The majority of people, even teenagers, are non-criminals. That's almost exactly wrong. The majority of people, especially teenagers, are consciously criminals. But everyone does it; nobody cares.
I suspect that all people are criminals. The laws are that badly written. Luckily they're not all always enforced.
I agree it's not the shop owner's job to find something else for the kids to do. I disagree that the appropriate response is indiscriminate attack on a large population segment.
If the shop owners were coming out with a baseball bat and attacking random people stood near the entrance, would that be acceptable to you?
Same principles at work. The attack is more subtle, but still present.
Lucky he was in the UK - in another country the other guy might have had a.38 of his own, and he wouldn't have had to do any chasing.
Anyway, I'm in the UK and I'm very capable of shooting people, using legally owned weapons held within my home and my car. If I shoot someone waving an axe around I'm going to be asked to prove (probably in court) that I thought they were a clear, credible and immediate threat to my life.
shopowners are using them inside property they own They're using them outside shops they own too.
That's pretty clear sound pollution. Find somewhere for the kids to go, with constructive/entertaining things for them to do, and they wont hang about the shop any more anyway. It's a societal problem, and a technological solution that adversely impacts passing people is not an appropriate answer.
Plus the commercials voiced over the credits, plus the commercials that overlay the bottom 12% of the screen, plus the commercials built into the program.
Even discounting those, over 23% commercials would drive me away from TV. Indeed, I watch live sport (45-50 minutes contiguous football without a commercial), films (entire film with no commercials - beyond the product placement, of course) and things on the BBC (organisation commercials and the very occasional political party ad only). And that's with the UK's far less than 7 minutes every half hour of commercials.
Forget the precision of his estimate, his point is still very valid.
Back on topic, the only impact of the writers strike I noticed here in the UK was the reporting of it on the news. Didn't seem such a big thing, and if it's reduced the amount of hollywood and tv dross being produed this year then that can only be a good thing.
This is why the waiter never gets to touch my card, and hands the sole copy of the tape with its number on it directly to me. The copy he gets to put in the till hasn't got the number on it, the card reader is brought to my table, there are minimal opportunities here.
Ok, back in the real world.. half the restaurants still print the number all over the place, half the waiters take your card over to the machine instead of bringing the machine to you, the machine uses unencrypted wireless signals and there is documented evidence of modified card readers being used that just capture your card number and/or PIN electronically.
Which is why the payments industry are looking at introducing alternate payment mechanisms that address these vulnerabilities. It's still not an excuse for HMRC to lose your personal data.
hmm. A mainframe? A second hand Sun workstation? A laptop?
I have a five year old PC at home. It cost a hell of a lot more than $2100. It has a mammoth 1GB of RAM and a stupendous 160gb hard disk.
It'll run Vista. It wont run Vista with all the prettiness turned on while holding multiple applications in memory without swapping and slowing down like a dog on two legs. That sounds like a problem to me..
While google may well tell you what E85 is, it wont necessarily tell you quickly and easily why its relation to GM trucks is relevant to the relation between Vista and otherwise perfectly good hardware.
Asking the person that used this curious simile is an excellent way to find out, and doesn't even require you to leave the confines of your existing website.
Several people at the Guantanamo concentration camp were abducted from countries that had no US troops in them. Many of them may well have lawyers. Many of the lawyers report being obstructed and/or harrassed in their work. Some of the lawyers are appointed by a military commission in what are hardly fair trials.
I disagree entirely with legislating to disable internet access from p2p file sharers. Nonetheless I don't think anybody from a country that imprisons and tortures people without charge and without trial should use such legislation to suggest that the UK has worse civil liberties problems than their own.
The UK has worse civil liberties issues than this to worry about. Sadly it's still one of the better countries in the world - just not good enough, and getting worse.
It certainly highlights the potential for abuse. It fails to indicate any specific instances of abuse.
I have very great regard for the Internet Watch Foundation, and welcomed its introduction in the mid 90s. It's helped us avoid Governmental interferance of a lot of 'net content for over a decade. This means that I instinctively distrust anybody that rails against it without further evidence. It also means I'm keen to hear about any relevant evidence, as the IWF does fulfil an important role and one for which it requires a considerable degree of trust.
The difference is that I think everyone else is actually trying to provide the therapy you're paying for instead of brainwashing you into lifelong servitude.
