This is assuming that people will actually listen to some loudspeaker telling them what to do, anecdotal evidence from the areas where the scheme is in place already seems to suggest this might not be the case.
Various people have been instructed by the voices to not cross the road where they were about to cross it but to walk up to the crossing and cross it there but instead of humbly complying they ignored the voice and crossed anyway. One person says he now crosses at this place every day just to hear the voice shouting at him. These were just innocent people who weren't actually doing anything wrong, they are all perfectly capable of judging for themselves where to cross the road and they don't need some idiot in a control room telling them how to do it.
Law abiding people are the most likely sorts of people to comply with the cameras demands and the people they really want to tackle, e.g. thugs, muggers, car jackers, drunk teenagers are very quickly going to realise that the voice can shout at them all night but with 19 out every 20 British Policemen and Women tied up in the police station reading up on the latest guidelines for dealing sensitively with ethnic minorities no police are ever going to turn up to actually stop them doing whatever it is they were doing.
If you're deciding whether or not extend human rights to a creature I think a decision based on whether the creature is human or not is far from arbitary.
What is arbitary is considering only great apes, why shouldn't dolphins or elephants be up for consideration too ?
I say we should consider them all and then decide based on whether or not they're humans, obviously they're not and therefore shouldn't have the same rights as humans. This is a very simple decision.
They could do this but they need to build more tracks and track building is not something the rail companies themselves seem to be able to do.
For example any train going from London to Edinburgh is almost certainly going to have to go through Birmingham where there is only a double track which is shared by both the long distance operators and local services so any delays by either services affect the other one.
The stupid thing is that they're talking about spending millions and millions of pounds rebuilding Birmingham New Street to present a better "image" and doing absolutley nothing to sort out more tracks for actual trains.
Currently the Virgin trains can go quite fast but only for short periods in the countryside, it took me 4 hours to travel from Birmingham to Glasgow on the train last year as opposed to about 2 hours door to door on the plane.
Well then the on-line gambling you can currently engage in within the US should also be banned. However its my understanding that this isn't the case hence the charges of protectionism.
I did some work for OCS once handling their fan mail, they are a dreadful band and the more sychophantic mails they recieved went straight in the bin and not on their mailing list at all.
I haven't heard anything from their record label but I would imagine its devoted to searching out yet more deadly dull paul weller alikes.
Since you still don't seem to have grasped what to everyone else here is blindingly obvious.
You said a $30 tool could perform simple photo editing tasks more quickly and easily than doing it on-line.
The other poster said you didn't even need to spend $30 since the GIMP could perform these tasks for nothing.
At this point you launched into some misguided rant that the GIMP could not do various types of processing that some software you are apparently selling can. This was and is irrelevant to the discussion.
You have since agreed that the Gimp can do the same photo editing tasks as the on-line software in question and you have agreed that it is free. Therefore you agree with the other posters point and seem instead to be trying to drum up some interest in your own products rather than participating in the discussion sensibly. Please don't do this, it's annoying !
I've been using digikam recently and I have to say I'm very impressed with it.
First off its free and offers all the photo manipulation stuff you're likely to find online and secondly its organisational abilities are extremely useful - including location based organisation. It also uploads stuff to Flickr and other places really simply.
Who the hell actually wants to be touring when they are in their 50s? I don't especially want to be working in my 50s either but the chances are that I will be so I don't see why artists should have any special exemption and in any case lots of them seem quite happy to tour long into their 50s, 60s and 70s.
I don't have much time for artists who don't do much touring since they tend to be the kind of morons you see on Pop Idol or McFly and other assorted crap. Most of my favourite bands seem to be playing somewhere or other every day for months at a time.
I think I must have got the wrong article from that link. The one I read said that there may be a replacement for Konqueror called Dolphin but that Konqueror would still be available if people wanted it.
Was the one about KDE Being The Holy Grail Of The Modern Desktop anymore interesting ?
Regarding the US funding of lunatic end timers in Israel. There was a documentary about this on a few months ago and it does seem that there is a lot of it about.
The funding comes from large US churches and goes to support all sorts of, basically evil, schemes designed to bring the Israel/Palestine conflict to a head and rid Israel of arabs. Examples include the massive funding available to anyone wanting to reclaim various sites for Christians rather than leaving them to the Muslims and some idiot oil man who is trying to discover oil in Israel in order to drain the Arab oil fields and precipitate a war.
You may have been out, buying cheesburgers or lard or something I expect, but I believe the announcement was made on the News recently that land has been discovered outside of US borders. The broadcast revealed there was a whole world out there.
