How about: *Proposal* in UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls?
I guess it depends how cynical you are about the law-making process. Whilst I'm yet to make my mind up on the current government, I can definitely see why some people make the jump to thinking that this is as good as done. It's not as if the previous government particularly cared about our rights after all.
I can't really see the lib-dems voting in favour of this though, their activist base is already sceptical of the deal with the Tories, with some leaving the party or defecting - measures like this will only push them further away and lose them seats at the next election (even if the wider public don't care, the activists need to be there to push the lib-dem message)
The civilian population already have authority over the police - the only reason they are able to police us is because we consent to it; the principle of "policing by consent" is a very important one, at least here in the UK; it's part of the reason why our cops are still unarmed.
I've been following the EU Parliament's recently passed laws, and they DO lean almost as far left as Mao or Lenin.... they support all the other ideas of those two leaders.
So let me get this straight, you have a two party duopoly (both running on near identical platforms) throughout your 50 states and you call the EU parliament with it's well over 100 parties (sitting in 8 groups - one of which is independents) from it's 27 states Leninist and Maoist? Idiot.
Obama is almost as far left as politicians like Mao or Lenin.
Bull. The democrats in the US (including Obama) would be a centre right party if transplanted over either here in the UK or, indeed, almost any EU country. None of our countries are governed by leaders as far left as Mao or Lenin; not even the Scandinavian ones.
Hell, the welfare state in the UK was a product of The Beveridge Report, Obama isn't even as far left as we were in the 1940s, let alone anywhere near Mao or Lenin.
Why is it so hard for industry (default configurations) to move from open or WEP to WPA? Sure, WPA isn't perfect, but it does represent a significant increase in difficulty for hackers.
I use WEP+MAC filtering because I have a really old WiFi card that doesn't handle WPA and no reason to replace it.And to be blunt, that's just fine; it deters the neighbors enough to stop them using my 'net connection. It won't stop a determined hacker, but exactly when is that going to be a problem?
The problem is that PC gaming is dying as online console gaming gains ground.
Most new exciting games are being released for consoles. There are only a few really hot titles for the PC.
I'm only 31, and this is the second decade in which I've heard this claimed.
Indeed. I'm younger (28), and I recall it being said in the '90s, repeated ad nauseam this decade ('00s), and I'm sure someone will repeat it next year making it three decades I've heard it in before I'm even 30.
"Oh, HERE they are! silly buggers, I though you ran away!"
seriously though, stuff like this DOES happen. the UK Government just shut down what, hundreds of websites that they didn't even know they had been paying for?
sprawl != organised.
Indeed, but at least our government was able to shut them down - if a tenth of what I read about the US government is true (admittedly unlikely since most comes from places like/.), the President would have had a political fight on his hands to do the same. Seriously, the more I read about the alternatives, the more I like the Westminster system. Sure it could do with some tweaks (mostly in the way we vote), but in practice it's one of the best ways to run a representative democracy such as the US or UK.
I am led to believe by hollywood that librarians become hot immediately upon undoing their hair (traditionally worn in a bun) and taking off their glasses.
As a male Librarian who based his career choice on this notion - Hollywood unfortunately has this one wrong.
A good scanner would solve all your problems. Digitize everything and recycle the paper. All that paper is useless if no one has access to it. How often do people actually go down into the salt mine to retrieve a book?
The British Library has a copy of the Magna carta from 1215, I saw it on display last year & it was perfectly readable being written on velum. OTOH digitisation has given me a box full of useless floppy disks that I can't read due to the fact that my computer no longer has a floppy drive; there's no point getting a USB floppy as the data on these disks is meant for my dads old Atati ST. I'll stick with the technology that's proven to last a thousand years rather than the one that has failed to last even 30.
Inevitably an uncontrollable fire will break out and wipe out the entire collection, it's just a matter of time.
They should start donating their collection to other libraries around the world, maybe on a loan basis so that each year or two the books can move around the world and more people can get to read them.
You don't want to end up like the Library of Alexandria, what a loss.
