You don't need license to watch iplayer. You only need a license if you watch TV as it is broadcast live, so you can't watch any channel online live, but you can watch it later. See here : "You need to be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record TV as it's being broadcast."
However in practise, it's assumed that everyone watches TV and thus you'll have to prove that you don't.
Not my experience - when I moved into a flat a few years back, a guy came round after a fortnight and asked if I had a TV, and I said no. Never heard from them again. Of course, I did use iplayer constantly, but you don't need a license for that.
I'm not 100% sure of how it works in Britain, but I think the way it works is that there is a tax/fee on recording media that then gets passed to an organization that dishes out the money to copyright holders based on a measure of popularity. If you bought a blank VHS tape you have already payed for the right to make copies of any video content that you have obtained legally. The terms of use for those copies are pretty strict, but they are legal.
We don't have a special tax on recording media in the UK, at all.
Until very recently (2012), it was technically illegal to make copies of anything you owned without the copyright owner's permission, though AFAIK no one was ever sued for it. Now you can. Unfortunately, you still are not allowed to break security measures, so ripping a DVD to video is still illegal. I think you can make straight copies, since you do not need to circumvent the security to do this. Most people in the UK thought making backups was not illegal, even prior to the new law.
The Wikipedia page on ripping is out of date and therefore wrong, though it is still illegal to rip DVDs because of CSS, it is not illegal to rip music from CDs. This page and this page have decent explanations.
I've had this happen to me manually too - if the guy on your passenger side backs in, you can't get into the car at all. It doesn't help my car is a 2 door... one of the big disadvantages of 2 door cars is that their doors are a lot longer, so you need more space to get out.
I have in the past a couple of times leant in, got the handbrake off, and pushed my car out of a tight spot.
Oh and an emergency stop in the wet required more judgement before ABS.
My class 1 license test (for everyone abroad, that's the biggest trucks you can drive on UK roads) I screwed up my emergency stop... I forgot to drop the clutch. Stalled the truck, stopped. He gave me a minor for it, and I passed.
Also... most of the trailers I use have ABS. A little while ago, driving up the A1, a van in front of me dropped a couple of wheelbarrows on the carriageway. I stopped quickly, needless to say, and thought it was a relatively controlled stop... then looked in my mirrors - white smoke everywhere. ABS is nice.
It's also better than people... if it wasn't there wouldn't be regulations about it in motorsport.
The telegraph is a Tory tabloid masquerading as decent paper (albeit with a decent cricket section)... and from your second source : "The evidence currently available to us summarised in Chapter 3 of this paper does not support the conclusion that electoral fraud is widespread in the UK."
Allowing people to check their vote from home would fuck up anyone whose vote was made under coercion. As it is, you can vote one way and say you voted another way.
This is less of an issue in the US, but it is still an issue... your boss asks you which way you voted.... let's just check that.
No... that's one of the problems with anonymity, it's easier to fake. However, it's very, very important, especially in places in which your vote is more likely to be coerced. The advantages of anonymity far outweigh the disadvantages.
Isn't designing against human exploits the whole point? I mean, as far as I know, no machine has become self aware yet.
Identifying whether the behavior of humans is malicious or not is difficult even for other humans, especially when it's not clear whether users who open a door to attackers knew what they were doing or, conversely, whether the "attackers" are perfectly legitimate and it's the security monitoring staff who are overreacting.
It's the security staff overreacting. When people are known hackers when they put "../.." in their address bar, probably should hang them all.
Oh, and I also think Richard Nixon was one of the best US presidents, for similar reasons. That and he ended the Vietnam War, which people like JFK could not. I know I'm in a minority here....
Who are the US borrowing from? That's the primary question in my opinion.
I don't think the answer is simply China, or the IMF. At the moment there are hundreds, if not thousands of organisations the US has borrowed from, many of them privately owned. The situation is the same with my country, the UK.
Because of this debt, every single one of the organisations has leverage against the government. The debt is the problem, because for better terms, they get something. Going into debt is bad, especially when you need to.
It's one of the reasons I've got some respect for Clinton, because he balanced the books... I'm pretty left wing socially, but fiscally I'm traditional right wing - balance the books first (you can do both - left wing does not imply excessive state services). Left and right wing get mixed up so much now, anyway.
FDA heat recommendations for beef, pork, veal and lamb is 145 Fahrenheit (about 60 celsius). Since I used to live somewhere where ambient temperatures hit 50C occasionally, I'm a little skeptical that food only warmed 10 degrees would be "so dry as to be a chore to eat".