As a native with excellent and specialist skills it frustrates the fuck out of me that recruiting people with similar to skills to me yields a plethora of Indian and Pakistani immigrants and very few natives.
Just five years ago this wasn't the case.
Companies have largely outsourced the entry level roles in my career path to Asia and this has denied the natives the opportunity to enter the field. Subsequently the foreign workers to whom the work was outsourced immigrate and bring the skills they've gained to undercut the few natives that are left working in that area.
Because the immigrants are here for 2-5 years then intend to return to Asia and a lower cost of living they are able to work for less. Because they come from where the jobs are outsourced to, they have a skills advantage. Because there are so fucking many of them they swamp the market.
I'm failing to understand completely how this is having an economically beneficial effect for the country I live in. The economy loses out on the entry level jobs, it loses out on the cost of that work (as it goes abroad), it loses out on a skilled workforce, it loses out on the expenditure of a worker that's saving his/her cash for a good life back home in Asia.
The natives aren't passive aggressive, they aren't fucking lazy, they aren't unable to respond to a crisis in an intelligent way. They are getting fucked over by globalism and the current immigration policies are helping enable this.
Don't fucking tell me I need educating about multiculturalism. Cunt.
UK passports are valid for ten years. I renewed mine early last year to get as much extra time from it as I can.
By then biometrics will be accepted and commonplace, or something will have happened to change the status quo. I'm hoping for the latter. I strongly expect the former.
For somewhat less impact, writing to your local elected representative and your European parliament members may be a less dramatic and more appropriate starting point.
Google fails to provide useful search results for a lot of searches. Some of them may well have no internet content available. Many others the content is swamped by a pletheora of other site aggregotors, link farms, or even genuine vendors selling an item you're searching for, but not giving you the information you're after.
Sure, I can refine my Google searches to cut out all these distractions. But I'm lazy; I want a two word search to give me the link I need straight away.
Just replied to someone else making a similar point to you. My response was
I don't judge the religion by some of its followers. I judge the religion by its outcomes. I'd say that christianity has been, is and continues to be an oppressive tool of control aimed at enrichment of the few. I disparage and am derogatory towards organised religion because frankly I hate it and feel the world would be better without it. I disparage and am derogatory towards many religious people because frankly I think they're stupid. I hate stupid people. Sometimes I hate myself.
Voicing disagreements with religion politely gets you persecuted. You may as well go full on aggressively rude at them, at least that way you're getting your money's worth from your stoning/flogging/burning/beheading/etc..
I was raised as a christian. I don't blame my parents, they just didn't know any better.
I don't judge the religion by some of its followers. I judge the religion by its outcomes. I'd say that christianity has been, is and continues to be an oppressive tool of control aimed at enrichment of the few.
Just because you've been brainwashed into believing all that shit doesn't make you a bad person. Just because you may be a good person doesn't make your religion right.
Being one of those iconoclastic idiots We agree on something then.
You seem to be suggesting to me that the reason people get so irate about pictures of someone that died 1200 years ago is because some bloke said that another bloke said that some sort of 'god' told him that people that make pictures will be burned and tormented in a mythical existance known as hell?
Surely this just means that if someone creates a picture then either they don't believe in this god thing, and are thus completely in the clear, or they do believe in the whole god thing but don't believe the bloke that pretends to have talked to it, and so are in the clear, or they do believe in the whole god thing, and do believe the bloke that pretends to have talked to it, but don't believe the bloke that relates the anecdote, and so are in the clear, or they do believe in the god thing, the bloke that pretends to talk to it, the bloke that related the anecdote AND the bloke that wrote it down, and are basically just gambling that they'll get away with it anyway.
I'm failing to see in this chain of logic where the fuck it has anything to do with a billion muslims who are all welcome to believe whatever bullshit their subjugators feed them and are completely at liberty to avoid making pictures themselves, or indeed why the fuck it's remotely blasphemous?
I, however, take great offense at Christianity being likened to Islam. Why? They're both monotheistic religions. They both refer continually to books written a long time ago. They're both used as an excuse for subjugating, killing or stealing from others. They're both full of shit.
Even in the subset of things in this world called 'religion', these two are pretty fucking similar.
Don't go pretending Christianity is in any way better than Islam. They're as bad as each other.
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The majority of people, especially teenagers, are consciously criminals. But everyone does it; nobody cares.
I suspect that all people are criminals. The laws are that badly written. Luckily they're not all always enforced.
