Oh, yawners. People, please don't believe the troll and think for two seconds before posting angry rants about the gubmint. Much easier to get this sort of thing inserted at Redmond.
It's widely accepted within technical circles that if you do have to point out another's error, the correct method for doing so is to flame them to within an inch of their useless, miserable lives. The main reason for this is the lulz generated when the flamer turns out to be wrong and the flamee correct.
No, Faslane really is a nuclear base. You can tell because you get the Nth degree when you visit, unlike any other UK base where a plausible excuse and some form of ID gets you in. But don't ask about the one over the hill, which *also* stores nukes and you hear very little about;)
So if you're saying that religion is restricted only to things that science can't currently measure and explain, all you've got is a god in the gaps in our knowledge. I hope he can breath in, because we're closing in on him;)
No. They know the mathematics behind the system, however, they cannot solve the equations directly. What they have done is taken a system that works according to the same equations. Knowing how this system responds means that you can also work out how the first system responds. Easy.
Foreign workers tend to show up on time and do the job without whining. I'd take half a dozen random Poles over half a dozen random Brits any day. Why British people are so convinced they deserve a job in front of people who work harder and for less than they do is a source of constant mystery to me.
I don't see anything logical in that at all. No housebreaker in the UK goes out carrying a weapon; generally if you disturb one they will run like fuck unless you get in their way. They want money for drugs or whatever. They've got no interest in doing violence. And speaking as someone that does have some familiarity with weapons, mucking around with a weapon in the dark with a family around you is a bad idea. Realistically, most attackers do not expect or want a fightback.
That's a nice idea, but does it actually work? Or does it just mean that when someone breaks into your house, he's pretty likely to be carrying a gun? I suspect the latter.
You clearly do not understand the definition of fiat currency. There is no limit. Well, at some point we'll get sick of long numbers and start over, but you have simply missed the point. Fiat currencies work, and it gets really tiresome to hear from people who think they have discovered some sort of major flaw (or worse, conspiracy) in our financial system. Get real. And get an economics textbook, and maybe a little humility wouldn't go amiss, either.
So what? Most money in the world today is fiat currency. It's just a number. It doesn't mean anything intrinsic in itself; it's only value is what people are willing to do or exchange in return for that number. It can exponentialise itself all it likes. As long as I get paid a billion dollars, and my rent, food, utilities and entertainment cost $999m, we're set. Our current problems are down to governments forgetting every lesson they've learnt on macro-economic management since the fall of the gold standard and refusing to slash and burn until capacity is cheap enough to invest in.
Sometimes one dimensional number systems don't fit your moderation needs.
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I work for a reasonably large financial services company. Apparantly someone has worked out that if we did all our processes by hand instead of computerising them, we would need something on the order of a million employees (as opposed to under 10k). Computers have made things more efficient, but human nature being what it is, we just do more stuff that we never used to.
Quite right: it turns out I'm misinformed. I was under the impression UK ISPs were required to have a filtering mechanism of some sort in place. Clearly I must have misread "Saudi Arabia" for "United Kingdom"; an easy mistake to make, I'm sure you'll agree.
In any case, Net Central certainly doesn't block IWF blacklisted sites.
Oh dear me. Childs was in a position of responsibility. That means he had a duty to act responsibly, even when asked not to. If my manager asked me for my password, and I turned it over to her, *I* will have broken the rules and *I* will be in trouble. Given that I can do an awful lot of damage with *my* password, there are good reasons for this.
My ISP, Net Central, don't subscribe to the IWF list. They do have the legally mandated filter on there, but as far as I can tell nothing much is blocked. They're not the cheapest, but they have superb support with no queues or premium rate numbers (and when you say you've checked your router responds to ping, they believe you). Happily recommend them.
More to the point, the legislation just states that ISPs must have a filtering system in place. My ISP does exactly that, and builds their own filters based on user reports. So far, no problems accessing Wikipedia (or indeed anything else).
Then cut their internet access off. They'll soon change their tune about hosting child porn when their entire country can't go online. The fact that another country hosts child porn is not sufficient for anyone to tell me what I can and cannot request from the network. In fact I pay good money for an ISP who doesn't censor (or more precisely, only follows the letter of the law in the UK). What I get through my pipe is my business, and if you don't like it, you can damned well go to court and get a warrant.
Maybe a better idea, instead of pulling the wool over our eyes and pretending that now it's blocked, it's OK, would be to take down the damned servers. Go after them under local law. If you can't, get treaties signed. Sort it out. The IWF is worse than useless, however; it makes you think it's gone away, when in fact it is just out of sight.
Perhaps it's just me. However, I have noticed something recently. We don't like long sentences. I read the above with ease. In fact, I don't see what you're complaining about. It seems odd to me. I grew up reading Lord of the Rings. And other things like that. Long sentences aren't rocket science. They can even be easier to read than short sentences. Sometimes they are more suited to your subject. Just don't confuse the long sentence with the run-on sentence. Phew.
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Oh, yawners. People, please don't believe the troll and think for two seconds before posting angry rants about the gubmint. Much easier to get this sort of thing inserted at Redmond.
