Normally I use ZA, but I tried KPF after a little trouble with ZA. I just couldn't get used to it.
Normally, with ZA, I require my browser to ask permission to access the web - this happens on the browser launch. With KPF, I was asked on visiting *every* goddamned website. It was either that or allow my browser access *all* the time. Insane.
I fixed my issue with ZA and am back using it. It's much less annoying and unobtrusive than KPF.
Actually I don't know what's wrong with me. I got my wires crossed a little. It wasn't that he didn't have his next question, it's that the next item wasn't ready and he had no more questions.
Even though it's a great bit of tv, it's a shame that Paxman wasn't really motivated to nail a shifty politician on his evasions. He's still a good interviewer, but he's not as far from the complicit interviewers we see day in and day out, as some people would like to make out. Which is a shame.
To all the people saying my post is a troll or incorrect I point you here
"Paxman asked Howard a straight yes or no question. When Howard tried to prevaricate he kept asking the question for a total of 15 times. (It subsequently turned out that the tape with the next item had broken and Paxman had to improvise until it was fixed)."
It's the only online testimonial I can find to back me up and at least suggest that I'm not lying.
I saw it in an interview of Paxman on tv, where he admitted it wasn't his l33t interviewing skillz, but that he wasn't being shown his next question - and he stalled for time.
(Feel free to mod all the incorrect critics below, down.)
It does have pretty good features, like pausing playback (for up to 12 minutes) and seperate configurable alarms (weekdays = Getupyoulazybastard.fm & weekends = Haveaniceliein.fm) but the bug's a wee bit teenage if you ask me.
Fortunately Videologic are making proper stereo systems and hi-fi seperates with the same technology - for example the Pure Legato.
Advanced radio features ReVu technology allows you to pause and rewind live DAB radio. FM RDS includes RDS RadioText and tuning by station name. 99 DAB and 99 FM presets. Multiple clock displays.
CD Audio and MP3 Supports multiple playback modes, CD Text and 99 track playlist. CD-R and CD-RW compatible. MP3 CD playback, including ID3 tag display and M3U playlist support.
Hi-Fi Performance 22W RMS per channel output. DPAC-II for a more natural sound from DAB digital radio. Bass and treble tone control. Auxiliary input for other devices.
"A few years ago a BBC interviewer asked the Home Secretary the same question *14* times, when he wouldn't answer the question."
Jeremy paxman (the interviewer) asked that question 14 times because the computer he was using to view his question list had frozen, and he couldn't get to the next one. It was still a great thing to do, but it's not quite the 'revenge of the BBC' that you suggest.
The internet has surely changed past definitions of 'normal social aquaintances'.
Your social aquaintances can now be people who are interested in the same music/movies/tv/politics/whatever, who exist all over the world: society without geographic barriers.
What really is the difference between sharing your CD collection with members of your local chess club and members of a certain chess message board?
If it's geographical proximity - surely that view has passed into history, to anyone outside the vested inetrests of the Copyright Cartels?
Couldn't they just solve the problem of non-backward compatibility by simply releasing it as something other than the next X-Box?
Since it's so radically different in its design, what's the point of re-using the name of a console with which it's incompatible?
By completely ruling-out compatibility, don't they just eliminate all of the gain that association with the X-Box name gives them?
"If you don't let people vent their anger on websites that no one will read, then they might go out and use violence to vent that anger."
I don't think that's true - you could argue just as convincingly that allowing the anger (or hate) to be vented on websites re-enforces the hate, brings haters together, develops the hate, etc.
The thing is that websites aren't the cause of the hate, not in any real sense anyway, hate speech folows from real-world ignorances and prejudices, and (trying to) ban it on the web won't make it go away any more than not having the internet several years ago meant that hate didn't exist then: bans like this are worthless in any fight against racism, and people will find ways around such bans:
"One recruit told investigators he had experienced "stealth racism", something he described as prejudice from an officer who knew how to avoid breaking the law."
You need to tackle such ignorance at root - in people's real lives and communities - through education and truthful information, or you're forever going to be plugging the leaks in the dyke with your fingers and toes, or using such sweeping powers that you end up crushing all the wildlife underfoot while trying to save the rainforest.
The Bug actually records the audio in MP2 (the format it's transmitted in) and stores that on a Secure Digital card (which can then be accessed by a pc via the USB port).
