Not to mention you missing entirely that negotiating with the EU requires negotiating individually with its member states. The agreement may be at the EU level across all its members but each member will have specific demands and expectations.
The fact that you didn't already know this, just shows how dumb and naive you are regarding the EU.
A massive factor in the referendum is that people living in England outside of 2-3 major cities are getting fucked senseless by the constant investment in London and the utter absence of benefit from any growth in the economy as it's driven by immigration.
We pay for the non-productive immigration on top of that.
So anything that reduces the attractiveness of London to foreign immigrants I will find it hard to see as a bad thing.
I think Valve would be acting reasonably to ban that individual from posting reviews or forum comments though. Even stupid death threats are a level of abuse that a company can choose not to allow on their platform.
Section 1-h could be read as preventing the use of the media internally to improve a commercial service.
As an example if I set up InterFlix as a competitor, fine-tune my algorithms using Meridian and deliver improved video stream quality at lower bitrate as a result, I'd say that was "directed towards commercial advantage".
If I then released my sexy new CODEC as open source so that everybody could use it, I'm no longer gaining commercial advantage and so my use of Meridian would not contravene section 1-h.
I'm not certain though so I think I'll play safe and avoid using it at all.
Ok, look. Come down to the village I live in, I'll buy you an all-day breakfast at the local cafe and while we eat I'll teach you the basics of reading comprehension.
Because right now it's pointless holding a conversation with you when the basic timeline of the posts in this thread all by itself proves how terrible your level of understanding is.
Incidentally I've been to East Germany several times and wouldn't recommend its system of governance at all. The world is not binary, there are options in between the extremes. If we have coffee after breakfast I can talk you through that clearly difficult concept too.
the cross-dressers, many of whom are gay and btw really enjoy beating up on transsexuals on-line
Nearly as much as transsexuals enjoy demeaning and making derogatory statements about cross-dressers and transvestites (who are, just for the record, predominantly straight).
91degrees claimed that raising the price from $50 to $120 means that (I'm quoting) "exclusively the rich" can afford them.
No. You claimed that. 91degrees pointed out the fallacious logic that led you to this conclusion. You missed his point so I re-iterated it in simpler terms for you.
I'm not sure how much more basic we can make this, sorry.
if you "can afford" a $50 Uber ride under normal circumstances as regular transportation, then you are in a category of people who can pay several times that amount in an emergency
What if you're struggling to pay the $50 in an emergency. "How much does an Uber cost?" "$50" "ok, I can make that work; I just wont take the kids out on Sunday"
$120 is suddenly a scary shock.
That doesn't change the need to allocate scarce resource through pricing based on supply and demand.
Only if you're a total cunt that believes the almighty dollar must rule everything. Other people like to think there are better approaches available.
it seems like a reasonable punishment to block it while they're in prison
Forcing someone to live as the wrong gender feels very unreasonable, to the extent that I would expect it to be wide open to a constitutional challenge as a cruel and unusual punishment.
Thank you for that completely fucking irrelevant piece of information.
Given that Assange was questioned in Sweden prior to leaving the country and prosecutors deemed there to be no charge to answer, I think it's pretty fucking valid to point out that he hasn't been charged with anything.
Where the fuck does Starbucks charge $10 for a coffee?
I know they're not cheap, and you can ramp up the prices with esoteric combinations, but $10? Shit, you'd have to be trying to get it that high.
Incidentally, Uber makes its money from the twits on twitter (so their twattage is very relevant) and from business people who can afford to use Uber because they know how to spend money wisely. So yeah, the market is very price aware.
The higher price is is only fair way to reallocate the scarce resources.
No, not even close. It's one of the easiest ways, but that has fuck all to do with fairness.
For example, an algorithm could easily determine the surge in demand, associate it to the social media coverage of an incident and implement a 'multiple pick up to same approximate destination' policy in which everybody gets charged 2/3 price but has to share.
Erm. No, you've missed their point. 91 degrees has shown that by your logic someone that can afford a $50 Uber can afford a $500 Uber.
That's clearly bloody silly. Ergo, your argument is bloody silly.
