I think society as a whole doesn't trust any companies any more. Everyone is so sick of the Government screwing them over and companies ignoring the laws these Governments got paid (by other companies usually) to put in place.
Lets face it, I don't trust anyone I can't blackmail or back stab and get back whatever I've give them. The world has become like that and it's getting worse and worse.
The auto update people arn't the issue here. They will wait and do it whenever, I mean the whole system. Why must I DL the whole thing again just to fix a couple of registry options?
Plus it seems people are having problems with 1.0.1 so I won't be installing it just yet.. but still.
That maybe the biggest problem with firefox right now. We have to reinstall it over and over, which most users arn't willing or knowledgable enough to do (I'm talking the average idiot). We need to fix this and soon, other wise we'll just become "oh yea, they dont mind messing around, I like IE it's easy".
People keep saying "Firefox cures ads! Adblock and such!". Well the more popular firefox gets (I've used it since the Phoniex days and have noticed this as it's got more popular), the more people will try and break it. This is also the downside to being open source, while everyone can view the source code, it also means everyone can see the holes in it.
The more people that use firefox the more things like this will pop up, so we'll end up playing catch up over and over (and lets face it, the release yesterday proved how bad the update system is right now) untill people get sick of it and use a new browser which fixs this.
Now watch the post get 12 million replies saying "Yea like Usenet and Windows! Firefox is going to die hahahaha".
News flash - no one trusts the government as it is, I sure as hell don't trust the bastards with my security.
I have to secure a friends PC in a few days, I won't sign them up to this bullshit (OMG NEW VIRUS WE'RE ALL DOOMED list). I'll put on spybot, ad aware, zone alarm and anti-viri and tell them to update it at least once a month. That way theres no panic attacks over bullshit which means I don't have to repeatedly walk down the road, update it and go "there your secure".
The government in this country is such a fucking mess they can't even keep their systems secure, they can't keep the latest (patched) problem out. So who gives a fuck if they cry wolf, the wold is going after all of us but some of us know where the bricks are and don't just go "lookit a wolf".
we had this disscussion in the last Child porn article, we all pointed out that alot of people are attracted to 14 year old girls, a picture of a 14 year old girl in her panties is child porn... no?
For example and what about p2p networks, every file is named.
Dick cock cum wank pussy lolita child porn illegal suck pee orgasm deepthroat nose sex duck licking asian tadpole muff diver.jpg or 12 year old eaching my gerbil while sucking off a penguin.png
There is just no way to block all this stuff because it's already so underground they only catch the idiots who put in credit card details... Not to mention image boards..
Once again knowledge resources are shut down for no reason at all. It seems the world in general is getting more and more shut out from Information.. how can ANY government claim this is healthy?
The dumber the people get the more they need help, the more help they need the more the 'powers that be' control them. The more they control them.. the closer to get to 1984.
I'm not into Space, but right now every day I hear more things are being hidden or shut down, yet we're still happy to waste money left right and centre on a war which was ment to be over 12 months ago, when we still have more armed forces there then any where.
Maybe we should stop thinking about how we're going to deal with the "next terrorists" and start thinking "how are we going to make life worth while so we have a reason to fight these terrorists?"
It's an excellent RTS and rather then the usual "lets sit here with grunts while slaves work" it's more balanced and you have to use your grunts to capture objectives which make resources. Response time isn't that vital, can be played well with just a mouse and theres mods adding another 10 or so races to the line up and an expansion comming in the Autumn.
You may want to check it out, the only issue I see is inputting your name but maybe someone else could do that for you?
Pointless! This is NEWS FOR NERDS, STUFF THAT MATTERS. Not "some nutters opinion on the economy, moaning he's being screwed because his country has more money then sense".
Mame is one of the few things keeping old school arcade games alive. If thry end up killing it they are biting the hand that feeds them.. not to mention most people who have an intrest in classic games of this sort are geeks and will hear of this and avoid the place.
Have fun guys!
I was raised here and I still think it's crappy. It was fine untill the second season when it became too popular and rather then it being funny as a whole I just got sick of people going "yea but no but" and "I want that one", to the point where I just got sick of the whole thing and gave up on it.
So you can't say it's about growing up here.. if anything it's better if your ARNT here. When Richard and Judy start using the lines you know it's fucked.
Try watching any of the crap on BBC1s Friday line up and say that with a straight face.
British comedy has gone down hill and is now all canned laughter and black people with an old man who's horny, a husband whos horny and a wife who is just there to look after the kids.
The current state of TV is trash at very best, comedy hasn't evolved, it's just got dumber to the point where a brick against the head would work just as well.
Young ones, Bottom, Black Adder, Mr Bean and so many others. Maybe not the most witty of comedies but they sure as hell made you laugh, which is what comedy is about. Not having 5 "parody" shows each week all covering the same thing.