I agree it's not the shop owner's job to find something else for the kids to do. I disagree that the appropriate response is indiscriminate attack on a large population segment.
If the shop owners were coming out with a baseball bat and attacking random people stood near the entrance, would that be acceptable to you?
Same principles at work. The attack is more subtle, but still present.
Lucky he was in the UK - in another country the other guy might have had a
Anyway, I'm in the UK and I'm very capable of shooting people, using legally owned weapons held within my home and my car. If I shoot someone waving an axe around I'm going to be asked to prove (probably in court) that I thought they were a clear, credible and immediate threat to my life.
That's pretty clear sound pollution. Find somewhere for the kids to go, with constructive/entertaining things for them to do, and they wont hang about the shop any more anyway. It's a societal problem, and a technological solution that adversely impacts passing people is not an appropriate answer.
Plus the commercials voiced over the credits, plus the commercials that overlay the bottom 12% of the screen, plus the commercials built into the program.
Even discounting those, over 23% commercials would drive me away from TV. Indeed, I watch live sport (45-50 minutes contiguous football without a commercial), films (entire film with no commercials - beyond the product placement, of course) and things on the BBC (organisation commercials and the very occasional political party ad only). And that's with the UK's far less than 7 minutes every half hour of commercials.
Forget the precision of his estimate, his point is still very valid.
Back on topic, the only impact of the writers strike I noticed here in the UK was the reporting of it on the news. Didn't seem such a big thing, and if it's reduced the amount of hollywood and tv dross being produed this year then that can only be a good thing.
This is why the waiter never gets to touch my card, and hands the sole copy of the tape with its number on it directly to me. The copy he gets to put in the till hasn't got the number on it, the card reader is brought to my table, there are minimal opportunities here.
Ok, back in the real world.. half the restaurants still print the number all over the place, half the waiters take your card over to the machine instead of bringing the machine to you, the machine uses unencrypted wireless signals and there is documented evidence of modified card readers being used that just capture your card number and/or PIN electronically.
Which is why the payments industry are looking at introducing alternate payment mechanisms that address these vulnerabilities. It's still not an excuse for HMRC to lose your personal data.
hmm. A mainframe? A second hand Sun workstation? A laptop?
I have a five year old PC at home. It cost a hell of a lot more than $2100. It has a mammoth 1GB of RAM and a stupendous 160gb hard disk.
It'll run Vista. It wont run Vista with all the prettiness turned on while holding multiple applications in memory without swapping and slowing down like a dog on two legs. That sounds like a problem to me..
While google may well tell you what E85 is, it wont necessarily tell you quickly and easily why its relation to GM trucks is relevant to the relation between Vista and otherwise perfectly good hardware.
Asking the person that used this curious simile is an excellent way to find out, and doesn't even require you to leave the confines of your existing website.
I only clicked on your link to check the website you'd linked to anyway
Oh please.
Several people at the Guantanamo concentration camp were abducted from countries that had no US troops in them.
Many of them may well have lawyers. Many of the lawyers report being obstructed and/or harrassed in their work. Some of the lawyers are appointed by a military commission in what are hardly fair trials.
I disagree entirely with legislating to disable internet access from p2p file sharers. Nonetheless I don't think anybody from a country that imprisons and tortures people without charge and without trial should use such legislation to suggest that the UK has worse civil liberties problems than their own.
The UK has worse civil liberties issues than this to worry about. Sadly it's still one of the better countries in the world - just not good enough, and getting worse.
The article to which you linked has no mention of any improper use of the 'cleanfeed' system.
What appears to be a more original version of the article at http://cannazine.co.uk/content/view/3501/1585/ also gives no evidence of improper use.
It certainly highlights the potential for abuse. It fails to indicate any specific instances of abuse.
I have very great regard for the Internet Watch Foundation, and welcomed its introduction in the mid 90s. It's helped us avoid Governmental interferance of a lot of 'net content for over a decade. This means that I instinctively distrust anybody that rails against it without further evidence. It also means I'm keen to hear about any relevant evidence, as the IWF does fulfil an important role and one for which it requires a considerable degree of trust.
Guantanamo Bay.
Shit, at least we're just proposing disconnecting people from the internet.
The difference is that I think everyone else is actually trying to provide the therapy you're paying for instead of brainwashing you into lifelong servitude.
