"This whole age-cutoff thing is simply garbage - just like "Grand Theft Auto" itself - and sooner or later, I would imagine, we'll come to our senses and ban these games from public commerce, just like we ban child pornography and entertainment spectacles such as cock fighting and dwarf throwing. "
Haaaaaaaaaa ha ha ha. Dwarf throwing! wipe me dry!
In unrealted news, Peter Jackson the creator of the Lord of the Rings films was arrested today at JFK international airport on charges of "wanton dwarf throwing" A spokes-dwarf said to press at the scene "Never toss a dwarf, god I wish he hadn't told the elf!".
"Petrol Protests. People were willing to switch votes because the Conservatives promised something like 3p off a litre. To most families, that's about 50-60UKP per annum. Meanwhile, they get their pensions taxed and don't raise an eyebrow.
The dome. Never mind it was not tax money, people made a load of fuss about it. Never mind the Jubilee Line extension that cost about 10 times as much."
"The cost to 'the health service' of smoking is complex. Smoking causes a considerable number of people to live shorter lives than they would otherwise. Living shorter lives can actually reduce the cost to 'the health service.'"
I see where your coming from, but I dont think you took into account the 6-12 months of intense chemo/radio/whatever therapy they go though to try and cure the cancer before they check-out. That stuff is EXPENSIVE.
I am not a lawyer, and I am not from the US so maybe someone can help me out with this.
Who actually OWNS the data in the airbag system? If it is you then you dont have a problem, if you dont want that data used then you dont give the insurance company permission to extract it. If on the other hand it is the insurance company ( and I would be surprised if it is ) then can't you request that data from them under data protection laws? After all it is personnal data about you? And if it is Crysler then the same applies. Feel free to use this template..
Dear Mr *,
Give me me data NOW! I shall not be coming to collect it in a black helecopter so please dont hand it to those guys.
The government dosent pay for the roads! YOU DO!
Dont EVER forget that. The whole point of an elected government is that they spend YOUR money only at YOUR sufferance. This may be a little off-topic but I think it needs to be said. People need to stop thinking that the government can do whatever they want with no oversite from the citizens that they serve.
Now the FBI, CIA, MI5 etc.. thats a different story. We dont get to elect them, we give them broad ranging powers and they dont have to report what they do to the electorate, or even the government. They are the people I am worried about getting hold of too much personal information. If you want to see how bad it can get go and visit the old Stazi headquaters in Berlin, they have bottled scent samples of their citizens for gods sake!
How liable are the companies that are actually being advertised in the spam? If I receive a spam telling me to go to cheaploans.co.uk, but they didn't actually SEND it, rather they got a "marketing" company to do it, how liable are they?
Are the authorties going to kick their doors in and find out who actually did the sending or are they just doing to rely on actually tracing the spam to it's source?
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"This whole age-cutoff thing is simply garbage - just like "Grand Theft Auto" itself - and sooner or later, I would imagine, we'll come to our senses and ban these games from public commerce, just like we ban child pornography and entertainment spectacles such as cock fighting and dwarf throwing. "
Haaaaaaaaaa ha ha ha. Dwarf throwing! wipe me dry!
In unrealted news, Peter Jackson the creator of the Lord of the Rings films was arrested today at JFK international airport on charges of "wanton dwarf throwing" A spokes-dwarf said to press at the scene "Never toss a dwarf, god I wish he hadn't told the elf!".
In Russia, SPAM CANS YOU!
"Petrol Protests. People were willing to switch votes because the Conservatives promised something like 3p off a litre. To most families, that's about 50-60UKP per annum. Meanwhile, they get their pensions taxed and don't raise an eyebrow.
:-)
The dome. Never mind it was not tax money, people made a load of fuss about it. Never mind the Jubilee Line extension that cost about 10 times as much."
Tony? is that you mate?
"The cost to 'the health service' of smoking is complex. Smoking causes a considerable number of people to live shorter lives than they would otherwise. Living shorter lives can actually reduce the cost to 'the health service.'"
I see where your coming from, but I dont think you took into account the 6-12 months of intense chemo/radio/whatever therapy they go though to try and cure the cancer before they check-out. That stuff is EXPENSIVE.
I am not a lawyer, and I am not from the US so maybe someone can help me out with this.
Who actually OWNS the data in the airbag system? If it is you then you dont have a problem, if you dont want that data used then you dont give the insurance company permission to extract it. If on the other hand it is the insurance company ( and I would be surprised if it is ) then can't you request that data from them under data protection laws? After all it is personnal data about you? And if it is Crysler then the same applies. Feel free to use this template..
Dear Mr *,
Give me me data NOW! I shall not be coming to collect it in a black helecopter so please dont hand it to those guys.
Cheers,
*delete as appropriate
The government dosent pay for the roads! YOU DO! Dont EVER forget that. The whole point of an elected government is that they spend YOUR money only at YOUR sufferance. This may be a little off-topic but I think it needs to be said. People need to stop thinking that the government can do whatever they want with no oversite from the citizens that they serve. Now the FBI, CIA, MI5 etc.. thats a different story. We dont get to elect them, we give them broad ranging powers and they dont have to report what they do to the electorate, or even the government. They are the people I am worried about getting hold of too much personal information. If you want to see how bad it can get go and visit the old Stazi headquaters in Berlin, they have bottled scent samples of their citizens for gods sake!
How liable are the companies that are actually being advertised in the spam? If I receive a spam telling me to go to cheaploans.co.uk, but they didn't actually SEND it, rather they got a "marketing" company to do it, how liable are they? Are the authorties going to kick their doors in and find out who actually did the sending or are they just doing to rely on actually tracing the spam to it's source? -- If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.
Get my TV to freeze Event Horizon until I "insert one token to continue" Superb. -- If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers. --