The actual PSTN might not be needed . . . but the copper to the end user is required for most broadband users. If PSTN goes who will be responsible for maintaining this.
Not only my the person who bought the game used never have bought the game for full price, but the person who bought the game new might not have done so without knowing that he can get some of his money back by selling it to somebody else after a few months.
So used games help the developer (to some degree) by enabling more sales or keeping the price up.
That's certainly the way it works for most car buyers - they buy new and expect to recoup money on the sale or they by second hand. If motor manufacturers fitted a device so that it would be disabled on resale there would be an outcry, and it would probably reduce their sales anyway!
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.
France gets almost 2.5 times the subsidies of the UK. They have slightly less than twice the area of agricultural land that the UK has. It obviously is unfair, but not to the gross level that some people seem to think. After the rebate it is about even.
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.
OK so you are against the EU in general. This probably means that you are happy with the UK relying on the open market for 40% of its food needs. I think that in future as populations increase world wide this will be a disastrous move.
The CAP is badly run, inefficient, but a good idea. The EU are very bad at publicising the true aim of the CAP, which is food security. Most people seem to think it is just some sort of political back-hander to farmers, but the truth is that without it European farmers could not compete on an open market. This would result on reliance on countries in Africa, Asia, etc. for most of our food. When scarcities occur these countries may well impose a cap on exports. China and India have both limited rice exports in the past. Also if countries know that we are dependent on them it becomes a political weapon. It is worth spending some money to ensure that we are not totally reliant on outside sources for food.
Now if they want to save money on inefficiencies in the implementation of the CAP and spend it on science I am 100% behind that, but if they want to rely on the world market for our food supply I think that is a dangerous idea.
Flying cars won't be available to the masses for years, not until they are 100% automatic. Just wait until the first Muslim gets in one and crashes into some capitol building!
A NSA letter, warrant, or any other access granted by the patriot act would by default be authorized by law in the same way that a UK court warrant would be authorized by law.
I don't think it would, the states discussed in the directive refer to European states.
Cloud service in USA as servers in USA or a company with servers in EU founded in USA? Big difference.
Obviously any entity that can be compelled to hand over customer data under the Patriot act. I think that it would cover both, but a company with servers in the EU could probably structure itself to avoid this - you know a wholly owned subsidiary in the EU.
The Safe Harbor scheme essentially boils this down to a simple question for EU companies to ask US providers: "Are you registered under the Safe Harbor scheme?". The Patriot Act may throw a spanner in the works, but I'm not sure it's as much of a problem as it's being made out.
The thing is to be registered a company needs to comply with the seven safe harbour principles. If they cannot (which the patriot act will not allow) they cannot register. If they cease to comply they are no longer registered. If you use a company who says that they meet the criteria and are registered but know that they are not then you are liable for a breech in the DPA.
What it means is that European companies face a fine under the data protection act if they use a cloud service in the USA. I would have thought that it would give the USA more incentive to change the rules than the EU.
I don't think you're going to melt if you can't run the AC or listen to your pop tunes on the radio. LOL. Open the windows, enjoy the breeze.
I drove a car without AC in Houston for a few years.
As a student that was OK, because I didn't care if I smelled like hell and I was young enough to be fine with 100 degree heat in 90% humidity. BTW, there is no "breeze" you can enjoy under those conditions.
But for most people, running without AC is not a real option. And why should it be? I don't begrudge anyone this little and now widespread modern convenience and the reality is that anyone with enough money to buy an electric car for the next few years is NOT going tolerate living without it - even (or perhaps especially) in California where it's mostly in the 70's!
My wife is from Houston and she can remember the days before cars had aircon. She said that in the press office where she worked there was a reason that all the men wore strong cologne, the women copious perfume and they all smoked like chimneys!
