In the UK, prostitution itself is not a crime, however, other rules make it difficult for exploitation, and keep morals to a certain achievable level. If this suprises many people in the UK, what do you think these "escorts" that are advertised are?
Actually paying for sex is ilegal here. Prostitutes get around this because you pay for ther time and company "escorting" being legal. Anything that happens in that time is between consenting adults;)and no concern of the laws
Drugs are lucrative for those who sell them, but they have strong dependencies and ruin lives. They are dangerous for those who take them and for those who live around them.
Alcohol and Tobacco? but of course those are good (taxed) drugs. You have made a strong case to criminilise Alcohol and Tobacco.
Why would reducing pollution lose jobs anyway that ignores that there are jobs in clearing up and preventing pollution, it's just that American industry can't be bothered to pay for the people to do those jobs. It's a case of company not wanting to make a bit less profit in return for a healthier environment and more jobs. It has nothing to do with job losses but profiteering at the expense of the American people. This reveals American industry's attitude, general industry doesn't want to modernise because of the dent there profits will take for a year or two and will fall behind the rest of the world like the steel industry did.
It would be helpful if periodic visits to mental health professionals were just as usual as visits to a physician or pediatrician or dentist. Granted, it's harder to diagnose mental problems than physical ones, but basic preventative screening would go a long way.
It's seems the more someone visits a mental health profesional the more mental problems they end up with. Go in thinking your normal get told you fancy your mother or something equaly odd and come out with some real problems. Oh and who decide what is a problem and what to do about it, most head shrinkers i have met have more problems than there patients.
YOU DO NOT DESERVE THE FRUIT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S LABOR.
I think others deserve (if they want it) the fruits of my labours.
Nerds in their rooms using bit torrent will NOT bring the industry to its knees. It will just anger them, make them more strict and less likely to listen to reason
It's beyond nerds in there bedroom as the previous lawsuit show a lot of people from children to grandparents use P2P, when you punish a potential customer it is they who get angry and stop buying the companies products. Most people in my work who have a computer and internet have used P2P a lot of them for music that is unavailable any more, the rest to see if they like the music then they go and buy it. P2P is allowing unknown or no longer available artists to get heard whilst heavily advertised rubbish is dismissed. P2P is performing the job that radio used to specifically "pirate"* radio, anyone who really likes the music or film is not going put up with the quality of the product you get through P2P. It's just like how my parent's generation ended buying the music they tapped of the radio even if it was 20 years afterwards in some cases.
so called because they where illegal broadcasts usually done by a ship on the seas.
I've noticed alot of IT and security people using them now.
These people are rarely rich or fashionable let alone both.
What about the companies they work for. We recently got better looking (more fashionable) flat screens at work these are also used by our security and IT despite them not being fashionable or even seen by those outside the company.
The question therefore is that if this were the case, and the games available on both platforms were the same, would you switch from using Windows to getting a Mac?
I would swap OS from say windows to Linux but I don't see the point I swapping hardware it costs too much. Macs (sadly) are for the rich and the fashionable
Would you buy a Mac if you could play Counterstrike Source and Half-Life 2?
No i already have a PC that can play these and wont have to wait for them to be ported. When it's time to replace my current PC i wont be buying an overpriced mac just because it has the same games as PC also if i wnated to play XBOX games i would buy an XBOX.
It is true no has been fired for Chosing IBM/Linux, there have been more than there fair share of suicides and vicouse beatings but that has statistical clustering written all over it. Seriousley though i can't see anyone sensible basing a purchasing decision on wheteher others have been fired for buying the product.
'alternative is worse. Every professional agrees that a paper ballot is a formula for disaster'
IT works everwhere else it even worked in previouse American elections, Perhaps the statment should read "Every Electronic voting booth professional agrees that a paper ballot is a formula for disaster'
Someone needs to stop reading and posting BBC tabloid stories on Slashdot.
Here Here let's not bother questioning what were fed by politicians etc. and we should all stop looking at independent news and believe only those who show partisanship to our favourite party.
shame on whoever posted this story for highlighting a possible election problem it's not as if it's important.
Mid level Civil servants Wage is more like £30,000. It is very rare for any Civil servant to have secretary anymore but if they did there wage would be about £15,000.
Just top of the head figures, of course, I have no information on how much money the government actually is wasteing
Sounds like you pulled them from your arse, by the way does a sys Admin working for £16,000 sound like a waste of money bare in mind most sys admin Jobs pay £30,000.
you haven't got a clue about gov costs. The maintenance budget of the RPA's Payment system comes to £750,000 that includes the department's wages, most civil servants earn 2/3rd's the wage they would in the private sector.
It's not like the British Government listens to anybody anyway (Well except for Dubayew), so why will they listen to this.
Your Getting UK Government confused with Tony Blair he would have no impact on whether Linux is used by Gov departments, It is a business decision for the departments themselves this study is a guide for them not TB.
