Really? I was born in the UK and am now 43 years old, between the ages of 20 and 30 I lived in some of the most deprived areas of Manchester, outside of playing soldiers at University or a museum I've seen two licensed shotguns and a disabled Russian pistol (war souvenir). Musn't be looking hard enough I suppose.
As I remember it there's a limit on the length of the blade so a penknife for fishing etc isn't a problem, it also depends on the situation and the judgement of the policeman. A couple of years back I was using the butt of a 6 inch diving knife to hammer tent pegs in at a festival, a copper walking past stopped to remind me that I shouldn't carry the knife around with me. No problem.
Permanent it ain't, I've worn glasses to correct short sightedness since I was 11 years old and yes, I could have had laser surgery at some point to correct it, I never bothered because wearing glasses has never bothered me and I quite like being able to make the world go fuzzy when it's all getting a bit to much. Now at the age of 43 my prescription requires varifocals to correct my near point as the elasticity/flexibility of the muscles that change the shape of my lens deteriorates. As you get older your sight changes, possibly that could be corrected with more laser surgery but it is not in of itself a permanent fix. Anyway it's night time here and it's raining so I'm going to take my glasses off and look at the pretty patterns on the street lights:>)
I'm aware of that, I was pointing out that your summary of the German invasion of France was about as useful as saying they used tanks and aircraft, hence my reference to your 'don't bring utterly useless information' comment.
crucial time to France when they had been outflanked by German troops who had cleverly setup decoys and false intelligence
There'sm no denying America's contribution in WWII but WTF are you on about here? You may want to refer to your own 'don't bring utterly useless information' comment.
WHOOSH!! Congratulations, that was the sound of the whole point of the grandparents soppy poem disappearing into the distance without you noticing it. He wasn't saying you are required to microchip your dog, he wasn't saying that anyone has microchipped immigrants or proposed doing it to felons. You know, I'm confused, was your mention of great literature intended to demonstrate you're familiar with the original verse? Because if so how could you so totally fail to understand the point of it?
Yes it is a slippery slope, if you're going to fuck people over do it incrementally, they'll accept it much easier that way. If immigrants etc were chipped how long do you think it would be before someone suggested various other segments of the population could usefully be chipped? Mmm? you might trust the government you have now but what about the one 5, 10 or 15 years down the line?
I've spent the last 18 years of my life writing systems that need to identify people, to say whether they've payed their rent or not, what care are they getting from social services, is their library book overdue or not, the list is endless. From a purely job based perspective, yes, chip the buggers from birth. From a purely personal perspective, come near me with a chipping device and I'll take your arm off and beat you to death with the soggy end.
Technology is neither good or evil, the uses it's put to are another matter, the danger is once it's out of the box you can't put it back in.
Funnily enough not everything in 2000 was running on Win 3.1. I was working on old mainframe systems were dates were stored in YYMMDD format in numeric fields so you could do simple greater than / less than comparisons. Unfortunately 000101 is less than 990101 which fucks your logic totally. Understand the possible problems now?
It's not forms that are the problem, it's rebuilding view indexes that can take the time, however I agree 20 minutes is a no no, the point I was trying to make was that Notes can be remarkably forgiving of bad programming, again, whether that's a good thing or not is left as an exercise for the student........
I've been working with Notes for the past 4 or 5 years, the problem as I see it is with a little bit of knowledge you can get something up and running, then you build on top of what you've got, a little more functionality here, a funky new screen there......
You can code absolute crap and Notes will run, yeah it'll pop the red box up or piss off and think about things for 20 minutes before giving you control back but it will run.
Currently for my sins I'm maintaining and extending a Notes system written by someone with no programming training what so ever, just enthusiasm and the Designer client. It's horrible, it's a classic example of how not to program, but it runs, I suspect that wouldn't be the case if developed in with another tool. You can make your own mind up if that's a positive or a negative.
Oh yes, you won't see much of a database structure because it isn't a traditional database, it's a document store, two different things. If that upsets you don't worry, you can point a Notes front end at a DB2 backend and get all the relational goodness that you need.
The system has the potential to become a new kind of biometric security tool that -- in contrast to fingerprint readers, iris scanners or facial recognition -- would allow users to change their pass codes periodically.
You could change the phrase you think of from 'password' to 'login'. Easy, see?
Whoohoo you go to some fancy bars. Now at my local Debbie is pouring the pint and has the cigar to hand as I hit the bar, but cute? 20 stone of hips and rotating bosoms ain't never gonna be cute.
