It's pretty nice. Could do with a larger screen (but it's a relatively small phone), the nipple is wearing out and battery life while using wifi isn't great, but apart from that it's done me very very well.
The irony being that the unelected House of Lords does more to protect the rights of the people in this country than the elected chamber.
I'm not comfortable with having an unelected body so influential in the creation of laws. I'm bloody glad we have it, and I'll fight any plans to remove or replace it with anything that wont give the same balance to the political process.
In reality there are many terrorists. I can even name a few for you, people that seek to achieve political gains through terrorising the civilian population: - osama bin laden - george bush - tony blair - gordon brown
It's pretty clear there must be terrorists out there; they were winning the war on terror with ease. Fortunately people are starting to wake up a little and get a sense of perspective.
In addition to jeremyp's excellent response, another UK experience: approx. 5000 deaths were enough to win the IRA concessions from the UK government in Northern Ireland.
Maybe you don't see any benefit in Africa. I do see significant positive changes in India, Brazil, hell even China. So that's 2/3 the world's population doing better in the past few decades.
Meanwhile post-WTC anti-terror legislation is dragging Western countries down the routes taken by totalitarian governments in the middle of the previous century. Ignore the 10s of millions dead from one war, look at the hundreds of millions negatively impacted for the latter half of the century, and imagine how much better Africa and the rest of the world could be if we'd made different choices.
If you really want to change the world, kill someone. You've changed their world forever, and yours will never be the same.
Statistically, yes, there are no deaths to terrorism. Terror related deaths in the US (and the UK) are merely a rounding error.
People changing their habits and being restricted in how they live their lives because of the stupid and oppressive anti-terror legislation.. that's statistically significant.
Tomorrow the UK parliament will debate whether it's necessary to hold someone for 42 days without charging them with a crime, just in case they might possibly be a terrorist.
Number of terror suspects the existing 28 day rule was insufficient for: 0
Meanwhile the existing anti-terror laws are used daily by police to deal with non-criminal offences and to prevent legitimate free speech and political protest.
I guess the answer to your query is "Government conspiracy".
Just because the overt business bases and demonstrable abuse of the cult of scientology is more apparent than that of other religions doesn't make them any better.
That's kind of odd. The soldiers that live have this strange habit of ducking behind cover or indeed overrunning the enemy.
Those that strafe die kind of fast.
As evidence I present all those Westerns in which the Indians ride around the wagon circle whooping, yelling and getting shot off their horses. And Clausewitz.
Just because strafing works in FPS games doesn't make it a sensible tactic, and doesn't make it sensible for an RTS which has different game mechanics.
I guess we need a good Cherokee Indian sim or something..
The fact that he wants to use technological aids to compete is frankly inequitable. If he runs in the Olympics then the other athletes must be permitted similar spring devices on their legs. At which point they'll gain a percentage increase in performance, and he'll still be nowhere near fast enough.
His body is not capable of running at Olympic speeds. I don't care how committed he is, he just needs to fucking deal with it. My body struggles to walk down stairs some days, I don't demand to compete with Olympians and expect advanced tech to give me an advantage. Why is he so special?
Incidentally, check today's news and read the list of crap Dwaine Chambers was taking to boost his performance. That's a lot of pharmaceutical misuse to gain a minor performance boost. You bet that people like him would lose a leg or two to get a significant boost to their speed.
Shit, one day I'm going to take a machete to my knees just to solve the problem, let alone gain worldwide recognition and life changing financial rewards.
I wrote to Barracuda asking them to fix their fucked up default configuration. No reply.
I now auto-delete anything sent from one of their firewalls, and actively discourage companies from buying their software. There are better behaved alternatives out there.
it should be fairly obvious that the censor's primary objective is not to ban the fictional depiction of illegal acts, but the depiction of anything they find offensive You (and most/all of the posters here) are misunderstanding this.
The law is aimed at preventing the creation of such material in locations outside the UK where non-consensual acts can be performed and filmed for sale within the UK. As the people performing, filming and selling the media are beyond the remit of British justice the politicians have decided to take action against the only remaining party: The customers.
Since the sex-slave trade, forced prostitution, rape and abuse are rampant across the globe (including the UK) it's quite hard to argue with an attempt to legislate against one of the causes of it.
Unfortunately the law is poorly worded, overly broad and criminalises people that aren't even indirectly supporting illegal acts.
Slate the law, sure, but at least acknowledge the reasons behind it. This is not just prudishness.
(The inability to be certain of the provenance of online images and video has caused me personally to stop browsing 'violent' porn on the 'net already irrespective of this law. I guess I'll just have to make do with the local clubs..)
I've complained on the phone (not even to their cancellation team) before regarding their poor service and the cost of the phone calls I'm having to pay in trying to get them to resolve their own problems.
It's resulted in a brief monthly discount and the phone call costs refunding.
