As far as I understand it, this plan is NOT the work of the UK Government, instead this highly controversial scheme has been put forward by the Mayor of London.
Read about this Congestion Charging scheme here. In fact, there is a challenge to this scheme being mounted in the High Court today (Monday).
The reason there are so many cameras in London, is because of all the terrorists who have kept trying to blow bits of it up over the years. Terrorists, largely funded by US Citizens, who have in the past come close to destroying parts of London's financial centre.
Personally, I think you have to be an idiot to want to drive into London, and I'm all in favour of this scheme, but I would like to see the charge doubled for people driving SUVs...
That would be the TU-144, dubbed 'Concordski' due to its amazing resemblance to Concorde. Not coincidental, as they stole early Concorde plans!
However the Russians could never get the wing right, so it had to have those ridiculous rabbit ears to avoid stalls at low speed. The Paris Air Show crash which basically did for this plane commercially is believed to have been due to the pilot taking evasive action to avoid a French military jet and overstressing the airframe.
Neat site about it here.
Good site about Concorde here too.
I'm crucifying Jesus, banging in the nails, And I am so happy, because old Jesus failed. I'm crucifying Jesus, nail him to the cross, The poor old bastard bleeds to death and I don't give a toss.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
I'm crucifying Jesus, in my piss he bathes. I think I am a pervert, I think I am depraved I'm crucifying Jesus, beat him to a pulp, I stick my organ in his mouth and on it he must gulp.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
You see that crown of thorns upon his head? Well that was my idea. I think I might be going to hell, Oh dear!
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails.
---- All Text By Martyn Jacques Copyright Misery Guts Music http://www.tigerlillies.com
Oh yes. Jacko was complaining that the recording industry was racist (And we all know how proud he is of his black heritage, don't we.) and not trying to bolster his faded career at all...
it's about time that development on this monstrosity came to a grinding halt.
Oh god yes. I wish I had shitloads of mod points to mod you up to the skies...
Perl. Loathesome frankenstein monster bolted together out of odds and ends seemingly without any clear style or thought for good programming methodology... Can't stand the fucker!
Let's face it, the Russians have a major advantage over the Americans in this. They have the best expertise on not just the physical effects of long-term space flight, but they're also experts on the psychological effects of being cooped up in a big space can for a long time. You need to know all that for this trip. They're also the only nation with the big dumb boosters you need for a trip like this. Their hardware is pretty bulletproof as they use tried and trusted hardware rather than going for the most high-tech option. And at the moment Russia is the only nation on earth with manned spaceflight capability. All Shuttles are grounded, and who knows whether they'll ever fly again?
Reading some of the responses to this item, just makes me feel that Linux is doomed to a geeky ghetto of its own making. With friends like some of the people posting here cackling with glee at nasty tricks they've thought of, who needs enemies? Makes me ashamed to use Linux. Really they do. Grow up, you cretinous poltroons!
Hah! You wait until Sony and Honda's giant robot armies come sweeping in from the sea, bristling with missiles and flashing laser beams from their eyes...
Oh yes, the old IBM keyboards. I loved those, wish I had one - no, two, one for home and one for work. The first computer I had, a Tangerine Microtan 65, had the option of a really good keyboard, and aside from the aforementioned IBM keyboards was one of the best computer keyboards I have ever used. Modern membrane keyboards range from the barely acceptable to the completely useless. I cannot stand typing on a keyboard that feels like limp wet lettuce, which is what some of the cheaper membranes often supplied with PCs feel like. Ugh! After a keyboard failed at work lately, I had to go through five spare keyboards to find one that I could use. When I type, I like to feel the keys go down with a satisfying 'clunk', not a soft 'squish'. Membranes. Hate 'em!
You're talking about Michael Grade, who WAS the head of the BBC when Dr. Who was cancelled. He's not the head any more, and hasn't been for several years (he moved on to Channel Four when according to right-wing drivel tabloid the Daily Mail he was 'Britain's Pornographer In Chief', but left there a few years back).
