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What I'd like to know is why Transocean, the US company that owned and operated the rig is apparently blameless for this yet BP is being vilified. Transocean is also seeking to use an 1851 law to restrict its liability for economic damages to $26.7 million whereas BP is not. More here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7806200/Gulf-of-Mexico-oil-spill-Transocean-silent-as-BP-bears-the-brunt-of-anger.html

Greenwashing: the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly. For example - if your company spends more in a year on redesigning and distributing its logo to look like a Spirograph green sun than it spent on solar power development in a six year period, that's greenwashing.

When is the last time you heard anyone calling for murder of Jews

Documentary on the British National Party. The speaker was white and British.

Back in the day calling for the murder of Jews was quite the fashion amongst certain circles of European Christians - remember "Why should we not get rid of these parasites [Jews] who suck Rumanian Christian blood? It is logical and holy to react against them." There were Christian militias in WWII that carried out terrible pogroms, killing thousands of Jews at a time. If you're going to argue that Christianity is a peaceful religion, then the treatment of the Jews isn't exactly a great example to use.

or demonstrating to kill a book author, a colmunist or a cartoonist?

Author Philip Pullman received threats from militant Christians a couple of months ago.

Do you remember the arson attack on the Saint Michel theater in Paris when it showed The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988? Many people ended up in hospital. There were Christians all over the world calling for the film to be banned. Muslims hardly have a monopoly on calls for censorship.

It's unimaginable that it will happen, but certainly Britain, ... would impose barriers that would make Turkey's membership almost pointless:

Our British politicians are among those most enthusiastic about Turkish accession. As for the media, even the Telegraph endorses it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/5115953/Turkeys-time-has-come.html


It's the Germans with their large native Turkish population that really oppose it.

There are two commonly held misconceptions in your post:

1) the US manufacturing sector is in decline

The US export per GDP is now #179 in the world. That sounds pretty bad to me. Now, we have such a large economy that the raw numbers look great, but saying the US manufacturing sector isn't in a decline is pure nonsense. If I remember correctly, we're on the same performance level as Burma.

The US economy will cease to exist as you know it within your natural lifetime. I say "natural" lifetime because with the pending socio-political-economic collapse, many people will probably come to unnatural ends much sooner than they expect... ...The United States Federal government, as well as the governments of 49 of the 50 states, are legally insolvent. Not only is the federal government out of money, but the largest area of spending growth is debt servicing...

And more bullshit. Our external debt level is not even at an all time high (which was 120% after WWII). People are flocking from the Euro to the Dollar as we speak. No, really:

Global investors flock to US debt at record speed
Gregory Daco, economist at HIS Global Insight, said the investment trends were clear evidence of trust in the US. "As the sovereign debt crisis in Greece intensified in March, foreign investors mostly sought refuge in the safe-haven US Treasury bonds and notes," he said.

"Nonetheless, government agency securities and corporate debt provided very attractive alternatives for investment – an encouraging sign that investors have faith in the US recovery."

Well apparently the latest scheme being trialled in the UK is to pay the overweight to lose weight, maybe get them to exercise hooked up to a generator, pay them a fee for doing so and sell the electricity back into the national grid to fund the project...

UK users under the age of 19 will now be able to click on the ‘Report abuse’ link on each page and have the option to report the abuse directly to CEOP as well as to Facebook employees.

There is are lot of knee-jerk reactions in politics when tragedies such as this happen. Even more so when the currently uncensored UK internet (and incompetent parents) grant unfettered internet access to children who should really know better but don't.

Fortunately, that was the last government's reaction. When a gunman in Cumbria went on a killing spree recently, the current PM rejected immediate calls for heavier restrictions on gun ownership. I'm hoping the pattern continues.

