We all became Citizens in 1983. The only British subjects left are people who were a British subjects on 31 December 1948 who did not become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, a citizen of a Commonwealth country, a citizen of Pakistan, or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland (and had made a claim to remain a British subject in 1948).
I agree, we need more demos, but the reason they are fewer these days is probably because of people like me; I'm rubbish at games.
I'll explain what I mean, an indie game, World of Goo, came out last year and it had a great demo an I loved it, but I didn't buy the whole product because the demo kept me entertained for ages and I know I'd never finish the whole game if I bought it.
If they hadn't put out a demo, I may well have bought the whole thing as it was DRM free, cheap and from an indie studio and got some of the best reviews I've seen for any game in a long time. Hell I almost feel guilty not paying for the amount of fun I got from the demo.
Basically, for many hundreds ( if not thousands ) of years, the lifespan of our ancestors was a lot shorter than ours and I would say it is reasonable to expect that reproduction would start at the earliest possible opportunity.
I think that you might be on to something there. I remember reading somewhere that the average human lifespan has been 18 (eighteeen) for most of our history. Given that fact, it doesn't make evolutionary sense to wait for your potential mate to reach 16 (or whatever your local age of consent is) before trying to reproduce.
Obviously, now that the average (western) lifespan is much longer, it makes more evolutionary sense to wait until potential mate is older as she's more likely to survive childbirth, and there will be fewer medical complications than if you were to mate as soon as she hit puberty. But evolutionary instincts would\will take a long time to die away completely.
Paper originals of the Magna Carta still exist today.
I doubt it's paper, more likely it is sheepskin parchment or vellum.
Quite possibly, but that's not the point. If it's written down on a physical medium, It'll be readable it until either it's destroyed or our species loses the ability to read. With an electronic copy of a document I can't read that pile of floppies (I don't have a floppy drive let alone the software to read whatever's on them) from under a decade ago, but I can still read books that I've had for much longer than that. Can you tell me that you're sure today's formats will still be supported even 5 years from now? If I buy an ebook, will I still be able to read it in a decade, 2 decades? I have books on my bookshelf that were published before I was born I can guarantee that they will still be readable.
Paper's going nowhere fast. We'll still use it for archival purposes, will your RSS feeds, PDAs and Kindles last a thousand years? Paper originals of the Magna Carta still exist today. If it had been written in an early.doc format I would already have trouble reading it, I can go to the British library to read a copy of the Magna Carta written in 1215.
Reread my post, you totally missed what I wrote. I said I've earned the right to mock the French because I'm British, the reason being that we are traditional enemies, and that friendly banter between the two countries is better than another hundred years war.
Actually, IIRC he already had an MBE, so this Knighthood is an "upgrade". If you look, most sports stars get OBEs or MBEs unless they've actually won something of note (world cup or Olympic God medals etc).
And why does being knighted by the human equivalent of an appendix (the queen) mean anything other than fuck all?
Because she represents the State (note: the honours list actually drawn up by the government), Steve OTOH represents himself. Being recognised by your country means more to most people than having a alcoholic bum compliment you.
Bah. Speak for yourself, peon. I'm a direct descendant of William I, King of England in 1066.:-P
You do realise that being a direct descendant of the Normans makes you French...;p
PS. Unlike one of the posts above I'm British, and therefore have earned the right to make fun of them. Wars lasting more than a century with a nation grants that type of right.
A sad day when a bigoted comment like this is modded up. The American south is home to most of America's black population, and a slur against them is merely a reflection of your [and moderators] tiny-minded ignorance and fear.
When they shoot at light entertainment TV personalities I think that they can be called inbred. Though I note that note of the (self proclaimed) "hicks" in that episode were black.
Canada may have 13 provinces, but their population is smaller than that of California. No reason to go to all that bureaucratic hassle of multiple states.;)
Let's compromise and reduce Canada to 12 states by getting rid of Quebec;p
While you would end up with more electoral seats than California, I'm not sure it would necessarily be a third more.
