I've just downloaded the app on my xbox and given it a go - it was really quite slow, display-wise, much too slow for any real gaming. It worked usefully to connect the xbox controller to my laptop, and I guess it would be handy maybe for watching movies or doing presentations, but not gaming.
TBF, I found the most effective way (after smoking for 20 plus years) of quitting was to use exercise to cover the problems caused by quitting. Perhaps psychological, but I certainly felt it suppressed cravings - and it certainly helped with sleep problems and depression from quitting, and gave me tangible benefit in quitting - with exercise benefits quite quick to see. Ymmv, but that worked for me and now haven't smoked or vaped in 8 months.
Cool - you guys can find the 6 billion Euros per annum net contribution that the UK makes (that's about 14 euros, per EU inhabitant, per head from the UK - you're welcome), and continue as part of an organisation on a path to "ever closer union". Most people in Britain genuinely don't want that. We're happy to be part of a customs union, and want to work together where it makes sense, but not to be part of a country called Europe. Democracy just isn't realistic across such a large and disparate area - particularly with the current, suspect allocation of MEPs, which sees one MEP represent 76,000 Luxembourgois or 80,000 Maltese, but having the same voting power as a British MEP representing 839,000 people, or a Spanish MEP representing 875,000... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
It's worth noting that, whatever the criticism of absolute monarchies, constitutional monarchies are a very popular and reasonable way to organise a country, with (according to Wikipedia) over 40 countries, including Japan, the UK and Sweden, all choosing this approach. Nothing nasty particularly about that, particularly when, as in the UK, the monarchy enjoys strong popular support. Of course, there's a world of difference between that and the despotic Ancient Greek City State model that these folks seem to favour...
I urge everyone to vote Lib Dem. They're committed to...proprotional representation Proportional representation is already the system used to elected British MEPs! In fact in this case it makes things worse, because it makes MEPs accountable to their parties and not to their electorates. It's this sort of unaccountability that lets MEPs get away with voting for silly nonsense like this - we want less not more of it! More generally the only thing that PR delivers is weak governments and perpetual coallitions - not a recipe for success.
There are loads of problems with the Sealand plan, connectivity aside. Firstly, since Sealand was established the UK, and everywhere else, has extended its territorial waters from 3 miles, which excluded Sealand, to 10 miles, which includes. Therefore the UK could make an argument that UK law applied there, move in and arrest people as appropriate. More pressingly, even if it is a real nation there is nothing to stop another nation, say the UK, declaring war on it. Sealand isn't recognised as a state by any other country, so there will be no international concern, and, if handled properly (i.e. less than lethal weapons and police action rather than simply shelling it) there wouldn't be that much public concern either. For $500,000,000 Pirates Bay would be much better off bribing an impoverished third world nation into giving them legal safe harbour...
It is true that a company has a resposibility to shareholders to maximise profits. But that does not equate to having no moral responsibilities. To slightly Godwin this and extend your argument to its logical conclusion, were China to offer Yahoo cheap slave labour, you would argue they would be legally obliged to use it. This is not the case - and, even in the morality free corporation you suggest it wouldn't be the case. What the NUJ are trying to do is to bring corporate responsibility home to Yahoo and make them realise that behaving unethically in China will affect sales and reputiation in Europe and the US. This has proven effective in the past when campaigners against, for example, some of the big sports goods brands managed to get them to switch a lot of production from child labour.
Ultimately it depends whether Yahoo cares more about the ethical proportion of its European dnAmerican customers or about the potential new markets in China.
Or if mad Jack is right, no-one would have been shot in the face, by anyone other than a hired assassin. http://www.members.tripod.com/candst/boston3.htm This page taken at random from googling "shot in the face" "nineteenth century" describes how a chap was shot in the face during sectarian rioting in Boston in 1844 - rather hard to argue he was motivated by Grand Theft Auto...
Actually the real benefit of these will be in 2 areas. 1) Rural roads where there is no mains electricity -often the main cost of putting things like lit signs / speed actuayed warning signs etc, in the countryside is the cost of laying the cabling to connect them to the grid. 2) Temporary installations - such as traffic lights at roadworks - sounds like these have the potential to be a lot smaller and cheaper than running a generator by the side of the road. The fact its environmentally sound is only a nice fringe benefit.
Normally I'd agree with you. If you don't care about your privvacy online, use IE and windows, if you do use Firefox and linux. The choice is yours. However, in this case, 3rd party car insurance is a legal requirement in many countries (UK certainly). Consequently if the entire industry decides to switch to this sort of thing the effect is the same, from the consumer's perspective, as if the government had enforced the change themselves. Whilst insurance companies benefit from the state drumming up business for them, they must pay the penalty of respecting the same sorts of human rights, including privacy rights, which the state is obliged to respect. To do otherwise would allow the state to contract out of human rights simply by forcing people to use a private company rather than a public authority. Consequently this sort of nonsense is a horrible violation of human rights which must be vigourously opposed.
