One thing that is weird is the fact that some private companies in the UK subsidise others. The East Anglian network pay money to the other networks, for example... so people who are using the services are also paying for other people in other parts of the country too.
This is because of the weird selloff the labour government did...
I'm big, and this seems perfectly reasonable to me. Weight and size affects the cost of transport, and it may affect seating as well.
I'm big, and have a massive problem with this. My minimum weight is about 100kg - that was what I was when I was 18, and stick thin. Now, I'm about 110kg.
I''m 6'6", so unusual... I don't like being discriminated against because of my weight, or my height.
That being said I recently went on an Easyjet flight and found the legroom much better than I expected.... I'd not been on a flight for 20 years or so.
If you leave your valuables on display in your car, they're more likely to get nicked than if you don't. There have been lots of adverts reminding people not to leave valuables on display in their car. This doesn't mean that any less of a crime has been committed if someone nicks on display or not on display valuables.
Police sometimes issue advice for women not to walk home alone, etc. Do you really think the police will turn around and blame the woman who does if she gets raped?
No one is arguing that it's not copyright infringement if you pirate GoT when it is not available in your country (at least, I don't think they are).... I'm not quite sure what your point is.
There's a difference between blaming the victim, and telling the victim that their actions may have increased the chance of having a crime happen to them. If I go down to Millwall in a West Ham shirt just before a home game, and start spouting off about how shit Millwall in the local pub, I am more likely to get beaten up than if I have a quiet drink at my local and watch the game calmly. If you leave your valuables on display in your car, they're more likely to get nicked than if you don't.
Pointing out behaviour that increase the chances of a crime happening is _not_ blaming the victim. Pointing out that people not being able to watch GoT legally increases piracy isn't blaming the victim, it's a comment on the behaviour of the studios. It's factual, too.
It would help a lot if we respected blue collar labor more. Your plumber
I'd be happy respecting them more if I paid them less - plumbers call out fees in the UK are astonishing.
In fact... all your examples of jobs we undervalue seem to be decently paid (save carpentry - that's _all_ imported now). Car mechanics, plumbers, electricians, builders are all complained about at least as much as other services.
I'm not being elitist here (well, perhaps I a little)... but most people can't code. They can't be taught to code, save for in a very limited manner.
The thing is... there are a billion people in china, and the same percentage will be able to code as are here.. You _cannot_ teach people to code if they cannot. It takes a slightly odd mindset, IMO.
ergo... there are always going to be more coders, or those with aptitude to code in China than in the west. I think it's just something we're going to have to deal with.
The first automatic I ever drove was a 20 tonne truck. I jumped in it and thought didn't have a clue how to drive it. I had to ask my boss, and felt pretty stupid doing so... but anyway.
The second one I drove was a 44 tonne artic. It was auto, but had a clutch to start and stop. I had to figure that one out for myself, since it was 4am and no one was about. They don't ask too many questions when you're temping, you just turn up and drive.
The third auto I ever drove was an old Nissan Micra:)
I would be absolutely obliged to pay taxes on a salary for helping these people, especially if it insured we all got to keep our humanity by not loosing our freedom for a what I perceive to be only a tiny bit of safety from a not really big problem.
Congrats on using a spellchecker... but you should probably check out what the words you used there mean if you want to use them again.
Wow.... you're paranoid about the US getting invaded... by Mexico?
There are masses of explanations about why that helicopter landed there... my bet is on a joint operation between the US and Mexico that was not released to the public, but you can carry on.
"The thing is that Defending Canada is not that high of a priority of the Canadian military. "
Isn't that any military's highest priority?
No one in the world could stop a US military invasion of Canada, and the US would not allow anywhere else in the world to invade Canada, so Canadian armed forces are a little pointless in terms of defensive capabilities. Who are they defending from?
I'm not an expert here.... but 15 years ago when I set up a fantasy football website for me and my friends, I immediately understood the security implications of storing passwords in plain text. I was working on the database directly - I didn't want to know my friend's commonly used passwords. Most of them were not too tech savvy, I don't think anyone asked me about password storage.
