Because the UK government has absolutely no clue how many illegal immigrants there in the country let alone who or where they are. The only time they are detected is if they are arrested for something else or come to the attention of the Police or a government agency.
Thats mostly nonsense. Of course the UK is a long long way from turning into a Sharia state but there are an increasing number of people living here who think Sharia law would be a good thing. Thanks to the failed attempts at multiculturism which have simply increased the cultural gaps between various groups of people living here there are some areas which are, beyond any doubt at all, producing English born Muslim terrorists. The fact that in the main they are far more incompetent than the IRA ever was tends to suggest they are much less organised than some people might have us believe but it doesn't negate the fact that there is some reason they believe the things they do and they are determined enough to do something about it, no matter how badly they manage to do it.
I think you will find there are very few racist attacks by white people in the UK now, it seems to me that most people now have been brought up living and working with black and asian people for so long that this sort of racial tension is largely a thing of the past. The main problem we have to deal with are the pockets of society who do not subscribe to or have little interaction with mainstream British culture and now that the spectre of multiculturalism is being well and truly put to the sword there is a good chance this can be addressed through simply initiatives such as making sure everyone here can speak English and taking away the props we have provided which have worked to ensure people didn't have to take part in mainstream British culture if they didn't want to.
Well broadly I agree with you but there are various laws in the UK which do restrict what you can say publically that have recently been used to lock up muslims for saying things like "Death To Non Muslims".
I happen to think that on balance this is a good thing and it's nice to see that the legislation doesn't appear to be being used irresponsibly so innocent things like what this lad has done do not get people in trouble.
The big win of course is that any future protests in this area and throughout the country are free to call the COS a cult as much as they like and everyone is clear there is nothing which should be done about it.
Agree that trucks will always be around but rail is still vastly under utilised. There's no reason why the railway can't go to your distribution warehouse and in many cases ( in the UK ) this does happen.
I think a better way of looking at this is to say the amount that the guy was played for this game is about right and any other actors charging millions to do voice overs are far too expensive.
After all if this guy thinks he's worth millions of pounds then he's free to audition for Shrek 8 or whatever.
The way I see it his creative input in the game was minimal, he just turned up did his bit and left so by his reasoning everyone should be on a huge cut of the whole, the tea ladies, the cleaners, the receptionist, everyone.
Also in England, as I recall the folk knowledge says that Italians change sides whilst the French just surrender. It also tells us that Americans are more of a threat to their allies than to the enemy and the Germans, whilst coldy efficient war machines, can't think outside the narrow corridor of their 'orders'.
Quite true. It's often the case that the business side of businesses just do not understand how they contribute to the success or failure of software projects.
A good example is the place I am working at now, the development team are 18 months into a project and just entering the final stages of UAT. Throughout the entire process they have been fighting against almost total apathy from the business, they haven't read any of the specifications properly or understood exactly what the new system will actually ( many meetings etc booked on this subject had 0 attendance ) and the refuse to release staff for training. The directors, who commissioned the project, do nothing to make their staff provide useful feedback or basically co-operate at all and keep on talking about canning the project altogether and outsourcing it because they feel it's currently taking too long and too expensive.
Now that the system is imminently going to go live and the users have been forced to actually use it there is a constant stream of complaints that it doesn't do that thing they never bothered to mention to IT at any point in the past and is, apparently, actually absolutely crucial to their job.
If this company were to outsource the work elsewhere the outsourcing company would have an absolute field day because the company basically doesn't know what it wants and large parts of it don't seem to want it at all which is the perfect recipe for an outsourcing company to take a very long time producing stuff that doesn't work for a nice big fee.
To be fair though if it really is that important to all those hippies and druids and the like you'd think they'd all cut their hair, get jobs and put some money towards doing something about it's preservation !
The British Government decided quite a while ago to get rid of any responsibility it had for looking after any of our historic buildings. Instead they set up the National Lottery to directly tax poor and stupid people with a remit to help good causes such as this one.