So, now you know I guess you'll be breaking out the Canadian flag, buying some expensive and ostentatious camera gear which you don't know how to use and finishing off your voice coaching now that you have acheived the loud, grating braying noises you will be making as you explore.
I realise I may be falling for stereotypes and I am sure there dozens of exceptions to the picture I am so cruelly portraying. So, apologies to you.
I've never understood "imports", here I am in the UK about to buy an Album perhaps the latest offering from US band Sonic Youth and there's a lot of normal albums and one which says its an "import" when surely the whole lot is really an import from the US. Or perhaps I'm thinking of buying a new Belle & Sebastian album from the UK and alongside all their normal albums are some marked as "imports" when they are a UK band in the first place. It's ridiculous.
Not every artist has the ability to release 50-70 minutes of truly compelling art Really, any musician or band who can't manage to create that much listenable music are not really very good and probably not deserving of the term artist.
This is a country where warranties are of very little use since many of them don't offer anything above what you are already entitled to in the first place.
I agree that sustained abuse of grass can turn you into a bit of zombie during the day but no more than sustained alcohol abuse does, I have worked with both kinds of people and I think it's safe to say that had they not had weed and alcohol available they'd probably have been abusing something else. Personally I have tried a lot of both dope and alcohol and haven't find either of them at all addictive.
The vast majority of people are able to regulate their lifestyle perfectly reasonably, the main difference legalisation will make is that first of all the drugs are quality controlled, secondly the supply chains will out of the hands of criminals and thirdly you can have rules in place governing their use e.g. no selling to minors, no selling any more to people who are obviously out of it etc.
In our courts of law, alien visitation would be able to be easily proven I doubt that's true be it's definitely irrelevant. All that is required to prove your theory is one single bit of physical evidence. To date no such evidence has ever been discovered.
We don't really know how Aliens thought processes would work but we do have a fair idea of the physical practicalities of manufacturing space ships and embarking on space journeys and based on that it's very hard to see why anyone would simply fly over to stick a few probes up the butts of dumb American farmers and fly off again.
However until we have any evidence that Aliens are behind UFO sightings, which we don't, we shouldn't really spend too much time trying to justify how it might happen.
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This is assuming that people will actually listen to some loudspeaker telling them what to do, anecdotal evidence from the areas where the scheme is in place already seems to suggest this might not be the case.
Various people have been instructed by the voices to not cross the road where they were about to cross it but to walk up to the crossing and cross it there but instead of humbly complying they ignored the voice and crossed anyway. One person says he now crosses at this place every day just to hear the voice shouting at him. These were just innocent people who weren't actually doing anything wrong, they are all perfectly capable of judging for themselves where to cross the road and they don't need some idiot in a control room telling them how to do it.
Law abiding people are the most likely sorts of people to comply with the cameras demands and the people they really want to tackle, e.g. thugs, muggers, car jackers, drunk teenagers are very quickly going to realise that the voice can shout at them all night but with 19 out every 20 British Policemen and Women tied up in the police station reading up on the latest guidelines for dealing sensitively with ethnic minorities no police are ever going to turn up to actually stop them doing whatever it is they were doing.
If you're deciding whether or not extend human rights to a creature I think a decision based on whether the creature is human or not is far from arbitary.
What is arbitary is considering only great apes, why shouldn't dolphins or elephants be up for consideration too ?
I say we should consider them all and then decide based on whether or not they're humans, obviously they're not and therefore shouldn't have the same rights as humans. This is a very simple decision.
They could do this but they need to build more tracks and track building is not something the rail companies themselves seem to be able to do.
For example any train going from London to Edinburgh is almost certainly going to have to go through Birmingham where there is only a double track which is shared by both the long distance operators and local services so any delays by either services affect the other one.
The stupid thing is that they're talking about spending millions and millions of pounds rebuilding Birmingham New Street to present a better "image" and doing absolutley nothing to sort out more tracks for actual trains.
Currently the Virgin trains can go quite fast but only for short periods in the countryside, it took me 4 hours to travel from Birmingham to Glasgow on the train last year as opposed to about 2 hours door to door on the plane.
Well then the on-line gambling you can currently engage in within the US should also be banned. However its my understanding that this isn't the case hence the charges of protectionism.
I did some work for OCS once handling their fan mail, they are a dreadful band and the more sychophantic mails they recieved went straight in the bin and not on their mailing list at all.
I haven't heard anything from their record label but I would imagine its devoted to searching out yet more deadly dull paul weller alikes.