You're missing the parents point. The software claims to be able to identify pornographic images, as there is no generally agreed definition of what pornography is, it's left up to the courts to make that decision. Quite an impressive achievement for a $25 piece of software, don't you think?
American/British troops didn't invade a third world nation which was no threat to either of them.
Ooops.....
Don't get me wrong, Saddam was not a nice man but was the American/British invasion of Iraq justifiable? I don't think so. So which is better, Saddams oppression of the Iraqi people and all the death and pain that entailed or all the death and pain resulting from our invasion/liberation of the Iraqi people?
Bullshit, it is absolutely an example of modern warfare, we, the British and Americans, first world nations with state of the art technology and training invaded (or 'liberated') a third world nation, Iraq. You claimed that modern warfare causes fewer casualties, that is demonstrably not the case here. If you had pointed out the imbalance between a modern army and insurgent forces in terms of casualties taken you would have had a point. You didn't, instead you proudly stated how few casualties American forces have taken, ignoring tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths. Your attempt to correct your error above is weak, an admission of your mistake would have carried far more weight.
The beauty of modern warfare is very few people die relative to former wars
I think you meant to say 'Americans' in place of 'people' in the above statement. Superior technology and training are great for reducing your own casualties but they're a bastard for the opposition.
I assume you don't think Iraqi dead actually count as you don't even consider them worthy of mention. I can't decide what's more depressing, your post or the fact someone modded it insightful.
Stop making excuses for fuckwitting. You are a fuckwit. A fuckwitting fuckwit, because you are a fuckwit. Stop fuckwitting if you don't want to be called the fuckwit you are, since you fuckwit.
I'm so glad we had this reasoned discussion, and am deeply proud that my response is as witty, informed and to the point as your first response to me.
P.S. You may want to read my original post again, at no point did I make excuses for 'stealing' music, I in fact explicitly pointed out that copyright infringement is illegal. I did however state that it was, in my opinion, a less serious offence. I appreciate that a fuckwit such as yourself may have problems with complex ideas, so in closing, thanks for the attempt to contribute but do put some work in on your basic comprehension skills, OK?
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No it fucking isn't, it's copyright infringement, go and buy a dictionary and look up theft, actually I'll save you the trouble,
Theft, the dishonest taking of property belonging to another person with the intention of depriving the owner permanently of its possession
Collins Concise English Dictionary, Third Edition
Yes it's illegal but please don't drink the **AA Kool Aid and conflate it with theft, theft is nicking some old dears purse, shoplifting etc etc. Rather more serious in my opinion, that's why the **AA like to confuse the two. Got to go, dinner is served.
Trading Standards aren't police in the UK, they're Local Government employees. If she'd just bothered checking with her IT department I'm sure someone would have explained the whole concept to her, I work in IT (or ICT or whatever the fuck else were supposed to call ourselves these days) for Manchester City Council and there's loads of us using Firefox, we've a couple of Apache on Linux webservers, blah blah, FFS someone get me another coffee.
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Really? I was born in the UK and am now 43 years old, between the ages of 20 and 30 I lived in some of the most deprived areas of Manchester, outside of playing soldiers at University or a museum I've seen two licensed shotguns and a disabled Russian pistol (war souvenir). Musn't be looking hard enough I suppose.
As I remember it there's a limit on the length of the blade so a penknife for fishing etc isn't a problem, it also depends on the situation and the judgement of the policeman. A couple of years back I was using the butt of a 6 inch diving knife to hammer tent pegs in at a festival, a copper walking past stopped to remind me that I shouldn't carry the knife around with me. No problem.
In my case the total work force is approximately 25,000.....
Nah, he just can't spell.
Permanent it ain't, I've worn glasses to correct short sightedness since I was 11 years old and yes, I could have had laser surgery at some point to correct it, I never bothered because wearing glasses has never bothered me and I quite like being able to make the world go fuzzy when it's all getting a bit to much. Now at the age of 43 my prescription requires varifocals to correct my near point as the elasticity/flexibility of the muscles that change the shape of my lens deteriorates. As you get older your sight changes, possibly that could be corrected with more laser surgery but it is not in of itself a permanent fix. Anyway it's night time here and it's raining so I'm going to take my glasses off and look at the pretty patterns on the street lights :>)
I'm aware of that, I was pointing out that your summary of the German invasion of France was about as useful as saying they used tanks and aircraft, hence my reference to your 'don't bring utterly useless information' comment.