All I did was store a truncated MD5 hash, IIRC. This wasn't high security stuff... I just didn't want to know their passwords, and I wanted them to know I couldn't. That site could have been compromised very very easily, via a whole load of avenues I didn't block off (SQL injection being the obvious one), but I wasn't that concerned about that.
If I could do it 15 years ago on a shitty amateur site, there is literally no excuse. None.
I may be weird.... but I base my car buying purchases entirely on who made the bits that make it go. Honda made my car, engine, and chassis, and most of the other bits. I don't really care who made the timing belt.... Honda do, though.
If the company who "make" the car do not manufacture either the chassis or engine... you're just buying the package, rather than the car. Using bits from other manufacturers is acceptable, and good practice in some areas (brakes are rarely developed in house on any car with decent brakes, and it's often better to buy in gearboxes, for an example).
I think that the History Channel would be a thousand times better if they just did a two hour special on what a laborer's life was like in Egypt or Babylon or Inca civilizations or any ancient world. They would have to edit it but I would find even the mundane things like how they prepared their meals to be interesting.
Yup... good luck with that. No one knows what a laborer's life was like in Egypt or Babylon, and there is no way of knowing, either. We can find out what their diet was approximately, and some diseases they suffered from, but apart from that, we've got very little.
Many historical and prehistorical "factual" programs are guesswork. "Harder" sciences like biology are constantly changing - look at the definition of birds/mammals/reptiles, which I was taught at school. Now we have good evidence that birds are essentially dinosaurs, and crocodiles are more closely related to them than they are to other reptiles.
Without written records, we know almost nothing. Also, old written records never, ever record everyday things, because it was expensive to write and store stuff. For a good example of a very important civilization which shaped modern Europe that we know nothing about, look at the Etruscans.
Nothing to do with pedantry I see there.... You mentioned slavery, which wasn't what the war of independence was about. It looked like you'd got confused.
The US abolished slavery decades after most of the world, including such forward thinking countries as South Africa. That's not something to be proud of.
Without upgrading, most newer games will not play on the PS3. Older games will not be playable online. If I buy a PS3, I kind of expect to play PS3 games on it. That seems like the point of buying a PS3.
Your choice is to upgrade to play games, or keep Linux. As a consumer, I think that's a bit shitty.
What we've established that wins wars is US production - we didn't win WW2 with superior technology, we won it because we could do things like build a military up from "small" to "fricking huge" while still having enough production surplus to provide weapons/supplies/whatever to everyone else in the world.
Not to worry you with actual history, but if any one nation won WW2 it was the USSR.
Note that one of the most interesting bits of trivia about WW2 is that the USA, during the war, built more aircraft carriers than existed in the entire world before the war.
It's trivia because very few aircraft carriers had been built before WW2. They were not seen as important, incorrectly.
In the mid '30s, a German general, doing an analysis of mechanized warfare concepts noted that the USA had ~75% of the world's production capability in internal combustion engines. And quite properly concluded that that meant that going to war with America would be suicidal for Germany.
Too bad (for Hitler) that Hitler didn't read that sort of report.
Just for an example... these are some of their posters translated by themselves into English here.
I would like to take this subject seriously, I really would... but I cannot watch this video without crying with laughter at the translations still.
I don't quite understand what problem the DPRK has with the USA specifically - I mean that they seem to ignore the UK entirely, despite our colonial history in the area and our participation in the Korean war. Perhaps we're not important enough to worry about any more.
People here have to bear in mind that poster like these, and ideas like these are the _only_ media some people in North Korea are exposed to, officially. That's one reason why I'm absolutely 100% against the current diminishing of the BBC world service, but that's another issue.
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Wait...... Limbo is a sin now? Since when?
One thing that is weird is the fact that some private companies in the UK subsidise others. The East Anglian network pay money to the other networks, for example... so people who are using the services are also paying for other people in other parts of the country too.
This is because of the weird selloff the labour government did...
Yes, the US is bigger than Finland.... the point was that the US is _more_ densely inhabited then Finland.
You're obviously not from England. It's a relatively small country. Despite that, we have plane flights at well under 1/2 the cost of train fares now.
