Survivor is a great show, it gets a bunch of people, and puts them in a very difficult situation. That would be enough for a show right there, but forcing allegiances and betrayals adds a whole other dimension. I really wish they showed it here in the UK.
Funny thing is, I know they had an Australian version, and there were probably others, but they were just not as good. Something about Americans being entertainers (or backstabbing bastards - depends how you see thigns)
You must be talking about the US version of the Apprentice. They have a version in the UK, full of incompetent buffoons, each trying to talk themselves up while proving that they have no business ability at all. I end up rooting (you must be an ozzie as well) for the least incompetent of a pretty pathetic bunch of fools.
And, at least in the UK version, there is still a lot of backstabbing and blame passing.
There is still always the chance that this could result in the person you were voting out backstabbing you. However, isn't that always a possibility regardless?
This is where you go wrong. The chance of someone betraying you, is a lot higher if they know that you are going to betray them. If you have a large enough group of people, then nobody is sure who is going to be betrayed (you only need to vote one person of) - it is best if everybody thinks that someone else will be voted of. Then they don't feel the need to do anything like forming an alliance.
OK, I am not doubting that the story is true, I am doubting the conclusion that if the other sniper had fired first, a similar result would have ensued.
The unnamed forces I am talking about are wind, gravity, spin... a thousand other forces have small effects, that are significant depending on the distance between the two snipers. All these forces added together would mean that there is no way that both snipers bullets would end in each snipers gun barrel.
This conversation has gone on way too long. If you are still misunderstanding me, then too bad.
I heard an American sniper tell a story of when he was assigned to kill a Vietnamese sniper. The American's bullet went straight down the scope of the Vietnamese sniper's riffle, and killed him. If the American had pulled the trigger just a bit slower, it would have been the other guy telling the exact same story.
They don't have to be a dying medium - they just need to change they way they do things.
I have started to read online newspapers regularly, when I have never had a subscription for a paper newspaper. If there is one thing that bloggs prove, it is that there is a huge market for good content, and media companies can provide that, if they do it well.
This is where the partnership with google comes in well. I think initially they were scared that sites like google news provide links to their competitors as well, but it actually drives a huge amount of business to them as well - free advertising if you will.
Well, to anyone with any basic physics knowledge that is not true, unless they were at point-blank range.
The number of events acting on the bullet are huge, and the chance that they would have a similar affect on the bullet going either way are almost impossbile. This is after assuming the guns are pointed at the same location? Ridiculous.
Sure, depending on the site. If they let you post information to the site, like having a guest book, then you may be able to exploit a xss.
Also depending on what you want to do to their site, if they let you upload files, but don't handle it well. ie, they may let you upload pictures of your girlfriend/sister, but they don't check to see if it is a jpeg file, or a php/cfm/asp file. Also, they may let you execute that file from that directory or not.
Any site designed badly can be used.
I remember some free pron sites, trying different number at the end of pictures to get extra freebies, or trying different directories based on names. Even a google image search of that particular site would reveal a lot of extra images or movies.
I hate dogs anyway. Kill em all. And the cats, they are even worse.
Personally, I think that in some countries (Australia, NZ), cats and dogs should not be allowed at all. The amount of damage they do to the environment is incredible.
And it has always been strange to me, that some people have all these pets, why others are starving somewhere else in the world. I guess I am a hypocrit in many ways, but that has always disturbed me... for some reason.
Is not having confidence in the government enough of a reason to leave? An even better question, will it actually solve anything if I left? Is there a government that I would trust, no... and you probably never should!
I have already moved once, I am running out of places that speak english. I also have no reason to think any other government would be any better - governments are just a bunch of people who are ungoverned, by defintion.
I think the best idea would be to stay here for the meanwhile, and try to change things.
They do tend to traget a lot of buses, I am guessing mainly due to the ease of it. In London and especially Israel, you often see buses blown to bits. I always thought this was a bit rough, even for terrorists. What is the point of killing the poor people, who can't even afford cars - how are they going to change anything?
You can tell if something really happened, or they screwed up again and are trying to hide their mistakes.
If they start releasing actual information very soon, then maybe there was something. (The london bombings, had lots of pictures and were releasing loads of actuall facts about the bombs, within hours)
If they don't actually say anything, and no police actually appear on tv to talk about it, then they messed up again. The will release little bits of information to the media, but not directly, talking about how they are continuing to search, and interview suspect. They expect to have some concrete information at the end of the week.
