UK plugs are also shuttered - the earth pole when it is inserted into the socket, moves shutters out of the way over the live pins - presumably to stop little kiddies zapping themselves when they try to stick things into the socket. Also, the plugs themselves have to carry internal fusing at all times, rated to the amperage of the appliance it is connected to.
don't always believe what BBC has to say about things... they are as guilty as any other major corporation of corrupting reality to serve their own purposes
Obviously you've never watched a lot of the BBC News output, otherwise you'd know that's one of the most pig-ignorant statements made on Slashdot for a while. The BBC is no friend of big business, and whilst it may be called a corporation, it does not operate along the same lines.
if you give -any- large group of people sufficient means to self-sustain their communities, and make those means available to all and sundry, you will reduce tensions in the area.
I'll think you'll find with this, is that once a large group of people can self-sustain their communities, tensions often INCREASE as they start to look enviously at someone else's self-sustaining community.
Also, another suggestion. Capital Letters are your friend - Go on, dont't be Afraid ! Use them !
The company I worked at 5 years ago had these on all of the exterior doors. Whenever you pressed one of the numbers, all of the numbers would scramble position on the displays, so even through your entry code didnt change, the relative positions of all the keys changed every time.
Albeit, not much use for blind users perhaps - I'd presume thats why I haven't since such an approach used anywhere else.
I spent 5 years getting my Electronic Engineering Degree. I now work as a Java/Oracle/SQL/JSP what-have-you. Okay, my degree course is very mathematics intensive, but I still use what I was taught.
When you have solid foundation in maths (and I don't mean stop when you left secondary school), handling numbers and concepts becomes easy. SQL query optimisation ? Easy, since you can conceptualise set theory.
The other day, I did an analysis based on the distributions of emails across a number of company products to find out if it was viable to condense into one email or if the resultant drop in email server load was negligible. It was a mix of stats, sql, etc. etc. and ESPECIALLY knowing how to read the data and not to make assumptions from it.
I can tell you that my employer does give a shit, and then don't employ people to connect a webserver to a database - they employ people to build SOLUTIONS.
Of sorry I forgot - judging by your post, you've obviously never working in a proper professional environment.
Perhaps it would also filter out all of the crap about offers for cheap mortgages, cheap medications etc. etc. that are off no interest to me MAINLY BECAUSE I LIVE IN THE U.K.!
I lived in Folkestone for a couple of years, and we still own a property down there.
There already is a visitor centre for the Tunnel apparently (never been to it). It is a small place, it used to have a ferry connection to France but thats gone now, although there may still be a small freight service.
With the Tunnel now, most people keep on the motorway and wouldnt enter Folkestone anymore. Its a fading Edwardian Sea-side town now - I loved living next to the sea, but its not exactly a happening place...
There were a few fast jet Argentinian Pilots in the Falklands war who found out the hard way that whilst the Harrier is a lot slower, the fact it can stop very fast and go backwards ('viffing') tends to mean the Harrier has a nasty punch for a small, relatively slow jet.
I would think a low-airframe hours mig 29 with a full spares pack (some avionics, hydraulics and a couple of spare engines) would go for a good couple of million dollars minimum each.
Remember, we're talking about a Mach 2+ fighter with a performance envelope that scared the crap out of Nato when it first came out. Granted, Nato aircraft have excellent long-range missiles, but get close in and the Mig wins.
Cell-phone jammers are illegal in the UK - end of story. Quote :
In the last two years the Radiocommunications Agency has become aware of devices, being marketed around the world, that can block mobile phone calls. These devices transmit radio signals that prevent communications between cellular handsets and cellular base stations.
It is illegal to install or use these devices in the UK. Use of these devices constitutes an offence contrary to sections 1 (unlicensed use) and 13 (deliberate interference) of the Wireless Telegraphy 1949 Act. Any outlets marketing such devices in the UK may be prosecuted for inciting the public to commit offences.
