Yeah, well done. I was going to post a link similar.
Remember that the straw that broke the camel's back was the shooting of a civilian by the police. Unlike the USA, it is rare for the police to gun people down here in the UK.
Opportunist followed.
These rioters grabbed that opportunity with both hands. They would grab high-life opportunities too if they were availiable, but they're not.
It's not as balck and white as one side being the good guy, and one side being the bad guys.
The BBC are terrible at hiding labels. The rules say that can't advertise anything, expect their magazines, their DVDs, their books, their... So they can;t show anything.
We know it's a bottle of Johnson and Johnson washing up liquid. Why bother? Sigh.
Similar for me in the UK. I was pulled over recently because my passenger was black. I have never in my forty years witnessed racism like I did that day. The looks they gave him could have killed.
"What's your name?" "What is your name?" "You name please"
I know why the copper asked me three times - to see if I was lying. But was it nessecary?
When he'd finished his 20 questions and looked inside my car and out, he proclaimed that my car was dirty (it was) and that I should clean it. Yes, the police in the UK now protect us from dirty cars.
"Just a routine check sir" came the reply after I asked why. If I had a pound...
I show you this because it's local to me and I spent three days there as a teenager with only a backpack. We walked for miles without seeing anything but gorse.
It's also a boredom thing, especially with the youngest of the rioters. School holidays are three weeks in and the weather has been shite up until now. Being involved is an electric buzz. It's probably the most exciting thing a lot of them have ever taken part in.
People have witnessed police bribery and corruption on a local level for years and recently we've read about it on a nation level in the newspapers. Politicians have been caught with their fingers in the till. Obscene millionaires and their obscene amounts of power and money have been caught having their cake and eating everyone else's. Morality in the UK is shot to shit. Greed is the norm.
Is it any wonder they rioters have grasped their opportunity?
Strip the intros, outros, cut scenes, online play, and music. Compress the living shit out of the textures and sound. Bundle it all up into a lowly 100mb package and give it away.
Call this style a "game rip" and everyone is happy.
And this is the reason I play so many Flash games these days.
New games are released daily. Some of poor, most are average, some are, I can't believe I'm typing this, triple-A games.
I've always been one to try every single flipping game I could find. I like the innovation. I like the way a programmer is obviously not talented in the graphics department but has put together polished game play. I like the way games are 'patched' almost daily. I like the way they listen to gamers' moans.
Gemcraft Labyrinth has kept me entertained for a couple of months. Probably the best tower defence game I've ever played. Worth the few quid I spent on it.
Yeah, I googled him too and basically found out he's active on ALL the social/blogging/lolcats sites. And he's "actively involved in offline and online media".
I worked 10pm-6am and it was a shitter. In the summer it was impossible to sleep when I got home, so there was only one thing for it: Wake the missus and make her bake me a cake... I mean wake her and do the nasty.
There's nothing good about working nights. Never, ever do it.
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I'm not having a go, because it's the same here in the UK, but call it what it is.
It is an offense or attack budget. We have nothing to defend against.
Yeah, well done. I was going to post a link similar.
Remember that the straw that broke the camel's back was the shooting of a civilian by the police. Unlike the USA, it is rare for the police to gun people down here in the UK.
Opportunist followed.
These rioters grabbed that opportunity with both hands. They would grab high-life opportunities too if they were availiable, but they're not.
It's not as balck and white as one side being the good guy, and one side being the bad guys.
(forgive my spelling, I have no time to check it)
Think of all the countries in the world that still have the death penalty; the ultimate deterrent.
They are not murder-free.
Not such a good deterrent, ay?
So call yourself Billybob Baggins. No one will know or care.
It's not like they ask for ID.
A fakeposting bullshitter?!!??!!?
On Slashdot?!?!?!?
Posting as AC?!?!?
On the internet?!?!?!?
Shut up!
The BBC are terrible at hiding labels. The rules say that can't advertise anything, expect their magazines, their DVDs, their books, their... So they can;t show anything.
We know it's a bottle of Johnson and Johnson washing up liquid. Why bother? Sigh.
Similar for me in the UK. I was pulled over recently because my passenger was black. I have never in my forty years witnessed racism like I did that day. The looks they gave him could have killed.
