Racial? I think it is pretty well established that Britain and France are identical race wise. In any case my family originally came from France under William I. I think it is pretty clear you are grasping at straws here.
That's irrlelvant. I'm Scottish, right back to my great grandparents, except one fly in the ointent who was English. I married an English woman. So what the hell? We all came from the same lightning strike on the same puddle of primordial goo...
I have no idea at all where the compact discs came in, they seem to be a somewhat minor issue compared to say, the future of democracy and the republic. Why do you think they are such an important issue to discuss? We discuss the topic of Compact Discs here about three times a week. What do you believe is left to say on the topic? Would you rather continue to discuss the topics decided by the corporation or discuss the real issues of the day, like the reasons that one of our boys is getting killed each day in Iraq and another ten seriously wounded?
I have many strong opinions on democracy and human rights and I happen to believe that Saddam having his arse kicked to high heaven was no less that he deserved. There uis hypocracy in that we haven't done it to others no less deserving such as Robert Mugabe.
As for our boys getting killed and injured...
They knew what they were letting themselves in for. A "British life" is no more valuable than an "Iraqi life". The army exists to defend the country and to give our natural psycopaths, who would otherwise be out murdering, raping and pillaging, something legitimate to do with their time.
I think it is very honourable that these nutters gave their lives to liberate an oppresesed people.
Oil has nothing to do with it, in contrast to what the tree-huggers and God-squad would have us believe. Iraq only produces 3% of the world's oil, and they were banned from exporting most of that...
It sucks how Bush's cronies get all the bucks for rebuilding Iraq. What has that to do with copy-protected CDs?
The world needs to be a decentralised federation of democratic secular states if it is to survive and prosper. Religious nutters take note.
The sooner Africa is liberated the better. Europe and America should offer asylum to each and every African to get them out of that hell-hole of a continent.
... but I'm not allowed to say any of that because IT ISN'T RIGHT.
Things are seriously at the point now that I can't even leave a hedge trimmer sitting on the floor near a window for fear that someone I didn't invite into my home (i.e., a burglar) would accidentally cut off his fingers and successfully sue me for damages encountered in the process of his performing an illegal act. The stress of having to worry about every little thing that I could possibly be sued for is the clearest argument (IMO) for tort reform.
But I thought you were allowed to shoot burglars dead in the USA? Is it OK to kill them but not to cut off a few of their fingers accidentally?
It will not work. Sales will go down. The companies will blame loss of sales on piracy. Politicians will introduce more draconian legislation that further erodes our rights and artists will be deprived of a source of income. Now, get on with your homework young man. When you're finished you can mow the lawn or there'll be no pocket money for you, my lad.
From this we can deduce two things, first that the French can be insufferably arrogant for such a small country whose military success under Napoleon turned out to be what the music industry would call a 'one hit wonder', being followed by flop after flop. The only recent successes being in the consolation prize category of 'quickest surrender'. And no Jaques, the magnificent conquest of the Sahara desert does not qualify a country as an empire. The test of an empire is not merely the acreage under occupation, the locals have to actually be at least aware of the occupation.
Why, in this supposedly enlightened and civillised age, do we resort to slanging matches about the imperialist past which bear absolutely no relevance to today's population, in order to be racially derisive?
What the hell has Napoleon got to do with the sale of Compact Discs and the occupation of Iraq? Also, what has the surrender of the French in the face of a vicious onslaught from evil Nazis got to do with it?
I think we're still in the very early stages yet, so don't be too hasty. Many more people will lose their shirts before things really get going. Maybe in 5 years time things will be more promising. If I worked for NASA, especially doing something technical, I'd be proud and happy working for such a hi-tech employer and getting all that experience and knowledge.
Blah blah blah, we're not your damn colony anymore blah...
Quite. And when aluminium was discovered, it was called aluminum, as the Americans still call it. It was some mad Englishman that decided to change its name to Aluminium.
The Americans are also correct in calling petrol "gasoline", since petrol comes from petrolium, with is the proper name for the crude oil. Gasoline is one of the fractions distilled from it that we use in cars - sorry Ottomobiles - just like kerosene is what we use in aeroplanes - sorry airplanes.....
So do I. I come from north-east Scotland, and I go back there about twice a year on holiday to visit family and friends. In Aberdeen there's an excellent record shop (that does CDs, vinyl, books, videos, DVDs) called Fopp. You can get good CDs for as little as 5 pounds. My wife and I were in there about 3 weeks ago and bought 5 albums on CD for a total of 35 pounds. For the record, we bought Scarlet's Walk and Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos, St Anger by Metallica, a James Taylor Quartet album and One Nation Under a Groove by Funkadelic. So, quite a mixture of old and new and styles. If you know where to look you can find little gems like Fopp in Aberdeen.