My own department has recently swapped contractors from Accenture to IBM mainly because some of our managers are interested in taking a closer look at Linux, this is before this report came out.
Well it is NOT free. When SCO finally wins in court, they will have the privilege to pay $799.00(USD) per install/per year.
If that is the case miscarigaes of justice in the US have no impact on UK law. Secondly the UK gov can step in and administrate the copyright including licensing rights/price.
What's democratic about a system where the person with the least votes can win? What's democratic about individuals being able to tip an election in there favour against the majority. What is democratic about the majority being at the mercy of the minority? What happened to the concept of one man one vote.
The comparison of the way you decide a winner in a sports with an election is asinine. First of all sport is an entertainment spectacle hence it has a scoring system that equals out the playing field a little to try and make it a close and exciting game a bit like the current election. Secondly elections are about fairness and equality so most democracies have a system where the person with the popular majority wins and people directly vote for there leader. Do you really suggest that a points system to make sport exciting should be used to make a democratic election fair, remember the sport points system is not meant to be fair but entertaining .
BTW the definition of tyranny. Form of government in which the ruler is absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) dominance through threat of punishment and violence. Tyrants don't have elections so claiming that the electoral college stops tyranny is wrong.
Democracy is the way to stop tyrant's but the electoral colleges is one of the most inaccurate forms of democracy which is the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group, not the minority.
"democracy is the worst form of government except when compared with the other forms" Churchill
So you end up where politicians even more than ever will say different things to different groups to gain there vote rather than having clear set policy's, everybody but the politicians lose with that situation, especially when promises to one group are broken because it would contradict the promises made to another.
It's a relatively new practice. Apparently some cashiers were swiping the card into a reader/recorder and harvesting the PINs from a strategically placed camera.
Always cover your hand when typing your pin and make sure your card never leaves your sight.
I have seen where criminals replace the surround on an ATM with one that has a camera for similer resons.
Each ballot slip is placed whole into the box. So it's verifiable if necessary, by re-counting. The fact of your voting is recorded, but in such a way as not to be able to link your name to a particular ballot paper. In case the ballot slips are secretly marked or anything like that, you can pick your own if you feel sufficiently paranoid {you aren't forced to accept the one the presiding officer gives you}; so it's secret.
The only problem is labour seem desperate to replace this proven system with the dodgy postal votes i was not impressed they way people where forced to hand there's to other people or some simply never arrived. Not saying that it was wholesale but does allow higher levels of vote fixing.
And they're stupid to begin with. WTF? It says to hand my card to the cashier to verify signature? Why didn't the cashier just swipe it him/herself in the first place?!?!
Never heard of the customer swiping the card before, here in the UK they have recently introduced chip and pin the replae the swip and sign. You put your card in a slot type in your pin number and there you go as easy as an ATM all the cashier does now is scan the stuff through and bag it up for you.
We have electronic ATMs. Do we need them? No, bank tellers were fine. We can buy the latest bestseller from Amazon, but we *could* still get it from the local bookstore. I can make an online flight reservation, but in your world I should just call the ticket agent instead.
Do ATMs do everything a Bank teller does, no. Will amazon recommend a book not based purely on your buying history, No. does the online travel agent does as much as the high street one, no.
In your world online is the best and only way, where as the Real world computer/online option tends to mean incomplete buggy or unnecessarily difficult to use, it's still very immature whereas the paper works and is known to work.
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what about self defeating steel tariffs?
Actually paying for sex is ilegal here. Prostitutes get around this because you pay for ther time and company "escorting" being legal. Anything that happens in that time is between consenting adults ;)and no concern of the laws
Alcohol and Tobacco? but of course those are good (taxed) drugs. You have made a strong case to criminilise Alcohol and Tobacco.
Why would reducing pollution lose jobs anyway that ignores that there are jobs in clearing up and preventing pollution, it's just that American industry can't be bothered to pay for the people to do those jobs. It's a case of company not wanting to make a bit less profit in return for a healthier environment and more jobs. It has nothing to do with job losses but profiteering at the expense of the American people. This reveals American industry's attitude, general industry doesn't want to modernise because of the dent there profits will take for a year or two and will fall behind the rest of the world like the steel industry did.
It's seems the more someone visits a mental health profesional the more mental problems they end up with. Go in thinking your normal get told you fancy your mother or something equaly odd and come out with some real problems. Oh and who decide what is a problem and what to do about it, most head shrinkers i have met have more problems than there patients.
I think others deserve (if they want it) the fruits of my labours.
