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Kindly point out where in my post I assumed car occupancy was 1? It takes some chutzpah on your part, by the way, to make the complaint you did and then talk about cars carrying 2, 3 or 4 people, when the average car occupancy in the UK is about 1.5.
https://www.gov.uk/government/...

It takes even more chutzpah to then pull mpg numbers out your ass, in which -- surprise! -- you underestimate bus mpg. 2? 4? More like 6:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

The *entire point* of my using the London example (vs a US or UK example) was to show what could be achieved in a well-regulated bus system designed to promote ridership.

It's quite simple: Assange raped a Swedish woman, and sexually assaulted another one. And now he refuses to face the court. He's a refugee from justice.

In fact, Assange raped no one. He slept with two Swedish women, both of whom were so eager to do so that they bragged about it to their friends for days before and after. He raped neither of them, and in fact neither of them has ever said that he did. When the charges were first brought, Assange waited in Sweden - despite his busy schedule - until it was made entirely clear that the charges were dropped (because the women said he had done nothing wrong). He then travelled to Britain, at which point a wholly new prosecutor popped up (obviously politically motivated) and began saying Assange should be charged (again).

Here is the BBC's "timeline" of the charges against Assange: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

There are a couple of things missing from this timeline, however. They happened before the BBC's record of events begins.

"In April 2010, WikiLeaks published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed by an AH-64 Apache helicopter, known as the Collateral Murder video. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available to the public". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

April 2010: WikiLeaks published gunsight footage of the murders in Baghdad.
July 2010: WikiLeaks releases "Afghan War Diary"
August 2010: Assange charged with rape (although he had never before been accused of any such behaviour)

The pattern is all too familiar to those of us who are familiar with the US government's methods in moving against anyone it wants to destroy.

They already exist. Here's some which I use regularly:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-s... and http://www.nationalexpressgrou...
http://www.dundeewestend.com/2... and http://www.stagecoach.com/medi...

They use regenerative braking when they stop, and then use that to get back up to speed before you hear the diesel engine kick back in. They are pretty smooth and comfortable to ride in, and even give you free wifi!

AC re ' Until then, the government will always have more power than you would like. That's life."
The US is not a Star Chamber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... allowing a gov or bureaucrat to conscript a brand to create a master key to unlock an entire generation of devices. Thats why the US has a few protections like the Fourth Amendment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution so papers can be kept secure from tyranny.

As far are the government access to telco products some readers may recall the BBC Click interview with a question about gov access: (13 April 2011)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/pro...

I'm not too bothered if Scotland decides to leave the UK, however, I am going to quote a BBC article (currency is in GBP):

income from tax was 10,000 per person - that included a geographic share of oil revenue from around the Scottish coast. It represented 8.2% of revenue - slightly below the UK figure
and expenditure was 12,800 per person, or 9.3%. That was 1,400 per person more than the UK average.

They better have a plan to deal with that before they leave.

they're the ones that have to take the fall for Europes refugees

When it comes to asylum seekers per capita, we get...

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/6...

Ok look, we're in position 22 of 33 with something like one thirtieth of the rate of the worst affected country, and comfortably below the average. As a proportion of population, Sweden have to deal with far more refugees.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

Actually it looks like we've even taken half the absolute, unscaled numbers.

We are part of Europe, and compared to the other countries, we are very much not doing our bit.

Nvidia suggest that less than 1% of PC's have the spec to run VR.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

This is why I believe the PSVR will outsell Oculus and Hive on day one despite what looks like a 6 month later relate date.

Why haven't they blown it already?

Who is "they" and why would "they" do that?

This story smells bad.

We have a 2006 study by the US Army Corps of Engineers which says the same thing. And the problems apparently go back to its very construction in 1984.

In September 2006, the US Army Corps of Engineers determined that the dam, 45 miles upstream of Mosul on the River Tigris, presented an unacceptable risk.

"In terms of internal erosion potential of the foundation, Mosul Dam is the most dangerous dam in the world," the corps warned, according to the SIGIR report. "If a small problem [at] Mosul Dam occurs, failure is likely."

Remember to disable your CarWings account so you don't get hacked.

I'd imagine that public procument in the US, even if all the suppliers were also US companies, would likely have to be done on a non-discriminatory basis or the procuring body would run afoul either of competition laws or of laws requiring they get best value.

