No, this was independently verified with photographs, documentation, and I think some remnant parts of it as well. So you can be as sure about this as anything else people say happened in 194X.
Then again, people still believe the moonlanding was faked....
Your kids don't actually need you there 24/7 ! Yes, it's probably not good for you or your kids if you work 18 hour days, but unless you're independently wealthy*, you'll have to work, and there's no point worrying about it unnecessarily. Just find a reasonable balance.
If you *are* independently wealthy, then more often than not that's because *your* dad worked too hard, so just try not to pass the damage on to your kids;)
It's in the " The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language", which is of course an oxymoron.
Now repeat after me: "The Oxford English Dictionary is the ONLY accepted reference for English!" Feel free to write it on the blackboard a few times as well, just to make sure it sinks in.
English is English, through is not spelled "thru", night is not spelled "nite", and there is no such word as "burglarize". The verb is burgle. Of course, you chaps in the colonies can do what you like with your language, but don't call it English !;)
Anyone who takes the bible literally, e.g. creationists, should wholeheartedly support this. After all, all the chaps in Genesis lived for hundreds of years - e.g. Methusalem
Actually, that's only partially true: The main problem with C++ CORBA bindings is that they predate modern, standard C++. If you re-did them using 2004 C++, instead of 199X C++, they would be a lot easier to use. E.g. use namespaces, std::string, std:: etc all would make life a lot easier.
Yes, but PC/104 cards are really really expensive, unless you want to buy hundreds of them. Whereas mini-itx is cheap, and we all hope nano-itx will be similarly priced.
Actually, the BBC has started experimenting with MP3 downloads again - the recent Reith lectures, for example, were available as streamed audio, text transcript, and MP3 download. Very nice!
Of course they're not perfect yet, but the BBC is a great institution.
Actually, overage drinking is just as serious a problem in glasgow. Gosh, Sauchiehall Street on a Saturday night?
Can't quite see how ID cards will stop a) everybody getting far too pissed and pissing and vomiting everywhere, or girls that are way too fat wearing far too little.
Gee, so ID cards have completely solved the "problem" of illegal immigration in Italy, Germany, France, Belgium? Someone let them know, quick, that all those people are clearly a figment of the imagination.....
Meanwhile, back in the real world: Yes, ID cards are probably not THAT bad - after all, I lived in Germany for twenty years and was asked for ID once, although carrying the card is allegedly mandatory. But nobody has yet made a convincing case that ID cards would actually have any effect on anything, apart from a bad one on the tax payers wallet.
They will NOT cut crime. They will NOT cut terrorism. They will NOT cut illlegal immigration. That's what passport checks are for, Mr. Blunkett! They WILL cost a lot of money (at least 3b, more likely 8b, in direct costs. 35 on top for every citizen, plus lots of costs for businesses if they are forced to use them)
Just another stupid, misguided attempt by the government to look like they are doing something.
Okay, so how do the numbers work out? NHS "tourism" is estimated to cost 200m p.a.;
a) that's pocket money in the government budget (accordingto the BBC they spent 60 million in three months telling us what a great job they are doing),
b) you can't actually stop it. An uncle of mine fell seriously ill in the UK recently. Coma, a week in intensive care @ 1400 a night, a couple of weeks on the normal ward - bill over 25000. Now, thankfully, our doctors are not going to turn away elderly gentlemen to die because they don't have an ID card, but I'm sure our "Labour" government would want them to.
c) Let's just reclassify this as medical aid to the thirld world, and we look a lot better in the "We care" statistics.
d) Even at 0% that would break even after 15 years on ludicrously optimistic assumptions - how about spending money on something that's actually useful, like fixing the London transport system? Immediate benefits, by the way!
I have no idea how much benefit fraud there is, but I don't see why the government should infringe my liberties and raise my taxes to vainly attempt to cut it. If they said: "You want to claim benefit, you need to give us your fingerprints" - Fine. No Problemo. And then, after you stop claiming, it's deleted.
Given the approach they take to driving licenses and insurance in this country, I can't see the public going for that... At the moment, it works like this:
"Afternoon, Sir, do you realise why I've stopped you? Could I see your documents please? Oh, you haven't got them on you? No problem, just pop by your local police station in the next seven days and show them."
