I've cancelled direct debits and my contract. Vote with my feet - if they want to be fool enough to sue me for the loss of the contract then they can expect to get countersued for the cost of credit monitoring. Until people start slapping the companies hard by refusing to do business with them this will carry on the UK data protection *laws* are good, but the *penalties* are worthless as a deterrent.
It seems they siphoning off millions records. They dont leave the building scribbled down on bits of paper - there is a whole question of access here and how so many people could take this much data for long undetected.
Innocent until proven guilt has been around for a long time - in fact the right to it in English Common Law and by extent in US law descends from the same place - the meadow in Runnymede in 1215AD where King John impressed his seal onto and issued Magna Carta..
"NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right"
Not quite. More towers equates to smaller cells, which equates to less power needed from the handhelds.
By redcuing power output you obviously reduce range. As long as you are within reach of the cell tower that doesnt matter, what it does do though is reduce the noise level and hence the interference.
You bother because there is a lot of unused bandwidth there that you can shove a signal up - and the record distance is something like 50km. Certainly for small cell sizes in cities it's eminiently feasible to run this sort of frequency, it just sadly needs a lot more infrastructure investment.
Mens rea must still be demonstrated however, at least under English common law. Murder was defined very recently as requireing "malice aforethought" and if you intended "only" to do for example grevious harm but killed them by mistake, it was still murder. Intent is important in every crime unless it;s one fo the number of low level crimes of strict liability such as speeding where there is no requirement to prove mens rea.
Almost... Burglary does require mens rea but you do not have to break - you merely have to enter. Trespassing into a staff only section of a shop merely by walking behind the till and removing goods is sufficient to prove burglary - there doesn't have to be any force, merely sufficent entry.
In the case of someone walking in and leaving a note on the table there would be no mens rea proving intent to burgle so you wouldnt get a s9 conviction.
The UK is a small enough place - i'd have expected that to have made news.google.co.uk in some form....
Hoping he is OK though regardless of what happened.
I don't know about any other system but in the UK you would find it very difficult to stuff a ballot box and get away with it. We rely on the party faithful keeping a very beady and possessive eye on all the ballot boxes and watching the entire count very cloesly - as long as all the parties have people watching it's effectivly impossible to stuff ballot boxes, tamper with votes etc at the point of voting or afterwards.
Now creating extra voters from people who are conveniently dead or from filling in peoples postal votes is easy and that's where almost all of the fraud in UK voting takes place. I must confess I've never seen the desire for electronic voting in any form - the UK can count accuratly the entire countries vote in one night for 650+ candidates and have it on the news the next morning unless the result is going to eb very close.
And if anyone complains, we can count it again. And again... and again........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_by-election,_1997
We still have the lawyers to sniff about though!
We already have an Enabling Act in place. The Civil Contingencies Act enables the current parliment to suspend business and amend ANY act of Parliement by bypassing the Crown entirely - they do it on their own bat. The Conservatives and LibDems tried to get certain acts exempted but they can still in theory suspend habeus corpus, they can boot out MP's they dont like, Lords they don't like, in fact anything apart from override the HRA.
The ultimate safeguard is that the armed forces swear allegiance to the Queen, but we'd have to have a civil war to settle it properly if the Govt decided to get arsey.
"Citizenship of the Union is hereby established. Every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall complement and not replace national citizenship."
>In fact, I can't really see much difference. Can you?
Ah the cry of the fanboy...
We appear to be more polite and not to resort to anonymous ad homeniem attacks.
And we have our facts right, mainly from actually living here and doing all that. As I said above I like the American people and dont feel the need to call them names. I'll make an exception in your case if you wish since you appear to have big issues with EU "fanboys"
That's because you were using aircraft and were staying in some countries that require that even of their own nationals (France being one of them). Britain is not part of Schengen, mainly to allow border controls to implement rabies controls, but once I am in Europe on the ground there is zero monitoring. For example I could leave my house to a friends place in Germany - there is a security check on the Tunnel where they look at your passport (not even a scan) and video the underside of the car looking for bombs.
Off the tunnel and I cross the French Belgium border at 120kph, the Belgian-Dutch border at the same speed, and into Germany considerably faster. I literally dont stop the car until I arrive 200 yards from her house at a roundabout.
I've been asked many times to deposit a passport in the hotel safe, but they never record details, and I never give it to them and they are just fine with that. France wants to know what your name is, and home address but that's all.
No cameras, no checks, nothing nada.
>Which means bringing a passport.
No. I've been from Spain to Italy by road with nothing more than a driving licence, and that involved a trip into Switzerland as well
>>Nothing recorded, nothing logged, no database of my movements, nothing.
>You think?
Yes. Show me where I am recorded then when I walk by foot across the French/German border, through the Ardennes forest, along a mountain ridge road into Italy - there simply is none.
