If I wanted to watch some old git talk about the capacity of the boot of a Ford Focus, I'd watch channel 5. Fuck that, I *want* to see people enjoying themselves, having a laugh, racing airport vehicles and bendy buses, turning VW campers into cross-channel ferries, strapping a Reliant Robin onto a large bottle of hydrogen for shits and giggles, turning a Transit van into a hovercraft... the kind of stuff you wouldn't even in a million years think of doing with an old banger but having seen would love to give it a go, and oh yes, flinging insanely expensive cars around an airfield in Surrey.
Not this: "This is the four door model, with a five inch road clearance and a perky 12km per litre..."::CLICK!::
McDonald's Walmart Home Depot (or whatever it's called ths week)
Any company that has people doing highly repetitive, unskilled tasks like dragging barcodes across a laser scanner WILL find the CHEAPEST labour it possibly can to do it. If it can be done by a robot, they'll hire a robot. ASDA in the UK now has more "self service" lines than actual people on registers, and it pisses me off because in the Nottingham superstore that means they've cut their workforce in HALF.
well, in the case of migrants from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, in England, the ONLY bar to work is "are you willing to work for minimum wage?" in which case the answer is invariably yes, because to ask any other question (I've had this from a Polish worker) is to discriminate, and employment discrimination is illegal. Said migrants are briefed on this technique to finding work in England immediately on their way over. To keep their cost of living down, they cram forty adults in a house intended for a family of SIX. Yup, that's totally illegal, but meh, what're you gonna do? Kick 'em out? Put them in the three million empty properties in the uk? Maybe put a statutory cap on rents so those in private tenancies don't get fucking RIPPED OFF?
It's not just the sandwich bar work, either (though there was a local coffee bar that put an ad in its window for ONE wait staff and got 1800 applicants in ONE day), it's the construction industry (which is guilded across the board but not if you're Polish), yes the ICT industry, telecomms, road and rail infrastructure (we just had two new tram lines put in, 80% of the gang were foreign with not a single word of English between them - the foremen had to DRAW THEM PICTURES TO SHOW WHAT THEY WANTED and a two mile section of the track was installed UPSIDE DOWN. It wasn't until there was a tram on it running dry tests that anyone NOTICED and the concrete cover that'd been poured over the ties had to be jackhammered).
Since when did the right to internet access take priority over the right to safe drinking water?
There's free wifi wherever I look. Hell, the phone box down the road from me has it.
Water fountain? There's a public recreation area I can see from my bedroom. I've been all over it. Not one single water fountain. There's a cafe at the far end which is open for like three weeks in August, that's it. Even they don't offer water.
The Ariel Atom (the 2.0 inline four that comes with a higher power to weight ratio than the Bugatti Veyron Supersport) goes for £38k brand new. The same price as a top spec Jaguar XF (yup, Jag do family hatchbacks). Or a Range Rover Sport.
There are far more expensive sports cars. Not counting the Veyron, there's the Caterhan Seven (£49k) and the KTM Crossbow GT (£74k), or for something with a roof, you could go for the slightly heavier (and slower) Lotus Elise S for the same price as the Atom. Or, for something a bit more familiar in the same price bracket, a third driver 61 plate Porsche 997 Carrera S Coupe with 57,000 miles on the clock.
I bought a phone in 2010 specifically to use Skype Mobile. The client stopped working not long after you shrubs got your sticky mitts on it. FIX IT, ASSHOLES!
the House of Lords was, until 1999, occupied by hereditary Peers appointed by the Queen. Following Blair's reforms, the PM now appoints members without consultation to the Queen, to whom the Lords were expected to consult on all Commons Bills but now they're just Yes-Men to the Commons. The Queen no longer has a consultative voice in Parliament and no veto. Blairs reforms are therefore unconstitutional and the Queen has failed in her Coronation Oath.
