Just as I thought the GP was of the mark, there is the crazy just as he predicted. My and what a beautifull example it is, frotting at the mouth, puffing up his red-neck.
Kinda sad the Illuminati have already tagged this one and fixed him. If he still had his equipment in full functional order he would be far more fierce but sadly this one is doomed to rant and rave impotently.
Do what every civilized country has done, legalize gay marriage.
Problem solved.
And yes, every single civilized country has done this, countries that haven't ain't civilized.
Amazing that so many people who worry the government is putting fluride in their water find it perfectly okay that the same government regulates who you can marry.
Good for you Google (and the other companies that do this), fuck the hillbillies and welcome to the modern world in which all people are equal. Not just the bits the nazi child-rapist pope approves of.
Are you truly prepared to traverse the deepest darkest corners of the internet? Where unspeakable things happen and are best left untouched? Where your very soul is at risk and your sanity might be stripped from you with one wrong click?
Do you really got what it takes to fire up your browser and go to a mobile phone operator site?
Look at what he produced, it is a straight port of the game. Everything is the same.
There is no WAY this would fly especially as the Lemmings games are still sold for various platforms commercially. SOME companies TOLERATE old material being used freely but that is only if they don't see any future potential in it.
Lemmings still has potential.
Now you could start a discussion about copyright reform and such, but for now, making a blatant PORT (this is far further then a copy of the idea, it is the same idea) is illegal.
And Sony was nice enough about it, they have given him 48 hours to clean the stuff up and are not even pressuring him to destroy all the distrubuted copies. Basically they are saying, "Well we don't like it but if you don't do it anymore we won't hold you responsible for the damages caused so far".
Frankly, if I were him I would thank Sony on his bare knees. For a stunt he should NEVER have distributed the ports and for a "software should be free" he should never have signed his name.
You CAN make a Ufo: Enemy unknown game is you wished, you could even use enemies with the same capabilties (I doubt the makers would want a lawsuit over the *cough* Alien *cough* that impregnates your soldiers only for another *cough* Alien *cough* to burst out from them to go to court.) but a direct port? Nope.
Nice project kid, great way to get your name out there. Now take the extremely nice offer of Sony to clean it all up.
Sorry, but that is why the conclusion in the summary is that is ambigous.
The tuesday statement does NOT preclude the other child from being a boy born on a tuesday.
The trick here is that you are making an ASSUMPTION based on abstract language conventions, not on hard factual statements.
You PRESUME that if the other child was a boy on a tuesday you would not state it like this, but that is just because you expect people to use language in a certain way.
I have two cars, one is red. What is the color of the other car?
It could be any color. That one is red gives you no information about the other. I might really like red.
London and Amsterdam have firetrucks, Amsterdam fire-trucks are red, what color are London fire-trucks?
See?
That is the entire puzzle in fact. Does the Tuesday bit matter? A lot of these type of riddles work like that. What part is factual statement and what is dressing up?
They should have asked this question to a 10 yr old. They are good at this. Adults tend to be so experienced at getting hidden meaning out of sentences, to read between the lines that they are unable to stop doing it.
You attach meaning to the tuesday statement. But this is math, and it has none.
The answer from the story is that the Tuesday bit matters if you let it matter. But really, it doesn't SAY anything. it becomes a word game.
Is there any meaning, any information in the fact that one of the kids, a boy, was born on a Tuesday?
Does it preclude the other child having been born on a Tuesday? No, it does not. If both kids were born on a Tuesday you PROBABLY wouldn't say that "one of them was born on Tuesday" but that information is being deduced. It has not been stated as a fact.
For instance, "I have two children, one of whom pees standing up born on a Tuesday...."
Does this tell you that one of the kids is a boy? No. Girls can pee standing up. Yes, most kids who pee standing up are boys BUT it ain't an absolute.
It is indeed funny to see how strongly assumptions become in even such a place as math where only cold hard facts should matter.
In reality, the answer 1/2 is the correct one. It either is or it isn't. You can calculate the true randomness, number of girls vs boys, distribution of gender among siblings etc etc but ultimately for a REAL case, the chances boil down to 50/50.
