>My personal hate comes from their overt ratfucking of America during the leadup to the Iraq war
So you think jut because you/helped/ in WW2 (didn't win it, try the Russians and sundry other allied forces which were sorta, you know, involved) that The French should have gone along with an illegal invasion of a sovereign state? Mmm, interesting.
>And don't even get me started on Jacque Chirac.
Yeah, I'll give you that one.
> I, for one, could never read more than one or two before moving on to something else
You're not alone. I read one, thought it was great, really inventive. Quite amusing etc. Then I read a second and found it was the first one with a slightly different plot. Thought that may be an aberation and tried another - same thing. I gave up at that point. I'm very happy he's been knighted etc and I know a lot of people get a lot of pleasure from his books but he's not for me. Blasphemous as it sounds, I feel the same way about Douglas Adams. A great idea recycled to death.
>needs to think on a much longer scale than election cycles
Which is also a large chunk of the reason we have (had) a House of Lords. Blair and his vile mob did their best to wreck all that though and rip out a perfectly functional line of sanity that allowed him to shove through laws that would never have got passed otherwise. Of course, he used his usual campaign of disinformation and whipping up a frenzy of stupidity in large swathes of the people via the Daily Mail etc.
I'm amazed no one has mentioned Tempest 2K on the Jaguar - that really was a great game updated and *improved*. Minter was right on the money that time. Alas he then did Tempest 3K on Nuon - ermm.... Tempest 2K is worth buying a used Jaguar for though - totally awesome.
My wife used to give me grief for being anti-DRM and used to think I was some sort of freak for being concerned. She couldn't work out why I'd buy a CD and rip that rather than just download from iTunes. I was the village idiot.
Then she bought a new laptop. 'Where's all my music gone?'. Now after a bit of messing about we managed to work out how to deregister, register and get her DRM'd tunes back but she'd never have done it on her own.
NOW she get's why it's a big deal.
A) Even post divorce he has a personal fortune of some GBP800m so he can afford to put out DRM free music
B) Pretty much anything he's done since about 1972 has been crap (sorry, but really guys...)
C) Except the Frog one
OK, you've totally convinced me on that one, I was wrong in my naivity on the subject. Worryingly, it was a doctor who told me it was nothing to worry about!
God, you gotta love/. when they come up with the goods, they come up with the goods. Excellent post, pity it was anon.:-)
>I work in retail and do a lot of work on watches-- many of which are absolutely filthy.
Out of interest, what do you think is going to be on those watches that did the watch wearer no harm but was going to ruin your day?
>Three separate vaccinations would immunise the child just as effectively and probably stress the child's immune system less than MMR probably does
Sounds great in theory doesn't it? In reality, it's quite the opposite. MMR actually *increases* the effectiveness of each component. It's actually better for the child's immune system to hit it ith 3 at once.
>If you really want to be completely antiseptic
Call me weird (or scummy) but I try not to be too clean or too avoiding of dirt as the more muck your body has to deal with, the better it gets at it. Also, we do tend to suffer too much from 'ick factor'. For instance, washing your hands afer having a pee - urine is antiseptic so what does it gain?
>Since my wife is due with our first child in January, the topic of vaccinations has much personal relevance
It may help to be aware that while the incidence of austism is rising, it is a totally different statistical curve to that of MMR usage so any connection on that basis is unlikely. Furthermore, there may be many reasons for rising incidence such as better diagnosis - it is a spectrum after all and kids are probably being lumped in now that would previously have been thought of as difficult or super-shy etc.
>This probably should wait until George Lucas is dead, just to be safe.
1. GreyStones Wars
2. Revenge of the Adamas
3. The Greystones Strike Back
4. Profit!
Shudder.....
They've been talking about Caprice since season 2 or 3. I suppose this is more a case of 'it's now got budget/go ahead' than anything that's going to surprise any fan that's been paying attention.
I must have been programming for too long. The last thing I'd want to do is muck about putting in an Easter Egg (hardly a professional thing to do anyway). I just want to code the code ou the door and on to the next project biting at its heels.
