Our Glorious Leader Gordon Brown-shirt is pleased to announce a major victory on he war against: terror/crime/pedophiles/obesity/knife culture/the Royal Bank of Scotland. (delete as applicable)
We are please to announce that new mind reading technology will now be installed into all 5 million cctv cameras, airports, public houses, and anywhere else we want to.
Alternatively, the blimp could be used to patrol U.S. air space.
It's funny, living in the UK I immediately assumed it would be used to spy on US citizens. It wasn't until I read the comments that I realized it might be used on other nations.
What an unusual concept for someone from UK -- a spy weapon being used on genuinely, or potentially, hostile nations, rather than on its own people.
We may joke about how bad things are in the UK here often. However, I don't think people realize how bad the state of this country is, and how incredibly evil the UK Government appears to be.
There may come a time soon when you won't be hearing from the UK for a decade or two. They have effectively sealed up the borders with new Legislation yesterday (news released on a Friday deliberately to avoid a news cycle obviously). Or at least this gives them the power to seal up the border any time -- virtual Berlin Wall.
- if Bush-era deregulation is the cause of the U.S. market woes, then why is the European Union, the world's most stringently-regulated capitalist "country", in recession too? Apparently their regulated markets didn't help them. (shrug).
Actually, the member states of the EU are in widely varying degrees of recession. The UK is totally and utterly screwed, near bankruptcy -- mainly because it was Bush's lapdog for a decade, because its Neues Arbeit Regime looked after itself first, and because they are nothing more than the willing puppets of corporate interests.
Iceland is screwed because it depended on the UK too much. France and Germany are affected, but they do have much more banking regulation and it's nothing like as bad. The other member states are affected less still for the same reasons.
This is why there is so much disagreement at the G20 talks right now -- many EU countries are actually doing ok, despite the recession, and don't want the US and UK imposing desperate Keynsian burn and spend tactics. Since, they don't need them, and would that probably drive them further into depression and instability, just like the US and UK.
The whole of this mess though, does relate to this article. The fundamental problem in today's society is that corporate interests overrule the will of the people. Governments everywhere are bought and sold. I have no idea how we fix this -- corporations are too powerful. However, we really, really, really need to. All of us, in every country.
Maybe it starts with corporate employees from grassroots up. If you work for a corporation, why do you allow all life on Earth to be exploited for your masters bidding? You can change things, you have free will, and a duty to us all. Those of us who don't work in corporations really can't do anything it seems.
Yep, this is just an increase in taxation for the sake of it -- justified by bogus claims. Taxation generating theater.
There's so much wrong with this premise. If there were any genuine correlation between video games and crime (we know there isn't here) then ban the games.
Taxation? Well, the kids with knives are 10 - 16 years old or so. They DO NOT EARN. They download, steal or get the money from their delinquent parents. They aren't supposed to be able to get violent games anyway -- but of course they can, and it's easy.
They don't care about the tax at all. It won't reduce knife crime in any way whatsoever.
Knife crime has nothing to do with video games. We all know this. Knife crime at the level that it is in the UK, is an uniquely UK phenomenon. But games are universal -- that alone is proof enough that it's UK society that's at fault, not video games.
I can't help thinking that this isn't representative of "young people". Though it probably is typical of the average "young person".
Were the to pool the opinions of students of Julliard rather than Stamford he'd likely get a completely different result.
If the young person in question is fond of mass produced music -- as most are I guess -- then the sound quality probably isn't important to them, just as tonal nuances wasn't important to the original musicians. For kids that are musicians themselves, and especially jazz or classical musicians, the sound quality matters a great deal.
Basically this is just a badly designed study, skewed in favor of the modal average.
I still use Firefox, and will continue to do so for the time being. The reason being adblock and flashblock, exclusively. I am not as happy with Firefox as I was when I first used the 0.8 something version. I feel Mozilla have lost their way. Too much bloat like the awesome bar -- which frankly just does not work for me at all, it's an hindrance, not a help.
I want to use chrome, because of the multithreading. Firefox absolutely needs to have multithreading to compete. It can be a true dog to use if you have tabs that reload in the background.
