I think that if look in many western European (and I include America) countries at that time people drank a vast amount of alcohol - Britain, for example, was in a plague of alcoholism in the working classes caused by the ready availability of cheap gin (and of course vast numbers of aristos permanently drunk, but on better booze). Many articles were written around that time of the social harm it caused in terms of crime (London was probably the most dangerous city in the world at that time - the murder levels were incredible) and even huge, violent riots in 1743 against a tax introduced on gin. The Irish on the other hand still lived in a very poor agricultural state without easy access to (or the means to afford) distilled alcohol.
The reason the people involved in the revolution (that you hear about) drank was because they generally were proper, boozy Brits who just happened to want to pay less tax, not your religious puritan wusses.
I always find it ironic that the puritans left England fleeing religious persecution when the reason they were so disliked by everyone was because they spent their whole time criticising everyone else for not being religious enough. If they had had any power they would have burnt everyone in England as witches - rather like their wonderfully enlightened behaviour in Salem etc. It's rather like the Taleban fleeing the religious persecution of a secular state.
Give me a pretty good web thing, where I can look up directions to bars, shops and restuarants, look up movie times, and maybe even some basic access to google so I can resolve questions on the run, and you've got something. I can even think of some good applications of location-based-services that I'd be interested in.
3 offer the location enabled services in the UK - ask for your closest pub/post office/ATM etc. and will give you directions and a little map.
But seriously, Europe, what's the big deal with email-lite from worst typing interface ever?
Never met an America who understood the value of SMS (apart from those who live over here) - the main thing is that is fun. It's a mobile version of IM and a great way to keep in touch. Also useful for directory enquiries to send you a phone number that you can use straight from the SMS.
cars are better equipped in the US (more comfy, bigger, cheaper gas helps of course)
Don't even get me started on American cars. All of the ones I have driven (including a few "sports" coupes) corner like a space hopper. In the major car survey in the US last year the top ten had no cars made by US manufacturers. Even the top truck was Japanese. Depends what you want from a car though - I don't want to pootle along in an over stuffed armchair, I want to drive along twisties at high speed and feel confident that my car can stay on the road or stop quickly if I have to.
That said a lot of the domestic stuff in the US is great, but not usually due to being more high tech, just bigger. I loved having a fridge that a family could live in and having a pool.
Btw, if you go to very upscale homes in the US they will come with German of Italian ranges.
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Plenty more services coming out though and you have to admit the video calling is pretty cool and I personally am a big fan of the Premiership match highlights. They have a (I think) stupid concept of a walled garden because they don't want to have people accessing stuff that has not been designed for the devices.
Of course the main advantage right now is the cost of the calls - the new tariffs work out at 5p a minute to any network if you use the full allocation of "free" minutes".
You confuse equality of opportunity ("everyone can get rich, some will, some won't") with equality of results ("social equality", "social justice", or "evening out income"). The two types of equality are emphatically not the same thing. I would argue that one is the antithesis of the other.
I think you are missing the point. Social equality and social justice are the bedrocks of democracy (I take issue with evening out income). You cannot have equality of opportunity without giving everyone the same starting point. In (most of) Europe anyone with high enough grades can go to any university. In the US, Forest Gump can go to Yale because his dad is wealthy and the director of the CIA whereas as some poor kid with an IQ of 200 may never be able to afford to go to university (may have to look after sick parents who cannot afford health care for example). That is not equality of opportunity.
A majority of those worthless sacks of shit in the US are Vietnam vets, shafted by the US military and suffering from huge mental problems. In the UK a significant proportion of those worthless sacks of shit are mentally ill and their current situation is the result of one of many of Thatcher's wonderful ideas - care in the community.
I also busted my ass at school, went to a top 5 university in the UK and now work my ass off to pay for my lifestyle - nice pad in central London, fast car, etc., etc. However unlike you I am happy to help out those who have not done so well for themselves. I am proud not to be a completely selfish and uncaring tosser.
Anyone that thinks that Ashcroft, for example, is not a confirmed extremist has lost the plot...
I would suggest that it indicates that you may have what many people consider to be extreme right-wing Christian views?
Do you believe in evolution? Do you believe rapture is about begin? Do you believe the UN is an organisation dedicated to undermining American's freedom and that it is run by Satan himself?
That's the trouble when you can't afford to travel (but, hey, free health care), you rely on local sources of information which usually support what the government wants you to believe.
Of course Americans travel so much more broadly than everyone else. I've travelled to most continents and outside of burger bars in European cities most travellers are not from the US. See how many Americans you spot in Africa, India and Asia. You may see plenty of Canadians, but no Americans.
Well done - you are alright Jack, and obviously couldn't give a sh*t about anyone else.
The fact that it has worked so well for you will brighten up the lives of homeless and poor people everywhere who, many through no fault of their own, don't have a pot to p*ss in.
Let me see if I understand this correctly - the UCITA act protects companies against liability, including, I'm sure, illegal acts arrising from use of their products?
Now if only that kid who was taken to the cleaners by the RIAA had protected himself under this act he would have been fine...