Really, if every program's minor update gets front page, we'll be here all day reading the damn things. MythTV is lovely program and all but from the article, nothing really earth shattering is new.
Whilst I tend to use a normal Google search for queries on any modern tools/technologies, If I need to find out about something less than bleeding edge then the massive archive that is Usenet is a godsend. Or at least was a godsend until Google messed it up. The last few times I've used Google groups it was terrible - unrelated trash an almost impossible to get anything back from Usenet groups no matter what cunning tricks I tried. There's an awful lot of knowledge being lost there people:-(
The sooner we get to vote these clowns out, the better. Thr trouble is, the electorate have very short memories and either don't care about or don't remember such things when they get to vote. Mix in sundry wars, the collapse of banking, big brother mentality, greed etc etc and you have no good reason to let them stay BUT suddenly all the press report people rate Gordon Brown as our best hope to get out the financial state we're in. Ermm... who was in charge when the mess happened huh?
Last night on the radio there was a scary report on the UK radio where there has just been a Scottish by-election and they asked people why they voted the way they did and most camed out with excuses like 'my dad always voted for them', 'my wife told me to', 'they were the best of a bad bunch' etc.
Don't feel so bad - not alll lawyers make big money. My friend is a partner in a firm that specialises in industrial health damage litigation and makes about £30k a year.
>this stuff is small fry for lawyers
Individully yes but in this case, the lawyers (Davenport Lyons) have made quite a reputation for sending out tens of thousands of such letters for different clients and also using less than accurate data as a basis.
It's a fairly safe bet that if you read about some individual in the UK getting a 'Pay us lots of money or we'll crush you' letter, it came from them.
I suspect there's been a bit of a global financial meltdown since they worked on this report and now large numbers of people are losing their jobs through compulsory redundancy. Sorry guys, missed your window of opportunity,
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>My personal hate comes from their overt ratfucking of America during the leadup to the Iraq war /helped/ in WW2 (didn't win it, try the Russians and sundry other allied forces which were sorta, you know, involved) that The French should have gone along with an illegal invasion of a sovereign state? Mmm, interesting.
So you think jut because you
>And don't even get me started on Jacque Chirac.
Yeah, I'll give you that one.
> I, for one, could never read more than one or two before moving on to something else
You're not alone. I read one, thought it was great, really inventive. Quite amusing etc. Then I read a second and found it was the first one with a slightly different plot. Thought that may be an aberation and tried another - same thing. I gave up at that point. I'm very happy he's been knighted etc and I know a lot of people get a lot of pleasure from his books but he's not for me. Blasphemous as it sounds, I feel the same way about Douglas Adams. A great idea recycled to death.
>needs to think on a much longer scale than election cycles
Which is also a large chunk of the reason we have (had) a House of Lords. Blair and his vile mob did their best to wreck all that though and rip out a perfectly functional line of sanity that allowed him to shove through laws that would never have got passed otherwise. Of course, he used his usual campaign of disinformation and whipping up a frenzy of stupidity in large swathes of the people via the Daily Mail etc.
I'm amazed no one has mentioned Tempest 2K on the Jaguar - that really was a great game updated and *improved*. Minter was right on the money that time. Alas he then did Tempest 3K on Nuon - ermm.... Tempest 2K is worth buying a used Jaguar for though - totally awesome.
My wife used to give me grief for being anti-DRM and used to think I was some sort of freak for being concerned. She couldn't work out why I'd buy a CD and rip that rather than just download from iTunes. I was the village idiot.
Then she bought a new laptop. 'Where's all my music gone?'. Now after a bit of messing about we managed to work out how to deregister, register and get her DRM'd tunes back but she'd never have done it on her own.
NOW she get's why it's a big deal.
A) Even post divorce he has a personal fortune of some GBP800m so he can afford to put out DRM free music
B) Pretty much anything he's done since about 1972 has been crap (sorry, but really guys...)
