It all becomes clear - Chris Morris is the fantastic satarist responsible for such gems as Brass Eye and The Day Today. He even managed to get a publicity seeking member of parliament to attempt to raise a bill on a fake drug called CAKE on behalf of the anti-drug organisations FUCT and BOMD.
Maybe in a years time we will see that this whole SCO ordeal is a cleverly orchestrated comedy documentary... See this link for examples - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000066NT 9/qid%3D1067337215/202-5771086-4976632
The point all of you are missing is that hydrogen fuel cells and large scale production of either the hydrogen or the electricity to produce the hydrogen are both far more efficient than the internal combustion engine (efficiency of about 40%).
Even considering the loss of usable energy in both production and consumption this is still a far more efficient, and therefore more environmentally friendly, method of moving a vehicle.
Interesting to see that you think you are fit and capable to comment on international relations.
You obviously follow the same beliefs as the current US administration so it should be obvious to you that as their strategy is proving to be pretty disastrous your opinions might be just as stupid.
Good to see Bush finally showing some humility in the UN as the US gov. back down on some resolutions regarding Iraq. Interestingly that contradicts your opinion that people only listen to the top dog.
If SUVs are safer then why do American road stats show that you are more likely to die in one? Mainly due to the fact that American SUVs are a con based on 1970s truck designs - half of them don't even have independant rear suspensions. Have you ever tried cornering in an Explorer? Compare that to an X5 and you will see how an SUV can handle when made in Germany.
As for the big vehicle vs. smaller vehicle argument where do you stop? Are you in some kind of arms race? The only reason the Toyota would get totalled is because some moron is driving 15 tons of SUV. If the other car was a normal sized vehicle then they would both be fine. Why not buy yourself an 18 wheeler - then the guy in the Hummer would be toast.
You may be suprised to know that they do have petrol stations in France, thus giving you unlimited range - provided there is one within 28 miles of the coast.
I don't believe that anyone in the US has a working mobile video phone - unlike us lucky, lucky people in the UK, Italy, Aus and Japan. You're just lagging behnd the curve.
As to the numbers of people with them - my employer has sold several hundred thousand in the UK and Italy, meaning about 1 in 200 have one which considering we only launched in March is not too bad.
Now if only I could work out how to sign up for the p0rn on my work phone:(
I don't believe 1 in 100,000 people in the US has them - only us lucky people in the UK, Italy, Australia and Japan have them.
Oh, and the company I work for has sold several hundred thousand so far in the UK and Italy - that's about 1 in 200 people that have them... you Yanks need to get up to speed with technologhy.
Now if only I could sign up for the p0rn on them - bit dificult to do on your work phone though:(
the steel tariffs were put in place because the rest of the world heavily subsidizes their steel industry . How can a steel company be expected to compete with the almost limitless resources of multiple governments?
I would believe that if the tariffs were targetted at just those countries that did subsidise their steel production. However, none of the European countries affected by this tariff do subsidise steel production - they simply have a lower cost base due to much more modern production facilities. The British steel industry had to slash costs in the 80s to meet foreign competition and so has a much more modern industry than the good old US of A. This is called competition and competitive advantage - it is nothing to do with subsidy...
Interesting to see someone describe Reuters and the BBC as so biased that they would expect them to doo a hatchet job on Bush. In truth they have been fair more favourable to Bush than most of the European press (try reading the Guardian for an anti-Bush viewpoint) - the only press in the world with favourable things to say about that fecking moron in the Whitehouse is found in the US. Telling it like it is is not anti-US.
The reason Bush was mentioned is because the current US government wants to put all action on hold and spend 10 more years "investigating" (or correctly known as stalling) environmetal damage when virtually all research has shown that we are already facing dire impacts.
Unfortunately, carbon dating shows that He would have had to do that by actually manipulating atoms at the moment of the big bang then direct the old atoms to lay lower in the strata than the newer ones, etc. You can't cheat physics...sorry.
That is not an effective argument as if God was all powerful then surely he could manipulate the laws of physics, having created them.
Note that I am not a believer in creationism - the problem I find with arguing with people who do believe in it is that it all comes down to faith, with increasingly ridiculous "arguments" to support their side. I prefer to respond to creationists with "That's a load of bollocks" and leave it at that.
