What happens after 10 years, when the roof needs replacing - then a wall needs structural repair after a 100. Then the other walls. Then the foundation needs underpinning and resetting.
At what point do you decide the house is completely different?
For example, consider this quote from a UK sitcom "Only Fools and Horses":
Trigger: I've been sweeping the streets with the same broom for 25 years DelBoy: Really? Trigger: Yeah - its had 16 replacement heads and 4 replacement handles.
Only if you want to drive an SUV. Otherwise the roads are plenty wide enough. Besides, in England there just isn't enough space for wider roads (too many people)
the heating sucks
My English Victorian brick/stone house apparently required much less energy to keep heated per squre foot than the wooden house I live in in the US now.
power lines and pipes have no place to hide
Have you ever heard of plaster? The walls aren't left bare you know.
drafty and damp
True, but then they're also more secure, and more weather resilient.
Slag:
Is this one of those words, like fag and wank that means something horribly different depending on what side of the Atlantic you happen to be speaking?
Having been an ntl:home and a Sky Digital subscriber who's moved to the US, I can tell you the quality:price ratio is substantially better in the UK.
I currently subscribe to AT&T digital cable (although more than half of the channels are analog). The quality is like watching MPEG on the internet. For this privilege, I pay $65 per month (£45). The price goes up to $110 if you want the full monty.
LOL. Only if you measure "most of the world" neither in terms of population nor geography. Otherwise, PAL is used by most of the world. Of the 5 populated continents, only 2 (North and South America) use NTSC - oh and Japan. The rest of the world (including the most populated bits - China and the Indian subcontinent, and the largest bits - Russia) use PAL.
Crimes like this, by their very nature, tend to occur in built up areas. You don't have to put cameras on every road - just set them up in the cities and urban areas.
So how does he get the "wooded area"? Does he live there?
The point of the Soho bombings in London was that the bomber was seen approaching or leaving the neigbourhood on each occasion - the only person in the right place every time. In the sniper case, cameras at major road junctions would have done just as well - simply look for a vehicle that appears in the correct places at the correct time - shouldn't take more than a few days to do this cross-check.
You don't need video of the person actually committing the crime. Evidence that they were known to be in the locations on more than one occassion is a pretty powerful indictment.
(Personally, I'm against any scheme in which a citizen of a nation is charged money by the government to travel to or across particular public lands. They're public lands! Public!)
Actually, the government isn't charging for travelling into London, its charging the method of transport.
I'm sure if I decided to drive into Manhattan in a Challenger tank, ripping up the road surfaces as I went, New York's mayor might want to charge me too.
Hmm, you mean like the "Wall Street Journal of New York"?
I'm not aware of any other Financial Times publications. Certainly not with the distinction and eminence of the one that everyone knows.
The Financial Times is published and printed throughout the world, as is the Wall Street Journal.
If articles like this continue to treat their readers as inward-looking morons, that's probably what they'll become.
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It wasn't the fact it was "just humor" - it was "Kiddie Porn" humor. (not that I'm defending their actions)
Try this - it's The Register's report of this story.
What happens after 10 years, when the roof needs replacing - then a wall needs structural repair after a 100. Then the other walls. Then the foundation needs underpinning and resetting.
At what point do you decide the house is completely different?
For example, consider this quote from a UK sitcom "Only Fools and Horses":
Trigger: I've been sweeping the streets with the same broom for 25 years
DelBoy: Really?
Trigger: Yeah - its had 16 replacement heads and 4 replacement handles.
the streets are too small
Only if you want to drive an SUV. Otherwise the roads are plenty wide enough. Besides, in England there just isn't enough space for wider roads (too many people)
the heating sucks
My English Victorian brick/stone house apparently required much less energy to keep heated per squre foot than the wooden house I live in in the US now.
power lines and pipes have no place to hide
Have you ever heard of plaster? The walls aren't left bare you know.
drafty and damp
True, but then they're also more secure, and more weather resilient.
I'll give 75% of my income to charity when I'm in the same position as Gates - there aren't enough hours in the day to spend more than 25%.