Even before that though most of these things are maintained ( or not ) by organisations such as the National Trust or museums and charitable organisations. I can't think of a single thing such as this building which is directly supported by the government, it's just something that in the UK has never been up to the government but is left to private individuals or charitable organisations to deal with. In general the government through it's local councils have no interest at all in maintaining any of our more historic buildings being quite happy instead to let them stand around empty for decades until they have rotted sufficiently to be knocked down and redeveloped. All most all of Birminghams historic Edwardian public baths are currently suffering from this treatment.
There was recently a BBC programme which allowed viewers to vote on which one of a dozen or so worthy historic buildings was given money for maintenance whilst letting the rest continue to fall into disrepair. Britains long range Vulcan bomber is being preserved and renovated by a private group of enthusiasts and BA are refusing to sell Concorde to a similar group of enthusiasts for preservation so in general here in the UK what is preserved and what is not is more or less a random lottery with many things falling by the wayside and being crushed underfoot.
I've been wondering how much certain record companies might owe me. They often sell live albums recorded when their artists have been on tour and these albums contain not only the protected intellectual property of the artist but also the protected intellectual property of the audience which they often use to fill in gaps between songs or fade in and out of the main song.
Now I have attended some of these concerts which were later either televised or recorded and these recordings do contain my own work, mainly rythmic clapping and shouting but as yet I have to see a single penny from any of the record companies who, it seems to me, are intent on taking my own work and using it to sell records without paying me for any of the performance and composition rights I am owed.
If any lawyers would be like to comment and let me know how best to approach the companies in question with a view to getting my due royalties I would appreciate it.
Which article did you read ? The one I read went on and on and on about the various tiers of checking each file goes through to make sure it's a genuine infringement or not.
The stated goal of OOXML is to make an XML based file format compatible with all the proprietary binary bits of Office
And that's fine but why would you then want to also claim it should be an international standard ? This is where the disagreement arises because why should anyone else in the world be concerned about solutions to problems which only arise in one outdated set of Office Suites, what benefit does this bring to the international community ? I would say none at all and such things have no place in any international standard.
It's more accurate to say that on the one hand the purpose of OOXML is to make an XML based file format compatible with all the proprietary binary bits of Office and on the other hand the purpose is create an international standard controlled by Microsoft to help them lock customers in to soley Microsoft products.
If you can think of any good reason why an international standard should facilitate reliance on one company as its main goal then please do reply with your arguments.
I'd imagine so long as it had enough buoyancy it could stay afloat indefinitely so I imagine the real challenge would be to generate enough power to maintain a course and not just drift. Of course the mast could break or the sail rip or whatever I suppose which might put to an end to things.
To be fair the grandparent poster is right, a dozen or so failures out of tens of thousands is not too bad going and I have to say yum is right now failing to update things properly on my machine. It seems to have got confused as to which nvidia module to use with the kernel with the result that you need to set up the screen resolution etc everytime it boots.
I agree entirely. It's interesting to look at how the British dealt with terrorists in Malaysia when it was a British territory in the 1950s. The three main strands of the, successful, operation were to firstly protect the non terrorist population by moving them to expensively constructed model villages which could be protected effectively. Secondly to pursue any terrorist incursion ruthlessly, killing the terrorists and bringing back their heads to publicly demonstrate the likely fate of terrorists and thirdly of agreeing to Malaysian independance once the terrorist problem was successfully dealt with.
Obviously the exact methods used would be different in Iraq but the principle is the same and most probably where much of the information for the US Counterinsurgency manual was gleaned from. Provide the population with what they need to live nice lives, separate the terrorists and prevent them harming civilians and if there are wider issues to be addressed then address them openly and sensibly. Unfortuantley this costs an awful lot of money and means you must also be really prepared to negotiate.
You _cannot_ make a book set explicitly in that world and _charge_ for it. You cannot make a movie set in that world and _charge for it_.
I really don't see why not, I understand copyright prevents you from photocopying someones work but does it really prevent you from using their ideas or some sort of imaginary world they talk about in their books.
