This. The only reason I dropped Firefox was because of changes the Firefox team made (and the attitude they had when making those changes), not because of features other browsers introduced before Firefox.
I'm constantly surprised that insurance in certain other countries has a liability limit - you pay $X to have $Y coverage, where $Y coverage is a payout limit.
In the UK you pay $X for Y coverage, where Y is not a pay out limit but a type of insurance - so fully comprehensive (you cause the damage, your car is fully covered as well as all liability for any damage to third parties), third party (only liability for any damage to third parties is covered) and a range in between (eg third party, fire and theft which covers you for loss or damage to your vehicle from those things).
When there is a pay out, there is no limit to that pay out - you have to cover for someones car being written off to the tune of $50,000? Its covered. You have to cover for someones life long care after you cause them to become disabled to the tune of $100Million? Its covered.
I pay the equivalent of about $500 a year for fully comprehensive insurance for a Landrover Freelander.
Yup, agreed - in one case Apple had ditched OSX support for the 2006 Mac Pro but Windows 8.1 ran just fine on it. Hows about that for supporting your own products!
Bullshit, you could torrent the BSG episodes within 3 hours of them airing, even the first season (which was broadcast first in the UK) let alone the last season... I was watching the final episode the morning after it aired in the US, about 8 hours delay (because I was in bed).
Call bullshit all you like, it can be done and it doesn't take a lifetime to do so.
Just don't pick a pointless degree and then bitch about how you have been saddled with a life time of debt - sorry that your art degree is fucking worthless, but that's not the universities fault.
Hardly, museums do artefact cleaning and restoration on centuries old cloth and materials all the time, this is no different. My local dry cleaners had no issues cleaning my wife's wedding dress which has been in her family for nigh on 150 years.
In the UK if you see a private doctor you still need a referral from your NHS GP, everything has an involvement with the NHS somewhere along the way.
You only need a referral from your NHS GP if the NHS is paying for your treatment - if you are paying for your treatment you can go to a private GP and a private hospital and not involve the NHS at all. You do not need a referral from your NHS GP for completely private work.
What utter bullshit, and typical media crap being regurgitated.
My wife has three degrees - a physiotherapy degree and two medical degrees. She finished her medical degrees 6 years ago - and she has no outstanding debts related to gaining any of those degrees. She has paid off nearly £70K in student and private loans in the past 6 years.
So yes, its entirely possible to pay off your student loans, you just have to be intelligent with money.
No, BA didn't get their Concorde for £1 each, they paid full price for the aircraft they ordered and nearly full price for the aircraft that were dropped by other airlines before they took delivery. And even if they did pay just £1 for each airframe, the purchase cost pales in comparison to the operating cost - getting the aircraft for a pittance would have little impact on profitability against the costs of actually running the aircraft.
British Airways operated Concorde profitably by charging enough money for the tickets - it was indeed one of the airlines main profit centres before it was grounded by the crash and subsequent retirement a few years later. When BA was privatised, one of the first things they did was drastically raise Concorde ticket prices and none of their regular passengers batted an eyelid.
The other categories identified by the UK Government are "employee", "shareholding employee", "self employed or contractor", "director" and "office holder".
So, the actual story here is that Apple has access to your encrypted files and can decrypt them at will, its just selling it as a nice convenience for you...
I guess that's the "law enforcement cannot access encrypted iPhones" issue solved.
Will the reflectors last as long as the plutonium tho? Although there is no weather on the moon, there is still dust thrown up from activity on the surface (meteorites etc) which will coat the reflectors and reduce their efficiency over time.
There was another story in the UK news today that an industrial waste shredder killed a worker that crawled onto the conveyor belt for some reason - in both examples, the worker was inside the exclusion area without ensuring the area was safe and the machinery was isolated, and in both cases we are dealing with automated machinery that just simply carried on with its job, yet only in the Volkswagen case are "questions" being "debated".
Bollocks, the worker is to blame for not following the procedure for ensuring the machinery was safe to work on. And if the procedure had infact been followed and the machine violated that procedure (eg the worker set the machine to off and isolated it, but the machine started up anyway unexpectedly) then the company responsible for ensuring the machine follows the safety procedure is to blame.
What would exiting the Euro actually accomplish? Greek banks have been fundamentally reliant on the Emergency Liquidity Assistance funding since February this year, when the ECB stopped accepting bonds guaranteed by the Greek government as collateral for loans, following the direction that the general financial markets have been taking for some months previous to that. So the Bank of Greece would still need to borrow money from somewhere, and exiting the Euro doesn't make borrowing suddenly easier....