The cellular operators are licensed to provide a mobile telephone service throughout the UK. Cellular phones are used for a variety of business and public applications, and cellular customers expect to be able to make and receive telephone calls within the coverage areas provided by the operators. The Agency will take all necessary steps to ensure that cellphone jammers are not used in the UK.
Key quote here is : Any outlets marketing such devices in the UK may be prosecuted for inciting the public to commit offences..
Anyone trying to sell these in the UK would be due a visit from the OFCOM Storm Troopers.
Try reading the book - film adaptations of Clancy's work dont't always work (The Sum of all Fears as a film is tragic, as a book its much better - well researched and mostly plausible, apart from the daft 'touch-feely' ending.
The cretin who submitted this doesnt even live in the UK - he is an American who lives in San Francisco.
Quote : "the BBC is complicit in the death of Dr. Kelly and the 'sexing up' of the Iraq dossier."
Where does this idiot get his information from ? Yes, looking at this sentence, the BBC IS involved in the death of Dr. Kelly and the 'dossier' accusations, but only as a part of a whole, including the BBC senior management, the Government, MOD, some MP's and Dr. Kelly itself. And NO-ONE is directly accused of directly causing Dr. Kellys death - he committed suicide, end of story. The BBC's alleged involvement was to stand by an accusation against a government adviser of 'sexing up' an intelligence dossier, despite grave misgivings about the accuracy of the story.
I know news coverage in the US is poor, but I would suggest the original submitter tries to get some decent news coverage - BBC TV news (if you can get it in the US) still beats the pants off anything else you are likely to get for objectivity and editorial quality. I was also under the impression that the Guardian is a bit of a cheerleader for the BBC in general - public service broadcasting is something I would think the vast majority of it's readership support.
In 1983 an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel mid-flight. Disaster was averted due to a long-enough disused runway being available.
Its now know as the "Gimli Glider" named after the abandoned air-force base where it landed. It was luck that one of the pilots was a glider pilot. Apart from the complete-cock up, it showed some fantastic flying and emergency management.
I recently read a book (The Last Escape)about the forced marching of allied prisoners of war from the East (Poland etc) back to Germany in the last few months of World War II. It made a point that the Russians were making noises that if there soldiers taken captive by the Germans, and those who had fought for the Germans, were not repatriated back to Stalins clutches, then the Red Army would take the allied prisoners back to Russia and use them as bargaining chips.
Remember, relations between the allies and Russia were becoming increasingly strained towards the end of World War II.
As an aside, I'd recommend the book to anyone. Its uses original interviews from men in the pow camps and on the marches and sheds some light on a forgotten issue amongst the chaos in Europe at the end of the war.
Saudi executions are NOT carried out in Soccer stadiums. Public executions are often carried out opposite the main mosque in the city or town. The person is brought out (heavily drugged) and made to kneel. The executioner appears from the crowd, or a car and very quickly beheads the individual with a large scimitar-type sword. The sword is immediately taken off him and he goes away again. Its carried out very fast, and in public, but thats the whole point - the administration of justice is public. If I remember correctly, the family of the victim can commute the death sentence and have the murderer etc released on payment of blood money. When I lived in Jeddah, I once nonchantly sped down-town to 'chop square', completely forgetting it was midday prayers on a friday. I was stopped by a Saudi Policeman who politely suggested that I find another route.
Also, the issue with the girls dying in the school in Makkah. The Committe for the Promulgation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (you can always spot them - they used to drive GMC Suburbans are are dirty looking bastards) stopped the girls being rescued. After this, the government replaced a lot of officials and carried out an inquiry. I'm not a supporter of the Saudi Government at all but they did react to it (even the newspapers got stuck into the government over that - something unheard of before).
Saudi is a mad (and very young) country - full of contradictions. However, I had three fun-filled years (the booze, the nurses !!) there and I'll tell you this, it's the safest place I'll ever live.
You obviously don't have any family, or are as bitter as hell about some rejection somewhere.
