Because a couple of decades ago, the climate change faithful were telling us that by 2020 the world would be frozen solid, with glaciers as far south as the Mediterranean Sea.
If dire prophecies of the magic carbon pixie believers that I learned in primary school had come true, up here at 56ÂN I'd be under 100m of ice - but that hasn't happened. However, the absolutely rock solid certain scientific evidence was that the Earth was cooling faster than it had ever cooled before. Now we skip forwards three decades, and the Earth is now warming faster than it ever has before. Apparently.
One thing I cant understand about this whole thing; how is it possible they blanket label everyone on the receiving end of the hellfire missile as 'enemy combatant' or 'a dog', even if theyre just civilians and or children.
The same way that any other terrorists do, by saying they're not really people.
IRA: Oh, they're Gardai, they're not really people UDA: Oh, they're not really people, they're Catholics IDF: Oh, they're not really people, they're Arabs
I don't have much of an attention span at the moment, and 23 minutes 43 seconds is too long to watch stuff whoosh about a screen with annoying sound effects and a voiceover in an impenetrable accent.
So, the Benefits Agency want to get people to apply for jobs through a website they run, and grind through some analytics to see who is applying for what - or even applying at all.
Come on, Samzenpus, I know you fell for the tabloid sensationalism and all, but I'd expect better than that from you.
The sum total of training needed to get a gun licence in the UK is essentially "Don't point it at anyone, don't point it at anything you don't plan to shoot, and don't leave it lying around", albeit spread over a couple of sides of A4.
It is easier to get a shotgun licence here than a motorcycle licence, and only marginally harder to get a rifle licence.
The people who want to own guns and justify it by saying they need thme "to defend themselves" are sick and need help. They can paint it any way they like, but they're still justifying their own murder fantasies.
Okay, so you reckon that the evidence he was speeding and not wearing a seatbelt is "self-incrimination"? So by the same token, if I cut your throat does that mean that the knife I have that's smeared with your blood is inadmissible because handing it over would be "self-incrimination"?
Certainly the latter seems like the best idea - if you don't like the platform, don't buy it. If you're in bed by dinnertime because you're up at 6:30am, you may have some sleeping problems, though.
Well, that's just it - it *isn't*, it's an example of government working well. "Oh sorry, you dicked about and broke the rules, now you don't get to use the DVLA data". Simple.
What I'm getting at is that every story timothy posts about the UK has his unique brand of editorialising on it, trying to paint this country as some sort of Orwellian hell-hole. It makes me wonder what horrors he's trying to distract his followers from in the US.
Exactly. When the engine is cold, you need the red-hot glow plugs to get the diesel hot enough to burn. Otherwise, the stuff just won't go off.
Have you ever tried to start a diesel engine with the glow plugs out of action? Doesn't work so well, does it? Eventually - if your battery is good enough - you'll have generated enough heat in the cylinders from compression alone for the diesel to light.
It is impossible to get diesel vapour to ignite unless it's at a ridiculous concentration, and very hot. Diesel burns about as well as cooking oil.
Diesel doesn't start to vapourise until about 40ÂC so I'd hate to think how hot your rooms are. What do you think the glow plugs in diesel engines are for?
This is why the US needs to update its antiquated libel laws to be more like the law in the UK. Over here, if what she says is true then there is simply no way she can lose. In the US system, anyone can say anything - true or untrue - they like about anyone else (yes, even you) and unless you've got much deeper pockets than them there's nothing you can do about it.
In the UK, the person telling the truth wins. In the US, the person with the most money to pay for lawyers wins. I prefer our way.
At work I keep a couple of old Toshiba 8086-based laptops around for programming 1980s-era radio equipment. That's not really old co-existing with the new, though.
I do have some software I wrote to transfer samples on a modern PC to the strangely-formatted Ensoniq Mirage 3.5" floppy disks, which I guess counts. My favourite though is my PDP11/23 which has a blown serial port on the CPU card. So with the aid of the service manual for the CPU I tracked down the fault to a blown level shifter. I haven't got a new one yet, so it has a couple of CP2102 USB-to-TTL bridges hanging off a USB hub taped inside the chassis.
It depends what you call "better". If by "better" you mean taking months to reconfigure, test, and finely tune to get right, then yes I suppose that's "better". A good steel cutter will take the drawings and gas axe them out of a plate for you, while you wait.
Since they only made 20 units at a time, it's just not cost effective.... and you still don't need a robot.
Exactly - robots are great if you're building a hundred a day, all identical. They suck when I say "yeah I need ten 80-tonne trucks, and I need five of them to be made 300mm narrower". A bunch of guys cutting parts by hand can do that easily.
I wish I had mod points for the pair of you. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to stand very still and lean from side to side a tiny bit in a dark room with loud music.
Is a slightly better smell while filling your tank worth having hazardous chemicals in the air, and a residue that can get on your hands that is harmful as well?
What, like the benzene used to replace TEL? The stuff that's a class-A carcinogen, with an MSDS that basically says "run away while you still can"?
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I think something like a nice hoppy IPA would work well, with a good sharp citrus-y flavour and not too gassy.
You definitely wouldn't want anything like the mass-produced carbonated fizzy juice that is sold as "beer", like Stella or Budweiser ;-)
Because a couple of decades ago, the climate change faithful were telling us that by 2020 the world would be frozen solid, with glaciers as far south as the Mediterranean Sea.