Its an apt name alright but in fact I think the Charlatans are from Manchester and had some hits in the late 80's early 90's.
Since you still don't seem to have grasped what to everyone else here is blindingly obvious.
You said a $30 tool could perform simple photo editing tasks more quickly and easily than doing it on-line.
The other poster said you didn't even need to spend $30 since the GIMP could perform these tasks for nothing.
At this point you launched into some misguided rant that the GIMP could not do various types of processing that some software you are apparently selling can. This was and is irrelevant to the discussion.
You have since agreed that the Gimp can do the same photo editing tasks as the on-line software in question and you have agreed that it is free. Therefore you agree with the other posters point and seem instead to be trying to drum up some interest in your own products rather than participating in the discussion sensibly. Please don't do this, it's annoying !
A lengthy explantion indeed.
However the original poster was saying that the Gimp can do the sort of photo manipulation offered by these on-line services, which it can.
Either point out which of those on-line services you think can do everything you've just described or concede that you have totally missed the point.
I've been using digikam recently and I have to say I'm very impressed with it.
First off its free and offers all the photo manipulation stuff you're likely to find online and secondly its organisational abilities are extremely useful - including location based organisation. It also uploads stuff to Flickr and other places really simply.
I don't have much time for artists who don't do much touring since they tend to be the kind of morons you see on Pop Idol or McFly and other assorted crap. Most of my favourite bands seem to be playing somewhere or other every day for months at a time.
I think I must have got the wrong article from that link. The one I read said that there may be a replacement for Konqueror called Dolphin but that Konqueror would still be available if people wanted it.
Was the one about KDE Being The Holy Grail Of The Modern Desktop anymore interesting ?
Regarding the US funding of lunatic end timers in Israel. There was a documentary about this on a few months ago and it does seem that there is a lot of it about.
The funding comes from large US churches and goes to support all sorts of, basically evil, schemes designed to bring the Israel/Palestine conflict to a head and rid Israel of arabs. Examples include the massive funding available to anyone wanting to reclaim various sites for Christians rather than leaving them to the Muslims and some idiot oil man who is trying to discover oil in Israel in order to drain the Arab oil fields and precipitate a war.
True but hamsters are both cannibalistic and sex mad super breeders.
Planes do not jettison their toilet waste in flight except in life endangering situations.
You may have been out, buying cheesburgers or lard or something I expect, but I believe the announcement was made on the News recently that land has been discovered outside of US borders. The broadcast revealed there was a whole world out there.
So, now you know I guess you'll be breaking out the Canadian flag, buying some expensive and ostentatious camera gear which you don't know how to use and finishing off your voice coaching now that you have acheived the loud, grating braying noises you will be making as you explore.
I realise I may be falling for stereotypes and I am sure there dozens of exceptions to the picture I am so cruelly portraying. So, apologies to you.
I've never understood "imports", here I am in the UK about to buy an Album perhaps the latest offering from US band Sonic Youth and there's a lot of normal albums and one which says its an "import" when surely the whole lot is really an import from the US. Or perhaps I'm thinking of buying a new Belle & Sebastian album from the UK and alongside all their normal albums are some marked as "imports" when they are a UK band in the first place. It's ridiculous.
The only song I am aware of to name check Birmingham.
This is a country where warranties are of very little use since many of them don't offer anything above what you are already entitled to in the first place.
Yes, no doubt due in part to the extensive German speaking Indian population you will find in India.
I agree that sustained abuse of grass can turn you into a bit of zombie during the day but no more than sustained alcohol abuse does, I have worked with both kinds of people and I think it's safe to say that had they not had weed and alcohol available they'd probably have been abusing something else. Personally I have tried a lot of both dope and alcohol and haven't find either of them at all addictive.
The vast majority of people are able to regulate their lifestyle perfectly reasonably, the main difference legalisation will make is that first of all the drugs are quality controlled, secondly the supply chains will out of the hands of criminals and thirdly you can have rules in place governing their use e.g. no selling to minors, no selling any more to people who are obviously out of it etc.
We don't really know how Aliens thought processes would work but we do have a fair idea of the physical practicalities of manufacturing space ships and embarking on space journeys and based on that it's very hard to see why anyone would simply fly over to stick a few probes up the butts of dumb American farmers and fly off again.
However until we have any evidence that Aliens are behind UFO sightings, which we don't, we shouldn't really spend too much time trying to justify how it might happen.
The correct term for someone who does this is Standover Man. See "Chopper" Reid for more information on this subject.