Tower records were probably the crappest music shop I've ever been in apart from maybe Woolworths and WH Smith which at least mainly sell other stuff anyway. I'm not at all surprised they've closed.
The giant flash and calibration lines on the road are usually some sort of giveaway as are the preceding signs.
That being said I'd still rather there were less of them and more traffic cops instead.
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Do you think colonisation is something only developed by Europeans in the last 600 years ?
You fekking muppet, do you think that everyone up until that point evolved seperately in their own little geographical areas ? That there was no population movement, that there was no trade, that was no interaction whatsoever between people ?
Do you think you might be getting mixed up between scientists and journalists here ?
Clearly you realise that scientists are studying as many glaciers as they can, including those which are growing because otherwise you wouldn't be able to easily find out the data about them would you.
Do you think that "pro global warming" scientists only study retreating glaciers and "anti global warming" scientists only study advancing ones ?
What shifted THAT suddenly to make them vanish. Sorry, it wasn't man. Since you've so brilliantly ruled this out you may like to join in with the scientists who are actually studying this and publish a paper laying out your evidence and supporting your conclusion. I expect mixing with scientists may help you realise the difference between scientific consensus and what is sensastionalised and printed in news papers.
Actually in Peru I think quite a lot of people rely on the meltwater from glaciers for irrigation.
As I understand it the key achievement of the Inca people the fundamental building block of their empire was engineering their food production to maximise it's effectiveness in every possible food growing zone in their country.
Because Peru is strongly effected by the El Nino effect its usually extremely rich fish supplies can disappear entirely for years at a time and crops can be destroyed totally by either drought or torrential rains so the Incas took this into account and grew food in as many different eco-systems as the geography of their country allowed so that even if 3 of them were wiped out for the year the country could feed it's self on the other.
I think the high and medium altitude farming relies quite a lot on glacial meltwater for a reliable source of water. Certainly where ever you go in the countryside the terraces are all well fitted out with stone canals and aqueducts leading down from the high peaks.
Indeed, so you'd find it surprising then that given the number of Scientists who are against Climate Change that none of them have managed to change to consensus in anything like the way Lavoisier did ?
Can you think of any reasons why this is the case ?
I'm confused as to why this is moderated as a Troll ? If it's the reference to the US then that's only there because the video I link to is filmed in the US. Religious fundamentalism isn't a strictly US thing and I actually do appreciate that !
I think the people most interested in home schooling are people who do not want their children exposed to un-godly ideas such as evolution, science, rational thought etc and I think this is a very bad situation to foster.
Children brought up in this manner are totally controlled by their parents ideas of what is right or wrong and are only going to hear what their parents want them to hear only going to mix with people sanctioned by their parents. In the case of religiously inspired home schooling this means that by the time the children have grown up and join normal universities and get jobs they hold completely entrenched viewpoints and are not capable of assessing arguments which challenge their beliefs and upbringing. Really this is child abuse and shouldn't be allowed under any circumstances whatever the motivation, worthy or otherwise.
I would guess that firstly since Groklaw is doing such a great job of getting out the message that SCOs claims are totally baseless and it's doing so without any of IBMs money there's no need to hire her and secondly if they did hire her then she couldn't very well continue to run Groklaw with any sort of pretence at impartiality at all thus ruining what is a great propoganda tool for IBM.
Trading Standards Act. If the goods are faulty or not fit for their stated purpose then you can get a full refund for them, this should be a cash refund and you don't need to accept like for like exchanges, vouchers or anything else they try to give you in lieu of cash.
It's the law and they have to obey it. DVD's or CDs are no exception.
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consumate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour
Yes, almost. I think a slightly different analogy might be this.
Imagine you buy a new Au-Pair, you take her back to your house and install her in new room and you're impressed by how pretty she is and how she seems to always do almost what you wanted her to.
In day to day use to start with she's fine, a good all round performer and you've certainly no regrets, you even consider writing a letter to her manufacturer expressing the pleasure you get from using her new curvier interfaces.
But at night, it's a different story. Whilst you're tucked up in your bed asleep your new Au Pair is brazenly walking the streets in the less salubrious parts of town. She is openly advertising her assets and happy to let anyone mount her who comes along so it's not surprising that a lot of nefarious types take cruel advantage of her accomodating nature.
