"Resisting Arrest" is one of the nastiest part of the law. Basically, if they wrongly arrest you - that is they attack you without provocation - then by trying to protect yourself even by raising your hands to stop yourself being hit you are still in the wrong - because you DARED to try and defend yourself against the state sponsored thug.
I the UK its a staple of police procedure; they look for some kid from the estates who has by necessity learnt to resolve shit with his fists, back him into a corner, and intimidate him until he either tries to run or push one of the pigs just to get away. Then he is cuffed and dragged off for resisting arrest/assaulting an officer despite the fact they had no reason to approach him in the first place. Magistrates just wave this through (I know, I used to work at a magistrates court) and the police hoover up easy arrests at the expense of some of the most vulnerable people in society. Sickening.
Cops are in it for the power. Remember the kids at school who swaggered down the halls looking to pick on any kid who looked a bit different? Back then they were 'policing' the school (i.e. beating up smaller kids) in the name of the 'community' (i.e. the consensus of normality reached by the population of the school which few if any people really adhered to).
Not necessarily retired people, but savers. For a long time, those in retirement and middle age have used their demographic muscle to squeeze money out of the young.
The less young people are paid, the more profit businesses make and the more those who invest get sit on their butts raking in the cash, reading the daily mail and bitching about immigrants. That is why they've gutted the social safety net (which raises the wage expectation of people) whilst keeping the NHS largely intact (they need it at their age).
They destroyed industrial communities. They gave the police virtually unlimited powers to stop and search young people. They established a foreign policy of might-makes-right and went out of their way to antagonize and alienate immigrant communities. They lied, took bribes, started wars, incited racism, crushed civil liberties, and they are still standing trying to talk like statesmen.
And computer games are to blame when the kids go berserk? Fucking retarded.
People like Sir Tim need to speak out on such issues, because their contributions to science and technology are touted by our leaders as 'proof' of Britain being a modern, forward thinking society - rather than the withered, reactionary, largely technophobic old empire we in fact are.
Yeah, if they were serious the would've also vi) banned smoking inside public buildings and vii) taxed cigarettes to death to make the habit prohibitively expensive
Yes, a sedentary lifestyle can damage your health. The government are quick to point this out when you sit down to play a computer game but they don't seem to give a crap that you've got to sit down in front of a PC for 8 or 9 hours a day just to make ends meet.
Porn is a big business. Lets face it, they've got a substantial and inexhaustible demand for their wares and low production costs due to the number of desperate slappers with serviceable tits.
I head, although this may be apocryphal, that porn has been the deciding factor in format wars in the past - porn went VHS, and that buried Betamax. Porn chose blu-ray (although most of the porn I have seen benefits from NOT being high definition...) and buried HD DVD.
"The BNP are left wing" is one of the most retarded statements I have ever come across on Slashdot. Couple this with the idiotic characterization of 'left wing' demonstrates a pathetic level of intellect. Go away you little troll.
1. The left do not universally want this. You are making a 'straw man' fallacy. Historically, the left has opposed the confusion of business and state interests - the right has supported it
2. You are an utter, utter moron. The left wing of the Nazi party (such as it was, they were by any normal standards still right wing) was purged by Hitler in the early days of the Third Reich. Don't come at me with this 'fail' shit when you are utterly ignorant of history.
Calling the Nazis leftists is just a pathetic political slander. You redefine words to fit your warped little worldview. Why don't you just shut up and go back to wanking over BNP literature.
For readers outside the UK, 'silent majority' is a codeword used by the British National Party - a pretty much openly fascist outfit.
The idea of the government and society in the UK being 'left' wing sounds absurd to the vast majority of Britons - New Labour moved sharply to the right of the traditional position of the Labour party and have essentially continued Thatcher and Major's policies. We have had a conservative government since 1979.
The right gives us collusion between corporations and states, the ultimate expressions of which are fascism and Nazism. The idea that the right stands for freedom is a disgusting fiction. As is the idea that the left stands for 'expansion of the state'
New Labour became oppressive in the wake of their well-publicized lurch to the right wing.
Bald assertion of your ideological talking points is unlikely to impress this crowd Mr. Coward. Redefining terms to suit your fringe viewpoints is not debate, it is merely a set of arrogant unsubstantiated opinions.
Voting lib-dems is a waste of time - in power they will metamorphose as everyone else has. Personally I'd sooner see a hanged parliament than a hung one.
Not quite accurate; Orwell fought for a Trotskyist faction called POUM - he fought on the front line with them and also engaged in military action in conjunction with anarchists, and then ended up fighting Stalinists on the streets of Barcelona. He was genuinely supportive of the social revolution in Catalonia at the time and was certainly not fighting for contemporary liberal democracy.
