from their mistakes. Vista was unleashed/released upon the Earth far too early, and their solution to this has been "Windows 7 will fix it all".
It's the Obama of Operating Systems, and it's been getting some damn positive pre-release press and general good vibes from techies who've seen the Beta.
So naturally, the only sane and rational thing to do (in M$ world) is cut the testing, drop a beta from the schedule, only have one release candidate and hit the markets.
No company this stupid should survive the credit crunch.
When it aired, I didn't manage to make it through season 7. It was just too painful. Never saw season 8 when it was airing, but borrowed the DVD's from a mate. Tried to watch some of them but... in the end settled for seeing how it ended. And it ended BADLY.
Rimmer kicking the anthropomorphic version of Death in the nuts? WTF?
"Why Keith Olbermann? Why not a less biased journalist? Any journalist at the Washington Post, Washington Times, etc would have been happy to get this information and run with it. Keith Olbermann's name brings with it a certain amount of partisan baggage."
Washington Post and Times are just as biased, only in the other direction.
It could easily be asked, would any other outlet you suggest actually be INTERESTED in running such a story from an NSA whistleblower?
Given how utterly dreadful the mainstream news organisations were at monitoring the Bush Administrations abuses of the law and constitution, I would say no.
they're going to have an expert review it in 20 minutes?
What about a change to some obscure British scifi novel, like The Last Legionary? (By Douglas Hill)
This is never gonna work.
(* I have made changes to both of those pages in wikipedia, and though obscure topics, it wasn't long before further changes were made clarifying my own poorly written points.)
but compared to the liberal media claiming Cheney was the worst VP in history (never mind that there were a few before Cheney with actual criminal convictions)
Cheney shot an old man. In the face. And the old man apologised.
That reminds me of a mafia godfather type figure. Who may also not have criminal convictions, but is still an evil scary fuck.
Some young kids need to take the hit, photograph themselves in the nude, and send those pics via SMS/MMS to every member of the police force in their town, and every member of staff at their school.
For privacy sake, don't show their faces in the photo either. And use a cloned mobile that's not linked to them personally.
Then, the phone (with it's outbox) is proof that the recipient(s) are/were in possession of child pornography. Stick a read-receipt on the message, even better. You can prove the "deviant" looked at it.
Thanks for that very clear non-bull explanation. I was all about to go on a rant about QA and release management, but I should have known it was middle-management cutting corners.
(Let's face it, that does tend to be behind a vast number of faults in any technical company.)
Just to clarify, not quite. And not yet. But will be by May.
Norway and Iceland are the only two states that have fully implemented the Schengen agreements but are not members of the EU. Switzerland will be the third such state in March 2009 when it is expected to implement air travel changes; surface travel changes were implemented on 12 December 2008.
I find this moral stance quite odd - it would suggest that the deliberate destruction of the only surviving tissue sample of a deceased person should be treated as a murder.
Or even more bizarrely, if I take a tissue sample from you, and keep it alive, I can kill you.
(The identity of their masters is a matter of some debate. Insert favourite conspiracy meme. The Rothschilds, the Bankers, the illuminati, the Americans, big business, the Jews, the 4th Reich, Lizard people from beyond the 4th dimension, etc..)
This time make sure you go to vote the MEP that will truly represent you and your views.
Wow! Is there an Oscar, or a Nobel Prize for naivety? If so, you have my vote.
The Commission of the EU is unelected. They were all found guilty of corruption a few years ago, and collectively stood down. Only to stand right back up again. Corruption pervades the EU Parliament. It was designed to make sure it could not hold the (even more) corrupt EU Commission to account.
And good luck finding ANY MEP that represents your view if you're a Euro-sceptic. They don't exist.
Even in a multi-party system, you will still get situations where every elected official speaks in unison, and the "Opposition" is an opposition in name only. It happens all the time, whether in the run up to the Iraq war in England (when the Conservatives couldn't wait to kiss Tony Blair's arse) or in the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland (where all the parties said to vote Yes, except for sinn fein, the terr^H^H^H^H ex-terrorist party.)
The only solution is to stand for office yourself, and again, the system is designed in such a way that that can't happen unless you're wealthy. (Not just rich, but wealthy.) And as Declan Ganley of the newly founded Libertas party is finding out, even then, the establishment does it's best to ridicule you, destroy you, and keep you out of their little game.
Maybe it won't get far in the UK, but I'm afraid the rest of Europe (sadly Ireland included) will hop right aboard this.
