Posts by Gordon Pryra 990 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Mar 2008
"50 per cent also used “systematic and evaluative processes” based on scientific reasoning to overcome in-game problems"
It sounds more like they were given a multiple choice questionare.
50% of Warcraft players just follow the guy in front of him or follow the "how to do boss 4" guide to the letter
How many Warcraft players does it take to change a lightbulb?
Non, they just get a Chinease guy to fit it for them
Yes it may seem aggressive, but they ARE hurting me and mine.
Any powerful group with the ability to influence the thinking of governments and the media are a threat to true freedom of belief, expression and movement.
Ignore the nutters talked about in the article; they are just the idiotic fringe surrounding religion. The scary ones are the ones who sit in the background, making policy, controlling and influencing people and keeping the general populous as uneducated/empowered as possible to maintain their stranglehold
This may sound paranoid, but you can lay most evil in this world at the feet of the various religious groups. The fact that the world is still in an affective feudal state is just one way that the various control mechanisms (hell/secular hatred/ownership of women etc) have failed the human race.
I apologize for the use of the word empowered - it is a silly word
That the big red button rests in the hands of a bunch of people with such a medieval mindset. (lets just ignore the way that their leaders are elected)
Anyone who believes in any deity is suspect, but to enforce your irrational views on an education system, just perpetuates this childlike view of the world and creates yet enough generation who fail to take responsibility for their own actions.
Wankers tbh
"The PIN access devices are being re-engineered. It seems like crooks have broken the encryption on the chip but this is unclear,""
Why would they break the encryption on the chip?
They just copy it wholesale and record the punters keypress
Hardly difficult. And it has been going on from the day the things were released.
When some guy hands you a card terminal, you are expected to just type your pin into it, safe in the knowledge that that reader is the real thing?
Anyone who is stupid enough to believe that the minimum wage waiter isnt bent deserves to spend all their time fightng for their cash back under the "banking code"
That the same amount of Mac as Windows users get scammed
Except there are many many more Windows users
So a far higher % of Mac users get scammed than Windows user
As much as I HATE Macs, I do know that the average Mactard has (normally) a higher IQ than the run of the mill Windows fool.
This actually shows that the anti-phishing tech works well, protecting the brain dead and the moron "next,next,ok,next,ok,opps" crowd.
While no one really cares about the people whose data got stolen (they are the poorest Americans obviously)
It does show you what is going to happen to the UK very soon, with far more important data than a list of who hasn’t got any cash.
One final point, this is just one guy that got busted, the amount of people who get away with it must be a much greater number.
Which means that EVERY database in existence has already had ALL its data sold illegally already......?
If we are spending 4 billion on shit boats to save jobs in Scottyland
Why do they outsource Government projects to foreign countries?
Lets see –
Boat building, 25k jobs – unsustainable in the long run (actually - the moment the cheque gets signed , most of that cash goes abroad anyway, locals get bugger all)
IT Industry, hundreds of thousands of jobs – required in the short, medium and long term
Hopefully in 100 years time, the human race will have matured a bit more (or actually acknowledge the issues) and get rid of this form of parasite.
Stocks, shares, funds. All skimming of the top of society, screwing the economy and funneling resources into their own pockets.
Burn them, kill their children and drown their parents
I managed to walk onto the runway at Luton Airport last week before the guy taking the boarding cards called me back to recheck my out of date passport
hardly tough to be honest, 3 lots of security controls strolled past and only some guy picking up on it by mistake.
BTW I would like to take this chance to thank the Identity Office for their strike. I would sack the lot of you tomorrow.
I got into IT when the ability to be able to type (as a male) gave you a blank cheque from people who had heard of "modems and stuff like that"(tm)
My first roles were a disaster, but the lack of knowledge on both sides of the interview table, meant that the most confident applicant won, never mind the fact that he had zero knowledge of their systems,
In fact, many roles for the NHS, they would just take EVERY applicant who turned up due to a shortage of people able to change tape drives (17 years old, given a company car, £1500 a week and set loose all because the interviewer had no idea what he was interviewing for, ahhhh the good old days)
The trouble is nowadays, is the amount of crappy contractors going for a position, all have a professional looking CV and 95% are (typically) have very little real experiance.
Sometimes the real contractors have to go to 2 or maybe 3 interviews before they get their next position!!!!
Anyway, I'm off to invoice for the last 4 hours work, I don't want the amount to stack up or the company I'm working for may see how much im costing!1!!
IT angle, because if you are any good, then the jobs come to you, not the other way around
Apart from the few "lucky ones" in the story above;
The average fulltime employee takes it in the arse every day.
I would rather earn 10 times more as a contractor, work for half the year and not have to kiss some middle managers arse every day in return for my amazing pension, that I could get more return on putting £10 into a high interest account every week.
Ahh well, there’s no point in me having cash in my pocket if EVERYONE did.
IT angle, because I always believed that people who worked in IT were the clever ones, who wouldn’t believe all the "company loyalty bullshit"
"Wait ... sorry I assumed what works for big guys works for small guys, silly me"
I wish that were so, but the "big guys" have a different set of rules to play by, and the various "watch dogs", "governments" etc treat them differently.
The law does not seem to matter in a lot of cases.
Its how much cash you have
(and thats more than just affording a better laywer)
From green Hero, making eco-friendly cars (well more eco-friendly than normal)
to "Idiot who opened his mouth and ruined it all"
"After all," he says cheerfully, "everyone should have more than one car anyway, for different kinds of driving. That's just common sense."
The "luxury brands" may have had a point
Once
Long ago
When their goods were "luxury brands"
Now they are just shit, re-branded Chinese, crap
They can take a running jump
Many "Rip-offs" are of a better quality than the shit that is palmed off as "designer"
"BA, BMI, Easyjet and Virgin said the government should concentrate on sorting out immigration controls and reducing queues, instead"
Take that Jacqui!!
Hmmmmm, Jacqui? That doesent sound very English to me.
I wonder if she will have problems getting HER ID card?
"Labour MPs are threatening to block the Information Commissioner's pay rise in reaction to his insistence that they make public their expenses"
Criminals and scum the lot of them. They dont even care what their actions look like to the average person on the street. Because they are so powerfull now, they can ignore us.
Come the next election, half of them will just defect and go Tory anyway
They don't stand for ANY principles, other than "me, myself and I"
I would put a bet on there not being an ICO this time next year, as it seems (although in their pockets anyway) this is the last post that can cause the MP's any trouble.
I really really hate to say this, but thank god for the EU, they actually seem to be looking after the British peoples interests.........
I sent a mail to Ms Reding, reading pretty much like your post.
I jsut wish there actually WAS a way for the average person to bring criminals to justice.
Because thats what our "leader ship" are, they break the law for their own personal gain. And they have the Police behind them.
Because their leaders are all bastard rich
It’s more of a "power game/some thing to fill the time" than an excuse to fill their own pockets.
The English versions are so corrupt that they are almost supposed to fail.
The old privatised industries are governed by "Watch Dogs" which are aimed at siphoning off cash to the same people skimming the state owned industries.
Until we get people who actually want to make things better running the country, we will just be left with bunches of evil bastards who sit down to a 50 course lunch on world starvation with Mugabe
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