The menu at a top restaurant he dined in was very explicit at the bottom to note that "no GM products" are used in any of the foods prepared. Meanwhile, everybody around Mr. Friedman was smoking like a chimney. For all the problems in the US, Europe outsmokes us by an, excuse the pun, (un)healthy margin.
Sh*te analogy - it's all about choice - people who smoke know the risks and choose to do so. If GM food was labelled as such then people who choose to eat it can do so. However, if the US government gets it's way on labelling then it would be anologous to people piping in the carcinogens from tobacco without your knowledge - i.e removing your choice.
However, there are plenty of benefits of all sorts to be realized from GM foods
There COULD be benefits to be realised, just as there could be dangers. Importing GM foods to the EU is not illegal - we just want labelling so we can choose whether we have the benefits/risks.
One, if it were truly a market issue, people would decide to buy or not to buy.
Hence the requirement for labelling in the EU that US GM corps are trying to claim is an unfair trade barrier. We want labels so that WE can decide what we eat.
policies on GM foods amount to a boycott of US food exports:
Nice to see that you do not have sufficient intelligence to understand the diference between a boycott and informing the populace. We, in Europe, want labels because we want to excercise our right to know what we are eating. If the pro-GM farmers, corporations etc. prove to a sufficient degree that GM foods are not harmful, or they make them significantly cheaper or taste much better then we will buy them. A free market is about INFORMED CHOICE - if you cannot understand that then you are a f**king moron.
The problem isn't that we lead extravagant lives, it's that we overpay for the basic necessities. The fact that someone is willing to pay $500,000 for a 4000 square foot house means that even well-paid programmers can't afford a house.
I am amazed that somebody can claim a 4000 square foot house is a necessity. Tell that to anyone living in the US 50 years ago, many people living in Europe or virtually anyone living in the third world.
In Chicago, a family of 2 needs to gross about $70k a year just to make ends meet. It's not as if we're greedy, just that we want to be able to make a living doing what we love.
I don't believe that $70k is required to make ends meet - making ends meet does not mean flying off on holiday every year, having two cars, TVs in every room. Making ends meet means surviving - don't get confused and make these hysterical claims. I am absolutely appalled by these claims - try seeing families live in 40 square feet and two rooms and tell me that wanting 4000 square feet is not greed instead of necessity.
Foreign workers are taking away the ability of American workers to support their family,
As American (and western in general) business and government have done to third world workers for hundreds of years.
The sentence Only slightly more than half correctly identified the definition of megahertz - a measurement of how many times a part of the processor, called the clock, ticks every millionth of a second. was not in the story when first posted on the BBC website.
When it was first posted the journalist had made the school boy error of stating that megahertz was a measurement of the processing power of a computer...Doh!
I always thought that this was measured in MIPS etc. and depended on many things including the word length, instruction set etc., etc.
Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about and have never been to Holland.
Holland has one of the lowest percentages of addicts in Europe and certainly a much lower percentage than the US. It's also the same with teenage pregnancies...
Obviously the US military needs this to stop terrorists - I mean I can see Al Queda buildng some evil doomsday device on the moon. Who do they think Bin Laden is? Dr Evil?
Seems to me that poverty is not a deterrent to killing someone.
Huh? Are you really that unintelligent? Name any one rich country that has armies of children running around massacring people? Where is all the crime concentrated in the west? In poor ghettoes. There is a proven link between poverty and violence - it makes sense, if you are starving you will do anything to get food etc.
The EU gives more in TOTAL in foreign aid than the US does, and on average more per capita.
It also doesn't tie these countries in to following right-wing christian policies - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3028820. stm in exchange for this aid...
I, for one, was proud to see the EU match the reduction in US aid to organisations that promoted contraception in the third world. I mean tying aid to forbidding an organisation to talk about abortion with pregnant women in countries where a large proportion of female deaths are due to illegal back street abortions is f**king evil. And preaching abstinence as a way to limit population in countries where women are sold like cattle and have no choice - where do the Republicans get off?
By the way, why should any of the rest of us be in Iraq fighting for the freedom of big US corporations to make vast profits rebuilding Iraq? If you had any balls you wouldn't post as AC.
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Cool looking device and 3G - finally something that might help 3G take off in a big way...
It all becomes clear - Chris Morris is the fantastic satarist responsible for such gems as Brass Eye and The Day Today. He even managed to get a publicity seeking member of parliament to attempt to raise a bill on a fake drug called CAKE on behalf of the anti-drug organisations FUCT and BOMD.
