This was in the UK. Big money legal paydays are VERY hard to achieve as such cases are tried only with judges, there are many avenues for appeal and dodgy fee setups and outrageous demands don't work or are not permitted.
I notice that the Media Centre states that there will be a purpose built area in Glasgow.
You don't need one - George Square on a Saturday Night will be full of piss-heads fighting......
[Note : I was born in Glasgow and spent half my life there so I can say what I like about it].
You could always make these guys an offer. They might be interested in offloading it.
One supersonic nuclear bomber. Excellent for doing the shopping, dropping off the kids or penetrating soviet air-defences to deliver some instant sunshine.
Well maintained, 2 careful owners. Comes with a spare set of keys and owners manual.
There is a system that's been on sale in Australia for a number of years - it is available in the US and Europe also. It's called C-Bus. The product comprises switches, controllers, relays etc and is available primarily in a wired configuration but there are wireless products available also.
It's main use is really in the commercial sphere due to the cost but it is used in high-end homes also. Whilst the hardware is commercial, Clipsal have recently published the serial protocol specifications [as used by the serial interface, not the device communication protocol itself].
For a look at the product range see here. {That isn't a Clipsal website but it gives a good idea of the product range}.
Providing it's installed and wired correctly it is extremely reliable and easy to maintain. It also scales very well.
Not quite. If you blow positive on the road-side machine they arrest you and take you to the nick. You are then breathalysed again with one of these. If that is STILL positive then you are charged with the offence and then normally bailed to appear in court. If it's negative then you are given a bit of a lecture and then told to bugger off and don't do it again.
The result of the machine at the station IS recognised by the court so that's enough to get you banned.
There has been challenges to this in the UK but the UK Judiciary isn't quite a flexible as US courts so the chances of that defense working are pretty well zero unless the coppers cocked up and didn't calibrate the machine that night or something.
As for the blood sample, the police will ask if you want to have one taken so it can be checked [you can have a sample as well]. You don't have do but it's worth doing as it just MIGHT get you off the hook if the result is borderline.
Here in Oz they have Booze Buses where they block the road and breathalyse whoever they feel like. If you blow positive they have everything nicely ready in the bus including the accurate machine etc. ready for customers - and they LOVE doing it at 8:30 in the morning also.
My wife [a senior nurse] came home from work one day about 4 years ago saying that she and her staff had been looking after an old lady on a ward at Epsom General Hospital. One of the surgeons pointed her out and said she was rather special since had named the planet Pluto. Apparently the old lady was very pleasant and polite but hadn't told anyone of her claim to fame.
Not really believing this story I googled a bit and found a name. My wife refused to tell me the name of the woman but when I said 'Venetia Phair' she was very surprised as she thought the whole thing was a massive wind-up.
You sir, are an anonymous fuckwit.
Many educated people [including myself and my wife who is a nurse] were worried about the MMR debate. Many recent UK governments have badly screwed up health problems [mad cow disease, salmonella etc.] After some thought, we decided to go ahead with the normal vaccine as the single vaccines would have exposed our daughter to even greater risk.
In the end the original study was discredited but my point is; when the government and authorities screw things up enough, even people with common sense and education doubt what they are being told.
The writer of this article is making an assumption and then wandering around to find ANY justification. His specific example Number 5 [Train control] - he basically 'thinks' that a train is controlled by Window based on a converesation with someone and then looks for a justification for his opinion. No-where in the PDF he links does it say the train control system runs on Windows. It does say that the external plug-in management software is based on Windows [on a laptop I presume] but so what ? - that's common for many out-of-band management tools.
I'm no windows fan at all [I think in the embedded sphere it's not advisable] but this article smacks of sensationalist and badly-researched reporting.
In 1987, Islamic terrorists working with Libya blew up a British Airways 747 over Scotland. There are some rather serious errors in your post.
There was not Israeli shootdown of a Jordanian plane - its was a Libyan aircraft shot down instead.
Also it was a PAN AM jet, not a British Airways one that exploded over Lockerbie and it was due to a bomb, not a shoot down.
I don't think Maori's are any better suited to living in the Oz outback than Caucasians for a number of very important reasons:
Maori's mainly inhabit NEW ZEALAND for one, a country known for its temperate climate, mountains, rain, coastline etc. There may be a Maori population in the Outback but they ain't indigenous. [More likely making some serious money in the mines].