How is a jump from $250 per unit to between $610 and $1250 (an increase of between 244% and 500% against the dollar) any more stable than either the Euro (~15% fall over the Dollar during the past year or so), the GBP (~10% rise over the dollar during the past year or so).
Or more aptly, those who apply and are the best fit for the job - there is no point in berating a company for woeful diversity hiring figures when all they did was concentrate on hiring the best candidate.
When it can be shown that Facebook turned down a better qualified minority candidate in order to hire a more poorly qualified white candidate, then there is an issue in hiring standards - if minority candidates are being failed by the education and social support systems to the point where we have a noticeable disparity in hireable candidates, well thats something we all need to fix properly rather than just tut at companies who would rather hire the better candidate regardless of race, colour or sex.
If you know anything about jet engines, then you would know that a simple set of ear protection earmuffs can kill a multi million dollar engine if ingested.
Why wasn't he sent to the US during the 2 years he was residing in the UK prior to scampering to the Ecuadorian embassy? Or even better, during the week or so that he was actually remanded into custody pending the extradition hearings during December 2010?
This aspect of the "all of this is just to get him to the US" claims is never explained.
Except that the Ecuadorian embassy is on the second floor of a shared building, with no direct access to the garage or other internal locations. The only way in and out of the embassy is via a shared stairwell, which is not covered under diplomatic privilege and therefore anyone using said staircase is subject to normal laws of the host country.
So how is he to get from the embassy to the car without being arrested?
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I wonder how Microsoft caused so many viruses to exist on the Amiga platform during the 1980s and 1990s...
The Amiga was where I first had to use anti-virus.
This. The only reason I dropped Firefox was because of changes the Firefox team made (and the attitude they had when making those changes), not because of features other browsers introduced before Firefox.
Security fixes don't matter one iota if the latest software won't run on the version of OSX Apple has limited your Mac to...
Oh look, I can install Windows 10 on that same Mac, the one which won't run current versions of OSX. Well done Apple.
If you want to cook for your friends and they give you money for the ingredients and consumables, that is fine.
If you want to cook for the general public, whether there is remuneration involved or not, there are laws and regulations you have to follow.
If you can't spot the difference, then you are a fucking retard.
I'm constantly surprised that insurance in certain other countries has a liability limit - you pay $X to have $Y coverage, where $Y coverage is a payout limit.
In the UK you pay $X for Y coverage, where Y is not a pay out limit but a type of insurance - so fully comprehensive (you cause the damage, your car is fully covered as well as all liability for any damage to third parties), third party (only liability for any damage to third parties is covered) and a range in between (eg third party, fire and theft which covers you for loss or damage to your vehicle from those things).
When there is a pay out, there is no limit to that pay out - you have to cover for someones car being written off to the tune of $50,000? Its covered. You have to cover for someones life long care after you cause them to become disabled to the tune of $100Million? Its covered.
I pay the equivalent of about $500 a year for fully comprehensive insurance for a Landrover Freelander.
Yup, agreed - in one case Apple had ditched OSX support for the 2006 Mac Pro but Windows 8.1 ran just fine on it. Hows about that for supporting your own products!
Bullshit, you could torrent the BSG episodes within 3 hours of them airing, even the first season (which was broadcast first in the UK) let alone the last season... I was watching the final episode the morning after it aired in the US, about 8 hours delay (because I was in bed).
Call bullshit all you like, it can be done and it doesn't take a lifetime to do so.
Just don't pick a pointless degree and then bitch about how you have been saddled with a life time of debt - sorry that your art degree is fucking worthless, but that's not the universities fault.
It's a new process on a unique artefact.
Hardly, museums do artefact cleaning and restoration on centuries old cloth and materials all the time, this is no different. My local dry cleaners had no issues cleaning my wife's wedding dress which has been in her family for nigh on 150 years.
This sort of thing is routine.
In the UK if you see a private doctor you still need a referral from your NHS GP, everything has an involvement with the NHS somewhere along the way.
You only need a referral from your NHS GP if the NHS is paying for your treatment - if you are paying for your treatment you can go to a private GP and a private hospital and not involve the NHS at all. You do not need a referral from your NHS GP for completely private work.
Source: my wife, who is a practising GP.
What utter bullshit, and typical media crap being regurgitated.
