Civil servants may not but I think the company involved here is the same one who's supposed to be running the goverments 'wonderful' ID card scheme so you really would hope they have the protection of data somewhere right at the top of their list of priorities. Obviously they don't.
I still don't quite understand though how he gets in there in the first place or why Magpies think they look him ! Silly birds, this is hardly any proof of intelligence.
Erm, isn't that a bit of a long winded complicated way of doing things ? I mean sure, Computer could do that for you but why not just ask instead ?
"Computer, where is " and that would be that. I mean typically she'd be stowed away in the engine room re-configuring the sensor array for some nefarious purpose but that's just kids nowadays I guess.
I disagree, some of the Tour De France stages where a couple of the leaders have been taking drugs have provided some much more exciting racing from a spectators point of view than the ones where no ones managed to drug themselves and everyones just clearly knackered and unable to make an real breaks or do anything.
Whatever your personal opinion of Maggie the fact is that the UK was in a better position when she left power than it was when it was taken over from Labour. Labour has the country in a worse position now than when they started, as they always do.
Well if that is what they're concerned with then you'd think they all get jobs as scientists and try to develop methods of using energy more efficiently rather than driving down to some power station on the south coast and sitting around camping next to it and trying to break into it.
The only point of view these people have is that we should all use less energy. That's it, they're nto doing anything practical to make things more efficient just moaning at the rest of us because we don't subscribe to their agenda. When it comes to practical solutions to the energy problem they're not interested, nuclear power ? No, nuclear bad ! GM crops to allow crops to be grown closer to their market ? No, GM bad ! Wind farms next to their cottages in the country ? No, eyesore !
They behave and talk moronically therefore I'm perfectly happy branding them as morons.
Here in the UK we've had a bunch of morons sitting around outside a power station protesting about it burning coal. Fair enough, thats only mildly moronic but when they are also rabidly against any nuclear power alternatives it becomes stupidly moronic and when they suggest that everyone currently working in the power industry should be forced to move to the Shetlands and build wind farms it's unbelivably moronic.
Also people like Prince Charles speaking out about GM crops sets everyone a bad example.
I guess drivers are useful when the track is being worked on, temporary speed restrictions are in place or workmen are wandering about on the line. This sort of work seems to be going on more or less 24/7 on the railways in the UK.
Dude, Enceladus is actually property of the British Crown. One of the conditions of allowing you Yanks up there to take a look is that the pictures are distributed for free.
Well if you're going to distill all animal and human characteristics into simple blocks such as "BASIC COMMUNICATION", "MOVING", "FEEDING", "BREEDING" then yes we do share all of these with animals. We're totally identical and you're absolutely 100% correct.
A lot of people think human speech is fundamentally different to animal skwaking or mewling but hey according to you their both BASIC COMMUNICATION and therefore totally identical right. Similarly a lot of people think humans ability to plan for the future and emaphise with whats going on around them and other stuff like that is also fundamentally different but no, it's all just "FEEDING", "BREEDING" etc isn't it and therefore 100% totally absolutely identical.
The amazing thing is though that if you take your theory a bit further and categorize everything as "BEING ON EARTH" then you discover we're also identical to plants, rocks, the grand canyon, in fact just fucking everything man. It's mindblowing. Well done.
The difference is, though, that your media is controlled by the government, and the government of your country has a history of altering any inconvenient truth to a justification for their actions, regardless of legality and morality
To be fair though there's quite a few western governments you could level this accusation at as well.
The thing is here though this guy is obviously reading news from a wide variety of sources both within Russia and from Georgia, the UK and America so I'd say he was seeking a more balanced view than perhaps many of the people here who are just reading the US/UK accounts.
They do say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder so considering that you are, presumably, a yank I guess you're right there aren't really all that many 25+ stone bloaters with frizzy hair and loud voices here. You could probably pick up something to your taste on one of our council estates. You're strange yankee tastes would probably be best served if you advertised for something like this
"Dole bludging chav minger required for randy Yankee Doodle Dandy. Supersize only"
Prayer in front of others is only wrong if you're doing it so other people see you praying
And yet having said that Jesus himself then goes on to pray in front of others to make a point of the fact he was praying ( on numerous occasions ) and to back up his claims that, being the son of god, he was the most devout person who had ever lived !