You have to blink whilst doing the selfie, to make sure it isn't a photo http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

Yea, Samsung. Let's involve an entity who likes to record conversations via their IoT TVs whilst telling customers "don't say anything you don't want transmitted to a third party" into a consortium to define the security of IoT... oh, and there's no way to shut it off. How about not? (And their not alone, LG does something similar) http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/sa... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

Tor: 'Mystery' spike in hidden addresses

The format wars lead to real deaths.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

...ducks quack in different dialects as well. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/...

This a transcript (and MP3 audio) here

Here is a link to the BBC's Reith Lecture Series. On that page, there are links to lectures from previous years. I highly recommend the thoughtful and moving lectures on health care given in 2014 by surgeon and writer Dr Atul Gawande of Harvard University.

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/med...

"Organization do" (singular) is proper British usage and is dominant in most English speaking locales. "Organization does" (singular) is Americanized pidgin.

No, this is completely wrong, regardless of what English-speaking country you live in. First, in a case like "organization do," the implication is still plural, not singular. "Organization" is here interpreted as a collective noun, meaning that while it is singular in form, when used this way it emphasizes the plural nature of the composition of the organization. "Germany is a nation," but "Germany have won the tournament." The latter does not mean that "Germany" is plural, but rather is a collective noun standing in for "members of the German team" which is plural and take a plural verb.

Second, your use of the word pidgin is inaccurate. A pidgin language is a second language, a simplified version of one language used as a form of communication between communities which do not share the same language. Americans do NOT have a different primary language other than English. Therefore, American English by definition cannot be a "pidgin." You can claim it is a dialect, and you can object to characteristics of it, but it's not a "pidgin" language.

Third, in British English the usage of a plural verb in this case is by no means mandatory. For some types of organizations or groups of people, a plural verb is common. For others, a singular verb is more common. Some show a mixture depending on context (whether the collective nature or the individual volition of members is being invoked). Also, corpus studies have shown that the use is dependent on formality, with plural verb forms being more common in very formal language and very informal language, but less common in "everyday" polite language.

Fourth -- and perhaps most importantly -- in this specific case, your claim doesn't accord with examples used prominently in British English journalism. The Pirate Bay *IS* largely considered singular there. Numerous examples at the BBC website, for example, show that the BBC would prefer the singular "American" verb when referring to The Pirate Bay ("The Pirate Bay lets"). A few quick looks on other UK sources seems to indicate that the singular verb form is much more common.

Get some elementary knowledge, stop the uninformed insults, and lose the provincial attitude.

Maybe you could try getting some more advanced knowledge and realizing that your oversimplified statements are wrong.

TL;DR -- Your assertion about British English in general is overbroad and inaccurately phrased. While there is more usage of plural verbs with singular collective nouns outside of the U.S., that usage is not always "proper" -- it depends on the particular noun and context. And regardless, your opinion does not reflect common journalistic practice from the UK regarding the specific word "The Pirate Bay."

The UCI have confirmed that a motor has been found, while Driessche is saying the bike is identical to her own, but actually owned by a friend who cycled the course before the event, and the bike just accidentally happened to be cleaned and tuned for her own use due to a mix up by a mechanic...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cyc...

This is the situation in Syria and northern Iraq: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

Remind me where the economic migrants are coming from again.

Why is the EU allowing itself to be flooded with people with few or no skills that will need long term generational support if it cant even look after its own best and brightest?

Because the people running the EU (I'm looking at you, Angela Merkel) have decided the solution to low birth rates is the mass importation of people from other countries. It's cultural suicide. I think they've pretty much realized the whole thing was a bad idea, but where to go from here? The immigrants aren't leaving.

Sweden is sending some 80,000 back:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...

Nice to know they always have the most techno literate reporters on speed dial when they need insightful comment on a technology issues like this one with Safari:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

"This would suggest that the problem is caused by a process happening at Apple's data centres rather than a coding error in Safari itself."

Yes, thats right, the apple data centres are sending special CRASH codes to the browsers, its nothing to do with their being a bug in the browser software, no no no. Fecking idiot whoever wrote this piece.

But the Hatton Garden burglars were caught because they used one of their own cars within view of a security camera.

At least they're keeping it old school. These days people steal things using hoverboards.

I want to smack whoever started calling those stupid things "hoverboards".

But the Hatton Garden burglars were caught because they used one of their own cars within view of a security camera.

At least they're keeping it old school. These days people steal things using hoverboards.

I take it then that you've known a lot of men that were pregnant, or left the workforce because they wanted to spend time with their children while they were young?