I'm lucky, I'm in a good job I enjoy, I'm relatively well paid and I live in a country (UK) which at least has some safety net should things go bad (at least I dont have to pay medical bills).
I DO have an 18-month old daughter, and ethics or morals or any other crap can go out of the window regarding employment, as long as it keeps her in food and shoes on her feet.
One day when you are man, and have the responsibility of being part of raising a family, you'll understand (although with an attitude like yours, the only way you'll ever have sex is if you hand over money for it).
Accurate longitude calculation wasnt possible until the advent of accurate sea-going clocks. This didnt happen until the end of 18th centry/early 19th Century, starting with the final John Harrison Chronometer, H4 in the late 1770's I think.
Until then, longitude calculation could not be done to the degree of REPEATABLE accuracy required to draw accurate maps.
Such improvements directly led to the great expedition voyages of the 18th Century e.g Captain Cooks charting of the Southern Pacific.
I was under the impression that large parts of the legal process in the USA are based on English Common Law, as are many other legal systems throughout the world. Can I quote from the CIA factbook for the USA ?
Legal System : based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
Please dont spout your ill-informed opinions about the UK without checking your facts first.
IANAL, but in the UK now its often referred to as 'IP & IT' (Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law)'.
It can cover topics like :
Confidentiality
Copyright
Data protection
Databases
Designs
E-commerce
Information technology
Patents
Research and development
Trade marks
Telecommunications
I work for a company who provide on-line legal know for lawyers practising in those areas - things like domain name dispute resolution are certainly covered by it.
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UK plugs are also shuttered - the earth pole when it is inserted into the socket, moves shutters out of the way over the live pins - presumably to stop little kiddies zapping themselves when they try to stick things into the socket. Also, the plugs themselves have to carry internal fusing at all times, rated to the amperage of the appliance it is connected to.
Obviously you've never watched a lot of the BBC News output, otherwise you'd know that's one of the most pig-ignorant statements made on Slashdot for a while. The BBC is no friend of big business, and whilst it may be called a corporation, it does not operate along the same lines.
if you give -any- large group of people sufficient means to self-sustain their communities, and make those means available to all and sundry, you will reduce tensions in the area.
I'll think you'll find with this, is that once a large group of people can self-sustain their communities, tensions often INCREASE as they start to look enviously at someone else's self-sustaining community.
Also, another suggestion. Capital Letters are your friend - Go on, dont't be Afraid ! Use them !
The company I worked at 5 years ago had these on all of the exterior doors. Whenever you pressed one of the numbers, all of the numbers would scramble position on the displays, so even through your entry code didnt change, the relative positions of all the keys changed every time.
Albeit, not much use for blind users perhaps - I'd presume thats why I haven't since such an approach used anywhere else.
I spent 5 years getting my Electronic Engineering Degree. I now work as a Java/Oracle/SQL/JSP what-have-you. Okay, my degree course is very mathematics intensive, but I still use what I was taught.
When you have solid foundation in maths (and I don't mean stop when you left secondary school), handling numbers and concepts becomes easy. SQL query optimisation ? Easy, since you can conceptualise set theory.
The other day, I did an analysis based on the distributions of emails across a number of company products to find out if it was viable to condense into one email or if the resultant drop in email server load was negligible. It was a mix of stats, sql, etc. etc. and ESPECIALLY knowing how to read the data and not to make assumptions from it.
I can tell you that my employer does give a shit, and then don't employ people to connect a webserver to a database - they employ people to build SOLUTIONS.
Of sorry I forgot - judging by your post, you've obviously never working in a proper professional environment.
Great !!
Perhaps it would also filter out all of the crap about offers for cheap mortgages, cheap medications etc. etc. that are off no interest to me MAINLY BECAUSE I LIVE IN THE U.K.!
Sorry, you are 100% correct - I got the approximate conversion the wrong way round - what a muppet..
