I'm not a fan of their racism, and hate most of the arseholes who turn up at the rallies, but their policies regarding how Britain should behave are the best around - it's what the British Conservatives should adopt if they are ever to have success.
Good on you for posting a challenge to the/. lefties.
Kudos to you for consuming the fantastic products of Desmoes and Geddes.
You may also enjoy their 'Crucial Brew' (a kind of Red Stripe for men), and more especially, their Jamaican Ginger Beer, which though non-alcoholic is a damn fine libation.
I have a confession to make - a few years back, when Dolce and Gabanna started to become popular, I once asked a guy where he had got his Desmoes and Geddes T-shirt, as I'd like to get one.
I'll let you patronise me if you promise to learn to spell laissez-faire, cunt.
And no - I'm not a typical/. liberal - it's just that I understand the technical issues involved in providing 911 location for IP addresses, and you probably don't unless you're an expert in DNS.
I was going to post this anonymously, but fuck it - you're so patronising and transparently stupid that I have probably just been trolled.
From my reading, the issue is not the ability to call 911, but the ability of the 911 services to locate the source of the call.
This is going to be very difficult to sort out - I may have an account with a VOIP provider, but wish to access the service from somewhere other than my address as registered in their billing system.
How is this to be handled?
Do I have to confirm my physical location in order to access the service?
Can I lie?
Can IP addresses, especially dynamically allocated, be tied down to a location at all?
This sort of move will lead to a big fucking mess, where VOIP will not be feasible to provide in the US, and the usual suspects will continue to profit excessively from their old and creaky infrastructure.
Disgust with the current crop of Republicans isn't necessarily a reason to start wearing the Che Guevara shirts again.
There is an alternative - still American, patriotic, and proud - still mainstream, still coherent and above all still viable politically.
Go to The American Conservative site, and see what Pat Buchanan and his colleagues have to say - it's not PC, it's not leftist, but it is still the strongest indictment of the way that America has been led astray that I have seen.
Disclaimer - I'm British, and a supporter of the BNP - take that as you see fit.
It's obvious - if you come from near Betelgeuse - a red giant - your planet's going to have lost a lot of atmosphere in the expansion phase - so it's logical that you'll be black, to minimise the effects of UV exposure.
As a white Brit, I have absolutely no exception to a black guy playing Ford, just so long as he makes him seem like the same sort of shallow arse he was originally.
In fact, so long as the guy can act the part, it doesn't matter what colour he is, so long as he's humanoid.
I've had a number of 'Close Encounters of the Geordie Kind' while working away in the North East - it's nearly as sexy as Glaswegian (in that you know as soon as the lass lets on, you're going to get in her pants).
On that note, will Marvin be introduced by Randy Newman's marvellous 'Short People' at each entrance?
Seriously, though, Marvin is the Eeyore of HGTG, and really needs a deep voice to carry off the dialogue (well, monologue in his case, but you know what I mean).
Itty bitty voices going squeak,squeak,squeak just isn't going to cut the mustard.
Call the delightful Sandra Dickinson at thy peril, scurvy knave!
I thought she was rather good in the TV series - I had always thought of Trillian as slightly manipulative and fake-bimboish, even though the radio Trillian (Susan Sheridan) was less obviously bimboish, and was probably overlooked for the TV series because she wasn't telegenic enough.
Besides, that hint of Geordie in Trillian's radio voice was probably too sexy for television in 1981;)
I think a 10 year term is much better than a 4 year term
No, that'd just give them another 6 years to rape the country.
Now if it was illegal to have a partisan president (no party affiliation allowed - only independents who can demonstrate their independence allowed to stand), I might agree with you - it might be possible to elect a good person in such a system.
But when the candidates have been through the venal path of governorships, Senate and Congress, and have been suborned for years by lobby groups - no chance.
No - believing in creation is in itself scientific - it is completely untestable, since however far back the evolutionary trail is found to go, there is always room for some mystical nonsense about a creator, and thus creationism is, in its purest sense, unfalsifiable.
