It is, however, a member of the European Economic Area, and therefore both inside the single European market and bound by the trading obligations thereof.
EFTA states (other than Switzerland, which isn't in the EEA) have their behaviour regulated by the ominous-sounding EFTA Surveillance Authority, rather than by the European Commission, on matters related to compliance with Single Market regulations.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the same organisation which manifests itself in the US and the UK as Hizb-ut Tahrir and/or Al-Mujaharoun.
It's a banned organisation in *lots* of west Asian countries, as well as in much of Europe. In the UK it's monitored for being directly connected to fundie terrorism, including counting the July 7th London bombers among its supporters.
In most of its incarnations it follows a fascist political ideology which in the Middle-East is often bundled with Arab racial supremacism.
Among its members are Omar Sheikh, the British man of Pakistani descent responsible for the kidnap and beheading of at least five western hostages including WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl. He was recruited in London at the LSE by Hizb-ut Tahrir and proceeded directly to becoming involved with actual bona-fide fundamentalist terrorism.
There's a whole lot of crap thrown around in the west about what 'Al Qaeda' is, or whether it even exists as a descrete entity. But surely we can all get behind the Muslim Brotherhood and its international affiliate groups being a Bad Thing?
>How, exactly, is any of that supposed to help
>against crime / terrorism / illegal
>immigration / whatever?
Well, obviously, it won't help at all with any of these things. It's the same sort of misdirection that the US PATRIOT Act exemplifies.
And, again like the US, once you have a form of ID (Americans use driver's licenses) which everybody assumes is reliable, identity fraud increases exponentially. Because they can be faked, and more sensible checks then fail to happen. I'm still constantly amazed that nobody ever bothers checking credit card signatures there.
>This is going to cost the government some money.
>That money comes from taxes and fees. What is
>the British citizen getting for that expense?
A multi-billion-pound government IT boondoggle which will be mismanaged to hell and back and come in either several years late or not at all. See the NHS and Child Support Agency fiascos for previous examples.
Some of us are verging on unconcerned at this whole thing, solely because we refuse to believe that the UK Government has anything like the required competence to implement it.
Still, I'd rather we didn't waste such a staggering amount of money on something which doesn't work. And I'd rather we didn't try even if it did, as would most of all of you.
--
Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy.
The BBC doesn't give a stuff about DRM. Apple doesn't give a stuff about DRM. The only thing anybody cares about is getting the legal agreement to distribute material from its owners.
If getting that agreement means having DRM, then they add DRM.
Whining at the BBC or iTMS gets you nothing, unless you're Doctorow, in which case whining at the wrong entity gives you the warm fuzzies even though you're hopelessly wrong.
The Beeb's only other option is to not get the agreements, and not distribute the material, and possibly just watch someone else get the agreements and do it instead. What's in it for the BBC or Apple? Nothing.
But Doctorow's a cock, so he bleats endlessly about purity by bashing companies and organisations who are just as involuntarily saddled with DRM as we are. Instead of whining about the people who force them into it (performance rightsholders). If he did the latter it'd be no less pointless but at least he'd be whining at the right people. But, as I say, he's a cock and just whining aimlessly is enough for him.
[Why on earth the EFF wants a cheerleader who articulates this stuff so poorly is beyond me. Certainly it makes me much less likely to give the EFF money - they're clearly wasting what they already have.]
Mess with it until it stops being broken and then leve it the fuck alone.
In two companies with 20 employees each, the one with the most IT problems will be the one with an IT guy on the staff. Because he (it's always a he in these cases) can't resist trying to upgrade or install or develop something which doesn't need changing.
So there's a difference between "Good free speech" and "bad free speech"? Well, that certainly clears things up. Thanks.
Like the quote said: "I disagree with what you're saying, so I won't lift a finger to defend your right to say it. Screw you." You're a noble, noble person and I salute you.
Nearly 300 stations, including a couple of dozen where access to the tube system is gained by walking across the platform from another train service.
There are still dozens of stations where there's no ticket gate operating for half the day because the station's unstaffed.
The system can't be sealed around scanners, and if it can't be sealed, there's no point.
And if you try to get over half a billion sterling wasted like this past me and my fellow Londoners, we'll take you out back and beat you with a shovel.
The UK has the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, which is *far* beefier than US legislation, and clearly does cover both web sites and private sector companies.
It hasn't, however, been enforced in court yet. Perhaps the best revenge would be to correct that latter omission.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe, but lots of plumbers in the UK really do earn $250k.
My understanding was that Cubans don't need anything like another 200 years to beat Americans at baseball.
"Next week, we'll be discussing the differences between general and special relativity with Big Bird from Sesame Street."
>> Which I guess makes hydrogen the Paris Hilton of elements? Alone at the top??
And unbelievably promiscuous.
It doesn't have anything at all to do with the recording industry.
PRS represents the composer, not the recording artist or the label.
Um, you no longer have either numbers 3 or 4.
But good luck with holding onto the other two.
It is, however, a member of the European Economic Area, and therefore both inside the single European market and bound by the trading obligations thereof.
EFTA states (other than Switzerland, which isn't in the EEA) have their behaviour regulated by the ominous-sounding EFTA Surveillance Authority, rather than by the European Commission, on matters related to compliance with Single Market regulations.
