Skoda and Seat, both selling cars aimed at the cheaper end.
And having driven from-new both a VW-era Skoda and a VW itself, in future I'd probably take the Skoda.
Then again, I fully expect to not have to worry about the question for at least 3 more years, possibly as many as 5, depending on how much mileage the wife clocks up. Or what she drives into.
Torture AFTER killing is normally described as "mutilation", but it has an even poorer success rate than torture before killing.
I suppose it depends on what your success criterion is though. If Snowdon were to die under torture, being broadcast live on global TV, then there would probably be a desirable decrease in whistle-blowing. but the PR damage might be significant too.
What was that story I saw a few days ago about the US being unable to recruit enough pilots, because of the perceived dead-end nature of the job. Same for IT specialists.
A signed letter from a head of state/justice from a country prevents this from being used as a defence.
IF, and only if, the country in question has credibility to back up a letter like this. Which America certainly hasn't had since the Guantanamo Bay carpet-for-sweeping-under camp was established. Whether it had such credibility 2 decades ago is open to question. You'd probably have got that vote from me, but these days I'd laugh at such a promise. Including if I were on jury duty.
still, one has to consider what a broadcast entity dependent upon advertising revenues will do if those ads no longer generate cash.
Errr, the companies go bust, the executives lose their houses, and sell their wives and older children into prostitution and their younger, more tender, children to a chain of "Modest Proposal" fricassee shops.
Is there a problem with this? It's the capitalist way after all.
I pay about £3/week for content as part of my TV license. I don't want to pay again by having my mind bum-fucked by advertising shitheads.
Another? I think you have bigger issues than the government, sounds like you need a refill on that Thorazine.
No idea what the relevance of "Thorazine" is - your local brand of Soma, perhaps? - but what is uncontroversial about the "false flag" nature of the 2001-09-11 events? The perpetrators were Saudi Arabians ; the Iraqis have been hammered to pulp for it, and the US hawks are pushing for glazing over Iran next. It'll remain a "false flag" operation - and an immensely successful one - until the US bombs are landing in Riyadh.
I wonder how much Mossad had to do with the original Al Quaeda operation. They've certainly profited hugely from it.
Thank god they didn't pray to one of their Hindu Monkey Gods for answers! What a stupid thing it would be to pray to an invisible friend in the sky looking for answers to a problem on Earth. Or in the solar system at least.
Asbestos causes cancers by the very fine, fibrous dust penetrating into the lungs and into cell walls there, and thence... well the medics are not exactly sure what the next step is, just that these cancers require inhalation of fibres.
In what way is this not "injecting you with chemicals" ?
Have you never handled fibrous asbestos? It sticks into your skin and irritates exactly like a thousand tiny needles. Because it is penetrating the skin and irritating the nerves underneath. How it stops, I don't know - encapsulation? dissolution? - but the whole process is worrying.
[There may also be an effect from the surface chemistry of the fibres, as well as the fibrous nature itself ; that's not clear, either way, which is why avoiding inhaling fibrous material is generally a good idea. That includes "natural" fibres like wool ; not that asbestos is less natural than wool, or that glass fibre (less damaging than most asbestos types) isn't an evil, less-damaging "chemical". But you're not allowed to think of evil "chemicals" as being less nasty than cuddly "natural products".]
The idea that we know a complete list of ways in which physical or chemical agents can cause cancer is simply unscientific bullshit.
There's plenty of evidence that life causes cancer, in and of itself, without the need for any enhancing factors (chemicals, organisms, radiations, physical influences e.g. fibres). There's a lot of biochemistry going on in any cell, all of which has the potential to damage DNA, and in a multicellular organism, to therefore generate cancer. So long as the error rate of DNA decoding to proteins is low enough that the majority of specimens of a population reproduce successfully (NB: "reproduce", not "breed") before dying of cancer, that's not a problem. And, when we have the technology to (1) clone bodies from individuals and (2) transfer memories and personalities from original into those clones, who is going to give a shit about cancer?
Given the other story up at the moment about hacking the brakes and throttle system of $SUVJUNKPILE$ so the driver can't slow down (oh really ; and how about just declutching and using the hand brake?), this sounds like a recipe for multiple backdoors opening up. Even without any security breaches, data spoofing and DoS attacks become possible.
