I'm assuming you don't work for the Met. The London Metropolitan police are notorious for all kinds of borderline (and in some cases outright illegal) behaviour.
Personally I think that all police officers should have a camera built into their tac vest wirelessly streaming back to a secure server at all times when they are on duty. It would eliminate a lot of "he said, she said" by providing a video record of what happened from the officer's point of view. After all, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear...
Oh what a surprise, we both got Troll mods. I love how rabid Apple fanbois get when they believe their darling is under attack. It's such a beautiful mirror of Apple's extremely agressive defensiveness - no dissent can be permitted under any circumstances.
And trust me, if I was trolling you would know about it.
Having been picked on at the start, Apple has become one of the biggest bullies on the block. It's as if the Ugly Duckling rather than go swanning (heh) around saying "Look how pretty I am" decided "Right, now I'm 4x the size of those bastards who picked on me. Time for some payback" and went on a revenge spree.
Sucessive UK governments have become addicted to legislating increasingly petty levels of people's behaviour. Rather than looking at and tackling the root causes of mass levels of anti-social behaviour they have been focussing on the headline-grabbing band-aid solutions of making each and every specific incident illegal. The net effect of this is a web of at times contradictory laws. For example - if an emergency services vehicle is behind you with its sirens on you have a duty to move ot the way if at all possible. Last year a man was taken to court because his only safe option to do so involved driving through a red light. He was quite literally faced with a situation not of his own making where there was no legal option - he either "ran" the red light, drove across the pavement or obstructed and emergency services vehicle in its duty.
It's relevant because the MAFIAA have been trotting out their junk statistics to prove why they should be allowed to destroy peoples' lives for downloading a song. They have made it relevant, you don't get to just dismiss it as soon as it's turned back on them.
^^ This, a thousand times this. DLC used to be a way of extending the lifespan of a game you loved with content developed after the release, now it's either unbalanced "blag packs" or things that should have been in the original game and were very obvously kept back for post-sale double-dipping. DLC already on the disc, and all you download is an unlock code anyone? . Oh, and let's not forget the "Hose the game resale market" component that's crept into DLC - the current trend of having things like the online component non-transferable are a blatant attempt to destroy the doctrine of First Sale.
So you've missed the trend over the last few years of people digging up decades(and in some case centuries)-old incidents and demanding apologies (and of course reparations) for them? None of the people involved are still working (or even alive in many cases) but somehow we're expected to go down on one knee and apologise for their actions...
The poster child of this of course is the "Reparations for slavery" industry that has grown over the last decade. Nobody alive was involved in those horrific crimes - hell nobody's parents were involved - yet still activists (and their well-fed lawyers) keep banging on that drum, keeping old wounds from healing.
This is what they do to themselves. Any sign of weakness by one is immediately pounced upon by the others, desperate to destroy an opponent or rival, little realising that they will receive as little mercy in return when their time comes. A compromised politician lashes around like a dying octopus trying to grab others for support who in turn desperately try to shrug them off to avoid being dragged down with them...
It's actually quite beautiful in a Dawinian kind of way, though the creature that will be the end-product of this selection process will almost certainly be a true horror of conscienceless manipulation.
I avoid A&F. The perfume in the air is so strong it knocks out my sense of smell for about an hour and the forced "californian surf shack" ambience is so false it makes my teeth hurt. Plus there's nothing in there I'd ever actually wear...
My engagement ring to my wife was a heart-shaped star sapphire I bought loose, set in silver by a friend who is a trainee silversmith. Cheap(ish), beautiful and utterly unique. Spend 3 months salary on a store-bought piece of crap? Screw that.
I always thought that the engagement ring was traditionally a "down payment" on a promise to marry - almost like a security deposit against you getting cold feet.
I've always wondered why an omniescent deity would require open worship. If God knows all then surely it knows how you feel without you having to say anything.
So if I invent a new way of abusing your human rights, destroying your freedoms or removing your property that's fine because it's not been specifically legislated against? Niiiice.
"A great long canon fires a ballistic trajectory, with it's impact speed higher than it's initial muzzle velocity."
