"Couldn't you just have gone with smoking weed in Amsterdam or something?"
is it illegal for US citizens to go to the 'Dam and smoke weed?
'cos it's not illegal for Britons to commit crimes against British law in countries where the law is different. In general. He used an extreme example because it's almost the only example.
"Its proof the OP has about 0 idea what he is talking about. ARM CPUs are not meant to compete with the Desktop/Laptop CPUs, they often lack a lot of the features that those CPUs have. You won't see a whole ton of ARM based desktops anytime soon"
Where were desktops mentioned?
MIDS and netbooks are the target. But with netbooks being so popular, and high battery life being an issue, ARM could make inroads to intel's current netbook dominance. And even stop it entering the MID market.
"some of us see spirits, or hear things, or get feelings about a place, or sense a presence"
Yeah, you're delusional. I've met a fair few wiccans, druids and other odd types and all it generally comes down to is wishful thinking, groupthink and self delusion.
To the level of the pathetic. To the level of deliberately not investigating things so they can say it was fairies or spirits (rather than a CD on a string tied to the tree over there that caught the light for a second (yes, I know, who the hell ties CDs to trees?) )
"all those goths, they're not depressed anymore"
Goths play at depression, few of them are actually depressed, especially when non-goths aren't around. Goth was the biggest laugh I ever had.
BTW, what's the difference between a goth convention and a wiccan convention? At a wiccan convention the crushed velvet comes in brighter colours and bigger sizes...
"Isn't any drug dangerous in doses past the prescribed rate?"
Not necessarily. Drugs might only have been accredited for use at the prescibed rate, and not checked further. The may be efficacious at the prescribed rate and (in the general interests of not taking drugs you don't need), safe well above it but still prescribed at a relatively low but effective does.
Lots of drugs are dangerous if you continue to take them for very long *at* the recommended dose. the recommended dose may come from the fact that some people will take them habitually and at higher, safe one or two-off doses, these people might harm themselves.
There may be a very large margin left for individual sensitivity....
All varies massively. you're probably safest sticking to the recommended dose and duration though.
"If everyone, everywhere stopped visiting prostitutes then there wouldn't be prostitutes for very much longer. They would have to get other jobs to survive."
Good luck with that. Just like the drink and drug issues. All we need is for people to stop using them and then the problems go away. Unfortunately, humans like those activities. I don't think it's really a good analogy to spam/phishing/scams/botnets/child porn though, which are out'n'out criminal activites with victims and everything.
Depends on the account. One account I've had for close to a decade is inundated. I barely use it any more and deleted all the aliases I gave out to places I wasn't sure of, but it seems that the root address is on all the lists. It's unusable and I now check it about once a month to remove the two to three thousand spam messages that have accumulated.
My other accounts sit behind varying levels of spam filtering, rbl checking, SMTP validation, SPF, rDNS etc etc so not too much gets through. Thunderbird tends to eat the rest.
Pretty sure the google phone has it. It's an obvious feature (and one we have at work for landlines). Also my provider sends a (free) text message to tell you who called.
Mobile broadband? Neither are we any more. I pay 12 UK pounds a month (IIRC, may have been 8) for a 3GB wireless 3G cap.
Wired broadband? We work the same way as the US but actually have competition and a wide choice of providers with different price plans and usage policies. I have (genuinely) unlimited ADSL2+ for about $30 a month.
"just what the hell did the USA think it was doing flying nuclear bombs around outside their own borders in the first place"
Whilst I agree it doesn't seem right, it's not a lot different from some other defence strategies. Us Brits, IIRC, have a number of nuclear submarines out and about around the world at any one time. This is for MAD purposes. You may learn where our nuclear bases are and take them out in the same nuking run as you take our cities.
But if we have subs with ICBMs on random paths through the ocean then good luck buster.
Actually, it looks like I'm rather behind the times and they called in the pledge sometime last year (when the rhetoric was really gearing up) in order to have the fund ready:
No2ID seem to be on the level, they've recently acquired Jacqui Smith's prints and are coming up with some sort of anti-ID publicity stunt. The legal defence fund is a damn good idea though.
"Spend your money like you want but we'll lynch ya if you don't share our values"
I think you missed the part where they spend way more than the democrats and ratchet up debt like nothing else on the planet...
(not american, can't vote in us elections, just wanted to point out what I see as a bit of a fallacy, that old "republicans are fiscally conservative" thing)
it's budgeted to cost around 5-7 billion, with the LSE and others saying that's grossly underestimated.
Gordo could fund his proposed tax cuts if he scrapped some of the his horrendous police-statist measures. But no, he'll get us ever more into debt whilst scrambling for some way to boost his political reputation.
Did you sign up to the refuse petition when this was first announced?
It was a pledge to refuse and to put 10 pounds into the pot to buy lawyer time for the first case that goes through the courts. They got several tens of thousands of signatories IIRC.
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"Same thing as the iPhone. You're either in the sandbox or you jailbreak."
No, not same as the iPhone at all. On the iPhone you have to jailbreak if you want to run non-approved apps, even in the sandbox.
OTOH, it is a bit crap, but at least with android we have the source. I have it running on my freerunner now
"Couldn't you just have gone with smoking weed in Amsterdam or something?"
is it illegal for US citizens to go to the 'Dam and smoke weed?
'cos it's not illegal for Britons to commit crimes against British law in countries where the law is different. In general. He used an extreme example because it's almost the only example.
That's an even better plan!
Good luck with that though, I have yet to meet many gamer girls.
I'm not too alienated, I hope, but I did smoke a lot of pot when I was younger. Wonder how prevalent that is...
Also (self reply), yes, the world IS full of morons. But then it doesn't take a genius to work that one out!
153, last test I took.