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Maybe in a years time we will see that this whole SCO ordeal is a cleverly orchestrated comedy documentary...
See this link for examples - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000066N
The point all of you are missing is that hydrogen fuel cells and large scale production of either the hydrogen or the electricity to produce the hydrogen are both far more efficient than the internal combustion engine (efficiency of about 40%).
Even considering the loss of usable energy in both production and consumption this is still a far more efficient, and therefore more environmentally friendly, method of moving a vehicle.
Interesting to see that you think you are fit and capable to comment on international relations.
You obviously follow the same beliefs as the current US administration so it should be obvious to you that as their strategy is proving to be pretty disastrous your opinions might be just as stupid.
Good to see Bush finally showing some humility in the UN as the US gov. back down on some resolutions regarding Iraq. Interestingly that contradicts your opinion that people only listen to the top dog.
Fridges are cheaper to run when they are full...
Keeping them full reduces the air volume and therefore the amount of cold air that escapes the fridge when you open the door.
If SUVs are safer then why do American road stats show that you are more likely to die in one? Mainly due to the fact that American SUVs are a con based on 1970s truck designs - half of them don't even have independant rear suspensions. Have you ever tried cornering in an Explorer? Compare that to an X5 and you will see how an SUV can handle when made in Germany.
As for the big vehicle vs. smaller vehicle argument where do you stop? Are you in some kind of arms race? The only reason the Toyota would get totalled is because some moron is driving 15 tons of SUV. If the other car was a normal sized vehicle then they would both be fine. Why not buy yourself an 18 wheeler - then the guy in the Hummer would be toast.
Doh!
You may be suprised to know that they do have petrol stations in France, thus giving you unlimited range - provided there is one within 28 miles of the coast.
Indeed - British inventors must be particularly geeky as they invented computers...
/. accusing someone else of geekiness??????
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I don't believe that anyone in the US has a working mobile video phone - unlike us lucky, lucky people in the UK, Italy, Aus and Japan. You're just lagging behnd the curve.
:(
As to the numbers of people with them - my employer has sold several hundred thousand in the UK and Italy, meaning about 1 in 200 have one which considering we only launched in March is not too bad.
Now if only I could work out how to sign up for the p0rn on my work phone
I don't believe 1 in 100,000 people in the US has them - only us lucky people in the UK, Italy, Australia and Japan have them.
:(
Oh, and the company I work for has sold several hundred thousand so far in the UK and Italy - that's about 1 in 200 people that have them... you Yanks need to get up to speed with technologhy.
Now if only I could sign up for the p0rn on them - bit dificult to do on your work phone though
the steel tariffs were put in place because the rest of the world heavily subsidizes their steel industry . How can a steel company be expected to compete with the almost limitless resources of multiple governments?
I would believe that if the tariffs were targetted at just those countries that did subsidise their steel production. However, none of the European countries affected by this tariff do subsidise steel production - they simply have a lower cost base due to much more modern production facilities. The British steel industry had to slash costs in the 80s to meet foreign competition and so has a much more modern industry than the good old US of A. This is called competition and competitive advantage - it is nothing to do with subsidy...
Interesting to see someone describe Reuters and the BBC as so biased that they would expect them to doo a hatchet job on Bush. In truth they have been fair more favourable to Bush than most of the European press (try reading the Guardian for an anti-Bush viewpoint) - the only press in the world with favourable things to say about that fecking moron in the Whitehouse is found in the US. Telling it like it is is not anti-US.
The reason Bush was mentioned is because the current US government wants to put all action on hold and spend 10 more years "investigating" (or correctly known as stalling) environmetal damage when virtually all research has shown that we are already facing dire impacts.
Unfortunately, carbon dating shows that He would have had to do that by actually manipulating atoms at the moment of the big bang then direct the old atoms to lay lower in the strata than the newer ones, etc. You can't cheat physics...sorry.
That is not an effective argument as if God was all powerful then surely he could manipulate the laws of physics, having created them.
Note that I am not a believer in creationism - the problem I find with arguing with people who do believe in it is that it all comes down to faith, with increasingly ridiculous "arguments" to support their side. I prefer to respond to creationists with "That's a load of bollocks" and leave it at that.
