So is it the media's fault for make obesity unpopular?
No, it's unpopular because it's gross. In a shrinking world of finite resources, anyone who stuffs their face night after night whilst sitting on the couch watching any old tat that turns up on TV needs to have a serious rethink of their life. Eat less, excercise more. It isn't rocket science.
case solved
Yup. When I was a kid, if you did something like that, you'd feel a jerk and put it down to experience. We all do dumb stuff sometimes (or is that just me?) and we learn from them. These days people are far too ready to become victims and expect to profit from every set back in life. Grow a spine dammit.
I cannot figure the reason behind waiting a year before getting a digital whiteboard. Anybody got any good explantions?
Being able to buy anything and everything with no effort kind of takes the pleasure out of it. You always appreciate things more when they took a little effort. Maybe Bill imposes self-inflicted waits so he can enjoy his new toys that little bit more?
>Because of Tim Berners-Lee's refusal to privatize or >commercialize the internet. TBL had nothing to do with the Internet - he came up with the WWW, not the same thing *at all*.
I'm amazed. Over here in the UK I don't know anyone who has a good word for Sony. Obsessive locking in to proprietry formats and terrible after sales support (faulty laptop? That will be $200 to look at and we'll take 3 months) have put most people I know off buying Sony twice.
Just a thought, with so many people balking at renewing their passports so they can avoid an ID card, maybe this is a cunning govt plot to stop us all having passports, travelling the world, becoming well balanced open eyes individuals. That sort of thing.
We'd be much easier to handle if we were all insular and paranoid.
The DNA one is tricky. The police tend to collect DNA from anyone they can get their hands on 'just in case'. I don't like this one bit.
OTOH, they have wrapped up a lot of old cases in recent years as they constantly cross check the DNA records and they have been jailing murderers, rapists, robbers etc who did crimes decades ago all because they managed to get a sample because said person crossed their radar in recent years as a result of drinking or whatever.
The problem is that this gives them the infrastructure should any govt decide to get *really* nasty later on. Even now, the innocent can be given a hard time. Witness the number of photographers that get arrested for taking pictures in public places ('there was a child in the background, you can see a govt building over there.. etc).
Mix in the new parliament bill (allows the govt to bypass democracy and the houses of parliament to pass any old law they fancy within certain limits) and you have a scary set up.
Someone (who probably did wear a tin foil hat) compared Blair to Hitler as both had/planned to:
Banned guns
enforced ID cards
bypassed democracy
There were a few more stages inbetween but you get the gist..
Apart from anything else, the ID card gives a single point of failure in ID theft. No longer will you need a bill, a credit card statement and a driving licence to forge, now you just need a single plastic card. The Dutch one took what, 2 weeks to crack?
Plus (and I'm nearly done), how will ID help anyway? A home grown suicide bomber isn't going to much care if the police know who he was..
I'm just happy to see any sort of management admit to need to change a decision. Normally they just keep on going in to the brick wall whilst telling everyone they know what they're doing.
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I think it's safe to assume the inventor doesn't have small kids.
"Dad, I want to watch Nemo!"
"Dad, I want Nemo NOW!"
"In a minute son, just got to wait for the ads to finish"
"Now! Now! Now! NOW! NOW!"
"It'll be here soon, just be patient"
"IwanNemo, IwanNemo, I.. I Bwaaahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Daaaadddddd, it STILL hasn't started"
Cockney...which isn't the "British gutter language" but the white working class accent of London
More correctly, a cockney is someone born within earshot of Bow Bells Church (approx within a 3 mile radius) in the East End.
'Venus Express' sounds like the name of a low class Berlin nightclub
It sure beats the original name of Venus Muff Diver.
So is it the media's fault for make obesity unpopular?
No, it's unpopular because it's gross. In a shrinking world of finite resources, anyone who stuffs their face night after night whilst sitting on the couch watching any old tat that turns up on TV needs to have a serious rethink of their life. Eat less, excercise more. It isn't rocket science.
case solved Yup. When I was a kid, if you did something like that, you'd feel a jerk and put it down to experience. We all do dumb stuff sometimes (or is that just me?) and we learn from them. These days people are far too ready to become victims and expect to profit from every set back in life. Grow a spine dammit.
I'm amazed this sort of thing isn't common knowledge, Heck, even the EU did a report on it a couple of years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
I cannot figure the reason behind waiting a year before getting a digital whiteboard. Anybody got any good explantions?
Being able to buy anything and everything with no effort kind of takes the pleasure out of it. You always appreciate things more when they took a little effort. Maybe Bill imposes self-inflicted waits so he can enjoy his new toys that little bit more?
You can't prove God exists because without faith he is nothing and will promptly cease to exist in a puff logic (Thanks Mr Adams, brilliant analysis)
That prayer still works for all other non heart-bypass related maladies? Way to go!
>Because of Tim Berners-Lee's refusal to privatize or
>commercialize the internet.
TBL had nothing to do with the Internet - he came up with the WWW, not the same thing *at all*.
I'm amazed. Over here in the UK I don't know anyone who has a good word for Sony. Obsessive locking in to proprietry formats and terrible after sales support (faulty laptop? That will be $200 to look at and we'll take 3 months) have put most people I know off buying Sony twice.
Just a thought, with so many people balking at renewing their passports so they can avoid an ID card, maybe this is a cunning govt plot to stop us all having passports, travelling the world, becoming well balanced open eyes individuals. That sort of thing.
We'd be much easier to handle if we were all insular and paranoid.
(paranoid mode off)
The DNA one is tricky. The police tend to collect DNA from anyone they can get their hands on 'just in case'. I don't like this one bit. OTOH, they have wrapped up a lot of old cases in recent years as they constantly cross check the DNA records and they have been jailing murderers, rapists, robbers etc who did crimes decades ago all because they managed to get a sample because said person crossed their radar in recent years as a result of drinking or whatever.
The problem is that this gives them the infrastructure should any govt decide to get *really* nasty later on. Even now, the innocent can be given a hard time. Witness the number of photographers that get arrested for taking pictures in public places ('there was a child in the background, you can see a govt building over there.. etc). Mix in the new parliament bill (allows the govt to bypass democracy and the houses of parliament to pass any old law they fancy within certain limits) and you have a scary set up. Someone (who probably did wear a tin foil hat) compared Blair to Hitler as both had/planned to: Banned guns enforced ID cards bypassed democracy There were a few more stages inbetween but you get the gist.. Apart from anything else, the ID card gives a single point of failure in ID theft. No longer will you need a bill, a credit card statement and a driving licence to forge, now you just need a single plastic card. The Dutch one took what, 2 weeks to crack? Plus (and I'm nearly done), how will ID help anyway? A home grown suicide bomber isn't going to much care if the police know who he was..
I'm just happy to see any sort of management admit to need to change a decision. Normally they just keep on going in to the brick wall whilst telling everyone they know what they're doing.