at least Nick Griffin of the BNP for all his flaws had the courage of his convictions to admit what he was even if I think his views are sickening.
What's actually interesting is that economically the BNP are most definitely not a far right; they are further left than Labour, for example.
From that website : It's muddled thinking to simply describe the likes of the British National Party as "extreme right". The truth is that on issues like health, transport, housing, protectionism and globalisation, their economics are left of Labour, let alone the Conservatives. It's in areas like police power, military power, school discipline, law and order, race and nationalism that the BNP's real extremism - as authoritarians - is clear. It's easy to see how the term national socialism came into being. The uncomfortable reality is that much of their support comes from former Labour voters.
Estimates varied on the size of the march, with organizers saying more than 2,000 attended.
You expect a 2000 person protest to get on the front page?
The British Stop the War Coalition (StWC) held a protest in London which it claimed was the largest political demonstration in the city's history. Police estimated attendance as well in excess of 750,000 people[33] and the BBC estimated that around a million attended.
That didn't help anything, why do you think 2000 people at Washington would?
You're currently mentally wanking over what you think other people think. Stop, please.
I personally don't care what you think other people think, and your misguided arrogance to presume that others will, while complaining about groupthink, is breathtaking.
ATI has a nasty habit, as well, of disowning very recent cards that, on paper, had the features to support current games. ATI likes its shills to say ('jeez, your 4 year old card is out-of-date junk') whereas Nvidia happily ensures every generation of its cards that support DX9 work as well as their hardware allows.
This... I've gone from a ti4200 to an 8800GT to a 460GTX, and that is all. I've had decent graphics throughout... not great, I've always been behind the times (save for my 8800 for a while), but I researched, and it's always just been a decent graphics card. Prior to these 3, I had a horrible ATI card.which was neither one thing or the other... before that, I had a 3dfx.
But the reality of a police state include mass graves, concentration camps, and death tolls in around a million per year
About the quintessential police state was East Germany. They didn't have any of the things you mentioned. You're confused as to what a police state is.
Hold on, she was the victim here. SHe doesn't need to do encryption because at one point thre was this thing called the constitution.
Yes, she was the victim. However, there are ways of making yourself less likely to become a victim. This is what we are talking about.
You're making like a rape case. "Come on, she shouldn't have worn that dress, she was inviting it".
I personally think some irresponsible behaviour increases the likelihood of crimes happening to you. If I go in to a Chelsea pub just prior to a Chelsea/Tottenham game, and start mouthing off about how shit Chelsea are, and anyone who follows them is a braindead prawn sandwich eating Russian mafia financing twat, I'm quite likely to get a kicking. I'm still the victim there, but there were things that I could have done which might have decreased my likelihood of becoming a victim.
Rape is rape, assault is assault. Someone putting themselves in a bad situation does not excuse or lessen the crime. I'll repeat that... doing something provocative does not excuse or lessen a crime if it is committed on you. However, knowing about these situations, and learning to avoid them helps them not happen to you. Knowing what triggers these crimes and talking about what triggers these crimes is _not_ blaming the victim. The blame is still entirely on the attacker.
With my 4 year old 1680x1050 monitor I normally find that games, at most, go up to my resolution
99% of games now check to see what resolution you can go up to, then only offer the ones your monitor can support. Most games, for me, just default to native resolution at 1920*1200.
I agree with GP... I think it all started in the story about Olav Haraldsson landing on Saaremaa Island in Estonia. Rather tan talking about the possible political impact of this unsanctioned invasion, slashdotters just spent their time doing Viking jokes.
The Norse god Thor decided to become a mortal for a while and went down to earth. He met a beautiful girl and they spent the evening together. In the morning Thor decided to reveal his identity to the woman. "I'm Thor" he said. "You're thor!" she said, "Lithen buthter, I'm tho thor I can hardly thit down!"
Also, shotgun licenses are pretty easy to get, if you live in a rural area. I'd guess I'd be able to get one, despite my criminal record. Lots of farmers have them.
Interestingly, there are some guns that are legal to own in the UK, that are illegal in the US. The chances of getting a license for them is very low, though.
Also, it's not that difficult to get a gun in the UK... you've just got to know the right people.
Also, as I read it the original insult wasn't about her sex, it was about her decision to go for cheap low hanging fruit, and "whore" as an epithet has been applied to loads of people - it can almost be considered gender neutral.