The Outback is mainly known for its VERY HOT climate, lack of rain, lack of coastline etc. - well distinct lack of everything except flies.
The indigenous people of Australia are in fact collectively known as Aborigines.
Yesterday - used an NPN transistor as a switch on the common cathode of a seven-segment led from a PIC output. It's still digital, just a way of not passing too much current through the PIC.
One of my wife's relatives was a wind tunnel engineer on Concorde. I also remember seeing an interview with one the senior engineers on Concorde. He pointed out that Concorde was the FIRST in a projected series of supersonic transport aircraft. They had got over all the hard questions [propulsion issues, airframe heating etc. to name many] with Concorde and it would have been possible to scale up the design to larger sizes, assuming the propulsion improvements and efficiences could be developed as well. Concorde B was already being considered early on. Note the 10db reduction in takeoff noise.
After all, if you look at normal transport aircraft [Boeing & Airbus] they have got progressively larger and larger with more powerful but also more fuel efficient engines.
. That is what has brought the cost of air travel so low.
As time passes and Concorde recedes more into the distance, I think it will be seen more and more as a missed opportunity.
I reckon you have an open and shut case [if you will excuse the pun]. Write a letter to PC World [make it registered delivery so you know it was received] pointing out that the laptop has a MECHANICAL defect and you require it to be fixed. Be sure to include when and where you bought it, COPY of receipt, the managers response and a picture if you can of the damage. The fact that you have changed the operating system is of no consequence as its a mechanical hinge. Make it polite but also point out that PC World has a reponsibility under the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and they are in breach of that. If PC World say take it up with the manufacturer, ignore that, your sale contract is with PC World.
If PC World still refuse [and they probably will] then take them to the small claims court. As long as you have documentation, letters, dates and can prove that you have given them ample opportunity to resolve the matter there is a good chance the Judge will rule in your favour. Collecting your money after that can be a bit of a pain, but you will get it - they are not a 2bit operation after all.
See this link to the DTI, especially Q3 and Q10. Be polite but stick to your guns.
Agreed : the fact that it was Poland that cracked the Enigma first is often glossed over now [although anyone who reads up properly on the subject of Enigma will realise just how vital the Polish work was] and rubbish like U571 just makes it worse.
Interestingly, numerous clues were given [not on purpose needless to say] to the German High Command that their codes had been broken but they were convinced that Enigma was secure enough. German crytographers knew that Enigma could be broken, but considered the effort so immense that the messages would be worthless by the time they were decrypted.
After the war, the whole success of the decoding effort was sat on for many years, presumably because the British Government did not want anyone else to realise just how good their code breaking could be. It was only made public in the UK 29 years after the war.
While your post is correct about the film being a 'dramatisation', that film was some serious fiction. The Americans weren't even in the war when the first Enigmas were captured. The first capture of note [not an Enigma machine itself but something more vital] was grabbed from U110 by Sub-Lieutenant David Balme, aboard HMS Bulldog on the 9th May 1941 who was subsequently awarded a DSC for his actions. Before leaving the submarine, he grabbed a sealed envelope that contained the hyper-secret starting positions used by the Kriegsmarine.
This one looks like an Enigma 1 [Wermacht or Services Enigma]. They were also used by government and banks so this one could have been ex-government etc.
The important of cracking Enigma cannot ever be overstated. There is a general agreement amongst historians that the Allies ability to read the German's encrypted traffic shaved a couple of years off the war. I would encourage our American brethren to read the book 'Enigma:The Battle for the Code' by Simon Sebag-Montefiore. Its an exceptionally good and instructive read about the whole Enigma issue.
I think the plan [Operation Mikado] referred to landing a C130 onto an airfield [Rio Grande] in ARGENTINA and then attacking the aircraft, which were being used to lauch Exocets, and kill all the pilots. When it was presented to the SAS, it was remaned "Operation Certain Death". I remember reading one sergeant and one other point-blank refused to do it, understanding full well that such a mission would be plain old suicide. [You don't put 55 SAS troops into that kind of situation, they are too valuable. And it should be made clear that SAS members are not exactly known for cowardice...]. Both men were kicked out of the SAS for this.