Try googling for things related to "men afriad to take paternity leave". Turns out lots of men want to, but don't feel they can.

In other news sexism hurts men too. And if you catually care about men you should want to rid the world of it.

How many women players are on your favorite professional football team?

Not that I follow football, but it's not like the world association ever banned women from playing in men's teams or anything...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/tal...

Historians write a (very dubious) history book. Novelist writes a novel in which this dubious history is true. Historians sue. Historians lose.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ent...

My analysis: You can't copyright facts. If you present something as a fact (such as in a history book), you lose any copyright over that "fact" (but not over your presentation of it.) Otherwise if you wrote a SF story involving Hawking radiation then Hawking could sue you.

You can split it up into several parts: task decomposition, actual coding, testing and refinement.

Here is what they are teaching in primary schools in the UK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education...

Okay thanks for the clarification but I have to disagree.

While the Indian government puts a premium on protecting girls (perhaps because of the gender imbalance), perspective parents evidently do not.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indep...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/11/...
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

Humans place a premium on their own life but we aren't talking about suicide here.

Maybe have some type of robot Olympics where the goal isn't to mash each other up, but to get around various obstacles. BBC also used to have the cartoon series "Ludwig" and the "The Great Egg Race" which would be a similar theme. That usually involved trying to transport an egg in some way without harm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/g...

There are international maze exploration competitions:

https://www2.meijo-u.ac.jp/~ic...

because society places a premium on girls. Boys and men are generally considered to be comparatively disposable. This has deep roots in survival instincts.

A tribe that suffers the loss of to many young women would be unable to propagate itself, efficiently. The harm from that could last generations. The loss of almost all the young males however could be more easily survived. Older males remain fertile longer than females, and one male can easily impregnate large numbers of women. Its pretty simple really.

Our instincts are what they are. We generally instinctively protect all of our children pretty enthusiastically. Giving into our more base desires to afford our female offspring a little extra safety is probably harmless. We have plenty of other instincts that don't fit the environment most of us live in to focus on fighting.

Depends on which society you're talking about. There is a severe dearth of girl babies in both China and India, relative to the population. My no doubt imperfect understanding is that in China this is largely because of the old one child law where boys would be earners and so were more desirable than girl babies, and in India where Hindu requires a boy for the death rites of the parents in addition to the boys being earners.
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

not even that... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-3...

Now you can get you(sic) desperately ignorant words written down to a piece of paper and shove it up your ass.

Yeah, Brazilian here.

I am not who you are replying to but perhaps you should address this issue and the wording in the article if you wish to change people's perception of Brazil.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...

Kind regards,
Dave

You are assuming that use of force means opening fire with a gun. It could also mean firing a taser or use of pepper and/or CS spray, deployment of a baton, use of force in restraint etc. I say all this as a UK citizen where all of the above would be described as use of force.

Here is an example of none lethal force being deployed probably inappropriately leading to the death of someone in the U.K.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-s...

The Police don't need guns to kill you.

Sure, you dont get a dozen people stabbed, you get hundreds of people stabbed, and dozens killed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...
Or one every month with several people killed each
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I disagree.

Be helpful if you said what you disagreed with. [I scroll back a million screens to find out]. Oh, that "no one cares"; Well, I care, you care, but Joe Sixpack does not.

until Microsoft takes the hints and stops the spying

Microsoft does not take hints. Not even "hints" in the form of bloody great kicks up its arse.

Most of the people who use Windows 10 do so because they do no comprehend the full consequences of its use.

No, they use it because it came with their PC, or was pushed on them as an "upgrade" from Win 7 or 8, and they would not have any wish or clue to replace it with anything else.

They need to be informed and educated.

No, it would make no difference. These days we all live in a barrage of spiel "informing and educating" us about others' favourite issues (SJWs, vegetarianism, femisism, World hunger, global warming, religion, flat-earthism); some may have a point but it is lost in the noise.

The government sets the fee http://www.bbc.co.uk/abouttheb...

Christ, it's really irritating when people who don't know shit talk pontificate about a subject, and pray Wikipedia in aid. The BBC is publicly funded, but not a state broadcaster. This is true both in terms of its structure and its behaviour. If the BBC were a state broadcaster, it would take a pro-government line. That is not the case. We have a right-wing government in power in the UK, and the BBC is famously accused of being biased to the left. When the centre-left Labour party was in power, the BBC got in a fight with them too, over the Iraq war. The BBC is not owned by the government, it is publicly owned. It is not controlled by the government, although governments of all stripes have tried to control it to some degree, with little success.