The only decent thing we're making right now is comedic-quizshows. Nevermind the Buzzcocks, QI and this sort of thing. Nothing else we make is even worth it since it's watered down American drivel without the fake accents.
Blogs are fine and dandy for private use, or for little people to have a voice, but yesterday evening (about 3amish) I was watching BBC world news (in the UK). So I'm watching this ABC broadcast I believe it was and they had some story about an Iraqi girl some army unit saving a little girl.. and the source quoted was "A blog". Now this is where I get problems, as soon as blogs become "well known media" we start to see them corrupting.
No long is it "An opinion and no media bullshit" it's just "media bullshit based on an opinion of some no one can prove is even real". All I can say is thank god the BBC arn't doing this... yet
So we all troll it, then we all rush to get tickets. We all know the prequals arn't great films, but we'll all still rent/buy/download them any way.
I've seen all the Star wars films out so far (Ep 1 and 2 at the cinema) and I have to say we need to rate the prequals on a different scale. Look at them as films and not as a legacy. In short
Ep 1= okay movie, bad star wars film Ep 2 = okay movie, bad sequal, bad star wars film.
So we all scream "RAPE!" because we're ranking these things about classics, NOTHING will ever be as good as the memories you have of your favourite things, so don't compare them.
For 15 years I've played "violent games" from doom to GTA. You name it I've probably had a good go at it, I play DnD (Yea yea, I worship Satan on the side too, my dwarf is really a heretic cross dresser named Andrew on weekends), and I'm generally one of them people cold to the world, "if it doesn't effect me, fuck it".
I should also mention my parents are into country sports and so I have access to shotguns, rifles and every type of gun powder you can legally own in the UK. Now if I wanted I could probably do a whole lot of damage with access to this stuff. And sure theres days I'd love to do it, when the world just plots against you for a week or so. But I have more sense then to do anything like that.
Rather then blame games people should instead blame the lack of morales and common sense in these kids. I was always taught "if you do something, you pay for it. I'm your mother and I'll always love you and be there for you, but your actions are your own fault" and if it wasn't "serious" I'd still get a slap round the back of the legs. This is what kids need today, give them a back hander and lets see them dos tuff like this, everyones happy to bitch and whine about smacking and how it's child abuse. Well personally I'd much rather see some "minor child abuse" (Which IMO it isn't), then seeing some little fuck up run around shooting people and getting games banned because the judges just arn't informed enough.
Damn it, then Liverpool fans got into the nuclear power station again! Time to send things by Royal mail, it'll never arrive so at least it's safe in a black hole.
lol. It just gets on my nerves is all, I've seen people call ambulances to change a bloody light bulb before and they have to do it because of how they are. Every time someone calls for help even if it's stupid they must respond here. This is already wasting time and we have fines now put in place, a 50 year old man doing stuff like this just gets my back up. Can you blame me?
Oh and to the AC who called me uneducated and stupid. Nice for you to have some balls and not just use AC.. oh wait:)
Okay, this weekend I had a suspected heart attack. I had to have an ambulance come out to check on me (I wanted to just have a doctor, not make any fuss like), but no an ambulance came. I got hooked up to several monitors, dodads and various dials and such. My heart was fine at the time but they still wanted me to goto the hospital. Now we have 3 cars (3 people who can drive in the house so one each) and my mum (I'm 19, so living at home with UK property prices) would of been able to drive me there. For a good few minutes I tried to explain I would rather they went off and sorted out someone in real danger then use their resources to take me to hospital, but they repeatedly said they had to take me if I went because it's unprofessional to just walk away in the "middle" of something. Yet to me this seemed totally and utterly stupid, I felt annoyed at wasting resources when the NHS is currently getting fucked in the eye socket.
So there I'am possiblely dying and I still don't want to waste their time and theres this dickhead who sits and wastes their time over and fucking over. Just for fucking giggles.. well I think I want some giggles at this guys cost, who is up for a good old fashioned hanging? Oh and lets also disect the fucker and cut his nuts off for some giggles as well.. I swear if I ever meet this guy he'll find my fist in his face and if he doesn't run off crying to his mummy I'll tell her what I think of her and her fucking kids!
Do you have MSN, AIM, ICQ or something? you seem to be connected to my network of friends and it makes little to no sense to me, but this is no place to discuss it.
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I think society as a whole doesn't trust any companies any more. Everyone is so sick of the Government screwing them over and companies ignoring the laws these Governments got paid (by other companies usually) to put in place. Lets face it, I don't trust anyone I can't blackmail or back stab and get back whatever I've give them. The world has become like that and it's getting worse and worse.
