The Chinese response: Oh okay, we will pay those 3.5 billion. Hell, tell you what, we pay the next decade or so in advance. 35 billion. Now lets see, where can we get some dollars. Oh yeah. Dear USA, we have 35 billion dollars in debts we would like to collect on. Could you please pay us, plus interest and late fees?
But I doubt very much the NSA gives a HOOT about filesharing. They got other fish to fry.
On the whole that is the practical issue, law enforcement in most European countries has made it bloody clear that they have other priorities then go and bust file sharers. And now with police budgets being squeezed, their enthousiasm ain't on the increase. That is what happened in Germany, the authorities just point blank refusing to take action.
So unless the copyright mafia wants to pay for its own enforcement (and somehow I think that Germany will allow private militias, not after the last time) then all this is dead in the water. The NSA might know that you are downloading the latest Harry Potter, but they won't do a damn thing about it.
The windmills are in holland, the water in norway. THat would be one hell of a drive shaft.
Electricity is simple, you can have one system that puts it out and another that takes it in and do all sorts of stuff with it in the meantime.
Say for instance the windmill brakes, with your solution, so does the pump. One system after all, same as your car won't move with a broken engine. But if the windmills fall down, the train still run.
Take the average windmill itself, FAR simpler to run a power cable down then a drive shaft which would already need to be 100 meters just to reach the top, then bend. COMPLEX.
Elec is simple, you can bend it around corners, get it from somewhere else, store it, discharge it easily.
There has been no 9/11 since 9/11 BUT there also was no 9/11 BEFORE 9/11
The point is, terrorists are NOT like regular soldiers who are expected to keep up a steady attack to defeat the enemey. All a terrorist has to do is create terror. As long as you are afraid of a terrorist, the terrorist has done his job.
Or to turn the roles around, partisans who fought the germans were NOT judged on the number of germans they killed but on how many german soldiers they kept away from the front lines. The allies played this game to great effect, weakening the german army by forcing them to fight on all fronts at the same time. Every soldier that had to patrol "safe" ground was a soldier not fighting the allies. That is PART of the reason for city bombardments, every AA gun defending cities was not blowing up tanks.
So, how have terrorist managed to affect the US BEFORE 9/11 and AFTER 9/11?
There have been terror attacks before including on US targets, but the average US citizen failed to be afraid of them... well except for celebs being afraid to fly to europe from time to time.
Post 9/11 the average US citizen, or at least the people who claim to speak for them, have become afraid. Job done as far as the terrorists are concerned. No succesful new attacks are needed. They might even be counter productive. Shoe bomber and the nigerian just harm the cause because they look silly and you might get the Israel effect, were the population doesn't care anymore and just votes to have muslims shot on sight (move to far right in Israely politics). Last thing the terrorists want is to really piss of the US to the point that nukes start flying. Turn the desert to glass would solve the whole problem in one go.
To many attacks and terror looses its meaning, people just demand vengeance. See the total failure of city bombings in europe to demoralize the public. Nukes were needed in Japan to achieve it. 8 million vietnamese citizens killed by the US and the US still lost that war. Terror is overrated in volume. Small attacks that are rare but people still think could happen any moment are scary.
Think Doom 3. Yeah yeah, lights go out, I turn around and BOOM BOOM, dead enemy. Yawn.
There have been failed and successful attack before 9/11 and after. Most likely all the security isn't changing the numbers in any real way.
And it doesn't have to be in the US. If the madrid bombings stopped US citizens from travelling abroad: Mission accomplished.
That is way a handful of terrorists/freedom fighters can tie up a large army... and why armies fighting them often resort to killing civilians in retribution.
Follow the OTHER news story about BP. How they lobied to have the Lockebee bomber released so they could geta contract from Libie. How the doctor that diagnosed him now suddenly claims he made a "mistake".
Money talks. BP is run by greedy assholes and we are letting them get away with it.
