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.. there's another comment from Pritesh Hathalia that says:
"since coming to your country I have seen this again and again, the Britsh people are weak innit and so is their justice system. I'n my country this boy would be lynched by the local residents from a peepil tree. You people could learn alot from a more civilised nation like India."
Pritesh Hathalia, Leicester, 8/3/2010 11:51
I wonder what "Pritesh Hathalia" translates as ?
"Google's reasons for trading energy Enron-style, or retailing it to homes or businesses remain obscure"
Their own Web, everyone's information and data, Energy supplies, telecommunications - all world-wide. Then they'll move into food supplies / production, then set up their own military - missiles, army, navy, airforce ...
... by then it'll be too late - Google will rule the world.
Unless ! 007 - Bond, James Bond - can save the world and destroy the mad Google fiends in their tropical island bunkers.
Forget Al Quaeda - the real threat to world stability is Google !
Web of Trust reports the sex.com web site as UNTRUSTED: This site has a poor reputation.
All areas of trust are shown as Poor or Very Poor.
So it's a bit like buying a Restaurant whose owners have destroyed its reputation (except possibly not as much work).
Great point "ThaRobster".
here: http://www.androidguys.com/2009/05/21/android-based-trimble-nomad-from-sdg-systems/
There are hacks and devices to allow Serial port comms via the USB on some Droid phones. On machines like the Trimble these are built in and supported.
Won't be long before these are pretty capable systems to talk to the physical world (as opposed to the virtual - which they're good at).
We can see a time - not far in the future - that a droid phone could work our field instrumentation (serial comms devices). Good to know they can also print the results !
.. prophets normally correctly predicted things before the event.
Doing it afterwards is know as "hindsight" and is always 100% correct.
And, yep, he's just so right - we all want to share 100% of our lives with various groups such as Al Quaeda, the FBI, CIA, MI5, the hordes of ID thieves around the world. Why, the list of "friends" just goes on and on!
"in all the ads i put up i never found or meet a single gen female, so yes it was fun looking but really a wast of time, maybe its were i live near portsmouth, it seems to be a dead zone for swinging down here".
Suspect that any female looking at this may not have fancied swinging with someone whose English as as sloppy as this. Who knows what other things he disregards (hygiene, safe-sex etc.)
I assume that the provision of Pr0n to youngsters is illegal as it in the UK.
Therefore, this could be a criminal act not matter what the intention. Does anyone know if "I didn't intend to..." is a valid legal defence.
Or is it because they are a bank that no further action is being taken (and their directors are probably best mates of people in government).
Ah well..... perhaps the RBS will follow this trend to divert its customers from the HP/EDS fiasco!
... focus Bank directors minds if the ultimate sanction were the death penalty.
Personally, I believe that anyone who has the power to destroy or preserve the livelihoods (and indeed lives) of millions of people should also face the greatest sanctions if they are prepared to help themselves to the greatest rewards.
"Mohammed the Shred" then.
Nope, doesn't run off the tongue like "Fred the Shred".
Perhaps all applications should be made anonymous until the interview stage. Candidate ABC1234 (and so on).
We used this technique with rock samples many years ago - when sent for analysis so they were provided anonymous "out of number" sequence IDs and this was supposed to avoid bias from the laboratory doing the analyses.
To answer the question: I have never added religion to any job application nor received one in any applications. Just see it as totally irrelevant.
However, the question is surely NOT about religion on CVs but the perception of religious conviction based on a name ! A company that pre-judges (prejudice) it's applicants based on a nebulous connection between name and religion (or any other factor) is not one you'd want to work for anyway ??
Surely, if you're worried about the effect your name may/will have on your future employment it indicates a) a lack of confidence in your abilities and b) finding an excuse beforehand to explain why you didn't get the job.
If someone is really worried about this then there's always the option to change name by deed poll, I guess.
And finally, Ethics ? in a bank (at least the upper echelons). This is a joke, right?
