A retard who believes "The Rapture" is coming and who happens to like starting wars near the Holy Lands, now that is scary. Its lucky it could never happen in real like, eh?
So what you are saying is....eh....the thing with the........when the thing with the other thing goes...to.....because the wotsit is like the..eh....so, do they run Linux in their lab?
Or perhaps all those Americans shipping unrated videos or chewing tobacco to the UK should be waiting for the FBI to turn up with the extradition papers?
If this was all as above board as some suggest, then why weren't these people simply extradited, instead of the Feds hiding behind the baggage carousel waiting for them to change planes? I mean, it might be hard to understand, with the USs puritanical views on gambling, but these are executives of publically traded companies - Richard Branson is equally as guilty http://casino.virgingames.com/, as an example. This is not the equivalent, in the UK at least, of some drug baron using loopholes in the law to sell prescription morphine to kids, or Louigi 'Fingers' Spaghetti running a craps game down the back alley. Over here these people are running companies as legitamate as QVC or Bloomberg.
This is just stupid. Any interference with peoples rubbish, especially if it leads to a 'rubbish tax' - say on putting recyclable items in a non-recycling bin or throwing away too much rubbish (there are whispers about these happening) - will just lead to more people dumping their rubbish illegaly. People already feel they pay way too much in Council Tax (local tax based on property value which amounts to over $3000 per annum and which funds the local councils - ie rubbish collection, local roads, schools, etc).
People will simply fill the bins up to the non-chargeable limit and then throw the rest out at street corners on their way to work. I can see a good market developing for pedal bins that weigh your rubbish and tell you when you reach the limit. Or a new practical joke of putting bricks on your neighbours bin.
I think it deserves a nursery rhyme, a cautionary tale for the children of future generations -
There was man named Owen Gingerich
He had a spell check dictionary
He thought it'd gone without a hitch
When he used it lexiconographically
As he gave it a punt,
He thought, I'm a smart c*nt,
But he wasn't
Off-topic now, but I worked in game development and everyone was playing with that stupid Catz software - where you raise a pet cat on your desktop (anything is better than work). One lunchtime I returned to my machine to find my 'cat's' head stuck on a spike next to its blood soaked corpse.
When you don't expect it, it does take a minute to work out that the app isn't real.
To be fair, the top percantage of processors are very highly priced and don't sell in as big numbers. Most PCs sold are using mid-range processors, and they work fine for the tasks most people do. If speed was the only issue then surely everyone would still be using the CLI, and anti-virus software would be too big a drain on resources (not to mention all the other little apps people run in the background for ease).
As far as the actual topic goes, I'll leave it up to people who have a knowledge of the subject to argue it out.
I know I'm just repeating what has been said, but how is this news? Is someone getting a kickback? This is a short summary of a very uninteresting press release.
"EA will release some game about some thing some time".
Its a bank holiday in the UK. Is the same true of in the US? It would explain why Bill and Steve have time spare to moderate on Slashdot. Either that or someone's been sniffing the tippex again.
Come on. That's a laugh. I have voted against the incumbent Governments in my country since the eighties and it has made no difference. I don't have a choice about who runs my country - I have zero influence even over my own MP, who I write to on a regular basis, because he is a dedicated follower of Tony. He is more interested in getting that sweet ministerial position than he is in anything his consituents want.
The only time since I have voted that a Government has changed was in 1997 when The Sun newspaper changed allegience from the Conservatives to Labour - therefore an Ozzie newspaper tycoon has more influence over who runs my country that I do.
Its not the ID card. An ID Card as a trimmed down passport for veryfying your identity at banks, stores, etc is not a problem - anymore than a passport is. A giant central authentication database that can track your movements is a problem. Its the difference between an SSL cert, or PGP Key, and Microsoft Passport. One says you are the same person who you said you were yesteray or the day you applied for it. The other tracks your actions where ever you go and makes one central authority the final word on who goes where and when.
