Also European, not living in the bush; black is still the term to describe many people of colour, at least in my culture. A selection of headlines from last last six months in the very, very politically-correct Guardian newspaper
They all, unfortunately, have something else in common. But no, African-American is certainly not used with anything like the same dominance by our media.
Hang on, did I miss a memo? What's wrong with using the term black? What's the acceptable epithet? (oh, and just an advanced "Fuck off" to any racists with 'hilarious' replies).
Is it the Linux SSD? Many versions of Asus eee, some outlived their welcome. I purchased mine in July 2008, used it for a long, working holiday and it was faultless. Powered an external dvd, watched films, and generally all things that were expected of a proper computer. Writing for a long-time on the keyboard wasn't easy, but that goes with the 9" form.
A couple of years later, the web had moved on and browsing with an Atom chip became slow, then painful. Also it didn't help that Asus gave up support before 2008 finished and that the 901 Linux version was their only non-Windows netbook.
Still miss my Asus 901 netbook- Linux, light and took a beating. Easy to travel with, could be used in tight space like plane seats, great battery life and possible to get some real work done. Sigh.
Heard a radio discussion about which major piece of science would likely crack over the next fifty years. The answer came back as the Big Bang, with one of the participants saying [rather indiscreetly, IMHO] that it was Sir Martin Rees in a pers. comms. who suggested that it was full of holes and the area was ripe for a paradigm shift.
I once saw Fred Hoyle lecture on his Steady State Theory. He was awaiting the red shift results from a twin maser in some distant galaxy somewhere and we were assured that it would disprove the BBT. He was the single most beguiling speaker of my life. Came out fully believing, for the rest of the evening at least.
I have complete confidence that my phone calls, email and web traffic are all 100% monitored and have been for sometime. Now the people who used to try and refute this accusation and call you a tinfoil hat wearer, just shout "Barbarians at the gate".
The next game has started. It's your devices' outputs they now want. If Orwell could have imagined the ubiquity of networked cameras and microphones, he'd never have had to invent the telescreen. If you've nothing to hide...
In 1990, Russian was the second language (by far) in the recently opened eastern bloc, which I naively hadn't been expecting. We were found ourselves holidaying in Czechoslovakia alongside Russians- exotic people after decades of Cold War threats. It was a lack of any language in common except rudimentary sign language that impeded comms. But from a Finnish perspective very understandable.
Apologies for the imposition, could you answer one question? Is it true that post-war reparations meant that the Finns had to buy a train-load of timber a week from the USSR? It's a vague memory from a late-seventies tv programme.
French as a second language in Europe? Certainly not by 25 years ago, probably before. In my experience, the only countries where it was preferable to English, German or Russian were France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Travelling anywhere else with my 'second language', I was unintelligible anywhere that couldn't understand English. Felt I'd been sold a pup in school.
Agreed. I sort of assumed the TFA would have something called 'facts' in it, that people won't buy cars, or that the killer app for Glass just isn't there. But it's just hand-waving opinion-based clickbait. Sigh.
were made before the DPRK link was fixed in the news cycle. It was then instructive to watch workings of the new McCarthyist cheerleaders, even (especially) here on Slashdot. People seriously writing 'the FBI have all the incriminating evidence, they just can't share it with you' type-comments.
The eleven years since the non-existence of WMDs may seem long time for the kiddies running the military's multiple personality software, but most people here won't ever buy that crap again.
No, Occam's Razor said the simplest answer is most likely true. The OP didn't go on a flight of fantasy, you did. Nation state hacks corporation with possible major diplomatic consequences over a B-movie? Pull the other one, it's got WMDs on it.
This year, I sat on camping chair at the edge of a cricket pitch on a fine July evening in the UK. Over the 90 minutes I and the other couple of dozen spectators were repeatedly brushing tiny spiders off our heads. Average height of grass, 1 cm, cf 1 m for those previously comfortable humans.
Only question is did we arrive in a normal migration cycle or did the appearance of a hundredfold increase in launchpad height stimulate the spiders?
My worry is that this is laying the foundations for criminalising the obfuscation of your online identity. "You used encryption? You must be a Twitter troll trying to avoid detection".
If the journey were reversed, Columbus would have discovered the Azores. The first exploration by Europeans [who recorded their discovery] of continental North America in 1497 was led by John Cabot. He was always thought of as the discoverer of America until the early C19th (why would a bunch of British immigrants credit a Spaniard?).
