Oh, and while we're on the subject what do you think those "Good old Irish Freedom Fighters" that a swathe of America was funding in the 80's were doing with their money?
That's right, blowing the cr4p out of London to advance their political agenda. Which makes them...?
In the United Kingdom, making a private copy of copyrighted media without the copyright owner's consent is illegal: this includes ripping music from a CD to a computer or digital music player. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6457369.stm
Ah, but buying that copy of the album doesn't entitle you to rip a copy. You licensed a CD version of the album, not a data file. The media company would want to be able to sell you a second copy (possibly at a bit of a discount so as to seem less ridiculous) for your MP3 player.
User-remappable controls are a neccessity. It's less of a problem now but there's plenty of games that I never bothered with more than 1/2 hr of because of idiotic control schema.
Oh, and if you insist on 5 minute long unskippable cutscenes followed by a hard bossfight for the love of Xenu have an autosave between them. Your beautifully rendered cutscene gets really tedious when you've heard the joke half-a-dozen times.
You must have missed this little ritual we do every few years calld the General Election. XeNuLabour hasn't been in power for a while. That said I do get hacked off by just how much the state (and by extension self-appointed pressure groups) feel they have the right to dictate what I do with my body. It's my meatsack, pretty much the only thing I can unequivocably own, and I'll use/abuse it as I damn well please. If that means I end up only living 60 years rather than 80 then be glad you won't have to pay my pension - not that you've budgeted for that anyway...
I assume you missed this little ritual we do every few years called the General Election. XeNuLabour hasn't been in power for a while.
But it does hack me off just how much the state (and by extension self-appointed pressure groups) feel they have the right to dictate what I do with my body. It's my meatsack, pretty much the only thing I can unequivocably own, and I'll use/abuse it as I damn well please. If that means I end up only living 60 years rather than 80 then be glad you won't have to pay my pension - not that you've budgeted for that anyway...
Plus, she has a use as a comparative baseline - "I may have gotten roofied out of my mind and has an entire football team run a train on my ass this weekend but at least I'm not _that_ pox-rotted doxy..."
Tell that to Gary McKinnon.
Or all the people arrested for CP offences for having a photo of their 17 y/o girlfriend in a country where the age of consent is 16 but the local government has been "persuaded" to set the bar for Indecent Material at 18 by prudish American legislators.
America isn't the world, but it is the big, pushy kid on the block who wants everyone to play by his rules.
Censorship always follows the wedge model - first the part that slides in easy, like CP. Then it becomes used to silence things not illegal, just distateful - like Hate Speech. Then it's used to silence anyone trying to argue against you. I've seen this working in a University society where a code of conduct was brought in to stop the worst of the trolls and within 2 years it was being used as a weapon to silence someone who the president took a personal dislike to. Power always corrupts, and tools always end up being used for purposes other than the original reasons for them. In the UK the expanded surveillance powers granted in the wake of 7/7 have been used to spy on people to make sure they recycle properly, to see if a family really does live in the cachement area of their preferred school, to check to see if people scoop the poop and so on.
I recently watched through all the old Dr Who (except for the lost Troughton series obviously) and the first floating Daleks were in the McCoy era. In the 60's films they had some disks to float on but that was it.
I count myself as an environmentalist but believe that turning our backs on science is completely the wrong answer. We have passed the point where we can rely on the planet healing itself, and there needs to be a concerted effort to resolve the growing problems.
Trouble is there is so much wilful ignorance (on both sides of the discussion) compounded by the usual human "Us and Them" mentality.
"They're no long able to reproduce, sexually, are they?"
I really hope not... though in a lot of Zombie films zombies are seen to go on with actions that were familliar from life. That makes a zombie porn star a _really_ horrifying prospect.
Yeah! Back to its roots, before all these NEWFAGS turned up. Remember when/b/ was good?
No. Just kidding, but point taken. There's a lot less of that indefinable bastardness that reminded me of Alt.Tasteless and a lot more copypasta nowadays.
