Posts by wolfetone 4896 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2011
"Billionaire Paul Allen, who cofounded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 and is credited with coining the company's name"
I always thought it was Bill Gate's wife that came up with the name? *wink wink, nudge nudge*
Joking aside, it's sad. Like others have said, for better or for worse, he helped change the world and has done a lot more to help people than other bazillionaires. RIP.
"That's because Google and Facebook think they're untouchable sovereign nations. Nothing any politician has done or said in the EU or US has really hit Google hard enough."
That's because Google and Facebook have had a word in the politicians ears. "Wouldn't it be awful if, let's say a Russian or Chinese hacker, released your search history? I mean, looking for the Adult Pony Club is a totally normal thing for people with those tastes. But we don't think the general population may hold the same view point."
"OK Mr.Google and Mrs.Facebook, we'll go easy on you. Just please keep that stuff private. The wife would kill me if she knew what I got up to with her sister".
Well, there is that. But to paraphrase what my wife said the other day - in regards to the woman who died from the poisoning - "Who picks up a bottle they find on the floor in a park and sprays it on themselves?".
For every bit of the Salisbury thing that makes some sense, there are things like this that leave you feeling bewildered.
Time's have changed
Their IT is getting worse
They won't obey their standards
They just want a cheaper app
Should we blame the government?
Or blame society?
Or should we blame customers wanting cheaper fares?
No, blame Air Canada, blame Air Canada
With all their beady little eyes
And flappin' heads so full of lies
Blame Canada, blame Air Canada
We need to form a full assault
It's Air Canada's fault
"Must be that GREAT soviet build quality we've heard all about."
Yeah you're right really. I mean the Soyuz is around 60 years old in design and is the safest and most reliable spacecraft ever built by man. It's quite obviously lacking in the build quality department.
Pity that the space shuttle isn't around to show how 'murican quality wins the day eh?
Prick.
Long is the time I have been working in web development, and with every year that passes I become more and more isolated from the wider community. Why? I don't use a Mac, I don't grow a beard, I don't buy in to every single brand new framework that's the next big bollocks that's going to make my life easier. I get on with the task at hand, building a website to the clients needs and to deliver the best possible site I can build.
The irony though is that, from my experience, a lot of web designers etc have bought in to AI and home automation. Most of the ones I have encountered have an Alexa or Google thing where they order their Huel, have their iWatches hooked up to their phones ordering Ubers and Deliveroo. Automation, to them, has long been brilliant and a "life saver". Now though that very automation, that very AI they have bought in to and helped make popular, is now starting to take away from their jobs. The very thing they have helped do to high street stores and taxi drivers is happening to them and they don't like it.
Karma's a bitch.
"Seriously? An IQ of 159 (as if that means something) and marries a former stripper 39 years younger than himself? Makes me wonder how he manages to put his trousers on the right way around."
I don't think he has any need for trousers if he's married to a stripper 40 years younger than he is.
Lucky beggar.
Having not been available yesterday to read the definition referenced above, I found this definition which seems to be copied by other sources. So I would say this is as near to the real definition as can be got from the internet -https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/working-definition-antisemitism
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
However, and this is where the furore over Labour not adopting this definition outright comes from, is that this very definition has been used to prevent critique of Israel and it's treatment of Palestine and Palestinians. This has happened several times and has been upheld as well.
The very fact a country can hide it's actions under this definition is abhorrent and shouldn't be allowed. To be quite honest, the fact the definition applies to a country is absurd anyway.
Ah, here we go.
The "International Definition of Antisemitism" makes speaking out against the state of Israel an anti-semitic act. Labour won't sign up to it because of that, and quite frankly no one should sign up to it because of that.
