UKIP have won about 26% of the vote in the local elections. To hell with everything. (I say about as the results are still coming in, but that's the projected value from commentators since we've got a fairly large chunk of the country covered right now.)
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His main antagonist is Dr. Erich Nazō (ナゾー), the leader of a crime syndicate bent on world domination. Nazō wears a black costume and mask with Batman-like ears.
I have not heard about this before today because????
Comprehensive personality profiles may not help you find a simpatico lover, but advertisers still fervently believe they can help you find products you can love. Of Plenty of Fish, Slater writes, “With so many people providing so much personal information, all kinds of advertisers, from book publishers to tobacco addiction remedies, loved the opportunity for targeted marketing.” The sites also deploy liberal amounts of gamification as bait for users, giving them, for example, additional access or nominal rewards in return for answering intrusive personal questions or rating dates. This makes plain that dating-site users are not clients so much as workers who produce themselves and others as indexable data. Some entrepreneurs dream of taking this to its logical conclusion with frictionless dating services, for which users would allow information to be collected automatically from their phones.
Given the expected value of our personal data, the sites have every incentive to prevent you from finding a steady partner so you will keep feeding them information. Slater concedes that “to varying degrees,” the dating companies “want satisfied daters. But they also spend their days focused on maximizing nonromantic metrics, such as ‘customer acquisition,’ ‘conversion rates,’ and ‘lifetime value.’ ” Justin Parfitt, a “dating entrepreneur” Slater quotes, uses less euphemistic language: “They’re thinking, ‘Let’s keep this fucker coming back, and let’s not worry about whether he’s successful.’ ”
UKIP have won about 26% of the vote in the local elections. To hell with everything. (I say about as the results are still coming in, but that's the projected value from commentators since we've got a fairly large chunk of the country covered right now.)
hi we are ukip let us execute all the drug dealers!!
ukip is dumb. i preferred it when they were boring
i was at the count for lancashire county today it was interesting and the greens (who i was with) lost one councillor but gained another so hey kinda alright?
i was at the count because my boyfriend was standing for a seat and he beat the lib dems which is a good result, and also beat UKIP. labour won though which sucks but then again, any given result would suck except a green win p much so....
Right there on Page 40, in the “Munchies” section, nestled between “pretzels” and “twelve (12) Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups,” is a parenthetical alert so adamant you can’t miss it: “M&M’s,” the text reads, “(WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES).”
This is the famed rider to Van Halen’s 1982 concert contract. In a sentence fragment that would define rock-star excess forevermore, the band demanded a bowl of M&M’s with the brown ones laboriously excluded. It was such a ridiculous, over- the-top demand, such an extreme example of superstar narcissism, that the contract passed almost instantly into rock lore.
It also wasn’t true.
I don’t mean that the M&M language didn’t appear in the contract, which really did call for a bowl of M&M’s — “NO BROWN ONES.” But the color of the candy was entirely beside the point.
“Van Halen was the first to take 850 par lamp lights — huge lights — around the country,” explained singer David Lee Roth. “At the time, it was the biggest production ever.” Many venues weren’t ready for this. Worse, they didn’t read the contract explaining how to manage it. The band’s trucks would roll up to the concert site, and the delays, mistakes and costs would begin piling up.
So Van Halen established the M&M test. “If I came backstage and I saw brown M&M’s on the catering table, it guaranteed the promoter had not read the contract rider, and we had to do a serious line check,” Roth explained.
My area won a Green. Still a lot of Tories though. On the plus side, we're NOC instead of Tory now, and would have been even without the three UKIP seats.
there are a lot of tories everywhere except Scotland tbh
we were having a glass of wine in celebration (he did well and i finished my second year of university today) and that turned into a bottle of wine and now i am quite tipsy at half 4 in the afternoon? and i am going to see some male strippers tonight now?? okay this will be interesting
god i had planned to just sit down and spend a night reading Bulgakov
UKIP is britains version of the various reactionary right wing parties that are all gaining slightly worrying amounts of electoral clout across europe as a result of everyone's finances going down the shitter
on the one hand they arent literal neo-Nazis (hello, Greece), but yes, part of their manifesto is that they want to introduce capital punishment for drug dealers which is just insane
they also believe that climate change is a myth etc etc and various other completely ridiculous things but they are gaining popularity half because the Tories are trying to be more cuddly and less traditionally right-wing, and half just as a protest vote, and half because they keep going 'WE NEED TO GET OUT OF THE EU OR WE WILL END UP LIKE GREECE/CYPRUS' which only dumb people actually believe
also if we did end up like greece/cyprus they might get literally elected to power so i dont see why they are encouraging britain to not be that way
WE NEED TO GET OUT OF THE EU OR WE WILL END UP LIKE GREECE/CYPRUS'
well, greece has that nice mediterranean climate
also baklavas
dont forget tzatziki!!
