If they do then im sure they've sponsored the Olympics: "And thats another Shell-Bronze(tm) medal for the French, hopefully England can muster up another BP-Gold or at least a Haliburton Silver! Yes Jim, and don't forget BigMac cup starting in 20 minutes!"
This is exactly what happened in the last Olympics and the one before that, this is basically what the Olympics is about. As a Londoner I say go with it - Im not going to bother watching any of that bullshit, but if it means we can fleece stupid tourists out of their money and can all get something out of this for free (more transport systems etc) then go for it! You just have to remember that the Olympics is a bastardised version of some ancient Greek custom and its sole purpose is to make wonga. As far as im concerned, sponsors can have their advertising and businesses can make their profit as long as the general population is not going to be hampered by this, the locals are the most important people here.
I really really need an answer to this question because it is simply the most retarded lack of thinking the world may ever see:
If the.xxx tld was proposed to make it easier to block porn, why oh why is a.safe or.kids tld not created that has a registration control (similar to.gov,.mil and.edu) so that only 'safe' content sites can have the tld? i really cannot see any problem with my logic unless i am completely missing something? this.safe domain would be so insanely perfect on every level:
1) it would be separate for each country -.safe.uk.safe.ch etc, therefore each country would be able to set the rules exactly how it wanted.
2) it would not make anything mandatory and thus would be more 'free'
3) it would make everyone equally happy
4) it would create a natural incentive for people to clean up their sites or risk loosing part of their audience
i really would like a sensible answer to this question because the apparent lack of thought and generous application of retardedness on behalf of the bush administration will continue to bug me unless someone can justify it in some way.
Absolutely, in fact its said that in reality a 'dirty bomb' would be pretty harmless, but the biggest cause of danger would be the panic and anarchy it would create, hampering the clean-up operation - people become selfish at the slightest hint of opportunity or trouble if they think they can save themselves or get something for free. In some cases they are better off doing what they are told, but in those scary scenarios like a nuclear attack you're going to steal the nearest car and not take your foot off the pedal for 50 miles.
This is why Bush can't be fucking trusted with it, its so ironic that the medium that has revolutionised freedom of speech came from a country that now has to have a full investigation at the hint of a boob on TV or someone swearing over the airwaves. Actually i don't think Bush is to blame, im almost certain he doesn't give a fuck about Christianity or porn, he just knows he has to please these people for some reason. Sell-out. At least if it gets any worse other countries will be able to just 'do it themselves'.
Google could take IM any day, if they bought skype they wouldnt even need to do much re-branding!
Im still waiting for google calendar, theres just no good calander/task program thats remote, syncable, and cross-platform, unless im missing something..
I would argue that some of these things should be shown in school at an early age: never mind 'drugs are bad' show the class a film about boney crack-whores, gang violence and innocent people having their lives ruined by random cross-fire, and i guarantee those kids will make sure they never ever end up in some messed up ghetto behaving like that. We bullshit around telling kids how to behave and that we must have an orderly society but if we show them why they will figure it out for themselves.
Most kids play under age games, drink under age, have sex under age, smoke under age and do pretty much whatever they can get away with under age. We all did it and most of us turned out ok, some of us didn't but it was hardly down to any of those things. The simple fact is, and I really hate to break this to parents: if your child plays GTA and then goes and shoots someone 'because' of it, they have severe mental problems and may never lead a normal life. These mental problems could be anything from brain damage to threats you made to 'shoot those mother fucking neighbours' over the years while in front of your kids, to school bullying.
Children should have basic common sense and decency from an early age, its you're responsibility as a parent to make sure that happens long before 18, 'NC-17' or even 12. They will eventually find all the things you don't want them to find so deal with it.
PDAs are totally useless, they're bulky enough to mean you don't always take them with you, they look conspicuous and getting them out to use is a hassle. You treat them too carefully, they're not robust, you look like a dick using them and they're expensive. Get a good smart phone (symbian?) instead, you can even get one with a big screen if you really want but the fact that its a phone also means you will never forget to take it with you and it has more than one function. Also ive never seen a PDA with a vibrate alarm. Get a good phone you'll treat it less carefully so you'll be more likely to use it. Lets face it, handwriting recognition isn't that much better than typing on a number pad.
