Blimey yeah, I was in the States about a month ago and we filled up our Mitsubishi Spyder Eclipse for a tenner. I was foaming at the mouth.
So the difference in price between you and us is mainly taxes?! Although I guess I shouldn't be surprised - Britain has a bit of a history of that (ever heard of the Boston Tea Party?).
He just brought in emergency legislation to make the protests illegal so he could have the protesters arrested. That's what happens when you protest in Britain. And they call this a democracy;)
Yoiks! They did something similar here when the air traffic controllers went on strike in the 80's. And we're really supposed to be a democracy!
The Queen has no legislative or executive powers.
What the deuce do you keep her around for, then? Oh, right, I guess they need something to fill the tabloids with..
:-)
£0.054 a litre? Luxury! Currently we're on £0.780. Where on earth did you find petrol at that price?
Whoops - that was a typo - I meant to say £0.54 / liter. I realized what I did after hitting the submit button - (but I guess even that was an underestimate!).
Friends here who had lived in Britain recently estimated about $3/gallon over there, so I cranked the conversions through.
.. but unfortunately, it's not up on their website yet -- I just got the issue yesterday.
Apparently, the Soviets developed a strain that is resistant to antibiotics before the bio-weapons military program was shut down in the early 90s.
They worry about plauge over there the way our guys worry about anthrax over here.
BTW, they mentioned in the article that in addition to small-to-moderate sized outbreaks in third world countries, we receive a couple of cases of plague here in the U.S., mostly in the Southeast where people are infected by bites from prairie dog fleas. The plague bug lives quite happily amongst the prairie dogs -- it's only an unfortunate turn in natural selection that made it infect humans (remember, the number rule for a parasite is *DON'T KILL THE HOST*).
Heh, someone with a punk rock star name like sid_vicious listens to Eve6? The real Sid Vicious would roll over in his grave if he knew.
Eh, point taken. Although, between the Eagles, Boston, and Blue Oyster Cult CDs sitting next to my Misfits CDs, an Eve6 here or there would probably be the least of his worries..
:-)
More like *drag* their customers back, kicking and screaming the whole way. Hello, maybe you should ask yourself why you've lost your customers in the first place?
Maybe it was just my personal experience, but *almost* every group project I was on had at least one or more absolute slackers.
It's very frustrating to have to pull these peoples' weight. To be honest, I would rather just be graded on my own ability to perform - when you have four people, profs tend to expect 4x the quality of work they would get from one person. You get one slacker, and now four people have only produced 3x the work, and everyone pays for it.
Don't even get me started on having to deal with group dynamics when you end up assigned to a project with a complete jackass -- but then, that did help me prepare for a Dilbertian experience in America's workforce.. *sigh*...
Students reading a paper or sleeping are distracting to the instructor and (worse) they are distracting to other students.
You might appreciate this story then. When I was a freshman, I took Astronomy 100 as an elective. My professor had a "doppler ball" that emitted a high-pitched tone and was tethered to a string. It was used to demonstrate the doppler effect when it was swung around or thrown. Since it was a 9:00 am freshman lecture of about 400 people, we had plenty of sleepers and newspaper readers.
The professor made a habit of firing up the doppler ball first thing in lecture and nailing the sleepers and newspaper-readers with it. Fun for those of us paying attention, a good lesson to those who weren't.
The prevailing argument for not restricting access seems to be "I've paid the money - if I don't want to learn, I should be able to distract myself in any way I see fit."
Having been in a classroom that was wired and unrestricted (I took a UI class at college where all 30 students had a PC hooked up to the Internet), I can say that it is VERY distracting when other people are clicking and clacking and surfing the web while the professor is talking. It's certainly your right not to learn if you don't want to - heck, you're just improving my grade - but keep it in the dorm room where you don't bother those of us trying to learn.
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Well, as far as onboard planes --
* Blast doors separating pilots from passengers.
* Time-controlled locks on the doors between pilots and passengers (I have heard that one pilot was lured out by the killing of passengers).
* Reduce or eliminate carry-on luggage, and institute *frequent* random bag checks on all luggage.
* Provide uniformed guards with weapons at the door to the cockpit.
* In addition to the uniformed guards, guarantee at least one plainclothes armed officer on board every flight.
* Consider -- and before yesterday, believe me, I would **NEVER** have thought such a thing -- retinal scans as passengers enter the plane itself to guarantee they are who they say they are. Force passengers to submit to a retinal scan before being allowed aboard ANY plans, similar to how we force them to get passports now for international flights.
