If you want progress, go for old-fashioned horizontal drag-racing using electrical engines and suitable batteries. This might have an impact on technology advances in a sector that might essentially help save the planet by using different resources.
Great! So how much extra coal or oil should we burn in power stations to generate the electricity to power these things?
Conventional forms of electic transport just move the pollution from one place to another..
Yeah, right. Tell that to the pockets I've worn out carrying loose change!
Not likely to happen. There's nothing worse than being stuck in a shop queue behind some idiot buying some item for a footling amount of money and paying for it with their credit/debit card. So you have to wait while they go through the whole rigmarole of swiping the card through the maching, waiting for the printout, signing it, etc... Yawn!
Short of having chip implants or barcode tattoos ("And no man may buy or sell save that he have the mark of the beast..") it's just often far, far more convenient to have hard cash on your person.
Too bad we aren't learning from the British and Soviet mistakes.
And the US mistakes - training Osama Bin Laden, and supporting the Taliban against the USSR, and giving them money as part of the "War Against Drugs"...
The phrase "Hoist by your own petard" springs to mind.
With all this "War against Terrorism" stuff, I was wondering if the RAF would be allowed to bomb the shit out of the next NORAID meeting, raising funds for the IRA to blow people up. I also wonder just how many New Yorkers have funded the IRA's terrorism over the years, and if they still would...
I see trees of green........ red roses too
I watch 'em bloom..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue..... clouds of white
Bright blessed days....warm sacred nights
And I think to myself.....what a wonderful world.
The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty..in the sky
Are there on the faces.....of people..going by
I see friends shaking hands.....sayin'.. how do you do
They're really sayin'......I love you.
I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
They'll learn much more.....than I'll never know
And I think to myself.....what a wonderful world
(instrumental break)
The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty..in the sky
Are there on the faces.....of people..going by
I see friends shaking hands.....sayin'.. how do you do
They're really sayin'...*SPOKEN*(I....LOVE....YOU).
I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
*SPOKEN*(You know they're gonna learn
a whole lot more than I'll never know)
And I think to myself.....what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself.......what a wonderful world.
Oh yes. That is just soooooo offensive!
Can someone PLEASE tell me what those corporate fucks were thinking of when they banned this one?
Just started getting these in the last two hours, all from 195.x.x.x addresses.
OK. So I'm running Apache, which shrugs them off, but they're wasting our crap bandwidth and stuffing our web server logs!
I tried looking at the websites - many of them had some kind of default screen, indicating an unused IIS installed by default/mistake.
Frank Sinatra "New York"... what were they thinking!!!
Ah, but doesn't it have that line about being top of the heap - as in heap of rubble?
Aaaah! Fuck! My brane 'urts from trying to think like some stupid suit!
Seriously, you'd think this song would be one to play, to celebrate the city, not let the bastards get you down, that kind of thing...
Actually, following some rabid tabloid journalism, many UK stores have withdrawn FS2000 from sale.
Don't know whether they've also withdrawn Fly II or X-Plane from sale as well. But then again they've not been mentioned in any tabloid newspaper.
Fucking stupid if you ask me. There's a hell of a lot of difference between flight sims and real flying - while FS2000 is OK for practising stuff like instrument flying, it can't reproduce the actual feel of flying an aircraft, and certainly I make a point of going nowhere near it before a flight.
Ten SAS guys, parachute into Afghanistan, kill bin Laden & his mates, and come back carrying a box. Tony Blair then flies over to America and on the steps of the White House presents Dubya with bin Laden's head on a stick.
Demented and sad. It's only a computer game, for fuck's sake! Why don't you spend your money on something which will enrich your lives instead of keeping you stuck in front of a computer screen all the livelong day!
There was a man, and he had to go on a long journey.
So he said to his wife, "Pack me some lunch".
So she packed him some lunch, and he went off to the railway station.
He ate his lunch, and then he fell asleep, and missed his train.
He was daft.
That story is right up there with the one about a rising young BBC executive phoning up Douglas Adams to ask him if he'd ever thought about a radio series based on his Hitch-Hiker books...
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If you want progress, go for old-fashioned horizontal drag-racing using electrical engines and suitable batteries. This might have an impact on technology advances in a sector that might essentially help save the planet by using different resources.
Great! So how much extra coal or oil should we burn in power stations to generate the electricity to power these things?
Conventional forms of electic transport just move the pollution from one place to another..
Yoo-hoo! Mr. Moderators!!!
Does someone want to moderate this loon off-topic?
No. I'm not part of the Linux Hive-mind, nor am I a Microsoft astroturfer. BUT this bollocks is 100% OFF THE TOPIC!
How much more off topic could he be? None! None more off topic...
The US is the major source of funds for the IRA. That's certainly assisting terrorism.
Cutting Bombadil means the adaptors thought "Hey, this bit is fucking tedious and completely irrelevant to the main storyline. Cut it!"
It's only a great shame that Tolkein's editors didn't think the same thing.
Yeah, right. Tell that to the pockets I've worn out carrying loose change!
