She also told us that her son managed to make himself nice and sick to his stomach by drinking some fairly concentrated (like 6 molar) hydrochloric acid.
That has to be one of the most irresponsible cases of bad parenting I've ever seen. A jury could probably get a conviction on it being intentional if they wanted to. She knew her son drank out of those bottles, yet she leaves dangerous chemicals lying around in them?
I bet she tried to sue the bottle manufacturers on the grounds that the label wasn't big enough! Ahh, parents. It's never their fault...
Nah, he only understands mining for the compound OiL. Back when he was a kid, Uncle Saddam used to take him round the fields and show him the weapons that daddy sold him.
But at least now we know exactly what weapons they have. We kept copies of the receipts!!
Ironically, O2 have issued a warning recently about a SMS scam that sounds just like their own service. Receivers are asked to call a £12/min phone number. That's about $20/min. I can imagine it now...
Not at all! The industry thrives on the fact that it controls all the media relating to its products. ClearChannel control the radio stations, controlling what you hear. The record labels have a lot of control of what gets prominent display in the stores. This is why the top 10 singles market is so controlled.
p2p and the web destroys this. I used to listen to all the commercial crap. After discovering web/ftp and later napster, my musical horizons expanded in many ways. Internet radio and the next generation of p2p changed that even more. Jazz, funk, trip-hop now make up large part of my musical collection. I'm no longer buying the cheese. And that's the rub. They have spent a long time molding the industry to their tastes, and in the last 2-3 years is been getting torn appart.
Media is changing. Copyright law exists to prevent others from profiting from other peoples work. That was to stop large scale bootlegging and "counterfeit goods". Now it is used to protect Britany Spears market share.
If you magically turned every hand gun in the USA into a banana exactly the same number of homicides would occur (or possibly not)
Absolutly not! What a stupid argument. Guns make killing as easy as taking an instant photograph. Point and click.
To kill someone with a knife or blunt weapon is a horrific thing to do. For one, one blow rarely kills someone. I doubt that many of the killings that happen through guns would have happened had the killer been forced to get blood on their own hands. If you don't believe me, take a look at the murder rates in countries that don't have guns. Huge difference.
However, the US has made it's bed on this issue. There are just far too many weapons around. Banning them would only make sure that it's only criminals that have them. That would be far worse.
First the government steals land, then the former inhabitants object, eventually becomming violent and then the violence is used as a justification for the original theft.
Thank you! That has to be the best summary of the whole conflict do date that I have read. People tend to forget the reason why the Palestinians don't like the Israelis in the first place. It's not racist or anti-semetic. They had their homes taken away from them, and those who haven't fled to neighbouring countries are living under a brutal military occupation.
that Israel doesn't attack unless provoked by a terrorist attack
No, that's just not true. Here's a summary of the history of the conflict from the BBC. You can clearly see that Israel has been the aggressor on many occasions. The Palestinian's have every right to hate them, if the US goverment and media empires weren't so Jewish-controlled, you might get to hear the truth now and again. Do you have any idea what it is like to be a Palestinian in Palestine? Israeli checkpoints? Violent soldiers? (the sane ones leave the army as soon as their national service is finished, leaving only the zealots) Ever seen the footage of soldiers intentionally breaking someones arms? Or women forced to give birth at checkpoints because they don't have permission to get to the almost-destroyed hospital? On your media services, I doubt it...
The US constitution grants all citizens the right to bear arms to prevent that kind of thing happening there, how happy would you be if you had to give your documents to a soldier (who is brought up to hate you), just to leave your village? And if the soldier doesn't like the look of you, the documents are kept and you lose what little rights you had.
What I find ironic is that anyone who critises Israel's policies is called a Nazi. Hmm, let's see, the Nazi's believed that:
They were the master race
They were superiour to other races
They wanted to conqueor their neighbours
They hated all non-white people
They commited genocide and ethnic cleansing
Sounds like Israel to me! The tragic thing is that the Palestinians have yet to learn that violent resistance doesn't work. If they were to hold peaceful protests and be stopped on by the tanks (a la Tianamin Square, China), then things might change. But as long as they kill civilians, they don't have a leg to stand on...and the killing will continue. The USA could at least have the decency to withdraw arms support. It's no different to selling Nazi Germany "shower technologies"...
Since the police are allowed to keep the fine money raised, they are really enthusistic about these things.
