Phone your friends and arrange for them to come around in order of size starting with the largest first.
Slaughter the first 3 as they step through the door and fry them up with peppers to provide a magnificent feast for the others. After you've eaten they can help you clean up the apartment and learn a salutory lesson about what happens to people who demand they come around to your house and eat your food without being invited.
I have never yet got a job when any member of HR has been in on the interview a fact which I ascribe to my obvious burning hatred of them and their pointless questions.
In a recent interview whilst the actual hirer and I were discussing their database set up the HR muppet interjected
"What does 'diversity' mean to you ?" "Er, how do you mean" I asked, "In what context ?" "D . . I . . V . . E . . R . . S . . I . . T . . Y ? What does it mean, to . . . . . . YOU ?" "Well it means a wide range of, er, things - different things. A diverse selection of, whatever" "Yes..." "Yes ?" "Diversity, whatdoesitmean, to YOU ?" "I often make use of a diverse range of techniques in order evalutate them all and select the most appropriate technique for the task I was focusing on." "Yes but in an office context, come on - in the office ?" "Offices with a diverse range of facilities are often quite nice, I've worked in a few and enjoyed it..." ( frowning HR Muppet ) "...but how about co-workers in an office environment ?" "I think it's a good idea to have a wide range of diverse talents and abilities within a particular team in order to maximise the chances of fitting a specific skillset with a particular challenge. In addition an aggressive policy of experience pooling can enable team members to improve their own knowledge in return for sharing their specialist knowledge with the group at large." "Yeeeessssss, but what other kinds of diversity do you think are important in an office environment ?" "I don't know. What other kinds ?"
I will consider revoking the copyright on any future works I may produce and releasing them free from restrictions to society. However I estimate that the probable value of this work will be around the £10 Million mark so will only revoke my copyright if society pays me that amount.
It's a shame things are this way, in the UK it is theoretically possible for pubs to be fined or to lose their licences for serving people who are under age but I have yet to witness this ever happening despite there being dozens of bars in my area alone which are obviously catering mainly to 16 year olds, it's perfectly acceptable for someone to have been drinking in a pub for a couple of years and then arrive one night with all their friends to celebrate there 18th birthdays which may at the most lead to the landlord to raise his eyebrow and mutter "kids nowadays eh !". This does possibly contribute to the supposed problem of drunken teenage yobs but to be honest I think it's far better for them to do their drinking in pubs where older drinkers will certainly point out to them what is and what is not an acceptable way to behave whilst drunk in pubs ( e.g. if you or friends break the keys on the jukebox one more time my friends and I will smash your fingers ) than the widely used alternative of drinking in parks and wrecking childrens playgrounds.
I think the bottom line is most people in the UK regulary visit pubs and bars and most of them started doing so well before the legal drinking age so the moans from the anally retentive groups who don't know how to enjoy themselves and don't see why anyone else should are largely ignored unless the police have a free evening to wander around some pubs and kick some people out.
What is this ? The fashion channel or a website where you can discuss technology, computers and have a pop at the actions of the US Administration. Honestly if I was even remotely interested in rings I'd visit a jewelers.
It depends on where you go, I can almost guarantee that if I wanted to I could go and watch fights in pubs anywhere in the UK. All you have to do is look for an area where chain pubs stand shoulder to shoulder with one another playing identical loud music, bouncers on the door, nowhere to sit, and a mix of expensive drinks and special offers on spirits and alchopops. Most sensible people avoid these places and find nice pubs to drink in but this still seems to leave an enormous number of tossers who do patronise such areas.
For example I used to live in Nottingham 10 years ago just before the chain pub thing really took off and being as I was a student I spent all night, every night, in various pubs in the town centre and don't remember seeing any trouble at all but now they have a load of horrible chain pubs all the idiots with poor judgement and dreadful musical taste are gathered together in one place and just can't help fighting each other.