C) Except the Frog one
OK, you've totally convinced me on that one, I was wrong in my naivity on the subject. Worryingly, it was a doctor who told me it was nothing to worry about! /. when they come up with the goods, they come up with the goods. Excellent post, pity it was anon. :-)
God, you gotta love
>I work in retail and do a lot of work on watches-- many of which are absolutely filthy.
Out of interest, what do you think is going to be on those watches that did the watch wearer no harm but was going to ruin your day?
>Three separate vaccinations would immunise the child just as effectively and probably stress the child's immune system less than MMR probably does
Sounds great in theory doesn't it? In reality, it's quite the opposite. MMR actually *increases* the effectiveness of each component. It's actually better for the child's immune system to hit it ith 3 at once.
>If you really want to be completely antiseptic
Call me weird (or scummy) but I try not to be too clean or too avoiding of dirt as the more muck your body has to deal with, the better it gets at it. Also, we do tend to suffer too much from 'ick factor'. For instance, washing your hands afer having a pee - urine is antiseptic so what does it gain?
>Since my wife is due with our first child in January, the topic of vaccinations has much personal relevance
It may help to be aware that while the incidence of austism is rising, it is a totally different statistical curve to that of MMR usage so any connection on that basis is unlikely. Furthermore, there may be many reasons for rising incidence such as better diagnosis - it is a spectrum after all and kids are probably being lumped in now that would previously have been thought of as difficult or super-shy etc.
>This probably should wait until George Lucas is dead, just to be safe.
1. GreyStones Wars
2. Revenge of the Adamas
3. The Greystones Strike Back
4. Profit!
Shudder.....
They've been talking about Caprice since season 2 or 3. I suppose this is more a case of 'it's now got budget/go ahead' than anything that's going to surprise any fan that's been paying attention.
I must have been programming for too long. The last thing I'd want to do is muck about putting in an Easter Egg (hardly a professional thing to do anyway). I just want to code the code ou the door and on to the next project biting at its heels.
>This is a young industry
I've been playing computer games since about 1977. When does it stop being a young industry?
Really, if every program's minor update gets front page, we'll be here all day reading the damn things. MythTV is lovely program and all but from the article, nothing really earth shattering is new.
>it's big and blue.
IBM have veins now? Whatever next!
Whilst I tend to use a normal Google search for queries on any modern tools/technologies, If I need to find out about something less than bleeding edge then the massive archive that is Usenet is a godsend. Or at least was a godsend until Google messed it up. The last few times I've used Google groups it was terrible - unrelated trash an almost impossible to get anything back from Usenet groups no matter what cunning tricks I tried. There's an awful lot of knowledge being lost there people :-(
The sooner we get to vote these clowns out, the better. Thr trouble is, the electorate have very short memories and either don't care about or don't remember such things when they get to vote. Mix in sundry wars, the collapse of banking, big brother mentality, greed etc etc and you have no good reason to let them stay BUT suddenly all the press report people rate Gordon Brown as our best hope to get out the financial state we're in. Ermm... who was in charge when the mess happened huh?
Last night on the radio there was a scary report on the UK radio where there has just been a Scottish by-election and they asked people why they voted the way they did and most camed out with excuses like 'my dad always voted for them', 'my wife told me to', 'they were the best of a bad bunch' etc.
Don't feel so bad - not alll lawyers make big money. My friend is a partner in a firm that specialises in industrial health damage litigation and makes about £30k a year.
>this stuff is small fry for lawyers
Individully yes but in this case, the lawyers (Davenport Lyons) have made quite a reputation for sending out tens of thousands of such letters for different clients and also using less than accurate data as a basis.
It's a fairly safe bet that if you read about some individual in the UK getting a 'Pay us lots of money or we'll crush you' letter, it came from them.
Why can't people just say 'not making a profit'? Damn murdering of the English language!
>Urgh, im in the UK, and I tried the top 4 most viewed, and all were not available outside the U.S.
probably a blessing - be happy about it.
>Scary, isn't it?
Only in as much as some Christians apparantly believe this sort of rubbish.
I suspect there's been a bit of a global financial meltdown since they worked on this report and now large numbers of people are losing their jobs through compulsory redundancy. Sorry guys, missed your window of opportunity,