This is only a recent change, it used to go the same way as all other court fines. Another interesting recent change has been the visibility of the cameras. They used to be grey and hidden behind signs etc. Now they have luminous stripes on them and you can't miss them.
It happenend as a result of European legislation, yet the Police are claiming it's a decision of theirs to move to prevention as opposed to conviction. However it happenend, it's a damn good move as it's being used at accident blackspots to slow people down.
The cameras these days are good enough so that you can identify almost every passenger in the car, especially the driver.
Hmm, most of the speed cameras in the UK photograph the rear of the car. There was a point where you could get out of it by saying that you refuse to identify the driver "on the grounds that I may incriminate myself". I'm not sure if this still holds now...
Is it just me, or did the counting horse guy just nudge the horse for each time it stamped it's foot (while doing addition/subtraction)? Come on, this one's been bugging me for at least 10 years...
Real have a long history of having no respect for users privacy. In the default install of RealPlayer, your privacy is zero. At one point RealDownload was tracking your link clicks on the web. They used to claim that the data was anonymous, but that was proved to be wrong by a guy with a port sniffer. They maintained this until it was proven beyond doubt and the media began to pick up on it. At that point they "fixed" it.
Combined with the constant forced updating of client software for no apparent reason (with expiry dates in the software), producting bloatware that sits in your systray, stealing file associations and so on, many people believe that basically they are not a very nice company.
Uh, you forgot some inconvenient occurrences, LIKE THE GULF WAR, YOU FUCKTWAT.
You missed the point. The person that started the Gulf War was placed in power by the CIA. And you wonder why so many of the Arab states hate America? That's where your terrorist problem comes from...nothing to do with "freedom and democracy", in fact it is an afront to those two ideals what Bush is doing right now by citing them as the reason behind 9/11.
Humans, on the other hand, go nuts and find pleasure in murdering each other.
We have the weapons that make it all too easy. Any one can use a gun, it's a point & click interface. Take away the weapons, people would stop dying in fights. Killing someone with your bare hands (and teeth;-) isn't easy...
people really will sometimes confuse the real world with the fantasy world, if for even a split second.
They often do with television already. Many soap stars and the like get hatemail addressed to their character. Being the "baddie" in some TV shows has made actors/actresses lifes a misery.
Besides, proven or not, if a person was to grow up in a world were violence wasn't a major component in all forms of entertainment, there would be less violence. Monkey see, monkey do. Humans (and animals) learn by imitation, grow up on a diet of violence, what do you expect?
Singling out video games is just silly. We have a love affair with violence. Look at the print/news media; they are dominated by sales and viewing figures, so they give the public what they want to see. Which is depressing and often violent nonsense, for example my local newspaper (as in a small district) is basically a listing of all the robberies and assaults that have taken place in the last week. What's the point? Why should the death of a child become a huge media event...? Because for some reason or other we like that sort of thing. Violent video games are merely a result of that: the market develops what the public wants.
It would be nice if that were true all the time. Unfortunatly there are quite a few managers who would prefer "flexibility" over skill-set. Fact is, if you don't get the job because of that, you wouldn't be happy there anyway.
Gotta love that cold war...it's probably held back political progress by 50 years with all the preconceptions it generated. Communism bad, capitalism good, end of argument. (apparently)
Thanks, but no I think I pass on capitalism dying right now.
Maybe not now, but it will one day. Most technologies that revolutionize an industry result in less jobs being available. Farming, manufacturing and now with OSS, software development require less paid positions. Same for retail industries, how many positions per customer are there at Wallmart vs. the traditional local shop? And that's not even touching on automated warehouses with on-line ordering...
There simply won't be enough work needing done for capitalism to provide for everyone with an income. You can either continue extending the poverty gap between those in welfare and the working class (while the upper class skims off the top) or look at other solutions.
If you invest years of effort, labor, and money in creating something that didn't previously exist, why aren't you entitled to reap the benefits?
Sure, you are entitled. But a lot of inventions were done by people where greed wasn't the motivation. Science and discovery once had a appeal. Now it's the moola.
There was an experiment once on this I caught on TV. They had 4 different folk lying in agony on the sidewalk. One was a businessman, another a "rough" looking man. There were also an attractive woman and an unattractive woman.
The results are obvious. The businessman and the good-looking woman got help almost straight away. The other woman took a bit longer and the scruffy man didn't get anyone helping at all, despite appearing to be rolling around in agony.
