Yep. Actually I think that having the Bishops in the House of Lords is a good thing: they have very little real power there, but when people claim that there is no "voice of religion" in the debate it's easy to just point at the Lords Spiritual to prove them wrong.
As a result, the fundamentalists have zero power over public policy here in the UK
He's only 37, is Indian but converted from Hindu to catholic a while back, As a Brit, why does his religion even matter?! Here in the UK a person's religion only starts to matter once they start relying on it for political opinion: then it's generally regarded as a "bad thing". In the US it appears you have to be Christian to run for high office, oh and some token Jews are occasionally allowed too. Is my outsiders interpretation correct? If so I'm thankful that UK politics isn't so religiously divisive.
Linux has a great advantage over Windows for startups; it's Price. There's no Capital involved in licensing numerous machines to run Linux, whereas Windows costs £££s.
Unfortunately it also has a big downside, compatibility with everyone else running Windows. If and when we get open standards in place (that MS also supports), then you'll see takeup of Linux not only from startups, but also from businesses looking to reduce costs. It's also the reason that Microsoft will never introduce full standards compatibility until it's forced either by law or until OSS produces a real competitor (c.f. Firefox).
Have you seen written Chinese?
Perhaps you've seen some of the foreign language attempts at putting warning labels in English on their products? Google for it, it's fun. I think the "manual" for my mouse was translated from chinese, amongst the garbled nonsense, it includes these gems (under "Working conditions"):
huge iron screen should not be put between the receiver and the mouse To avoid the interrupt of the receiving wireless signal
optical mouse is adapted to plane of different color and different material, Such as wooden , paper , fabric etc. But not mirror plane in similar with glass, Lubricity colloid, if so,mouse mat is proposal
The caps and the punctuation throughout the manual seem entirely random, and the random spaces around around the commas don't make it any easier to read either. At least the spelling's perfect.
Taxis generally don't have CCTV in them. Yet. I live on the South coast; I've been in more than one taxi with a (or at least what appears to be)CCTV camera in it.
Sir Humphrey is dead. The modern civil servant is no longer independent of government & politics. Under new labour it's become the polar opposite and is now so politicised it may as well be part of the Labour spin machine.
If only for a test case to come up...
That would be amazing - to watch the government tear itself apart between it's love for "think of the children" based antics, and "let's watch every John Smith" CCTV mentality. No, they'd just arrest him & his 16yr old gf for public indecency. I'm not saying that that's the right thing to do, but that's what they would do.
A nude baby is coming out. Can I keep my medical textbooks that happen to have pictures of any children in it? Nudity & pornography are not the same thing. Medical textbooks, and baby photos won't be banned by this law. That's not to say I think it's a good law, on the contrary it's a bad, unworkable one for reasons I've stated elsewhere. But there's no reason to think the police will bust you for having pictures of your baby kids during child birth or even in the bath etc., as they are in no way sexual images.
That's seriously screwed up. I could swear that the sun has had 17yr olds on page 3. Is that illegal now, and if so why didn't the Sun and Rupert Murdoch make a fuss about it?
I'm sure there are heaps of guys out there who watch hentai or other animated pornography which feature underaged girls, rape and whatnot. And I'm sure these same people are sickened when they hear about pedophiles going out there and doing shit to little kids - I'm sure all of them are just as likely to want to beat the crap out of rapists and Michael Jackson, and so on. You see, that's where this law "fails". Hentai artists can just say that their characters are over 16 (age of concent here in the UK), and it magically becomes legal. Lolicon, however you might have a problem (but then I always thought the people who watch lolicon have many problemas anyway...).
I guess what I'm trying to say is that that particular aspect of this law is unenforcable, as there is no way you can establish the age of animated characters other than by asking the artists unless they are very obviously babies\small children as with lolicon type 'art'.
What's to stop the Hentai Artists to just say that their characters are over 16? Indeed, what's to stop any of these artists just saying that their CGI models are over 16?
Which phonetics? I'm okay with "newscaster generic American" because that's the way I speak (with a bit of a Northern Midwest nose in it), but there are entire countries worth of people that may not want to go along with that. Damn colonials, it's the Queen's English that you should be speaking.;p
Seriously you're right, I slip between the aforementioned Received Pronunciation (well almost)and my 'ampshire accent; there's no single standard in spoken English, even in a country as small as us here in the UK there are hundreds of regional accents. Whose would you use for phonetic spellings? It's as if there's an english equivelent of the French Academie francaise
There's no problem in doing that, you just have to fill in a form. Indeed, this is the biggest weakness in the system as we can just clog up the system by submitting lots of forms (do ten 10minute protests on the same day, and that's 10 forms the police have to process; get 10 people to do the same thing...) more here
I think he was talking about the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, it was largely gutted before it was passed. The original version gave very broad powers to ministers effectively allowing rule by decree. I've not read the text of the one that passed, but by all accounts it's much better.
