Actually violence against children has been going down for a long time now. But the 24-hour news cycle has made abductions and other horrors seem like a common thing. You're a helluva lot safer as a kid alone in the mall today that you were 20-40 years ago.
Now then now then now then, kids in those days listened to showaddywaddy and have Jim fix it for them.
The Ceefax service to mainland UK shut off in February this year, leaving Northern Ireland as the only area left with coverage.
Oh, and the original ad for Ceefax claimed "it is made up of two words: Cee and Fax." But of a silly one, that.
It was turned off in 2007 in Whitehaven. In Manchester it was 2009. It was only the stragglers in London, NI and the Channel Islands that hung on til this year.
My favourite part of history being made was... "This momentous event, which had occurred just once before"... wait, if it happened once before, then who really gives a flying ?
The PR droids have been advertising the hell out of this convention since Sunday. Articles and videos on the bbc (real news, not just the website), coverage in the independent, etc.
There wasn't a peep about it before it happened.
More interestingly, this was the first UK convention for 12 years.
So you believe that 10 times out of 10 every time you are shortchanged at a cash register it's deliberate an intentional and not because the dumb ass can't count?
If this were true, for every 10 times you are shortchanged, you should have another 10 times when you receive too much money. How often does that happen?
I know for a fact that Cheshire Police in the UK doesn't care if you know what unmarked cars they use - I have seen them personally show large, unobscured photographs of them with number plates showing clearly in public settings - because they're not designed to trick you, they're designed to be less visible than a panda car so they can tail suspect vehicles more easily, and your "5 over" driver is not such a motorist.
Cheshire police are the only force to have pulled me over for speeding, back in 1999. I'd joined the M56 heading towards wales, and pulled into a gap in the outside lane. BMW ahead went speding off at 100+, and the estate behind me was right up my tail. Sped up to get to past the middle lane lot, then pulled in. The estate went speeding off.
A few miles later it had dropped back and then pulled me over, with video of me at 87mph. They were very grumpy about losing the bmw, but let me off with a warning.
Police reaction to speeding in the UK and US is often quite different. The last time I took the wheel in the UK I made a 220 km journey, over mostly M roads, in an hour and got no tickets despite passing several marked police cars.
What speed were you doing?
Anything over 85 will likely get you pulled over, based on your lack of observation of the marked car. Of course most people slow down to 70 when passing marked police cars, so you're forced to do so too.
Over the last 5 years I've felt the average speed on the motorway has dropped from about 80ish to 70ish, there's a lot of dangerous car drivers that are doing under 56mph (thus forcing lorries out into the middle lane), and you're getting dangerously high speed differences between people doing 70, and idiots doing 45.
Police cars are rare though, you probably saw highways agency vehicles, whose have limited powers to stop and direct traffic (During an RTA for example), but not pull you over for speeding or issue a ticket.
What laptops are you leasing? Must have some super high end kit or something; that's pretty high for a buy price.
Or a crap outsourced it provider which overcharges on leased assets (and everything else -- $6000 project management to add a layer2 switch? Thats before the cost of the switch, and they expect "smart hands" to install it) to cover their headline low price
people have been predicting the demise of Windows for decades. It's still the de facto standard
In my experience, Grunts use windows as they don't have the power to stand up to the increasingly obsolete corporate it culture. The important people are allowed to use macs and iThingys.
You must be one hell of a shot if you can snipe someone in America from a hill in Australia. Seriously, if you believe that the US or any other country should have this kind of power you must be crazy.
Go to the border of Canada then. Shoot someone in another country. Where are you tried?
How about in the USA? Someone from California goes to Texas and shoots across the border and hits someone from maine who lives in Oklahoma, who is taken to hospital in Coralardo? Classic sideshow bob scenario.
Eventually you will find the at the entrance of every burgerdoodle and street corner.
Welcome to the 'new world', hope you enjoy your stay.
The only place I've seen metal detectors on every "street corner" (well, every mall), is Israel. Israel don't even bother with these detectors at their major airport TLV. They do have a MMW scanner at Erez for people coming from gaza, but that's the only non-metal detector device I've seen.
Tell them that arrangements for payment are being made and hang up. Call the phone company directly then give the customer service representative the credit card information. I don't care if it was actually the phone company that called me. I still hang up and call them back.