Well, in the UK there are quite a lot of laws regarding 'skill based games'. It is only a few weeks ago that the owners of a crooked hoopla game were sentenced to 14 weeks in jail (suspended for a year) because the game (whilst not impossible) was too difficult. This was in Blackpool, which is the UKs most popular 'amusement' resort.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/7804820/Queens-birthday-gaffe-leaves-Hillary-Clinton-red-faced.html

Granted, taken by itself it seems rather trivial. But this is just one of a million data points that all add up to the sloppiness and genuine ignorance of the Owebama administration. Remember when the PM gave Obammy a pen box carved from the beams of an anti-slave ship, and the 'bamster responded by giving the PM some shitty DVDs and his kids a couple of action figures of himself? Special relationship indeed! England, I hate to break it to you, but Iran and Venezuela are closer to 'bammy's heart than you will ever be. There's just something about unconditional control of the population that really gives ol' Barry Soetoro a boner.

Their not ignorant. The OP is ignorant. While there may be research being done, there are NOT animal-human hybrids, nor are there likely to be for some time. They may be splicing bits here and here, like the growing of the human ear on the mouse, but the mouse ITSELF is not a hybrid. There are NOT hybrid animals running around!

Another cite:

Previous attempts to combine unmodified pig lungs and human blood ended abruptly two years ago when blood clots began forming almost immediately, causing the organs to become so blocked no blood could pass through. Human DNA is now added to the pigs as they are reared to reduce clotting and the number of lungs which are rejected. The full results of the research are due to be announced in Vancouver in August. The issue has prompted an ethical debate about the use of animals for human transplants. Medical ethicist Professor Nicholas Tonti-Filippini said: "It is basically a human-pig, a hybrid, or whatever you want to call it. "It is about whether the community is prepared to accept a part human, part animal."

Did anyone else read the OTHER article in the same paper that totally debunks the theory?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/iandouglas/100005223/mobile-phones-and-bees-shoddy-research-helps-no-one/

Yeah, and Microshaft uses slave labour to make those 'real' things, amongst other Great Evils...yeah, what a great all around American company...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/7597344/Microsoft-accused-of-using-teenage-slave-labour-to-build-Xboxes-in-China.html

The sooner M$ dies, the better the world will be.
(Although I'm not much of an Apple fan, at least they are "Less Evil" (TM) than M$.)

The True Way of the Force is the Freedom of Linux!
(Go Android, go! World Domination, one cell phone at a time...:-))

Any sufficiently evil regime will just make hiding something a crime

Ah yes

The only people who've ever heard of "Amero" are the conspiracy theorists who made it up. China is "the powers that be, and they own so many dollars they certainly do not want to see it collapse.

To the joy of nerds everywhere in the UK, it seems like the Digital Britain bill might not last very long with the current Government.

Whether or not Cameron and the conservatives can splinter away from Murdoch enough to let this happen remains to be seen, but I am currently naive enough to be genuinely optimistic about the results of having liberals in power for the first time in over a century.

If the US unlike Europe allows forest preserves to be used as carbon offsets in cap and trade, the Amazon rainforests the WWF have purchased with donated money would be worth an estimated $US 60,000,000,000.00; who says money doesn't grow on trees!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece

Raw data deleted.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7177230/New-errors-in-IPCC-climate-change-report.html

Documented errors in the ever popular IPCC report, simple one's that would've been avoided if good science had been used.

http://camirror.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/test/

CRU refuses to hand over data. I don't CARE if they felt it was a burden, they refused to hand it over even under the act.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/689

Science Magazine used a photoshopped photo to "illustrate their point", but due to their lack of research for anything valid they found out it was photoshopped and later replaced it.

Phil Jones says there's no consensus. We learned from the e-mails that peer reviewed literature was being manipulated. Roy Spencer, former senior scientist for climate studies at NASA (among other credentials that are amazing but less related), also believes that AGW is false (see his new book "The Great Global Warming Blunder").

30,000 Scientists disagree with global warming, and are (somewhat silly but significant anyways) trying to sue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHW7KR33IQ

When the White House was asked about this, their response was "The debate is over".

No, the debate is not over. Yes, there are examples of HIDING, MANIPULATING, or using BAD SCIENCE with AGW.

The problem is this is NOTHING but a catholic indulgences scam, and because carbon can't be weighed on a scale, it is beyond ripe for abuse and manipulation by leeches like GS, and hey, guess what? It is ALREADY BEING ABUSED! Wow, what are the odds?

