I don't know about the GP, but I managed to break the lameness filter by adding /> and <div></div> tags; the lameness filter thinks you're writing somthing normal, but slashcode turns them into html unless you tell it not to, so they end up invisible.
The only reason not to believe it is because our government would never be able to roll it out so quickly, otherwise given the authoratarian and stupid nature of "New" Labour it hits quite close to the mark. Infact some official probably read that and thought "what a good idea".
Unless of course this is about the plumber, in which case I will simply say good day and good luck with those mushrooms.
It's not just about the plumber, the blue hedgehog is making his way onto the revolution as well; I always used to love Sega consoles because of him; a large chunk of the Sega back cvataloge is going to be on the revolution as well. They just need to get some Atari games (like they have with the DS) on board and I'm sold.
No other has a "national identity register" though; ID cards on their own wouldn't be as much of a problem. It's the register, and subsequent centralisation of information that worries me.
Well, the first to be stolen will hopefully be T. Blair; and should his ID be used in some massive fraud scheme, I hope they play the clips of him saying how perfect the system will be at his trial.
I am surprised that on a site like this that there are people arguing for a paper solution.
Paper systems are the hardesrt to defraud; you either need to bribe hundreds, if not thousnds of returning officers or somhow you have to forge large numbers of other peoples votes, many of whom will enter the polling station somtime during the day and demand to know why someone else has already been allowed to cast their vote.
So why not have a seperate ballot paper for each office\question, we do this when local, elections collide with Europian ones for example. They are then sorted and counted. sure it'll take a little longer, but waiting a week instead of a nite so you can have a better system isn't much of a price to pay. I know it's possible because we here can count 10s of millions of ballot papers to elect 100s people to various offices and a most of the counting is complete in under 12 hours(the polls close at 10pm, and nearly all results are in by 10AM the next morning). I can't see why it would take more than a week to make sure of the outcome of all your different ballots via pen and paper. That's a shorter time than many other countries form governments with all the negotiating they need to use in various PR systems
PS You were right; I didn't totally understand, so my previous reply was a bit of a mess: sorry.
My ballot generally includes some forty or fifty choices.
You have 40 or 50 different parties\individuals standing in one constituency for one office? If so, how come you still end up with a two party system; if they are standing for multiple offices, seperate the ballot; put each office or question, as I know some states have referenda, onto a seperate ballot paper. That's what we do here. If local and general elections happen at the same time, we fill in two ballot papers, and put them in seperate boxes.
Or perhaps you should go back to pecnil, paper and a sealed box, like we still use over here in the UK. I trust that system much more that I'd ever trust a voting machine.
On the other hand, if it's held up, you can patent the idea of patenting somthing. That'd screw the system up. Thankfully, living here in the UK, we don't (yet) allow patents of this kind, infact according to the patent office website it's specifically excluded:
"An invention is not patentable if it is:
a discovery;
a scientific theory or mathematical method;
an aesthetic creation such as a literary, dramatic or artistic work;
a scheme or method for performing a mental act, playing a game or doing business;
the presentation of information, or a computer program."
Not really, Australia is probably like us here in the UK (and the rest of Europe, Canada, New Zealand and just about every other Western country I can think of bar the USA) and has a Universal health service; free at the point of use.
You're right, many more people complain about violence than sex or nudity (though oddly GTA is still only recognised by non-gamers because of it's huge sales figures more than it's content); I think that's a big difference between the UK and the US, you seem to worry more about nudity and less about violence, where as we could hardly care less about nudity, but are appalled gratious violence. This latter point is not so much about games, but more about the entertainment industry as a whole; particularly TV and Film (Hollywood in particular; indie films are usually allowed to get away with anything as it's considered art)
The Bush administration has been criticized in the US, not unfairly, for also stressing the WMD concerns above the other reasons for going to war.
At least your government admitted that there were other reasons (i.e. regime change), ours did not; that's the difference. If it had done, it would not still be in power as the majority of British people have more regard to international law, than either the UK or US governments. Most non-slashdotter Americans I've talked to have had the same attitude as their government; but I expect that the true picture is much more complex.
The general impression we got this side of the pond is that many of you Americans rallied around the president and closed ranks when the war started; remember "freedom fries"? I'm not naive enough to think that we got the whole picture, but many did. Personally I thought (and I stand corrected) that it was about 50:50 on your side of the Atlantic. I pesonally would have supported the war if our government had done as yours, and said "we're doing this for reigeme change in Iraq", but the UK government denied this totally, and said the sole reason for the war was WMD; I didn't believe them (and it has becoe clear to me that they outright lied), so have remained pro-war, but anti the New labour government. I even voted for the only major party that was anti-war because they were at least being consistant and honest.
Despite the fact that public nudity is illegal here in the UK, the amount Nintendogs has been advertised here, combined with the fact that no one gave a damn about the GTA hot coffee patch (or even knew what it was), or indeed about nudity in computer games generally (as long as it's given an 18 rating) I think that I'd be probably sectioned by the mental health authorities whatever I screamed.
(Exactly why the market-socialist UK is supporting this I'm not sure).
According to opinion polls most of us Brits didn't support it, it just so happens that our Prime Minister and the US President are closer (on a personal level) than most of us like, indeed Tony Blair has been the subject of parody neumerious times because of it.
I don't know about that, there's nothng wrong with family friendly games per se: look at Nintendo; games like Mariocart, Super Monkey Ball and Nintendogs havn't done too badly.