"Manning's detention has been characterized as for his self protection"
Because detaining someone for their own good is not a concept that has been misused throughout history. As soon as someone says "We're doing this for your own good." my suspicions are raised. Unfortunately, in the current world this means I spend most of my time suspicious of everyone with any degree of power as it seems to be the control mantra of choice nowadays.
"They can migrate to other countries,"
Up until some bright spark in the legislature realises what's happening and then suddenly people who are deemed to be a National Resource find themselves unable to travel out of the country.
After all you've already been softened up to the idea of people being on a list that they don't have the right to know if they're on (and asking about it will get you on said list) that means you are basically denied the right of free travel.
I had a 7 hr round trip to visit a user's desk yesterday only to find that the helldesk drone that took her call hadn't asked her to check both ends of the VGA cable.
*sigh*
Riight. 'Cause the junior lawyers they have going over the paperwork wouldn't spot a name that meant trouble in about 10 seconds flat. Lawyers are not stupid, and this will all be very carefully checked (and the bill for the time taken added to the "This is how much we're having to spend to fight piracy" total they use to scare Senators who don't understand basic statistics)
"Pakistan entered into a counter terrorism relationship with the United States after 9/11, in part to keep the United States from invading Pakistan on the way to Afghanistan"
You held a gun to their head, said "Work with us or die" and are then surprised when they didn't bring their A game to the table?
Just read the Wikipedia entry on him - it states that he's strongly opposed to and form of Affirmative Action. Kind of hypocritical considering he was obviously selected to replace a retiring African-American judge to keep a quota.
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Oh, and while we're on the subject what do you think those "Good old Irish Freedom Fighters" that a swathe of America was funding in the 80's were doing with their money?
That's right, blowing the cr4p out of London to advance their political agenda. Which makes them...?
In the United Kingdom, making a private copy of copyrighted media without the copyright owner's consent is illegal: this includes ripping music from a CD to a computer or digital music player.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6457369.stm
Ah, but buying that copy of the album doesn't entitle you to rip a copy. You licensed a CD version of the album, not a data file. The media company would want to be able to sell you a second copy (possibly at a bit of a discount so as to seem less ridiculous) for your MP3 player.
User-remappable controls are a neccessity. It's less of a problem now but there's plenty of games that I never bothered with more than 1/2 hr of because of idiotic control schema.
Oh, and if you insist on 5 minute long unskippable cutscenes followed by a hard bossfight for the love of Xenu have an autosave between them. Your beautifully rendered cutscene gets really tedious when you've heard the joke half-a-dozen times.
You must have missed this little ritual we do every few years calld the General Election. XeNuLabour hasn't been in power for a while.
That said I do get hacked off by just how much the state (and by extension self-appointed pressure groups) feel they have the right to dictate what I do with my body. It's my meatsack, pretty much the only thing I can unequivocably own, and I'll use/abuse it as I damn well please. If that means I end up only living 60 years rather than 80 then be glad you won't have to pay my pension - not that you've budgeted for that anyway...
I assume you missed this little ritual we do every few years called the General Election. XeNuLabour hasn't been in power for a while.
But it does hack me off just how much the state (and by extension self-appointed pressure groups) feel they have the right to dictate what I do with my body. It's my meatsack, pretty much the only thing I can unequivocably own, and I'll use/abuse it as I damn well please. If that means I end up only living 60 years rather than 80 then be glad you won't have to pay my pension - not that you've budgeted for that anyway...
Plus, she has a use as a comparative baseline - "I may have gotten roofied out of my mind and has an entire football team run a train on my ass this weekend but at least I'm not _that_ pox-rotted doxy..."
Tell that to Gary McKinnon.
Or all the people arrested for CP offences for having a photo of their 17 y/o girlfriend in a country where the age of consent is 16 but the local government has been "persuaded" to set the bar for Indecent Material at 18 by prudish American legislators.
