the police force should be cut and replaced with groups of privately funded mercenaries keeping our streets safe.
Most Americans would agree that Hells Angels supported by a couple of Terminators would solve this problem completely. Harley Davidson would probably fund the whole operation.
You might want to look at how that has worked in other countries.
Basically, being ruled by warlords is even worse than Trump, and allowing the rich to rule the roost generally ends with something resembling the French revolution.
I ditched Windows over 10 years ago, but the only thing that Gimp is better than, is a poke in the eye with a sharp stick - and even then its a close call.
I keep arguing with my (English) father in law that one of the big problems with soccer is the lack of scoring. Getting rid of offside would improve that.
If you want more goals - and I would like more goals - the best way would be to scale the size of the goal in proportion to how the players are taller than they were when the rules were set 200 years ago - when most players were probably 5' 2". However, that would mean that the best team wins - and the bookies would certainly cry foul at the prospect of that!
It is very important that the team who loses can say "we woz robbed!" - it keeps up the spirits of the downhearted. it keeps supporters loyal to hopeless teams.
Also, the fact that few goals are scored means that luck is more important than skill - also important given the chronic lack of skills possessed by some teams, and lack of team spirit in others. It is also great for the bookies.
Soccer is not about playing the game, its about belonging to a group.
Here in the UK the official procedure in the event of a 4 minute warning of nuclear attack is to have sex*, or cover your head in a brown paper bag, or possibly both.
Or it was during the cold war. It may be different now - but if so, no one has bothered to tell us.
* In Yorkshire, you can have a nice cup of tea instead.
We, the EU citizens, have laws for our protection, in the same way you Americans have guns for yours.
We are quite happy to have our governments fine Google for raping our privacy and stuffing our phones with bloatware, thanks very much. You can have your school massacres.
MIcrosoft was falsely accused of 'monopoly' because at the time if you sold PCs, you had to pay for a Windows licence for all of them, even if shipped with no OS at all.
MS original "virus protection" was worthless. In any case, if Windows had anything resembling security, there would not be such a massive problem with malware.
There were a lot of OSes. MS used the reverse "its not done till Lotus won't run" strategies to ensure their own applications would not run on third party OSes (still do), and massive advertising spend to keep competitors out. For years, about half the market thought Windows and MS Office were the same thing - many still do (ask hospital staff or factory floor workers).
Windows still has a majority of users, but nobody cares any more because MS is arm wrestling certain big providers of specialist business software not to release Linux versions, and astroturfing numerous blogs with stories about how people won't pay for Linux software, or can easily hack it because Linux is so "open" that bits of software fall out the bottom of it.
I expect it to have the Play store. From there I can go and do whatever I want to
That is precisely what the EU is asking for.
As it is, if you have the Playstore, you MUST have a load of bloatware too, and Google places a load of other restrictions on the supplier - because "nice phone company you have there, shame if anything should happen to it".
Presumably Google is run by a close relative of Tony Soprano.
Android does not rule the smartphone platform. maybe not in Seattle.
Here in Europe, Android has at least 70% of the market. Most of the iPhones I see have broken screens and flat batteries. You can buy 3 perfectly good Android phones (eg Samsung A* and J* models) for the price of an iPhone. Or 6 rather less appealing models.
And non-iPhone phones are often dual SIM, so you can have different lines for business and pleasure, or use different networks for domestic and overseas calls - given the difference between 3p per minute and 130p per minute, a lot of people find this an attractive feature.
require the datasheets for all components sold (including as components of complete assemblies) to be released to the public domain whenever the device goes EOL
This would massively reduce the number of devices going to landfill*, and would provide a market for 3rd party OSes.
However, it is clear that Google's behaviour (as in "yer cant have our playstore unless you kiss our butt") is illegal in Europe, and the only question over the potential fine is "does Europe have a big enough bank to hold the loot".
* and by implication, make the phone market follow the PC market where people don't keep replacing perfectly good devices with "new" but worse machines. (2015 PCs had similar specs to 2010 machines, except the screens and keyboards were mostly worse, and the DVD drive was removed - and people wonder why the PC market is in decline?).
Google understands synonyms, acronyms and related concepts
No it bloody does not! It has a serious case of Dunning-Kruger when thinking about the subject. Google search mostly returns a pile of utter garbage, unless you want to buy a fashion item on Amazon (I presume - I don't buy fashion items, and don't use Amazon).
A cage full of deranged hamsters could probably return better results using systemd.
