THe UK Pirate party has 3 core aims, Copyright and patent reform (which you alluded to) but also to combat the surveillance state and to extend freedom of expression. I fail to see why they are not my collegues in taking a stand againt erosion of fundimental freedoms in the UK.
Yes, but unfortunately the message you're sending may be, "Despite the fact that I'm doing a fine job here, I'm actively searching the market for a new job. You may now consider me a short-timer that may bail out in the middle of my next project and cost the company a goodly amount of money to bring somebody else up to speed. Please move my name to the top of the RIF list."
You forgot this:
OTOH I might stay and work for you if you give me a pay rise\promotion...
Besides, I'm young, and have been gathering experience and qualifications whilst in my current job. My bosses must be terminally stupid if they think I'm going to be here forever at the same pay grade and in the same position. Fortunately, I know that they aren't stupid, and more than one person in my management team has casually spoken with me about what areas of my job I'd like to specialise in in the future, with the implication that she didn't think I'd stay here, but would like to help me gain experience in that area nevertheless.
Your boss isn't your enemy, treat him\her like a human, and they just might be nice back
The Eurosceptics believe that the UK could withdraw from the EU and join the EEA to retain access to EU markets. A nice theory for them but in practice it forces the countries to comply with many EU policies without any representation in the decision making.
I know. It's funny watching their reactions when you mention that Norway and the Swiss have to implement 70-80% of EU directives to stay in the EEA, but don't get a seat at the table when they're made... "So you'd like to give us even less power over our trade laws then Mr UKIP man?";p
If the government really wants to push the law through, it can withdraw from the Treaty of European Union, but I suspect a lot of companies would object to... not getting any more EU subsidy money.
You do realise that those of us on this side of the channel are some of the biggest net contributors to EU coffers, right?
You're right, but so was the GP about companies complaining, just for the wrong reasons. If we withdrew from the EU, UK companies would lose not only free access to the worlds largest trading block, but also the large pool of reasonably cheap labour from Eastern Europe that goes with it. Indeed, it's not just companies; all those Polish plumbers and Bulgarian builders would have to go home, the supermarkets couldn't import cheap European goods and prices for you and me would rise; suddenly the eurosceptic middle classes would europhiles when they see what the effect was on their wallets. As much as we love to bash the EU in this country, IMO it has a net positive effect. And if you remain eurosceptic, there's one more reason we should remain within it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXH3-A8zMI... Isn't yes Minister like a documentary at times?
Given the number of other rights willingly surrendered by the good people of the British Isles
We havn't all given them up, Some of us are fighting to retain the rights we have and get back others. We now even have an political party to vote for. And even if the Pirates don't win a seat, there is another major political party committed to passing a bill to reclaim our freedom. Even the TFA is about people standing up against government committing to free ideals, even if out of selfish motives. The cause of Freedom is nowhere near lost in the UK.
The Welsh military has been issued a copyright violation notice by FOX Studios. They are expected to pay $1000 per second of song played without FOX's permission.
That'd be great; **AA lawyers against this. Personally I'm putting my money on the longbowmen. In fact, is there anyone on/. who doesn't want to see **AA lawyers cut down by a shower of arrows? I'd certainly pay for the privilege.
Diversity isn't necessarily a Good Thing and the most difficult moment (racially) that I've ever had in the office was when I did an inadvertent insult to a coworker in England that escalated due to differences in British English and American English.
That depends on who you're working with, for a while I (as male of Indian origin), shared an office with a half-Greek bloke, a polish woman, a black woman (Nigerian origin) and a "regular" white woman*.
It was great, because we all knew how to take a joke, so a lot of our banter was "racist" but everyone got their fair share and it was funny as hell. Everyone knew that we weren't out to offend each other, but just have a laugh.
Watching a bearded Greek bloke going "wass up my nigga" to a black woman who would never speak like that is actually funnier than it sounds; the two are still very good friends.
