Actually the main controlling body of the EU, the Council of Ministers, is NOT elected and is empowered to over-rule the European Parliament which IS elected. A disgusting state of affairs which is studiously ignored by the media.
do they search each defendant's home top to bottom to find any hidden hard drives?
I'd been thinking about this and had more or less decided it would be a good idea to by a wireless hard dive (like this: http://www.whatlaptop.co.uk/YRtBdcdoWel2Yg.html). I might even really go wild and rip some of the plasterboard off a partition wall and wire it straight in to a ring main. Replace the plasterboard and repaint and you'd virtually have to pull the building apart to find it (unless you used RF direction finding) - and that's if you knew it was there. I can't imagine your average cop/lawyer realising.
No you still miss the point (as far as I can tell).
I'm not denying that it's possible that cloned food could be dangerous (like asbestos, lead, etc) I admit it's possible. There is however absolutely no evidence to suggest there is a danger of any kind, there's not even any reason to suspect there might be a danger. It's just as likely that honey or apples have unidentified risks, after all although there's no evidence of any risk you still can't prove they are risk free.
Actually, I don't feel particularly strongly against labelling, but I'm mildly opposed on the grounds that it *is* pandering to stupidity.
That's great - present a claasic logical fallacy and then accuse me of flawed logic.
I suggest you go look up "opportunity cost" somewhere, bearing in mind that although it may not be possible to prove anything 100% safe that doesn't necessarily mean that there is a risk (as "risk" is commonly understood).
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I've got to object to that. We British can easily build trains which can manage much more than 125mph.
The problem is we just can't get planning permission to build straight tracks. Locals object (because of noise), hippies object (to cutting down trees), environmentalists object (on principal) and so forth. By the time you incorporate the costs of fighting through all the planning, public enquiries, protestors, etc, building a high speed train link anywhere in the UK is un-economic.
Chunnel trains travel at high speed through France because they built a new, straight, track for them - when they get to the UK they have to slow to about 50% because they're running on old, curvy, tracks.
In the UK it's a real problem in all sorts of ways not just for trains. For example, everybody with half a brain knows that Heathrow Airport must have another runway. It's the only even nearly reasonable solution to current air traffic problems but the locals, hippies, enviros, etc, are fighting tooth and nail, it will take years to force it through despite the fact it's an absolute imperative and needs to be done yesterday.
Could you cite any specific (MODERN!) examples of religion as child abuse or a mind closing force?
Oh that's so hard!
The Manson Family immediately comes to mind, closely followed by several others - if I could be bothered I could probably come up with dozens after very little effort.
I definitely don't agree - OpenOffice is at least as good as Microsoft Office BUT that only applies to me, I accept other people may not share my opinion. It's a classic case of YMMV, far too subjective. I doubt it would even be possible to develop a set of metrics everybody could agree on.
Theoretically the UK police have to obey the same traffic laws as everybody else but the exception they get means (effectively) that they just fill in a form saying they had a reason for speeding and the speeding ticket gets cancelled, almost without fail - only in the most flagrant cases of abuse would the matter ever be questioned.
And no, they don't in fact have to prove their controller gave them orders to treat a journey as an emergency - this is just the simplest way to prove they had good reason (where it applies) because they can get an automatic printout of the control room record to attach to the waiver form.
These people make the web plain-text ASCII only if they could -- perfect way to kill the web
I use links quite often - using a text only browser is interesting in itself and gives a different perspective on the web. It certainly made me a lot more careful about alt attributes for images.
When someone spots me using it at work and I explain that it's a text browser the look on their face can be comical - but once they see how it works their attitude usually changes.
The thing I don't understand about this is what difference it would make if PJ *was* a front for IBM.
I mean, OK it's unethical for a company to hire someone to act as a PR front without admitting they work for them, but that doesn't make it against the law. Suppose SCO is exactly right (unlikely I know) and PJ isn't a real person at all but just a front for IBM's PR department - so what?
Yes if you mean their freedom to limit your freedom, then "all that legalese" has indeed been added to stop them exercising that "freedom". You are a troll (and a dumb one at that).
The trick bit with the tender process is that the requirements are written from the specs of whatever piece of hard/software the public body wants to buy. So, for example, if some department wants a load of MS CrapApplication they simply dig out the specs and copy them over as the requirements for the tender. Chances are that the only off the shelf software with exactly these specs is MS CrapApplication and any other company is either going to have to spend money customising their version (thus pushing up their bid) or not bother tendering.
The result is that although the process is apparently open and fair in reality the decision is made well beforehand.