Orly? the only way the cannon shell would gain speed from such a trajectory is if it dropped farther than it rose and I believe that both ships would be sitting on a medium that tends towards a certain amount of flatness. I'm willing to bet that any miniscule gain from this would be greatly outweighed by velocity lost due to air resistance.
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Our 1st line service desk are a bunch of monkeys working from scripts. I've heard many, many stories of their lack of ability or even common sense from customers - I'm 3rd line support so I'm usually visiting the customer's PC after the helldesk have messed it up. Such gems as insisting that rebooting the PC will somehow magically resolve a jammed tray on a printer and not understanding that if you uninstall the Remote Access Manager on a homeworker's laptop it will disconnect and you won't be able to reinstall it are all too common.
Still their existence means I don't end up having to field 20 password reset requests a day...
Kids pick up behaviour from everything. I grew up with lots of dogs in the house and still have bad habits loike sniffing my food and hitting stairs at a quadrapedal run.
Here's a concept - rather than more and more rules on what people can do to protect your precious little crotchfruit how's about taking some personal responsibility for that thing that came from you. Teach the kid right and wrong, don't leave it to Uncle TeVee or Aunty Internet. Teach them respect for themselves and other people and that gutter language doesn't make you look big, it makes you look like a child trying too hard to look big.
But I guess you've already done the easy/fun bit. Everything else is Someone Else's responsibility...
(BTW joebagofdonuts this isn't a personal rant at you - it's just a general What The hell Is Wrong With You All rant aimed at the world in general)
And that's as it should be. Parent takes responsibility and makes their choice. Said father has no right to go bitching and whining when his kid picks up behaviour from a game that he let his kid play.
Of course that won't stop him. Then he'll demand more legislation while bitching to his mates down the pub that there's no freedoms anymore, and never make the connection.
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Well, except for constant ads for their own programs/BBC radio/Red nose day etc...
I'm assuming you don't work for the Met. The London Metropolitan police are notorious for all kinds of borderline (and in some cases outright illegal) behaviour.
Personally I think that all police officers should have a camera built into their tac vest wirelessly streaming back to a secure server at all times when they are on duty. It would eliminate a lot of "he said, she said" by providing a video record of what happened from the officer's point of view. After all, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear...
Oh what a surprise, we both got Troll mods. I love how rabid Apple fanbois get when they believe their darling is under attack. It's such a beautiful mirror of Apple's extremely agressive defensiveness - no dissent can be permitted under any circumstances.
And trust me, if I was trolling you would know about it.
Having been picked on at the start, Apple has become one of the biggest bullies on the block. It's as if the Ugly Duckling rather than go swanning (heh) around saying "Look how pretty I am" decided "Right, now I'm 4x the size of those bastards who picked on me. Time for some payback" and went on a revenge spree.
Sucessive UK governments have become addicted to legislating increasingly petty levels of people's behaviour. Rather than looking at and tackling the root causes of mass levels of anti-social behaviour they have been focussing on the headline-grabbing band-aid solutions of making each and every specific incident illegal. The net effect of this is a web of at times contradictory laws. For example - if an emergency services vehicle is behind you with its sirens on you have a duty to move ot the way if at all possible. Last year a man was taken to court because his only safe option to do so involved driving through a red light. He was quite literally faced with a situation not of his own making where there was no legal option - he either "ran" the red light, drove across the pavement or obstructed and emergency services vehicle in its duty.
No useful Google results on this - can you elaborate? Might be relevant to me as I love wandering round old disused places.
Sure, which one do you think will do better, Camilla or Kate?
It's relevant because the MAFIAA have been trotting out their junk statistics to prove why they should be allowed to destroy peoples' lives for downloading a song. They have made it relevant, you don't get to just dismiss it as soon as it's turned back on them.
^^ This, a thousand times this. DLC used to be a way of extending the lifespan of a game you loved with content developed after the release, now it's either unbalanced "blag packs" or things that should have been in the original game and were very obvously kept back for post-sale double-dipping. DLC already on the disc, and all you download is an unlock code anyone? . Oh, and let's not forget the "Hose the game resale market" component that's crept into DLC - the current trend of having things like the online component non-transferable are a blatant attempt to destroy the doctrine of First Sale.