Nerds in their rooms using bit torrent will NOT bring the industry to its knees. It will just anger them, make them more strict and less likely to listen to reason
It's beyond nerds in there bedroom as the previous lawsuit show a lot of people from children to grandparents use P2P, when you punish a potential customer it is they who get angry and stop buying the companies products. Most people in my work who have a computer and internet have used P2P a lot of them for music that is unavailable any more, the rest to see if they like the music then they go and buy it. P2P is allowing unknown or no longer available artists to get heard whilst heavily advertised rubbish is dismissed. P2P is performing the job that radio used to specifically "pirate"* radio, anyone who really likes the music or film is not going put up with the quality of the product you get through P2P. It's just like how my parent's generation ended buying the music they tapped of the radio even if it was 20 years afterwards in some cases.
so called because they where illegal broadcasts usually done by a ship on the seas.
These people are rarely rich or fashionable let alone both.
What about the companies they work for. We recently got better looking (more fashionable) flat screens at work these are also used by our security and IT despite them not being fashionable or even seen by those outside the company.
I would swap OS from say windows to Linux but I don't see the point I swapping hardware it costs too much. Macs (sadly) are for the rich and the fashionable
No i already have a PC that can play these and wont have to wait for them to be ported. When it's time to replace my current PC i wont be buying an overpriced mac just because it has the same games as PC also if i wnated to play XBOX games i would buy an XBOX.
Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM/Linux
It is true no has been fired for Chosing IBM/Linux, there have been more than there fair share of suicides and vicouse beatings but that has statistical clustering written all over it. Seriousley though i can't see anyone sensible basing a purchasing decision on wheteher others have been fired for buying the product.
I would love to go to disney on drugs, i would hopethat it's like lisa's trip to duff gardens.
So a flip flopper is an inteligent person who can react to changing situations and change themselves? Why does bush think this is a bad thing.
In the Loacls yes but very few people are dumb enough to vote for UKIP in a general election Especially if Kilroy Silk becomes leader UKIP will bomb.
IT works everwhere else it even worked in previouse American elections, Perhaps the statment should read "Every Electronic voting booth professional agrees that a paper ballot is a formula for disaster'
Here Here let's not bother questioning what were fed by politicians etc. and we should all stop looking at independent news and believe only those who show partisanship to our favourite party.
shame on whoever posted this story for highlighting a possible election problem it's not as if it's important.
Can i use this for my sig? i need a new one and this one is gold.
The Guardian is not a great example of an independent paper, it's more of a mirror to the Daily Mail. The independent is far more balanced.
Just top of the head figures, of course, I have no information on how much money the government actually is wasteing
Sounds like you pulled them from your arse, by the way does a sys Admin working for £16,000 sound like a waste of money bare in mind most sys admin Jobs pay £30,000.
you haven't got a clue about gov costs. The maintenance budget of the RPA's Payment system comes to £750,000 that includes the department's wages, most civil servants earn 2/3rd's the wage they would in the private sector.
Your Getting UK Government confused with Tony Blair he would have no impact on whether Linux is used by Gov departments, It is a business decision for the departments themselves this study is a guide for them not TB.
My own department has recently swapped contractors from Accenture to IBM mainly because some of our managers are interested in taking a closer look at Linux, this is before this report came out.
If that is the case miscarigaes of justice in the US have no impact on UK law. Secondly the UK gov can step in and administrate the copyright including licensing rights/price.
The comparison of the way you decide a winner in a sports with an election is asinine. First of all sport is an entertainment spectacle hence it has a scoring system that equals out the playing field a little to try and make it a close and exciting game a bit like the current election. Secondly elections are about fairness and equality so most democracies have a system where the person with the popular majority wins and people directly vote for there leader. Do you really suggest that a points system to make sport exciting should be used to make a democratic election fair, remember the sport points system is not meant to be fair but entertaining .
BTW the definition of tyranny. Form of government in which the ruler is absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) dominance through threat of punishment and violence. Tyrants don't have elections so claiming that the electoral college stops tyranny is wrong.
Democracy is the way to stop tyrant's but the electoral colleges is one of the most inaccurate forms of democracy which is the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group, not the minority.
"democracy is the worst form of government except when compared with the other forms" Churchill
So you end up where politicians even more than ever will say different things to different groups to gain there vote rather than having clear set policy's, everybody but the politicians lose with that situation, especially when promises to one group are broken because it would contradict the promises made to another.
Always cover your hand when typing your pin and make sure your card never leaves your sight.
I have seen where criminals replace the surround on an ATM with one that has a camera for similer resons.
The only problem is labour seem desperate to replace this proven system with the dodgy postal votes i was not impressed they way people where forced to hand there's to other people or some simply never arrived. Not saying that it was wholesale but does allow higher levels of vote fixing.
Never heard of the customer swiping the card before, here in the UK they have recently introduced chip and pin the replae the swip and sign. You put your card in a slot type in your pin number and there you go as easy as an ATM all the cashier does now is scan the stuff through and bag it up for you.
Do ATMs do everything a Bank teller does, no. Will amazon recommend a book not based purely on your buying history, No. does the online travel agent does as much as the high street one, no.
In your world online is the best and only way, where as the Real world computer/online option tends to mean incomplete buggy or unnecessarily difficult to use, it's still very immature whereas the paper works and is known to work.