And why does only the 1/2 matter? Because the people who over calculate the case happily leave out hemaprodites, who are neither boy or girl. Or that the other child is a chimera or that we are talking about siamese twins.
If you spend some time calculating all the variables, did you REALLY include ALL the variables? Every single one of them? Including such that one of the kids might have been adopted? A kid might have been placed out of care? person might have kids they don't know about? With different people?
No? Then you are just guessing and 50/50 is as good a guess as any.
Funny, your alternative to the idiot tube is NOT to dig wells in poor countries or to find a cure for cancer, but to waste resources AND pollute the environment on some useless piece of trash?
Good news, you just won a ticket on the B-Ark. Enjoy.
Accept it, 99% of humanity is only there to occupy space. And yes, that includes you.
The UK is near bankrupt, it is involved in two wars, three if you count Ireland were the peace process is measured by the number of people killed. It is production is in shambles and the economic sector in ruins. It can't pay for its welfare or its healthcare. It politics are divived up with the conservatives now having to rule with the liberals and all this guy thinks of is to get kids playing soccer so the national team has a chance. Oh yeah, that is worth paying taxes for.
Amazing. Bread and circusses, it still seems to work.
You know you are old when B is more then just a brief bit of history in the front of a C book.
To be fair I only knew it from a porting project. I am not THAT old... I am young enough to remember when C was new and exciting... no we did NOT ride dinosaurs to work.
What this guy doesn't get and will never get because he was born without a heart is that there are some things you just don't do.
Some hitns for the parent poster and others like him:
Small kid stumbles and spills water on your best pair of pants: You don't sue him in court for his pocket money after giving him a beating that leaves him in a wheel chair.
Puppy: You don't kick it.
Orphans: You don't burn down their orphonage.
War-widows: You don't do ANYTHING to them, ever. Especially not when your country is involved in two wars.
Any real human being would understand this. If you do not get why Verizon is completely in the wrong with this then sorry, you are not a human being.
Remember, the zero percent chance of sunshine is a bonus to nerds who prefer damp dank dark basements to ply their neferious trade.
Putting a game company on Hawaii is a surefire way to not get any talent what so ever. Proof? Name a single game company from a lush tropical paradise.
Nope, instead they are from the coldest frozen wasteland in the world: Canada. Nothing like sub-zero temperatures and a complete absence of sunlight for half of the year to drive a coder to his warm PC and start cranking out software.
Open a development shop on the north-pole and you will get the best MMORPG ever produced in six months time.
Same as the powers that be can turn of electricity, water, gas and the phones if they need to under certain situations. This is NOTHING abnormal. And if I am working as the gas station and the firebrigade tells me to shut of the gas to a certain area I will have to do so or they will do it for me.
This is very reasonable, the fire service obviously wants to be able to shut the gas of if there is a risk. Just as the police can close an area or force me to donate my goods to the common good. Only nutcases (americans) protest against this, a person is burning to death but this is MY water hoose and the state does not have the right to confiscate it damn it!
The problem with this is that these nutters have a point. The internet is more then just a product shipped to the end-user and the emergencies are far less clear. I can smell a gas leak, but how do I check that their is a internet security risk demanding immidiate action?
The police has the right to shutdown utility services in for instance hostage situations to apply pressure to a hostage taker. But what about shutting down utilities to rioters? To trouble some areas? To districts that voted for the opposition?
And what is an emergency on the net? An embarrising video? Of US soldiers slaughtering unarmed civilians perhaps?
The EBS is from a different era when we "trusted" our government to only use it in a real emergency. We don't trust our government that much anymore. How are we going to know in this era of black-ops everywhere whether the emergency was real?
Part of this proposal reads simply as a suggestion to give the same control over the internet as over other essential services so that its continued operation can be ensured when the shit hits the fan. But to the paranoid mind, there might be a hidden agenda. And these days some people really do seem out to get you.
Soccer is what the rest of the world follows for sports as they don't have access to baseball or football or basketball or hockey.