Group psychology played a large part in it. Once one person helped, others quickly followed. This can be observed anywhere; the basis of most human behaviour revolves around imitation. It is the process that allows children to develop and it doesn't stop at adulthood. The blood donations on 9/11 would have been the same; once some folk did it, a trend was started. Not many of them would have had the original thought to donate blood without something else planting the idea in their mind.
Rather than simply having deleted the page, I wonder if it would have possible to replace this source code with something else that acted as an "antibody"?
It would probably be illegal to do that as well. You are still running code and accessing someone elses machine without their consent.
If it were to do any damage to the system (easy if it were a non-standard setup), the poster of the antibody code would be liable.
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That has to be one of the most irresponsible cases of bad parenting I've ever seen. A jury could probably get a conviction on it being intentional if they wanted to. She knew her son drank out of those bottles, yet she leaves dangerous chemicals lying around in them?
I bet she tried to sue the bottle manufacturers on the grounds that the label wasn't big enough! Ahh, parents. It's never their fault...
Of course. It would be hard not to, with your southern neighbours love affair with the things. It's a big border...
But at least now we know exactly what weapons they have. We kept copies of the receipts!!
Ironically, O2 have issued a warning recently about a SMS scam that sounds just like their own service. Receivers are asked to call a £12/min phone number. That's about $20/min. I can imagine it now...
Well....come....to.........the.......O2......... flirting......hotline.............On.......this... .....service.........you......will........find.... .....
Not at all! The industry thrives on the fact that it controls all the media relating to its products. ClearChannel control the radio stations, controlling what you hear. The record labels have a lot of control of what gets prominent display in the stores. This is why the top 10 singles market is so controlled.
p2p and the web destroys this. I used to listen to all the commercial crap. After discovering web/ftp and later napster, my musical horizons expanded in many ways. Internet radio and the next generation of p2p changed that even more. Jazz, funk, trip-hop now make up large part of my musical collection. I'm no longer buying the cheese. And that's the rub. They have spent a long time molding the industry to their tastes, and in the last 2-3 years is been getting torn appart.
Media is changing. Copyright law exists to prevent others from profiting from other peoples work. That was to stop large scale bootlegging and "counterfeit goods". Now it is used to protect Britany Spears market share.
Absolutly not! What a stupid argument. Guns make killing as easy as taking an instant photograph. Point and click.
To kill someone with a knife or blunt weapon is a horrific thing to do. For one, one blow rarely kills someone. I doubt that many of the killings that happen through guns would have happened had the killer been forced to get blood on their own hands. If you don't believe me, take a look at the murder rates in countries that don't have guns. Huge difference.
However, the US has made it's bed on this issue. There are just far too many weapons around. Banning them would only make sure that it's only criminals that have them. That would be far worse.
Yes, and he'd have nuclear capability in months with access to the raw materials. Sound familiar?
Thank you! That has to be the best summary of the whole conflict do date that I have read. People tend to forget the reason why the Palestinians don't like the Israelis in the first place. It's not racist or anti-semetic. They had their homes taken away from them, and those who haven't fled to neighbouring countries are living under a brutal military occupation.
No, that's just not true. Here's a summary of the history of the conflict from the BBC. You can clearly see that Israel has been the aggressor on many occasions. The Palestinian's have every right to hate them, if the US goverment and media empires weren't so Jewish-controlled, you might get to hear the truth now and again. Do you have any idea what it is like to be a Palestinian in Palestine? Israeli checkpoints? Violent soldiers? (the sane ones leave the army as soon as their national service is finished, leaving only the zealots) Ever seen the footage of soldiers intentionally breaking someones arms? Or women forced to give birth at checkpoints because they don't have permission to get to the almost-destroyed hospital? On your media services, I doubt it...
The US constitution grants all citizens the right to bear arms to prevent that kind of thing happening there, how happy would you be if you had to give your documents to a soldier (who is brought up to hate you), just to leave your village? And if the soldier doesn't like the look of you, the documents are kept and you lose what little rights you had.
What I find ironic is that anyone who critises Israel's policies is called a Nazi. Hmm, let's see, the Nazi's believed that:
Sounds like Israel to me! The tragic thing is that the Palestinians have yet to learn that violent resistance doesn't work. If they were to hold peaceful protests and be stopped on by the tanks (a la Tianamin Square, China), then things might change. But as long as they kill civilians, they don't have a leg to stand on...and the killing will continue. The USA could at least have the decency to withdraw arms support. It's no different to selling Nazi Germany "shower technologies"...