*Sigh*.. I know how people will react to these suggestions, but believe me, I'm not flame-baiting. The plane that departed from Dulles took off from an airport ten minutes from my house. I am genuinely scared to get on a plane flight within the United States now, and nothing short of... well, basically Marshall Law is going to get me on one any time in the near future. I just keep thinking that it could have been me staring out the window of one of those planes as it headed for its fate...
The Greater Baltimore Hamboree and Computerfest, at the MD state fairgrounds is in April...
Mod this guy up - I've lived in the Bal'more/DC area my whole life, and this is the closest to what he's looking for... although the Hamfest has lost some of its luster and become more MarketPro in the past few years, it's still a great way to spend a Saturday...
Mind you that's $5000 Cdn, so that's what? $2500 US?;)
Somewhere close to that -- last time I was up in Canada, $1 US got you $1.45 Canadian. Playing the slot machines at Niagra Falls was GREAT because $20 US got you $29 Canadian. Sweeeeeet. Cashing out your "big winnings" sucked, though.
:)
Geez, it must be Friday - I've got my mindless rambling bit permanently OR'd on.
It's funny you should say that... more and more, I see bits from that movie becoming reality..
What was the game show where the guy had to climb a rope to escape angry dogs while he collected money along the way? It really reminds me of the direction that the "Reality-based" TV is heading today..
And the scene where they supposedly mapped Arnold S.'s character over another live actor with a computer to fake up his death.. that was total sci-fi at the time, but it's reality now...
Go check out the "Virtual You" article at the Discover Magazine web site for a still image that
is truly photorealistic quality.
I can't seem to find this article -- Is it in the current issue on magazine stands? They purposely keep the website one month behind to encourage subscriptions (smart, IMO).
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Actually, I would like to have asked him if he still receives occasional "pizza payments" for Samba.
Don't know if it still says it, but in the old docs for Samba, they used to have an address where you could FedEx pizza donations to the Samba team.
Now *that's* my idea of compensation. Free as in beer? Well, what goes better with free beer than free pizza!
Blimey yeah, I was in the States about a month ago and we filled up our Mitsubishi Spyder Eclipse for a tenner. I was foaming at the mouth.
;)
So the difference in price between you and us is mainly taxes?! Although I guess I shouldn't be surprised - Britain has a bit of a history of that (ever heard of the Boston Tea Party?).
He just brought in emergency legislation to make the protests illegal so he could have the protesters arrested. That's what happens when you protest in Britain. And they call this a democracy
Yoiks! They did something similar here when the air traffic controllers went on strike in the 80's. And we're really supposed to be a democracy!
The Queen has no legislative or executive powers.
What the deuce do you keep her around for, then? Oh, right, I guess they need something to fill the tabloids with..
:-)
It's still luxury :)
I'll tell you what -- I'll FedEx you a tankfull. I just filled 'er up yesterday for $1.54 / gallon (roughly £0.28 / liter).
Holy crap, they really *are* ripping you guys off! Man, you gotta have a talk with Parliament.. or Tony Blair.. or the Queen, I'm not sure which.
£0.054 a litre? Luxury! Currently we're on £0.780. Where on earth did you find petrol at that price?
Whoops - that was a typo - I meant to say £0.54 / liter. I realized what I did after hitting the submit button - (but I guess even that was an underestimate!).
Friends here who had lived in Britain recently estimated about $3/gallon over there, so I cranked the conversions through.
.. but unfortunately, it's not up on their website yet -- I just got the issue yesterday.
Apparently, the Soviets developed a strain that is resistant to antibiotics before the bio-weapons military program was shut down in the early 90s.
They worry about plauge over there the way our guys worry about anthrax over here.
BTW, they mentioned in the article that in addition to small-to-moderate sized outbreaks in third world countries, we receive a couple of cases of plague here in the U.S., mostly in the Southeast where people are infected by bites from prairie dog fleas. The plague bug lives quite happily amongst the prairie dogs -- it's only an unfortunate turn in natural selection that made it infect humans (remember, the number rule for a parasite is *DON'T KILL THE HOST*).
$17? Luxury! Come to the UK and pay $23. Then you'll really have something to complain about.
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.054 pounds/liter for gas, either!
No thanks! And I ain't paying no $3/gallon for gas, either!
.. oh, wait a minute, I mean
No thanks! And I ain't paying no
Heh, someone with a punk rock star name like sid_vicious listens to Eve6? The real Sid Vicious would roll over in his grave if he knew.
Eh, point taken. Although, between the Eagles, Boston, and Blue Oyster Cult CDs sitting next to my Misfits CDs, an Eve6 here or there would probably be the least of his worries..
