Are the BNP really still as bad as the big parties make them out to be? Really? It seems to me they've tempered their policies down a bit, hence their getting a bit more electoral support recently. I think the main political parties are always putting them down simply because they don't want to have another party challenging their power. Or can you point me to some concrete 'nasty stuff' they've done/said recently?
As a Brit, I hate the monarchy's guts and wish it would go away. Or at least be officially relegated to nothing more than a tourist attraction (the head of state still technically has the powers to dictate law, though they're never used). I'd love to see this anachronism be confined to the past where it belongs.
Please don't tar all British with the 'monarchy loving' brush. We're not all stupid enough to want to stand out in the rain, franticly waving a Union Flag, just so that we can get a glimpse of the Queen in her latest dress.
How about a bannerswap service that mandated the use of NON-animated ads, and tried to be as discreet as possible? You wouldnt get the annoyance factor of animated ads, and hopefully the content would be related to the site you're viewing because the banner swap service would be targetted towards cetain TYPES of websites, and that target demographic would be enforced, rather than (as is the norm) certain geographic locations (which are pretty useless)?
Surely that wouldn't be much worse than text ads. Frankly, the only people I can see oppossing this are the zealouts who don't believe they should have to view ads on something that is being provided to them for free. Under this syetm, however, the links you saw would be highly relevant to the site you're visiting.
... block adverts? They're probably setting up the infastructure to go to a paid-only subscription model in the future, and it's all thanks to selfish bastards who don't want the 'annoyance' of a few ads to keep sites free for everyone else. Sigh.
To be fair, you don't really have a reasonable expectation of privacy on the street in downtown Baltimore.
And I've got a great new idea - allow the police to force you to strip naked in the street to check that you're not holding any dangerous weaponary, secret terrorist plans, etc. It's fine because you don't expect any privacy in a 'public' place, right?
Shouldn't there be a minimum level of personal privacy in virtually *ANY* place in a civilized society? Honest question.
Writing programs for your phone? Please tell me which phone this was, and which other phones allow you to do this. In particular, are there any phones that allow you to write a program to auto-decline calls from anonymous (withheld) numbers, or do any come with this feature built in?
Then it would be the UK dictionary that was wrong. I admit, Word's UK dictionary is pretty dumb in marking 'ize' words as incorrect in UK English. In fact, most English dictionaries will list the 'ize' form as the correct form for UK English; my Collins English dictionary shows 'finalize' and 'generalize' as the first spelling of the respective words. However I think both variants should always be listed in UK dictionaries.
Uh, that guy is a nut. Most of the stuff in there is a Canadian terms or institutions listing, not a spelling difference.
"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Canadian Edition"... "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"
"This land is your land, this land is my land From Bonavista to Vancouver Island From the Arctic Circle to the Great Lake waters This land was made for you and me"... "This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me" (hahahahaha)
And the ultimate idiotic entry: "Bank of Canada"... "Federal Reserve System"... "Bank of England"
Well DUH! We have different institutions!!! That's not a spelling difference!
Canadian English is unique, but to call it anything other than a mixture of UK and US spellings is stupid. About the ONLY unique word to Canadian I could find was 'garburator'. Weird. This guy is just a rather over-patriotic person.
Hrm. Don't the Canadians generally spell stuff like the English? Why not use the UK English dictionary? Give some words that in Canada are spelt the UK way, and the US way.
But if you want to look at the House of Commons, go ahead. They're trying to get rid of lords (in the House of Lords) that they don't appoint themselves at the moment, because they 'get in the way' of government decisions.
If you think the UK's parliament is any more democratic than the US's system, you're mad.
Nope. I'm on Virgin.net ADSL right now, here's my tracert to google.co.uk:
Tracing route to google.co.uk [216.239.59.104] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 37 ms 39 ms 39 ms mant-bam-1.inet.ntl.com [62.253.189.143]
2 38 ms 39 ms 39 ms mant-t2core-b-ge-wan63.inet.ntl.com [213.104.242.185]
3 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms man-bb-b-so-210-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.61]
4 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms win-bb-a-so-300-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.138]
5 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms gfd-bb-b-so-500-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.130]
6 50 ms 49 ms 39 ms tele-ic-2-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.74]
7 50 ms 49 ms 59 ms linx2.teleglobe.net [195.66.226.51]
8 40 ms 42 ms 39 ms ix-9-2.core2.london.teleglobe.net [195.219.67.20 6]
9 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms 216.239.46.173
10 50 ms 49 ms 49 ms 216.239.49.254
11 60 ms 59 ms 59 ms 216.239.49.114
12 50 ms 49 ms 49 ms 216.239.59.104
Perhaps you'd care to contact me privately then, so I can add you to my friends list. I do like to find the rare people that try to understand others' feelings before there own as I do.