America isn't the world, but it is the big, pushy kid on the block who wants everyone to play by his rules.
Censorship always follows the wedge model - first the part that slides in easy, like CP. Then it becomes used to silence things not illegal, just distateful - like Hate Speech. Then it's used to silence anyone trying to argue against you. I've seen this working in a University society where a code of conduct was brought in to stop the worst of the trolls and within 2 years it was being used as a weapon to silence someone who the president took a personal dislike to. Power always corrupts, and tools always end up being used for purposes other than the original reasons for them. In the UK the expanded surveillance powers granted in the wake of 7/7 have been used to spy on people to make sure they recycle properly, to see if a family really does live in the cachement area of their preferred school, to check to see if people scoop the poop and so on.
I recently watched through all the old Dr Who (except for the lost Troughton series obviously) and the first floating Daleks were in the McCoy era. In the 60's films they had some disks to float on but that was it.
I count myself as an environmentalist but believe that turning our backs on science is completely the wrong answer. We have passed the point where we can rely on the planet healing itself, and there needs to be a concerted effort to resolve the growing problems. Trouble is there is so much wilful ignorance (on both sides of the discussion) compounded by the usual human "Us and Them" mentality.
"They're no long able to reproduce, sexually, are they?"
I really hope not... though in a lot of Zombie films zombies are seen to go on with actions that were familliar from life. That makes a zombie porn star a _really_ horrifying prospect.
I always thought the quarters were taken to the 4 corners of the kingdom to show everyone what happens if you piss off the king.
Yeah! Back to its roots, before all these NEWFAGS turned up. Remember when /b/ was good?
No.
Just kidding, but point taken. There's a lot less of that indefinable bastardness that reminded me of Alt.Tasteless and a lot more copypasta nowadays.
You'll know for sure if beautiful women suddenly start throwing themselves at 4channers in public.
That's not a sign of a covert government action; that's a sign of the Apocalypse.
Nah, that's just a camwhore.
GP specified beautiful, not "Passable for human on 320x240 VGA in a dim light at 2fps"
"Manning's detention has been characterized as for his self protection"
Because detaining someone for their own good is not a concept that has been misused throughout history. As soon as someone says "We're doing this for your own good." my suspicions are raised. Unfortunately, in the current world this means I spend most of my time suspicious of everyone with any degree of power as it seems to be the control mantra of choice nowadays.
"They can migrate to other countries,"
Up until some bright spark in the legislature realises what's happening and then suddenly people who are deemed to be a National Resource find themselves unable to travel out of the country.
After all you've already been softened up to the idea of people being on a list that they don't have the right to know if they're on (and asking about it will get you on said list) that means you are basically denied the right of free travel.
>You may not have to endure that shock for long.
>An appeal may be forthcoming, with a properly bought judge.
TFTFY.
I had a 7 hr round trip to visit a user's desk yesterday only to find that the helldesk drone that took her call hadn't asked her to check both ends of the VGA cable.
*sigh*
Most hobo's don't have teeth anymore...
Riight. 'Cause the junior lawyers they have going over the paperwork wouldn't spot a name that meant trouble in about 10 seconds flat. Lawyers are not stupid, and this will all be very carefully checked (and the bill for the time taken added to the "This is how much we're having to spend to fight piracy" total they use to scare Senators who don't understand basic statistics)
Anon has a credo - "4 teh Lulz"
Plus, she's not a ugly-ass guy...
"Pakistan entered into a counter terrorism relationship with the United States after 9/11, in part to keep the United States from invading Pakistan on the way to Afghanistan"
You held a gun to their head, said "Work with us or die" and are then surprised when they didn't bring their A game to the table?
Just read the Wikipedia entry on him - it states that he's strongly opposed to and form of Affirmative Action. Kind of hypocritical considering he was obviously selected to replace a retiring African-American judge to keep a quota.