Oh, hang on, he's not a large corporation with the backing of politicians, he would still have been f*cked.
So sueing someone just because their product/invention etc. can be used for an illegal purpose even though that it is not it's only use or the primary function of the product id now OK.
And yet Republican politicians (who by and larger are the one's supporting this) don't want anyone to be able to sue gun manfacturers for producing a tool that's primary use is to maim or injure and has plenty of illegal uses. In this case the responsibilty lies with the user...
I was simply pointing out that the last few times an article on European space technology has been posted it has been acompanied by comments about trans-Atlantic conflict, whereas this post of an article about American space technology was not.
The implication is that America going into space is great in all respects, whereas Europe going into space is antagonistic.
Am I being racist for pointing out this nationalist implication on/.?
Anti-American posts and other flamebait is just as obnoxious, if not more obnoxious, than the flame you're complaining about
So being anti-American is worse than being anti-European? Personally I am of the opinion that both are equally ignorant and obnoxious, and that is why I am disapointed that the people running this site have let bias creep into their postings.
I always had American's, in general, down as far too patriotic, usually bordering on nationalistic. But most of the posters on this site seemed to be pretty intelligent and cycnical individuals, not your average blue collar chaps, who are generally pretty nationalist in any country (look at the crap printed in the Sun for an example in the UK).
Comment with a story about the European space programme.
A lot of money is going into rocket technology also; with this and the 'European version' of GPS are we heading towards a future conflict across the Atlantic?
Why the diferent spin for European vs. American space programs on Slashdot? Why does this project not lead to conflict?
I never had you guys down as nationalist but I have been disapointed by many of the recent comments on/.
The constant banging on about how America is the home of democracy, freedom, blah, blah, blah.
The constant re-writing of world history by Hollywood to show how America saved the day, was the best, is the best - usually at the expense of Britain, e.g. U575 (British ship captures German sub, rewritten as Yank sub capturing German sub) and The Patriot.
The constant harping on by the Americans on talk boards about how they can kick anyone's arse.
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I think that if look in many western European (and I include America) countries at that time people drank a vast amount of alcohol - Britain, for example, was in a plague of alcoholism in the working classes caused by the ready availability of cheap gin (and of course vast numbers of aristos permanently drunk, but on better booze). Many articles were written around that time of the social harm it caused in terms of crime (London was probably the most dangerous city in the world at that time - the murder levels were incredible) and even huge, violent riots in 1743 against a tax introduced on gin. The Irish on the other hand still lived in a very poor agricultural state without easy access to (or the means to afford) distilled alcohol.
The puritans were teetotal.
The reason the people involved in the revolution (that you hear about) drank was because they generally were proper, boozy Brits who just happened to want to pay less tax, not your religious puritan wusses.
I always find it ironic that the puritans left England fleeing religious persecution when the reason they were so disliked by everyone was because they spent their whole time criticising everyone else for not being religious enough. If they had had any power they would have burnt everyone in England as witches - rather like their wonderfully enlightened behaviour in Salem etc. It's rather like the Taleban fleeing the religious persecution of a secular state.
Give me a pretty good web thing, where I can look up directions to bars, shops and restuarants, look up movie times, and maybe even some basic access to google so I can resolve questions on the run, and you've got something. I can even think of some good applications of location-based-services that I'd be interested in.
3 offer the location enabled services in the UK - ask for your closest pub/post office/ATM etc. and will give you directions and a little map.
But seriously, Europe, what's the big deal with email-lite from worst typing interface ever?
Never met an America who understood the value of SMS (apart from those who live over here) - the main thing is that is fun. It's a mobile version of IM and a great way to keep in touch. Also useful for directory enquiries to send you a phone number that you can use straight from the SMS.
cars are better equipped in the US (more comfy, bigger, cheaper gas helps of course)
Don't even get me started on American cars. All of the ones I have driven (including a few "sports" coupes) corner like a space hopper. In the major car survey in the US last year the top ten had no cars made by US manufacturers. Even the top truck was Japanese. Depends what you want from a car though - I don't want to pootle along in an over stuffed armchair, I want to drive along twisties at high speed and feel confident that my car can stay on the road or stop quickly if I have to.
That said a lot of the domestic stuff in the US is great, but not usually due to being more high tech, just bigger. I loved having a fridge that a family could live in and having a pool.
Btw, if you go to very upscale homes in the US they will come with German of Italian ranges.
Plenty more services coming out though and you have to admit the video calling is pretty cool and I personally am a big fan of the Premiership match highlights. They have a (I think) stupid concept of a walled garden because they don't want to have people accessing stuff that has not been designed for the devices.
Of course the main advantage right now is the cost of the calls - the new tariffs work out at 5p a minute to any network if you use the full allocation of "free" minutes".
You confuse equality of opportunity ("everyone can get rich, some will, some won't") with equality of results ("social equality", "social justice", or "evening out income"). The two types of equality are emphatically not the same thing. I would argue that one is the antithesis of the other.