The last two times they screwed up, and this is what happened.
I am sorry, but with the last two excuses for terror attacks here in London, both where innocent people were shot for no good reason, I have my doubts. Both cases, the police held out on the facts, and continued deceiving people about what really happened for weeks. Each time, they mislead the media and the public by publishing lies, so that they could try to cover up their mistakes.
This is Scotland Yard, this is the UK secret services, this is reality. In a few months, if we are lucky, we will know the truth. And it will turn out that a few people had sent each other emails talking about blowing up planes, or some vague threats, nothing more.
I have no confidence in the UK, USA or even the Australian government. I suggest you question everything they do, and all that they report as fact.
There were no WMDs, Jean Charles de Menezes was not a terrorist, Mohammed Abdul Kahar and Abul Koyair were not planning on bombing anybody at all!
I think that Apple just tried to rush the products out the door too soon. Either because they had some pre-planned schedule to release then, or they wanted to prove to everyone how good they really are. (You have to admire them for how quickly and seemlessly they switched from g4/g5 to intel core)
If they had taken the time to do more testing, this wouldn't have happened.
Of course, this article is almost meaningless without getting some number there. How many had discolouration, how many emitted the whine?
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Survivor is a great show, it gets a bunch of people, and puts them in a very difficult situation. That would be enough for a show right there, but forcing allegiances and betrayals adds a whole other dimension. I really wish they showed it here in the UK.
Funny thing is, I know they had an Australian version, and there were probably others, but they were just not as good. Something about Americans being entertainers (or backstabbing bastards - depends how you see thigns)
You must be talking about the US version of the Apprentice. They have a version in the UK, full of incompetent buffoons, each trying to talk themselves up while proving that they have no business ability at all. I end up rooting (you must be an ozzie as well) for the least incompetent of a pretty pathetic bunch of fools.
And, at least in the UK version, there is still a lot of backstabbing and blame passing.
There is still always the chance that this could result in the person you were voting out backstabbing you. However, isn't that always a possibility regardless?
This is where you go wrong. The chance of someone betraying you, is a lot higher if they know that you are going to betray them. If you have a large enough group of people, then nobody is sure who is going to be betrayed (you only need to vote one person of) - it is best if everybody thinks that someone else will be voted of. Then they don't feel the need to do anything like forming an alliance.
I wouldn't go on UID to judge someone anymore - you can pick up a low UID from ebay.
Wake me up when Google page creator lets you create directories. I am sure they have a great reason for not allowing people to do it now.
Roller skate + sneaker = annoying kid conveyance at the malls these days.
I think this comment fell through a timewarp from the 80s.
OK, I am not doubting that the story is true, I am doubting the conclusion that if the other sniper had fired first, a similar result would have ensued.
The unnamed forces I am talking about are wind, gravity, spin... a thousand other forces have small effects, that are significant depending on the distance between the two snipers. All these forces added together would mean that there is no way that both snipers bullets would end in each snipers gun barrel.
This conversation has gone on way too long. If you are still misunderstanding me, then too bad.
I saw that as well, and think it says something about AOLers.
Maybe people who don't know much about computers, don't know much about other things as well?
I was talking about this part of your comment:
I heard an American sniper tell a story of when he was assigned to kill a Vietnamese sniper. The American's bullet went straight down the scope of the Vietnamese sniper's riffle, and killed him. If the American had pulled the trigger just a bit slower, it would have been the other guy telling the exact same story.
A little of topic, sure.
Exactly. IE 7 is standards compliant, it is 100% IE 7 standards compliant.
Of course, it still sucks, and I hate it when they force me to use ie 6 at many cafes and libraries, so I count this use of Firefox as good.
I wonder why UK is so much better at this sort of thing that US, AUS, NZ, and other countries.
They don't have to be a dying medium - they just need to change they way they do things.
I have started to read online newspapers regularly, when I have never had a subscription for a paper newspaper. If there is one thing that bloggs prove, it is that there is a huge market for good content, and media companies can provide that, if they do it well.
This is where the partnership with google comes in well. I think initially they were scared that sites like google news provide links to their competitors as well, but it actually drives a huge amount of business to them as well - free advertising if you will.
