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Best course of action for Facebook project?

Go back to .NET APIs	0 votes - 0 %
Try to get in-house server working	0 votes - 0 %
Try to find a suitable PHP host	2 votes - 66 %
Don't use API, make own calls in .NET	1 vote - 33 %
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Metallic Metals Act is good	1 vote - 33 %
Metallic Metals Act is bad	0 votes - 0 %
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"Alone in Berlin" is the better title	1 vote - 33 %
"Every Man Dies Alone" is the better title	1 vote - 33 %

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Facing the music | 19 comments (19 topical, 0 hidden)

Taxing by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #1 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 11:13:22 AM EST

Don't be mixing up legitimate avoidance and illegal evasion, kthx.

That said, what the leftists (and to a lesser degree, the rightists) seem to be missing is that a lot of evasion is done by the small tradesman giving VAT off for cash, individuals working cash in hand.

Whilst the leftists like to scream about the elite rich evading tax, I'd wager that a not inconsiderable amount is down to small companies and one man bands.

It's also revealing that the leftist regards wealthy individuals' money as the states' money and that it is theft for the rich to arrange their affairs within the law but minimising the tax handed over.

All of the above in mind though, the tax code in UKia is a fucking mess after 13 years of Stealth Brown.

The first step should be to massively simplify our tax code so it's harder to find the loopholes. Then, by all means, hammer those who break the law.

Maybe all those soon to be redundant diversity counsellors can retrain to work for HMRC?

Marble by Scrymarch (4.00 / 1) #2 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 11:16:49 AM EST

I thought marble was relatively cheap and available in classical Greece and Roman, at least in the early periods? Plus with clay and soapstone the statue itself would wear - with marble you could just repaint it. It's a pretty cheesy pink they have chosen for the skin colour in those pictures though.

The call centre article is interesting. I wonder how much of that is down to infrastructure. People I have worked with remotely in Mumbai - not call centres mind - all seem to spend hours going back and forth to the office, and often aren't available in the business hours I would have assumed.

That play article reminds me of a quote from Fred's Beyond Good and Evil: A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play. Of course I had to google that. The rest of the book was a bit pants.
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Marble by TheophileEscargot (4.00 / 1) #3 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 11:28:46 AM EST

Wikipedia reckons that the largest single expense was transporting the [marble] stone from Mount Pentelicus, about 16 kilometres from Athens, to the Acropolis. But the acropolis itself is basically a big lump of limestone.

I just don't why they'd lug marble from far away, when they basically lived on a giant lump of stone that's easier to carve, unless they liked the way it looked.

It the statues were covered in paint, I don't see how the stone could wear away faster than the paint. The statue itself could be made of anything you like: the paint would protect it, as long as you kept touching it up Forth Bridge style.
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I guess skin tone... by Metatone (4.00 / 2) #6 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 12:35:51 PM EST

is the obvious place not to cover. The guy from the article seems to have found traces using UV and chemical analysis for painted clothing. But did they have a "white god" complex? I have no idea.

FWIW as a comparison, some of the big old temples in India were made of marble and the statues were largely fully painted (and most of the Hindu lot aren't white skinned...)

Although many of the statues are carved out of the side of the wall.

Perhaps it's just that once you're constructing a temple in marble, then you start using the offcuts for the statues...?

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It might still have made a better base by Scrymarch (4.00 / 1) #14 Sun Aug 22, 2010 at 07:43:12 AM EST

Painting on pottery for instance is actually pretty hard. Especially if you are using a wet clay technique as for classical grecian urns and with a reddish base.

Might have the same issue for limestone, especially if they were working with a more limited palette. But yeah, I'm into rank speculation here.