*Actually all of us except the polish woman were actually born here in the UK
Though I don't consider it racism, because the hatred isn't towards race or ethnicity - it is towards a specific culture
The Romani Gypsies prevalent in eastern Europe are an ethnic group, not a cultural one, so yes it is racism. Irish and "New age" travelers are a separate group and not properly referred to as Gypsies.
At times I thought they only joined the EU because it'd be easier to sabotage it from the inside.
You're not far wrong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXH3-A8zMI&feature=related
Yes Minister is like a documentary at times...;p The reason we're doing this is because we always follow the rules, that way we can complain about them. It's the French who just ignore the rules that don't suit them, they're far more pro-integration then us Brits ever were.
I wonder why they don't just change the names and dates on a copy of the old law, get a chorum at the house of commons, get trusted speed readers to check that the old and new laws are the same, and pass it as some sort of emergency act.
Because that would be an abuse of due process. Whatever/. tells you, we're not a dictatorship yet.
It would be a very interesting project to try something like that with the goal to make information last millenia.
I recently saw an original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Library. That's now almost a thousand years old. I believe that it's written on vellum. The Bayeux Tapestry is even older, so tapestry seems to be a good medium to last a millennium...
That day will only come for phones/PDAs when people can use any phone, with software from any company or individual, with any telephone service provider.
I can already do that here in the UK, I can buy any phone I like, with any Mobile provider; if I don't like the provider, I can just change the SIM and get my number ported. I've never had problems installing things on previous phones (mostly from Nokia) or my current Phone. The only phone that tries to restrict what I can install on it is the iPhone, hence why I don't have one.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. What the hell is "sprayable cheese"? More to the point, what sort of atrocity would you have commit to make a mature Cheddar, red Leicester, Stilton or Bree to make it "sprayable"... The mind boggles.
Unless they oppose each other. Then, your theory doesn't quite hold up.
False dichotomy. There's always a third, fourth or fifth opinion. Just because it's one that major political parties disagree with, doesn't make it wrong. Hell, here in the UK we have more than just the two parties in parliament, and there are still issues that they all get wrong.
P.S. The Europeasn court of human rights can fuck off, all they care about is criminal scum.
THe ECHR only enforces a treaty. It's a very simple treaty with little legaleese mostly written by Churchill's lawyers after WW2. Which of it's articles do you object to?
We can't install anything (hence my "leave no trace on the host PC" comment) on out PCs without the permission of IT (for good reason; most people here are bareley computer literate. I work outside the IT industry). The IT dept. are over worked and understaffed, To reimage every computer in the organisation for that rare ocasion when a docx file gets emailed to you from outside would be overkill, especially when they're now in the process of upgradeing office anyway.
Users who read the forbidden texts and know enough to be dangerous.
Treat these people well, and they will take care of basic IT support for their departent. Just think of all all the dumb "Help me with $MSOfficeApp" calls you'd be getting if that person wasn't dealing with them instead. I know because I could be classed into falling into the category you describe. If I didn't work there the IT getting almost twice as many calls from my department as they currently do, most of them to do with Word double line spacing or similar. Even harder things that I "shouldn't" be able to fix, I can. We've not had MS Office 2007 installed yet, but occasionally a docx document will find it's way to me or my colleagues, Elsewhere in my organisation, this means a call\email to IT to get them to convert it. For me and my department it means opening it with portable Open office from my memory stick. Sure, I've not asked permission (they do know; they turn a blind eye) to use portable apps, but I know that it saves me, my department and IT time, and as long as it doesn't leave a trace on the host PC IT or breach network security they shouldn't have a problem.
I don't disagree with anything that you posted, I was just replying to the GGP post who seemed to imply that any feature no matter how outlandish was a good thing. As I said, I wasn't commenting on Emacs* specifically, just stating general principles.
"Haw haw a text editor that duz stuff, we here around these parts just use NOTEPAD.EXE"
Yawn. Tired jokes that aren't funny anymore.
