Comics I know of that contain sex which could arbitraryly called porn:
John Constantine
From Hell
Watchmen
Judge Dredd
Leage of Extraordinary Gentlemen...
If those were removed from my non-existant iDevice(which I don't own for exactly that reason) then I would fly into a fit of nerd rage. And since I purchased a lot of those electronically and I do not trust Amazon at all the first thing I do is to strip those from all DRM and make a backup of it.
Stuff disappearing from my electronic devices without me deleting is is a bug in my book. And that's what I tell all my friends and relatives who even contemplate to buy a Kindle, iDevice and Android device.
Android made that list since they deleted an Amiga emulator from their playstore and it also vanished from my tablet. Had to reinstall the APK manually.
A remote kill switch that arbitrarily deletes stuff they gave me is a design bug and needs to go. Data vanishing without my doing is a bug on a computing device. If it is intentional then it is an intentional bug and they need to fix it.
If they do not refund people in cash(not their equivalent of food vouchers) then no amount of legal boilerplate should save them. Although they propably wrote something about "licensing" the stuff to you which is legalspeak for "pull down your pants and bend over that barrel".
It's not actually about gay rights, the author is trying to make it seem like being about gay rights in order to get more attention. If Apple were actually anti-gay, why did the donate so much money to stop proposition 8? It's more likely Apple just never noticed it until that time.
So it was a totally arbitrary decision and not anti-gay?
They could go after other comics that have sex in them next.
The John Constantine comics contain quite a lot of sex for the purpose of black magic and could be considered perverted. From Hell has a lot of sex in it. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has a lot of sex in it. Quite a lot of comics sold by Amazon for their Kindle app have sex in it.
If they are Thinking Of The Children then they always go the route of age restrictions.
You know, that absolutely logical thing that says you are not old enough to booze but old enough to have your brains blown out for god and country.
Still better than outright arbitrary removal.
Apple is only relyable when it comes to fart apps and cow-clickers.
They did Fawlty Towers and didn't bother to include Basil Fawlty. But we shouldn't fault them because he was easy to overlook if your bucket-hat didn't have eyeholes cut out.
I said it before and will say it again: The US is where Brit series go to die.
After I heard they wanted to do their very own The Prisoner I really wished for shades that go black when approached by danger. But they ruined that one, too.
This is a TV station that renamed themself from SciFi to SyFy cuz misspeeling ur ohn neme iz kool.
Shouldn't they be filming Fucktopus vs. Turdosaur or something?
The US is where BBC series go to die. No pining for the fjords.
They left Basil Fawlty out of their version of Fawlty Towers for crying out loud! It will be horrible. Like an office christmas disco whithout the alcohol.
So please, please do not take Brian's name in vain.
In the bad old Mehdorn times going public was the main goal. And that was when they ran the infrastructure to the ground. I should have said state held. That was a mistake on my side.
I've been to the UK. Believe me Mars has a better rail system than the UK.
Anecdote time(although I may have posted this a couple of times):
I went on a weekend trip from Derby to London because I had seen a newspaper ad for an exhibition "Blake - Under Construction". Sweet, I thought. An exhibit on his creative prcess. Went there and found that they had shut down the whole wing becaus ethey were redecorating as they had announced in the bloody newspaper. That was my fault.
What wasn't my fault was that on Sunday my train that should've taken me back didn't arrive. No notification, nothing.
The next day I heard on the radio what had happened. A slightly annoyed radio spokescritter talked to a representative of the train company. It turns out the train didn drive because there was nobody there to drive it. They weren't on strike or anything. It's simply that nobody could be arsed to drive the train on a Sunday and it seems like nobody took a second look at the duty rooster.
OTOH in Switzerland I once got a PA announcement when the train was two minutes late. In two languages. I kid you not. In Germany a 5 minute delay is so common you do not even think about it but just stand there, waiting, with great discipline. These are great times to be a smoker because the Deutsche Bahn gave you a breather. So to speak.
And we wonder why Jeremy Clarkson's head went poof when he heard about how well the trains ran in Japan.
I don't see it stopping Amazon from offering their own services independently of Google.
Again: the complaint is that Google uses their market power on Android to get their users onto their services. And that they are a very powerful entity on both.
Amazon doesn't use it's market share of Kindle Fire to lure you into their shop. The opposite is quite true.
This isn't a complaint that Android is too big and that they can't compete with it. That'd be laughed right out of Strassbourg back into the clown car it departed from.
