TV in the UK is, IMHO, utter shit now. The BBC has seriously gone downhill in the last 10 years to the point where I could easily live without ANY of their programming output. As far as I'm concerned, their news IS biased. I will not 'leave the BBC alone' until it leaves me alone and lets me watch other TV without paying it protection racket money.
The Daily Mail is a right wing (slightly upmarket) tabloid who attack the Labour government on a regular basis.
So does virtually everyone in the UK. Labour are spectacularly unpopular.
While the idea of such a tax may or may not be true, you can be certain this particular newspaper will try to spin in in a manner that is comensurate with its Conservative politics.
Virtually everyone spins stuff, INCLUDING the BBC, who show significant bias on many issues (anti-gun, anti-knife, pro-big government, pro-Palestinian, pro-censorship, to name but a few issues).
The source, however, can be compared to a news outlet such as Fox News.
I disagree. Fox News is even more full of shit that the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail tend to have more of a kernel of truth to their reporting than then 100% opinionated BS that comes out of Fox News.
This is a story from the Daily Mail, a rag that makes Fox news look like quality journalism
This story may itself not come to fruition (hopefully), but I really wish people like you would stop spreading this bullshit. The Daily Mail is NOT worse than fucking Fox News. It's got some bullshit, and some decent stuff in it. It's a tabloid, FFS, what do you expect?... and it's not even the worst one.
If they hate the BBC (and I've read some pieces in there that seem to suggest otherwise; papers have stuff in them written by people with more than one opinion, you know?), it's because of the outdated, anachronistic tax used to fund it, and I for one support their opposition of the licence fee 100%. They are correct.
Like science, it's never "John Smith", the newspapers preferring to imply that the entire profession says/thinks so.
Just thought I'd add, the BBC themselves are almost always guilty of doing this too.
Many BBC stories start with an assertion, followed by an 'according to scientists', or soemthing. It's not until the body of the report that you hear it was X scientists who are in a small minority.
I completely agree with this. I seriously wish the iPhone would die a horrible death; it is mildly popular (in some geographical regions) despite being horrendusly expensive and locked down, because it looks flashy and 'cool', and is marketed a lot. People need to stop getting distracted by that.
What you have to realize is that Apple came into this mobile market pretty late. There were already a few contenders, most notably Nokia, that had been producing quality devices for quite a while. But the first thing that most probably went through Jobs' mind when he envisaged an Apple mobile device was not, 'how can we make it best for customers and developers?' It was, 'how can Apple make the most profit out of this with the least effort?' He came up with the idea of the iPhone app store. Promote the iPhone a lot, sell it for a fortune to cover those costs, force people to release apps with Apple's blessing through their app store, and sit back and wait for the profits. Oh, and as a side benefit, Apple can censor what apps they want, as part of their lust for control. (Yes I do have a problem with a company controlling even their own hardware when you've paid to BUY it.) Worse, they actually promote their 'app' model as being some kind of a virtue, as if other sophisticated devices can't do apps. They can, and they don't have to go through a fucking Apple website.
Me, I'm hoping that the Nokia N97 is a real iPhone-killer. Quite similar to the iPhone in many ways, has a touchscreen, a ton of functionality, Flash Lite 3 can be embedded in the browser so you can do interactive apps and streaming video/audio WITHOUT spending big time.resources to learn the specifics of the particular mobile platform being targetted (dumbass iPhone-specific apps), runs Symbian, and it's by Nokia, who don't have such a megalomaniac interest in locking the thing down so you have to go thru them for everything. And it even looks quite shiny, too. Buy Nokia, people! (the only wish I have is for it to have a stylus with it, but I guess you can't have everything)
And before you mod me down, think: is anything I've said here untrue or illogical?
In other words, you declared yourself a victim and decided upon restitution you deemed appropriate, which apparently is that stealing other people's property is ok if it has a bug. What's next ? Unacceptable box art?
Except that nobody is stealing anybody else's fucking property. At least get your terminology right.
I always loved that the Universal Translator could happily instantly translate even brand new alien languages into perfect English, but the Klingons had a way of talking that made it stop working.
Say I know you need 500,000 processors a year. I offer you 200,000 processors at $10 a piece or 500,000 processors at $5 a piece. That's exactly what you just described, and only a fucking socialist thinks there's anything wrong with it.
You use 'socialist' like it's a dirty term. What's the problem with wanting the best for the rest of society, again?
Yes, misapplication of antitrust at its worst. This is just protectionism. Know the difference? In this case, AMD benefits, customers pay higher prices. In fact, say Intel raises its prices 0.5%. AMD can then raise their prices 0.4% and come out ahead. Who loses: Customer.
Theoretically, government then has a chunk more money and customer can get 0.5% lower taxes. I know, I know; theoretically.
As for your claim that the GPL is "better" for standards and protocols... better for whom? It may be "better" for the creator in terms of giving him power to block proprietary derivative works.
