Now you're being silly, if you feel that unsafe and react to 'pressure' from drivers behind you then I'd say you probably be shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
The fact is that both cyclists and motorists are legally allowed to use the road, along with horses and carts, tractors, articulated lorries and all sorts of other things and the key to safe and relaxing journeys for everyone is for everyone to treat other road users with respect and make sure that your own driving/cycling whatever is considerate and safe.
To an extent I agree with you, I commute down a very busy dual carriageway where the average speed is somewhere between 70 - 80mph. Every Wednesday between 4 - 5pm, right in the middle of the rush hour, some absolute cretin on a pedal powered tricycle takes up the entire left hand lane whilst he crawls his way up the hills towards Lichfield. Consequently motorists approaching from behind are forced to slam on their brakes and switch lanes which is extremely dangerous for everyone as the ripple effect causes increasingly sharp braking all the way down the road.
There are several dozen far nice routes between Burton & Lichfield which this moron could take that don't involve endangering everyone else's life but this idiot is apparently either too stupid or too selfish to take them.
On the other hand I am a keen cyclist myself and would take issue with the part where you claim you're forced to overtake the cyclist around a blind bend. No one is forcing you to do that, if the safe course of action is not to overtake the cyclist then don't overtake them. I've often been cycling on roads such as that which you describe but only when they are the only option to get to where I want to go and if the car drivers are treating me with respect and slowing down behind me rather than trying to run me off the road I will pull over and let them pass when it's possible for me to do so. If drivers are trying to run me off the road then I'll cycle as close to the middle of it as I can so they have no choice but to slow up behind me.
+1,000,000,000 trillion million billon. I love you NYCL and I'd love shove my tongue down your ear hole and lick just a tiny part of your incomparable brain, and then maybe have your children.
Banks deals with exactly this issue in his novel Feersum Enjinn which deals with an Earth populated by those left behind after a large proportion of the Earths previous population upped and left for pastures new.
Since their technology was pretty sophisticated in the first place, everyone is capable of living comfortable and fulfilling lives and most of the engineering and scientific types left with the diaspora no one left on Earth bothered that much with any new science, or even to understand the old stuff which became a problem when an immense galactic dust cloud encroached on the sun.
Luckily provision had been made for this type of scenario and the diaspora had left behind a very feersum enjinn to deal with it.
Ha ! Who's going to claim now that the government aren't really monitoring my every move with their high flying satellites, mole machines and robotic cuckoos.
'Just happened to be in the the right place' to film this eruption, pull the other one !
There is, quite clearly, a massive difference between multimedia systems fitted into cars by the manufacturer and general portable DVD players.
I completely agree there's no way you can stop idiots bringing their DVD player into the car and watching it whilst they're driving but since it is very easy for the government to mandate that those which are fitted by the manufacturer do not work whilst the car is in motion then this is a very good thing for the government to do.
If some moron watching TV whilst she should have been watching the road mows down my family and crushes my children under her wheels I can tell you I wouldn't give a toss that she'd be paying the price for her lack of personal responsibility.
There is no justification at all for anyone to ever be driving a car and watching TV at the same time. Absolutely never and that moronic contrived example of emergency broadcasts given by someone above is pure nonsense. That being the case the government should make damn sure that any such device deactivates the moment your car starts moving and punish anyone tampering with it.
Bang on, since I took up ballet classes and joined pony club I've literally had to fight the young ladies off - often their mothers too. I've just arranged to Pony Club annual holiday to Thailand, we're all going to hook up with my mate Gary who's promised us all a fantastic time.
As it happens though the claim for the duck island does not appear in the official expenses data as it's blacked out along with, I would guess, almost anything else likely to cause embarrassment for the MP.
Apparently once the fees office had blacked out the bits they didn't think the public should see the MPs had several months to look at their own claims and recommend any other sections they didn't think should be public so when you look at the actual claims, and some MPs are much worse than others, there is an awful lot you can't see.
What really pisses me off is the string of MPs saying
"Well my claim was completely within the rules and I have done nothing wrong however I now realise the rules were horribly wrong and fundamentally flawed so what we need to do is change the rules to make them stricter."
No ! What you need to do is behave in an honest and honourable fashion and not try to screw the system for as much as you think you can get away with.
It was quite sunny this morning and fairly warm but it's gradually clouded over and got quite windy. I'm expecting some rain although it is starting to brighten up a little from the West.
But how many are there ? On the BBC yesterday the reporter said there were "...maybe a hundred thousand or possibly millions of protesters at the rally" which is pretty wide estimate and when speaking about a rally in support of the president the reporter said "... it's really impossible to say how many people there are, definitely not as many as at the protest yesterday" which is pretty much an entirely pointless observation.