As a native with excellent and specialist skills it frustrates the fuck out of me that recruiting people with similar to skills to me yields a plethora of Indian and Pakistani immigrants and very few natives.
Just five years ago this wasn't the case.
Companies have largely outsourced the entry level roles in my career path to Asia and this has denied the natives the opportunity to enter the field. Subsequently the foreign workers to whom the work was outsourced immigrate and bring the skills they've gained to undercut the few natives that are left working in that area.
Because the immigrants are here for 2-5 years then intend to return to Asia and a lower cost of living they are able to work for less. Because they come from where the jobs are outsourced to, they have a skills advantage. Because there are so fucking many of them they swamp the market.
I'm failing to understand completely how this is having an economically beneficial effect for the country I live in. The economy loses out on the entry level jobs, it loses out on the cost of that work (as it goes abroad), it loses out on a skilled workforce, it loses out on the expenditure of a worker that's saving his/her cash for a good life back home in Asia.
The natives aren't passive aggressive, they aren't fucking lazy, they aren't unable to respond to a crisis in an intelligent way. They are getting fucked over by globalism and the current immigration policies are helping enable this.
Don't fucking tell me I need educating about multiculturalism. Cunt.
UK passports are valid for ten years. I renewed mine early last year to get as much extra time from it as I can.
By then biometrics will be accepted and commonplace, or something will have happened to change the status quo. I'm hoping for the latter. I strongly expect the former.
Armed insurrection.
For somewhat less impact, writing to your local elected representative and your European parliament members may be a less dramatic and more appropriate starting point.
Google fails to provide useful search results for a lot of searches. Some of them may well have no internet content available. Many others the content is swamped by a pletheora of other site aggregotors, link farms, or even genuine vendors selling an item you're searching for, but not giving you the information you're after.
Sure, I can refine my Google searches to cut out all these distractions. But I'm lazy; I want a two word search to give me the link I need straight away.
Just replied to someone else making a similar point to you. My response was I don't judge the religion by some of its followers. I judge the religion by its outcomes. I'd say that christianity has been, is and continues to be an oppressive tool of control aimed at enrichment of the few. I disparage and am derogatory towards organised religion because frankly I hate it and feel the world would be better without it.
I disparage and am derogatory towards many religious people because frankly I think they're stupid. I hate stupid people. Sometimes I hate myself.
Voicing disagreements with religion politely gets you persecuted. You may as well go full on aggressively rude at them, at least that way you're getting your money's worth from your stoning/flogging/burning/beheading/etc..
I was raised as a christian. I don't blame my parents, they just didn't know any better.
I don't judge the religion by some of its followers. I judge the religion by its outcomes. I'd say that christianity has been, is and continues to be an oppressive tool of control aimed at enrichment of the few.
Just because you've been brainwashed into believing all that shit doesn't make you a bad person. Just because you may be a good person doesn't make your religion right.
Thank you, that at least helps me understand the provenance of the issue.
Of course, being Brits, we take a perverse pride in Basil. He represents much that is right about our nation, despite being so very wrong
You seem to be suggesting to me that the reason people get so irate about pictures of someone that died 1200 years ago is because some bloke said that another bloke said that some sort of 'god' told him that people that make pictures will be burned and tormented in a mythical existance known as hell?
Surely this just means that if someone creates a picture then either they don't believe in this god thing, and are thus completely in the clear, or they do believe in the whole god thing but don't believe the bloke that pretends to have talked to it, and so are in the clear, or they do believe in the whole god thing, and do believe the bloke that pretends to have talked to it, but don't believe the bloke that relates the anecdote, and so are in the clear, or they do believe in the god thing, the bloke that pretends to talk to it, the bloke that related the anecdote AND the bloke that wrote it down, and are basically just gambling that they'll get away with it anyway.
I'm failing to see in this chain of logic where the fuck it has anything to do with a billion muslims who are all welcome to believe whatever bullshit their subjugators feed them and are completely at liberty to avoid making pictures themselves, or indeed why the fuck it's remotely blasphemous?
Perhaps you can assist?
They're both monotheistic religions.
They both refer continually to books written a long time ago.
They're both used as an excuse for subjugating, killing or stealing from others.
They're both full of shit.
Even in the subset of things in this world called 'religion', these two are pretty fucking similar.
Don't go pretending Christianity is in any way better than Islam. They're as bad as each other.
Isn't he all out of gum?