... that by the end of this decade, we should send the first Lego astonaut to Mars.
Avoiding US Cultural Imperialism.
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it's official, there is no escape from American "culture".
Sure there is. Here are a set of simple instructions.
1) Locate point of entry for electricity in to your house.
2) Disconnect Electricity (some car is advised at this point).
3) Locate all telephones in house.
4) Smash telephones with Hammer, or other large heavy object (possibly your now useless VCR).
5) Locate large wads of cotton wool.
6) Insert cotton wool in to ears (in case of passing boombox).
7) Never leave house.
Never mind Pax Americana, fear Pax AOL / Time Warner.
They're public lands! Public! Not true in the UK. All land, in the final analysis, is owned by the Crown. Admitadley if the queen came round and tried to move into my house, I might have a few choice words that dont involve "your majesty":)
By driving a car on the public highway in the UK, you are agreeing to a series of conditions, such as displaying a registration that can be traced back to you, having insurance, paying road tax, etc. You could not run a road system as big as the UKs without this. That registration number is there for a reason - so your car can be traced back to the owner.
Would it be OK if someone stood by the road noting down all the registrations of the cars that passed? It seems that this is a story because cameras are involved. There are cameras all over the UK's roads allready - some to discourage traffic offenses, others to track traffic flow (the TrafficMaster System), and undoubtably others which keep track of you going in to 'sensitive' areas. If you dont like this - dont drive a car in the UK.
The real story here is that driver who want to avoid the congestion charge will simply go around the city, moving the congestion and polution to other, currently quiet roads, and that there has been no investment in public transport to give a viable alternative to driving.
Lets face it, the whole idea is silly. Theres the whole laws of thermodynamics thing for a start but then theres this problem that they need some sort of artifical reality to make it work, and its really tricky, because they keep escaping and fighting and stuff.
OK, so why not use Llamas instead. Or Cod. Problem solved - Next!
Maybe its good that I'm nto a hyperintelligent machine ruling the world with an iron fist, er, manipulator.
The BBC? 22 Episodes a year?? Come of it. It doesnt matter how good the series, how wildly succesful, the BBC only EVER makes 6 of anything at a time. Its annoying but true. They just finished showing a series called "Spooks" - MI5 espionage drama. It was fantastic. They made 6. Bah.
I live in the UK. I am not a criminal - I have nothing to hide. However, I find the prospect of this law absolutley terrifying. I'm off to fire a salvo at my MP, but as he is a loyal new labour puppy dog, I seriously doubt much will come of it.
I need better crypto, and a line-noise password that I change every week.
D30's are used as the 6th gear die in the boardgame Formula De - however this particular die is only numbered 21-30.
The temptation to roll the big blue die has landed me in trouble in this game more than once!
Google furnished me with this Link [bbc.co.uk]. LEP Stands for Light Emiting Polymers, it turns out. Doesnt really help with working out if this is what they are using though.
Hmm - could this screen use Light Emiting Plastic technology? I read somewhere some time ago (memory... failing...) that light emiting plastics had been developed, but only in Green so far (which could explain the choice of colour). The advantage was that they would be much cheaper to produce than LCD displays, as you dont get a ridiculous failure rate in the manufacturing process.
... the "Star" jump. this is a special kind of jump that I and I alone have discovered. It differs from a normal jump in that you throw your arms and legs out to the side while in the air, forming a star shape (hence star jump).
For safety reasons it is advisable to return your legs at least to the vertical position before landing. A licence fee of $0.02 per jump will apply, and my lawyers will be spot-checking primary schools.
Its not as daft as it sounds - any non metal hull has the advantage of not producing as much of a disturbance in the earths magnetic field, which can be used to set of mines. Several navies use plastic hulled minesweepers.
Non-metal hulls on ships are not as stupid as they sound. The UK Navy (and I presume others) uses plastic-hulled minesweepers - not as likely to set of mines that sense changes in the earths electromagnetic field and all that.
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Cheaper than Frikin laser beams!
... that by the end of this decade, we should send the first Lego astonaut to Mars.
it's official, there is no escape from American "culture".
Sure there is. Here are a set of simple instructions.
1) Locate point of entry for electricity in to your house.
