Posts by Demosthenese
72 posts • joined Tuesday 1st September 2009 22:44 GMT
Re: pedant
Prove, v. i.
1. To make trial; to essay.
[1913 Webster]
Re: Servers
Including vulture central - debian web servers.
Shift-3?
That would be £
Re: We are not doing anything illegal or immoral
"Give to caesar what is caesar's"
Commonly misunderstood. The pharisees' question was designed to elicit a response that was either seditious or look bad to the jewish nationalist audience. The reply would be understood by the audience - Caesar should be given what is rightfully his - i.e. nothing, without actually saying anything that would land Jesus in hot water with the Roman authorities.
Morals and the Law
The moral person requires no laws, for he knows what is right and acts acordingly. Laws are put in place for the immoral and the wicked to force them to behave in a minimally acceptable manner. Those bleating that they obeyed the letter of the law and thus have done no wrong are clearly members of the latter groups rather than the former.
It is time to reach for a bigger legal stick with which to beat the wicked back on to the right path.
"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."
Winston Churchill
Re: "Protest the funerals"?
... for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers.
(Matthew 5:45)
red herring
Yes the press is already governed by laws - those laws that apply to everybody. What Cameron is arguing against is laws specifically to regulate the press.
What we have here is a first. A PM who hasn't responded to a situation where the existing laws are not being enforced with a "We need more laws." I find myself in agreement with Mr Cameron - and that too is a first.
Re: OTT
Just get your friend to carry your lanyard/rfid to all those lessons when you have better things to do.
Re: Tiscali will rue the day...
"I'm still trying to get my head around the reason why Talk Talk have jumped at the chance of implementing the "filter thingy"."
Well there will be savings resulting from any reduction in data download, and less need to respond to law-suits against copyright claims which will reduce admin costs.
Posted in Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs
Huh?
I always pronounced it 'jiff' - if anyone uses a hard 'g', I've not met them.
Re: Not theft
@Velv
reprehensible
adj 1: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
I'm not sure how you stretched my meaning to include condoning and then extended your error by stooping to personal insults.
Not theft
Reprehensible yes, but not theft.
So ask the user
Hey Mr advertiser why don't you ask the user to change their settings if they visit your site with don't track set? You can explain the advantages of your enhanced experience. Make a good case and people will opt in surely.
Will someone take these out the back and shoot them?
"Wireless Asociation[sic], formerly the Cellular Telephone Industry Association (CTIA). It argued that jailbreaking should not be allowed because users buy handsets, but don't necessarily own the software that runs them."
So replacing the software I don't own with software that I do own is wrong. How is that for fucked up logic.
Re: something is amiss here....
"governments are CRAP at running services like this"
"Virgin Media ... exit service I received, was absolutely dire"
"BT ... I was getting 2 - 4Mbps max"
So privatised services are the solution?
Posted in US data show slump in Apple tablet share
Re: Percentages are irrelevant
Don't VW own Porsche?
No cybersex but...
Sending your daughter into a life of slavery in Saudi Arabia is still ok. Priorities - has anyone seen them?
Posted in Smack your phones up, says Microsoft
Android apps already exist to use the accelerometer to silence the phone. And I bet they exist on other platforms too. So how is this non-obvious and inventive?
@Barry Shitpeas
+1 for the last line.
Capitalism's only promise to us proles is that the free market will provide cheaper, and better, goods and services. Marketeers and ad-men ensure it doesn't even do that.
Market Forces
The exam boards compete for examinees - and so it is in their interest to offer examinations that 'support' greater success in the candidates. So no surprise that pass rates and grades achieved continually rise - the few exam boards that stood firm against the trend went bust.
Re: Not likely
Actually, though the Catholic church does not allow condoms or other contraceptives to be used to prevent pregnancy, it recognizes that it is preferable to spreading disease. If your intent in wearing a condom is to prevent the spread of HIV then this is considered less immoral than unprotected sex, though still considered less preferable than abstinence.
The same would be said of taking an oral contraceptive if the intent was one of mitigating an existing illness rather than preventing conception. Indeed the pill itself would not be considered evil only the use to which it is put could become so. Taking a drug to treat an illness is a good thing, regardless of what other uses that drug could be put to.
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11804798 for some coverage.