Yeah, I made up^W^W based that figure solely on population estimates; I have no idea on the intricacies on how you guys really allocate electoral votes other that that I know population is a factor.
With the total number of House seats currently capped at 435, and states guaranteed a certain minimum, the redistricting would be interesting, to say the least.
Seriously, you only have 435 seats to represent 300 million people? The Commons here in the UK will have 650 at the general election, I wish we could reduce the number of our politicians.
I've just thought, between us and Canada we could do a reverse takeover of the USA by adding all those "socialist" (known to the world outside the USA as centre-right) electoral college votes. For example with a population of ~60mn we'd get about a third more votes than California (pop ~40mn)! Hell, that alone would change the face of US politics.
Yes you do except (under certain circumstances) a jury can adversely infer things if you use it. However, no conviction can be wholly based on silence.
In other words, the jury is allowed to think "he's not telling us why he was at the murder scene, he's got something to hide". I expect juries in the USA do this subconsciously (even if they're not meant to). I see no problem with officially codifying the areas where inferences such as these are acceptible.
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Why wouldn't he just pirate the games?
Perhaps because not all of us think copyright infringement is ethical. I don't Pirate games (or anything else for that matter) for this reason.
We all became Citizens in 1983. The only British subjects left are people who were a British subjects on 31 December 1948 who did not become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, a citizen of a Commonwealth country, a citizen of Pakistan, or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland (and had made a claim to remain a British subject in 1948).
Not at all. Get your priorities in line, man. It is MORE important that people survive than that they're free.
It seems that many free people worldwide disagree.
Whereas Eastern thought says "yeah, we knew that all along"???
You could make that argument. Ancient Eastern Understanding of time also contradicts the creationist young earth view.
Disclaimer: I'm a a hindu, although a largely athiestic one.
Wouldn't the police then simply convict innocent people so as to avoid incurring those costs?
The Police don't get to convict anyone, that's the job of the courts.
I agree, we need more demos, but the reason they are fewer these days is probably because of people like me; I'm rubbish at games.
I'll explain what I mean, an indie game, World of Goo, came out last year and it had a great demo an I loved it, but I didn't buy the whole product because the demo kept me entertained for ages and I know I'd never finish the whole game if I bought it.
If they hadn't put out a demo, I may well have bought the whole thing as it was DRM free, cheap and from an indie studio and got some of the best reviews I've seen for any game in a long time. Hell I almost feel guilty not paying for the amount of fun I got from the demo.
If they remove IE what will I use to download Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari so I can then ignore IE? A thumb drive it is then.
You can use command line ftp; here's how to get firefox without IE. I don't think this is practical for your average user, however.
Basically, for many hundreds ( if not thousands ) of years, the lifespan of our ancestors was a lot shorter than ours and I would say it is reasonable to expect that reproduction would start at the earliest possible opportunity.
I think that you might be on to something there. I remember reading somewhere that the average human lifespan has been 18 (eighteeen) for most of our history. Given that fact, it doesn't make evolutionary sense to wait for your potential mate to reach 16 (or whatever your local age of consent is) before trying to reproduce.
Obviously, now that the average (western) lifespan is much longer, it makes more evolutionary sense to wait until potential mate is older as she's more likely to survive childbirth, and there will be fewer medical complications than if you were to mate as soon as she hit puberty. But evolutionary instincts would\will take a long time to die away completely.
Paper originals of the Magna Carta still exist today. I doubt it's paper, more likely it is sheepskin parchment or vellum.
Quite possibly, but that's not the point. If it's written down on a physical medium, It'll be readable it until either it's destroyed or our species loses the ability to read. With an electronic copy of a document I can't read that pile of floppies (I don't have a floppy drive let alone the software to read whatever's on them) from under a decade ago, but I can still read books that I've had for much longer than that. Can you tell me that you're sure today's formats will still be supported even 5 years from now? If I buy an ebook, will I still be able to read it in a decade, 2 decades? I have books on my bookshelf that were published before I was born I can guarantee that they will still be readable.
