Not only that, but what must be its most prominent competitor, djbdns, is also now free software (public domain, like the rest of DJB's stuff, as of last year). So "open source DNS" is a bit more crowded a field than it used to be these days...
Them's the breaks, if you want to use the code. If the licensing terms of the GPL are too onerous for you, then that's fine - don't use it. Just don't try to bullshit the rest of us because you're peeved that you can't have a freebie. It makes you look cheap and awfully transparent.
we are no longer a democracy (rule of the majority)
Worse than that, we never have been a democracy. The "elected" government (usually on a minority of votes cast) has always exercised absolute power, with no constitutional check or balance (the House of Lords is largely powerless, and the courts are prohibited from overturning legislation or examining the workings of Parliament) and no popular right of recall, impeachment or re-election in one's own constituency. Even something as basic as universal suffrage was only introduced in 1928. People today still carp about the unions, even though they're long since neutered - but it's not unfair to suggest that between about 1950 and 1985 they represented the only counterweight to unrestricted government power.
Indeed. Similarly, I'm a fat person (115-120kg, 6') and I don't drive at all; the reason I'm fat is a lack of exercise, and the reason for that is agoraphobia. But I absolutely refuse to believe that my diet has more environmental impact than the car on every thin person's driveway, or the holidays they take on foreign shores to show off their booties, or whatever. And since I'm celibate, I won't be adding to the overpopulation problem (nor feeling the pressure to buy a SUV in a few years purely so that I can take them to a school five minutes' walk away); whilst I might eat more than one thin person, I sure as hell don't eat as much as one and a child!
This is just straightforward body-fascism, dressed in pseudoscientific language, probably because the school needed to raise its profile (and possibly its funding profile) with a controversial headline. Unfortunately, the British government is such that we can expect a "fat tax" any day now...
Except that without her voice, Amy Winehouse would be just another wiped-out old junkie selling her arse on the street, or (best case) just another checkout girl on a council estate with a bloke that knocks her about and screws anything in a skirt... something tells me that those kids who regard her as a role model haven't quite internalised that bit.
Your perspective is in direct violation of reality, so it doesn't matter.
Then why are you wasting your time talking to me? You can't be trying to correct me - any fool would realise that starting with a gratuitous insult will pretty much stop the person you're arguing with from listening to you further - so I can only conclude you're trying to provoke me into an argument.
If that's the case, all I can say to you is: Get a fucking life already!
Still 10p on most networks, as far as I know (12p on O2 contract and Vodafone); the discounts seem to only apply to texting people on the same network (3p/text on Virgin).
Incidentally, I'm a PAYG user, but I'm in my early 30s - I simply don't ring anyone often enough, or travel enough, to make a monthly contract economical (especially not compared with O2's Favourite Place tariff - 500 minutes a month from a given postcode so long as you top up £10, and you still get to use the tenner to pay for calls... currently my phone has £36 credit.:/ )
Firstly, you missed my serious point, which is that the Spanish Inquisition reached its power zenith at about the same time in Christianity's history as Islam is at right now. I'm not using the Inquisitiong to excuse or to justify anything; I am saying that I expect Islam in 2-300 years to have swung right the way back to the liberalism that has characterised it for most of its existence, just as Christianity has done.
Secondly, how on earth could any self-respecting geek ignore such an obvious feed line for a Pythonesque sequence? I grieve for this generation, I truly do.
Doesn't California have a small claims court or procedure, through which Google could be very cheaply hit with an avalanche of "can I have my $750 please?" requests?
I'd go further than that - I think the general populace should be entitled to assume that any dog taking a crap without a human clearing it up within about 2 minutes is a stray, and shoot it.
So it's a bit of a shame that our Blessed Leader won't let us have guns either... oh well, at least decently powerful crossbows are still legal. (For now, anyway.)
I would point out, as so many have before, the context in which this is said... but you know what? Nobody would need to if before quoting the only bit of it you know, you people would just go and read the fucking play.
I know that you want to pander to the slashdot groupthink
Sorry, but I called it as I saw it. You might see it differently, that's your right - but forgetting that other people can reach different conclusions from identical data / experiences makes you no better than "the readership of the Daily Mail".
Can you back up your claim that the majority ever wanted [ID cards]?
Here's an example - the second one down on Google - and I'm sure I can find others with very little more effort. Now, where does your claim that the majority have never supported ID cards come from?
try and cough up a figure in support of [mass support for 42-day extension] if you can
Here's one from back when the limit was 14 days. As you can see, and accepting the weakness of self-selected polls, the preponderance of opinion supported an extension, and 48% of people wanted at least 42 days of detention - moreover, very few people who felt that 42 days was OK felt that 90 days was too long. YouGov found for the Spectator that 69% favoured 90-day extensions. Again, if you disagree, please present contrasting data - but I fear you vastly overestimate the liberalism of the (specifically) English public, and shouting "bollocks" at anything you disagree with does not, thankfully, reform reality to your preferences.