Then came the War of 1814, burning of the White House, etc. and a wave of anti-British sentiment. Suddenly, the US's founding father became good ol' Christopher.
The London Metropolitan Police Press Office released this statement. When challenged by a lawyer, they could only point vaguely to anti-terror laws and say things like "Do you want people to watch it". So it's PR people, probably with no legal training, who are making up laws on the hoof (and with no apparent correction from their superiors).
They are using a vary basic form of technology called bullshit. 100%, unrefined. It's impossible to do what they say from 'satellite images'. If they had a large fleet of low-flying aircraft with extraordinarily sensitive magnetometers, it may just be possible. From orbit? Complete and utter bollocks.
Sigh. Roughly 40 free to air channels, not including shopping, subscription or timeshifted, on UK TV. Nine BBC channels, variable quality (fair to excellent), but easily superior to any other main English-speaking nation in the world, and I've been to them all for periods > a month (plenty of time to absorb the shock).
That and the ad-free radio (bliss) on seven excellent channels [pop, easy-listening, classical, news/drama/factual, talk/sport, music, repeats of drama from over 60 years of archives] plus local radio. Costs less than a pint of beer a week.
Please don't listen to right-wingers in the UK that hate the BBC. In my personal experience, the BBC and NHS are the two things people here wouldn't want to see altered.
It wasn't 'banned' as the AC hysterically claimed, it was rejected. Follow the link a sentence or two further, it was picked up by ITV, as stated.
Banning means stopping it being broadcast. They couldn't and didn't do this. The next sentence in your link explains why they didn't pay money to the US for a children's programme, as they were quite happily making British pre-school television, without the letter Zee.
Slashdot Mirror
Also European, not living in the bush; black is still the term to describe many people of colour, at least in my culture. A selection of headlines from last last six months in the very, very politically-correct Guardian newspaper
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
They all, unfortunately, have something else in common. But no, African-American is certainly not used with anything like the same dominance by our media.
Hang on, did I miss a memo? What's wrong with using the term black? What's the acceptable epithet? (oh, and just an advanced "Fuck off" to any racists with 'hilarious' replies).
Is it the Linux SSD? Many versions of Asus eee, some outlived their welcome. I purchased mine in July 2008, used it for a long, working holiday and it was faultless. Powered an external dvd, watched films, and generally all things that were expected of a proper computer. Writing for a long-time on the keyboard wasn't easy, but that goes with the 9" form.
A couple of years later, the web had moved on and browsing with an Atom chip became slow, then painful. Also it didn't help that Asus gave up support before 2008 finished and that the 901 Linux version was their only non-Windows netbook.
Still miss my Asus 901 netbook- Linux, light and took a beating. Easy to travel with, could be used in tight space like plane seats, great battery life and possible to get some real work done. Sigh.
Heard a radio discussion about which major piece of science would likely crack over the next fifty years. The answer came back as the Big Bang, with one of the participants saying [rather indiscreetly, IMHO] that it was Sir Martin Rees in a pers. comms. who suggested that it was full of holes and the area was ripe for a paradigm shift.
I once saw Fred Hoyle lecture on his Steady State Theory. He was awaiting the red shift results from a twin maser in some distant galaxy somewhere and we were assured that it would disprove the BBT. He was the single most beguiling speaker of my life. Came out fully believing, for the rest of the evening at least.
I have complete confidence that my phone calls, email and web traffic are all 100% monitored and have been for sometime. Now the people who used to try and refute this accusation and call you a tinfoil hat wearer, just shout "Barbarians at the gate".
The next game has started. It's your devices' outputs they now want. If Orwell could have imagined the ubiquity of networked cameras and microphones, he'd never have had to invent the telescreen. If you've nothing to hide...
Very interesting, thanks.
In 1990, Russian was the second language (by far) in the recently opened eastern bloc, which I naively hadn't been expecting. We were found ourselves holidaying in Czechoslovakia alongside Russians- exotic people after decades of Cold War threats. It was a lack of any language in common except rudimentary sign language that impeded comms. But from a Finnish perspective very understandable.
Apologies for the imposition, could you answer one question? Is it true that post-war reparations meant that the Finns had to buy a train-load of timber a week from the USSR? It's a vague memory from a late-seventies tv programme.