The auto update people arn't the issue here. They will wait and do it whenever, I mean the whole system. Why must I DL the whole thing again just to fix a couple of registry options?
Plus it seems people are having problems with 1.0.1 so I won't be installing it just yet.. but still.
That maybe the biggest problem with firefox right now. We have to reinstall it over and over, which most users arn't willing or knowledgable enough to do (I'm talking the average idiot). We need to fix this and soon, other wise we'll just become "oh yea, they dont mind messing around, I like IE it's easy".
People keep saying "Firefox cures ads! Adblock and such!". Well the more popular firefox gets (I've used it since the Phoniex days and have noticed this as it's got more popular), the more people will try and break it. This is also the downside to being open source, while everyone can view the source code, it also means everyone can see the holes in it.
The more people that use firefox the more things like this will pop up, so we'll end up playing catch up over and over (and lets face it, the release yesterday proved how bad the update system is right now) untill people get sick of it and use a new browser which fixs this.
Now watch the post get 12 million replies saying "Yea like Usenet and Windows! Firefox is going to die hahahaha".
News flash - no one trusts the government as it is, I sure as hell don't trust the bastards with my security.
I have to secure a friends PC in a few days, I won't sign them up to this bullshit (OMG NEW VIRUS WE'RE ALL DOOMED list). I'll put on spybot, ad aware, zone alarm and anti-viri and tell them to update it at least once a month. That way theres no panic attacks over bullshit which means I don't have to repeatedly walk down the road, update it and go "there your secure".
The government in this country is such a fucking mess they can't even keep their systems secure, they can't keep the latest (patched) problem out. So who gives a fuck if they cry wolf, the wold is going after all of us but some of us know where the bricks are and don't just go "lookit a wolf".
How long untill we hear "Gator must be installed on all PCs before they are shipped so we can check for terrorist activity"?
I mean could you pick a worse guy to be in control of this sort of information!?
we had this disscussion in the last Child porn article, we all pointed out that alot of people are attracted to 14 year old girls, a picture of a 14 year old girl in her panties is child porn... no?
Lets see them try and report all the languages
From Babelfish
Child porn
kind porn
porn d'enfant
For example and what about p2p networks, every file is named.
Dick cock cum wank pussy lolita child porn illegal suck pee orgasm deepthroat nose sex duck licking asian tadpole muff diver.jpg or 12 year old eaching my gerbil while sucking off a penguin.png
There is just no way to block all this stuff because it's already so underground they only catch the idiots who put in credit card details... Not to mention image boards..
Once again knowledge resources are shut down for no reason at all. It seems the world in general is getting more and more shut out from Information.. how can ANY government claim this is healthy?
The dumber the people get the more they need help, the more help they need the more the 'powers that be' control them. The more they control them.. the closer to get to 1984.
I'm not into Space, but right now every day I hear more things are being hidden or shut down, yet we're still happy to waste money left right and centre on a war which was ment to be over 12 months ago, when we still have more armed forces there then any where.
Maybe we should stop thinking about how we're going to deal with the "next terrorists" and start thinking "how are we going to make life worth while so we have a reason to fight these terrorists?"
Warhammer 40k : dawn of war
It's an excellent RTS and rather then the usual "lets sit here with grunts while slaves work" it's more balanced and you have to use your grunts to capture objectives which make resources. Response time isn't that vital, can be played well with just a mouse and theres mods adding another 10 or so races to the line up and an expansion comming in the Autumn.
You may want to check it out, the only issue I see is inputting your name but maybe someone else could do that for you?
Pointless! This is NEWS FOR NERDS, STUFF THAT MATTERS. Not "some nutters opinion on the economy, moaning he's being screwed because his country has more money then sense".
Mame is one of the few things keeping old school arcade games alive. If thry end up killing it they are biting the hand that feeds them.. not to mention most people who have an intrest in classic games of this sort are geeks and will hear of this and avoid the place. Have fun guys!
I was raised here and I still think it's crappy. It was fine untill the second season when it became too popular and rather then it being funny as a whole I just got sick of people going "yea but no but" and "I want that one", to the point where I just got sick of the whole thing and gave up on it.
So you can't say it's about growing up here.. if anything it's better if your ARNT here. When Richard and Judy start using the lines you know it's fucked.
Try watching any of the crap on BBC1s Friday line up and say that with a straight face.
British comedy has gone down hill and is now all canned laughter and black people with an old man who's horny, a husband whos horny and a wife who is just there to look after the kids.
The current state of TV is trash at very best, comedy hasn't evolved, it's just got dumber to the point where a brick against the head would work just as well.
Young ones, Bottom, Black Adder, Mr Bean and so many others. Maybe not the most witty of comedies but they sure as hell made you laugh, which is what comedy is about. Not having 5 "parody" shows each week all covering the same thing.
