With 700 billion dollars and the existing 10% reserve ratio in the US, the American government could have entirely replaced the existing fucked up banks with clean banks able to lend, and the problem would largely have been solved by now.
What would happen to the money owed to people who'd been paid with money lent by the existing banks? Or the people who have savings with the existing banks?
No. Thank Dieu people listen to the BBC, who have no political agendas, nor any zealotish campaigns against drugs, racism, peadophilia, or knife crime (the former three being bad things, but the BBC scaremongers and rants on about them in a worse-than-tabloid way). Much better.
Get involved in the party closer to your heart and change things (it is what I did when I was in my country, a place far more dangerous than the UK for opposition politicians).
I frankly can't stand all this defeatist whining.
Was the country Israel, Finland, or even Iraq, where there's actually a chance of a minor party getting representation in the mainstream political system? Far more important than how dangerous it is to be an opposition politician is how much chance there is of your getting any power being one. It was 1906 the last time it wasn't one of two parties in power in the UK. And even then, it was the one in third now. In modern politics in the UK, no party other than the big 3 (almost always the big 2, actually) has ever had any real power.
So getting involved in the way you say will most likely achieve nothing. The whining is justified.
The only thing that matters in a war today is the question who started it. You want to go to war? You need a reason. You can't just go and invade some country.
Russia - Georgia... US - Iraq... Sudan - Darfur (yeah well it's virtually a war, country attacking its own region) and I'm sure there are plenty of other smaller ones too with no good excuse. Whatsmore, if China invades some neighbouring country, what will the world really DO about it?
Unfortunately, the US is infamous for using vast quantities of energy and using pretty inefficient devices (as a whole, not saying it applies to everyone). So some pretty serious energy efficiency measures are also called for.
Wow, seriously? That's hilarious. These are my results. Your connection appears to be absurdly asymmetric; you have about 70 times the downspeed than your upspeed, meaning my upspeed is nearly as fast as yours. Doesn't that actually start to limit your downspeed, as the upstream ACKs can't keep up?
Finland has a unicameral governmental chamber, elected by open-list proportional representation. It's my idea of a model of a good system. Presumably this means that you don't get big parties with overall majorities, and it's much harder for lobbyists to buy the laws of their choice. This story just shows that you have to be eternally vigilant, though.
As a Brit, could I please beg you to please find a way to get NFL out of the UK? It's the most tedious, inane sport I've ever had the misfortune to tune into from time to time. Idiotic commentators calling players 'superman' etc. don't help. There are SO many more entertaining, worthy sports that don't get coverage that it's really quite depressing that the BBC has started to cover this utter shit.
(2) Microsoft has every opportunity to give that end user A CHOICE.
Heh, the Firefox team can't lecture people about giving users a choice. Try not installing an update Firefox decided to silently download in the background. Hell, they're talking about installing them without even prompting you first, then telling you they did. If they even bother to do that. And this stuff is all switched on by default.
Does h.264 work well for streaming? Until there's a widely supported open (libre) streaming format (especially one that many network-connectable webcams etc. will output), we're gonna be stuck with horrible RealPlayer embeddings.
Don't they recommend installing Java, so you can use their player applet to play the OGGs? So... umm... the browser needs support for Java applets. Not OGG.
Do you think it would be very hard for you to kill someone who really (really) doesn't expect you to kill him, with a knife? Or a fork? Or even a chair? Depends on whether you're Steve Ballmer.
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I like Bryan Adams, Alanis Morisette, and Avril Lavigne, you insensitive clod!
Like there's a good defense for an illegal war in IRAQ?
What illegal war? And what relevance does Iraq (it's not an acronym, BTW) have to this?
Of course it's an acronym, people just don't realise it, and it justifies the Bush administration's stance on the war.
Iraq Runs Al Qaeda.
It is starting to look like media sharing is the cannabis of the new millennium (or at least the first part :)).
What does that make cannabis?
With 700 billion dollars and the existing 10% reserve ratio in the US, the American government could have entirely replaced the existing fucked up banks with clean banks able to lend, and the problem would largely have been solved by now.