I Do care, very much. If a company I do business with tries that on, they won't be dealing with me for long.
They can phone up, explain the bill requires payment, and tell me to phone on the number on my statement, that's fine. Asking me for any details, including my name, is not on.
I don't, however packing any evidence of things happening without cause, I'll assume it was. It's also a meaningless statement as it can have no bearing on existence. It's as if it's outside a light cone.
My father was indoctrinated as a child and despite being a software engineer and so demonstrably more than capable of logical thinking and understanding he could never abandon Islam. Are people like that beyond help, I wonder.
sounds like a healthy survival instinct. A large portion of western Muslims (30%) believe that apostasy should be punished by death.
While Jehovah's witnesses may annoy you, Scientology and Islam are cults with dangerous followers. Safest not to piss them off.
If your definition of "god" is "the fore that caused our current universe to begin about 13.7 billion years ago, you really can't argue with that.
That force could be a closed timeline curve, quantum fluctuations, a fart from Chuggs' room mate, etc. it is by definition unqualifiablr and irrelevant.
Does the US citizen - Average Joe (or above average) know or care about this?
On a personal note, I'm shocked the government made a choice for a person over a corporation/lobby group/foreign power. First time In my life I think I've agreed with a home secretary?!?! must be getting old.
This is an unusual case, which has found most of us "liberals" on the same side as the BNP and Daily Mail.
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Actually violence against children has been going down for a long time now. But the 24-hour news cycle has made abductions and other horrors seem like a common thing. You're a helluva lot safer as a kid alone in the mall today that you were 20-40 years ago.
Now then now then now then, kids in those days listened to showaddywaddy and have Jim fix it for them.
The Ceefax service to mainland UK shut off in February this year, leaving Northern Ireland as the only area left with coverage.
Oh, and the original ad for Ceefax claimed "it is made up of two words: Cee and Fax." But of a silly one, that.
It was turned off in 2007 in Whitehaven. In Manchester it was 2009. It was only the stragglers in London, NI and the Channel Islands that hung on til this year.
That sounds like Teletext which we had in New Zealand from about 1984
Yes, 10 years after the BBC invented it and gave it to you
They don't have flying cars where you live?
Yes, but I still have to steer it!
My favourite part of history being made was ... "This momentous event, which had occurred just once before"... wait, if it happened once before, then who really gives a flying ?
The PR droids have been advertising the hell out of this convention since Sunday. Articles and videos on the bbc (real news, not just the website), coverage in the independent, etc.
There wasn't a peep about it before it happened.
More interestingly, this was the first UK convention for 12 years.
Normally it's the other way round as a tax evasion measure.
So you believe that 10 times out of 10 every time you are shortchanged at a cash register it's deliberate an intentional and not because the dumb ass can't count?
If this were true, for every 10 times you are shortchanged, you should have another 10 times when you receive too much money. How often does that happen?
They would have no such desire if sane drug laws (legalize them and treat side effects as a health issue, which they are) were the rule of the day.
Fine, replace "drug dealers" with "bank robbers"
I know for a fact that Cheshire Police in the UK doesn't care if you know what unmarked cars they use - I have seen them personally show large, unobscured photographs of them with number plates showing clearly in public settings - because they're not designed to trick you, they're designed to be less visible than a panda car so they can tail suspect vehicles more easily, and your "5 over" driver is not such a motorist.
Cheshire police are the only force to have pulled me over for speeding, back in 1999. I'd joined the M56 heading towards wales, and pulled into a gap in the outside lane. BMW ahead went speding off at 100+, and the estate behind me was right up my tail. Sped up to get to past the middle lane lot, then pulled in. The estate went speeding off.
A few miles later it had dropped back and then pulled me over, with video of me at 87mph. They were very grumpy about losing the bmw, but let me off with a warning.
Police reaction to speeding in the UK and US is often quite different. The last time I took the wheel in the UK I made a 220 km journey, over mostly M roads, in an hour and got no tickets despite passing several marked police cars.
What speed were you doing?
Anything over 85 will likely get you pulled over, based on your lack of observation of the marked car. Of course most people slow down to 70 when passing marked police cars, so you're forced to do so too.