It is kind of weird to us Europeans that Americans somehow imagine that everyone is capable of being sane and responsible when it is painfully obvious that a significant portion of their own population is composed of gun and drug crazed nutters.
If guns are readily available, then nutters and dope fiends, and your average maniac can get old of the guns and go on a murder rampage.
If guns are less available then there are less nutters on the rampage with guns. A small number of non-nutters could be mildly inconvenienced, but mildly inconvenienced is better than dead.
In general, if your government is not allowed to go round killing people, and Putin is not using Facebook to goad a bunch of dimbos, then the ballot box is a good way to control your government.
If you need guns to control your government, that is a civil war - see Syria, Yemen and Somalia for examples of how that will go. No government is definitely worse that almost all governments, probably including Assad and even Saddam.
You work for Google search - at last I have found the culprit:
it has become a steaming pile of shit!
For fuck's sake make it search for the terms you put in the search box, instead of serving up irrelevant crap - while you still have a job. At the very least Make it possible to set verbatim as a default - non-verbatim searches are complete time wasters.
Having done that, add an "No I am NOT fucking shopping" setting - so when doing academic research we don't get to hear about Amazon, Asos and Ebay.
Sure, Nero isn't as ubiquitous as it once was, but do you know anyone still using Roxio? I doubt it.
Everyone I know who chooses, chooses k3b, and the rest use Brassero.
I paid once for Nero, and had so many hideous problems I abandoned it even when I got free versions with new CD players - I think the CDS are in a box somewhere.
Correlation does not imply causation - close, but no seegar!
"Adding features" is usually associated with "fucking up the UI" - so adding features often leads to massive loss of users. That is why the apps that don't keep adding features also don't keep losing users.
In fact, "fucking up the UI" is probably the biggest reason why Linux has problems defeating Windows. It is not limited to removing useful tools from the menus, and replacing recognisable icons with unrecognisable ones. There are also long running issues like screwing wifi, printing and network browsing with each major update, despite the fact that browsing and letter writing are the two biggest uses of computers for people who are not active Ubuntu developers, and who can probably ONLY connect via wifi.
That is not true. Very few people KNOW that is how the thing they want is described.
A certain number of people want iPhones* because of the reality distortion field, and clearly that includes the CxOs of a large number of Android manufacturers.
* iPhones are the ones with broken screens and flat batteries, which their owners cant afford to replace because they spent their entire worldly wealth on buying the POS in the first place.
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And that is not easy to achieve. Amazon is so crappy, I prefer to go down to the high street at shop in a real store!
Disclaimer: I live in the UK where we don't have Target or Walmart.
What we have here is clear proof of Dunning-Kruger at work!
Most Americans would agree that Hells Angels supported by a couple of Terminators would solve this problem completely. Harley Davidson would probably fund the whole operation.
Basically, being ruled by warlords is even worse than Trump, and allowing the rich to rule the roost generally ends with something resembling the French revolution.
I ditched Windows over 10 years ago, but the only thing that Gimp is better than, is a poke in the eye with a sharp stick - and even then its a close call.
If you want more goals - and I would like more goals - the best way would be to scale the size of the goal in proportion to how the players are taller than they were when the rules were set 200 years ago - when most players were probably 5' 2". However, that would mean that the best team wins - and the bookies would certainly cry foul at the prospect of that!
It is very important that the team who loses can say "we woz robbed!" - it keeps up the spirits of the downhearted. it keeps supporters loyal to hopeless teams.
Also, the fact that few goals are scored means that luck is more important than skill - also important given the chronic lack of skills possessed by some teams, and lack of team spirit in others. It is also great for the bookies.
Soccer is not about playing the game, its about belonging to a group.
Or it was during the cold war. It may be different now - but if so, no one has bothered to tell us.
* In Yorkshire, you can have a nice cup of tea instead.
If you don't want false information, what are you doing on Facebook? even the stuff your friends post on Facebook is fake!
FTFY
We are quite happy to have our governments fine Google for raping our privacy and stuffing our phones with bloatware, thanks very much. You can have your school massacres.
MS original "virus protection" was worthless. In any case, if Windows had anything resembling security, there would not be such a massive problem with malware.
There were a lot of OSes. MS used the reverse "its not done till Lotus won't run" strategies to ensure their own applications would not run on third party OSes (still do), and massive advertising spend to keep competitors out. For years, about half the market thought Windows and MS Office were the same thing - many still do (ask hospital staff or factory floor workers).