I tend to hang my head torch from the strap provided for that purpose in my tent, so it casts general light over the interior of the tent. But... horses, courses.
What is strange about having a headlamp in your work bag? The only reason I don't carry one now is that I carry a waterproof miniature diving torch instead, with a directional beam suitable for signalling if the chopper comes down on the way to or from work.
I don't think that I've ever lived in a house, until the current one, that was less than 60 years old. And until this one, I never had to find out what a soffett was. (One of our ventilator grilled fell out, allowing a bird to nest in there. Just above our bedroom. "Chirp, chirp", for about a month!)
But yes, it's an idea that I'll be taking up, possibly in the next few days because I'm roofing the loft at the moment.
PROPER lighting is can lights in the sofett that way you can use low wattage
Now there's an idea - several ideas in fact.
Minor detail - by being inside the house's weatherproofing, you obviate the need for IP-whatever quality sealing of the lights and cables which most other forms of outdoor lighting would require.
I'm actually a geneticist. My understanding is that these plants are in the earliest stage of development.
What - they're made with quadruple-stranded DNA, or PNA, or something equally interesting? And people have managed to get the basic metabolism working, or energy production, but haven't yet got up to complex things like reproduction.
I thought I was keeping up on Origin Of Life work (geologist by trade here), but I've obviously missed something.
I've seen a few people using headlights as "neck lights", but I've never seen one that's designed that way. Largely I expect because the chin gets in the way.
Break-away neck straps sounds like a solution for a problem that doesn't exist ; just put the torch round your head where it's meant to be.
(I've been caving for nearly 30 years ; I can barely remember when I didn't have one or more head torches in the rucksack. They work great on the push bike too.)
Certainly didn't seem to be much of a big deal when I was growing up, and I was kinda shocked a couple years ago when someone tried calling me on it.
It stinks ; it sticks to your shoe, and it's your fucking dog and so it's your fucking responsibility.
People like you bring a bad name down on (relatively) considerate dog owners. Personally, I send photos of people who don't pick up their dog's shit into the local council, to try to get the fuckers a fine and a court prohibition from owning a dog. Since fines for dog-shitting were introduced - about 20 years ago - the state of the streets has considerably improved.
Then I turn down the sensitivity or redirect it and it won't trigger when my wife is backing down the driveway! Argh
Never considered putting a remote control on it? Like, I got a 3-pack of radio remotes several years ago that switch mains power outlets ; one I use for turning the printers on/ off (they have a time-based option) in the office when I'm typing in my den ; one I use for turning the radio on and off from my desk ; one still going spare. That'd be perfectly adequate for lighting up our driveway.
Of course, then she'd need to carry the remote.
They cost 3 to 4 pints of beer at the time - whatever that is in your local currency.
How do you see the condition of what you're grilling by candlelight??
Errrr, by picking up the candle with the hand that's not holding the prodding device, and holding it in the general vicinity (+/- 1m) of the object under inspection?
Never been a problem for me in cooking hundreds of meals in tents and outdoors miles away from a source of electricity.
I cook almost exclusively with kosher salt, both for the grain size and for lack of iodine.
How can I square the cognitive dissonance of trying to work out the logic in a fundamentally logic-free situation?
Given that iodine and even the modern "chemical element" are concepts generated centuries if not millennia after the ossification of Jewish dietary laws (design by committee; probably using a set of darts, a blindfold and a donkey's bottom; logic not desired), how in the name of sanity could you end up with a judgement on the kosherness (?) of iodized versus non-iodized salt?
OK ; I did some reading, and it's the grain size and texture that is relevant, and the influence of those characteristics on the salt's usability for the process of "koshering" meat, not the salt's inherent "kosherness" itself. Which is about aS BIZARRE (damn caps-lock!) as it sounds, but what you expect from a religion. but the sources I've seen have indicated that "koshering salt" can be iodized or non-iodized.
BTW, have you ever ordered a bottle of sodium iodide from a chemical company to see what it tastes like? I actually find it quite pleasant. It might not be so wise as a routine cooking ingredient - it would be easy to exceed recommended maximum doses - but if you're into taste sensations, it might be one to add to your list (or whatever it is that gastronomes do ; not my bag to be honest). £40-odd, depending on assay.
