Too right. Now we need to reverse course on electing muslims, killing immigration from the middle east, and returning England back to the English alone. Let the Scots go their own way, as Nicola Sturgeon will likely succeed this next time in having Scotland leave the UK. That's fine. Scotland is a serious financial drain on England anyway. The Scots don't pay for university, parking, dental work, anything. England pays for all of it for them. Read up on it. To have Nicola Sturgeon out of English politics will be a Godsend.
This is England! Up with Boris Johnson! Up with Nigel Farage!
As an English person who doesn't live in England any more and who has spent enough time living in the non-English speaking world to be de-sensitised to the kind of pedantry, squeamishness and prudery that make the English what they are, I say fucking keep the English in England and don't let any more of them out. The English are a bunch of cunts and idiots. The Irish, Scots and Welsh are better off without them.
The EU was formed to end the wars in Europe, right after WW2. In that respect it did marvelous and I for one don't mind paying for that privilege. The EU isn't perfect by far, but it beats the alternative
To be correct, that was the EEC. But the EU naturally grew out of that.
The problem now is that war is now thinkable in Europe; the UK economy will crash, they will have to seek a bail-out from the USA who will require the UK to join the USA and become another state in the union. Then the USA will use the UK as a staging ground to invade Europe!
Congratulations are in order. The UK secured its freedom tonight. Maybe they'll be able to help fight against the inevitable European caliphate.
The UK economy is about to tank so badly they'll make Greece look good. And then they'll go to the EU for a bail out and be told "You just said fuck off, so now YOU fuck off!". Then the UK will go to the USA for a bailout and the USA will say "OK but you become another state of the union." Hilarity ensues.
You know what? I have yet to have someone hack my check password. and if someone were to steal my checkbook, it's on the bank to verify the signature when accepting the check on my account.
so yeah, similar to the air force using 8 inch floppy discs for the nuclear system, I sometimes like the old tech. Or, if you're of a sci fi mindset, "Battlestar Galactica".
There are ways to access your account details through checks (the code numbers on them), you should never let a check fall into the wrong hands. They should always be securely disposed of.
Yes and because you invented it you think that what you have now is perfect and you don't keep up with the changes and improvements that the rest of the world makes, because you are 'Murca, fuck yeah!
Why do they *have* to? In the UK thats the banks discretion - many don't credit the account until the cheque or payment has cleared, so why do US banks have to do it that way?
Checks are way more commonly used in North America than they are in the UK. I hadn't seen a check book for 25 years, when I came to North America I basically had to have one.
The banking system in North America is pretty antiquated, as are many things (taste in music for one thing, the only music you hear in public places is golden oldies. Motorbikes are just toys. Don't get me started on toilets).
At least we don't drink warm beer, and don't get me started on British cars. In fairness to Britain, if Lucas made our refrigerators we'd be drinking warm beer as well.
Well your beer has to be drunk freezing cold so that its palatable. Even the ales are over-hopped to compensate for how cold they are served... so when they are served at a proper temperature its like drinking earwax.
Why is your banking system so backwards than from the rest of the modern world? Checks have been essentially completely phased out here among the general public because everyone has a common, unified banking system with free transfers between accounts with little effort, a unified billing system (everyone's bank account has a bill "inbox"), etc.
Hah! In North America transfers between accounts (bank to bank) are a WIRE transfer and cost about $30.
My 'favorite' thing with the banking here in North America is sending money from my bank account to someone elses bank account (within the same country) was a 'wire transfer' and they wanted $30 for it!
WTF? I've lived in 3rd world countries where bank to bank transfers were free and instantaneous!
Why do they *have* to? In the UK thats the banks discretion - many don't credit the account until the cheque or payment has cleared, so why do US banks have to do it that way?
Checks are way more commonly used in North America than they are in the UK. I hadn't seen a check book for 25 years, when I came to North America I basically had to have one.
The banking system in North America is pretty antiquated, as are many things (taste in music for one thing, the only music you hear in public places is golden oldies. Motorbikes are just toys. Don't get me started on toilets).
Financial penalties and being hidden away in prison does nothing for announcing to the world that Joe Criminal is a dirt bag. If we brought back stocks and chain gangs, and such, the criminals would have much more evidence that crime doesn't pay. But we are a polite society, so we hide our criminals behind doors, so that nobody knows about them.
If I were "king" for a day, I'd start by putting every court room on TV, so that had record of everything.
Public humiliation has a lot going for it. Private humiliation, which the prison system seems to be all about, is really not effective. It just builds relationships between the humiliated in the prison.
Also, criminals are well aware of the risks they take
If this were true, then setting penalties at 50% more than the reward of the crime divided by the probability of being caught would eliminate crime, yet time and time again we've seen that increasing penalties has a negligible effect on crime rates.