As I understand it, the GPL lets you create 'proprietary derivative works'. It even lets you CHARGE for 'proprietary derivative works'. It just makes you distribute the sourcecode to them under the GPL, too.
Why stop there? Hannity? Cavuto? Faux take opinion (mostly ignorant and distorted claptrap) and purvey it as news. It's rightly singled out as the shittiest excuse for a news station in the US, even if other shitty ones exist.
A better solution would be to treat the causes of the disease in the first place. In this case, H1N1 is a variant of the Spanish flu. Spain, Mexico? see a pattern? Of course, the solution is to ban Spanish and classical guitar worldwide. Aaaaactually, Spanish flu almost certainly didn't start in Spain. It's just that reports of it were first heard there so people erroneously thought it started there.
You assume this is about finding the "badguys." It's not. It's all about power and control over "the good guys" (the vast majority of the population). IMO, the last step was when the UK surrendered your firearms. Soon after, then the pervasive CCTV cameras went up, then the taxes increase, all your communications are monitored, the[...]
I think Americans place far too much importance on whether a private citizen can own a firearm or not. I'm not taking a stand on this issue one way or the other as to whether it's right, but if you got anywhere near to the critical mass it would take to forcibly reform our democracy (100k people storming Parliament), there would be a few deaths with or without a bunch of handguns. The 100k people would win by sheer number, with or without firearms.
It's not Orwellian to report crime, it's Orwellian if 'crime' is redefined to mean 'unpatriotic behavior.' Which doesn't mean it's ok to fight against the government. If I catch you seriously plotting to kill the president, I will report you too.
On the other hand if I see you smoking weed I won't report you.
Who put you in charge of what's a 'real' crime and a 'fake' one? You ought to be consistent. Report em all, or none.
If we can see planets a vast distance away so well, why are we having to send New Horizons all the way to Pluto to get a good piccie of it? Can't we point Kepler at it or something?
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Nonsense.
TV in the UK is, IMHO, utter shit now. The BBC has seriously gone downhill in the last 10 years to the point where I could easily live without ANY of their programming output. As far as I'm concerned, their news IS biased. I will not 'leave the BBC alone' until it leaves me alone and lets me watch other TV without paying it protection racket money.
The Daily Mail is a right wing (slightly upmarket) tabloid who attack the Labour government on a regular basis.
So does virtually everyone in the UK. Labour are spectacularly unpopular.
While the idea of such a tax may or may not be true, you can be certain this particular newspaper will try to spin in in a manner that is comensurate with its Conservative politics.
Virtually everyone spins stuff, INCLUDING the BBC, who show significant bias on many issues (anti-gun, anti-knife, pro-big government, pro-Palestinian, pro-censorship, to name but a few issues).
The source, however, can be compared to a news outlet such as Fox News.
I disagree. Fox News is even more full of shit that the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail tend to have more of a kernel of truth to their reporting than then 100% opinionated BS that comes out of Fox News.
This is a story from the Daily Mail, a rag that makes Fox news look like quality journalism
This story may itself not come to fruition (hopefully), but I really wish people like you would stop spreading this bullshit. The Daily Mail is NOT worse than fucking Fox News. It's got some bullshit, and some decent stuff in it. It's a tabloid, FFS, what do you expect? ... and it's not even the worst one.
If they hate the BBC (and I've read some pieces in there that seem to suggest otherwise; papers have stuff in them written by people with more than one opinion, you know?), it's because of the outdated, anachronistic tax used to fund it, and I for one support their opposition of the licence fee 100%. They are correct.
Like science, it's never "John Smith", the newspapers preferring to imply that the entire profession says/thinks so.
Just thought I'd add, the BBC themselves are almost always guilty of doing this too.
Many BBC stories start with an assertion, followed by an 'according to scientists', or soemthing. It's not until the body of the report that you hear it was X scientists who are in a small minority.
I completely agree with this. I seriously wish the iPhone would die a horrible death; it is mildly popular (in some geographical regions) despite being horrendusly expensive and locked down, because it looks flashy and 'cool', and is marketed a lot. People need to stop getting distracted by that.
What you have to realize is that Apple came into this mobile market pretty late. There were already a few contenders, most notably Nokia, that had been producing quality devices for quite a while. But the first thing that most probably went through Jobs' mind when he envisaged an Apple mobile device was not, 'how can we make it best for customers and developers?' It was, 'how can Apple make the most profit out of this with the least effort?' He came up with the idea of the iPhone app store. Promote the iPhone a lot, sell it for a fortune to cover those costs, force people to release apps with Apple's blessing through their app store, and sit back and wait for the profits. Oh, and as a side benefit, Apple can censor what apps they want, as part of their lust for control. (Yes I do have a problem with a company controlling even their own hardware when you've paid to BUY it.) Worse, they actually promote their 'app' model as being some kind of a virtue, as if other sophisticated devices can't do apps. They can, and they don't have to go through a fucking Apple website.