Of course, my view is not at all influenced by the fact I often drive at night, on country roads and sometimes exceed the speedlimit...
Not to flame the US judicial system, but thank god Jack Thompson will find it a lot harder to peddle his nonsense in this country! Firstly British law does not allow a lawyer to take a share of damages recieved, which removes the profit motivation for this sort of ambulance chasing.
Secondly our judges are appointed, not elected, which reduces the chance that a judge will play this for the crowd, and support this boneheaded action to garner favour with the tabloid press.
What it does show is how poor the lobbying strength is of the videogames industry in the UK. Given that videogames make more money in this country than the music industry and the film industry times 2, Members of Parliament are still prepared to take cheap shots at it because this hasn't been made clear to them. If videogames don't put more money into schmoozing our policymakers they will continue to be seen as an unimportant minority interest, vulnerable to the vaguries of the tabloid press.
Firstly this is a High Court ruling, which means there are potentially a futher two courts of appeal within the UK, the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords. Ultimately there could be an appeal to the European Court of Justice, seeking a ruling that national law is incompatible with European law. However, the various appeals would prove very expensive and a ECJ ruling could lead to a ban on mod chips across the EU.
Aaargh Jim Lad! A really interesting innovative approach. Hopefully will do sufficiently well to encourage the developers to persue similarly clever ideas in future.
Or more accurately C&C Red Alert is set in a world where Hitler was killed in the 30s, so whilst the Germans may be on the allies side against Russia, they aren't Nazis.
It is important to note that in the case of the UK royals they were using old analogue phones which you could overhear on a scanner (remember doing so when i was a kid!).
I think a more plausible explanation is that the hams in question knew what they were looking for and went out to find it.
Equally communications interception (possibly between intermediaries) is a more plausible explanation as to how the US got the Bin Ladin tape.
I too am not a lawyer. However, under British Common Law this is 100% wrong. If you agree to a contract you are bound by its terms (unless they're illegal). There is no necessity to explain or clarify term - its up to each party to seek advice _before_ entering a contract. One party cannot be held responsible for the ignorance of the other. Whether this should be the case or not is a whole different argument.
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I've just downloaded the app on my xbox and given it a go - it was really quite slow, display-wise, much too slow for any real gaming. It worked usefully to connect the xbox controller to my laptop, and I guess it would be handy maybe for watching movies or doing presentations, but not gaming.
TBF, I found the most effective way (after smoking for 20 plus years) of quitting was to use exercise to cover the problems caused by quitting. Perhaps psychological, but I certainly felt it suppressed cravings - and it certainly helped with sleep problems and depression from quitting, and gave me tangible benefit in quitting - with exercise benefits quite quick to see. Ymmv, but that worked for me and now haven't smoked or vaped in 8 months.
Cool - you guys can find the 6 billion Euros per annum net contribution that the UK makes (that's about 14 euros, per EU inhabitant, per head from the UK - you're welcome), and continue as part of an organisation on a path to "ever closer union". Most people in Britain genuinely don't want that. We're happy to be part of a customs union, and want to work together where it makes sense, but not to be part of a country called Europe. Democracy just isn't realistic across such a large and disparate area - particularly with the current, suspect allocation of MEPs, which sees one MEP represent 76,000 Luxembourgois or 80,000 Maltese, but having the same voting power as a British MEP representing 839,000 people, or a Spanish MEP representing 875,000... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
It's worth noting that, whatever the criticism of absolute monarchies, constitutional monarchies are a very popular and reasonable way to organise a country, with (according to Wikipedia) over 40 countries, including Japan, the UK and Sweden, all choosing this approach. Nothing nasty particularly about that, particularly when, as in the UK, the monarchy enjoys strong popular support. Of course, there's a world of difference between that and the despotic Ancient Greek City State model that these folks seem to favour...
I urge everyone to vote Lib Dem. They're committed to...proprotional representation Proportional representation is already the system used to elected British MEPs! In fact in this case it makes things worse, because it makes MEPs accountable to their parties and not to their electorates. It's this sort of unaccountability that lets MEPs get away with voting for silly nonsense like this - we want less not more of it! More generally the only thing that PR delivers is weak governments and perpetual coallitions - not a recipe for success.