You want to see how your precious carbon credits will work? Here you go-market is set up, major corps find loopholes that let them not change a SINGLE DROP of carbon emissions while still selling their "excess carbon" on a market manipulated all to fuck by GS and other leeches, meanwhile China, India, and the other coming up third world countries tell you to go fuck yourselves, while the shitholes third world countries line up for their free money for not being "carbon abusers" which will come straight from YOUR pocket, and you know what? They'll get it too.

You want to get rid of carbon? Ban ALL vehicles (including limos) that get less than X MPG, shut down every coal plant, along with giving every plant that spews out more than X amount of carbon per year six months to clean up their act, and every year you raise X. Tada! I'm a fucking genius! but this is NOT about carbon, never was. This is about Al Gore becoming a cabon billionaire and Goldman Sachs being ready to latch onto your wallet while for some damned reason guys like you support giving them your money?

I'll tell you what, since you are a carbon sinner, why don't you just write a check for 45% of your income to GS and old Al, and leave the rest of our wallets the fuck alone,kay?

What I cannot wrap my head around are the instances where radicals want people in other countries, with different laws, to obey a radical Islamic law. WTF?

They're not.

Oh rly??

Note GP never said the radicals were members of the government.

What "organization of lunatics" are you referring to? Don't be so foolish to confuse accusations of blasphemy with death threats.

Oh, I don't know Al-Queda, the Muslim Brotherhood and its spin-offs, etc.

See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/denmark/6924522/Somali-axeman-who-tried-to-murder-Danish-cartoonist-linked-to-al-Qaeda.html .

Huh? No one did that over the South Park 'controversy' either. And the entirety of the 'controversy' was a single veiled threat made by a single poster on a pissant website that no one had even heard of before the news picked it up.

Then why was the car bomb placed in front of Viacom the parent of Comedy Central? Yes, it may have been pure coincidence, but since the motive according to the suspect was that "Islam was under attack" it falls into place.

So, death threats over misspent taxes are OK? Else what is your point?

No, the point is there is a big difference between speech that has no effect on you (Danish Cartoons, South Park) and speech that you helped fund (Piss Christ). There is no reason to be angry with speech that has no effect on you such as the Danish Cartoons or South Park, however you would be understandably a bit pissed (excuse the pun) if your tax dollars were used to help create speech you oppose.

Also, note the difference, was there any attempt on the artist of Piss Christ's life? No. Were there multiple attempts on the Danish cartoonist? Yes.

The latter. But the larger point is that the poster I replied to was making the case that the United States "stole" Texas from Mexico, because the settlers in Texas came from other US states.

This is a false argument on two fronts; one, the settlers left the US to start new lives, literally in another country. This wasn't some secret plot by the United States government... "OK, you guys go live in the Texas territories for 20 years, then rebel, then form your own republic for 10 years, then join the Union. Our plan is foolproof!".

Much in the manner that Russia is encouraging much smaller neighboring "states" to seek independence so that it can absorb them. (Any Georgian citizen in South Ossetia is eligible for a Russian passport. By the way, if we were smart about it, we would encourage the same trend in Mexico and use it as a pretext to seize Mexican territory but, hey, we don't do that anymore, right? And besides, none of the white folk would stand for all those new brown US citizens, right?) You can sit there and spout that idea that that Texas was an independent nation all you want but the larger goal of the US government was territorial expansion and the Texans were a tool in that goal.

Second, that land didn't originally belong to Mexico. Nor did the land in Southern California, Arizona, or New Mexico. Mexico invaded those lands and conquered the local Indian tribes to get it. Mexican troops had a reputation for utter brutality among the Indian tribes. You think the Indians hated the US? Ask an Apache, Pueblo, or Hopi what he thinks of Mexico.

Which is interesting, because you're trying to say that the US is different from any other power in the paragraph prior to this one (Texas wasn't forced into the Union nor was Texas any part of an assault on Mexican sovereignty), while in this paragraph, you claim that the US is no worse than the Mexican government. Well, if you consider ethnic cleansing to be superior to forced integration, I suppose that's true.