Text editing, text processing, and generally manipulating anything involving language---especially natural language---is the most complicated thing that's ever done on a computer. Yet people---even supposedly knowledgeable people---demand stupidly broken tools that lack sophisticated tools for doing a sophisticated thing. When you understand this, jokes about "ha ha your text-editor-operating-system does X" aren't funny. It makes you wonder why other text editors don't do things.
"Perfection is achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
An application should do one thing and do it well, not do a gazillion things in a mediocre way*. Otherwise what's the point in running separate apps, why don't we just build all the functionality you'll ever need straight into the OS, it'd sure be faster that way.
*I'm not implying that emacs is mediocre just stating general principles.
What part of the word "no" are you having difficulty with?
It's the declarative negative, I never got the hang of those; usually it's just a matter of finding out how much you have to bribe someone to say yes...
Cheaper than other US stores. Compare their prices to some other developed economies. And also the price/quality ratio. Walmart was successful in the UK, but their supermarkets skim the people even more than happens in the US. In another major EU market Walmart couldn't compete against the established competitors and gave up.
I wouldn't say that walmart has done brilliantly here in the UK, they've done OK through their purchase of ASDA, but they're still second to Tesco and anyone who lives in an urban area in the UK will have at least four major national supermarket chains to choose from, though most cities have far more choices. There's certainly no monopoly situation as apperas to be the case from other comments in this thread.
The majority still don't though, even though it's so freely available.
I'm not sure the phone companies are even locking them any more, Someone I know bought a supposedly locked Nokia from T-Mobile, saw a better tarrif on O2 so bought the SIM and when he tried it in the phone it worked fine, no unlocking needed. I did the same thing with my phone when moving from O2 to 3 I got my number ported across. As this takes several days I put my old O2 SIM into my new 3 phone and didn't have a problem.
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THe UK Pirate party has 3 core aims, Copyright and patent reform (which you alluded to) but also to combat the surveillance state and to extend freedom of expression. I fail to see why they are not my collegues in taking a stand againt erosion of fundimental freedoms in the UK.
Yes, but unfortunately the message you're sending may be, "Despite the fact that I'm doing a fine job here, I'm actively searching the market for a new job. You may now consider me a short-timer that may bail out in the middle of my next project and cost the company a goodly amount of money to bring somebody else up to speed. Please move my name to the top of the RIF list."
You forgot this:
OTOH I might stay and work for you if you give me a pay rise\promotion...
Besides, I'm young, and have been gathering experience and qualifications whilst in my current job. My bosses must be terminally stupid if they think I'm going to be here forever at the same pay grade and in the same position. Fortunately, I know that they aren't stupid, and more than one person in my management team has casually spoken with me about what areas of my job I'd like to specialise in in the future, with the implication that she didn't think I'd stay here, but would like to help me gain experience in that area nevertheless.
Your boss isn't your enemy, treat him\her like a human, and they just might be nice back
The Eurosceptics believe that the UK could withdraw from the EU and join the EEA to retain access to EU markets. A nice theory for them but in practice it forces the countries to comply with many EU policies without any representation in the decision making.
I know. It's funny watching their reactions when you mention that Norway and the Swiss have to implement 70-80% of EU directives to stay in the EEA, but don't get a seat at the table when they're made... "So you'd like to give us even less power over our trade laws then Mr UKIP man?" ;p
If the government really wants to push the law through, it can withdraw from the Treaty of European Union, but I suspect a lot of companies would object to ... not getting any more EU subsidy money.
You do realise that those of us on this side of the channel are some of the biggest net contributors to EU coffers, right?
You're right, but so was the GP about companies complaining, just for the wrong reasons. If we withdrew from the EU, UK companies would lose not only free access to the worlds largest trading block, but also the large pool of reasonably cheap labour from Eastern Europe that goes with it. Indeed, it's not just companies; all those Polish plumbers and Bulgarian builders would have to go home, the supermarkets couldn't import cheap European goods and prices for you and me would rise; suddenly the eurosceptic middle classes would europhiles when they see what the effect was on their wallets. As much as we love to bash the EU in this country, IMO it has a net positive effect. And if you remain eurosceptic, there's one more reason we should remain within it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXH3-A8zMI ... Isn't yes Minister like a documentary at times?