The second that there is some sort of adblock and flashblock for Chrome I'm gone. No more Firefox for me.
I'm sorry to have to do that. I actually bought the firefox T-Shirt. I was active in the GetFirefox campaign. But now, I use it only because of the extensions.
Please, Mozilla get your act together. Now more useless features that should really be extensions, and get multithreading sorted. I want to be a Firefox fan again.
The only thing keeping the country sane at this point is the BBC and the conservative upper classes. May the gods help us all.
I'm concerned that you feel the BBC are some sort of beacon of hope. I see them as more the organ of the state. There's next to nothing about the erosion of people's rights on the BBC. There's no critical investigations of the effectiveness of CCTV nor any other measures. There's not even the slightest hint that we may be doomed by Jaquboots Smith, Jackboots Straw, or Gordon Brown-shirt.
I think you are wrong about the right wing press too. The Daily Mail and Telegraph are highly critical of the Big Brother state. The Guardian, however, isn't at all in any way.
I think the vast majority of the people in the UK do not want government to have this kind of power -- Sun readers included. The vast majority also, most certainly, want the Neues Arbeit Regime out of power as fast as possible. Something they are, of course, refusing to do.
True. Protesting on Facebook works on Facebook -- hence the Facebook protests that occur every other week about some trivial change to something on the site.
No2ID have the right idea. But... they really, really need to get their PR machine working. There's next to nothing ever mentioned about them anywhere. They need to be organizing much more high profile stuff. They need to be getting in the press regularly and frequently.
Having a Facebook group is fine, but it will achieve nothing by itself. Get it together people, because you do have a lot of support, you just need to channel it much, much better than you are currently doing.
Yep, Needy State is a killer app for me -- killer, as in "dead to me". While I was never intending to downgrade to Windows 7 from XP, the addition of "needy state" has only stiffened my resolve.
The taskbar is already far too intrusive. So many pointless apps are popping up with messages or status announcements. It's already far, far too intrusive -- and they actually want to make it more so? That's a productivity killer right there.
I'd caution ANY business about using Windows 7 with this feature. It's already hard for most staff to keep focused on productivity with IM or Outlook constantly open. A number of firms instruct staff to only read mails between certain times of the day to maximize productivity as it is.
I can see no reason why there can't be a "silent mode" for everything. Not even Windows update manager, nor antivirus need to pop up with urgent messages and nag you until you deal with them. Nothing needs to do this. It should be possible for competent users to turn off system messages such that they are only shown when chosen. A color change, as the parent suggests, is fine.
I'm still waiting for the Web 2.0 SP1 that removes all the bloat.
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No Google, true -- but choice of search engines. While Google was great between about '97 and '03 or so, it's become so gamed to be as bad as Altavista was in 1996 -- but now there's no real choice.
No Facebook, no MySpace, no Wikipedia, less spam and far less Flash-based sites -- yes, those were better days. Not to mention a lot less Buzzwordery and fuckwittery.
There was more porn, and it was more extreme and less restricted -- not so much video based, of course. And if you were a producer you could throw a site up and make money easily, now it's so hard as to be really not worthwhile.
While there's definitely improvements, I can't help looking back fondly to a lot of things that are no longer with us. And the massive intrusion that some things on the web have become.
Would Slumdog have been even noticed had it not been made by a British Director?
Your point is very valid. But in this case it's not the director. Danny Boyle wasn't a bankable name, or, indeed, a successful director. Or indeed, a good director. He's a hack who steals ideas from other movies. Slumdog would have been much better with a talented artist at the helm.
Note also that he had an Indian co-director who's had absolutely no credit whatsoever.
No. In this case it's the producer who got it its success-- multi-millionaire Paul Smith, realty TV hack, and expert publicist. Cashing in nicely on India.
But it's nice to see that Hollywood is continuing the Global business trend of outsourcing movie production. Hello my name is Ram... I mean Stephen... and I will be your 1st AD for today. How may I help you?
Only one American won a major award -- the overrated Sean Penn -- and he's anti-American. (Mickey Rourke was robbed.) To paraphrase Stephen Colbert; why do you hate America, Hollywood? Why? Giving Oscars to Brits will only mean terrorists win.