Some americans do play soccer, mostly because mothers consider it to be more harmless then a sport where you hit others with a baseball and spit on your balls, gay men jump each other, or the kid ain't black or japanese or the mother is against open warfare on ice. (European impression of US sports).
The vuuzela is something soccer fans blow because they are bored out of their mind and hate their neighbour but rioting is forbidden. Average EU soccer fan does hockey on the stands.
As an EU citizen who has been to both EU and US sports events, don't bother Americans. Your sports might be impossible to comprehend for non-natives but the atmosphere is a thousand times better.
For the EU soccer fans, attent a US sports event once and make it clear you are a foreinger, the Americans will welcome the newbie and show you everything, just remmeber that they like to play pranks and so will offer you a drink of cooled piss and pretend it is beer. Just smile politely and drop it somewhere. It is all part of the experience.
Why don't people trust twitter/social media? Because even the most Idols addled mind can figure out that a news source with absolutely no accountability or even traceability is totally and utterly worthless.
Twitter: A fly is in my room.
Judge this. You can't. It is is a claim but you don't know who claims it, if the person who started the account is still in control of it and have no way to verify or even know what room the person is talking about or if they can accurately determine a fly from another insect.
Mind you, most often when people claim they "trust" a media, they are actually saying "these people say what I want to hear". Someone who doesn't want to give up his SUV is more likely to trust Fox news when it reports global warming is a hoax. People react violently when exposed to a source of information that contradicts what they want to believe. And no, this is NOT just a right-winger thing.
With ever more sources of information it has also become very easy to completely isolate yourself from anything that distresses you. Back when everyone read their OWN newspaper, people at least READ the newspaper. Now kids get their info from twitter and facebook and nothing else. Their source of news, they idea of investigative journalism is "he heard that someone said".
Well RabbitWho shows this, he thinks that because the entity twittering pretends to be a "normal" human being that he/she/it is trustworthy. Because of course nobody could setup bogus accounts to start spreading propoganda over twitter or facebook. No, google bombing does NOT exist in social media. No guerilla marketting of political ideas. Some teen says something so it must be true because... why? How do you know WHO that person really is and wether they should tell the truth let alone the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Because the easiest way to be biased in reporting is to leave out tiny details.
Like how Turkey so upset about Israel killing Turks crossing into Israeli waters went into Iraq to kill Koerdish civlians at the same time. My my, how convenient their righteous indignation kept their own actions from the media. Convenient.
Our freedoms were won by blood and by sword. It doesn't say anywhere we do not have continue to fight for them. And if words no longer work then bullets have to take over.
Save democracy, kill a politician.
Mind you, the politicians know this and so make sure the rabble get their bread and circusses while Rome burns.
History has seen the same story repeat countless times and will no doubt continue to do so.
The current situation in the western nation has arisen because the parties have reached a balance point were no politician can actually get anything done any more. Holland is in death lock after its election made the largest party have fewer votes then the number of people who didn't vote and a three party coalition being the absolute minimum with a FIVE party coalition being considered.
Belgium? Falling apart at the seems, it no longer is a question of IF the republic will seperate but when.
England? Bankrupt and the voter just has no idea who to vote for. The party of sleaze, the new party of sleaze or the liberals who are to small to sleaze properly for now. As a Hignfy presenter put it, Labour and the Conservatives agreed to pay back millions in donations and the liberal supporter got his book token back.
The US? Obama won? Bush won? Hardly. Both "victories" are well in the margin of counting errors and even then you are NOT counting the voters who didn't vote. The US is deadlocked, democrats block republikans and vice versa. And NO dear US citizen, this is a NOT a healthy system of checks and balances anymore. This has become a situation in which absolutely NOTHING can be done.
Democracy has its limits, for instance a referendum about which side to drive on would be very democratic but how are you going to deal with a vote to drive on the other side? Democracy also asks of the loser to accept that they lost and let the winner do their thing. Opposition is one thing, blocking everything is another. Yes, it is the job of the opposition but it creates a system were EVERYTHING is opposed.
