Posts by kissingthecarpet 601 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Oct 2007
The problem isn't complete bastards is it? The problem is other people doing what they're told by said bastard. Also it won't collapse into tyranny in that situation, just chaos, eg Afghanistan. If following anothers orders was as unacceptable in society as, say, paedophilia is today it would be unlikely to happen.
The Pavlovian obedience of a large chunk of society to pretty much anyone who gives them orders is the greatest evil of our times.
"We believe" it begins. Therefore his judgement is clouded by belief. Belief is a dangerous thing for scientists - it suggests they might have certaInty about things that they haven't even seen, let alone measured. Difficult to separate his science from his absolute certainty, I would think. For all anyone here knows, his densely argued paper could have a tiny asterisk by the crucial point that refers to a note at the foot of the page which says:
"It was God what done it - see Bible for further details"
If he's being held in a cell in the pigsty rather than in a prison, it might not be too bad. A friend was on remand during a screw's strike in the late 80's & he got held in a number of provincial stations. Of course in those days they'd feed the prisoners from the same trough the pigs ate from - the rather nice canteen.(I once had a very nice Sunday roast in Bexhill cells) He had access to a television, books & newspapers, & he could even smoke a sly spliff now & then. They'd even leave the cell door open during the day.( Now they hand out appalling microwave crap.)
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on the surface, but as Christoph pointed out, the devil is, as usual, in the detail. If it works well though, then Yahoo & Google, to name 2, should probably do something similar. I can think of a few examples where this has happened to friends, where their email account has been deluged by trojan-laden spam sent by someone on their personal contact list, & its certainly far more dangerous than normal spam, if not caught. Perhaps MS send a message to the alternative contact address of the affllicted account, for example
Only News International. It was "the press", in the shape of the Grauniad, which broke the story, and doggedly pursued it . This the the kind of story that the press are supposed to report on & investigate, to the point of it being archetypal. The sort of prurient shite that is the Sun's stock-in-trade(and the wannnabe Suns) is not news, just playground tittle-tattle & name-calling, intermingled with right-wing neo-liberal polemic dressed as populism. The Sun et al. have distorted & damaged the UK's public life for far too long & the pols have just realised that if they don't get their collective tongues out of the Dirty Digger's arse quick, they're going down with the rest.
to the nonsense around OOo & LibreOffice. There's a fork - it has massive community support. Oracle say nothing. Then they say its going open source. So they specifically *don't* join the project with community backing. It so seems like spoiling tactics, a poor attempt at "divide & rule" etc. but that's the way LPOD rolls. Perhaps LPOD & Ballmer are very much in love, & Larry being nice to FLOSS upsets little Stevie.
were happy to email trojans to people etc. as well as listen to their VM, it is annoying when listening to voicemails is described as hacking(which in the public mind means "guy hunched over screen furiously typing while green text zooms past"). Though actually deleting voicemails is certainly analogous to hacking.
The Grauniad (& probably the Indy) are the only two nationals I can think of that aren't tainted.
It always was a filthy rag. Before their current incarnation, they use to specialise in "exposing" ordinary people's sexual idiosyncrasies, allegedly sometimes resulting in the suicide of the 'target'. Hypocracy was always their stock-in-trade.
I certainly don't give a shit about the sacked NoTW "journalists" - Murdoch's media companies have a toxic effect on public life wherever they're based, & if you're paid the money, you've taken your choice
They seem to hand out "life with no parole" like parking tickets. Or try "3 shoplifting convictions & you're out" - the brutality of American society is shocking. Apparently the authorities regard rape as an acceptable, inevitable consequence of imprisonment as well. Nice.
for sites where you don't care about security much - this one for instance, & a lot of other news forums etc. The ones to be very careful with are the obvious - anything with the slightest connection to money/identity.
Groupon are a class act, though. A slow train wreck.
it means you're not handling exceptions etc. very well. Perhaps the integer that represents download time has not been initialised & the memory location contains 0x80000000. If it does indeed mean low disk space, it also means Apple's update app is a bit shit
to the insanity of Software Patents. It just makes me despair every time I read about some new patent troll claiming they invented "Boolean algebra" or "selling stuff online" or "breathing" or some such idiocy. The current Oracle/Google spat is a case in point. Oracle are claiming a huge number of infringements & loads of them have been thrown out, including stuff from old CS textbooks etc. What a joke.
a) If you're going to go to the bother of grow lamps, where's the cannabis indica seeds?
b) If you're going to smoke homegrown, see (a)
My Tea - Pint mug (warmed by filling with v.hot water) , 2 good strong teabags(low on assam if poss. - Waitrose used to do Ceylon+Kenya (no assam) which was nectar) , 4 to 5 sugars. Leave to brew 5 minutes & give teabags a damn good thrashing. Splash of full-fat milk (skimmed is shite in tea). Drink as fast as possible.
What I want to know is, when will teabags with added ephedrine be available in Tescos? Ideal for first thing on a workday.
If they're redundant - make them redundant
If "their face doesn't fit" why weren't they let go during the probationary period?
If they're being dismissed for a valid reason, it can't be too hard to justify.