>>Admittedly I am a dual national like all EU members are
>Bzzz, wrong. Thanks for playing, try again.
Try reading the Maastrict Treaty then - all nationals are alos nationals of the EU as a soverign entity.
but the benefits to travel, employment opportunity, tourism etc are immense. To deliberatly restrict such momement does seem somewhat backwards that's all.
>Hence why EU wants to impose US-like border arrangements with fingerprint sampling etc.
Citation? Within EU? Schengen?
>Of course, USA has it better here, they don't need a passport to travel to a different state.
Last I heard a state was not a country, despite the protesttions of some of them.
Umm, yes. Frankfurt placed a bag on Pan AM 103 which made an unscheduled landing in southern Scotland once.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
Airport security is good and necessary but there are ways to go about it and make it not pleasant, but as little a chore as is possible.
I can travel around the entirety of Europe without needing anything like this, just show ID. Nothing recorded, nothing logged, no database of my movements, nothing. Admittedly I am a dual national like all EU members are but the benefits to travel, employment opportunity, tourism etc are immense. To deliberatly restrict such momement does seem somewhat backwards that's all.
..especially as I find the American people on the whole some of the most freindly welcoming and interesting people to visit. Sadly however I simply cannot stomach the attitudes and actions of their Govt.
I made up my mind never to visit again after a 5 hour wait in Dulles to get through immigration, and was greeted by the most pig ignorant downright hostile group of people I've ever met at the DHS/TSA desk or whatever.
You want my fingerprints, you want my details, sorry. Convict me of a crime first. Wanting to visit and spend my dollars in your country is not a crime I'm afraid - I'll go visit Canada instead.
This is what we do in the UK - your licence expires at 70. You can get it back if you reapply - but only for three years each time. There is also checking done with your GP to be certain you are still fit to drive.
Of course you could just do what our wonderful country did for the London Olympics.
Oops. That's maybe an offence. I'm not registered to actually write that.....
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2006/ukpga_20060012_en_7#sch3 - part of the law enacted whcih among other things clamps down incredibly tightly on how may even think about using the words, London, 2012, Olympics together....
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci214574,00.html
Used by the UK police very successfully. In service now.
"In recent years, when European disasters have struck, emergency response teams from several European nations had a difficult time communicating with each other, due in part to the lack of standardization in their mobile radio equipment. The TETRA standards evolved to answer this communication challenge as well as others faced or anticipated by the European Commission (EC) in its efforts to unify European countries.
Based on digital, trunked radio technology, TETRA is believed to be the next-generation architecture and standard for current, analog PMR and PAMR markets. TETRA actually takes its features from several different technological areas:? mobile radio, digital cellular telephone, paging, and wireless data. "
Disclaimer - I think it brilliant because my father and myself worked on the design and implementation of some of the first UK trials.
Motorola have been working on this for years and I suspect so have all the other mobile handset makers. Frequency agile, power agile systems are used in all cell phones, base stations can direct and use a focused beam to reach a faint handset - this is in service stuff. Walk through hand off from a handset that uses DECT, then dials out and goes cellular seamlessley has been demonstrated, as have handsets that can ask others to dial power down etc. The only thing holding this back has been market forces - customers just haven't wanted it. Yet.
That's all of Europe, the Far East - anywhere with fast bandwidth and cheap power that'll be hosting US websites now. Folk will be setting up anywhere with a building and good connectivity that's out of reach of these people.
Maybe if someone pointed out that fact to your lawmakers they would stop this ludicrous suggestion. Until then we will commiserate with you, host your websites, and hell the way the dollars climbing we don't mind that much if you want to pay with greenbacks either.
You know the half life by taking a sample of known mass which has a known number of atmons in it and counting decays. For some items with extremely long half lifes, like samarium it can take months to get a good figure for decay half lifes - there was a lot of work done in the 1950's determining these values.
Because the decay rates are closely linked with various constants that can be observed in stellar phenomena we can look at distant galaxies, doing so is to look back in time to conditions millions and billions of years ago. The decay rate of nickel for example can be observed in stellar supernova remnants in Andromeda some 2 million years ago and we find it is the same - we can go back much further to several billion years ago and we find the constants are the same.
This is NOT carbon dating. The title is exceedingly confusing.
C-14 is radiocarbon dating - good for 50,000 years back - 100,000 years with very good equipment.
To date this sort of age you would need something like uranium lead, lead-lead techniques. These are accurate to a percent or so out to billions of years.
The C12/C13 ratio is purely used as an indicator of how fast plants are growing and how abundant CO2 is at that time. It is NOT used for dating.
