I get loads of morons posting that kind of junk on my website, I think some of the content is similar to some kind of project American kids need to do so they come and make abusive remarks.
I love it, a lot of them are posting from their class rooms and it's usually easy to find out what school they are from, who their principal is and report them.
Then I block the whole sub-net which stops them from calling from again, you could try this and it might have more success than blocking specific IP addresses - OK it might block a lot of other people too but who cares ?
That is all as may be but the major effect so far as everyone else in the world is concerned is that it enables the movie industry to sell the same DVD's in different countries at different prices which from the consumers point of view certainly looks like price fixing.
I doubt he did that but if you read/. for a while you'll realise certain Americans have some weird idea that the quality of healthcare in countries is determined soley by dentistry and that everyone in all other countries has bad teeth and hygiene when compared to Americans.
There may be an element of truth in this since Americans need good teeth to consume the amount of food they do but I haven't actually studied this correlation.
I think this is some kind of reaction to the fact they have to pay directly for their Health Service.
Redhat release everything under the GPL, if Microsoft released all there stuff under the GPL then it would be a similar situation we are talking about here.
"Wouldn't it be great if you all improved Visual Studio or whatever for us free of charge between releases and then wouldn't it be cool if we kept your improvements and then sell them in our next version of Visual Studio."
I'm not sure that is a standard definition of Open Source Development.
Your last point is an admirable goal for humanity but 2 Billion years is a long time and to use the argument that the Earth will die anyway at some point should not be used to support the wanton destruction of our environment and the other species on Earth whenever it suits our short term goals or it is just an easier course of action than taking the environment and animals into account.
After all 2 Billion years is a very long time indeed and who's to say it will be humanity which makes it to the stars and not whatever weasels or something have evolved into in that time ?
Taking things a bit more into the realms of fantasy how bad would you feel if a species we drive to extinction would otherwise have developed intelligence, populated most of the universe and brought back humanity from fossilised DNA and brought you back from the dead to witness the wonderful universe they had created ?
In addition to that if you were an alien why on earth would you choose to fly around in the airspace of one of the most paranoid countries on Earth who also has probably the most sophisticated equipment to spot you and then spend your time on the ground cattle rustling and wandering around the farms and bedrooms of dumb hick rednecks ?
I seriously doubt you have ever been to France and witnessed this hatred of Isreal first hand but if you have in fact been there the French were probably just taking the piss out of your stupidity and winding you up.
That's one of the most disgusting things I think I have ever read and I think a good example of where all this state sponsored paranoia about terrorism is leading us.
Essentially the journalist is saying
"A lot of people who looked they might be foreigners got on the plane with us, all foreigners are likely to be terrorists. They did all the normal things groups of people do on planes but because they were foreign and looked funny my husband and I became more and more agitated and scared until we had worked ourselves up into a state of unreasoning terror brought about by our extreme suggestibility and lack of reasoning skills. At that point we broke into a full scale panic embarrassing not only ourselves but also the foreign gentleman, the aircrew and the undercover federal marshalls whose cover we blew."
Well apart from the Daily Mail and The Sun most of the papers in the U.K. are strangely quiet on the subject of "Large Groups Of Middle Easterners Conducting Terrorist Dry Runs Whilst Airport Staff Look On And Search Harmless Old Ladies"
So what do you think the newspapers who did witness this should have done, assuming they actually did witness it and are not just reporting the words of someone else who might have witnessed it, or there brother, or there cousins best friends babysitter who may have witnessed it ?
Do you think they should have A) Used it for a sensational fear mongering newspaper article or B) Pointed out to the airport staff that there was an obvious terrorist dry run going on under there very noses ?
The point is if it was a real terrorist dry run then when it was drawn to there attention any airport in the world would take very swift action whereas if the only terrorist dry run actually happening was in the imagination of the observer then they probably wouldn't do anything at all.
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I get loads of morons posting that kind of junk on my website, I think some of the content is similar to some kind of project American kids need to do so they come and make abusive remarks.
I love it, a lot of them are posting from their class rooms and it's usually easy to find out what school they are from, who their principal is and report them.
Then I block the whole sub-net which stops them from calling from again, you could try this and it might have more success than blocking specific IP addresses - OK it might block a lot of other people too but who cares ?
I know I am replying to my own post but this query was just a little touching
"what happens at a gentlemans club"
Aaah, so young, so innocent !