Over the last 5 years I've felt the average speed on the motorway has dropped from about 80ish to 70ish, there's a lot of dangerous car drivers that are doing under 56mph (thus forcing lorries out into the middle lane), and you're getting dangerously high speed differences between people doing 70, and idiots doing 45.
Police cars are rare though, you probably saw highways agency vehicles, whose have limited powers to stop and direct traffic (During an RTA for example), but not pull you over for speeding or issue a ticket.
What laptops are you leasing? Must have some super high end kit or something; that's pretty high for a buy price.
Or a crap outsourced it provider which overcharges on leased assets (and everything else -- $6000 project management to add a layer2 switch? Thats before the cost of the switch, and they expect "smart hands" to install it) to cover their headline low price
News at 11, important people claim to need a $3000 laptop to send emails!
3k isn't exactly a lot. That said, our corporate windows crapbooks cost 2300 a year to lease.
people have been predicting the demise of Windows for decades. It's still the de facto standard
In my experience, Grunts use windows as they don't have the power to stand up to the increasingly obsolete corporate it culture. The important people are allowed to use macs and iThingys.
You must be one hell of a shot if you can snipe someone in America from a hill in Australia. Seriously, if you believe that the US or any other country should have this kind of power you must be crazy.
Go to the border of Canada then. Shoot someone in another country. Where are you tried?
How about in the USA? Someone from California goes to Texas and shoots across the border and hits someone from maine who lives in Oklahoma, who is taken to hospital in Coralardo? Classic sideshow bob scenario.
Everyone seems to have forgotten about the other pollution that comes from burning petrol. I live next to a main road and the soot/dust is horrendous.
I read the article on a dead tree this morning, they were claiming the fuel was cleaner than the out-the-gorund variety, which makes sense.
Even if batteries are more efficient, and ignoring the disposal pollution, this still comes out on top for energy density and recharge time.
Eventually you will find the at the entrance of every burgerdoodle and street corner.
Welcome to the 'new world', hope you enjoy your stay.
The only place I've seen metal detectors on every "street corner" (well, every mall), is Israel. Israel don't even bother with these detectors at their major airport TLV. They do have a MMW scanner at Erez for people coming from gaza, but that's the only non-metal detector device I've seen.
there was absolutely no reason for that last sentence to be included with the lead in. Fuck you, you inflammatory asshole.
The editors left it in (or added it) to drive page impressions. Chill.
Tell them that arrangements for payment are being made and hang up. Call the phone company directly then give the customer service representative the credit card information. I don't care if it was actually the phone company that called me. I still hang up and call them back.
I Do care, very much. If a company I do business with tries that on, they won't be dealing with me for long.
They can phone up, explain the bill requires payment, and tell me to phone on the number on my statement, that's fine. Asking me for any details, including my name, is not on.
Lacking, not packing!
Again, how do you know it was caused?
I don't, however packing any evidence of things happening without cause, I'll assume it was. It's also a meaningless statement as it can have no bearing on existence. It's as if it's outside a light cone.
My father was indoctrinated as a child and despite being a software engineer and so demonstrably more than capable of logical thinking and understanding he could never abandon Islam. Are people like that beyond help, I wonder.
sounds like a healthy survival instinct. A large portion of western Muslims (30%) believe that apostasy should be punished by death.
While Jehovah's witnesses may annoy you, Scientology and Islam are cults with dangerous followers. Safest not to piss them off.
If your definition of "god" is "the fore that caused our current universe to begin about 13.7 billion years ago, you really can't argue with that.
That force could be a closed timeline curve, quantum fluctuations, a fart from Chuggs' room mate, etc. it is by definition unqualifiablr and irrelevant.
Does the US citizen - Average Joe (or above average) know or care about this?
On a personal note, I'm shocked the government made a choice for a person over a corporation/lobby group/foreign power. First time In my life I think I've agreed with a home secretary?!?! must be getting old.
This is an unusual case, which has found most of us "liberals" on the same side as the BNP and Daily Mail.
"I very much doubt you are a UK citizen."
Doubt away all you like pal. Not everyone in the UK is a bed wetting lefty sobbing over a Guardian editorial about criminals human rights.
Yes, the well known left wing media like the Daily Mail were all for his extradition, and the BNP are known to be quite cuddly too.
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EU won the Nobel peace prize so they can slow down your FPS game framerates
And Obama won the Nobel peace prize because.....?