2) Disconnect Electricity (some car is advised at this point). 3) Locate all telephones in house.
4) Smash telephones with Hammer, or other large heavy object (possibly your now useless VCR).
5) Locate large wads of cotton wool.
6) Insert cotton wool in to ears (in case of passing boombox).
7) Never leave house.
Never mind Pax Americana, fear Pax AOL / Time Warner.
They're public lands! Public! :)
Not true in the UK. All land, in the final analysis, is owned by the Crown.
Admitadley if the queen came round and tried to move into my house, I might have a few choice words that dont involve "your majesty"
By driving a car on the public highway in the UK, you are agreeing to a series of conditions, such as displaying a registration that can be traced back to you, having insurance, paying road tax, etc. You could not run a road system as big as the UKs without this. That registration number is there for a reason - so your car can be traced back to the owner.
Would it be OK if someone stood by the road noting down all the registrations of the cars that passed? It seems that this is a story because cameras are involved. There are cameras all over the UK's roads allready - some to discourage traffic offenses, others to track traffic flow (the TrafficMaster System), and undoubtably others which keep track of you going in to 'sensitive' areas. If you dont like this - dont drive a car in the UK.
The real story here is that driver who want to avoid the congestion charge will simply go around the city, moving the congestion and polution to other, currently quiet roads, and that there has been no investment in public transport to give a viable alternative to driving.
Wonder how Italy squares this with the fact that they are a signatory to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which should protect 'freedom of thought, conscience and religion' as well as 'freedom of expression'.
ho hum.
...if menaced with a supersoaker...
OK - who didnt see THAT coming?
Lets face it, the whole idea is silly. Theres the whole laws of thermodynamics thing for a start but then theres this problem that they need some sort of artifical reality to make it work, and its really tricky, because they keep escaping and fighting and stuff. OK, so why not use Llamas instead. Or Cod. Problem solved - Next! Maybe its good that I'm nto a hyperintelligent machine ruling the world with an iron fist, er, manipulator.
The BBC? 22 Episodes a year?? Come of it. It doesnt matter how good the series, how wildly succesful, the BBC only EVER makes 6 of anything at a time.
Its annoying but true. They just finished showing a series called "Spooks" - MI5 espionage drama. It was fantastic. They made 6.
Bah.
...would it want to escape in to the minor metropolitan hell-blip that is Rotherham? It was probably better off fighting to its death in the Arena...
I live in the UK. I am not a criminal - I have nothing to hide. However, I find the prospect of this law absolutley terrifying. I'm off to fire a salvo at my MP, but as he is a loyal new labour puppy dog, I seriously doubt much will come of it.
I need better crypto, and a line-noise password that I change every week.
D30's are used as the 6th gear die in the boardgame Formula De - however this particular die is only numbered 21-30.
The temptation to roll the big blue die has landed me in trouble in this game more than once!
Geez imagine if you have a hundred of these stacked in a cube and one at the centre springs a leak...
Google furnished me with this Link [bbc.co.uk]. LEP Stands for Light Emiting Polymers, it turns out. Doesnt really help with working out if this is what they are using though.
Hmm - could this screen use Light Emiting Plastic technology? I read somewhere some time ago (memory... failing...) that light emiting plastics had been developed, but only in Green so far (which could explain the choice of colour). The advantage was that they would be much cheaper to produce than LCD displays, as you dont get a ridiculous failure rate in the manufacturing process.
... the "Star" jump. this is a special kind of jump that I and I alone have discovered. It differs from a normal jump in that you throw your arms and legs out to the side while in the air, forming a star shape (hence star jump).
For safety reasons it is advisable to return your legs at least to the vertical position before landing.
A licence fee of $0.02 per jump will apply, and my lawyers will be spot-checking primary schools.
..Gaudi had had Lego. Maybe he would have got finished with Barcelona.
Its not as daft as it sounds - any non metal hull has the advantage of not producing as much of a disturbance in the earths magnetic field, which can be used to set of mines. Several navies use plastic hulled minesweepers.
Non-metal hulls on ships are not as stupid as they sound. The UK Navy (and I presume others) uses plastic-hulled minesweepers - not as likely to set of mines that sense changes in the earths electromagnetic field and all that.
Erosion could be a bitch though!