This double life takes it toll, tired by her nocturnal activities she is sluggish and listless when you work her during the day. She is prone to random outbursts and a short temper but you simply attribute this to her foreigness and assume they always degrade like this.
All is going well until one day you get a knock on the door from the FBI who arrest you for the activities of your Au Pair who is now heavily involved in sabotage and espionage activities during the night.
I admit you're analogy is probably longer than mine ( which I realise is directly related to it's brilliance ) but none the less I think I have indicated perfectly how you be quite within your rights to sue the supplier of your Au Pair for the damage she has caused rather than take the rap yourself.
I've just bought a new Microsoft Zune portable media playing device. I don't make snap purchases and like to decide carefully what products will offer the most benefits to me at a price point I can afford.
The new Microsoft Zune ticked all the right boxes during my reasearch, I am a stylish upwardly mobile kinda guy and it's stylish exterior styling suits my image perfectly whilst its carefully crafted hard drive and audio components are all constructed lovingly by the finest Microsoft craftsmen.
When I heard about the groundbreaking squirt feature I realised this unique new innovation set the Microsoft Zune head and shoulders above it's competitors ( such as the now old hat iPods ).
I like to feel I'm doing my bit to support my favourite artists so imagine my delight when using the Microsoft Music Store to find Microsoft are taking their obligations seriously and making sure groundbreaking artists ( in my case the amazing Phil Collins ) have the full support of Microsoft to continue producing new product.
With Phils latest and greatest securely housed in my new Microsoft Zune I was delighted and my friends were amazed when I "squirted" my particular favourite track to their Zunes ( everyone I meet is awestruck and wants one too just like mine ! ). I find 2 listens is plenty for someone to decide if they like a product and then it's simply a matter of a few clicks in Microsofts extremely easy to use and value for money Music Store to buy either the whole album or the track for themselves and lets Phil stop worrying about the evil pirates using their iPods to steal his music and allows him the freedom to plan his next magnificent opus free from worry.
Gosh I'm so excited by new Microsoft Zune ! This is probably the best day ever of my varied and exciting upwardly mobile and aspirational life ! Check in tomorrow when I take my Microsoft Zune off piste heliboarding to see how it shapes up on the slopes.
So you want to employ a team of people to devise complementary marketing and advertising for your rivals products, hack into their systems to distribute your marketing material to as many people as possible and hope that this gets your rival a small fine and that rather than realise that a) this material wasn't distributed by them eveb though it appears to be b) someone has illegally hacked into their system c) track the illegal activity back to you d) sue you for a vast amount of money and present criminal charges against you
They will happily pay up ?
Rather than ask "how hard would this be?" a better question might be "how stupid would this be?"
The island is very unlikely to be underwater, they have used forecasts for the most aggresive global warming imaginable over the next 200 years and specifically chosen this site because it will be unaffected. A lot of the mountains on these islands are over 1000M high and any sea rise of even half that distance is likely to destroy so much of civilization that seed banks will be the last of our worries.
I think this is more in line than what the vault is actually for than the implications in it's name about Doomsdays ! I think similar vaults are already used to replant crops destroyed by hurricanes and flooding. I think in the BBC article it mentions an island or somewhere inundated by a flood and says that the best way to kill off your crops is by burying them under tons of mud.
It's kind of sleeting here at the moment, the question is will it get colder and turn into snow necessitating an immediate retreat from work or will it get warmer and turn into boring old rain.
Within half an hour ! That's pretty gosh darn impressive work there sir !
If you wouldn't mind going into a bit more depth I'd love to hear the details of how you knock up these forecasts, at the moment I can only predict the weather for definite maybe 20 - 25 minutes ( using basic optical observations ) in advance and I'd love to shave off those extra 5 minutes but I wonder if it's worth the cost of investing in something like a PC. I've seen portable weather stations you can install in your living room from hippy shops, do you think these would be suitable ?
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Tower records were probably the crappest music shop I've ever been in apart from maybe Woolworths and WH Smith which at least mainly sell other stuff anyway. I'm not at all surprised they've closed.
The giant flash and calibration lines on the road are usually some sort of giveaway as are the preceding signs.