If you ask me it seems various Western regimes are pretty keen on some sort of popular revolution in Iran and quite disappointed that Iran voted to continue the status quo whilst he media find it boring to report on things remaining more or less the same and go out looking for controversy where ever they find it.
What compounds the situation is the previous track record of the US, the UK and others in spreading blatant lies about middle eastern countries in order to further their own agenda. Is this what's happening now ? Sadly it's really hard to tell.
I'm guessing you must work in the developing world somewhere, the Middle East or most probably India, am I right ?
Bribery might work for you in the short term but if you really want to turn your country into a viable entity able to compete with the big boys ( the EU, China, Russia ) on the world stage you need to stamp this sort of thing out and organise yourself more intelligently.
What a stupid idea, I can only assume the reason this works is the rest of the company must also be ran along equally stupid lines !
In any rational company most people don't just ask IT for stuff for the sheer hell of it or for some personal project they're willing to pay for they ask IT for stuff because they need it to do the job they are being paid to do.
If I want IT do something there's no way I'm going to pay them from my own pocket to do it, if I ask them to do it and they don't do it and then whatever I'm working on goes tits up then everyone knows exactly who to blame so you'd either be sorting yourself out to work more efficiently or be shown the door.
An amusing strategy for this is to let the user community fight it out amongst themselves. Have a public list with all your IT jobs on it and make the business have a meeting every week to prioritise it for you.
Energy as concept is truly a fractal who's multitudionous forms we glimpse at different levels throughout the ages, what was once ascribed to the work of the gods in the heavens we now label with another name and imagine that by doing so we gain some measure of control over it uncaring that another observer from a different conciousness may be but barely aware of the form we see blinded as they are by their own preferred reflection.
A shrewd observer who is able to remove his own human psyche from the equation and stand behind the burden of his learning and culture can, with dedicated study, glimpse occasionally those other forms of that which is taken as either commonplace or inexplicable by his fellow man. I believe if you are willing to undertake the rigours of this course of investigation, and I must warn you it can be hard and few who try can hope to "succeed", as though success it's self is even a goal, you can begin to appreciate that what is inexplicable and that which is deemed explicable are but 2 ends of the same rainbow - neither can truly be said to have a definite form but all are apparent by any observer although the incautious often take the evidence of their senses, or nowadays more commonly their equipment, to believe they have discovered the definitive location of some property of the cosmos. You and I now know the source of their error.
To turn then to the question of 'psychic' energy one first of all has to, at all costs, avoid the temptation of seeking the effect without also considering the wider spectrum of possibility in which, it can be imagined, some specific causality may be found. Yes it may -- but like a rainbow one may see the conduit through which the action occurs but not the cause or effect since these perhaps may stand outside of the particular time frame available to the mortal observer. However by considering the fractality inherent in all energetic manifestations one may easily discern the echoes of the psychic transfer elsewhere in the continuum.
So you're saying the first things the Alien Overlords will do when they arrive is immediately convert our environment into one which suits them better, one which would almost certainly be instant death to us and all the Earths current inhabitants.
There could be billions of reasons why aliens may want to come here other than the ones you've outlined but unfortunately we can never know what they are because they may well be completely alien to our way of thinking. For example they could be fighting some sort of massive interstellar war during the course of which the destruction of Earth is some tiny footnote of a minor skirmish.
No Sir everyone is NOT smoking it, this is a pure liberal myth. The marrijuana you can buy today has been scientifically proved that its 56,820 times stronger than the natural product, which was bad enough, and can and does cause almost instant irrevocable and permanent psychosis, paranoia and schizophrenia to name but a few of it's deadly effects.
Sure some of those pop singers and other losers that kids look up may boast they smoke a bit and so it might even be fashionable and 'cool' amongst the non god fearing and easily led youth of today but I can guarantee almost none of them will have actually got their hands on any of the evil weed.
Despite the, discredited, opinions on display here the war on drugs is proceeding excellently, our police and associated agencies are capturing ever greater hauls of the drug and we're catching and imprisoning more users, dealers, smugglers, manufacturers and suppliers than ever before. No Sir almost every wannabe pot head will already be on a police watch list and rapidly apprehended, brought to justice and locked up for a very long time the very first time he sets eyes on any reefer. Those who slip through the net rapidly become addicted and have their lives ruined by the deadly psychotic effects of the hash skunk, praise God we are able to capture most of them before they go on to kill or maim in psychotic murder rampages.
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Now you're being silly, if you feel that unsafe and react to 'pressure' from drivers behind you then I'd say you probably be shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
The fact is that both cyclists and motorists are legally allowed to use the road, along with horses and carts, tractors, articulated lorries and all sorts of other things and the key to safe and relaxing journeys for everyone is for everyone to treat other road users with respect and make sure that your own driving/cycling whatever is considerate and safe.