The FDA recommendations look pretty reasonable to me personally, except for the fish one and eggs one perhaps - we've got massive salmonella testing here in the UK (not the rest of the EU though), which means essentially raw eggs are fine (not that I eat them raw, I just like runny eggs).
There are graveyards of all nationalities all over the north of France and Belgium from both the wars, which you don't have to see anyone to get in to. They're just lines upon lines of graves. They're tended every so often, but aren't managed as such.
Just about every village in north eastern France has a WWI cemetery for English, French and German soldiers. There are plenty of US cemeteries too, but a lot less of them. Anyone can go to them any time they want, as far as I can tell.
Also... you're complaining about there not being enough US officials to allow you access to a Luxembourg graveyard... who is stopping you, exactly? Is it US officials?
Home schoolers generally have parents who care about them (otherwise they wouldn't be home schooled). Public schools are for everyone, including those whose parents don't give a shit. Private schools are reserved for those who have money (whether they give a shit or not).
Do you see the problem with direct comparisons here?
Anyone who doesn't believe in UFOs is a little odd in my opinion... there have been plenty of unidentified flying objects recorded. An unidentified bird is technically a UFO.
The current problem with linux is that it varies so heavily from distro to distro that some things might break for some games. Varying kernels, varying window managers, varying this and that...however if you establish a good baseline, that makes things much easier from a support perspective.
I still run Vista as my gaming operating system. It's getting on for a decade old, both my system and Vista, which I bought at the same time. I've upgraded the graphics card to a 460GTX (about the best my motherboard can handle, with its PCI express 1 interface). Processor is a core 2 duo (though a relatively quick one).
This is the problem facing Linux... people can run old systems and old MS operating systems and they do work if you know what you are doing. I can play any game I want now, with my system I bought almost a decade ago, and it will run well. There's no reason to switch
I am going to upgrade soon though....and I'll still probably keep my copy of Vista for games.
Well, it would make Intel very happy if that's the case - AMD's in loads of hurt, so having both the Xbox One and PS4 be AMD based is good news for Intel - it means AMD will not likely fold in the next 5-10 years. And having AMD around means Intel is pretty much free to do what they want as there's still viable competition. AMD was looking fairly dicey and Intel's probably worried it may attract government oversight and investigations. Or worse yet, force AMD's patents to be sold off to many competitors, making it very expensive to license (since Intel and AMD cross-license).
AMD is _not_ in loads of hurt in the graphics market. It's falling behind, but it has contracts to sustain it for a decade to come. nvidia have the better product. That does not mean they will succeed. nvidia is the company we have to worry about, because of their market possibly drying up, their valuation dropping, and a load of other things.
I'll keep with nvidia, just like I kept with 3dfx.
Also, AMD make great chips... I don't hate them, and if they ever make better cards than nvidia, I buy them (I have bought one in the past). Their software is crappy though.
And if you want to see what not to do in a financial crisis, look at the central bank that steadfastly refused to print money like crazy during the recession: the European Central Bank. The result is Spain with a 26.9% unemployment rate, compared to the 7.4% just reported in the US.
Well, no - the result is the EU with an 11% unemployment rate. If you want to take numbers out of context, you might as well quote Germany with 5% unemployment, and claim that that is the result of not printing money.
Greece and Spain are outliers - their economies have been poorly managed for a while, and it's nothing to do with the recent recession. Greece propped up its employment for years by just employing everyone in the civil service, going into debt, and concealing it. Spain has had massive unemployment for decades, on and off - 20 years ago, it was as high as it is now.
One thing it does is to block lenders of record (banks) from considering certain data like race
Sorry... if you're actually advocating loan decisions based on race, you belong in a different era. Going on to say "what it actually does":
As a result banks cant price the risk for tons of very poor people that need loans
Most very poor people all loans are very very bad for. It is very, very rare that any loans are ever good for poor people. Banks gouge the poor more than their better off customers, and payday loans at 300% often end up cheaper than bank overdraft and late payment fees. Claiming banks would be the saviour of the poor, except for those darn regulations is not just disingenuous, it's close to trolling.
Football teams all over Europe use international players - iirc, the premiership is about 1/3 English, the rest are foreign. And that does include Africa, and every other continent on the earth. Doesn't mean we call it the world anything though. Doing so for a club competition would seem a little obtuse, and arrogant.
I guess it's up to you what you call your club competitions.
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You don't need license to watch iplayer. You only need a license if you watch TV as it is broadcast live, so you can't watch any channel online live, but you can watch it later. See here : "You need to be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record TV as it's being broadcast."
However in practise, it's assumed that everyone watches TV and thus you'll have to prove that you don't.
