Why did you assume AC was envisioning the act from 'on top' ?
I know girls with rape fantasies. Shit, I know a man that fantasises about being raped. I also know a girl that giggles like hell when you tie her up, whether you have sex with her or not.
Excellent point. You also have to know and be on good terms with the other C-level executives, so you can get the job in the first place.
I suggest taking up golf, that seems to help. It's also more fun than just sitting around while your company collapses around you, and means you'll be able to walk straight into the next C-level position.
You missed the implied criticism of Top Gear. His whole point is that if that bunch of entitled pricks that can't hold a candle to people with true determination and "drive" can get 3rd in class, merely going one better isn't necessarily fantastic.
Other posters have highlighted why the comparison is perhaps unfair, and even managed to do so without slating a very popular TV entertainment show with a minor bias towards motoring.
Is it just coincidence that everybody that believes in linking currency to gold is also completely incapable of writing coherently?
The fact that people supporting gold-linked currency also support BitCoin actually puts me off the whole scheme. Frankly I'd trust a straight barter system more than this artificial and easily gamed currency.
It's not a strawman. It's a valid exploration of the boundaries of what the police might arrest you for.
You may think it's a ludicrous example. Me, I personally think getting arrested for creating hypertext links is ludicrous.
Where do you draw the line? More interestingly, where does the law draw the line, and is it in the right place. At this moment in time, it clearly isn't.
American online banking appears to be in the 90s still.
I have a CPU on my payment card, a separate card reader to interact with it and use them both as part of my authentication credentials.
If I attempt a funds transfer out of my accounts, I use those to 'sign' the transfer, using the account number of the destination and the amount involved as inputs to (presumably) a hash/encryption.
Companies take away features all the time. Computers don't have floppy disk anymore. Windows stopped using DOS.
Erm. The computer I bought with a floppy disk drive in it still has a floppy disk drive in it. It also runs Windows with DOS available.
If Sony had said "We will no longer sell PS3 with OtherOS available" then people would've been disappointed and may not have bought a PS3. They wouldn't have responded and protested the way that they have.
Instead Sony said "We're going to break the device we sold to you, and try to sue into oblivion the poor sod that tries to fix it for you".
Next you'll be telling me that you've got no problem with Dell breaking into your house to remove the floppy drive from the PC you bought from them in 2005, even though you have data on floppy disks still.
It's long training. You eat in a restaurant, then you hand your credit card over to someone you don't know who is probably paid quite poorly.. They will then disappear with it for 5 to 10 minutes.
Oh how quaint. That system was abandoned years ago here. These days they'll bring a card reader* to your table so you can retain your card the whole time.
* hopefully the card readers no longer transmit wireless in the clear, as the early versions did. But at least they're _trying_.
But let's just pretend your 200 pounds of muscle with martial arts training, who doesn't afraid of anything...
Ironically, I am. Not sure that my extensive prowess with medieval ranged weaponry is going to be much help in a street brawl, or indeed that my stunning leg musculature is going to help me take a punch to the face.
Still, I'd step in if I saw someone being mugged. Because even if I don't win, I'll make sure the other guy loses, and if the original victim helps out, we've got a decent chance. Hell, most of the time the offender's going to leg it - he doesn't want a fair fight, and he doesn't know I have a glass jaw..
Also consider that most smart phone operating systems didn't have full multitasking capabilities until recently. There was no reason to track process CPU or memory usage because they pretty much had all of the processor time, available memory and network I/O exclusively while they were running.
But mobile operating systems have had multitasking since the mid 90s. I own a pocket sized device with a multitasking operating system that I bought back then.
We must always remember that a smartphone is not a computer. It shouldn't have a console and advanced system diagnostic tools. The system shouldn't need to monitor and report process resource usage. Why? Because a smart phone shouldn't be running that many background processes in the first place!
I have in my life personally owned six PCs that each have less RAM, slower CPUs, less storage and far slower network connectivity than my current phone. In fact, all six added together have less RAM and storage than my current phone.
When I buy my next phone, that'll go up to seven PCs.
