The police should be out on the street beating and arresting the scum who are torching houses and looting businesses, of course that might be dangerous so they'd better not. Pathetic.
They are out arresting people, idiot. Do you have absolutely no knowledge of how the police operate? Pathetic.
Facts. They are arresting people who were actually at the riots and committing crimes. Is it wrong to also follow other leads to apprehend others? The rioters used Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry Messaging to organise themselves. Fact. The police are investigating social networks to try and track down the looters and rioters.
Exactly. Of course there are police on the streets. There are also dedicated police officers whose job is to coordinate police on the streets and to look at the overall intelligence picture to see where the next riot might spring up. Anyone who's saying that they're not doing their jobs by investigating Facebook/BlackBerry Messaging/Twitter leads has no fucking clue how these riots were organised and how the rioters were able to die back and re-emerge like the filthy cockroaches they are.
No. A "chav" (or in Scotland, a "ned") is more like redneck. If they have the designer gear and the latest trainers (sneakers) it's because they stole them or bought them on a credit card that will never be paid off. If they have a job it's normally something low-paid and unskilled.
A police spokesperson stated that given the heightened level of fear and the continued threat of violence what was considered "reasonable" use of force (the amount of force you're legally allowed to use in self-defence) would also be increased. Which I took to mean: If you have a gang of 5-10 youths trying to kick your door in, or break in through your window and you ding a couple with your cricket bat, you're more likely to get off than you would under normal circumstances.
Yes and no. Where it fails is when it suggests friends of friends on the periphery. For instance, I have friends and acquaintances from school who were friends with people I couldn't stand. Facebook seems to suggest these people constantly. They would probably rank highly based on the fact that I "went to school" with them and have lots of friends in common but I have no interest in being their friends after the fact. Similarly, I'm friends with my wife's cousin on Facebook. Facebook suggests her friends to me. I meet the cousin at family get-togethers, weddings, funerals etc. but I have zero interest in adding her friends on Facebook. For anyone, like me, who only adds friends and family to my friends list, the suggestions are way off base.
It worked up to a point and like you, I was impressed, but once you're friends with all the people who you want to be friends with on Facebook, they really struggle to suggest more friends. Just wait, and you'll see what I mean...:)
What if it was a pill you could take regularly, say every morning or evening, as a preventative measure? If you wait until you're symptomatic, surely there's a lot more killing to be done than if it's just got to mop-up the early stages of an infection? Or is that naive layman's interpretation not accurate?
Geez, the day they cure AIDS, I'm predicting the divorce rate will skyrocket with a ton of guys going "Later Bitch"....and not having to worry about dying if they get laid by someone different.
No offence, but you're a fucking idiot. The day they "cure" AIDS, the divorce rate won't sky-rocket. Do you seriously think "fear of dying from AIDS related illnesses" is a major reason why people stay in marriages rather than getting divorces? That's the most retarded thing I've read this week, a week in which I've read several YouTube comments.
"Worst", but you're probably right. It doesn't seem like one of those domains where you get to spend as long as you want to get it perfect (with a few noticeable exceptions) so it's a case of hack it 'til it works, throw it over the wall and have our customers beta test it for us.
The reason for releasing source code as open source isn't so that you can download it for free, compile it, and have a working copy of Doom 3, it's so that people can look at the code, learn from it, port the game to new architectures or mod the source to add new features/take advantage of new technology. Several original games have been developed using previously released id source code: (Someone should really invent some kind of "Search" "Engine" for this internet thing...) Nexuiz Urban Terror Tremulous
Sadly, I suspect that you won't appreciate the value of any of that, having phrased your questions the way you did.
I stand corrected. Presumably if it wasn't caught by customs you would be free and clear though? Owning the game isn't illegal is it? Bah, even if it were, it'd be unenforceable, which is all that matters. And as another poster has pointed out, are they able to stop people downloading it through legal channels? Illegal?
Well, IIRC, technically, it wouldn't be illegal. It's not illegal to buy the game in Australia, or for someone to buy it in another country and bring it into Australia. It would be illegal to sell it in Australia though. It was my understanding that if someone bought it from Amazon/Steam etc. and downloaded it or had it shipped to Australia it wouldn't be breaking the law. I'm pretty sure a great many people already do this...
London Heathrow Airport is inside the M25 and only around 20 miles from the "centre" of London but, more importantly, Heathrow lies within the London borough of Hillingdon, which may or may not be one of the "London councils" to which the F article alludes. Without knowing whether Virgin media's plan is for the City of London, Inner London, or Outer London, it's hard to say whether or not it will have any affect on Heathrow.
As for "blazing 10 Mbps", where does the author live that he calls that blazing? Malawi?