Their customer service generally sucks but if you're patient you can eventually get good results out of them.
Throttling certain sources of data because they refused to pay up is however not a good result from any perspective:(
Whoa. The heavily edited, revised and abridged contradictory accounts of something that occurred 40 years before the authors wrote about it despite further contradicting with other sources discussing the same situation is meant to be considered viable evidence?
It's a central claim of Christianity that god exists, why should the claim that it's involved itself directly and personally in the world be given any more credence?
There's more evidence that the gospels are full of shit than that they accurately portray a supernatural occurrence, and frankly even if they managed to detail that it would need to pass the challenge from Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." which opens a whole new suite of interpretations.
You mean instead of the 8000 year old Greek myths, the 6000 year old Egyptian myths, the 4000 year old Celtic myths or the 2000 year old Roman myths?
How many of those heavily influenced the tome to which you refer? I know many of them heavily influenced the superstitious rituals advocates of that particular publication engage in..
I rather enjoyed Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, of which Long Dark Teatime of the Soul is the sequel. So I wouldn't call him a one-hit wonder.
The five-book trilogy is quite harsh to write off as one hit anyway.
He also co-authored The Meaning of Liff, which frankly sucked, and Last Chance to See, which was pleasant and interesting.
This of course disregards his fine work beyond the mere published literary field, and also greatly insults the inspiration he provided to others.
But hey, you don't like his work. Fair choice, I know people that don't even rate the first three books in the Hitchhiker's trilogy. He's dead (and has been for a little while now) so he'll not be bothering you any more.
if the information, which they've told you is confidential, is revealed BY YOUR FAULTY EQUIPMENT As I said, my immediate comeback would be that they broke Information Security best practices (and basic principles) by trusting information from a known insecure source.
Not to mention your assumption that they'd be able to demonstrate that I had flawed equipment, that it was the cause of the security breach and that I had acted negligently myself (rather than being the unfortunate and unwitting victim of [dastardly criminal masterminds / my employer / my girlfriend / etc]).
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I've had an E70 for a couple of years now.
It's pretty nice. Could do with a larger screen (but it's a relatively small phone), the nipple is wearing out and battery life while using wifi isn't great, but apart from that it's done me very very well.
The irony being that the unelected House of Lords does more to protect the rights of the people in this country than the elected chamber.
I'm not comfortable with having an unelected body so influential in the creation of laws. I'm bloody glad we have it, and I'll fight any plans to remove or replace it with anything that wont give the same balance to the political process.
In reality there are many terrorists. I can even name a few for you, people that seek to achieve political gains through terrorising the civilian population:
- osama bin laden
- george bush
- tony blair
- gordon brown
It's pretty clear there must be terrorists out there; they were winning the war on terror with ease. Fortunately people are starting to wake up a little and get a sense of perspective.
I hope.
Hi, I'm Cederic and I'm a child abuse victim.
(by your definition)
Then again, I _am_ mentally fucked up...
In addition to jeremyp's excellent response, another UK experience: approx. 5000 deaths were enough to win the IRA concessions from the UK government in Northern Ireland.
Maybe you don't see any benefit in Africa. I do see significant positive changes in India, Brazil, hell even China. So that's 2/3 the world's population doing better in the past few decades.
Meanwhile post-WTC anti-terror legislation is dragging Western countries down the routes taken by totalitarian governments in the middle of the previous century. Ignore the 10s of millions dead from one war, look at the hundreds of millions negatively impacted for the latter half of the century, and imagine how much better Africa and the rest of the world could be if we'd made different choices.
If you really want to change the world, kill someone. You've changed their world forever, and yours will never be the same.
Statistically, yes, there are no deaths to terrorism. Terror related deaths in the US (and the UK) are merely a rounding error.
People changing their habits and being restricted in how they live their lives because of the stupid and oppressive anti-terror legislation.. that's statistically significant.
Tomorrow the UK parliament will debate whether it's necessary to hold someone for 42 days without charging them with a crime, just in case they might possibly be a terrorist.
Number of terror suspects the existing 28 day rule was insufficient for: 0
Meanwhile the existing anti-terror laws are used daily by police to deal with non-criminal offences and to prevent legitimate free speech and political protest.
I guess the answer to your query is "Government conspiracy".
I can lose 9 pound by the end of the week.
Losing around 16 pound in two weeks is easy.
As always, keeping it off is the difficult bit..
People from the continents of America are American. What's so complicated about this?
His usage may not be commonplace, but it is accurate. Your viewpoint is insular and wrong.
He was differentiating from other Americans - the Canadians, the Mexicans, the Brazilians, etc.
America is a big place.
Just because the overt business bases and demonstrable abuse of the cult of scientology is more apparent than that of other religions doesn't make them any better.
Religion is wrong.