This is only a recent change, it used to go the same way as all other court fines. Another interesting recent change has been the visibility of the cameras. They used to be grey and hidden behind signs etc. Now they have luminous stripes on them and you can't miss them.
It happenend as a result of European legislation, yet the Police are claiming it's a decision of theirs to move to prevention as opposed to conviction. However it happenend, it's a damn good move as it's being used at accident blackspots to slow people down.
Hmm, most of the speed cameras in the UK photograph the rear of the car. There was a point where you could get out of it by saying that you refuse to identify the driver "on the grounds that I may incriminate myself". I'm not sure if this still holds now...
Is it just me, or did the counting horse guy just nudge the horse for each time it stamped it's foot (while doing addition/subtraction)? Come on, this one's been bugging me for at least 10 years...
Combined with the constant forced updating of client software for no apparent reason (with expiry dates in the software), producting bloatware that sits in your systray, stealing file associations and so on, many people believe that basically they are not a very nice company.
So what? Are they going to sue you over it? I'd like to see that provision stick up in court:
Judge: So, you won't allow anyone to develop remote administration software other than your own tools?
MS Lawer: Yes...
Judge: Next case please...
yes, winmx is spyware free and IMHO better than the Kazaa/Grokster network.
You missed the point. The person that started the Gulf War was placed in power by the CIA. And you wonder why so many of the Arab states hate America? That's where your terrorist problem comes from...nothing to do with "freedom and democracy", in fact it is an afront to those two ideals what Bush is doing right now by citing them as the reason behind 9/11.
We have the weapons that make it all too easy. Any one can use a gun, it's a point & click interface. Take away the weapons, people would stop dying in fights. Killing someone with your bare hands (and teeth ;-) isn't easy...
They often do with television already. Many soap stars and the like get hatemail addressed to their character. Being the "baddie" in some TV shows has made actors/actresses lifes a misery.
Besides, proven or not, if a person was to grow up in a world were violence wasn't a major component in all forms of entertainment, there would be less violence. Monkey see, monkey do. Humans (and animals) learn by imitation, grow up on a diet of violence, what do you expect?
Singling out video games is just silly. We have a love affair with violence. Look at the print/news media; they are dominated by sales and viewing figures, so they give the public what they want to see. Which is depressing and often violent nonsense, for example my local newspaper (as in a small district) is basically a listing of all the robberies and assaults that have taken place in the last week. What's the point? Why should the death of a child become a huge media event...? Because for some reason or other we like that sort of thing. Violent video games are merely a result of that: the market develops what the public wants.
It would be nice if that were true all the time. Unfortunatly there are quite a few managers who would prefer "flexibility" over skill-set. Fact is, if you don't get the job because of that, you wouldn't be happy there anyway.
Gotta love that cold war...it's probably held back political progress by 50 years with all the preconceptions it generated. Communism bad, capitalism good, end of argument. (apparently)
Maybe not now, but it will one day. Most technologies that revolutionize an industry result in less jobs being available. Farming, manufacturing and now with OSS, software development require less paid positions. Same for retail industries, how many positions per customer are there at Wallmart vs. the traditional local shop? And that's not even touching on automated warehouses with on-line ordering...
There simply won't be enough work needing done for capitalism to provide for everyone with an income. You can either continue extending the poverty gap between those in welfare and the working class (while the upper class skims off the top) or look at other solutions.
If anyone comes up with one, let me know...
Sure, you are entitled. But a lot of inventions were done by people where greed wasn't the motivation. Science and discovery once had a appeal. Now it's the moola.
The results are obvious. The businessman and the good-looking woman got help almost straight away. The other woman took a bit longer and the scruffy man didn't get anyone helping at all, despite appearing to be rolling around in agony.
Group psychology played a large part in it. Once one person helped, others quickly followed. This can be observed anywhere; the basis of most human behaviour revolves around imitation. It is the process that allows children to develop and it doesn't stop at adulthood. The blood donations on 9/11 would have been the same; once some folk did it, a trend was started. Not many of them would have had the original thought to donate blood without something else planting the idea in their mind.
What amuses me is they think DRM is going to happen. What, do you really think I'll delete my 40 gig of music...lol
It would probably be illegal to do that as well. You are still running code and accessing someone elses machine without their consent.
If it were to do any damage to the system (easy if it were a non-standard setup), the poster of the antibody code would be liable.