Ultimately this leads to back room deals because that is the only way to reach agreement on anything, but those backroom deals soon spread until you get ACTA. One giant backroom deal just so that none of the people involved have to deal with those messy election processes were you can never get a clear YES or even a NO.
The EU constitution was the same. Backroom dealers convinced they did it for the best but had to conveniently ignore public opinion and so argued that the public just didn't understand the issue.
But there is a solution to this. When the ruling elite becomes to detached and start talking about eating cake, then it is time to chop of some heads. It is remarkably effective. But of course, who is going to be in the front line as an unarmed protestor storming the bastille? Not me, Idols is on and I got a 300 dollar tax rebate. Bread and circusses.
And the world-wide actions against whaling ARE having an effect. Japan is "fighting" it tooth and nail but if you look closer it is more a case of saving face while slowly giving in then outright resistance. The number of whales is on the increase while whaling might soon be going down even further.
So your point is completly and utterly wrong.
Remember that even the longest journey starts with a single step. Your kind never ever gets anything done ever because you are unable to accept that you need to set this first step if you ever want to start out.
"OMGZ, thisser pln not solvers evything at oncers, ts fail!"
That is up for debate. The initial reaction the global recession was to spend instead. Spending keeps businesses running, keep people earning wages and paying taxes and from that you can spend again.
Stop spending and business stops, people stop collecting wages and stop paying taxes and then you can't spend.
The UK is however not just facing the global recession but the fact that the UK has been slipping for decades. The recession has just made it clear just how rotten the UK economy is. It has/had a huge financial sector but suddenly after the banking crisis it has become clear just how much hot air that was. Meanwhile production has fallen to an all time low, the UK produces even less then the US, it is a consumer/service based economy and that economy is prone to bubbles.
The UK government might have no other choice but to cut spending but these cuts are only going to hurt the economy more and more. Consumer spending will drop like a rock as people save instead for the downpour that they now know is going to come. I predict fore-closures of small businesses will sky-rocket and medium business will soon follow.
Just ask any rich person. In time of prosperity, save. In times of recession, spend. Sadly, right wingers want to spend (on tax cuts) when time is good and then when times are bad they got nothing left to spend.
Just how is the economy going to recover if nobody has any money to spend?
Exactly how is any of this relevant to the UK? No, contrary to what many seem to think the UK is NOT a vassal state of the US. The only thing the two got in common is a language (barely) and a lack of taste buds that allows you guys to eat processed cheese and boiled meat.
The current UK government is facing a debt crisis not dis-similar to the one in Greece but where that one was caused by typical garlic incompetence and blatant fraud, the UK one is caused because the country hasn't actually produced anything in years but still thinks it rules an Empire. US made might be rare but not as rare as UK made. Their economy is going down the drain and the basic message is "there is no money". 40 million might sound like not much but if you got nothing it about a gazillion times to much.
Manager: Why is it programmer that all our software keeps failing? The customers are demanding a solution even if they have to pay it. Can't you just write code that works?
Programmer: Eh...
Manager: Mind you, it is a good thing it failed we can really use the income.
Programmer: eh?
Manager: It is almost perfect, we sell them code, then half a year later they got to come in to get it serviced. Like a timebomb goes of ensuring future profits.
Programmer: Ah! Yeah, that is it sir. It is like your car needing to be serviced by the dealer. Guaranteed continued income. That is why the software fails, not because I suck at all sir but because I was thinking of the future!
Manager: Good job, here is a raise that gives you a salary when counted for actual working hours is less then a cleaner gets.
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Just as I thought the GP was of the mark, there is the crazy just as he predicted. My and what a beautifull example it is, frotting at the mouth, puffing up his red-neck.
Kinda sad the Illuminati have already tagged this one and fixed him. If he still had his equipment in full functional order he would be far more fierce but sadly this one is doomed to rant and rave impotently.
Do what every civilized country has done, legalize gay marriage.
Problem solved.
And yes, every single civilized country has done this, countries that haven't ain't civilized.
Amazing that so many people who worry the government is putting fluride in their water find it perfectly okay that the same government regulates who you can marry.
Good for you Google (and the other companies that do this), fuck the hillbillies and welcome to the modern world in which all people are equal. Not just the bits the nazi child-rapist pope approves of.