So you've missed the trend over the last few years of people digging up decades(and in some case centuries)-old incidents and demanding apologies (and of course reparations) for them? None of the people involved are still working (or even alive in many cases) but somehow we're expected to go down on one knee and apologise for their actions... The poster child of this of course is the "Reparations for slavery" industry that has grown over the last decade. Nobody alive was involved in those horrific crimes - hell nobody's parents were involved - yet still activists (and their well-fed lawyers) keep banging on that drum, keeping old wounds from healing.
This is what they do to themselves. Any sign of weakness by one is immediately pounced upon by the others, desperate to destroy an opponent or rival, little realising that they will receive as little mercy in return when their time comes. A compromised politician lashes around like a dying octopus trying to grab others for support who in turn desperately try to shrug them off to avoid being dragged down with them...
It's actually quite beautiful in a Dawinian kind of way, though the creature that will be the end-product of this selection process will almost certainly be a true horror of conscienceless manipulation.
Plus "Well all the other planets are heating up" sounds a little like "Well everyone else is catching the plague so why should i worry?"
I avoid A&F. The perfume in the air is so strong it knocks out my sense of smell for about an hour and the forced "californian surf shack" ambience is so false it makes my teeth hurt. Plus there's nothing in there I'd ever actually wear...
"As a MAN POSING AS A hot girl with a fetish for facial hairs, I'd say yes, of course!"
TFTFY - we all know there's no girls on the internet.
My engagement ring to my wife was a heart-shaped star sapphire I bought loose, set in silver by a friend who is a trainee silversmith. Cheap(ish), beautiful and utterly unique. Spend 3 months salary on a store-bought piece of crap? Screw that.
I always thought that the engagement ring was traditionally a "down payment" on a promise to marry - almost like a security deposit against you getting cold feet.
I've always wondered why an omniescent deity would require open worship. If God knows all then surely it knows how you feel without you having to say anything.
So if I invent a new way of abusing your human rights, destroying your freedoms or removing your property that's fine because it's not been specifically legislated against? Niiiice.
"Sometimes you have to just shut up and play ball" - I believe that "play ball" is _exactly_ what he did...
When I was a kid we went to the Eiffel Tower. I might have had pockets full of paper planes for the event...
"A great long canon fires a ballistic trajectory, with it's impact speed higher than it's initial muzzle velocity."
Orly? the only way the cannon shell would gain speed from such a trajectory is if it dropped farther than it rose and I believe that both ships would be sitting on a medium that tends towards a certain amount of flatness. I'm willing to bet that any miniscule gain from this would be greatly outweighed by velocity lost due to air resistance.
Our 1st line service desk are a bunch of monkeys working from scripts. I've heard many, many stories of their lack of ability or even common sense from customers - I'm 3rd line support so I'm usually visiting the customer's PC after the helldesk have messed it up. Such gems as insisting that rebooting the PC will somehow magically resolve a jammed tray on a printer and not understanding that if you uninstall the Remote Access Manager on a homeworker's laptop it will disconnect and you won't be able to reinstall it are all too common.
Still their existence means I don't end up having to field 20 password reset requests a day...
Kids pick up behaviour from everything. I grew up with lots of dogs in the house and still have bad habits loike sniffing my food and hitting stairs at a quadrapedal run.
Here's a concept - rather than more and more rules on what people can do to protect your precious little crotchfruit how's about taking some personal responsibility for that thing that came from you. Teach the kid right and wrong, don't leave it to Uncle TeVee or Aunty Internet. Teach them respect for themselves and other people and that gutter language doesn't make you look big, it makes you look like a child trying too hard to look big.
But I guess you've already done the easy/fun bit. Everything else is Someone Else's responsibility...
(BTW joebagofdonuts this isn't a personal rant at you - it's just a general What The hell Is Wrong With You All rant aimed at the world in general)
Same age as you. About 1/2 an hour ago I mentioned a tape collection and a girl half my age picked up on that and told me I was showing my age...
And that's as it should be. Parent takes responsibility and makes their choice. Said father has no right to go bitching and whining when his kid picks up behaviour from a game that he let his kid play.
Of course that won't stop him. Then he'll demand more legislation while bitching to his mates down the pub that there's no freedoms anymore, and never make the connection.
I guess the flawed optics were another example of NASA's short-sightedness...