This. I don't think there's a lot more I can add, except to say that wages will only go up now we're pretty much taking back control of our own borders. Economic migration has forced wages down for years because those migrants who take work in England do so on minimum wage (because economising real living expenses by cramming forty adults in a house meant for a family of six is "normal" in underdeveloped regions) and accept not being members of a union who are there to ensure that workers are paid what they're worth, not what employers think they can get away with. National minimum wage has for far too long been seen as a low bar goal for employers, now perhaps it will be raised to a living wage where one can work to improve, not *have* to work to merely *survive*.
Back in October 2000, we had some serious floods (I know all about them, living right next to a major river). The European Parliament offered Britain money to help in damage control. The Prime Minister, without consultation, turned the offer down. Some places are still recovering from that and the floods since. Meanwhile flood insurance policies are skyrocketing and the brokers are laughing all the way to the bank.
WR50m is a standard mark on equipment suited to surface swimming. For snorkelling or inshore SCUBA diving, the mark to look for is WR200m.
What the claim here basically means is that aside from the corrosive effects of chlorine, which is a moot point since the ring is made from glazed ceramic (which is chemically inert), you could do lap after lap wearing this thing and it won't or shouldn't come to any harm.
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There is another word for it, but it isn't "progress". It does start with a P though.
Pussywhipped.
was Ron McLean served a fucking salad after a thirteen hour day during which he didn't even get a piss break?
oh no, you can keep him. We do not want him back.
historical? I saw him on TV once, my eyes are still fucked.
all hail the Stig.
If I wanted to watch some old git talk about the capacity of the boot of a Ford Focus, I'd watch channel 5. Fuck that, I *want* to see people enjoying themselves, having a laugh, racing airport vehicles and bendy buses, turning VW campers into cross-channel ferries, strapping a Reliant Robin onto a large bottle of hydrogen for shits and giggles, turning a Transit van into a hovercraft... the kind of stuff you wouldn't even in a million years think of doing with an old banger but having seen would love to give it a go, and oh yes, flinging insanely expensive cars around an airfield in Surrey.
Not this: ::CLICK!::
"This is the four door model, with a five inch road clearance and a perky 12km per litre..."
It is NOT Top Gear without Clarkson, Hammond and May. At least THEY didn't have to use a laughtrack.
I would never let anybody come close to touching my codebase without them training in my company on a standard set of test projects for a few weeks...
while you're not paying them? I have a name for you, and I'm not too polite to not post it here. You are a freeloading scum. Die in a fire.
the FTSE100 recovered in a day and a half. Sterling recovered from a pretty serious fall within a day.
McDonald's
Walmart
Home Depot (or whatever it's called ths week)
Any company that has people doing highly repetitive, unskilled tasks like dragging barcodes across a laser scanner WILL find the CHEAPEST labour it possibly can to do it. If it can be done by a robot, they'll hire a robot. ASDA in the UK now has more "self service" lines than actual people on registers, and it pisses me off because in the Nottingham superstore that means they've cut their workforce in HALF.
well, in the case of migrants from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, in England, the ONLY bar to work is "are you willing to work for minimum wage?" in which case the answer is invariably yes, because to ask any other question (I've had this from a Polish worker) is to discriminate, and employment discrimination is illegal. Said migrants are briefed on this technique to finding work in England immediately on their way over. To keep their cost of living down, they cram forty adults in a house intended for a family of SIX. Yup, that's totally illegal, but meh, what're you gonna do? Kick 'em out? Put them in the three million empty properties in the uk? Maybe put a statutory cap on rents so those in private tenancies don't get fucking RIPPED OFF?
It's not just the sandwich bar work, either (though there was a local coffee bar that put an ad in its window for ONE wait staff and got 1800 applicants in ONE day), it's the construction industry (which is guilded across the board but not if you're Polish), yes the ICT industry, telecomms, road and rail infrastructure (we just had two new tram lines put in, 80% of the gang were foreign with not a single word of English between them - the foremen had to DRAW THEM PICTURES TO SHOW WHAT THEY WANTED and a two mile section of the track was installed UPSIDE DOWN. It wasn't until there was a tram on it running dry tests that anyone NOTICED and the concrete cover that'd been poured over the ties had to be jackhammered).
you wrote rMorf? We're in the presence of royalty here!