Both the British Library and Cambridge University library have similar collections*, if a fire was to break out the only things that would be truly lost would be rare ancient items unique to the Bodlean which will have already been extensively studied, copied and transcribed - just the one-off item would be lost, and there's not much that can be done about that until we invent replicators.
*Like the Bodlean they also receive copies of every book published.
Because technology is fleeting, but paper remains (at least for a few hundred years).
Indeed, the British Library had it's original copy of the Magna Carta on display last year, that was written in 1215 and was still readable*; admittedly it was velum and not paper but the principle is the same.
*it wasn't understandable, modern english but the individual characters were readable even if I didn't understand it.
It happened only because of US involvement requiring Germany to split between two fronts,
I'm sorry, I disagree. In my opinion once Operation Barbarossa failed, Berlin's fate was sealed. US support was far more vital in terms of lend-lease and other indirect help than actual troops on the ground; the final years of the War in Europe were just as much about keeping Western Europe out of Soviet hands as they were about liberating it.
To say WWII would have been won without the US' active involvement is nothing but a wet dream.
You make many good points, but my post was made assuming lend-lease and other other indirect cooperation and help remained the same. The USA could have kept troops out of the Western front. Berlin would have fallen to the Soviets because Hitler made the classic mistake of trying to invade Russia in the winter - The Eastern front was lost when Operation Barbarossa failed. Once the Eastern front had failed, it was only a matter of time before the Soviets beat Hitler, the final years of the war and Allied liberation of Europe were almost as much about keeping Western Europe out of Soviet hands as liberating it. I'm not trying to take anything away from the American war effort - as a Brit, I'm profoundly grateful for it - I'm just pointing out that I think that US troops in Western Europe changed post-war history far more than it changed the direct outcome of WWII.
You are aware the Nazis had their own nuclear program, correct? It was only canceled due to the fall of Berlin -- something the United States did play a part in.
Berlin would have fallen with or without the USA - it was only a question of who it fell too; the Soviets, the Allies or Both (as happened).
Right, I'm sure that once Germany had taken all of Europe and Russia they'd have just sat on their hands contented.
Without US involvement, Germany still wouldn't have taken Europe - much less Russia. It's the Soviets who would have been the big winners and "liberated" Western Europe had the Americans stayed at home. Whether you think that America would have ended up at risk of coming under the rule of tyrants depends on what effect you think that this would have had on the cold war. Perssonally I don't think that even Soviets emboldened by the conquering of Europe would have tried to invade the US after Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
If 4chan is the "first, last, and best lines of defense for freedom" then we're already fucked. Thankfully there are other more conventional measures, like the elections here in May that got rid of ID cards, contact point database, gave us a review of anti-terror legislation & RIPA and the hope of a Great repeal\freedom bill. No 4chan involved, just voters.
And where the legislature has failed, the courts are currently taking a look New types of protest\action are good, but the old ways still work as well.
Radio one wouldn't have him theses days; he'd be placed on 6Music* for being neither bland nor vulgar and mainstream enough.
Remember, this is the station that employs Chris Moyles who some how manages to be both bland and vulgar at the same time.
*Not a dig at 6Music, quite the opposite - thank god the beeb bowed to public pressure to keep 6Music on air, the last bastion of good music on the radio
I realize that it is a proper spelling of the past tense of spell. I'm not allowed to make a joke based on words, but the parent is?
The spelling is a chiefly non-American one, I didn't realise it was a joke and thought (given the number of spelling and grammar nazis on/.) you were genuinely trying to correct him. My Apologies.
What you mean is "the more I accept uncritically the right wing anti-union propaganda spouted on the internet".
No I don't - I'm a union member here in the UK - but I like having the choice; things like the abolition of closed shops and balloting before industrial action are IMO positive things, making unions more accountable to their members. From what I read here (and elsewhere on the web), US unions are less accountable than those in the UK.
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How about: *Proposal* in UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls?
I guess it depends how cynical you are about the law-making process. Whilst I'm yet to make my mind up on the current government, I can definitely see why some people make the jump to thinking that this is as good as done. It's not as if the previous government particularly cared about our rights after all.
