Orly....
People that dumb should have been given green cards
2416 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010
considering that govt regulation is an attempt to curb the worst excesses of the free market then that means the regulation is working!
just 'caus it's profitable dosent make 'sending kids up chimneys' right.
dons asbestos suit to protect from flames... damn it's regulated against! curse you! interfering washington blowhards :-)
bollocks!
The machines were taken down when the yanks found out how many machines they had on the network with no/piss poor security.
His activities exposed incompetence on a massive scale.
The downtime was caused by the moron who set up the network.
When a popular website goes titsup due to a spike in demand, no one blames the fifty million users trying to access the same page. it's the sysadmins fault for being a dick!
this is a bit of a red herring. any fule kno that terrorists dont get extradited. they disappear in the dead of night, repear in egypt/lybia/saudi where they get the TA Edison interrogation to their nuts for a few weeks - just to establish the facts - then it's off to gitmo forever.
Why does the great satan need extradition treaties with anyone if thats their policy? if anything it just high lights the hypocracy of their own position i.e. harbouring their home-grown war criminals and terrorists irrespective of the crimes they commit, or indeed the evidence against them.
err... hate to shatter your willing suspension of disbelief, but the devil doesn't exist, all part of that outragous jewish folk tale about a snake and an apple im afraid. all smoke and mirrors.
Although it does speak to your high opinion on the efficacy of advertising.
Just because millions are spent on it does not mean that anything is achieved in the process - the cost is added to the products so the ad is at worst cost neutral to the company. AFAIK all metrics of advertising efficacy consist of measuements on how much it cost to put the ad infront of how many pairs of eyes, or how carefully selected said eyes were (the guys about to buy into facebook will get burned by this in time). I have never seen a study that said;
"last month we saturation advertised 'new whizzo' detergent and shifted 10 million units, this month we did no advertising and only shifted 2 million units'
once the market realise the existence of new whizzo they will use it or not - irrespective of advertising, it's either good or cheap, or smells particularly nice or it goes out of business
ads for new produsts/services/promotions which carry a basic 'news'element i can see a case for. But far and away the significant factors in deciding one product or service over another will be things like; price, value, perfomance, and i dunno... cache (like for i products eg) not the warm fuzzy feeling engendered in a 30 second feature about a meerkat
FYI
Never seen an ad for the car i drive.
the brand of coffee i drink, likewise is not advertised in mainstream media,
I dont eat chocolate anymore, but i used to prefer hadmade belgan fresh cream chocolates made at a local chocolatier - with an annual ad buy of £0.
and bread.... who cares its just bread,
as the (fictional) little boy pointed out - the emperor has no clothes.
QED
"pay to view a TV show"
is the clue that plugs the revenue gap.
if programme makers can finance their content without relying on ad revenue, then we wouldnt have ads in programs, and a whole new dynamic of story arcs would be released without there being the obligatory minor cliffhangers & reveals every 12 minutes used to hammock the add breaks.
also fyi - try watching sky (a commercial tv station) content on catchup. no ads. so how does that fit with your model? - they own the content, and the channel, and take the ad revenue, so why no ads?
And another thing!!!
ad makers have already shot their wad as far as this goes by insisting on about 20db boost of the audio on their content over the 'bait' programming content. Result ;
watch everything on catchup/tivo and skip the ads completely. starting to watch 10 minutes after the programme starts will do just fine.
channel hop for a couple of minutes. maybe finding something else equally\more interesting on one of the other squillion channels aailable to me. losing viewers to the content provider.
mute the fucker and go make a coffee. not a bad solution as the caffene keeps you watching for hours and hours.
either way their (ad) content is not reaching its target audience.
which all amounts to what i have suspected all along that tv advertising is bollocks. i may like the ad but no way is it going to change my mind even 1 iota about the company paying for the ad. and i cant off hand think of even 1 person that i know who is stupid enought to do that.
there is some cool marketing going on, but it's by the people selling ad space on tv, not the idiots buying it.
simples!
(case in point my car insurance was sold to me by iggy pop, not a cute meerkat in sight)
Whos comparing barac to a facist? He's the extreme right winger, now newt, mit and palin et all, THEY are the batshit crazy facists.
There IS no centrist voice in mainstream american politics. End your internal dialogue, you are wrong, get over it. Plenty of centerist, or god forbid leftist ideals in american society, but the political system keeps those people firmly on the margins - apparently the corporations who own washington dont like their ideas much.
as for police state - isnt stopping people at the borders because of something they may have said to their friends JUST the kind of thing that used to happen in east germany? just 1 step short of thought crime....
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godwin refers to comparasons with nazis, not facists in general
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palin is a batshit crazy facist, but she will make the trains run on time!
happy?
(yes i know il duce didnt make the trains... etc etc)
errr... i think youll find it is the only way to learn.
teaching kids to program?
first youll have to teach them to think, can you imagine how expensive that would be, not to mention flying in the face of 30+ years of UK Govt. policy! - schools are there to train people to pass exams, and failing that a bung to the examining board will achieve the desired effect.
i only came in here cos someone said that gove's head should be hunted....
with hounds i hope :-)
clause 1 =
why for years were we allowing hundreds of thousands of non EU candidates into the UK when 10+% of IT grads were unemployed and actively looking for training places
clause 2 =
horrifically poor teaching at primary, secondary and in some cases tertiary level.
1 because of 2
simples
nothing new here sadly, as a 'real' engineer - moving something a bit more weighty than notional zeros and ones around for a living, this kind of crap from management\govt is what's made british industry what it is today.... a fuck of a sight smaller than it should be.
when was the last time an industrialist took the economy to monte carlo and put it all on red?
so it begins... sleep depravation next...
(cue all the merkins getting a hair up their ass because bradley was a military prisoner with no rights, rather than a terrorist with no rights - both being tortured by a regieme that ignores the rights of those it chooses to nominally assign them to)
richard and gordon: he was looking for evidence of ET at area 51 - of course he was thinking impared. it's axiomatic!
If the merkins were serious about sorting this, they'd charge the dipshit who exposed the network! AFAIK Gary is no l77t Hax0r - just found a wide open pc on an allegedly secure network. and he's the wrongdoer?
She served as a Member of the House of Representatives from 3 August 1971 until 28 December 1977 when she became State Secretary for Transport, Public Works and Water Management from 28 December 1977 until 11 September 1981, in the Cabinet Van Agt I. And again a Member of the House of Representatives from 27 August 1981 until 4 November 1982, when she became Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management from 4 November 1982 until 7 November 1989, in the Cabinets Lubbers I and II.
all elected
since then not so much
but for that 18 years, she was elected - as i correctly stated and you kinda failed to understand.
QED