"What's your name?"
"What is your name?"
"You name please"
I know why the copper asked me three times - to see if I was lying. But was it nessecary?
When he'd finished his 20 questions and looked inside my car and out, he proclaimed that my car was dirty (it was) and that I should clean it. Yes, the police in the UK now protect us from dirty cars.
"Just a routine check sir" came the reply after I asked why. If I had a pound...
We want nine!
Then we want ten!
Because ten is better than IE9!
The version numbers are not for us.
It's still bad manners, robots.txt or not. Once is enough. Crawling a site is not hard.
I show you this because it's local to me and I spent three days there as a teenager with only a backpack. We walked for miles without seeing anything but gorse.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=dartmoor&ll=50.577132,-3.961258&spn=0.319621,0.837021&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&fb=1&gl=uk&t=h&z=11
25% of the population live in London. The rest of us are only a few miles away from a field. :)
I don't understand the issue.
I don't have a gazillion dollars and I fly planes for a hobby. I don't have a PS3 and I can't play Gran Turismo 5...
You don't have a reliable net connection and you can't play Diablo 3. It's as simple as that.
For me, I do have a reliable net connection. I think it dropped out in 2008 for an hour but, hey, no problem.
Message me when Facebook can predict a 'friend' is not going to pay back that 20 quid.
It is a poverty thing.
It's also a boredom thing, especially with the youngest of the rioters. School holidays are three weeks in and the weather has been shite up until now. Being involved is an electric buzz. It's probably the most exciting thing a lot of them have ever taken part in.
People have witnessed police bribery and corruption on a local level for years and recently we've read about it on a nation level in the newspapers. Politicians have been caught with their fingers in the till. Obscene millionaires and their obscene amounts of power and money have been caught having their cake and eating everyone else's. Morality in the UK is shot to shit. Greed is the norm.
Is it any wonder they rioters have grasped their opportunity?
MP David Lammy-me-me would say you're full of shite.
The whole of N17 needs flattening. It's a shithole.
If you are like me, you wouldn't post this article.
You wouldn't wear a rubber chicken suit either.
Hell yeah!
;p
Strip the intros, outros, cut scenes, online play, and music. Compress the living shit out of the textures and sound. Bundle it all up into a lowly 100mb package and give it away.
Call this style a "game rip" and everyone is happy.
If you want the full game, buy it. I know I did
I thought "var somediv", in Sony's code towards the bottom, was the authors signature.
I still think the same.
Tell me about it!!!
£4,561.68 still sounds like a steal. In fact, I might just steal one and save even more!
I actually spend more than that on food for the family per year. I wonder...
And this is the reason I play so many Flash games these days.
New games are released daily. Some of poor, most are average, some are, I can't believe I'm typing this, triple-A games.
I've always been one to try every single flipping game I could find. I like the innovation. I like the way a programmer is obviously not talented in the graphics department but has put together polished game play. I like the way games are 'patched' almost daily. I like the way they listen to gamers' moans.
Gemcraft Labyrinth has kept me entertained for a couple of months. Probably the best tower defence game I've ever played. Worth the few quid I spent on it.
Yeah, I googled him too and basically found out he's active on ALL the social/blogging/lolcats sites. And he's "actively involved in offline and online media".
Just Another Name.
I suppose a link to the BBC article, and its many comments, is too much to ask?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13874818
Austria and Australia are on the same map.
You are all forgiven.
I tried to connect to one of these.
1. They wanted 3.00 GBP for 24hrs surfing
2. They wanted 10.00 GBP for a week.
3. And this is a big three: They wanted CC information. There was no HTTPS; I knew the router was sat in someone's living room; alarm bells rang loud.
Sounds like a good idea, but in practice, barge-poles and all that stuff.
" if you send a text that is bigger than 160 characters, they charge you."
How does that work?
My phone automatically chops messages up into 160 char parts, one SMS message per part. It's not a modern phone either.
Just curious.
I use Tesco, btw. I can't fault them.
That's no night shift.
I worked 10pm-6am and it was a shitter. In the summer it was impossible to sleep when I got home, so there was only one thing for it: Wake the missus and make her bake me a cake... I mean wake her and do the nasty.
There's nothing good about working nights. Never, ever do it.