Not my experience - when I moved into a flat a few years back, a guy came round after a fortnight and asked if I had a TV, and I said no. Never heard from them again. Of course, I did use iplayer constantly, but you don't need a license for that.
I'm not 100% sure of how it works in Britain, but I think the way it works is that there is a tax/fee on recording media that then gets passed to an organization that dishes out the money to copyright holders based on a measure of popularity. If you bought a blank VHS tape you have already payed for the right to make copies of any video content that you have obtained legally. The terms of use for those copies are pretty strict, but they are legal.
We don't have a special tax on recording media in the UK, at all.
Until very recently (2012), it was technically illegal to make copies of anything you owned without the copyright owner's permission, though AFAIK no one was ever sued for it. Now you can. Unfortunately, you still are not allowed to break security measures, so ripping a DVD to video is still illegal. I think you can make straight copies, since you do not need to circumvent the security to do this. Most people in the UK thought making backups was not illegal, even prior to the new law.
The Wikipedia page on ripping is out of date and therefore wrong, though it is still illegal to rip DVDs because of CSS, it is not illegal to rip music from CDs. This page and this page have decent explanations.
Nelson Mandela was a terrorist, by just about any definition. Doesn't mean he wasn't right.
"We don't negotiate with terrorists!" is a little bit odd coming from people trying to get their photo next to him.
I've had this happen to me manually too - if the guy on your passenger side backs in, you can't get into the car at all. It doesn't help my car is a 2 door... one of the big disadvantages of 2 door cars is that their doors are a lot longer, so you need more space to get out.
I have in the past a couple of times leant in, got the handbrake off, and pushed my car out of a tight spot.
Oh and an emergency stop in the wet required more judgement before ABS.
My class 1 license test (for everyone abroad, that's the biggest trucks you can drive on UK roads) I screwed up my emergency stop... I forgot to drop the clutch. Stalled the truck, stopped. He gave me a minor for it, and I passed.
Also... most of the trailers I use have ABS. A little while ago, driving up the A1, a van in front of me dropped a couple of wheelbarrows on the carriageway. I stopped quickly, needless to say, and thought it was a relatively controlled stop... then looked in my mirrors - white smoke everywhere. ABS is nice.
It's also better than people... if it wasn't there wouldn't be regulations about it in motorsport.
The telegraph is a Tory tabloid masquerading as decent paper (albeit with a decent cricket section)... and from your second source : "The evidence currently available to us summarised in Chapter 3 of this paper does not support the conclusion that electoral fraud is widespread in the UK."
I wasn't talking party politics or religion.
Allowing people to check their vote from home would fuck up anyone whose vote was made under coercion. As it is, you can vote one way and say you voted another way.
This is less of an issue in the US, but it is still an issue... your boss asks you which way you voted.... let's just check that.
No... that's one of the problems with anonymity, it's easier to fake. However, it's very, very important, especially in places in which your vote is more likely to be coerced. The advantages of anonymity far outweigh the disadvantages.
Exactly, what?
Isn't designing against human exploits the whole point? I mean, as far as I know, no machine has become self aware yet.
Identifying whether the behavior of humans is malicious or not is difficult even for other humans, especially when it's not clear whether users who open a door to attackers knew what they were doing or, conversely, whether the "attackers" are perfectly legitimate and it's the security monitoring staff who are overreacting.
It's the security staff overreacting. When people are known hackers when they put "../.." in their address bar, probably should hang them all.
Oh, and I also think Richard Nixon was one of the best US presidents, for similar reasons. That and he ended the Vietnam War, which people like JFK could not. I know I'm in a minority here....
Who are the US borrowing from? That's the primary question in my opinion.
I don't think the answer is simply China, or the IMF. At the moment there are hundreds, if not thousands of organisations the US has borrowed from, many of them privately owned. The situation is the same with my country, the UK.
Because of this debt, every single one of the organisations has leverage against the government. The debt is the problem, because for better terms, they get something. Going into debt is bad, especially when you need to.
It's one of the reasons I've got some respect for Clinton, because he balanced the books... I'm pretty left wing socially, but fiscally I'm traditional right wing - balance the books first (you can do both - left wing does not imply excessive state services). Left and right wing get mixed up so much now, anyway.
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FDA heat recommendations for beef, pork, veal and lamb is 145 Fahrenheit (about 60 celsius). Since I used to live somewhere where ambient temperatures hit 50C occasionally, I'm a little skeptical that food only warmed 10 degrees would be "so dry as to be a chore to eat".