My wife has three degrees - a physiotherapy degree and two medical degrees. She finished her medical degrees 6 years ago - and she has no outstanding debts related to gaining any of those degrees. She has paid off nearly £70K in student and private loans in the past 6 years.
So yes, its entirely possible to pay off your student loans, you just have to be intelligent with money.
No, BA didn't get their Concorde for £1 each, they paid full price for the aircraft they ordered and nearly full price for the aircraft that were dropped by other airlines before they took delivery. And even if they did pay just £1 for each airframe, the purchase cost pales in comparison to the operating cost - getting the aircraft for a pittance would have little impact on profitability against the costs of actually running the aircraft.
British Airways operated Concorde profitably by charging enough money for the tickets - it was indeed one of the airlines main profit centres before it was grounded by the crash and subsequent retirement a few years later. When BA was privatised, one of the first things they did was drastically raise Concorde ticket prices and none of their regular passengers batted an eyelid.
In the UK this would be classed as a "Casual or Irregular Worker" under the following criteria:
https://www.gov.uk/employment-...
Seems to fit what Uber want out of a worker...
The other categories identified by the UK Government are "employee", "shareholding employee", "self employed or contractor", "director" and "office holder".
If the government used a website you would still have to sign up for internet access.
If the government used a phone number you can call, you would still have to sign up for phone service.
This is no fucking different to legacy approaches.
So, the actual story here is that Apple has access to your encrypted files and can decrypt them at will, its just selling it as a nice convenience for you...
I guess that's the "law enforcement cannot access encrypted iPhones" issue solved.
Will the reflectors last as long as the plutonium tho? Although there is no weather on the moon, there is still dust thrown up from activity on the surface (meteorites etc) which will coat the reflectors and reduce their efficiency over time.
The alternative being the government spending money creating a replacement? How is that not worse?
There was another story in the UK news today that an industrial waste shredder killed a worker that crawled onto the conveyor belt for some reason - in both examples, the worker was inside the exclusion area without ensuring the area was safe and the machinery was isolated, and in both cases we are dealing with automated machinery that just simply carried on with its job, yet only in the Volkswagen case are "questions" being "debated".
Bollocks, the worker is to blame for not following the procedure for ensuring the machinery was safe to work on. And if the procedure had infact been followed and the machine violated that procedure (eg the worker set the machine to off and isolated it, but the machine started up anyway unexpectedly) then the company responsible for ensuring the machine follows the safety procedure is to blame.
What would exiting the Euro actually accomplish? Greek banks have been fundamentally reliant on the Emergency Liquidity Assistance funding since February this year, when the ECB stopped accepting bonds guaranteed by the Greek government as collateral for loans, following the direction that the general financial markets have been taking for some months previous to that. So the Bank of Greece would still need to borrow money from somewhere, and exiting the Euro doesn't make borrowing suddenly easier....
How is a jump from $250 per unit to between $610 and $1250 (an increase of between 244% and 500% against the dollar) any more stable than either the Euro (~15% fall over the Dollar during the past year or so), the GBP (~10% rise over the dollar during the past year or so).
Something doesn't make sense.
Or more aptly, those who apply and are the best fit for the job - there is no point in berating a company for woeful diversity hiring figures when all they did was concentrate on hiring the best candidate.
When it can be shown that Facebook turned down a better qualified minority candidate in order to hire a more poorly qualified white candidate, then there is an issue in hiring standards - if minority candidates are being failed by the education and social support systems to the point where we have a noticeable disparity in hireable candidates, well thats something we all need to fix properly rather than just tut at companies who would rather hire the better candidate regardless of race, colour or sex.
If you know anything about jet engines, then you would know that a simple set of ear protection earmuffs can kill a multi million dollar engine if ingested.
Why wasn't he sent to the US during the 2 years he was residing in the UK prior to scampering to the Ecuadorian embassy? Or even better, during the week or so that he was actually remanded into custody pending the extradition hearings during December 2010?
This aspect of the "all of this is just to get him to the US" claims is never explained.
Except that the Ecuadorian embassy is on the second floor of a shared building, with no direct access to the garage or other internal locations. The only way in and out of the embassy is via a shared stairwell, which is not covered under diplomatic privilege and therefore anyone using said staircase is subject to normal laws of the host country.
So how is he to get from the embassy to the car without being arrested?
Also, how would Assange get there? The moment he steps out of the front door of the Ecuadorian embassy, he will be arrested.