They'd rather have peace than move a few lines on the map. Britain and Northern Ireland are already well on this course.
Sadly I know you're not joking.
The "cooling" of the civil conflict in Northern Ireland is a result of the British Government giving the Republicans what they want (piece by piece). This worked temporarily as the Republicans were at that time responsible for the majority of the violence. Inevitably this has upset the Unionists and has moved the initiation of the majority of the violence from one group to another. Furthermore unless the British Government is prepared to sell out it's own citizens and force Northern Ireland to become part of the Republic against the will of the majority of it's population, the Republicans will INEVITABLY recommence their terrorist activities. On the other hand the Unionists will NEVER accept intergration with the Republic. The British Government doesn't care about the latter, because this will become - Someone Else's Problem (tm).
You can define "weapon" anyway you like, if you want to define it as "anything you take to war" that's up to you. Most people however do not use the term in that way . . . if they were smoking what you're smoking it might be different.
What company wouldn't want to be apple. Who else has so many gullible customers they can sell standard hardware at twice the price. It's the most basic of marketing tricks . . . sell the lifestyle. Ironic really, these applets believe they "think different" but they're actually the true sheep of this world.
Yeah I know - and assumed that the idea of a polar elevator was a joke (I must be new here). However this is not related to the question of whether a spaceship could remain geostationary over a pole. In such a case "orbit" might be stretching the description a bit admittedly.
Geostationary just means not moving relative to the earth and there's no reason to suppose that a spaceship capable of interstellar travel wouldn't be capable of maintaining such a position.
Bad mouth Roddenberry again and I'll hunt you down.
There certainly are laws on the high seas (outside territorial waters) and some international regulations apply even within territorial waters eg SOLAS regulations, International Regulations for Prevention of Collisions at Sea and there's even a UN treaty (which I can't offhand remember the name of).
The UK government often threatens to legislate on "drink boating" but never does because it would interfere with their international obligations - free passage, etc.
I've never heard "seppo", "septic" on the other hand is fairly common and (in answer to an earlier post) does have derogatory connotations (in the UK).
I'm not absolutely certain, but I am fairly sure buckytubes are not made by pi bonding - it's sigma bonding, which is admittedly only slightly stronger. Pi bonding only exists in this sort of molecule in a theoretical way as resonance structures. Having said that I've got to agree that currently there are no known materials with sufficient tensile strength for a space elevator and the hope that nanotubes can be developed into a sufficiently strong material is (to my mind) tenuous.
I might not entirely agree with it, but it's difficult to deny there is a widespread and deep seated antipathy to the French in English culture. Furthermore whilt this antipathy might be more common among lower socio-economic levels it's far from absent even among the elite.
I don't have the same personal familiarity with the French public but observation of some of their political leadership leads me to believe that significant numbers of their population have a similar feeling about the English.
This is a French-English thing, not a French-British thing as the Scots and Irish in particular have a much more cordial attitude to France.
Sorry but that's dead wrong. Microsoft are fighting real hard at this point, they're just doing it quietly so as not to "legitimise" open source. They're attacking on multiple fronts... software patents, DRM, trusted computing, document formats, changing protocols and of course a ceaseless stream of FUD. Microsoft think they can take out open source and they're trying to buy the legislation they need right now.
I've got to take issue with that - what about the Danes, the Poles, the Finns, etc.
We'd just have to hope the French, Italians, etc sided with the US.
You forgot copyright infringement - that's another one which SCO haven't sued anybody for. Incidentally, companies frequently sue people they DON'T have contracts with.
The GP is a muppet but I doubt he's got much to do with PostgreSQL. In my experience they're a nice enought bunch and Postgres is a good product, don't let one idiot put you off.
SCO have a history of taking legal actions against those that enter into contracts with them. In fact just about everybody they sue has some sort of contract with them. MySQL ab are taking a real chance with this and it could cost them hugely.
Personally I find the grammar checker in word next to useless. All it ever seems to do is complain about passive verbs and subjunctive clauses (which it doesn't seem to understand). If I use a passive verb it's because I've chosen it as the best way to express my meaning.
"The green book" is a phrase you hear a lot in the UK if you have much to do with the government. It means something totally different to UK civil servants.
Last time someone broke into my house, I called the police. They were polite and looked around, they even sent someone to test for fingerprints the next day. Truth is - they obviously weren't really interested and were just going through the motions to placate me, the whole thing was a complete waste of time. I suspect I was being an inconvenience by preventing them from doing their real job - raising revenue from motorists. The only reason for reporting a break in is to get a crime number for the insurance company. Don't expect the police to try and catch those responsible that's not their job.
Furthermore, the next version of MS Office will have open formats.
Ah - you mean the allegedly open format which will allegedly be used by the next version of MS Office, under a license which is yet to be revealed but will allegedly be a "free license" in the way that MS choses to interpret "free license".
auto-pilots are directly controlled by human beings
In as much as a human has to input the destination that's true. Otherwise a modern plane is capable of taking off, flying to another airport and landing without the pilot touching the controls.
I'll never forget the pictures of one of the early airbuses flying itself into the ground. Apparently the computer could over-rule the pilot . . . but it was still blamed on pilot error (of course). I also saw some film once of a plane completely out of control (but can't remember what type it was) and the pilot explaining how he'd had to fight the computer for 20 minutes to prevent a crash.