It's about being dominant in multiple fields. Not only in the mobile OS field.
MS got into trouble because their market share on the desktop was high AND IE was the dominant browser. Same player, dominance in multiple fields. Yeah, MS has a point.
I'm not sure what your point is or if you actually have one.
Europe likes a free market and has it by regulation to ensure fair competition. So if something is too big and too dominant then it will be cut down a notch...after a couple of years entangled in red tape.
Also keep in mind the complaint has been filed. It's not yet even been sat on and at this moment has less official statements issued by The Powers That Be then the demand for a Death Star.
The European Comission is not really voted into power.
Try using a run-of-the-mill Android thing without first signing up with Google. It's not that pretty. It's the first thing you see when you turn on your nice new shiny toy and by jove, sign up you will.
Now I'm pretty sure iThings greet you similarly wot with this iTunes thing, but iTunes is not the behemoth that Google is.
And that's what this is about.
It is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Which doesn't change the colour of the kettle.
The complaint isn't retarded even if it is a bit of a strawman.
Google ist THE search engine and THE advertising agency and THE data harvester(shared with Facebook which is easily avoidable) on the internet.
If you combine this with being THE supplier fro mobile computing then you get a stiuation where even better competitors would not be able to compete.
The European Model(excluding that detached insular bit in the most polluted part of the North Sea which insists on confusing everybody including themselves) is having private enterprise with regulation to ensure fair competition. So this is quite up their alley. Rightfully so. Google is becoming a bit terrifying.
This is thugs complaining of unhelpfully having their nose broken for them which might seem silly at first but they do have a point.
Unions and Employer Associations negotiate wage levels. Any member company of the employer assocation complies with the agreements. If they didn't then they would be whipped back into the line by public opinion, politicians and other members.
Well, this at least is true for the bigger shops. Smaller companies usually pay well or offer other benefits(like less hassle with management) to attract employees.
10-15 years ago we changed a lot of that. The unions still are powerfull and still negotiate with employers but the public opinion has changed. Germany is now much more willing to accept inequality. And it has become common practice to outsource low-skilled labour to other companies so you don't have to comply with the agreements. The outcry when this was dragged into the light was not as big as it would have been 20 years ago.
There even is a discussion about establishing a minimum wage. Before it hardly was neccessary.
The BP selloff was a short term windfall to whoever.
Norway did hold onto its oil and resisted a quick selloff to solve short-term problems. Now look at where they are now.
Thatcher had the right idea but went too far. The state needs to have interest in the national resources and the utilities. You can't sell off just about anything and say "oh, you had ample time to invest into those shares". Some stuff is relevant to everybody and there is such a thing as society.
Her vision was very short term and ideological when proper national leadership should always have long-term goals. For example equal access to higher education no matter how shallow your parents pockets are is important. Otherwise you will be breeding a youth without a perspective. Raising of future generation is the most important task a society has.
The things she did right was getting rid of closed shops. Mandatory union membership is just wrong. The old unions were nothing but old boy's clubs with very little legitimacy. But by destroying them outright instead of encouraging reform she simply tipped the scales too far in favour of the employers. The German model for unions is quite good, actually. Strong negotiation partners and strong participation of employees in the board room make calling for strikes an infrequent and last resort measure. It's better than fending for yourself and being thrown under the bus.
The UK is globally only relevant in the financial sector. Everything else is sub-standard. Unless you have the cash. This is her legacy and Tony Blair's legacy.
You can't move your Gini index into the high percentages and then complain about the Guns of Brixton.
I never liked the woman but I still find comments along the lines of "at last, shes gone!" a bit strange since - as you say - she's been irrelevant for a long time not to mention incapacitated by Alzheimers. She was 'gone' when she lost power. I guess we can recognise the end of her as a living political icon (both positive and negative) but that's just paving the way for even more mythologising of who she was.
North Korea is far more interesting, I'll grant you that.
Top quote so far from John Major: "She made the wind".
Yep, that's John Major. No doubt about it.
By the love of all that's holy! I just realized I have The Guardian subscribed on my Kindle and read it every day on my way to work. Let's see, what will tomorrows headline be?
Good thing they planned in advance and preemptively wrote her obituary in 1979, and another one in 1981, 1984 and with much greater hope in 1985. All they have to do is set the phasor to "very publish" and they will have their biggest issue since she stepped down.