I really don't mind you being right-wing. You're entitled to your view. But do you have to be so fucking stupid? It would take you all of a few minutes research to learn that there is a huge difference, both in theory and practice, between a state broadcaster like Zvezda and a public service broadcaster like the BBC. Evidence matters, for Chrissakes, and this being the media, there's quite a lot of evidence out there.

You could start with this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...

Propaganda and patsies....

At least 7 of the 19 so-called 9/11 suicide pilots have been confirmed to be alive and well. They had their passports stolen. There has been zero evidence that Muslims carried out 9/11. That was a lie that was propagated by war criminal and terrorist supporter George "Dubya" Bush (and company).

Falsely accused hijacker Abdul Rahman Said al-Omari was even given a formal apology:

RIYADH, Sept 17 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - U.S. officials in Riyadh offered Abdul Rahman Said al-Omari an official apology in the presence of Saudi interior ministry officials for including his name among the list of suspects in the U.S. terrorist attacks, news agencies reported Monday. Original story here (Arabic)

In fact, Osama Bin Laden was never listed on the FBI's most wanted list for 9/11 because the FBI had no hard evidence linking Bin Laden to 9/11.

It is because of 9/11 that this whole bogus "war on (of?) terrorism" and Muslim hatred began. Who benefits from it? USA and Israel. Partners in crime.

Most of these other terrorist attacks are also false flag operations perpetrated by the same people and blamed on Muslims.

The 7/7 bombings in London, incredibly, were planned as crisis management exercises the night before they occured. They just happened to pick the same subway stations and the same times as the terrorists! What a freakin' coincidence! Simply, WOW!

The war on terror is a global sham designed to shift the blame from the real terrorists to the Muslim people and usher in a fascist New World Order, as announced by "Poppy" Bush on 9/11, 1990.

Please turn off FOX news and take your xenophobic, racist b.s. and stick it where the sun don't shine.

Some of your figures are a bit off, and you omit some important data.

The Blitz in London (which never even got close to 'carpet bombing' killed less than 500 people.

The Blitz killed far more than that. Just the first attack killed almost that many.

... by the end of the Blitz, around 30,000 Londoners would be left dead, with another 50,000 injured.-- The Blitz

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The German 'carpet bombing' of Rotterdam killed less than 1000 people, and involved 90 bombers...

The German bombing of Rotterdam occurred while the Dutch were negotiating surrender. The only reason it killed so few people (~900) was that there had been evacuations. As it was the bombing destroyed about 2.5 square km of city, and left many thousands (perhaps tens of thousands) homeless.

Other 25,000 in Dresden, pretty much the same method, 40,000 in Hamburg. While the British assisted on such raids, they were very much American designed and lead.

You've pretty much got that wrong. The UK and US teamed up for "around the clock" bombing, but it was the British that concentrated on "area" bombing at night while the Americans strove for precision bombing during the day. RAF Air Chief Marshal "Bomber" Harris was a key driver in planning bombing campaigns. RAF bomber command attacks often dwarfed the associated American attacks in size. For bombing Hamburg during Operation Gomorrah the RAF typically sent 780-790 +/- to bomb at night, and the USAAF managed 100-150 to bomb during the day (although it attempted more). For Dresden it was RAF 722 and USAAF 527.

There failure is also well documented (it was supposed to 'break' the Germans, instead of course it just strengthened their resolve), but the lessons have pretty much been ignored.

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki broke the Japanese will to continue the war. As to Hamburg,

"It was quite a surprise to us when the first Hamburg raid took place because you used some new device which was preventing the anti-aircraft guns to find your bombers, so you had a great success and you repeated these attacks on Hamburg several times and each time the new success was greater and the depression was larger, and I have said, in those days, in a meeting of the Air Ministry, that if you would repeat this success on four or five other German towns, then we would collapse." – Albert Speer – The Secret War

The carpet-bombing of Hamburg killed 40,000 people. It also did good

But however terrible Operation Gomorrah was, it did serve a purpose in the end. It changed the attitude of many Germans, who may hitherto have been unaffected by the war, discrediting a leadership which was unable to ‘protect’ the population. As tales of the bombing spread throughout Germany, it provoked something called the ‘November mood’ of growing antipathy to the regime. Operation Gomorrah and the devastation of German cities meant that there could be no ‘stab in the back’ myth, as there was after 1918 when it suited people to believe that Germany had not lost the war fairly, but had been betrayed by their own home front. In this sense, Germany’s modern democracy was built on the rubble of its cities.

