Haha, nice. Not exactly the meaning of compromise intended by the poster I was replying to but very good, I hadn't thought of that meaning when I posted.
Since when has compromise meant do the exact opposite of everything promised in their election manifesto? That is not compromising, that is selling out your principles for a whiff of power. Sure, the Conservatives throw them a small bone now and then, so they can claim they are exerting influence, but most people see right through that which is why their poll ratings have sunk like a stone.
Yep, that's exactly what the Liberal Democrats did in the UK. They started out promising a different kind of government, but as soon as they got a whiff of power they ditched all their promises to ally themselves with the Conservatives.
Dreamfall, by Funcom, is very like a film. It is an adventure game that that progresses through puzzles and cutscenes and dialogue. It is also one of my favourite games. The story is a lot better than most films because most films these days are very generic. I played through Dreamfall 10 times because I enjoyed the story so much, even though I knew how to complete it.
If it wasn't for your bad-tempered reply to yourself, I would probably have moderated you up. I rarely use my moderator points for any other purpose than correcting troll/flamebait moderations I consider unfair. But you shot yourself in the foot instead. Maybe a bit more patience would serve you well. Also gratuitous shouty swearing doesn't help.
The UK government have already instilled this fear. If an islamic man had posted that about a white woman, you can guarantee he would be arrested, charged and convicted for it. Similar has already happened. If this councillor gets away with it it'll be yet another case of hypocrisy from our corrupt government.
'Iraq? They have incredible weapons, incredible weapons.'
'How do you know?'
'We looked at the receipt, and as soon as the cheque clears, we're going in.'
This is complete nonsense. The article states that it is reading the speech centers. I would assume that it has already been translated into language before this. I for one think in English, so I see no reason why any reading of my thoughts, especially just before I voice them, would not also be in English.
Seeing how in the UK, pretty much all ISPs, the same as banks and other service providers, have a clause saying they can change the terms at will, without government intervention to prevent this you are screwed no matter how informed you are. The whole point of such laws is to prevent service providers doing such things, and is not just a good thing, but is actually necessary to protect consumers from such unscrupulous behaviour, which tends to become the norm without such intervention.
This was not in the US, but a couple of years ago my ISP decided to throttle connections to MMOs, making these games practically unplayable. As I was tied into a 12 month contract which still had 8 months to go, this was extremely annoying. This is a practical and actual example which net neutrality laws would have prevented.
Also, just because it might work well with the Wii controller, why should that make it Wii only? Why not as many different platforms as possible? Saying it should be limited to one platform only is just elitist nonsense.
I wouldn't bother. I have also only just heard of it, so I downloaded the demo. Not even worth the time it took to download and install. Also, I absolutely detest games (or any software really) that doesn't close when you select quit. Forcing me to watch some stupid exit sequence is NOT going to persuade me to buy your game.
Hmm, as an Irishman I feel the need to reply to this. First off, no Irishman I know drinks more coffee than tea, and secondly Irish Coffee is NOT made with Baileys, it is made with Irish Whisky, and has cream floating on top. There are several English versions of Irish Coffee, but in my experience the English often mess with recipes from other countries, creating something quite different. There's nothing wrong with this per se, but it bugs me the way they then claim that this is how it's supposed to be made.
Although I understand where you're coming from with this, and I strongly disagree with you being modded flamebait for it, the very fact that we can have this discussion shows that, although it's been curtailed somewhat and our freedoms are being steadily eroded, we do still posess the right to free speech, and those parts of the media that aren't owned by the financiers of our governments are still free, and I regularly read of abuses by the UK and US governments in the UK press.
The fact that most people choose not to listen is irrelevant to this discussion. I don't know what the media is like in the US because I've never seen it first hand, but I know that most of the mainstream media in the UK is owned by the same few people as in the US, and if that is all you see of the news I feel sorry for you, but over here those of us with some free thinking and intelligence can see the truth written clearly, and from some of the most respected voices. They earned that respect by printing unflinchingly all the uncomfortable truths that our governments would rather we didn't know, even when most people don't want to listen, and they earned that respect by checking their facts and going to press only when they had evidence to back up their claims.
I don't see that an uncensorable and untraceable repository of anything anyone wants to post there can ever be anything better than an irrelevance. How can you trust as fact anything you see there? Will they cite references, and link you to the evidence for their claims? If they don't, why should I trust them any more than I trusted my own governments claim that Iraq could bomb us within 45 minutes? Anything we should know about will be buried in so much shit, we wouldn't recognise it if we saw it.
No, I am aqgainst authority as much as any of you here, but this is, at first sight, complete BS. Leaked documents that are traceable and verifiable will be publicised anyway, that's what a free press means. Especially in the current climate, the fact that they specify documents from regimes that are considered enemies by the current powers that be in the Western world, just makes more alarm bells ring. Our governments already publicise such things as much as they can, in order to justify their own behaviour, and the listing of these countries as 'Rogue States'. This will either be irrelevant, or propaganda designed to make us hate our 'enemies', and justify our ruler's immoral actions. Either way, it would be better off not existing.