The menu at a top restaurant he dined in was very explicit at the bottom to note that "no GM products" are used in any of the foods prepared. Meanwhile, everybody around Mr. Friedman was smoking like a chimney. For all the problems in the US, Europe outsmokes us by an, excuse the pun, (un)healthy margin.
Sh*te analogy - it's all about choice - people who smoke know the risks and choose to do so. If GM food was labelled as such then people who choose to eat it can do so. However, if the US government gets it's way on labelling then it would be anologous to people piping in the carcinogens from tobacco without your knowledge - i.e removing your choice.
However, there are plenty of benefits of all sorts to be realized from GM foods
There COULD be benefits to be realised, just as there could be dangers. Importing GM foods to the EU is not illegal - we just want labelling so we can choose whether we have the benefits/risks.
One, if it were truly a market issue, people would decide to buy or not to buy.
Hence the requirement for labelling in the EU that US GM corps are trying to claim is an unfair trade barrier. We want labels so that WE can decide what we eat.
policies on GM foods amount to a boycott of US food exports:
Nice to see that you do not have sufficient intelligence to understand the diference between a boycott and informing the populace. We, in Europe, want labels because we want to excercise our right to know what we are eating. If the pro-GM farmers, corporations etc. prove to a sufficient degree that GM foods are not harmful, or they make them significantly cheaper or taste much better then we will buy them. A free market is about INFORMED CHOICE - if you cannot understand that then you are a f**king moron.
I think that cluster crashed a few weeks ago just outside of Bluewater...
The problem isn't that we lead extravagant lives, it's that we overpay for the basic necessities. The fact that someone is willing to pay $500,000 for a 4000 square foot house means that even well-paid programmers can't afford a house.
I am amazed that somebody can claim a 4000 square foot house is a necessity. Tell that to anyone living in the US 50 years ago, many people living in Europe or virtually anyone living in the third world.
In Chicago, a family of 2 needs to gross about $70k a year just to make ends meet. It's not as if we're greedy, just that we want to be able to make a living doing what we love.
I don't believe that $70k is required to make ends meet - making ends meet does not mean flying off on holiday every year, having two cars, TVs in every room. Making ends meet means surviving - don't get confused and make these hysterical claims. I am absolutely appalled by these claims - try seeing families live in 40 square feet and two rooms and tell me that wanting 4000 square feet is not greed instead of necessity.
Foreign workers are taking away the ability of American workers to support their family,
As American (and western in general) business and government have done to third world workers for hundreds of years.
The sentence Only slightly more than half correctly identified the definition of megahertz - a measurement of how many times a part of the processor, called the clock, ticks every millionth of a second. was not in the story when first posted on the BBC website.
When it was first posted the journalist had made the school boy error of stating that megahertz was a measurement of the processing power of a computer...Doh!
I always thought that this was measured in MIPS etc. and depended on many things including the word length, instruction set etc., etc.
Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about and have never been to Holland.
Holland has one of the lowest percentages of addicts in Europe and certainly a much lower percentage than the US. It's also the same with teenage pregnancies...
Why am I not suprised by this article?
Obviously the US military needs this to stop terrorists - I mean I can see Al Queda buildng some evil doomsday device on the moon. Who do they think Bin Laden is? Dr Evil?
Seems to me that poverty is not a deterrent to killing someone.
Huh? Are you really that unintelligent? Name any one rich country that has armies of children running around massacring people? Where is all the crime concentrated in the west? In poor ghettoes. There is a proven link between poverty and violence - it makes sense, if you are starving you will do anything to get food etc.
The EU gives more in TOTAL in foreign aid than the US does, and on average more per capita.
. stm in exchange for this aid...
It also doesn't tie these countries in to following right-wing christian policies - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3028820
I, for one, was proud to see the EU match the reduction in US aid to organisations that promoted contraception in the third world. I mean tying aid to forbidding an organisation to talk about abortion with pregnant women in countries where a large proportion of female deaths are due to illegal back street abortions is f**king evil. And preaching abstinence as a way to limit population in countries where women are sold like cattle and have no choice - where do the Republicans get off?
Are you over there fighting for "freedom"?
By the way, why should any of the rest of us be in Iraq fighting for the freedom of big US corporations to make vast profits rebuilding Iraq? If you had any balls you wouldn't post as AC.