All those schemes you've quoted are schemes which were once trialed as pilot schemes. You haven't mentioned the, no doubt, millions of pilot schemes which were never taken any further. This idea is obviously never going to get any further than the half a dozen pubs in the small town it's currently, optionally, being used.
For a start the majority of pubs don't have bouncers or door staff and it's obviously impractical in the extreme to be fingerprinted every time you go to the bar to get a drink, secondly there are thousands and thousands of pubs in the UK all within a 10 second walking distance if people thought they were going to be fingerprinted and fail the test at one pub they would simply go to another pub which wasn't implementing the scheme.
There are areas in most towns and cities which attract the majority of drink related violence, you can normally identify them by the huge number of horrible chain pubs with loud music, bouncers and very few seats all right next to each other, these pubs have one goal and one goal only and that is to sell as much booze as they can for as much as possible, they already have bouncers to deal with the violence so why would they want to place any further barriers to selling more people more booze ? Luckily most towns also have areas where pubs aren't run along such lines and these do not generally attract any violence at all except once in a blue moon so why would these pubs wish to inflict fingerprint checks for their regulars every time they buy a pint ?
I've often wondered if Americans were somehow genetically unable to judge a persons age by their face, in the UK if the bartender is unsure as to how old someone is they will ask for ID but if they are sure the person is over 18 they will never ask for ID. I have never been asked for ID in a UK pub or off licence.
In the US however, despite being 28 years old I was constantly asked to prove I was over 21 and I can't claim this is down to my youthful good looks. What is even more ridiculous is that sometimes the bar tenders wouldn't even accept my passport as proof of my age. I began to think that the US was breeding a strain of genetically subnormal, anal retentive trolls to tend their bars for them.
You're so right, anyone would think you know exactly what you're talking about and have thought deeply about the subject using all the cognitive faculties made available to you by your huge and powerfull brain.
Oh wait. Your comment is idiotic and represents a complete misunderstanding of what is being discussed here.
No, I'm not saying that at all. Whoever posted the video should certainly have checked so far as they are able that they haven't violated anyones copyright before uploading videos to YouTube. YouTube are under no obligation to check the copyright of every video uploaded to them but they do have to remove any videos which they are informed are in breach of copyright restrictions. This is exactly what they do do without flouting any laws.
Exactly, how is YouTube supposed to know that any particular video being uploaded contains copyright infringements ? Even if they had someone visually checking each video that person cannot be expected to know of and recognise every single copyrighted piece of work in the world which may be incorporated into an uploaded video.
The only people who absolutely know that a video contains copyrighted materials are the copyright owners and in this case they have made the identification, YouTube have removed the content and the world is as it should be.
The company involved can complain as much as they like that their copyrighted material should not be distributed in this manner but there is simply no sensible way in which the system can work other than the way it does. Perhaps if you could "fingerprint" every millisecond of video with a unique identifier which could be checked against a copyright database then that would change but I don't think there is any such system in place today.
You really are a muppet, the British Empire until relatively recently controlled a third of the globe, America doesn't even come close to this level of might and if you are an indication of the quality of its populace it never will.
I'm sure any relatively non moronic criminal would quickly work out how to maximise the benefits of being totally invisible and avoid the risks you have mentioned. For example if you were invisible you wouldn't need to ask the teller anything, just follow someone into the secure area of the bank, hang around for a while seeing where all the keys etc are kept and then wander into the vault stuff as much cash as you can carry under your invisibility cloak and wander out again. I don't see why you'd need a getaway car but assuming that you did then cloaking it when you parked it would be a stupid idea, you'd only activate cloaking if you were actually being pursued and trying to hide. With a cloak of invisibility and half a brain you should never be in any situation where you're being pursued.
Well you're clearly a freak, I remember sharing headphones with people walkmans when I was younger without a problem. Only if there is pus or excessive encrusted hair growth oozing out of someones ear would I not share their headphones. Most of my friends are clean so this not a problem.
"over bagels made by the sweat of the gentiles that they crush under their JEW feet."