"The United Stated found that by selling gold, oil and gas Soviet Union was able to support itself and have all that influence in the world. Once the influx of this money was cut using market manipulation and CIA activity by smart people in Reagan administration the Soviet Empire died pretty quickly."
Insteresting. Isn't one of the definitions of "terrorism" now in use - deliberate destruction of a county's financial infrastructure?
He's also annoyed that Michael Moore is playing off his title
If anything, I would have thought Moore's success with his movie would lead to wider interest in Farenheight 451, as it gets referred to by media pundits here and there.
Seems to call for something like a bluetooth enabled piece of jewelry - a ring (as in 'on the finger') or an earring that can vibrate in response to the mobile in the handbag ringing... or a bracelet.
Maybe the ring on the finger could light up.
I'm not going to mention the though I had about bluetooth-enabled vibrating nipple- and clit-rings.
Or are such things too small to be configured like that?
"The UK social security (and health) system loses hundreds of millions of pounds a year through false claims for unemployment benefit [&] income support [...]"
But very very little of that is related to people claiming money under a false identity. The majority of cash that's taken from the system in breach of the rules is due to things like people claiming benefits whilst working, people caliming benefits as if they are single people when they are infact couples (housing benefit etc.) and such like.
Identity is only a small factor in benefit fraud in the UK (just the same as it is in crime, which will also be largely unaffected by ID cards.)
Well for a non-establishment approved view of 'schizophrenia' (and I say that because the so-called disease has a 'disease model', that is the 'symptoms' are said to result from a single cause, biological/chemical/genetic in nature, which has never been proven to exist) anyone might like to look into the works of R.D.Laing, and those who are affiliated in one way or another with his views on the matter.
Most interesting, I found, was his book, "Sanity madness and the Family" which traces the causes of several people's psychological disturbances, in their own family's rather odd, unpleasant and baffling behaviour toward them.
Or maybe instead of the submitter being "fat, bald, pedantic, and egotistical [...] basically, Comic Book Guy," the people who find issue with this are a little insecure about their eductaion/knowledge, and have a bit of a chip on their shoulder about it.
Informing someone that George Orwell's real name was Eric Arthur Blair, hardly deserves to elicit cries of elitist intellectualism.
Today Reginald Kenneth Dwight released a new album.
~Ooh! Ladidah! Someone knows Elton John's real name. He thinks he's better than us! Get him!
I find myself wondering what will happen if the recipient of the icon of the diamond ring starts copying and distributing those icons.
Suddenly, fake diamond-ring-icons will threaten the natural diamond-ring-icon cartel, and FunHi will have to spend millions researching and building devices for distinguishing between the natural and fake icons; millions more advertising that only "Natural Diamond-Ring-Icons" show real love.
You see... you cynics... ripping off the gullible is not just the fast-track to the gravy train. Getting a sustainable revenue channel by scamming the soft-of-the-brain is harder than it looks.
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Normally I use ZA, but I tried KPF after a little trouble with ZA. I just couldn't get used to it.
Normally, with ZA, I require my browser to ask permission to access the web - this happens on the browser launch. With KPF, I was asked on visiting *every* goddamned website. It was either that or allow my browser access *all* the time. Insane.
I fixed my issue with ZA and am back using it. It's much less annoying and unobtrusive than KPF.
Actually I don't know what's wrong with me. I got my wires crossed a little. It wasn't that he didn't have his next question, it's that the next item wasn't ready and he had no more questions.
Even though it's a great bit of tv, it's a shame that Paxman wasn't really motivated to nail a shifty politician on his evasions. He's still a good interviewer, but he's not as far from the complicit interviewers we see day in and day out, as some people would like to make out. Which is a shame.
"Paxman asked Howard a straight yes or no question. When Howard tried to prevaricate he kept asking the question for a total of 15 times. (It subsequently turned out that the tape with the next item had broken and Paxman had to improvise until it was fixed)."
It's the only online testimonial I can find to back me up and at least suggest that I'm not lying.
I saw it in an interview of Paxman on tv, where he admitted it wasn't his l33t interviewing skillz, but that he wasn't being shown his next question - and he stalled for time.
(Feel free to mod all the incorrect critics below, down.)
It does have pretty good features, like pausing playback (for up to 12 minutes) and seperate configurable alarms (weekdays = Getupyoulazybastard.fm & weekends = Haveaniceliein.fm) but the bug's a wee bit teenage if you ask me.
Fortunately Videologic are making proper stereo systems and hi-fi seperates with the same technology - for example the Pure Legato.
