Can we say paranoid? Does it matter particularly who supplied what planes? More importantly, which news agencies numbers can we trust should one wish to carry out such a time wasting activity?
>Actually it comes down to cost per license payer - that's a big difference.
True but you have to draw a line somewhere and wherever it is, the next people down are going to whine. I'm damn angry my Atari ST isn't supported myself.
The BBC used to do most stuff in house and own the rights etc. Since the government have been forcing them to work to a budget, plus with the need to move in to web, digital, HiDef and other media, they have slowly moved to getting most content from third parties to cut costs although it often says 'BBC' at the bottom. Said third parties licence it to BBC but may restrict it in various ways so just because it says BBC, doesn't mean it's available for everyone in every way.
>then sit through 10 minutes of ads for 5 minutes of program
The BBC don't have ads... that's their biggest plus point IMHO, especially given that ITV et al have said they are going to increase the amount of advertising per hour to something similar to US TV and we all know how shite that is.
>Surely with all the tax money they collect (and yes the license fee is a tax)
Given that today they are announcing swinging cuts in service and 2000 job losses dur to lack of funds, I'm happy they saved a bit to spend n important things, not names for some bit of software.
>make a LOT more money than they would have made trying to flog records
Sounds more and more like SCO each day - why make and sell decent software when you can just sue your way to income?
I don't have the numbers to hand but it would be interesting, given that this case repeatedly quoted the number of files online, to do a calculation:>br>
Work out industry profits 5 years ago. Work it out today. Difference could be argued to be loss from downloaders (more likely just that most new stuff is pretty dire though). Now divide that by the number of files available as quoted by the case. bet it isn't $9K per file or anything close.
>the body of a teenage girl with the brain of say a cat
I'm struggling as to whether I should make a pun based on pussy or to say all they'd do is lie around all day licking you and how good that sounds. Choices, choices.
>Interpol would not discuss the techniques
I showed this to my PS using friend and he shurgged, said 'Just do a radial blur in the opposite direction' and 30 seconds later had a picture about 80-90% as good as the one they're waving about as being the result of some super secret methodology.
It does strike me as a bit stupid explaining it all - now crims will just use better techniques for blurring themselves out. The media, law enforcement agencies are doing this more and more and it's insane - "we just had an idea for a terrorist attack that might happen and here it is in full", "This is foresnic evidence that allowed us to catch the crim" and so on.
>Yuch. Chowing on someone who tastes like crab is not pleasant.
Girls get really offended when you crack out the Thousand Island Dressing, no idea why.
>their traditional food is, in fact, quite bland
Any specific meals you can suggest? Personally I'm more than happy to eat:
Steak & Kidney Pie, roast potatoes & mashed swede
Roast Beef 7 Yorkshire Pudding
Fry up with Black Pudding, bacon, eggs etc
Shepherds Pie
Steak & Ale pie
Cheese 7 onion Pie
Welsh/Buck Rarebit
Liver & Bacon
etc.
The Human Rights Act came straight out of European Legislation but as per usual, they (rest of Europe) tend to follow the intent of the law rather than the letter leaving the good old UK to make a hash of things so we end up with prisoners successfully suing for having to take a dump in front of their cell mate during lockup.
Alas, good and laudible though the act is, they weren't prescriptive enough in laying out common sense boundaries and now we have hoards of people taking advantage of that.
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Can we say paranoid? Does it matter particularly who supplied what planes? More importantly, which news agencies numbers can we trust should one wish to carry out such a time wasting activity?
>Actually it comes down to cost per license payer - that's a big difference.
True but you have to draw a line somewhere and wherever it is, the next people down are going to whine. I'm damn angry my Atari ST isn't supported myself.
The BBC used to do most stuff in house and own the rights etc. Since the government have been forcing them to work to a budget, plus with the need to move in to web, digital, HiDef and other media, they have slowly moved to getting most content from third parties to cut costs although it often says 'BBC' at the bottom. Said third parties licence it to BBC but may restrict it in various ways so just because it says BBC, doesn't mean it's available for everyone in every way.