I think you are missing the point. Social equality and social justice are the bedrocks of democracy (I take issue with evening out income). You cannot have equality of opportunity without giving everyone the same starting point. In (most of) Europe anyone with high enough grades can go to any university. In the US, Forest Gump can go to Yale because his dad is wealthy and the director of the CIA whereas as some poor kid with an IQ of 200 may never be able to afford to go to university (may have to look after sick parents who cannot afford health care for example). That is not equality of opportunity.
You sir, are a complete w*nker.
A majority of those worthless sacks of shit in the US are Vietnam vets, shafted by the US military and suffering from huge mental problems. In the UK a significant proportion of those worthless sacks of shit are mentally ill and their current situation is the result of one of many of Thatcher's wonderful ideas - care in the community.
I also busted my ass at school, went to a top 5 university in the UK and now work my ass off to pay for my lifestyle - nice pad in central London, fast car, etc., etc. However unlike you I am happy to help out those who have not done so well for themselves. I am proud not to be a completely selfish and uncaring tosser.
Anyone that thinks that Ashcroft, for example, is not a confirmed extremist has lost the plot...
I would suggest that it indicates that you may have what many people consider to be extreme right-wing Christian views?
Do you believe in evolution? Do you believe rapture is about begin? Do you believe the UN is an organisation dedicated to undermining American's freedom and that it is run by Satan himself?
That's the trouble when you can't afford to travel (but, hey, free health care), you rely on local sources of information which usually support what the government wants you to believe.
Of course Americans travel so much more broadly than everyone else. I've travelled to most continents and outside of burger bars in European cities most travellers are not from the US. See how many Americans you spot in Africa, India and Asia. You may see plenty of Canadians, but no Americans.
Well done - you are alright Jack, and obviously couldn't give a sh*t about anyone else.
The fact that it has worked so well for you will brighten up the lives of homeless and poor people everywhere who, many through no fault of their own, don't have a pot to p*ss in.
Has Bush been booted out then?
And of course Ashcroft is as left wing and agnostic as they come...
In Sweden we have the highest taxes in the world.
Is that why so many Norwegians try to do all their shopping in Sweden then?
Get your facts straight and you might be able to make a credible argument...
Including right wing Christian extremists?
Oh, I forgot, they are YOUR government...
Railway lines?
Don't be ridulous - I can buy a HumVee and drive anywhere I want, when I'm not in my private jet.
Organised public transportation is communism - it takes your freedom!
IDS on Slashdot!
Let me see if I understand this correctly - the UCITA act protects companies against liability, including, I'm sure, illegal acts arrising from use of their products?
Now if only that kid who was taken to the cleaners by the RIAA had protected himself under this act he would have been fine...
Oh, hang on, he's not a large corporation with the backing of politicians, he would still have been f*cked.
In the UK - not sure about the US - you can also write a cheque on anything and it is perfectly legal.
When the poll tax was introduced, one protestor wrote a cheque on a paving slab and the council had to accept it...
So sueing someone just because their product/invention etc. can be used for an illegal purpose even though that it is not it's only use or the primary function of the product id now OK.
And yet Republican politicians (who by and larger are the one's supporting this) don't want anyone to be able to sue gun manfacturers for producing a tool that's primary use is to maim or injure and has plenty of illegal uses. In this case the responsibilty lies with the user...
I thought resale was illegal according to the RIAA?
This must be like some kind of online fight club thing then, with me as Edward Norton's character...
What really upsets me is when I catch myself out though...
I was simply pointing out that the last few times an article on European space technology has been posted it has been acompanied by comments about trans-Atlantic conflict, whereas this post of an article about American space technology was not.
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The implication is that America going into space is great in all respects, whereas Europe going into space is antagonistic.
Am I being racist for pointing out this nationalist implication on
Anti-American posts and other flamebait is just as obnoxious, if not more obnoxious, than the flame you're complaining about
So being anti-American is worse than being anti-European? Personally I am of the opinion that both are equally ignorant and obnoxious, and that is why I am disapointed that the people running this site have let bias creep into their postings.
Tough enough to be abusive AND anonymous?
I always had American's, in general, down as far too patriotic, usually bordering on nationalistic. But most of the posters on this site seemed to be pretty intelligent and cycnical individuals, not your average blue collar chaps, who are generally pretty nationalist in any country (look at the crap printed in the Sun for an example in the UK).
Comment with a story about the European space programme.
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A lot of money is going into rocket technology also; with this and the 'European version' of GPS are we heading towards a future conflict across the Atlantic?
Why the diferent spin for European vs. American space programs on Slashdot? Why does this project not lead to conflict?
I never had you guys down as nationalist but I have been disapointed by many of the recent comments on
A couple for you:
The constant banging on about how America is the home of democracy, freedom, blah, blah, blah.
The constant re-writing of world history by Hollywood to show how America saved the day, was the best, is the best - usually at the expense of Britain, e.g. U575 (British ship captures German sub, rewritten as Yank sub capturing German sub) and The Patriot.
The constant harping on by the Americans on talk boards about how they can kick anyone's arse.