Posts by Christoph 3317 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Dec 2007
"I'm sorry, where in the pledge of allegience is there any mention of American supremecy?"
The brainwashing isn't in that bit. It's in things like their 'history' lessons, where anything that shows the US in a less than perfect light is sanitised out. They are taught over and over that the US is better than any other nation and doesn't do anything wrong.
"Should the provision of a hyperlink leading to a work or other subject matter protected under copyright, either in general or under specific circumstances, be subject to the authorisation of the right holder?"
That's barking mad.
Everything not specifically put into the public domain or where the copyright has expired is automatically copyright the author.
Such a law would require explicit permission for every cross-site link on the web. And that permission would have to be retained and able to be retrieved in case of dispute.
Search engines would require permission from every site they index.
The only way I can see for it to be viable is some mechanism to include the permissions in a robots.txt file or similar. And then what happens when that file is changed - how often does everyone have to scan to check that their links are still legal?
Meanwhile the rest of the world gets on with running the Web, linking to whatever they like, and laughing at the EU.
What exactly do they mean by 100 percent efficiency? If they are seriously claiming to have a room temperature superconductor then the improvement of micro-circuitry will be trivial compared to the other applications.
Room temperature superconductors would be game-changing in all sorts of different fields.
"6,000 new computers would be installed in dole offices across the country so that claimants can apply for jobs online."
Fine. Super. Terrific. Now how about arranging that there are some jobs available for them to apply for.
Genuine jobs, not the rubbish and fakes that turn up on those dole office lists.
The jobs that even if they existed wouldn't appear on those lists because the companies looking for workers aren't interested in the many thousands of applicants who only apply for a job for which they know very well they are not suited because they have to apply for a fixed number of jobs a week or lose benefit.
Real jobs that pay money, not forced unpaid workfare that lets companies avoid employing actual paid workers because they get the forced labour for free. The unpaid work that goes on much longer than the community work people would get as punishment for committing a crime.
How about actually doing something to help people rather than endless meaningless headline grabbing nonsense that does nothing about the problem?
" timely interventions that keep young people who look like they're headed for jail into education or work."
So to get help into education or work you should first commit a crime?
How about helping all young people into education or work?
(Rather than the current UK policy of helping out-of-work young people into starvation and suicide.)
Your message is in itself extremely strong evidence that the laws of Physics are substantially correct.
Not by its content but by its existence.
If the Universe did not work in accordance with the laws of Physics then modern electronics would be utterly impossible in many different ways.
That includes the computer you typed your message on, the server which holds it, and the network that distributes it.
pointed out that one of the movement's mottos is “United as one, divided by zero.”
Anon vs. Anon is therefore impossible, they suggested
You what? Did they really claim that something is impossible because their motto says it doesn't happen?
Maybe they should be called Anonymous Upton Park. Two stops short of Barking.
"Dzamko soon found himself under scrutiny by his police force's internal affairs investigators"
If he'd been an ordinary citizen in the UK the police would have arrested him, destroyed his marriage, career and friendships, and then when he was finally proved innocent (possibly years later) have given him a vague management-speak apology and tuppence compensation.
If they hadn't managed to drive him to suicide of course.
Presumably we're OK as long as we stay within what is generally acceptable in other fields?
For instance if we can be as offensive, abusive, defamatory and insulting as a government minister talking about the disabled and unemployed then that gives us a pretty wide field. It would be very difficult to be any worse than that!
"respecting the rights of citizens"
In the US, they guarantees the rights of US citizens.
In Europe, they guarantee the rights of human beings.
Not that either side's intelligence pays a blind bit of notice to the laws of course. And the ConDems want to abolish the Human Rights act because it stops the government doing things it wants to do (which is of course the WHOLE BLOODY POINT).
That will involved data migration from the old expired XP boxes to whatever newer Windows system might be chosen.
That will involved data migration from the old expired XP boxes to whatever new Operating System might be chosen.
Keeping with Windows might be easier in the short term, but the same problem will keep happening over and over. For some companies this is a very good time to look at making the switch to Linux.
Most of the pictures will never show up anywhere but on a screen. Very very few will ever get printed. So why bother with more megapixels than a screen will hold?
Keep the megapixels down and the pixel size up, and you get better pictures, less noise, and better low-light sensitivity.
The top-end cameras have ludicrous resolution unless you are printing in a glossy magazine.
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