I think the BBC attitude (and the attitude of most UK TV channels, really) is that SF is for kids, so when they DO get an SF programme, they shove it on at tea-time, cut to ribbons.
One of the Nigerian spams (Give us your bank details so we can put these millions there for safe keeping, etc...) turned up here once.
If you get those, you are supposed to report them to the police, and your local law enforcement or embassy may be able to help. In London, the Metropolitan police have a web page about it, so we sent the mail and original headers to them.
Apparently, six people were recently arrested for this very crime!
So things that are obviously major frauds are worth looking up in case you can shop them to the law!
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Basically everything in orbit is perpetually falling towards the earth, but because it's got a large sideways vector, it keeps 'missing'.
And there was I thinking that it only kept missing because it got distracted at an important stage and forgot to hit the ground...
Some planes, and at least one airliner, had stick pushers. When the stall horn went off, a mechanism would push the stick forward to prevent the plane stalling. This was particularly needed on some T-tail planes, where in a stall the elevator lost authority.
Northrop designed and built a flying wing bomber in the late 1940s, no computer controls required.
Actually, I think they won the design off the Germans, who designed a flying wing jet bomber towards the end of WWII, which they planned to use to bomb New York.
American forces found the prototype and shipped it over...
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Linux will not die.
Perhaps so, but it may very well end up in the sad bastards Geek Ghetto, with all the people who bang on about the Amiga not dying...
Actually that crash is said to have been caused by the pilot hotdogging, flying a lot lower than he should have been, and ignoring warning systems.
We've already got PING, now we've got BEEP. So when do we get SHOOT and EXPLODE?
If anyone knows what I'm talking about, I'll be pleasantly surprised!!!
As far as I understand it, this plan is NOT the work of the UK Government, instead this highly controversial scheme has been put forward by the Mayor of London.
Read about this Congestion Charging scheme here.
In fact, there is a challenge to this scheme being mounted in the High Court today (Monday).
The reason there are so many cameras in London, is because of all the terrorists who have kept trying to blow bits of it up over the years. Terrorists, largely funded by US Citizens, who have in the past come close to destroying parts of London's financial centre.
Personally, I think you have to be an idiot to want to drive into London, and I'm all in favour of this scheme, but I would like to see the charge doubled for people driving SUVs...
That would be the TU-144, dubbed 'Concordski' due to its amazing resemblance to Concorde. Not coincidental, as they stole early Concorde plans! However the Russians could never get the wing right, so it had to have those ridiculous rabbit ears to avoid stalls at low speed. The Paris Air Show crash which basically did for this plane commercially is believed to have been due to the pilot taking evasive action to avoid a French military jet and overstressing the airframe. Neat site about it here. Good site about Concorde here too.
No it will be far worse than that, time_t will overflow and go back to 0 and society will instantaneously jump back 2^32 seconds - To 1970!
Oh my god, not another crappy seventies revival...
What would happen if a massive solar flare or some such space phenomena took out all of the satellites? Would earth communications still function?
Well, landlines would... Anyone navigating by GPS would be in trouble though!
A mate of mine didn't think Goonhilly was a real place, he always thought it was something from The Goon Show.
I'm crucifying Jesus, banging in the nails,
And I am so happy, because old Jesus failed.
I'm crucifying Jesus, nail him to the cross,
The poor old bastard bleeds to death and I don't give a toss.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
I'm crucifying Jesus, in my piss he bathes.
I think I am a pervert, I think I am depraved
I'm crucifying Jesus, beat him to a pulp,
I stick my organ in his mouth and on it he must gulp.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
You see that crown of thorns upon his head?
Well that was my idea.
I think I might be going to hell,
Oh dear!
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
banging in the nails.
----
All Text By Martyn Jacques
Copyright Misery Guts Music
http://www.tigerlillies.com
I remember when he was. That was a long time ago, mind.
Oh yes. Jacko was complaining that the recording industry was racist (And we all know how proud he is of his black heritage, don't we.) and not trying to bolster his faded career at all...