If it was about her sex, then smack them down. If it wasn't, smack them down.
I'll just make a note here... Anyone who makes a fucking party political issue about a story which is not a party political issue, I'm going to mod down as offtopic from now on in. I don't care whether you're replying to someone, if you're commenting on a topic which has no fucking relevance to party politics, you're the fucking dipshit.
It might help if the Dems quit importing competition for all those unemployed.
Who the fuck modded this AC "insightful" in a story about Xerox. Fucking kill these comments.
Have you ever spoken to anyone from the UK? We massively underestimate our political and economic importance now, generally. The notion of Empire is dead, long ago. I mean, there's still some posturing nationalism about Gibraltar and the Falklands*, but that's about it. Most people from the UK would put us about 20th in global GNP, when that's actually not the case at all... very few people would actually put us 7th in the world, which is where we are.
The UK is a representative democracy, with a monarch as a figurehead.
Everything else anyone says about the technicalities, the history, or anything else.... that's what actually matters.
The upper house (with all the lords etc) has some power in law, and technically can veto the lower house's decisions temporarily, but the lower house (the representative democracy bit) can just push through what they like. This has happened many quite a few times already.
I'll say it again, the UK is a representative democracy, with a monarch as a figurehead. It's not a monarchy
The UK system has been a 3 party or more system for almost 1/3 a century. Because of first past the post, the Liberal Democrats have not got close to power, until recently, when their vote fell, despite at times having more than 1/4 of the vote.
First past the post representativism needs to die.
"This is the first such test of a printed liquid-fueled, metal rocket engine by any university in the world and the first designed and printed outside of NASA."
Could someone with a little bit of knowledge tell me what the difficulties with this technology are, and what the advantages are over other rocket technology.
I'm not a rocket scientist (I never thought I'd say that seriously;)).
You do know the red threat basically ended almost a quarter a century ago? The only thing socialism threatens you with now is better healthcare, and welfare (at a price, admittedly).
The middle east is a big place, and the social/political situation is radically different in different places. Israel is currently much safer than it has been for a while.
I grew up in Oman as a kid, and couldn't ask for a more stable and good place to grow up. Though we lived in housing for us, it ended at the bottom of our road, and I used to leave and run about building sites and play with the locals lots.
Looks good for the couch when you are playing a leisurely game.
This is damning with faint praise. This looks nowhere near as good as a mouse. An example : point click timed flash games. When someone gets even close to what an ok person can do with these with another interface, I'll talk.
Also, I would go insane playing Civilization with this... there were 3 movements to get the pointer from one side to the screen to the other. Admittedly, I have my mouse pretty sensitive (less than a centimetre, side to side), and some people who use mice have their setting so low that they have to pick their mice up to get from one side of the screen to another... however, trying to replace a pointer controller is difficult, when the mouse is so good.
Also, their Portal 2 demo was not impressive. I'm not good, but I'm much quicker looking and better than that demo (not boasting, at all - I'm only average).
All that being said - this is not a replacement for the keyboard/mouse. This is a replacement for analogue sticks, and it looks better.
I'm going to grab a steam box when it comes out, anyway, and I'm pretty excited about it. I just don't think controllers will replace the mouse. The keyboard is defunct as a gaming device, it's just a bunch of buttons, anything could accomplish that.
Actually, bad chronic alcoholism _has_ to be cured by alcohol, to some degree. You can't go cold turkey, you have to slowly come off. Therefore treatment of an alcoholic always involves more alcohol.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I had heard that you did still need a license *IF* you watched BBC content online. That would certainly seem to be the case from a moral perspective regardless of the legal technicalities - otherwise you're a parasitic freeloader on the content your neighbors are paying for.
You don't - see my comment above. Also, while I partially agree with your freeloader comment (of my 27 years of living in England, I have had a license for 24 or 25, and I was pretty hard up during those few years I didn't), you could say exactly the same about people who don't have a TV license and listen to the radio, since that is funded by the TV license too.
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at least Nick Griffin of the BNP for all his flaws had the courage of his convictions to admit what he was even if I think his views are sickening.
What's actually interesting is that economically the BNP are most definitely not a far right; they are further left than Labour, for example.