Hell, my phone has better screen resolution than my first three PCs. To get even sillier, my phone can emulate my first three PCs, running all of the software that they could.
Modern phones are complex, capable computers. Some of us want to use them as such.
They need to keep memory usage and processor time to a minimum, not only because they are limited in size, but also because using them draws battery power as well.
Battery life is indeed the real scarce resource. Preserving that is important to users, and so should be important to app writers, but often isn't. It isn't however an excuse to compromise the rest of the very capable hardware.
That's a libel case, and we already know English libel law needs reform. The case of Giggs vs Unnamed Famous Premiership Footballer is a privacy/freedom of expression case, with no current libel claims.
McLibel was a far more insidious case if you want to quote libel examples..
A group is walking through a militarized zone while openly carrying rifles. One ducks around a corner and points an RPG at a helicopter.
Either you have an impressively bad memory, or you watched a very different video to one that I did. In the one I saw, nobody pointed anything at a helicopter.
You also haven't addressed the murder of medical staff, the attack on a vehicle containing children or the way the children in the helicopter begged to be allowed to kill the men that hadn't actually attacked anybody.
because the victim is in American jurisdiction it's perfectly reasonable to try him here
Under Russian law, where Sklyarov was when he committed the act, there was no victim. If there's no victim then how can that missing victim be in American jurisdiction?
That's a case where the right to freedom of expression is weighed against the right to privacy.
Maybe the balance is currently not entirely right, but the discussions are ongoing to try and improve that situation. Meanwhile, people _are_ blogging about Ryan Giggs and his wandering penis and not getting prosecuted about it.
I often deride the US Marine Corp, their methods and their attitudes. Despite this, they're a very professional, very well trained, very well equipped and very capable military force that can stand head to head with any comparable unit in the world.
Both halves of the above paragraph lead me however to a feeling of discomfort about your proposal. Although I have utter faith in the competence, ability and willingness of a marine to put himself in harms way to protect an aircraft, I'm just not convinced that on balance it would be a good decision.
Any soldier (marine or otherwise) can make bad decisions, and Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel have all had soldiers interacting with the public making poor decisions leading to the death of innocent civilians.
Without a change in Marine priorities (which appear to be self->unit->mission->us assets->us civilians->allies->other civilians) there is an excessive likelihood of poor decisions in response to ambiguous threats.
Put armed marines on aircraft and civilian deaths will be higher than the average caused by terrorists.
Put marines on aircraft armed only with tasers and I think you could have a workable solution. Non-lethal errors of judgement can be far more easily accepted.
However it still wont address the "lets get a bomb onto the aircraft" terror threat, which would still be used to justify invasive airport security.
We make a remarkable amount of money from our halfwits. It's a good return on investment on the whole - but that shouldn't be a surprise, we bought German..
Except that on Windows I can resize my terminal windows, on Linux I can resize my terminal windows.. shit, on my phone I can resize my terminal windows.
And yes, that includes viewable size and "page" size.
I haven't lost that ability, I just have a software terminal rather than a hardware one. I can also change my screen resolution too, but (as with terminal dimensions) I set it to "as much information as possible" and leave it there.
You fucking misogynist. He's the married man, she's the unfortunate person with her name published in gossip rags. Why call her the tramp?
I do suspect you're right though, in that Giggs has severely damaged his legacy. It wont stop him being remembered as one of the greatest footballers of all time, but it will stop him getting a knighthood, and will leave him named as the reason UK privacy laws were changed.
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Why did you assume AC was envisioning the act from 'on top' ?
I know girls with rape fantasies. Shit, I know a man that fantasises about being raped. I also know a girl that giggles like hell when you tie her up, whether you have sex with her or not.
good god what the hell is wrong with you?
Glasshouses, etc.
Excellent point. You also have to know and be on good terms with the other C-level executives, so you can get the job in the first place.
I suggest taking up golf, that seems to help. It's also more fun than just sitting around while your company collapses around you, and means you'll be able to walk straight into the next C-level position.
You missed the implied criticism of Top Gear. His whole point is that if that bunch of entitled pricks that can't hold a candle to people with true determination and "drive" can get 3rd in class, merely going one better isn't necessarily fantastic.