We're just recovering from a major, bank caused, recession in which many many people lost their livelihoods, all caused by the greed and total lack of ethics of the directors of many banks. Sorry, but I now just see the large financial organisations as legalised crime syndicates, nothing more nothing less.
"Thirdly ethics and sustainability will be an increasing selling point for firms."
Does this mean REAL ethics and sustainability or some unreality dreamt up by the marketing departments?
Are we going to see Ethic and Sustainability Audits by the Department of Ethics and Sustainability ("Bribes second door left") of a new Government of Ethics and Sustainability ("No Expenses Spared").
.. an Accountant friend of mine was working with a company that wanted to trade in China. They went to a Chinese professor at a UK University for some advice. He started off by saying. "Remember, the Chinese had an extensive trade network when you were banging rocks together in caves. You will never win if you try to outsmart us."
Something Microsoft would be well advised to remember....
Don't talk to me about Sky ! (to paraphrase Marvin).
A colleague was due to get Sky installed. She waited in her house all day on the appointed day. No one appeared. She nipped out for 5 minutes and returned to find a message from the installer. Phoned him back - apparently he''d been waiting in the street in her town for about an hour.
As she lives on a farm up a lane with no adjoining houses and 2 miles from the nearest town she found this quite amazing - but "he wouldn't discuss this". So she has no idea where he was and as she'd previously had a phonecall from an installer in Wales asking where her house was it could have been anywhere in the UK.
Anyway, would you trust a supplier who is so technologically challenged that it cannot use a GPS or get addresses correct to supply any advanced viewing system ?
From 1969 !
[First Man:] I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think.
[Establishment:] Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
and now to suit our
great computer,
You're magnetic ink.
[First Man:] I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be.
[Inner Man:] There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles.
It riles them to believe
that you perceive
the web they weave
And keep on thinking free.
.. in the comments on El Reg compared with the ecstatic comments on the Latitude Blog.
Humans are equipped with this thing called memory - you use it to remember (a) where you have been and (b) how long you were there.
Perhaps we're seeing the emergence of humans that cannot remember anything over an hour old - in which case I can see that Latitude could be useful.
From your article:
Bebo's Big Think competition to: "come up with a concrete concept to crack climate change, clamp down on crime and create career opportunities?"
Seems they are all at "C".
The No No No is because no doubt they'll suddenly discover that they've answered their own question - just concrete over the entire planet - thick layer - gets rid of any worries about climate change, crime and career opportunities in a oner! And should keep the "geo-engineering" prats happy until their offices become flooded with quick setting concrete!
G R Roslin !
I'm sure there will a link made between human-caused climate change and the new rift. Suspect a case could be made that the rift is happening because the CO2 level is the lowest it's been for many millennia and we need to push more CO2 into the atmosphere.
Seriously (and writing as a geologist) this is a pretty exciting event to recognise - though it may be a bit too exciting for the inhabitants of that part of Africa in the coming 100,000s of years.
Great to see the planet get in with what it does and ignore the puny parasites that infect it's surface!
Plenty of recent cases of children of the upper end of this age range abusing younger kids. I assume that kids will soon also need to be CRB checked in order to play with their friends.
Perhaps we should just have a number of "year" islands where we ship kids off to - E.g. Year 10 Island (where all the 10 year olds go) then Year 11 Island and so on. No adults, no other potential risks. Until they reach 18 then they can come and vote in NuLabours Glorious Fourth Reich (Victory and Health).
Ah wait! "Lord of the flies"
.. non-research as discussed in Ben Goldacres' Bad Science!
The information is "as a result of research put together by lovehoney.co.uk" - it's a couple of months before Christmas and just after the clocks have changed. It's launched into the ether hoping that media morons will pick it up and spread it without any critical analysis !
No doubt it'll be splashed over the Sun, NoTW and others .....
If this was really research it would be published in a relevant journal and subject to peer review !
Paris - because she probably has a best friend in Upminster.....
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