Anyway, if its $1.05 in the UK, it just proves that the UK is ALWAYS more expensive than the States.
Its called Shazam and its been available for at least a year now. From what I've tried of the service, it works quite well.
Cost is 59pence per call (which must be about 35 cents or something in US of A money).
I lived in Folkestone for a couple of years, and we still own a property down there.
There already is a visitor centre for the Tunnel apparently (never been to it). It is a small place, it used to have a ferry connection to France but thats gone now, although there may still be a small freight service.
With the Tunnel now, most people keep on the motorway and wouldnt enter Folkestone anymore. Its a fading Edwardian Sea-side town now - I loved living next to the sea, but its not exactly a happening place...
Only problem with the Sky+ remote is the record button is too small, tucked away underneath the PVR forward/backwards buttons.
There were a few fast jet Argentinian Pilots in the Falklands war who found out the hard way that whilst the Harrier is a lot slower, the fact it can stop very fast and go backwards ('viffing') tends to mean the Harrier has a nasty punch for a small, relatively slow jet.
On doing some research on the Mig-29, one article pointed out that the DESIGN life of the airframe was 2500 hours.
I would think a low-airframe hours mig 29 with a full spares pack (some avionics, hydraulics and a couple of spare engines) would go for a good couple of million dollars minimum each.
Remember, we're talking about a Mach 2+ fighter with a performance envelope that scared the crap out of Nato when it first came out. Granted, Nato aircraft have excellent long-range missiles, but get close in and the Mig wins.
Cell-phone jammers are illegal in the UK - end of story. Quote :
In the last two years the Radiocommunications Agency has become aware of devices, being marketed around the world, that can block mobile phone calls. These devices transmit radio signals that prevent communications between cellular handsets and cellular base stations. It is illegal to install or use these devices in the UK. Use of these devices constitutes an offence contrary to sections 1 (unlicensed use) and 13 (deliberate interference) of the Wireless Telegraphy 1949 Act. Any outlets marketing such devices in the UK may be prosecuted for inciting the public to commit offences. The cellular operators are licensed to provide a mobile telephone service throughout the UK. Cellular phones are used for a variety of business and public applications, and cellular customers expect to be able to make and receive telephone calls within the coverage areas provided by the operators. The Agency will take all necessary steps to ensure that cellphone jammers are not used in the UK.
Key quote here is : Any outlets marketing such devices in the UK may be prosecuted for inciting the public to commit offences..
Anyone trying to sell these in the UK would be due a visit from the OFCOM Storm Troopers.
Try reading the book - film adaptations of Clancy's work dont't always work (The Sum of all Fears as a film is tragic, as a book its much better - well researched and mostly plausible, apart from the daft 'touch-feely' ending.
The cretin who submitted this doesnt even live in the UK - he is an American who lives in San Francisco.
Quote : "the BBC is complicit in the death of Dr. Kelly and the 'sexing up' of the Iraq dossier."
Where does this idiot get his information from ? Yes, looking at this sentence, the BBC IS involved in the death of Dr. Kelly and the 'dossier' accusations, but only as a part of a whole, including the BBC senior management, the Government, MOD, some MP's and Dr. Kelly itself. And NO-ONE is directly accused of directly causing Dr. Kellys death - he committed suicide, end of story. The BBC's alleged involvement was to stand by an accusation against a government adviser of 'sexing up' an intelligence dossier, despite grave misgivings about the accuracy of the story.
I know news coverage in the US is poor, but I would suggest the original submitter tries to get some decent news coverage - BBC TV news (if you can get it in the US) still beats the pants off anything else you are likely to get for objectivity and editorial quality. I was also under the impression that the Guardian is a bit of a cheerleader for the BBC in general - public service broadcasting is something I would think the vast majority of it's readership support.
Admittedly true.
But in that case the parent post is stupid. I can ask the same question - since when has sticking to the metric system resulted in such mistakes ?
Surely the issue (and one of the issues in the original post) is that the dual use of two differing measurement systems caused problems.