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So, I need to get my step-daughter an EARING AID so that she can get her earrings in her ears not all over her face?
She will be so delighted by this news. I shall tell her immediately so that her reaction will happen in another country.
And having driven from-new both a VW-era Skoda and a VW itself, in future I'd probably take the Skoda.
Then again, I fully expect to not have to worry about the question for at least 3 more years, possibly as many as 5, depending on how much mileage the wife clocks up. Or what she drives into.
But it's likely that the foreign spies would do a better job than the Americans, and very likely that they'd do it cheaper.
Better and cheaper - it's the way to go.
Torture AFTER killing is normally described as "mutilation", but it has an even poorer success rate than torture before killing.
I suppose it depends on what your success criterion is though. If Snowdon were to die under torture, being broadcast live on global TV, then there would probably be a desirable decrease in whistle-blowing. but the PR damage might be significant too.
What was that story I saw a few days ago about the US being unable to recruit enough pilots, because of the perceived dead-end nature of the job. Same for IT specialists.
IF, and only if, the country in question has credibility to back up a letter like this. Which America certainly hasn't had since the Guantanamo Bay carpet-for-sweeping-under camp was established. Whether it had such credibility 2 decades ago is open to question. You'd probably have got that vote from me, but these days I'd laugh at such a promise. Including if I were on jury duty.
And being less than ignorant will get you flagged for special attention.
... wrote what is more likely to be the definitive book on "2001 - A Space Odyssey", back in 1968.
Errr, the companies go bust, the executives lose their houses, and sell their wives and older children into prostitution and their younger, more tender, children to a chain of "Modest Proposal" fricassee shops.
Is there a problem with this? It's the capitalist way after all.
I pay about £3/week for content as part of my TV license. I don't want to pay again by having my mind bum-fucked by advertising shitheads.
No idea what the relevance of "Thorazine" is - your local brand of Soma, perhaps? - but what is uncontroversial about the "false flag" nature of the 2001-09-11 events? The perpetrators were Saudi Arabians ; the Iraqis have been hammered to pulp for it, and the US hawks are pushing for glazing over Iran next. It'll remain a "false flag" operation - and an immensely successful one - until the US bombs are landing in Riyadh.
I wonder how much Mossad had to do with the original Al Quaeda operation. They've certainly profited hugely from it.
Thank god they didn't pray to one of their Hindu Monkey Gods for answers! What a stupid thing it would be to pray to an invisible friend in the sky looking for answers to a problem on Earth. Or in the solar system at least.
In what way is this not "injecting you with chemicals" ?
Have you never handled fibrous asbestos? It sticks into your skin and irritates exactly like a thousand tiny needles. Because it is penetrating the skin and irritating the nerves underneath. How it stops, I don't know - encapsulation? dissolution? - but the whole process is worrying.
[There may also be an effect from the surface chemistry of the fibres, as well as the fibrous nature itself ; that's not clear, either way, which is why avoiding inhaling fibrous material is generally a good idea. That includes "natural" fibres like wool ; not that asbestos is less natural than wool, or that glass fibre (less damaging than most asbestos types) isn't an evil, less-damaging "chemical". But you're not allowed to think of evil "chemicals" as being less nasty than cuddly "natural products".]
There's plenty of evidence that life causes cancer, in and of itself, without the need for any enhancing factors (chemicals, organisms, radiations, physical influences e.g. fibres). There's a lot of biochemistry going on in any cell, all of which has the potential to damage DNA, and in a multicellular organism, to therefore generate cancer. So long as the error rate of DNA decoding to proteins is low enough that the majority of specimens of a population reproduce successfully (NB: "reproduce", not "breed") before dying of cancer, that's not a problem. And, when we have the technology to (1) clone bodies from individuals and (2) transfer memories and personalities from original into those clones, who is going to give a shit about cancer?
That does seem to be the point. Or didn't you RTFS?
Given the other story up at the moment about hacking the brakes and throttle system of $SUVJUNKPILE$ so the driver can't slow down (oh really ; and how about just declutching and using the hand brake?), this sounds like a recipe for multiple backdoors opening up. Even without any security breaches, data spoofing and DoS attacks become possible.
