The cable film channels I subscribe to don't play ads during the films.
One channel went free-to-view, and started putting ads in. Instead of happily paying to view the channel, I stopped watching it even though it was free.
I'll avoid using sites that demand me to watch adverts. They'll need some pretty compelling content to get me through a video captcha.
the family who suffered a loss deserves the right to be heard.
What's that got to do with going to court? Let alone doing your best to make sure you'll win.
From an earlier post by you:
The kid and the parents just have to appear and account for their actions.
Who the fuck tries to make a six year old account for their actions as a four year old? It's fucking ludicrous. It's irresponsible. It's called being a twat.
Sounds like the parents have already demonstrated adequate supervision; maybe it's time for the family of the deceased to answer questions about why they weren't better supervising their clearly vulnerable relative.
Thing is, I combine honesty, loyalty, diligence and ethics in my work. I don't need to be legally bound to do that, and overall my employer contributes significantly to society - customers and non-customers benefit.
Put a legal binding on me and I wont change a thing I do. How about lawyers try going above and beyond that narrow remit.
So let the hospital sue the dead woman. Lets face it, they can't exactly argue she's benefited from that care.
Meanwhile what the fuck does the cost of medical care have to do with whether accidents happen and whether a 4 year old has any responsibility for the death six months later of someone too fucking stupid to get out of their way.
Shrug, it's your own fault. You chose to be part of that community, you knew lawyers are generally cunts and as a community you continually make the situation worse by pursuing stupid cases and demanding new shit laws.
Stop holding people financially responsible for shit that happens by accident. The world is not safe. Deal with it.
Shit, the kid should counter-sue for the old woman trying to kidnap her and causing an accident.
If I were the judge and the kid found liable, I'd award damages to the tune of 50% of the child's income for the next two years. Good luck paying your medical fees on $40/year.
Exactly. IE6 is fantastic, truly magnificent - it's a poster child for any architect.
Why? Because now we have the perfect "here's how to fuck up your organisation by not following standards" example. With the added bonus that almost any organisation I go to work for will have fallen into exactly that trap.
. It's the only option available to be able to communicate with all of my family members on a frequent basis due to some of them being in different countries.
Which is clearly utter bullshit.
Use email. Use online forums. Use the phone. Use a fucking boat, your legs and your physical presence.
There have never in human history been a broader set of options and opportunities to communicate with geographically dispersed people, so pretending you absolutely must use Facebook or you'll be cut off forever (and lose your inheritance) stands out as being the complete tosh it clearly is.
Sadly there are a lot of groups of friends that use Facebook for all of their communication. If you're not on Facebook you can't be in their clique.
"Why didn't you come along? We've been arranging it on Facebook for weeks"
"You looked fantastic in his video. What do you mean, 'What video'?"
I have two lives. One in which I participate, which includes face to face contact, use of online forums, youtube, picasa and email, and one that exists only on Facebook, where I exist but only in a vague form, unsubstantiated, realised only through inference and unable to contribute, respond or even view.
It's hard trying to work out what the ghostly facebook me should know and react to, so that the real-world me can continue to participate.
Although many passengers just don't have any issues with the security.
I know it's all theatre, I hate the pointlessness, I resent the waste of my time. I also get through it in seconds, with a smile and occasionally a flirt (e.g. the security guard that was awfully impressed at my ability to take off two shoes, a belt and a coat in under a second. She was cute too.)
Steal? Only in the same way that the Normans stole land from the Anglo-Saxons, who stole it from the Picts, who stole it from the Celts, who frankly stole it in the first place when they invaded from Ireland.
None of which justifies the IRA setting off bombs under civilians, law enforcement or random members of royalty.
Of course, that's unusual. Far more common are political refugees, people attempting to better themselves or people providing valuable assistance to the US Economy by filling a skills gap.
Some of those are forced to live there, some are forced by circumstances to stay and some are free to leave when they want. What they aren't free to do is withhold taxes, even though they have no say in how that money is then spent (e.g. on immigration officials that then harass them despite their legal residence. Or maybe I know too many expats..)
when it comes time to determine how to spend the money you pay into the collective account? Or we could just cut out the meetings and voting, and I get to say how you can or can't spend your money.
I believe there's an example of that - called taxation. If I'm living in your town paying taxes, too fucking right I want to vote on how the town's run.