Given the number of other rights willingly surrendered by the good people of the British Isles
We havn't all given them up, Some of us are fighting to retain the rights we have and get back others. We now even have an political party to vote for. And even if the Pirates don't win a seat, there is another major political party committed to passing a bill to reclaim our freedom. Even the TFA is about people standing up against government committing to free ideals, even if out of selfish motives. The cause of Freedom is nowhere near lost in the UK.
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The Welsh military has been issued a copyright violation notice by FOX Studios. They are expected to pay $1000 per second of song played without FOX's permission.
That'd be great; **AA lawyers against this. Personally I'm putting my money on the longbowmen. In fact, is there anyone on /. who doesn't want to see **AA lawyers cut down by a shower of arrows? I'd certainly pay for the privilege.
Diversity isn't necessarily a Good Thing and the most difficult moment (racially) that I've ever had in the office was when I did an inadvertent insult to a coworker in England that escalated due to differences in British English and American English.
That depends on who you're working with, for a while I (as male of Indian origin), shared an office with a half-Greek bloke, a polish woman, a black woman (Nigerian origin) and a "regular" white woman*.
It was great, because we all knew how to take a joke, so a lot of our banter was "racist" but everyone got their fair share and it was funny as hell. Everyone knew that we weren't out to offend each other, but just have a laugh.
Watching a bearded Greek bloke going "wass up my nigga" to a black woman who would never speak like that is actually funnier than it sounds; the two are still very good friends.
*Actually all of us except the polish woman were actually born here in the UK
In the USA they're more likely to be Irish travelers than Romani Gypsies. People always class them all as "Gypos"
Though I don't consider it racism, because the hatred isn't towards race or ethnicity - it is towards a specific culture
The Romani Gypsies prevalent in eastern Europe are an ethnic group, not a cultural one, so yes it is racism. Irish and "New age" travelers are a separate group and not properly referred to as Gypsies.
At times I thought they only joined the EU because it'd be easier to sabotage it from the inside.
You're not far wrong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXH3-A8zMI&feature=related ;p The reason we're doing this is because we always follow the rules, that way we can complain about them. It's the French who just ignore the rules that don't suit them, they're far more pro-integration then us Brits ever were.
Yes Minister is like a documentary at times...
I wonder why they don't just change the names and dates on a copy of the old law, get a chorum at the house of commons, get trusted speed readers to check that the old and new laws are the same, and pass it as some sort of emergency act.
Because that would be an abuse of due process. Whatever /. tells you, we're not a dictatorship yet.
It would be a very interesting project to try something like that with the goal to make information last millenia.
I recently saw an original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Library. That's now almost a thousand years old. I believe that it's written on vellum. The Bayeux Tapestry is even older, so tapestry seems to be a good medium to last a millennium...
That day will only come for phones/PDAs when people can use any phone, with software from any company or individual, with any telephone service provider.
I can already do that here in the UK, I can buy any phone I like, with any Mobile provider; if I don't like the provider, I can just change the SIM and get my number ported. I've never had problems installing things on previous phones (mostly from Nokia) or my current Phone. The only phone that tries to restrict what I can install on it is the iPhone, hence why I don't have one.
sprayable cheese???
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
What the hell is "sprayable cheese"? More to the point, what sort of atrocity would you have commit to make a mature Cheddar, red Leicester, Stilton or Bree to make it "sprayable"... The mind boggles.
Unless they oppose each other. Then, your theory doesn't quite hold up.
False dichotomy. There's always a third, fourth or fifth opinion. Just because it's one that major political parties disagree with, doesn't make it wrong. Hell, here in the UK we have more than just the two parties in parliament, and there are still issues that they all get wrong.