The same is true for Europe.... cheap plane fares are everywhere.
I'm big, and this seems perfectly reasonable to me. Weight and size affects the cost of transport, and it may affect seating as well.
I'm big, and have a massive problem with this. My minimum weight is about 100kg - that was what I was when I was 18, and stick thin. Now, I'm about 110kg.
I''m 6'6", so unusual... I don't like being discriminated against because of my weight, or my height.
That being said I recently went on an Easyjet flight and found the legroom much better than I expected.... I'd not been on a flight for 20 years or so.
Yet in various small towns you hear of the Sheriff bringing his police to bare against any opponent.
I hope this isn't normal practice in the US....
If you leave your valuables on display in your car, they're more likely to get nicked than if you don't. There have been lots of adverts reminding people not to leave valuables on display in their car. This doesn't mean that any less of a crime has been committed if someone nicks on display or not on display valuables.
Police sometimes issue advice for women not to walk home alone, etc. Do you really think the police will turn around and blame the woman who does if she gets raped?
No one is arguing that it's not copyright infringement if you pirate GoT when it is not available in your country (at least, I don't think they are).... I'm not quite sure what your point is.
There's a difference between blaming the victim, and telling the victim that their actions may have increased the chance of having a crime happen to them. If I go down to Millwall in a West Ham shirt just before a home game, and start spouting off about how shit Millwall in the local pub, I am more likely to get beaten up than if I have a quiet drink at my local and watch the game calmly. If you leave your valuables on display in your car, they're more likely to get nicked than if you don't.
Pointing out behaviour that increase the chances of a crime happening is _not_ blaming the victim. Pointing out that people not being able to watch GoT legally increases piracy isn't blaming the victim, it's a comment on the behaviour of the studios. It's factual, too.
It would help a lot if we respected blue collar labor more. Your plumber
I'd be happy respecting them more if I paid them less - plumbers call out fees in the UK are astonishing.
In fact... all your examples of jobs we undervalue seem to be decently paid (save carpentry - that's _all_ imported now). Car mechanics, plumbers, electricians, builders are all complained about at least as much as other services.
I'm not being elitist here (well, perhaps I a little)... but most people can't code. They can't be taught to code, save for in a very limited manner.
The thing is... there are a billion people in china, and the same percentage will be able to code as are here.. You _cannot_ teach people to code if they cannot. It takes a slightly odd mindset, IMO.
ergo... there are always going to be more coders, or those with aptitude to code in China than in the west. I think it's just something we're going to have to deal with.
The first automatic I ever drove was a 20 tonne truck. I jumped in it and thought didn't have a clue how to drive it. I had to ask my boss, and felt pretty stupid doing so... but anyway.
The second one I drove was a 44 tonne artic. It was auto, but had a clutch to start and stop. I had to figure that one out for myself, since it was 4am and no one was about. They don't ask too many questions when you're temping, you just turn up and drive.
The third auto I ever drove was an old Nissan Micra :)
It's massively easy to get into loads of debt with credit cards - be careful that you don't.
You can also use the deals they have of 0% borrowing if you do it right, especially if you are relatively rich.
And where is your observational proof that there is no God?
Exactly the same place as my observational proof that there are no unicorns. I don't believe in them either, do you?
I would be absolutely obliged to pay taxes on a salary for helping these people, especially if it insured we all got to keep our humanity by not loosing our freedom for a what I perceive to be only a tiny bit of safety from a not really big problem.
Congrats on using a spellchecker... but you should probably check out what the words you used there mean if you want to use them again.
Wow.... you're paranoid about the US getting invaded... by Mexico?
There are masses of explanations about why that helicopter landed there... my bet is on a joint operation between the US and Mexico that was not released to the public, but you can carry on.
"The thing is that Defending Canada is not that high of a priority of the Canadian military. "
Isn't that any military's highest priority?
No one in the world could stop a US military invasion of Canada, and the US would not allow anywhere else in the world to invade Canada, so Canadian armed forces are a little pointless in terms of defensive capabilities. Who are they defending from?