Grand Theft Auto (San Andreas is really where they've started to expand the map to cross-country type driving down freeways, flying and boating) and also Operation Flashpoint, more driving, flying and boating but with military gear and smaller roads, the controls aren't as good but the islands are massive and with proper dense forests - you can go for miles even run out of fuel.
This is really a slap in the face in the UK, in London we have the congestion-charge camera network, who knows what that cost but it basically consists of a ring of cameras aimed at license plate level possibly with filters to make it stand out better and a network infrastructure and image recognition system. This is effectively the same as putting RFID in except now, obviously, we will drop this system and make a transition to RFID costing the tax payer another load. Oh and guess who benefits? Its not me because I can certainly testify, London traffic is as fucking crap as it always has been, its not the transport network, because I don't see air-conditioned buses, it is of course those tech companies that win the bids and then manage to deliver over budget and over time projects with half the features!
So now a nuclear reactor that most people neither new or cared about and that probably had very few searches will now be looked at by 1000's of slashdotters, blog readers and surfers and probably cached and saved on a million different machines never ever to be lost. Nice job.
I bet this was one of those lame PR stunts where they say 'oh no you have to censor this' so everyone looks at it and in fact gives them more publicity - they were probably just frustrated that no-one had ever tried anything!
-Bare in mind that 'what the Japanese did' does not reflect what specific individuals did, and especially not what children did, they were totally innocent of anything but were legitimate targets.
-Being a demonstration attack this would be comparable with terrorism, lets not beat around the bush, the causes and goals might be different, it might have been right for America to win, but its still by definition, terrorism.
-It almost certainly could have been played differently, there are 100's of other possibilities - not using the second bomb, inviting world leaders to watch a test, targeting a less populated area, or perhaps.. targeting Japanese military bases or outposts, or shipping convoys. An underwater blast could have been safely witnessed by many people on a coast and would lift ships in the air right in front of their eyes, what could be more of a demonstration of power?
-What happened 60 years ago has nothing to do with Americans now, you can't blame Americans who were not even born yet or had nothing to do with this, just as you can't blame Japanese now for what ever they did in the war. Similarly you can never pick a country or a city and say that everyone there is guilty, that's part of the reason why terrorists are always wrong and nuking anything is always wrong, not to mention the killing aspect of the wrongness.
Im not an American and I think the use of nuclear weapons was totally outrageous, but I don't think Americans should feel guilty about it, why should they? were you even alive when that happened? As for Iraq, in a democratic society you vote for the government you want and there's not much else you can do outside protesting unless it gets really bad. Should you feel guilty that you didn't drop your life and attempt to overthrow the government because they wanted to invade Iraq? Fuck no. Sure you can feel guilty about your car and wasteful lifestyle, but how you feel isn't going to make any difference, trying to make it a little better might. Sometimes Americans are given too much of a hard time in the world over things they have done but in reality, everyone has something they are guilty of, and you shouldn't have to feel bad about things you personally had absolutely nothing to do with or had no realistic way of changing.
Obviously this wont be mandatory and I would be first in line for spontaneous riots if it was. In fact no-where does this guy say that he intends for it to be mandatory but what's suggested in the article is the serious, real and far far more scary thought than government mandated chips: society mandated chips. Think about how 'useful' these things, or in fact any human identification system would be. As they said, no more waiting in lines, paying bills, going through security etc, it would be useful for finding your kids, monitoring cheating partners, and a whole host of both useful and disturbing things.
What happens if normal people start choosing to use these sort of things? what happens if people are paid to use these things or their company mandates it? sooner or later allot of people will start to have them and suddenly if you don't have a chip or an iris on a database you're left out, maybe you will have to wait in security lines or be handicapped in various ways, then soon you could be left out entirely, turned away by shops just as a tramp would be now. Perhaps new entertainment content will use DRM tied to your chip so you wont be able to get all the things 'normal' people enjoy. This is mandatory ID the free capitalist way, the market and society will decide what everyone does and if you don't go with the flow you will be subject to a lower quality of life.