For example, in Belgium (where love of red-tape is a universal fetish) it is required by law for everyone to carry their ID papers at all times. You can be stopped and asked for your papers by the police at any time, without cause. And this is considered perfectly normal. As if Germany had actually won the war. (Vos papieren! Schnell!)
The Germans will love something like this. The Belgians will love it even more. The French will complain, but no one cares what they think. The Italians will create a market in fake ID. And the Irish will hop on board because they're terrified of annoying Europe after their public said No to Lisbon.
Though I've always wondered how even the most pro-piracy people could claim 'slew of inferior games' is a justification to pirate...if it sucks, wouldn't you/not/ want to waste time playing it?
Come on, you're just deliberately misunderstanding the situation there.
A slew of inferior games on the market, implies a few good ones at least. And if the only way to tell is to play, then you're going to statistically spend a fortune on duds, before you get a gem.
Why can't the people who buy games just read review magazines? Try it some time. I remember seeing positive reviews for some truly shitty games. And when some clueless well-meaning relative buys a game as a present, are they first supposed to have checked out what's hot and not online?
the 17 year old is clearly too damn ignorant to live.
Why can't the law do something about that? If someone is so freaking retarded that they are sane, but STILL a danger to themselves and society, why can't we just put them out of their misery with a bullet?
Or as someone once said, take the safety stickers off of everything, and let matters attend to themselves?
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Either that or the installer showed up and we were too busy/unaware to answer the door. So they said they'd be back later.
Stonehenge?
from their mistakes. Vista was unleashed/released upon the Earth far too early, and their solution to this has been "Windows 7 will fix it all".
It's the Obama of Operating Systems, and it's been getting some damn positive pre-release press and general good vibes from techies who've seen the Beta.
So naturally, the only sane and rational thing to do (in M$ world) is cut the testing, drop a beta from the schedule, only have one release candidate and hit the markets.
No company this stupid should survive the credit crunch.
When it aired, I didn't manage to make it through season 7. It was just too painful. Never saw season 8 when it was airing, but borrowed the DVD's from a mate. Tried to watch some of them but... in the end settled for seeing how it ended. And it ended BADLY.
Rimmer kicking the anthropomorphic version of Death in the nuts? WTF?
Season 7 and 8 levels of crap.
"Why Keith Olbermann? Why not a less biased journalist? Any journalist at the Washington Post, Washington Times, etc would have been happy to get this information and run with it. Keith Olbermann's name brings with it a certain amount of partisan baggage."
Washington Post and Times are just as biased, only in the other direction.
It could easily be asked, would any other outlet you suggest actually be INTERESTED in running such a story from an NSA whistleblower?
Given how utterly dreadful the mainstream news organisations were at monitoring the Bush Administrations abuses of the law and constitution, I would say no.
they're going to have an expert review it in 20 minutes?
What about a change to some obscure British scifi novel, like The Last Legionary? (By Douglas Hill)
This is never gonna work.
(* I have made changes to both of those pages in wikipedia, and though obscure topics, it wasn't long before further changes were made clarifying my own poorly written points.)
but compared to the liberal media claiming Cheney was the worst VP in history (never mind that there were a few before Cheney with actual criminal convictions)
Cheney shot an old man. In the face. And the old man apologised.
That reminds me of a mafia godfather type figure. Who may also not have criminal convictions, but is still an evil scary fuck.
Not if I could show I did not put it there and did not distribute.
Ah! The old "Guilty until proven innocent" approach.
That's worked out so well for other countries in the past.
Combining it with what looks a little bit like "prove a negative", and I've got to give you points on the pure evil scale.
Some young kids need to take the hit, photograph themselves in the nude, and send those pics via SMS/MMS to every member of the police force in their town, and every member of staff at their school.
For privacy sake, don't show their faces in the photo either. And use a cloned mobile that's not linked to them personally.
Then, the phone (with it's outbox) is proof that the recipient(s) are/were in possession of child pornography. Stick a read-receipt on the message, even better. You can prove the "deviant" looked at it.
MAYBE then they'll realise the law is stupid.
Thanks for that very clear non-bull explanation.
I was all about to go on a rant about QA and release management, but I should have known it was middle-management cutting corners.
(Let's face it, that does tend to be behind a vast number of faults in any technical company.)
Must be the Obama effect.
They are part of Schengen Agreement.
Just to clarify, not quite. And not yet. But will be by May.