And this is the confusion that the Governments in the UK and Australia want to continue. The problem a lot of people have is not with an ID Card, it is with the national identity database that is coming with it. If I could go to the local post office with my some proof of who I am (utility bills, birth certificate) and get the card based equivalent of an SSL certificate to use in banking, voting, health care, maybe even online, then I wouldn't be so bothered (although I still don't like it). But the card is a miniscule part, of the UK Governments plans at least. A central tracking database is a fundamental shift in our relationship with the Government - they are now tracking, monitoring and verifying us every where we go and with everything we do. It is not for our convenience; we no longer feel they are working for us, but rather they will be authenticating us. It is our country, not the Governments - this has the effect of altering that balance.
What you say is true. As is the fact that drinking too much water is lethal. So let's ban water drinking. Or anything with the potential of death. Especially among younger teenagers. Riding a bike could lead to fatal accidents. Even putting on your socks can lead to fatal accidents. Bacon leads to heart disease. Sugar is addictive and is abundant in most cereal based breakfasts. Even going too school carries the risk of being shot by nutbag Goths. Lets all live within giant balls of cotton wool, encased in six inches of lead, buried beneath the ground. However we might still choke on out own tounges so the only chance our children have of not dying or suffering in anyway is for them not to be born (unless we cut out their toungues). So you are right in one respect - sex is risky.
Permissive attitudes towards these activities are bad (in particular among younger teenagers) because they're not mature enough to assess the risk-reward ratio of any of these actions - I propose we ban teenagers, or activities.
I agree to an extent, but to be honest I don' trust retailers to look after my children. Without some kind of legal or finacial repercusion retailers will sell unsuitable games to children. If a parent doesn't object to their child playing an adult themed game they can buy it for them.
I just find it a bit strange that people are happy allowing retailers to make that decision rather than parents - especially since it seems practically understood in the US that companies are somehow legally obliged to enhance shareholder value above all else (or so the Slashdot meme goes) - that drives things in a strange direction, from an outsiders perpective anyway.
Not to say I agree with this law, but that is simply down to bad wording and bad iplementation rather than it actually being a bad concept.
I hope someone mods you up. You've hit the nail on the head. I wouldn't even say that people have to be stupid for this to be relevant. Its a guideline for all the normal people out there who don't have time to study everything themselves - to play every game, watch every movie, read every book, watch every play, listen to every piece of music that their children might come into contact with. A child is a parents responsibility but society should offer some guidance, otherwise why do we all bother living together?
It probably has something to do with the fact that a majority of people feel that homosexuality, in and of itself, is wrong
Maybe in Oklahoma, but where I live they certainly don't voice or show those feelings in any tangible way. In fact not being a USian, gay marriage in now legal in my country (and there certainly weren't any visible complaints about that).
If you feel the need to come out of the closet you can always move here. I'm not gay myself but as I obviously live in a more tolerant society than you I'll be happy to show you around the gay areas and introduce you to a few people - if you need your 'hand held'.
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A retard who believes "The Rapture" is coming and who happens to like starting wars near the Holy Lands, now that is scary. Its lucky it could never happen in real like, eh?
Sorry, who are you talking about? http://www.google.com/search?q=george+bush+armaged don
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So what you are saying is....eh....the thing with the........when the thing with the other thing goes...to.....because the wotsit is like the..eh....so, do they run Linux in their lab?
what about?
i bought
a DVD-ROM drive from them not too long ago
its works intermittently
i will sometimes buy Sony
right on
i bought
a DVD-ROM drive from them not too long ago
its still working fine
i will always buy Sony
If this was all as above board as some suggest, then why weren't these people simply extradited, instead of the Feds hiding behind the baggage carousel waiting for them to change planes? I mean, it might be hard to understand, with the USs puritanical views on gambling, but these are executives of publically traded companies - Richard Branson is equally as guilty http://casino.virgingames.com/, as an example. This is not the equivalent, in the UK at least, of some drug baron using loopholes in the law to sell prescription morphine to kids, or Louigi 'Fingers' Spaghetti running a craps game down the back alley. Over here these people are running companies as legitamate as QVC or Bloomberg.