After that the mission was slated to go ahead, but was eventually shelved after a recon helicopter landed short due to bad weather and had to be torched whilst the lads on board legged it into Chile. If it had gone ahead, I don't doubt that the men would have destroyed every single aircraft, missile and pilot on that base, but at a terrible cost in lives. Also, the Argentinians would have wasted NO time in telling the world that UK forces had invaded Argentina, etc etc.
Sorry I can't find a detailed reference to it, it was buried in a book by an ex-SBS or SAS trooper and it's not a well-known facet of the war. The plan itself wasn't Thatcher's, it was Admiral Lewin's.
You are obviously writing this post from your parents basement as you don't have the balls to put your name against it. My, aren't you a brave boy.
Oh, there's a couple of Black Watch lads from Glasgow holding rubber hoses who want 10mins with you in a sound-proof room. See if you have the balls to back up your argument under a public username.
You decided that a simple insult was all that was required without bothering to supply any supporting arguments.
Was the sinking of the Belgrano moral ? No.
Was the firing of an exocet into a conveyor ship killing some of the crew moral ? No.
Was the Argentinan invasion of the Falklands moral ? No.
Were the bombing of Port Stanley airport duing the BLACK BUCK missions moral ? No.
Were the harrasment and threats to locals by the Argentinian Military Intelligence moral ? No.
Were any of the deaths on ANY side moral ? No.
Was any of it moral ? No.
The whole Falklands was a short high-intensity conflict in which no-one ultimately won. The Argentinians were defeated yes, but both navies took ship losses [The Royal Navy especially]. Men died. Islanders died. All for one little barren rock in the South Atlantic which the British Government had to spend blood and treasure to retake and is still spending on now to garrison and support. The Argentinians gambled and invaded another country's territory. The British Government more-or-less gave the Junta a green light by indicating HMS Endurance was to be withdrawn. The invasion of South Georgia by a scrap metal dealer forced the Argentinian hand.
You can't look at one incident in the whole was and determine that it was immoral. It was a war - war is immoral period.
And finally here another one for you : Rick Jolly, the famous field surgeon during the Falklands, saved the lives of many British AND Argentinian soldiers. He treated everyone based on their condition, NOT their allegiance.
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This was in the UK. Big money legal paydays are VERY hard to achieve as such cases are tried only with judges, there are many avenues for appeal and dodgy fee setups and outrageous demands don't work or are not permitted.
I notice that the Media Centre states that there will be a purpose built area in Glasgow. You don't need one - George Square on a Saturday Night will be full of piss-heads fighting...... [Note : I was born in Glasgow and spent half my life there so I can say what I like about it].
You could always make these guys an offer. They might be interested in offloading it.
One supersonic nuclear bomber. Excellent for doing the shopping, dropping off the kids or penetrating soviet air-defences to deliver some instant sunshine.
Well maintained, 2 careful owners. Comes with a spare set of keys and owners manual.
Pick-up or will deliver for $10,000 a mile.
It isn't spelt 'checks' it's 'cheques' in the UK - for fucks sake get it right.
Perhaps you should teach your girlfriend to use the toilet instead then
There is a system that's been on sale in Australia for a number of years - it is available in the US and Europe also. It's called C-Bus. The product comprises switches, controllers, relays etc and is available primarily in a wired configuration but there are wireless products available also.
It's main use is really in the commercial sphere due to the cost but it is used in high-end homes also. Whilst the hardware is commercial, Clipsal have recently published the serial protocol specifications [as used by the serial interface, not the device communication protocol itself].
For a look at the product range see here. {That isn't a Clipsal website but it gives a good idea of the product range}. Providing it's installed and wired correctly it is extremely reliable and easy to maintain. It also scales very well.
Not quite. If you blow positive on the road-side machine they arrest you and take you to the nick. You are then breathalysed again with one of these. If that is STILL positive then you are charged with the offence and then normally bailed to appear in court. If it's negative then you are given a bit of a lecture and then told to bugger off and don't do it again.
The result of the machine at the station IS recognised by the court so that's enough to get you banned.
There has been challenges to this in the UK but the UK Judiciary isn't quite a flexible as US courts so the chances of that defense working are pretty well zero unless the coppers cocked up and didn't calibrate the machine that night or something.