Actually you are wrong !!!
In 1983 an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel mid-flight. Disaster was averted due to a long-enough disused runway being available.
Its now know as the "Gimli Glider" named after the abandoned air-force base where it landed. It was luck that one of the pilots was a glider pilot. Apart from the complete-cock up, it showed some fantastic flying and emergency management.
I recently read a book (The Last Escape)about the forced marching of allied prisoners of war from the East (Poland etc) back to Germany in the last few months of World War II. It made a point that the Russians were making noises that if there soldiers taken captive by the Germans, and those who had fought for the Germans, were not repatriated back to Stalins clutches, then the Red Army would take the allied prisoners back to Russia and use them as bargaining chips.
Remember, relations between the allies and Russia were becoming increasingly strained towards the end of World War II.
As an aside, I'd recommend the book to anyone. Its uses original interviews from men in the pow camps and on the marches and sheds some light on a forgotten issue amongst the chaos in Europe at the end of the war.
Saudi executions are NOT carried out in Soccer stadiums. Public executions are often carried out opposite the main mosque in the city or town. The person is brought out (heavily drugged) and made to kneel. The executioner appears from the crowd, or a car and very quickly beheads the individual with a large scimitar-type sword. The sword is immediately taken off him and he goes away again. Its carried out very fast, and in public, but thats the whole point - the administration of justice is public. If I remember correctly, the family of the victim can commute the death sentence and have the murderer etc released on payment of blood money. When I lived in Jeddah, I once nonchantly sped down-town to 'chop square', completely forgetting it was midday prayers on a friday. I was stopped by a Saudi Policeman who politely suggested that I find another route.
Also, the issue with the girls dying in the school in Makkah. The Committe for the Promulgation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (you can always spot them - they used to drive GMC Suburbans are are dirty looking bastards) stopped the girls being rescued. After this, the government replaced a lot of officials and carried out an inquiry. I'm not a supporter of the Saudi Government at all but they did react to it (even the newspapers got stuck into the government over that - something unheard of before).
Saudi is a mad (and very young) country - full of contradictions. However, I had three fun-filled years (the booze, the nurses !!) there and I'll tell you this, it's the safest place I'll ever live.
You really are a twat, aren't you ?
You obviously don't have any family, or are as bitter as hell about some rejection somewhere.
I'm lucky, I'm in a good job I enjoy, I'm relatively well paid and I live in a country (UK) which at least has some safety net should things go bad (at least I dont have to pay medical bills).
I DO have an 18-month old daughter, and ethics or morals or any other crap can go out of the window regarding employment, as long as it keeps her in food and shoes on her feet.
One day when you are man, and have the responsibility of being part of raising a family, you'll understand (although with an attitude like yours, the only way you'll ever have sex is if you hand over money for it).
Accurate longitude calculation wasnt possible until the advent of accurate sea-going clocks. This didnt happen until the end of 18th centry/early 19th Century, starting with the final John Harrison Chronometer, H4 in the late 1770's I think.
Until then, longitude calculation could not be done to the degree of REPEATABLE accuracy required to draw accurate maps.
Such improvements directly led to the great expedition voyages of the 18th Century e.g Captain Cooks charting of the Southern Pacific.
I'll think you'll find the money refers to initial studies, test borings to find the strata underneath, feasability studies etc.
Once the engineers have a good idea of what they would need to go through, then they can look at the entire project.
Excuse me ?
I was under the impression that large parts of the legal process in the USA are based on English Common Law, as are many other legal systems throughout the world. Can I quote from the CIA factbook for the USA ?
Legal System : based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
Please dont spout your ill-informed opinions about the UK without checking your facts first.
I'll think you'll find the title refers to Linus defending HIMSELF against any accusations by SCO, not acting for SCO's defence.
It can cover topics like :
I work for a company who provide on-line legal know for lawyers practising in those areas - things like domain name dispute resolution are certainly covered by it.