2 greatest inventions... hmmm coffee? I guess a lot of people like coffee.. I find it personally highly revolting and disgusting...
Yes, of course! Everyone knows that Tea is the one true hot beverage!
it's about time that development on this monstrosity came to a grinding halt.
Oh god yes. I wish I had shitloads of mod points to mod you up to the skies...
Perl. Loathesome frankenstein monster bolted together out of odds and ends seemingly without any clear style or thought for good programming methodology... Can't stand the fucker!
Let's face it, the Russians have a major advantage over the Americans in this.
They have the best expertise on not just the physical effects of long-term space flight, but they're also experts on the psychological effects of being cooped up in a big space can for a long time. You need to know all that for this trip.
They're also the only nation with the big dumb boosters you need for a trip like this. Their hardware is pretty bulletproof as they use tried and trusted hardware rather than going for the most high-tech option.
And at the moment Russia is the only nation on earth with manned spaceflight capability. All Shuttles are grounded, and who knows whether they'll ever fly again?
Reading some of the responses to this item, just makes me feel that Linux is doomed to a geeky ghetto of its own making. With friends like some of the people posting here cackling with glee at nasty tricks they've thought of, who needs enemies?
Makes me ashamed to use Linux. Really they do.
Grow up, you cretinous poltroons!
What does naming an upcoming code base LIMBO mean?
It means you have to bend over backwards and go really low to get a copy...
I used to have a TeleVideo 925 terminal - for my FLEX system. (Anyone here remember FLEX?).
Great keyboards...
Hah! You wait until Sony and Honda's giant robot armies come sweeping in from the sea, bristling with missiles and flashing laser beams from their eyes...
Oh yes, the old IBM keyboards. I loved those, wish I had one - no, two, one for home and one for work.
The first computer I had, a Tangerine Microtan 65, had the option of a really good keyboard, and aside from the aforementioned IBM keyboards was one of the best computer keyboards I have ever used.
Modern membrane keyboards range from the barely acceptable to the completely useless. I cannot stand typing on a keyboard that feels like limp wet lettuce, which is what some of the cheaper membranes often supplied with PCs feel like. Ugh! After a keyboard failed at work lately, I had to go through five spare keyboards to find one that I could use.
When I type, I like to feel the keys go down with a satisfying 'clunk', not a soft 'squish'.
Membranes. Hate 'em!
You're talking about Michael Grade, who WAS the head of the BBC when Dr. Who was cancelled. He's not the head any more, and hasn't been for several years (he moved on to Channel Four when according to right-wing drivel tabloid the Daily Mail he was 'Britain's Pornographer In Chief', but left there a few years back).
I think the BBC attitude (and the attitude of most UK TV channels, really) is that SF is for kids, so when they DO get an SF programme, they shove it on at tea-time, cut to ribbons.
...rest assured it will be neither pretty nor legal.
Ah. The Jay and Silent Bob method. Up close and personal...!
One of the Nigerian spams (Give us your bank details so we can put these millions there for safe keeping, etc...) turned up here once.
If you get those, you are supposed to report them to the police, and your local law enforcement or embassy may be able to help. In London, the Metropolitan police have a web page about it, so we sent the mail and original headers to them.
Apparently, six people were recently arrested for this very crime! So things that are obviously major frauds are worth looking up in case you can shop them to the law!
Basically everything in orbit is perpetually falling towards the earth, but because it's got a large sideways vector, it keeps 'missing'.
And there was I thinking that it only kept missing because it got distracted at an important stage and forgot to hit the ground...
Some planes, and at least one airliner, had stick pushers. When the stall horn went off, a mechanism would push the stick forward to prevent the plane stalling.
This was particularly needed on some T-tail planes, where in a stall the elevator lost authority.
Northrop designed and built a flying wing bomber in the late 1940s, no computer controls required.
Actually, I think they won the design off the Germans, who designed a flying wing jet bomber towards the end of WWII, which they planned to use to bomb New York. American forces found the prototype and shipped it over...