Now Mumbai is not just taking contact center jobs, but also movie ones too. Which would be fine if Slumdog was the best movie of the year -- which it most certainly wasn't. Just the most hyped by UK reality TV producer's money (Paul Smith from Who Wants to be a Millionaire). It's just an exploit-asian movie. UK producers and crew mostly, skimming profit off of Indian industry.
Mod Parent up. I have no idea why some overzealous mod has modded the OP flamebait. I don't think "flamebait" means what the mod thinks it means -- must be a wikipedia admin with/. mod points.
The OP is correct, it's sensible advice. As a filmmaker and photographer I always do get forms signed and ID from models. It's extremely annoying to have to do that, but it's insurance nonetheless. Never underestimate the stupidity of humanity when it comes to anything sex-related.
Yeah, Facebook, Twitter and the like *can* be extreme wastes of time. But, there is a reason that so many people are drawn to those sites.
I think there is some truth in that, but the reason why most people use these sites is peer pressure, purely and simply. It's just a fad for most people. It's just like a local bar or club becomes the in place to go to -- without any substance. Being the reason why there's a drift from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to the next thing.
Personally I can see absolutely no use for Facebook nor Twitter whatsoever. But now that the sparkly teenage girls have left MySpace for the next thing, MySpace is actually a useful site. If you are an artist of some sort, MySpace is a great tool for networking and showcasing your work. Facebook is worthless for that, since you have to become friends with someone to see their profile.
It could be that there are genuine core uses for Facebook and Twitter too -- though I cannot personally think of what they could be.
aren't "twitter" and "drivel" synonyms. It sure seems that way.
That twitter is down so much is pure schadenfreude. The most obnoxious, in your face, viral marketers and sock puppeteers on the net. I only wish them continued failure. Hopefully the inane fad will pass soon, and they'll go the way of every other insubstantial, "latest thing" website.
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Our Glorious Leader Gordon Brown-shirt is pleased to announce a major victory on he war against: terror/crime/pedophiles/obesity/knife culture/the Royal Bank of Scotland. (delete as applicable)
We are please to announce that new mind reading technology will now be installed into all 5 million cctv cameras, airports, public houses, and anywhere else we want to.
Thank you for your continued obedience (or else).
It's funny, living in the UK I immediately assumed it would be used to spy on US citizens. It wasn't until I read the comments that I realized it might be used on other nations.
What an unusual concept for someone from UK -- a spy weapon being used on genuinely, or potentially, hostile nations, rather than on its own people.
We may joke about how bad things are in the UK here often. However, I don't think people realize how bad the state of this country is, and how incredibly evil the UK Government appears to be.
There may come a time soon when you won't be hearing from the UK for a decade or two. They have effectively sealed up the borders with new Legislation yesterday (news released on a Friday deliberately to avoid a news cycle obviously). Or at least this gives them the power to seal up the border any time -- virtual Berlin Wall.
God help us all in the UK. We have little hope.
Actually, the member states of the EU are in widely varying degrees of recession. The UK is totally and utterly screwed, near bankruptcy -- mainly because it was Bush's lapdog for a decade, because its Neues Arbeit Regime looked after itself first, and because they are nothing more than the willing puppets of corporate interests.
Iceland is screwed because it depended on the UK too much. France and Germany are affected, but they do have much more banking regulation and it's nothing like as bad. The other member states are affected less still for the same reasons.
This is why there is so much disagreement at the G20 talks right now -- many EU countries are actually doing ok, despite the recession, and don't want the US and UK imposing desperate Keynsian burn and spend tactics. Since, they don't need them, and would that probably drive them further into depression and instability, just like the US and UK.
The whole of this mess though, does relate to this article. The fundamental problem in today's society is that corporate interests overrule the will of the people. Governments everywhere are bought and sold. I have no idea how we fix this -- corporations are too powerful. However, we really, really, really need to. All of us, in every country.
Maybe it starts with corporate employees from grassroots up. If you work for a corporation, why do you allow all life on Earth to be exploited for your masters bidding? You can change things, you have free will, and a duty to us all. Those of us who don't work in corporations really can't do anything it seems.