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I've cancelled direct debits and my contract. Vote with my feet - if they want to be fool enough to sue me for the loss of the contract then they can expect to get countersued for the cost of credit monitoring. Until people start slapping the companies hard by refusing to do business with them this will carry on the UK data protection *laws* are good, but the *penalties* are worthless as a deterrent. It seems they siphoning off millions records. They dont leave the building scribbled down on bits of paper - there is a whole question of access here and how so many people could take this much data for long undetected.
Innocent until proven guilt has been around for a long time - in fact the right to it in English Common Law and by extent in US law descends from the same place - the meadow in Runnymede in 1215AD where King John impressed his seal onto and issued Magna Carta.. "NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right"
Not quite. More towers equates to smaller cells, which equates to less power needed from the handhelds. By redcuing power output you obviously reduce range. As long as you are within reach of the cell tower that doesnt matter, what it does do though is reduce the noise level and hence the interference.
You bother because there is a lot of unused bandwidth there that you can shove a signal up - and the record distance is something like 50km. Certainly for small cell sizes in cities it's eminiently feasible to run this sort of frequency, it just sadly needs a lot more infrastructure investment.
Mens rea must still be demonstrated however, at least under English common law. Murder was defined very recently as requireing "malice aforethought" and if you intended "only" to do for example grevious harm but killed them by mistake, it was still murder. Intent is important in every crime unless it;s one fo the number of low level crimes of strict liability such as speeding where there is no requirement to prove mens rea.
Almost... Burglary does require mens rea but you do not have to break - you merely have to enter. Trespassing into a staff only section of a shop merely by walking behind the till and removing goods is sufficient to prove burglary - there doesn't have to be any force, merely sufficent entry. In the case of someone walking in and leaving a note on the table there would be no mens rea proving intent to burgle so you wouldnt get a s9 conviction.
The UK is a small enough place - i'd have expected that to have made news.google.co.uk in some form.... Hoping he is OK though regardless of what happened.
I don't know about any other system but in the UK you would find it very difficult to stuff a ballot box and get away with it. We rely on the party faithful keeping a very beady and possessive eye on all the ballot boxes and watching the entire count very cloesly - as long as all the parties have people watching it's effectivly impossible to stuff ballot boxes, tamper with votes etc at the point of voting or afterwards. Now creating extra voters from people who are conveniently dead or from filling in peoples postal votes is easy and that's where almost all of the fraud in UK voting takes place. I must confess I've never seen the desire for electronic voting in any form - the UK can count accuratly the entire countries vote in one night for 650+ candidates and have it on the news the next morning unless the result is going to eb very close. And if anyone complains, we can count it again. And again... and again........ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_by-election,_1997 We still have the lawyers to sniff about though!
We already have an Enabling Act in place. The Civil Contingencies Act enables the current parliment to suspend business and amend ANY act of Parliement by bypassing the Crown entirely - they do it on their own bat. The Conservatives and LibDems tried to get certain acts exempted but they can still in theory suspend habeus corpus, they can boot out MP's they dont like, Lords they don't like, in fact anything apart from override the HRA. The ultimate safeguard is that the armed forces swear allegiance to the Queen, but we'd have to have a civil war to settle it properly if the Govt decided to get arsey.
>If you are a citizen of one of the member-states of the EU you still only have one nationality.
The Treaty of Rome and the Maastrict treaty would disagree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_of_the_European_Union
"Citizenship of the Union is hereby established. Every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall complement and not replace national citizenship."
>In fact, I can't really see much difference. Can you?
Ah the cry of the fanboy...
We appear to be more polite and not to resort to anonymous ad homeniem attacks.
And we have our facts right, mainly from actually living here and doing all that. As I said above I like the American people and dont feel the need to call them names. I'll make an exception in your case if you wish since you appear to have big issues with EU "fanboys"
That's because you were using aircraft and were staying in some countries that require that even of their own nationals (France being one of them). Britain is not part of Schengen, mainly to allow border controls to implement rabies controls, but once I am in Europe on the ground there is zero monitoring. For example I could leave my house to a friends place in Germany - there is a security check on the Tunnel where they look at your passport (not even a scan) and video the underside of the car looking for bombs. Off the tunnel and I cross the French Belgium border at 120kph, the Belgian-Dutch border at the same speed, and into Germany considerably faster. I literally dont stop the car until I arrive 200 yards from her house at a roundabout. I've been asked many times to deposit a passport in the hotel safe, but they never record details, and I never give it to them and they are just fine with that. France wants to know what your name is, and home address but that's all. No cameras, no checks, nothing nada.