Final point, in case you're thinking of jumping down my throat for being all "anti American". The past is the past. The country was far more nationalist (and less secure in itself) 200 years ago. We're a different country and it's unlikely that we'll repeat past mistakes but it's a good idea to understand that the US did some pretty rotten, nasty things in the past. Slavery was one, the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous peoples was another, the list goes on but only if we know the list and can put it into context can we avoid making those mistakes again.

So, I have to ask if this augmented reality system might work for other fears such as this?

Yes. The military has been using something much like a first person shooter to treat soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder.

It wasn't Phoronix who got the confirmation from Valve, it was telegraph.co.uk.

The Telegraph in the UK reports that there is a Linux version confirmed ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7715209/Steam-for-Mac-goes-live.html ) .... They cite no source for that information, and Valve hasn't said anything about it. Every other blog / "News" site is parroting their report.

Read the last sentence of this article.

I dunno if we should trust Telegraph, but one would assume they wouldn't publish a claim of official confirmation unless they knew it were true.

read one of the articles linked by phoronix: it was confirmed by the telegraph UK http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7715209/Steam-for-Mac-goes-live.html

Last year it was $9 billion.
Though, the year before that it was £1-2 million per ship, with about 1500 ships needed.

With that $300k they might actually make a working scaled model.
Or a better rendering of that one .jpg that has been going around all this time.

Not solar power at all. Flettner rotors.

The only NEW thing about this plan is that they claim that they've actually received $300.000 from Bill Gates.
They have been going around with this idea for years now.
And from what I can tell - all they have to show for so far is the study linked above and this concept rendering.

Looking at "estimated costs", $300.000 seems like about the amount someone with Bill Gates' money might donate to get rid of them politely.

Very few uncertainties will remain after the expenditure of the first £2 million over 2 years.
It will need perhaps £25 million and a further 3 years to complete research and development of the reliable hardware for spray vessels including the first fully instrumented, full-scale, crewed and sea-going prototype.
Once there is experience of its operation, it will cost approximately £30 million for tooling, which will allow a large number of spray vessels to be built rapidly in the event of a global emergency.

About a year later...

The Copenhagen Consensus Centre, which advises governments on how to spend aid money, examined the various plans and found the cloud ships to be the most cost-effective.

They would cost $9 billion (£5.3 billion) to test and launch within 25 years, compared to the $250 billion that the world's leading nations are considering spending each year to cut CO2 emissions, and the $395 trillion it would cost to launch mirrors into space.

Is it vaporware? Not really sure.
The idea is to just spray the seawater into the air, not actually turn it into water vapor.

Yeah, he never goofs off like that bastard GW Bush did:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7607947/Barack-Obama-plays-golf-eight-more-times-than-George-W-Bush.html

2/ The conservatives and Liberal democrats do a deal, and make a joint platform.

But if that happens the LibDems would be eviscerated. They'd lose almost all popular support and many of their current MPs would refuse to probably refuse to join a Tory coalition, fracturing the party. About the only credible reason to support them was to get voting reform, (and perhaps also as a left-wing protest vote against Gordon Brown) - as insipid Tory's they have nothing to offer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3655398/A-dishwasher-on-Mars.html

Don't forget that the biggest spokesman for AGW, old Al Gore himself, has set himself up to be a carbon billionaire and while he tell everyone else to use public transport he flies around in his own private LEAR JET which he has the 500 pound brass balls to say is "carbon neutral" because he pays HIMSELF carbon credits!

The point is we need to have some serious skepticism about BOTH sides, as we are talking about not only trillions of dollars here, but also destroying many lives here and creating an even bigger gap between rich and poor, and by slinging the word "deniers" around whenever anyone dares to not follow dogma is NO different than the supposed mistreatment the AGW believers get from the other side.

The second you start throwing names like deniers at anyone who doesn't fall into line most folks are gonna think "douchebags" and it frankly won't matter whether you have science on your side or not, nobody is gonna listen to you, just as I would listen to arguments made by Ed Begly Jr , who walks the walk and has sat down and been willing to discuss his beliefs pretty much anywhere with courtesy, whereas I wouldn't trust that limo riding, McMansion living Al Gore any farther than I can throw his overfed hypocrite ass.