People will simply fill the bins up to the non-chargeable limit and then throw the rest out at street corners on their way to work. I can see a good market developing for pedal bins that weigh your rubbish and tell you when you reach the limit. Or a new practical joke of putting bricks on your neighbours bin.
I think it deserves a nursery rhyme, a cautionary tale for the children of future generations -
There was man named Owen GingerichHe had a spell check dictionary
He thought it'd gone without a hitch
When he used it lexiconographically
As he gave it a punt,
He thought, I'm a smart c*nt,
But he wasn't
When you don't expect it, it does take a minute to work out that the app isn't real.
That's 2007...the PS3 is 2006
As far as the actual topic goes, I'll leave it up to people who have a knowledge of the subject to argue it out.
That must be Bill Posters. He's banned from most empty buildings round here.
"EA will release some game about some thing some time".
Its a bank holiday in the UK. Is the same true of in the US? It would explain why Bill and Steve have time spare to moderate on Slashdot. Either that or someone's been sniffing the tippex again.
That's not a problem if you take regular doses of Doctor Crabtrees Patented Unction, like I do.
What the US should do is allow in, say about 250 million immigrants and then shut the borders.
The only time since I have voted that a Government has changed was in 1997 when The Sun newspaper changed allegience from the Conservatives to Labour - therefore an Ozzie newspaper tycoon has more influence over who runs my country that I do.
I'll see you in jail.
Its not the ID card. An ID Card as a trimmed down passport for veryfying your identity at banks, stores, etc is not a problem - anymore than a passport is. A giant central authentication database that can track your movements is a problem. Its the difference between an SSL cert, or PGP Key, and Microsoft Passport. One says you are the same person who you said you were yesteray or the day you applied for it. The other tracks your actions where ever you go and makes one central authority the final word on who goes where and when.
And this is the confusion that the Governments in the UK and Australia want to continue. The problem a lot of people have is not with an ID Card, it is with the national identity database that is coming with it. If I could go to the local post office with my some proof of who I am (utility bills, birth certificate) and get the card based equivalent of an SSL certificate to use in banking, voting, health care, maybe even online, then I wouldn't be so bothered (although I still don't like it). But the card is a miniscule part, of the UK Governments plans at least. A central tracking database is a fundamental shift in our relationship with the Government - they are now tracking, monitoring and verifying us every where we go and with everything we do. It is not for our convenience; we no longer feel they are working for us, but rather they will be authenticating us. It is our country, not the Governments - this has the effect of altering that balance.
Permissive attitudes towards these activities are bad (in particular among younger teenagers) because they're not mature enough to assess the risk-reward ratio of any of these actions - I propose we ban teenagers, or activities.
I just find it a bit strange that people are happy allowing retailers to make that decision rather than parents - especially since it seems practically understood in the US that companies are somehow legally obliged to enhance shareholder value above all else (or so the Slashdot meme goes) - that drives things in a strange direction, from an outsiders perpective anyway.
Not to say I agree with this law, but that is simply down to bad wording and bad iplementation rather than it actually being a bad concept.
I hope someone mods you up. You've hit the nail on the head. I wouldn't even say that people have to be stupid for this to be relevant. Its a guideline for all the normal people out there who don't have time to study everything themselves - to play every game, watch every movie, read every book, watch every play, listen to every piece of music that their children might come into contact with. A child is a parents responsibility but society should offer some guidance, otherwise why do we all bother living together?
Maybe in Oklahoma, but where I live they certainly don't voice or show those feelings in any tangible way. In fact not being a USian, gay marriage in now legal in my country (and there certainly weren't any visible complaints about that).
If you feel the need to come out of the closet you can always move here. I'm not gay myself but as I obviously live in a more tolerant society than you I'll be happy to show you around the gay areas and introduce you to a few people - if you need your 'hand held'.
'Its dead Jim'