Or, according to your own link, any of the other 100 countries (~58% of the list) whose average download speed is less than half of that speed? Only around 19% of the countries on that list have average download speeds of 10Mbps or greater. But yes you're right, 10Mbps in London is probably on the low end of the spectrum. On the other hand, I suspect 10Mbps, to many people living in rural England, or even those in the commuter belt, might be considered "blazingly fast".
Heh, yeah, I was imparting a silly factoid, not trying to be clever. Maybe I should have worded it differently. Hell the whole thing is moot anyway, because they got "married" in their damn garden. But the "aisles", as labelled on many "Welcome to X church/cathedral" pamphlets e.g Chicester IIRC, always seem not to be part of the nave. Regardless, "Central Passageway" is probably most correct to describe "that bit of the church up which the bride walks", but is a bit of a mouthful. You're right, I didn't read the article. Having looked at it, it appears to differ from the articles on "Cathedral Architecture" and "Aisle" where the aisles are, again, shown as distinct from the nave. Oh, and I did make it clear that like Hoover (Vacuum cleaner) and Tannoy (P.A. system), everyone will understand you if you call it an aisle because it now has a general meaning as a passageway between areas of seating....but don't worry, after your stern telling off, if ever I decide to try and show off how clever I am, I will make sure I'm unambiguously right first[citation needed].;)
Seriously? No, seriously, are you kidding? How can you make any money on those sites? I considered it once, as a web developer, when I was really desperate for work, fresh out of University, but it just wasn't worth it. You're bidding against cowboys and school-kids to the point where you'd be better off working at McDonalds. And I don't just mean pay, I mean the hassle of ill-defined requirements and dealing with people who post shit like "Need a groupon clonne, easy to do for write person, budget $200. No time-wasters plz." Having quickly browsed some of the other categories, they seem to be plagued with exactly the same kind of problems.
Well, actually, to tell the truth, I buy my vegetables from the supermarket. Interestingly, they exploit their enormous buying power and reduced logistical costs and I get a much better price than if I went to the grocer. The grocer's prices are higher because they can't trade in the same volumes and aren't prepared to take the risk of being over-exposed. They only buy small quantities of things, so that if they can't sell them, they haven't lost much. The supermarket, I think, can afford certain losses because they sell higher volumes and can make their money back on pumpkins if the swedes aren't selling well. Anyway, I could get them marginally cheaper if I went directly to the farmers, but that takes too much effort, and I'm prepared to pay the small amount extra at the supermarket for the convenience. See the parallel?
Credit swaps? Who brought that up? (No-one.) Being able to buy and sell stocks at better prices is beneficial to society. So what if it's intangible? My mp3 collection is intangible. My internet connection is intangible. The added value I may get from the supermarket selling me cheaper vegetables is no different from the added value I may get as a result of HFT. In one case, I have bought some potatoes, in the other, I have some stock. In both cases, a third party satisfies the needs of a buyer and a seller and his reward is the difference between the buy price and the sell price. If the seller gets what he wants and the buyer gets what he wants, how is the third party cheating anyone? Fair exchange is no robbery, sport.
1. The word is "aisle"
2. The main approach to the altar is, more accurately, "the nave", not "the aisle". Most people would know what you meant well enough though.
HTH HAND
Another idiot (Score:0)
Marriage is for suckers, officiated by a computer or not.
What a peculiar generalisation. Tell me, do you and your girlfriend appreciate it when people make derogatory generalisations about your relationship?;)
My GF has and I have no intention of getting married and we are doing just fine,
Good for you champ.
It's not necessary for children, nor happiness. Why bother?
Why not? Tax benefits of a legally binding marriage aside, some people genuinely enjoy celebrating their love for each other formally, in the presence of their friends and loved ones. I'm not sure why that's really so difficult to understand...
"Some of the same vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet superworm used to sabotage centrifuges at a nuclear plant in Iran exist in the country's top high-security prisons where programmable logic controllers (PLCs) control locks on cells and other facility doors."
They're going to spin the prison faster and faster until the cell doors shake off? Nice. I'd watch that.
There's a grocer down the road. He buys fruit and vegetables from farmers and sells them to people. What does he produce for society? Fuck all. He's acting as a middle-man between a seller and a buyer. Shit, we'd better close this loophole! It's not just the NYSE that it's affecting, it's right on our doorsteps!!!11!
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The police should be out on the street beating and arresting the scum who are torching houses and looting businesses, of course that might be dangerous so they'd better not. Pathetic.
They are out arresting people, idiot. Do you have absolutely no knowledge of how the police operate? Pathetic.