I did mine myself. The only provision to actually doing it yourself in England is that it's inspected by a guilded tradesman before it's connected.
By the way: not one single point of failure. :)
Since when did the right to internet access take priority over the right to safe drinking water?
There's free wifi wherever I look. Hell, the phone box down the road from me has it.
Water fountain? There's a public recreation area I can see from my bedroom. I've been all over it. Not one single water fountain. There's a cafe at the far end which is open for like three weeks in August, that's it. Even they don't offer water.
Something is very, very wrong here.
or, shock horror, Academy 1080p!
(oh, yes, that's a thing.)
really??
The Ariel Atom (the 2.0 inline four that comes with a higher power to weight ratio than the Bugatti Veyron Supersport) goes for £38k brand new. The same price as a top spec Jaguar XF (yup, Jag do family hatchbacks). Or a Range Rover Sport.
There are far more expensive sports cars. Not counting the Veyron, there's the Caterhan Seven (£49k) and the KTM Crossbow GT (£74k), or for something with a roof, you could go for the slightly heavier (and slower) Lotus Elise S for the same price as the Atom. Or, for something a bit more familiar in the same price bracket, a third driver 61 plate Porsche 997 Carrera S Coupe with 57,000 miles on the clock.
I'll take three.
I mean really?? Unless you're either a lottery winner or planning on charging admission, this is an insane waste of money.
I bought a phone in 2010 specifically to use Skype Mobile. The client stopped working not long after you shrubs got your sticky mitts on it. FIX IT, ASSHOLES!
What do you mean, you don't read the licence agreement!?
Ooh, just got an email, my new HumanCentiPad is due for delivery in two weeks. See you soon!
92 and half of them have since gone to be replaced by peers APPOINTED BY THE COMMONS.
The QUEEN no longer has the authority to bestow titles.
HEREDITARY PEERS were her check against harmful Government. REMOVING that check was TREASON as it also removed her AUTHORITY.
not quite, hereditary peers were abolished in 1999. ALL members of the Upper House are now appointed through the Cabinet Office.
the House of Lords was, until 1999, occupied by hereditary Peers appointed by the Queen. Following Blair's reforms, the PM now appoints members without consultation to the Queen, to whom the Lords were expected to consult on all Commons Bills but now they're just Yes-Men to the Commons. The Queen no longer has a consultative voice in Parliament and no veto. Blairs reforms are therefore unconstitutional and the Queen has failed in her Coronation Oath.
This. I don't think there's a lot more I can add, except to say that wages will only go up now we're pretty much taking back control of our own borders. Economic migration has forced wages down for years because those migrants who take work in England do so on minimum wage (because economising real living expenses by cramming forty adults in a house meant for a family of six is "normal" in underdeveloped regions) and accept not being members of a union who are there to ensure that workers are paid what they're worth, not what employers think they can get away with. National minimum wage has for far too long been seen as a low bar goal for employers, now perhaps it will be raised to a living wage where one can work to improve, not *have* to work to merely *survive*.
the poor are starving *now*.
Back in October 2000, we had some serious floods (I know all about them, living right next to a major river). The European Parliament offered Britain money to help in damage control. The Prime Minister, without consultation, turned the offer down. Some places are still recovering from that and the floods since. Meanwhile flood insurance policies are skyrocketing and the brokers are laughing all the way to the bank.
well played.
WR50m is a standard mark on equipment suited to surface swimming. For snorkelling or inshore SCUBA diving, the mark to look for is WR200m.
What the claim here basically means is that aside from the corrosive effects of chlorine, which is a moot point since the ring is made from glazed ceramic (which is chemically inert), you could do lap after lap wearing this thing and it won't or shouldn't come to any harm.