Sounds ideal although you equally well find your new pet spent all day crouched in a box hissing at you and all night howling in the garden and screwing your neighbours only to turn up in the morning dragging a half eaten child into the kitchen to play with for a while.
Actually not, the process used is much more advanced and intensive than that.
First of all a set is built in a warehouse to mimic the location shown in the photograph, prisons are then scoured for inmates possessing a similar height and build to the suspect and placed on the set in the correct position. A special "twirling" device is then employed to physically "twirl" their head to correct angle as that used in the original photograph and a photo is taken. This photo is then checked for a match with the original, if there is a match then our suspect will have been caught. Unfortunately he is now dead.
Well the idea is on the loose but you'd probably be a dreamer or quite supersitious to believe it would be agreed before the final countdown is called on the whole top level domains issue.
So what do you think Ballmer meant when he said that Novell had signed a deal with Microsoft which allowed Novell to use Microsofts IP in Linux whilst Red Hat had not and should be obligated to pay Microsoft for their contribution to the IP Red Hat use in their products.
Sounds like a threat to me !
Amusingly this speech took place in the UK which doesn't recognise software patents in the first place.
I've been using Linux on the desktop for 7 years and I am, I admit, pretty thick. Certainly no smarter than your Aunt Tilly. Nonetheless I'd say the hardware situation on Linux is actually better than it is on Windows. I have several printer and scanners( Lexmark, HP, Epson ), including some multi function ones and they all worked instantly on Linux, no downloading drivers, no nothing. They just worked.
Likewise my cameras, and my friends cameras ( some of which don't work on his windows ) I just plug them in and away they go no hassles whatsoever and some of them aren't even just masquerading as USB drives they're all sorts of proprietry nonsense.
As for updates requiring you to reset modelines I've never had any experience like that in at least 2 years and that's applying the latest updates whenever and as soon as they are available. A box pops up and asks me if I want to install the latest updates to all my software, my graphics packages, my music player, my web browser and everything else. I click yes and it all just works, hardly any rebooting required either and never, ever, has it dropped my back to the console. Not once.
The fact is Linux is a perfectly acceptable desktop OS that absolutely everyone can use with less technical knowledge than you'd need for Windows.
In my house we didn't have a Moma, the matriarch was referred to as Mum or in northern parts as Mom. It's possible some households referred to toilet paper as arse-wipes but never asswipes and they would be presented on a 15.24cm carboard tube.
Some of my neighbours refer to a thing called a bab-ee which I assume is some sort of benefits token they can cash in for houses and drinking money, I'm not sure what the American term for that is ?
I'm sure there's a lot of good American food but it's a fact that most of the world thinks the epitomy of American cuisine is the Big Mac which is why I picked those examples since they illustrate that peoples perception of a national cusine are not necessarily accurate.
Only the term ice cream and adding a cone was invented at the Worlds Fair, it's been around an awful lot longer than that and in fact soft ice cream was invented by the English. Also french fries ( chips ) are definitely not an American invention although you guys have put a lot of effort into developing some sort of vile salty, crunchy abomination !
I think we'd better get used to terrorism because I suspect we're going to see more and more of it.
Governments and police forces around the world are getting access to ever more effective methods for non violently controlling crowds and neutralising protests. These methods include simply more active policing - photography, stopping people before they reach the main area of protest and the more hi tech things in development - heat rays etc.
I think this will lead to a situation where one of the main pillars of the generally effective method of overthrowing regimes, mass public protest and rioting, will become less and less viable which will cause any sensible would be rioters to turn immediately to terrorism.
Your parents experience was most probably heavily influenced by the rationing restrictions imposed during and after WWII. I am English and I can tell you that there's no way English cuisine is even remotely bland. Most English people would not say their food is bland, you are obviously badly out of touch.
Let's see if you can pick the shit food out of this little lot:
Chicken Tikka Masala Balti Sponge cake Fruit Crumbles Roast Lamb/beef/pork Yorkshire pudding Shepherds pie Hamburgers Pork Pie Spicy pickled onions Crappy, shit, bollocks hot dog "sausages" Beer
Did you guess the shit ones ? They were Hamburgers and Hot Dog "Sausages", cusine which is in fact Americas outstanding contribution to the world.
Just because it is triggered by poking the brain doesn't mean it's being experienced "without God's presence."
It doesn't mean it's not being experienced without the prescence of my next doors neighbours flying cat sheep either but that's no argument for the existence of flying cat sheep.
You may recall that one of the basic properties of any conception of God is that he is omnipresent
It's very hard to explain how anything can be omnipresent, and no one has made any serious attempt to prove how such a thing could be possible. A phsyiological effect which is capabale of being experienced by anyone in the world would be a good explanation as to why people believe religious deities can effect anyone at any time.