Cancer survival rates in the UK are shocking.

This article says that the the UK rsurvival rates are the worst in Europe. Here's the money quote: "Cancer experts blamed late diagnosis and long waiting lists"

You may also want to check this graph for prostate cancer

I personally know of one person who died at age 50 because their cancer was misdignosed - all that extra screening in the US may be expensive but it saves lives.

And just to keep on topic, the iPad rocks!

I think if we just stopped allowing people like this to drive, the roads would be a much safer place...

***Maybe CNN could start reporting actual news***

Is there anyone there who knows how to do that? It's a little hard to envision any of the CNN "reporters" pulling a Mika Brzezinski and refusing to read the latest pop-culture garbage.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1556022/Paris-Hilton-script-screwed-up-burnt-and-shredded.html

Why would he want to do that? Carbon Credits is a gold mine for Gore and he is mining them for all he can.

I downloaded the FOIA.ZIP file and examined the 1,037 emails and other documents it contained. Gore claims that the emails are "all ten years old or older" and implies their contents are meaningless today. He lied or he is totally ignorant of the facts: http://www.examiner.com/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2009m12d9-Al-Gore-talks-Climategate-on-CNN-and-Slate-misstates-the-facts#video
Of the 1,037 emails over 10% were written in 2009. The most recent had the following header:

From: "Thorne, Peter (Climate Research)" (peter.thorne@metoffice.gov.uk)
To: "Phil Jones" (p.jones@uea.ac.uk)
Subject: Letter draft
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:17:44 -0000

which was sent only FIVE days before the files were posted on line.

One has only to read HARRY_README.TXT to understand what was going on and see how the manipulation, cherry picking, cooking and creating "data" out of thin air was taking place.

The "reviews" whitewash the actions of the CRU and its cooperating agencies, all part of a subagency of the UN,the IPCC, all government funded. The "reviews" in effect say it is:

• OK to ignore Freedom of Information Acts, or subvert their intent, or make plans to destroy the data if no other recourse is available.
• OK to intimidate climate journals into getting AGW articles "peer reviewed" by cronies after getting equally qualified academics with apposing views thrown off of the list of peer reviewers.
• OK to slander non-AGW academics, some with more expertise and academic standing than they have, like MIT Prof Richard Lindzen, and try to destroy their careers. BTW, you can read the tactics they discuss and choose in the emails.
• OK to publish articles in those journals that posit conclusions which cannot be verified or replicated because the data is withheld from the journal, and thus its readers, a specifically NON-academic attitude.
• OK to publish articles making unsubstantiated claims about the Amazon forests or the Himalayan glaciers, or other topics, using the un-reviewed rantings of Green Peace activists as your authorities.
• OK to make contracts with UN agencies guaranteeing "deliverables" (data) at "milestones" which will support the AGW theory the UN supports, because AGW can be used to justify redistribute wealth from rich countries to poor ones (dialectical materialism) in the form of "Carbon Taxes". (Manipulating Carbon Tax Credits is where Gore is making his millions.)

To see who is putting their money AND actions where their mouth is just compare the homes of two prominent politicians:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

Here is how Gore is putting his money where his mouth is:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

I remember the "Global Cooling/Nuclear Winter" hysteria.
I remember the Club of Rome hysteria (I fell for that one until I analyzed the BASIC program and realized the program was rigged to produce the same results regardless of the input, just as the AGW computer models do. Using the "Hockey Stick" methodologies one can get a hockey stick using red noise. Similar manipulations of models were used by Federal Agencies to justify dictating water usage in the Mid-West US.)
Now I am witnessing the AGW hysteria

The people who pushed the first two are the ones (and/or their students), pushing AGW, along with their friends in the Left Wing media. The "solution" in each is the same: adopt Marxism world wide and we'll all stand around in the promise land singing Kumbaya.

