I was in Dublin about 25 years ago, and bought a little book full of Kerryman jokes, e.g. "How can you tell a banknote's been forged by a Kerryman? It's got 'Illegal tender' on the back" (pre-Euro Irish notes all had "nota dlithairghthe" on the front and "legal tender" on the back).
I suppose I'd better add some clarification to the thread, since I was alive in 1967 and taking an interest in the news... The Israeli strike was hardly a response to innocent actions on the Egyptians' part - after throwing out the UN, Egypt put 100,000 troops and 1,000 tanks on the border, and closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and strategic cargoes.
Iran had nothing to do with the Six Day War, and indeed in the Shah's time was reasonably friendly with Israel. And I suppose it has to be emphasised again, except for a small proportion of the whole population, mostly in the southwest of the country, Iranians are NOT Arabs.
Israels opponents in the war were Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria providing troops and arms to the Arab side.
British coinage has way more problems than American coinage. You have a 2p bigger than a 20p, a 5p smaller than a 1p and a 10p larger (thicker, I'll grant) a Pound piece. That two Pound piece while I do like it could cause blunt force trauma if you threw it at somebody. With that many coins in my back pocket I'd develop a back problem. That's not a problem, we use colour, weight, and shape to help distinguish coins - 1p and 2p are round, copper coloured coins, 5p and 10p are round silver coloured coins, 20p and 50p are seven-sided silver coloured coins, £1 is a thick, round golden coin, £2 is a large, thin, bi-metallic coin. It's easy to distinguish them by touch, even when they're in your pocket and you've got about £9 in loose change in there.
That few? I'm frequently getting a spam every minute, and only a dozen or so legitimate emails per day. I run Mailwasher, and while it's deleting all the crap yet more arrives and Mailwasher has to run again. Eventually I hit the download mail button on my mail program and inevitably I still get some spam in my inbox. Email has become almost worthless in the last few months - I'm going back to snail mail for my important communications because of the chances that something important will get lost in the mountain of crud - I visually scan all the email addresses and subjects as I go down the list clicking the "blacklist" button, but it's far too easy to accidentally blacklist the rare genuine correspondent.
Actually, the UK gets more tornadoes than any similarly-sized area in the world. Over a 30 year period there's been an average of 33 tornadoes a year, mostly in the Midlands, southern England, and East Anglia (TORRO). Most of the tornadoes tend not to get noticed much, but there was one last year near the centre of Birmingham which caused a hell of a lot of damage.
As someone who's quite early in the alphabetical list of Administrators, I sometimes get requests to overturn a block. I've never yet been persuaded that the block was unjustified.
No, England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island of Great Britain. Britain is something else, which is usually synonymous with the UK. Oh, and to avoid even further confusion, Little Britain, apart from being a TV comedy, is Brittany, and that's in France.
We do, of course, have to thank the English for pneumatic inflatable tyres (some guy by the name of John Dunlop, in particular) - without which, we'd have a very bumpy ride.
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Ho hum, so the old BR Flying Saucer story flies again, eh?
Sorry to spoil a fun story, but BR didn't spend any money developing that patent - the designer worked for the BR Research department and was interested in UFOs and developed the design as a hobby in his own time. The standard BR contract of employment stipulated that any patents you acquired while you worked for BR belonged to BR, even if they weren't developed on company time. I know - I had one of those contracts back in 1979, too.
I can't stand Maggie Thatcher, but to be fair to her I have to say that she had more sense than to privatise British Rail - that was entirely John Major's idea/fault.
Well at least they're each getting paid £5000 a day for their trouble. The TV company did go to considerable lengths to exclude anyone who might have a reasonable kowledge of what space is really like -- knowing more than four characters in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was one of the criteria for elimination at the selection stage!
I'm not a great fan of anonymous editors on Wikipedia, but I do acknowledge that people edit from all over the world, sometimes on controversial topics which their government would rather they did not. Recall the shameful case a couple of months ago when Yahoo identified an anonymous poster on a bulletin board to the mainland Chinese government, who promptly arrested him.
