Or perhaps he didn't expect slashdot to default to deleting all of the new-lines - having to enter <br> everytime you want a new-line is a bit daft really.
"The SEC exists to set a tough example on corporate governance, and it fines banks heavily for both lax practice and deliberate malpractice.".. I laughed out loud when I read this because the truth is that the SEC is currently there to let financial wrong-doers off the hook and to act as as employment agency for wannabe-wall-streeters.
The BBC is an absolute propaganda tool, it is the best propaganda tool in the world because so many people think it is impartial when it is clearly not.
The BBC glorify war, they glorify soldiers, they deify economy over quality of life.
They always have politicians comment and then for the opposing comment they deliberately pick some member of the public who looks stupid or some other person who is not interview savvy rather than pick someone from a relevant organisation who would give a good argument against the politician or corporate mouth piece.
BBC journalists are often highly opinionated rather than neutral
When the BBC doesn't wish to cover a situation properly, they ask stupid irrelevant questions.
The BBC outright censors - usually war related .
They twist facts. They lie by omission. They lie by suggestion. They lie by insinuation.
I've even seen them character assassinate, not by directly rubbishing the character being assassinated but by interviewing a politician and members of the public who's quotes where all selectively picked to say the politician being rubbished is mad. (this politician had decided the middle east wars were wrong).
The BBC hide stories about war, political moral corruption and corporate wrong doing by burying them in pointless stories about individual people being killed either by accident or by murder and with other pointless fluff pieces about animals, weather, shopping, celebrities etc.
I Personally would like to see the BBC outright scrapped along with the license fee.
There's no such thing as 'good mileage' those goods vehicles spit out pollution and wear out the roads. Longer miles means more vehicle wear which leads to more environmentally destructive vehicle repair. And the 'goods' which are not food - how much of those are produced in an 100% environmentally friendly manner - practically none.
Taxing fuel encourages the use of local food produce and lessens the need for road repairs.
Good point about the GPS jammer, I bet those could be put together for a pittance and hidden where they would take hours or ays to find.
I live in the UK and fully support the fuel tax. I also cycle everywhere within 10-20 miles.
The number of brain cancers have not increased in the general population whilst mobile phone use has exploded, so it's pretty obvious that mobiles aren't causing brain cancer.
Stupid article poster points to a video with 47kbit sound to point out the difference between high quality and low quality, well Duh - that's not going to work is it.
Solar has come a long way in the last couple of years and it looks like it may be about to out-compete most other energy forms, for instance - "The potential of solar power was noted in a recent report by consultants Ernst & Young, which concluded that falling prices could make solar power cost competitive in the UK without subsidy from 2017 onwards." Competitive in cloudy Britain!!!!! If it can be competitive this far north then it can be competitive in most of the world.
At current rates solar will be as cheap as coal power before 2020.
All that's needed is more investment in energy storage technologies and to ramp the scale of these up a bit. (some energy storage is already at over 90% efficiency)
I wish I could invest in Solar, the returns will be very good, as for nuclear investment, ha ha - wouldn't touch that expensive horror show with a barge pole.
Britain doesn't elect it's head of state - the Queen, it also doesn't elect it's Prime Minister - the main party in parliament's leader becomes Prime Minister.
MEPs don't make most of the decisions, the decisions that count are made by the Commission and their and others bureaucrats.
Just because you don't know these "foreign" people, doesn't mean they haven't been elected.
Why are you trying to put racists words in to my mouth, they certainly don't belong there. And what makes you think I'm not one of 'these "foreign" people' as *you* put it.
You can right to your MEP all you like - they don't make the laws so it's a bit futile.
In the UK the laws are chosen by the people we vote for. In the EU they are not.
So to re-cap: 1. MEPs - elected but not much power. 2. European Council, not directly elected. 3. Commission, most powerful, not elected. Looks crap to me.
I agree, UK media sucks bad, I know how the EU works because I went out of my way to find out, Wikipedia was useless - it does not document the workings of EU governance well.
Media doesn't cover the EU because British people are apathetic about real politics much like Americans - they'd rather be talking about football or 'stars in their eyes'. Hundreds of years of political struggle seem to be going down the drain because people are too lazy to think for themselves and have succumbed to the corporate message of greed is good.
I don't like first past the post either, but at least in Britain you can talk to your MP and make a difference.
"no-one has any idea who chooses and writes the laws" is not an argument at all, it is an observation of fact - the fact that Europeans are clueless about how European government works and that can't be good for democracy.
WP?
The European Commission is as democratic as the house of lords. The difference is the house of lords strikes down bad laws whilst the Commission creates them.
Yeah, some serious reading fail going on here today, you'd think 'EU proposal' in the title or 'EU budget' in the first line of the summary would be a hint as to where this story is about.
but the truth is that without it European farmers could not compete on an open market
So why does Britain still have agriculture - we don't get much in subsidies, It's mainly the French who get the lions share of the subsidies - that's the whole reason why Britain gets the big rebate and we all argue about all of this every budget.
