We have politicians of various types who would identify themselves as Christian. I can't even say if there are more conservatives than socialists. Tony Blair famously decided to keep quiet about his beliefs until he had finished politics because he didn't want people to think he is "a nutter". I already felt he was that. We don't seem to favour them because of their religion. It's just not relevant. The idea is to consider what they do or will do, not what they are or what they did.
Just a couple of years ago, I heard that the Democratic party has shared ideas and brains with our Conservative party . Apparently, their ideas on many things are pretty similar..
The UK Conservative party is the most right-wing but mainstream political party in western Europe. They have a very hard time finding anyone else in Europe to talk to who has not been identified as either some sort of nut, or is so insignificant as to make the conversation pointless.
I am not a Conservative despite being the product of what you would call a private school. Neither am I a supporter of the Labour party. I am somewhere in between. This is how I understand the word "liberal" - open minded and generous (I hope I am anyway).
fundamentalism is almost non-existent
Christian fundamentalists here just do not like the word as people associate it with fundamentalists in the USA. There are plenty. They are just very different from yours.
Their politics are often middle of the road or slightly left-of-centre but this stance is seen as screaming Marxist if you regard your democrats as left of centre. A lot of them are pacifists, some are even Conscientious Objectors and a large amount of them were very unhappy about the illegal invasion of Iraq - but that fits in with the population as a whole. There may be a few around that are completely anti-military but I don't know anyone like that.
Any leader that tried to tell their members who to vote for would be asking for trouble. It may be OK in the USA but I imagine there is a law against that here in the UK. I have heard plenty tell people to look carefully and that they ought to vote for people who they think will do the right thing etc.
an agreement to legitimise
In other words, they were already doing it. The idea was to stop them breaking the law without stopping them doing what they were doing.
This proves that US companies are unsuitable for having any contact with my data but, as others have said, it pre-dates the "Patriot Act". The difference is that US citizens now have bigger penalties for not doing it. Previously it used to be just your disregard for my privacy in favour of your bottom line.
If they cannot deal with me by email, I would look on this as evidence that they are not competent to supply an IT department. If they want my business, they need to catch up with the century. There are plenty others who do want my money...
the government has no business deciding what you should study
I think, if I was in government I might say something like, you can study what you want but not in any university that gets any funding from here.
Unemployment is a good thing, a sign of economic progress
A general definition of progress is things get better. Having unemployed people around me does not benefit me even if I have a job. It depresses my wage and increases my tax burden - assuming I am in a civilised country.
Unemployment is a sign of economic failure and mismanagement. The level of unemployment shows the level of them.
In the UK, like most places that speak English, we have fibre. "Fiber" is a childish misspelling of an old word meaning liar.
One possible reason that most people are not snapping up super-fast broadband is that they do not see the benefit of it.I have a couple of teenagers in the house so I do, but most people don't do much that requires even 20Mbits/sec.
I do want to be able to go to whatever website I want to, when I want to. I do not consider it satisfactory that some sociopath in a suit tells me what I can do - even if I have no wish to do any different.
If that does not sound coherent, let me try and rephrase it.
I will decide what my computer is capable of doing. Any organisation that treats the general public as criminals is not an organisation that I want to have any controlling influence upon me.
I suspect that it would require something like Tor to get around this. I have thought about installing this in the past. I just never got round to it. I just think that the more encrypted traffic on the internet there is, the unhappier that bunch of crooks may feel.
I wonder if someone will get it running on the Raspberry Pi.
No. The large international corporations, particularly the financial ones, are the thieves. The government is simply an obedient servant.
I wouldn't call them a slave though. They are family and they do get benefits out of their obedience.
Who does an old defunct satellite belong to? I suspect that it still belongs to whoever put it up there, or their executors, whoever bought the company etc.
And who is authorised to say that something is defunct anyway? Imagine such phrases as "We left it dormant for future needs." and "We were keeping it until we could go up ourselves, collect it, bring it back and repair it."
Scientists and engineers may have worked out the economics of doing this, but have they included that nasty concept of Corporate Lawyers?
As a corporate user, I get someone in the UK to talk to for PC problems. They seem to know their stuff and generally seem quite happy to admit that I know mine. The quality of their English is about as good as you will get. They are in central Scotland which is much easier to understand than most of urban England. I know at least one of them has a degree because we compared university courses while we waited for a test to complete.
Once or twice, I have ended up on the Dell Home stuff. It got me through to India. They seemed to be very bound to their scripts and when I mentioned things that I had done that the script only mentioned further on, they asked me to do them when they got to that line - try a different lead / swop HDDs with a working PC / and so on. They are certainly doing better work in English than I could do in someone else's language but I find Glaswegians easier.
My son has had a phone since he went to secondary school at 11. He knew, right from the start, that he needed to turn it off during lessons. he saw that people who didn't would get them confiscated.
Why did he have one? At that age, he was old enough to go and play football in the park (a mile away) with his friends. This made it possible for him as we could call him when necessary - meals, homework, bedtime, Doctor Who etc.He could contact his friends and have a social life as well as phone us to say he had a puncture or would like to do something else. We could always say no - but at least he was asking.
