Well said, the problem here is not genetically modified food but the behaviour of Monsanto. Unfortunately some people tend to confuse the two.
I can understand Monsanto trying to protect their income but it sounds to me like they're being totally unreasonable with a lot of the action they're currently taking.
Who modded this nitwit informative ? Nihilists don't blow up factories ! Those are fiedists, not nihilists. Nihilists simply don't see the point in blowing anything up and believe the workers and owners should simply give it all up since it doesn't matter anyway !
You fail to grasp the utter pointlessness of nihilism so you're hardly qualified to use them in your post.
In the story mice can never become cats and cats can't become mice whereas in real life anyone can run for congress or become the president which is where the tale falls down.
The poster above was right, it would be more applicable to a monarchy rather than what you have in the US right now.
Through the hijacked connections, they issued commands (in the/topic and directly in the channel) that may alter or remove software installed on the client PC. Now, maybe the client wanted to have SpamBotFoo installed on their computer, and maybe they didn't, but at what point did they give their ISP permission to remove SpamBotFoo from their computer? Since when is it suddenly okay for an ISP to intercept outbound connections from a customer's PC, reroute those communications to a destination of their choice, and knowingly issue commands to software installed on their customer's PC that would alter the contents of said PC, or worse, remove software from it?
All the ISP is doing is using their network to redirect certain connections to an IRC channel and then issuing commands on that channel.
Anything which is connecting to this channel, whether the user has purposefully installed it himself or if it is there without his knowledge is nothing to do with the ISP. All they do is issue commands, it's up to the program running on the target PC to decide how to interpret these commands and take any action which damage the computer.
I agree the ISP know full well what's likely to happen but that's not the same thing as taking any responsibility for it.
If someone is connecting to your computer, asking for commands and you type something like "reformat hard drive" whatever that person then does based on your commands are nothing to do with you, you're not forcing them to reformat their hard drive they are choosing to do it themselves. Unless you have some kind of contractual arrangement with the person connecting which says what commands you can and can't issue then you can do what you like. The ISP does have a contractual arrangement with it's customers and you can bet it protects them fully in taking this sort of action.
I've always been into reading but in the main I enjoyed the books we had read for the English GCSE.
At the time these were; To Kill A Mockingbird which I really enjoyed and read as soon we got the book, Animal Farm which I'd already read many years previously, All Quiet On The Western Front which was a brilliant book and led me on to read his other books and Cider With Rosie which was also a great book although I'd already read some of his other ones.
We also had to read Hamlet which I thought was dull and uninteresting and various war poets which were probably good in their day if we'd have had any idea what they were talking about but in the event were also pretty dull.
People start reading Harry Potter because they hear it's popular and they like it because they haven't been exposed to any decent books or authors and have very little basis on which to judge the quality of what they've just read. This is because they are the sort of person to read things because they're popular and not because they're things they may enjoy.
I too think it's a shame that adults are resorting to reading things like Harry Potter, it's just a bit weird to be so enthralled with a childrens book.
The first book I remember reading was about a farm and I found it amazing because whereas previously I had looked at it and the words hadn't made sense this time most of them did and I could make up the bits inbetween I didn't understand to get the story ( which I think I new pretty well anyway ). This was probably when I was 3 or 4 and since then I must have read several hundred books because on the whole I much prefered to read books than bother to pay attention to a lot of school, and later it was much more fun to throw sickies and spend the day in the library than it was to go to work. I could normally get through one and a half average sized novels in a day.
I can't believe people who don't start reading as soon as they can, books are great which is why it's such a shame so much fuss is made of this one when there are far better alternatives out there.
I undertook my CS course with no computer whatsoever, OK I left after a year but most people I knew who stayed on never had a computer ( and one of them still doesn't even today ).
My site shows FF at around 27% and various versions of IE at around 65% which is a definite change from a year or so ago when FF was hovering at around 12%
Exactly, some guy was being interviewed on BBC News this morning ( the guy who was in that program with Magenta Vine or whatever her name was on BB2 in the 80's - Reportage ? ). He travels a lot and was commenting on the new security procedures at the airports.
He said, what must be pretty obvious to most people by now, that the security measures now in place were ridiculous and looked like they'd been thought up at the last minute without any real consideration ( e.g. not being allowed to take knives through customs but cafes inside the customs zone having steak knives in them ). The journalist posed the question that if there was another terrorist attack and the government hadn't been seen to have done anything then there would be all hell to pay. Whatshisname quite rightly pointed out that this could be used to justify anything at all no matter how pointless.
In fact it's also the fault of the media spreading general hysteria that forces the governments hand to enact stupid knee jerk legislation and the general spinlessness of most politicians trying to cover their own backs.
The problem is clearly that Australia isn't sufficiently similar to rural England, we should import more animals and plants and make a concerted effort to wipe out the last remaining hangers on from the failed and weak Australian native species and plants.
If the Australian eco-system can't even compete with a little pussy cat then it's clearly in serious problems.
I think the actual 'you' dies every second ( or whatever the smallest amount of time that effects your brain is ) and is replaced by an imposter who happens to have all your memories.
