When 28 people complain that a TV programme unfairly favoured the Conservative Party and 28 people complain that a TV programme favoured the Labour Party, tell me, is the BBC biased?
I've seen those complaints. They were all for the same programme.
This. The BBC has been a mindless lapdog since Hutton.
You do realise that any given BBC news item is liable to get equal numbers of complaints stating, "Your reporting of this matter demonstrates your bias towards the evil Tories" and "Your reporting of this matter demonstrates your bias towards stupid Labour".
If you think the BBC are being biased, it's more likely due to how you interpret their lack of bias than because they are actually biased.
Because the console makers charge us a lot to make DLC available
Which is why you should wait for the PC modders to release a lot of content, test the best mods on your dev console boxes, and get agreement from the modders to release them as a paid expansion for consoles.
Console gamers get new content, your modding community get a cut of the sales and you cover all your costs including the testing and console fees. Nobody loses out (unless you suffer an opportunity cost as a result - but there lies the art of delegation).
Do your own fucking research. Start with transcripts of interviews with rape victims, move onto published studies. Apply as much skepticism as you like, just don't initiate any original hands-on research.
Willful destruction of data is illegal in the UK. I don't care much of a cock I am to someone in a store, they break the law if they delete the data off my hard drive.
This is no different than getting spit in your food
You may think that's acceptable. I do not. I've worked in a restaurant and I'd expect any member of staff to get sacked if they tried that.
There are excellent ways of dealing with difficult, rude or tardy customers. Breaking the law and illegally abusing them are not excellent ways.
Earn a living and help prevent other people being horrified, corrupted or distressed? Sounds like a dream compared to having no money, starving and needing to beg to use the Internet in your local library, while other people are exposed to images and videos that they just aren't prepared for and may be damaged by seeing.
I'll boldly postulate (I'm male) that a woman being raped seldom orgasms.
As many as 1 in 5 do, according to the research. Which I'd class as more than 'seldom'.
Whether that's more than women engaging in consensual unprotected sex is a different question and not one I have the answer to on a more than anecdotal level.
in some cases women do claim to be raped when they were not
While this is undoubtably true (and a cause of great distress to many falsely accused men) it's also utterly fucking irrelevant to a discussion on abortion.
Any politician linking the two deserves to have a foetus implanted and medical care withdrawn for the next few months.
The other kind of rape would include statutory rape and possibly other forms that, while legally considered rape, don't create the physical and emotional response in women that "legitimate rape" would.
Look, I'm a man with an admitted empathy deficit and a dislike of the term "statutory rape". Yet even I know that any rape causes a physical and emotional response in women, whether it was a violent back-alley stranger rape or merely a belief that she was raped even if there was no penetration.
Rape is rape. Rape is bad. Stop fucking pretending some rape isn't so bad.
I'm totally not on Akin's side of this, but I do believe his words have been widely misunderstood.
My belief is that his words have been understood as providing evidence that Akin is a complete cunt. You may well disagree, but it doesn't look like a misunderstanding from here.
Interesting measure - and one that's a little flawed. Although I like the concept of counting education as having value, that value should drop as the supply of educated people rises.
So Kenya and Ecuador increasing their human capital would dilute the stock of educated people worldwide, leading to its value dropping everywhere.
Plus of course the evil insinuation that people have a value which can be traded for other forms of value such as natural resources or manufactured goods. Although in economics that's very true, in society I really don't want it to be.
The US thinks it can start a war with China over intellectual fucking property, escalate it to nuclear levels, and still exist as a world force economically or militarily?
Its a bit difficult to say what the attrition rate would be. Is Chinese military technology good enough to cause harm to significant numbers of F22s?
Unless you go nuclear, the number of missions needed to seriously dent Chinese conventional capability would wipe out the current F22 squadrons just through wear, tear and accidents.
Is really apple worth more than the actual product of 200 countries?
No. It's a stupid measure made by stupid people that have a fucking clue about the thing they're getting excited by.
