You are mistaking countries for states or nations. London is the capital of both England and the UK. There are Scottish and Welsh assemblies with some devolved powers (moreso in the case of Scotland than Wales). It's really not that different from the individual states and the USA, I suppose. The "state" is the UK, the countries are those already listed.
Incorrect. The Act of Union (1800) made Ireland (then not partitioned and basically a colony) a full part of the United Kingdom. After 1921 the Free State was established. In the 1940s Ireland left the commonwealth and declared itself a republic. I'm an Irish citizen, I should know.
Scotland, Wales and England are all countries. Together, they constitute Great Britain. Add in Northern Ireland and you have the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It really isn't that hard to figure this out.
Impossible Mission rocked!!! The first game with synthesized (ok, digitized) speech. And I was very impressed with the animation of the little man I controlled.
C&VG (Computer & Video Games)! My first paid work was when they published some silly little game listing I wrote... the magazine used to cost a small fortune in Ireland then because the Irish pound was so weak compared to Sterling. So we shoplifted it.
Christmas Eve, 1983, somewhere in the southwest of Ireland:
Writing a "Defender" clone on my brand spanking new ZX81 with 16K expansion pack (held in place with sellotape to stop it falling out)... result - hooked for life on computers.
Oh joy! Such happy memories... hand-assembling machine language to move my sprites vertically onscreen... I really miss those days and nights where a 24-hour coding session was ALL you wanted to do.
Get off your high horse. All work and no play makes you boring. If there's any justice in this world you'll be hit by a bus tomorrow as you ride your bicycle while not smoking and not drinking.
I get into far more conversations at the local grocery store checkout line when I wear a t-shirt indicating I'm a scuba diver than when I wear a t-shirt indicating I'm a Linux user. What sort of behavior is that rewarding and encouraging?
Who says he gets the same number of NZ dollars as you get of the US kind? It's quite possible he costs close to a third of what you cost as an employee.
Hmm. Eolas is the Irish Gaelic word for "knowledge" or "information". I registered a limited company called OLAS (O'Leary Application Systems) in Dublin in 1992, and traded as "eOLAS" (yes, yes, I know it was stupid but I was young and enjoyed the wordplay). Never operated outside continental Europe though, so I don't suppose I can sue Eolas, can I?
Don't know about G4s or desktops, but I'm now on my third dual-USB iBook external power supply. First replacement was covered by the warranty, but I just shelled out ~$85 for the second replacement today at the local Apple store. And the main logic board had to be replaced three months in. AND the little twist lock on the underside that releases the battery is broken and held in place with scotch tape. I love this laptop, but the build quality is not good.
It was indeed utterly ridiculous. Sinn Fein's pathetic arguments and blatant gangsterism would have been dismissed much more quickly without the "cachet" of being proscribed. Let them live and die by the (lack of) strength of their arguments. My only point in mentioning it was to point out that even in the UK with that tradition of free speech (Londonistan, The Magnificent 19, etc.), there is still a tendency by legislators to attempt to control.
This is the same UK where Margaret Thatcher banned the broadcast of Sinn Fein speakers, to deny them "the oxygen of publicity"? What was your point again? Oh that old argument about Sinn Fein/PIRA being the same entity -- then prove it in a court. And before you catch me on this one, I am well aware that successive governments in Ireland renewed the infamous Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act, on which the UK legislation was modelled.
There is always danger in electing nationalists to government... the BNP are no different from Sinn Fein, the British National Party, Joerg Haider's Freedom Party, the list goes on. Nationalism was the curse of the 20th century and looks set to do the same to the 21st.
Whether (some) Indian legislators are corrupt or not is completely irrelevant -- they were elected by Indian voters. Corruption is everywhere, but that doesn't mean that every democracy with a handful of corrupt legislators ceases to be a democracy.
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You are mistaking countries for states or nations. London is the capital of both England and the UK. There are Scottish and Welsh assemblies with some devolved powers (moreso in the case of Scotland than Wales). It's really not that different from the individual states and the USA, I suppose. The "state" is the UK, the countries are those already listed.