There'sm no denying America's contribution in WWII but WTF are you on about here? You may want to refer to your own 'don't bring utterly useless information' comment.
Yes it is a slippery slope, if you're going to fuck people over do it incrementally, they'll accept it much easier that way. If immigrants etc were chipped how long do you think it would be before someone suggested various other segments of the population could usefully be chipped? Mmm? you might trust the government you have now but what about the one 5, 10 or 15 years down the line?
I've spent the last 18 years of my life writing systems that need to identify people, to say whether they've payed their rent or not, what care are they getting from social services, is their library book overdue or not, the list is endless. From a purely job based perspective, yes, chip the buggers from birth. From a purely personal perspective, come near me with a chipping device and I'll take your arm off and beat you to death with the soggy end.
Technology is neither good or evil, the uses it's put to are another matter, the danger is once it's out of the box you can't put it back in.
You know you're absolutely right, tattooing didn't cause the first holocaust. Mind you, it made it a damn sight easier to administrate.
Funnily enough not everything in 2000 was running on Win 3.1. I was working on old mainframe systems were dates were stored in YYMMDD format in numeric fields so you could do simple greater than / less than comparisons. Unfortunately 000101 is less than 990101 which fucks your logic totally. Understand the possible problems now?
It's not forms that are the problem, it's rebuilding view indexes that can take the time, however I agree 20 minutes is a no no, the point I was trying to make was that Notes can be remarkably forgiving of bad programming, again, whether that's a good thing or not is left as an exercise for the student........
You can code absolute crap and Notes will run, yeah it'll pop the red box up or piss off and think about things for 20 minutes before giving you control back but it will run.
Currently for my sins I'm maintaining and extending a Notes system written by someone with no programming training what so ever, just enthusiasm and the Designer client. It's horrible, it's a classic example of how not to program, but it runs, I suspect that wouldn't be the case if developed in with another tool. You can make your own mind up if that's a positive or a negative.
Oh yes, you won't see much of a database structure because it isn't a traditional database, it's a document store, two different things. If that upsets you don't worry, you can point a Notes front end at a DB2 backend and get all the relational goodness that you need.
HTH
Gotta love that Jacquard Loom.
The system has the potential to become a new kind of biometric security tool that -- in contrast to fingerprint readers, iris scanners or facial recognition -- would allow users to change their pass codes periodically.
You could change the phrase you think of from 'password' to 'login'. Easy, see?
Whoohoo you go to some fancy bars. Now at my local Debbie is pouring the pint and has the cigar to hand as I hit the bar, but cute? 20 stone of hips and rotating bosoms ain't never gonna be cute.
Mind you, it's a sight to see.
From Dreams by Fleetwood Mac from 1977's Rumours album. Damn, my age is showing again.
You're missing the parents point. The software claims to be able to identify pornographic images, as there is no generally agreed definition of what pornography is, it's left up to the courts to make that decision. Quite an impressive achievement for a $25 piece of software, don't you think?
You don't really understand this whole capitalism thing, do you?
2000+ coalition deaths, not working to well, is it?
Ooops.....
Don't get me wrong, Saddam was not a nice man but was the American/British invasion of Iraq justifiable? I don't think so. So which is better, Saddams oppression of the Iraqi people and all the death and pain that entailed or all the death and pain resulting from our invasion/liberation of the Iraqi people?
Difficult isn't it.
You sir are a fool.
I think you meant to say 'Americans' in place of 'people' in the above statement. Superior technology and training are great for reducing your own casualties but they're a bastard for the opposition.
I assume you don't think Iraqi dead actually count as you don't even consider them worthy of mention. I can't decide what's more depressing, your post or the fact someone modded it insightful.
I'm so glad we had this reasoned discussion, and am deeply proud that my response is as witty, informed and to the point as your first response to me.
P.S. You may want to read my original post again, at no point did I make excuses for 'stealing' music, I in fact explicitly pointed out that copyright infringement is illegal. I did however state that it was, in my opinion, a less serious offence. I appreciate that a fuckwit such as yourself may have problems with complex ideas, so in closing, thanks for the attempt to contribute but do put some work in on your basic comprehension skills, OK?
Theft, the dishonest taking of property belonging to another person with the intention of depriving the owner permanently of its possession
Collins Concise English Dictionary, Third Edition
Yes it's illegal but please don't drink the **AA Kool Aid and conflate it with theft, theft is nicking some old dears purse, shoplifting etc etc. Rather more serious in my opinion, that's why the **AA like to confuse the two. Got to go, dinner is served.
And Relax.....