Er, no. The oldest publically accessible version is currently
# (cur) (last) 22:15, 24 September 2005 Chick Bowen (Rewritten to remove copyvio)
but if you're an Admin you can click on "View or restore 9 deleted edits?" at the top of the history, and see
# 20:07, 30 November 2005 . . Gamaliel (Reverted edits by 155.247.222.210 (talk) to last version by Gene Nygaard) # 20:05, 30 November 2005 . . 155.247.222.210 (External links) # 20:04, 30 November 2005 . . 155.247.222.210 # 23:54, 23 September 2005 . . W.marsh (Reverted edits by 63.163.57.36 to last version by 69.172.115.157) # 23:53, 23 September 2005 . . 63.163.57.36 # 11:06, 23 September 2005 . . 69.172.115.157 (This is the correct bio. The previous entry was bogus.) # 21:52, 29 May 2005 . . SNIyer12 # 14:29, 26 May 2005 . . 65.81.97.208 # 19:53, 15 September 2004 . . 65.170.144.130
The offensive version the fuss is about was the 26th May one, which apart from a little wikification a few days later remained untouched for 4 months, when things started hitting the fan. To me, the whole incident simply shows that Seigenthaler is not sufficiently notable to have been on many peoples' watchlists, whatever he may or may not have done 40 years ago; if the Christina Aguilera article had been vandalised it would have been noticed and reverted in minutes.
Just to round of the thread, the actual vote against software patents was 648-14 with 18 abstentions. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006& sid=a.QckuA8V3H8&refer=home
``We buried a bad law and did so without flowers,'' Eva Lichtenberger, a member of the parliament from Austria's Green party, told reporters.
And there was that cop clocked by his own car doing 159 mph on the M54 at night, who got acquitted a couple of months ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4559 173.stm because he was "testing the capabilities of his new car"! Oh yes....
The Queen does not need to engage in Piracy, She could simply issue Letters of Marque authorizing a Privateer to undertake the mission on Her behalf.
[pedant] No she couldn't - the UK subscribed to the Decaration of Paris back in 1856 when most European countries gave up the right to issue LoM. [/pedant]
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Except that HMQ or HMK hasn't told them to do that in the last 300 years.
I was in Dublin about 25 years ago, and bought a little book full of Kerryman jokes, e.g. "How can you tell a banknote's been forged by a Kerryman? It's got 'Illegal tender' on the back" (pre-Euro Irish notes all had "nota dlithairghthe" on the front and "legal tender" on the back).
I suppose I'd better add some clarification to the thread, since I was alive in 1967 and taking an interest in the news... The Israeli strike was hardly a response to innocent actions on the Egyptians' part - after throwing out the UN, Egypt put 100,000 troops and 1,000 tanks on the border, and closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and strategic cargoes.
Iran had nothing to do with the Six Day War, and indeed in the Shah's time was reasonably friendly with Israel. And I suppose it has to be emphasised again, except for a small proportion of the whole population, mostly in the southwest of the country, Iranians are NOT Arabs.
Israels opponents in the war were Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria providing troops and arms to the Arab side.
to compare against bacon? Has someone disappeared lately? Hello? Hello?
That few? I'm frequently getting a spam every minute, and only a dozen or so legitimate emails per day. I run Mailwasher, and while it's deleting all the crap yet more arrives and Mailwasher has to run again. Eventually I hit the download mail button on my mail program and inevitably I still get some spam in my inbox. Email has become almost worthless in the last few months - I'm going back to snail mail for my important communications because of the chances that something important will get lost in the mountain of crud - I visually scan all the email addresses and subjects as I go down the list clicking the "blacklist" button, but it's far too easy to accidentally blacklist the rare genuine correspondent.
Actually, the UK gets more tornadoes than any similarly-sized area in the world. Over a 30 year period there's been an average of 33 tornadoes a year, mostly in the Midlands, southern England, and East Anglia (TORRO). Most of the tornadoes tend not to get noticed much, but there was one last year near the centre of Birmingham which caused a hell of a lot of damage.
As someone who's quite early in the alphabetical list of Administrators, I sometimes get requests to overturn a block. I've never yet been persuaded that the block was unjustified.
No, England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island of Great Britain. Britain is something else, which is usually synonymous with the UK. Oh, and to avoid even further confusion, Little Britain, apart from being a TV comedy, is Brittany, and that's in France.
We do, of course, have to thank the English for pneumatic inflatable tyres (some guy by the name of John Dunlop, in particular) - without which, we'd have a very bumpy ride.
Err, as everybody knows John Boyd Dunlop was Scottish, not English!