More respect would be due if he gave everthing, keeping a "measly" $1million per year.
You're confusing the notion of "Science doesn't know everything" with "Science knows nothing".
Science knows enough to demonstrate that "new age" medicines are a complete waste of time.
London is geared pretty well to the expectations of the visiting American - hence the cheesy souvenir shops and bureau-de-changes everywhere.
I wouldn't expect American pancakes outside the tourist hotspots though.
...and his name was Knut or Cnut. Be very careful how you spell that latter one.
I have the same unit. I've found that writes to DVD+RW are much faster than to -RW, so I use +RW for data and backup purposes.
My DVD player reads the -RW disks just fine, so I use that for video mastering, then write to -R for distributing to family.
I haven't tried +R, or even seen any blank media.
I'm sure it had a plot
It was based on the Pierre Choderlos de Laclos novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". A French literary classic (so I'm told).
I'm sure all nations monitor communication in and out of the country. Why should Britain be any different?
slag (WOMAN)
noun [C]
BRITISH TABOO
a woman whose appearance and behaviour, esp. sexual, are considered unacceptable
Slag:
Is this one of those words, like fag and wank that means something horribly different depending on what side of the Atlantic you happen to be speaking?
I think we should be told.
Why would the people of Britain complain about the US not using metric, when they don't either?
They might complain about the small pint they receive when they order beer in a US bar, though (US pints being 20% smaller than everywhere else)
beer and sex (which came in the dozens...
Wow, I wish I had the energy for 12 girls after 12 pints. I'm normally unconscious after 8.
Having been an ntl:home and a Sky Digital subscriber who's moved to the US, I can tell you the quality:price ratio is substantially better in the UK.
I currently subscribe to AT&T digital cable (although more than half of the channels are analog). The quality is like watching MPEG on the internet. For this privilege, I pay $65 per month (£45). The price goes up to $110 if you want the full monty.
LOL. Only if you measure "most of the world" neither in terms of population nor geography. Otherwise, PAL is used by most of the world.
Of the 5 populated continents, only 2 (North and South America) use NTSC - oh and Japan. The rest of the world (including the most populated bits - China and the Indian subcontinent, and the largest bits - Russia) use PAL.
You mean:
Cpn Darling: I'm as English as Queen Victoria
Blackadder: So...your father's German, you're half German and you married a German?
This happened to me in Montreal. I always wondered what would happen if I refused to pay.
With a bit of luck, you'd be deported and have your return journey paid too.
Crimes like this, by their very nature, tend to occur in built up areas. You don't have to put cameras on every road - just set them up in the cities and urban areas.
So how does he get the "wooded area"? Does he live there?
The point of the Soho bombings in London was that the bomber was seen approaching or leaving the neigbourhood on each occasion - the only person in the right place every time. In the sniper case, cameras at major road junctions would have done just as well - simply look for a vehicle that appears in the correct places at the correct time - shouldn't take more than a few days to do this cross-check.
You don't need video of the person actually committing the crime. Evidence that they were known to be in the locations on more than one occassion is a pretty powerful indictment.
VCRs bought in Europe play back NTSC material as standard (pretty much), so I'm sure the reverse situation holds too.
Actually, the government isn't charging for travelling into London, its charging the method of transport.
I'm sure if I decided to drive into Manhattan in a Challenger tank, ripping up the road surfaces as I went, New York's mayor might want to charge me too.
In London, cars are damaging the city too.
Unfortuately, land mines tend to blow a limb off, or cause heavy but non-fatal injuries.
The more people with such injuries in a poor nation, the more of a drain on western resources that country is going to be.
Far from saving money, it's going to cost money.
Hmm, you mean like the "Wall Street Journal of New York"?
I'm not aware of any other Financial Times publications. Certainly not with the distinction and eminence of the one that everyone knows. The Financial Times is published and printed throughout the world, as is the Wall Street Journal.
If articles like this continue to treat their readers as inward-looking morons, that's probably what they'll become.