Yes absolutely, he'll take the tube from Earls Court to meet wherever. I was going to pick him up from Cockfosters but that meens i'm going South to London and then up the M4, whereas I think it's probably better for my ensamble to go via the A14 and avoid all the traffic.
I've let him know to contact you via Skype. As soon as I get confirmation you guys are organised i'll confirm that I can pickup http://andy.cargame.nl from Stansted
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I've let him know to contact you via Skype. As soon as I get confirmation you guys are organised i'll confirm that I can pickup http://andy.cargame.nl from Stansted
.Earls Court, so he can easily get on the tube.
I'm already at Stansted Friday morning picking up 2 more LFS'rs, but my car is full unless somebody else can do my London pickup. It saves me driving down to London and meens I can pickup cargame.nl direct from Stansted...
It makes more sense than cargame and me both doing extra trips into London.
It makes more sense than cargame and me both doing extra trips into London.
Mine and dans cars are already full from the stansted pickup, but since Arox has given me an address in Earls Court to be picked up from (Cockfosters was a compromise because I don't drive inner London) if one of the many people coming from London can grab him then I can pickup cargame.nl from Stansted which I'm picking up from anyway.
it would make a lot more sense, as I really don't want the hastle of going into London anyway.
it would make a lot more sense, as I really don't want the hastle of going into London anyway.
Hang on, I remember LFS before these servers with track and car rotations. You could race on any car/track combo you liked provided it was FOX at SO1 or GTR at AS1.
Have you really got less choice now? Really? Are you sure?
Have you really got less choice now? Really? Are you sure?
Your avatar expresses a lot about you in an environment where there is no other visual clue to your personality. It's very important to get the right avatar, one that says something about you.
It's a serious business, this internet thing.
It's a serious business, this internet thing.
Scawen, I miss his patches.
*ducks the ensuing flamewar*
*ducks the ensuing flamewar*
Seriously Dan I can't be arsed. I'm distinctive enough already
Besides if I know what they look like I can see them coming and decid whether to leg it...Travel Itinery thingamybob:
Thursday pickup Tor from stansted at 6pm. Meet Dan. Get drunk. Stay at mine.
Friday pickup Rockclan from stansted at 9:25am (we will be late)
...pickup Der Butz from Stansted at 10:30 or something like that.
...train to Bishops Stortford where car is parked.
...pickup Arox from Cockfosters, at about 12:00ish?
...Drive to Wales
Sunday, pack a load of foreigners into planes by midday Sunday, except Der Butz who's leaving Monday (and staying at mine Sunday). I'm guessing we drop Arox off at Cockfosters, might need Dan to tak him to get Tor back on his plain on time.
I think that's everything. Not totally sure what time Rockclan is flying back.
Well in that case we're going to have to guess what each other looks like...
I need Rockclan and Arox, or whoever it is I'm giving lifts to to message me on facebook so I can sort out phone number and piccies for identification purposes. http://facebook.com/bekkahax
I'm with mrogers on this one, the 80s was a diabolically aweful decade - but musically it's when I came of age and started going out to rock clubs (we had those back then), there are so many great bands and great albums from the 80s. We had some aweful stuff too, but I actually like a lot of that too.
For me music isn't defined by when it was written anyway, I have some stuff from the 60s and 70s that I like, don't nobody be messing with my Procul Harum! And I'll listen to that right after playing the latest larynx destroying black metal without a second thought. Whatever i'm in the mood for...
For me music isn't defined by when it was written anyway, I have some stuff from the 60s and 70s that I like, don't nobody be messing with my Procul Harum! And I'll listen to that right after playing the latest larynx destroying black metal without a second thought. Whatever i'm in the mood for...
oh you'll be fine, folks over here "don't mention ze score"...
Neh, all his pit babes have been blonde.
The problems with the DEA do not revolve around piracy. The problem is that the legislation designed to fight piracy makes illigal this website, google, youtube, wikileaks, wikipedia, and the list is endless. Infact, according to the letter of the law, barely any of the internet is currently legal.
Also, thanks to the provisions of how the new law is to be enforced many legitimate business enterprises are extremely vulnerable to take downs, commerce on the internet faces a potential crisis which could, very literally, destroy Britains leading place in the eCommerce landscape.