Google is in California, so instead of stoning gays, they get stoned and have their first gay experience.
Ain't it funny, South Africa, a nation beseth with difficulties and racial tensions has a more civilized attitude towards gays then the US of A.
And you forget the best about a girl of 13, if you turn her over, she looks just like a boy of 13. Bonus!
Ooh I am going to get it for that one. Petrus is going to spank my ass, the big hunk.
What gives you the right to tell others what they should do?
If someone wants to make a carbon copy of Ubuntu but written entirely in Perl on a single line, that is THEIR business. NOT YOURS.
Are you truly prepared to traverse the deepest darkest corners of the internet? Where unspeakable things happen and are best left untouched? Where your very soul is at risk and your sanity might be stripped from you with one wrong click?
Do you really got what it takes to fire up your browser and go to a mobile phone operator site?
I think not.
Look at what he produced, it is a straight port of the game. Everything is the same.
There is no WAY this would fly especially as the Lemmings games are still sold for various platforms commercially. SOME companies TOLERATE old material being used freely but that is only if they don't see any future potential in it.
Lemmings still has potential.
Now you could start a discussion about copyright reform and such, but for now, making a blatant PORT (this is far further then a copy of the idea, it is the same idea) is illegal.
And Sony was nice enough about it, they have given him 48 hours to clean the stuff up and are not even pressuring him to destroy all the distrubuted copies. Basically they are saying, "Well we don't like it but if you don't do it anymore we won't hold you responsible for the damages caused so far".
Frankly, if I were him I would thank Sony on his bare knees. For a stunt he should NEVER have distributed the ports and for a "software should be free" he should never have signed his name.
You CAN make a Ufo: Enemy unknown game is you wished, you could even use enemies with the same capabilties (I doubt the makers would want a lawsuit over the *cough* Alien *cough* that impregnates your soldiers only for another *cough* Alien *cough* to burst out from them to go to court.) but a direct port? Nope.
Nice project kid, great way to get your name out there. Now take the extremely nice offer of Sony to clean it all up.
It is simple, don't post anything online that you don't want others to see.
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Sorry, but that is why the conclusion in the summary is that is ambigous.
The tuesday statement does NOT preclude the other child from being a boy born on a tuesday.
The trick here is that you are making an ASSUMPTION based on abstract language conventions, not on hard factual statements.
You PRESUME that if the other child was a boy on a tuesday you would not state it like this, but that is just because you expect people to use language in a certain way.
I have two cars, one is red. What is the color of the other car?
It could be any color. That one is red gives you no information about the other. I might really like red.
London and Amsterdam have firetrucks, Amsterdam fire-trucks are red, what color are London fire-trucks?
See?
That is the entire puzzle in fact. Does the Tuesday bit matter? A lot of these type of riddles work like that. What part is factual statement and what is dressing up?
They should have asked this question to a 10 yr old. They are good at this. Adults tend to be so experienced at getting hidden meaning out of sentences, to read between the lines that they are unable to stop doing it.
You attach meaning to the tuesday statement. But this is math, and it has none.
The answer from the story is that the Tuesday bit matters if you let it matter. But really, it doesn't SAY anything. it becomes a word game.
Is there any meaning, any information in the fact that one of the kids, a boy, was born on a Tuesday?
Does it preclude the other child having been born on a Tuesday? No, it does not. If both kids were born on a Tuesday you PROBABLY wouldn't say that "one of them was born on Tuesday" but that information is being deduced. It has not been stated as a fact.
For instance, "I have two children, one of whom pees standing up born on a Tuesday...."
Does this tell you that one of the kids is a boy? No. Girls can pee standing up. Yes, most kids who pee standing up are boys BUT it ain't an absolute.
It is indeed funny to see how strongly assumptions become in even such a place as math where only cold hard facts should matter.
In reality, the answer 1/2 is the correct one. It either is or it isn't. You can calculate the true randomness, number of girls vs boys, distribution of gender among siblings etc etc but ultimately for a REAL case, the chances boil down to 50/50.