Just what gamers are waiting for. Unfinished games. Forget paid beta-testing, now they are going to ship alpha products. Nice engine, where is the content, oh just 10 bucks for another hour worth...
NO THANKS.
And as for it stopping piracy. one word "The Sims 3". Oh okay that is two words and a number.
That game has a horribly overpriced item shop, where you can download inferior custom content that you could just as easily get for free 100% legit, but all the payed content can be found on any filesharing network along with all the official expansions.
Same by the way with all DLC for any game.
If game companies want to combat piracy they got to give PAYING customers MORE. Not less and most certainly not charge more for less.
I used to buy every game from Bethseda. Then they attempted to nicke and dime me with the horse armour debacle and voila. I pirated every game of them since. Bioware? Same deal. I only get burned once. These companies have no hope of every restoring confidence with me again. Ever.
Codemasters? Those run Lord of the Rings Online in europe. Where they awarded NEW players with a free low level horse, while people who had beenwith them for a long time, paying for the game when nobody knew if it was going to be any good at all with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
I still play the game since I got life, but will not buy anything else from codemasters EVER AGAIN.
LEARN about BASIC customer satisfaction. It ain't hard, thousand, no millions of businesses do it all the time. Why is the software industry in general and the game sector especially so in capable of building and maintaining customer loyalty.
And Jade Empire WAS creative. So was KOTOR. Yes KOTOR was Baldur's gate in Space! but THAT was also creative. An RPG set in space? Unheard off!
Mass Effect married many new elements to the Baldur's Gate style RPG. Sometimes you can create something new by cobbling together old parts. Coat of many colors.
As a side note, I think some people put to much emphasis on creative. Just because something is new, doesn't mean it is good. New Coke was creative, it was new, it was different. You want a bottle?
I wish Lucasarts stopped being creative and released one of their old style games, when you knew when you saw their logo, you were in for a good time.
Same with Bioware. Dragon Age 2 not creative? Who the fuck cares. Give me more off the same.
The plot is indeed always the same. But there really aren't all that many plots that you can put into a game. Yes, I have written a story line for a RPG in which you are NOT the hero. That is creative. I think it even works and might oneday turn it into a simple game. BUT I also realise that JUST the creative bit of you not being the hero isn't enough to make it a good game.
Bioware knows that a hero needs an enemy to overcome. Because the same enemy gets boring there usually is a plot twist that reveals a darker enemy behind the original enemy. There are simple game mechanics behind most of the plots.
Just as in a porn movie, somehow people always find a reason to have sex, often with attractive people. No pizza has ever been deliverd to my door by a randy teenager. Nor have I ever had to discipline a wayward schoolgirl with melons the size of melons.
Fantasy has rules, perhaps even more so then reality.
I am for this and when this new law is introduced so will another one. Were EVERY single artist will be locked up for life for the countless drug offences they are bound to commit on average.
Every performer in England will serve life for Mick Jaggers drug abuse. That is fair isn't it? If I have to pay for someone else downloading, why don't they got to do time for someone elses snorting?
But I know the real reason behind this proposal. The lawyer introduced, hoping that the people will have wasted their bullets on the entertainers before they can get busy on the lawyers.
ANY such evidence would be EXTREMELY easy to spot. The police would notice it in a second as would anyone investigating the accident. The entire claim was that the brakes did NOT work. A toyota won't easily go through its brakes. It ain't super cars.
It also proves just how silly IQ is, because I know for certain I am not among the elite. How did I score so high? I like puzzles. I do IQ tests for fun... hey, this is slashdot, what did you expect. A hobby of collecting race cars or scoring chicks?
The Chinese don't want to learn to speak English, they want to learn to speak American.
Try LinkedIN for an example, see just how foreigners, like me, speak English but use it "wrong" to blend in. There is more to learning a language then learning the words.
A dutch marine vessel was not allowed to help during the Kathrine/New Orleans disaster.