I think in the end, I'd rather have a human making the final decision and able to over-ride the computer.
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A radio is only a weapon if you pick it up and hit someone with it and in that context virtually anything can be a weapon.
Sadly I know you're not joking.
The "cooling" of the civil conflict in Northern Ireland is a result of the British Government giving the Republicans what they want (piece by piece). This worked temporarily as the Republicans were at that time responsible for the majority of the violence. Inevitably this has upset the Unionists and has moved the initiation of the majority of the violence from one group to another. Furthermore unless the British Government is prepared to sell out it's own citizens and force Northern Ireland to become part of the Republic against the will of the majority of it's population, the Republicans will INEVITABLY recommence their terrorist activities. On the other hand the Unionists will NEVER accept intergration with the Republic. The British Government doesn't care about the latter, because this will become - Someone Else's Problem (tm).
You can define "weapon" anyway you like, if you want to define it as "anything you take to war" that's up to you. Most people however do not use the term in that way . . . if they were smoking what you're smoking it might be different.
What company wouldn't want to be apple. Who else has so many gullible customers they can sell standard hardware at twice the price. It's the most basic of marketing tricks . . . sell the lifestyle. Ironic really, these applets believe they "think different" but they're actually the true sheep of this world.
Yeah I know - and assumed that the idea of a polar elevator was a joke (I must be new here). However this is not related to the question of whether a spaceship could remain geostationary over a pole. In such a case "orbit" might be stretching the description a bit admittedly.
Geostationary just means not moving relative to the earth and there's no reason to suppose that a spaceship capable of interstellar travel wouldn't be capable of maintaining such a position. Bad mouth Roddenberry again and I'll hunt you down.
There certainly are laws on the high seas (outside territorial waters) and some international regulations apply even within territorial waters eg SOLAS regulations, International Regulations for Prevention of Collisions at Sea and there's even a UN treaty (which I can't offhand remember the name of). The UK government often threatens to legislate on "drink boating" but never does because it would interfere with their international obligations - free passage, etc.
I've never heard "seppo", "septic" on the other hand is fairly common and (in answer to an earlier post) does have derogatory connotations (in the UK).
I'm not absolutely certain, but I am fairly sure buckytubes are not made by pi bonding - it's sigma bonding, which is admittedly only slightly stronger. Pi bonding only exists in this sort of molecule in a theoretical way as resonance structures. Having said that I've got to agree that currently there are no known materials with sufficient tensile strength for a space elevator and the hope that nanotubes can be developed into a sufficiently strong material is (to my mind) tenuous.
I might not entirely agree with it, but it's difficult to deny there is a widespread and deep seated antipathy to the French in English culture. Furthermore whilt this antipathy might be more common among lower socio-economic levels it's far from absent even among the elite.
I don't have the same personal familiarity with the French public but observation of some of their political leadership leads me to believe that significant numbers of their population have a similar feeling about the English.
This is a French-English thing, not a French-British thing as the Scots and Irish in particular have a much more cordial attitude to France.
Sorry but that's dead wrong. Microsoft are fighting real hard at this point, they're just doing it quietly so as not to "legitimise" open source. They're attacking on multiple fronts ... software patents, DRM, trusted computing, document formats, changing protocols and of course a ceaseless stream of FUD. Microsoft think they can take out open source and they're trying to buy the legislation they need right now.
I've got to take issue with that - what about the Danes, the Poles, the Finns, etc. We'd just have to hope the French, Italians, etc sided with the US.
Bush doesn't care about poor people - in norleens that means mainly blacks but to Bush that's just incidental.
You forgot copyright infringement - that's another one which SCO haven't sued anybody for. Incidentally, companies frequently sue people they DON'T have contracts with.
OK I may have been a bit harsh . . . apologies.
The GP is a muppet but I doubt he's got much to do with PostgreSQL. In my experience they're a nice enought bunch and Postgres is a good product, don't let one idiot put you off.
SCO have a history of taking legal actions against those that enter into contracts with them. In fact just about everybody they sue has some sort of contract with them. MySQL ab are taking a real chance with this and it could cost them hugely.
Personally I find the grammar checker in word next to useless. All it ever seems to do is complain about passive verbs and subjunctive clauses (which it doesn't seem to understand). If I use a passive verb it's because I've chosen it as the best way to express my meaning.
It's not slander or libel to report accusations made before a court and things said under oath are privileged.
"The green book" is a phrase you hear a lot in the UK if you have much to do with the government. It means something totally different to UK civil servants.
Last time someone broke into my house, I called the police. They were polite and looked around, they even sent someone to test for fingerprints the next day. Truth is - they obviously weren't really interested and were just going through the motions to placate me, the whole thing was a complete waste of time. I suspect I was being an inconvenience by preventing them from doing their real job - raising revenue from motorists. The only reason for reporting a break in is to get a crime number for the insurance company. Don't expect the police to try and catch those responsible that's not their job.
Ah - you mean the allegedly open format which will allegedly be used by the next version of MS Office, under a license which is yet to be revealed but will allegedly be a "free license" in the way that MS choses to interpret "free license".
Which brings us to the Montana Paradox.
In as much as a human has to input the destination that's true. Otherwise a modern plane is capable of taking off, flying to another airport and landing without the pilot touching the controls.
I think in the end, I'd rather have a human making the final decision and able to over-ride the computer.