There are loads of problems with the Sealand plan, connectivity aside. Firstly, since Sealand was established the UK, and everywhere else, has extended its territorial waters from 3 miles, which excluded Sealand, to 10 miles, which includes. Therefore the UK could make an argument that UK law applied there, move in and arrest people as appropriate. More pressingly, even if it is a real nation there is nothing to stop another nation, say the UK, declaring war on it. Sealand isn't recognised as a state by any other country, so there will be no international concern, and, if handled properly (i.e. less than lethal weapons and police action rather than simply shelling it) there wouldn't be that much public concern either. For $500,000,000 Pirates Bay would be much better off bribing an impoverished third world nation into giving them legal safe harbour...
It is true that a company has a resposibility to shareholders to maximise profits. But that does not equate to having no moral responsibilities. To slightly Godwin this and extend your argument to its logical conclusion, were China to offer Yahoo cheap slave labour, you would argue they would be legally obliged to use it. This is not the case - and, even in the morality free corporation you suggest it wouldn't be the case. What the NUJ are trying to do is to bring corporate responsibility home to Yahoo and make them realise that behaving unethically in China will affect sales and reputiation in Europe and the US. This has proven effective in the past when campaigners against, for example, some of the big sports goods brands managed to get them to switch a lot of production from child labour. Ultimately it depends whether Yahoo cares more about the ethical proportion of its European dnAmerican customers or about the potential new markets in China.
Or if mad Jack is right, no-one would have been shot in the face, by anyone other than a hired assassin. http://www.members.tripod.com/candst/boston3.htm This page taken at random from googling "shot in the face" "nineteenth century" describes how a chap was shot in the face during sectarian rioting in Boston in 1844 - rather hard to argue he was motivated by Grand Theft Auto...
Actually the real benefit of these will be in 2 areas. 1) Rural roads where there is no mains electricity -often the main cost of putting things like lit signs / speed actuayed warning signs etc, in the countryside is the cost of laying the cabling to connect them to the grid. 2) Temporary installations - such as traffic lights at roadworks - sounds like these have the potential to be a lot smaller and cheaper than running a generator by the side of the road. The fact its environmentally sound is only a nice fringe benefit.
Normally I'd agree with you. If you don't care about your privvacy online, use IE and windows, if you do use Firefox and linux. The choice is yours. However, in this case, 3rd party car insurance is a legal requirement in many countries (UK certainly). Consequently if the entire industry decides to switch to this sort of thing the effect is the same, from the consumer's perspective, as if the government had enforced the change themselves. Whilst insurance companies benefit from the state drumming up business for them, they must pay the penalty of respecting the same sorts of human rights, including privacy rights, which the state is obliged to respect. To do otherwise would allow the state to contract out of human rights simply by forcing people to use a private company rather than a public authority. Consequently this sort of nonsense is a horrible violation of human rights which must be vigourously opposed.
Of course, my view is not at all influenced by the fact I often drive at night, on country roads and sometimes exceed the speedlimit...
Not to flame the US judicial system, but thank god Jack Thompson will find it a lot harder to peddle his nonsense in this country! Firstly British law does not allow a lawyer to take a share of damages recieved, which removes the profit motivation for this sort of ambulance chasing.
Secondly our judges are appointed, not elected, which reduces the chance that a judge will play this for the crowd, and support this boneheaded action to garner favour with the tabloid press.
What it does show is how poor the lobbying strength is of the videogames industry in the UK. Given that videogames make more money in this country than the music industry and the film industry times 2, Members of Parliament are still prepared to take cheap shots at it because this hasn't been made clear to them. If videogames don't put more money into schmoozing our policymakers they will continue to be seen as an unimportant minority interest, vulnerable to the vaguries of the tabloid press.
Firstly this is a High Court ruling, which means there are potentially a futher two courts of appeal within the UK, the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords. Ultimately there could be an appeal to the European Court of Justice, seeking a ruling that national law is incompatible with European law. However, the various appeals would prove very expensive and a ECJ ruling could lead to a ban on mod chips across the EU.
In fairness, if Jesus is ominpotent, that means he has to read _every single_ piece of spam out there. He's probably far more annoyed than we are...
Aaargh Jim Lad! A really interesting innovative approach. Hopefully will do sufficiently well to encourage the developers to persue similarly clever ideas in future.
Or more accurately C&C Red Alert is set in a world where Hitler was killed in the 30s, so whilst the Germans may be on the allies side against Russia, they aren't Nazis.
I think a more plausible explanation is that the hams in question knew what they were looking for and went out to find it.
Equally communications interception (possibly between intermediaries) is a more plausible explanation as to how the US got the Bin Ladin tape.
I too am not a lawyer. However, under British Common Law this is 100% wrong. If you agree to a contract you are bound by its terms (unless they're illegal). There is no necessity to explain or clarify term - its up to each party to seek advice _before_ entering a contract. One party cannot be held responsible for the ignorance of the other. Whether this should be the case or not is a whole different argument.