Sadly the nature of security work is not such that it attracts top-drawer applicants. Consider the implications of the phrase "too stupid to get into the police" and be afraid...
(And I speak as someone whose father was rejected by the police when he applied, in part because he was too intelligent - he scored mid-130s on their in-house IQ tests, the highest score they'd seen. I guess that, his somewhat bolshy outlook on life and his patchy employment record suggested someone who might have a worrying tendency to think for themselves and call out bullshit when they found it...)
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Not only that, but what must be its most prominent competitor, djbdns, is also now free software (public domain, like the rest of DJB's stuff, as of last year). So "open source DNS" is a bit more crowded a field than it used to be these days...
Them's the breaks, if you want to use the code. If the licensing terms of the GPL are too onerous for you, then that's fine - don't use it. Just don't try to bullshit the rest of us because you're peeved that you can't have a freebie. It makes you look cheap and awfully transparent.
Fair enough:
India is a Democracy. China and America are not.
Indeed. Similarly, I'm a fat person (115-120kg, 6') and I don't drive at all; the reason I'm fat is a lack of exercise, and the reason for that is agoraphobia. But I absolutely refuse to believe that my diet has more environmental impact than the car on every thin person's driveway, or the holidays they take on foreign shores to show off their booties, or whatever. And since I'm celibate, I won't be adding to the overpopulation problem (nor feeling the pressure to buy a SUV in a few years purely so that I can take them to a school five minutes' walk away); whilst I might eat more than one thin person, I sure as hell don't eat as much as one and a child!
This is just straightforward body-fascism, dressed in pseudoscientific language, probably because the school needed to raise its profile (and possibly its funding profile) with a controversial headline. Unfortunately, the British government is such that we can expect a "fat tax" any day now...
But they'll be giving your bank details to the 419ers.
Except that without her voice, Amy Winehouse would be just another wiped-out old junkie selling her arse on the street, or (best case) just another checkout girl on a council estate with a bloke that knocks her about and screws anything in a skirt... something tells me that those kids who regard her as a role model haven't quite internalised that bit.
Heh. QED.
If that's the case, all I can say to you is: Get a fucking life already!
Still 10p on most networks, as far as I know (12p on O2 contract and Vodafone); the discounts seem to only apply to texting people on the same network (3p/text on Virgin).
:/ )
Incidentally, I'm a PAYG user, but I'm in my early 30s - I simply don't ring anyone often enough, or travel enough, to make a monthly contract economical (especially not compared with O2's Favourite Place tariff - 500 minutes a month from a given postcode so long as you top up £10, and you still get to use the tenner to pay for calls... currently my phone has £36 credit.
Firstly, you missed my serious point, which is that the Spanish Inquisition reached its power zenith at about the same time in Christianity's history as Islam is at right now. I'm not using the Inquisitiong to excuse or to justify anything; I am saying that I expect Islam in 2-300 years to have swung right the way back to the liberalism that has characterised it for most of its existence, just as Christianity has done.
Secondly, how on earth could any self-respecting geek ignore such an obvious feed line for a Pythonesque sequence? I grieve for this generation, I truly do.
Er, aren't you forgetting the Spanish Inquisition...?
I don't know, I think cold is "what do you mean, what's the point? One of those could feed a family for a week!"
Doesn't California have a small claims court or procedure, through which Google could be very cheaply hit with an avalanche of "can I have my $750 please?" requests?
You know that plot failed, right? Ok, good, just checking.
I'd go further than that - I think the general populace should be entitled to assume that any dog taking a crap without a human clearing it up within about 2 minutes is a stray, and shoot it.
So it's a bit of a shame that our Blessed Leader won't let us have guns either... oh well, at least decently powerful crossbows are still legal. (For now, anyway.)
I would point out, as so many have before, the context in which this is said... but you know what? Nobody would need to if before quoting the only bit of it you know, you people would just go and read the fucking play.
Dead hosts lose?
Actually, in England we call that venue the (You)Tube.
Sadly the nature of security work is not such that it attracts top-drawer applicants. Consider the implications of the phrase "too stupid to get into the police" and be afraid...
(And I speak as someone whose father was rejected by the police when he applied, in part because he was too intelligent - he scored mid-130s on their in-house IQ tests, the highest score they'd seen. I guess that, his somewhat bolshy outlook on life and his patchy employment record suggested someone who might have a worrying tendency to think for themselves and call out bullshit when they found it...)