I can't really see the lib-dems voting in favour of this though, their activist base is already sceptical of the deal with the Tories, with some leaving the party or defecting - measures like this will only push them further away and lose them seats at the next election (even if the wider public don't care, the activists need to be there to push the lib-dem message)
It's the erosion of authority
The civilian population already have authority over the police - the only reason they are able to police us is because we consent to it; the principle of "policing by consent" is a very important one, at least here in the UK; it's part of the reason why our cops are still unarmed.
>>>UK or, indeed, almost any EU country
I've been following the EU Parliament's recently passed laws, and they DO lean almost as far left as Mao or Lenin. ... they support all the other ideas of those two leaders.
So let me get this straight, you have a two party duopoly (both running on near identical platforms) throughout your 50 states and you call the EU parliament with it's well over 100 parties (sitting in 8 groups - one of which is independents) from it's 27 states Leninist and Maoist? Idiot.
Obama is almost as far left as politicians like Mao or Lenin.
Bull. The democrats in the US (including Obama) would be a centre right party if transplanted over either here in the UK or, indeed, almost any EU country. None of our countries are governed by leaders as far left as Mao or Lenin; not even the Scandinavian ones.
Hell, the welfare state in the UK was a product of The Beveridge Report, Obama isn't even as far left as we were in the 1940s, let alone anywhere near Mao or Lenin.
Why is it so hard for industry (default configurations) to move from open or WEP to WPA? Sure, WPA isn't perfect, but it does represent a significant increase in difficulty for hackers.
I use WEP+MAC filtering because I have a really old WiFi card that doesn't handle WPA and no reason to replace it.And to be blunt, that's just fine; it deters the neighbors enough to stop them using my 'net connection. It won't stop a determined hacker, but exactly when is that going to be a problem?
The problem is that PC gaming is dying as online console gaming gains ground.
Most new exciting games are being released for consoles. There are only a few really hot titles for the PC.
I'm only 31, and this is the second decade in which I've heard this claimed.
Indeed. I'm younger (28), and I recall it being said in the '90s, repeated ad nauseam this decade ('00s), and I'm sure someone will repeat it next year making it three decades I've heard it in before I'm even 30.
"Oh, HERE they are! silly buggers, I though you ran away!" seriously though, stuff like this DOES happen. the UK Government just shut down what, hundreds of websites that they didn't even know they had been paying for? sprawl != organised.
Indeed, but at least our government was able to shut them down - if a tenth of what I read about the US government is true (admittedly unlikely since most comes from places like /.), the President would have had a political fight on his hands to do the same. Seriously, the more I read about the alternatives, the more I like the Westminster system. Sure it could do with some tweaks (mostly in the way we vote), but in practice it's one of the best ways to run a representative democracy such as the US or UK.
I am led to believe by hollywood that librarians become hot immediately upon undoing their hair (traditionally worn in a bun) and taking off their glasses.
As a male Librarian who based his career choice on this notion - Hollywood unfortunately has this one wrong.
Hey! It doesn't work!
Yes it does, all I can see is ******** - they obviously let you see your own password.
Then there's the Terminology Nazi version ...
eradicating people who make terminal mistakes is kind of pointless though...;p
A good scanner would solve all your problems. Digitize everything and recycle the paper. All that paper is useless if no one has access to it. How often do people actually go down into the salt mine to retrieve a book?
The British Library has a copy of the Magna carta from 1215, I saw it on display last year & it was perfectly readable being written on velum. OTOH digitisation has given me a box full of useless floppy disks that I can't read due to the fact that my computer no longer has a floppy drive; there's no point getting a USB floppy as the data on these disks is meant for my dads old Atati ST. I'll stick with the technology that's proven to last a thousand years rather than the one that has failed to last even 30.
Inevitably an uncontrollable fire will break out and wipe out the entire collection, it's just a matter of time.
They should start donating their collection to other libraries around the world, maybe on a loan basis so that each year or two the books can move around the world and more people can get to read them.
You don't want to end up like the Library of Alexandria, what a loss.
Both the British Library and Cambridge University library have similar collections*, if a fire was to break out the only things that would be truly lost would be rare ancient items unique to the Bodlean which will have already been extensively studied, copied and transcribed - just the one-off item would be lost, and there's not much that can be done about that until we invent replicators.