I can't see how else you know who you are if you have no memories you can use to tell you who you are. If you begin to behave entirely differently to the way you normally do people still think you're the same person just behaving weirdly but if you had ( for some reason ) a sudden complete change of memories people who be more likely to think of you as someone else.
Good thinking, Australia is plagued by flies and there's a lot of old people sitting around here with nothing much to do but clog up the buses and queue in the post office. We can export them to the outback.
In addition to everything everyone else above has said I think that previous to this the RAF bombers operated at a level far below what you might describe as precision bombing and the training and lessons learnt by the 'Dambusters' squadron was propogated through bomber command and helped lead to more accurate precision raids later on.
I would say that every Englishman is well acquainted with the work of Barnes Wallis and the famous Dambusters squadron.
I learnt when I was still a boy from my grandfather ( who was a spitfire pilot during the war ) whilst skimming stones and for everyone else there is the film Dambusters which is shown every Christmas and at periodic intervals throughout the year.
Additionally, the following highlights the difference between American and Glasweigan responses to terrorism.
America:"Oh my God! there was a man on fire, he was running about, i just ran for my life..i thought i was gonna die,he got so close to me" Glasgow: "C*nt wis running aboot on fire,so a ran up 'n gave him a good boot,then decked him"
America:"I just wanna get home,away from here..i just wanna get home,i thought i was gonna die" Glasgow:"here shug, am no leaving here till am oan a f*ckin' plane!"
America:"there was pandemonium,people were running in all directions, we didn't know what was happening, I thought i was gonna die" Glasgow:"F*ck this fir a kerry oan,moan we ll get a pint in"
America:"We thought he was gonna blow us all up he had a gas canister,and was trying to get into his trunk,i thought we were gonna die,i just ran for my life" Glasgow:"a swaggered by the motor that wis on fire,and the dafty couldnae even open his boot,he wis in fire annaw so a ran up n gave him a good boot to the baws"
America:there was this huge explosion,it sounded like war,i thought i was gonna die" Glasgow:"There wis a bang,yi know when yi throw B.O basher intae a fire it wis like that"
America:"i'm too traumatised even to speak,i thought i was gonna die" Glasgow "here mate,gies 2 minutes till a phone ma auld dear,if am gonna be oan the telly a want her tae tape it"
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Well said, the problem here is not genetically modified food but the behaviour of Monsanto. Unfortunately some people tend to confuse the two.
I can understand Monsanto trying to protect their income but it sounds to me like they're being totally unreasonable with a lot of the action they're currently taking.
Who modded this nitwit informative ?
Nihilists don't blow up factories ! Those are fiedists, not nihilists. Nihilists simply don't see the point in blowing anything up and believe the workers and owners should simply give it all up since it doesn't matter anyway !
You fail to grasp the utter pointlessness of nihilism so you're hardly qualified to use them in your post.
In the story mice can never become cats and cats can't become mice whereas in real life anyone can run for congress or become the president which is where the tale falls down.
The poster above was right, it would be more applicable to a monarchy rather than what you have in the US right now.
All the ISP is doing is using their network to redirect certain connections to an IRC channel and then issuing commands on that channel.
Anything which is connecting to this channel, whether the user has purposefully installed it himself or if it is there without his knowledge is nothing to do with the ISP. All they do is issue commands, it's up to the program running on the target PC to decide how to interpret these commands and take any action which damage the computer.
I agree the ISP know full well what's likely to happen but that's not the same thing as taking any responsibility for it.
If someone is connecting to your computer, asking for commands and you type something like "reformat hard drive" whatever that person then does based on your commands are nothing to do with you, you're not forcing them to reformat their hard drive they are choosing to do it themselves. Unless you have some kind of contractual arrangement with the person connecting which says what commands you can and can't issue then you can do what you like. The ISP does have a contractual arrangement with it's customers and you can bet it protects them fully in taking this sort of action.
I certainly enjoyed them as child, also Alan Garner wrote similar sorts of stories.
Indeed, people who think otherwise should read something by John Le Carre and then compare his characters with those of Rowlings.
I've always been into reading but in the main I enjoyed the books we had read for the English GCSE.
At the time these were; To Kill A Mockingbird which I really enjoyed and read as soon we got the book, Animal Farm which I'd already read many years previously, All Quiet On The Western Front which was a brilliant book and led me on to read his other books and Cider With Rosie which was also a great book although I'd already read some of his other ones.
We also had to read Hamlet which I thought was dull and uninteresting and various war poets which were probably good in their day if we'd have had any idea what they were talking about but in the event were also pretty dull.
Is this the theory then;
People start reading Harry Potter because they hear it's popular and they like it because they haven't been exposed to any decent books or authors and have very little basis on which to judge the quality of what they've just read. This is because they are the sort of person to read things because they're popular and not because they're things they may enjoy.
I too think it's a shame that adults are resorting to reading things like Harry Potter, it's just a bit weird to be so enthralled with a childrens book.
The first book I remember reading was about a farm and I found it amazing because whereas previously I had looked at it and the words hadn't made sense this time most of them did and I could make up the bits inbetween I didn't understand to get the story ( which I think I new pretty well anyway ). This was probably when I was 3 or 4 and since then I must have read several hundred books because on the whole I much prefered to read books than bother to pay attention to a lot of school, and later it was much more fun to throw sickies and spend the day in the library than it was to go to work. I could normally get through one and a half average sized novels in a day.