It might have been more accurate to say
"over bagels, picked apart by their JEW claws, made by the sweat of the gentiles that they crush under their JEW feet"
The JEW claw is the single most obvious shared JEW attribute and you shouldn't ignore it. Without it hoarding diamonds and running loan sharking businesses would be much tougher.
I'm also very polite and friendly and quite often airport security staff return the compliment, in the UK, France, Holland, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Malaysia, Peru and Australia I have generally been treated well and with a smile by the security and customs/immigration people but in the US my experience has been that the security and immigration people are basically obnoxious and rude no matter how polite you are. I don't know why this is but it does put me off routing my flights through the US ( not to mention that every time I have flown through the US my luggage has been lost or put on the wrong flights ).
I offer services to US Citizens too, I shove models of big ben up their arses, make them eat the American flag and jog around the Diana memorial river until they lose some weight ( $199, no flights or accomodation included ) which is probably illegal in the US however since I reside in the UK, my business is registered in the UK and my money is stored in the UK I wouldn't imagine any US court has any jurisdiction over any part of my business even though I am still offering, a very valuable, service to Americans
Really there was no case in the first place since an American court has no jurisdiction over UK companies.
If they can do this then surely I can bring random American citizens to court in the UK and sue them for millions of pounds on totally bogus grounds. They don't turn up, I win. They happen to visit the UK so I have them arrested and imprisoned until they come up with the cash. Sounds like a good scheme to me.
And if you do that in Konqueror it then falls into an infinite loop of popping up with that alert box and refuses to work any further. What an amazing utility !
"In general, when people say England is a police state, it's preparatory to a diatribe against either a) speed cameras or b) immigration."
Absolutely, if you meet these people at outdoor events they will usually try to sell you some sort of magazine and attempt to explain how the current government is directly comparable to Nazi Germany. They will not listen to reason and should be shot out of hand.
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Phone your friends and arrange for them to come around in order of size starting with the largest first.
Slaughter the first 3 as they step through the door and fry them up with peppers to provide a magnificent feast for the others. After you've eaten they can help you clean up the apartment and learn a salutory lesson about what happens to people who demand they come around to your house and eat your food without being invited.
I have never yet got a job when any member of HR has been in on the interview a fact which I ascribe to my obvious burning hatred of them and their pointless questions.
In a recent interview whilst the actual hirer and I were discussing their database set up the HR muppet interjected
"What does 'diversity' mean to you ?"
"Er, how do you mean" I asked, "In what context ?"
"D . . I . . V . . E . . R . . S . . I . . T . . Y ? What does it mean, to . . . . . . YOU ?"
"Well it means a wide range of, er, things - different things. A diverse selection of, whatever"
"Yes..."
"Yes ?"
"Diversity, whatdoesitmean, to YOU ?"
"I often make use of a diverse range of techniques in order evalutate them all and select the most appropriate technique for the task I was focusing on."
"Yes but in an office context, come on - in the office ?"
"Offices with a diverse range of facilities are often quite nice, I've worked in a few and enjoyed it..."
( frowning HR Muppet ) "...but how about co-workers in an office environment ?"
"I think it's a good idea to have a wide range of diverse talents and abilities within a particular team in order to maximise the chances of fitting a specific skillset with a particular challenge. In addition an aggressive policy of experience pooling can enable team members to improve their own knowledge in return for sharing their specialist knowledge with the group at large."
"Yeeeessssss, but what other kinds of diversity do you think are important in an office environment ?"
"I don't know. What other kinds ?"
I didn't get that job.
"
I will consider revoking the copyright on any future works I may produce and releasing them free from restrictions to society. However I estimate that the probable value of this work will be around the £10 Million mark so will only revoke my copyright if society pays me that amount.