The thing is, with these prophecies, and any form of mysticism in general (including Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Astrology - you name it) is that there are many "predictions" and they are vague enough that they could apply to almost anything. People do go on to apply them to everything. That's why there are those that believe the end of the world is just around the corner, all the time. Forget 666. It's always coming up. It even came up in conjunction with Microsoft.
One of the wonders of the Imperial ("English") system is that "pound" can mean "pound force" i.e. one pound of mass under Earth gravity or "pound mass". It's up to you to guess which, depending on the context. Rubbish, isn't it?
Us young 'uns have "kilograms",one of which is appromimately 2.2 pounds mass. There is no "kilogram force" (unless you are an old belligerant git like my father), however, there is the Newton, which is the metric equivalent. One Newton (N) is 1 kilogram metre per second per second i.e. one kilogram mass accelerated at 1 metre per second per second.
The BBC was making similar mistakes in reporting viruses, worms and security flaws until very recently. I emailed their editors and showed them the error of their ways. They now carefully mention which platform the vulnerabilities apply to when they report them...
There are some really nice budweisers from the Czech republic, and often they are available on draught or in bottles in UK pubs. (I much prefer them to the American Budweiser brand, although that's OK on a hot day when there's no other cold lager available.)
Budvar is very nice, and a pleasant surprise if you haven't tried it before.
...because even then I still couldn't get them home quick enough before they rusted to pieces.
Sorry, couldn't resist it. French cars are the same. Well, 20 years ago....
What is with this whole 'virgin' preocupation? Why is anyone concerned with this kid's (or any kid's) level of sexual activity? I don't understand.
...beacause it's still a socially-acceptable way to stereotype and belittle young men. You would never hear of people using the term "18 year-old girl, probably still a virgin" in similar circumstances. It's hypocrasy, ignorance and spitefullness.
I swear I'm going to have a nervous breakdown on these UK raods one day. It scares the poop out of me when people pull out in front when I'm trying to overtake, don't use indicators or overtake me on the inside to slot into my 2+ second safety gap... nearly ripping off my bumper and then slowing down by 5 miles an hour when they realise what's going on. It's usually people driving Nissans, Micras especially. They're pretty dangerous where cyclists are concerned too.
I'd rather be in a car with one of these guys at 120MPH than most people at 60MPH. Except you would never be. Their mantra is, "An Advanced Driver never exceeds the speed limit." (IANAAD but I read a book once...)
Almost no level of road tolls would convince me to loose those three hours extra every day to travelling, and I think those in government honestly know that, they just don't care. I share the sentiment. Luckily I have broadband and an employer that encourages teleworking. There could be a vast improvement in accident rates, pollution, time savings etc. if every one who could was allowed to and able to telework. Ubiquitous broadband anyone?
Yes, it was quite a hare-brained scheme, bringing out a 6MHz (8-bit) Z80 machine in a day when everyone else was moving to the 68030 and 80486 and 25MHz and above.
Don't get me started on the fastest way to copy memory on a Z-80 processor... (LDIR? no....apparently disabling interrupts, shifting the stack pointer and push/popping was the way to go about it).
Hmmm... I've seen it done with lots of LDI instructions i.e. hand-unrolled loops.
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That's irrlelvant. I'm Scottish, right back to my great grandparents, except one fly in the ointent who was English. I married an English woman. So what the hell? We all came from the same lightning strike on the same puddle of primordial goo...
I have no idea at all where the compact discs came in, they seem to be a somewhat minor issue compared to say, the future of democracy and the republic. Why do you think they are such an important issue to discuss? We discuss the topic of Compact Discs here about three times a week. What do you believe is left to say on the topic? Would you rather continue to discuss the topics decided by the corporation or discuss the real issues of the day, like the reasons that one of our boys is getting killed each day in Iraq and another ten seriously wounded?
I have many strong opinions on democracy and human rights and I happen to believe that Saddam having his arse kicked to high heaven was no less that he deserved. There uis hypocracy in that we haven't done it to others no less deserving such as Robert Mugabe.
As for our boys getting killed and injured...
They knew what they were letting themselves in for.
A "British life" is no more valuable than an "Iraqi life".
The army exists to defend the country and to give our natural psycopaths, who would otherwise be out murdering, raping and pillaging, something legitimate to do with their time.
I think it is very honourable that these nutters gave their lives to liberate an oppresesed people.
Oil has nothing to do with it, in contrast to what the tree-huggers and God-squad would have us believe. Iraq only produces 3% of the world's oil, and they were banned from exporting most of that...
It sucks how Bush's cronies get all the bucks for rebuilding Iraq. What has that to do with copy-protected CDs?
The world needs to be a decentralised federation of democratic secular states if it is to survive and prosper. Religious nutters take note.
The sooner Africa is liberated the better. Europe and America should offer asylum to each and every African to get them out of that hell-hole of a continent.