Wasn't the Soviet Union basically bankrupt for a couple of years? And wasn't Saint Ronno the one who ignored and suppressed reports that they couldn't keep up with the arms race no more so he had an excuse to buy more arms? Or was the report of them not being able to muster their military for a devastating war on Disneyland and Blackpool suppressed by another clown?
The Soviet Union went poof by its own. It's too big a claim for Thatcher, Reagan and Pope John Paul George Ringo II.
I've faced down the likes of you over the barrels of my 4 lasers before in will do so again!
Imperial scum! blast you and that blue-faced devil you fly for!
Actually the ship I most enjoyed was the Y-Wing. You could use your Ion cannons, disable the craft and savely moon them before blowing them to kingdom come. Also, the Tie Interceptor was obviously, OBVIOUSLY the best ship in the game.
I still marvel how kids actually wanted a Diablo 3 that was harder than Diablo 2.
One should subject them to the full A Clockwork Orange treatment but with Xenon 2.
Logic puzzles can be hard but at least they are universal(and I remember once writing a short LISP program to solve one). But puzzles based on culture are really, really awkward. This is also why you have to be extra careful when designing an IQ test. You easily introduce cultural bias.
Gabriel Knight could at times be cringeworthy. The actors in GK2 were as German as 4th of July. The voice actors in GK3 were not very French and not even good at pretending.
Only one game has done language actually very well and that is The Last Express. Because of that one I'm absolutely determined to learn Russian. And I have been absolutely determined to learn Russian for the last 10 years.
If the Queen's English was good enough for Jesus then it should bloody well be good enough for everybody else!
A language like a puzzle: Never pronounce all letters in a word and not neccessarily in the order given.
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Comics I know of that contain sex which could arbitraryly called porn: ...
John Constantine
From Hell
Watchmen
Judge Dredd
Leage of Extraordinary Gentlemen
If those were removed from my non-existant iDevice(which I don't own for exactly that reason) then I would fly into a fit of nerd rage. And since I purchased a lot of those electronically and I do not trust Amazon at all the first thing I do is to strip those from all DRM and make a backup of it.
Stuff disappearing from my electronic devices without me deleting is is a bug in my book. And that's what I tell all my friends and relatives who even contemplate to buy a Kindle, iDevice and Android device.
Android made that list since they deleted an Amiga emulator from their playstore and it also vanished from my tablet. Had to reinstall the APK manually.
A remote kill switch that arbitrarily deletes stuff they gave me is a design bug and needs to go. Data vanishing without my doing is a bug on a computing device. If it is intentional then it is an intentional bug and they need to fix it.
If they do not refund people in cash(not their equivalent of food vouchers) then no amount of legal boilerplate should save them. Although they propably wrote something about "licensing" the stuff to you which is legalspeak for "pull down your pants and bend over that barrel".
It's not actually about gay rights, the author is trying to make it seem like being about gay rights in order to get more attention. If Apple were actually anti-gay, why did the donate so much money to stop proposition 8? It's more likely Apple just never noticed it until that time.
So it was a totally arbitrary decision and not anti-gay?
They could go after other comics that have sex in them next.
The John Constantine comics contain quite a lot of sex for the purpose of black magic and could be considered perverted. From Hell has a lot of sex in it. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has a lot of sex in it. Quite a lot of comics sold by Amazon for their Kindle app have sex in it.
If they are Thinking Of The Children then they always go the route of age restrictions.
You know, that absolutely logical thing that says you are not old enough to booze but old enough to have your brains blown out for god and country.
Still better than outright arbitrary removal.
Apple is only relyable when it comes to fart apps and cow-clickers.
They did Fawlty Towers and didn't bother to include Basil Fawlty. But we shouldn't fault them because he was easy to overlook if your bucket-hat didn't have eyeholes cut out.
I said it before and will say it again: The US is where Brit series go to die.
After I heard they wanted to do their very own The Prisoner I really wished for shades that go black when approached by danger. But they ruined that one, too.
This is a TV station that renamed themself from SciFi to SyFy cuz misspeeling ur ohn neme iz kool.
Shouldn't they be filming Fucktopus vs. Turdosaur or something?
The US is where BBC series go to die. No pining for the fjords.
They left Basil Fawlty out of their version of Fawlty Towers for crying out loud! It will be horrible. Like an office christmas disco whithout the alcohol.
