Whilst I believe you are being facetious, your post outlines the problems with partisan political supporters (of all sides), they consider something to be wrong only if it is done by those they don't support.
Good grief, is there really anyone really that bad at grade school math on this science-based web page? $17,000,000 divided by 5,500 is $3,090.91. Thousands, not millions. Geeeezzzz...
Good grief, is there really anyone really that bad at grade school reading on this science-based web page? The summary says $17 billion. Therefore it would be millions, not thousands, per employee. Idiot.
He was quoting the figure used by El Cubano in the following paragraph:
$17,000,000 annually divided by 5,500 employees is over $3,000,000 per employee per annum of economic impact. If that's what it means to be a loser, then please sign me up! I'll talk to my city council and I am relatively certain I can get them on board.
Bradford is not 100% Muslim, nor is it even close to that. I actually live in Bradford, I do not need to read up on the subject to know that you are wrong on your points about unlimited immigration and Bradford's population. It should also be noted that Bradford is a city, and not a town.
Their gov't seem intent on giving democracy a bad name. First the single-vote referendum requiring only simple majority, and now this move to cage the country into that fateful vote.
I don't blame the EU for wanting to be rid of them quickly. Bad faith and arrogance are toxic to everyone involved.
If the Government would have used the petition to overcome the referendum result, then that would have been a case of "giving democracy a bad name".
Just for the record, I voted to remain and yet I was against the intent of the petition, and that is because :
1. I believe that conditions for a referendum result to be deemed a valid; need to be set before the referendum is held. 2. I believe in democracy.
Twice, I have been at a red light turning right, started to go and stopped, (having seen vehicles coming too quickly for me to pull out safely) and been rear ended by people who thought I was going. Clearly I was not at fault but that start-stop action was definitely a factor.
Frankly, it sounds like US drivers are just fucking terrible. I guess it's because you have very lax driving tests and never ban anyone from driving (in any kind of serious way), but I've NEVER been rear-ended in the UK because of something like that. People just fucking well pay attention.
Hmmm
As a motorcyclist in the UK, I really wish your post was accurate, but it isn't. I have had way too many close calls because people, mostly car drivers, fail to pay sufficient attention to what is happening around them, or even worse are distracted by using their mobiles when driving. I always ride my bike defensively, I ride with the expectation that the other road users are not paying attention.
It is always amusing to see those that chant the mantra "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" so loudly and frequently, do everything possible to avoid scrutiny of their own actions.
Actually, in the UK, it has become common to refer to the temperature in Fahrenheit when talking about warm days, and centigrade when talking about cold days.
The large number gap in the middle means it is easy to refer to a temperature and know if it is hot or cold. It's like they measure two different things - hotness or coldness.
Hmmm
Except amongst older people, it is common to use Celsius..
The local reports state that the movie hadn't even started yet when this happened.
They also say that it was in the middle of the previews, and that the shooter was a 71 year old man who was physically assaulted by the texter after the 71 year old had reported the texter to the theater management. If something were escalating to a physical altercation with someone 30 years younger than you, and you were a little old guy with a gun, would you take the beating, or would you shoot?
Another study just came out showing that increased gun ownership actually lowers the murder rate and lower gun ownership does the opposite. We have multiple points of confirmation and there are a few skeptical politicians that are starting to come around.
The old truism is confirmed. Outlaw guns and only the outlaws will have them.
Does Chicago have a violence problem? Yes. Gun bans are not the solution.
Saddam considered the Iranians to be a strategic threat to Iraq and discounted the possibility that the West & UN would act against him in a forceful manner. As a result Saddam had his government continue to act as if they still had WMDs to fool the Iranians after they had secretly disposed of their VX nerve gas after previous fooling the inspectors. (It sounds stupid, but that was Saddam.) Saddam's strategic deception was such a success that he was invaded for it.
That was not the reason for the invasion, it was a political decision, that was merely the excuse for the decision. That is all beside the point, I was referring to the report that the UK Government revealed to the Members of Parliament and the UK people to justify the war, all the cautions that the security services had about the evidence were removed. Alistair Cambell, Tony Blair's spin doctor was heavily involved in that process, despite having no knowledge of either the security services or WMD.
