John Howard's level of bullshit is incredible. He has consistently shown his ability to circumvent the truth, to not own up to his mistakes, and to lie to us. Go read Margo Kingston's book "Not Happy John" to get a rough idea what I'm talking about, or google to find a number of websites that can list just how many times he's lied about policy. His "examples" of leading this country are a disgrace, from his use of political power to further his own family's ends, his inability to be a man and own up to his mistakes and take the blame, to his power-hungry attempts to abolish the Senate and remove the only political limitations he has.
s/John Howard/Tony Blair/; s/Senate/House of Lords/; s/Go read.*, or//; s/from his use.*family's ends//; # Wow, Howard's worse than Blair!
Yes. The one thing I can say in favour of it is that it gives each constituency a single MP who's supposed to represent them. PR might give me an MP somewhere in the country who came close to representing me.
Jokes aside, the reason it is permitted is that the High Court has found an implied right to political communication in the Constitution. A federal law banning political spam would be invalid.
That doesn't necessarily follow. Sending you an e-mail costs you money. If politicians want to communicate with you they can send you a letter, which only costs you the time to pick it up.
Besides, not all forms of communication are allowed regardless of how political they are. A horse's head in your bed with a note saying "Vote for me or I'll kill you" should get the sender a gaol sentence.
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It's Ladbrokes - one of the biggest bookies in the UK, not a fly-by-night scam artist. They've paid out bets at worse (or better from the gambler's point of view) odds than those before on football and horses.
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I believe that in the UK at least they are required to render part of the song useless - start a few seconds in, finish a few seconds early, or talk over part of it. Of course, with patience it's theoretically possible to record a song a few times and either get one with the start trashed and the end okay and one the other way round for splicing or use correlation to filter out the voice.
If your solution to avoiding using CLASSPATH is to put everything into the Java extensions folder then you should be claiming that CLASSPATH isn't needed on any platform, because they all have an extensions directory. It is, however, a crap solution. It doesn't allow you to switch between different versions of a library unless you want to keep replacing a symlink. Moreover, unless you do your development in/Library/Java/Extensions (which is _really_ crap) it forces you to cd to the directory into which you compile before running anything.
I've made my living programming Java under OS X for more than two years. In that time I've had occasions where my CLASSPATH has become screwed up and needed repairing.
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And while we're at it, "more that a /. myth" is unlikely to be an intentional error.
A peer of the realm with money? That's a novelty.
*does the currency conversion* About 350 quid for a house? I might consider moving to the US after all.
MacOSXHints has a new hint about ANSI colours in Terminal.
Besides, not all forms of communication are allowed regardless of how political they are. A horse's head in your bed with a note saying "Vote for me or I'll kill you" should get the sender a gaol sentence.
It's Ladbrokes - one of the biggest bookies in the UK, not a fly-by-night scam artist. They've paid out bets at worse (or better from the gambler's point of view) odds than those before on football and horses.
Measure epsilon?
I believe that in the UK at least they are required to render part of the song useless - start a few seconds in, finish a few seconds early, or talk over part of it. Of course, with patience it's theoretically possible to record a song a few times and either get one with the start trashed and the end okay and one the other way round for splicing or use correlation to filter out the voice.
I've seen a BSOD on a train departure display in England too. Didn't have a camera on me, unfortunately.
If you follow the link, you'll see that someone called Hesham Bahram is doing something around there.
I was serious about taking spam to BBQs. BBQd spam is very nice.
Excellent. Now I won't have to put up with people saying "I use filters for that" every time I take some meat to a BBQ.
I'm sure one CD and a net connection will do just fine. Of course, you then have to factor in the cost of the net connection...
Google?
If your solution to avoiding using CLASSPATH is to put everything into the Java extensions folder then you should be claiming that CLASSPATH isn't needed on any platform, because they all have an extensions directory. It is, however, a crap solution. It doesn't allow you to switch between different versions of a library unless you want to keep replacing a symlink. Moreover, unless you do your development in /Library/Java/Extensions (which is _really_ crap) it forces you to cd to the directory into which you compile before running anything.
I've made my living programming Java under OS X for more than two years. In that time I've had occasions where my CLASSPATH has become screwed up and needed repairing.