Me, I'm hoping that the Nokia N97 is a real iPhone-killer. Quite similar to the iPhone in many ways, has a touchscreen, a ton of functionality, Flash Lite 3 can be embedded in the browser so you can do interactive apps and streaming video/audio WITHOUT spending big time.resources to learn the specifics of the particular mobile platform being targetted (dumbass iPhone-specific apps), runs Symbian, and it's by Nokia, who don't have such a megalomaniac interest in locking the thing down so you have to go thru them for everything. And it even looks quite shiny, too. Buy Nokia, people! (the only wish I have is for it to have a stylus with it, but I guess you can't have everything)
And before you mod me down, think: is anything I've said here untrue or illogical?
In other words, you declared yourself a victim and decided upon restitution you deemed appropriate, which apparently is that stealing other people's property is ok if it has a bug. What's next ? Unacceptable box art?
Except that nobody is stealing anybody else's fucking property. At least get your terminology right.
I wouldn't exactly use ancient Rome as an example for anything. Their army was also well-known for massacres and rapings.
I always loved that the Universal Translator could happily instantly translate even brand new alien languages into perfect English, but the Klingons had a way of talking that made it stop working.
Say I know you need 500,000 processors a year. I offer you 200,000 processors at $10 a piece or 500,000 processors at $5 a piece. That's exactly what you just described, and only a fucking socialist thinks there's anything wrong with it.
You use 'socialist' like it's a dirty term. What's the problem with wanting the best for the rest of society, again?
Yes, misapplication of antitrust at its worst. This is just protectionism. Know the difference? In this case, AMD benefits, customers pay higher prices. In fact, say Intel raises its prices 0.5%. AMD can then raise their prices 0.4% and come out ahead. Who loses: Customer.
Theoretically, government then has a chunk more money and customer can get 0.5% lower taxes. I know, I know; theoretically.
Yesy. It mighty take a whiley to get used to, but I thinky it's quite a plusy overall.
Steven Colbert's always-sarcastic style grates on you after a short while, though. You kind of wish he'd just actually say what he fucking believes.
Of dangerous chemicals, animal manure, or human hair, people are squeamish about the human hair?
One word: nits. :-D
When was the last time YOU got good service from a monopolistic telephone company? The municipality is, at least in theory, accountable.
As for your claim that the GPL is "better" for standards and protocols... better for whom? It may be "better" for the creator in terms of giving him power to block proprietary derivative works.
As I understand it, the GPL lets you create 'proprietary derivative works'. It even lets you CHARGE for 'proprietary derivative works'. It just makes you distribute the sourcecode to them under the GPL, too.
are they paying taxes?
Who gives a shit? Do you want good internet service, or not? Will Verizon, TW, etc. go bankrupt because of this? We can only hope.
Why stop there? Hannity? Cavuto? Faux take opinion (mostly ignorant and distorted claptrap) and purvey it as news. It's rightly singled out as the shittiest excuse for a news station in the US, even if other shitty ones exist.
A better solution would be to treat the causes of the disease in the first place. In this case, H1N1 is a variant of the Spanish flu. Spain, Mexico? see a pattern? Of course, the solution is to ban Spanish and classical guitar worldwide.
Aaaaactually, Spanish flu almost certainly didn't start in Spain. It's just that reports of it were first heard there so people erroneously thought it started there.
You assume this is about finding the "badguys." It's not. It's all about power and control over "the good guys" (the vast majority of the population). IMO, the last step was when the UK surrendered your firearms. Soon after, then the pervasive CCTV cameras went up, then the taxes increase, all your communications are monitored, the[...]
I think Americans place far too much importance on whether a private citizen can own a firearm or not. I'm not taking a stand on this issue one way or the other as to whether it's right, but if you got anywhere near to the critical mass it would take to forcibly reform our democracy (100k people storming Parliament), there would be a few deaths with or without a bunch of handguns. The 100k people would win by sheer number, with or without firearms.
Cool. Now can you manage to elect a mayor of Amsterdam who doesn't want to scrap everything that's good about it?
You spelt potato wrong 3 times. Dan Quayle would be proud.
Philip K Dickhead sends in a piece from the Australian media, a couple of weeks old, that hasn't seen much discussion here.
I'm not sure I'd like to discuss anything submitted by 'Philip K Dickhead'.
At least it's not a dupe!
It's not Orwellian to report crime, it's Orwellian if 'crime' is redefined to mean 'unpatriotic behavior.' Which doesn't mean it's ok to fight against the government. If I catch you seriously plotting to kill the president, I will report you too.
On the other hand if I see you smoking weed I won't report you.
Who put you in charge of what's a 'real' crime and a 'fake' one? You ought to be consistent. Report em all, or none.
If we can see planets a vast distance away so well, why are we having to send New Horizons all the way to Pluto to get a good piccie of it? Can't we point Kepler at it or something?