The only decent thing we're making right now is comedic-quizshows. Nevermind the Buzzcocks, QI and this sort of thing. Nothing else we make is even worth it since it's watered down American drivel without the fake accents.
Blogs are fine and dandy for private use, or for little people to have a voice, but yesterday evening (about 3amish) I was watching BBC world news (in the UK). So I'm watching this ABC broadcast I believe it was and they had some story about an Iraqi girl some army unit saving a little girl.. and the source quoted was "A blog". Now this is where I get problems, as soon as blogs become "well known media" we start to see them corrupting.
No long is it "An opinion and no media bullshit" it's just "media bullshit based on an opinion of some no one can prove is even real". All I can say is thank god the BBC arn't doing this... yet
You forgot the AI. All the karts used to follow the exact same route in the original... Double dash sucked but the rest arn't bad.
Wrong. He could TASTE words, his best friends name tasted like ear wax.
So we all troll it, then we all rush to get tickets. We all know the prequals arn't great films, but we'll all still rent/buy/download them any way.
I've seen all the Star wars films out so far (Ep 1 and 2 at the cinema) and I have to say we need to rate the prequals on a different scale. Look at them as films and not as a legacy. In short
Ep 1= okay movie, bad star wars film
Ep 2 = okay movie, bad sequal, bad star wars film.
So we all scream "RAPE!" because we're ranking these things about classics, NOTHING will ever be as good as the memories you have of your favourite things, so don't compare them.
For 15 years I've played "violent games" from doom to GTA. You name it I've probably had a good go at it, I play DnD (Yea yea, I worship Satan on the side too, my dwarf is really a heretic cross dresser named Andrew on weekends), and I'm generally one of them people cold to the world, "if it doesn't effect me, fuck it".
I should also mention my parents are into country sports and so I have access to shotguns, rifles and every type of gun powder you can legally own in the UK. Now if I wanted I could probably do a whole lot of damage with access to this stuff. And sure theres days I'd love to do it, when the world just plots against you for a week or so. But I have more sense then to do anything like that.
Rather then blame games people should instead blame the lack of morales and common sense in these kids. I was always taught "if you do something, you pay for it. I'm your mother and I'll always love you and be there for you, but your actions are your own fault" and if it wasn't "serious" I'd still get a slap round the back of the legs. This is what kids need today, give them a back hander and lets see them dos tuff like this, everyones happy to bitch and whine about smacking and how it's child abuse. Well personally I'd much rather see some "minor child abuse" (Which IMO it isn't), then seeing some little fuck up run around shooting people and getting games banned because the judges just arn't informed enough.
Damn it, then Liverpool fans got into the nuclear power station again! Time to send things by Royal mail, it'll never arrive so at least it's safe in a black hole.
lol. It just gets on my nerves is all, I've seen people call ambulances to change a bloody light bulb before and they have to do it because of how they are. Every time someone calls for help even if it's stupid they must respond here. This is already wasting time and we have fines now put in place, a 50 year old man doing stuff like this just gets my back up. Can you blame me? Oh and to the AC who called me uneducated and stupid. Nice for you to have some balls and not just use AC.. oh wait :)
If I had mod points and didn't post in this topic I'd mod you up
Okay, this weekend I had a suspected heart attack. I had to have an ambulance come out to check on me (I wanted to just have a doctor, not make any fuss like), but no an ambulance came. I got hooked up to several monitors, dodads and various dials and such. My heart was fine at the time but they still wanted me to goto the hospital. Now we have 3 cars (3 people who can drive in the house so one each) and my mum (I'm 19, so living at home with UK property prices) would of been able to drive me there. For a good few minutes I tried to explain I would rather they went off and sorted out someone in real danger then use their resources to take me to hospital, but they repeatedly said they had to take me if I went because it's unprofessional to just walk away in the "middle" of something. Yet to me this seemed totally and utterly stupid, I felt annoyed at wasting resources when the NHS is currently getting fucked in the eye socket.
So there I'am possiblely dying and I still don't want to waste their time and theres this dickhead who sits and wastes their time over and fucking over. Just for fucking giggles.. well I think I want some giggles at this guys cost, who is up for a good old fashioned hanging? Oh and lets also disect the fucker and cut his nuts off for some giggles as well.. I swear if I ever meet this guy he'll find my fist in his face and if he doesn't run off crying to his mummy I'll tell her what I think of her and her fucking kids!
wow, can you say get out of your parents basement and get a girlfri....
Sorry wait, this is slashdot.
Do you have MSN, AIM, ICQ or something? you seem to be connected to my network of friends and it makes little to no sense to me, but this is no place to discuss it.
Where did you get the DVDs? I'm looking for them and the radio dramas.