It's widely accepted within technical circles that if you do have to point out another's error, the correct method for doing so is to flame them to within an inch of their useless, miserable lives. The main reason for this is the lulz generated when the flamer turns out to be wrong and the flamee correct.
The same place you moderate it -1, kdawson. Let me know if you find it.
No, Faslane really is a nuclear base. You can tell because you get the Nth degree when you visit, unlike any other UK base where a plausible excuse and some form of ID gets you in. But don't ask about the one over the hill, which *also* stores nukes and you hear very little about ;)
So if you're saying that religion is restricted only to things that science can't currently measure and explain, all you've got is a god in the gaps in our knowledge. I hope he can breath in, because we're closing in on him ;)
No. They know the mathematics behind the system, however, they cannot solve the equations directly. What they have done is taken a system that works according to the same equations. Knowing how this system responds means that you can also work out how the first system responds. Easy.
Foreign workers tend to show up on time and do the job without whining. I'd take half a dozen random Poles over half a dozen random Brits any day. Why British people are so convinced they deserve a job in front of people who work harder and for less than they do is a source of constant mystery to me.
Am I right in thinking that a company doing this would, in general, be entirely legal in the US?
I don't see anything logical in that at all. No housebreaker in the UK goes out carrying a weapon; generally if you disturb one they will run like fuck unless you get in their way. They want money for drugs or whatever. They've got no interest in doing violence. And speaking as someone that does have some familiarity with weapons, mucking around with a weapon in the dark with a family around you is a bad idea. Realistically, most attackers do not expect or want a fightback.
That's a nice idea, but does it actually work? Or does it just mean that when someone breaks into your house, he's pretty likely to be carrying a gun? I suspect the latter.
Uh huh...I'm even number 16 on your list of Calums ;)
You clearly do not understand the definition of fiat currency. There is no limit. Well, at some point we'll get sick of long numbers and start over, but you have simply missed the point. Fiat currencies work, and it gets really tiresome to hear from people who think they have discovered some sort of major flaw (or worse, conspiracy) in our financial system. Get real. And get an economics textbook, and maybe a little humility wouldn't go amiss, either.
My suspicion is they did that, realised none of the data worked in their favour, and quietly ignored it.
So what? Most money in the world today is fiat currency. It's just a number. It doesn't mean anything intrinsic in itself; it's only value is what people are willing to do or exchange in return for that number. It can exponentialise itself all it likes. As long as I get paid a billion dollars, and my rent, food, utilities and entertainment cost $999m, we're set. Our current problems are down to governments forgetting every lesson they've learnt on macro-economic management since the fall of the gold standard and refusing to slash and burn until capacity is cheap enough to invest in.
Nice to have a drummer that listens to you, isn't it? Two more drummers that do that incredibly well belong to the Stones and Dylan.
Sometimes one dimensional number systems don't fit your moderation needs.
I work for a reasonably large financial services company. Apparantly someone has worked out that if we did all our processes by hand instead of computerising them, we would need something on the order of a million employees (as opposed to under 10k). Computers have made things more efficient, but human nature being what it is, we just do more stuff that we never used to.
/. hit in '97. Now if only I could remember my first login I'd be winning lowest UID wars all over the place.
In any case, Net Central certainly doesn't block IWF blacklisted sites.
Oh dear me. Childs was in a position of responsibility. That means he had a duty to act responsibly, even when asked not to. If my manager asked me for my password, and I turned it over to her, *I* will have broken the rules and *I* will be in trouble. Given that I can do an awful lot of damage with *my* password, there are good reasons for this.
My ISP, Net Central, don't subscribe to the IWF list. They do have the legally mandated filter on there, but as far as I can tell nothing much is blocked. They're not the cheapest, but they have superb support with no queues or premium rate numbers (and when you say you've checked your router responds to ping, they believe you). Happily recommend them.
More to the point, the legislation just states that ISPs must have a filtering system in place. My ISP does exactly that, and builds their own filters based on user reports. So far, no problems accessing Wikipedia (or indeed anything else).
Then cut their internet access off. They'll soon change their tune about hosting child porn when their entire country can't go online. The fact that another country hosts child porn is not sufficient for anyone to tell me what I can and cannot request from the network. In fact I pay good money for an ISP who doesn't censor (or more precisely, only follows the letter of the law in the UK). What I get through my pipe is my business, and if you don't like it, you can damned well go to court and get a warrant.
Maybe a better idea, instead of pulling the wool over our eyes and pretending that now it's blocked, it's OK, would be to take down the damned servers. Go after them under local law. If you can't, get treaties signed. Sort it out. The IWF is worse than useless, however; it makes you think it's gone away, when in fact it is just out of sight.
Perhaps it's just me. However, I have noticed something recently. We don't like long sentences. I read the above with ease. In fact, I don't see what you're complaining about. It seems odd to me. I grew up reading Lord of the Rings. And other things like that. Long sentences aren't rocket science. They can even be easier to read than short sentences. Sometimes they are more suited to your subject. Just don't confuse the long sentence with the run-on sentence. Phew.