't care if theres a shortage of workers, i would rather wait 10 minutes on hold.
Right now i would be happy if someone could implement a giant sun-blocking shield in London.
Did anyone actually pay for their content before? The only people i could see actually paying for news footage are other news agencies - as a user when i've clicked on videos on CNN before and found some stupid message to subscribe i just go to another site - its their loss of possible advertising revenue. Either way i still don't think most commercial news is a good idea, thats what leads to dumbing down of the masses and bias, although I respect Fox, CNN etc because they are a business and thats what they do to make money. In fact this is a perfect example of capitalism: the masses are getting what they want, everyone is happy. I just want the facts, presented by someone who is actually a journalist (not a model or 'tv personality') and has the integrity to cover all sides (no matter who it might piss off) and leave their own opinion at the door. I'd pay for that.
They've already made the database, CAS might just be prepaired to pay a 'randsom' for it so they can stop it being released for free, meanwhile NIH gets some money and arranges to be allowed to use the database they sold provided they dont give it to anyone else, and everyones happy.
One option would be to sell this new database to the competitor?
I agree the government should normally keep its hands off, but some things are either just too important or simply don't work well in a capitalist system (for example the police). Im not sure about this particular case, it seems like it probably shouldn't have been created in the first place and now its too late - why did a government department need to create this database if they could have just used the existing one? Although that has its own issues i.e. companies ripping of governments - if there's one un-patriotic thing to do its charging your government through the roof for your products/services, and sadly that's what most big business is about.
I recognise different value systems - where did i say that they couldn't be offended by lingerie?
In this case lingerie had nothing to do with it, it was just a load of school girls trying to get out of their burning school while the police stopped anyone from helping or unlocking the doors because of their lack of proper dress, while being fully aware of these people burning to death. It wouldn't make any difference if they were naked. You can hide behind 'different value systems' but after a point you have to cut the political correctness - some Saudi Arabian value systems, laws and beliefs are just wrong, disgusting, primitive, insane, take your pick. Now whether we should interfere is a different matter.
As for paedophiles, im not one of those ignorant masses that goes around in lynch mobs threatening people on sex-offender lists.
I think this system would be a good idea because its simple crime prevention without trampling rights or going over the top.
Yes and a great place for the police to track down people who do that.
Chat-room paedophiles are like email viruses - it can easily be stopped but everyone is too stupid. Ok so the paedophiles shouldn't be around in the first place, but that's not the point: bad people _do_ exist and that will never ever change so its about fucking time that parents took some responsibility to stop it at their end. I see no reason why a private chat system couldn't be set up were all users are pre-screened or identified. Its very simple: to join kid-safe-chat.com parents would provide ID such as a credit card or kids could get their school to do it. The kid can then choose whatever screen name they want and the parents wont know it. Chats are monitored/logged but privacy is maintained so that parents/teachers etc can't read the logs or do any monitoring other than what they could do by simply creating their own account (otherwise your kids will just walk right around it). If anyone dodgy gets on they will know that anything they say or do on this chat system can be fully linked back to their real identity.
if you go with the brian/body ratio the shrew is the smartest thing on the planet.
I think its probably about time to point out that The Sun is a brand of toilet paper with funny pictures and words printed on it to entertain while you take a dump. To quote it in with any seriousness outside the bathroom just isn't done.
OK space only extends as far as the furthest energy has reached - ie after the big bang or whatever a sphere of light/energy would have expanded and is still expanding today and we will never reach the edge of it as long as it continues to expand - that much i can understand - after all if the light you see from stars is millions of years old then it stands to reason that if you go far out enough into space you will get to a point where you cant see any starts because their light hasn't reached out that far yet.
But past that limit, were even light from billions of years ago hasn't reached there must still be nothing and that nothing can go on forever because its nothing - space by definition is nothing.
