"The U.K. has been monitoring its citizens via a network of CCTV cameras for sometime and they appear to be especially prevalent in cities such as London where we have been lead to believe that your movements are recorded as soon as you step onto the street."
I live in Tottenham North London (a rather notorious area for riots) and I only see CCTV cameras on major roads. There is one speed camera just down the road but that has been non-operational since it was installed several years ago.
Plus, here is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.
All my current PC motherboards have a RS-232 header and settings to enable them in the BIOS. I'm still on socket LGA775 but both my X48 chipset boards have them.
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"The U.K. has been monitoring its citizens via a network of CCTV cameras for sometime and they appear to be especially prevalent in cities such as London where we have been lead to believe that your movements are recorded as soon as you step onto the street."
I live in Tottenham North London (a rather notorious area for riots) and I only see CCTV cameras on major roads.
There is one speed camera just down the road but that has been non-operational since it was installed several years ago.
Plus, here is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118714764716998275.html :)
I'm 58 years old and I was up playing Risen 2 in my room till 3:15am this morning.
And my daughter complains about the noise. Payback's a bitch. :)
Oh man, little do you know.
There's a veritable minefield of codes to navigate when it comes to women. :)
"since my PCs are all missing RS-232 DB9 ports"
All my current PC motherboards have a RS-232 header and settings to enable
them in the BIOS. I'm still on socket LGA775 but both my X48 chipset boards
have them.
"So Bush attacked... Iraq."
I thought he attacked Afghanistan for 9/11?
but it looks like it could be any arid/desert landscape on Earth.
And no I'm not suggesting conspiracy. :)
I'm Scottish and I get it. :)
I kid you not, but for ages I wondered what all the fuss was about a hotel in Paris. :)
Yea, a little square printout says it all.
They don't have flying cars where you live?
No, but we do have aircraft and they still have wheels.
When you call an 8 core 4GHz CPU low-end.
Sounds more like a group hug. :)
"there are multiple races in the Muslim world you know"
They're not members of the human race?
When you can assign your own shortcut keys to any program that is on the desktop or in the programs menu?
"He's going by boat. Not the Space Shuttle."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUXoEjUxlVc
Your point was?
Coffee and wanking. :(
A court can order your execution
Before the trial has taken place?
This government is still better than the last government...
It's definitely better at U-Turns and demonising the low hanging fruit.
Sid Vicious sells dairy and Iggy Pop is an insurance salesman. :(
I'm old and crotchety and can (and do) wait until you release the GoTY/Complete version at a fraction of the original price.
A modest proposal?
A decree is an Executive Order by a different name. ;)
"The British are far more of a US lapdog"
Excuse me, we call that "The Special Relationship" :)
I'd KILL for an official Control Panel option in Windows to allow me to customize the BSOD screen. Power Ranger Pink anyone?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2011/01/11/3379158.aspx
The "Notmyfault" link.
Nah. the Forced Alien Rendition Treaty (F.A.R.T.) has a better ring to it. :)