http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk :
> You can create an e-petition about anything that the government is responsible for and if it gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for debate in the House of Commons.
A protest by 1m people doesn't induce any requirement on the house of commons...these petitions do.
They might not change anything, but at least sign the thing before committing to failure.
alan_cx:
> Terrifyingly, speaking as a wet pacifist who couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag, the only way I see to oppose a sitting government is mass violence. Bigger violence that a few summers ago.
OUCH. Maybe i'm should be pro GCHQ, might stop you from stabbing a squaddie.
Using (or threatening with violence) when you feel like you have too little power to change things is a contradiction...if you have so little political power, why do you think your personal physical power will be so much more effective? Terrorists and anarchists are the reasons GCHQ exists.
If having children is a basic human right, isn't the capability to be able to raise them also a necessity (a human right of the child's fulfilled in proxy by the parent)?
One of the points in the article is the disparity of pay between lowest income workers and executives.
So really, aren't we subsidizing executive's pay?
It appears that it is easier to squeeze the poorest than the richest. The richest have more power to protect their interests.
> I am not a "3 cheers for dynamically typed languages" person, but for Java I am willing to concede that the type system comes with the drawbacks but little benefit. In C++, and D you can pull the gloves off when required. And please dont get me started on JINI.
I expect you mean JNI and not Apache JINI...
That probably highlights the difference between Java and other languages you like to mention, it may use more memory and be marginally slower computationally, but when you take that the most interesting applications these days are distributed the ability to sort an array and save a few clock cycles fades into insignificance compared to network latency and connection times.
Not to mention also, you can optimize your CPU's workload or you can optimize your personal workload. Java lets you pick great libraries off the shelf. Or you can choose to manually do your own array bounds checking and pick up your own garbage.
Maybe brits are just more lazy than people from other countries and just click on ads to find what they want.
Or maybe british advertisers are crazy and pay insane prices for adwords.
Or maybe a mix of both. Who knows, but frankly, the brits are getting raped by Google through the hemorrhaging of $1bn per quarter taken out of the domestic economy. It is obscene for a company, any company, to reap the benefits of a developed economy and not pay any taxation to support the education, welfare and security of the economy they profit from.
It would seem that steve jobs was more interested in suing other companies than anything non-ego driven. He wouldn't even pay up for his super-expensive titanium boat.
I'll keep betting on Bill and Warren to save the world, thanks.
If anyone else clicked on this link to find out who this mysterious 'Gerald' is and why we're supposed to know by him by his first name through some sort of Voodoo, i recommend instead to go listen to a far more interesting Guy called Gerald:
With the notable exception of Microsoft.