The fall of the Soviet Union was largely triggered by repeated disastrous grain harvests in the late 1980s. The cost of the Afghan war was certainly a contributing factor but not to the extent that is generally claimed. I suspect the Star Wars stuff was just an attempt to justify the money spent by hitching it to the "Our plan was to bankrupt the Soviets all along" story.
I do hope you are not one of the many people who will blame this government as they implement responsible tightening of spending in order to ensure the future of our country? My son is 2 and so has £17K of debt - his share of the UK national debt. That's a total discrace. The current generation should be ashamed of themselves and all that they did under whilst under the last government.
0_0 For a moment there I thought I was reading the Daily Mail.
So far, the coalition seems to be the best government the UK has had while I've been alive
The previous lot did a reasonable job of actually running the country. It was the civil liberties stuff and of course the stupid wars that were the problem. However having experienced 18 years of previous Conservative governments I'm hardly going to believe that they'd have been any improvement there. The current lot show no signs of improvement on the stupid wars and I fully expect their policies on civil liberties to be no more than window dressing. For example the ID cards will be scrapped but the massive database will remain in some form. Fortunately the rank and file of the Lib Dems seem to be waking up to the awful reality of the situation that the Orange Book idiots have left them in but probably too late to save them from a return to single figure representation at the next election.
I'm pretty sure Virgin isn't rolling out Fibre-to-the-home, just using their existing cable network
Correct. I'm always amazed they've got away with advertising like this for so long. It's coax to the house. I used them for eight years through the Telewest/NTL merger and the Virgin rebranding while they got steadily worse and worse. I had their 10Mbps/512kbps service which struggled to provide half that most of the time. I suspect they spend more on advertising than they do on infrastructure. The awful upload speeds (which they no longer even mention), the afternoon & evening 'subscriber traffic management' (bandwidth throttling) and the Phorm debacle finaly convinced me to dump them for Be DSL with whom I get twice the speed despite being a mile from the exchange.
So often the response by politicians to low voter turnout is to propose measures like postal ballots or internet voting (because voting is SO difficult and time consuming) rather than addressing the problem that such a large chunk of the electorate see none of the candidates as worth voting for or the whole process as meaningless, changing nothing.
Switch to a (non BT) ADSL provider. I dumped Virgin for Be a few months back due to slow downloads, STM, Phorm etc and despite the fact that I'm only syncing at 10Mbit due to distance from the exchange it still shows Virgin up for the steaming pile of crap that it is.
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>The company acknowledged that it can be hard to know what terms are being used to find infringing content
They could start with the names of all currently showing films and current chart singles. I'm sure the MPAA and the RIAA would be just thrilled.
The fall of the Soviet Union was largely triggered by repeated disastrous grain harvests in the late 1980s. The cost of the Afghan war was certainly a contributing factor but not to the extent that is generally claimed. I suspect the Star Wars stuff was just an attempt to justify the money spent by hitching it to the "Our plan was to bankrupt the Soviets all along" story.
'American business is under assault from counterfeiters and pirates every day, seven days a week,'
Somebody call the waaaaaaaambulance!
Coincidence that this is posted today. I've been in their former offices all afternoon carrying off auctioned loot. It was kind of sad to see really.
It's unlikely to end up a positive thing for the people.
Indeed. If you read down this a bit you'll notice that they also want US style software patents. Idiots.
MS won't support it on XP because they are trying to get gamers to buy Windows 7ista.
Doesn't work though. Look at how many Windows games are written for the Xbox360 and are therefore run fine with Directx9.
Last I heard, American soldiers were supposed to be fighting to preserve a way of life, a way which includes freedom of expression.
What? Where?
It's not like they look at it again once it gets voted on.
I wasn't aware they looked at them before they vote either.
I do hope you are not one of the many people who will blame this government as they implement responsible tightening of spending in order to ensure the future of our country? My son is 2 and so has £17K of debt - his share of the UK national debt. That's a total discrace. The current generation should be ashamed of themselves and all that they did under whilst under the last government.
0_0 For a moment there I thought I was reading the Daily Mail.
So far, the coalition seems to be the best government the UK has had while I've been alive
The previous lot did a reasonable job of actually running the country. It was the civil liberties stuff and of course the stupid wars that were the problem. However having experienced 18 years of previous Conservative governments I'm hardly going to believe that they'd have been any improvement there. The current lot show no signs of improvement on the stupid wars and I fully expect their policies on civil liberties to be no more than window dressing. For example the ID cards will be scrapped but the massive database will remain in some form. Fortunately the rank and file of the Lib Dems seem to be waking up to the awful reality of the situation that the Orange Book idiots have left them in but probably too late to save them from a return to single figure representation at the next election.
I hope someone comes up with a cheap design for a reflector. Hopefully efficient enough to give the operators a taste themselves.
Speed cameras are required to be highly visible in the UK which is why they have big fluorescent panels on the back.
Better solution: find another car the same as yours and clone the plates.
it seems the whole 'unintended acceleration' phenomenon is to a large extent like a US version of this
I'm pretty sure Virgin isn't rolling out Fibre-to-the-home, just using their existing cable network
Correct. I'm always amazed they've got away with advertising like this for so long. It's coax to the house.
I used them for eight years through the Telewest/NTL merger and the Virgin rebranding while they got steadily worse and worse. I had their 10Mbps/512kbps service which struggled to provide half that most of the time. I suspect they spend more on advertising than they do on infrastructure.
The awful upload speeds (which they no longer even mention), the afternoon & evening 'subscriber traffic management' (bandwidth throttling) and the Phorm debacle finaly convinced me to dump them for Be DSL with whom I get twice the speed despite being a mile from the exchange.
Or having TVs and monitors produce some suitably low level of UVB.
Oops, no it's not. Bugger. It slipped in a flash one to confuse me.
You need to install libavcodec-extra-52. It's working for me now.
I've got chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree installed which includes h264 on Ubuntu Karmic. Still doesn't work.
but was impressed at how quickly I liked the characters
I thought they were all pretty awful apart from Rush and Eli, although Eli did have that godawful 'a man died today' line. *shudder*
Oh, and that math puzzle in the video game thing was just idiotic.
Apparently Apple did something today. Doesn't work for me either.
Nah. He's more like John Klieg, the patent troll from John Barnes' Mother of Storms.
So often the response by politicians to low voter turnout is to propose measures like postal ballots or internet voting (because voting is SO difficult and time consuming) rather than addressing the problem that such a large chunk of the electorate see none of the candidates as worth voting for or the whole process as meaningless, changing nothing.
Given that the PRS are the reason I can't listen to the radio at work anymore, I hope YouTube and Pandora tell them to get lost.
Switch to a (non BT) ADSL provider. I dumped Virgin for Be a few months back due to slow downloads, STM, Phorm etc and despite the fact that I'm only syncing at 10Mbit due to distance from the exchange it still shows Virgin up for the steaming pile of crap that it is.