To be scientific, a theory must be able to be proven wrong by facts - this does not happen with creationism, since creationists always retreat back into faith.
And don't try to claim that your point of view is valid just because it's yours - it isn't - it's stupid, unscientific and wrong.
But now that the idea has been floated, surely every Congresscritter should now have 'an expectation of receipt' (in the sense that they've got to expect someone to try this for a laugh), and are thus already in breach of the DMCA, without anyone having to do anything!
Such is the logic inspired by vague and badly worded law...
I thought (and this is only from the other side of the pond, so probably misinformed) that the 'cruel and unusual punishment' only applied to the criminal law - as a means of protecting the citizenry against the government.
These cases are civil law - there is a very good argument that the penalties are contrary to natural justice, but not until a case has worked its way through the courts and some poor sap has been stiffed for $30,000 per song. At that point, the Supreme Court could be persuaded to review the DMCA on this basis, but until then, it's untested, however inane a law it might be.
it wasn't Vietnam - it goes back to WW1 at least - originally it was imagine if they gave a dinner party, and nobody came'.I think it can possibly be traced back to Sam Johnson, dictoniary scribbler, but I'm not too sure of the quote.
But it is sloppy - it's using a signed integer to store a number that could conceivably be larger than the size of that storage variable.
Whatever excuses you might have, that is sloppy programming - based on sloppy thought, and reflecting sloppy practice.
If there is one example in the code, there will be more - and I for one don't want to be exposed to an exploit because of lazy thinking in Redmond.
And yes - I do program in C/C++, and my code is buggy as hell, at least until I fix it, but I always consider it good practice to type my variables appropriately, and most of the bugs come from ill-documented APIs that leak memory if you forget the undocumented trick (SQL Server connections, anyone?).
Even in Java, I always try to avoid overflow conditions - it's just good practice and sound technique.
They're talking 1Gbit per layer, and aiming for 100 layer devices - that's 25 GB to play with - enough for the LOTR trilogy in a postage-stamp sized package.
Personally, I'd rather use it for the Dirty Harry series, but then I'm just a philistine who'd rather read LOTR than watch it.
The same book (I presume) was published in the UK under the title The Surgeon of Crowthorne - Crowthorne is the village in Berkshire where Broadmoor insane asylum is located, and Dr Minor was a US Army surgeon before an unfortunate incident in London with a pistol.
It's a cracking good read, as are all Simon Winchester's books.
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I'm not a fan of their racism, and hate most of the arseholes who turn up at the rallies, but their policies regarding how Britain should behave are the best around - it's what the British Conservatives should adopt if they are ever to have success.
Good on you for posting a challenge to the /. lefties.
You may also enjoy their 'Crucial Brew' (a kind of Red Stripe for men), and more especially, their Jamaican Ginger Beer, which though non-alcoholic is a damn fine libation.
I have a confession to make - a few years back, when Dolce and Gabanna started to become popular, I once asked a guy where he had got his Desmoes and Geddes T-shirt, as I'd like to get one.
And yes - I'm a poor limey bastard.
And no - I'm not a typical /. liberal - it's just that I understand the technical issues involved in providing 911 location for IP addresses, and you probably don't unless you're an expert in DNS.
I was going to post this anonymously, but fuck it - you're so patronising and transparently stupid that I have probably just been trolled.
This is going to be very difficult to sort out - I may have an account with a VOIP provider, but wish to access the service from somewhere other than my address as registered in their billing system.
How is this to be handled?
Do I have to confirm my physical location in order to access the service?
Can I lie?
Can IP addresses, especially dynamically allocated, be tied down to a location at all?
This sort of move will lead to a big fucking mess, where VOIP will not be feasible to provide in the US, and the usual suspects will continue to profit excessively from their old and creaky infrastructure.
Good luck to you all - you're going to need it.