>then sit through 10 minutes of ads for 5 minutes of program
The BBC don't have ads... that's their biggest plus point IMHO, especially given that ITV et al have said they are going to increase the amount of advertising per hour to something similar to US TV and we all know how shite that is.
>Can they get their license fee lower?
No but they can use any of the other dozens of services on offer and stop whining like a little girl.
>Surely with all the tax money they collect (and yes the license fee is a tax)
Given that today they are announcing swinging cuts in service and 2000 job losses dur to lack of funds, I'm happy they saved a bit to spend n important things, not names for some bit of software.
>...why would anyone want to copy 16400+ files?
Clearly a man who never backs up his pr0n collection.
Is this the first time a first post/anonymous coward combo has got anything other than an offtopic? Well done Sir!
Snagit is supposed to be quite good.
Now why the hell don't reviews ever mention stuff like that? I'd have bought a Mac for that feature alone.
He's probably just a Bush fan - anyone that mangles the language that badly must idolise that guy.
>make a LOT more money than they would have made trying to flog records
Sounds more and more like SCO each day - why make and sell decent software when you can just sue your way to income?
I don't have the numbers to hand but it would be interesting, given that this case repeatedly quoted the number of files online, to do a calculation:>br> Work out industry profits 5 years ago. Work it out today. Difference could be argued to be loss from downloaders (more likely just that most new stuff is pretty dire though). Now divide that by the number of files available as quoted by the case. bet it isn't $9K per file or anything close.
>Running with Linux for over 9 years!
Time you upgraded then - That RedHat 0.8 is looking a bit long in the tooth.
>With all the tools in their arsenals
Somehow this seems the wrong turn of phrase given the subject matter.
>the body of a teenage girl with the brain of say a cat
I'm struggling as to whether I should make a pun based on pussy or to say all they'd do is lie around all day licking you and how good that sounds. Choices, choices.
>Interpol would not discuss the techniques
I showed this to my PS using friend and he shurgged, said 'Just do a radial blur in the opposite direction' and 30 seconds later had a picture about 80-90% as good as the one they're waving about as being the result of some super secret methodology.
It does strike me as a bit stupid explaining it all - now crims will just use better techniques for blurring themselves out. The media, law enforcement agencies are doing this more and more and it's insane - "we just had an idea for a terrorist attack that might happen and here it is in full", "This is foresnic evidence that allowed us to catch the crim" and so on.
>human/eagle hybrids
Suddenly our failed Olympic skier Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards makes sense - always looked like an experiment that went wrong.
>What is this research for?
Might help find a cure for:
Elephantitus
Dog Breath
Catalepsy
Hare loss (work with me here)
>Yuch. Chowing on someone who tastes like crab is not pleasant.
Girls get really offended when you crack out the Thousand Island Dressing, no idea why.
This has been going on in secret for years. How else do you account for Gordon Brown?
>God: When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
That's IT isn't it? Does that mean all techies are Gods? Yeah!
>long before any escape system like this could work.
But they have to be seen to do *something*.
>their traditional food is, in fact, quite bland
Any specific meals you can suggest? Personally I'm more than happy to eat: Steak & Kidney Pie, roast potatoes & mashed swede
Roast Beef 7 Yorkshire Pudding
Fry up with Black Pudding, bacon, eggs etc
Shepherds Pie
Steak & Ale pie
Cheese 7 onion Pie
Welsh/Buck Rarebit
Liver & Bacon
etc.
The Human Rights Act came straight out of European Legislation but as per usual, they (rest of Europe) tend to follow the intent of the law rather than the letter leaving the good old UK to make a hash of things so we end up with prisoners successfully suing for having to take a dump in front of their cell mate during lockup.
Alas, good and laudible though the act is, they weren't prescriptive enough in laying out common sense boundaries and now we have hoards of people taking advantage of that.