And why does only the 1/2 matter? Because the people who over calculate the case happily leave out hemaprodites, who are neither boy or girl. Or that the other child is a chimera or that we are talking about siamese twins.
If you spend some time calculating all the variables, did you REALLY include ALL the variables? Every single one of them? Including such that one of the kids might have been adopted? A kid might have been placed out of care? person might have kids they don't know about? With different people?
No? Then you are just guessing and 50/50 is as good a guess as any.
Funny, your alternative to the idiot tube is NOT to dig wells in poor countries or to find a cure for cancer, but to waste resources AND pollute the environment on some useless piece of trash?
Good news, you just won a ticket on the B-Ark. Enjoy.
Accept it, 99% of humanity is only there to occupy space. And yes, that includes you.
The UK is near bankrupt, it is involved in two wars, three if you count Ireland were the peace process is measured by the number of people killed. It is production is in shambles and the economic sector in ruins. It can't pay for its welfare or its healthcare. It politics are divived up with the conservatives now having to rule with the liberals and all this guy thinks of is to get kids playing soccer so the national team has a chance. Oh yeah, that is worth paying taxes for.
Amazing. Bread and circusses, it still seems to work.
You know you are old when B is more then just a brief bit of history in the front of a C book.
To be fair I only knew it from a porting project. I am not THAT old... I am young enough to remember when C was new and exciting... no we did NOT ride dinosaurs to work.
What this guy doesn't get and will never get because he was born without a heart is that there are some things you just don't do.
Some hitns for the parent poster and others like him:
Small kid stumbles and spills water on your best pair of pants: You don't sue him in court for his pocket money after giving him a beating that leaves him in a wheel chair.
Puppy: You don't kick it.
Orphans: You don't burn down their orphonage.
War-widows: You don't do ANYTHING to them, ever. Especially not when your country is involved in two wars.
Any real human being would understand this. If you do not get why Verizon is completely in the wrong with this then sorry, you are not a human being.
Remember, the zero percent chance of sunshine is a bonus to nerds who prefer damp dank dark basements to ply their neferious trade.
Putting a game company on Hawaii is a surefire way to not get any talent what so ever. Proof? Name a single game company from a lush tropical paradise.
Nope, instead they are from the coldest frozen wasteland in the world: Canada. Nothing like sub-zero temperatures and a complete absence of sunlight for half of the year to drive a coder to his warm PC and start cranking out software.
Open a development shop on the north-pole and you will get the best MMORPG ever produced in six months time.
You say medics can be shot, if armed. COMBAT medics, if armed. These weren't combat medics and they were not armed as can be VERY clearly seen.
And an AK47 is no threat to a armored helicopter.
Did you WATCH the video? or just takes Fox news word for what it showed?
WATCH IT, and LISTEN to the pilots. They KNOW the people on the ground are unarmed.
People like them used to shoot blackies because it was fun. These are the kind of guys that guarded concentration camps. LISTEN to them talk.
You think they are going to bombard us with so much ads we will go insane and civilization collapses.
I think you are an optimist.
Same as the powers that be can turn of electricity, water, gas and the phones if they need to under certain situations. This is NOTHING abnormal. And if I am working as the gas station and the firebrigade tells me to shut of the gas to a certain area I will have to do so or they will do it for me.
This is very reasonable, the fire service obviously wants to be able to shut the gas of if there is a risk. Just as the police can close an area or force me to donate my goods to the common good. Only nutcases (americans) protest against this, a person is burning to death but this is MY water hoose and the state does not have the right to confiscate it damn it!
The problem with this is that these nutters have a point. The internet is more then just a product shipped to the end-user and the emergencies are far less clear. I can smell a gas leak, but how do I check that their is a internet security risk demanding immidiate action?
The police has the right to shutdown utility services in for instance hostage situations to apply pressure to a hostage taker. But what about shutting down utilities to rioters? To trouble some areas? To districts that voted for the opposition?
And what is an emergency on the net? An embarrising video? Of US soldiers slaughtering unarmed civilians perhaps?