Facts. They are arresting people who were actually at the riots and committing crimes. Is it wrong to also follow other leads to apprehend others? The rioters used Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry Messaging to organise themselves. Fact. The police are investigating social networks to try and track down the looters and rioters.
Exactly. Of course there are police on the streets. There are also dedicated police officers whose job is to coordinate police on the streets and to look at the overall intelligence picture to see where the next riot might spring up. Anyone who's saying that they're not doing their jobs by investigating Facebook/BlackBerry Messaging/Twitter leads has no fucking clue how these riots were organised and how the rioters were able to die back and re-emerge like the filthy cockroaches they are.
No. A "chav" (or in Scotland, a "ned") is more like redneck. If they have the designer gear and the latest trainers (sneakers) it's because they stole them or bought them on a credit card that will never be paid off. If they have a job it's normally something low-paid and unskilled.
A police spokesperson stated that given the heightened level of fear and the continued threat of violence what was considered "reasonable" use of force (the amount of force you're legally allowed to use in self-defence) would also be increased. Which I took to mean: If you have a gang of 5-10 youths trying to kick your door in, or break in through your window and you ding a couple with your cricket bat, you're more likely to get off than you would under normal circumstances.
Yes and no. Where it fails is when it suggests friends of friends on the periphery. For instance, I have friends and acquaintances from school who were friends with people I couldn't stand. Facebook seems to suggest these people constantly. They would probably rank highly based on the fact that I "went to school" with them and have lots of friends in common but I have no interest in being their friends after the fact. Similarly, I'm friends with my wife's cousin on Facebook. Facebook suggests her friends to me. I meet the cousin at family get-togethers, weddings, funerals etc. but I have zero interest in adding her friends on Facebook. For anyone, like me, who only adds friends and family to my friends list, the suggestions are way off base.
:)
It worked up to a point and like you, I was impressed, but once you're friends with all the people who you want to be friends with on Facebook, they really struggle to suggest more friends. Just wait, and you'll see what I mean...
What if it was a pill you could take regularly, say every morning or evening, as a preventative measure? If you wait until you're symptomatic, surely there's a lot more killing to be done than if it's just got to mop-up the early stages of an infection? Or is that naive layman's interpretation not accurate?
Geez, the day they cure AIDS, I'm predicting the divorce rate will skyrocket with a ton of guys going "Later Bitch"....and not having to worry about dying if they get laid by someone different.
No offence, but you're a fucking idiot. The day they "cure" AIDS, the divorce rate won't sky-rocket. Do you seriously think "fear of dying from AIDS related illnesses" is a major reason why people stay in marriages rather than getting divorces? That's the most retarded thing I've read this week, a week in which I've read several YouTube comments.
And yet the rest of the world knows why the 4th of July is significant.
"Worst", but you're probably right. It doesn't seem like one of those domains where you get to spend as long as you want to get it perfect (with a few noticeable exceptions) so it's a case of hack it 'til it works, throw it over the wall and have our customers beta test it for us.
Would it be accurate to say that only in California could a 5 car fender-bender involve three Priuses?
The reason for releasing source code as open source isn't so that you can download it for free, compile it, and have a working copy of Doom 3, it's so that people can look at the code, learn from it, port the game to new architectures or mod the source to add new features/take advantage of new technology. Several original games have been developed using previously released id source code: (Someone should really invent some kind of "Search" "Engine" for this internet thing...)
Nexuiz
Urban Terror
Tremulous
Sadly, I suspect that you won't appreciate the value of any of that, having phrased your questions the way you did.
Old, rich, white, stupid assholes.
Wow, that's pathetic. You haven't posted for over 3 years, and thought that was *the* thing you needed to say now?
Woah. Have you had a sense-of-humour-ectomy?
Grease me up lads, I'm going in!
Ah, yes you have. Nevermind.
I stand corrected. Presumably if it wasn't caught by customs you would be free and clear though? Owning the game isn't illegal is it? Bah, even if it were, it'd be unenforceable, which is all that matters. And as another poster has pointed out, are they able to stop people downloading it through legal channels? Illegal?
Man, Australia is a fucked up place.
Well, IIRC, technically, it wouldn't be illegal. It's not illegal to buy the game in Australia, or for someone to buy it in another country and bring it into Australia. It would be illegal to sell it in Australia though. It was my understanding that if someone bought it from Amazon/Steam etc. and downloaded it or had it shipped to Australia it wouldn't be breaking the law. I'm pretty sure a great many people already do this...