The penalty doesn't have much to do with it. The prospect of being caught is what matters. You can make the penalty death by being eaten alive by rats, but if the prospect of being caught is vanishingly small most people will just disregard the punishment completely.
What I'd like to be able to do on/. is, on threads about Apple have the normal scoring reversed, so that -5 troll/flamebait/etc gets changed to +5 insightful, because thats usually what happens once the fanbois arrive and start using their modpoints to engineer the world into their own vision.
Is it really "not U.S. chips" if they completely reverse engineered the Alpha and started developing it again?
Hopefully they reverse engineered out all the spy shit that gets built into anything made by a US company (who can be served a national security letter demanding they insert backdoors and not tell anyone about it). Not saying the Chinese won't build their own spy shit into their own chips, but it only makes sense to drop products made by US companies.
On the other hand, aren't all the 'US made chips' actually made in China anyway, and its really just the intellectual property that is US? And the Chinese don't really give a shit about US intellectual property ownership anyway?
Personally, I'm not for drug testing anyone unless it's part of a criminal investigation or unless they are in a job where they are responsible for other people's safety.
You mean like people in charge of large banks and financial institutions?
If you're American yourself, please stop taking your self-hatred out on those around you. Find a therapist instead.
If not, carry on. Yay patriotism! But do have the courtesy to call out what team you do root for: it's unfair to mock one team without allowing the same in return.
I honestly don't root for any team. IMO all governments are really just organized crime syndicates.
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You are a traitor to your own people and you have allied yourself with the Mohammedist Brutes and you are a communist ?
The Mohammedists pay you and your friends off, so that they have Carte Blanche for mass murder in Syria ?
Yeah. 2016 Marxist.
Actually, no. More Slavic. Slavs are good, the English can go fuck themselves.
Too right. Now we need to reverse course on electing muslims, killing immigration from the middle east, and returning England back to the English alone. Let the Scots go their own way, as Nicola Sturgeon will likely succeed this next time in having Scotland leave the UK. That's fine. Scotland is a serious financial drain on England anyway. The Scots don't pay for university, parking, dental work, anything. England pays for all of it for them. Read up on it. To have Nicola Sturgeon out of English politics will be a Godsend.
This is England! Up with Boris Johnson! Up with Nigel Farage!
As an English person who doesn't live in England any more and who has spent enough time living in the non-English speaking world to be de-sensitised to the kind of pedantry, squeamishness and prudery that make the English what they are, I say fucking keep the English in England and don't let any more of them out. The English are a bunch of cunts and idiots. The Irish, Scots and Welsh are better off without them.
Two things fat people like you don't understand:
Britain isn't England.
England isn't London.
So tell me, what do fat people like you understand?
How far away from Carlisle, Plymouth or Inverness are they, you stupid cunt?
You really are very British.
So for all the bluster of how the UK is doomed for leaving the EU, it seems several countries in Europe are doing fine
They are doing fine and were never in the EU.
The UK will be leaving the EU and trying to disentangle itself from that will really fuck things up. It could take 500 years for things to stabilise.
The EU was formed to end the wars in Europe, right after WW2. In that respect it did marvelous and I for one don't mind paying for that privilege. The EU isn't perfect by far, but it beats the alternative
To be correct, that was the EEC. But the EU naturally grew out of that.
The problem now is that war is now thinkable in Europe; the UK economy will crash, they will have to seek a bail-out from the USA who will require the UK to join the USA and become another state in the union. Then the USA will use the UK as a staging ground to invade Europe!
Congratulations are in order. The UK secured its freedom tonight. Maybe they'll be able to help fight against the inevitable European caliphate.
The UK economy is about to tank so badly they'll make Greece look good. And then they'll go to the EU for a bail out and be told "You just said fuck off, so now YOU fuck off!". Then the UK will go to the USA for a bailout and the USA will say "OK but you become another state of the union." Hilarity ensues.
DLNA is most certainly not required.
DLNA is shit compared to running a PLEX client.
You know what? I have yet to have someone hack my check password.
and if someone were to steal my checkbook, it's on the bank to verify the signature when accepting the check on my account.
so yeah, similar to the air force using 8 inch floppy discs for the nuclear system, I sometimes like the old tech.
Or, if you're of a sci fi mindset, "Battlestar Galactica".
There are ways to access your account details through checks (the code numbers on them), you should never let a check fall into the wrong hands. They should always be securely disposed of.
Yes and because you invented it you think that what you have now is perfect and you don't keep up with the changes and improvements that the rest of the world makes, because you are 'Murca, fuck yeah!
Why do they *have* to? In the UK thats the banks discretion - many don't credit the account until the cheque or payment has cleared, so why do US banks have to do it that way?
Checks are way more commonly used in North America than they are in the UK. I hadn't seen a check book for 25 years, when I came to North America I basically had to have one.