Not likely to happen. There's nothing worse than being stuck in a shop queue behind some idiot buying some item for a footling amount of money and paying for it with their credit/debit card. So you have to wait while they go through the whole rigmarole of swiping the card through the maching, waiting for the printout, signing it, etc...
Yawn!
Short of having chip implants or barcode tattoos ("And no man may buy or sell save that he have the mark of the beast..") it's just often far, far more convenient to have hard cash on your person.
Too bad we aren't learning from the British and Soviet mistakes.
And the US mistakes - training Osama Bin Laden, and supporting the Taliban against the USSR, and giving them money as part of the "War Against Drugs"...
The phrase "Hoist by your own petard" springs to mind.
And they still do through NORAID.
With all this "War against Terrorism" stuff, I was wondering if the RAF would be allowed to bomb the shit out of the next NORAID meeting, raising funds for the IRA to blow people up. I also wonder just how many New Yorkers have funded the IRA's terrorism over the years, and if they still would...
I see trees of green........ red roses too
.....what a wonderful world.
..in the sky
..going by
.....what a wonderful world
..in the sky
..going by
....LOVE....YOU).
.....what a wonderful world
.......what a wonderful world.
I watch 'em bloom..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue..... clouds of white
Bright blessed days....warm sacred nights
And I think to myself
The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty
Are there on the faces.....of people
I see friends shaking hands.....sayin'.. how do you do
They're really sayin'......I love you.
I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
They'll learn much more.....than I'll never know
And I think to myself
(instrumental break)
The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty
Are there on the faces.....of people
I see friends shaking hands.....sayin'.. how do you do
They're really sayin'...*SPOKEN*(I
I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
*SPOKEN*(You know they're gonna learn
a whole lot more than I'll never know)
And I think to myself
Yes I think to myself
Oh yes. That is just soooooo offensive!
Can someone PLEASE tell me what those corporate fucks were thinking of when they banned this one?
Just started getting these in the last two hours, all from 195.x.x.x addresses.
OK. So I'm running Apache, which shrugs them off, but they're wasting our crap bandwidth and stuffing our web server logs!
I tried looking at the websites - many of them had some kind of default screen, indicating an unused IIS installed by default/mistake.
Frank Sinatra "New York"... what were they thinking!!!
Ah, but doesn't it have that line about being top of the heap - as in heap of rubble?
Aaaah! Fuck! My brane 'urts from trying to think like some stupid suit!
Seriously, you'd think this song would be one to play, to celebrate the city, not let the bastards get you down, that kind of thing...
FuckedCompany!
FuckedCompany!
FuckedCompany!!!
How the FUCK can you complain about censorship when you yourselves are putting fucking asterisks in the name Fuckedcompany!
Pure FUCKING hypocrisy!
Actually, following some rabid tabloid journalism, many UK stores have withdrawn FS2000 from sale.
Don't know whether they've also withdrawn Fly II or X-Plane from sale as well. But then again they've not been mentioned in any tabloid newspaper.
Fucking stupid if you ask me. There's a hell of a lot of difference between flight sims and real flying - while FS2000 is OK for practising stuff like instrument flying, it can't reproduce the actual feel of flying an aircraft, and certainly I make a point of going nowhere near it before a flight.
Ten SAS guys, parachute into Afghanistan, kill bin Laden & his mates, and come back carrying a box. Tony Blair then flies over to America and on the steps of the White House presents Dubya with bin Laden's head on a stick.
If anyone could do it, they could,
You don't need to, you've got Cruise Missiles...
I've just been wondering if we're going to bomb America for funding the IRA...
Well, if we're talking about being tough on supporters of terrorism, that's a perfectly fair statement.
People who quote Nostradamus need more than modding down. They need a good kicking to restore their grip on reality.
Oh fuck off you ignorant bastard. Show some respect. Don't be a fuckwit all your life.
Bugger. I wanted to be evacuated from my office (on the edge of the City), so I could go to the pub!
Demented and sad. It's only a computer game, for fuck's sake! Why don't you spend your money on something which will enrich your lives instead of keeping you stuck in front of a computer screen all the livelong day!
There was a man, and he had to go on a long journey.
So he said to his wife, "Pack me some lunch".
So she packed him some lunch, and he went off to the railway station.
He ate his lunch, and then he fell asleep, and missed his train.
He was daft.
Looks like something out of Thunderbirds.
And the engine/fin combinations are strangely reminiscent of the SR71.
Now, if they could make a passenger jet go as fast as the SR71...!
That story is right up there with the one about a rising young BBC executive phoning up Douglas Adams to ask him if he'd ever thought about a radio series based on his Hitch-Hiker books...
Sadly, both these stories are true.
I wouldnt mind, but We have other alumini that are more worthy! (Thom Yorke from Radiohead for one)
Well that should increase the numbers of student suicides....
Actually, Dirk Gently is a recycled Dr. Who plot.
...the greatest hippocracies...
Unless you really mean 'hippocracies', which would be 'societies controlled by horses', I suggest the word you're looking for there is "hypocrisies".