Or you don't see anything wrong with taking peoples money through threat of force and giving them fuck all in return?
The devices are available direct from the manufacturers. There is no need to acquire the restricted configuration from a carrier (other than price, and you can negotiate some pretty respectable deals if you're not asking for a $600 handset with the service).
That's a confusing question. Why translate business rules into SQL? Why not run the rules in Java on one of the many Oracle app servers (or, comically, inside the DB itself).
Seriously, I don't even work for Oracle and I could architect a dozen solutions for your problem. Give your Oracle account manager a call, or (for the cheaper option) head over to Apache.org for some open source (but still very professional) options.
Most of my friends game on a PC and not on a console. Consoles don't have the input flexibility of a PC, they don't have the graphics and they don't work too well if you want the TV or a film on in addition to your gaming (and I know a couple of dozen people that do).
I'm not knocking console gaming, a lot of people get a lot of enjoyment out of it, and a Wii or a dancemat is an excellent addition to a party. But for hard core solid gaming I'm always going to switch on my PC.
I personally would switch to Linux if it supported easily all the games I've been buying on Steam. It doesn't.
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Surely it would come with pluggable parts so you could switch it to suit?
We may be drifting a little off-topic here.
The cable film channels I subscribe to don't play ads during the films.
One channel went free-to-view, and started putting ads in. Instead of happily paying to view the channel, I stopped watching it even though it was free.
I'll avoid using sites that demand me to watch adverts. They'll need some pretty compelling content to get me through a video captcha.
Someone dies six months after an operation and you want to take a 6 year old child to court? What's wrong with me indeed.
the family who suffered a loss deserves the right to be heard.
What's that got to do with going to court? Let alone doing your best to make sure you'll win.
From an earlier post by you:
The kid and the parents just have to appear and account for their actions.
Who the fuck tries to make a six year old account for their actions as a four year old? It's fucking ludicrous. It's irresponsible. It's called being a twat.
Sounds like the parents have already demonstrated adequate supervision; maybe it's time for the family of the deceased to answer questions about why they weren't better supervising their clearly vulnerable relative.
Yes. In fact, if I see you do it, and it was a complete accident, and you offer to pay for it, I'll say thank you but no thank you.
I wont be happy about it but accidents happen. Shrug.
Thing is, I combine honesty, loyalty, diligence and ethics in my work. I don't need to be legally bound to do that, and overall my employer contributes significantly to society - customers and non-customers benefit.
Put a legal binding on me and I wont change a thing I do. How about lawyers try going above and beyond that narrow remit.
I don't necessarily see what's wrong with going straight to the court
The motivation. Why take a toddler to court over an accident?
Why are you so quick to victimize the victim's family for exercising their rights under the law?
Because rights come with responsibilities, such as not being complete twats.
So let the hospital sue the dead woman. Lets face it, they can't exactly argue she's benefited from that care.
Meanwhile what the fuck does the cost of medical care have to do with whether accidents happen and whether a 4 year old has any responsibility for the death six months later of someone too fucking stupid to get out of their way.
Shrug, it's your own fault. You chose to be part of that community, you knew lawyers are generally cunts and as a community you continually make the situation worse by pursuing stupid cases and demanding new shit laws.
Yes. It was a fucking accident.
Stop holding people financially responsible for shit that happens by accident. The world is not safe. Deal with it.
Shit, the kid should counter-sue for the old woman trying to kidnap her and causing an accident.
If I were the judge and the kid found liable, I'd award damages to the tune of 50% of the child's income for the next two years. Good luck paying your medical fees on $40/year.
It's a farcical situation.
Exactly. IE6 is fantastic, truly magnificent - it's a poster child for any architect.
Why? Because now we have the perfect "here's how to fuck up your organisation by not following standards" example. With the added bonus that almost any organisation I go to work for will have fallen into exactly that trap.
Advertise carpet cleaning products and offer discounts on Doritos from a specific online retailer.
Who in turn will seek to leverage their relationship, selling your vetinary services and cheap student loans for your child.
Information is valuable.
. It's the only option available to be able to communicate with all of my family members on a frequent basis due to some of them being in different countries.
Which is clearly utter bullshit.
Use email. Use online forums. Use the phone. Use a fucking boat, your legs and your physical presence.