If it makes you feel any better, there were unfilled chemical warheads found for Iraq's long range missiles. With a native chemical industry that had previous experience making chemical agents they could have been filled in the future. The disarmament agencies also recovered a number of anthrax bombs. I'm sure there is more. And the other causes of action were still true, such as the massacres of the Kurds - a crime against humanity, and Iraq's support for terrorism.
Yes, the remnants of Chemical weapons were found, all of which dates from the 80's and early 90's, and all of which tallied with the UN Inspectors reports about them decommissioned in the mid 90's (from memory I see to recall 1995). am aware of the Anfal pogroms, then again I was aware of them in the late 1980's, but as prior to the invasion of Kuwait, Saddam was the West's "friend" in the region, that was ignored by the Western governments, as were the reports that he used chemical weapons against the Iranians during the Iran Iraq war.
If only there was proof. At this point the British believe that the Chinese, the Russians, or both, have copies of all the documents that Snowden took.
Hmmm
Who believes that? The security services or the Politicians? I cannot help but remember that prior to the Iraq war the UK's security services produced reports on WMD in Iraq that were full of cautions about the evidence, these cautions were subsequently removed as the report was doctored, or "firmed up" as it was referred to, when the Politicians and their advisor's got involved when trying to make a case for war,
if the politician already believed it was necessary, there would be no need to pay them.
The money is used for their election... if they don't have money, they don't advertise enough, people don't vote for them, someone who has different views ends up in office.
Hmmm
In the UK, the amount that Political Parties can spend on elections, at local and national level, is a fraction of what the US spends on its elections, so we do not get much in the way of Political advertising compared to you in the states. That being said, it is over 30 years since I became old enough to vote in elections, and during that time I have seen quite a few Political advertisements, in all those years, never once has any advertisement caused me to change the way I vote, at most a political advertisement will cause me to research a point raised during it.
Do people really change the way they vote just because of advertising, or lack thereof?
They should punish all involved in NHS Surrey. Hit them where it hurts, final warnings, no pay rises, no promotions, no pension contribution for the year.
they used to do this in the military decades ago. the result was that lots of soldiers would get robbed on pay day. the thieves would wait for them outside the base
Many years ago in my city there was a large construction project that was adjacent to the City's red light district. The construction workers were all paid in cash every friday, and the prostitutes used to line up nearby waiting for them...
Using the UK price of approx £1.40 per liter, and the Sterling to USD exchange rate quoted on xe.com, it would cost £95.34 or $147.13 to fill a 15-gallon tank in the UK.
You never had it so good...
You are confusing uk gallons with US Gallons. There are 3.78541 Liters to a US Gallon, whereas in the UK it is 4.54609 liters to a gallon.
Tony Blair made 'silence' an explicit indicator of guilt that could be used as part of the prosecution case. snip...
I believe that is incorrect, that change happened in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Tony Blair and the Labour Party did not enter office until May 1st 1997. The amendment was made under the Government of John Major.
snip... People often try to blame the police in court to get off easy, and the police always has to prove they didn't use undue violence during the arrest. So videos are a good idea. snip...
Hmmm
Does this actually occur? I know that in the UK, blaming the police would not help a person to get off, indeed it is more likely to increase any sentence. As for the police having to prove they did not use violence / excessive force, the UK courts seem to except to almost always accept the word of the Police regardless of how far-fetched the Police version of events is. It is only when there is overwhelming independent evidence of the violence / excessive force that the authorities / courts look at the allegations.
Display the time in GMT. State that the time is in GMT. Offer a drop down menu showing "-12h" to "+12h", save the option in a cookie. Or don't. No one from the licence fee paying British public would mind if it only showed British time.
Use someone else's time server. There are plenty to pick from. No need to run your own.
It took me 2 minutes to type this. Who wants to implement it by Friday?
Hmmm
GMT is only "British time" for half of the year. From the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October, we are on British Summer Time, which is GMT + 1. Given how many people get confused over summer / daylight savings time, I am sure that setting the BBC clock to GMT all year round would generate a lot of complaints.