I tend to hang my head torch from the strap provided for that purpose in my tent, so it casts general light over the interior of the tent. But ... horses, courses.
What is strange about having a headlamp in your work bag? The only reason I don't carry one now is that I carry a waterproof miniature diving torch instead, with a directional beam suitable for signalling if the chopper comes down on the way to or from work.
I don't think that I've ever lived in a house, until the current one, that was less than 60 years old. And until this one, I never had to find out what a soffett was. (One of our ventilator grilled fell out, allowing a bird to nest in there. Just above our bedroom. "Chirp, chirp", for about a month!) But yes, it's an idea that I'll be taking up, possibly in the next few days because I'm roofing the loft at the moment.
Errr, and why were the SWAT team escorting people off the bus?
(See, you're as well-buried as King Tut!)
Now there's an idea - several ideas in fact.
Minor detail - by being inside the house's weatherproofing, you obviate the need for IP-whatever quality sealing of the lights and cables which most other forms of outdoor lighting would require.
What - they're made with quadruple-stranded DNA, or PNA, or something equally interesting? And people have managed to get the basic metabolism working, or energy production, but haven't yet got up to complex things like reproduction.
I thought I was keeping up on Origin Of Life work (geologist by trade here), but I've obviously missed something.
I've seen a few people using headlights as "neck lights", but I've never seen one that's designed that way. Largely I expect because the chin gets in the way.
Break-away neck straps sounds like a solution for a problem that doesn't exist ; just put the torch round your head where it's meant to be.
(I've been caving for nearly 30 years ; I can barely remember when I didn't have one or more head torches in the rucksack. They work great on the push bike too.)
It stinks ; it sticks to your shoe, and it's your fucking dog and so it's your fucking responsibility.
People like you bring a bad name down on (relatively) considerate dog owners. Personally, I send photos of people who don't pick up their dog's shit into the local council, to try to get the fuckers a fine and a court prohibition from owning a dog. Since fines for dog-shitting were introduced - about 20 years ago - the state of the streets has considerably improved.
You go to the wrong caving clubs.
Skin-tight black rubber and glutinous mud does not go with a prudish mindset.
Never considered putting a remote control on it? Like, I got a 3-pack of radio remotes several years ago that switch mains power outlets ; one I use for turning the printers on/ off (they have a time-based option) in the office when I'm typing in my den ; one I use for turning the radio on and off from my desk ; one still going spare. That'd be perfectly adequate for lighting up our driveway.
Of course, then she'd need to carry the remote.
They cost 3 to 4 pints of beer at the time - whatever that is in your local currency.
Errrr, by picking up the candle with the hand that's not holding the prodding device, and holding it in the general vicinity (+/- 1m) of the object under inspection?
Never been a problem for me in cooking hundreds of meals in tents and outdoors miles away from a source of electricity.
I understood you until you got to this thing about the weather being nice.
If I wanted "nice" weather, I'll go abroad, thank you.
How can I square the cognitive dissonance of trying to work out the logic in a fundamentally logic-free situation?
Given that iodine and even the modern "chemical element" are concepts generated centuries if not millennia after the ossification of Jewish dietary laws (design by committee; probably using a set of darts, a blindfold and a donkey's bottom; logic not desired), how in the name of sanity could you end up with a judgement on the kosherness (?) of iodized versus non-iodized salt?
OK ; I did some reading, and it's the grain size and texture that is relevant, and the influence of those characteristics on the salt's usability for the process of "koshering" meat, not the salt's inherent "kosherness" itself. Which is about aS BIZARRE (damn caps-lock!) as it sounds, but what you expect from a religion. but the sources I've seen have indicated that "koshering salt" can be iodized or non-iodized.
BTW, have you ever ordered a bottle of sodium iodide from a chemical company to see what it tastes like? I actually find it quite pleasant. It might not be so wise as a routine cooking ingredient - it would be easy to exceed recommended maximum doses - but if you're into taste sensations, it might be one to add to your list (or whatever it is that gastronomes do ; not my bag to be honest). £40-odd, depending on assay.