Windows still has a majority of users, but nobody cares any more because MS is arm wrestling certain big providers of specialist business software not to release Linux versions, and astroturfing numerous blogs with stories about how people won't pay for Linux software, or can easily hack it because Linux is so "open" that bits of software fall out the bottom of it.
That is precisely what the EU is asking for.
As it is, if you have the Playstore, you MUST have a load of bloatware too, and Google places a load of other restrictions on the supplier - because "nice phone company you have there, shame if anything should happen to it".
Presumably Google is run by a close relative of Tony Soprano.
Here in Europe, Android has at least 70% of the market. Most of the iPhones I see have broken screens and flat batteries. You can buy 3 perfectly good Android phones (eg Samsung A* and J* models) for the price of an iPhone. Or 6 rather less appealing models.
And non-iPhone phones are often dual SIM, so you can have different lines for business and pleasure, or use different networks for domestic and overseas calls - given the difference between 3p per minute and 130p per minute, a lot of people find this an attractive feature.
This would massively reduce the number of devices going to landfill*, and would provide a market for 3rd party OSes.
However, it is clear that Google's behaviour (as in "yer cant have our playstore unless you kiss our butt") is illegal in Europe, and the only question over the potential fine is "does Europe have a big enough bank to hold the loot".
* and by implication, make the phone market follow the PC market where people don't keep replacing perfectly good devices with "new" but worse machines. (2015 PCs had similar specs to 2010 machines, except the screens and keyboards were mostly worse, and the DVD drive was removed - and people wonder why the PC market is in decline?).
No. That is what apostrophes are for!
No it bloody does not! It has a serious case of Dunning-Kruger when thinking about the subject. Google search mostly returns a pile of utter garbage, unless you want to buy a fashion item on Amazon (I presume - I don't buy fashion items, and don't use Amazon).
A cage full of deranged hamsters could probably return better results using systemd.
If guns are readily available, then nutters and dope fiends, and your average maniac can get old of the guns and go on a murder rampage.
If guns are less available then there are less nutters on the rampage with guns. A small number of non-nutters could be mildly inconvenienced, but mildly inconvenienced is better than dead.
In general, if your government is not allowed to go round killing people, and Putin is not using Facebook to goad a bunch of dimbos, then the ballot box is a good way to control your government.
If you need guns to control your government, that is a civil war - see Syria, Yemen and Somalia for examples of how that will go. No government is definitely worse that almost all governments, probably including Assad and even Saddam.
As my grandmother used to say "the adverts speak very highly of it, dear" - implying that no one would speak highly of it unless well paid.
So you plan to set up a business selling things to dead people?
Good luck with that!
Maybe. But if you are interested in developing paper darts, they definitely go back and forth better - as does gossip.
Productivity be damned: if the boss thinks you are working, that is good enough for him. If you are required to think, forget it!
it has become a steaming pile of shit!
For fuck's sake make it search for the terms you put in the search box, instead of serving up irrelevant crap - while you still have a job. At the very least Make it possible to set verbatim as a default - non-verbatim searches are complete time wasters.
Having done that, add an "No I am NOT fucking shopping" setting - so when doing academic research we don't get to hear about Amazon, Asos and Ebay.
Everyone I know who chooses, chooses k3b, and the rest use Brassero.
I paid once for Nero, and had so many hideous problems I abandoned it even when I got free versions with new CD players - I think the CDS are in a box somewhere.
"Adding features" is usually associated with "fucking up the UI" - so adding features often leads to massive loss of users. That is why the apps that don't keep adding features also don't keep losing users.
In fact, "fucking up the UI" is probably the biggest reason why Linux has problems defeating Windows. It is not limited to removing useful tools from the menus, and replacing recognisable icons with unrecognisable ones. There are also long running issues like screwing wifi, printing and network browsing with each major update, despite the fact that browsing and letter writing are the two biggest uses of computers for people who are not active Ubuntu developers, and who can probably ONLY connect via wifi.
Some people need to Google "Regression testing".
(Notice I did not even need to mention Systemd).
That is not true. Very few people KNOW that is how the thing they want is described.
A certain number of people want iPhones* because of the reality distortion field, and clearly that includes the CxOs of a large number of Android manufacturers.
* iPhones are the ones with broken screens and flat batteries, which their owners cant afford to replace because they spent their entire worldly wealth on buying the POS in the first place.