It's a shame things are this way, in the UK it is theoretically possible for pubs to be fined or to lose their licences for serving people who are under age but I have yet to witness this ever happening despite there being dozens of bars in my area alone which are obviously catering mainly to 16 year olds, it's perfectly acceptable for someone to have been drinking in a pub for a couple of years and then arrive one night with all their friends to celebrate there 18th birthdays which may at the most lead to the landlord to raise his eyebrow and mutter "kids nowadays eh !". This does possibly contribute to the supposed problem of drunken teenage yobs but to be honest I think it's far better for them to do their drinking in pubs where older drinkers will certainly point out to them what is and what is not an acceptable way to behave whilst drunk in pubs ( e.g. if you or friends break the keys on the jukebox one more time my friends and I will smash your fingers ) than the widely used alternative of drinking in parks and wrecking childrens playgrounds.
I think the bottom line is most people in the UK regulary visit pubs and bars and most of them started doing so well before the legal drinking age so the moans from the anally retentive groups who don't know how to enjoy themselves and don't see why anyone else should are largely ignored unless the police have a free evening to wander around some pubs and kick some people out.
What is this ? The fashion channel or a website where you can discuss technology, computers and have a pop at the actions of the US Administration. Honestly if I was even remotely interested in rings I'd visit a jewelers.
It depends on where you go, I can almost guarantee that if I wanted to I could go and watch fights in pubs anywhere in the UK. All you have to do is look for an area where chain pubs stand shoulder to shoulder with one another playing identical loud music, bouncers on the door, nowhere to sit, and a mix of expensive drinks and special offers on spirits and alchopops. Most sensible people avoid these places and find nice pubs to drink in but this still seems to leave an enormous number of tossers who do patronise such areas.
For example I used to live in Nottingham 10 years ago just before the chain pub thing really took off and being as I was a student I spent all night, every night, in various pubs in the town centre and don't remember seeing any trouble at all but now they have a load of horrible chain pubs all the idiots with poor judgement and dreadful musical taste are gathered together in one place and just can't help fighting each other.
All those schemes you've quoted are schemes which were once trialed as pilot schemes. You haven't mentioned the, no doubt, millions of pilot schemes which were never taken any further. This idea is obviously never going to get any further than the half a dozen pubs in the small town it's currently, optionally, being used.
For a start the majority of pubs don't have bouncers or door staff and it's obviously impractical in the extreme to be fingerprinted every time you go to the bar to get a drink, secondly there are thousands and thousands of pubs in the UK all within a 10 second walking distance if people thought they were going to be fingerprinted and fail the test at one pub they would simply go to another pub which wasn't implementing the scheme.
There are areas in most towns and cities which attract the majority of drink related violence, you can normally identify them by the huge number of horrible chain pubs with loud music, bouncers and very few seats all right next to each other, these pubs have one goal and one goal only and that is to sell as much booze as they can for as much as possible, they already have bouncers to deal with the violence so why would they want to place any further barriers to selling more people more booze ? Luckily most towns also have areas where pubs aren't run along such lines and these do not generally attract any violence at all except once in a blue moon so why would these pubs wish to inflict fingerprint checks for their regulars every time they buy a pint ?
I've often wondered if Americans were somehow genetically unable to judge a persons age by their face, in the UK if the bartender is unsure as to how old someone is they will ask for ID but if they are sure the person is over 18 they will never ask for ID. I have never been asked for ID in a UK pub or off licence.
In the US however, despite being 28 years old I was constantly asked to prove I was over 21 and I can't claim this is down to my youthful good looks. What is even more ridiculous is that sometimes the bar tenders wouldn't even accept my passport as proof of my age. I began to think that the US was breeding a strain of genetically subnormal, anal retentive trolls to tend their bars for them.
You're so right, anyone would think you know exactly what you're talking about and have thought deeply about the subject using all the cognitive faculties made available to you by your huge and powerfull brain.
Oh wait. Your comment is idiotic and represents a complete misunderstanding of what is being discussed here.
No, I'm not saying that at all. Whoever posted the video should certainly have checked so far as they are able that they haven't violated anyones copyright before uploading videos to YouTube. YouTube are under no obligation to check the copyright of every video uploaded to them but they do have to remove any videos which they are informed are in breach of copyright restrictions. This is exactly what they do do without flouting any laws.
