the uk's plans stems from the when more and more vehicles use alternative fuels, its easy to stick 70%+ tax on petrol/gas but they can't tax electricity by the same amounts (i hope)As soon as the system is in place it will be abused by those in power or by people with the responsibility to run it or most probably both.If you've got nothing to hide you haven't looked hard enough yet
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exactly, take a country like Bali. People just sitting around on beaches and maybe having a fun night out, they're never bothered by islamic terrorists... more than onc...twice
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"...world sending ever bigger telescopes into space doing science"
(from a religious fundamentalist point of view) why would be doing this everything you need to know is written in the (insert religious book of choice)?
the uk's official figures are 66% (iirc) of accidents are speed related, but to get to this 66% they lumped a whole lot of accidents up, eg weather conditions, failing to judge a cars speed etc. Only 3% of accidents are solely caused by speeding eg going faster than the speed limit (which is the only thing a speed camera can catch) the other 63% were going to fast for the road conditions, eg dangerous driving or careless driving, which the only way of preventing is to have traffic police, which been moved into other areas since speed cameras have become prevalant in the uk
This is why if you look at the raw data for a longer period than is usually supplied by the speed camera partnerships websites you'll see reversing trends in accident rates.
The latest plans put forward by labour is to allow council officials to enter anybodys house at any time to check whether the house is nicely decorated, has a nice garden, filled with nice electrical equipment and with a nice view and this will effect your council tax evaluation
wonder if that would work as defense against riaa snatch squads?
"i'd love to let you look through my laptop for mp3s and mpegs but it would breach my eula"
More out of curiosity, am I in a minority where i would rather get things easier at a (nominal) cost, in a format that i have the freedom to do what i want eg transfer it to various players, rather than get things for free but with the hassle of finding one with the uncertainties that p2p comes with.
and that is my point, p2p software is arguably as difficult to use as copying a dvd for the 'home' user, but it hasnt stopped shops selling dvds and the money lost to pirates is insignificant.
If the bbc / itv / fox / abc etc provided a service where you could pay to get tv and do what you want with it then i would pay, i wouldnt hope that somebody else pays and releases it on p2p and have the hassle of hunting it down and hoping the quality is good etc.
If the bbc were to provide a service where you could download any program then you've got your record of how many people do this to pay Gordon Kaye his fee,(Possibly charging for outside of the UK viewers).
Yes the first person could download it and put it up on his favourite p2p 'pirate' site but the majority of people would still use the simplest solution, go to the bbc, to get it. Dvd sales proove this, which are for intense and purposes drm free.
IIRC an IE developer listed a few issues he had with firefox this was one of his first issues. Fairly certain it was well covered here with 'that will never happen'
>web sites are usually happy to be searchable through Google, because their goal is to be visible and read
Most, if not all, authors wouldn't mind their books being visible and read
if your way was followed you'd end up with having to specify more or less everything that you take for granted in the car nowadays, like the days when you had to specify radio, aircon, electric windows, spare tyre....
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the uk's plans stems from the when more and more vehicles use alternative fuels, its easy to stick 70%+ tax on petrol/gas but they can't tax electricity by the same amounts (i hope)As soon as the system is in place it will be abused by those in power or by people with the responsibility to run it or most probably both.If you've got nothing to hide you haven't looked hard enough yet
Theres at least one viewer of threshold right there.
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"...world sending ever bigger telescopes into space doing science"
(from a religious fundamentalist point of view) why would be doing this everything you need to know is written in the (insert religious book of choice)?
the uk's official figures are 66% (iirc) of accidents are speed related, but to get to this 66% they lumped a whole lot of accidents up, eg weather conditions, failing to judge a cars speed etc. Only 3% of accidents are solely caused by speeding eg going faster than the speed limit (which is the only thing a speed camera can catch) the other 63% were going to fast for the road conditions, eg dangerous driving or careless driving, which the only way of preventing is to have traffic police, which been moved into other areas since speed cameras have become prevalant in the uk This is why if you look at the raw data for a longer period than is usually supplied by the speed camera partnerships websites you'll see reversing trends in accident rates.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessio nid=PTQL4SD1HOROZQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/200 5/11/15/nct15.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/15/ixport altop.html
'I wish I had a picture of the salesman's face when.' when what?
mod parent redundant,
wonder if that would work as defense against riaa snatch squads?
"i'd love to let you look through my laptop for mp3s and mpegs but it would breach my eula"
More out of curiosity, am I in a minority where i would rather get things easier at a (nominal) cost, in a format that i have the freedom to do what i want eg transfer it to various players, rather than get things for free but with the hassle of finding one with the uncertainties that p2p comes with.
If the bbc / itv / fox / abc etc provided a service where you could pay to get tv and do what you want with it then i would pay, i wouldnt hope that somebody else pays and releases it on p2p and have the hassle of hunting it down and hoping the quality is good etc.
But there are tools that can convert dvds to divx at the click of the button which in my mind are for all 'intense and purposes drm free'
Yes the first person could download it and put it up on his favourite p2p 'pirate' site but the majority of people would still use the simplest solution, go to the bbc, to get it. Dvd sales proove this, which are for intense and purposes drm free.
why not install 300+ toilets and have harnesses like on rollercoasters
IIRC an IE developer listed a few issues he had with firefox this was one of his first issues. Fairly certain it was well covered here with 'that will never happen'
>web sites are usually happy to be searchable through Google, because their goal is to be visible and read Most, if not all, authors wouldn't mind their books being visible and read
if your way was followed you'd end up with having to specify more or less everything that you take for granted in the car nowadays, like the days when you had to specify radio, aircon, electric windows, spare tyre....
..and you can't specify who you have the conversation with...
used to work for a company called firefox, wrote novix for novell. (They were bought by FTP software). Not sure if they'll have any trademarks.
Store loyalty cards dont cost over £100, they're also optional, eg NOT compulsory, in every store I know that uses them
Any plans for a episode IV?