Your talk of South American practices is just further proof that chemical changes in your brain can produce 'religious' experiences and that this has been known to and available to humans for at least as long as they participated in organised religions.
This would all suggest, to a rational person, that religious feelings are something which can either occur naturally in people or be induced and that it's these experiences which have led to people in the past inventing religion, gods, spirits and all the rest of it to explain what we can now show is simply a normal part of the way our brains work.
The fact that the form religious beliefs take vary so very widely from culture to culture and through different periods of history is a very strong indication that the particular stories people invent to explain this facet of their behaviour is purely an invention taking roots from their own particular culture and not anything real handed down by a real religious deity. Peoples explantion for thunder were similary diverse before science provided the actual mechanism by which it formed.
1) There is an organ in the brain specifically designed to sense an omnipotent super being whos existence we have no evidence for whatsoever and in which even it's believers cannot agree on more or less any single point related to its existence including what it is, how it came to be, how it actually created anything, what it does, what it looks like, where it lives, what you should do to worship it, what is its point, why it makes no difference if people are religious or not etc etc etc
2) There is an organ in the brain which produces a specific state of mind in people which causes them to believe they having a 'religious' experience.
The idiots who believe the 1st explanation are really beyond hope at this point and there's nothing I or anyone else can say which is going to get through to them.
And do you think that because a country has officially declared it's self atheist that everyone who was previously religious just gave up overnight and also became atheists before they began the mass slaughter of their country men ?
I don't really think so, do you ?
In the case of Russia it seems much more likely that centuries of faith led exterminations of their countrymen made them more comfortable with the idea of continuing the same sort of thing even if they were, officially, doing it for non religious reasons.
Your characterisation of Randi and his methods is completely wrong, people who fail his tests are often upset to find the powers they thought they had, or were trying to convince people they had simply do not exist and so they use their abnormally large capacity for bullshit to whine and moan about how unfair it all was and how their particular ability can't function under such circumstances.
People who "dabble in the subtle realms" are often misguided, delusional or out and out charlatans. Such people often cannot stand to have their delusions shattered and be faced with the possibility that they are no more special and enlightened than anyone else or in some cases to have their lucrative money making scams proven to be nonsense.
It's more or less inevitable that our actions are going to cause some level of pollution the issue is managing the pollution so that it doesn't have a negative impact on our activities. For example the River Thames was at one point horribly polluted to the point it supported very little in the way of wildlife but now by managing the pollution in the river it has been dramatically cleaned up and improved so we still get the benefit from continuing the actions which caused the pollution whilst at the same time we don't lose the benefits of having a nice healthy river.
Light pollution is a similar case, it's perfectly possible to dramatically reduce it's effects whilst retaining the benefits light bring to us with the bonus that our night time view of the sky is not ruined.
If you'd built up a wall around your shed and perhaps a large maze with various traps and buried the whole thing hundreds of metres underground and the judge demanded access the authorities would just smash their way in with bulldozers and highly trained demolishion experts.
If you choose to hold the key in the head it's no different for the authorities to demand access to it or smash their way in with highly trained human rendition experts or psychologists. Or so I've been told anyway.
What a nonsensical write up. It would be nice if a lot of things happened, if I won the lottery, if my company decided to hire only lovely nymphomaniac ladies from now on and many other nice things which would be nice if they happened.
If the writer really thinks that any business opened their products purely because they belived in "openess" without it also making sense for them from a making money point of view then he'd have to be as stupid as someone who believes that Apples primary motivation is to irritate Microsoft.
Honsetly this is purely and simply a torrent of drivel, I think we deserve better.
I totally agree that arresting someone for wearing silly fancy dress to the airport, or even worse threatening to kill them, is absolutely stupid.
There was a case recently in the UK where a man who joked that there was nothing contraband in his suitcase - "apart from the bomb of course" who was arrested, charged and convicted and who as a consequence lost his job. In this case also the reaction from the authorities was completely over the top and stupid, the one set of people you can be fairly sure are not trying to smuggle bombs onto planes are the ones who are jokingly telling you thats what they're doing.
On the other hand the over reaction is entirely predictable and anyone wearing silly fancy dress or making daft jokes at airports has got to have some clue their behaviour will get them the kind of attention they really don't want.
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Sounds ideal although you equally well find your new pet spent all day crouched in a box hissing at you and all night howling in the garden and screwing your neighbours only to turn up in the morning dragging a half eaten child into the kitchen to play with for a while.
It could all go horribly wrong !
Actually not, the process used is much more advanced and intensive than that.
First of all a set is built in a warehouse to mimic the location shown in the photograph, prisons are then scoured for inmates possessing a similar height and build to the suspect and placed on the set in the correct position. A special "twirling" device is then employed to physically "twirl" their head to correct angle as that used in the original photograph and a photo is taken. This photo is then checked for a match with the original, if there is a match then our suspect will have been caught. Unfortunately he is now dead.
