Posts by Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse662 posts • joined Friday 28th September 2007 07:59 GMT
He was just an actor, playing a role. I'm sure it's just what he wanted as well.
Even in death he can't help but be a parody.
Really intelligent post there Doug.
But to your point... why should he pay up? As has been previously stated, he's not actually been living in the US for the last couple of years, and has now decided to become a citizen of another country.
As to what he owes, I'm not sure he has said he's not going to pony up any taxes, but only ponying up those that are due at time of income earnt - and as a non-US citizen. Which is only recently right?
Good luck to him I say.
"But by opting not to experiment with a comparative pittance of $10m"
But that is exactly the point isn't it? GM HAVE experimented with millions of dollars in the past, and I can only assume that that multi-million dollar advertising program had attached to it (A) an approved strategy, (B) a set of baseline expected results, and (C) a set of measurable returns on investment - and one can only assume that even at best 2 out of 3 of these have not been met by investing it in Facebook.
Whilst it does seem that $10m is a small sum in terms of their overall advertising budget, I'd still be highly surprised considering their recent economic problems that they simply handed over that cash in brown envelopes and "hoped for the best".
I would seriously question the authors journalistic bias on this piece.
Sorry El Reg - not impressed.
When several US companies claim that they already own the "iRan" patent for a new digital music player / track shoe hybrid, and the "iRaq" patent for a new digital music player / vegetable counting device.
It all kicks off and nobody wins except the lawyers.
"Wouldn't one of those be lovey... and an internet as well... are they types of dog Phillip?"
...said a doddery old pensioner with a crown earlier today.
Hands up if anyone thinks that old Liz actually has a clue about anything she reads in Parley-a-ment...
Putting aside all the other comments made on this thread, my opinion is that when looked at for what it is, the extended version is one of the best sci-fi movies ever made...
... and possibly the most quotable.
Another diversification from the core modus operandi and in 10 years time Apple becomes what Microsoft is now.
I.e. lost.
That no one could get through. And if no-one can get through to lodge a complaint then that number of complaints received is always going to look rosy.
As CERN is higher in altitude than Gran Sasso then it follows that the Neutrinos are travelling downhill faster than the light.
Or something scientific like that.
Shouldn't this article be called... "UBS tells agencies to reduce rates by 10%"?
I'm a contractor of 15 years. For most of those 15 years, and apart from 1 or 2 direct roles - my contract has been with the agency - not the end client.
In only a few instances have I ever negotiated rate directly with the end client. On the occasions that the agency has asked me to take a cut, I have flatly refused at which point they quietly go away and leave me to carry on as planned.
As another says... the contract market is buoyant at the moment. If you are any good - you shouldn't have a problem if you choose to walk.
Perhaps all these "previously thought extinct" species foresaw well in advance the oncoming cataclysm of industrial age man and just decided to hide for a few hundred years until it all passes by...
* Made in Holland.
What the world really needs is cheaper medicines, better availability of contraception, better education, real world sustainable solutions to the foods and fuels issues, and more hospitals.
But hey Google, if the best you can do with your billions upon billions of dubiously gained ad-money is an institute "to examine the evolution of the internet and its impact on society, science and economy" - which we all know is a really just a goodwill gesture to placate Germany for your past illegal practices, then you go for your life...
I thought that God put dinosaur fossils here to help strengthen our collective faith in creationism.
It all seemed so plausable :-(
Serious : as i'm not sure I get it...
It's all shit, nobody is buying anything, and those that are buying are buying from cheaper foreign sources - so there is limited UK growth. Yet UK manufacturing confidence is high?????
Does this mean that if we (the manufacturers) had the orders, we are confident we have the means to fulfill i.e. we are confident we could produce; but we don't have the orders, so we can't???
Thanks.
He wasn't arrested for installing software and spying on people without their knowledge. He was arrested for crimes against art.
When you say "launching into space" do you mean it in the same tenuous manner that Branson's Galactic effort isn't really going into space?
Either way I don't really care and very much look forward to following the progress.
It will be followed by a suitable lens correction plugin for Lightroom?
But ACCUSED != GUILTY.
Although in this case I wish it did.
Can someone wake me up when all of the junctions on the M25 are re-accessible because the Highways agency have failed to stop getaway drivers from using the motorways.
River: "So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem."
Book: "Really?"
River: "We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5000 species of mammal on the same boat."
But I'm not sure I agree that it in any way demonstrates that "it's getting harder to differentiate between real video and computer graphics" in the same way that say Jurassic Park, or District 9 did for example.
To me, it's a pointless video because we all know that the real game will be nothing like this - and will most likely add nothing of significance to the Star Wars canon except more of the same tedious mish mash of ill through through content that blighted the 3 prequel movies.
I'm sorry to say it - but the more the Star Wars brand is milked as a cash cow, the more it becomes nothing more than a parody of itself that is fast eating away at the genius and shine of the original 3 movies.
Correction : the first two movies.
As per the title.
All problems with SAP deliveries/implementations can usually be traced back to bad requirements analysis and specification of change, rather than any specific problem with vanilla SAP itself.
That's what business cases are for : to state clearly the benefits vs cost, over time period x.
Hopefully there would have been one of these. Whether it is accurate, or underwent any formal challenge is the real question, but if you take at face value the tracking of benefits statements, I am presuming it would have.
Looks like someone uploaded the page into the wrong environment.
Whilst I agree that there are some terms that can be used in a humerous manner at an early hour, that particular word (IMHO) in no way has lost any shock value over recent years and is no way suitable for ANY hour of the day over broadcast media, or in any other aspect of life for that matter. In fact it is the only word that when used in conversation will make me firmly take issue with the user of it.