Someone that spend an hour's wage commuting can afford (or make the sacrifices needed) to spend 2-3 times that amount to get home on an unusual day. That doesn't meant that they can afford to spend their whole day's wages to get home.
Surge pricing very clearly favours the wealthy. When I was working in a bar $120 was a week's wages, I'd have walked several miles rather than pay that. These days it's less than a day's wages; I can afford it. Do you really think I'm so much better a person now that I deserve transport but I didn't 20 years ago?
I'm enough of an irrational photography purist to want and demand an interchangeable lens and full control over my photography (and video). However: There is just so much awesome, in-focus, useable footage out there taken on GoPro cameras that most photography equipment just wouldn't be light enough, portable enough, small enough or durable enough to capture.
So GoPro rock. If the drone matches their cameras for sheer simple 'fitness for purpose' then I'm going to find it hard not to buy one.
I use a picture of myself aged 2 as a forum portrait. I post naked pictures of myself to women I know. They're in public, I don't mind.
Holy shit this thread is full of people who can't tell the difference between what should remain private and posting shit for all the world to see.
As a photographer I reserve the right to do whatever the fuck I like with photographs I take, subject to the law. If that means walking down the street handing out prints of you naked at two, that's my choice, not yours. You should've fucking put some clothes on.
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The open-borders, pro-immigration politicians (like Merkel) refuse to admit that they were wrong.
Although Merkel has admitted this week that she didn't get it right.
Only took a massive election defeat too. That's right Mutti, you done fucked up good and proper.
Really? Evidence?
Not to mention you missing entirely that negotiating with the EU requires negotiating individually with its member states. The agreement may be at the EU level across all its members but each member will have specific demands and expectations.
The fact that you didn't already know this, just shows how dumb and naive you are regarding the EU.
As someone that lives outside of London, GOOD.
A massive factor in the referendum is that people living in England outside of 2-3 major cities are getting fucked senseless by the constant investment in London and the utter absence of benefit from any growth in the economy as it's driven by immigration.
We pay for the non-productive immigration on top of that.
So anything that reduces the attractiveness of London to foreign immigrants I will find it hard to see as a bad thing.
The problem isn't understanding that statement, the problem is that it's wrong.
Therein lies your increasingly large issue.
I think Valve would be acting reasonably to ban that individual from posting reviews or forum comments though. Even stupid death threats are a level of abuse that a company can choose not to allow on their platform.
Section 1-h could be read as preventing the use of the media internally to improve a commercial service.
As an example if I set up InterFlix as a competitor, fine-tune my algorithms using Meridian and deliver improved video stream quality at lower bitrate as a result, I'd say that was "directed towards commercial advantage".
If I then released my sexy new CODEC as open source so that everybody could use it, I'm no longer gaining commercial advantage and so my use of Meridian would not contravene section 1-h.
I'm not certain though so I think I'll play safe and avoid using it at all.
Ok, look. Come down to the village I live in, I'll buy you an all-day breakfast at the local cafe and while we eat I'll teach you the basics of reading comprehension.
Because right now it's pointless holding a conversation with you when the basic timeline of the posts in this thread all by itself proves how terrible your level of understanding is.
Incidentally I've been to East Germany several times and wouldn't recommend its system of governance at all. The world is not binary, there are options in between the extremes. If we have coffee after breakfast I can talk you through that clearly difficult concept too.
Sadly we can't tell, because the court hearing that would properly determine and adjudicate on this has not been possible to hold.
the cross-dressers, many of whom are gay and btw really enjoy beating up on transsexuals on-line
Nearly as much as transsexuals enjoy demeaning and making derogatory statements about cross-dressers and transvestites (who are, just for the record, predominantly straight).
You can't change his DNA just because you and he feel differently.
You'll be delighted then to know that her DNA shows her to be a woman.
In other news, there's treatment available that might help you. It's called education.
91degrees claimed that raising the price from $50 to $120 means that (I'm quoting) "exclusively the rich" can afford them.
No. You claimed that. 91degrees pointed out the fallacious logic that led you to this conclusion. You missed his point so I re-iterated it in simpler terms for you.
