Posts by 's water music 1529 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2013
RTFM
Steam offered a refund.
I read the article as saying that Steam offer a refund as an alternative to paying a higher price (and another transaction fee) in the case that bitcoin falls between quote and completion and saying nothing so I would share the PP's suspicions for now and would seek further evidence were I considering a transaction.
As an aside; can a 3Kg chicken, frozen or otherwise actually acheive sufficient altitude to be any kind of threat to airliners? Including when they are taxiing.
I know they aren't noted for great flying and have short legs, but taxis? My mate keeps chickens and I would want a cleaning deposit up front before letting one of them into my cab.
Well, if you want them to go up and then land in the sea, then yes. I don't think that was the plan here.
There's the problem. Simply redefine the plan as being 'to go up and then land in the sea' and the mission was a roaring success. This used to be SOP for TASS back in the day
I am afraid that I am of an age that the doctor is always William Hartnell in my (childhood) eyes.
Speaking of childhood memories, like one of those baby chicks who ends up imprinting the wrong object in place of it's mother, my one true James Bond is Roger Moore FFS. Took me ages to realise he was actually rather rubbish
I'm generally a fan of the BBC and Blue Planet 2 certainly looks beautiful but I am close to giving up on it because it is so uninformative. It feels like it just jumps around the weekly theme whispering 'oooh, shiny' without ever telling me anything useful about what is being shown
"They're not interested in HP any more..."
It's not been the same since Fiorina left...
I have boys so they always preferred to dress up as Mark Hurd on World HP CEO Day at school though maybe their motivation was as much scatological* than gender conforming if I know nine-year-olds
*penultimate paragraph
Luckily True Address is not a thing legally speaking. The Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 specifies that registration info should not be false nor materially misleading so a valid correspondence address (such as a PO box) should be ok afaict
filter/block out pr0nz and other unsavoury websites (kids at home)
pi-hole is very easy to set up and configure and allows you to easily add black or whitelists to the automated filter lists though a web interface. Could be run on the main home PC if that is always-on or on a dedicated low power machine in the corner. I combine it with the free tier of opendns as the upstream dns service which also offers wider category blocking (which would probably suit your use-case) as well as limited black and white listing. Both have web reporting which allows you to tune it and see what is going on on the home network. Either can be used with or without the other
With respect, and in the context of my reply, 'where do you draw the line' is simple (at least for me).
You draw the line the same place for the government as you draw it for anyone else. At the point they are found to have broken the law.
I (and I suspect many or even all in this thread) do not dispute the legitimacy of law enforcement. The issue is with getting medical establishments to do it (a dangerous boundary blur whether or not you agree with the specific example) and the consequential effect of denial of access to healthcare which I regard as morally a bad thing but is also functionally a bad thing WRT to infectious diseases.
It's the law, and breaking it should not, in my view, be permitted for the government just as it is not permitted for anyone else. In fact, I'd suggest it is even _more_ important for the government not to break the law.
No disagreement here but since we are discussing individuals breaking the law I am not sure why you are emphasising it. In either case (govt or individual) I don't want medical staff taking on the enforcement though*.
...however now can you explain who is going to pay for this treatment that you would freely give to people that have broken the law by moving into a country they are not entitled to live even though there is due process for people to claim asylum where it is genuinely needed and said people are not just moving due to economic reasons?
The cost is socialised through taxation silly, just as it is for you and me or anyone else without reference to any moral judgments you or I might make about them. Some of that tax income is generated by economic activity of illegal immigrants. Given that younger working age adults are over-represented amongst illegal immigrants (high economic activity/low health care costs) I wouldn;t be surprised if there wasn't a surplus.
I also ask where should you draw the line because if you don't then you end up with a third world country because you can't afford to sustain yourselves.
Probably at some point before we become what I guess you mean when you say 'third world country'. I think we are a long way from being a country that isn't lucky enough to be able to afford to provide universal healthcare
Legal immigration for people that want to integrate and become part of our society is absolutely fine but people that try to game the system and take what they want for free are not.
I don't think anyone here has argued against immigration controls or enforcement, just against mixing it up with healthcare provision. Knowing a little of how the home office administers asylum claims in practice, not to mention their general reputation for competence in any area, my default position would be to side with almost any immigrant or asylum seeker until given a reason not to.
There is a certain logical consistency in your position if we assume a certain level of justice and efficiency in the causes, processes and history of migration or we simply ignore it and consider a narrow legal question without any context but but I am not sure that the first can be justified and in the second case a simple counter argument of confidentiality and data protection can be mounted.
TL/DR I think we should provide free-at-the-point-of-delivery universal healthcare because we can
TV just kept turning on all on it's own....
Grab the remotes (has two as the kids keep losing them)
Placed in kitchen
Problem solved.
Odds are it's just the batteries going in one of them and they are just going a bit nuts,.
I had a Sony Trinitron that would reliably emit a permanent vol down signal if it got a bit wet at the IR blaster end.
We discovered this when my daughter used it as a teething aid rather than some weird sex thing. It was reproducible when we forgot to leave the remote on a high shelf.
Incidentally a digital camera can help with locating IR sources
Actually, the article mentions nothing on the matter.
It states that twitter allows username reuse, but doesn't address DougS's question as to if this policy also applies to verified accounts. There's no hint (in the article at least) as to if @USEmbassyRiyadh was verified or not.
Maybe, read the question?
Perhaps the article has been modified but it makes it clear that the previous official account was verified.
Littman says... ..."I would suggest that the implications for our trust in official information from the US government, Twitter as a communications platform, and the Internet Archive as the historical record are significant," he explained, though he acknowledges that the ruse fails to reproduce the blue Twitter check mark for the formerly verified embassy account.
Littman argued ...The government... should only use verified Twitter accounts.
They may have a point about security by obscurity. I have been trying to reverse engineer my microwave for years by loading it up with combinations of already cooked/heated food and radio sources such as mobile phones in an attempt to reverse the usual process and get electrickery back out of it. I quickly reached the point where I could get sparks (a form of electricity surely) but the electric meter keeps on turning forwards so far. Does anyone have a copy of the secret blueprints I could take a look at please?
>> @Dave 126
>> personalised 3D printed dildos.
Sometimes I marvel at how far the human race has come since we came down from the trees. Sometimes I reflect on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
How the barbarians at the gates of Rome must have sniggered at their inferior commodity dildos
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