the EU's is bureaucratic because that's what market policy is 100% about
if you want to have a proper debate about brexit, start by taking every journalist who has done a "bent bananas" eu regulations gone mad piece, and shoot them in the street. It's bullshit. Just pure bullshit.
It's also a manifestation of national governments using the EU as an easy scapegoat for when things aren't well.
The last few years have shown the peril of insincere demagoguery, when the real deal can come along and steal your thunder.
i'm not convinced any of the people who do this have the wit to see the flaw in it
even now when it's crashing down on them like a ton of bricks
or even if they did they have no other ideas to replace it
The whole basis for all the dumb fruit debate goes as follows:
Supermarkets know that only fruit that looks good sells.
A "grade 1" is written with guidelines for fruit that includes size and shape so middlemen can bid blindly and get what they want without having to examine each lot, saving everyone a ton of time
People get angry that this exists because of the EU.
also, because the journalists should be tarred and feathered for calling themselves that, are making the whole thing up because these classifications always existed and weren't made up by the EU.
i saw this on QI, the UK had an identical regulation before the EU one came into effect
the EU's is bureaucratic because that's what market policy is 100% about
if you want to have a proper debate about brexit, start by taking every journalist who has done a "bent bananas" eu regulations gone mad piece, and shoot them in the street. It's bullshit. Just pure bullshit.
It's also a manifestation of national governments using the EU as an easy scapegoat for when things aren't well.
The last few years have shown the peril of insincere demagoguery, when the real deal can come along and steal your thunder.
i'm not convinced any of the people who do this have the wit to see the flaw in it
even now when it's crashing down on them like a ton of bricks
or even if they did they have no other ideas to replace it
You'd think the Farage Scare and what's going on with Trump would make them at least pause for thought
...and scottish people are quite bigoted about the english! You know I have to remind them of the incredible english sophistication, tolerance and sense of humor! Which they need to get over their impotence and pointlessness.
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pro tip on xbox gold and playstation plus, the streaming services are free
i didn't realize that about playstation forever
it's just multiplayer games really
I know Playstation does streaming for free, but last time I checked* at least the 360 doesn't let you stream without a Gold sub.
*late 2013
Since slightly before the release of the xbox one (either 2012 or 2013 x360 update), all streaming services ended up on the free side of the paywall on all Microsoft consoles. All you need is a silver account.
It is pretty obvious Sony forced their hand on it, but either way its a good thing for consumers.
Honestly, Sony and Microsoft have both been ripping off each others' good ideas for some time. Microsoft now has free games with gold (with the dded benefit of 360 games with gold 100% working with the xbo), discounts for gold members, etc... all stuff sony pioneered on the ps3.
Sony basically took achievements in the form of trophies from Microsoft on the ps3, and the entire unified online experience on the ps4 from the 360.
Now that the dust has settled on the console "war", so long as you live in america, there really is no discernable difference between the two platforms aside from an exceptionally small pile of exclusives.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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Is a pack of cigarettes really 20$ is Australia?
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...and scottish people are quite bigoted about the english! You know I have to remind them of the incredible english sophistication, tolerance and sense of humor! Which they need to get over their impotence and pointlessness.
...and scottish people are quite bigoted about the english! You know I have to remind them of the incredible english sophistication, tolerance and sense of humor! Which they need to get over their impotence and pointlessness.
Sounds legit.
jokes on you
i'm mostly English!
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Does the Xbox one do free online for purely online games?
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
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...and scottish people are quite bigoted about the english! You know I have to remind them of the incredible english sophistication, tolerance and sense of humor! Which they need to get over their impotence and pointlessness.
scheck has sent me a wiki entry on a Great Old Ones dating animoo. Nyarlathotep, hitherto known as the Crawling Chaos, is now a silver haired teenager girl.
Does the Xbox one do free online for purely online games?
There have been very rare moments in the past where certain games that have other income generating methods find their way into the silver side of things...
but no, 99.9% of the time you need gold to play online with other people.
SW-4158-3990-6116
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
...and scottish people are quite bigoted about the english! You know I have to remind them of the incredible english sophistication, tolerance and sense of humor! Which they need to get over their impotence and pointlessness.
Yeah, sorry about that whole sinking the navy thing.
Oh you'll apologize for the king's ships, but not for the starving of Norway?! Bastard english!
He loved to rock his girl at night;
He toiled like a willing slave.
When the dance rang loud from the neighbouring farm
Through the Sunday evening air,
He sang the old sea shanties to charm
Little Anna, who lay on his arm,
And played with his dark-brown hair.
So years drew on to the bloody war
In eighteen hundred and nine.
Legends abound of hardship sore
There was hardly any grain at the time.
By English cruisers the ports were barred;
All despair and sickness bore:
The poor went hungry, the rich fared hard,
For Terje’s strength, fate had no regard
And death stood at every door
So Terje grieved for a day or two,
Then shook his broad shoulders free;
He turned to his friend both tried and true
The vast and surging sea.
On the western coast they are still beguiled
By this courageous deed of note
“When the wind,” they say, “blew a bit less wild,
Terje Vigen rowed, for his wife and child,
Oversea in an open boat!”
The smallest dory that he could find
He chose for the daring quest.
Mast and canvas he left behind;
So he thought his chances best.
He hoped he could reach the Danish shore
By rowing the wild waves’ crest;
Bravely he'd face the breakers' roar,
But feared the English “man-o'-war",
With their eagle eyes in “the nest".
So Terje bent his strength to the oar,
And trusted himself to fate.
He came safe and sound to the Danish shore,
And loaded his precious freight.
God knows, his cargo was nothing grand,
And yet to him it was life;
For Terje came from a barren land,
And three small barrels of barley in hand
Meant survival for child and wife.
Three days and nights to his grueling task
Bent the sailor, strong and grim;
On the fourth, as sunrise flooded the sea,
He glimpsed an outline, dim.
Aye, peaks and vales - they were mountains true,
Not shifting cloud-banks grey;
But high over all the heights he knew
A familiar landmark, broad and blue,
And recognised where he lay.
The last few strokes! He was almost home
Then he’d be safely there.
His grateful eyes looked up from the foam
He came near to breathing a pray'r.
Then suddenly his hopes ran aground -
Startled - his face turned pale -
For close to the shore and inward bound,
A English corvette in the nearest sound
Was luffing with reefed-in sail.
His boat was spied; they promptly closed
The only escape in sight.
A fresh new wind from east now rose
As westward he took his flight.
They lowered their tender and on him turned –
He could hear the seamen shout –
Bracing his feet, the danger he spurned:
He rowed so the water spouted and churned,
And blood from his nails ran out.
They call it the Gosling, a hidden shoal
Just eastward of Homborg Sound;
In a sea-wind, heavy the breakers roll;
At two feet deep there is ground.
On the calmest day there’s a cloud of spray
With a yellow gleam from below;
And let the swell roar loud as it may,
In-shore there is mostly a sheltered bay
Unswept by the undertow.
Straight for this haven his small boat flew,
Like an arrow shot from a bow;
In his wake a strong and well-fed crew
They laughed as they saw him row.
To God, Terje cried through the breakers’ roar
Loud, in his awful dread
"Just there, on the famine-stricken shore,
My wife and child faint by the door
They are starving for lack of bread!”
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...and scottish people are quite bigoted about the english! You know I have to remind them of the incredible english sophistication, tolerance and sense of humor! Which they need to get over their impotence and pointlessness.
scheck has sent me a wiki entry on a Great Old Ones dating animoo. Nyarlathotep, hitherto known as the Crawling Chaos, is now a silver haired teenager girl.
I see.
that just makes me sad that one of the games I was looking forward too turned out to be a shit kickstarter with the guy taking off with everyone's cash
Yeah, sorry about that whole sinking the navy thing.
Oh you'll apologize for the king's ships, but not for the starving of Norway?! Bastard english!
He loved to rock his girl at night;
He toiled like a willing slave.
When the dance rang loud from the neighbouring farm
Through the Sunday evening air,
He sang the old sea shanties to charm
Little Anna, who lay on his arm,
And played with his dark-brown hair.
So years drew on to the bloody war
In eighteen hundred and nine.
Legends abound of hardship sore
There was hardly any grain at the time.
By English cruisers the ports were barred;
All despair and sickness bore:
The poor went hungry, the rich fared hard,
For Terje’s strength, fate had no regard
And death stood at every door
So Terje grieved for a day or two,
Then shook his broad shoulders free;
He turned to his friend both tried and true
The vast and surging sea.
On the western coast they are still beguiled
By this courageous deed of note
“When the wind,” they say, “blew a bit less wild,
Terje Vigen rowed, for his wife and child,
Oversea in an open boat!”
The smallest dory that he could find
He chose for the daring quest.
Mast and canvas he left behind;
So he thought his chances best.
He hoped he could reach the Danish shore
By rowing the wild waves’ crest;
Bravely he'd face the breakers' roar,
But feared the English “man-o'-war",
With their eagle eyes in “the nest".
So Terje bent his strength to the oar,
And trusted himself to fate.
He came safe and sound to the Danish shore,
And loaded his precious freight.
God knows, his cargo was nothing grand,
And yet to him it was life;
For Terje came from a barren land,
And three small barrels of barley in hand
Meant survival for child and wife.
Three days and nights to his grueling task
Bent the sailor, strong and grim;
On the fourth, as sunrise flooded the sea,
He glimpsed an outline, dim.
Aye, peaks and vales - they were mountains true,
Not shifting cloud-banks grey;
But high over all the heights he knew
A familiar landmark, broad and blue,
And recognised where he lay.
The last few strokes! He was almost home
Then he’d be safely there.
His grateful eyes looked up from the foam
He came near to breathing a pray'r.
Then suddenly his hopes ran aground -
Startled - his face turned pale -
For close to the shore and inward bound,
A English corvette in the nearest sound
Was luffing with reefed-in sail.
His boat was spied; they promptly closed
The only escape in sight.
A fresh new wind from east now rose
As westward he took his flight.
They lowered their tender and on him turned –
He could hear the seamen shout –
Bracing his feet, the danger he spurned:
He rowed so the water spouted and churned,
And blood from his nails ran out.
They call it the Gosling, a hidden shoal
Just eastward of Homborg Sound;
In a sea-wind, heavy the breakers roll;
At two feet deep there is ground.
On the calmest day there’s a cloud of spray
With a yellow gleam from below;
And let the swell roar loud as it may,
In-shore there is mostly a sheltered bay
Unswept by the undertow.
Straight for this haven his small boat flew,
Like an arrow shot from a bow;
In his wake a strong and well-fed crew
They laughed as they saw him row.
To God, Terje cried through the breakers’ roar
Loud, in his awful dread
"Just there, on the famine-stricken shore,
My wife and child faint by the door
They are starving for lack of bread!”
Copenhagen was on the agenda, file the paperwork to discuss Oslo
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Poor scheck. Forced into obscurity. Reading the chat thread and forced to selectively share his bizarre breadth of knowledge one pm at a time
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
...and scottish people are quite bigoted about the english! You know I have to remind them of the incredible english sophistication, tolerance and sense of humor! Which they need to get over their impotence and pointlessness.
Sounds legit.
jokes on you
i'm mostly English!
Well, maybe the SNP can help you with that.
it's ok, i've figured out how to confuse their test
after years of practice i can consume a can of IRN BRU while both keeping it down and hiding the revulsion from showing on my face
scheck has sent me a wiki entry on a Great Old Ones dating animoo. Nyarlathotep, hitherto known as the Crawling Chaos, is now a silver haired teenager girl.
I see.
Did you read Awoken?
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scheck has sent me a wiki entry on a Great Old Ones dating animoo. Nyarlathotep, hitherto known as the Crawling Chaos, is now a silver haired teenager girl.
He was perhaps momentarily saved by the publication of Terje Vigen, which enjoyed a solid popularity. This is the principal and, indeed, almost the only instance in Ibsen's works of what the Northern critics call "epic," but what we less ambitiously know as the tale in verse. Terje Vigen will never be translated successfully into English, for it is written, with brilliant lightness and skill, in an adaptation of the Norwegian ballad-measure which it is impossible to reproduce with felicity in our language."
"Among Ibsen's writings Terje Vigen is unique as a piece of pure sentimentality carried right through without one divagation into irony or pungency. It is the story of a much-injured and revengeful Norse pilot, who, having the chance to drown his old enemies, Milord and Milady, saves them at the mute appeal of their blue-eyed English baby. Terje Vigen is a masterpiece of what we may define as the "dash-away-a-manly- tear" class of narrative. It is extremely well written and picturesque, but the wonder is that, of all people in the world, Ibsen should have written it.
scheck has sent me a wiki entry on a Great Old Ones dating animoo. Nyarlathotep, hitherto known as the Crawling Chaos, is now a silver haired teenager girl.
In his house at R’lyeh, great Cthulhu lies dreaming... of her.
What would you do if you discovered you were the only one in the world with the hidden power to keep it from utter annihilation? What if you had no idea what that power might even be?
Andromeda Slate, the self-proclaimed most ordinary girl in America, can’t figure out why the gorgeous but mysterious new boy at high school seems to hate her so much. It couldn't have anything to do with the strange dream she had the night before he first showed up in class, could it? The dream where the very same boy rescued her from a giant, green, tentacled sea monster?
And it couldn’t have anything to do with that time she read aloud from that ancient tome of eldritch magic, the Necronomicon... could it?
Andi Slate never imagined she’d find herself in a situation where somehow she was the key to saving the world.
Her life is about to get a whole lot less ordinary.
In his house at R’lyeh, great Cthulhu lies dreaming... of her.
What would you do if you discovered you were the only one in the world with the hidden power to keep it from utter annihilation? What if you had no idea what that power might even be?
Andromeda Slate, the self-proclaimed most ordinary girl in America, can’t figure out why the gorgeous but mysterious new boy at high school seems to hate her so much. It couldn't have anything to do with the strange dream she had the night before he first showed up in class, could it? The dream where the very same boy rescued her from a giant, green, tentacled sea monster?
And it couldn’t have anything to do with that time she read aloud from that ancient tome of eldritch magic, the Necronomicon... could it?
Andi Slate never imagined she’d find herself in a situation where somehow she was the key to saving the world.
Her life is about to get a whole lot less ordinary.
Is that good?
Cursory research shows it's written by Lindsay Ellis...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has chimed in on the escalating battle between the FBI and Apple over iPhone encryption. Describing the letter published by Apple's Tim Cook as "important," Pichai says that a judge's order forcing Apple to assist the FBI in gaining access to the data on a terrorist's iPhone "could be a troubling precedent." Seeing as Google oversees the Android operating system, Pichai is a crucial voice in this debate; Android also offers encryption to safeguard personal data.
"We build secure products to keep your information safe and we give law enforcement access to data based on valid legal orders," Pichai tweeted moments ago. "But that's wholly different than requiring companies to enable hacking of customer devices and data." Pichai seems to side squarely with Cook. "Forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise users’ privacy." Google's CEO said he's "looking forward to a thoughtful and open discussion on this important issue."
That echoes the words of Cook, who in his letter wrote "This moment calls for public discussion, and we want our customers and people around the country to understand what is at stake." At this point it seems like not a matter of if, but when other influential tech CEOs like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft's Satya Nadella will weigh in on the matter.
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In his house at R’lyeh, great Cthulhu lies dreaming... of her.
What would you do if you discovered you were the only one in the world with the hidden power to keep it from utter annihilation? What if you had no idea what that power might even be?
Andromeda Slate, the self-proclaimed most ordinary girl in America, can’t figure out why the gorgeous but mysterious new boy at high school seems to hate her so much. It couldn't have anything to do with the strange dream she had the night before he first showed up in class, could it? The dream where the very same boy rescued her from a giant, green, tentacled sea monster?
And it couldn’t have anything to do with that time she read aloud from that ancient tome of eldritch magic, the Necronomicon... could it?
Andi Slate never imagined she’d find herself in a situation where somehow she was the key to saving the world.
Her life is about to get a whole lot less ordinary.
Is that good?
Cursory research shows it's written by Lindsay Ellis...
So it's a parody, right?
Yes it's a parody
The fun is in questioning that before you find out for certain
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Yeah, sorry about that whole sinking the navy thing.
i'm not convinced any of the people who do this have the wit to see the flaw in it
even now when it's crashing down on them like a ton of bricks
or even if they did they have no other ideas to replace it
i saw this on QI, the UK had an identical regulation before the EU one came into effect
i shit you not
You'd think the Farage Scare and what's going on with Trump would make them at least pause for thought
But then
Since slightly before the release of the xbox one (either 2012 or 2013 x360 update), all streaming services ended up on the free side of the paywall on all Microsoft consoles. All you need is a silver account.
It is pretty obvious Sony forced their hand on it, but either way its a good thing for consumers.
Honestly, Sony and Microsoft have both been ripping off each others' good ideas for some time. Microsoft now has free games with gold (with the dded benefit of 360 games with gold 100% working with the xbo), discounts for gold members, etc... all stuff sony pioneered on the ps3.
Sony basically took achievements in the form of trophies from Microsoft on the ps3, and the entire unified online experience on the ps4 from the 360.
Now that the dust has settled on the console "war", so long as you live in america, there really is no discernable difference between the two platforms aside from an exceptionally small pile of exclusives.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Sounds legit.
jokes on you
i'm mostly English!
scottish below the kilt
I see.
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There have been very rare moments in the past where certain games that have other income generating methods find their way into the silver side of things...
but no, 99.9% of the time you need gold to play online with other people.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I thought you had a huge streak of Vistulan
Well, maybe the SNP can help you with that.
that just makes me sad that one of the games I was looking forward too turned out to be a shit kickstarter with the guy taking off with everyone's cash
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Copenhagen was on the agenda, file the paperwork to discuss Oslo
it's ok, i've figured out how to confuse their test
after years of practice i can consume a can of IRN BRU while both keeping it down and hiding the revulsion from showing on my face
#freescheck
Did you read Awoken?
Nyarla-chan is pretty old...
I mean, the anime.
not the character.
The character looks real young.
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try me.
*places can of IRN BRU on the table between us*
This was linked yesterday. I am having a real hard time living in a world where this is a thing. The headline alone...
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I don't think so.
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did someone buy them all and now there are none left for me
The mine ran dry
Is that good?
Cursory research shows it's written by Lindsay Ellis...
So it's a parody, right?
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I remember the educational video about that in school.
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talk about a let down
the sumbitch brought along desiccated moose sausage as well
what the hell is wrong with sweden?
It would be cruel indeed to have to drink such a small quantity of IRN BRU by itself. You need some food to pair it with.
*places haggis on table*
Eat, drink, and hate the English.
Yes it's a parody
The fun is in questioning that before you find out for certain