BP can handle it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/7640072/BP-Gulf-clean-up-could-cost-200m.html

Cost of clean up, $200 million

http://www.investmentu.com/IUEL/2010/May/the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-disaster.html

$2-7 billion

BP
Revenue - $246.1 billion (2009)
Operating income - $26.43 billion (2009)
Net income - $16.58 billion (2009)

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/STAGING/global_assets/downloads/B/bp_fourth_quarter_and_full_year_2009_results.pdf

you see, it's ok to kill babies that can survive on their own for days and have a will to live, but not to watch porn.

Interesting. I couldn't find details anywhere of how big a warhead the Club-K can carry, but apparently it can hit Mach 3, which is also one of the things that makes the SS-N-22 so dangerous. Also found a £10,000,000 per container price tag, which doesn't seem to be mentioned elsewhere.

More importantly, though, what self respecting nation doesn't want to buy missiles that are advertised with the Pirates of the Carribean theme!

The way it used to work was this. You'd go in and place your bet, say £5 on a horse/dog at whatever event it was you wanted to bet on. If you opted to pay tax there and then you'd be levied a 45p (9%) charge, so you would hand over £5.45. If the dog/horse/driver won (say at 10:1) then you'd get your stake back (£5) plus your winnings (£50), but the tax was kept by the Govt. If you opted to not pay tax on the initial bet then you'd still get your £5 stake back and your winnings minus 9% of the value of your winnings (so £45.50). The initial tax almost acted as a type of insurance policy against greater tax if the bet came in. You always had a choice on paying the tax though.

The law changed in 2001 in a (successful) bid to attract gambling business to the UK the 9% tax was dropped (you no longer pay tax on the bet or the winnings) in favour of a direct corporation tax (and later a specific Gambling Tax which I believe is 15%) on profits. Additional sources on UK betting history regulation: http://www.betasia.com/features/how-to-win/business-life/89/uk-gambling-laws.html VAT (our Sales Tax) is levied on Bingo companies as well whereas it is not levied at bookmakers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/budget/5195359/Budget-2009-Treasury-must-come-clean-on-bingo-tax-say-operators.html

Even professional gamblers (probably) do not have to pay tax on their winnings http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/bimmanual/BIM22017.htm
This shows that having expertise or being systematic (‘studying form’) is not enough to create a trade of being a ‘professional gambler’. Some ‘professional gamblers’ do carry on a trade, for example, where they receive appearance money for appearing on television programmes. They are providing a service to a customer (the television production company) for reward. Whether their gambling winnings are proceeds of that trade would depend upon the facts.

So why does this get reported but not this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7601929/Climategate-a-scandal-that-wont-go-away.html I think the fact that up to 1/3 of the claims in the IPCC report may be utter bullshit is rather more relevant to the debate then some nonsense about clean air speeding up global warming. Disclaimer: I know certain emissions slow global warming. Chill out.

Irony anyone? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7635125/Facebook-users-concerned-about-privacy-says-survey.html?state=target

Greed - noun. excessive or rapacious desire, esp. for wealth or possessions. (ref, my emphasis).

First off we have to ask if a fictional entity has the necessary mens rea to be greedy. That's questionable but I think beside the point, because we don't really care if it is "the company" or rather the collective result of it's management that is greedy.

Determining whether something or someone is greedy is a personal judgement. We are all at least a little greedy but it is silly to set the bar so low that everyone qualifies, it renders the term pointless. In my view, a company is not greedy simply because it exists to make money, it depends on the lengths it is willing to go to make money.

Branson's ability to convince himself that his airline is due money, that he can rationalise this perspective into a belief so strong he evidently thinks the general public would support the notion of giving him their money, suggests to me he is greedy. That Virgin engaged in price-fixing provides some backup, particularly since:

Asked if Virgin had considered firing [Virgin Atlantic CEO Steve Ridgway], a spokesman said: "Not at all. The board discussed all this in 2006 and they fully supported him and the business has moved on." Neither did he offer to resign.