There have never in human history been a broader set of options and opportunities to communicate with geographically dispersed people, so pretending you absolutely must use Facebook or you'll be cut off forever (and lose your inheritance) stands out as being the complete tosh it clearly is.
Why should there ever be a law? Facebook is doing nothing wrong.
There needs to be user education. There needs to be an instilled sense of distrust, scepticism and paranoia.
If the users weren't that fucking stupid as to trust Facebook, there would be no issue.
Sadly there are a lot of groups of friends that use Facebook for all of their communication. If you're not on Facebook you can't be in their clique.
"Why didn't you come along? We've been arranging it on Facebook for weeks"
"You looked fantastic in his video. What do you mean, 'What video'?"
I have two lives. One in which I participate, which includes face to face contact, use of online forums, youtube, picasa and email, and one that exists only on Facebook, where I exist but only in a vague form, unsubstantiated, realised only through inference and unable to contribute, respond or even view.
It's hard trying to work out what the ghostly facebook me should know and react to, so that the real-world me can continue to participate.
Although many passengers just don't have any issues with the security.
I know it's all theatre, I hate the pointlessness, I resent the waste of my time. I also get through it in seconds, with a smile and occasionally a flirt (e.g. the security guard that was awfully impressed at my ability to take off two shoes, a belt and a coat in under a second. She was cute too.)
I've seen an airport scanner attendant while sheet-white, grab his supervisor and watched the blood drain from her face too.
After which they signalled to an armed guard, asked whose bag it was then asked me to open it for them.
Turns out 6 kilos of Haribo doesn't look good on a scanner:
http://www.americansweets.co.uk/british-3kg-bag-of-haribo-yellow-belly-snakes-gummy-candy-7185-p.asp
My friend's kid was still eating those a year later :)
they stole land from the Irish
Steal? Only in the same way that the Normans stole land from the Anglo-Saxons, who stole it from the Picts, who stole it from the Celts, who frankly stole it in the first place when they invaded from Ireland.
None of which justifies the IRA setting off bombs under civilians, law enforcement or random members of royalty.
I have a lot of respect for Martin Broughton. Brave? The man has balls of solid brass. He plays a hard game, he plays to win and he succeeds.
He also seems to be dedicating the month of October to fucking over Americans, but that might be coincidence.
They forced you to move there???
Sometimes, yes.
http://business.scotsman.com/natwestthree/British-bankers-are-told-that.2794259.jp
Of course, that's unusual. Far more common are political refugees, people attempting to better themselves or people providing valuable assistance to the US Economy by filling a skills gap.
Some of those are forced to live there, some are forced by circumstances to stay and some are free to leave when they want. What they aren't free to do is withhold taxes, even though they have no say in how that money is then spent (e.g. on immigration officials that then harass them despite their legal residence. Or maybe I know too many expats..)
when it comes time to determine how to spend the money you pay into the collective account? Or we could just cut out the meetings and voting, and I get to say how you can or can't spend your money.
I believe there's an example of that - called taxation. If I'm living in your town paying taxes, too fucking right I want to vote on how the town's run.
Or you don't see anything wrong with taking peoples money through threat of force and giving them fuck all in return?
(That's a rhetorical question; you're American)
The devices are available direct from the manufacturers. There is no need to acquire the restricted configuration from a carrier (other than price, and you can negotiate some pretty respectable deals if you're not asking for a $600 handset with the service).
Unfortunate. It genuinely rocks.
I suspect it'll work on any decent HTML5 compliant browser, but in the meantime find someone with a working Chrome install.
That's a confusing question. Why translate business rules into SQL? Why not run the rules in Java on one of the many Oracle app servers (or, comically, inside the DB itself).
Seriously, I don't even work for Oracle and I could architect a dozen solutions for your problem. Give your Oracle account manager a call, or (for the cheaper option) head over to Apache.org for some open source (but still very professional) options.
Most of my friends game on a PC and not on a console. Consoles don't have the input flexibility of a PC, they don't have the graphics and they don't work too well if you want the TV or a film on in addition to your gaming (and I know a couple of dozen people that do).
I'm not knocking console gaming, a lot of people get a lot of enjoyment out of it, and a Wii or a dancemat is an excellent addition to a party. But for hard core solid gaming I'm always going to switch on my PC.
I personally would switch to Linux if it supported easily all the games I've been buying on Steam. It doesn't.