:-)
Nice! Thanks for tracking it down.
I dug around on the Dallas website.. here's the press release for the TINI board, it sounds pretty interesting... is that the one you're using?
I'll have to mark it down on my list of potential fun toys to play with.
"... we have to get our customers back ..."
More like *drag* their customers back, kicking and screaming the whole way. Hello, maybe you should ask yourself why you've lost your customers in the first place?
I am NOT paying $17 for a copy of Eve6's CD.
It's very frustrating to have to pull these peoples' weight. To be honest, I would rather just be graded on my own ability to perform - when you have four people, profs tend to expect 4x the quality of work they would get from one person. You get one slacker, and now four people have only produced 3x the work, and everyone pays for it.
Don't even get me started on having to deal with group dynamics when you end up assigned to a project with a complete jackass -- but then, that did help me prepare for a Dilbertian experience in America's workforce.. *sigh*...
You might appreciate this story then. When I was a freshman, I took Astronomy 100 as an elective. My professor had a "doppler ball" that emitted a high-pitched tone and was tethered to a string. It was used to demonstrate the doppler effect when it was swung around or thrown. Since it was a 9:00 am freshman lecture of about 400 people, we had plenty of sleepers and newspaper readers.
The professor made a habit of firing up the doppler ball first thing in lecture and nailing the sleepers and newspaper-readers with it. Fun for those of us paying attention, a good lesson to those who weren't.
Having been in a classroom that was wired and unrestricted (I took a UI class at college where all 30 students had a PC hooked up to the Internet), I can say that it is VERY distracting when other people are clicking and clacking and surfing the web while the professor is talking. It's certainly your right not to learn if you don't want to - heck, you're just improving my grade - but keep it in the dorm room where you don't bother those of us trying to learn.
Well, as far as onboard planes --
* Blast doors separating pilots from passengers.
* Time-controlled locks on the doors between pilots and passengers (I have heard that one pilot was lured out by the killing of passengers).
* Reduce or eliminate carry-on luggage, and institute *frequent* random bag checks on all luggage.
* Provide uniformed guards with weapons at the door to the cockpit.
* In addition to the uniformed guards, guarantee at least one plainclothes armed officer on board every flight.
* Consider -- and before yesterday, believe me, I would **NEVER** have thought such a thing -- retinal scans as passengers enter the plane itself to guarantee they are who they say they are. Force passengers to submit to a retinal scan before being allowed aboard ANY plans, similar to how we force them to get passports now for international flights.
*Sigh*.. I know how people will react to these suggestions, but believe me, I'm not flame-baiting. The plane that departed from Dulles took off from an airport ten minutes from my house. I am genuinely scared to get on a plane flight within the United States now, and nothing short of... well, basically Marshall Law is going to get me on one any time in the near future. I just keep thinking that it could have been me staring out the window of one of those planes as it headed for its fate...
"Crouching Jedi, Hidden Clone"
Can't take credit for that one, though... :)
Mod this guy up - I've lived in the Bal'more/DC area my whole life, and this is the closest to what he's looking for... although the Hamfest has lost some of its luster and become more MarketPro in the past few years, it's still a great way to spend a Saturday...
Somewhere close to that -- last time I was up in Canada, $1 US got you $1.45 Canadian. Playing the slot machines at Niagra Falls was GREAT because $20 US got you $29 Canadian. Sweeeeeet. Cashing out your "big winnings" sucked, though.
Geez, it must be Friday - I've got my mindless rambling bit permanently OR'd on.
Man, $5000?! What kind of car are you trying to buy, a Gremlin?? My four year old Civic cost me $10k!
Could be -- my subscription ran out a quite a while ago.. Why slog through John Dvorak's column when I can just hit 'reload' on Slashdot??
"The computer you want always costs $5000".
What was the game show where the guy had to climb a rope to escape angry dogs while he collected money along the way? It really reminds me of the direction that the "Reality-based" TV is heading today..
And the scene where they supposedly mapped Arnold S.'s character over another live actor with a computer to fake up his death.. that was total sci-fi at the time, but it's reality now...
gotapex.com
For *just a second* I thought, "Wow, the trolls actually got a story posted with that goatsex URL."
Thanks, much appreciated.
I can't seem to find this article -- Is it in the current issue on magazine stands? They purposely keep the website one month behind to encourage subscriptions (smart, IMO).
This is one of those times I wish I had some moderation points sitting around -- someone mod this Citron1313 troll into OBLIVION.