Every time i go to Tesco, without fail, they ask me the same question "do you have a tesco clubcard?"! Do i have a fucking tesco club card? do i?? if i had a tesco club card would i be standing there holding out my money without it? would i actually forget to take it out? I know they are trained to do this, they have no choice and i know by the tone of their voice they are fucking fed up of saying it more than im fed up of hearing it, in fact i feel sorry for them - to have to say the same phrase 100's of times a day while listening to people saying it all around you must be hell. Theres hardly any other talking going on at the check-out, the only thing you hear is the total and do you have a mother fucking tesco club card. Sometimes I wonder, should i just get a tesco club card to make them shut up? even having to pull an extra thing out of my wallet every time would make up for it! If getting a card ment just being handed one and not having to fill anything in then i probably would, but it probably takes a form a mile long. If tesco want me to use a card then its going to have to be anonymous and not require me doing anything.
Well it kinda was 'E' - i don't see anyone else on that list who overthrew the German government, executed several million people, took over half of Europe, started a world war, and influenced a conflict with America and Japan which ended in the first ever use of nuclear weapons.
But then you could probably make a case for all of those people.
Yeah I know that was only an example, i will shut up now.
Is it just me or is this a bit of a coincidence? The space shuttle has been running fine for decades (minus challenger which was unrelated) then suddenly, something hits it and damages the tiles causing it to break up later. Then, the very first shuttle launched after this suffers the exact same fate. Out of 100's of shuttle missions, 2 have had this problem right after each other, what are the odds? Why have we never heard of shuttles having tiles repaired in space before or having damage caused by something hitting it?
That's a very good point, however most scientific theories are presented with evidence, reproducible experimentation and justification. The term 'intelligent design' is one conjured up by the Christian right to 'put some science into it'. If they want it to be treated as such they must back it up. Anyone can claim or theorise anything, ID may very well turn out to be the way it happened but as it stands it has nothing. Evolution on the other hand is taught as a theory and a process - we can see full well that evolution does happen, we don't have conclusive evidence that its the way life came to be on our planet and no scientist worth their salt will make that claim until sufficient evidence is gathered. The only way ID should be presented in a science class is in scientific form, otherwise it can go in religious education class.
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Is it possible to get less dignified than that?
If they do then im sure they've sponsored the Olympics: "And thats another Shell-Bronze(tm) medal for the French, hopefully England can muster up another BP-Gold or at least a Haliburton Silver! Yes Jim, and don't forget BigMac cup starting in 20 minutes!"
This is exactly what happened in the last Olympics and the one before that, this is basically what the Olympics is about. As a Londoner I say go with it - Im not going to bother watching any of that bullshit, but if it means we can fleece stupid tourists out of their money and can all get something out of this for free (more transport systems etc) then go for it! You just have to remember that the Olympics is a bastardised version of some ancient Greek custom and its sole purpose is to make wonga. As far as im concerned, sponsors can have their advertising and businesses can make their profit as long as the general population is not going to be hampered by this, the locals are the most important people here.
I really really need an answer to this question because it is simply the most retarded lack of thinking the world may ever see:
.xxx tld was proposed to make it easier to block porn, why oh why is a .safe or .kids tld not created that has a registration control (similar to .gov, .mil and .edu) so that only 'safe' content sites can have the tld? i really cannot see any problem with my logic unless i am completely missing something? this .safe domain would be so insanely perfect on every level:
.safe.uk .safe.ch etc, therefore each country would be able to set the rules exactly how it wanted.
If the
1) it would be separate for each country -
2) it would not make anything mandatory and thus would be more 'free'
3) it would make everyone equally happy
4) it would create a natural incentive for people to clean up their sites or risk loosing part of their audience
i really would like a sensible answer to this question because the apparent lack of thought and generous application of retardedness on behalf of the bush administration will continue to bug me unless someone can justify it in some way.
Absolutely, in fact its said that in reality a 'dirty bomb' would be pretty harmless, but the biggest cause of danger would be the panic and anarchy it would create, hampering the clean-up operation - people become selfish at the slightest hint of opportunity or trouble if they think they can save themselves or get something for free. In some cases they are better off doing what they are told, but in those scary scenarios like a nuclear attack you're going to steal the nearest car and not take your foot off the pedal for 50 miles.
This is why Bush can't be fucking trusted with it, its so ironic that the medium that has revolutionised freedom of speech came from a country that now has to have a full investigation at the hint of a boob on TV or someone swearing over the airwaves. Actually i don't think Bush is to blame, im almost certain he doesn't give a fuck about Christianity or porn, he just knows he has to please these people for some reason. Sell-out. At least if it gets any worse other countries will be able to just 'do it themselves'.