If that's the case surely Stevenson should have been sued by Scott for his blatant use of Scotts romantised version of Scotland used in Kidnapped!
Every form of life we know about attempts to colonise any available niches they are physically able to access so on balance it's probably more likely that any forms of life existing elsewhere in the universe will also try to do the same because if they didn't they simply wouldn't be have been able to survive whatever localised environment they used to live in before it got wiped out by some form of disaster.
If we had the technology to do so then we would make every attempt to colonise other planets and solar systems since our natural curiosity would take us there to explore and then its but a short step to setting up permament bases.
You're absolutely right, I couldn't give a toss who each individual poster is provided that what they have to say is interesting to read.
All of these blah, blah, twitter, blah, blah, sockpuppet posts are just moronic, annoying trolling and I wish you would stop because it's not in the least bit interesting.
Everyone posting this "it's a sockpuppet" name calling is going on my foes list so I never have to see it again.
or that your are just too stupid to comprehend what you read
Or, the more likely option, that what I'm reading is incomprehensively stupid.
Since when has Germany been equated with the whole of Europe ? Most of the rest of Europe was busy fighting Hitler, with varying degrees of success, long before the US ever showed up so to claim that all of Europe are guilty of running aggressive dictatorships is, quite frankly, idiotic. Now the events you are talking about happened almost 70 years ago, 70 years before that the US was busy finishing off the ethnic cleansing of it's native American population but that is just as irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
More recently the US has shown its self to act totally in its own interests and it's not surprising that Europe doens't want to rely on the goodwill of US foreign policy for vital GPS services which isn't to say the US is doing anything wrong, it's perfectly entitled to act in its own interests, but is to say it's good to have an alternative.
I'm sure I remember discussions with you previously where you were sure the WMD were going to be turning up any day now, how are you getting on with that ?
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Because the UK government has absolutely no clue how many illegal immigrants there in the country let alone who or where they are. The only time they are detected is if they are arrested for something else or come to the attention of the Police or a government agency.
Thats mostly nonsense. Of course the UK is a long long way from turning into a Sharia state but there are an increasing number of people living here who think Sharia law would be a good thing. Thanks to the failed attempts at multiculturism which have simply increased the cultural gaps between various groups of people living here there are some areas which are, beyond any doubt at all, producing English born Muslim terrorists. The fact that in the main they are far more incompetent than the IRA ever was tends to suggest they are much less organised than some people might have us believe but it doesn't negate the fact that there is some reason they believe the things they do and they are determined enough to do something about it, no matter how badly they manage to do it.
I think you will find there are very few racist attacks by white people in the UK now, it seems to me that most people now have been brought up living and working with black and asian people for so long that this sort of racial tension is largely a thing of the past. The main problem we have to deal with are the pockets of society who do not subscribe to or have little interaction with mainstream British culture and now that the spectre of multiculturalism is being well and truly put to the sword there is a good chance this can be addressed through simply initiatives such as making sure everyone here can speak English and taking away the props we have provided which have worked to ensure people didn't have to take part in mainstream British culture if they didn't want to.
Well broadly I agree with you but there are various laws in the UK which do restrict what you can say publically that have recently been used to lock up muslims for saying things like "Death To Non Muslims".
I happen to think that on balance this is a good thing and it's nice to see that the legislation doesn't appear to be being used irresponsibly so innocent things like what this lad has done do not get people in trouble.
The big win of course is that any future protests in this area and throughout the country are free to call the COS a cult as much as they like and everyone is clear there is nothing which should be done about it.
Agree that trucks will always be around but rail is still vastly under utilised. There's no reason why the railway can't go to your distribution warehouse and in many cases ( in the UK ) this does happen.
I think a better way of looking at this is to say the amount that the guy was played for this game is about right and any other actors charging millions to do voice overs are far too expensive.
After all if this guy thinks he's worth millions of pounds then he's free to audition for Shrek 8 or whatever.