Is that apart from Lake Abilene, Lake Alan Henry, Lake Alvarado Park, Lake Amistad, Lake Amon G. Carter, Lake Aquilla, Lake Arlington, Lake Arrowhead, Lake Athens, Lake Austin, Lake Averhoff, Lake B.A. Steinhagen, Lake Balmorhea, Lake Bardwell, Lake Bastrop, Lake Baylor Creek, Lake Belton, Lake Benbrook, Lake Big Creek, Lake Bob Sandlin, Lake Bonham, Lake Bonham State Park, Lake Brady Creek, Lake Brandy Branch, Lake Braunig, Lake Bridgeport, Lake Brownwood, Lake Bryan, Lake Bryson, Lake Buchanan, Lake Buffalo Creek, Lake Buffalo Springs, Lake Caddo, Lake Calaveras, Lake Canyon, Lake Casa Blanca, Lake Cedar Creek, Lake Champion Creek, Lake Choke Canyon, Lake Cisco, Lake Clyde, Lake Coffee Mill, Lake Coleman, Lake Coleto Creek, Lake Colorado City, Lake Conroe, Lake Cooper, Lake Corpus Christi, Lake Crook, Lake Cypress Springs, Lake Daniel, Lake Davy Crockett, Lake Diversion, Lake Dunlap, Lake Eagle Mountain, Lake E. V. Spence, Lake Fairfield, Lake Falcon, Lake Fayette County, Lake Findley (Alice City Lake), Lake Fork, Lake Fort Parker State Park, Lake Fort Phantom Hill, Lake Fryer, Lake Georgetown, Lake Gibbons Creek, Lake Gilmer, Lake Gladewater, Lake Gonzales, Lake Graham, Lake Granbury, Lake Granger, Lake Grapevine, Lake Greenbelt, Lake Halbert, Lake Hawkins, Lake Holbrook, Lake Hords Creek, Lake Houston, Lake Houston County, Lake Hubbard Creek, Lake Inks, Lake Jacksonville, Lake J.B. Thomas, Lake Joe Pool, Lake Kemp, Lake Kickapoo, Lake Kirby, Lake Kurth, Lake Lady Bird (Town Lake, Austin), Lake Lake O' The Pines, Lake Lavon, Lake Leon, Lake Lewisville, Lake Limestone, Lake Livingston, Lake Lone Star, Lake Lost Creek, Lake Lyndon B. Johnson, Lake Mackenzie, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Martin Creek, Lake McClellan, Lake Medina, Lake Meredith, Lake Mexia, Lake Mill Creek, Lake Millers Creek, Lake Mineral Wells, Lake Monticello, Lake Moss, Lake Mountain Creek, Lake Murvaul, Lake Nacogdoches, Lake Nasworthy, Lake Navarro Mills, Lake New Ballinger, Lake Nocona, Lake Oak Creek, Lake O.C. Fisher, Lake O.H. Ivie, Lake Palestine, Lake Palo Duro, Lake Palo Pinto, Lake Pat Cleburne, Lake Pat Mayse, Lake Pinkston, Lake Placid, Lake Possum Kingdom, Lake Proctor, Lake Purtis Creek, Lake Quitman, Lake Raven, Lake Ray Hubbard, Lake Ray Roberts, Lake Red Bluff, Lake Richland-Chambers, Lake Sam Rayburn, Lake Sheldon, Lake Somerville, Lake Squaw Creek, Lake Stamford, Lake Stillhouse Hollow, Lake Striker, Lake Sulphur Springs, Lake Sweetwater, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Texana, Lake Texoma, Lake Timpson, Lake Toledo Bend, Lake Town Lake (now known as Lady Bird Lake), Lake Tradinghouse Creek, Lake Travis, Lake Twin Buttes, Lake Tyler, Lake Waco, Lake Walter E. Long (Decker), Lake Waxahachie, Lake Weatherford, Lake Welsh, Lake White River, Lake White Rock, Lake Whitney, Lake Wichita, Lake Winnsboro, Lake Wood, Lake Worth and Lake Wright Patman?