Other posters have highlighted why the comparison is perhaps unfair, and even managed to do so without slating a very popular TV entertainment show with a minor bias towards motoring.
Do you know whether there's an equivalent service in the UK?
Equifax's UK site has no hints, and the DPA (data protection act) would obligate them to share any/all data they hold on an individual.
I'd suggest you avoid giving the FFII your email address though, as the one I gave to them sadly became a spam magnet shortly afterwards.
This is one reason I fund ORG and not FFII.
Why would it be illegal? There are laws against providing goods or services in exchange for electronic signatures?
If those signatures have negotiable value then there are likely to be tax implications, but those are distinct from the use of an arcane currency.
Linden Dollars weren't illegal (in most jurisdictions), using gold in WoW to buy real goods/services isn't illegal, why would bitcoin?
Is it just coincidence that everybody that believes in linking currency to gold is also completely incapable of writing coherently?
The fact that people supporting gold-linked currency also support BitCoin actually puts me off the whole scheme. Frankly I'd trust a straight barter system more than this artificial and easily gamed currency.
It's not a strawman. It's a valid exploration of the boundaries of what the police might arrest you for.
You may think it's a ludicrous example. Me, I personally think getting arrested for creating hypertext links is ludicrous.
Where do you draw the line? More interestingly, where does the law draw the line, and is it in the right place. At this moment in time, it clearly isn't.
American online banking appears to be in the 90s still.
I have a CPU on my payment card, a separate card reader to interact with it and use them both as part of my authentication credentials.
If I attempt a funds transfer out of my accounts, I use those to 'sign' the transfer, using the account number of the destination and the amount involved as inputs to (presumably) a hash/encryption.
This is pretty standard in the UK now..
Reality is, old man, we made the Web. And we're proud of it.
You can thank us later. Right now we're too busy conquering Japan. Again. Bloody sequels..
Companies take away features all the time. Computers don't have floppy disk anymore. Windows stopped using DOS.
Erm. The computer I bought with a floppy disk drive in it still has a floppy disk drive in it. It also runs Windows with DOS available.
If Sony had said "We will no longer sell PS3 with OtherOS available" then people would've been disappointed and may not have bought a PS3. They wouldn't have responded and protested the way that they have.
Instead Sony said "We're going to break the device we sold to you, and try to sue into oblivion the poor sod that tries to fix it for you".
Next you'll be telling me that you've got no problem with Dell breaking into your house to remove the floppy drive from the PC you bought from them in 2005, even though you have data on floppy disks still.
It's long training. You eat in a restaurant, then you hand your credit card over to someone you don't know who is probably paid quite poorly.. They will then disappear with it for 5 to 10 minutes.
Oh how quaint. That system was abandoned years ago here. These days they'll bring a card reader* to your table so you can retain your card the whole time.
* hopefully the card readers no longer transmit wireless in the clear, as the early versions did. But at least they're _trying_.
But let's just pretend your 200 pounds of muscle with martial arts training, who doesn't afraid of anything...
Ironically, I am. Not sure that my extensive prowess with medieval ranged weaponry is going to be much help in a street brawl, or indeed that my stunning leg musculature is going to help me take a punch to the face.
Still, I'd step in if I saw someone being mugged. Because even if I don't win, I'll make sure the other guy loses, and if the original victim helps out, we've got a decent chance. Hell, most of the time the offender's going to leg it - he doesn't want a fair fight, and he doesn't know I have a glass jaw..
Also consider that most smart phone operating systems didn't have full multitasking capabilities until recently. There was no reason to track process CPU or memory usage because they pretty much had all of the processor time, available memory and network I/O exclusively while they were running.
But mobile operating systems have had multitasking since the mid 90s. I own a pocket sized device with a multitasking operating system that I bought back then.
We must always remember that a smartphone is not a computer. It shouldn't have a console and advanced system diagnostic tools. The system shouldn't need to monitor and report process resource usage. Why? Because a smart phone shouldn't be running that many background processes in the first place!