You can be sure that this is what happened when Diebold won the tender in other places, fortunately for them it's very hard to prove. They probably have a genuine greivance in this case because the same thing has happened only it's favoured another company, unfortunately for them it's very hard to prove.
And making powerpoint presentations with continuously looping audio is not something you should be teaching anybody. If you knew how to do your job you'd be teaching them why this is a bad idea.
I've got to agree with most of what you say, except the issue with crashing, I haven't found OOo particularly prone to crashing.
On the issue of compatibility it's also worth noting that any macros in the document will not work in OOo but generally most issues are related to formatting and will not affect content. Also bear in mind that compatibility problems exists between different versions of MS Office as well - if you really care about the formatting and having a document displayed exactly the same on any system use a proper format designed for exchange.
As to publisher files, well christ, using doc files is bad enough but pub files are completely unreasonable.
I don't know how MS get away with gaming the American courts like they do but EU courts won't put up with that sort of behaviour. I really hope they are going to try it on - EU courts have real power and pissed off judges are willing to use it. Refusing to fully comply with a court order is a serious mistake no matter who you are.
My laptop locks up occasionally (OS = Debian) when using Firefox. Sometimes I can change to another virtual terminal and kill Firefox but sometimes even that doesn't work and I have to reboot. It's annoying because otherwise it's rock solid (like my BSD pc) but I've got to say Debian isn't (for me) much more stable than Windows. Of course to some extent it's a Firefox issue since it doesn't happen with any other application but still: the OS shouldn't be crashing because of a screwed app.
And while on the subject, Firefox seems to crash when displaying certain jpg files and when a web page has foreign fonts (chinese / japanese mostly).
I wish I was able to say Linux (and OS Software in general) are more stable than Windows but in my experience it's just not so.
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Actually the main controlling body of the EU, the Council of Ministers, is NOT elected and is empowered to over-rule the European Parliament which IS elected. A disgusting state of affairs which is studiously ignored by the media.
do they search each defendant's home top to bottom to find any hidden hard drives?
I'd been thinking about this and had more or less decided it would be a good idea to by a wireless hard dive (like this: http://www.whatlaptop.co.uk/YRtBdcdoWel2Yg.html). I might even really go wild and rip some of the plasterboard off a partition wall and wire it straight in to a ring main. Replace the plasterboard and repaint and you'd virtually have to pull the building apart to find it (unless you used RF direction finding) - and that's if you knew it was there. I can't imagine your average cop/lawyer realising.
But would it be a fire hazard?
No you still miss the point (as far as I can tell).
I'm not denying that it's possible that cloned food could be dangerous (like asbestos, lead, etc) I admit it's possible. There is however absolutely no evidence to suggest there is a danger of any kind, there's not even any reason to suspect there might be a danger. It's just as likely that honey or apples have unidentified risks, after all although there's no evidence of any risk you still can't prove they are risk free.
Actually, I don't feel particularly strongly against labelling, but I'm mildly opposed on the grounds that it *is* pandering to stupidity.
That's great - present a claasic logical fallacy and then accuse me of flawed logic.
I suggest you go look up "opportunity cost" somewhere, bearing in mind that although it may not be possible to prove anything 100% safe that doesn't necessarily mean that there is a risk (as "risk" is commonly understood).
I've got to object to that. We British can easily build trains which can manage much more than 125mph.
The problem is we just can't get planning permission to build straight tracks. Locals object (because of noise), hippies object (to cutting down trees), environmentalists object (on principal) and so forth. By the time you incorporate the costs of fighting through all the planning, public enquiries, protestors, etc, building a high speed train link anywhere in the UK is un-economic.
Chunnel trains travel at high speed through France because they built a new, straight, track for them - when they get to the UK they have to slow to about 50% because they're running on old, curvy, tracks.
In the UK it's a real problem in all sorts of ways not just for trains. For example, everybody with half a brain knows that Heathrow Airport must have another runway. It's the only even nearly reasonable solution to current air traffic problems but the locals, hippies, enviros, etc, are fighting tooth and nail, it will take years to force it through despite the fact it's an absolute imperative and needs to be done yesterday.
Thats the rub. Breeding doesn't result in exact copies. We also do not know what are the possible long-term side effects or risks are.
Why should cloning sheep be any more dangerous than crossing different sheep breeds?
Ans: There is no reason, if anything it should be less dangerous.
This anti-GM, anti-cloning, anti-anything-new nonsense is pure luddism. Morons fear what they can't understand.
Could you cite any specific (MODERN!) examples of religion as child abuse or a mind closing force?
Oh that's so hard!