Except in practice (my bad), the space in our part of the universe has light and various other radiation passing through it all the time (if you can see stars then the space you're in must have light passing through it) so in fact if you did manage to remove a chunk of space you would be taking out the bit of light that was passing through that chunk and an observer watching you would see a lack of light for a fraction of time...
Isn't space exactly that? - the space between matter/energy? If you were in air then you might leave a vacume behind but surely taking a chunk out of empty space leaves empty space? Otherwise how could space go on for infinity if its actually made up of something?
Agreed, I think the whole fading out thing is just a writers tool to show the audience that they have indeed changed time and to make sure the characters know so they can try and look surprised.
Well obviously if some mischievous time traveller had been messing with the past then our minds would have been changed along with everything else, nothing would suddenly 'fade out' you would simply believe everything was normal and that the memories in your head had always been there - which they had. Any sudden change wouldn't be noticeable because you instantly would have lived with that change for the whole of your life. In fact the change to the time line would be similar to pulling a string - as you make changes to your current time (the past) the repercussions filter trough to the future (where you came from) instantly, just like when you pull a string the other end moves instantly, so i guess they are theorising that if you were 'attached' to this string, travelling back in time would create a 'loop' that would stop you from pulling anything - imagine if you tie a string to your arm then get someone to walk it round a tree and pass it back to you, if you tug on it its going no-where. This string basically represents any change you can make to the time line (in fact it would be many, possibly an infinite number of strings), so in fact absolutely anything you do from breathing to even just being there - even attempting in any way to 'materialise' your time-ship would be a pull on this string of change. By that reasoning you can forget about your grandfather - time travel itself would be paradox and therefore absolutely impossible. Thinking about it this does make sense, since just about any small thing you changed in the past would have a big effect on the future you can bet your ass there are an insanely great number of things you can do that would prevent you from being born or from travelling back, not just killing your dad. Its hardly a stretch of the imagination to think that just the act of time travelling alone would be the paradox.
But then there's the slightly less Hollywood theory that time lines are on an infinite number of parallel universes and any change you make in the past will simply unfold in the separate universe isolated from your original universe. But that would mean you disappeared from your universe at the point of time travel and arrived in another. Wouldn't that break conservation of energy?
The problem is, and im sure Microsoft and the US government will agree with me: most people are retards. The masses can't be trusted with anything, if they could then we would just have a referendum a couple of times a year and vote on all the relevant issues. The idea of a democratically elected government is that only the reasonably competent among us will manage to get in to power. Now I know most people would hesitate to categorise George W Bush as reasonably competent, but he does have a group of advisers (you can see them burying their faces in their hands at some of his speeches) and legal experts and most decisions have a bit of time spent on them. The masses don't understand simple concepts - ie 'If you don't like what's on the Internet, get an ISP with filtering or don't use it' and its absolutely amazing how many people equate any kind of computer 'hacking' to witch-craft - those evil hackers can magically put dangerous viruses onto peoples computers and that scares people. Another example is terrorism - the dirty bomb for example is actually predicted to do very little damage, the most injuries would come from mass panic and there would likely be a total break down in law and order and organised rescue and clean-up, its because people are fucking lemmings and some of them need to be put in their place. Often politicians scare me when they say stupid things, but ive come to realise that even the party you don't like in power is a million times better than randomly selecting 100 people off the streets - which brings me neatly back to this randomly sampled poll as proof.
She needs to get her kit off for the late-night Christmas special thats for sure..
Yes and this is why privatisation of the government is a stupid idea. Why should greedy idiots get public funds so they can cut corners and turn a profit, when the whole point of the government is to organise and run the bloody country themselves - that's what we pay them for, or at least that's what we should be paying them for.
Yes I know how capitalism works, I just think the government is generally an exception.
There's no way this could work without shear stupidity - are they using Outlook? is it running scripts? are they opening executable attachments? For fucks sake, why is my tax money being wasted when it clearly needs to be spent, today, on some 30 minute training, to educate government computer users on some very simple and very effective ways of defeating this sort of crap. This country used to be run like clockwork, its going down the drain.