*Like the Bodlean they also receive copies of every book published.
Because technology is fleeting, but paper remains (at least for a few hundred years).
Indeed, the British Library had it's original copy of the Magna Carta on display last year, that was written in 1215 and was still readable*; admittedly it was velum and not paper but the principle is the same.
*it wasn't understandable, modern english but the individual characters were readable even if I didn't understand it.
Israel?
Yes: Here's another Source that indicates Israel: http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=190523
It happened only because of US involvement requiring Germany to split between two fronts,
I'm sorry, I disagree. In my opinion once Operation Barbarossa failed, Berlin's fate was sealed. US support was far more vital in terms of lend-lease and other indirect help than actual troops on the ground; the final years of the War in Europe were just as much about keeping Western Europe out of Soviet hands as they were about liberating it.
To say WWII would have been won without the US' active involvement is nothing but a wet dream.
You make many good points, but my post was made assuming lend-lease and other other indirect cooperation and help remained the same. The USA could have kept troops out of the Western front. Berlin would have fallen to the Soviets because Hitler made the classic mistake of trying to invade Russia in the winter - The Eastern front was lost when Operation Barbarossa failed. Once the Eastern front had failed, it was only a matter of time before the Soviets beat Hitler, the final years of the war and Allied liberation of Europe were almost as much about keeping Western Europe out of Soviet hands as liberating it. I'm not trying to take anything away from the American war effort - as a Brit, I'm profoundly grateful for it - I'm just pointing out that I think that US troops in Western Europe changed post-war history far more than it changed the direct outcome of WWII.
2) We as a society place a much higher value on human life than we do property.
So if someone was trapped in the house, would the Firemen have saved it?
You are aware the Nazis had their own nuclear program, correct? It was only canceled due to the fall of Berlin -- something the United States did play a part in.
Berlin would have fallen with or without the USA - it was only a question of who it fell too; the Soviets, the Allies or Both (as happened).
Right, I'm sure that once Germany had taken all of Europe and Russia they'd have just sat on their hands contented.
Without US involvement, Germany still wouldn't have taken Europe - much less Russia. It's the Soviets who would have been the big winners and "liberated" Western Europe had the Americans stayed at home. Whether you think that America would have ended up at risk of coming under the rule of tyrants depends on what effect you think that this would have had on the cold war. Perssonally I don't think that even Soviets emboldened by the conquering of Europe would have tried to invade the US after Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
If 4chan is the "first, last, and best lines of defense for freedom" then we're already fucked. Thankfully there are other more conventional measures, like the elections here in May that got rid of ID cards, contact point database, gave us a review of anti-terror legislation & RIPA and the hope of a Great repeal\freedom bill. No 4chan involved, just voters.
And where the legislature has failed, the courts are currently taking a look New types of protest\action are good, but the old ways still work as well.
John Peel (RIP) was the exception of course.
Radio one wouldn't have him theses days; he'd be placed on 6Music* for being neither bland nor vulgar and mainstream enough.
Remember, this is the station that employs Chris Moyles who some how manages to be both bland and vulgar at the same time.
*Not a dig at 6Music, quite the opposite - thank god the beeb bowed to public pressure to keep 6Music on air, the last bastion of good music on the radio
Here's a link to the actual paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455
I realize that it is a proper spelling of the past tense of spell. I'm not allowed to make a joke based on words, but the parent is?
The spelling is a chiefly non-American one, I didn't realise it was a joke and thought (given the number of spelling and grammar nazis on /.) you were genuinely trying to correct him. My Apologies.
It's spelt billion.
This article has nothing to do with grains!
That's how us Brits spell "spelled": http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spelt
What you mean is "the more I accept uncritically the right wing anti-union propaganda spouted on the internet".
No I don't - I'm a union member here in the UK - but I like having the choice; things like the abolition of closed shops and balloting before industrial action are IMO positive things, making unions more accountable to their members. From what I read here (and elsewhere on the web), US unions are less accountable than those in the UK.