These games are just ones that are popular now. A proper list would have to include the following at minimum:
1. Elite - Procedural generation, 3D graphics, open ended game play - in 1984 on a computer with only a few kilobytes of memory. Genius.
2. Starcraft - The game that became a sport. Still being played to this day by masses of people despite its ludicrously dated graphics
3. Doom - Wolfenstein came first, but it was Doom that made Id into software Gods and replaced the term 'first person shooter' with 'doom clone' for about 5 years
4. Counterstrike - A turning point for fps, made the 'tactical shooter' popular in addition to multi-player teamwork
5. Everquest - World of Warcraft is more popular now, but Everquest set the standard for 3D online fantasy worlds that are as immersive and addictive as being dunked in liquid heroin.
But of course, nobody cares about history, because people have the attention span of goldfish.
Some people have already taken that step in their dissatisfaction with the Indian government; there is a substantial Maoist insurgency in the countryside in some parts of India.
Naturally the government isn't taking this lying down. They have, apparently having spent their school history classes smoking behind the bike sheds, recruited a brutal right-wing militia to put down the communist uprising.
Yes, your government are spending fractions of pennies of the taxes you pay them to try and get your countries children excited about science and space exploration.
You fail to notice that many of the posters there are from corporations, all too eager to cash in on racism and xenophobia to squeeze more out of their workers. Not that there is much difference in the US though - your government and business elites are so intertwined it is near impossible to separate them.
Got a source for the idea that a spore can survive that close to an atomic bomb? Not that I disbelieve you, I am genuinely interested in reading about the survival of microbes in atomic explosions.
How would they implement such a system? How will they classify what data constitutes a 'music' or a 'video' download? How will they handle torrents?
I'll tell you how. By implementing a half-arsed system and then prosecuting a random selection of the millions of people taking advantage of the inability of the system to deliver what lawmakers in their technological ignorance think ought to be possible.
Politicians attempt technically infeasible, draconian power grab on the Internet. How is this news?
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"Resisting Arrest" is one of the nastiest part of the law. Basically, if they wrongly arrest you - that is they attack you without provocation - then by trying to protect yourself even by raising your hands to stop yourself being hit you are still in the wrong - because you DARED to try and defend yourself against the state sponsored thug.
I the UK its a staple of police procedure; they look for some kid from the estates who has by necessity learnt to resolve shit with his fists, back him into a corner, and intimidate him until he either tries to run or push one of the pigs just to get away. Then he is cuffed and dragged off for resisting arrest/assaulting an officer despite the fact they had no reason to approach him in the first place. Magistrates just wave this through (I know, I used to work at a magistrates court) and the police hoover up easy arrests at the expense of some of the most vulnerable people in society. Sickening.
Cops are in it for the power. Remember the kids at school who swaggered down the halls looking to pick on any kid who looked a bit different? Back then they were 'policing' the school (i.e. beating up smaller kids) in the name of the 'community' (i.e. the consensus of normality reached by the population of the school which few if any people really adhered to).
Someone just gave them a uniform is all.
Not necessarily retired people, but savers. For a long time, those in retirement and middle age have used their demographic muscle to squeeze money out of the young.
The less young people are paid, the more profit businesses make and the more those who invest get sit on their butts raking in the cash, reading the daily mail and bitching about immigrants. That is why they've gutted the social safety net (which raises the wage expectation of people) whilst keeping the NHS largely intact (they need it at their age).
They destroyed industrial communities. They gave the police virtually unlimited powers to stop and search young people. They established a foreign policy of might-makes-right and went out of their way to antagonize and alienate immigrant communities. They lied, took bribes, started wars, incited racism, crushed civil liberties, and they are still standing trying to talk like statesmen.
And computer games are to blame when the kids go berserk? Fucking retarded.
People like Sir Tim need to speak out on such issues, because their contributions to science and technology are touted by our leaders as 'proof' of Britain being a modern, forward thinking society - rather than the withered, reactionary, largely technophobic old empire we in fact are.
Yeah, if they were serious the would've also vi) banned smoking inside public buildings and vii) taxed cigarettes to death to make the habit prohibitively expensive
Oh, hand on...
Yes, a sedentary lifestyle can damage your health. The government are quick to point this out when you sit down to play a computer game but they don't seem to give a crap that you've got to sit down in front of a PC for 8 or 9 hours a day just to make ends meet.
Porn is a big business. Lets face it, they've got a substantial and inexhaustible demand for their wares and low production costs due to the number of desperate slappers with serviceable tits.
