It isn't fair to judge the Tories on their records? Bullshit, it is fair. The Pirate Party are the only ones serious about challenging ID cards; the tories are just making noises about it for political gain.
Nope, the government is appointed by the PM, who is appointed by the party. In the most recent case, this was done without the involvement of the electorate at all. You fail politics.
The conservative party? Would this be the same party that used soldiers in surplus police uniforms to put down the miners strike? The same party that used the SAS to carry out extrajudicial executions? That abolished the right to remain silent in police custody?
The above post is only 'informative' for young people and those with defective memories. Whatever the Tories say is, as it always has been, a lie. Reflect for a moment that the current Labour party got where it was today by imitating the tories...
There you go ladies and gentlemen - the most powerful man in our country, our effective head of state for some issues - voted in by 24278 people in Scotland who, due to the devolved parliament there, will not be affected by many of his decisions anyway.
Furthermore, he wasn't leader of the Labour party in 2005, so those people did not elected him as PM they elected him as Chancellor.
This is about as democratic as Iran. Yes, there is technically a vote - but the context of it and result are so warped you cannot really consider it a democratic election.
See my comments elsewhere. The notion we have an elected government in the UK would be charitably described as an 'exaggeration'.
Our head of state is an unelected Monarch whose power is quite real although understated.
Our head of government was elected by a Scottish constituency during an election held whilst he was not leader of his party. He makes decisions that do not affect his constituency, on issues that are devolved to the Scottish parliament.
You know in the last season of the wire, where Marlow Stansfield was willing to throw around cases full of cash and kill people just to get the right to meet with a drug supplier? Well, the Queen, as head of state, has the right to meet with her own PM on demand and with any visiting foreign dignitary. Do not underestimate the amount of unelected power this gives her.
Oh, and we did not elect any of those people. Mandelson is a Lord (as Frankie Boyle put it, appointed by the Sith) and despite being in the cabinet was not elected. The rest are MPs who were elected by the constituency of ~20,000 people each and have taken positions in national government.
Brown was also elected in a Scottish consituency, Scotland having its own devolved parliament, and gets to rule over England as well despite never having been elected here and his party not having contested a UK election with him as leader.
I have a problem with her and I am not alone. Don't believe the old 'harmless old lady' rubbish. And don't come over with the tourism crap; the royals are not even the biggest tourist attraction in London.
Just like they sold the DVLA database to car buying/selling services (with fucking annoying adverts) where you can text a registration number to a number and get a car history/valuation from it.
You pay the DVLA for them to process data on your vehicle so you can legally drive it. Then the government sells it to a private corporation, which sells it back to the people who paid for it in the first place for a profit.
As it will be for the ID card database. The government will not be able to resist selling access to it, and every business that can pay will know your criminal history. In a society that is trying to criminalise littering and file sharing, that is not a pleasant prospect.
Anyone know if there are any plans to merge Unite into the version of Opera that ships for the Wii? It would be quite interesting if every Wii owner had a lego-brick server in their lounge..
Basically, the US, the self proclaimed kings of brutal capitalism, are forgoing competition with existing European and Russian solutions in favour of subsidising their own 'private' space industry and then patting themselves on the back for having the wisdom to leave space travel to the 'market'? You cannot understand how much this amuses me.
Unless I am missing something, they haven't brought Unite into the proper release yet. Maybe their attempt to reinvent the web isn't going according to plan?
The British people are generally more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, from a US or a conservative perspective. The BBC, if it shows such a bias, is just reflected the views of its owners.
Anyone who thinks the BBC is 'left wing' is clearly off with Enoch Powell on the political spectrum.
Generally, the BBC is most concerned with what its licence payers think. Its always been ahead at soliciting public opinion (remember "Points of View"?) to the point where it has been accused of pandering to popularity at times (Mitchell and Webb have a go at them here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E10Bp_mPXXA ).
If you consider the BBC left wing, then frankly you consider the British population left wing as well. Why not try moving to the US?
Being British, I didn't know about this. Did they try and lock down taxpayer funded weather data so they could sell it to the people who had already paid for it?
Each day I find it harder to see the line between 'business' and 'racketeering'
However, as some have pointed out above, this is a very expensive trojan; and if you are going to spend that kind of money it might be viable to put something nasty in hardware/firmware that wouldn't be affected by the IT nerds wiping the laptops and installing company stuff.
You get the laptops delivered to a big enough organisation, whoever signs for them assumes *somebody* ordered them for a reason, but can't find out who. So they stash them somewhere. Fast forwards to when someone new joins the organisation and needs a laptop, somebody mentions there are a couple lying around in boxes and bingo, you've got malware in through the front door without touching an Internet connection.
Makes me wonder, how often this has been done successfully to less vigilant offices, worked, and we haven't heard about it.
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It isn't fair to judge the Tories on their records? Bullshit, it is fair. The Pirate Party are the only ones serious about challenging ID cards; the tories are just making noises about it for political gain.
Nope, the government is appointed by the PM, who is appointed by the party. In the most recent case, this was done without the involvement of the electorate at all. You fail politics.
Flamebait? Seriously? Has a random number generator been given mod points or something?
The conservative party? Would this be the same party that used soldiers in surplus police uniforms to put down the miners strike? The same party that used the SAS to carry out extrajudicial executions? That abolished the right to remain silent in police custody?