Already checked that out, maybe in a year but not soon enough. Im stuck with Outlook..
Google could take IM any day, if they bought skype they wouldnt even need to do much re-branding!
Im still waiting for google calendar, theres just no good calander/task program thats remote, syncable, and cross-platform, unless im missing something..
Mod that up!
I would argue that some of these things should be shown in school at an early age: never mind 'drugs are bad' show the class a film about boney crack-whores, gang violence and innocent people having their lives ruined by random cross-fire, and i guarantee those kids will make sure they never ever end up in some messed up ghetto behaving like that. We bullshit around telling kids how to behave and that we must have an orderly society but if we show them why they will figure it out for themselves.
Most kids play under age games, drink under age, have sex under age, smoke under age and do pretty much whatever they can get away with under age. We all did it and most of us turned out ok, some of us didn't but it was hardly down to any of those things. The simple fact is, and I really hate to break this to parents: if your child plays GTA and then goes and shoots someone 'because' of it, they have severe mental problems and may never lead a normal life. These mental problems could be anything from brain damage to threats you made to 'shoot those mother fucking neighbours' over the years while in front of your kids, to school bullying.
Children should have basic common sense and decency from an early age, its you're responsibility as a parent to make sure that happens long before 18, 'NC-17' or even 12. They will eventually find all the things you don't want them to find so deal with it.
PDAs are totally useless, they're bulky enough to mean you don't always take them with you, they look conspicuous and getting them out to use is a hassle. You treat them too carefully, they're not robust, you look like a dick using them and they're expensive. Get a good smart phone (symbian?) instead, you can even get one with a big screen if you really want but the fact that its a phone also means you will never forget to take it with you and it has more than one function. Also ive never seen a PDA with a vibrate alarm. Get a good phone you'll treat it less carefully so you'll be more likely to use it. Lets face it, handwriting recognition isn't that much better than typing on a number pad.
Where can I see a picture of this 66ft satelite? or atleast an artists impression/3d graphic etc? wow!
Grand Theft Auto (San Andreas is really where they've started to expand the map to cross-country type driving down freeways, flying and boating) and also Operation Flashpoint, more driving, flying and boating but with military gear and smaller roads, the controls aren't as good but the islands are massive and with proper dense forests - you can go for miles even run out of fuel.
This is really a slap in the face in the UK, in London we have the congestion-charge camera network, who knows what that cost but it basically consists of a ring of cameras aimed at license plate level possibly with filters to make it stand out better and a network infrastructure and image recognition system. This is effectively the same as putting RFID in except now, obviously, we will drop this system and make a transition to RFID costing the tax payer another load. Oh and guess who benefits? Its not me because I can certainly testify, London traffic is as fucking crap as it always has been, its not the transport network, because I don't see air-conditioned buses, it is of course those tech companies that win the bids and then manage to deliver over budget and over time projects with half the features!
..Er why don't they all just go on contracts?
So now a nuclear reactor that most people neither new or cared about and that probably had very few searches will now be looked at by 1000's of slashdotters, blog readers and surfers and probably cached and saved on a million different machines never ever to be lost. Nice job.
I bet this was one of those lame PR stunts where they say 'oh no you have to censor this' so everyone looks at it and in fact gives them more publicity - they were probably just frustrated that no-one had ever tried anything!
-Bare in mind that 'what the Japanese did' does not reflect what specific individuals did, and especially not what children did, they were totally innocent of anything but were legitimate targets.
-Being a demonstration attack this would be comparable with terrorism, lets not beat around the bush, the causes and goals might be different, it might have been right for America to win, but its still by definition, terrorism.
-It almost certainly could have been played differently, there are 100's of other possibilities - not using the second bomb, inviting world leaders to watch a test, targeting a less populated area, or perhaps.. targeting Japanese military bases or outposts, or shipping convoys. An underwater blast could have been safely witnessed by many people on a coast and would lift ships in the air right in front of their eyes, what could be more of a demonstration of power?
