Perhaps this style of fascism is exactly what American voters want after all...
Perhaps this style of fascism is exactly what American voters are told that they want, through corporate propaganda in the form of advertisements.
Two shirts - exactly the same but shirt#2 has a famous logo on it. Price for shirt#1 is less than half that for shirt#2, and yet people buy the logo because they are told it's cool. Who by? Well, the logo-touting shirt#2 manufacturers of course.
Are you sure? Just because this mission is STS-114 doesn't mean that there were 113 before it. Look at the Consolidated Launch Manifest site at NASA. The next planned launch, after STS-114, is STS-121 which will be Atlantis.
Admittedly I haven't counted the previous missions, so you may well be correct. Feel free to add them up.
The numbering isn't entirely sequential. All roads that start between the A1 and the A2 will begin with "1". All roads that start between the A2 and A3 begin with "2", etc.
Roads that cross the arbitrary boundaries retain their number - the roads are numbered depending on where the roads start, and that has to do with the size of the towns involved.
Luckily, the numbers don't change that much. Hardly ever infact. There was the A34/A43 renumbering that happened about 10 years ago though.
I moved to Ontario last year, and I really miss the logical road signs of the UK. They were consistent, and easy to spot.
Aye, and when we went to school in Yorkshire, we were bloody lucky to see the sun for a few seconds. Got up in middle o' t' night, went t' school carrying us teachers on our backs, got whipped during t' lessons till we bled enough to use t' blood for ink, then had to crawl back home, in middle o' t' night just in time to go t' school again.
And tell that to the kids o' today, and they won't believe yer.
If you combine just criticism with an attitude of understanding, people will listen to you more
My point exactly - you're failing to understand that terrorism didn't start on 11th September 2001.
how many have died as the result of the IRA, but from the distance past, I recall it being much, much smaller than 3000.
Out of interest, from where do you recall these numbers?
Exact figures for the number of murders commited by the IRA are of course impossible to determine. I'd say they'd be knocking on the door of a couple of thousand. Try looking at answers.com (and elsewhere) for some more info before saying that we have no idea what you are going through. You also have to understand that the IRA are in no way our own people.
do you take security more seriously now?
Only where it comes to flying is it noticeable. You still get the same number of coppers on the street, if that's what you mean. The real worrying aspect is the freedom-curbing powers the govt introduce as a result of the UK being a staunch US ally - and therefore a more likely target.
You seem to imply that the US officially sponsors the IRA.
I implied no such thing. I you wish to infer from my statement that the US officially sponsors the IRA, then that's down to you. It's not what I said, not what I meant, and not what reflects reality. In reality, until the WTC twin towers came down, the US govt was particularly unconcerned about cracking down on any Noraid fundraising.
A couple of years ago, I saw a posting on a msgboard that I snipped and saved:
Let's suppose the UK were host to an organisation called "Inaid" that was funding a terrorist group called the "INA" which was blowing up soldiers and civilians in the US. Let us also suppose "Inaid" had substantial popular support in the UK and our Government did nothing to close it down or even to discourage it. How long do you think it would be before the UK was put on Dubya Bush's list of "nations that continue to harbor or support terrorism"?
OK so it's out of context here, and I can't remember where I got it from, but this wasn't too long after the 11th Sept attacks, and someone was trying to correct an American who was claiming that terrorism had been born that day.
Likely to be corrected by a zillion/.ers but here goes...
.com is a gTLD - the g standing for global. .ca is a ccTLD - the cc standing for country code. .us is also a ccTLD, but hardly used, possibly because it would be an admission that the US != The World.
Therefore.com is not American. Also note from the Internic FAQ:
The.com,.info,.name,.net, and.org TLDs are open and unrestricted.
I understand your frustration, but until an airplane comes crashing into Parliament or you lose 3000 lives, I don't know that you can fully appreciate our situation.
You're an ignorant fool, and that's being polite.
We Brits have suffered terrorism for decades - some of it sponsored by communities of the US. I myself have had a friend injured in an IRA bombing, I have heard a bomb go off in the distance, and I have had to live with the threat of an attack since I was old enough to decide to leave home and go live in London, over 20 years ago.
That, my friend, means I can do more than fully appreciate your situation. I can say we've been there before you, even when our protests fell on deaf ears.
Oddly, I was wondering about this on the way into work this morning. I surmised that it was because the alphabet is named for Alpha Beta, and that some letters got their names from Greek. Zed, therefore probably being from Zeta, via Germanic which comes out as "tset". "Zed" when it arrived in England.
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I moved to North America last year, from the UK. I would GLADLY pay the licence fee twice over if I could get the UK version of the BBC here.
Perhaps this style of fascism is exactly what American voters want after all...
Perhaps this style of fascism is exactly what American voters are told that they want, through corporate propaganda in the form of advertisements.
Two shirts - exactly the same but shirt#2 has a famous logo on it. Price for shirt#1 is less than half that for shirt#2, and yet people buy the logo because they are told it's cool. Who by? Well, the logo-touting shirt#2 manufacturers of course.
It's not just the US at fault.