The above post is only 'informative' for young people and those with defective memories. Whatever the Tories say is, as it always has been, a lie. Reflect for a moment that the current Labour party got where it was today by imitating the tories...
There you go ladies and gentlemen - the most powerful man in our country, our effective head of state for some issues - voted in by 24278 people in Scotland who, due to the devolved parliament there, will not be affected by many of his decisions anyway.
Furthermore, he wasn't leader of the Labour party in 2005, so those people did not elected him as PM they elected him as Chancellor.
This is about as democratic as Iran. Yes, there is technically a vote - but the context of it and result are so warped you cannot really consider it a democratic election.
See my comments elsewhere. The notion we have an elected government in the UK would be charitably described as an 'exaggeration'.
Our head of state is an unelected Monarch whose power is quite real although understated.
Our head of government was elected by a Scottish constituency during an election held whilst he was not leader of his party. He makes decisions that do not affect his constituency, on issues that are devolved to the Scottish parliament.
We are overdue a republic.
You know in the last season of the wire, where Marlow Stansfield was willing to throw around cases full of cash and kill people just to get the right to meet with a drug supplier? Well, the Queen, as head of state, has the right to meet with her own PM on demand and with any visiting foreign dignitary. Do not underestimate the amount of unelected power this gives her.
Oh, and we did not elect any of those people. Mandelson is a Lord (as Frankie Boyle put it, appointed by the Sith) and despite being in the cabinet was not elected. The rest are MPs who were elected by the constituency of ~20,000 people each and have taken positions in national government.
Brown was also elected in a Scottish consituency, Scotland having its own devolved parliament, and gets to rule over England as well despite never having been elected here and his party not having contested a UK election with him as leader.
Democracy is a distant dream.
I have a problem with her and I am not alone. Don't believe the old 'harmless old lady' rubbish. And don't come over with the tourism crap; the royals are not even the biggest tourist attraction in London.
Yes, it is a shame on us that we elected to power such people as Queen Elizabeth II, Gordon Brown and Lord Mandelson. Oh, hang on a moment...
Just like they sold the DVLA database to car buying/selling services (with fucking annoying adverts) where you can text a registration number to a number and get a car history/valuation from it.
You pay the DVLA for them to process data on your vehicle so you can legally drive it. Then the government sells it to a private corporation, which sells it back to the people who paid for it in the first place for a profit.
As it will be for the ID card database. The government will not be able to resist selling access to it, and every business that can pay will know your criminal history. In a society that is trying to criminalise littering and file sharing, that is not a pleasant prospect.
Anyone know if there are any plans to merge Unite into the version of Opera that ships for the Wii? It would be quite interesting if every Wii owner had a lego-brick server in their lounge..
Basically, the US, the self proclaimed kings of brutal capitalism, are forgoing competition with existing European and Russian solutions in favour of subsidising their own 'private' space industry and then patting themselves on the back for having the wisdom to leave space travel to the 'market'? You cannot understand how much this amuses me.
Why is there a need for a SpaceX resupply? Where is the evidence that it will be cheaper per kg of cargo than these existing solutions?
No, but having a gigawatt orbital death ray gives puts you in a better position to negotiate emissions reduction treaties
Unless I am missing something, they haven't brought Unite into the proper release yet. Maybe their attempt to reinvent the web isn't going according to plan?
Damn right. What exactly has Fox News said on the occasions they have been challenged on their objectivity?
The British people are generally more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, from a US or a conservative perspective. The BBC, if it shows such a bias, is just reflected the views of its owners.
The above poster does not speak for the UK readers.
The BBC is as respected an institution as the NHS over here, and you know the shit that went down when Americans came along to have a go at that.
What you have to bear in mind is that, in the minds of most Brits, this Murdoch prick is trying to kill Doctor Who.
Anyone who thinks the BBC is 'left wing' is clearly off with Enoch Powell on the political spectrum.
Generally, the BBC is most concerned with what its licence payers think. Its always been ahead at soliciting public opinion (remember "Points of View"?) to the point where it has been accused of pandering to popularity at times (Mitchell and Webb have a go at them here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E10Bp_mPXXA ).
If you consider the BBC left wing, then frankly you consider the British population left wing as well. Why not try moving to the US?
Bigger government programs? Like the Iraq war? When they reported about how the government was cooking up the evidence for Saddam's WMDs?
Being British, I didn't know about this. Did they try and lock down taxpayer funded weather data so they could sell it to the people who had already paid for it?
Each day I find it harder to see the line between 'business' and 'racketeering'
However, as some have pointed out above, this is a very expensive trojan; and if you are going to spend that kind of money it might be viable to put something nasty in hardware/firmware that wouldn't be affected by the IT nerds wiping the laptops and installing company stuff.
You get the laptops delivered to a big enough organisation, whoever signs for them assumes *somebody* ordered them for a reason, but can't find out who. So they stash them somewhere. Fast forwards to when someone new joins the organisation and needs a laptop, somebody mentions there are a couple lying around in boxes and bingo, you've got malware in through the front door without touching an Internet connection.
Makes me wonder, how often this has been done successfully to less vigilant offices, worked, and we haven't heard about it.
Experiment complete. Documentation just records how empty our lives are. I think I am going to ask for the rest of the day off :(
Does anyone else feel that this planet might be able to defy conventional orbital mechanics through the power of Concentrated Evil?