Anal gang rape prison is disproportionate
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Hashing before sending is pointless... except for the fact that your password is not easily guessable.
Hashing on the server side should be basic common sense, which is what this story is about.
I'm not an expert here.... but 15 years ago when I set up a fantasy football website for me and my friends, I immediately understood the security implications of storing passwords in plain text. I was working on the database directly - I didn't want to know my friend's commonly used passwords. Most of them were not too tech savvy, I don't think anyone asked me about password storage.
All I did was store a truncated MD5 hash, IIRC. This wasn't high security stuff... I just didn't want to know their passwords, and I wanted them to know I couldn't. That site could have been compromised very very easily, via a whole load of avenues I didn't block off (SQL injection being the obvious one), but I wasn't that concerned about that.
If I could do it 15 years ago on a shitty amateur site, there is literally no excuse. None.
I may be weird.... but I base my car buying purchases entirely on who made the bits that make it go. Honda made my car, engine, and chassis, and most of the other bits. I don't really care who made the timing belt.... Honda do, though.
If the company who "make" the car do not manufacture either the chassis or engine... you're just buying the package, rather than the car. Using bits from other manufacturers is acceptable, and good practice in some areas (brakes are rarely developed in house on any car with decent brakes, and it's often better to buy in gearboxes, for an example).
I think that the History Channel would be a thousand times better if they just did a two hour special on what a laborer's life was like in Egypt or Babylon or Inca civilizations or any ancient world. They would have to edit it but I would find even the mundane things like how they prepared their meals to be interesting.
Yup... good luck with that. No one knows what a laborer's life was like in Egypt or Babylon, and there is no way of knowing, either. We can find out what their diet was approximately, and some diseases they suffered from, but apart from that, we've got very little.
Many historical and prehistorical "factual" programs are guesswork. "Harder" sciences like biology are constantly changing - look at the definition of birds/mammals/reptiles, which I was taught at school. Now we have good evidence that birds are essentially dinosaurs, and crocodiles are more closely related to them than they are to other reptiles.
Without written records, we know almost nothing. Also, old written records never, ever record everyday things, because it was expensive to write and store stuff. For a good example of a very important civilization which shaped modern Europe that we know nothing about, look at the Etruscans.
Nothing to do with pedantry I see there.... You mentioned slavery, which wasn't what the war of independence was about. It looked like you'd got confused.
The US abolished slavery decades after most of the world, including such forward thinking countries as South Africa. That's not something to be proud of.
Without upgrading, most newer games will not play on the PS3. Older games will not be playable online. If I buy a PS3, I kind of expect to play PS3 games on it. That seems like the point of buying a PS3.
Your choice is to upgrade to play games, or keep Linux. As a consumer, I think that's a bit shitty.
What we've established that wins wars is US production - we didn't win WW2 with superior technology, we won it because we could do things like build a military up from "small" to "fricking huge" while still having enough production surplus to provide weapons/supplies/whatever to everyone else in the world.
Not to worry you with actual history, but if any one nation won WW2 it was the USSR.
Note that one of the most interesting bits of trivia about WW2 is that the USA, during the war, built more aircraft carriers than existed in the entire world before the war.
It's trivia because very few aircraft carriers had been built before WW2. They were not seen as important, incorrectly.
In the mid '30s, a German general, doing an analysis of mechanized warfare concepts noted that the USA had ~75% of the world's production capability in internal combustion engines. And quite properly concluded that that meant that going to war with America would be suicidal for Germany.
Too bad (for Hitler) that Hitler didn't read that sort of report.
Hitler did not initiate war with the US.
Just for an example... these are some of their posters translated by themselves into English here.
I would like to take this subject seriously, I really would... but I cannot watch this video without crying with laughter at the translations still.
I don't quite understand what problem the DPRK has with the USA specifically - I mean that they seem to ignore the UK entirely, despite our colonial history in the area and our participation in the Korean war. Perhaps we're not important enough to worry about any more.
People here have to bear in mind that poster like these, and ideas like these are the _only_ media some people in North Korea are exposed to, officially. That's one reason why I'm absolutely 100% against the current diminishing of the BBC world service, but that's another issue.