Well, to anyone with any basic physics knowledge that is not true, unless they were at point-blank range.
The number of events acting on the bullet are huge, and the chance that they would have a similar affect on the bullet going either way are almost impossbile. This is after assuming the guns are pointed at the same location? Ridiculous.
So, you have never owned a laptop, heh?
Sure, depending on the site. If they let you post information to the site, like having a guest book, then you may be able to exploit a xss.
Also depending on what you want to do to their site, if they let you upload files, but don't handle it well. ie, they may let you upload pictures of your girlfriend/sister, but they don't check to see if it is a jpeg file, or a php/cfm/asp file. Also, they may let you execute that file from that directory or not.
Any site designed badly can be used.
I remember some free pron sites, trying different number at the end of pictures to get extra freebies, or trying different directories based on names. Even a google image search of that particular site would reveal a lot of extra images or movies.
I hate dogs anyway. Kill em all. And the cats, they are even worse.
Personally, I think that in some countries (Australia, NZ), cats and dogs should not be allowed at all. The amount of damage they do to the environment is incredible.
And it has always been strange to me, that some people have all these pets, why others are starving somewhere else in the world. I guess I am a hypocrit in many ways, but that has always disturbed me... for some reason.
Don't listen to him, its a trap!
So even if we ignore Israel, which you seem intent to do, compare the number of bombs on buses/trains, to the number of bombs not on buses?
You can also include the spanish bombings a few years ago, they targeted a train there.
Ah, but that is exactly what they would expect you to think, isn't it. So they do the opposite, taking a cue from Agent 86. Brillant!
Is not having confidence in the government enough of a reason to leave? An even better question, will it actually solve anything if I left? Is there a government that I would trust, no... and you probably never should!
I have already moved once, I am running out of places that speak english. I also have no reason to think any other government would be any better - governments are just a bunch of people who are ungoverned, by defintion.
I think the best idea would be to stay here for the meanwhile, and try to change things.
They do tend to traget a lot of buses, I am guessing mainly due to the ease of it. In London and especially Israel, you often see buses blown to bits. I always thought this was a bit rough, even for terrorists. What is the point of killing the poor people, who can't even afford cars - how are they going to change anything?
As for sex, most of us don't find it all that difficult you know...
I joined the half-mile high club. It is like the mile high club, but has half as many people.
Seriously, I heard that they were not even allowing books - that would be shit. Having to actualy watch those stupid emergency announcements.
You can tell if something really happened, or they screwed up again and are trying to hide their mistakes.
If they start releasing actual information very soon, then maybe there was something. (The london bombings, had lots of pictures and were releasing loads of actuall facts about the bombs, within hours)
If they don't actually say anything, and no police actually appear on tv to talk about it, then they messed up again. The will release little bits of information to the media, but not directly, talking about how they are continuing to search, and interview suspect. They expect to have some concrete information at the end of the week.
The last two times they screwed up, and this is what happened.
I am sorry, but with the last two excuses for terror attacks here in London, both where innocent people were shot for no good reason, I have my doubts. Both cases, the police held out on the facts, and continued deceiving people about what really happened for weeks. Each time, they mislead the media and the public by publishing lies, so that they could try to cover up their mistakes.
This is Scotland Yard, this is the UK secret services, this is reality. In a few months, if we are lucky, we will know the truth. And it will turn out that a few people had sent each other emails talking about blowing up planes, or some vague threats, nothing more.
I have no confidence in the UK, USA or even the Australian government. I suggest you question everything they do, and all that they report as fact.
There were no WMDs, Jean Charles de Menezes was not a terrorist, Mohammed Abdul Kahar and Abul Koyair were not planning on bombing anybody at all!
I think that Apple just tried to rush the products out the door too soon. Either because they had some pre-planned schedule to release then, or they wanted to prove to everyone how good they really are. (You have to admire them for how quickly and seemlessly they switched from g4/g5 to intel core)
If they had taken the time to do more testing, this wouldn't have happened.
Of course, this article is almost meaningless without getting some number there. How many had discolouration, how many emitted the whine?
Squirt, Squirt.
Ha, got you. I have been hiding here on slashdot for the last two weeks, and finally my relience has paid of. I got you! (shooting on slashdot counts, right!, Right??)