As for the blood sample, the police will ask if you want to have one taken so it can be checked [you can have a sample as well]. You don't have do but it's worth doing as it just MIGHT get you off the hook if the result is borderline.
Here in Oz they have Booze Buses where they block the road and breathalyse whoever they feel like. If you blow positive they have everything nicely ready in the bus including the accurate machine etc. ready for customers - and they LOVE doing it at 8:30 in the morning also.
My wife [a senior nurse] came home from work one day about 4 years ago saying that she and her staff had been looking after an old lady on a ward at Epsom General Hospital. One of the surgeons pointed her out and said she was rather special since had named the planet Pluto. Apparently the old lady was very pleasant and polite but hadn't told anyone of her claim to fame.
Not really believing this story I googled a bit and found a name. My wife refused to tell me the name of the woman but when I said 'Venetia Phair' she was very surprised as she thought the whole thing was a massive wind-up.
...and nearly all of the venomous ones live in Australia also...
Drunk bogans and/or pissed quokka-throwing Western Force players ?
During the war in Bosnia, a French Officer didn't exactly cover himself in glory.
You sir, are an anonymous fuckwit. Many educated people [including myself and my wife who is a nurse] were worried about the MMR debate. Many recent UK governments have badly screwed up health problems [mad cow disease, salmonella etc.] After some thought, we decided to go ahead with the normal vaccine as the single vaccines would have exposed our daughter to even greater risk. In the end the original study was discredited but my point is; when the government and authorities screw things up enough, even people with common sense and education doubt what they are being told.
The one that sticks in my mind is similar but with the line "I can almost smell their tears" said in a suitably creepy voice.
The writer of this article is making an assumption and then wandering around to find ANY justification. His specific example Number 5 [Train control] - he basically 'thinks' that a train is controlled by Window based on a converesation with someone and then looks for a justification for his opinion. No-where in the PDF he links does it say the train control system runs on Windows. It does say that the external plug-in management software is based on Windows [on a laptop I presume] but so what ? - that's common for many out-of-band management tools. I'm no windows fan at all [I think in the embedded sphere it's not advisable] but this article smacks of sensationalist and badly-researched reporting.
There was not Israeli shootdown of a Jordanian plane - its was a Libyan aircraft shot down instead.
Also it was a PAN AM jet, not a British Airways one that exploded over Lockerbie and it was due to a bomb, not a shoot down.
Yesterday - used an NPN transistor as a switch on the common cathode of a seven-segment led from a PIC output. It's still digital, just a way of not passing too much current through the PIC.
One of my wife's relatives was a wind tunnel engineer on Concorde. I also remember seeing an interview with one the senior engineers on Concorde. He pointed out that Concorde was the FIRST in a projected series of supersonic transport aircraft. They had got over all the hard questions [propulsion issues, airframe heating etc. to name many] with Concorde and it would have been possible to scale up the design to larger sizes, assuming the propulsion improvements and efficiences could be developed as well. Concorde B was already being considered early on. Note the 10db reduction in takeoff noise.
After all, if you look at normal transport aircraft [Boeing & Airbus] they have got progressively larger and larger with more powerful but also more fuel efficient engines.
. That is what has brought the cost of air travel so low. As time passes and Concorde recedes more into the distance, I think it will be seen more and more as a missed opportunity.
I reckon you have an open and shut case [if you will excuse the pun]. Write a letter to PC World [make it registered delivery so you know it was received] pointing out that the laptop has a MECHANICAL defect and you require it to be fixed. Be sure to include when and where you bought it, COPY of receipt, the managers response and a picture if you can of the damage. The fact that you have changed the operating system is of no consequence as its a mechanical hinge. Make it polite but also point out that PC World has a reponsibility under the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and they are in breach of that. If PC World say take it up with the manufacturer, ignore that, your sale contract is with PC World.
If PC World still refuse [and they probably will] then take them to the small claims court. As long as you have documentation, letters, dates and can prove that you have given them ample opportunity to resolve the matter there is a good chance the Judge will rule in your favour. Collecting your money after that can be a bit of a pain, but you will get it - they are not a 2bit operation after all.
See this link to the DTI, especially Q3 and Q10. Be polite but stick to your guns.
Agreed : the fact that it was Poland that cracked the Enigma first is often glossed over now [although anyone who reads up properly on the subject of Enigma will realise just how vital the Polish work was] and rubbish like U571 just makes it worse.