The most intriguing from my logs is
"german whore fare"
Or maybe they are trying to tell us something ?
That extended car advert bit in one of the recent bond films with the two cars dueling it out on the ice was just blatant advertising and quite dull.
The British do not smile, they smirk.
That is all as may be but the major effect so far as everyone else in the world is concerned is that it enables the movie industry to sell the same DVD's in different countries at different prices which from the consumers point of view certainly looks like price fixing.
Note the "Funny" rating my post has now recieved and try to chill out a little !
I think the photos are true, it's just the circumstances under which they were taken which is bogus.
I doubt he did that but if you read /. for a while you'll realise certain Americans have some weird idea that the quality of healthcare in countries is determined soley by dentistry and that everyone in all other countries has bad teeth and hygiene when compared to Americans.
There may be an element of truth in this since Americans need good teeth to consume the amount of food they do but I haven't actually studied this correlation.
I think this is some kind of reaction to the fact they have to pay directly for their Health Service.
Redhat release everything under the GPL, if Microsoft released all there stuff under the GPL then it would be a similar situation we are talking about here.
This is what I seem to be reading:
"Wouldn't it be great if you all improved Visual Studio or whatever for us free of charge between releases and then wouldn't it be cool if we kept your improvements and then sell them in our next version of Visual Studio."
I'm not sure that is a standard definition of Open Source Development.
Then I'd better use a machine gun
Your last point is an admirable goal for humanity but 2 Billion years is a long time and to use the argument that the Earth will die anyway at some point should not be used to support the wanton destruction of our environment and the other species on Earth whenever it suits our short term goals or it is just an easier course of action than taking the environment and animals into account.
After all 2 Billion years is a very long time indeed and who's to say it will be humanity which makes it to the stars and not whatever weasels or something have evolved into in that time ?
Taking things a bit more into the realms of fantasy how bad would you feel if a species we drive to extinction would otherwise have developed intelligence, populated most of the universe and brought back humanity from fossilised DNA and brought you back from the dead to witness the wonderful universe they had created ?
Isn't this exactly the same post as was on here 2 or 3 days ago ?
In addition to that if you were an alien why on earth would you choose to fly around in the airspace of one of the most paranoid countries on Earth who also has probably the most sophisticated equipment to spot you and then spend your time on the ground cattle rustling and wandering around the farms and bedrooms of dumb hick rednecks ?
In a similar vein; how come all those Sea areas are pretty dark ?
I guess it is something to do with all the lights next to it.
It would help business use whatever bits of Linux they liked without contributing anything at all to it's ongoing development.
All this talk of what was the world biggest explosion, I can tell you for truth that the worlds biggest explosion is the explosions in my pants, baby.
I think that since it is a sunken wreck it belongs to the Crown since it's sunk in UK waters.
Isreal ? Where is that exactly ?
I seriously doubt you have ever been to France and witnessed this hatred of Isreal first hand but if you have in fact been there the French were probably just taking the piss out of your stupidity and winding you up.
That's one of the most disgusting things I think I have ever read and I think a good example of where all this state sponsored paranoia about terrorism is leading us.
Essentially the journalist is saying
"A lot of people who looked they might be foreigners got on the plane with us, all foreigners are likely to be terrorists. They did all the normal things groups of people do on planes but because they were foreign and looked funny my husband and I became more and more agitated and scared until we had worked ourselves up into a state of unreasoning terror brought about by our extreme suggestibility and lack of reasoning skills. At that point we broke into a full scale panic embarrassing not only ourselves but also the foreign gentleman, the aircrew and the undercover federal marshalls whose cover we blew."
Well apart from the Daily Mail and The Sun most of the papers in the U.K. are strangely quiet on the subject of "Large Groups Of Middle Easterners Conducting Terrorist Dry Runs Whilst Airport Staff Look On And Search Harmless Old Ladies"
So what do you think the newspapers who did witness this should have done, assuming they actually did witness it and are not just reporting the words of someone else who might have witnessed it, or there brother, or there cousins best friends babysitter who may have witnessed it ?
Do you think they should have A) Used it for a sensational fear mongering newspaper article or B) Pointed out to the airport staff that there was an obvious terrorist dry run going on under there very noses ?
The point is if it was a real terrorist dry run then when it was drawn to there attention any airport in the world would take very swift action whereas if the only terrorist dry run actually happening was in the imagination of the observer then they probably wouldn't do anything at all.
Funny if anything.