Further many things we have now will be lost, say goodbye to video calling on your iPhone 4 before you even took delivery Tristan, thanks to the loss of open wireless networks.
Additionally, it would not be illegal for me to leave behind the digital fingerprint that makes it look like you've downloaded stuff, sufficient to be detected by some of the automated measures proposed, and I could do it from here without touching your PC or your network. Thus rendering your internet connection useless, not to mention the possible devastation causable by virus' designed to exploit the badly written law.
If you where running a business with your internet connection (the law does not distinguish between private and public connections) I could destroy your business from my sofa and your only means of appeal would take months and be very expensive. Under the DEA you'll be taken down prior to any judicial proceedings.
Under one of the badly written clauses the home office can take down any web site they please, based upon an ALLEGATION of POSSIBLE FUTURE copyright infringement.
Now tell me again why this law should be left as is?
I'm not saying piracy should not be illegal, i'm saying the law that was passed without commons discussion needs a major overhaul.
Personally I believe it should be thrown out and the process restarted from the beginning, but I dont think we'll get that.
I could do without the cost, and the law is irrellevent when making new laws and/or dealing with politicians. I do have a secret weapon though, i'll be going armed with common sense.
There are lots of ways the act can be circumnavigated, there are more holes in it than an edam... One is to simply change the wording of the contract between customer and broadband provider to make the customer a "service provider". Another is to close and recreate the account every time they are detected as downloading something - which one ISP is considering doing automatically as part of their monthly billing, and the list goes on.
Whether your ISP is against the bill or for it will decide whether or not they elect to dodge the DEA or not, so anyone interested in downloading will simply select an ISP who is as subversive toward the act as they are, whilst regular consumers and - from my own perspective more critically - those who cant change their accounts easily such as those operating servers, they're a bit more restricted.
I can easily leave behind the footprint of illicit downloads against any IP address I wish, I dont even need to be on their network. Detecting torrents is just as insecure as the torrent network itself, to suggest it is possible to reliably identify anyone is laughable - so savvy pirates will simply circumnavigate the act, and eCommerce and regular consumers will fall prey to it.
And of course if history teaches us anything, it's that 99.9% of pirates are savvy. eCommerce is particularly vulnerable to attack from rivals, it's given everyone in the industry the equivellent of nuclear weapons and put absolutely no detterent in place against using them.
Fair enough, but apply the same logic to the big outrage stories of last year... During our lives we get outrages by news events quite often - it's part of modern journalism. Sure this spill is large enough that it will get remembered for a while - but it will become history, if BP can survive long enough and the issue doesnt kill them completely then in the long term - we'll be so busy being outraged by the next thing to come along that sooner or later we'll forget or deem it not important anymore.
Have a look at this list of wiki spills, I don't know how old you are - but see if you can remember the companies behind those that happened in your lifetime: Big Oil Spills
You wont have done yet the automatic systems havn't been developed, there's a whole timeline to it which starts kicking in next year, and will lead to the first disconnections toward the end of 2011. Also they don't send a letter, they send you an email to the registered email account of the broadband account (does anyone even check those addresses?).
Digital Economy Act
Hi Guys
Some of you UK folks may remember the Digital Economy Bill which passed into law (thus becoming an Act) in April this year.
You might also be aware that I have been a campaigner against the parts of this act which are against the British constitution (innocent until proven guilty) and those aspects which threaten legitimate industries to give free reign to the British Phonographic Industry and their laughable claims of lost profits that exceed the GDP of planet Earth (when you do the maths against their numbers).
The new coalition government wants to review the act and has put together the "All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Digital Economy" to assess the act and figure out what needs to change.
Whilst the fight for civil liberties has already been lost I am still hopefull that some good might come of this new initiative and that we can undo some of the damage done, so...
I am going to the House of Commons at the end of July to speak to this working group as the first step toward rectifying the outrageous circumstances which allowed the last government to sneak this legislation in without Commons debate.
Before I go I intend to fully research everything I possibly can so that I am prepared for every eventuality and so that I can deliver clear, accurate, and well informed points to support consumer rights and reverse the damage that this legislation will do.