But I thought you were allowed to shoot burglars dead in the USA? Is it OK to kill them but not to cut off a few of their fingers accidentally?
It's been flogged to death.
It will not work. Sales will go down. The companies will blame loss of sales on piracy. Politicians will introduce more draconian legislation that further erodes our rights and artists will be deprived of a source of income.
Now, get on with your homework young man. When you're finished you can mow the lawn or there'll be no pocket money for you, my lad.
Why, in this supposedly enlightened and civillised age, do we resort to slanging matches about the imperialist past which bear absolutely no relevance to today's population, in order to be racially derisive?
What the hell has Napoleon got to do with the sale of Compact Discs and the occupation of Iraq?
Also, what has the surrender of the French in the face of a vicious onslaught from evil Nazis got to do with it?
I think we're still in the very early stages yet, so don't be too hasty. Many more people will lose their shirts before things really get going. Maybe in 5 years time things will be more promising. If I worked for NASA, especially doing something technical, I'd be proud and happy working for such a hi-tech employer and getting all that experience and knowledge.
Quite. And when aluminium was discovered, it was called aluminum, as the Americans still call it. It was some mad Englishman that decided to change its name to Aluminium.
The Americans are also correct in calling petrol "gasoline", since petrol comes from petrolium, with is the proper name for the crude oil. Gasoline is one of the fractions distilled from it that we use in cars - sorry Ottomobiles - just like kerosene is what we use in aeroplanes - sorry airplanes.....
Waaaa!! My brain is about to explode!
So do I. I come from north-east Scotland, and I go back there about twice a year on holiday to visit family and friends. In Aberdeen there's an excellent record shop (that does CDs, vinyl, books, videos, DVDs) called Fopp. You can get good CDs for as little as 5 pounds. My wife and I were in there about 3 weeks ago and bought 5 albums on CD for a total of 35 pounds. For the record, we bought Scarlet's Walk and Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos, St Anger by Metallica, a James Taylor Quartet album and One Nation Under a Groove by Funkadelic. So, quite a mixture of old and new and styles. If you know where to look you can find little gems like Fopp in Aberdeen.
The thing is, with these prophecies, and any form of mysticism in general (including Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Astrology - you name it) is that there are many "predictions" and they are vague enough that they could apply to almost anything. People do go on to apply them to everything. That's why there are those that believe the end of the world is just around the corner, all the time. Forget 666. It's always coming up. It even came up in conjunction with Microsoft.
...just sounds like the drug-induced rantings of some dude in ancient times. Too much fasting or consuming magic mushrooms.
...an Jehova's Witness once told me that Chernobyl is Russian for Wormwood.
Us young 'uns have "kilograms",one of which is appromimately 2.2 pounds mass. There is no "kilogram force" (unless you are an old belligerant git like my father), however, there is the Newton, which is the metric equivalent. One Newton (N) is 1 kilogram metre per second per second i.e. one kilogram mass accelerated at 1 metre per second per second.
For you Spetics out there, a tonne is a metric ton. It is equal to a mass of 1000kg. There are approximately 0.454kg in one of your pound thingies.
Those that give up liberty to make the trains run on time deserve everything they get.
Dude, don't you have a job to do? Haven't you caught them pesky Duke boys yet?
The BBC was making similar mistakes in reporting viruses, worms and security flaws until very recently. I emailed their editors and showed them the error of their ways. They now carefully mention which platform the vulnerabilities apply to when they report them...
Your boss is vaporware?
Budvar is very nice, and a pleasant surprise if you haven't tried it before.
...because even then I still couldn't get them home quick enough before they rusted to pieces.
Sorry, couldn't resist it. French cars are the same. Well, 20 years ago....
I swear I'm going to have a nervous breakdown on these UK raods one day. It scares the poop out of me when people pull out in front when I'm trying to overtake, don't use indicators or overtake me on the inside to slot into my 2+ second safety gap... nearly ripping off my bumper and then slowing down by 5 miles an hour when they realise what's going on. It's usually people driving Nissans, Micras especially. They're pretty dangerous where cyclists are concerned too.
Except you would never be. Their mantra is, "An Advanced Driver never exceeds the speed limit." (IANAAD but I read a book once...)
Almost no level of road tolls would convince me to loose those three hours extra every day to travelling, and I think those in government honestly know that, they just don't care.
I share the sentiment. Luckily I have broadband and an employer that encourages teleworking. There could be a vast improvement in accident rates, pollution, time savings etc. if every one who could was allowed to and able to telework. Ubiquitous broadband anyone?
Q. What food puts women off sex forever?
A. Wedding cake.
Yes, it was quite a hare-brained scheme, bringing out a 6MHz (8-bit) Z80 machine in a day when everyone else was moving to the 68030 and 80486 and 25MHz and above.
Hmmm... I've seen it done with lots of LDI instructions i.e. hand-unrolled loops.