Comment Re:Ridiculous premise (Score 1) 267
We already do, it's called the Navitron Autodrive system, but the trucker's union doesn't want the public to know about it.
We already do, it's called the Navitron Autodrive system, but the trucker's union doesn't want the public to know about it.
Seeing as everything and anything can be classified as art, it doesn't really mean anything.
Take Kill Bill - I heard great things about it, and it's one of the few films that I've switched off half way through. The fight scene in the dojo where Uma Thurman continuously kills a stream of people, after a while it was about as stimulating as watching a woman give 40 consecutive blowjobs. At that point I realised I was watching porn and decided that as I wasn't in the mood to crack one off, I'd watch something else.
1. Make it mandatory to obtain a license to buy a PC. Just like a drivers license. Tablets are license free.
Then we'll get all the tablet users breaking red lights, tableting on pavements and knocking over smart phone users - it'll be carnage. Meanwhile, the Daily Mail will start complaining about all the middle aged Lycra-wearing tablet users being a danger to all the law abiding PC users, and that most of them are probably immigrants anyway.
It's not unreasonable at all - the guy was arrested for selling stolen goods on Craig's list, it's not unreasonable to suspect that the other items he has advertised have been stolen.
It's not like he was arrested for breaking a red light and wanting to search his house - that is not acceptable.
A colleague of mine did this with a restaurant that used his number in an advertisement. After informing them off this, they continued to use his number in subsequent promotions so he started taking reservations from people. That stopped it pretty quickly, probably due to their reputation going through the floor.
Crew selected by casting?????
I heard on the radio a person who has been short listed for this. She sounded like one of the hectic/hyper women* who will be talking constantly. If that's indicative of their crew selection then I'm going to start a sweep stake on when the a crew member murders the rest.
* She's probably has big tits and is pretty.
Are you really trying to say that the police never release the name of a person arrested on suspicion of committing a crime?
Or are you saying that two wrongs don't make a right?
Personally, I carry a deck of playing cards - whenever I get lost I start play a patience game. When someone looks over my shoulder and says "you should put the queen on the king" I ask for directions.
I borrowed $2 from a guy at work for the vending machines and instantly texted him $2 in bitcoin using the Coinbase texting service.
Just out of interest, when did you do this? I'm interested in knowing how much the $2 would have been worth to you 10min, 30min, 1hr, etc later. As you said, it's probably likely you'll do well out of accepting bitcoins, but with that in mind, why would you want to let go of them?
Allow my child to die from an easily cured malady because I believe in faith healing?
Of course not, the suggested cure is to get two birds, kill one (over running water), dip the live bird (along with some cedar wood and hislop) in the blood of the dead one, and then sprinkle it on the person with an ailment.
If it doesn't work, then you're holding the bible wrong.
Gitmo is full of really dangerous and nasty people who were most likely plotting to murder innocents for the cause of religious zealotry.
The charge them with the crimes they're accused of committing. If you're going to hold foreigners up to your principles and beliefs then it's insanely hypocritical to not afford them the protections that you believe people deserve.
I don't disagree that there are some very dangerous people held at Guantanamo Bay, but to detain them without trial for years on end means that the US government has lost every scrap of respect when it comes to "protecting peoples' rights"
The two aren't mutually exclusive. To use a car analogy, an inept and careless driver driving an ineptly designed and built car will be a threat to other road users.
You're comparing Snowden to Philby? The quality of your trolling as really gone downhill recently - I hope that you're not unwell.
You're holding them wrong.
It doesn't really work, sure they may get Google's business from Ireland, but because they pay "license costs" to a Bermudan company they're not actually paying Irish tax on their profits.
From the FT:
Google UK reported pre-tax profits of £36.8m in 2012 on turnover of £506m, compared with a pre-tax loss of £20.7m on £395.8m of turnover a year earlier. The turnover is predominately a sales and marketing service fee paid by its Irish affiliate, along with a research and development fee of £109m from the US.
Google Inc earns “substantially all” its foreign profits in Ireland, according to its annual report, but only a small proportion of these profits are taxed in Ireland because of royalties paid to Bermuda where its non-US intellectual property is held. As a result, it paid foreign taxes of $358m on foreign profits of $8.1bn, according to its last annual report – equivalent to a tax rate of less than 5 per cent.
So, Italy would be about $360m better off, plus they'd get a bunch of jobs, something which Eric Schmidt says you should be grateful for, instead of "whinging" about how little tax they pay.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce