It was Rachel Larratt a couple of days ago.
BME changes hands?
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Headline of the day
Fishermen. Slow.
The fishing industry has warned it faces ruin because fish caught after quotas are exceeded have to be dumped. BBC
So they want to raise their quotas so they don’t have to throw their fish away. And that of course will still decimate stocks and they will face ruin because they will then still catch over-quota so they can bring back the exact quota. Which part of ‘facing ruin’ do these fisherman not understand?
Oliver Knowles, a campaigner for Greenpeace, also believes quotas are not working for the UK’s mixed fisheries. He says the only answer is to stop fishing altogether in 40% of the world’s oceans.
My actual standpoint: All fishing is cruel. Be that “Hey I caught one this big” ripping the hook out of it’s face and tossing it back into the water or the slow drowning in a net. Sport? In as much as hare-coursing, fox-hunting and badger-baiting.
Lame Tiger
Okay, so I know it’s all my fault for not using only Apple code on an Apple machine and I really should be just so damn happy because it looks so sleek and I can’t hold Apple to blame for anything at all because Steve Jobs is a GOD – but has anyone else using Tiger noticed that their machine too has gone to crap since the last update? I’m used to seeing the Beachball of Death often enough but it’s daily. Hourly even.
It feels like I’m running Windows ME. That’s how bad it is.
But hey, must be all my fault?
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
From today
BBC. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has condemned plans to make it easier for lesbian couples to use IVF to become parents.The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has condemned plans to make it easier for lesbian couples to use IVF to become parents. … “This radically undermines the place of the father in a child’s life, and makes the natural rights of the child subordinate to the desires of the couple.
“It is profoundly wrong.”
From 2005
BBC. It emerged that he had failed to act when a priest, Fr Michael Hill, became known to him as a paedophile. … Instead of informing the police of the allegations against Hill … He argued that at the time, little was understood of the compulsive nature of paedophilia by the Church, the police and the judiciary.
It would appear that not only did children have no natural rights in 2005 but also that what happened was also not profoundly wrong. He is using them in both arguments to support his sick and twisted ideas.
What matters for a child is that they are loved and protected. Gay men and women are of course perfectly able to do this just as any heterosexual couple or single parent. And given the choice between the “protection” of the church and any parents, the child will choose the parents and so should any decent-minded person. All the church has given children is violence and degradation.
He thinks it’s about him.
Each newgroup I read is currently being bombarded by junk from the same person.
It doesn’t mention me by name, so the objective observer might have trouble
understanding why I’m so sure it’s about me.
During the 1998-2000 period my records indicate that I sent at least 6,137 faxes to the British media, of which 5,775 went via TPC’s email-to-fax service and 362 were sent via fax-modem direct from my computer.
During the 1998-2000 period my records indicate that I sent at least 3,642 faxes to diplomatic and legal offices located in the British isles, of which 3,345 went via TPC’s email-to-fax service and 297 were sent via fax-modem
A very strange man.
Galaxy jumping
It’s the longest I’ve sat and played a game in months, RR7 included. But right now I can’t find all the love for Mario.
The levels are short, too short.
Camera. I really dislike walking toward the screen in any game, even more so where you have to negotiate your way past hazards. It smacks of laziness. It slows the game. It makes me realise I’m playing a game because it forces me to work around it’s shortcomings. And SMG has more than it’s fair share of this camera style.
Returning to the hub. Every star and you get to go back to the main start location. Given that most people will play through each galaxy it should have been an option. Each galaxy should have had a start instead with an option return.
The design seems lazy too. Some levels have those pull stars and some of those have coins between them. That alone is lazy but being able to miss those coins and then needing to backtrack is lazier.
Faith. So you can walk around all angles of a level unless you can’t and you fall to the ever-present blackhole. And you only know you can’t walk around when you do in fact die. There is no indicator on some levels and Nintendo really shouldn’t be letting us die like this.
Loading times. Watching him go through space the first couple of times was fun, then it got tedious. Like Resident Evil back on PS1 and the door opening it starts good and there is anticipation, but then we fall to “hurry up and get there”. Skipping should be there as a button press.
Camera 2. Looking. Why can I only look in so few places? I want to see routes, grab gems, appreciate the environment but I can’t, I’m not allowed.
And are there any extra stars? Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine there were extra stars for getting everything, getting 100 stars. Do they exist here? I’ve read no reviews other than the Metacritic raves so they may well be but I hope so for longevity.
And part of me feels the above all adds up to less gameplay. I can’t pin down just what it is but there’s a certain something not there this time. Eye candy is one thing but gameplay is something entirely different. Maybe they designed this one to be easier. Nothing wrong in that but for me there is something missing.
But compared to metacritic I am on my own :)
Sometimes a login item
Sys prefs > Accounts > Login items > a connection to this domain.
It should open to a directory here so I can drag files to it.
Sometimes it works and I end up with a connection open on the desktop.
Sometimes it does not work- nothing happens.
Reboot/restart or power off / power on makes no difference – it appears random.
Given these things should “just work”, why doesn’t this? Anyone know?
Poor Abu
Abu Hamza al-Masri, the Islamic cleric serving a prison sentence for soliciting murder, is to be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges. (Times)
… the US is likely to detain Abu Hamza in one of the country’s notorious Supermax prisons. The court was told that conditions in these jails include inmates being locked up for 23 hours a day in small cells — between 48 and 80 square feet (4.5sq m and 7.5sq m) — with no natural light, no control over the electric light and no view. During this time they have no contact with other prisoners, even verbal, and no meaningful contact with staff.
They may be able to spend up to an hour every other day alone in a concrete exercise pen, but access to books and writing material is limited and visits from family are believed to be infrequent.
He should have been there ages ago. We can only hope he does not return.
A frosty monster
I like it. Doesn’t catch the sun as I wanted. Lots more frost, then ice, snow, mist and continual sub-zero temperatures and I’ll be happy. I live in the wrong country…