One of my email signatures goes:
IMPORTANT - ANTI-DISCLAIMER - This e-mail is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any number of system administrators along the way. If you have received this message by mistake, it would be ridiculous for me to tell you not to read it or copy to anyone else, because, let's face it, if it's a message revealing confidential information or that could embarrass me intensely, that's precisely what you'll do. Who wouldn't?
Likewise, it is superfluous for me to claim copyright in the contents, because I own that anyway, even if you print out a hard copy or disseminate this message all over the known universe. I don't know why so many corporate mail Servers feel impelled to attach a disclaimer to the bottom of every e-mail message saying otherwise.
If you don't know either, why not e-mail your corporate lawyers and system administrators and ask them why they insist on contributing so much to the waste of bandwidth?
Ho hum, so the old BR Flying Saucer story flies again, eh?
Sorry to spoil a fun story, but BR didn't spend any money developing that patent - the designer worked for the BR Research department and was interested in UFOs and developed the design as a hobby in his own time. The standard BR contract of employment stipulated that any patents you acquired while you worked for BR belonged to BR, even if they weren't developed on company time. I know - I had one of those contracts back in 1979, too.
I can't stand Maggie Thatcher, but to be fair to her I have to say that she had more sense than to privatise British Rail - that was entirely John Major's idea/fault.
You try putting an American English spelling into an article on a British subject, or vice-versa!
Well they originally sent the injunction to St Petersburg, Russia, rather than St Petersburg, Florida...
Well at least they're each getting paid £5000 a day for their trouble. The TV company did go to considerable lengths to exclude anyone who might have a reasonable kowledge of what space is really like -- knowing more than four characters in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was one of the criteria for elimination at the selection stage!
I'm not a great fan of anonymous editors on Wikipedia, but I do acknowledge that people edit from all over the world, sometimes on controversial topics which their government would rather they did not. Recall the shameful case a couple of months ago when Yahoo identified an anonymous poster on a bulletin board to the mainland Chinese government, who promptly arrested him.
Er, no. The oldest publically accessible version is currently
# (cur) (last) 22:15, 24 September 2005 Chick Bowen (Rewritten to remove copyvio)
but if you're an Admin you can click on "View or restore 9 deleted edits?" at the top of the history, and see
# 20:07, 30 November 2005 . . Gamaliel (Reverted edits by 155.247.222.210 (talk) to last version by Gene Nygaard)
# 20:05, 30 November 2005 . . 155.247.222.210 (External links)
# 20:04, 30 November 2005 . . 155.247.222.210
# 23:54, 23 September 2005 . . W.marsh (Reverted edits by 63.163.57.36 to last version by 69.172.115.157)
# 23:53, 23 September 2005 . . 63.163.57.36
# 11:06, 23 September 2005 . . 69.172.115.157 (This is the correct bio. The previous entry was bogus.)
# 21:52, 29 May 2005 . . SNIyer12
# 14:29, 26 May 2005 . . 65.81.97.208
# 19:53, 15 September 2004 . . 65.170.144.130
The offensive version the fuss is about was the 26th May one, which apart from a little wikification a few days later remained untouched for 4 months, when things started hitting the fan. To me, the whole incident simply shows that Seigenthaler is not sufficiently notable to have been on many peoples' watchlists, whatever he may or may not have done 40 years ago; if the Christina Aguilera article had been vandalised it would have been noticed and reverted in minutes.
Err, no. Those were made for Channel 4, not the BBC.
Just to round of the thread, the actual vote against software patents was 648-14 with 18 abstentions. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006& sid=a.QckuA8V3H8&refer=home
``We buried a bad law and did so without flowers,'' Eva Lichtenberger, a member of the parliament from Austria's Green party, told reporters.
And there was that cop clocked by his own car doing 159 mph on the M54 at night, who got acquitted a couple of months ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4559 173.stm because he was "testing the capabilities of his new car"! Oh yes....
The info was there until 11th April, when this version http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C5%A0ko da_Auto&oldid=12216622 was edited to take out the details of the Skoda Works company to a separate article, and the "pity" information got lost. That's Wikipedia for you!
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Paris :)
The Queen does not need to engage in Piracy, She could simply issue Letters of Marque authorizing a Privateer to undertake the mission on Her behalf.
[pedant]
No she couldn't - the UK subscribed to the Decaration of Paris back in 1856 when most European countries gave up the right to issue LoM.
[/pedant]
One of the British cable channels that nobody watches once tried to make the weather interesting by regularly describing it in Norwegian...