Posts by aphexbr

I presume that they did prioritise business - Google's business. If they lose more money by YouTube not using up 80% of bandwidth than they do by not restoring your 0.0001% of bandwidth, then they're at the front of the queue.

Re: Hostage situations...

"Of course you'll have to ASSUME that ANYBODY walking out of the door is part of the hostile party, and if said person do things quite contrary to your orders (dropping hands when ordered to place his/her hands up) you'll shoot, questions asked later"

Congratulations, you just murdered the hostage who was sent out to talk, while the criminal keeps him at gunpoint while remaining hidden.

Re: er...

"the vast majority of terrorist incidents world wide are linked to Islam"

Only because when white people commit terrorist actions, they're "lone wolves", "have mental issues", etc. Anything to not call them terrorists when they blow people up or kill scores of innocent people. Shooting up churches in the name of creating a race war isn't terrorism because Dylann Roof was white, don't ya know, and Brevik wasn't really a terrorist for reasons. But, if a guy's brown it's a terrorist action no matter the actual intention.

You know, because admitting that there's lots of other terrorists and that the vast majority of Muslims do no such thing gets in the way of excuses to drop bombs on their countries and stealing their resources. Except the Sauds, of course, they're the good ones despite being behind lots of the actual terrorism directly.

I understand that, but it still does nothing to affect the accessibility of the site as the judge claimed. It makes it a little harder to stumble across, but unless the actual site is taken down people can still access it. It's like saying that you've made the dodgy stall down the market inaccessible because you stopped them advertising in the local paper rather than actually getting it removed from the market.

"without finding them first, how will they know that they exist AND what the URL is ?"

Links from other sites / emails / etc. I highly doubt that a successful scam site relied solely on people stumbling across it on Google, and even if they did they're bound to have altered their tactics while this fight was going on. At best, they've removed one of many traffic sources, and it might not even have been their primary one.

Re: What happens when the UK leaves?

"I am not saying the American stuff is good, nor that the English make good TV just that the rest is dire."

It's a shame that you haven't been exposed to all the excellent European TV out there, like The Bridge, The Killing, The Returned, Marseille, Divines, Gomorrah, Romanzo Criminale, Ministry Of Time and Sin Identidad. You're not only apparently missing out, but happy about it and welcoming further ignorance.

I suppose you only watch such things when they're pointlessly remade in English?

Re: Just a little question...

Really? Most people don't remember their own number, let alone the rest, which are usually stored in their phone's address book. Ask them to restate their own number and they might be able to do that through repetition, but most won't remember numbers of other people unless they dial them on a regular basis. Even when landlines were common, you'd usually not memorise the whole thing - the first few digits would the area code, which you'd normally not need to use for local contacts - while you would probably look in a physical address book or phone directory if you didn't have it to hand.

Besides which, it's a silly comparison anyway. Losing a phone number means you have to ask someone else you know to give it to you again, be that your phone operator or a contact of the friend you need to get through to. They're often visible on peoples' Facebook pages or other public profiles, and lots of other people will usually have them. People won't remember a private PIN number that they can't share in that way.

Re: Funny pricing

Apples and oranges. With the cloud hosting, MS have a fixed monthly cost plus other overheads that need to be handled, so they put up your monthly cost. There's a lot of uncertainties to take care of, plus they need to retain their ongoing profit margin.

With XBox, they have inventory that has already been produced (possibly some from before the pound plummeted), and a known date for when the sales would happen. Furthermore, they can sell at a loss because they hope to make money back from you in the future (games revenue, Live subscription, peripherals, etc.).

The only commonality between the two things is that you shouldn't be surprised if they also increase the cost of a Live subscription for the same reasons.

re: As a geologist...

Simple. Unlike religion, science doesn't demand faith in what you're reading. You can remember facts and utilise them without once believing anything they imply that contradicts your preconceived notions.

Doing so while studying science to an advanced level yet never questioning your book of mythology makes you at best delusional and at worst insane, but it's possible.