For goodness sake let them know what you've just told us. A polite letter explaining that you were seriously intending to support them, but won't now, will do more than you might expect.
Even an email via http://www.writetothem.com/ makes a big difference. I know my MP has answered me every time I've emailed her. Hell, my MP even responds to my tweets to her twitter account, she's a Lib-Dem and I was going to vote for her as we won't have a Pirate Party member standing in my constituency.* It now depends on her response to my email about this vote.
*I'm a member, but don't think I would want to stand myself.
They're possibly closest to my leanings because they realise that things like "fair use", "sensible legislation", "privacy" and "right to format-shift" make sense, but basically destroying/ignoring copyright (which is what FOSS is based on) takes it too far
The current Pirate Party UK policy draft* is five years plus another five if you register, along with decriminalising personal copyright infringement. I think that a ten year copyright period is far from abolition.
*It was still draft last time I checked & whilst I'm a PPUK member it's been a couple of months.
Cool - I can just imagine the question "So, how did you get into politics"... "I replied to a posting on Slashdot"
So are the Pirate Party seriously looking for candidates? I live in Edinburgh North & Leith.
No; the correct answer is "I found out about that the Pirate party were looking for candidates from one of my favorite internet sites, and I already supported their principle, and it snowballed from there." or something similar, that shows the power of the internet and the power that the Party has in reaching the demographic that uses it most. Disclaimer: I'm a Pirate party UK member. It's only £10 a year join!
Is it possible for a UK resident to get the BBC in any form without any license fee, tax, etc.? --A curious guy across the Atlantic
The license fee is for TV only. I can get BBC radio & BBC online services without having to pay the license fee. The only exception is that if I want to watch live streams of events on the BBC website I'd technically need to pay the license fee. Hope that clears things up.
1. The libel stuff is fairly new - probably only the last 5 years or so. We always used to consider the USA the place for that, but it seems to have moved here recently.
A lot of it come from one single judge as well: Mr Justice Eady.
this is the country where saying a horse looks 'gay' is liable to get you a 3-month jail sentence
Read your own link, the guy's going in front of a judge for a public order offence (probably breech of the peace or similar), but suggesting it's because he called the horse gay gets more eyeballs.
I was talking about SG1 only; my mistake was that I hadn't realised the original Dr. Who had lasted so long continiously. I remember there being discussion around season 10 of SG1 of it now being the longest running Sci-fi series. Obviously it wasn't and I now stand corrected.
Yeah, but it's worth mentioning that Stargate SG1 is the longest continuous running Sci-fi series, whilst Dr. Who has had whole decades in between series.
It was my impression that (Great) Britain referred to the island of England/Wales/Scotland while the UK also includes Northern Ireland among other places. If not what is the island itself called?
They'll never program robots to have the hatred, malice and spite of real coppers. Maybe a robot could gun down an unarmed man on a tube station platform, but could it convincingly circulate a wholly misleading account of events afterwards? And then, after the inquest, issue a press release basically saying "We don't care, we'll do it again if we feel like it".
It's only the Met that are like that; your local coppers (not PCSOs)are usually much more human.
You were the one who said it was and I quote "For the courts to decide". I just pointed out that they had, but in the opposite direction to the one you originally suggested. I didn't comment on the decision itself, so how you can infer that:
People like you are what give companies excuses to try and control our software and the internet.
from what I said, I don't know. My actual opinion is thus: I don't personally wilfully infringe copyright, however I support copyright reform as I feel the current lengths are far too long; I think that a standard length of 10-20 years is probably about the correct limit. As such I am a Pirate - a member of the Pirate Party UK, that is.
IMO, it's fundamentally wrong to literally punish someone for doing nothing.
So if a person (for example) neglects their children that's alright with you? After all they were "doing nothing" (just failing to feed or clean the children).
A recent UK law however, was explicitly stated during its implementation process as 'allowing the police to lock up people they wanted to lock up if they couldn't find a way to prove something'. I kid you not - the comment was made in the House of Lords as one of the purposes of the law.
This sounds more like something the bills opponents would say, not it's supporters (yes even here in the UK); a link to the appropriate Hansard page would be nice.
You need to give a good reason why this alternate scenario might be plausible. I won't say that it's not, because it might just be a failure of my own imagination. However, since you're proposing the alternate scenario, it's fair for me to ask you to provide some reason that it might be plausible.
It's perfectly plausible that a sentient species on another planet has evolved with a Symbiotic relationship with it's environment; it's happened here on earth with some species. Why not elsewhere. For a sci-fi examle, think the Trill from Star Trek
Slashdot Mirror
For goodness sake let them know what you've just told us. A polite letter explaining that you were seriously intending to support them, but won't now, will do more than you might expect.
Even an email via http://www.writetothem.com/ makes a big difference. I know my MP has answered me every time I've emailed her. Hell, my MP even responds to my tweets to her twitter account, she's a Lib-Dem and I was going to vote for her as we won't have a Pirate Party member standing in my constituency.* It now depends on her response to my email about this vote.
*I'm a member, but don't think I would want to stand myself.
...You didn't...
Because itunes & amazon are making a loss on their music sales, right? Am I? Or are digital music sales actually increasing?
