What? You think the army were going to bring it back in their billy cans? These things take time.
If you really want to ignore the blatant oil heist going on then you'd best switch off your set now as the Iraqi Government are in the process of announcing no-bid service contracts for Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and Total. And, the foreign partners get to keep 75% of the contract revenue. That is not the industry norm.
When I say foreign partners, I mean the US of course... you have to get used to being the called 'foreigners' when you are in somebody else's country.
The problem with geo-tagged flickr photos is that in many places the detail on the maps and aerial shots provided isn't defined enough to allow an accurate placement.
The even bigger issue is that, although some cameras now have GPS, the majority of geo-tagged shots are placed manually by humans who often get it wrong or deliberately place their photos onto a more popular location just to increase their traffic.
I have never understood that whole Australia strategy. We discover an Island paradise with hot summers and turquoise seas and we think "Hmmm, we could send all the bad people here as a punishment."
Sod that! We should have all sailed to Australia and then said "If you're bad, we'll send you back to the overcrowded, rain-soaked rock in the North Sea."
I also have crossed that line where I now feel a Tory government is needed. I do not for one second believe it will be better, but we need a change. We have gone so far down this dangerous path under Labour that we need a government reboot.
The Tories will bring their own problems, but we need a change of direction, any change of direction before we go over the edge.
In WWI and WWII, millions of people sacrificed their lives to save our way of life. Now Gordon Brown is sacrificing our way of life to save a few lives.
On a completely different note, wasn't 'Jumping the gun a bit...' an unfortunate choice of title?
The next version of the OS will be 'tiddles' followed by 'Fluffy' and then 'Mrs. Furry Paws.'
After that, they'll be moving over to partner pet names so expect Jobs to be announcing the great performance and features of 'Sprookums,' 'Melonpie' and 'Shnickety-huggle-buns.'
I am assuming that they used another method to make the very first one or else philosophers are going to rake it in for years over where the first one came from.
From that Wikipedia article:
Some of the dyes used are methylene blue, prussian blue, Brilliant Cresyl Blue, Toluidine Blue O, Basic Blue 3, Methylene Green, Taylor's Blue, Janus Green B, Meldola's Blue, Thionin, Nile Blue, and Celestine Blue. After 48 hours, the male response is: "I may as well throw this out, as it won't play anymore." The female response is: "You have to throw that out, as it now clashes with the curtains and cushions."
I have scoured around TFA but can't find much detail on the actual chemical process. Now, I know it's probably all internal and doesn't involve copious amounts of actual liquid adhesive.
But still, would you want to the first person to discover you have left one of these in your player and it just happens to be a rogue one in the batch that has written off your player.
As someone else has said, renting the film for a week is cheaper and buying them new isn't loads more anyway.
The only place I can see these having any place in the market is for the Mission Impossible box set.
If they had written to local government then the reply would have been, "You show us your license to perform in that spot and then we'll discuss this Freedom of Information thing after that."
"Hello?"
"Hi David, it's Mike."
"Oh, hi Mike, what's up?"
"We're getting the first pictures back."
"Oh great."
"Well, not really."
"Oh crap, they haven't... have they?"
"Yep, they put down in a boring bit."
"How many times did I mention this in the meeting?"
"I know, I know, but you know what they'll say."
"What?"
"There was a memo from Bob's team."
"What did that say?"
"Bob says it's safer to land on the flatter bits."
"I am not suggesting we land the bastard on a fucking mountain! But at least somewhere flat where we can see a distant hill or something!"
"Yeah, I said that, but he went off into that techno-babble."
"So what have we got?"
"Rocks and dirt."
"Shit."
"So how do we pitch this one?"
"How clear are the rocks?"
"Not too bad."
"Any dubious shadows that look like figures?"
"Nope."
"Do we still have Photoshop on that server with the MP3s on?"
What piffle and tosh emanates from this nameless rapscallion? (Aside to audience:) No doubt raised as an ignorant tike among the street urchins and other ragamuffins.
'Titter' between 'chortle' and 'guffaw'?
Titter is a softer sound than chortle so would give us titter-chortle-snigger-guffaw.
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What? You think the army were going to bring it back in their billy cans? These things take time.
If you really want to ignore the blatant oil heist going on then you'd best switch off your set now as the Iraqi Government are in the process of announcing no-bid service contracts for Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and Total. And, the foreign partners get to keep 75% of the contract revenue. That is not the industry norm.
When I say foreign partners, I mean the US of course... you have to get used to being the called 'foreigners' when you are in somebody else's country.
...who read the headline and thought "His kids must be delighted" ?
I think we can see from your calm temperament that caffeine prices should rise a little bit too to reduce consumption.
The problem with geo-tagged flickr photos is that in many places the detail on the maps and aerial shots provided isn't defined enough to allow an accurate placement.