financially like greece. as in 'hey we have no money.'
you know what would be hilarious? if greece won Eurovision this year. 'hey we know you have no money but now you have to host a music event which costs hundreds of millions to put on and is essentially pointless other than letting everyone have a good laugh at the former eastern bloc'
i cant link to youtube right now but go look up Latvia's entry for eurovision this year. halfway through there is this hilarious horn break which comes out of fucking nowhere and all the performers point to this giiant screen that spells out the word 'LATVIJA' in giant pixelated letters and then there are some generic dubstep noises. it is priceless
that reminds me of this restaurant about 10-15 blocks from here called Shish, which is like some bizarre amalgam of a cafe, a greek restaurant and an indian restaurant. Good prices too, gotta go there some time this weekend.
RE: Eurovision:
(*if you cannot see it atm it is the My Lovely Horse song from Father Ted*)
i cant link to youtube right now but go look up Latvia's entry for eurovision this year. halfway through there is this hilarious horn break which comes out of fucking nowhere and all the performers point to this giiant screen that spells out the word 'LATVIJA' in giant pixelated letters and then there are some generic dubstep noises. it is priceless
So they're basically like the Tea Party (which is more of a movement than an actual party) or the Constitution Party (which is a real party, though with very little constituency) over here. Great. :P
Apple exclusively owns US Patent No. 7311526 ("Magnetic connector for electronic device", issued in 2007) and does not license the MagSafe connector or the patent.
There had been a variety of reports of the newer MagSafe AC adapter not working with older MagSafe-powered MacBooks and MacBook Pros.[citation needed] Apple released a firmware update in October 2010 that it claims resolves this issue.[16] However, the installer for the firmware update will not run on certain older MacBooks, which means that the firmware can not be updated. This, in turn, means that it is not possible to use the new MagSafe power adapter with these MacBooks. Currently,[when?] it is not possible to buy new replacement MagSafe AC adapters (either from Apple or third-party suppliers) that work with these MacBooks, forcing owners to look for used original adapters.
Which means that if you have an older MacBook and the charger cord fails, you either have to retrofit a charger from a regular laptop and ruin the case, or chuck the thing in the bin. Fuck you too, Apple. :P This sort of "proprietary for it's own Goddamned sake" bullshit is why I don't buy Apple products made after 2006 anymore. IT'S NOT 1988 ANYMORE YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES. :(
Also, the MacBook (sigh) I typed that last comment on is running Debian because fuck Apple, that's why. If I had the budget for it, it would be replaced with a Clevo or an ASUS post-haste...right now, it's just my utility laptop for when I need a laptop for something.
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what is even this comic
I have not heard about this before today because????
(*snuggles next poster for warmth*)
but it is snowing outside.
whyyy
hi we are ukip let us execute all the drug dealers!!
ukip is dumb. i preferred it when they were boring
i was at the count for lancashire county today it was interesting and the greens (who i was with) lost one councillor but gained another so hey kinda alright?
and by delightful i mean awful
there are a lot of tories everywhere except Scotland tbh
we were having a glass of wine in celebration (he did well and i finished my second year of university today) and that turned into a bottle of wine and now i am quite tipsy at half 4 in the afternoon? and i am going to see some male strippers tonight now?? okay this will be interesting
god i had planned to just sit down and spend a night reading Bulgakov
UKIP is britains version of the various reactionary right wing parties that are all gaining slightly worrying amounts of electoral clout across europe as a result of everyone's finances going down the shitter
on the one hand they arent literal neo-Nazis (hello, Greece), but yes, part of their manifesto is that they want to introduce capital punishment for drug dealers which is just insane
they also believe that climate change is a myth etc etc and various other completely ridiculous things but they are gaining popularity half because the Tories are trying to be more cuddly and less traditionally right-wing, and half just as a protest vote, and half because they keep going 'WE NEED TO GET OUT OF THE EU OR WE WILL END UP LIKE GREECE/CYPRUS' which only dumb people actually believe
also if we did end up like greece/cyprus they might get literally elected to power so i dont see why they are encouraging britain to not be that way
also baklavas
dont forget tzatziki!!
financially like greece. as in 'hey we have no money.'
you know what would be hilarious? if greece won Eurovision this year. 'hey we know you have no money but now you have to host a music event which costs hundreds of millions to put on and is essentially pointless other than letting everyone have a good laugh at the former eastern bloc'
that reminds me of this restaurant about 10-15 blocks from here called Shish, which is like some bizarre amalgam of a cafe, a greek restaurant and an indian restaurant. Good prices too, gotta go there some time this weekend.
RE: Eurovision:
(*if you cannot see it atm it is the My Lovely Horse song from Father Ted*)
usually the british ones are less religious
but they also have fewer hilarious 'oh look [anti-gay activist] was caught sucking off a rent boy' scandals