Murders, rapes, theft for the sake of theft. Realize that your local news is covering a small area, and then multiply it by the number of metro areas world wide.
English people who have not been to the USA might not understand this. I was in Huston and the news was on, running down shootings, car jackings, armed robberies, and so on. I was listenling vaguely, thinking that the USA is a big country so there must be more of that than in the UK. Then they said "and now the news for the rest of the state"! WHat I had thought was for the whole of the USA was just the local news for Houston.
But then you'd have to live in Wakefield or Blackburn...
True enough, but the original poster was talking about prices in Texas... and for those prices he didn't mean Corpus Christi. Wakefield or Blackburn are a good comparison to Huston.
>... Bible stories depict rather graphic violence even though they are intended for presentation to children. Meanwhile we have always restricted the presentation of sexual images,
You really haven't read the Bible, have you?
The Song of Solomon is a pretty good bit of literary erotica.
--
BMO
Incestuous erotic literature at that:
9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;
you have stolen my heart
with one glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.
10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much more pleasing is your love than wine,
and the fragrance of your perfume
more than any spice!
11 Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride;
milk and honey are under your tongue.
Ac does not make them better at killing the enemy. AC actually makes them less effective at killing the enemy. Anyone that claims they can exit a 80 degree low humidity environment and enter a 110 degree environment and are AS EFFECTIVE as they were in the 80 degree environment is a flat out liar.
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The actual PSTN might not be needed . . . but the copper to the end user is required for most broadband users. If PSTN goes who will be responsible for maintaining this.
Not only my the person who bought the game used never have bought the game for full price, but the person who bought the game new might not have done so without knowing that he can get some of his money back by selling it to somebody else after a few months.
So used games help the developer (to some degree) by enabling more sales or keeping the price up.
That's certainly the way it works for most car buyers - they buy new and expect to recoup money on the sale or they by second hand. If motor manufacturers fitted a device so that it would be disabled on resale there would be an outcry, and it would probably reduce their sales anyway!
I tend to agree. Restrictions on online access seem fair. Disabling the whole game for second hand buyers is not.
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.
France gets almost 2.5 times the subsidies of the UK. They have slightly less than twice the area of agricultural land that the UK has. It obviously is unfair, but not to the gross level that some people seem to think. After the rebate it is about even.
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.
OK so you are against the EU in general. This probably means that you are happy with the UK relying on the open market for 40% of its food needs. I think that in future as populations increase world wide this will be a disastrous move.
The CAP is badly run, inefficient, but a good idea. The EU are very bad at publicising the true aim of the CAP, which is food security. Most people seem to think it is just some sort of political back-hander to farmers, but the truth is that without it European farmers could not compete on an open market. This would result on reliance on countries in Africa, Asia, etc. for most of our food. When scarcities occur these countries may well impose a cap on exports. China and India have both limited rice exports in the past. Also if countries know that we are dependent on them it becomes a political weapon. It is worth spending some money to ensure that we are not totally reliant on outside sources for food.
Now if they want to save money on inefficiencies in the implementation of the CAP and spend it on science I am 100% behind that, but if they want to rely on the world market for our food supply I think that is a dangerous idea.
Stunts like this should get lawyers disbarred on the spot.
Stunts like this should get lawyers dismembered on the spot.
And how many court filings have been missed because Microsoft Word ate the pleading?
And how many times has Microsoft been sued for it?
That's not how debating works, you don't just get to ask questions. So, what are the answers? How many times has Microsoft been sued for Word bugs?
(German accent) Vee ask die questions!
I'd say that's normalcy bias.
God I hate that bastardised word. What's wrong with 'normality' ?
Flying cars won't be available to the masses for years, not until they are 100% automatic. Just wait until the first Muslim gets in one and crashes into some capitol building!
A NSA letter, warrant, or any other access granted by the patriot act would by default be authorized by law in the same way that a UK court warrant would be authorized by law.
I don't think it would, the states discussed in the directive refer to European states.