Or are you making a clever reference to the bottom-feeders that make up the spamming classes?
Koi, for one, would like to know...
There is an alternative - still American, patriotic, and proud - still mainstream, still coherent and above all still viable politically.
Go to The American Conservative site, and see what Pat Buchanan and his colleagues have to say - it's not PC, it's not leftist, but it is still the strongest indictment of the way that America has been led astray that I have seen.
Disclaimer - I'm British, and a supporter of the BNP - take that as you see fit.
Next thing you know, they'll actually be putting rotors on it (it's a prop driven minature Predator, if you RTFA).
It's obvious - if you come from near Betelgeuse - a red giant - your planet's going to have lost a lot of atmosphere in the expansion phase - so it's logical that you'll be black, to minimise the effects of UV exposure.
As a white Brit, I have absolutely no exception to a black guy playing Ford, just so long as he makes him seem like the same sort of shallow arse he was originally.
In fact, so long as the guy can act the part, it doesn't matter what colour he is, so long as he's humanoid.
So yes, the Geordie accent is sexy!
Seriously, though, Marvin is the Eeyore of HGTG, and really needs a deep voice to carry off the dialogue (well, monologue in his case, but you know what I mean).
Itty bitty voices going squeak,squeak,squeak just isn't going to cut the mustard.
Call the delightful Sandra Dickinson at thy peril, scurvy knave!
I thought she was rather good in the TV series - I had always thought of Trillian as slightly manipulative and fake-bimboish, even though the radio Trillian (Susan Sheridan) was less obviously bimboish, and was probably overlooked for the TV series because she wasn't telegenic enough.
Besides, that hint of Geordie in Trillian's radio voice was probably too sexy for television in 1981 ;)
No, that'd just give them another 6 years to rape the country.
Now if it was illegal to have a partisan president (no party affiliation allowed - only independents who can demonstrate their independence allowed to stand), I might agree with you - it might be possible to elect a good person in such a system.
But when the candidates have been through the venal path of governorships, Senate and Congress, and have been suborned for years by lobby groups - no chance.
To be scientific, a theory must be able to be proven wrong by facts - this does not happen with creationism, since creationists always retreat back into faith.
And don't try to claim that your point of view is valid just because it's yours - it isn't - it's stupid, unscientific and wrong.
Such is the logic inspired by vague and badly worded law...
These cases are civil law - there is a very good argument that the penalties are contrary to natural justice, but not until a case has worked its way through the courts and some poor sap has been stiffed for $30,000 per song. At that point, the Supreme Court could be persuaded to review the DMCA on this basis, but until then, it's untested, however inane a law it might be.
You don't seem to realise that not everyone wants the western life - some of us don't care for McBonalds, and would rather eat local food.
Kandahar's my ideal - if anyone wants a network guru that can program a bit and do databases in Kandahar - please reply.
Imagine an army full of hard bastards that you can't beat.
That's what sort of army we're talking about - and 5% of a billion people is a 50 million man army of hard bastards.
I'd recommend Pakistan backs off gracefully.
That's good in one way (it's great if India can absorb all those jobs), but it's shit for the rest of us.
I was hoping to sow disquiet in India, to make outsourcing less attractive - maybe I'm on a loser.
Whatever excuses you might have, that is sloppy programming - based on sloppy thought, and reflecting sloppy practice.
If there is one example in the code, there will be more - and I for one don't want to be exposed to an exploit because of lazy thinking in Redmond.
And yes - I do program in C/C++, and my code is buggy as hell, at least until I fix it, but I always consider it good practice to type my variables appropriately, and most of the bugs come from ill-documented APIs that leak memory if you forget the undocumented trick (SQL Server connections, anyone?).
Even in Java, I always try to avoid overflow conditions - it's just good practice and sound technique.
Personally, I'd rather use it for the Dirty Harry series, but then I'm just a philistine who'd rather read LOTR than watch it.
It's a cracking good read, as are all Simon Winchester's books.