Quote - "they should not be allowed to tick all the boxes about harassment" - except when they have been harassed, I assume. Who decides that? You, the employee or the tribunal? It can't be you. Therefore its the employee who decides if they've been harassed, & the veracity or otherwise is tested in the tribunal.
I assume that as you are an employer, & you're complaining about tribunals, you have actually had problems with your employees taking you to tribunal fraudulently or "frivilous or non-substanciated"(sic) claims. If not, what are you moaning about?
Tell you what though, if I was employing *you* I'd tell you to brush up your proofreading/spelling skills - not a very good example to set is it?
Just a lot of sharing. But "sharing" isn't a word the RIAA like to use, is it? Apparently if I buy a portion of chips & let a mate eat some, he's "pirated" my chips, I haven't shared them with him.
At least its not yet a felony (!) in the US to share a movie twice. Yet.
It always amazes me that MS Windows can't read any other filesystems that are NIAMS (Not invented at MS) - I usually have a dual-boot PC set up & it always seems pathetic that the MS bit can't read the Linux partitions, especially when compared to Debian installed on the other half of the disk. Debian can read all sorts (and of course there's Samba as well - which some say is faster at serving Windows files than Windows is).
And that's on a desktop(!), let alone a phone....
with "Health & Safety". At all. As someone pointed out, its the following of moronic procedures in a moronic way that does it. You point is a good one, but "better safe than sorry" is your Mum's idea of H&S. Health & Safety is a good thing - the laws stop employers risking their employees lives for the sake of profit - eg guards on dangerous machinery etc. I think the HSE get very upset about nonsense like this being conflated with their function.
The Filth's behaviour was less "Big Brother", more "Scared Little Brother", really
Decent live-off-able amount? Never going to happen
No scheme offered to the unemployed ever pays any money, apart from maybe an extra tenner p.w. & travel exes.
I was signing on throughout the Thatch/Major era(by choice of course) & at no time was I offered anything much, except when they let me pretend I was starting a business for 2 years & still paid me the dole plus a score on each giro - the Tories'd do anything to make the figures look better. It was either that or go on the sick. That's why they think there's so many scroungers on the sick - they spent years letting anyone on it to get the dole numbers down.
I know 3 who went that route. The irony is that although they weren't sick when they started, they really are now. One has a hopeless valium, smack & crack habit & another is in rehab, trying to get off methadone & 5+ litres of 9% lager a day. They're both totally unemployable.
The so-called "free" market (the only actually .free markets I know of are illegal) is only any good for discretionary purchases where choice is meaningful. Basic infrastructure is what the state is for. I still can't believe the utilities & railways were privatised - what massive cockups/ripoffs they were
he also posted complete instructions on how to make your own. Teach a man to fish etc.....
Seems more like a latter day Robin Hood to me. But won't someone think of poor little P & G?
Silly sod though forgetting to use TOR after being so careful.
The only people guilty of fraud are those who actually used the coupons. He may well have committed another crime, but I doubt if its fraud.
I used to have a TI programmable(among several others) at school(not sure now which one - TI-57 perhaps). They were great for Statistics - you could construct tables, so you could "show the working" & vary the partition between LOC & memories. The late 70's has to be the golden age of calculators IMHO.
The point in exams was to have at least 2 or 3 just in case. I sat London (& 1 AEB) GCEs & they didn't really seem to have rules for calculators(maybe you weren't allowed alpha displays)
Also had a CBM 9190(??) that had 90 maths functions including numerical integration, perms & combs, Gaussian,Poisson etc etc. This all seemed hugely impressive at the time. Both had a red LED display of course, none of that poncy LCD rubbish.
No she fucking didn't. She did the damage. She threw the baby(s) out with the bathwater. As well as bringing in new licences, which already existed anyway, she removed all rent controls, decimated social housing, threw out the "sitting tenant" class of tenancy etc etc.
I rented from 1980 onwards & I've never owned a house, so I'm in a fairly good position to judge the state of the rental market. I had no problem at all renting during the 80's. Thatchlers rent fiasco passed in 1988. Rents immediately rose quickly. There was never a problem with tenants having "too many rights" - the Tories perceived there was a problem with their landlord mates not being able to charge what they liked & kick people out of their homes(yes it is the tenants *home* you know) when they liked, so they "de-regulated" the rental sector. According to your logic, a lot more people are landlords now, so rents should be driven down as there should be a glut - Wrong.
There was nothing wrong with the "Fair rent" idea - it was administered correctly & was fair to both sides. Also any landlord could rent a property using a licence agreement which lasted 6 months, which was very common. All the scare stories were bollocks. I'm lucky enough now to share a flat which was originally rented before '88 so is *still* subject to the Rent Act, so there's a limit on the % rise the landlord can add on every year. The landlord owns a few million quid houses outright though, so he's laughing anyway(like so many landlords who've inherited their little goldmine).
You seem to be talking sense about things you've actually experienced - then you went & spoiled it by coming over all political. I love the way you take pride in your hypocrisy about "the GW industry" & "I'm just taking advantage".
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