The Manson Family immediately comes to mind, closely followed by several others - if I could be bothered I could probably come up with dozens after very little effort.
You forgot "wife-beater".
I definitely don't agree - OpenOffice is at least as good as Microsoft Office BUT that only applies to me, I accept other people may not share my opinion. It's a classic case of YMMV, far too subjective. I doubt it would even be possible to develop a set of metrics everybody could agree on.
I'm just not sure if you're having a laugh or really do think that Queensland and Victoria are countries.
Apart from reading Orwell I'd never heard of Oceania before today, as far as I knew the continent which included Australia was called Australasia.
Oceania? Sounds like another example of the pigin Yanks call English.
Yeah it's particularly worrying news considering the current world shortage of American college students.
The devil's in the detail though isn't it.
Theoretically the UK police have to obey the same traffic laws as everybody else but the exception they get means (effectively) that they just fill in a form saying they had a reason for speeding and the speeding ticket gets cancelled, almost without fail - only in the most flagrant cases of abuse would the matter ever be questioned.
And no, they don't in fact have to prove their controller gave them orders to treat a journey as an emergency - this is just the simplest way to prove they had good reason (where it applies) because they can get an automatic printout of the control room record to attach to the waiver form.
"Viri" is the nominative plural (men) or the genitive singular (man's) of "vir" (man).
These people make the web plain-text ASCII only if they could -- perfect way to kill the web
I use links quite often - using a text only browser is interesting in itself and gives a different perspective on the web. It certainly made me a lot more careful about alt attributes for images.
When someone spots me using it at work and I explain that it's a text browser the look on their face can be comical - but once they see how it works their attitude usually changes.
ASCII only web? Wouldn't worry me!
The thing I don't understand about this is what difference it would make if PJ *was* a front for IBM.
I mean, OK it's unethical for a company to hire someone to act as a PR front without admitting they work for them, but that doesn't make it against the law. Suppose SCO is exactly right (unlikely I know) and PJ isn't a real person at all but just a front for IBM's PR department - so what?
You dont want to rock the waters.
Or take up arms against a sea of troubles.
No, it's life but not as we know it.
You must be new here.
This particular comment is posted with monotonous frequency.
to limit the freedom of others
Yes if you mean their freedom to limit your freedom, then "all that legalese" has indeed been added to stop them exercising that "freedom". You are a troll (and a dumb one at that).
The trick bit with the tender process is that the requirements are written from the specs of whatever piece of hard/software the public body wants to buy. So, for example, if some department wants a load of MS CrapApplication they simply dig out the specs and copy them over as the requirements for the tender. Chances are that the only off the shelf software with exactly these specs is MS CrapApplication and any other company is either going to have to spend money customising their version (thus pushing up their bid) or not bother tendering.
The result is that although the process is apparently open and fair in reality the decision is made well beforehand.
You can be sure that this is what happened when Diebold won the tender in other places, fortunately for them it's very hard to prove. They probably have a genuine greivance in this case because the same thing has happened only it's favoured another company, unfortunately for them it's very hard to prove.
Tough luck! What a bunch of babies.
And making powerpoint presentations with continuously looping audio is not something you should be teaching anybody. If you knew how to do your job you'd be teaching them why this is a bad idea.
I've got to agree with most of what you say, except the issue with crashing, I haven't found OOo particularly prone to crashing.
On the issue of compatibility it's also worth noting that any macros in the document will not work in OOo but generally most issues are related to formatting and will not affect content. Also bear in mind that compatibility problems exists between different versions of MS Office as well - if you really care about the formatting and having a document displayed exactly the same on any system use a proper format designed for exchange.
As to publisher files, well christ, using doc files is bad enough but pub files are completely unreasonable.
I don't know how MS get away with gaming the American courts like they do but EU courts won't put up with that sort of behaviour. I really hope they are going to try it on - EU courts have real power and pissed off judges are willing to use it. Refusing to fully comply with a court order is a serious mistake no matter who you are.
And I had a shower last week.
My laptop locks up occasionally (OS = Debian) when using Firefox. Sometimes I can change to another virtual terminal and kill Firefox but sometimes even that doesn't work and I have to reboot. It's annoying because otherwise it's rock solid (like my BSD pc) but I've got to say Debian isn't (for me) much more stable than Windows. Of course to some extent it's a Firefox issue since it doesn't happen with any other application but still: the OS shouldn't be crashing because of a screwed app.
And while on the subject, Firefox seems to crash when displaying certain jpg files and when a web page has foreign fonts (chinese / japanese mostly).
I wish I was able to say Linux (and OS Software in general) are more stable than Windows but in my experience it's just not so.