Early versions of FF allowed me to Find text anywhere on a page, including inside textareas.
That's been broken for years now. I don't care about how it renders RSS, I want basic functions to unsuck.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the same organisation which manifests itself in the US and the UK as Hizb-ut Tahrir and/or Al-Mujaharoun.
It's a banned organisation in *lots* of west Asian countries, as well as in much of Europe. In the UK it's monitored for being directly connected to fundie terrorism, including counting the July 7th London bombers among its supporters.
In most of its incarnations it follows a fascist political ideology which in the Middle-East is often bundled with Arab racial supremacism.
Among its members are Omar Sheikh, the British man of Pakistani descent responsible for the kidnap and beheading of at least five western hostages including WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl. He was recruited in London at the LSE by Hizb-ut Tahrir and proceeded directly to becoming involved with actual bona-fide fundamentalist terrorism.
There's a whole lot of crap thrown around in the west about what 'Al Qaeda' is, or whether it even exists as a descrete entity. But surely we can all get behind the Muslim Brotherhood and its international affiliate groups being a Bad Thing?
No, to be fair that was entirely my fault.
>How, exactly, is any of that supposed to help >against crime / terrorism / illegal >immigration / whatever? Well, obviously, it won't help at all with any of these things. It's the same sort of misdirection that the US PATRIOT Act exemplifies. And, again like the US, once you have a form of ID (Americans use driver's licenses) which everybody assumes is reliable, identity fraud increases exponentially. Because they can be faked, and more sensible checks then fail to happen. I'm still constantly amazed that nobody ever bothers checking credit card signatures there. >This is going to cost the government some money. >That money comes from taxes and fees. What is >the British citizen getting for that expense? A multi-billion-pound government IT boondoggle which will be mismanaged to hell and back and come in either several years late or not at all. See the NHS and Child Support Agency fiascos for previous examples. Some of us are verging on unconcerned at this whole thing, solely because we refuse to believe that the UK Government has anything like the required competence to implement it. Still, I'd rather we didn't waste such a staggering amount of money on something which doesn't work. And I'd rather we didn't try even if it did, as would most of all of you. -- Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy.
The BBC doesn't give a stuff about DRM. Apple doesn't give a stuff about DRM. The only thing anybody cares about is getting the legal agreement to distribute material from its owners.
If getting that agreement means having DRM, then they add DRM.
Whining at the BBC or iTMS gets you nothing, unless you're Doctorow, in which case whining at the wrong entity gives you the warm fuzzies even though you're hopelessly wrong.
The Beeb's only other option is to not get the agreements, and not distribute the material, and possibly just watch someone else get the agreements and do it instead. What's in it for the BBC or Apple? Nothing.
But Doctorow's a cock, so he bleats endlessly about purity by bashing companies and organisations who are just as involuntarily saddled with DRM as we are. Instead of whining about the people who force them into it (performance rightsholders). If he did the latter it'd be no less pointless but at least he'd be whining at the right people. But, as I say, he's a cock and just whining aimlessly is enough for him.
[Why on earth the EFF wants a cheerleader who articulates this stuff so poorly is beyond me. Certainly it makes me much less likely to give the EFF money - they're clearly wasting what they already have.]
There are no detector vans, and there never were.
Bring me someone who's ever seen one other than in an advert and I might change my mind. But I'll bet you can't.
It's one eighth of all retail spending.
If you really want to get het up about them consider this: online, they take one pound in every four.
That of course should say 'leave'. Doh.
Mess with it until it stops being broken and then leve it the fuck alone .
In two companies with 20 employees each, the one with the most IT problems will be the one with an IT guy on the staff. Because he (it's always a he in these cases) can't resist trying to upgrade or install or develop something which doesn't need changing.
Ah.
So there's a difference between "Good free speech" and "bad free speech"? Well, that certainly clears things up. Thanks.
Like the quote said: "I disagree with what you're saying, so I won't lift a finger to defend your right to say it. Screw you." You're a noble, noble person and I salute you.
How much of a swine do you have to be to take a site down with a Slashdotting in the morning... ...and then hit them again in the afternoon?
These guys say something about your mother, Taco?
You'd be making a good point if either
a) Drupal was a business or
b) Drupal provided hosting as a service to customers.
Sadly, neither is true, and that about does it for your line of argument.
Any business running Drupal will do just fine, thanks, provided it doesn't have the same crappy host that this project's been stick with recently.
Nearly 300 stations, including a couple of dozen where access to the tube system is gained by walking across the platform from another train service.
There are still dozens of stations where there's no ticket gate operating for half the day because the station's unstaffed.
The system can't be sealed around scanners, and if it can't be sealed, there's no point.
And if you try to get over half a billion sterling wasted like this past me and my fellow Londoners, we'll take you out back and beat you with a shovel.
Argh. Bastard embedded plugin page, and the source file won't play on RealPlayer for Linux.
What a fucking twat.
No, it's William Franklin, the new voice of the Guide (but not a new voice to anyone 30-isg who grew up in the UK).
...since it's totally factually inaccurate.
The UK has the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, which is *far* beefier than US legislation, and clearly does cover both web sites and private sector companies.
It hasn't, however, been enforced in court yet. Perhaps the best revenge would be to correct that latter omission.
You *so* funny.