Just because some people have misused statistics in the past doesn't mean that all statistics are bullshit. Try some re-education.

Even though the Muslim kid was deliberately trying to provoke a reaction he got an overwhelming positive response. Unfortunately, being a Sikh, this kid is unlikely to get any sympathy or a trip to the white house - even though it looks like a mistake. Now if the Sikhs rioted, killed and raped people then this would be different - but unlike Islam, Sikhism holds to their being value in all religions, equality, and use of violence only as a last resort when dealing with violence against themselves or defending other innocents. Such a belief is unlikely to get politicians falling over themselves to appease and say that you are the religion of peace.

I'm guessing that "electronics that burn your house down" are the must-have present here in the UK this Christmas. Just a couple of days ago, we had Amazon UK offer refunds to most customers who had bought a hoverboard from them, advising them to destroy the offending item due to fire-safety concerns associated with the plug and charger.

Are standards of cheap electrical goods with outsourced manufacturing falling to new lows? I'd have thought that plugs and chargers were fairly important things to get right - and probably not the most difficult things, either.

The EU isn't banning kids from doing anything, it's banning companies from harvesting personal data on kids who aren't old enough to give consent to have their data harvested.

Actually, it isn't even doing that. It was considering doing so, and has just decided not to. The first formal step to confirm this is expected tomorrow.

The mandatory increase in age limit was opposed not just by tech business as you might expect, but also by online safety advocates concerned that it would backfire.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Truth is a word that has many meanings - and in fact, here's an interesting radio programme on the subject. You're maybe using it in at least two different ways. One can ask whether or not a particular result of an experiment is 'true', as in 'did that really occur'? Or one can ask what is really happening, what is the 'truth' behind a physical process?

I think the parent poster was suggesting that knowledge ('do my theories basically work more or less?') is in many respects more useful than 'truth' ('what's really going on here?'). It's entirely possible that no answer to the second question will ever be uncovered.

Autism can be crippling, it's a wide spectrum of mental disorders and not every person suffering an autism-spectrum disorder is highly functional. I highly recommend Louis Theourx's documentary on the subject.

"The US could have just bombed them for a few weeks"

Or they could have properly investigated 9/11 and learned the identities of the real terrorists - instead of blaming it on a bunch of Muslim suicide bombers (many of which were found alive and well after 9/11) - and starting a racial war of terrorism against middle eastern people.

The BBC are reporting that the identification is based at least in part on leaked conversations with Australian tax officials. Who could have taped and leaked those?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

I have lived in Shenyang for about two years.

I don't get this whole metric anymore, and the numbers seems to be either wrong or being manipulated, as well as their interpretation.
The numbers and conclusions are not consistent with the past history. My Android App is currently showing 310 for Beijing, and 267 for Shenyang. On November 10 this year there was an article on BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl... claiming that the 1400 measured in Shenyang were the worst one ever. But to be honest, the Halloween last year in Shenyang was even worse than this Nov 10. It is hard to give a number because above 1000 most measurement devices just refuse to report. But I currently live in Shenyang and you develop your own sense of estimating the pollution by looking for known buildings in the sky, by smelling, and by listening by to your lungs. Shenyang didn't shut down last year, where you couldn't even see past 50 meters (about 55 yards) due to the smog.

The government won't let you do measurements or post them in the wild. A colleague of mine made some measurements in the office using a state of the art device bought in Germany for PPM values. After recording bad numbers, he tried to convince management to upgrade the air filtering system in the building, they didn't accept these values, because they had to be done using a government-approved system. Same issue when we wanted to measure led content in the water at our residence compound: we were not allowed to do it in our lab, we had to do it through an approved third party company.

Now to be honest, I do understand the government. It would be very easy to spread terror and false information across the masses; and no offense, but many Chinese are not good in interpreting and digesting information. So the government is careful with that, and it is not an entirely bad thing. That said, you are never sure if you can trust official figures.

But that said, I still don't understand why now all of a sudden China and its air pollution is in the news. The air is crap, but it has always been crap. I don't think that this year is worse than last year (although it is still very very bad).

The thing is that most Chinese don't give a fuck. I work with Chinese engineer colleagues, and none of them has an air purifier at home, not even if they have small babies. So I see a combination of many things here: extremely bad air, a suspicious attempt to make the situation look worse than before, inaccurate or fake numbers, and a mass population that is either ignorant or just don't care.
My two cents.