Doesn't mean I'm motivated, good at life OR immune to being suckered in. Just good at solving puzzles, reasoning and logic problems.
Constant turn speed?
You know we console gamers have ANALOGUE controls now?
lol.
Never had the RROD. Neither have any of my Xbox'd friends.
OTOH I've had LOTS of fun trying to get PC games to work. The console does just work. Turn it on and start gaming. Love 'em.
There's no reason indie videogames can't move to linux.
Hell, pcsx2, the ps2 emulator, does both.
Gnuflash will come along. Flash is already available for some non-x86 architectures.
Who cares about windows-only stuff on a mobile internet device or a netbook?
As for the rest of Linux stuff, there are already arm ports of a hell of a lot of thing, debian runs fine on arm.
"Its proof the OP has about 0 idea what he is talking about. ARM CPUs are not meant to compete with the Desktop/Laptop CPUs, they often lack a lot of the features that those CPUs have. You won't see a whole ton of ARM based desktops anytime soon"
Where were desktops mentioned?
MIDS and netbooks are the target. But with netbooks being so popular, and high battery life being an issue, ARM could make inroads to intel's current netbook dominance. And even stop it entering the MID market.
"some of us see spirits, or hear things, or get feelings about a place, or sense a presence"
Yeah, you're delusional. I've met a fair few wiccans, druids and other odd types and all it generally comes down to is wishful thinking, groupthink and self delusion.
To the level of the pathetic. To the level of deliberately not investigating things so they can say it was fairies or spirits (rather than a CD on a string tied to the tree over there that caught the light for a second (yes, I know, who the hell ties CDs to trees?) )
"all those goths, they're not depressed anymore"
Goths play at depression, few of them are actually depressed, especially when non-goths aren't around. Goth was the biggest laugh I ever had.
BTW, what's the difference between a goth convention and a wiccan convention? At a wiccan convention the crushed velvet comes in brighter colours and bigger sizes...
I'm sorry but I don't consider Tom Cruise to be a victim. He and his other celeb-scientologists are a big part of the problem.
... Grow a pair nancy!
"Isn't any drug dangerous in doses past the prescribed rate?"
Not necessarily. Drugs might only have been accredited for use at the prescibed rate, and not checked further. The may be efficacious at the prescribed rate and (in the general interests of not taking drugs you don't need), safe well above it but still prescribed at a relatively low but effective does.
Lots of drugs are dangerous if you continue to take them for very long *at* the recommended dose. the recommended dose may come from the fact that some people will take them habitually and at higher, safe one or two-off doses, these people might harm themselves.
There may be a very large margin left for individual sensitivity....
All varies massively. you're probably safest sticking to the recommended dose and duration though.
"If everyone, everywhere stopped visiting prostitutes then there wouldn't be prostitutes for very much longer. They would have to get other jobs to survive."
Good luck with that. Just like the drink and drug issues. All we need is for people to stop using them and then the problems go away. Unfortunately, humans like those activities. I don't think it's really a good analogy to spam/phishing/scams/botnets/child porn though, which are out'n'out criminal activites with victims and everything.
Depends on the account. One account I've had for close to a decade is inundated. I barely use it any more and deleted all the aliases I gave out to places I wasn't sure of, but it seems that the root address is on all the lists. It's unusable and I now check it about once a month to remove the two to three thousand spam messages that have accumulated.
My other accounts sit behind varying levels of spam filtering, rbl checking, SMTP validation, SPF, rDNS etc etc so not too much gets through. Thunderbird tends to eat the rest.
Pretty sure the google phone has it. It's an obvious feature (and one we have at work for landlines). Also my provider sends a (free) text message to tell you who called.
Mobile broadband? Neither are we any more. I pay 12 UK pounds a month (IIRC, may have been 8) for a 3GB wireless 3G cap.
Wired broadband? We work the same way as the US but actually have competition and a wide choice of providers with different price plans and usage policies. I have (genuinely) unlimited ADSL2+ for about $30 a month.
"just what the hell did the USA think it was doing flying nuclear bombs around outside their own borders in the first place"
Whilst I agree it doesn't seem right, it's not a lot different from some other defence strategies. Us Brits, IIRC, have a number of nuclear submarines out and about around the world at any one time. This is for MAD purposes. You may learn where our nuclear bases are and take them out in the same nuking run as you take our cities.
But if we have subs with ICBMs on random paths through the ocean then good luck buster.
MAD indeed.
http://www.no2id.net/pledge/
Actually, it looks like I'm rather behind the times and they called in the pledge sometime last year (when the rhetoric was really gearing up) in order to have the fund ready:
http://www.no2id.net/pledge/defenceFund.php
Guess I ought to send my tenner in...
No2ID seem to be on the level, they've recently acquired Jacqui Smith's prints and are coming up with some sort of anti-ID publicity stunt. The legal defence fund is a damn good idea though.
"Spend your money like you want but we'll lynch ya if you don't share our values"
I think you missed the part where they spend way more than the democrats and ratchet up debt like nothing else on the planet...
(not american, can't vote in us elections, just wanted to point out what I see as a bit of a fallacy, that old "republicans are fiscally conservative" thing)
it's budgeted to cost around 5-7 billion, with the LSE and others saying that's grossly underestimated.
Gordo could fund his proposed tax cuts if he scrapped some of the his horrendous police-statist measures. But no, he'll get us ever more into debt whilst scrambling for some way to boost his political reputation.
C*nt.
Good.
Did you sign up to the refuse petition when this was first announced?
It was a pledge to refuse and to put 10 pounds into the pot to buy lawyer time for the first case that goes through the courts. They got several tens of thousands of signatories IIRC.
The funny/tragic thing about that is that we already have a scheme for that :
http://www.citizencard.com/
It's government approved but run by non-profit. This statement is just yet more bullshit and hot air.