The US government is very scared of allowing any foreign aid. The US survives on its people believing that they are the best. Seeing other countries flags displayed dealing with stuff the US itself can't dealwith could upset that.
It might get people to question whether they voted for the right guy or even worse, the right economic policiy. Nothing scares BOTH US parties more then the idea that some Americans might start think Socialism might not be totally evil.
Part of it is also the American attitude of "can do". It works when things are fine but fails when the shit hits the fan. That requires a more EU lookout "life is bleak and we are going to die horribly". Why do ALL EU countries have superior disaster equipment? Because we know we are doomed. The dutch dikes are better then the New Orleans ones because no dutch person believes god has blessed this country (From the weather he seems to be pissing on us most of the time).
What is odd that while the US goverment is always very reluctant to receive aid, they hand it out readily. When the dutch dikes did break in 1953, US helicopters were quick to arrive and start helping people.
US, learn to accept that accepting help is NOT a sign of weakness. Your children won't start smoking pot because some dutch engineers are walking your shores and thinking gay marriage is peoples own affair.
For the uneducated masses to understand how government works, they first got to get it through their thick skulls that there is no such thing as the government.
It is not Number 10, or the White House and it is not the IRS. Instead you have a huge pile of loosely connected organisations and individuals who might in some part be funded with tax-payers money and get their instructions probably in some way from elected officials... but think about it. Just how often does the IRS need to talk to the president (using American examples since Americans would be confused by other governments, but the rest of the world is smart enough to translate it to their own system)?
What you end up with is a something that makes a mega-corp like Microsoft or even one of the asian giants look like a garage setup. And just as MS does some odd things you wouldn't expect like developing a new method for inserting batteries, so does the government.
Now take this story and substitute iPhone app with website. A LOT of you suggest it would have been better to develop a webapp that EVERYONE could access.
WHOOOP WHOOP WHOOP, BIASED SLASHDOT NERD WARNING
Everyone can access the web? No they can't. Not everyone and therefor by the logic that since not everyone has an iPhone no iPhone apps should be developed, the government should also develop no websites. Or for that matter have a phone line.
PART of the government job is to think of the future. iPhone apps are "the future" in the same way as Websites were 15 years ago. Part of this money isn't just for providing a useful service to a handful of people, but about finding out about new technolgies that might chance how the government communicates with its citizens.
When the first government website launched, it wasn't just to do its own job, but to test how this might work out in the future. And some of this will result in nothing and some... well how much do you use the internet today? Remember, the internet, brought to you by the US government. NOT by private industry. Could you imagine the internet if MS had developed it?
What people who call for government to do only the absolute minimum and never spend any money seem to desire is a world that declines until nothing is being done anymore. They would no doubt have protested fitting the police station with a phone, since only the rich had phones anyway. And why should the bobby have a car when only 1% of the population has cars? Why build hardened roads for those rich bastards with cars?
The British should know what happens when government spends the least possible. Have they forgotten the year the railroads sucked even more then usual when everything had to be fixed in a hurry after decades of neglect?
Yes, some money will be wasted. But it is part of the process of society constantly changing. Yes, you could say that investment in a BBS site was a waste of money. You would be wrong but you could say it. Let people who are willing to explore things run the country. Else you end up with a country run by accountants. Laywers are bad enough, but accountants? Here is a simple sum: You are not cost effective, please step into the suicide boot.
A FEW classic cars are classics. Others are just scrapped and nobody misses them.
There are probably millions of plays written in history, only a few are among the all time greats.
You are saying this when you can't move for tv shows about custom cars. An era where Top Gear is not just a car review show anymore but a popular amusement program.
The buzz ain't there for cars anymore? Sorry, but just because you ain't into it, doesn't mean it ain't there.
And myspace has been around for a long time. From the college newspaper to the BBS, the homepage and the blog. All just variants of the same thing.