British NHS problems: (just a few of them) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1033832/The-Dirty-Secret-Your-NHS.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5955840/Patients-forced-to-live-in-agony-after-NHS-refuses-to-pay-for-painkilling-injections.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6092658/Cruel-and-neglectful-care-of-one-million-NHS-patients-exposed.html Spain under Franco, Italy under Mussolini, Germany under Hitler, Czechoslovakia under Communism, Hungary under Communism, East Germany under Communism, Poland under Communism I could go on and on, yep, trust the government they are looking out for you!!! ((To head this one off at the pass, you have to keep a very critical eye on corporations also))

British NHS problems: (just a few of them) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1033832/The-Dirty-Secret-Your-NHS.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5955840/Patients-forced-to-live-in-agony-after-NHS-refuses-to-pay-for-painkilling-injections.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6092658/Cruel-and-neglectful-care-of-one-million-NHS-patients-exposed.html Spain under Franco, Italy under Mussolini, Germany under Hitler, Czechoslovakia under Communism, Hungary under Communism, East Germany under Communism, Poland under Communism I could go on and on, yep, trust the government they are looking out for you!!! ((To head this one off at the pass, you have to keep a very critical eye on corporations also))

What thought process does it take to follow a sat nav when it instructs you to go off road down a rocky path?

It's a similar thought process to the one that people follow when they follow their sat-nav onto railway tracks.

"Climate change is a dumbed down term for the masses, since it appears most people can't understand that just because temperatures are going up overall DOES NOT MEAN tmeperatures are going up everywhere."

I don't understand how you yourself can write something that proves my point and not understand it. They are using phraseology instead of scientific fact to try and sway opinions.

Quantum Mechanics? Yeah, you do know its impossible to model a quantum scale system with more then a few thousand data points longer then a system right? And even with all the data they collect, they can't even tell you where those points are going to be in 5 seconds let alone a year.

And yes, they are able to use models to predict engine wear and tear, except where do they get their data from? Heavily standardized and hardly any uncertainty experiments. Which is drastically different then trying to correlate things in the natural world that give you very uncertain data with large margins of error.

In my area, normally its December that is the coldest month, but last year, it was November...coldest month in recent history in fact...weird... Of course the more "general" you make something the more likely you are to be right, its called fortune cookies. The climatologists saying "The earth is going to be warmer in 100 years" are like a fortune cookie saying "You are going to meet an interesting person today" Two things, its super general so even if its .1F higher in 100 years then it is now, their prediction was right, also if they are wrong, they will be long dead and it has no effect on their livelihood now.

So the common people criticized scientists...yet in the history of science people haven't used their own political power to try and sway people's thinking cough Newton cough Hooke cough.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6738111/Climategate-reveals-the-most-influential-tree-in-the-world.html

Interesting article about the Hockey Stick Diagram and the author says where he gets his info from.

Anyway, even if Global Warming is man made, that doesn't mean its a bad thing. There was a time in the history of our planet where there was no ice at either pole, where CO2 levels were 10-20 times higher then they are today and the earth survived, in fact, it flourished during that time. We may lose some land along the coasts and some small islands, yet that doesn't compare to the habitable land we gain in Canada and northern Europe/Asia. And there is the whole part of the ice melting in Alaska has reduced the weight on the earth causing land to rise from the sea...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6738111/Climategate-reveals-the-most-influential-tree-in-the-world.html A pretty interesting article about tree ring data and how it was used.

Hulu are coming to the UK once they get the agreements sorted out, much of which appears to be the fault of our broadcasters.

Though, personally I think "exclusive content deals" are against the concept of internet distribution anyway. I'm not subscribing to anything unless I can get everything. If anyone has exclusive stuff then they all have exclusive stuff.

Online TV should be about the quality of service in the distribution. Soon as they start with the exclusivity crap they're making the whole industry less appealing for the consumer just so that their individual company can be relatively better than the competition. I can understand Hulu doing this, but for the TV companies it's folly. Their objective is long term, grow the market and do not above all let any distributor like Hulu take control. That means no exclusives.

Actually, yes, there are a lot of people that find any depiction of nudity erotic and/or inappropriate. They might not be a huge percentage, but they often have the loudest voices.

And, yes, there are tons of people who complain when Michaelangelo's David tours America. The Simpson's even parodied that one in the 90's.