Is it helpful? The answer is no. I produce reputable links to show that there is a difference between what the UK & the USA classifies as Violent crime and you produce a partisan link that is long on rhetoric but short on citations. Perhaps in my (admittedly) skimming of the article I missed the citations to the raw data that was mentioned... As for the assertion that "since handguns were banned in 1998, handgun crime has more than doubled." Do you have a citation for that? As yet, I have been unable to find any information prior to 2000/2001. The link I did find shows that there was an increase from 2000/2001 that peaked in 2003 / 2004 and has fallen substantially since then.
Homicide : It is accurate to state that in England and Wales "A separate offence is recorded for each victim of homicide, so that in an incident in which several people are killed, the number of homicides counted is the total number of persons killed". However it would appear that the FBI also records Homicides based on the number of Victims, not the number of people involved in committing the Homicide, so I am not sure how we are substantially under reporting the issue when compared to the USA.
Yes, it is accurate to state we have more recorded Violent Crime than you have in the USA. However I cannot help but notice, that you fail to qualify your statement by noting that the 2 countries use different methods to record/classify Violent Crimes. The following quote from the wikipedia article sums up the issue : "The comparison of violent crime statistics between countries is usually problematic, due to the way different countries classify crime. (1)"
I will leave it you to do the research into the differences in how our 2 countries record & classify violent crimes. I have provided links to both the FBI (2) and the ONS (3) report on Crime in England and Wales as starting points for your research...
Bollox, in the UK it perfectly legal to film anything or anyone in a public place.
Indeed, however the mere fact that it is legal has not prevented the Police from arresting people for doing so, at least where filming the Police is concerned...
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Posting to remove moderation. I thought you were trolling until someone actually posted the link about her career.
it's Republicans doing it so it's OK.
Whilst I believe you are being facetious, your post outlines the problems with partisan political supporters (of all sides), they consider something to be wrong only if it is done by those they don't support.
And Wikipedia is a reliable source?
Only when compared against the Daily Mail.
The goal is energy, not employment. We don't build factories and plants to keep people busy...
The goal of the Politicians is campaign contributions.
Good grief, is there really anyone really that bad at grade school math on this science-based web page? $17,000,000 divided by 5,500 is $3,090.91. Thousands, not millions. Geeeezzzz...
Good grief, is there really anyone really that bad at grade school reading on this science-based web page? The summary says $17 billion. Therefore it would be millions, not thousands, per employee. Idiot.
He was quoting the figure used by El Cubano in the following paragraph :
$17,000,000 annually divided by 5,500 employees is over $3,000,000 per employee per annum of economic impact. If that's what it means to be a loser, then please sign me up! I'll talk to my city council and I am relatively certain I can get them on board.
Bradford is not 100% Muslim, nor is it even close to that. I actually live in Bradford, I do not need to read up on the subject to know that you are wrong on your points about unlimited immigration and Bradford's population. It should also be noted that Bradford is a city, and not a town.
Their gov't seem intent on giving democracy a bad name. First the single-vote referendum requiring only simple majority, and now this move to cage the country into that fateful vote.
I don't blame the EU for wanting to be rid of them quickly. Bad faith and arrogance are toxic to everyone involved.
If the Government would have used the petition to overcome the referendum result, then that would have been a case of "giving democracy a bad name".
Just for the record, I voted to remain and yet I was against the intent of the petition, and that is because :
1. I believe that conditions for a referendum result to be deemed a valid; need to be set before the referendum is held.
2. I believe in democracy.
Twice, I have been at a red light turning right, started to go and stopped, (having seen vehicles coming too quickly for me to pull out safely) and been rear ended by people who thought I was going. Clearly I was not at fault but that start-stop action was definitely a factor.
Frankly, it sounds like US drivers are just fucking terrible. I guess it's because you have very lax driving tests and never ban anyone from driving (in any kind of serious way), but I've NEVER been rear-ended in the UK because of something like that. People just fucking well pay attention.
Hmmm
As a motorcyclist in the UK, I really wish your post was accurate, but it isn't. I have had way too many close calls because people, mostly car drivers, fail to pay sufficient attention to what is happening around them, or even worse are distracted by using their mobiles when driving. I always ride my bike defensively, I ride with the expectation that the other road users are not paying attention.
Hmmm
It is always amusing to see those that chant the mantra "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" so loudly and frequently, do everything possible to avoid scrutiny of their own actions.
