Posts by Sparkypatrick33 posts • joined Wednesday 26th March 2008 13:59 GMT
and some terrible slanders of others, e.g. Hudson Hawke. However, if you think Murphy can be bad, check out Bill Cosby in Leonard Part 6. The only good thing I can say about it is that there are no parts 1-5.
By far and away the worst film I have ever seen - and yes, I have seen most of the preceding nominations. Not that Shark In Venice number, though. That does sound truly god-awful.
But nothing like as sexy as Kylie on a mechanical bull. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHood00sNJU if you don't believe me.
Never recommend security practices that don't provide real benefit. Your MAC address can be obtained by packet sniffing, being an unecrypted part of the data. The attacker can spoof an address on the whitelist.
A whitelist makes the wireless network harder for legitimate users (e.g. visitors) to connect, but is no real obstacle to a hacker. Creating a false sense of security can lead to complacency that actually reduces real security.
Was waiting for this phone to arrive - until I discovered that it has no memory card slot. Immediately lost interest, and I'm sure many others did too. The only Mango phone to date that does have an expansion slot is the aptly named Titan, which is way to big for my needs.
The work BES server cannot get a connection to the RIM servers in Slough and my personal BIS BB can't send. I started getting issues with mine on Saturday, though. Will be looking into other options very shortly, either Android or Mango, most like.
It was down from around 23:00 yesterday, that I saw.
While the police are investigating the EDL hacking, perhaps they might look into the apparent fraudulent fundraising techniques of said hooligans.
Why should it be an American intelligence agency? Don't we have a few of our own? Of course, I'm sure they're above that sort of thing...
"staff like to get pay rises that bear some relation to inflation" - Like and get aren't the same thing. Certainly not around here.
It's not a cult-like religion. It's a cult.
The picture for the rally in Miami says it all. If there's no difference between a woman's chest and a man's, then why did she feel the need to surgically alter hers? America is far too prudish about nudity, but let's not pretend it has nothing to do with sex. Nor is nudity natural. If we didn't wear clothes, we would still be covered in body hair.
As someone with an under control phobia (if that's not a contradiction in terms) of needles and a full blown phobia of dentists' drills (haven't been since '86), I can but hope that it lives up to the hype.
Off topic, can I recommend to you http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-can-find-1000000-people-who-DO-believe-in-Evolution-before-June/252759483743?ref=nf ? My hope is to get there before the weekend is out and restore some hope for humanity.
Badger, badger, badger.
'Treat us fairly' - in other words, give us your shit for free and we might stop stealing it.
It's actually 1430. That's the fifteenth century. Not to be confused with 14:30, which was earlier this afternoon.
In a five room flat, I have DAB radios in three of them. The one in the bathroom is an Alba that cost me about £20 and runs on 4 'C' cell batteries which give me a month's worth of getting ready in the morning and other bathroom visits. Unlike the previous incarnation, which took 6 'C' cells and went a couple of weeks, it shuts down its display unless called upon. Basically, DAB radios can do lots of things. The more of them them you use, the more power is consumed. If you want it to run on batteries, you just have to use a little intelligence in the design.
But yeah, I would like better sound quality. I certainly won't be buying a Hi-Fi DAB unit any time soon. Pretty keen on getting one in my car, though.
Can everyone please just stop calling this bunch of nutters a church? They are the Cult of Scientology, pure and simple.
It's got a fucking great NiMH battery in it. Until that fact can be changed, electric/hybrid cars are no solution. A load of extra weight to move around and you can't ignore the energy requirements and environmental impact of manufacturing that battery, which gives the car a usable life of around 7 years. My last car (diesel) ran for 14 years and around 150,000 miles until some idiot ran into it and my insurance company insisted on writing it off. My new (04) diesel is quicker and still more frugal than any Prius, and I expect to run it for the next ten years - or until I win the lottery and buy a Porsche!
I don't think there's anything very righteous about a significant swing from Labour to the BNP scum.
Lundstrom is a businessman. He presumably got into business with the Pirates because he saw a way to make money. He uses the money he makes from his businesses to fund neo-nazi activities. So regardless of your own political views, if you used TPB, you gave money to Lundstrom who used it for his own extremist right-wing ends. If you did that unaware of the association with Lundstrom, then thank the Reg for warning you; if you did it knowingly, then you are complicit.
Sending nudie pictures of yourself to others is poor judgement (whatever your age. frankly). 'Poor judgement' is not code for 'criminal behaviour'. Children and teens should be discouraged from exercising poor judgement; but not demonised, still less criminalised for it.
Sending nudie pictures of someone else is a whole other kettle of fish. Depending on the (initial) recipient, child pornography charges are most likely a gross overreaction; but you may still be looking at a serious invasion of privacy, at the very least. You may argue consent, but:
1. A minor cannot give consent.
2. How do you prove any consent was not given under duress - and peer pressure is very real duress to a kid.
Unless there was an adult involved, the involvement of the criminal justice system seems inappropriate; but that doesn't mean that this is necessarily just the harmless sexual exploration that comes with puberty. If the girls objecting are the ones having their pictures put about, then maybe the senders do need little education in right and wrong.