That's kind of odd. The soldiers that live have this strange habit of ducking behind cover or indeed overrunning the enemy.
Those that strafe die kind of fast.
As evidence I present all those Westerns in which the Indians ride around the wagon circle whooping, yelling and getting shot off their horses. And Clausewitz.
Just because strafing works in FPS games doesn't make it a sensible tactic, and doesn't make it sensible for an RTS which has different game mechanics.
I guess we need a good Cherokee Indian sim or something..
Nonsense. I've played many organised sports in mixed gender teams.
A lot of the time the women are better than me.
Sure. Why should the LPGA be allowed to discriminate on gender grounds?
The fact that he wants to use technological aids to compete is frankly inequitable. If he runs in the Olympics then the other athletes must be permitted similar spring devices on their legs. At which point they'll gain a percentage increase in performance, and he'll still be nowhere near fast enough.
His body is not capable of running at Olympic speeds. I don't care how committed he is, he just needs to fucking deal with it. My body struggles to walk down stairs some days, I don't demand to compete with Olympians and expect advanced tech to give me an advantage. Why is he so special?
Incidentally, check today's news and read the list of crap Dwaine Chambers was taking to boost his performance. That's a lot of pharmaceutical misuse to gain a minor performance boost. You bet that people like him would lose a leg or two to get a significant boost to their speed.
Shit, one day I'm going to take a machete to my knees just to solve the problem, let alone gain worldwide recognition and life changing financial rewards.
You've clearly never been to Galveston
I wrote to Barracuda asking them to fix their fucked up default configuration. No reply.
I now auto-delete anything sent from one of their firewalls, and actively discourage companies from buying their software. There are better behaved alternatives out there.
Or perhaps you can seek to put a halt to the litigious nature of the society you live in.
Of course, that would require lawyers to do something useful and beneficial at cost to themselves.
Oh well.
The law is aimed at preventing the creation of such material in locations outside the UK where non-consensual acts can be performed and filmed for sale within the UK. As the people performing, filming and selling the media are beyond the remit of British justice the politicians have decided to take action against the only remaining party: The customers.
Since the sex-slave trade, forced prostitution, rape and abuse are rampant across the globe (including the UK) it's quite hard to argue with an attempt to legislate against one of the causes of it.
Unfortunately the law is poorly worded, overly broad and criminalises people that aren't even indirectly supporting illegal acts.
Slate the law, sure, but at least acknowledge the reasons behind it. This is not just prudishness.
(The inability to be certain of the provenance of online images and video has caused me personally to stop browsing 'violent' porn on the 'net already irrespective of this law. I guess I'll just have to make do with the local clubs..)
Enjoy the feeling.
I've complained on the phone (not even to their cancellation team) before regarding their poor service and the cost of the phone calls I'm having to pay in trying to get them to resolve their own problems.
It's resulted in a brief monthly discount and the phone call costs refunding.
Their customer service generally sucks but if you're patient you can eventually get good results out of them.
Throttling certain sources of data because they refused to pay up is however not a good result from any perspective
Now that's just libellous!
I have myself had an excellent vodka and coke made by a perfectly ordinary drunk Irishman.
I'm sure it was really the Atlantic sea breeze that made his complexion such a lovely purple colour.
Whoa. The heavily edited, revised and abridged contradictory accounts of something that occurred 40 years before the authors wrote about it despite further contradicting with other sources discussing the same situation is meant to be considered viable evidence?
It's a central claim of Christianity that god exists, why should the claim that it's involved itself directly and personally in the world be given any more credence?
There's more evidence that the gospels are full of shit than that they accurately portray a supernatural occurrence, and frankly even if they managed to detail that it would need to pass the challenge from Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." which opens a whole new suite of interpretations.
You mean instead of the 8000 year old Greek myths, the 6000 year old Egyptian myths, the 4000 year old Celtic myths or the 2000 year old Roman myths?
How many of those heavily influenced the tome to which you refer? I know many of them heavily influenced the superstitious rituals advocates of that particular publication engage in..
I rather enjoyed Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, of which Long Dark Teatime of the Soul is the sequel. So I wouldn't call him a one-hit wonder.
The five-book trilogy is quite harsh to write off as one hit anyway.
He also co-authored The Meaning of Liff, which frankly sucked, and Last Chance to See, which was pleasant and interesting.
This of course disregards his fine work beyond the mere published literary field, and also greatly insults the inspiration he provided to others.
But hey, you don't like his work. Fair choice, I know people that don't even rate the first three books in the Hitchhiker's trilogy. He's dead (and has been for a little while now) so he'll not be bothering you any more.
Not to mention your assumption that they'd be able to demonstrate that I had flawed equipment, that it was the cause of the security breach and that I had acted negligently myself (rather than being the unfortunate and unwitting victim of [dastardly criminal masterminds / my employer / my girlfriend / etc]).