That being said I'd still rather there were less of them and more traffic cops instead.
Do you think colonisation is something only developed by Europeans in the last 600 years ?
You fekking muppet, do you think that everyone up until that point evolved seperately in their own little geographical areas ? That there was no population movement, that there was no trade, that was no interaction whatsoever between people ?
Fair enough really, I think I'd probably do the same given half a chance.
Clearly you realise that scientists are studying as many glaciers as they can, including those which are growing because otherwise you wouldn't be able to easily find out the data about them would you.
Do you think that "pro global warming" scientists only study retreating glaciers and "anti global warming" scientists only study advancing ones ? What shifted THAT suddenly to make them vanish. Sorry, it wasn't man. Since you've so brilliantly ruled this out you may like to join in with the scientists who are actually studying this and publish a paper laying out your evidence and supporting your conclusion. I expect mixing with scientists may help you realise the difference between scientific consensus and what is sensastionalised and printed in news papers.
Actually in Peru I think quite a lot of people rely on the meltwater from glaciers for irrigation.
As I understand it the key achievement of the Inca people the fundamental building block of their empire was engineering their food production to maximise it's effectiveness in every possible food growing zone in their country.
Because Peru is strongly effected by the El Nino effect its usually extremely rich fish supplies can disappear entirely for years at a time and crops can be destroyed totally by either drought or torrential rains so the Incas took this into account and grew food in as many different eco-systems as the geography of their country allowed so that even if 3 of them were wiped out for the year the country could feed it's self on the other.
I think the high and medium altitude farming relies quite a lot on glacial meltwater for a reliable source of water. Certainly where ever you go in the countryside the terraces are all well fitted out with stone canals and aqueducts leading down from the high peaks.
Indeed, so you'd find it surprising then that given the number of Scientists who are against Climate Change that none of them have managed to change to consensus in anything like the way Lavoisier did ?
Can you think of any reasons why this is the case ?
God said it
I believe it
That settles it
I'm confused as to why this is moderated as a Troll ? If it's the reference to the US then that's only there because the video I link to is filmed in the US. Religious fundamentalism isn't a strictly US thing and I actually do appreciate that !
I think the people most interested in home schooling are people who do not want their children exposed to un-godly ideas such as evolution, science, rational thought etc and I think this is a very bad situation to foster.
Children brought up in this manner are totally controlled by their parents ideas of what is right or wrong and are only going to hear what their parents want them to hear only going to mix with people sanctioned by their parents. In the case of religiously inspired home schooling this means that by the time the children have grown up and join normal universities and get jobs they hold completely entrenched viewpoints and are not capable of assessing arguments which challenge their beliefs and upbringing. Really this is child abuse and shouldn't be allowed under any circumstances whatever the motivation, worthy or otherwise.
Scientific illiteracy is something a lot of people in the US seem to be putting a lot of effort into.
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This video is really disturbing: http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20070206_eva
Especially the poster which says "God Says it. I believe it. That settles it."
We know, our monitoring shows you are indeed always watching but sometimes we believe that although you watch you do not truly see.
Why haven't they hired her ?
I would guess that firstly since Groklaw is doing such a great job of getting out the message that SCOs claims are totally baseless and it's doing so without any of IBMs money there's no need to hire her and secondly if they did hire her then she couldn't very well continue to run Groklaw with any sort of pretence at impartiality at all thus ruining what is a great propoganda tool for IBM.
Trading Standards Act. If the goods are faulty or not fit for their stated purpose then you can get a full refund for them, this should be a cash refund and you don't need to accept like for like exchanges, vouchers or anything else they try to give you in lieu of cash.
It's the law and they have to obey it. DVD's or CDs are no exception.
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consumate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour
Yes, almost. I think a slightly different analogy might be this.
Imagine you buy a new Au-Pair, you take her back to your house and install her in new room and you're impressed by how pretty she is and how she seems to always do almost what you wanted her to.
In day to day use to start with she's fine, a good all round performer and you've certainly no regrets, you even consider writing a letter to her manufacturer expressing the pleasure you get from using her new curvier interfaces.
But at night, it's a different story. Whilst you're tucked up in your bed asleep your new Au Pair is brazenly walking the streets in the less salubrious parts of town. She is openly advertising her assets and happy to let anyone mount her who comes along so it's not surprising that a lot of nefarious types take cruel advantage of her accomodating nature.