So i'm posting here, as this effects many of the members of this community, if there's anything you think I should read up on or any opinions you would like to express on this topic either here or at the meeting, then let me know.
If you wish to attend the working group yourself let me know and i'll PM you details of who to contact etc.
Some of you UK folks may remember the Digital Economy Bill which passed into law (thus becoming an Act) in April this year.
You might also be aware that I have been a campaigner against the parts of this act which are against the British constitution (innocent until proven guilty) and those aspects which threaten legitimate industries to give free reign to the British Phonographic Industry and their laughable claims of lost profits that exceed the GDP of planet Earth (when you do the maths against their numbers).
The new coalition government wants to review the act and has put together the "All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Digital Economy" to assess the act and figure out what needs to change.
Whilst the fight for civil liberties has already been lost I am still hopefull that some good might come of this new initiative and that we can undo some of the damage done, so...
I am going to the House of Commons at the end of July to speak to this working group as the first step toward rectifying the outrageous circumstances which allowed the last government to sneak this legislation in without Commons debate.
Before I go I intend to fully research everything I possibly can so that I am prepared for every eventuality and so that I can deliver clear, accurate, and well informed points to support consumer rights and reverse the damage that this legislation will do.
So i'm posting here, as this effects many of the members of this community, if there's anything you think I should read up on or any opinions you would like to express on this topic either here or at the meeting, then let me know.
If you wish to attend the working group yourself let me know and i'll PM you details of who to contact etc.
The last time I looked their shares where at about half their value, it's short term though. If they weather the storm then in 5 years time nobody will care anymore and shares will have recovered. This won't be the first time BP has been through the American courts and it wont be the last.
Yes, because high safety standards are clearly in effect when the safety equipment designed to prevent this disaster was known to have malfunctioned but they drilled anyway. If they had stopped drilling then the event would not have ocurred.
I didn't blame capitalism at all, just because your brain operates on a level of socialism versus capitalism does not meen that's the thought process involved when i'm making a post, even when I skirt around issues adjacent to capitalism. It might suprise you to know that I like capitalism, I do dislike some of the effects of globalisation because i'm a cynic (a side effect of intelligence), but likewise I do appreciate the benefits such as high consumer technology. I'm not an idiot, but reading my post as an attack on capitalism, now that takes an idiot.
Ignoring how long it will take to fix the issue of more oil spilling out (I havnt kept up to date on that), the job of cleaning up will take a very long time. The nature of the Lousianna coastline with it's marshes and swamps and it's inlets (which massively increases the miles of coast length) meens that even if heavy machinery can be used in places, tha majority of it will need to be done with a shovel. Even once the oil is cleared up the long term effects will last decades and some species may never recover at all.
I can't help dying a little inside whenever someones opinions are so far right that they'd scare Mousollini.
Whilst I do agree with you in general, and I think BP have been used very much as a scapegoat when they could easily have used existing legislation to limit their liability to a few hundred million dollars (which incidentally Transocean have done) instead of paying out billions, the fact is the blow out protection valve was not operational at the time of the incident but they continued drilling anyway.
They did so because the rig cost half a million dollars a day to lease and operate from Transocean and taking a few days out to fix the B.O.P. would return no yield from those days. There are also questions as to whether the concrete lining the pipes - as specified by BP - may have been insufficient and allowed gas to escape and cause the initial explosion.
This accident, much like the next one that will happen at some point, was preventable with todays technology - the question of how much legislation is needed to enforce safety standards is a moot point, as spills of this magnitude will always result in criminal proceedings anyway, but capitalism will always result in profit maximisation and environmental safety considerations will always be the first thing to get cut.
Ultimately it is the customer who will pay the cost of this cleanup anyway, so there really isn't any commercial need for any oil company to rigidly follow best possible practice. It's far better to do things cheaply and maximise profits and let the cost of anything like this get burdened on the consumer.
We've got two price rises in petrol coming in the UK by the start of next year anyway, with this spill I guess we could be at about £1.50 a litre sometime next year.
Jenson Button suing another former team... *rolls eyes*
Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea. - Ghandi
What's unusual about S&M? Who doesn't like a bit of kink now and then? Heck I chose my bed based upon the restraint potential of the headrest... We all have our kinks, I don't get why this is even newsworthy.
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