French as a second language in Europe? Certainly not by 25 years ago, probably before. In my experience, the only countries where it was preferable to English, German or Russian were France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Travelling anywhere else with my 'second language', I was unintelligible anywhere that couldn't understand English. Felt I'd been sold a pup in school.
Agreed. I sort of assumed the TFA would have something called 'facts' in it, that people won't buy cars, or that the killer app for Glass just isn't there. But it's just hand-waving opinion-based clickbait. Sigh.
Bang on the money. The well reasoned arguments here: http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/...
were made before the DPRK link was fixed in the news cycle. It was then instructive to watch workings of the new McCarthyist cheerleaders, even (especially) here on Slashdot. People seriously writing 'the FBI have all the incriminating evidence, they just can't share it with you' type-comments.
The eleven years since the non-existence of WMDs may seem long time for the kiddies running the military's multiple personality software, but most people here won't ever buy that crap again.
No, Occam's Razor said the simplest answer is most likely true. The OP didn't go on a flight of fantasy, you did. Nation state hacks corporation with possible major diplomatic consequences over a B-movie? Pull the other one, it's got WMDs on it.
Apparently, when Chile play Bolivia at football, the Chile fans delight in singing, "Vamos A La Playa" ("Let's all go to the beach") at the Bolivians.
This year, I sat on camping chair at the edge of a cricket pitch on a fine July evening in the UK. Over the 90 minutes I and the other couple of dozen spectators were repeatedly brushing tiny spiders off our heads. Average height of grass, 1 cm, cf 1 m for those previously comfortable humans.
Only question is did we arrive in a normal migration cycle or did the appearance of a hundredfold increase in launchpad height stimulate the spiders?
"`Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
You've been watching too many Dukes of Hazzard re-runs.
My worry is that this is laying the foundations for criminalising the obfuscation of your online identity. "You used encryption? You must be a Twitter troll trying to avoid detection".
"...where entire debates have been erased on Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's watches"
Let me think, what's more likely? The established parliamentary record compromised or your memory being fallible? Tricky one for Ockham's Razor.
Although I'd be seriously interested if you have some proof.
Not offended, just curious at the use of a quote for one term. Apologies if it came across that I was affronted in any way.
Thanks for the correction- but why is Spaniard in quotations? It's not derogatory or euphemistic. It's the name for people from Spain!
If the journey were reversed, Columbus would have discovered the Azores. The first exploration by Europeans [who recorded their discovery] of continental North America in 1497 was led by John Cabot. He was always thought of as the discoverer of America until the early C19th (why would a bunch of British immigrants credit a Spaniard?).
Then came the War of 1814, burning of the White House, etc. and a wave of anti-British sentiment. Suddenly, the US's founding father became good ol' Christopher.
A lot of citizens would like the 'He was going for my gun' excuse to be revoked too.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
At least he lived to tell the tale.
The London Metropolitan Police Press Office released this statement. When challenged by a lawyer, they could only point vaguely to anti-terror laws and say things like "Do you want people to watch it". So it's PR people, probably with no legal training, who are making up laws on the hoof (and with no apparent correction from their superiors).
Fuller story here (free reg required):
http://blogs.ft.com/david-alle...?
They are using a vary basic form of technology called bullshit. 100%, unrefined. It's impossible to do what they say from 'satellite images'. If they had a large fleet of low-flying aircraft with extraordinarily sensitive magnetometers, it may just be possible. From orbit? Complete and utter bollocks.
Sigh. Roughly 40 free to air channels, not including shopping, subscription or timeshifted, on UK TV. Nine BBC channels, variable quality (fair to excellent), but easily superior to any other main English-speaking nation in the world, and I've been to them all for periods > a month (plenty of time to absorb the shock).
That and the ad-free radio (bliss) on seven excellent channels [pop, easy-listening, classical, news/drama/factual, talk/sport, music, repeats of drama from over 60 years of archives] plus local radio. Costs less than a pint of beer a week.
Please don't listen to right-wingers in the UK that hate the BBC. In my personal experience, the BBC and NHS are the two things people here wouldn't want to see altered.
It wasn't 'banned' as the AC hysterically claimed, it was rejected. Follow the link a sentence or two further, it was picked up by ITV, as stated.
Banning means stopping it being broadcast. They couldn't and didn't do this. The next sentence in your link explains why they didn't pay money to the US for a children's programme, as they were quite happily making British pre-school television, without the letter Zee.