Cloud service in USA as servers in USA or a company with servers in EU founded in USA? Big difference.
Obviously any entity that can be compelled to hand over customer data under the Patriot act. I think that it would cover both, but a company with servers in the EU could probably structure itself to avoid this - you know a wholly owned subsidiary in the EU.
The Safe Harbor scheme essentially boils this down to a simple question for EU companies to ask US providers: "Are you registered under the Safe Harbor scheme?". The Patriot Act may throw a spanner in the works, but I'm not sure it's as much of a problem as it's being made out.
The thing is to be registered a company needs to comply with the seven safe harbour principles. If they cannot (which the patriot act will not allow) they cannot register. If they cease to comply they are no longer registered. If you use a company who says that they meet the criteria and are registered but know that they are not then you are liable for a breech in the DPA.
What it means is that European companies face a fine under the data protection act if they use a cloud service in the USA. I would have thought that it would give the USA more incentive to change the rules than the EU.
Now I remember why I opted out of letting my GP push my medical records to the Big Central Database.
Hopefully, that will still apply here.
Too late. News of your condition has already leaked out onto the web.
I thought the NHS had 61 million users?
Perhaps its talking about the addiction units.
I don't think you're going to melt if you can't run the AC or listen to your pop tunes on the radio. LOL. Open the windows, enjoy the breeze.
I drove a car without AC in Houston for a few years.
As a student that was OK, because I didn't care if I smelled like hell and I was young enough to be fine with 100 degree heat in 90% humidity. BTW, there is no "breeze" you can enjoy under those conditions.
But for most people, running without AC is not a real option. And why should it be? I don't begrudge anyone this little and now widespread modern convenience and the reality is that anyone with enough money to buy an electric car for the next few years is NOT going tolerate living without it - even (or perhaps especially) in California where it's mostly in the 70's!
My wife is from Houston and she can remember the days before cars had aircon. She said that in the press office where she worked there was a reason that all the men wore strong cologne, the women copious perfume and they all smoked like chimneys!
Is that apart from Lake Abilene, Lake Alan Henry, Lake Alvarado Park, Lake Amistad, Lake Amon G. Carter, Lake Aquilla, Lake Arlington, Lake Arrowhead, Lake Athens, Lake Austin, Lake Averhoff, Lake B.A. Steinhagen, Lake Balmorhea, Lake Bardwell, Lake Bastrop, Lake Baylor Creek, Lake Belton, Lake Benbrook, Lake Big Creek, Lake Bob Sandlin, Lake Bonham, Lake Bonham State Park, Lake Brady Creek, Lake Brandy Branch, Lake Braunig, Lake Bridgeport, Lake Brownwood, Lake Bryan, Lake Bryson, Lake Buchanan, Lake Buffalo Creek, Lake Buffalo Springs, Lake Caddo, Lake Calaveras, Lake Canyon, Lake Casa Blanca, Lake Cedar Creek, Lake Champion Creek, Lake Choke Canyon, Lake Cisco, Lake Clyde, Lake Coffee Mill, Lake Coleman, Lake Coleto Creek, Lake Colorado City, Lake Conroe, Lake Cooper, Lake Corpus Christi, Lake Crook, Lake Cypress Springs, Lake Daniel, Lake Davy Crockett, Lake Diversion, Lake Dunlap, Lake Eagle Mountain, Lake E. V. Spence, Lake Fairfield, Lake Falcon, Lake Fayette County, Lake Findley (Alice City Lake), Lake Fork, Lake Fort Parker State Park, Lake Fort Phantom Hill, Lake Fryer, Lake Georgetown, Lake Gibbons Creek, Lake Gilmer, Lake Gladewater, Lake Gonzales, Lake Graham, Lake Granbury, Lake Granger, Lake Grapevine, Lake Greenbelt, Lake Halbert, Lake Hawkins, Lake Holbrook, Lake Hords Creek, Lake Houston, Lake Houston County, Lake