If dire prophecies of the magic carbon pixie believers that I learned in primary school had come true, up here at 56ÂN I'd be under 100m of ice - but that hasn't happened. However, the absolutely rock solid certain scientific evidence was that the Earth was cooling faster than it had ever cooled before. Now we skip forwards three decades, and the Earth is now warming faster than it ever has before. Apparently.
Oh ffs... ;-)
I wish I had mod points. I'm not sure how I'd mod that, but I'd definitely mod it one way or the other
One thing I cant understand about this whole thing; how is it possible they blanket label everyone on the receiving end of the hellfire missile as 'enemy combatant' or 'a dog', even if theyre just civilians and or children.
The same way that any other terrorists do, by saying they're not really people.
IRA: Oh, they're Gardai, they're not really people
UDA: Oh, they're not really people, they're Catholics
IDF: Oh, they're not really people, they're Arabs
I don't have much of an attention span at the moment, and 23 minutes 43 seconds is too long to watch stuff whoosh about a screen with annoying sound effects and a voiceover in an impenetrable accent.
So, the Benefits Agency want to get people to apply for jobs through a website they run, and grind through some analytics to see who is applying for what - or even applying at all.
Come on, Samzenpus, I know you fell for the tabloid sensationalism and all, but I'd expect better than that from you.
The sum total of training needed to get a gun licence in the UK is essentially "Don't point it at anyone, don't point it at anything you don't plan to shoot, and don't leave it lying around", albeit spread over a couple of sides of A4.
It is easier to get a shotgun licence here than a motorcycle licence, and only marginally harder to get a rifle licence.
Yes, you do.
If you're so frightened of crime, try not living in a shithole.
The people who want to own guns and justify it by saying they need thme "to defend themselves" are sick and need help. They can paint it any way they like, but they're still justifying their own murder fantasies.
The defense is not given full access to the data ,only to data that has been selected and processed by the government.
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Anyone with a diagnostic cable and the car has access to the data.
Okay, so you reckon that the evidence he was speeding and not wearing a seatbelt is "self-incrimination"? So by the same token, if I cut your throat does that mean that the knife I have that's smeared with your blood is inadmissible because handing it over would be "self-incrimination"?
Good to know...
Certainly the latter seems like the best idea - if you don't like the platform, don't buy it. If you're in bed by dinnertime because you're up at 6:30am, you may have some sleeping problems, though.
Yeah, because the half hour difference between 10:30pm and 11pm would just ruin you.
Of course, you could always try getting up earlier in the morning, and catch the store before it closes.
Well, that's just it - it *isn't*, it's an example of government working well. "Oh sorry, you dicked about and broke the rules, now you don't get to use the DVLA data". Simple.
What I'm getting at is that every story timothy posts about the UK has his unique brand of editorialising on it, trying to paint this country as some sort of Orwellian hell-hole. It makes me wonder what horrors he's trying to distract his followers from in the US.
Exactly. When the engine is cold, you need the red-hot glow plugs to get the diesel hot enough to burn. Otherwise, the stuff just won't go off.
Have you ever tried to start a diesel engine with the glow plugs out of action? Doesn't work so well, does it? Eventually - if your battery is good enough - you'll have generated enough heat in the cylinders from compression alone for the diesel to light.
It is impossible to get diesel vapour to ignite unless it's at a ridiculous concentration, and very hot. Diesel burns about as well as cooking oil.
Why not? Because it wouldn't allow timothy to post another anti-British story.
Diesel doesn't start to vapourise until about 40ÂC so I'd hate to think how hot your rooms are. What do you think the glow plugs in diesel engines are for?
You do know that diesel pretty much doesn't burn, right? You actually have to try pretty hard to set a puddle of diesel on fire.
This is why the US needs to update its antiquated libel laws to be more like the law in the UK. Over here, if what she says is true then there is simply no way she can lose. In the US system, anyone can say anything - true or untrue - they like about anyone else (yes, even you) and unless you've got much deeper pockets than them there's nothing you can do about it.
In the UK, the person telling the truth wins. In the US, the person with the most money to pay for lawyers wins. I prefer our way.
At work I keep a couple of old Toshiba 8086-based laptops around for programming 1980s-era radio equipment. That's not really old co-existing with the new, though.
I do have some software I wrote to transfer samples on a modern PC to the strangely-formatted Ensoniq Mirage 3.5" floppy disks, which I guess counts. My favourite though is my PDP11/23 which has a blown serial port on the CPU card. So with the aid of the service manual for the CPU I tracked down the fault to a blown level shifter. I haven't got a new one yet, so it has a couple of CP2102 USB-to-TTL bridges hanging off a USB hub taped inside the chassis.
It depends what you call "better". If by "better" you mean taking months to reconfigure, test, and finely tune to get right, then yes I suppose that's "better". A good steel cutter will take the drawings and gas axe them out of a plate for you, while you wait.
Since they only made 20 units at a time, it's just not cost effective.... and you still don't need a robot.
Exactly - robots are great if you're building a hundred a day, all identical. They suck when I say "yeah I need ten 80-tonne trucks, and I need five of them to be made 300mm narrower". A bunch of guys cutting parts by hand can do that easily.
If only there was some way of running more than one program...
I wish I had mod points for the pair of you.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to stand very still and lean from side to side a tiny bit in a dark room with loud music.
Is a slightly better smell while filling your tank worth having hazardous chemicals in the air, and a residue that can get on your hands that is harmful as well?
What, like the benzene used to replace TEL? The stuff that's a class-A carcinogen, with an MSDS that basically says "run away while you still can"?