More crazy religious contradictions ! It amazes me anyone takes this rubbish seriously.
Whats also pretty clear is that there is an enormous gulf between the idea of Jesus addressing a couple of hundred interested parties in a field somewhere being a church and the enourmous individual money harvesting 'mega churches' or indeed the entire money harvesting and city owning catholic church.
The UK government is ineffective, not ineffectual. It's style of governance is a drunken lurch from one cock up to the next which is really bad way of running the country. I'd much prefer they just talked amongst themselves and got nothing at all 'done'.
What you and the BPI etc are ignoring here is the fact that music can be distributed for free, the fact that previously it couldn't is what the media companies have built their businesses around. Don't forget they are first and foremost distribution companies, it's down to the musicians to actually make the music.
Now the landscape has changed, their unique position as music distributors is in danger of being completely undermined and they are asking the people ( through requesting government legislation ) if it's acceptable for them to protect their existing business model and take steps to curb the free distribution channels which are replacing them.
It's up to us, the people, to decide whether or not we think the world is a better place with music companies to filter out and develop musicians for us or whether we think that even if music is distributed for free musicians will still be interested in making music for us to listen to. That's the real debate we should be having.
Personally I think musicians and music would survive the loss of music companies, good ones can make money from playing live and from the hundreds of annual music festivals using singles and albums to promote interest in their live shows.
It's only Virgin which is saying that you could be disconnected for behaving illegally, the ISPs who have signed up with the BPI are specifically not threatening disconnection.
The ISPs entire business plan is to get more people to use their broadband service and sign up to the 'biggest package' they can so it really is against their interests to threaten their own customers with disconnection or reduce the amount they download. If it wasn't for pressure from the government there's no way they'd even be considering sending letters and the only reason they are is in an attempt to stave off yet more badly thought out dangerous Labour legislation which would affect their business even more.
The UK government right now is in such a mess it's almost surreal. They have an unerring knack of seeking out absolutely dreadful headline grabbing initiatives which they seem to think will re-establish them as a party the public would like to vote for but which are in fact unbelievably stupid and ridiculed as such by the public at large. This is just yet another example and just highlights the fact the only people they are listening to are special interest groups and lobbyists.
The ISPs are only going to be sending out warning letters, they're not actually going terminate anyones contract or take any other sort of action except perhaps throttling P2P connections, which they probably do already and there is still a wide choice of alternative ISPs in the UK which have not signed up to this nonsense.
As I understand it the ISPs aren't doing any monitoring at all off their own bat, the arrangement seems to be that the media cartels do the monitoring, like they do anyway, and just tell the ISP a particular person might be doing something they don't like at which point the ISP simply sends the letter. A horrible arrangement for sure but not one which gives the ISP much grounds to go on when people start challenging their accusations of wrongdoing.
Hopefully at some point soon the ISPs will realise this is all much more trouble than it's worth and give up and the current government will call an election and get the boot.
The best option would be to blow a number of large, couple of thousand cubic miles, of the moon off into space and fit them with engines. Then you'd just have them orbit about the place and whenever a rouge asteroid was detected manuver the nearest large chunk close by to capture the asteroid in it's gravity and then safely drive it off somewhere else.
I'm sure this would be a really simple soloution and free from any dangerous side effects where things could go wrong.
Whilst it's conceivable they might just turn up near Earth with no conception of our military capabilities I think it's hardly plausible they actually would do. The reason that all our military vehicles aren't built like tanks is because the military relies on good intelligence to let it know when it has to deploy tanks against an enemy and when it can get away with using an unarmoured land rover.
Now I know why I don't generally bother reading these articles. This one has to be one of most cursory and pointless articles I have read in a long long time.
So, you would prefer the B2 to crash and kill the Air Force guys on board so it can't finish its mission? If so, why?
Yes, since I am not an American I think it's probably preferable for the crew of the plane to die than for them to complete their mission and, for example, kill hundreds of women and children attending weddings. They have after all chosen to fight for their country and accepted they may die whereas their innocent victims have made no such choice.
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Civil servants may not but I think the company involved here is the same one who's supposed to be running the goverments 'wonderful' ID card scheme so you really would hope they have the protection of data somewhere right at the top of their list of priorities. Obviously they don't.