So what you're saying is that Area 51 exists just to draw attention away from Area 52? We'll just have to check there instead, once we've found it. Or perhaps that's what they want us to think, so continue to do all reseach at Area 51; where better to hide than in plane sight, right? </conspiracy>
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The only reason not to believe it is because our government would never be able to roll it out so quickly, otherwise given the authoratarian and stupid nature of "New" Labour it hits quite close to the mark. Infact some official probably read that and thought "what a good idea".
You forgot to actually tick the post as AC box Mr leuk_he ;)
This being slashdot, I expect somones gone to start coding it already. I know I'd play it; I still love text based games.
Unless of course this is about the plumber, in which case I will simply say good day and good luck with those mushrooms.
It's not just about the plumber, the blue hedgehog is making his way onto the revolution as well; I always used to love Sega consoles because of him; a large chunk of the Sega back cvataloge is going to be on the revolution as well. They just need to get some Atari games (like they have with the DS) on board and I'm sold.
No other has a "national identity register" though; ID cards on their own wouldn't be as much of a problem. It's the register, and subsequent centralisation of information that worries me.
Well, the first to be stolen will hopefully be T. Blair; and should his ID be used in some massive fraud scheme, I hope they play the clips of him saying how perfect the system will be at his trial.
I am surprised that on a site like this that there are people arguing for a paper solution.
Paper systems are the hardesrt to defraud; you either need to bribe hundreds, if not thousnds of returning officers or somhow you have to forge large numbers of other peoples votes, many of whom will enter the polling station somtime during the day and demand to know why someone else has already been allowed to cast their vote.
So why not have a seperate ballot paper for each office\question, we do this when local, elections collide with Europian ones for example. They are then sorted and counted. sure it'll take a little longer, but waiting a week instead of a nite so you can have a better system isn't much of a price to pay. I know it's possible because we here can count 10s of millions of ballot papers to elect 100s people to various offices and a most of the counting is complete in under 12 hours(the polls close at 10pm, and nearly all results are in by 10AM the next morning). I can't see why it would take more than a week to make sure of the outcome of all your different ballots via pen and paper. That's a shorter time than many other countries form governments with all the negotiating they need to use in various PR systems
PS You were right; I didn't totally understand, so my previous reply was a bit of a mess: sorry.
My ballot generally includes some forty or fifty choices.
You have 40 or 50 different parties\individuals standing in one constituency for one office? If so, how come you still end up with a two party system; if they are standing for multiple offices, seperate the ballot; put each office or question, as I know some states have referenda, onto a seperate ballot paper. That's what we do here. If local and general elections happen at the same time, we fill in two ballot papers, and put them in seperate boxes.
Or perhaps you should go back to pecnil, paper and a sealed box, like we still use over here in the UK. I trust that system much more that I'd ever trust a voting machine.
"An invention is not patentable if it is:
Who to side for?? Help me!! :-(
I think two words aught to help you: "root" and "kit". Companies like Immersion arn't exactly nice, but Sony is worse.
Not really, Australia is probably like us here in the UK (and the rest of Europe, Canada, New Zealand and just about every other Western country I can think of bar the USA) and has a Universal health service; free at the point of use.
You're right, many more people complain about violence than sex or nudity (though oddly GTA is still only recognised by non-gamers because of it's huge sales figures more than it's content); I think that's a big difference between the UK and the US, you seem to worry more about nudity and less about violence, where as we could hardly care less about nudity, but are appalled gratious violence. This latter point is not so much about games, but more about the entertainment industry as a whole; particularly TV and Film (Hollywood in particular; indie films are usually allowed to get away with anything as it's considered art)
The Bush administration has been criticized in the US, not unfairly, for also stressing the WMD concerns above the other reasons for going to war.
At least your government admitted that there were other reasons (i.e. regime change), ours did not; that's the difference. If it had done, it would not still be in power as the majority of British people have more regard to international law, than either the UK or US governments. Most non-slashdotter Americans I've talked to have had the same attitude as their government; but I expect that the true picture is much more complex.
The general impression we got this side of the pond is that many of you Americans rallied around the president and closed ranks when the war started; remember "freedom fries"?
I'm not naive enough to think that we got the whole picture, but many did. Personally I thought (and I stand corrected) that it was about 50:50 on your side of the Atlantic. I pesonally would have supported the war if our government had done as yours, and said "we're doing this for reigeme change in Iraq", but the UK government denied this totally, and said the sole reason for the war was WMD; I didn't believe them (and it has becoe clear to me that they outright lied), so have remained pro-war, but anti the New labour government. I even voted for the only major party that was anti-war because they were at least being consistant and honest.
Despite the fact that public nudity is illegal here in the UK, the amount Nintendogs has been advertised here, combined with the fact that no one gave a damn about the GTA hot coffee patch (or even knew what it was), or indeed about nudity in computer games generally (as long as it's given an 18 rating) I think that I'd be probably sectioned by the mental health authorities whatever I screamed.
(Exactly why the market-socialist UK is supporting this I'm not sure).
According to opinion polls most of us Brits didn't support it, it just so happens that our Prime Minister and the US President are closer (on a personal level) than most of us like, indeed Tony Blair has been the subject of parody neumerious times because of it.
I don't know about that, there's nothng wrong with family friendly games per se: look at Nintendo; games like Mariocart, Super Monkey Ball and Nintendogs havn't done too badly.
So what you're saying is that Area 51 exists just to draw attention away from Area 52? We'll just have to check there instead, once we've found it.
Or perhaps that's what they want us to think, so continue to do all reseach at Area 51; where better to hide than in plane sight, right?
</conspiracy>
Probably just means it went operational.
We'll just have to check out Area 51 for strange occurrences to find that out...