Well the idea is on the loose but you'd probably be a dreamer or quite supersitious to believe it would be agreed before the final countdown is called on the whole top level domains issue.
No, I think its only the US and possibly Iraq which go in for that sort of nonsense.
No.
So what do you think Ballmer meant when he said that Novell had signed a deal with Microsoft which allowed Novell to use Microsofts IP in Linux whilst Red Hat had not and should be obligated to pay Microsoft for their contribution to the IP Red Hat use in their products.
Sounds like a threat to me !
Amusingly this speech took place in the UK which doesn't recognise software patents in the first place.
I've been using Linux on the desktop for 7 years and I am, I admit, pretty thick. Certainly no smarter than your Aunt Tilly. Nonetheless I'd say the hardware situation on Linux is actually better than it is on Windows. I have several printer and scanners( Lexmark, HP, Epson ), including some multi function ones and they all worked instantly on Linux, no downloading drivers, no nothing. They just worked.
Likewise my cameras, and my friends cameras ( some of which don't work on his windows ) I just plug them in and away they go no hassles whatsoever and some of them aren't even just masquerading as USB drives they're all sorts of proprietry nonsense.
As for updates requiring you to reset modelines I've never had any experience like that in at least 2 years and that's applying the latest updates whenever and as soon as they are available. A box pops up and asks me if I want to install the latest updates to all my software, my graphics packages, my music player, my web browser and everything else. I click yes and it all just works, hardly any rebooting required either and never, ever, has it dropped my back to the console. Not once.
The fact is Linux is a perfectly acceptable desktop OS that absolutely everyone can use with less technical knowledge than you'd need for Windows.
Incidentally, is your toilet paper really 6inches wide ?
Vive la difference !
In my house we didn't have a Moma, the matriarch was referred to as Mum or in northern parts as Mom. It's possible some households referred to toilet paper as arse-wipes but never asswipes and they would be presented on a 15.24cm carboard tube.
Some of my neighbours refer to a thing called a bab-ee which I assume is some sort of benefits token they can cash in for houses and drinking money, I'm not sure what the American term for that is ?
Kitchen roll is a, usually perforated, roll of absorbent paper for use in the kitchen hence the term "Kitchen Roll".
Toilet roll is a, usually perforated, roll of abosrbent paper for use in the toilet.
Paper towels are squares, or rectangles, of absorbent paper usually stacked one on top of the other.
Tissues are like paper towels but usually more lightweight, often coloured or even perfumed.
Handy Andies are small packets of tissues which can fit convieniently in a jacket pocket in place of a hankerchief.
Who the hell are you ? Re-read this thread and see who I was replying to before you come here with your bullshit accusations !
I'm sure there's a lot of good American food but it's a fact that most of the world thinks the epitomy of American cuisine is the Big Mac which is why I picked those examples since they illustrate that peoples perception of a national cusine are not necessarily accurate.
Only the term ice cream and adding a cone was invented at the Worlds Fair, it's been around an awful lot longer than that and in fact soft ice cream was invented by the English. Also french fries ( chips ) are definitely not an American invention although you guys have put a lot of effort into developing some sort of vile salty, crunchy abomination !
I think we'd better get used to terrorism because I suspect we're going to see more and more of it.
Governments and police forces around the world are getting access to ever more effective methods for non violently controlling crowds and neutralising protests. These methods include simply more active policing - photography, stopping people before they reach the main area of protest and the more hi tech things in development - heat rays etc.
I think this will lead to a situation where one of the main pillars of the generally effective method of overthrowing regimes, mass public protest and rioting, will become less and less viable which will cause any sensible would be rioters to turn immediately to terrorism.
Your parents experience was most probably heavily influenced by the rationing restrictions imposed during and after WWII. I am English and I can tell you that there's no way English cuisine is even remotely bland. Most English people would not say their food is bland, you are obviously badly out of touch.
Let's see if you can pick the shit food out of this little lot:
Chicken Tikka Masala
Balti
Sponge cake
Fruit Crumbles
Roast Lamb/beef/pork
Yorkshire pudding
Shepherds pie
Hamburgers
Pork Pie
Spicy pickled onions
Crappy, shit, bollocks hot dog "sausages"
Beer
Did you guess the shit ones ? They were Hamburgers and Hot Dog "Sausages", cusine which is in fact Americas outstanding contribution to the world.
It doesn't mean it's not being experienced without the prescence of my next doors neighbours flying cat sheep either but that's no argument for the existence of flying cat sheep.
It's very hard to explain how anything can be omnipresent, and no one has made any serious attempt to prove how such a thing could be possible. A phsyiological effect which is capabale of being experienced by anyone in the world would be a good explanation as to why people believe religious deities can effect anyone at any time.