Value of a company : How much it would cost to buy GDP : Domestic output of a country
One is a time based measure, the other a static representation of how much someone would pay for something if they were stupid enough to buy into the hype or had spotted the gullibility of the fuckwits that have.
I hope that if any of my pensions are invested in Apple that the idiot pension fund managers sell now. Sadly their performance recently leads me to believe they'll be buying right now, which is why I now work for companies with a defined benefits scheme and not one that leaves my chance of retirement in the hands of overpaid idiots incapable of even matching the returns on the market indicies, let alone beating them.
In other news, the north sea holds more water than the daily overflow from my cistern.
While you're entirely correct about the legitimate purpose of this change, it does open the door to Microsoft assuring that doubleclick.net or equivalents aren't set in hosts to 127.0.0.1
You don't have to work with Microsoft for very long to realise that actually, yes, this is something they would consider.
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I really don't get "made by some channel". But feel free to walk off without addressing my points.
When 28 people complain that a TV programme unfairly favoured the Conservative Party and 28 people complain that a TV programme favoured the Labour Party, tell me, is the BBC biased?
I've seen those complaints. They were all for the same programme.
So no, I don't trust generic accusations of bias.
Disclaimer: I don't work in media or for the BBC.
Yeah, because the BBC never give members of the Government a hard time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwlsd8RAoqI
This. The BBC has been a mindless lapdog since Hutton.
You do realise that any given BBC news item is liable to get equal numbers of complaints stating, "Your reporting of this matter demonstrates your bias towards the evil Tories" and "Your reporting of this matter demonstrates your bias towards stupid Labour".
If you think the BBC are being biased, it's more likely due to how you interpret their lack of bias than because they are actually biased.
(Sometimes they are just biased)
Because the console makers charge us a lot to make DLC available
Which is why you should wait for the PC modders to release a lot of content, test the best mods on your dev console boxes, and get agreement from the modders to release them as a paid expansion for consoles.
Console gamers get new content, your modding community get a cut of the sales and you cover all your costs including the testing and console fees. Nobody loses out (unless you suffer an opportunity cost as a result - but there lies the art of delegation).
No, this is an isolated incident at a single retail premise. The branding above the door is pretty arbitrary in such a scenario.
Do your own fucking research. Start with transcripts of interviews with rape victims, move onto published studies. Apply as much skepticism as you like, just don't initiate any original hands-on research.
This story is actually relevant; anyone using Apple products may have dealings with these stores at some point.
That would only be relevant if every other fucking electronics store on the planet didn't suffer the same issues.
Idiotic cunts work in retail. Get used to it. Don't blame Apple for this one.
Willful destruction of data is illegal in the UK. I don't care much of a cock I am to someone in a store, they break the law if they delete the data off my hard drive.
This is no different than getting spit in your food
You may think that's acceptable. I do not. I've worked in a restaurant and I'd expect any member of staff to get sacked if they tried that.
There are excellent ways of dealing with difficult, rude or tardy customers. Breaking the law and illegally abusing them are not excellent ways.
Don't be a cock.
Earn a living and help prevent other people being horrified, corrupted or distressed? Sounds like a dream compared to having no money, starving and needing to beg to use the Internet in your local library, while other people are exposed to images and videos that they just aren't prepared for and may be damaged by seeing.
It's all a matter of perspective.
"No, stop" always means no. "No" as a word is contextual.
Of course, make sure you aren't misinterpreting. Her grabbing your hand to stop you removing it tends to be hard to misinterpret.
I'll boldly postulate (I'm male) that a woman being raped seldom orgasms.
As many as 1 in 5 do, according to the research. Which I'd class as more than 'seldom'.
Whether that's more than women engaging in consensual unprotected sex is a different question and not one I have the answer to on a more than anecdotal level.
in some cases women do claim to be raped when they were not
While this is undoubtably true (and a cause of great distress to many falsely accused men) it's also utterly fucking irrelevant to a discussion on abortion.
Any politician linking the two deserves to have a foetus implanted and medical care withdrawn for the next few months.
