This is the UK: We have had a good number of robberies where the villain used a banana under a coat, and a case where the police shot a man dead because he was carrying a table leg wrapped up - the police here can't tell table legs from guns.
Bear in mind that one thing they can do here is mis-information
You are omitting the entirely credible choice of "we will say whatever we think will please you and then do the opposite" party.
UKIP is a red herring put there to justify the loony right faction of the marginally less loony right party. The people that say they vote UKIP are the same ones that say "Vote? while the pubs are open or Corrie is on the box? Are you mad!"
The main disadvantage of joining the Euro is that it is much harder for the politicians to cook the books. The Germans have a particular detestation of cooked books, since they nearly starved to death as a consequence of a particularly bad episode. The Greeks (amongst others) are currently discovering that cooking the books results in a diet of cooked books, and its not very tasty. However, they have not yet realised that "it was the cook wot done it".
The British banks are terrified that we will join the Euro and miss no chance at anti-EU propaganda because we import three quarters of our food from the EU - and to pay for it, have to put up with the banks creaming us 4% on spread for currency exchange. Then we have to export stuff to pay for the food, and they cream us another 4% on the spread for changing the money back.
By this foul strategy, the banks steal 6% of our GDP. No wonder they pay people to spread anti-EU dirt throughout the media!
Of couse, the banks are not short of other ways of stealing our money too. Bankers are rich because they are stealing our money not because they are incredibly clever. Are the Mafia incredibly clever?
The price may be regulated, but the qualitiy of service appears not to be. Service quality is diabiolical - I mean service in the meaning of "what happens whyen you call to report a fault". They threaten to bill you a massive call out charge if the fault is "your responisibility" and frequently clear the fault and then claim "no fault found" - often when said fault is that they reconfigured the exchange without informing you.
They refuse to give technical answers to technical questions even in the (unlikely) event that they can understand expressions like "static IP" and "DNS lookup" they persist in attempting to use dumbed down expressions to avoid using technical terms - thus ensuring that their words do not ahve any useful meaning.
In short, if they were not a monopoly, they would not last a week.
Disclaimer: I had a broadband problem last week - reported it - NFF, but problem gone. Repeatedly threatened with GBP220 call out charge. Process took three hours.
Without cellphones, how will they make enough money to organise clean water and buy sanitation?
WIth a cellphone you can find out how to (profitably) make "pure water" (Google is your friend). West Africa is extremely capitalist: you have to do it yourself. The starving millions are starving through lack of cellphones - they are an essential business tool: people with cellphones are not starving.
as a manufacturer, be forced to pay, pay, and pay again for people to make updates for a cheap piece of hardware that barely covered its own cost in the first place?
You aren't. When you get bored with supporting old kit, simply open source the code, and let the community support it! That is what the BSD licence is for!
Dual-sim phones are common in most of the world. I have Sims for countries I am not actually in. One of them is currently on loan to someone in its native country.
What if one car has two guys with multiple convictions for armed robbery and the other has a working dad with a family and three kids at home? OK, the algorithm would have to be pretty sophisticated to detemine that, but who knows...
Thank God that Facebook makes that data readily available to everyone.
Unfortunately "signed by symbian" DRM meant you could not actually install the Apps. And Nokia is now owned by MS - so Feature phone is dead - but could be revived by anyone who actually wanted to.
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Not in the UK you cant. You would go strait to jail for selling them.
Bear in mind that one thing they can do here is mis-information
WMD Blair/Brown qv.
You know nothing about databases, or the value of pork, do you?
Oh, wait ...
UKIP is a red herring put there to justify the loony right faction of the marginally less loony right party. The people that say they vote UKIP are the same ones that say "Vote? while the pubs are open or Corrie is on the box? Are you mad!"
You appear to have had a bit too much Kool-ade.
By this foul strategy, the banks steal 6% of our GDP. No wonder they pay people to spread anti-EU dirt throughout the media!
Of couse, the banks are not short of other ways of stealing our money too. Bankers are rich because they are stealing our money not because they are incredibly clever. Are the Mafia incredibly clever?
They refuse to give technical answers to technical questions even in the (unlikely) event that they can understand expressions like "static IP" and "DNS lookup" they persist in attempting to use dumbed down expressions to avoid using technical terms - thus ensuring that their words do not ahve any useful meaning.
In short, if they were not a monopoly, they would not last a week.
Disclaimer: I had a broadband problem last week - reported it - NFF, but problem gone. Repeatedly threatened with GBP220 call out charge. Process took three hours.
WIth a cellphone you can find out how to (profitably) make "pure water" (Google is your friend). West Africa is extremely capitalist: you have to do it yourself. The starving millions are starving through lack of cellphones - they are an essential business tool: people with cellphones are not starving.
Lagos probably has more Blackberries than London.
That was a special armed response unit (Like a SWAT team). Ordinary police here in London do not carry guns, and never have.
That is definitely not true. However, the conviction rate is well above 90%, so it would not make a whole lot of difference if it was true.
I do not deny that it occasionally takes 30 years to find the offender, but mostly its less than a year.
Yes. That is the real reason why you should avoid the ghetto girls in 3rd world countries!
You might want to Google "Boko Haram"
What no tape backup?
Not even the EU does that (yet).
Disclaimer; I must get back to writing pgsql scripts.
You aren't. When you get bored with supporting old kit, simply open source the code, and let the community support it! That is what the BSD licence is for!
Not opensourcing EOL code is what Gitmo is for!
Dual-sim phones are common in most of the world. I have Sims for countries I am not actually in. One of them is currently on loan to someone in its native country.
I would love to be second to admit it. Unfortunately I have four phones on my desk at thsi moment.
Except those who call them Yankees, or something considerably ruder.
I don't know what systemd is or does, but init has worked perfectly well for me since 1981,
As for "packages will need systemd!" what for? Surely this is what the install script will fix for <your favorite Un*x system>
Get off my lawn.
Thank God that Facebook makes that data readily available to everyone.
Unfortunately "signed by symbian" DRM meant you could not actually install the Apps. And Nokia is now owned by MS - so Feature phone is dead - but could be revived by anyone who actually wanted to.
No in wont - the whole point of this technology is to drive the price up.
Replacement metal key $5.
Replacement electronic key $200.
Go and ask in your nearest car dealership.