The way I see it his creative input in the game was minimal, he just turned up did his bit and left so by his reasoning everyone should be on a huge cut of the whole, the tea ladies, the cleaners, the receptionist, everyone.
I'm Joe, you insensitive clod.
Also in England, as I recall the folk knowledge says that Italians change sides whilst the French just surrender. It also tells us that Americans are more of a threat to their allies than to the enemy and the Germans, whilst coldy efficient war machines, can't think outside the narrow corridor of their 'orders'.
Quite true. It's often the case that the business side of businesses just do not understand how they contribute to the success or failure of software projects.
A good example is the place I am working at now, the development team are 18 months into a project and just entering the final stages of UAT. Throughout the entire process they have been fighting against almost total apathy from the business, they haven't read any of the specifications properly or understood exactly what the new system will actually ( many meetings etc booked on this subject had 0 attendance ) and the refuse to release staff for training. The directors, who commissioned the project, do nothing to make their staff provide useful feedback or basically co-operate at all and keep on talking about canning the project altogether and outsourcing it because they feel it's currently taking too long and too expensive.
Now that the system is imminently going to go live and the users have been forced to actually use it there is a constant stream of complaints that it doesn't do that thing they never bothered to mention to IT at any point in the past and is, apparently, actually absolutely crucial to their job.
If this company were to outsource the work elsewhere the outsourcing company would have an absolute field day because the company basically doesn't know what it wants and large parts of it don't seem to want it at all which is the perfect recipe for an outsourcing company to take a very long time producing stuff that doesn't work for a nice big fee.
To be fair though if it really is that important to all those hippies and druids and the like you'd think they'd all cut their hair, get jobs and put some money towards doing something about it's preservation !
The British Government decided quite a while ago to get rid of any responsibility it had for looking after any of our historic buildings. Instead they set up the National Lottery to directly tax poor and stupid people with a remit to help good causes such as this one.
Even before that though most of these things are maintained ( or not ) by organisations such as the National Trust or museums and charitable organisations. I can't think of a single thing such as this building which is directly supported by the government, it's just something that in the UK has never been up to the government but is left to private individuals or charitable organisations to deal with. In general the government through it's local councils have no interest at all in maintaining any of our more historic buildings being quite happy instead to let them stand around empty for decades until they have rotted sufficiently to be knocked down and redeveloped. All most all of Birminghams historic Edwardian public baths are currently suffering from this treatment.
There was recently a BBC programme which allowed viewers to vote on which one of a dozen or so worthy historic buildings was given money for maintenance whilst letting the rest continue to fall into disrepair. Britains long range Vulcan bomber is being preserved and renovated by a private group of enthusiasts and BA are refusing to sell Concorde to a similar group of enthusiasts for preservation so in general here in the UK what is preserved and what is not is more or less a random lottery with many things falling by the wayside and being crushed underfoot.
I've been wondering how much certain record companies might owe me. They often sell live albums recorded when their artists have been on tour and these albums contain not only the protected intellectual property of the artist but also the protected intellectual property of the audience which they often use to fill in gaps between songs or fade in and out of the main song.
Now I have attended some of these concerts which were later either televised or recorded and these recordings do contain my own work, mainly rythmic clapping and shouting but as yet I have to see a single penny from any of the record companies who, it seems to me, are intent on taking my own work and using it to sell records without paying me for any of the performance and composition rights I am owed.
If any lawyers would be like to comment and let me know how best to approach the companies in question with a view to getting my due royalties I would appreciate it.
Which article did you read ? The one I read went on and on and on about the various tiers of checking each file goes through to make sure it's a genuine infringement or not.
And that's fine but why would you then want to also claim it should be an international standard ? This is where the disagreement arises because why should anyone else in the world be concerned about solutions to problems which only arise in one outdated set of Office Suites, what benefit does this bring to the international community ? I would say none at all and such things have no place in any international standard.