I don't support a penny more to the EU - they tried to take over the military and have and extreme military expansionist policy last time they (and who is they?) wrote the so called 'constitution' - constitution my arse, corporate wet dream more like.
EU is a bad idea, it's not democratic, no-one has any idea who chooses and writes the laws, one MEP to millions of people is extremely undemocratic and unrepresentative and allows for corporate lobbyists to have more clout than ordinary citezens. Some laws have even been written in part by corporations on behalf of the unelected Commission who chose the laws. MEPs only get to vote on them and they are snowed under by a Commission with a law writing addiction out of control.
Citizens of Europe don't understand that their local gov'ts only decide on prison sentances and local taxation, everything else is decided by faceless unelected bureaucrats.
1. Real and important emails shouldn't be going in to the spam folder, gmail has done this to me several times. 2. I get 10-20 spam per day, although it does seem to have gone down a bit lately. 3. I see blatant viagra, replica watch and scam etc emails, they don't even try to obfuscate, but gmail still deems it necessary to put these in a spam folder for me to see... why - why not bin these instantly?? 4. My mail.com email does a far far better job with spam.
I understood Homeopathy and didn't believe it would work but went at my parents insistence and was then cured of 2-3 serious headaches a week - I now only get 1-2 mild headaches per year. I still think the method is silly, but hey, if it works then why be bothered about how it works.
To be fair to the operators, PC Pro do seem to have looked hard for each carriers worst option. I say this because my 1gb from Vodaphone costs £15 so £15*40=£600, I've installed ad-block and no-script and the Gig has lasted over a year so far!!! Also the other operators have very similar prices.
Slashdot Mirror
What happens if you lose your phone? - If I lose my visa card, it's hard to use with the chip+pin in UK these days.
Or perhaps he didn't expect slashdot to default to deleting all of the new-lines - having to enter <br> everytime you want a new-line is a bit daft really.
Unlike Europeans who lock their children in a basement and rape them repeatedly or other Europeans who run around shooting people.
That's how racism works, you take an anecdote and apply it to the whole population.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Josef_Fritzl
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1578285/norway-gunman-revisits-scene-of-rampage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10219655
"The SEC exists to set a tough example on corporate governance, and it fines banks heavily for both lax practice and deliberate malpractice.".. I laughed out loud when I read this because the truth is that the SEC is currently there to let financial wrong-doers off the hook and to act as as employment agency for wannabe-wall-streeters.
See this shocking article: (print version)
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout-20110411?print=true
Yeah because the google staff have a long history of committing terrorist attacks, DUH.
The BBC is an absolute propaganda tool, it is the best propaganda tool in the world because so many people think it is impartial when it is clearly not.
The BBC glorify war, they glorify soldiers, they deify economy over quality of life.
They always have politicians comment and then for the opposing comment they deliberately pick some member of the public who looks stupid or some other person who is not interview savvy rather than pick someone from a relevant organisation who would give a good argument against the politician or corporate mouth piece.
BBC journalists are often highly opinionated rather than neutral
When the BBC doesn't wish to cover a situation properly, they ask stupid irrelevant questions.
The BBC outright censors - usually war related .
They twist facts. They lie by omission. They lie by suggestion. They lie by insinuation.
I've even seen them character assassinate, not by directly rubbishing the character being assassinated but by interviewing a politician and members of the public who's quotes where all selectively picked to say the politician being rubbished is mad. (this politician had decided the middle east wars were wrong).
The BBC hide stories about war, political moral corruption and corporate wrong doing by burying them in pointless stories about individual people being killed either by accident or by murder and with other pointless fluff pieces about animals, weather, shopping, celebrities etc.
I Personally would like to see the BBC outright scrapped along with the license fee.
But wait, here's some important news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14606654
I've got a great idea for saving money and lives.
STOP INVADING OTHER COUNTRIES.
No, we don't need companies battling things out in court. We need to change the laws so that routes for scams like this are eliminated wholesale.
OK, so what's your solution, armchair philosopher?
1) His solution is to change the law.
2) He's not philosophising
3) What do you expect - people sky-dive whilst philosophising?
So what are the police going to do if it rains heavily, arrest god?
There's no such thing as 'good mileage' those goods vehicles spit out pollution and wear out the roads. Longer miles means more vehicle wear which leads to more environmentally destructive vehicle repair. And the 'goods' which are not food - how much of those are produced in an 100% environmentally friendly manner - practically none.
Taxing fuel encourages the use of local food produce and lessens the need for road repairs.
Good point about the GPS jammer, I bet those could be put together for a pittance and hidden where they would take hours or ays to find.
I live in the UK and fully support the fuel tax. I also cycle everywhere within 10-20 miles.
Next thing, you'll, be saying, there are, too many,,,, commas.
The number of brain cancers have not increased in the general population whilst mobile phone use has exploded, so it's pretty obvious that mobiles aren't causing brain cancer.