I have in my life personally owned six PCs that each have less RAM, slower CPUs, less storage and far slower network connectivity than my current phone. In fact, all six added together have less RAM and storage than my current phone.
When I buy my next phone, that'll go up to seven PCs.
Hell, my phone has better screen resolution than my first three PCs. To get even sillier, my phone can emulate my first three PCs, running all of the software that they could.
Modern phones are complex, capable computers. Some of us want to use them as such.
They need to keep memory usage and processor time to a minimum, not only because they are limited in size, but also because using them draws battery power as well.
Battery life is indeed the real scarce resource. Preserving that is important to users, and so should be important to app writers, but often isn't. It isn't however an excuse to compromise the rest of the very capable hardware.
That's a libel case, and we already know English libel law needs reform. The case of Giggs vs Unnamed Famous Premiership Footballer is a privacy/freedom of expression case, with no current libel claims.
McLibel was a far more insidious case if you want to quote libel examples..
Indeed, it'll be interesting to see whether the monarchy can survive the reign of the Prince of Wales.
This is from recollection.
A group is walking through a militarized zone while openly carrying rifles. One ducks around a corner and points an RPG at a helicopter.
Either you have an impressively bad memory, or you watched a very different video to one that I did. In the one I saw, nobody pointed anything at a helicopter.
You also haven't addressed the murder of medical staff, the attack on a vehicle containing children or the way the children in the helicopter begged to be allowed to kill the men that hadn't actually attacked anybody.
But why let facts get in the way?
Indeed.
Which is utter bullshit.
because the victim is in American jurisdiction it's perfectly reasonable to try him here
Under Russian law, where Sklyarov was when he committed the act, there was no victim. If there's no victim then how can that missing victim be in American jurisdiction?
That's a case where the right to freedom of expression is weighed against the right to privacy.
Maybe the balance is currently not entirely right, but the discussions are ongoing to try and improve that situation. Meanwhile, people _are_ blogging about Ryan Giggs and his wandering penis and not getting prosecuted about it.
Maybe you should find a better example.
Where the hell is Decimomannu anyway?
(common t-shirt when I was growing up)
Sadly yes, that's happened.
There are also perfectly legal photographs that would never lead to arrest that you may nonetheless not want printing in public,
I often deride the US Marine Corp, their methods and their attitudes. Despite this, they're a very professional, very well trained, very well equipped and very capable military force that can stand head to head with any comparable unit in the world.
Both halves of the above paragraph lead me however to a feeling of discomfort about your proposal. Although I have utter faith in the competence, ability and willingness of a marine to put himself in harms way to protect an aircraft, I'm just not convinced that on balance it would be a good decision.
Any soldier (marine or otherwise) can make bad decisions, and Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel have all had soldiers interacting with the public making poor decisions leading to the death of innocent civilians.
Without a change in Marine priorities (which appear to be self->unit->mission->us assets->us civilians->allies->other civilians) there is an excessive likelihood of poor decisions in response to ambiguous threats.
Put armed marines on aircraft and civilian deaths will be higher than the average caused by terrorists.
Put marines on aircraft armed only with tasers and I think you could have a workable solution. Non-lethal errors of judgement can be far more easily accepted.
However it still wont address the "lets get a bomb onto the aircraft" terror threat, which would still be used to justify invasive airport security.
We make a remarkable amount of money from our halfwits. It's a good return on investment on the whole - but that shouldn't be a surprise, we bought German..
Except that on Windows I can resize my terminal windows, on Linux I can resize my terminal windows.. shit, on my phone I can resize my terminal windows.
And yes, that includes viewable size and "page" size.
I haven't lost that ability, I just have a software terminal rather than a hardware one. I can also change my screen resolution too, but (as with terminal dimensions) I set it to "as much information as possible" and leave it there.
You fucking misogynist. He's the married man, she's the unfortunate person with her name published in gossip rags. Why call her the tramp?
I do suspect you're right though, in that Giggs has severely damaged his legacy. It wont stop him being remembered as one of the greatest footballers of all time, but it will stop him getting a knighthood, and will leave him named as the reason UK privacy laws were changed.