Incorrect. The Act of Union (1800) made Ireland (then not partitioned and basically a colony) a full part of the United Kingdom. After 1921 the Free State was established. In the 1940s Ireland left the commonwealth and declared itself a republic. I'm an Irish citizen, I should know.
Scotland, Wales and England are all countries. Together, they constitute Great Britain. Add in Northern Ireland and you have the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It really isn't that hard to figure this out.
What an iSore!
Impossible Mission rocked!!! The first game with synthesized (ok, digitized) speech. And I was very impressed with the animation of the little man I controlled.
C&VG (Computer & Video Games)! My first paid work was when they published some silly little game listing I wrote... the magazine used to cost a small fortune in Ireland then because the Irish pound was so weak compared to Sterling. So we shoplifted it.
Christmas Eve, 1983, somewhere in the southwest of Ireland:
Writing a "Defender" clone on my brand spanking new ZX81 with 16K expansion pack (held in place with sellotape to stop it falling out)... result - hooked for life on computers.
Oh joy! Such happy memories... hand-assembling machine language to move my sprites vertically onscreen... I really miss those days and nights where a 24-hour coding session was ALL you wanted to do.
Get off your high horse. All work and no play makes you boring. If there's any justice in this world you'll be hit by a bus tomorrow as you ride your bicycle while not smoking and not drinking.
Too right! The girls don't realize what they're missing.
The right kind of behavior.
That's exactly where both of mine died too. I didn't realize that there were 3rd-party PSUs out there -- thanks.
Who says he gets the same number of NZ dollars as you get of the US kind? It's quite possible he costs close to a third of what you cost as an employee.
My grandfather was there! (joking) ... Amazing, how over the years the crowd inside the GPO seems to have grown in leaps and bounds...
Hmm. Eolas is the Irish Gaelic word for "knowledge" or "information". I registered a limited company called OLAS (O'Leary Application Systems) in Dublin in 1992, and traded as "eOLAS" (yes, yes, I know it was stupid but I was young and enjoyed the wordplay). Never operated outside continental Europe though, so I don't suppose I can sue Eolas, can I?
Don't know about G4s or desktops, but I'm now on my third dual-USB iBook external power supply. First replacement was covered by the warranty, but I just shelled out ~$85 for the second replacement today at the local Apple store. And the main logic board had to be replaced three months in. AND the little twist lock on the underside that releases the battery is broken and held in place with scotch tape. I love this laptop, but the build quality is not good.
http://www.agedwards.com. Weblogic and J2EE based throughout, fast, dynamic, secure, scalable (20K+ concurrent users on average).
Similar to a newbie developer, playing with OS/400 for the first time. "Hey, what does PWRDWNSYS do?" D'oh!
Proper order. What he did strikes me as theft or stealing, no matter how you spin it.
It was indeed utterly ridiculous. Sinn Fein's pathetic arguments and blatant gangsterism would have been dismissed much more quickly without the "cachet" of being proscribed. Let them live and die by the (lack of) strength of their arguments. My only point in mentioning it was to point out that even in the UK with that tradition of free speech (Londonistan, The Magnificent 19, etc.), there is still a tendency by legislators to attempt to control.
This is the same UK where Margaret Thatcher banned the broadcast of Sinn Fein speakers, to deny them "the oxygen of publicity"? What was your point again? Oh that old argument about Sinn Fein/PIRA being the same entity -- then prove it in a court. And before you catch me on this one, I am well aware that successive governments in Ireland renewed the infamous Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act, on which the UK legislation was modelled.
Hear hear.
There is always danger in electing nationalists to government... the BNP are no different from Sinn Fein, the British National Party, Joerg Haider's Freedom Party, the list goes on. Nationalism was the curse of the 20th century and looks set to do the same to the 21st.
Tolerant? Tell that to the Muslim minority in India.
Whether (some) Indian legislators are corrupt or not is completely irrelevant -- they were elected by Indian voters. Corruption is everywhere, but that doesn't mean that every democracy with a handful of corrupt legislators ceases to be a democracy.