From that website : It's muddled thinking to simply describe the likes of the British National Party as "extreme right". The truth is that on issues like health, transport, housing, protectionism and globalisation, their economics are left of Labour, let alone the Conservatives. It's in areas like police power, military power, school discipline, law and order, race and nationalism that the BNP's real extremism - as authoritarians - is clear. It's easy to see how the term national socialism came into being. The uncomfortable reality is that much of their support comes from former Labour voters.
Estimates varied on the size of the march, with organizers saying more than 2,000 attended.
You expect a 2000 person protest to get on the front page?
The British Stop the War Coalition (StWC) held a protest in London which it claimed was the largest political demonstration in the city's history. Police estimated attendance as well in excess of 750,000 people[33] and the BBC estimated that around a million attended.
That didn't help anything, why do you think 2000 people at Washington would?
You're currently mentally wanking over what you think other people think. Stop, please.
I personally don't care what you think other people think, and your misguided arrogance to presume that others will, while complaining about groupthink, is breathtaking.
ATI has a nasty habit, as well, of disowning very recent cards that, on paper, had the features to support current games. ATI likes its shills to say ('jeez, your 4 year old card is out-of-date junk') whereas Nvidia happily ensures every generation of its cards that support DX9 work as well as their hardware allows.
This... I've gone from a ti4200 to an 8800GT to a 460GTX, and that is all. I've had decent graphics throughout... not great, I've always been behind the times (save for my 8800 for a while), but I researched, and it's always just been a decent graphics card. Prior to these 3, I had a horrible ATI card.which was neither one thing or the other... before that, I had a 3dfx.
But the reality of a police state include mass graves, concentration camps, and death tolls in around a million per year
About the quintessential police state was East Germany. They didn't have any of the things you mentioned. You're confused as to what a police state is.
Hold on, she was the victim here. SHe doesn't need to do encryption because at one point thre was this thing called the constitution.
Yes, she was the victim. However, there are ways of making yourself less likely to become a victim. This is what we are talking about.
You're making like a rape case. "Come on, she shouldn't have worn that dress, she was inviting it".
I personally think some irresponsible behaviour increases the likelihood of crimes happening to you. If I go in to a Chelsea pub just prior to a Chelsea/Tottenham game, and start mouthing off about how shit Chelsea are, and anyone who follows them is a braindead prawn sandwich eating Russian mafia financing twat, I'm quite likely to get a kicking. I'm still the victim there, but there were things that I could have done which might have decreased my likelihood of becoming a victim.
Rape is rape, assault is assault. Someone putting themselves in a bad situation does not excuse or lessen the crime. I'll repeat that... doing something provocative does not excuse or lessen a crime if it is committed on you. However, knowing about these situations, and learning to avoid them helps them not happen to you. Knowing what triggers these crimes and talking about what triggers these crimes is _not_ blaming the victim. The blame is still entirely on the attacker.
With my 4 year old 1680x1050 monitor I normally find that games, at most, go up to my resolution
99% of games now check to see what resolution you can go up to, then only offer the ones your monitor can support. Most games, for me, just default to native resolution at 1920*1200.
I agree with GP... I think it all started in the story about Olav Haraldsson landing on Saaremaa Island in Estonia. Rather tan talking about the possible political impact of this unsanctioned invasion, slashdotters just spent their time doing Viking jokes.
The Norse god Thor decided to become a mortal for a while and went down to earth. He met a beautiful girl and they spent the evening together. In the morning Thor decided to reveal his identity to the woman. "I'm Thor" he said. "You're thor!" she said, "Lithen buthter, I'm tho thor I can hardly thit down!"
Also, shotgun licenses are pretty easy to get, if you live in a rural area. I'd guess I'd be able to get one, despite my criminal record. Lots of farmers have them.
Interestingly, there are some guns that are legal to own in the UK, that are illegal in the US. The chances of getting a license for them is very low, though.
Also, it's not that difficult to get a gun in the UK... you've just got to know the right people.
prison pollination
Is this another new euphemism?
I'm hoping this is sarcasm.
Also, as I read it the original insult wasn't about her sex, it was about her decision to go for cheap low hanging fruit, and "whore" as an epithet has been applied to loads of people - it can almost be considered gender neutral.
If it was about her sex, then smack them down. If it wasn't, smack them down.
It's only "clear cut" in the sense that the definition you and one or two other people have taken would make my post a nonsense.
And there we have it. "Evidence" has a pretty obvious meaning, well used in our language, that makes your post a nonsense. That is what you have said.