Prince is just an idiot like you, doesn't get something so claims it can't be anything big.
It is like me saying that bra's are a fad. I mean, what use are they? I got no use for them, therefor there is no use for them.
Is it that hard yanks to get your head around the idea of a coalition government? For two parties to work together?
The new UK government is a coalition between the Tories and Liberals. And they should rule the country for the next 5 months... This has been extended from the original estimate of 5 weeks.
I like the bit about being allowed to get close to the ground for landing. So considerate. Goverment press releases, they can't help but make you smile.
That goatse.cx is very old news and that there are whole new horrors I never even heard of.
Someone must be looking out for me.
You know you are living a blessed life when you got no idea what 1man1jar or lemon party is. Reminds me of being a little kid and having no idea what the adults were talking about. Only this time I know the value of ignorance.
Let me see. 1 man 1 jar, must be about a man collecting pennies to buy a gift for his mother.
Lemon party? Sweet lemonade for a hot summer day? Sounds fun.
2girls1cup? Two girls riding the magic cup at disney?
You caused me to have a client-meeting flashback. My lawyer will contact you to agree a settlement for emotional traume after consultation with my shrink. Straight jackets ain't cheap you know, hope you have good insurance.
I actually once had someone ask why all the images were the same in a website and had "place-holder" instead of product photo's... after I spend over a month asking for the product pictures so I could put them in place.
Slashdot Mirror
The Chinese response: Oh okay, we will pay those 3.5 billion. Hell, tell you what, we pay the next decade or so in advance. 35 billion. Now lets see, where can we get some dollars. Oh yeah. Dear USA, we have 35 billion dollars in debts we would like to collect on. Could you please pay us, plus interest and late fees?
But I doubt very much the NSA gives a HOOT about filesharing. They got other fish to fry.
On the whole that is the practical issue, law enforcement in most European countries has made it bloody clear that they have other priorities then go and bust file sharers. And now with police budgets being squeezed, their enthousiasm ain't on the increase. That is what happened in Germany, the authorities just point blank refusing to take action.
So unless the copyright mafia wants to pay for its own enforcement (and somehow I think that Germany will allow private militias, not after the last time) then all this is dead in the water. The NSA might know that you are downloading the latest Harry Potter, but they won't do a damn thing about it.
If people stopped reading slashdot because they didn't like the articles, then slashdot editors would change their act.
But we don't. We watch Idols and so they serve us Idols. The news has become froth at the mouth headlines because that is what people watch.
Follow the money, the money always comes from the viewer. YOU (and me)
The windmills are in holland, the water in norway. THat would be one hell of a drive shaft.
Electricity is simple, you can have one system that puts it out and another that takes it in and do all sorts of stuff with it in the meantime.
Say for instance the windmill brakes, with your solution, so does the pump. One system after all, same as your car won't move with a broken engine. But if the windmills fall down, the train still run.
Take the average windmill itself, FAR simpler to run a power cable down then a drive shaft which would already need to be 100 meters just to reach the top, then bend. COMPLEX.
Elec is simple, you can bend it around corners, get it from somewhere else, store it, discharge it easily.
Luxury, when I was young, we had a hole in the ground and we were glad off it.
There has been no 9/11 since 9/11 BUT there also was no 9/11 BEFORE 9/11
The point is, terrorists are NOT like regular soldiers who are expected to keep up a steady attack to defeat the enemey. All a terrorist has to do is create terror. As long as you are afraid of a terrorist, the terrorist has done his job.
Or to turn the roles around, partisans who fought the germans were NOT judged on the number of germans they killed but on how many german soldiers they kept away from the front lines. The allies played this game to great effect, weakening the german army by forcing them to fight on all fronts at the same time. Every soldier that had to patrol "safe" ground was a soldier not fighting the allies. That is PART of the reason for city bombardments, every AA gun defending cities was not blowing up tanks.
So, how have terrorist managed to affect the US BEFORE 9/11 and AFTER 9/11?