Everybody has a bias, because everybody has an opinion. What this article is about is reports which are not the writer's opinion, but poorly disguised adverts paid for by companies. When EFF and FSF write reports and articles, every reader knows where they come from, and can take that into account when judging them. Reports that claim to be from a newspaper or journalist but are instead payed for by someone are a different matter.
A large part of the reason why Windows is so popular, is that most companies that sell prebuilt, ready to use PCs come with Windows installed, and don't offer any other choices. This is the situation that the French law was created to attempt to change, as it distorts the OS market in favour of Microsoft. It could well be too late to change this, but if companies like HP continue to offer no other choice, then it will never change. You could argue that it is Microsoft who should be sued for forcing exclusivity with their discounts, but in my opinion, something needs to be done to end this market distortion, and this opinion has nothing to do with any pesonal opinion about Microsoft I might hold, the same thing holds true in other markets. This is exactly what the anti-monopoly laws are designed to prevent.
I was just going to moderate you as flamebait, but I think this needs a reply. The parent never said he didn't vote, he said we should come up with ways to get more people to vote, so you're insults are nothing but flamebait
No, this is wrong. UK employment law gives 20 days + bank holidays, at least if you work 5 days a week. If you are only getting 15 days a year, you are either not working full time, or your employer is breaking the law
No, I expect a test comparing two chips to test two equivalent chips, not one fast one and one slow one overclocked, otherwise the exercise is nothing but a marketing exercise.
Yes, exactly. They tested it against a chip which is not listed as being as fast, overclocked so they can pretend it is as fast. Big surprise it didn't perform as well
I don't think so. I think it would increase the percentage of the population living in poverty, thereby decreasing the average educational attainment of the next generation, thus decreasing the pool of possible managers/engineers. This would cause market forces to increase the incomes of managers/engineers and hence the income differentials, which would cause increased unrest in society, further limiting the possibility of economic growth. People in the western world have become used to a higher standard of living, and will prove unwilling to accept any lowering of this. The only long term solution is to increase the standard of living everywhere else, thus removing their ability to offer lower prices through lower wages.
Because the companies can no more survive without employees than they can without customers, giving the employees a powerful bargaining position. This is the reason labour rights have progressed over the last century or so. As we (the workers) are not prepared to accept peanuts for our labour, the only way to keep industry in western nationa is to impose minimum labour standards on all companies we do business with
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Haha, nice. Not exactly the meaning of compromise intended by the poster I was replying to but very good, I hadn't thought of that meaning when I posted.
Since when has compromise meant do the exact opposite of everything promised in their election manifesto? That is not compromising, that is selling out your principles for a whiff of power. Sure, the Conservatives throw them a small bone now and then, so they can claim they are exerting influence, but most people see right through that which is why their poll ratings have sunk like a stone.
Yep, that's exactly what the Liberal Democrats did in the UK. They started out promising a different kind of government, but as soon as they got a whiff of power they ditched all their promises to ally themselves with the Conservatives.
Dreamfall, by Funcom, is very like a film. It is an adventure game that that progresses through puzzles and cutscenes and dialogue. It is also one of my favourite games. The story is a lot better than most films because most films these days are very generic. I played through Dreamfall 10 times because I enjoyed the story so much, even though I knew how to complete it.
If it wasn't for your bad-tempered reply to yourself, I would probably have moderated you up. I rarely use my moderator points for any other purpose than correcting troll/flamebait moderations I consider unfair. But you shot yourself in the foot instead. Maybe a bit more patience would serve you well. Also gratuitous shouty swearing doesn't help.
The UK government have already instilled this fear. If an islamic man had posted that about a white woman, you can guarantee he would be arrested, charged and convicted for it. Similar has already happened. If this councillor gets away with it it'll be yet another case of hypocrisy from our corrupt government.
'Iraq? They have incredible weapons, incredible weapons.' 'How do you know?' 'We looked at the receipt, and as soon as the cheque clears, we're going in.'
This is complete nonsense. The article states that it is reading the speech centers. I would assume that it has already been translated into language before this. I for one think in English, so I see no reason why any reading of my thoughts, especially just before I voice them, would not also be in English.
Isn't that the whole point of this site? It links to news stories from elsewhere.
Seeing how in the UK, pretty much all ISPs, the same as banks and other service providers, have a clause saying they can change the terms at will, without government intervention to prevent this you are screwed no matter how informed you are. The whole point of such laws is to prevent service providers doing such things, and is not just a good thing, but is actually necessary to protect consumers from such unscrupulous behaviour, which tends to become the norm without such intervention.
This was not in the US, but a couple of years ago my ISP decided to throttle connections to MMOs, making these games practically unplayable. As I was tied into a 12 month contract which still had 8 months to go, this was extremely annoying. This is a practical and actual example which net neutrality laws would have prevented.
Also, just because it might work well with the Wii controller, why should that make it Wii only? Why not as many different platforms as possible? Saying it should be limited to one platform only is just elitist nonsense.