To those who suggest putting a GPS tag on your child. That is what we do to criminals. Being a child is not a crime and does not deserve such treatment. As for the type of phone.I would suggest a basic 'dumbphone' for a couple of years and a cheaper Android from about 13. My son got a Samsung Galaxy at 15. Do not ever give them an iPhone. Younger kids will be bullying/theft targets. It will encourage superficiality in older ones.
Google+ has it - if you use Chrome and add the extension. It works well. At least, it turns stuff I do not understand into comprehensible content. I used it on some Chinese characters a little while ago and something I couldn't even identify yesterday. In both cases, it may noy have been perfect grammar but, it made sense and fitted in with the rest of the discussion.
As long as someone does not try and assert a patent here, this is good.
It will not get in the tabloids because lack of fear does not sell newspapers.
It will not get in most of the adult newspapers because it win't fit the editorial stance that is either anti-technology because "green is good" or anti state control because they are so right wing they could only be seen as mainstream in the USA. Few people really want nuclear power run like Monty Burns one...
This does not leave many other sources of information that "normal" people (not like the/. crowd) will hear.
Do you honestly think they will give a s**t about that? The BSA is a criminal bully in the traditional style that dates back to the dark ages (google "Danegeld"). If you are guilty and can pay, they will get money, If you are innocent but go bust, you will be an encouragement to future victims.
If you shut down now, they will still go for you.
They are paying Microsoft money following the blackmail claims that they were using (undisclosed) IP. This money is then used to blackmail other companies. That is why in many places paying protection money etc is against the law. It funds further such activity.
Of course, if MS actually revealed what this IP is, people would then have the option to stop using it, or fighting the claim in the courts. Without that revelation, anyone who pays up are committing a criminal act. Except that that particular sort of blackmail seems to be more legal than when some smaller firm like the local criminals do it.
I will only buy one if they stop paying criminal blackmailers, Perhaps others do not want any of their cash being redirected towards protection rackets...
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Just don't let it be used by the traffic police!
We have politicians of various types who would identify themselves as Christian. I can't even say if there are more conservatives than socialists. Tony Blair famously decided to keep quiet about his beliefs until he had finished politics because he didn't want people to think he is "a nutter". I already felt he was that. We don't seem to favour them because of their religion. It's just not relevant. The idea is to consider what they do or will do, not what they are or what they did.
Just a couple of years ago, I heard that the Democratic party has shared ideas and brains with our Conservative party . Apparently, their ideas on many things are pretty similar..
The UK Conservative party is the most right-wing but mainstream political party in western Europe. They have a very hard time finding anyone else in Europe to talk to who has not been identified as either some sort of nut, or is so insignificant as to make the conversation pointless.
I am not a Conservative despite being the product of what you would call a private school. Neither am I a supporter of the Labour party. I am somewhere in between. This is how I understand the word "liberal" - open minded and generous (I hope I am anyway).
fundamentalism is almost non-existent
Christian fundamentalists here just do not like the word as people associate it with fundamentalists in the USA. There are plenty. They are just very different from yours.
Their politics are often middle of the road or slightly left-of-centre but this stance is seen as screaming Marxist if you regard your democrats as left of centre. A lot of them are pacifists, some are even Conscientious Objectors and a large amount of them were very unhappy about the illegal invasion of Iraq - but that fits in with the population as a whole. There may be a few around that are completely anti-military but I don't know anyone like that.
Any leader that tried to tell their members who to vote for would be asking for trouble. It may be OK in the USA but I imagine there is a law against that here in the UK. I have heard plenty tell people to look carefully and that they ought to vote for people who they think will do the right thing etc.
an agreement to legitimise
In other words, they were already doing it. The idea was to stop them breaking the law without stopping them doing what they were doing.
This proves that US companies are unsuitable for having any contact with my data but, as others have said, it pre-dates the "Patriot Act". The difference is that US citizens now have bigger penalties for not doing it. Previously it used to be just your disregard for my privacy in favour of your bottom line.
If they cannot deal with me by email, I would look on this as evidence that they are not competent to supply an IT department. If they want my business, they need to catch up with the century. There are plenty others who do want my money...
Several potential suppliers have lost my business by not doing email. I work in IT and they try to get me to use a fax???
They never tried socialism. But neither have many other people.
the government has no business deciding what you should study
I think, if I was in government I might say something like, you can study what you want but not in any university that gets any funding from here.
Unemployment is a good thing, a sign of economic progress
A general definition of progress is things get better. Having unemployed people around me does not benefit me even if I have a job. It depresses my wage and increases my tax burden - assuming I am in a civilised country.
Unemployment is a sign of economic failure and mismanagement. The level of unemployment shows the level of them.
In the UK, like most places that speak English, we have fibre. "Fiber" is a childish misspelling of an old word meaning liar.
One possible reason that most people are not snapping up super-fast broadband is that they do not see the benefit of it.I have a couple of teenagers in the house so I do, but most people don't do much that requires even 20Mbits/sec.
