Rubbish, 2.5 million isn't even a third of the London population. Audience figures of 2.5 million isn't that impressive in the UK, it's comparable to Channel 5 programmes. Look at the BARB ratings.
If you look at BBC2, there was a programme on bird watching (the Bill Oddie one) that got more viewers...
Having a long article on something from a highly popular entertainment programme doesn't bother me that much (in dollar revenue terms I'm sure the whole Star Trek think has been pretty profitable, and some people might find it interesting from a social studies aspect). Having a thousand articles on minutae from an entertainment programme would bother me though, especially if they then start swamping any searches for useful information - which is the problem the internet has in the first place (the info is probably out there, you just can't find it among all the dross). So if you tried to find info about some mountain and site of archaeological importance in Turkey and got a page about some alien character from an obscure science fiction book instead (this is a made up example, by the way) that perhaps would be more embarrasing.
Planet of the Apes (2001). An absolute stinker. Budget of around 100 million dollars. Theatrical gross of around 180 million dollars. No wonder they Hollywood doesn't want to stop making remakes.
Sorry, that's extremism talking. If there is a 10% chance of it being true and it's going to cost a trillion dollars worldwide to fix the problem then we had better be avoiding at least $10 trillion worth of damage.
Significant global warming would result in the death of people, through heat stroke, flooding, drought, spread of disease vectors etc. How much is a life worth, exactly?
Well, I can't read Japanese, but I do know Pioneer have their own Corporate R&D Laboratory that has been doing work on laser devices. So at a rough guess, I'd suggest Pioneer may have developed this in house.
what led so many middle class, non white-trash people to vote for Bush
If one party tends to make the rich richer, the rich will be more likely to vote for them. And not just the really rich, all those who feel they pay more in taxes than they benefit from government spending are susceptible to the tax cut idea. A large chunk of either party's supporters will be running on the mindset of their own personal gain.
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If anyone actually bothers to read the reports themselves, rather than just look at the standings, you'll see that all they do here is measure the freedom of journalists - not the government oppression of journalists. So countries like Spain, France and the UK, where there are terrorist organisations targetting or threatening journalists, drop down the table relative to their government alone influence.
Kinda big, infact it is more of a planet with a shared orbit than it is a moon
Mmm, well it's a big moon compared to the size of the Earth, but the common centre of mass of the Earth Moon system is still inside the Earth, so I'd say that's a pretty clear statement of who's the daddy in the Earth-Moon system.
I'd hope they come up with real 21st century ideas, rather than rehashing old 20th century ones. Besides, what's the point of being able to fly to work when you still can't find anywhere to park? Anyway, the real problem isn't making a cheap flying machine as much as making it safe for the average person to control it - so what they'd really need are AI pilots, rather than flying cars.
And I really, really challenge you to find a real physicist who honestly believes that time travel is possible with enough energy.
I have to admit, the original parent isn't being a complete lunatic on this one - genuine physicists have come up with papers on this - see "Closed timelike curves produced by pairs of moving cosmic strings: Exact solutions" J.R. Gott, III, Physics Review Letters, v.66, p.1126 (1991).
I don't know if he's since accepted the complaints that he's wrong (see S. Deser, R. Jackiw, and G. 't Hooft, PRL, v.66, p.267 (1992))
Oh, that's just rot. You're a Republican at heart, and you're just trying to read into Bush's statements what you want to hear. If you'd been a Liberal at heart, you'd be reading into Kerry's statements what you wanted to hear.
no problem is impossible to solve
If you were a real physicist, you'd know that was wrong. Here's an electron - tell me exactly where it is, where it's going, and how fast.
That was a party political broadcast on behalf of the Conservative Party.
I mean, come on, pandering to your supporters and banning things your supporters don't like are not exclusive traits of the left (if anything, Labour have happily pissed off the left knowing there is nowhere else for them to go). And we've never had a two chamber democracy, so Blair couldn't have banned one.
Yes, the government are a bunch of lying, interfering busybodies, pandering to the section of the public they think will vote for them. That's not because they're left wing, it's because they're politicians.
I still find it hard to believe that people think journalism wasn't sullied before. I haven't trusted the BBC coverage to be fair, accurate or even truthful since the miner's strike.
The media sell sensationalism and overegged stories all the time, because they think that is what the public wants. The worst thing about it is that the public has demonstrated in sales and viewing figures that they're right.
but still, the "common man" ruled, which was dramatic and new -- truly radical!
It wasn't new - the same concept was declared in the British Isles after the civil war - the Commonwealth. The difference is that the USA actually managed to make it work, while the Commonwealth ended up as a dictatorship by Cromwell. The concept wasn't new or radical, but the success was.
OK, it wasn't glorious, and it wasn't a revolution, but I'd say on the contrary, having James kicked off the throne was a good example of parliamentary power over monarchy - parliament and the majority of the people really didn't want James to be king any longer, and so parliament invited William in with an army to boot him out.
Shouldn't the priority be to help the most people possible?