Jeremy paxman (the interviewer) asked that question 14 times because the computer he was using to view his question list had frozen, and he couldn't get to the next one. It was still a great thing to do, but it's not quite the 'revenge of the BBC' that you suggest.
I'll go further - I could have easily imagined it as the next generation of floppy disk.
Imagine a minidisk in every PC, Sony. You poor misguided bastards.
The internet has surely changed past definitions of 'normal social aquaintances'.
Your social aquaintances can now be people who are interested in the same music/movies/tv/politics/whatever, who exist all over the world: society without geographic barriers.
What really is the difference between sharing your CD collection with members of your local chess club and members of a certain chess message board?
If it's geographical proximity - surely that view has passed into history, to anyone outside the vested inetrests of the Copyright Cartels?
Since it's so radically different in its design, what's the point of re-using the name of a console with which it's incompatible?
By completely ruling-out compatibility, don't they just eliminate all of the gain that association with the X-Box name gives them?
I really like the way it deals with emails as "conversations" - it's intuitive, and it makes so much sense.
I don't think that's true - you could argue just as convincingly that allowing the anger (or hate) to be vented on websites re-enforces the hate, brings haters together, develops the hate, etc.
The thing is that websites aren't the cause of the hate, not in any real sense anyway, hate speech folows from real-world ignorances and prejudices, and (trying to) ban it on the web won't make it go away any more than not having the internet several years ago meant that hate didn't exist then: bans like this are worthless in any fight against racism, and people will find ways around such bans:
"Stealth Racism" in the British Police force -
"One recruit told investigators he had experienced "stealth racism", something he described as prejudice from an officer who knew how to avoid breaking the law."
You need to tackle such ignorance at root - in people's real lives and communities - through education and truthful information, or you're forever going to be plugging the leaks in the dyke with your fingers and toes, or using such sweeping powers that you end up crushing all the wildlife underfoot while trying to save the rainforest.
The Bug actually records the audio in MP2 (the format it's transmitted in) and stores that on a Secure Digital card (which can then be accessed by a pc via the USB port).
Insteresting. Isn't one of the definitions of "terrorism" now in use - deliberate destruction of a county's financial infrastructure?
The US, a terrorist state?!
I'm shocked.
If anything, I would have thought Moore's success with his movie would lead to wider interest in Farenheight 451, as it gets referred to by media pundits here and there.
Maybe the ring on the finger could light up.
I'm not going to mention the though I had about bluetooth-enabled vibrating nipple- and clit-rings.
Or are such things too small to be configured like that?
Identity is only a small factor in benefit fraud in the UK (just the same as it is in crime, which will also be largely unaffected by ID cards.)
Most interesting, I found, was his book, "Sanity madness and the Family" which traces the causes of several people's psychological disturbances, in their own family's rather odd, unpleasant and baffling behaviour toward them.
Whilst the license fee pays for the BBC Radio stations, you don't need a license to use a radio, only a tv.
Also, only 4?
At last count there were 11, (not including all the regional BBC stations):
Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, Radio Five Live, Five Live Sports Extra, 6Music, BBC7, Asian Network and the World Service.
I made one post, logged in to make a second and was offered an account. It can't have anything to do with post rate.
Informing someone that George Orwell's real name was Eric Arthur Blair, hardly deserves to elicit cries of elitist intellectualism.
Today Reginald Kenneth Dwight released a new album.
~Ooh! Ladidah! Someone knows Elton John's real name. He thinks he's better than us! Get him!
Without a gun you won't be able to overthrow a government?
You sure about that?
Prospective adj. Likely to become or be: prospective clients.
Translation: (Geek tries to impress pre-op male-to-female transsexual).
Real Audio will be the least of his worries.
The backstreet boys are somewhat mainstream, no?
I thought most nerds liked rock[.]"
A black box monitoring your driving is nothing.
Ph33r the Nerd Police monitoring your /. posts!
They even target sick people using 'tele-screens'.
Seriously fucked-up psychology.
>> We are all free thinkers...
I'm not.
No
Suddenly, fake diamond-ring-icons will threaten the natural diamond-ring-icon cartel, and FunHi will have to spend millions researching and building devices for distinguishing between the natural and fake icons; millions more advertising that only "Natural Diamond-Ring-Icons" show real love.
You see ... you cynics ... ripping off the gullible is not just the fast-track to the gravy train. Getting a sustainable revenue channel by scamming the soft-of-the-brain is harder than it looks.