Child Cruelty?
Since when has being dragged round the shops been child cruelty?
Posted in Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux
Actually you can buy the galaxy tab in germany. Only Samsung's german subsidiary is barred from selling it, while other retailers are able to continue selling and restocking the galaxy tab from other wholesalers or Samsung subsidiaries.
Really?
All public servants in London are paid at a higher rate than equivalent jobs in the provinces. This extra expenditure is covered by higher subsidies from central government rather than local taxation.
multiarch
google debian multiarch
And this benefits us how?
Why would anyone other than Apple shareholders want this? Would it result in a better market? Even a better iphone?
Hmm
So if he's late, he wastes even more time in a pointless 'punishment' that seems to me to be more like dick waving.
Posted in Rupert Murdoch was never Keyser Soze
Losses?
Are these real operational losses or accounting losses to avoid paying tax? How much does News Corp or its subsidiaries charge the papers for 'services'?
3.7G
3.7G - for an o/s upgrade. Seriously? I mean its not as if they have to include all the world's drivers as they have a small platform set.
Generally ...
“I generally tell Mac users that if they care about security, they should upgrade to Lion sooner rather than later, and the same goes for Windows users, too.”
What? You 'generally' recommend? How's that been working? Recommending a product before it is yet available. I bet his clients have been loving that.
Posted in LulzSec disavows alleged Census hack
Oh dear.
"... because people are stupider than you and I."
ITYM "more stupid than you or me."
and I'm not sure about you.
Only in the US
c.f. Monsignor Georges Lemaître - who first hypothesized what came to be called the 'Big Bang' theory, and Gregor Mendel, Augustinian monk, father of genetics.
Science and religion not so incompatible after all.
More than one constraining factor
Three factors play a role - available sunlight, rate at which CO2 can be absorbed, and uptake of water. Denser forests may increase the rates for two of these.
@Duncan W.
No - he said he's moving distro. He could stick with Fedora and use a different DE, such as Xfce. If he wants gnome 2 then move distro - but eventually this option is going to disappear as other distros shift from gnome 2 to gnome 3.
me 3
My O2 router has never been taken out of the box. Suspicious lot aren't we.
Posted in Eight New Yorkers sue Baidu for $16m
Confused
You ask baidu a question. Baidu answers it - maybe incorrectly, or incompletely. How does this affect your, or anyone else's, free speech?
Posted in Doctor Who's Elisabeth Sladen dies at 63
It is going to surprise you...
that Tom Baker was born in Liverpool too.
Posted in The new killer app is … MMS
What?
If a media company sends me an mms I sure as hell will not buy their product. Even if it was formerly in the running for a slice of my cash, this is one sure way to piss off your market.
perjury?
No longer a crime for the police and associated agencies.
The prime characteristic of a police state is that the police are not themselves subject to the rule of law.
Legal Advice
"Legal advice was taken beforehand and it was advised and expected that we had a reasonable chance of winning our case."
And you didn't spot the vested interest here. Of course the lawyers 'believe' you have a reasonable chance when it is a guaranteed unreasonable payday for them.
History?
Yeh, and we need armoured foot knights and longbows just in case we need to give the French another kicking.
Tanks have gone the way of the battleship.
wisdom
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
bzzt to you too
Tornadoes are deep penetration strike aircraft - not so good for 'defence of the realm'. So no, that is no reason to have them sitting at home.
Posted in Interwebs stunned by musical atrocity
Managed 30 seconds before hitting the mute
Sounds like most of the crap that is punted at the lowest common denominator. Worst song ever? Probably not.
Posted in Apple 'gay-cure' app severely slapped
I'm offended by this app but ...
I have no absolute right to go through life unoffended by other people's views. I am more offended by those who wish to suppress the views of others. The tyranny of the majority is tyranny non the less.
Posted in Make streaming a felony: Obama
Like the City of London
Precisely the situation at the heart of our 'democracy'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation#Voters
Posted in Fukushima situation as of Wednesday
by..
by France ... Japan's main business rival in exporting nuclear technology.
However, the real cost lies in the risk to those involved...
No, it doesn't. Their loss is society's gain.
MMm..
Mmmm ...Purple ....Aggghhh. - Homer J Simpson.