Although I agree with most of your post, I have to tackle this one puzzling line:
Point is that even paedophiles can abandon this personality once they realize that it's utter nonsense to maintain it.
I don't think so. If you're a 'normal' male, could you just 'abandon' your personality of finding 17 - 30 year old women attractive? Could you just stop wanting to sleep with them, stop looking at them as something other than a regular person, stop the deep, deep feelings you have towards them and start wanting to shag men instead, because that's what society found acceptable?
See, this is why some people hate the EU. It's meant to be an economic union, what the fuck do they think they are doing mandating rules for developing graphics software?! I know a lot of Slashdotters are Americans so you're perhaps thinking of this as if it was something issued by the US federal government, but the EU is not MEANT to be that powerful. How to prevent money counterfeiting is exactly the kind of thing member states should be free to decide.
This ought to be totally out of the EU mandate, and if it's not, I want NOTHING to do with the goddamn EU.
I have. System Restore is the biggest joke there is on Windows XP - or at least, it would be, if it didn't fuck up your system. I nearly hosed my installation several times with System Restore... managed to get it somewhere close to the way it was, then decided to disable it and never use it again. Never looked back. I'm afraid, if you screw up your system, it's re-install time. Don't rely on System Restore, try not to screw up your system.
Well it's a nice little player, but certainly a bit more integration is needed, like an installer... and if it's gonna allow you to associate it with a ton of filetypes, it should at least set those filetypes' icons to its program icon! (ideally custom icons should be designed for different groups of files)
Also, where's my option (that I get in WMP) to see which video/aucio codec is being used to decode the current media?
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Unless you're a politician.
Are the BNP really still as bad as the big parties make them out to be? Really? It seems to me they've tempered their policies down a bit, hence their getting a bit more electoral support recently. I think the main political parties are always putting them down simply because they don't want to have another party challenging their power. Or can you point me to some concrete 'nasty stuff' they've done/said recently?
Speak for yourself.
As a Brit, I hate the monarchy's guts and wish it would go away. Or at least be officially relegated to nothing more than a tourist attraction (the head of state still technically has the powers to dictate law, though they're never used). I'd love to see this anachronism be confined to the past where it belongs.
Please don't tar all British with the 'monarchy loving' brush. We're not all stupid enough to want to stand out in the rain, franticly waving a Union Flag, just so that we can get a glimpse of the Queen in her latest dress.
The Prevention of Posting Comments on Slashdot law?
How about a bannerswap service that mandated the use of NON-animated ads, and tried to be as discreet as possible? You wouldnt get the annoyance factor of animated ads, and hopefully the content would be related to the site you're viewing because the banner swap service would be targetted towards cetain TYPES of websites, and that target demographic would be enforced, rather than (as is the norm) certain geographic locations (which are pretty useless)?
Surely that wouldn't be much worse than text ads. Frankly, the only people I can see oppossing this are the zealouts who don't believe they should have to view ads on something that is being provided to them for free. Under this syetm, however, the links you saw would be highly relevant to the site you're visiting.
beurow
bureau.
... block adverts? They're probably setting up the infastructure to go to a paid-only subscription model in the future, and it's all thanks to selfish bastards who don't want the 'annoyance' of a few ads to keep sites free for everyone else. Sigh.
Well it's cool that AutoStereoScopic displays are here now. When can I bury my head in an ASS?
If you're going to be saying it so much, *please* spell 'amendment' properly.
To be fair, you don't really have a reasonable expectation of privacy on the street in downtown Baltimore.
And I've got a great new idea - allow the police to force you to strip naked in the street to check that you're not holding any dangerous weaponary, secret terrorist plans, etc. It's fine because you don't expect any privacy in a 'public' place, right?
Shouldn't there be a minimum level of personal privacy in virtually *ANY* place in a civilized society? Honest question.
Writing programs for your phone? Please tell me which phone this was, and which other phones allow you to do this. In particular, are there any phones that allow you to write a program to auto-decline calls from anonymous (withheld) numbers, or do any come with this feature built in?
'As long as you exclude by far the most popular browser and OS in the world from the survey, web standards work fine.'
Great.
Yeah, and for some reason, I couldn't get these sites working without IE either...