The research is based on this rule and the use of the "Livingstone formula". That would mean right now, me saying this sentence: "The state of Israel's treatment of Palestine is abhorrent and cruel" would make me anti-semitic. That goes against the general held belief - a belief I was taught at school - that to victimise someone of the Jewish faith, to persecute them etc, is anti-semitic. Furthermore, a statement such as this by Jenny Tonge: "The pro-Israeli Lobby has got its grips on the Western World, its financial grips. I think they’ve probably got a certain grip on our party" comes under the Livingstone Formula as an identification of anti-semitism. Again, referring back to the IDA, to accuse a state of something, anything, is to be anti-semitic.
Take what you've read above and think now to Israel bombing Iranian targets in Syria. They shouldn't have, and the evidence Israel used to defend themselves was sketchy at best. To call them wrong or to say they shouldn't have done it, under the IDA, makes that an anti-semitic statement.
Ireland recently are bringing in a 'Boycott Israel' law, which boycotts goods and services produced by Israel on disputed land Israel occupy - which has been noticed by the UN. Ireland were called anti-semitic for this. The move itself, under the IDA, makes it an anti-semitic move.
You can see how utterly crazy that definition is, and furthermore using a relatively sketchy "formula" to find these types of statements as said above to label anyone anti-semitic is an absolute joke. It's abhorrent quite frankly and a massive abuse of a term that hijacks true real hate crimes against the Jewish religion.
If you seriously have to come back at me with a Wikipedia article to validate your point then you're in denial, I'm asking for the evidence before taking a side. I'm not a Corbyn fan, I'm a fan of kids not being blown up in the name of some prick's idea that he has a God given right to land he has no right to - and then blame everyone for being anti-semitic because they call him out on it.
Furthermore, there are plenty of Jewish Labour groups who are backing Corbyn over this. But I suppose Jewish people can be either in denial or anti-semitic too.
Your move.
"Are we expected to ignore all the antisemitism from just the last 2 years because 1 of the events isn't exactly as described in the media? The problem is no one Jewish could trust Comrade Corbyn anymore and every week we get more antisemitism tied to him."
Please, for the love of God, point out these cases of anti semitism. While you're at it, will you also present the anti-Irish attitudes every Prime Minister and MP has had, as well as their anti-black propaganda bullshit, and their islamaphobia.
Thanks.
"Boo Hoo! The press keep pointing out how all my friends are terrorists, terrorist sympathisers and antisemites."
Slight issue with what you've raised here, it's been proven numerous times that those photographs etc weren't of what the press said they were, and the anti-semitic he shared a platform with was a Jewish holocaust survivor that compared the treatment of Palestine by Israel to that of Nazi against the Jews.
Carry on with your bullshit, but at least be factually correct with your bullshit.
"Sounds like you're the one bending over. Most people don't care because we have actual things to worry about based outside in the real world."
Most people don't care because:
a) They're thick, or
b) They're ignorant
Neither of which is a better way to be than being concerned about what you agree to. But if you don't mind reading stuff before agreeing to it, thanks for gifting me your house. I'll be ensure to enjoy it, along with your wife. You didn't read the contract, but you agreed to it. Sorry bud x
"This isn't that, though. This is Debian simply deciding that the license Intel is requiring is too onerous, and they don't agree to it. That's hardly bickering, that's rejecting a bad deal."
You're expecting a Mac/Windows fan boi to be clever enough to read the EULA though, when all they've ever done with them is click 'Accept'.
I think Vauxhall were criticised heavily in the wake of the Zafira recall that they hadn't notified all of the owners of the cars affected. Eventually they did or are nearly there, and that's before we even get to Vauxhall actually fixing the cars.
If my memory is correct, in times of a recall the manufacturer will ask the DVLA for the details of the registered keepers of the cars needed, and in turn they'll be sent letters notifying the customer of the issue and what to do. Honda did this to me when the CR-V needed a recall on the drivers side window switch.
It's not at all unreasonable, or complicated, to notify the manufacturer of a change of keeper at least via the DVLA, especially as everything is becoming increasingly electronic. The data is there, a mechanism already sort of exists one way that could be facilitated to work in this context.