Actually, in the UK, it has become common to refer to the temperature in Fahrenheit when talking about warm days, and centigrade when talking about cold days.
The large number gap in the middle means it is easy to refer to a temperature and know if it is hot or cold. It's like they measure two different things - hotness or coldness.
Hmmm
Except amongst older people, it is common to use Celsius..
The local reports state that the movie hadn't even started yet when this happened.
They also say that it was in the middle of the previews, and that the shooter was a 71 year old man who was physically assaulted by the texter after the 71 year old had reported the texter to the theater management. If something were escalating to a physical altercation with someone 30 years younger than you, and you were a little old guy with a gun, would you take the beating, or would you shoot?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/14/justice/florida-movie-theater-shooting/
Interesting, that does not tally with the following, which I presume is from the same witness : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yLeDpfQDVI
In that he states he did not see who through the popcorn.
Another study just came out showing that increased gun ownership actually lowers the murder rate and lower gun ownership does the opposite. We have multiple points of confirmation and there are a few skeptical politicians that are starting to come around.
The old truism is confirmed. Outlaw guns and only the outlaws will have them.
Does Chicago have a violence problem? Yes. Gun bans are not the solution.
What study? Can you please provide a link to it.
Saddam considered the Iranians to be a strategic threat to Iraq and discounted the possibility that the West & UN would act against him in a forceful manner. As a result Saddam had his government continue to act as if they still had WMDs to fool the Iranians after they had secretly disposed of their VX nerve gas after previous fooling the inspectors. (It sounds stupid, but that was Saddam.) Saddam's strategic deception was such a success that he was invaded for it.
That was not the reason for the invasion, it was a political decision, that was merely the excuse for the decision. That is all beside the point, I was referring to the report that the UK Government revealed to the Members of Parliament and the UK people to justify the war, all the cautions that the security services had about the evidence were removed. Alistair Cambell, Tony Blair's spin doctor was heavily involved in that process, despite having no knowledge of either the security services or WMD.
If it makes you feel any better, there were unfilled chemical warheads found for Iraq's long range missiles. With a native chemical industry that had previous experience making chemical agents they could have been filled in the future. The disarmament agencies also recovered a number of anthrax bombs. I'm sure there is more. And the other causes of action were still true, such as the massacres of the Kurds - a crime against humanity, and Iraq's support for terrorism.
Yes, the remnants of Chemical weapons were found, all of which dates from the 80's and early 90's, and all of which tallied with the UN Inspectors reports about them decommissioned in the mid 90's (from memory I see to recall 1995). am aware of the Anfal pogroms, then again I was aware of them in the late 1980's, but as prior to the invasion of Kuwait, Saddam was the West's "friend" in the region, that was ignored by the Western governments, as were the reports that he used chemical weapons against the Iranians during the Iran Iraq war.
If only there was proof. At this point the British believe that the Chinese, the Russians, or both, have copies of all the documents that Snowden took.
Hmmm
Who believes that? The security services or the Politicians? I cannot help but remember that prior to the Iraq war the UK's security services produced reports on WMD in Iraq that were full of cautions about the evidence, these cautions were subsequently removed as the report was doctored, or "firmed up" as it was referred to, when the Politicians and their advisor's got involved when trying to make a case for war,
if the politician already believed it was necessary, there would be no need to pay them.
The money is used for their election... if they don't have money, they don't advertise enough, people don't vote for them, someone who has different views ends up in office.
Hmmm
In the UK, the amount that Political Parties can spend on elections, at local and national level, is a fraction of what the US spends on its elections, so we do not get much in the way of Political advertising compared to you in the states. That being said, it is over 30 years since I became old enough to vote in elections, and during that time I have seen quite a few Political advertisements, in all those years, never once has any advertisement caused me to change the way I vote, at most a political advertisement will cause me to research a point raised during it.
Do people really change the way they vote just because of advertising, or lack thereof?
Hmm
They should punish all involved in NHS Surrey. Hit them where it hurts, final warnings, no pay rises, no promotions, no pension contribution for the year.
they used to do this in the military decades ago. the result was that lots of soldiers would get robbed on pay day. the thieves would wait for them outside the base
Many years ago in my city there was a large construction project that was adjacent to the City's red light district. The construction workers were all paid in cash every friday, and the prostitutes used to line up nearby waiting for them...