The EBS is from a different era when we "trusted" our government to only use it in a real emergency. We don't trust our government that much anymore. How are we going to know in this era of black-ops everywhere whether the emergency was real?
Part of this proposal reads simply as a suggestion to give the same control over the internet as over other essential services so that its continued operation can be ensured when the shit hits the fan. But to the paranoid mind, there might be a hidden agenda. And these days some people really do seem out to get you.
Soccer is what the rest of the world follows for sports as they don't have access to baseball or football or basketball or hockey.
Some americans do play soccer, mostly because mothers consider it to be more harmless then a sport where you hit others with a baseball and spit on your balls, gay men jump each other, or the kid ain't black or japanese or the mother is against open warfare on ice. (European impression of US sports).
The vuuzela is something soccer fans blow because they are bored out of their mind and hate their neighbour but rioting is forbidden. Average EU soccer fan does hockey on the stands.
As an EU citizen who has been to both EU and US sports events, don't bother Americans. Your sports might be impossible to comprehend for non-natives but the atmosphere is a thousand times better.
For the EU soccer fans, attent a US sports event once and make it clear you are a foreinger, the Americans will welcome the newbie and show you everything, just remmeber that they like to play pranks and so will offer you a drink of cooled piss and pretend it is beer. Just smile politely and drop it somewhere. It is all part of the experience.
Oh yeah BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
Why don't people trust twitter/social media? Because even the most Idols addled mind can figure out that a news source with absolutely no accountability or even traceability is totally and utterly worthless.
Twitter: A fly is in my room.
Judge this. You can't. It is is a claim but you don't know who claims it, if the person who started the account is still in control of it and have no way to verify or even know what room the person is talking about or if they can accurately determine a fly from another insect.
Mind you, most often when people claim they "trust" a media, they are actually saying "these people say what I want to hear". Someone who doesn't want to give up his SUV is more likely to trust Fox news when it reports global warming is a hoax. People react violently when exposed to a source of information that contradicts what they want to believe. And no, this is NOT just a right-winger thing.
With ever more sources of information it has also become very easy to completely isolate yourself from anything that distresses you. Back when everyone read their OWN newspaper, people at least READ the newspaper. Now kids get their info from twitter and facebook and nothing else. Their source of news, they idea of investigative journalism is "he heard that someone said".
Well RabbitWho shows this, he thinks that because the entity twittering pretends to be a "normal" human being that he/she/it is trustworthy. Because of course nobody could setup bogus accounts to start spreading propoganda over twitter or facebook. No, google bombing does NOT exist in social media. No guerilla marketting of political ideas. Some teen says something so it must be true because... why? How do you know WHO that person really is and wether they should tell the truth let alone the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Because the easiest way to be biased in reporting is to leave out tiny details.
Like how Turkey so upset about Israel killing Turks crossing into Israeli waters went into Iraq to kill Koerdish civlians at the same time. My my, how convenient their righteous indignation kept their own actions from the media. Convenient.
Our freedoms were won by blood and by sword. It doesn't say anywhere we do not have continue to fight for them. And if words no longer work then bullets have to take over.
Save democracy, kill a politician.
Mind you, the politicians know this and so make sure the rabble get their bread and circusses while Rome burns.
History has seen the same story repeat countless times and will no doubt continue to do so.
The current situation in the western nation has arisen because the parties have reached a balance point were no politician can actually get anything done any more. Holland is in death lock after its election made the largest party have fewer votes then the number of people who didn't vote and a three party coalition being the absolute minimum with a FIVE party coalition being considered.
Belgium? Falling apart at the seems, it no longer is a question of IF the republic will seperate but when.
England? Bankrupt and the voter just has no idea who to vote for. The party of sleaze, the new party of sleaze or the liberals who are to small to sleaze properly for now. As a Hignfy presenter put it, Labour and the Conservatives agreed to pay back millions in donations and the liberal supporter got his book token back.
The US? Obama won? Bush won? Hardly. Both "victories" are well in the margin of counting errors and even then you are NOT counting the voters who didn't vote. The US is deadlocked, democrats block republikans and vice versa. And NO dear US citizen, this is a NOT a healthy system of checks and balances anymore. This has become a situation in which absolutely NOTHING can be done.