Exactly, how is YouTube supposed to know that any particular video being uploaded contains copyright infringements ? Even if they had someone visually checking each video that person cannot be expected to know of and recognise every single copyrighted piece of work in the world which may be incorporated into an uploaded video.
The only people who absolutely know that a video contains copyrighted materials are the copyright owners and in this case they have made the identification, YouTube have removed the content and the world is as it should be.
The company involved can complain as much as they like that their copyrighted material should not be distributed in this manner but there is simply no sensible way in which the system can work other than the way it does. Perhaps if you could "fingerprint" every millisecond of video with a unique identifier which could be checked against a copyright database then that would change but I don't think there is any such system in place today.
You really are a muppet, the British Empire until relatively recently controlled a third of the globe, America doesn't even come close to this level of might and if you are an indication of the quality of its populace it never will.
I'm sure any relatively non moronic criminal would quickly work out how to maximise the benefits of being totally invisible and avoid the risks you have mentioned. For example if you were invisible you wouldn't need to ask the teller anything, just follow someone into the secure area of the bank, hang around for a while seeing where all the keys etc are kept and then wander into the vault stuff as much cash as you can carry under your invisibility cloak and wander out again. I don't see why you'd need a getaway car but assuming that you did then cloaking it when you parked it would be a stupid idea, you'd only activate cloaking if you were actually being pursued and trying to hide. With a cloak of invisibility and half a brain you should never be in any situation where you're being pursued.
UK Living seems to revert to some kind of Porn channel after 10pm or so too.
Well you're clearly a freak, I remember sharing headphones with people walkmans when I was younger without a problem. Only if there is pus or excessive encrusted hair growth oozing out of someones ear would I not share their headphones. Most of my friends are clean so this not a problem.
"over bagels made by the sweat of the gentiles that they crush under their JEW feet."
It might have been more accurate to say
"over bagels, picked apart by their JEW claws, made by the sweat of the gentiles that they crush under their JEW feet"
The JEW claw is the single most obvious shared JEW attribute and you shouldn't ignore it. Without it hoarding diamonds and running loan sharking businesses would be much tougher.
The Christians, they force their kids to believe in Christianity.
I'm also very polite and friendly and quite often airport security staff return the compliment, in the UK, France, Holland, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Malaysia, Peru and Australia I have generally been treated well and with a smile by the security and customs/immigration people but in the US my experience has been that the security and immigration people are basically obnoxious and rude no matter how polite you are. I don't know why this is but it does put me off routing my flights through the US ( not to mention that every time I have flown through the US my luggage has been lost or put on the wrong flights ).
No, you wrote what basically equates to a lot of ill informed, nonsensical and illogical crap. Instant troll moderation.
Surely you meant "an entirely piractical way to tackle the issue ?"
I offer services to US Citizens too, I shove models of big ben up their arses, make them eat the American flag and jog around the Diana memorial river until they lose some weight ( $199, no flights or accomodation included ) which is probably illegal in the US however since I reside in the UK, my business is registered in the UK and my money is stored in the UK I wouldn't imagine any US court has any jurisdiction over any part of my business even though I am still offering, a very valuable, service to Americans
Really there was no case in the first place since an American court has no jurisdiction over UK companies.
If they can do this then surely I can bring random American citizens to court in the UK and sue them for millions of pounds on totally bogus grounds. They don't turn up, I win. They happen to visit the UK so I have them arrested and imprisoned until they come up with the cash. Sounds like a good scheme to me.
And if you do that in Konqueror it then falls into an infinite loop of popping up with that alert box and refuses to work any further. What an amazing utility !
Does a "crime" committed in an alternate world have any ramifications in the "real" world?
No.
"In general, when people say England is a police state, it's preparatory to a diatribe against either a) speed cameras or b) immigration."
Absolutely, if you meet these people at outdoor events they will usually try to sell you some sort of magazine and attempt to explain how the current government is directly comparable to Nazi Germany. They will not listen to reason and should be shot out of hand.