Making something clear is exactly what evidence is, by your own definition. No one is talking absolutes here.
I'll just make a note here... Anyone who makes a fucking party political issue about a story which is not a party political issue, I'm going to mod down as offtopic from now on in. I don't care whether you're replying to someone, if you're commenting on a topic which has no fucking relevance to party politics, you're the fucking dipshit.
It might help if the Dems quit importing competition for all those unemployed.
Who the fuck modded this AC "insightful" in a story about Xerox. Fucking kill these comments.
Have you ever spoken to anyone from the UK? We massively underestimate our political and economic importance now, generally. The notion of Empire is dead, long ago. I mean, there's still some posturing nationalism about Gibraltar and the Falklands*, but that's about it. Most people from the UK would put us about 20th in global GNP, when that's actually not the case at all... very few people would actually put us 7th in the world, which is where we are.
*I personally believe in self-determination.
The UK is a representative democracy, with a monarch as a figurehead.
Everything else anyone says about the technicalities, the history, or anything else.... that's what actually matters.
The upper house (with all the lords etc) has some power in law, and technically can veto the lower house's decisions temporarily, but the lower house (the representative democracy bit) can just push through what they like. This has happened many quite a few times already.
I'll say it again, the UK is a representative democracy, with a monarch as a figurehead. It's not a monarchy
There are also very religious fundamental Jewish groups in Israel, and they are also part of the problem, especially politically.
I find it frustrating that I want to specify I am absolutely not anti-semetic. I am equally against all idiotic religious beliefs.
The UK system has been a 3 party or more system for almost 1/3 a century. Because of first past the post, the Liberal Democrats have not got close to power, until recently, when their vote fell, despite at times having more than 1/4 of the vote.
First past the post representativism needs to die.
Rockets have been made with 3d printing before.
"This is the first such test of a printed liquid-fueled, metal rocket engine by any university in the world and the first designed and printed outside of NASA."
Could someone with a little bit of knowledge tell me what the difficulties with this technology are, and what the advantages are over other rocket technology.
I'm not a rocket scientist (I never thought I'd say that seriously ;)).
You do know the red threat basically ended almost a quarter a century ago? The only thing socialism threatens you with now is better healthcare, and welfare (at a price, admittedly).
Socialism =/= Big government.
The middle east is a big place, and the social/political situation is radically different in different places. Israel is currently much safer than it has been for a while.
I grew up in Oman as a kid, and couldn't ask for a more stable and good place to grow up. Though we lived in housing for us, it ended at the bottom of our road, and I used to leave and run about building sites and play with the locals lots.
I also worry about the durability of the pad. I really hope they've put it through the paces.
Looks good for the couch when you are playing a leisurely game.
This is damning with faint praise. This looks nowhere near as good as a mouse. An example : point click timed flash games. When someone gets even close to what an ok person can do with these with another interface, I'll talk.
Also, I would go insane playing Civilization with this... there were 3 movements to get the pointer from one side to the screen to the other. Admittedly, I have my mouse pretty sensitive (less than a centimetre, side to side), and some people who use mice have their setting so low that they have to pick their mice up to get from one side of the screen to another... however, trying to replace a pointer controller is difficult, when the mouse is so good.
Also, their Portal 2 demo was not impressive. I'm not good, but I'm much quicker looking and better than that demo (not boasting, at all - I'm only average).
All that being said - this is not a replacement for the keyboard/mouse. This is a replacement for analogue sticks, and it looks better.
I'm going to grab a steam box when it comes out, anyway, and I'm pretty excited about it. I just don't think controllers will replace the mouse. The keyboard is defunct as a gaming device, it's just a bunch of buttons, anything could accomplish that.
Actually, bad chronic alcoholism _has_ to be cured by alcohol, to some degree. You can't go cold turkey, you have to slowly come off. Therefore treatment of an alcoholic always involves more alcohol.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I had heard that you did still need a license *IF* you watched BBC content online. That would certainly seem to be the case from a moral perspective regardless of the legal technicalities - otherwise you're a parasitic freeloader on the content your neighbors are paying for.
You don't - see my comment above. Also, while I partially agree with your freeloader comment (of my 27 years of living in England, I have had a license for 24 or 25, and I was pretty hard up during those few years I didn't), you could say exactly the same about people who don't have a TV license and listen to the radio, since that is funded by the TV license too.