The even bigger issue is that, although some cameras now have GPS, the majority of geo-tagged shots are placed manually by humans who often get it wrong or deliberately place their photos onto a more popular location just to increase their traffic.
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I have never understood that whole Australia strategy. We discover an Island paradise with hot summers and turquoise seas and we think "Hmmm, we could send all the bad people here as a punishment."
Sod that! We should have all sailed to Australia and then said "If you're bad, we'll send you back to the overcrowded, rain-soaked rock in the North Sea."
I also have crossed that line where I now feel a Tory government is needed. I do not for one second believe it will be better, but we need a change. We have gone so far down this dangerous path under Labour that we need a government reboot.
The Tories will bring their own problems, but we need a change of direction, any change of direction before we go over the edge.
In WWI and WWII, millions of people sacrificed their lives to save our way of life. Now Gordon Brown is sacrificing our way of life to save a few lives.
On a completely different note, wasn't 'Jumping the gun a bit...' an unfortunate choice of title?
I heard that rumour, but I assumed 'Mr. Bigglesworth' was the deliberate leak that Steve put out to find out who's leaking all the NDA stuff.
Damn, that's both of us sacked now.
Maybe they'll take us on at Google so we can work on their new range of kitchen products like the Google Egg (Beta).
The next version of the OS will be 'tiddles' followed by 'Fluffy' and then 'Mrs. Furry Paws.'
After that, they'll be moving over to partner pet names so expect Jobs to be announcing the great performance and features of 'Sprookums,' 'Melonpie' and 'Shnickety-huggle-buns.'
Was that whole stick thing on Slashdot? Because otherwise I would have missed it.
Oh, I expect it was on Fox News right?
I am assuming that they used another method to make the very first one or else philosophers are going to rake it in for years over where the first one came from.
Won't everyone just buy one, make it clone itself and then send it back for a full refund?
The female response is: "You have to throw that out, as it now clashes with the curtains and cushions."
I have scoured around TFA but can't find much detail on the actual chemical process. Now, I know it's probably all internal and doesn't involve copious amounts of actual liquid adhesive.
But still, would you want to the first person to discover you have left one of these in your player and it just happens to be a rogue one in the batch that has written off your player.
As someone else has said, renting the film for a week is cheaper and buying them new isn't loads more anyway.
The only place I can see these having any place in the market is for the Mission Impossible box set.
If they had written to local government then the reply would have been, "You show us your license to perform in that spot and then we'll discuss this Freedom of Information thing after that."
All this time I have been assuming that Gordon Brownshirt and his minions have been involved in some huge 1984-style conspiracy.
Now I can see that all the data collection was just to get The United Kingdom at the centre of Wikipedia.
Well done all involved... now get back to sorting out the economy!
Phone call between two NASA press officers:
"Hello?"
"Hi David, it's Mike."
"Oh, hi Mike, what's up?"
"We're getting the first pictures back."
"Oh great."
"Well, not really."
"Oh crap, they haven't... have they?"
"Yep, they put down in a boring bit."
"How many times did I mention this in the meeting?"
"I know, I know, but you know what they'll say."
"What?"
"There was a memo from Bob's team."
"What did that say?"
"Bob says it's safer to land on the flatter bits."
"I am not suggesting we land the bastard on a fucking mountain! But at least somewhere flat where we can see a distant hill or something!"
"Yeah, I said that, but he went off into that techno-babble."
"So what have we got?"
"Rocks and dirt."
"Shit."
"So how do we pitch this one?"
"How clear are the rocks?"
"Not too bad."
"Any dubious shadows that look like figures?"
"Nope."
"Do we still have Photoshop on that server with the MP3s on?"
'Wearable' (adj.) description of any garment that allows the wearer to wander through a crowded London pub without starting a fight on a Friday night.
This isn't wearable.
...Dear God, I would like to file a bug report... Would that be a cockroach up on 12?How on earth is advocating a belief 'serious mind control'?
Everyone advocates beliefs of one sort or another. If you are forced to believe something against your own free will... that is mind control.
From the way you are speaking, you must rush out to the shops in an excited panic after every commercial ad break.
Dog owner: So how fast can you clone a dog?
BFA Sales rep: Woof!
So do I.
No, no, no, no , no.
What piffle and tosh emanates from this nameless rapscallion? (Aside to audience:) No doubt raised as an ignorant tike among the street urchins and other ragamuffins.
'Titter' between 'chortle' and 'guffaw'?
Titter is a softer sound than chortle so would give us titter-chortle-snigger-guffaw.
Now... cackle? maybe.
Off topic?
An article about dog cloning and I say there'll be a deluge of dog puns... and that's Off topic? WTF.
C'mon, throw me a bone here.
WYSIWAG... puppy and paste...