Democracy has its limits, for instance a referendum about which side to drive on would be very democratic but how are you going to deal with a vote to drive on the other side? Democracy also asks of the loser to accept that they lost and let the winner do their thing. Opposition is one thing, blocking everything is another. Yes, it is the job of the opposition but it creates a system were EVERYTHING is opposed.
Ultimately this leads to back room deals because that is the only way to reach agreement on anything, but those backroom deals soon spread until you get ACTA. One giant backroom deal just so that none of the people involved have to deal with those messy election processes were you can never get a clear YES or even a NO.
The EU constitution was the same. Backroom dealers convinced they did it for the best but had to conveniently ignore public opinion and so argued that the public just didn't understand the issue.
But there is a solution to this. When the ruling elite becomes to detached and start talking about eating cake, then it is time to chop of some heads. It is remarkably effective. But of course, who is going to be in the front line as an unarmed protestor storming the bastille? Not me, Idols is on and I got a 300 dollar tax rebate. Bread and circusses.
And the world-wide actions against whaling ARE having an effect. Japan is "fighting" it tooth and nail but if you look closer it is more a case of saving face while slowly giving in then outright resistance. The number of whales is on the increase while whaling might soon be going down even further.
So your point is completly and utterly wrong.
Remember that even the longest journey starts with a single step. Your kind never ever gets anything done ever because you are unable to accept that you need to set this first step if you ever want to start out.
"OMGZ, thisser pln not solvers evything at oncers, ts fail!"
That is up for debate. The initial reaction the global recession was to spend instead. Spending keeps businesses running, keep people earning wages and paying taxes and from that you can spend again.
Stop spending and business stops, people stop collecting wages and stop paying taxes and then you can't spend.
The UK is however not just facing the global recession but the fact that the UK has been slipping for decades. The recession has just made it clear just how rotten the UK economy is. It has/had a huge financial sector but suddenly after the banking crisis it has become clear just how much hot air that was. Meanwhile production has fallen to an all time low, the UK produces even less then the US, it is a consumer/service based economy and that economy is prone to bubbles.
The UK government might have no other choice but to cut spending but these cuts are only going to hurt the economy more and more. Consumer spending will drop like a rock as people save instead for the downpour that they now know is going to come. I predict fore-closures of small businesses will sky-rocket and medium business will soon follow.
Just ask any rich person. In time of prosperity, save. In times of recession, spend. Sadly, right wingers want to spend (on tax cuts) when time is good and then when times are bad they got nothing left to spend.
Just how is the economy going to recover if nobody has any money to spend?
Exactly how is any of this relevant to the UK? No, contrary to what many seem to think the UK is NOT a vassal state of the US. The only thing the two got in common is a language (barely) and a lack of taste buds that allows you guys to eat processed cheese and boiled meat.
The current UK government is facing a debt crisis not dis-similar to the one in Greece but where that one was caused by typical garlic incompetence and blatant fraud, the UK one is caused because the country hasn't actually produced anything in years but still thinks it rules an Empire. US made might be rare but not as rare as UK made. Their economy is going down the drain and the basic message is "there is no money". 40 million might sound like not much but if you got nothing it about a gazillion times to much.
Manager: Why is it programmer that all our software keeps failing? The customers are demanding a solution even if they have to pay it. Can't you just write code that works?
Programmer: Eh...
Manager: Mind you, it is a good thing it failed we can really use the income.
Programmer: eh?
Manager: It is almost perfect, we sell them code, then half a year later they got to come in to get it serviced. Like a timebomb goes of ensuring future profits.
Programmer: Ah! Yeah, that is it sir. It is like your car needing to be serviced by the dealer. Guaranteed continued income. That is why the software fails, not because I suck at all sir but because I was thinking of the future!
Manager: Good job, here is a raise that gives you a salary when counted for actual working hours is less then a cleaner gets.
Programmer: Thank you sir, you are to kind sir.
I wonder which programmer should be more worried, the one who can't read the above, or the one who can.