Paper's going nowhere fast. We'll still use it for archival purposes, will your RSS feeds, PDAs and Kindles last a thousand years? Paper originals of the Magna Carta still exist today. If it had been written in an early .doc format I would already have trouble reading it, I can go to the British library to read a copy of the Magna Carta written in 1215.
Reread my post, you totally missed what I wrote. I said I've earned the right to mock the French because I'm British, the reason being that we are traditional enemies, and that friendly banter between the two countries is better than another hundred years war.
I believe the Knighthood makes him a KBE, not an OBE
/pedant
Actually, IIRC he already had an MBE, so this Knighthood is an "upgrade". If you look, most sports stars get OBEs or MBEs unless they've actually won something of note (world cup or Olympic God medals etc).
And why does being knighted by the human equivalent of an appendix (the queen) mean anything other than fuck all?
Because she represents the State (note: the honours list actually drawn up by the government), Steve OTOH represents himself. Being recognised by your country means more to most people than having a alcoholic bum compliment you.
Bah. Speak for yourself, peon. I'm a direct descendant of William I, King of England in 1066. :-P
You do realise that being a direct descendant of the Normans makes you French... ;p
PS. Unlike one of the posts above I'm British, and therefore have earned the right to make fun of them.
Wars lasting more than a century with a nation grants that type of right.
They'd all be speaking German if it weren't for us,
Actually, the whole of Europe would probably be speaking Russian, but don't let historical facts get in the way of your anti-french tirade.
A sad day when a bigoted comment like this is modded up. The American south is home to most of America's black population, and a slur against them is merely a reflection of your [and moderators] tiny-minded ignorance and fear.
When they shoot at light entertainment TV personalities I think that they can be called inbred. Though I note that note of the (self proclaimed) "hicks" in that episode were black.
Technically, the members are designated MBE, it's the officers that are OBE. He got himself promoted.
Actually IIRC Knighthoods get the postnomials KBE Wikipedia confuses things a bit more...
Hmmm.. That should make her a Damsel me thinks, for a Dame is a lady Lord. Now I'm gender confused for what a Lady knight should be termed.
No, a Dame is the female equivalent to knight. The female equivalent to a Lord is Lady.
Canada may have 13 provinces, but their population is smaller than that of California. No reason to go to all that bureaucratic hassle of multiple states. ;)
Let's compromise and reduce Canada to 12 states by getting rid of Quebec ;p
While you would end up with more electoral seats than California, I'm not sure it would necessarily be a third more.
Yeah, I made up^W^W based that figure solely on population estimates; I have no idea on the intricacies on how you guys really allocate electoral votes other that that I know population is a factor.
With the total number of House seats currently capped at 435, and states guaranteed a certain minimum, the redistricting would be interesting, to say the least.
Seriously, you only have 435 seats to represent 300 million people? The Commons here in the UK will have 650 at the general election, I wish we could reduce the number of our politicians.
It's 1234
Wouldn't Canada be 13 States? Making us the 64th.
I've just thought, between us and Canada we could do a reverse takeover of the USA by adding all those "socialist" (known to the world outside the USA as centre-right) electoral college votes. For example with a population of ~60mn we'd get about a third more votes than California (pop ~40mn)! Hell, that alone would change the face of US politics.
Right, off to campaign for statehood for the UK!!
Yep, we're the unofficial 51st state
Yes you do except (under certain circumstances) a jury can adversely infer things if you use it. However, no conviction can be wholly based on silence.
In other words, the jury is allowed to think "he's not telling us why he was at the murder scene, he's got something to hide". I expect juries in the USA do this subconsciously (even if they're not meant to). I see no problem with officially codifying the areas where inferences such as these are acceptible.
You don't see any rubbish if you subscribe; what you guys get is the leftovers. Us subscribers have taken all the good bits before it gets to you ;p