It's more accurate to say that on the one hand the purpose of OOXML is to make an XML based file format compatible with all the proprietary binary bits of Office and on the other hand the purpose is create an international standard controlled by Microsoft to help them lock customers in to soley Microsoft products.
If you can think of any good reason why an international standard should facilitate reliance on one company as its main goal then please do reply with your arguments.
I'd imagine so long as it had enough buoyancy it could stay afloat indefinitely so I imagine the real challenge would be to generate enough power to maintain a course and not just drift. Of course the mast could break or the sail rip or whatever I suppose which might put to an end to things.
So to summarise a little then...
Cost is not a good way of determining how green something is.
To be fair the grandparent poster is right, a dozen or so failures out of tens of thousands is not too bad going and I have to say yum is right now failing to update things properly on my machine. It seems to have got confused as to which nvidia module to use with the kernel with the result that you need to set up the screen resolution etc everytime it boots.
I agree entirely. It's interesting to look at how the British dealt with terrorists in Malaysia when it was a British territory in the 1950s. The three main strands of the, successful, operation were to firstly protect the non terrorist population by moving them to expensively constructed model villages which could be protected effectively. Secondly to pursue any terrorist incursion ruthlessly, killing the terrorists and bringing back their heads to publicly demonstrate the likely fate of terrorists and thirdly of agreeing to Malaysian independance once the terrorist problem was successfully dealt with.
Obviously the exact methods used would be different in Iraq but the principle is the same and most probably where much of the information for the US Counterinsurgency manual was gleaned from. Provide the population with what they need to live nice lives, separate the terrorists and prevent them harming civilians and if there are wider issues to be addressed then address them openly and sensibly. Unfortuantley this costs an awful lot of money and means you must also be really prepared to negotiate.
Norway isn't even in the EU so next time you make up some lie to lend slightly more credence to your inane drivel please do a little more research.
It seems to be some sort of Americanism which despite making no sense is in quite wide usage.
I really don't see why not, I understand copyright prevents you from photocopying someones work but does it really prevent you from using their ideas or some sort of imaginary world they talk about in their books.
If that's the case surely Stevenson should have been sued by Scott for his blatant use of Scotts romantised version of Scotland used in Kidnapped!
Moby Dick is crap unless you have some sort of pervese interest in vast quantities of questionable supposition as to the habits of Whales.
Every form of life we know about attempts to colonise any available niches they are physically able to access so on balance it's probably more likely that any forms of life existing elsewhere in the universe will also try to do the same because if they didn't they simply wouldn't be have been able to survive whatever localised environment they used to live in before it got wiped out by some form of disaster.
If we had the technology to do so then we would make every attempt to colonise other planets and solar systems since our natural curiosity would take us there to explore and then its but a short step to setting up permament bases.
You're absolutely right, I couldn't give a toss who each individual poster is provided that what they have to say is interesting to read.
All of these blah, blah, twitter, blah, blah, sockpuppet posts are just moronic, annoying trolling and I wish you would stop because it's not in the least bit interesting.
Everyone posting this "it's a sockpuppet" name calling is going on my foes list so I never have to see it again.
Thats because SCO have no claims left and are only there to answer Novells counterclaims.
Or, the more likely option, that what I'm reading is incomprehensively stupid.
Since when has Germany been equated with the whole of Europe ? Most of the rest of Europe was busy fighting Hitler, with varying degrees of success, long before the US ever showed up so to claim that all of Europe are guilty of running aggressive dictatorships is, quite frankly, idiotic. Now the events you are talking about happened almost 70 years ago, 70 years before that the US was busy finishing off the ethnic cleansing of it's native American population but that is just as irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
More recently the US has shown its self to act totally in its own interests and it's not surprising that Europe doens't want to rely on the goodwill of US foreign policy for vital GPS services which isn't to say the US is doing anything wrong, it's perfectly entitled to act in its own interests, but is to say it's good to have an alternative.
I'm sure I remember discussions with you previously where you were sure the WMD were going to be turning up any day now, how are you getting on with that ?