I do want to be able to go to whatever website I want to, when I want to. I do not consider it satisfactory that some sociopath in a suit tells me what I can do - even if I have no wish to do any different.
If that does not sound coherent, let me try and rephrase it.
I will decide what my computer is capable of doing. Any organisation that treats the general public as criminals is not an organisation that I want to have any controlling influence upon me.
I suspect that it would require something like Tor to get around this. I have thought about installing this in the past. I just never got round to it. I just think that the more encrypted traffic on the internet there is, the unhappier that bunch of crooks may feel.
I wonder if someone will get it running on the Raspberry Pi.
was a chemist. Not a good advert for them was she?
No. The large international corporations, particularly the financial ones, are the thieves. The government is simply an obedient servant.
I wouldn't call them a slave though. They are family and they do get benefits out of their obedience.
Who does an old defunct satellite belong to? I suspect that it still belongs to whoever put it up there, or their executors, whoever bought the company etc.
And who is authorised to say that something is defunct anyway? Imagine such phrases as "We left it dormant for future needs." and "We were keeping it until we could go up ourselves, collect it, bring it back and repair it."
Scientists and engineers may have worked out the economics of doing this, but have they included that nasty concept of Corporate Lawyers?
As a corporate user, I get someone in the UK to talk to for PC problems. They seem to know their stuff and generally seem quite happy to admit that I know mine. The quality of their English is about as good as you will get. They are in central Scotland which is much easier to understand than most of urban England. I know at least one of them has a degree because we compared university courses while we waited for a test to complete.
Once or twice, I have ended up on the Dell Home stuff. It got me through to India. They seemed to be very bound to their scripts and when I mentioned things that I had done that the script only mentioned further on, they asked me to do them when they got to that line - try a different lead / swop HDDs with a working PC / and so on. They are certainly doing better work in English than I could do in someone else's language but I find Glaswegians easier.
My son has had a phone since he went to secondary school at 11. He knew, right from the start, that he needed to turn it off during lessons. he saw that people who didn't would get them confiscated.
Why did he have one? At that age, he was old enough to go and play football in the park (a mile away) with his friends. This made it possible for him as we could call him when necessary - meals, homework, bedtime, Doctor Who etc.He could contact his friends and have a social life as well as phone us to say he had a puncture or would like to do something else. We could always say no - but at least he was asking.
To those who suggest putting a GPS tag on your child. That is what we do to criminals. Being a child is not a crime and does not deserve such treatment.
As for the type of phone.I would suggest a basic 'dumbphone' for a couple of years and a cheaper Android from about 13. My son got a Samsung Galaxy at 15. Do not ever give them an iPhone. Younger kids will be bullying/theft targets. It will encourage superficiality in older ones.
I presume you are trying to 'correct' my usage from "try and" to "try to".
Often try and is interchangeable with try to, but there are some contexts in which try and implies success.
I am quite content with my usage, Thank you for your suggestion.
What looks wrong with that?
I came to /. from there it was working fine. Not hacked or slashdotted. (Using OpenDNS)
Google+ has it - if you use Chrome and add the extension. It works well. At least, it turns stuff I do not understand into comprehensible content. I used it on some Chinese characters a little while ago and something I couldn't even identify yesterday. In both cases, it may noy have been perfect grammar but, it made sense and fitted in with the rest of the discussion.
As long as someone does not try and assert a patent here, this is good.
BBs are actually quite popular amongst the young here in the UK. It is the BB messenger that seems to be the driving force too.
It will not get in the tabloids because lack of fear does not sell newspapers.
It will not get in most of the adult newspapers because it win't fit the editorial stance that is either anti-technology because "green is good" or anti state control because they are so right wing they could only be seen as mainstream in the USA. Few people really want nuclear power run like Monty Burns one...
This does not leave many other sources of information that "normal" people (not like the /. crowd) will hear.
I did that in (UK)primary school history - a long time ago. It just stuck in there until required.
Do you honestly think they will give a s**t about that? The BSA is a criminal bully in the traditional style that dates back to the dark ages (google "Danegeld"). If you are guilty and can pay, they will get money, If you are innocent but go bust, you will be an encouragement to future victims.
If you shut down now, they will still go for you.
Get a lawyer.
They are paying Microsoft money following the blackmail claims that they were using (undisclosed) IP. This money is then used to blackmail other companies. That is why in many places paying protection money etc is against the law. It funds further such activity.
Of course, if MS actually revealed what this IP is, people would then have the option to stop using it, or fighting the claim in the courts. Without that revelation, anyone who pays up are committing a criminal act. Except that that particular sort of blackmail seems to be more legal than when some smaller firm like the local criminals do it.
I will only buy one if they stop paying criminal blackmailers, Perhaps others do not want any of their cash being redirected towards protection rackets...
Google removes any Imaginary Property from the Android released to the manufacturers and then makes it available in the Marketplace..
I wouldn't advise anyone to bet any money on them doing this though...