As long as I don't have to take turns being the guy to go down on the programmer, I'm cool with that.
Are you sure? Just because this mission is STS-114 doesn't mean that there were 113 before it. Look at the Consolidated Launch Manifest site at NASA. The next planned launch, after STS-114, is STS-121 which will be Atlantis.
Admittedly I haven't counted the previous missions, so you may well be correct. Feel free to add them up.
found out that if NASA had "fired the thrusters" at the time they had planned to ... they ... would've completely missed the mood
My wife says I have this problem too.
I don't think anyone knows the answer to that one!
One end of the A14 is in Felixstowe - definitely between the A1 and A2.
Have a look at this site which may help.
They also mis-placed Ponders End railway station.
Brimsdown is the next station north, which oddly is now Ponders End.
The numbering isn't entirely sequential. All roads that start between the A1 and the A2 will begin with "1". All roads that start between the A2 and A3 begin with "2", etc.
Roads that cross the arbitrary boundaries retain their number - the roads are numbered depending on where the roads start, and that has to do with the size of the towns involved.
Luckily, the numbers don't change that much. Hardly ever infact. There was the A34/A43 renumbering that happened about 10 years ago though.
I moved to Ontario last year, and I really miss the logical road signs of the UK. They were consistent, and easy to spot.
If I have to choose between a 50-page design document and three pages of clear diagrams, I'd pick the pictures.
Contrariwise, if I have to choose between 50 pages of pretty pictures or three pages of well written documentation, I'd pick the documentation.
My money's on Acromedia, followed by Acrophobia, Agoraphobia, Kleptomania, 10000 Maniamedia, Manic Street Media, or Adoobiemedia.
Are you sure? My UK copies from the 80's have "Belgium" and "Mindboggling".
Will you be releasing a book of the film too?
I was refering to Marina Sirtis herself
She's English, though her parents were native Greeks, I believe.
I called the Wal-Mart customer service number, left a complaint, and suprisingly, was rewarded with a $20 gift card.
You should have demanded ten $2 gift cards.
Aye, and when we went to school in Yorkshire, we were bloody lucky to see the sun for a few seconds. Got up in middle o' t' night, went t' school carrying us teachers on our backs, got whipped during t' lessons till we bled enough to use t' blood for ink, then had to crawl back home, in middle o' t' night just in time to go t' school again.
And tell that to the kids o' today, and they won't believe yer.
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My point exactly - you're failing to understand that terrorism didn't start on 11th September 2001.
how many have died as the result of the IRA, but from the distance past, I recall it being much, much smaller than 3000.
Out of interest, from where do you recall these numbers?
Exact figures for the number of murders commited by the IRA are of course impossible to determine. I'd say they'd be knocking on the door of a couple of thousand. Try looking at answers.com (and elsewhere) for some more info before saying that we have no idea what you are going through. You also have to understand that the IRA are in no way our own people.
do you take security more seriously now?
Only where it comes to flying is it noticeable. You still get the same number of coppers on the street, if that's what you mean. The real worrying aspect is the freedom-curbing powers the govt introduce as a result of the UK being a staunch US ally - and therefore a more likely target.
You seem to imply that the US officially sponsors the IRA.
I implied no such thing. I you wish to infer from my statement that the US officially sponsors the IRA, then that's down to you. It's not what I said, not what I meant, and not what reflects reality. In reality, until the WTC twin towers came down, the US govt was particularly unconcerned about cracking down on any Noraid fundraising.
A couple of years ago, I saw a posting on a msgboard that I snipped and saved:OK so it's out of context here, and I can't remember where I got it from, but this wasn't too long after the 11th Sept attacks, and someone was trying to correct an American who was claiming that terrorism had been born that day.
I'm sorry about your friend.
Thanks.
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I think the biggest thing stopping this from happening is that the US govt would never welcome 30 million more left-leaning citizens in one go.
I understand your frustration, but until an airplane comes crashing into Parliament or you lose 3000 lives, I don't know that you can fully appreciate our situation.
You're an ignorant fool, and that's being polite.
We Brits have suffered terrorism for decades - some of it sponsored by communities of the US. I myself have had a friend injured in an IRA bombing, I have heard a bomb go off in the distance, and I have had to live with the threat of an attack since I was old enough to decide to leave home and go live in London, over 20 years ago.
That, my friend, means I can do more than fully appreciate your situation. I can say we've been there before you, even when our protests fell on deaf ears.
You missed Echo, Echo, Echo, Echo, Echo ...
Oddly, I was wondering about this on the way into work this morning. I surmised that it was because the alphabet is named for Alpha Beta, and that some letters got their names from Greek. Zed, therefore probably being from Zeta, via Germanic which comes out as "tset". "Zed" when it arrived in England.
Possibly. Maybe.
Maybe the problem is that they don't know any magic, and therefore cannot produce a real spell.
Unless of course you meant "spelling checker".
Like twice, but not actually twice?
Understandable in casual discussions, but this sort of communication I find unacceptable when doing business.
I work on a helpdesk, and I get emails from business people who sometimes use "netspeak".
Should I reply to them "ur pwn3d, j00 1u53r!!!11!!"?