Then it would be the UK dictionary that was wrong. I admit, Word's UK dictionary is pretty dumb in marking 'ize' words as incorrect in UK English. In fact, most English dictionaries will list the 'ize' form as the correct form for UK English; my Collins English dictionary shows 'finalize' and 'generalize' as the first spelling of the respective words. However I think both variants should always be listed in UK dictionaries.
Uh, that guy is a nut. Most of the stuff in there is a Canadian terms or institutions listing, not a spelling difference.
...
...
... "Federal Reserve System" ... "Bank of England"
"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Canadian Edition"
"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"
"This land is your land, this land is my land
From Bonavista to Vancouver Island
From the Arctic Circle to the Great Lake waters
This land was made for you and me"
"This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me" (hahahahaha)
And the ultimate idiotic entry:
"Bank of Canada"
Well DUH! We have different institutions!!! That's not a spelling difference!
Canadian English is unique, but to call it anything other than a mixture of UK and US spellings is stupid. About the ONLY unique word to Canadian I could find was 'garburator'. Weird. This guy is just a rather over-patriotic person.
Hrm. Don't the Canadians generally spell stuff like the English? Why not use the UK English dictionary? Give some words that in Canada are spelt the UK way, and the US way.
Nor is the UK - it's a monarchy. :-)
But if you want to look at the House of Commons, go ahead. They're trying to get rid of lords (in the House of Lords) that they don't appoint themselves at the moment, because they 'get in the way' of government decisions.
If you think the UK's parliament is any more democratic than the US's system, you're mad.
Nope. I'm on Virgin.net ADSL right now, here's my tracert to google.co.uk:
.185]
Tracing route to google.co.uk [216.239.59.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 37 ms 39 ms 39 ms mant-bam-1.inet.ntl.com [62.253.189.143]
2 38 ms 39 ms 39 ms mant-t2core-b-ge-wan63.inet.ntl.com [213.104.242
3 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms man-bb-b-so-210-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.61]
4 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms win-bb-a-so-300-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.138]
5 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms gfd-bb-b-so-500-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.130]
6 50 ms 49 ms 39 ms tele-ic-2-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.74]
7 50 ms 49 ms 59 ms linx2.teleglobe.net [195.66.226.51]
8 40 ms 42 ms 39 ms ix-9-2.core2.london.teleglobe.net [195.219.67.20
6]
9 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms 216.239.46.173
10 50 ms 49 ms 49 ms 216.239.49.254
11 60 ms 59 ms 59 ms 216.239.49.114
12 50 ms 49 ms 49 ms 216.239.59.104
Trace complete.
Perhaps you'd care to contact me privately then, so I can add you to my friends list. I do like to find the rare people that try to understand others' feelings before there own as I do.
Although I agree with most of your post, I have to tackle this one puzzling line:
Point is that even paedophiles can abandon this personality once they realize that it's utter nonsense to maintain it.
I don't think so. If you're a 'normal' male, could you just 'abandon' your personality of finding 17 - 30 year old women attractive? Could you just stop wanting to sleep with them, stop looking at them as something other than a regular person, stop the deep, deep feelings you have towards them and start wanting to shag men instead, because that's what society found acceptable?
I couldn't.
See, this is why some people hate the EU. It's meant to be an economic union, what the fuck do they think they are doing mandating rules for developing graphics software?! I know a lot of Slashdotters are Americans so you're perhaps thinking of this as if it was something issued by the US federal government, but the EU is not MEANT to be that powerful. How to prevent money counterfeiting is exactly the kind of thing member states should be free to decide.
This ought to be totally out of the EU mandate, and if it's not, I want NOTHING to do with the goddamn EU.
"restrocking"? Hmm... which stores do that exactly? Does it involve them caressing their products?
I have. System Restore is the biggest joke there is on Windows XP - or at least, it would be, if it didn't fuck up your system. I nearly hosed my installation several times with System Restore... managed to get it somewhere close to the way it was, then decided to disable it and never use it again. Never looked back. I'm afraid, if you screw up your system, it's re-install time. Don't rely on System Restore, try not to screw up your system.
Well it's a nice little player, but certainly a bit more integration is needed, like an installer... and if it's gonna allow you to associate it with a ton of filetypes, it should at least set those filetypes' icons to its program icon! (ideally custom icons should be designed for different groups of files)
Also, where's my option (that I get in WMP) to see which video/aucio codec is being used to decode the current media?
An animator, toiling away on cels in a tiny Tokyo studio, might be fortunate to pull in just 50,000 yen [about $500 USD] a month.
Seems like a good deal to me. With Anime, that's $250 per cel!