>Which means bringing a passport. No. I've been from Spain to Italy by road with nothing more than a driving licence, and that involved a trip into Switzerland as well >>Nothing recorded, nothing logged, no database of my movements, nothing. >You think? Yes. Show me where I am recorded then when I walk by foot across the French/German border, through the Ardennes forest, along a mountain ridge road into Italy - there simply is none. >>Admittedly I am a dual national like all EU members are >Bzzz, wrong. Thanks for playing, try again. Try reading the Maastrict Treaty then - all nationals are alos nationals of the EU as a soverign entity. but the benefits to travel, employment opportunity, tourism etc are immense. To deliberatly restrict such momement does seem somewhat backwards that's all. >Hence why EU wants to impose US-like border arrangements with fingerprint sampling etc. Citation? Within EU? Schengen? >Of course, USA has it better here, they don't need a passport to travel to a different state. Last I heard a state was not a country, despite the protesttions of some of them.
Umm, yes. Frankfurt placed a bag on Pan AM 103 which made an unscheduled landing in southern Scotland once. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 Airport security is good and necessary but there are ways to go about it and make it not pleasant, but as little a chore as is possible.
I can travel around the entirety of Europe without needing anything like this, just show ID. Nothing recorded, nothing logged, no database of my movements, nothing. Admittedly I am a dual national like all EU members are but the benefits to travel, employment opportunity, tourism etc are immense. To deliberatly restrict such momement does seem somewhat backwards that's all.
..especially as I find the American people on the whole some of the most freindly welcoming and interesting people to visit. Sadly however I simply cannot stomach the attitudes and actions of their Govt. I made up my mind never to visit again after a 5 hour wait in Dulles to get through immigration, and was greeted by the most pig ignorant downright hostile group of people I've ever met at the DHS/TSA desk or whatever. You want my fingerprints, you want my details, sorry. Convict me of a crime first. Wanting to visit and spend my dollars in your country is not a crime I'm afraid - I'll go visit Canada instead.
This is what we do in the UK - your licence expires at 70. You can get it back if you reapply - but only for three years each time. There is also checking done with your GP to be certain you are still fit to drive.
Of course you could just do what our wonderful country did for the London Olympics. Oops. That's maybe an offence. I'm not registered to actually write that..... http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2006/ukpga_20060012_en_7#sch3 - part of the law enacted whcih among other things clamps down incredibly tightly on how may even think about using the words, London, 2012, Olympics together....
1. Find old unimplemented tech 2. Research buzzwords 3. Hold patents 4. Waffle. 5. Profit? Or am I being cynical about re-discovering old tech here?
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci214574,00.html Used by the UK police very successfully. In service now. "In recent years, when European disasters have struck, emergency response teams from several European nations had a difficult time communicating with each other, due in part to the lack of standardization in their mobile radio equipment. The TETRA standards evolved to answer this communication challenge as well as others faced or anticipated by the European Commission (EC) in its efforts to unify European countries. Based on digital, trunked radio technology, TETRA is believed to be the next-generation architecture and standard for current, analog PMR and PAMR markets. TETRA actually takes its features from several different technological areas:? mobile radio, digital cellular telephone, paging, and wireless data. " Disclaimer - I think it brilliant because my father and myself worked on the design and implementation of some of the first UK trials.
Motorola have been working on this for years and I suspect so have all the other mobile handset makers. Frequency agile, power agile systems are used in all cell phones, base stations can direct and use a focused beam to reach a faint handset - this is in service stuff. Walk through hand off from a handset that uses DECT, then dials out and goes cellular seamlessley has been demonstrated, as have handsets that can ask others to dial power down etc. The only thing holding this back has been market forces - customers just haven't wanted it. Yet.
You say that but I have no problems with that latency browsing sites in the US from Europe and I suspect that the converse would be true.
That's all of Europe, the Far East - anywhere with fast bandwidth and cheap power that'll be hosting US websites now. Folk will be setting up anywhere with a building and good connectivity that's out of reach of these people. Maybe if someone pointed out that fact to your lawmakers they would stop this ludicrous suggestion. Until then we will commiserate with you, host your websites, and hell the way the dollars climbing we don't mind that much if you want to pay with greenbacks either.
You know the half life by taking a sample of known mass which has a known number of atmons in it and counting decays. For some items with extremely long half lifes, like samarium it can take months to get a good figure for decay half lifes - there was a lot of work done in the 1950's determining these values. Because the decay rates are closely linked with various constants that can be observed in stellar phenomena we can look at distant galaxies, doing so is to look back in time to conditions millions and billions of years ago. The decay rate of nickel for example can be observed in stellar supernova remnants in Andromeda some 2 million years ago and we find it is the same - we can go back much further to several billion years ago and we find the constants are the same.
This is NOT carbon dating. The title is exceedingly confusing. C-14 is radiocarbon dating - good for 50,000 years back - 100,000 years with very good equipment. To date this sort of age you would need something like uranium lead, lead-lead techniques. These are accurate to a percent or so out to billions of years. The C12/C13 ratio is purely used as an indicator of how fast plants are growing and how abundant CO2 is at that time. It is NOT used for dating.