I wouldn't bother. I have also only just heard of it, so I downloaded the demo. Not even worth the time it took to download and install. Also, I absolutely detest games (or any software really) that doesn't close when you select quit. Forcing me to watch some stupid exit sequence is NOT going to persuade me to buy your game.
This has got to be one of the worst cases of public sector idiocy I've ever seen.
You must not have been following the antics of the British government recently then
Hmm, as an Irishman I feel the need to reply to this. First off, no Irishman I know drinks more coffee than tea, and secondly Irish Coffee is NOT made with Baileys, it is made with Irish Whisky, and has cream floating on top. There are several English versions of Irish Coffee, but in my experience the English often mess with recipes from other countries, creating something quite different. There's nothing wrong with this per se, but it bugs me the way they then claim that this is how it's supposed to be made.
Although I understand where you're coming from with this, and I strongly disagree with you being modded flamebait for it, the very fact that we can have this discussion shows that, although it's been curtailed somewhat and our freedoms are being steadily eroded, we do still posess the right to free speech, and those parts of the media that aren't owned by the financiers of our governments are still free, and I regularly read of abuses by the UK and US governments in the UK press.
The fact that most people choose not to listen is irrelevant to this discussion. I don't know what the media is like in the US because I've never seen it first hand, but I know that most of the mainstream media in the UK is owned by the same few people as in the US, and if that is all you see of the news I feel sorry for you, but over here those of us with some free thinking and intelligence can see the truth written clearly, and from some of the most respected voices. They earned that respect by printing unflinchingly all the uncomfortable truths that our governments would rather we didn't know, even when most people don't want to listen, and they earned that respect by checking their facts and going to press only when they had evidence to back up their claims.
I don't see that an uncensorable and untraceable repository of anything anyone wants to post there can ever be anything better than an irrelevance. How can you trust as fact anything you see there? Will they cite references, and link you to the evidence for their claims? If they don't, why should I trust them any more than I trusted my own governments claim that Iraq could bomb us within 45 minutes? Anything we should know about will be buried in so much shit, we wouldn't recognise it if we saw it.
No, I am aqgainst authority as much as any of you here, but this is, at first sight, complete BS. Leaked documents that are traceable and verifiable will be publicised anyway, that's what a free press means. Especially in the current climate, the fact that they specify documents from regimes that are considered enemies by the current powers that be in the Western world, just makes more alarm bells ring. Our governments already publicise such things as much as they can, in order to justify their own behaviour, and the listing of these countries as 'Rogue States'. This will either be irrelevant, or propaganda designed to make us hate our 'enemies', and justify our ruler's immoral actions. Either way, it would be better off not existing.
Everybody has a bias, because everybody has an opinion. What this article is about is reports which are not the writer's opinion, but poorly disguised adverts paid for by companies. When EFF and FSF write reports and articles, every reader knows where they come from, and can take that into account when judging them. Reports that claim to be from a newspaper or journalist but are instead payed for by someone are a different matter.
A large part of the reason why Windows is so popular, is that most companies that sell prebuilt, ready to use PCs come with Windows installed, and don't offer any other choices. This is the situation that the French law was created to attempt to change, as it distorts the OS market in favour of Microsoft. It could well be too late to change this, but if companies like HP continue to offer no other choice, then it will never change. You could argue that it is Microsoft who should be sued for forcing exclusivity with their discounts, but in my opinion, something needs to be done to end this market distortion, and this opinion has nothing to do with any pesonal opinion about Microsoft I might hold, the same thing holds true in other markets. This is exactly what the anti-monopoly laws are designed to prevent.
I was just going to moderate you as flamebait, but I think this needs a reply. The parent never said he didn't vote, he said we should come up with ways to get more people to vote, so you're insults are nothing but flamebait
No, this is wrong. UK employment law gives 20 days + bank holidays, at least if you work 5 days a week. If you are only getting 15 days a year, you are either not working full time, or your employer is breaking the law
No, I expect a test comparing two chips to test two equivalent chips, not one fast one and one slow one overclocked, otherwise the exercise is nothing but a marketing exercise.
Yes, exactly. They tested it against a chip which is not listed as being as fast, overclocked so they can pretend it is as fast. Big surprise it didn't perform as well
I don't think so. I think it would increase the percentage of the population living in poverty, thereby decreasing the average educational attainment of the next generation, thus decreasing the pool of possible managers/engineers. This would cause market forces to increase the incomes of managers/engineers and hence the income differentials, which would cause increased unrest in society, further limiting the possibility of economic growth. People in the western world have become used to a higher standard of living, and will prove unwilling to accept any lowering of this. The only long term solution is to increase the standard of living everywhere else, thus removing their ability to offer lower prices through lower wages.
Because the companies can no more survive without employees than they can without customers, giving the employees a powerful bargaining position. This is the reason labour rights have progressed over the last century or so. As we (the workers) are not prepared to accept peanuts for our labour, the only way to keep industry in western nationa is to impose minimum labour standards on all companies we do business with