Norway and Iceland are the only two states that have fully implemented the Schengen agreements but are not members of the EU. Switzerland will be the third such state in March 2009 when it is expected to implement air travel changes; surface travel changes were implemented on 12 December 2008.
I find this moral stance quite odd - it would suggest that the deliberate destruction of the only surviving tissue sample of a deceased person should be treated as a murder.
Or even more bizarrely, if I take a tissue sample from you, and keep it alive, I can kill you.
That will be his legacy and for individuals like him, it is a far worse punishment.
Oh really? Give me 50 billion and you can do what ever you want to my legacy. I'll live with it.
so whats in it for them??
Their bosses gratitude.
(The identity of their masters is a matter of some debate. Insert favourite conspiracy meme. The Rothschilds, the Bankers, the illuminati, the Americans, big business, the Jews, the 4th Reich, Lizard people from beyond the 4th dimension, etc..)
As my Belgian friend said, Belgium is the best example that a government isn't necessary.
But a near 70% income tax rate is still necessary to pay for ... what exactly?
This time make sure you go to vote the MEP that will truly represent you and your views.
Wow! Is there an Oscar, or a Nobel Prize for naivety? If so, you have my vote.
The Commission of the EU is unelected. They were all found guilty of corruption a few years ago, and collectively stood down. Only to stand right back up again. Corruption pervades the EU Parliament. It was designed to make sure it could not hold the (even more) corrupt EU Commission to account.
And good luck finding ANY MEP that represents your view if you're a Euro-sceptic. They don't exist.
Even in a multi-party system, you will still get situations where every elected official speaks in unison, and the "Opposition" is an opposition in name only. It happens all the time, whether in the run up to the Iraq war in England (when the Conservatives couldn't wait to kiss Tony Blair's arse) or in the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland (where all the parties said to vote Yes, except for sinn fein, the terr^H^H^H^H ex-terrorist party.)
The only solution is to stand for office yourself, and again, the system is designed in such a way that that can't happen unless you're wealthy. (Not just rich, but wealthy.) And as Declan Ganley of the newly founded Libertas party is finding out, even then, the establishment does it's best to ridicule you, destroy you, and keep you out of their little game.
As I'm sure you know, Switzerland is not part of the EU.
They are also a fantastic country to live in, because everyone is armed, and has done military service.
It's the perfect example of "Government being scared of its people, not people being scared of their government"
If the Swiss government ever tried to do the sort of crap you regularly see in the UK, Ireland or America, they'd be quickly taken out and shot.
Maybe it won't get far in the UK, but I'm afraid the rest of Europe (sadly Ireland included) will hop right aboard this.
For example, in Belgium (where love of red-tape is a universal fetish) it is required by law for everyone to carry their ID papers at all times. You can be stopped and asked for your papers by the police at any time, without cause. And this is considered perfectly normal. As if Germany had actually won the war. (Vos papieren! Schnell!)
The Germans will love something like this. The Belgians will love it even more. The French will complain, but no one cares what they think. The Italians will create a market in fake ID. And the Irish will hop on board because they're terrified of annoying Europe after their public said No to Lisbon.
Of course, no rational person believes that "people came from lightning and mud".
Exactly! Everyone knows it was dust and breath! /retard
Though I've always wondered how even the most pro-piracy people could claim 'slew of inferior games' is a justification to pirate...if it sucks, wouldn't you /not/ want to waste time playing it?
Come on, you're just deliberately misunderstanding the situation there.
A slew of inferior games on the market, implies a few good ones at least. And if the only way to tell is to play, then you're going to statistically spend a fortune on duds, before you get a gem.
Why can't the people who buy games just read review magazines? Try it some time. I remember seeing positive reviews for some truly shitty games. And when some clueless well-meaning relative buys a game as a present, are they first supposed to have checked out what's hot and not online?
Hey, plenty of 17 year olds don't believe death is forever.
They're called "religious".
the 17 year old is clearly too damn ignorant to live.
Why can't the law do something about that? If someone is so freaking retarded that they are sane, but STILL a danger to themselves and society, why can't we just put them out of their misery with a bullet?
Or as someone once said, take the safety stickers off of everything, and let matters attend to themselves?
Do you have a single citation for that happening to somebody at the border or are you just blowing smoke?
Citation given in the thread below your post.
It's not unexpected that some Americans do not know what is happening on their own borders.
But some of us at least, are paying closer attention.