Someone once described Democracy as three wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
By making the system a republic rather than an out-and-out democracy, the idea is to have some sort of check on the ability of the majority to have things their way all the time, no matter what the expense is to the minority.
Foale was born and educated in the UK, but he moved to Houston after he graduated and took up US citizenship as the UK doesn't view putting people in space as a cost efficient way of doing science, so changing nationality was the best way to fulfill his aim of being an astronaut.
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Factual errors? The same can apply to printed encyclopedias. BBC News
That just makes them right wing authoritarian rather than right wing libertarian.
A joint mission between ESA and NASA to explore another world? You mean like Cassini-Huygens?
If you look at BBC2, there was a programme on bird watching (the Bill Oddie one) that got more viewers...
Having a long article on something from a highly popular entertainment programme doesn't bother me that much (in dollar revenue terms I'm sure the whole Star Trek think has been pretty profitable, and some people might find it interesting from a social studies aspect). Having a thousand articles on minutae from an entertainment programme would bother me though, especially if they then start swamping any searches for useful information - which is the problem the internet has in the first place (the info is probably out there, you just can't find it among all the dross). So if you tried to find info about some mountain and site of archaeological importance in Turkey and got a page about some alien character from an obscure science fiction book instead (this is a made up example, by the way) that perhaps would be more embarrasing.
Planet of the Apes (2001). An absolute stinker. Budget of around 100 million dollars. Theatrical gross of around 180 million dollars. No wonder they Hollywood doesn't want to stop making remakes.
An add to that - if you want to read more papers, try this Google Scholar search list.
Well? The reviewer for the Guardian found a number of errors in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Does that make that book useless also?
Well, I can't read Japanese, but I do know Pioneer have their own Corporate R&D Laboratory that has been doing work on laser devices. So at a rough guess, I'd suggest Pioneer may have developed this in house.
If one party tends to make the rich richer, the rich will be more likely to vote for them. And not just the really rich, all those who feel they pay more in taxes than they benefit from government spending are susceptible to the tax cut idea. A large chunk of either party's supporters will be running on the mindset of their own personal gain.
If anyone actually bothers to read the reports themselves, rather than just look at the standings, you'll see that all they do here is measure the freedom of journalists - not the government oppression of journalists. So countries like Spain, France and the UK, where there are terrorist organisations targetting or threatening journalists, drop down the table relative to their government alone influence.
When the machine that washes the dirty dishes comes and collects them from the table first, then you can call it a robot.
Mmm, well it's a big moon compared to the size of the Earth, but the common centre of mass of the Earth Moon system is still inside the Earth, so I'd say that's a pretty clear statement of who's the daddy in the Earth-Moon system.
I'd hope they come up with real 21st century ideas, rather than rehashing old 20th century ones. Besides, what's the point of being able to fly to work when you still can't find anywhere to park? Anyway, the real problem isn't making a cheap flying machine as much as making it safe for the average person to control it - so what they'd really need are AI pilots, rather than flying cars.
Ahem. The second ref should be S. Deser, R. Jackiw, and G. 't Hooft, PRL, v.68, p.267 (1992).
I have to admit, the original parent isn't being a complete lunatic on this one - genuine physicists have come up with papers on this - see "Closed timelike curves produced by pairs of moving cosmic strings: Exact solutions" J.R. Gott, III, Physics Review Letters, v.66, p.1126 (1991).
I don't know if he's since accepted the complaints that he's wrong (see S. Deser, R. Jackiw, and G. 't Hooft, PRL, v.66, p.267 (1992))
If you were a real physicist, you'd know that was wrong. Here's an electron - tell me exactly where it is, where it's going, and how fast.
I mean, come on, pandering to your supporters and banning things your supporters don't like are not exclusive traits of the left (if anything, Labour have happily pissed off the left knowing there is nowhere else for them to go). And we've never had a two chamber democracy, so Blair couldn't have banned one.
Yes, the government are a bunch of lying, interfering busybodies, pandering to the section of the public they think will vote for them. That's not because they're left wing, it's because they're politicians.
The media sell sensationalism and overegged stories all the time, because they think that is what the public wants. The worst thing about it is that the public has demonstrated in sales and viewing figures that they're right.
It wasn't new - the same concept was declared in the British Isles after the civil war - the Commonwealth. The difference is that the USA actually managed to make it work, while the Commonwealth ended up as a dictatorship by Cromwell. The concept wasn't new or radical, but the success was.
OK, it wasn't glorious, and it wasn't a revolution, but I'd say on the contrary, having James kicked off the throne was a good example of parliamentary power over monarchy - parliament and the majority of the people really didn't want James to be king any longer, and so parliament invited William in with an army to boot him out.
Someone once described Democracy as three wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
By making the system a republic rather than an out-and-out democracy, the idea is to have some sort of check on the ability of the majority to have things their way all the time, no matter what the expense is to the minority.
Foale was born and educated in the UK, but he moved to Houston after he graduated and took up US citizenship as the UK doesn't view putting people in space as a cost efficient way of doing science, so changing nationality was the best way to fulfill his aim of being an astronaut.
Yes, but you'll need to know where your towel is.