I still don't quite understand though how he gets in there in the first place or why Magpies think they look him ! Silly birds, this is hardly any proof of intelligence.
How about Sabrewulf for the ZX Spectrum, I think you coud morph into a werewolf at certain times and experience its realm.
Erm, isn't that a bit of a long winded complicated way of doing things ? I mean sure, Computer could do that for you but why not just ask instead ?
"Computer, where is " and that would be that. I mean typically she'd be stowed away in the engine room re-configuring the sensor array for some nefarious purpose but that's just kids nowadays I guess.
I disagree, some of the Tour De France stages where a couple of the leaders have been taking drugs have provided some much more exciting racing from a spectators point of view than the ones where no ones managed to drug themselves and everyones just clearly knackered and unable to make an real breaks or do anything.
Whatever your personal opinion of Maggie the fact is that the UK was in a better position when she left power than it was when it was taken over from Labour. Labour has the country in a worse position now than when they started, as they always do.
Well if that is what they're concerned with then you'd think they all get jobs as scientists and try to develop methods of using energy more efficiently rather than driving down to some power station on the south coast and sitting around camping next to it and trying to break into it.
The only point of view these people have is that we should all use less energy. That's it, they're nto doing anything practical to make things more efficient just moaning at the rest of us because we don't subscribe to their agenda. When it comes to practical solutions to the energy problem they're not interested, nuclear power ? No, nuclear bad ! GM crops to allow crops to be grown closer to their market ? No, GM bad ! Wind farms next to their cottages in the country ? No, eyesore !
They behave and talk moronically therefore I'm perfectly happy branding them as morons.
It's not just the yanks suffering from this.
Here in the UK we've had a bunch of morons sitting around outside a power station protesting about it burning coal. Fair enough, thats only mildly moronic but when they are also rabidly against any nuclear power alternatives it becomes stupidly moronic and when they suggest that everyone currently working in the power industry should be forced to move to the Shetlands and build wind farms it's unbelivably moronic.
Also people like Prince Charles speaking out about GM crops sets everyone a bad example.
I guess drivers are useful when the track is being worked on, temporary speed restrictions are in place or workmen are wandering about on the line. This sort of work seems to be going on more or less 24/7 on the railways in the UK.
Dude, Enceladus is actually property of the British Crown. One of the conditions of allowing you Yanks up there to take a look is that the pictures are distributed for free.
Well if you're going to distill all animal and human characteristics into simple blocks such as "BASIC COMMUNICATION", "MOVING", "FEEDING", "BREEDING" then yes we do share all of these with animals. We're totally identical and you're absolutely 100% correct.
A lot of people think human speech is fundamentally different to animal skwaking or mewling but hey according to you their both BASIC COMMUNICATION and therefore totally identical right. Similarly a lot of people think humans ability to plan for the future and emaphise with whats going on around them and other stuff like that is also fundamentally different but no, it's all just "FEEDING", "BREEDING" etc isn't it and therefore 100% totally absolutely identical.
The amazing thing is though that if you take your theory a bit further and categorize everything as "BEING ON EARTH" then you discover we're also identical to plants, rocks, the grand canyon, in fact just fucking everything man. It's mindblowing. Well done.
Or "boo-ees" as Americans insist on calling them !
To be fair though there's quite a few western governments you could level this accusation at as well.
The thing is here though this guy is obviously reading news from a wide variety of sources both within Russia and from Georgia, the UK and America so I'd say he was seeking a more balanced view than perhaps many of the people here who are just reading the US/UK accounts.
They do say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder so considering that you are, presumably, a yank I guess you're right there aren't really all that many 25+ stone bloaters with frizzy hair and loud voices here. You could probably pick up something to your taste on one of our council estates. You're strange yankee tastes would probably be best served if you advertised for something like this
"Dole bludging chav minger required for randy Yankee Doodle Dandy. Supersize only"
Dick: Mr. President, we've found perchlorates on Mars!
Prez: Dribble . . . MAAAAAAARS ?
Dick: It's a planet, in the sky Mr President
Prez ( rolling eyes ): MAAAAAAAAARS ?
Dick: Yes, Mr President it's a planet and we have discovered percholate on it
Prez: Dribble
Dick: Listen, we'd like to invade some more places. Iran maybe and torture some folk. Are you cool with that Mr President ?