What would happen to the money owed to people who'd been paid with money lent by the existing banks? Or the people who have savings with the existing banks?
I think what's scarier is that they're making PC-based androids that stay looking so realistic after 4.5 years.
There are no buffalo living in the US. Only bison. ;-)
The banks are already broken. Too late.
No. Thank Dieu people listen to the BBC, who have no political agendas, nor any zealotish campaigns against drugs, racism, peadophilia, or knife crime (the former three being bad things, but the BBC scaremongers and rants on about them in a worse-than-tabloid way). Much better.
Get involved in the party closer to your heart and change things (it is what I did when I was in my country, a place far more dangerous than the UK for opposition politicians).
I frankly can't stand all this defeatist whining.
Was the country Israel, Finland, or even Iraq, where there's actually a chance of a minor party getting representation in the mainstream political system? Far more important than how dangerous it is to be an opposition politician is how much chance there is of your getting any power being one. It was 1906 the last time it wasn't one of two parties in power in the UK. And even then, it was the one in third now. In modern politics in the UK, no party other than the big 3 (almost always the big 2, actually) has ever had any real power.
So getting involved in the way you say will most likely achieve nothing. The whining is justified.
The only thing that matters in a war today is the question who started it. You want to go to war? You need a reason. You can't just go and invade some country.
Russia - Georgia... US - Iraq... Sudan - Darfur (yeah well it's virtually a war, country attacking its own region) and I'm sure there are plenty of other smaller ones too with no good excuse. Whatsmore, if China invades some neighbouring country, what will the world really DO about it?
Unfortunately, the US is infamous for using vast quantities of energy and using pretty inefficient devices (as a whole, not saying it applies to everyone). So some pretty serious energy efficiency measures are also called for.
Wow, seriously? That's hilarious. These are my results. Your connection appears to be absurdly asymmetric; you have about 70 times the downspeed than your upspeed, meaning my upspeed is nearly as fast as yours. Doesn't that actually start to limit your downspeed, as the upstream ACKs can't keep up?
Finland has a unicameral governmental chamber, elected by open-list proportional representation. It's my idea of a model of a good system. Presumably this means that you don't get big parties with overall majorities, and it's much harder for lobbyists to buy the laws of their choice. This story just shows that you have to be eternally vigilant, though.
As a Brit, could I please beg you to please find a way to get NFL out of the UK? It's the most tedious, inane sport I've ever had the misfortune to tune into from time to time. Idiotic commentators calling players 'superman' etc. don't help. There are SO many more entertaining, worthy sports that don't get coverage that it's really quite depressing that the BBC has started to cover this utter shit.
Whatâ(TM)s next, an OpenOffice extension to make sure Microsoft never has an $ where their s is?
Hah, MS are never gonna stop me from saying MS - there's no way they can do that. MS MS MS - see?
(2) Microsoft has every opportunity to give that end user A CHOICE.
Heh, the Firefox team can't lecture people about giving users a choice. Try not installing an update Firefox decided to silently download in the background. Hell, they're talking about installing them without even prompting you first, then telling you they did. If they even bother to do that. And this stuff is all switched on by default.
Actually, it's more like in Soviet Russia, you get 210Po. In London, 210Po gets you.
Does h.264 work well for streaming? Until there's a widely supported open (libre) streaming format (especially one that many network-connectable webcams etc. will output), we're gonna be stuck with horrible RealPlayer embeddings.
Don't they recommend installing Java, so you can use their player applet to play the OGGs? So... umm... the browser needs support for Java applets. Not OGG.
'So easily' grown at home?
I think growing quality weed is actually more challenging than you think, especially in a non-tropical climate.
You heathens are allll gonna regret this. How little do you realise the gravity of the mistake you're making. *shakes head*
- God
7. Hot grits.
If King James English was good enough for God, it's good enough for the USA!!!
Do you think it would be very hard for you to kill someone who really (really) doesn't expect you to kill him, with a knife? Or a fork? Or even a chair?
Depends on whether you're Steve Ballmer.
Do you mean bilingual, or French-speaking? (some only speak la francais Quebecois in Canada)