The FDA recommendations look pretty reasonable to me personally, except for the fish one and eggs one perhaps - we've got massive salmonella testing here in the UK (not the rest of the EU though), which means essentially raw eggs are fine (not that I eat them raw, I just like runny eggs).
Where are these graves? Are they in US bases?
There are graveyards of all nationalities all over the north of France and Belgium from both the wars, which you don't have to see anyone to get in to. They're just lines upon lines of graves. They're tended every so often, but aren't managed as such.
Just about every village in north eastern France has a WWI cemetery for English, French and German soldiers. There are plenty of US cemeteries too, but a lot less of them. Anyone can go to them any time they want, as far as I can tell.
Also... you're complaining about there not being enough US officials to allow you access to a Luxembourg graveyard... who is stopping you, exactly? Is it US officials?
Home schoolers generally have parents who care about them (otherwise they wouldn't be home schooled). Public schools are for everyone, including those whose parents don't give a shit. Private schools are reserved for those who have money (whether they give a shit or not).
Do you see the problem with direct comparisons here?
These.
Anyone who doesn't believe in UFOs is a little odd in my opinion... there have been plenty of unidentified flying objects recorded. An unidentified bird is technically a UFO.
The current problem with linux is that it varies so heavily from distro to distro that some things might break for some games. Varying kernels, varying window managers, varying this and that...however if you establish a good baseline, that makes things much easier from a support perspective.
I still run Vista as my gaming operating system. It's getting on for a decade old, both my system and Vista, which I bought at the same time. I've upgraded the graphics card to a 460GTX (about the best my motherboard can handle, with its PCI express 1 interface). Processor is a core 2 duo (though a relatively quick one).
This is the problem facing Linux... people can run old systems and old MS operating systems and they do work if you know what you are doing. I can play any game I want now, with my system I bought almost a decade ago, and it will run well. There's no reason to switch
I am going to upgrade soon though....and I'll still probably keep my copy of Vista for games.
Well, it would make Intel very happy if that's the case - AMD's in loads of hurt, so having both the Xbox One and PS4 be AMD based is good news for Intel - it means AMD will not likely fold in the next 5-10 years. And having AMD around means Intel is pretty much free to do what they want as there's still viable competition. AMD was looking fairly dicey and Intel's probably worried it may attract government oversight and investigations. Or worse yet, force AMD's patents to be sold off to many competitors, making it very expensive to license (since Intel and AMD cross-license).
AMD is _not_ in loads of hurt in the graphics market. It's falling behind, but it has contracts to sustain it for a decade to come. nvidia have the better product. That does not mean they will succeed. nvidia is the company we have to worry about, because of their market possibly drying up, their valuation dropping, and a load of other things.
I'll keep with nvidia, just like I kept with 3dfx.
Also, AMD make great chips... I don't hate them, and if they ever make better cards than nvidia, I buy them (I have bought one in the past). Their software is crappy though.
Maybe if console sales weren't ten times higher than PC sales, they would.
They're not. Diablo III has sold about 15 million units, for example. Steam doesn't release sales figures.
Selective statistics. See : this for a more representative recent history of Spain's unemployment.
And if you want to see what not to do in a financial crisis, look at the central bank that steadfastly refused to print money like crazy during the recession: the European Central Bank. The result is Spain with a 26.9% unemployment rate, compared to the 7.4% just reported in the US.
Well, no - the result is the EU with an 11% unemployment rate. If you want to take numbers out of context, you might as well quote Germany with 5% unemployment, and claim that that is the result of not printing money.
Greece and Spain are outliers - their economies have been poorly managed for a while, and it's nothing to do with the recent recession. Greece propped up its employment for years by just employing everyone in the civil service, going into debt, and concealing it. Spain has had massive unemployment for decades, on and off - 20 years ago, it was as high as it is now.
One thing it does is to block lenders of record (banks) from considering certain data like race
Sorry... if you're actually advocating loan decisions based on race, you belong in a different era. Going on to say "what it actually does" :
As a result banks cant price the risk for tons of very poor people that need loans
Most very poor people all loans are very very bad for. It is very, very rare that any loans are ever good for poor people. Banks gouge the poor more than their better off customers, and payday loans at 300% often end up cheaper than bank overdraft and late payment fees. Claiming banks would be the saviour of the poor, except for those darn regulations is not just disingenuous, it's close to trolling.
Football teams all over Europe use international players - iirc, the premiership is about 1/3 English, the rest are foreign. And that does include Africa, and every other continent on the earth. Doesn't mean we call it the world anything though. Doing so for a club competition would seem a little obtuse, and arrogant.
I guess it's up to you what you call your club competitions.