Prez: Slather ... MAAAAAAAARS !
Dick: Excellent, we knew you'd agree.
And yet having said that Jesus himself then goes on to pray in front of others to make a point of the fact he was praying ( on numerous occasions ) and to back up his claims that, being the son of god, he was the most devout person who had ever lived !
More crazy religious contradictions ! It amazes me anyone takes this rubbish seriously.
Whats also pretty clear is that there is an enormous gulf between the idea of Jesus addressing a couple of hundred interested parties in a field somewhere being a church and the enourmous individual money harvesting 'mega churches' or indeed the entire money harvesting and city owning catholic church.
The UK government is ineffective, not ineffectual. It's style of governance is a drunken lurch from one cock up to the next which is really bad way of running the country. I'd much prefer they just talked amongst themselves and got nothing at all 'done'.
What you and the BPI etc are ignoring here is the fact that music can be distributed for free, the fact that previously it couldn't is what the media companies have built their businesses around. Don't forget they are first and foremost distribution companies, it's down to the musicians to actually make the music.
Now the landscape has changed, their unique position as music distributors is in danger of being completely undermined and they are asking the people ( through requesting government legislation ) if it's acceptable for them to protect their existing business model and take steps to curb the free distribution channels which are replacing them.
It's up to us, the people, to decide whether or not we think the world is a better place with music companies to filter out and develop musicians for us or whether we think that even if music is distributed for free musicians will still be interested in making music for us to listen to. That's the real debate we should be having.
Personally I think musicians and music would survive the loss of music companies, good ones can make money from playing live and from the hundreds of annual music festivals using singles and albums to promote interest in their live shows.
It's only Virgin which is saying that you could be disconnected for behaving illegally, the ISPs who have signed up with the BPI are specifically not threatening disconnection.
The ISPs entire business plan is to get more people to use their broadband service and sign up to the 'biggest package' they can so it really is against their interests to threaten their own customers with disconnection or reduce the amount they download. If it wasn't for pressure from the government there's no way they'd even be considering sending letters and the only reason they are is in an attempt to stave off yet more badly thought out dangerous Labour legislation which would affect their business even more.
The UK government right now is in such a mess it's almost surreal. They have an unerring knack of seeking out absolutely dreadful headline grabbing initiatives which they seem to think will re-establish them as a party the public would like to vote for but which are in fact unbelievably stupid and ridiculed as such by the public at large. This is just yet another example and just highlights the fact the only people they are listening to are special interest groups and lobbyists.
The ISPs are only going to be sending out warning letters, they're not actually going terminate anyones contract or take any other sort of action except perhaps throttling P2P connections, which they probably do already and there is still a wide choice of alternative ISPs in the UK which have not signed up to this nonsense.
As I understand it the ISPs aren't doing any monitoring at all off their own bat, the arrangement seems to be that the media cartels do the monitoring, like they do anyway, and just tell the ISP a particular person might be doing something they don't like at which point the ISP simply sends the letter. A horrible arrangement for sure but not one which gives the ISP much grounds to go on when people start challenging their accusations of wrongdoing.
Hopefully at some point soon the ISPs will realise this is all much more trouble than it's worth and give up and the current government will call an election and get the boot.
The best option would be to blow a number of large, couple of thousand cubic miles, of the moon off into space and fit them with engines. Then you'd just have them orbit about the place and whenever a rouge asteroid was detected manuver the nearest large chunk close by to capture the asteroid in it's gravity and then safely drive it off somewhere else.
I'm sure this would be a really simple soloution and free from any dangerous side effects where things could go wrong.
Whilst it's conceivable they might just turn up near Earth with no conception of our military capabilities I think it's hardly plausible they actually would do. The reason that all our military vehicles aren't built like tanks is because the military relies on good intelligence to let it know when it has to deploy tanks against an enemy and when it can get away with using an unarmoured land rover.
Now I know why I don't generally bother reading these articles. This one has to be one of most cursory and pointless articles I have read in a long long time.
I made the same comment as the parent poster too.
Yes, since I am not an American I think it's probably preferable for the crew of the plane to die than for them to complete their mission and, for example, kill hundreds of women and children attending weddings. They have after all chosen to fight for their country and accepted they may die whereas their innocent victims have made no such choice.