I don't know about shouting "fire", but I do know that calling on Google to blur public buildings is the same as crying "WOLF!".
Where does the heat go on rapid discharge?
Or is this the Sony method of rapid discharge?
Yep, this is just an increase in taxation for the sake of it -- justified by bogus claims. Taxation generating theater.
There's so much wrong with this premise. If there were any genuine correlation between video games and crime (we know there isn't here) then ban the games.
Taxation? Well, the kids with knives are 10 - 16 years old or so. They DO NOT EARN. They download, steal or get the money from their delinquent parents. They aren't supposed to be able to get violent games anyway -- but of course they can, and it's easy.
They don't care about the tax at all. It won't reduce knife crime in any way whatsoever.
Knife crime has nothing to do with video games. We all know this. Knife crime at the level that it is in the UK, is an uniquely UK phenomenon. But games are universal -- that alone is proof enough that it's UK society that's at fault, not video games.
I can't help thinking that this isn't representative of "young people". Though it probably is typical of the average "young person".
Were the to pool the opinions of students of Julliard rather than Stamford he'd likely get a completely different result.
If the young person in question is fond of mass produced music -- as most are I guess -- then the sound quality probably isn't important to them, just as tonal nuances wasn't important to the original musicians. For kids that are musicians themselves, and especially jazz or classical musicians, the sound quality matters a great deal.
Basically this is just a badly designed study, skewed in favor of the modal average.
Since the US is the only country that can access Hulu's content this is hardly Earth shattering news.
When Hulu discovers there's a whole planet out there, the rest of us will start to care.
This article sounds like empty hype to me.
I still use Firefox, and will continue to do so for the time being. The reason being adblock and flashblock, exclusively. I am not as happy with Firefox as I was when I first used the 0.8 something version. I feel Mozilla have lost their way. Too much bloat like the awesome bar -- which frankly just does not work for me at all, it's an hindrance, not a help.
I want to use chrome, because of the multithreading. Firefox absolutely needs to have multithreading to compete. It can be a true dog to use if you have tabs that reload in the background.
The second that there is some sort of adblock and flashblock for Chrome I'm gone. No more Firefox for me.
I'm sorry to have to do that. I actually bought the firefox T-Shirt. I was active in the GetFirefox campaign. But now, I use it only because of the extensions.
Please, Mozilla get your act together. Now more useless features that should really be extensions, and get multithreading sorted. I want to be a Firefox fan again.
it's the only way to meet the hardware demands of aero.
The first thing that came to my mind, it being a perfume, was "PONG FART".
Yeah, I've never buying that. EVER.
I'm concerned that you feel the BBC are some sort of beacon of hope. I see them as more the organ of the state. There's next to nothing about the erosion of people's rights on the BBC. There's no critical investigations of the effectiveness of CCTV nor any other measures. There's not even the slightest hint that we may be doomed by Jaquboots Smith, Jackboots Straw, or Gordon Brown-shirt.
I think you are wrong about the right wing press too. The Daily Mail and Telegraph are highly critical of the Big Brother state. The Guardian, however, isn't at all in any way.
I think the vast majority of the people in the UK do not want government to have this kind of power -- Sun readers included. The vast majority also, most certainly, want the Neues Arbeit Regime out of power as fast as possible. Something they are, of course, refusing to do.
True. Protesting on Facebook works on Facebook -- hence the Facebook protests that occur every other week about some trivial change to something on the site.
No2ID have the right idea. But... they really, really need to get their PR machine working. There's next to nothing ever mentioned about them anywhere. They need to be organizing much more high profile stuff. They need to be getting in the press regularly and frequently.
Having a Facebook group is fine, but it will achieve nothing by itself. Get it together people, because you do have a lot of support, you just need to channel it much, much better than you are currently doing.
I'm sure the wives of the Prosecutors must feel overlooked. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to send them?
Cue Facebook protest about the number of groups about groups of groups on Facebook in 3... 2... 1...
It's been weeks since the last Facebook protest, surely we're overdue one?
Yep, Needy State is a killer app for me -- killer, as in "dead to me". While I was never intending to downgrade to Windows 7 from XP, the addition of "needy state" has only stiffened my resolve.