Paris? A salutory lesson as to what happens if you let someone take naked pictures of you (as in that they'll get all over the internet; not that you can build a successful career out of them).
7,500 songs on 8GB? What kind of tinny imitation of music would that be? 10,000+ tracks on my iPod takes nigh on 50GB.
How could that not boost customer numbers?
Paris as a guest conductor?
L Ron was an arse of the highest magnitude. Does that make him a god? Possibly.
L Ron = Dead.God = Dead. QED L Ron = God.
Religion is the opiate of the masses, so how can Scientology be anti-drugs?
Having used the product through MessageLabs Image Control, I would say that "90-95% accurate in terms of false positives and negatives" would be 90-95% false positives. All wedding pictures, baby pictures and close-ups of faces reported (amongst others) as porn. Real porn usually ignored!
Maybe thay were tied into a long contract and thought taking the company over would be the best way to get something usable out of them.
Went to check it out - took about a minute to open, found nothing that Google didn't, presented the results in a cluttered mess and for "DHCP server Windows 2003" found no results. Best not to announce your "Google-beater" until you actually have it working. Have a Grolsch and get back to the drawing board.
The problem with DDT is that it is a cumulative toxin, which will persist in the soil for 2 - 15 years. This means that it will inevitably build up through the foood chain. It also gives it plenty of time to work its way into the water table. Here the problem is magnified, as it persists significantly longer and is extremely damaging to aquatic life.
Although it is very effective against mosquitos that carry malaria, one WHO study linked it to an outbreak of bubonic plague in Malaysia! It's not effective against cockroaches, which accumulate it in their bodies. They are eaten by geckoes, which are poisoned and die. Cats eat the geckoes and are also poisoned and die. With no cats to control the rats, their population multiplies and they spread the plague.
There is no doubt that malaria is a serious health problem, but DDT is like cracking nuts with a sledgehammer: even if you are really careful, you may end up choking on bits of shell.
The use of cycle helmets coincides with the perceived increased risk of death or injury from more carss on the road. Some people respond by wearing a helmet, some by abandoning the bicycle. It's fear that stops people cycling, not having to wear a helmet.
I bet penguins don't like DDT.
The Prime Minister is not elected, but appointed by the Queen. By convention, she nominates the chosen candidate of the majority party in parliament; but in theory, she could pick anyone she likes.
The Labour party have a mandate to govern, for better or worse (very much leaning towards the other, right now) and have no more obligation to call an election to ratify a change of leadership than any past government has had. Major certainly didn't call an early election after succeeding Thatcher.
is finding myself supporting a Tory in an election. Who'd have thought a Labour government would push me to such a thing?
that researchers will claim anything that gets them funding.
Paris because this icon isn't nearly overused enough.
Never mind the dodgy Beatles analogy, the Lemonheads one is worse. Their first and 'difficult second' albums came and went without much of anyone noticing. They achieved their first real success with their fifth album.
As for the assistant manager of the futon shop - the band has always has always been Evan Dando + friends. The world and his wife were once in The Lemonheads; though I don't remember any keyboard players.
Firstly, as a declaration of bias, I should say that I currently have 3 DAB radios in a 5 room flat. Long live 6Music!
'Bubbling mud' is not a sound quality issue, it's a question of signal strength. You may well be able to fix this by changing the aerial. Many DAB radios have an input for an external aerial or will allow ou to unscrew the extendable aerial. Anything with a satellite-type connector can thgen be screwed on.
The Vinyl/CD analogy is actually quite good, apart from the misapprehension that CD sound quality is better. It isn't. The advantage of CD is that you lose the hiss and crackle caused by dust and wear. Similarly, with digital radio (assuming a proper signal), you lose the interference that FM is subject to. That doesn't make the underlying sound quality any better.
DAB does use more power, but you can mitigate this for portable use by having a unit that does not continually display any of the data that accompanies the audio. I had a Hitachi (stereo) in the bathroom that continuously displayed track data, etc. and ate it's way through 6 'C' cell batteries (rechargeable, by the way). When it died, I replaced it with a cheap (mono) Alba set from a supermarket. It shuts down the display unless you press button ands lasts appreciably longer on just 4 'C' cells. And I really can't tell the difference in sound quality when in the shower!
If you care to peruse a map of our former empire - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:1919_British_Empire_Map.svg - you may not that we did, in fact, occupy a great deal of the Middle East. Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon...all once under British mandate. The modern countries that bear these names were in fact laregly our creation, with borders established to suit our interests or those of our allies. We have plenty of responsibility for what is happening today.
As far as the founding of the state of Israel goes, while Britain was in favour of the idea prior to WWII, we handed that problem over to the UN.
Perhaps we need a new envoy for peace...guess who?