Using the UK price of approx £1.40 per liter, and the Sterling to USD exchange rate quoted on xe.com, it would cost £95.34 or $147.13 to fill a 15-gallon tank in the UK.
You never had it so good...
You are confusing uk gallons with US Gallons. There are 3.78541 Liters to a US Gallon, whereas in the UK it is 4.54609 liters to a gallon.
Tony Blair made 'silence' an explicit indicator of guilt that could be used as part of the prosecution case.
snip...
I believe that is incorrect, that change happened in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Tony Blair and the Labour Party did not enter office until May 1st 1997. The amendment was made under the Government of John Major.
snip...
People often try to blame the police in court to get off easy, and the police always has to prove they didn't use undue violence during the arrest. So videos are a good idea.
snip...
Hmmm
Does this actually occur? I know that in the UK, blaming the police would not help a person to get off, indeed it is more likely to increase any sentence. As for the police having to prove they did not use violence / excessive force, the UK courts seem to except to almost always accept the word of the Police regardless of how far-fetched the Police version of events is. It is only when there is overwhelming independent evidence of the violence / excessive force that the authorities / courts look at the allegations.
It's a cop-out, nothing more.
Display the time in GMT. State that the time is in GMT. Offer a drop down menu showing "-12h" to "+12h", save the option in a cookie. Or don't. No one from the licence fee paying British public would mind if it only showed British time.
Use someone else's time server. There are plenty to pick from. No need to run your own.
It took me 2 minutes to type this. Who wants to implement it by Friday?
Hmmm
GMT is only "British time" for half of the year. From the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October, we are on British Summer Time, which is GMT + 1. Given how many people get confused over summer / daylight savings time, I am sure that setting the BBC clock to GMT all year round would generate a lot of complaints.
This may be helpful:
Self-Defense: An Endangered Right
Is it helpful? The answer is no. I produce reputable links to show that there is a difference between what the UK & the USA classifies as Violent crime and you produce a partisan link that is long on rhetoric but short on citations. Perhaps in my (admittedly) skimming of the article I missed the citations to the raw data that was mentioned...
As for the assertion that "since handguns were banned in 1998, handgun crime has more than doubled." Do you have a citation for that? As yet, I have been unable to find any information prior to 2000/2001. The link I did find shows that there was an increase from 2000/2001 that peaked in 2003 / 2004 and has fallen substantially since then.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/116483/hosb0212.pdf (page 69)
Firearm Offences in England & Wales :
Data involves ALL crimes involving a firearm.
Page 23 of http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb1109chap3.pdf
Page 5 of http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/hosb1210chap1.pdf
Page 55 of https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/116483/hosb0212.pdf
Homicide :
It is accurate to state that in England and Wales "A separate offence is recorded for each victim of homicide, so that in an incident in which several people are killed, the number of homicides counted is the total number of persons killed". However it would appear that the FBI also records Homicides based on the number of Victims, not the number of people involved in committing the Homicide, so I am not sure how we are substantially under reporting the issue when compared to the USA.
England & Wales :
Footnote 1, page 32 : https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/116483/hosb0212.pdf
USA :
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/violent-crime/murder
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8
Hmmm
Yes, it is accurate to state we have more recorded Violent Crime than you have in the USA. However I cannot help but notice, that you fail to qualify your statement by noting that the 2 countries use different methods to record/classify Violent Crimes. The following quote from the wikipedia article sums up the issue : "The comparison of violent crime statistics between countries is usually problematic, due to the way different countries classify crime. (1)"
I will leave it you to do the research into the differences in how our 2 countries record & classify violent crimes. I have provided links to both the FBI (2) and the ONS (3) report on Crime in England and Wales as starting points for your research...
Link :
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_crime
2. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/violent-crime/violent-crime
3. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_283456.pdf (page 16)
Bollox, in the UK it perfectly legal to film anything or anyone in a public place.
Indeed, however the mere fact that it is legal has not prevented the Police from arresting people for doing so, at least where filming the Police is concerned...