So please, please do not take Brian's name in vain.
In the bad old Mehdorn times going public was the main goal. And that was when they ran the infrastructure to the ground. I should have said state held. That was a mistake on my side.
I've been to the UK. Believe me Mars has a better rail system than the UK.
Anecdote time(although I may have posted this a couple of times):
I went on a weekend trip from Derby to London because I had seen a newspaper ad for an exhibition "Blake - Under Construction". Sweet, I thought. An exhibit on his creative prcess. Went there and found that they had shut down the whole wing becaus ethey were redecorating as they had announced in the bloody newspaper. That was my fault.
What wasn't my fault was that on Sunday my train that should've taken me back didn't arrive. No notification, nothing.
The next day I heard on the radio what had happened. A slightly annoyed radio spokescritter talked to a representative of the train company. It turns out the train didn drive because there was nobody there to drive it. They weren't on strike or anything. It's simply that nobody could be arsed to drive the train on a Sunday and it seems like nobody took a second look at the duty rooster.
OTOH in Switzerland I once got a PA announcement when the train was two minutes late. In two languages. I kid you not. In Germany a 5 minute delay is so common you do not even think about it but just stand there, waiting, with great discipline. These are great times to be a smoker because the Deutsche Bahn gave you a breather. So to speak.
And we wonder why Jeremy Clarkson's head went poof when he heard about how well the trains ran in Japan.
I don't see it stopping Amazon from offering their own services independently of Google.
Again: the complaint is that Google uses their market power on Android to get their users onto their services. And that they are a very powerful entity on both.
Amazon doesn't use it's market share of Kindle Fire to lure you into their shop. The opposite is quite true.
This isn't a complaint that Android is too big and that they can't compete with it. That'd be laughed right out of Strassbourg back into the clown car it departed from.
It's about being dominant in multiple fields. Not only in the mobile OS field.
MS got into trouble because their market share on the desktop was high AND IE was the dominant browser. Same player, dominance in multiple fields. Yeah, MS has a point.
May $deity have mercy on our incorporeal bits.
I'm not sure what your point is or if you actually have one.
Europe likes a free market and has it by regulation to ensure fair competition. So if something is too big and too dominant then it will be cut down a notch...after a couple of years entangled in red tape.
Also keep in mind the complaint has been filed. It's not yet even been sat on and at this moment has less official statements issued by The Powers That Be then the demand for a Death Star.
The European Comission is not really voted into power.
Try using a run-of-the-mill Android thing without first signing up with Google. It's not that pretty. It's the first thing you see when you turn on your nice new shiny toy and by jove, sign up you will.
Now I'm pretty sure iThings greet you similarly wot with this iTunes thing, but iTunes is not the behemoth that Google is.
And that's what this is about.
It is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Which doesn't change the colour of the kettle.
The complaint isn't retarded even if it is a bit of a strawman.
Google ist THE search engine and THE advertising agency and THE data harvester(shared with Facebook which is easily avoidable) on the internet.
If you combine this with being THE supplier fro mobile computing then you get a stiuation where even better competitors would not be able to compete.
The European Model(excluding that detached insular bit in the most polluted part of the North Sea which insists on confusing everybody including themselves) is having private enterprise with regulation to ensure fair competition. So this is quite up their alley. Rightfully so. Google is becoming a bit terrifying.
This is thugs complaining of unhelpfully having their nose broken for them which might seem silly at first but they do have a point.
This is how things were done in Germany.
Unions and Employer Associations negotiate wage levels. Any member company of the employer assocation complies with the agreements. If they didn't then they would be whipped back into the line by public opinion, politicians and other members.
Well, this at least is true for the bigger shops. Smaller companies usually pay well or offer other benefits(like less hassle with management) to attract employees.
10-15 years ago we changed a lot of that. The unions still are powerfull and still negotiate with employers but the public opinion has changed. Germany is now much more willing to accept inequality. And it has become common practice to outsource low-skilled labour to other companies so you don't have to comply with the agreements. The outcry when this was dragged into the light was not as big as it would have been 20 years ago.
There even is a discussion about establishing a minimum wage. Before it hardly was neccessary.
The BP selloff was a short term windfall to whoever.
Norway did hold onto its oil and resisted a quick selloff to solve short-term problems. Now look at where they are now.
Thatcher had the right idea but went too far. The state needs to have interest in the national resources and the utilities. You can't sell off just about anything and say "oh, you had ample time to invest into those shares". Some stuff is relevant to everybody and there is such a thing as society.