London Heathrow Airport is inside the M25 and only around 20 miles from the "centre" of London but, more importantly, Heathrow lies within the London borough of Hillingdon, which may or may not be one of the "London councils" to which the F article alludes. Without knowing whether Virgin media's plan is for the City of London, Inner London, or Outer London, it's hard to say whether or not it will have any affect on Heathrow.
As for "blazing 10 Mbps", where does the author live that he calls that blazing? Malawi?
Or, according to your own link, any of the other 100 countries (~58% of the list) whose average download speed is less than half of that speed? Only around 19% of the countries on that list have average download speeds of 10Mbps or greater. But yes you're right, 10Mbps in London is probably on the low end of the spectrum. On the other hand, I suspect 10Mbps, to many people living in rural England, or even those in the commuter belt, might be considered "blazingly fast".
Heh, yeah, I was imparting a silly factoid, not trying to be clever. Maybe I should have worded it differently. Hell the whole thing is moot anyway, because they got "married" in their damn garden. But the "aisles", as labelled on many "Welcome to X church/cathedral" pamphlets e.g Chicester IIRC, always seem not to be part of the nave. Regardless, "Central Passageway" is probably most correct to describe "that bit of the church up which the bride walks", but is a bit of a mouthful. You're right, I didn't read the article. Having looked at it, it appears to differ from the articles on "Cathedral Architecture" and "Aisle" where the aisles are, again, shown as distinct from the nave. Oh, and I did make it clear that like Hoover (Vacuum cleaner) and Tannoy (P.A. system), everyone will understand you if you call it an aisle because it now has a general meaning as a passageway between areas of seating....but don't worry, after your stern telling off, if ever I decide to try and show off how clever I am, I will make sure I'm unambiguously right first[citation needed]. ;)
Seriously? No, seriously, are you kidding? How can you make any money on those sites? I considered it once, as a web developer, when I was really desperate for work, fresh out of University, but it just wasn't worth it. You're bidding against cowboys and school-kids to the point where you'd be better off working at McDonalds. And I don't just mean pay, I mean the hassle of ill-defined requirements and dealing with people who post shit like "Need a groupon clonne, easy to do for write person, budget $200. No time-wasters plz." Having quickly browsed some of the other categories, they seem to be plagued with exactly the same kind of problems.
Well, actually, to tell the truth, I buy my vegetables from the supermarket. Interestingly, they exploit their enormous buying power and reduced logistical costs and I get a much better price than if I went to the grocer. The grocer's prices are higher because they can't trade in the same volumes and aren't prepared to take the risk of being over-exposed. They only buy small quantities of things, so that if they can't sell them, they haven't lost much. The supermarket, I think, can afford certain losses because they sell higher volumes and can make their money back on pumpkins if the swedes aren't selling well. Anyway, I could get them marginally cheaper if I went directly to the farmers, but that takes too much effort, and I'm prepared to pay the small amount extra at the supermarket for the convenience. See the parallel?
Credit swaps? Who brought that up? (No-one.) Being able to buy and sell stocks at better prices is beneficial to society. So what if it's intangible? My mp3 collection is intangible. My internet connection is intangible. The added value I may get from the supermarket selling me cheaper vegetables is no different from the added value I may get as a result of HFT. In one case, I have bought some potatoes, in the other, I have some stock. In both cases, a third party satisfies the needs of a buyer and a seller and his reward is the difference between the buy price and the sell price. If the seller gets what he wants and the buyer gets what he wants, how is the third party cheating anyone? Fair exchange is no robbery, sport.
Walking down the isle
1. The word is "aisle"
2. The main approach to the altar is, more accurately, "the nave", not "the aisle". Most people would know what you meant well enough though.
HTH HAND
Another idiot (Score:0)
Marriage is for suckers, officiated by a computer or not.
What a peculiar generalisation. Tell me, do you and your girlfriend appreciate it when people make derogatory generalisations about your relationship? ;)
My GF has and I have no intention of getting married and we are doing just fine,
Good for you champ.
It's not necessary for children, nor happiness. Why bother?
Why not? Tax benefits of a legally binding marriage aside, some people genuinely enjoy celebrating their love for each other formally, in the presence of their friends and loved ones. I'm not sure why that's really so difficult to understand...
"Some of the same vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet superworm used to sabotage centrifuges at a nuclear plant in Iran exist in the country's top high-security prisons where programmable logic controllers (PLCs) control locks on cells and other facility doors."
They're going to spin the prison faster and faster until the cell doors shake off? Nice. I'd watch that.
There's a grocer down the road. He buys fruit and vegetables from farmers and sells them to people. What does he produce for society? Fuck all. He's acting as a middle-man between a seller and a buyer. Shit, we'd better close this loophole! It's not just the NYSE that it's affecting, it's right on our doorsteps!!!11!