And to the BBC : If it has lost this "shock value" then why aren't you broadcasting it more often?
Perhaps if the BBC spent less time broadcasting shit, and concentrated more on quality then this country wouldn't be going down the pan in terms of how we all talk to one another in a respectful manner.
Perhaps he wasn't a workaholic, but consientious enough to worry about his job, and pissed that you weren't doing yours correctly?
She's got that cute geeky / spectacles look going on too ;-)
Yeah, yeah yeah... supposed outrage that the game contains both buses and explosions and could tenuously at best refer to the London bombings.
But no outrage that it involves shooting Russians? Perhaps real controversy should be courted by having a COD game where the main protagonist is a Russian whose main goal is to blow away Yanks and Brits for nothing more than their shocking double standards.
You can have mine for £95. It's not been switched on for 6 months.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!
No surprise that .govs strategy is fucked if they can't keep a steady management ship in place for more than 5 minutes.
"The carbon footprint i'tsn't about the instantaneous rate at which it is emitted, rather about the total quantity emitted each year."
So what? The argument made here isn't solely about carbon footprint. It's about replacing existing energy generation mechanisms with low impact ones - and in that case it is absolutely about instantaneous rate, as I don't want be turning my telly on in April, only to find that no electricity is available until June simply because of the weather.
The only way to "capture the shock" of the original is to add loads of swearing?
Wow I'm really glad that this is what the BBC are spending my money on.
In the same way that I like having nails driven through my hands, feet, knees and testicles.
An ongoing publicity stunt to me.
Either that or they are complete idiots. Whilst that doesn't condone what the hackers have done you'd have thought that if privacy was a major concern, that not keeping nude shots of yourself on or within your phone or Google mail account would have been a better idea.
Now lets have the same "fiction" with the situations reversed shall we and see if you Yanks like it as much.
Well... even if you are the worlds third or so richest man, those funky carbon sails on those Americas cup boats don't pay for themselves y'know.
So as far as I can tell from this story is that the only reason Sony are going after this guys Pay Pal records are because they are either too lazy to try him outside of California, or because they know that their case won't stand up to scrutiny in any other state due to rulings made in other similar cases. To me this looks like law in Cally is in the back pocket of the corporates.
And there was me thinking it was the "United" states. The reality couldn't be farther from the truth it seems.
There was a very funny (mock-umentary) comedy on the BBC last night that is set in the delivery office of the London Olympics. They also had an Olympic clock that not only could they not get working, but they didn't actually understand.
Art predicting, rather than imitating life perhaps...
It'll be down to 300 or so pounds within 6 months.
My thoughts entirely. So effectively what the article is saying is that the Wii is still pissing all over the other two in terms of sales (including in 2010), but because you can't play COD or whatever in 720p it doesn't matter. Whether HD or not, in terms of sales - the only fact that matters is that Sony and MS are still waaaay behind Nintendo.
To have made this article mean anything relevant, the author should have dropped "HD-capable" from the first sentence, or just not have mentioned Nintendo anywhere at all - as as it is, it just seems like a twisting of the facts to suit the authors bias.
Because he didn't actually read them. He simply entered his name, proposed forum user ID, email address and DOB and hit the enter key.
Like most people, he probably considered the 3 previous pages of legalese Ts&Cs jargon too much to be bothered with.
Those are pretty good numbers for a device that has (as many commentards regularly point out) no real purpose.
Apparently the first one to hack it gets a free subscription to PSN+, a visit from the FBI and CIA, plus the added bonus of having their IP addresses subpoenad and civil rights and violated by some Hicksville "judge".
IR35 was yet another - prejudiced, ill conceived, ill planned and ill executed policy to drag more money out of legitimate company directors rather than intelligently close any perceived "loophole*". The previous Labour government should be held accountable for this rediculous cost/benefits ratio, and the minsters responsible held personally accountable for refunding any costs that the company directors have lost due to the litany of farcical and protracted court hearings that have ensued in its wake.
That, or I'd settle for Dawn Primarolo being publicly flogged until she admits that she is nothing more than a failed, subservient lapdog.
* - Bearing in mind that to HMRC, a "loophole" is any scenario where they have not yet devised a method to gauge more money out of the populace. Rather than fixing a genuine hole in existing tax policy.
It may be cheaper to employ a monkey who is only capable of watching a computer screen. But as far as I know all commercial vessels over a certain size have to be staffed by a competent bridge officer, or a trained officer of the watch. So this begs the question of what exactly is it that these monkeys are being taught in their deck officer courses if they cannot revert to manual navigation methods and techniques.
Regardless, ALL vessels on the high seas - and that includes you holidaymakers over there on your pedalos and jet skis are required by law (i.e. the IMO) to maintain a watch at all times to prevent collisions at sea.
Being a yachtie myself, I find GPS an invaluable aid to navigation in fog and bad weather - but have never relied on it as I find it much more satisfying to work with paper charts, pilotage and my trusty Freiberger - but mostly my eyeballs.
Nice one El Reg.
It made me smile anyway.
Yeah right... because Google won't have a workaround for that will they.
Of course though, when it does come out that they have a workaround they will defend themselves by saying that it was developed "accidentaly."
I sooooo wanted a Spectrum, but in their wisdom my folks bought me a Mattel Aquarius instead :-( To this day I'm still not quite sure how from my christmas list, they managed to arrive at the word "Aquarius" from "Spectrum Spectrum Spectrum Spectrum Spectrum".
30 odd years later I've still never met another person who had one.
Anyone?