I can't believe people who don't start reading as soon as they can, books are great which is why it's such a shame so much fuss is made of this one when there are far better alternatives out there.
They already exist, several petrol stations in the UK have these.
In Soviet Russia retarded memes invoke you !
I undertook my CS course with no computer whatsoever, OK I left after a year but most people I knew who stayed on never had a computer ( and one of them still doesn't even today ).
My site shows FF at around 27% and various versions of IE at around 65% which is a definite change from a year or so ago when FF was hovering at around 12%
Thats the "Freedom" you'll have experienced there boy. Soon all the world will share in this wonderful "Freedom".
Exactly, some guy was being interviewed on BBC News this morning ( the guy who was in that program with Magenta Vine or whatever her name was on BB2 in the 80's - Reportage ? ). He travels a lot and was commenting on the new security procedures at the airports.
He said, what must be pretty obvious to most people by now, that the security measures now in place were ridiculous and looked like they'd been thought up at the last minute without any real consideration ( e.g. not being allowed to take knives through customs but cafes inside the customs zone having steak knives in them ). The journalist posed the question that if there was another terrorist attack and the government hadn't been seen to have done anything then there would be all hell to pay. Whatshisname quite rightly pointed out that this could be used to justify anything at all no matter how pointless.
In fact it's also the fault of the media spreading general hysteria that forces the governments hand to enact stupid knee jerk legislation and the general spinlessness of most politicians trying to cover their own backs.
I can already walk on water, I think these robots are a pointless abomination.
The problem is clearly that Australia isn't sufficiently similar to rural England, we should import more animals and plants and make a concerted effort to wipe out the last remaining hangers on from the failed and weak Australian native species and plants.
If the Australian eco-system can't even compete with a little pussy cat then it's clearly in serious problems.
I think the actual 'you' dies every second ( or whatever the smallest amount of time that effects your brain is ) and is replaced by an imposter who happens to have all your memories.
I can't see how else you know who you are if you have no memories you can use to tell you who you are. If you begin to behave entirely differently to the way you normally do people still think you're the same person just behaving weirdly but if you had ( for some reason ) a sudden complete change of memories people who be more likely to think of you as someone else.
Good thinking, Australia is plagued by flies and there's a lot of old people sitting around here with nothing much to do but clog up the buses and queue in the post office. We can export them to the outback.
In addition to everything everyone else above has said I think that previous to this the RAF bombers operated at a level far below what you might describe as precision bombing and the training and lessons learnt by the 'Dambusters' squadron was propogated through bomber command and helped lead to more accurate precision raids later on.
I would say that every Englishman is well acquainted with the work of Barnes Wallis and the famous Dambusters squadron.
I learnt when I was still a boy from my grandfather ( who was a spitfire pilot during the war ) whilst skimming stones and for everyone else there is the film Dambusters which is shown every Christmas and at periodic intervals throughout the year.
They should just introduce foxes to Australia, foxes eat rabbits - problem solved, what could possibly go wrong.
Or cats can eat rabbits too if they're hungry enough so maybe increasing the cat population in rabbit infested areas would help.
Well never mind, maybe one day you'll be able to save up enough money to leave and live somewhere nice ? I'll ask my prayer group to pray for you.
Additionally, the following highlights the difference between American and Glasweigan responses to terrorism.
America:"Oh my God! there was a man on fire, he was running about, i just
ran for my life..i thought i was gonna die,he got so close to me"
Glasgow: "C*nt wis running aboot on fire,so a ran up 'n gave him a good
boot,then decked him"
America:"I just wanna get home,away from here..i just wanna get home,i
thought i was gonna die"
Glasgow:"here shug, am no leaving here till am oan a f*ckin' plane!"
America:"there was pandemonium,people were running in all directions, we
didn't know what was happening, I thought i was gonna die"
Glasgow:"F*ck this fir a kerry oan,moan we ll get a pint in"
America:"We thought he was gonna blow us all up he had a gas canister,and
was trying to get into his trunk,i thought we were gonna die,i just ran for
my life" Glasgow:"a swaggered by the motor that wis on fire,and the dafty
couldnae even open his boot,he wis in fire annaw so a ran up n gave him a
good boot to the baws"
America:there was this huge explosion,it sounded like war,i thought i was
gonna die"
Glasgow:"There wis a bang,yi know when yi throw B.O basher intae a fire it
wis like that"
America:"i'm too traumatised even to speak,i thought i was gonna die"
Glasgow "here mate,gies 2 minutes till a phone ma auld dear,if am gonna be
oan the telly a want her tae tape it"
If recent events in Glasgow are anything to go by the civilians might be the terrorists biggest problem.
John Smeaton ( national hero ) has this message for any terrorists he or his countrymen come across
"This is Glasgow we'll just set about you"
Personally John himself has, famously, tackled one of the terrorists himself, this is what he says about it
"Me and other folk were just tryin ta get the boot in and some other guy banjoed him !"