The banking system in North America is pretty antiquated, as are many things (taste in music for one thing, the only music you hear in public places is golden oldies. Motorbikes are just toys. Don't get me started on toilets).
At least we don't drink warm beer, and don't get me started on British cars. In fairness to Britain, if Lucas made our refrigerators we'd be drinking warm beer as well.
Well your beer has to be drunk freezing cold so that its palatable. Even the ales are over-hopped to compensate for how cold they are served... so when they are served at a proper temperature its like drinking earwax.
>I've lived in 3rd world countries where bank to bank transfers
>were free and instantaneous!
That is not a nice thing to say about the EU.
Ok I shouldn't refer to the EU as a country. That'll get the Brits all pissed off.
Generally free if you ask for a EFT (electronic fund transfer). Mentioning the phrase "wire transfer" is automatic large fee
I've found that this isn't always (even often) an option
Why is your banking system so backwards than from the rest of the modern world? Checks have been essentially completely phased out here among the general public because everyone has a common, unified banking system with free transfers between accounts with little effort, a unified billing system (everyone's bank account has a bill "inbox"), etc.
Hah! In North America transfers between accounts (bank to bank) are a WIRE transfer and cost about $30.
Coming here was like going back in time 30 years.
Why do people still use checks in this day in age? The mind boggles.
Because they live in North America. Its about the only place in the world so backward that they still routinely use checks.
My 'favorite' thing with the banking here in North America is sending money from my bank account to someone elses bank account (within the same country) was a 'wire transfer' and they wanted $30 for it!
WTF? I've lived in 3rd world countries where bank to bank transfers were free and instantaneous!
Why do they *have* to? In the UK thats the banks discretion - many don't credit the account until the cheque or payment has cleared, so why do US banks have to do it that way?
Checks are way more commonly used in North America than they are in the UK. I hadn't seen a check book for 25 years, when I came to North America I basically had to have one.
The banking system in North America is pretty antiquated, as are many things (taste in music for one thing, the only music you hear in public places is golden oldies. Motorbikes are just toys. Don't get me started on toilets).
You realize that every time you write "Crooked Hillary" you make yourself look like an idiot incapable of independent thought, don't you?
Come on, at least make up your own name calling insults.
Maybe AC really is Donald Trump?
Financial penalties and being hidden away in prison does nothing for announcing to the world that Joe Criminal is a dirt bag. If we brought back stocks and chain gangs, and such, the criminals would have much more evidence that crime doesn't pay. But we are a polite society, so we hide our criminals behind doors, so that nobody knows about them.
If I were "king" for a day, I'd start by putting every court room on TV, so that had record of everything.
Public humiliation has a lot going for it. Private humiliation, which the prison system seems to be all about, is really not effective. It just builds relationships between the humiliated in the prison.
Also, criminals are well aware of the risks they take
If this were true, then setting penalties at 50% more than the reward of the crime divided by the probability of being caught would eliminate crime, yet time and time again we've seen that increasing penalties has a negligible effect on crime rates.
The penalty doesn't have much to do with it. The prospect of being caught is what matters. You can make the penalty death by being eaten alive by rats, but if the prospect of being caught is vanishingly small most people will just disregard the punishment completely.
Fuck Apple.
You weren't modded down to -5! Surprise
What I'd like to be able to do on /. is, on threads about Apple have the normal scoring reversed, so that -5 troll/flamebait/etc gets changed to +5 insightful, because thats usually what happens once the fanbois arrive and start using their modpoints to engineer the world into their own vision.
Is it really "not U.S. chips" if they completely reverse engineered the Alpha and started developing it again?
Hopefully they reverse engineered out all the spy shit that gets built into anything made by a US company (who can be served a national security letter demanding they insert backdoors and not tell anyone about it). Not saying the Chinese won't build their own spy shit into their own chips, but it only makes sense to drop products made by US companies.
On the other hand, aren't all the 'US made chips' actually made in China anyway, and its really just the intellectual property that is US? And the Chinese don't really give a shit about US intellectual property ownership anyway?
Personally, I'm not for drug testing anyone unless it's part of a criminal investigation or unless they are in a job where they are responsible for other people's safety.
You mean like people in charge of large banks and financial institutions?
Or politicians...
I see that you use this slur a lot.
If you're American yourself, please stop taking your self-hatred out on those around you. Find a therapist instead.
If not, carry on. Yay patriotism! But do have the courtesy to call out what team you do root for: it's unfair to mock one team without allowing the same in return.
I honestly don't root for any team. IMO all governments are really just organized crime syndicates.
This halfwit is the best that the US can come up with to head their "intelligence" apparatus?
You've heard how "Military intelligence" is an oxymoron? Well "'Murcan intelligence" is the same.