I mean, if your "foolproof", "high-tech", "unfakeable" ID said Mr. Osama-bin-Laden, you're just not going to show it, are you?
Surely the onus is on those that want change to demonstrate how it will be beneficial, rather than on those who want the status quo? After all, the UK has been getting along nicely without an ID card for quite a while.
So far the only benefit the government has demonstrated is that its a convenient way to take my tax money and give it to tech companies.
So the government plans to spend 3 billion of our tax money on this, which, given their record of delivering IT systems, will almost certainly mean 8 billion for a system that does half what was promised.
Then it wants to charge you 35 for getting an ID card, which you have to renew regularly. How do you identify yourself to get this card? Doh, using your existing unsafe identification.
It will do nothing to stop illegal immigration; it will do NOTHING to stop terrorism. It might cut down on benefit fraud a bit - but that's hardly a reason to make everyone carry one. It might cut down on "health tourism" a little, but the estimated cost of that is trivial by government standards anyway (200million). Also, of course, anyone willing to travel to the UK to use our public health system must a) be pretty desperate anyway and b) we can't actually, in this country, turn dying people away at the hospital door for not having insurance.
> Unfortunatly killing inocent moderate muslims would probably only result in them becomming extreamist. Actually, killing inncocent moderate muslims redults in them being dead.
Oh, and extremist is spelled extremist. I wonder if the next terrorists will be fanatical spellers?
"US food is more or less a superset of German food"??
Well, I suppose that's more or less true, if you ignore the fact that the stuff they call "Beer" in the US wouldn't pass for piss in Germany. Don't even get me started on Sausages, or cheese, or bread!
I don't think anyone in Glasgow actually understands a word of what anyone else is saying. That would explain the need to hit each other regularly to communicate.
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No, this was independently verified with photographs, documentation, and I think some remnant parts of it as well. So you can be as sure about this as anything else people say happened in 194X.
Then again, people still believe the moonlanding was faked....
because it's fun?
heck, lots of people have far stranger hobbies.
yes, it probably was the first proper computer, although the debate is fairly pointless.
Your kids don't actually need you there 24/7 ! Yes, it's probably not good for you or your kids if you work 18 hour days, but unless you're independently wealthy*, you'll have to work, and there's no point worrying about it unnecessarily. Just find a reasonable balance.
;)
If you *are* independently wealthy, then more often than not that's because *your* dad worked too hard, so just try not to pass the damage on to your kids
It's in the " The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language", which is of course an oxymoron.
;)
Now repeat after me: "The Oxford English Dictionary is the ONLY accepted reference for English!" Feel free to write it on the blackboard a few times as well, just to make sure it sinks in.
English is English, through is not spelled "thru", night is not spelled "nite", and there is no such word as "burglarize". The verb is burgle. Of course, you chaps in the colonies can do what you like with your language, but don't call it English !
Anyone who takes the bible literally, e.g. creationists, should wholeheartedly support this. After all, all the chaps in Genesis lived for hundreds of years - e.g. Methusalem
Actually, that's only partially true: The main problem with C++ CORBA bindings is that they predate modern, standard C++. If you re-did them using 2004 C++, instead of 199X C++, they would be a lot easier to use. E.g. use namespaces, std::string, std:: etc all would make life a lot easier.
Actually, it was mainly the Americans wot won the wars, combined, of course, with magnificent stupidity in the German leadership in both cases.
Yes, but PC/104 cards are really really expensive, unless you want to buy hundreds of them. Whereas mini-itx is cheap, and we all hope nano-itx will be similarly priced.
Or maybe he's deaf? Wouldn't call that lucky..
Actually, the BBC has started experimenting with MP3 downloads again - the recent Reith lectures, for example, were available as streamed audio, text transcript, and MP3 download. Very nice!
Of course they're not perfect yet, but the BBC is a great institution.
Actually, overage drinking is just as serious a problem in glasgow. Gosh, Sauchiehall Street on a Saturday night?
Can't quite see how ID cards will stop a) everybody getting far too pissed and pissing and vomiting everywhere, or girls that are way too fat wearing far too little.
Allegedly you can "burglarize" someone's house, though, at leat in the colonies ;)
Gee, so ID cards have completely solved the "problem" of illegal immigration in Italy, Germany, France, Belgium? Someone let them know, quick, that all those people are clearly a figment of the imagination.....