Hubbard Creek, Lake Inks, Lake Jacksonville, Lake J.B. Thomas, Lake Joe Pool, Lake Kemp, Lake Kickapoo, Lake Kirby, Lake Kurth, Lake Lady Bird (Town Lake, Austin), Lake Lake O' The Pines, Lake Lavon, Lake Leon, Lake Lewisville, Lake Limestone, Lake Livingston, Lake Lone Star, Lake Lost Creek, Lake Lyndon B. Johnson, Lake Mackenzie, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Martin Creek, Lake McClellan, Lake Medina, Lake Meredith, Lake Mexia, Lake Mill Creek, Lake Millers Creek, Lake Mineral Wells, Lake Monticello, Lake Moss, Lake Mountain Creek, Lake Murvaul, Lake Nacogdoches, Lake Nasworthy, Lake Navarro Mills, Lake New Ballinger, Lake Nocona, Lake Oak Creek, Lake O.C. Fisher, Lake O.H. Ivie, Lake Palestine, Lake Palo Duro, Lake Palo Pinto, Lake Pat Cleburne, Lake Pat Mayse, Lake Pinkston, Lake Placid, Lake Possum Kingdom, Lake Proctor, Lake Purtis Creek, Lake Quitman, Lake Raven, Lake Ray Hubbard, Lake Ray Roberts, Lake Red Bluff, Lake Richland-Chambers, Lake Sam Rayburn, Lake Sheldon, Lake Somerville, Lake Squaw Creek, Lake Stamford, Lake Stillhouse Hollow, Lake Striker, Lake Sulphur Springs, Lake Sweetwater, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Texana, Lake Texoma, Lake Timpson, Lake Toledo Bend, Lake Town Lake (now known as Lady Bird Lake), Lake Tradinghouse Creek, Lake Travis, Lake Twin Buttes, Lake Tyler, Lake Waco, Lake Walter E. Long (Decker), Lake Waxahachie, Lake Weatherford, Lake Welsh, Lake White River, Lake White Rock, Lake Whitney, Lake Wichita, Lake Winnsboro, Lake Wood, Lake Worth and Lake Wright Patman?
Murders, rapes, theft for the sake of theft. Realize that your local news is covering a small area, and then multiply it by the number of metro areas world wide.
English people who have not been to the USA might not understand this. I was in Huston and the news was on, running down shootings, car jackings, armed robberies, and so on. I was listenling vaguely, thinking that the USA is a big country so there must be more of that than in the UK. Then they said "and now the news for the rest of the state"! WHat I had thought was for the whole of the USA was just the local news for Houston.
Or half an estate in Ferndale
I thought you were kidding, but a quick webcheck shows thatit's not much of an exageration
But then you'd have to live in Wakefield or Blackburn...
True enough, but the original poster was talking about prices in Texas ... and for those prices he didn't mean Corpus Christi. Wakefield or Blackburn are a good comparison to Huston.
Who would want to move to America from England to a southern state full of bible bashing racist retards....?
Nick Griffin ... or is that wishful thinking
£240,000 will get you a decent 4 bedroom house in Wakefield", or a 6 bedroom house in Blackburn.
Go somewhere else and fornicate Yours Sincerely UK
Yes, they are so gay.
>... Bible stories depict rather graphic violence even though they are intended for presentation to children. Meanwhile we have always restricted the presentation of sexual images,
You really haven't read the Bible, have you?
The Song of Solomon is a pretty good bit of literary erotica.
-- BMO
Incestuous erotic literature at that:
9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;
you have stolen my heart
with one glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.
10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much more pleasing is your love than wine,
and the fragrance of your perfume
more than any spice!
11 Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride;
milk and honey are under your tongue.
Ac does not make them better at killing the enemy. AC actually makes them less effective at killing the enemy. Anyone that claims they can exit a 80 degree low humidity environment and enter a 110 degree environment and are AS EFFECTIVE as they were in the 80 degree environment is a flat out liar.
Or a Masai Warrior