-What happened 60 years ago has nothing to do with Americans now, you can't blame Americans who were not even born yet or had nothing to do with this, just as you can't blame Japanese now for what ever they did in the war. Similarly you can never pick a country or a city and say that everyone there is guilty, that's part of the reason why terrorists are always wrong and nuking anything is always wrong, not to mention the killing aspect of the wrongness.
Im not an American and I think the use of nuclear weapons was totally outrageous, but I don't think Americans should feel guilty about it, why should they? were you even alive when that happened? As for Iraq, in a democratic society you vote for the government you want and there's not much else you can do outside protesting unless it gets really bad. Should you feel guilty that you didn't drop your life and attempt to overthrow the government because they wanted to invade Iraq? Fuck no. Sure you can feel guilty about your car and wasteful lifestyle, but how you feel isn't going to make any difference, trying to make it a little better might. Sometimes Americans are given too much of a hard time in the world over things they have done but in reality, everyone has something they are guilty of, and you shouldn't have to feel bad about things you personally had absolutely nothing to do with or had no realistic way of changing.
Obviously this wont be mandatory and I would be first in line for spontaneous riots if it was. In fact no-where does this guy say that he intends for it to be mandatory but what's suggested in the article is the serious, real and far far more scary thought than government mandated chips: society mandated chips. Think about how 'useful' these things, or in fact any human identification system would be. As they said, no more waiting in lines, paying bills, going through security etc, it would be useful for finding your kids, monitoring cheating partners, and a whole host of both useful and disturbing things.
What happens if normal people start choosing to use these sort of things? what happens if people are paid to use these things or their company mandates it? sooner or later allot of people will start to have them and suddenly if you don't have a chip or an iris on a database you're left out, maybe you will have to wait in security lines or be handicapped in various ways, then soon you could be left out entirely, turned away by shops just as a tramp would be now. Perhaps new entertainment content will use DRM tied to your chip so you wont be able to get all the things 'normal' people enjoy. This is mandatory ID the free capitalist way, the market and society will decide what everyone does and if you don't go with the flow you will be subject to a lower quality of life.
You would go to the shop and collect them?
Every time i go to Tesco, without fail, they ask me the same question "do you have a tesco clubcard?"! Do i have a fucking tesco club card? do i?? if i had a tesco club card would i be standing there holding out my money without it? would i actually forget to take it out? I know they are trained to do this, they have no choice and i know by the tone of their voice they are fucking fed up of saying it more than im fed up of hearing it, in fact i feel sorry for them - to have to say the same phrase 100's of times a day while listening to people saying it all around you must be hell. Theres hardly any other talking going on at the check-out, the only thing you hear is the total and do you have a mother fucking tesco club card. Sometimes I wonder, should i just get a tesco club card to make them shut up? even having to pull an extra thing out of my wallet every time would make up for it! If getting a card ment just being handed one and not having to fill anything in then i probably would, but it probably takes a form a mile long. If tesco want me to use a card then its going to have to be anonymous and not require me doing anything.
Well it kinda was 'E' - i don't see anyone else on that list who overthrew the German government, executed several million people, took over half of Europe, started a world war, and influenced a conflict with America and Japan which ended in the first ever use of nuclear weapons.
But then you could probably make a case for all of those people.
Yeah I know that was only an example, i will shut up now.
Is it just me or is this a bit of a coincidence? The space shuttle has been running fine for decades (minus challenger which was unrelated) then suddenly, something hits it and damages the tiles causing it to break up later. Then, the very first shuttle launched after this suffers the exact same fate. Out of 100's of shuttle missions, 2 have had this problem right after each other, what are the odds? Why have we never heard of shuttles having tiles repaired in space before or having damage caused by something hitting it?
That's a very good point, however most scientific theories are presented with evidence, reproducible experimentation and justification. The term 'intelligent design' is one conjured up by the Christian right to 'put some science into it'. If they want it to be treated as such they must back it up. Anyone can claim or theorise anything, ID may very well turn out to be the way it happened but as it stands it has nothing. Evolution on the other hand is taught as a theory and a process - we can see full well that evolution does happen, we don't have conclusive evidence that its the way life came to be on our planet and no scientist worth their salt will make that claim until sufficient evidence is gathered. The only way ID should be presented in a science class is in scientific form, otherwise it can go in religious education class.
would this be a good time for someone to explain to me why CSS doesn't support // comments, only /* ?