I'm not sure how much more basic we can make this, sorry.
if you "can afford" a $50 Uber ride under normal circumstances as regular transportation, then you are in a category of people who can pay several times that amount in an emergency
What if you're struggling to pay the $50 in an emergency. "How much does an Uber cost?" "$50" "ok, I can make that work; I just wont take the kids out on Sunday"
$120 is suddenly a scary shock.
That doesn't change the need to allocate scarce resource through pricing based on supply and demand.
Only if you're a total cunt that believes the almighty dollar must rule everything. Other people like to think there are better approaches available.
it seems like a reasonable punishment to block it while they're in prison
Forcing someone to live as the wrong gender feels very unreasonable, to the extent that I would expect it to be wide open to a constitutional challenge as a cruel and unusual punishment.
Thank you for that completely fucking irrelevant piece of information.
Given that Assange was questioned in Sweden prior to leaving the country and prosecutors deemed there to be no charge to answer, I think it's pretty fucking valid to point out that he hasn't been charged with anything.
Where the fuck does Starbucks charge $10 for a coffee?
I know they're not cheap, and you can ramp up the prices with esoteric combinations, but $10? Shit, you'd have to be trying to get it that high.
Incidentally, Uber makes its money from the twits on twitter (so their twattage is very relevant) and from business people who can afford to use Uber because they know how to spend money wisely. So yeah, the market is very price aware.
Surely the drivers are making increased profits, so it still qualifies?
The higher price is is only fair way to reallocate the scarce resources.
No, not even close. It's one of the easiest ways, but that has fuck all to do with fairness.
For example, an algorithm could easily determine the surge in demand, associate it to the social media coverage of an incident and implement a 'multiple pick up to same approximate destination' policy in which everybody gets charged 2/3 price but has to share.
That would dent Uber's profits though. Oops.
Erm. No, you've missed their point. 91 degrees has shown that by your logic someone that can afford a $50 Uber can afford a $500 Uber.
That's clearly bloody silly. Ergo, your argument is bloody silly.
Someone that spend an hour's wage commuting can afford (or make the sacrifices needed) to spend 2-3 times that amount to get home on an unusual day. That doesn't meant that they can afford to spend their whole day's wages to get home.
Surge pricing very clearly favours the wealthy. When I was working in a bar $120 was a week's wages, I'd have walked several miles rather than pay that. These days it's less than a day's wages; I can afford it. Do you really think I'm so much better a person now that I deserve transport but I didn't 20 years ago?
I'm enough of an irrational photography purist to want and demand an interchangeable lens and full control over my photography (and video). However: There is just so much awesome, in-focus, useable footage out there taken on GoPro cameras that most photography equipment just wouldn't be light enough, portable enough, small enough or durable enough to capture.
So GoPro rock. If the drone matches their cameras for sheer simple 'fitness for purpose' then I'm going to find it hard not to buy one.
I use a picture of myself aged 2 as a forum portrait. I post naked pictures of myself to women I know. They're in public, I don't mind.
Holy shit this thread is full of people who can't tell the difference between what should remain private and posting shit for all the world to see.
As a photographer I reserve the right to do whatever the fuck I like with photographs I take, subject to the law. If that means walking down the street handing out prints of you naked at two, that's my choice, not yours. You should've fucking put some clothes on.
Oh ffs, not this old stupidity again.
It's only if they're silver, and if you can't demonstrate you're purchasing on behalf of the local land owner.
Even then being able to reference your page in Who's Who suffices.
I'm British, my culture is to appropriate other cultures.
We appear to be at an impasse.
http://www.ford.com/trucks/f15... suggests you're at best being disingenuous.
Most people spend a fuck of a lot less than $60k on a car.
Well, my work laptop belongs to the company. They install whatever the fuck they want on it.
I install the strip of tape over the camera lens.
I'm using Windows 10 at the moment, it's guaranteed to be fucking insecure. It's insecure by design.
So I know there's malevolent code running on this computer, and I respond accordingly.
Net harm : 0
Seriously, you're getting your knickers twisted over nothing. Most of us are entirely cool with it all.