The taskbar is already far too intrusive. So many pointless apps are popping up with messages or status announcements. It's already far, far too intrusive -- and they actually want to make it more so? That's a productivity killer right there.
I'd caution ANY business about using Windows 7 with this feature. It's already hard for most staff to keep focused on productivity with IM or Outlook constantly open. A number of firms instruct staff to only read mails between certain times of the day to maximize productivity as it is.
I can see no reason why there can't be a "silent mode" for everything. Not even Windows update manager, nor antivirus need to pop up with urgent messages and nag you until you deal with them. Nothing needs to do this. It should be possible for competent users to turn off system messages such that they are only shown when chosen. A color change, as the parent suggests, is fine.
We should never have upgraded from Web 1.0
I'm still waiting for the Web 2.0 SP1 that removes all the bloat.
No Google, true -- but choice of search engines. While Google was great between about '97 and '03 or so, it's become so gamed to be as bad as Altavista was in 1996 -- but now there's no real choice.
No Facebook, no MySpace, no Wikipedia, less spam and far less Flash-based sites -- yes, those were better days. Not to mention a lot less Buzzwordery and fuckwittery.
There was more porn, and it was more extreme and less restricted -- not so much video based, of course. And if you were a producer you could throw a site up and make money easily, now it's so hard as to be really not worthwhile.
While there's definitely improvements, I can't help looking back fondly to a lot of things that are no longer with us. And the massive intrusion that some things on the web have become.
Man, I really hope scientists are working on a vaccine for that. That alone would advance humanity much further than curing cancer.
Your point is very valid. But in this case it's not the director. Danny Boyle wasn't a bankable name, or, indeed, a successful director. Or indeed, a good director. He's a hack who steals ideas from other movies. Slumdog would have been much better with a talented artist at the helm.
Note also that he had an Indian co-director who's had absolutely no credit whatsoever.
No. In this case it's the producer who got it its success-- multi-millionaire Paul Smith, realty TV hack, and expert publicist. Cashing in nicely on India.
But it's nice to see that Hollywood is continuing the Global business trend of outsourcing movie production. Hello my name is Ram... I mean Stephen... and I will be your 1st AD for today. How may I help you?
Only one American won a major award -- the overrated Sean Penn -- and he's anti-American. (Mickey Rourke was robbed.) To paraphrase Stephen Colbert; why do you hate America, Hollywood? Why? Giving Oscars to Brits will only mean terrorists win.
Now Mumbai is not just taking contact center jobs, but also movie ones too. Which would be fine if Slumdog was the best movie of the year -- which it most certainly wasn't. Just the most hyped by UK reality TV producer's money (Paul Smith from Who Wants to be a Millionaire). It's just an exploit-asian movie. UK producers and crew mostly, skimming profit off of Indian industry.
Mod Parent up. I have no idea why some overzealous mod has modded the OP flamebait. I don't think "flamebait" means what the mod thinks it means -- must be a wikipedia admin with /. mod points.
The OP is correct, it's sensible advice. As a filmmaker and photographer I always do get forms signed and ID from models. It's extremely annoying to have to do that, but it's insurance nonetheless. Never underestimate the stupidity of humanity when it comes to anything sex-related.
I think there is some truth in that, but the reason why most people use these sites is peer pressure, purely and simply. It's just a fad for most people. It's just like a local bar or club becomes the in place to go to -- without any substance. Being the reason why there's a drift from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to the next thing.
Personally I can see absolutely no use for Facebook nor Twitter whatsoever. But now that the sparkly teenage girls have left MySpace for the next thing, MySpace is actually a useful site. If you are an artist of some sort, MySpace is a great tool for networking and showcasing your work. Facebook is worthless for that, since you have to become friends with someone to see their profile.
It could be that there are genuine core uses for Facebook and Twitter too -- though I cannot personally think of what they could be.
aren't "twitter" and "drivel" synonyms. It sure seems that way.
That twitter is down so much is pure schadenfreude. The most obnoxious, in your face, viral marketers and sock puppeteers on the net. I only wish them continued failure. Hopefully the inane fad will pass soon, and they'll go the way of every other insubstantial, "latest thing" website.