Interestingly, numerous clues were given [not on purpose needless to say] to the German High Command that their codes had been broken but they were convinced that Enigma was secure enough. German crytographers knew that Enigma could be broken, but considered the effort so immense that the messages would be worthless by the time they were decrypted.
After the war, the whole success of the decoding effort was sat on for many years, presumably because the British Government did not want anyone else to realise just how good their code breaking could be. It was only made public in the UK 29 years after the war.
While your post is correct about the film being a 'dramatisation', that film was some serious fiction. The Americans weren't even in the war when the first Enigmas were captured. The first capture of note [not an Enigma machine itself but something more vital] was grabbed from U110 by Sub-Lieutenant David Balme, aboard HMS Bulldog on the 9th May 1941 who was subsequently awarded a DSC for his actions. Before leaving the submarine, he grabbed a sealed envelope that contained the hyper-secret starting positions used by the Kriegsmarine.
This one looks like an Enigma 1 [Wermacht or Services Enigma]. They were also used by government and banks so this one could have been ex-government etc.
The important of cracking Enigma cannot ever be overstated. There is a general agreement amongst historians that the Allies ability to read the German's encrypted traffic shaved a couple of years off the war. I would encourage our American brethren to read the book 'Enigma:The Battle for the Code' by Simon Sebag-Montefiore. Its an exceptionally good and instructive read about the whole Enigma issue.
I think the plan [Operation Mikado] referred to landing a C130 onto an airfield [Rio Grande] in ARGENTINA and then attacking the aircraft, which were being used to lauch Exocets, and kill all the pilots. When it was presented to the SAS, it was remaned "Operation Certain Death". I remember reading one sergeant and one other point-blank refused to do it, understanding full well that such a mission would be plain old suicide. [You don't put 55 SAS troops into that kind of situation, they are too valuable. And it should be made clear that SAS members are not exactly known for cowardice...]. Both men were kicked out of the SAS for this.
After that the mission was slated to go ahead, but was eventually shelved after a recon helicopter landed short due to bad weather and had to be torched whilst the lads on board legged it into Chile. If it had gone ahead, I don't doubt that the men would have destroyed every single aircraft, missile and pilot on that base, but at a terrible cost in lives. Also, the Argentinians would have wasted NO time in telling the world that UK forces had invaded Argentina, etc etc.
Sorry I can't find a detailed reference to it, it was buried in a book by an ex-SBS or SAS trooper and it's not a well-known facet of the war. The plan itself wasn't Thatcher's, it was Admiral Lewin's.
Well done - another muppet who's quite happy to make puerile assertions without having the bottle to put their login id against it.
You are obviously writing this post from your parents basement as you don't have the balls to put your name against it. My, aren't you a brave boy.
Oh, there's a couple of Black Watch lads from Glasgow holding rubber hoses who want 10mins with you in a sound-proof room. See if you have the balls to back up your argument under a public username.
You decided that a simple insult was all that was required without bothering to supply any supporting arguments.
Was the sinking of the Belgrano moral ? No.
Was the firing of an exocet into a conveyor ship killing some of the crew moral ? No.
Was the Argentinan invasion of the Falklands moral ? No.
Were the bombing of Port Stanley airport duing the BLACK BUCK missions moral ? No. Were the harrasment and threats to locals by the Argentinian Military Intelligence moral ? No. Were any of the deaths on ANY side moral ? No.
Was any of it moral ? No.
The whole Falklands was a short high-intensity conflict in which no-one ultimately won. The Argentinians were defeated yes, but both navies took ship losses [The Royal Navy especially]. Men died. Islanders died. All for one little barren rock in the South Atlantic which the British Government had to spend blood and treasure to retake and is still spending on now to garrison and support. The Argentinians gambled and invaded another country's territory. The British Government more-or-less gave the Junta a green light by indicating HMS Endurance was to be withdrawn. The invasion of South Georgia by a scrap metal dealer forced the Argentinian hand.
You can't look at one incident in the whole was and determine that it was immoral. It was a war - war is immoral period.
And finally here another one for you : Rick Jolly, the famous field surgeon during the Falklands, saved the lives of many British AND Argentinian soldiers. He treated everyone based on their condition, NOT their allegiance.