Her vision was very short term and ideological when proper national leadership should always have long-term goals. For example equal access to higher education no matter how shallow your parents pockets are is important. Otherwise you will be breeding a youth without a perspective. Raising of future generation is the most important task a society has.
The things she did right was getting rid of closed shops. Mandatory union membership is just wrong. The old unions were nothing but old boy's clubs with very little legitimacy. But by destroying them outright instead of encouraging reform she simply tipped the scales too far in favour of the employers. The German model for unions is quite good, actually. Strong negotiation partners and strong participation of employees in the board room make calling for strikes an infrequent and last resort measure. It's better than fending for yourself and being thrown under the bus.
The UK is globally only relevant in the financial sector. Everything else is sub-standard. Unless you have the cash. This is her legacy and Tony Blair's legacy.
You can't move your Gini index into the high percentages and then complain about the Guns of Brixton.
The A-Wings were merely a setback, you imperialist swine!
And now face the firepower of this fully armed and operational several of B-Wings!
Ah right, well I'm with you on that one.
I never liked the woman but I still find comments along the lines of "at last, shes gone!" a bit strange since - as you say - she's been irrelevant for a long time not to mention incapacitated by Alzheimers. She was 'gone' when she lost power. I guess we can recognise the end of her as a living political icon (both positive and negative) but that's just paving the way for even more mythologising of who she was.
North Korea is far more interesting, I'll grant you that.
Top quote so far from John Major: "She made the wind".
Yep, that's John Major. No doubt about it.
By the love of all that's holy! I just realized I have The Guardian subscribed on my Kindle and read it every day on my way to work. Let's see, what will tomorrows headline be?
Good thing they planned in advance and preemptively wrote her obituary in 1979, and another one in 1981, 1984 and with much greater hope in 1985. All they have to do is set the phasor to "very publish" and they will have their biggest issue since she stepped down.
It took a Gorbachev to make sure that all that sabre rattling didn't end in a last Hurrah! for the Soviet Union.
Wasn't the Soviet Union basically bankrupt for a couple of years? And wasn't Saint Ronno the one who ignored and suppressed reports that they couldn't keep up with the arms race no more so he had an excuse to buy more arms? Or was the report of them not being able to muster their military for a devastating war on Disneyland and Blackpool suppressed by another clown?
The Soviet Union went poof by its own. It's too big a claim for Thatcher, Reagan and Pope John Paul George Ringo II.
I've faced down the likes of you over the barrels of my 4 lasers before in will do so again!
Imperial scum! blast you and that blue-faced devil you fly for!
Actually the ship I most enjoyed was the Y-Wing. You could use your Ion cannons, disable the craft and savely moon them before blowing them to kingdom come. Also, the Tie Interceptor was obviously, OBVIOUSLY the best ship in the game.
I'll have to side with you on the Raptor. Looked awesome, too.
Give that man a medal!
I still marvel how kids actually wanted a Diablo 3 that was harder than Diablo 2.
One should subject them to the full A Clockwork Orange treatment but with Xenon 2.
Logic puzzles can be hard but at least they are universal(and I remember once writing a short LISP program to solve one). But puzzles based on culture are really, really awkward. This is also why you have to be extra careful when designing an IQ test. You easily introduce cultural bias.
Gabriel Knight could at times be cringeworthy. The actors in GK2 were as German as 4th of July. The voice actors in GK3 were not very French and not even good at pretending.
Only one game has done language actually very well and that is The Last Express. Because of that one I'm absolutely determined to learn Russian. And I have been absolutely determined to learn Russian for the last 10 years.
...and SimAnt was actually not a horrible idea. Weird, but not entirely horrible.
I hated the Scimitar in WC1. What an aweful craft with aweful weapons! Moving on to Raptor and Rapier after that was such a relief.
Why do I still know this after...hmmm...it's been over 10 years now? Longer? I'm old dagnabbit!
"She was a nasty person with foul policies who happened to be in the right place at the right time, and took credit for it."
Not unlike Tony Blair then.
They were birds of a feather. But she actually caused the things she took credit for.
If the Queen's English was good enough for Jesus then it should bloody well be good enough for everybody else!
A language like a puzzle: Never pronounce all letters in a word and not neccessarily in the order given.
And people wonder why Esperanto was invented.