I like Metatone's offcut theory though.
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I wonder... by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #16 Sun Aug 22, 2010 at 07:52:26 PM EST

I wonder if it might be because it's probably pretty easy to get the paint off the marble and redo it. Perhaps they were repainted from scratch every so often?
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: Not a crazy idea. by Scrymarch (4.00 / 1) #17 Sun Aug 22, 2010 at 08:48:13 PM EST

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Colors by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #8 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 01:00:11 PM EST

I suspect that the artists then had a much more limited color pallet than later artists.
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: I'm sure you're right by Scrymarch (4.00 / 2) #13 Sun Aug 22, 2010 at 07:08:12 AM EST

Though I couldn't presume to say what came when. I'm just wondering, like TE, why Sunburnt Scotsman After Four Days On Spanish Beach was the skin shade of choice, over, you know, white.
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PHP by Driusan (4.00 / 2) #4 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 11:34:52 AM EST

Are you sure you have the whatchamacallit.htm that's used to allow cross domain scripting set up properly? There's no errors about cross site scripting/security violations in your web browser's error console?

Are you sure that, on the facebook side, you've given your app enough permissions to access whatever personal information you need to access?

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I think so by TheophileEscargot (4.00 / 1) #5 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 12:05:11 PM EST

On my own work PC, I can call file_get_contents() in a php file and grab the contents of a file from the Internet.

When I try that on a test page on the public-facing server, with the same PHP configuration, the page silently stops loading at that call.

So I think the PHP config is OK. However, the server is running a different version of IIS, so it's possible I've failed to configure that properly. Or it could be something about the server, the network, or the firewall, which I don't have control over.

That's with a very simple test page which just calls:
print file_get_contents("http://avalidurl");
...with no Facebook stuff, and no browser errors. The browser doesn't know about the cross-domain stuff, that all happens on the server.
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: As long as... by Vulch (4.00 / 3) #7 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 12:38:44 PM EST

You've got "allow_url_fopen = On" in your php.ini PHP ought to be happy to use URLs in file read operations, even on IIS. It's worth checking you're using the php.ini you think you are by looking at the output of phpinfo(), and if it stil fails you can fake the whole thing with Curl anyway.
Depending on your exact definition of cheap, a virtual server from CrispyDuck (Blue Room Hosting logo at the bottom of the page) or Bytemark starts around 15 quid a month plus VAT and gives you complete control of everything.

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Library by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #9 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 01:03:53 PM EST

Yeah, I noticed that in the movie, as that was "The Library" where I went to college. What is really unfortunate is that it looks nothing in the photo like it did when I went there. When I went in the mid-eighties, it was in the center of a eucalyptus grove, so you could not see the base. Instead, you walked through the grove and suddenly it was there above you. They cut down half the grove when I was there, the rest shortly after.

The school joke was to convince someone something was on the "third floor" (which did not exist.)
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SRB falls to Earth by duxup (4.00 / 1) #10 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 03:40:08 PM EST

Damn government has cameras EVERYWHERE! What do they think I'm doing in space with solid rocket boosters anyway?

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Linode? by dev trash (4.00 / 1) #11 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 05:48:00 PM EST

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(4.00 / 1) #12 Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 09:43:33 PM EST

from the solid rocket booster, from separation to splashdown.

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Facebook app advice by chuckles (4.00 / 1) #15 Sun Aug 22, 2010 at 07:04:37 PM EST

Games that feature grinding monotony seem to do well.

"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin [...] would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities"

Outsourcing .... by Tonatiuh (4.00 / 1) #18 Sun Aug 22, 2010 at 09:50:49 PM EST

A company I know very well (ahem,ahem,ahem) is terminating its contract with a well known overseas consultancy.

Service is not as cheap as it used to and quality was never good (not the fault of the contractors mind you, simply they are over sold, they are clever and well prepared, but are simply too green to understand complex processes and procedures. You can't get experience in the cheap, some companies are learning that the $$$hard way$$$)....

Inception by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #19 Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 04:16:58 PM EST

Someone on Reddit was saying "OOh it looks just like my college library" the other day.

Book looks good, wishlisted.

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