Meanwhile, back in the real world: Yes, ID cards are probably not THAT bad - after all, I lived in Germany for twenty years and was asked for ID once, although carrying the card is allegedly mandatory. But nobody has yet made a convincing case that ID cards would actually have any effect on anything, apart from a bad one on the tax payers wallet.
They will NOT cut crime.
They will NOT cut terrorism.
They will NOT cut illlegal immigration. That's what passport checks are for, Mr. Blunkett!
They WILL cost a lot of money (at least 3b, more likely 8b, in direct costs. 35 on top for every citizen, plus lots of costs for businesses if they are forced to use them)
Just another stupid, misguided attempt by the government to look like they are doing something.
Okay, so how do the numbers work out? NHS "tourism" is estimated to cost 200m p.a.;
a) that's pocket money in the government budget (accordingto the BBC they spent 60 million in three months telling us what a great job they are doing),
b) you can't actually stop it. An uncle of mine fell seriously ill in the UK recently. Coma, a week in intensive care @ 1400 a night, a couple of weeks on the normal ward - bill over 25000. Now, thankfully, our doctors are not going to turn away elderly gentlemen to die because they don't have an ID card, but I'm sure our "Labour" government would want them to.
c) Let's just reclassify this as medical aid to the thirld world, and we look a lot better in the "We care" statistics.
d) Even at 0% that would break even after 15 years on ludicrously optimistic assumptions - how about spending money on something that's actually useful, like fixing the London transport system? Immediate benefits, by the way!
I have no idea how much benefit fraud there is, but I don't see why the government should infringe my liberties and raise my taxes to vainly attempt to cut it. If they said: "You want to claim benefit, you need to give us your fingerprints" - Fine. No Problemo. And then, after you stop claiming, it's deleted.
Given the approach they take to driving licenses and insurance in this country, I can't see the public going for that... At the moment, it works like this:
"Afternoon, Sir, do you realise why I've stopped you? Could I see your documents please? Oh, you haven't got them on you? No problem, just pop by your local police station in the next seven days and show them."
I mean, if your "foolproof", "high-tech", "unfakeable" ID said Mr. Osama-bin-Laden, you're just not going to show it, are you?
Surely the onus is on those that want change to demonstrate how it will be beneficial, rather than on those who want the status quo? After all, the UK has been getting along nicely without an ID card for quite a while.
So far the only benefit the government has demonstrated is that its a convenient way to take my tax money and give it to tech companies.
So the government plans to spend 3 billion of our tax money on this, which, given their record of delivering IT systems, will almost certainly mean 8 billion for a system that does half what was promised.
Then it wants to charge you 35 for getting an ID card, which you have to renew regularly. How do you identify yourself to get this card? Doh, using your existing unsafe identification.
It will do nothing to stop illegal immigration; it will do NOTHING to stop terrorism. It might cut down on benefit fraud a bit - but that's hardly a reason to make everyone carry one. It might cut down on "health tourism" a little, but the estimated cost of that is trivial by government standards anyway (200million). Also, of course, anyone willing to travel to the UK to use our public health system must a) be pretty desperate anyway and b) we can't actually, in this country, turn dying people away at the hospital door for not having insurance.
Bugger. Yes, I should have used the preview button.
> Unfortunatly killing inocent moderate muslims would probably only result in them becomming extreamist.
Actually, killing inncocent moderate muslims redults in them being dead.
Oh, and extremist is spelled extremist. I wonder if the next terrorists will be fanatical spellers?
Actually, Flag Waving SHOULD be an olympic event, and restricted to the olympics!
"US food is more or less a superset of German food"??
Well, I suppose that's more or less true, if you ignore the fact that the stuff they call "Beer" in the US wouldn't pass for piss in Germany. Don't even get me started on Sausages, or cheese, or bread!
The Internet pre WWW was irrelevant. WWW: Tim Berners Lee, Britain / Switzerland.
I don't think anyone in Glasgow actually understands a word of what anyone else is saying. That would explain the need to hit each other regularly to communicate.
So basically anybody travelling to the funeral of a beloved relative is now barred from flying?
That's progress, that is!