Your talk of South American practices is just further proof that chemical changes in your brain can produce 'religious' experiences and that this has been known to and available to humans for at least as long as they participated in organised religions.
This would all suggest, to a rational person, that religious feelings are something which can either occur naturally in people or be induced and that it's these experiences which have led to people in the past inventing religion, gods, spirits and all the rest of it to explain what we can now show is simply a normal part of the way our brains work.
The fact that the form religious beliefs take vary so very widely from culture to culture and through different periods of history is a very strong indication that the particular stories people invent to explain this facet of their behaviour is purely an invention taking roots from their own particular culture and not anything real handed down by a real religious deity. Peoples explantion for thunder were similary diverse before science provided the actual mechanism by which it formed.
There's two ways of looking at it.
1) There is an organ in the brain specifically designed to sense an omnipotent super being whos existence we have no evidence for whatsoever and in which even it's believers cannot agree on more or less any single point related to its existence including what it is, how it came to be, how it actually created anything, what it does, what it looks like, where it lives, what you should do to worship it, what is its point, why it makes no difference if people are religious or not etc etc etc
2) There is an organ in the brain which produces a specific state of mind in people which causes them to believe they having a 'religious' experience.
The idiots who believe the 1st explanation are really beyond hope at this point and there's nothing I or anyone else can say which is going to get through to them.
And do you think that because a country has officially declared it's self atheist that everyone who was previously religious just gave up overnight and also became atheists before they began the mass slaughter of their country men ?
I don't really think so, do you ?
In the case of Russia it seems much more likely that centuries of faith led exterminations of their countrymen made them more comfortable with the idea of continuing the same sort of thing even if they were, officially, doing it for non religious reasons.
Your characterisation of Randi and his methods is completely wrong, people who fail his tests are often upset to find the powers they thought they had, or were trying to convince people they had simply do not exist and so they use their abnormally large capacity for bullshit to whine and moan about how unfair it all was and how their particular ability can't function under such circumstances.
People who "dabble in the subtle realms" are often misguided, delusional or out and out charlatans. Such people often cannot stand to have their delusions shattered and be faced with the possibility that they are no more special and enlightened than anyone else or in some cases to have their lucrative money making scams proven to be nonsense.
It's more or less inevitable that our actions are going to cause some level of pollution the issue is managing the pollution so that it doesn't have a negative impact on our activities. For example the River Thames was at one point horribly polluted to the point it supported very little in the way of wildlife but now by managing the pollution in the river it has been dramatically cleaned up and improved so we still get the benefit from continuing the actions which caused the pollution whilst at the same time we don't lose the benefits of having a nice healthy river.
Light pollution is a similar case, it's perfectly possible to dramatically reduce it's effects whilst retaining the benefits light bring to us with the bonus that our night time view of the sky is not ruined.
Well quite possibly but since I can see what stuff my MP is voting for I can confirm that she was on the side of the righteous.
If you'd built up a wall around your shed and perhaps a large maze with various traps and buried the whole thing hundreds of metres underground and the judge demanded access the authorities would just smash their way in with bulldozers and highly trained demolishion experts.
If you choose to hold the key in the head it's no different for the authorities to demand access to it or smash their way in with highly trained human rendition experts or psychologists. Or so I've been told anyway.
Yep, I wrote to my MP about it, she said she agreed with me but all the other party drone MPs voted for it anyway.
Where the hell are you living ?
Every news program here has been leading with new about Burma for at least a week now, with up to 15 or 20mins of the program dedicated to it.
If you can get it try watching BBC News 24 although I'm sure CNN and the rest are covering it as well.
What a nonsensical write up. It would be nice if a lot of things happened, if I won the lottery, if my company decided to hire only lovely nymphomaniac ladies from now on and many other nice things which would be nice if they happened.
If the writer really thinks that any business opened their products purely because they belived in "openess" without it also making sense for them from a making money point of view then he'd have to be as stupid as someone who believes that Apples primary motivation is to irritate Microsoft.
Honsetly this is purely and simply a torrent of drivel, I think we deserve better.
I totally agree that arresting someone for wearing silly fancy dress to the airport, or even worse threatening to kill them, is absolutely stupid.
There was a case recently in the UK where a man who joked that there was nothing contraband in his suitcase - "apart from the bomb of course" who was arrested, charged and convicted and who as a consequence lost his job. In this case also the reaction from the authorities was completely over the top and stupid, the one set of people you can be fairly sure are not trying to smuggle bombs onto planes are the ones who are jokingly telling you thats what they're doing.
On the other hand the over reaction is entirely predictable and anyone wearing silly fancy dress or making daft jokes at airports has got to have some clue their behaviour will get them the kind of attention they really don't want.