Stupid article poster points to a video with 47kbit sound to point out the difference between high quality and low quality, well Duh - that's not going to work is it.
ZZZzzzz... Wake me up when a quadriplegic helps a robot scratch an itch...zzzzzzzz
Solar has come a long way in the last couple of years and it looks like it may be about to out-compete most other energy forms, for instance - "The potential of solar power was noted in a recent report by consultants Ernst & Young, which concluded that falling prices could make solar power cost competitive in the UK without subsidy from 2017 onwards." Competitive in cloudy Britain!!!!! If it can be competitive this far north then it can be competitive in most of the world.
Sources:
http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/policy/i/4275/
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/07/anatomy-of-a-solar-pv-system-how-to-continue-ferocious-cost-reductions-for-solar-electricity
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=solar+power+competitive&btnmeta_news_search=Search+News
At current rates solar will be as cheap as coal power before 2020.
All that's needed is more investment in energy storage technologies and to ramp the scale of these up a bit. (some energy storage is already at over 90% efficiency)
I wish I could invest in Solar, the returns will be very good, as for nuclear investment, ha ha - wouldn't touch that expensive horror show with a barge pole.
write not right, oops
Britain doesn't elect it's head of state - the Queen, it also doesn't elect it's Prime Minister - the main party in parliament's leader becomes Prime Minister.
MEPs don't make most of the decisions, the decisions that count are made by the Commission and their and others bureaucrats.
Just because you don't know these "foreign" people, doesn't mean they haven't been elected.
Why are you trying to put racists words in to my mouth, they certainly don't belong there. And what makes you think I'm not one of 'these "foreign" people' as *you* put it.
You can right to your MEP all you like - they don't make the laws so it's a bit futile.
In the UK the laws are chosen by the people we vote for.
In the EU they are not.
So to re-cap:
1. MEPs - elected but not much power.
2. European Council, not directly elected.
3. Commission, most powerful, not elected.
Looks crap to me.
How would you know?
I agree, UK media sucks bad, I know how the EU works because I went out of my way to find out, Wikipedia was useless - it does not document the workings of EU governance well.
Media doesn't cover the EU because British people are apathetic about real politics much like Americans - they'd rather be talking about football or 'stars in their eyes'. Hundreds of years of political struggle seem to be going down the drain because people are too lazy to think for themselves and have succumbed to the corporate message of greed is good.
http://ec.europa.eu/atwork/basicfacts/index_en.htm#leg
I don't like first past the post either, but at least in Britain you can talk to your MP and make a difference.
"no-one has any idea who chooses and writes the laws" is not an argument at all, it is an observation of fact - the fact that Europeans are clueless about how European government works and that can't be good for democracy.
WP?
The European Commission is as democratic as the house of lords. The difference is the house of lords strikes down bad laws whilst the Commission creates them.
Yeah, some serious reading fail going on here today, you'd think 'EU proposal' in the title or 'EU budget' in the first line of the summary would be a hint as to where this story is about.
The EU has a republican party?!?! I must of missed that. Stupid mods.
but the truth is that without it European farmers could not compete on an open market
So why does Britain still have agriculture - we don't get much in subsidies, It's mainly the French who get the lions share of the subsidies - that's the whole reason why Britain gets the big rebate and we all argue about all of this every budget.
I don't support a penny more to the EU - they tried to take over the military and have and extreme military expansionist policy last time they (and who is they?) wrote the so called 'constitution' - constitution my arse, corporate wet dream more like.
EU is a bad idea, it's not democratic, no-one has any idea who chooses and writes the laws, one MEP to millions of people is extremely undemocratic and unrepresentative and allows for corporate lobbyists to have more clout than ordinary citezens. Some laws have even been written in part by corporations on behalf of the unelected Commission who chose the laws. MEPs only get to vote on them and they are snowed under by a Commission with a law writing addiction out of control.
Citizens of Europe don't understand that their local gov'ts only decide on prison sentances and local taxation, everything else is decided by faceless unelected bureaucrats.
1. Real and important emails shouldn't be going in to the spam folder, gmail has done this to me several times.
2. I get 10-20 spam per day, although it does seem to have gone down a bit lately.
3. I see blatant viagra, replica watch and scam etc emails, they don't even try to obfuscate, but gmail still deems it necessary to put these in a spam folder for me to see... why - why not bin these instantly??
4. My mail.com email does a far far better job with spam.
If a Placebo works well then why knock it.
I understood Homeopathy and didn't believe it would work but went at my parents insistence and was then cured of 2-3 serious headaches a week - I now only get 1-2 mild headaches per year. I still think the method is silly, but hey, if it works then why be bothered about how it works.
To be fair to the operators, PC Pro do seem to have looked hard for each carriers worst option. I say this because my 1gb from Vodaphone costs £15 so £15*40=£600, I've installed ad-block and no-script and the Gig has lasted over a year so far!!! Also the other operators have very similar prices.