We used to make IBM keyboards at their plant in Greenock. Keyboard E's were used for 3270/3279 terminals and had the highest spring force and the most satisfying click known to man. No keyboard since has come anywhere close.
Maybe your kids (assuming you ever had any) were boring till they were 5. Mine (and most folks' you care to ask) found them fascinating in a thousand different ways from day one.
Actually the Hawker Hurricane was by far the most common British fighter in the Battle of Britain (29 Squadrons vs 19 for Spitfires.) Both great planes, groundbreaking for their time.
UK'S TRIDENT SYSTEM NOT TRULY INDEPENDENT
33. Acquiring Trident gave the UK a greater nuclear weapons capability than it could ever have achieved on its own. This enhanced capacity, however, had significant consequences.
34. The fact that, in theory, the British Prime Minister could give the order to fire Trident missiles without getting prior approval from the White House has allowed the UK to maintain the façade of being a global military power. In practice, though, it is difficult to conceive of any situation in which a Prime Minister would fire Trident without prior US approval. The USA would see such an act as cutting across its self-declared prerogative as the world's policeman, and would almost certainly make the UK pay a high price for its presumption. The fact that the UK is completely technically dependent on the USA for the maintenance of the Trident system means that one way the USA could show its displeasure would be to cut off the technical support needed for the UK to continue to send Trident to sea.
35. In practice, the only way that Britain is ever likely to use Trident is to give legitimacy to a US nuclear attack by participating in it. There are precedents for the USA using UK participation in this way for conventional military operations. The principal value of the UK's participation in the recent Iraq war was to help legitimise the US attack. Likewise the principal value of the firing of UK cruise missiles as part of the larger US cruise missile attack on Baghdad was to help legitimise the use of such weapons against urban targets.
36. The most likely scenario in which Trident would actually be used is that Britain would give legitimacy to a US nuclear strike by participating in it.
Don't think so...would have cost them a fortune as part of benefits package was 9x annual salary payout for death while travelling on company business. Much cheaper just to sell us off to another company and have them do the nasty layoff stuff about 6 years later. Which is what they did.
OK Try IBM. Worked for them in the 90's, some of us got flown out from the UK to a recognition event in San Diego. There must have been 30 of us on the same flight. They tried to get the other 20 making up the same party on the same flight but it was full.
Story I got told about a car plant, long closed, not far from where I live. At the end of a shift, a group of workers leaving were milling around, laughing and shouting at one lad who was perched on top of his mate's shoulders. The security guard asked one of them what all the fuss was about. The worked replied "Oh that's Wullie, it';s his stag night tonight.". The security guard smiled and waved them through.
Once out of sight, Wullie and his carrier took off their jackets revealing the complete exhaust assembly they'd had hidden up their backs (It was a small car btw),
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We used to make IBM keyboards at their plant in Greenock. Keyboard E's were used for 3270/3279 terminals and had the highest spring force and the most satisfying click known to man. No keyboard since has come anywhere close.
The person making the statement didn't say they were male. You made that assumption.
Blimey The OS/2 memory test. I worked in IBM Greenock and I that was part of the box test process as well.
"The German software firm SAP, among a handful of others, have similar programs"
Thanks. I wish I'd realised that the one time I had contact with that particular company. Explains an awful lot.
It was dark and she'd dropped the phone.
Pink Floyd must be reforming...
Beat me to it, and yes we must be horribly horribly old.
Maybe your kids (assuming you ever had any) were boring till they were 5. Mine (and most folks' you care to ask) found them fascinating in a thousand different ways from day one.
No. You just forgot that the US was one of many allies who fought together to defeat Germany and Japan in separate wars.
Actually the Hawker Hurricane was by far the most common British fighter in the Battle of Britain (29 Squadrons vs 19 for Spitfires.) Both great planes, groundbreaking for their time.
It's that sharp thing on the top of his head.
Sounds like when you have an unnatural sexual relationship with a small black and white sea bird.
From Minutes of the UK Defence Select Committee...
http://www.publications.parlia...
UK'S TRIDENT SYSTEM NOT TRULY INDEPENDENT
33. Acquiring Trident gave the UK a greater nuclear weapons capability than it could ever have achieved on its own. This enhanced capacity, however, had significant consequences.
34. The fact that, in theory, the British Prime Minister could give the order to fire Trident missiles without getting prior approval from the White House has allowed the UK to maintain the façade of being a global military power. In practice, though, it is difficult to conceive of any situation in which a Prime Minister would fire Trident without prior US approval. The USA would see such an act as cutting across its self-declared prerogative as the world's policeman, and would almost certainly make the UK pay a high price for its presumption. The fact that the UK is completely technically dependent on the USA for the maintenance of the Trident system means that one way the USA could show its displeasure would be to cut off the technical support needed for the UK to continue to send Trident to sea.
35. In practice, the only way that Britain is ever likely to use Trident is to give legitimacy to a US nuclear attack by participating in it. There are precedents for the USA using UK participation in this way for conventional military operations. The principal value of the UK's participation in the recent Iraq war was to help legitimise the US attack. Likewise the principal value of the firing of UK cruise missiles as part of the larger US cruise missile attack on Baghdad was to help legitimise the use of such weapons against urban targets.
36. The most likely scenario in which Trident would actually be used is that Britain would give legitimacy to a US nuclear strike by participating in it.
If you can't, just love what you do.
Don't think so...would have cost them a fortune as part of benefits package was 9x annual salary payout for death while travelling on company business. Much cheaper just to sell us off to another company and have them do the nasty layoff stuff about 6 years later. Which is what they did.
OK Try IBM. Worked for them in the 90's, some of us got flown out from the UK to a recognition event in San Diego. There must have been 30 of us on the same flight. They tried to get the other 20 making up the same party on the same flight but it was full.
...Yesterday's Solutions Tomorrow.
You mean someone has kidnapped Shellsuit Boab's top? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006p2xl
Richard the Third = Turd (Shit)
It's the Mail on Sunday ffs....UKIP's house magazine.
I take it the job doesn't involve online proofreading, then.
Not according to Morrissey....and Heaven knows he's miserable now.
Funnily enough, as a callow youth in Glasgow, he played in a punk band with Craig Ferguson.
Story I got told about a car plant, long closed, not far from where I live. At the end of a shift, a group of workers leaving were milling around, laughing and shouting at one lad who was perched on top of his mate's shoulders. The security guard asked one of them what all the fuss was about. The worked replied "Oh that's Wullie, it';s his stag night tonight.". The security guard smiled and waved them through. Once out of sight, Wullie and his carrier took off their jackets revealing the complete exhaust assembly they'd had hidden up their backs (It was a small car btw),
Err...Cars in India drive on the left, same as in the UK.