This double life takes it toll, tired by her nocturnal activities she is sluggish and listless when you work her during the day. She is prone to random outbursts and a short temper but you simply attribute this to her foreigness and assume they always degrade like this.
All is going well until one day you get a knock on the door from the FBI who arrest you for the activities of your Au Pair who is now heavily involved in sabotage and espionage activities during the night.
I admit you're analogy is probably longer than mine ( which I realise is directly related to it's brilliance ) but none the less I think I have indicated perfectly how you be quite within your rights to sue the supplier of your Au Pair for the damage she has caused rather than take the rap yourself.
I've just bought a new Microsoft Zune portable media playing device. I don't make snap purchases and like to decide carefully what products will offer the most benefits to me at a price point I can afford.
The new Microsoft Zune ticked all the right boxes during my reasearch, I am a stylish upwardly mobile kinda guy and it's stylish exterior styling suits my image perfectly whilst its carefully crafted hard drive and audio components are all constructed lovingly by the finest Microsoft craftsmen.
When I heard about the groundbreaking squirt feature I realised this unique new innovation set the Microsoft Zune head and shoulders above it's competitors ( such as the now old hat iPods ).
I like to feel I'm doing my bit to support my favourite artists so imagine my delight when using the Microsoft Music Store to find Microsoft are taking their obligations seriously and making sure groundbreaking artists ( in my case the amazing Phil Collins ) have the full support of Microsoft to continue producing new product.
With Phils latest and greatest securely housed in my new Microsoft Zune I was delighted and my friends were amazed when I "squirted" my particular favourite track to their Zunes ( everyone I meet is awestruck and wants one too just like mine ! ). I find 2 listens is plenty for someone to decide if they like a product and then it's simply a matter of a few clicks in Microsofts extremely easy to use and value for money Music Store to buy either the whole album or the track for themselves and lets Phil stop worrying about the evil pirates using their iPods to steal his music and allows him the freedom to plan his next magnificent opus free from worry.
Gosh I'm so excited by new Microsoft Zune ! This is probably the best day ever of my varied and exciting upwardly mobile and aspirational life ! Check in tomorrow when I take my Microsoft Zune off piste heliboarding to see how it shapes up on the slopes.
So you want to employ a team of people to devise complementary marketing and advertising for your rivals products, hack into their systems to distribute your marketing material to as many people as possible and hope that this gets your rival a small fine and that rather than realise that
a) this material wasn't distributed by them eveb though it appears to be
b) someone has illegally hacked into their system
c) track the illegal activity back to you d) sue you for a vast amount of money and present criminal charges against you
They will happily pay up ?
Rather than ask "how hard would this be?" a better question might be "how stupid would this be?"
The island is very unlikely to be underwater, they have used forecasts for the most aggresive global warming imaginable over the next 200 years and specifically chosen this site because it will be unaffected. A lot of the mountains on these islands are over 1000M high and any sea rise of even half that distance is likely to destroy so much of civilization that seed banks will be the last of our worries.
I think this is more in line than what the vault is actually for than the implications in it's name about Doomsdays ! I think similar vaults are already used to replant crops destroyed by hurricanes and flooding. I think in the BBC article it mentions an island or somewhere inundated by a flood and says that the best way to kill off your crops is by burying them under tons of mud.
You don't know much about wars do you.
It's kind of sleeting here at the moment, the question is will it get colder and turn into snow necessitating an immediate retreat from work or will it get warmer and turn into boring old rain.
Within half an hour ! That's pretty gosh darn impressive work there sir !
If you wouldn't mind going into a bit more depth I'd love to hear the details of how you knock up these forecasts, at the moment I can only predict the weather for definite maybe 20 - 25 minutes ( using basic optical observations ) in advance and I'd love to shave off those extra 5 minutes but I wonder if it's worth the cost of investing in something like a PC. I've seen portable weather stations you can install in your living room from hippy shops, do you think these would be suitable ?
We have them in the UK too ( made famous of course in the television show and books - Inspector Morse ).
At least I assume he's a dedicated campus cop since almost every single episode seems to take place in his old university.