There have been terror attacks before including on US targets, but the average US citizen failed to be afraid of them... well except for celebs being afraid to fly to europe from time to time.
Post 9/11 the average US citizen, or at least the people who claim to speak for them, have become afraid. Job done as far as the terrorists are concerned. No succesful new attacks are needed. They might even be counter productive. Shoe bomber and the nigerian just harm the cause because they look silly and you might get the Israel effect, were the population doesn't care anymore and just votes to have muslims shot on sight (move to far right in Israely politics). Last thing the terrorists want is to really piss of the US to the point that nukes start flying. Turn the desert to glass would solve the whole problem in one go.
To many attacks and terror looses its meaning, people just demand vengeance. See the total failure of city bombings in europe to demoralize the public. Nukes were needed in Japan to achieve it. 8 million vietnamese citizens killed by the US and the US still lost that war. Terror is overrated in volume. Small attacks that are rare but people still think could happen any moment are scary.
Think Doom 3. Yeah yeah, lights go out, I turn around and BOOM BOOM, dead enemy. Yawn.
There have been failed and successful attack before 9/11 and after. Most likely all the security isn't changing the numbers in any real way.
And it doesn't have to be in the US. If the madrid bombings stopped US citizens from travelling abroad: Mission accomplished.
That is way a handful of terrorists/freedom fighters can tie up a large army... and why armies fighting them often resort to killing civilians in retribution.
No, it wasn't.
What you call an accounting trick is normal business practice. You can pre-order every phone you want. Just nobody wants to. THAT says something.
What next, box-office results ain't real because you can only watch the movie when it plays?
These bugs are part of the food chain, remove them and you upset that foodchain.
Better to replace them with an almost similar bug but one that isn't as harmful. You still get stung but you won't die from it.
It is the difference between killing your cat to protect the birds and putting a bell around its neck.
Follow the OTHER news story about BP. How they lobied to have the Lockebee bomber released so they could geta contract from Libie. How the doctor that diagnosed him now suddenly claims he made a "mistake".
Money talks. BP is run by greedy assholes and we are letting them get away with it.
Time to market some anti-PMS drugs to this chick.
Just what gamers are waiting for. Unfinished games. Forget paid beta-testing, now they are going to ship alpha products. Nice engine, where is the content, oh just 10 bucks for another hour worth...
NO THANKS.
And as for it stopping piracy. one word "The Sims 3". Oh okay that is two words and a number.
That game has a horribly overpriced item shop, where you can download inferior custom content that you could just as easily get for free 100% legit, but all the payed content can be found on any filesharing network along with all the official expansions.
Same by the way with all DLC for any game.
If game companies want to combat piracy they got to give PAYING customers MORE. Not less and most certainly not charge more for less.
I used to buy every game from Bethseda. Then they attempted to nicke and dime me with the horse armour debacle and voila. I pirated every game of them since. Bioware? Same deal. I only get burned once. These companies have no hope of every restoring confidence with me again. Ever.
Codemasters? Those run Lord of the Rings Online in europe. Where they awarded NEW players with a free low level horse, while people who had beenwith them for a long time, paying for the game when nobody knew if it was going to be any good at all with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
I still play the game since I got life, but will not buy anything else from codemasters EVER AGAIN.
LEARN about BASIC customer satisfaction. It ain't hard, thousand, no millions of businesses do it all the time. Why is the software industry in general and the game sector especially so in capable of building and maintaining customer loyalty.
So? He knows what he is talking about.
And Jade Empire WAS creative. So was KOTOR. Yes KOTOR was Baldur's gate in Space! but THAT was also creative. An RPG set in space? Unheard off!
Mass Effect married many new elements to the Baldur's Gate style RPG. Sometimes you can create something new by cobbling together old parts. Coat of many colors.