To an extent I agree with you, I commute down a very busy dual carriageway where the average speed is somewhere between 70 - 80mph. Every Wednesday between 4 - 5pm, right in the middle of the rush hour, some absolute cretin on a pedal powered tricycle takes up the entire left hand lane whilst he crawls his way up the hills towards Lichfield. Consequently motorists approaching from behind are forced to slam on their brakes and switch lanes which is extremely dangerous for everyone as the ripple effect causes increasingly sharp braking all the way down the road.
There are several dozen far nice routes between Burton & Lichfield which this moron could take that don't involve endangering everyone else's life but this idiot is apparently either too stupid or too selfish to take them.
On the other hand I am a keen cyclist myself and would take issue with the part where you claim you're forced to overtake the cyclist around a blind bend. No one is forcing you to do that, if the safe course of action is not to overtake the cyclist then don't overtake them. I've often been cycling on roads such as that which you describe but only when they are the only option to get to where I want to go and if the car drivers are treating me with respect and slowing down behind me rather than trying to run me off the road I will pull over and let them pass when it's possible for me to do so. If drivers are trying to run me off the road then I'll cycle as close to the middle of it as I can so they have no choice but to slow up behind me.
+1,000,000,000 trillion million billon. I love you NYCL and I'd love shove my tongue down your ear hole and lick just a tiny part of your incomparable brain, and then maybe have your children.
Banks deals with exactly this issue in his novel Feersum Enjinn which deals with an Earth populated by those left behind after a large proportion of the Earths previous population upped and left for pastures new.
Since their technology was pretty sophisticated in the first place, everyone is capable of living comfortable and fulfilling lives and most of the engineering and scientific types left with the diaspora no one left on Earth bothered that much with any new science, or even to understand the old stuff which became a problem when an immense galactic dust cloud encroached on the sun.
Luckily provision had been made for this type of scenario and the diaspora had left behind a very feersum enjinn to deal with it.
Also I would imagine that whatever power this microwave generates is absolutely insignificant in comparison to the output of the sun.
Ha ! Who's going to claim now that the government aren't really monitoring my every move with their high flying satellites, mole machines and robotic cuckoos.
'Just happened to be in the the right place' to film this eruption, pull the other one !
There is, quite clearly, a massive difference between multimedia systems fitted into cars by the manufacturer and general portable DVD players.
I completely agree there's no way you can stop idiots bringing their DVD player into the car and watching it whilst they're driving but since it is very easy for the government to mandate that those which are fitted by the manufacturer do not work whilst the car is in motion then this is a very good thing for the government to do.
It directs them all to America ? Natural selection is more cunning than I thought.
If some moron watching TV whilst she should have been watching the road mows down my family and crushes my children under her wheels I can tell you I wouldn't give a toss that she'd be paying the price for her lack of personal responsibility.
There is no justification at all for anyone to ever be driving a car and watching TV at the same time. Absolutely never and that moronic contrived example of emergency broadcasts given by someone above is pure nonsense. That being the case the government should make damn sure that any such device deactivates the moment your car starts moving and punish anyone tampering with it.
Bang on, since I took up ballet classes and joined pony club I've literally had to fight the young ladies off - often their mothers too. I've just arranged to Pony Club annual holiday to Thailand, we're all going to hook up with my mate Gary who's promised us all a fantastic time.
As it happens though the claim for the duck island does not appear in the official expenses data as it's blacked out along with, I would guess, almost anything else likely to cause embarrassment for the MP.
Apparently once the fees office had blacked out the bits they didn't think the public should see the MPs had several months to look at their own claims and recommend any other sections they didn't think should be public so when you look at the actual claims, and some MPs are much worse than others, there is an awful lot you can't see.
What really pisses me off is the string of MPs saying
"Well my claim was completely within the rules and I have done nothing wrong however I now realise the rules were horribly wrong and fundamentally flawed so what we need to do is change the rules to make them stricter."
No ! What you need to do is behave in an honest and honourable fashion and not try to screw the system for as much as you think you can get away with.
It was quite sunny this morning and fairly warm but it's gradually clouded over and got quite windy. I'm expecting some rain although it is starting to brighten up a little from the West.
Soccer riots ???
I think you'll find you meant to say "Football"
But how many are there ? On the BBC yesterday the reporter said there were "...maybe a hundred thousand or possibly millions of protesters at the rally" which is pretty wide estimate and when speaking about a rally in support of the president the reporter said "... it's really impossible to say how many people there are, definitely not as many as at the protest yesterday" which is pretty much an entirely pointless observation.