I head, although this may be apocryphal, that porn has been the deciding factor in format wars in the past - porn went VHS, and that buried Betamax. Porn chose blu-ray (although most of the porn I have seen benefits from NOT being high definition...) and buried HD DVD.
sorry, I meant 15 seconds
15 minutes of oblique tit vs. 45 minutes of full frontal blue dong. Feminism is out of control.
VHS data storage devices were available for the Commodore 64 and contemporary computers I think
"The BNP are left wing" is one of the most retarded statements I have ever come across on Slashdot. Couple this with the idiotic characterization of 'left wing' demonstrates a pathetic level of intellect. Go away you little troll.
1. The left do not universally want this. You are making a 'straw man' fallacy. Historically, the left has opposed the confusion of business and state interests - the right has supported it
2. You are an utter, utter moron. The left wing of the Nazi party (such as it was, they were by any normal standards still right wing) was purged by Hitler in the early days of the Third Reich. Don't come at me with this 'fail' shit when you are utterly ignorant of history.
Calling the Nazis leftists is just a pathetic political slander. You redefine words to fit your warped little worldview. Why don't you just shut up and go back to wanking over BNP literature.
For readers outside the UK, 'silent majority' is a codeword used by the British National Party - a pretty much openly fascist outfit.
The idea of the government and society in the UK being 'left' wing sounds absurd to the vast majority of Britons - New Labour moved sharply to the right of the traditional position of the Labour party and have essentially continued Thatcher and Major's policies. We have had a conservative government since 1979.
Moron.
The right gives us collusion between corporations and states, the ultimate expressions of which are fascism and Nazism. The idea that the right stands for freedom is a disgusting fiction. As is the idea that the left stands for 'expansion of the state'
New Labour became oppressive in the wake of their well-publicized lurch to the right wing.
Bald assertion of your ideological talking points is unlikely to impress this crowd Mr. Coward. Redefining terms to suit your fringe viewpoints is not debate, it is merely a set of arrogant unsubstantiated opinions.
Voting lib-dems is a waste of time - in power they will metamorphose as everyone else has. Personally I'd sooner see a hanged parliament than a hung one.
Not quite accurate; Orwell fought for a Trotskyist faction called POUM - he fought on the front line with them and also engaged in military action in conjunction with anarchists, and then ended up fighting Stalinists on the streets of Barcelona. He was genuinely supportive of the social revolution in Catalonia at the time and was certainly not fighting for contemporary liberal democracy.
These games are just ones that are popular now. A proper list would have to include the following at minimum:
1. Elite - Procedural generation, 3D graphics, open ended game play - in 1984 on a computer with only a few kilobytes of memory. Genius.
2. Starcraft - The game that became a sport. Still being played to this day by masses of people despite its ludicrously dated graphics
3. Doom - Wolfenstein came first, but it was Doom that made Id into software Gods and replaced the term 'first person shooter' with 'doom clone' for about 5 years
4. Counterstrike - A turning point for fps, made the 'tactical shooter' popular in addition to multi-player teamwork
5. Everquest - World of Warcraft is more popular now, but Everquest set the standard for 3D online fantasy worlds that are as immersive and addictive as being dunked in liquid heroin.
But of course, nobody cares about history, because people have the attention span of goldfish.
Its also biased towards recent games. I don't think you can really call Freelance influential if you've played Elite...
Indeed. In Nazi Germany, you were free to say whatever you wanted, but the Gestapo was equally free to torture you and execute you for it.
Some people have already taken that step in their dissatisfaction with the Indian government; there is a substantial Maoist insurgency in the countryside in some parts of India.
Naturally the government isn't taking this lying down. They have, apparently having spent their school history classes smoking behind the bike sheds, recruited a brutal right-wing militia to put down the communist uprising.
Yes, your government are spending fractions of pennies of the taxes you pay them to try and get your countries children excited about science and space exploration.
What a bunch of bastards.
You fail to notice that many of the posters there are from corporations, all too eager to cash in on racism and xenophobia to squeeze more out of their workers. Not that there is much difference in the US though - your government and business elites are so intertwined it is near impossible to separate them.
Got a source for the idea that a spore can survive that close to an atomic bomb? Not that I disbelieve you, I am genuinely interested in reading about the survival of microbes in atomic explosions.
How would they implement such a system? How will they classify what data constitutes a 'music' or a 'video' download? How will they handle torrents?
I'll tell you how. By implementing a half-arsed system and then prosecuting a random selection of the millions of people taking advantage of the inability of the system to deliver what lawmakers in their technological ignorance think ought to be possible.
Politicians attempt technically infeasible, draconian power grab on the Internet. How is this news?