P.S. The Europeasn court of human rights can fuck off, all they care about is criminal scum.
THe ECHR only enforces a treaty. It's a very simple treaty with little legaleese mostly written by Churchill's lawyers after WW2. Which of it's articles do you object to?
Australia and the gallows.
I don't think Australia would take our criminals now that they're an independent country and all...
It's the Daily Express, TFA almost certainly bares no resemblance to the truth.
Or you could install the converter pack...
We can't install anything (hence my "leave no trace on the host PC" comment) on out PCs without the permission of IT (for good reason; most people here are bareley computer literate. I work outside the IT industry). The IT dept. are over worked and understaffed, To reimage every computer in the organisation for that rare ocasion when a docx file gets emailed to you from outside would be overkill, especially when they're now in the process of upgradeing office anyway.
Users who read the forbidden texts and know enough to be dangerous.
Treat these people well, and they will take care of basic IT support for their departent. Just think of all all the dumb "Help me with $MSOfficeApp" calls you'd be getting if that person wasn't dealing with them instead. I know because I could be classed into falling into the category you describe. If I didn't work there the IT getting almost twice as many calls from my department as they currently do, most of them to do with Word double line spacing or similar. Even harder things that I "shouldn't" be able to fix, I can. We've not had MS Office 2007 installed yet, but occasionally a docx document will find it's way to me or my colleagues, Elsewhere in my organisation, this means a call\email to IT to get them to convert it. For me and my department it means opening it with portable Open office from my memory stick. Sure, I've not asked permission (they do know; they turn a blind eye) to use portable apps, but I know that it saves me, my department and IT time, and as long as it doesn't leave a trace on the host PC IT or breach network security they shouldn't have a problem.
I don't disagree with anything that you posted, I was just replying to the GGP post who seemed to imply that any feature no matter how outlandish was a good thing. As I said, I wasn't commenting on Emacs* specifically, just stating general principles.
"Haw haw a text editor that duz stuff, we here around these parts just use NOTEPAD.EXE"
Yawn. Tired jokes that aren't funny anymore.
Text editing, text processing, and generally manipulating anything involving language---especially natural language---is the most complicated thing that's ever done on a computer. Yet people---even supposedly knowledgeable people---demand stupidly broken tools that lack sophisticated tools for doing a sophisticated thing. When you understand this, jokes about "ha ha your text-editor-operating-system does X" aren't funny. It makes you wonder why other text editors don't do things.
"Perfection is achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
An application should do one thing and do it well, not do a gazillion things in a mediocre way*. Otherwise what's the point in running separate apps, why don't we just build all the functionality you'll ever need straight into the OS, it'd sure be faster that way.
*I'm not implying that emacs is mediocre just stating general principles.
What part of the word "no" are you having difficulty with?
It's the declarative negative, I never got the hang of those; usually it's just a matter of finding out how much you have to bribe someone to say yes...
Cheaper than other US stores. Compare their prices to some other developed economies. And also the price/quality ratio. Walmart was successful in the UK, but their supermarkets skim the people even more than happens in the US. In another major EU market Walmart couldn't compete against the established competitors and gave up.
I wouldn't say that walmart has done brilliantly here in the UK, they've done OK through their purchase of ASDA, but they're still second to Tesco and anyone who lives in an urban area in the UK will have at least four major national supermarket chains to choose from, though most cities have far more choices. There's certainly no monopoly situation as apperas to be the case from other comments in this thread.
The majority still don't though, even though it's so freely available.
I'm not sure the phone companies are even locking them any more, Someone I know bought a supposedly locked Nokia from T-Mobile, saw a better tarrif on O2 so bought the SIM and when he tried it in the phone it worked fine, no unlocking needed. I did the same thing with my phone when moving from O2 to 3 I got my number ported across. As this takes several days I put my old O2 SIM into my new 3 phone and didn't have a problem.