The other kind of rape would include statutory rape and possibly other forms that, while legally considered rape, don't create the physical and emotional response in women that "legitimate rape" would.
Look, I'm a man with an admitted empathy deficit and a dislike of the term "statutory rape". Yet even I know that any rape causes a physical and emotional response in women, whether it was a violent back-alley stranger rape or merely a belief that she was raped even if there was no penetration.
Rape is rape. Rape is bad. Stop fucking pretending some rape isn't so bad.
I'm totally not on Akin's side of this, but I do believe his words have been widely misunderstood.
My belief is that his words have been understood as providing evidence that Akin is a complete cunt. You may well disagree, but it doesn't look like a misunderstanding from here.
to use the word "cult" 10 times to describe every religion is pathetic
I think you meant 'accurate', not 'pathetic'.
That's a fair point. Women will lie to get appropriate medical care.
It's hard to blame them. I'd rather lie than have an unhygienic man stick a coathanger in me.
I'd far rather give people the medical assistance they need, and let them handle an unwanted parasite in a controlled and relatively safe manner.
I will admit, I hadn't come across "legitimate rape" as a term before.
Rape is. Consensual sex is. There are blurred edges, but those don't legitimise or negate rape.
(Blurred edge example: No, no, no, no.. noooooo, nooooooo, nooooooooo. NO DONT STOP! nooooo, noooo....)
what I find interesting is .... there is little difference in fertilization rates between consensual unprotected coitus and forced coitus.
Well there's a fucking miracle. What, you thought there'd be a massive difference? Could you share your insightful hypothesis as to why that might be?
Sure, Akin made the stupid claim. I still fail miserably to see how it could be interesting that the numbers back up the common sense outcome.
Could be hundreds of thousands dead. Maybe even millions.
So no worse to China than the US losing, say, Dallas.
Innovation can't exist without Money.
Bullshit. Utter fucking tosh and nonsense.
You want proof? Here's a proof for you:
I have no money. I need money. If only I could come up with some new way of making it. I know, I'll innovate.
Oh look. If anything, lack of money forces innovation.
Interesting measure - and one that's a little flawed. Although I like the concept of counting education as having value, that value should drop as the supply of educated people rises.
So Kenya and Ecuador increasing their human capital would dilute the stock of educated people worldwide, leading to its value dropping everywhere.
Plus of course the evil insinuation that people have a value which can be traded for other forms of value such as natural resources or manufactured goods. Although in economics that's very true, in society I really don't want it to be.
Are you seriously that fucking insane?
The US thinks it can start a war with China over intellectual fucking property, escalate it to nuclear levels, and still exist as a world force economically or militarily?
Dream on.
Its a bit difficult to say what the attrition rate would be. Is Chinese military technology good enough to cause harm to significant numbers of F22s?
Unless you go nuclear, the number of missions needed to seriously dent Chinese conventional capability would wipe out the current F22 squadrons just through wear, tear and accidents.
Enemy action wouldn't even be needed.
Is really apple worth more than the actual product of 200 countries?
No. It's a stupid measure made by stupid people that have a fucking clue about the thing they're getting excited by.
Value of a company : How much it would cost to buy
GDP : Domestic output of a country
One is a time based measure, the other a static representation of how much someone would pay for something if they were stupid enough to buy into the hype or had spotted the gullibility of the fuckwits that have.
I hope that if any of my pensions are invested in Apple that the idiot pension fund managers sell now. Sadly their performance recently leads me to believe they'll be buying right now, which is why I now work for companies with a defined benefits scheme and not one that leaves my chance of retirement in the hands of overpaid idiots incapable of even matching the returns on the market indicies, let alone beating them.
In other news, the north sea holds more water than the daily overflow from my cistern.
While you're entirely correct about the legitimate purpose of this change, it does open the door to Microsoft assuring that doubleclick.net or equivalents aren't set in hosts to 127.0.0.1
You don't have to work with Microsoft for very long to realise that actually, yes, this is something they would consider.