They're possibly closest to my leanings because they realise that things like "fair use", "sensible legislation", "privacy" and "right to format-shift" make sense, but basically destroying/ignoring copyright (which is what FOSS is based on) takes it too far
The current Pirate Party UK policy draft* is five years plus another five if you register, along with decriminalising personal copyright infringement. I think that a ten year copyright period is far from abolition.
*It was still draft last time I checked & whilst I'm a PPUK member it's been a couple of months.
Cool - I can just imagine the question "So, how did you get into politics"... "I replied to a posting on Slashdot"
So are the Pirate Party seriously looking for candidates? I live in Edinburgh North & Leith.
No; the correct answer is "I found out about that the Pirate party were looking for candidates from one of my favorite internet sites, and I already supported their principle, and it snowballed from there." or something similar, that shows the power of the internet and the power that the Party has in reaching the demographic that uses it most. Disclaimer: I'm a Pirate party UK member. It's only £10 a year join!
You also need the backing of a certain number of voters from the area.
You need ten nominations; not exactly a restrictive number.
Is it possible for a UK resident to get the BBC in any form without any license fee, tax, etc.? --A curious guy across the Atlantic
The license fee is for TV only. I can get BBC radio & BBC online services without having to pay the license fee. The only exception is that if I want to watch live streams of events on the BBC website I'd technically need to pay the license fee. Hope that clears things up.
None of those other ways, however, has a particular definition.
Whilst I don't swear much myself, I beg to differ: http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/english-fuck.html
;p
Thanks (and to the other sibling posts) for reminding me chaotic rules of English grammar.
Duck.
Goose
it's neighbours
No! Remember, only terrorists can't remember rules of grammar.
And we kill terrorists.
That looks possessive to me, not plural; the grammar is fine (or am I missing something?).
1. The libel stuff is fairly new - probably only the last 5 years or so. We always used to consider the USA the place for that, but it seems to have moved here recently.
A lot of it come from one single judge as well: Mr Justice Eady.
this is the country where saying a horse looks 'gay' is liable to get you a 3-month jail sentence
Read your own link, the guy's going in front of a judge for a public order offence (probably breech of the peace or similar), but suggesting it's because he called the horse gay gets more eyeballs.
Yeah, America has nothing to offer the world.
That's been neither claimed nor implied anywhere in this thread; leave the straw men alone.
I was talking about SG1 only; my mistake was that I hadn't realised the original Dr. Who had lasted so long continiously. I remember there being discussion around season 10 of SG1 of it now being the longest running Sci-fi series. Obviously it wasn't and I now stand corrected.
Yes. See DHTML Lemmings. It was written six years ago.
There goes my day... Just don't tell my boss.
The BBC did it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Trilogy_(BBC_Radio)
Truly excellent. Get it if you can find it.
It appears to be freely & legally available here: http://www.archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy
Possibly the longest running.
No. Doctor Who.
Yeah, but it's worth mentioning that Stargate SG1 is the longest continuous running Sci-fi series, whilst Dr. Who has had whole decades in between series.
It was my impression that (Great) Britain referred to the island of England/Wales/Scotland while the UK also includes Northern Ireland among other places. If not what is the island itself called?
You're right, however it's not that simple, check out the Great British Venn diagram
They'll never program robots to have the hatred, malice and spite of real coppers. Maybe a robot could gun down an unarmed man on a tube station platform, but could it convincingly circulate a wholly misleading account of events afterwards? And then, after the inquest, issue a press release basically saying "We don't care, we'll do it again if we feel like it".
It's only the Met that are like that; your local coppers (not PCSOs)are usually much more human.
People like you are what give companies excuses to try and control our software and the internet.
from what I said, I don't know. My actual opinion is thus: I don't personally wilfully infringe copyright, however I support copyright reform as I feel the current lengths are far too long; I think that a standard length of 10-20 years is probably about the correct limit. As such I am a Pirate - a member of the Pirate Party UK, that is.
That was Lord Lucan, not Lord Lucas
Well that's a matter for the courts to decide and unfortunatly for you they have decided.
Yes, in UK law they decided that information wasn't property and thus couldn't be stolen. See the case ofOxford v Moss for more detail.
IMO, it's fundamentally wrong to literally punish someone for doing nothing.
So if a person (for example) neglects their children that's alright with you? After all they were "doing nothing" (just failing to feed or clean the children).
A recent UK law however, was explicitly stated during its implementation process as 'allowing the police to lock up people they wanted to lock up if they couldn't find a way to prove something'. I kid you not - the comment was made in the House of Lords as one of the purposes of the law.
This sounds more like something the bills opponents would say, not it's supporters (yes even here in the UK); a link to the appropriate Hansard page would be nice.
You need to give a good reason why this alternate scenario might be plausible. I won't say that it's not, because it might just be a failure of my own imagination. However, since you're proposing the alternate scenario, it's fair for me to ask you to provide some reason that it might be plausible.
It's perfectly plausible that a sentient species on another planet has evolved with a Symbiotic relationship with it's environment; it's happened here on earth with some species. Why not elsewhere. For a sci-fi examle, think the Trill from Star Trek