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It's not one I've encountered since I don't routinely open lots of tabs in one go. If no one files a bug, it won't get fixed! And until now no one had. now it's on bugzilla, hopefully it'll be fixed in time for the next release.
Upload all of your data on a web host with SFTP support and lots of bandwidth.
Purge your hard drive.
Be politeness incarnate to the customs officer and get through fast.
Once inside, use any available network at your disposal to download all of your data back.
The downsides? You probably won't be able to work in the airplane, but is it worth it now that the Customs are being so much trouble?
Why not just use a flash drive?
When 250GB can fit in my pocket why bother with the upload\download? Show the customs officer a perfectly normal Windows install on your laptop. And put what you like on the portable drive; including apps or even an OS, not just your data.
Sounds like the man who had a mouse problem, so he got a cat.
Had a cat problem so he got a dog.
Had a dog problem so he got a tiger.
Had a tiger problem, so he got an elephant.
Had an elephant problem, so he got a mouse. I prefer the one about the old woman who swallowed a fly The ending's less recursive...;p
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Yep. Actually I think that having the Bishops in the House of Lords is a good thing: they have very little real power there, but when people claim that there is no "voice of religion" in the debate it's easy to just point at the Lords Spiritual to prove them wrong.
As a result, the fundamentalists have zero power over public policy here in the UK
Linux has a great advantage over Windows for startups; it's Price. There's no Capital involved in licensing numerous machines to run Linux, whereas Windows costs £££s.
Unfortunately it also has a big downside, compatibility with everyone else running Windows. If and when we get open standards in place (that MS also supports), then you'll see takeup of Linux not only from startups, but also from businesses looking to reduce costs. It's also the reason that Microsoft will never introduce full standards compatibility until it's forced either by law or until OSS produces a real competitor (c.f. Firefox).
You don't need a browser to get firefox: ... ;P
Start -> Run -> "ftp" -> "open releases.mozilla.org" etc.
- optical mouse is adapted to plane of different color and different material, Such as wooden , paper , fabric etc. But not mirror plane in similar with glass, Lubricity colloid, if so
,mouse mat is proposal
The caps and the punctuation throughout the manual seem entirely random, and the random spaces around around the commas don't make it any easier to read either. At least the spelling's perfect.Sir Humphrey is dead. The modern civil servant is no longer independent of government & politics. Under new labour it's become the polar opposite and is now so politicised it may as well be part of the Labour spin machine.
That's seriously screwed up. I could swear that the sun has had 17yr olds on page 3. Is that illegal now, and if so why didn't the Sun and Rupert Murdoch make a fuss about it?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that that particular aspect of this law is unenforcable, as there is no way you can establish the age of animated characters other than by asking the artists unless they are very obviously babies\small children as with lolicon type 'art'.
What's to stop the Hentai Artists to just say that their characters are over 16? Indeed, what's to stop any of these artists just saying that their CGI models are over 16?
Seriously you're right, I slip between the aforementioned Received Pronunciation (well almost)and my 'ampshire accent; there's no single standard in spoken English, even in a country as small as us here in the UK there are hundreds of regional accents. Whose would you use for phonetic spellings? It's as if there's an english equivelent of the French Academie francaise
There's no problem in doing that, you just have to fill in a form. Indeed, this is the biggest weakness in the system as we can just clog up the system by submitting lots of forms (do ten 10minute protests on the same day, and that's 10 forms the police have to process; get 10 people to do the same thing...) more here
We have the same thing here in the UK, it's called NHS Direct Their website has a bunch of useful info on it as well.
It does, however, I think it's one of the benefits I get for being a subscriber.
I think he was talking about the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, it was largely gutted before it was passed. The original version gave very broad powers to ministers effectively allowing rule by decree. I've not read the text of the one that passed, but by all accounts it's much better.
The bug was only filed today: /.er)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434180 (and it seems by a
It's not one I've encountered since I don't routinely open lots of tabs in one go. If no one files a bug, it won't get fixed! And until now no one had. now it's on bugzilla, hopefully it'll be fixed in time for the next release.
Sure brain, but where are we going to get a tutu, a dead horse and a swimming pool full of custard at this time of night?
It's been reproduced from a newspaper; tinyurls are good for print media as well as spammers etc.
The downsides? You probably won't be able to work in the airplane, but is it worth it now that the Customs are being so much trouble?
Why not just use a flash drive? When 250GB can fit in my pocket why bother with the upload\download? Show the customs officer a perfectly normal Windows install on your laptop. And put what you like on the portable drive; including apps or even an OS, not just your data.Had a cat problem so he got a dog.
Had a dog problem so he got a tiger.
Had a tiger problem, so he got an elephant.
Had an elephant problem, so he got a mouse. I prefer the one about the old woman who swallowed a fly The ending's less recursive...;p
How about a 40 thousand year old year old shrubbery...
It's the oldest living organism, so it's got the oldest bit of unchanged genetic code, and obviously a lot older than computer code for sure.