As a side note, I think some people put to much emphasis on creative. Just because something is new, doesn't mean it is good. New Coke was creative, it was new, it was different. You want a bottle?
I wish Lucasarts stopped being creative and released one of their old style games, when you knew when you saw their logo, you were in for a good time.
Same with Bioware. Dragon Age 2 not creative? Who the fuck cares. Give me more off the same.
The plot is indeed always the same. But there really aren't all that many plots that you can put into a game. Yes, I have written a story line for a RPG in which you are NOT the hero. That is creative. I think it even works and might oneday turn it into a simple game. BUT I also realise that JUST the creative bit of you not being the hero isn't enough to make it a good game.
Bioware knows that a hero needs an enemy to overcome. Because the same enemy gets boring there usually is a plot twist that reveals a darker enemy behind the original enemy. There are simple game mechanics behind most of the plots.
Just as in a porn movie, somehow people always find a reason to have sex, often with attractive people. No pizza has ever been deliverd to my door by a randy teenager. Nor have I ever had to discipline a wayward schoolgirl with melons the size of melons.
Fantasy has rules, perhaps even more so then reality.
I am for this and when this new law is introduced so will another one. Were EVERY single artist will be locked up for life for the countless drug offences they are bound to commit on average.
Every performer in England will serve life for Mick Jaggers drug abuse. That is fair isn't it? If I have to pay for someone else downloading, why don't they got to do time for someone elses snorting?
But I know the real reason behind this proposal. The lawyer introduced, hoping that the people will have wasted their bullets on the entertainers before they can get busy on the lawyers.
Stop watching fox news.
ANY such evidence would be EXTREMELY easy to spot. The police would notice it in a second as would anyone investigating the accident. The entire claim was that the brakes did NOT work. A toyota won't easily go through its brakes. It ain't super cars.
You don't want to play RPG's, you want to play action RPG's. Switch Bioware for Blizzard next time.
What next, complain Gran Turismo has to many cars in it?
You probably return a porn film with the complaint that people have to much sex in it.
This is my ass, you may kiss it.
It also proves just how silly IQ is, because I know for certain I am not among the elite. How did I score so high? I like puzzles. I do IQ tests for fun... hey, this is slashdot, what did you expect. A hobby of collecting race cars or scoring chicks?
The Chinese don't want to learn to speak English, they want to learn to speak American.
Try LinkedIN for an example, see just how foreigners, like me, speak English but use it "wrong" to blend in. There is more to learning a language then learning the words.
A dutch marine vessel was not allowed to help during the Kathrine/New Orleans disaster.
The US government is very scared of allowing any foreign aid. The US survives on its people believing that they are the best. Seeing other countries flags displayed dealing with stuff the US itself can't dealwith could upset that.
It might get people to question whether they voted for the right guy or even worse, the right economic policiy. Nothing scares BOTH US parties more then the idea that some Americans might start think Socialism might not be totally evil.
Part of it is also the American attitude of "can do". It works when things are fine but fails when the shit hits the fan. That requires a more EU lookout "life is bleak and we are going to die horribly". Why do ALL EU countries have superior disaster equipment? Because we know we are doomed. The dutch dikes are better then the New Orleans ones because no dutch person believes god has blessed this country (From the weather he seems to be pissing on us most of the time).
What is odd that while the US goverment is always very reluctant to receive aid, they hand it out readily. When the dutch dikes did break in 1953, US helicopters were quick to arrive and start helping people.
US, learn to accept that accepting help is NOT a sign of weakness. Your children won't start smoking pot because some dutch engineers are walking your shores and thinking gay marriage is peoples own affair.
For the uneducated masses to understand how government works, they first got to get it through their thick skulls that there is no such thing as the government.
It is not Number 10, or the White House and it is not the IRS. Instead you have a huge pile of loosely connected organisations and individuals who might in some part be funded with tax-payers money and get their instructions probably in some way from elected officials... but think about it. Just how often does the IRS need to talk to the president (using American examples since Americans would be confused by other governments, but the rest of the world is smart enough to translate it to their own system)?