If you ask me it seems various Western regimes are pretty keen on some sort of popular revolution in Iran and quite disappointed that Iran voted to continue the status quo whilst he media find it boring to report on things remaining more or less the same and go out looking for controversy where ever they find it.
What compounds the situation is the previous track record of the US, the UK and others in spreading blatant lies about middle eastern countries in order to further their own agenda. Is this what's happening now ? Sadly it's really hard to tell.
That's just a field he forgot to fill in on the MS astro turfing system.
I'm guessing you must work in the developing world somewhere, the Middle East or most probably India, am I right ?
Bribery might work for you in the short term but if you really want to turn your country into a viable entity able to compete with the big boys ( the EU, China, Russia ) on the world stage you need to stamp this sort of thing out and organise yourself more intelligently.
What a stupid idea, I can only assume the reason this works is the rest of the company must also be ran along equally stupid lines !
In any rational company most people don't just ask IT for stuff for the sheer hell of it or for some personal project they're willing to pay for they ask IT for stuff because they need it to do the job they are being paid to do.
If I want IT do something there's no way I'm going to pay them from my own pocket to do it, if I ask them to do it and they don't do it and then whatever I'm working on goes tits up then everyone knows exactly who to blame so you'd either be sorting yourself out to work more efficiently or be shown the door.
An amusing strategy for this is to let the user community fight it out amongst themselves. Have a public list with all your IT jobs on it and make the business have a meeting every week to prioritise it for you.
I think the protocol is just to smile and offer them a vegemite sandwich.
Energy as concept is truly a fractal who's multitudionous forms we glimpse at different levels throughout the ages, what was once ascribed to the work of the gods in the heavens we now label with another name and imagine that by doing so we gain some measure of control over it uncaring that another observer from a different conciousness may be but barely aware of the form we see blinded as they are by their own preferred reflection.
A shrewd observer who is able to remove his own human psyche from the equation and stand behind the burden of his learning and culture can, with dedicated study, glimpse occasionally those other forms of that which is taken as either commonplace or inexplicable by his fellow man. I believe if you are willing to undertake the rigours of this course of investigation, and I must warn you it can be hard and few who try can hope to "succeed", as though success it's self is even a goal, you can begin to appreciate that what is inexplicable and that which is deemed explicable are but 2 ends of the same rainbow - neither can truly be said to have a definite form but all are apparent by any observer although the incautious often take the evidence of their senses, or nowadays more commonly their equipment, to believe they have discovered the definitive location of some property of the cosmos. You and I now know the source of their error.
To turn then to the question of 'psychic' energy one first of all has to, at all costs, avoid the temptation of seeking the effect without also considering the wider spectrum of possibility in which, it can be imagined, some specific causality may be found. Yes it may -- but like a rainbow one may see the conduit through which the action occurs but not the cause or effect since these perhaps may stand outside of the particular time frame available to the mortal observer. However by considering the fractality inherent in all energetic manifestations one may easily discern the echoes of the psychic transfer elsewhere in the continuum.
So you're saying the first things the Alien Overlords will do when they arrive is immediately convert our environment into one which suits them better, one which would almost certainly be instant death to us and all the Earths current inhabitants.
There could be billions of reasons why aliens may want to come here other than the ones you've outlined but unfortunately we can never know what they are because they may well be completely alien to our way of thinking. For example they could be fighting some sort of massive interstellar war during the course of which the destruction of Earth is some tiny footnote of a minor skirmish.
No Sir everyone is NOT smoking it, this is a pure liberal myth. The marrijuana you can buy today has been scientifically proved that its 56,820 times stronger than the natural product, which was bad enough, and can and does cause almost instant irrevocable and permanent psychosis, paranoia and schizophrenia to name but a few of it's deadly effects.
Sure some of those pop singers and other losers that kids look up may boast they smoke a bit and so it might even be fashionable and 'cool' amongst the non god fearing and easily led youth of today but I can guarantee almost none of them will have actually got their hands on any of the evil weed.
Despite the, discredited, opinions on display here the war on drugs is proceeding excellently, our police and associated agencies are capturing ever greater hauls of the drug and we're catching and imprisoning more users, dealers, smugglers, manufacturers and suppliers than ever before. No Sir almost every wannabe pot head will already be on a police watch list and rapidly apprehended, brought to justice and locked up for a very long time the very first time he sets eyes on any reefer. Those who slip through the net rapidly become addicted and have their lives ruined by the deadly psychotic effects of the hash skunk, praise God we are able to capture most of them before they go on to kill or maim in psychotic murder rampages.
Agreed, I propose we use the word "Fatty" instead since it's shorter and more descriptive.
I'm sure that was the guy I replied to, I guess maybe the aliens may have switched my post ;-)
You really think that little hand held GPS is transmitting signals all the way back through deep space to the GPS satellite !