What you end up with is a something that makes a mega-corp like Microsoft or even one of the asian giants look like a garage setup. And just as MS does some odd things you wouldn't expect like developing a new method for inserting batteries, so does the government.
Now take this story and substitute iPhone app with website. A LOT of you suggest it would have been better to develop a webapp that EVERYONE could access.
WHOOOP WHOOP WHOOP, BIASED SLASHDOT NERD WARNING
Everyone can access the web? No they can't. Not everyone and therefor by the logic that since not everyone has an iPhone no iPhone apps should be developed, the government should also develop no websites. Or for that matter have a phone line.
PART of the government job is to think of the future. iPhone apps are "the future" in the same way as Websites were 15 years ago. Part of this money isn't just for providing a useful service to a handful of people, but about finding out about new technolgies that might chance how the government communicates with its citizens.
When the first government website launched, it wasn't just to do its own job, but to test how this might work out in the future. And some of this will result in nothing and some... well how much do you use the internet today? Remember, the internet, brought to you by the US government. NOT by private industry. Could you imagine the internet if MS had developed it?
What people who call for government to do only the absolute minimum and never spend any money seem to desire is a world that declines until nothing is being done anymore. They would no doubt have protested fitting the police station with a phone, since only the rich had phones anyway. And why should the bobby have a car when only 1% of the population has cars? Why build hardened roads for those rich bastards with cars?
The British should know what happens when government spends the least possible. Have they forgotten the year the railroads sucked even more then usual when everything had to be fixed in a hurry after decades of neglect?
Yes, some money will be wasted. But it is part of the process of society constantly changing. Yes, you could say that investment in a BBS site was a waste of money. You would be wrong but you could say it. Let people who are willing to explore things run the country. Else you end up with a country run by accountants. Laywers are bad enough, but accountants? Here is a simple sum: You are not cost effective, please step into the suicide boot.
A FEW classic cars are classics. Others are just scrapped and nobody misses them.
There are probably millions of plays written in history, only a few are among the all time greats.
You are saying this when you can't move for tv shows about custom cars. An era where Top Gear is not just a car review show anymore but a popular amusement program.
The buzz ain't there for cars anymore? Sorry, but just because you ain't into it, doesn't mean it ain't there.
And myspace has been around for a long time. From the college newspaper to the BBS, the homepage and the blog. All just variants of the same thing.
Prince is just an idiot like you, doesn't get something so claims it can't be anything big.
It is like me saying that bra's are a fad. I mean, what use are they? I got no use for them, therefor there is no use for them.
Is it that hard yanks to get your head around the idea of a coalition government? For two parties to work together?
The new UK government is a coalition between the Tories and Liberals. And they should rule the country for the next 5 months... This has been extended from the original estimate of 5 weeks.
I like the bit about being allowed to get close to the ground for landing. So considerate. Goverment press releases, they can't help but make you smile.
What I learned from this story:
That goatse.cx is very old news and that there are whole new horrors I never even heard of.
Someone must be looking out for me.
You know you are living a blessed life when you got no idea what 1man1jar or lemon party is. Reminds me of being a little kid and having no idea what the adults were talking about. Only this time I know the value of ignorance.
Let me see. 1 man 1 jar, must be about a man collecting pennies to buy a gift for his mother.
Lemon party? Sweet lemonade for a hot summer day? Sounds fun.
2girls1cup? Two girls riding the magic cup at disney?
Please, don't correct me. Ignorance is bliss.
You caused me to have a client-meeting flashback. My lawyer will contact you to agree a settlement for emotional traume after consultation with my shrink. Straight jackets ain't cheap you know, hope you have good insurance.
I actually once had someone ask why all the images were the same in a website and had "place-holder" instead of product photo's... after I spend over a month asking for the product pictures so I could put them in place.