Give me the Euro. I think an awful lot of people in the UK are well aware of the exchange rate between the pound and the euro, most of us take enough European holidays nowadays to give us an idea of the differences.
Trade barriers are a slightly different issue to relative pricing and something the EU should work more on breaking down.
The reason the UK Government opposes market barriers on alcohol is because they would lose the large amounts of tax they gain with the present system, most of the UK population would be right behind such a move.
Bringing the UK into the Euro simply in order to make it easier for consumers to relate what they pay in the UK to prices on the continent is uneccessary and would also result in far more negative consequences than are worth it for something which most people don't need any help with in the first place.
That's true, I find it really irritating with the fairly common assumption that people living one hundred or one thousand years ago or whatever were less intelligent than us when there is no reason whatsoever for that to be the case. The fact that we have the knowledge and scientific discoveries that we do today is in fact living proof that they weren't since all our knowledge today is rooted in the discoveries and thought of our ancient ancestors.
Only 8 ? I am sitting here surrounded by 16 super duper wide screen mega monitor TV's most of which surround me in a circle and the rest of which are suspended from a gantry above my viewing position and underneath the diamond crystal super adamantine clear vu floor enclosure.
I have hacked up my chair to enable me to change channels and rotate the viewing platorm simply by thinking about it, quite easy to do in Linux I found.
On my left eye I have the thought controlled super precision telescopic monocular to enable me to view the pip within pip within pip within pip within pip I utilise on roughly 65.3244 % of my viewing stations and on my right eye I use the pseudo stereoscopic transparent video monocle to provide real time video overlays to simualte alternate environments or to watch UK Gold.
I thought most people on here would have a similar setup but I guess it's becoming obvious no one can match my superior skills.
Er no, the US government doesn't dictate what is and what is not life, liberty and happiness whereas the Church does dictate what is and what is not religious, what exactly gods will is and who or what god wishes you to attack next. Nowadays obviously the church is weakend in the face of the enlightened non religious majority so it's dictates do not have as big an affect on peoples lives as it once did.
Listen, here's a hot tip if you ever want to get on a cops good side ( such as when they are giving you a traffic ticket or whatever ). All you have to do is ask them loudly "Why aren't you out catching the real criminals eh ?" and they will instantly feel warm and friendly towards you and treat you with the deference, courtesy and respect you deserve.
I used to work on a helpdesk which handled calls from around 20 or so major international companies and anyone who had the name of someone at one of those companies could pretty much phone up and get a name and password off us. The chances are they could also get us to talk them through dialling into the network as well if they were a little rusty on the technical side of hacking.
The one time I did refuse to reset someones password ( because he admitted he wasn't the person the account belonged to, not immediatley mind you, and he wasn't calling from any of the companies offices ) ended up in no end of trouble and moaning that I had annoyed the customer.
I'm sure you could phone pretty much any IT helpdesk at 3 in the morning and get them to do whatever you wanted them to.
Yes and quite often it would be the Church trying to grap the money, land and power for it's self co-ercing countries/kings into fighting wars for them which seems to me a pretty clear case of religion being responsible for wars.
I don't actually have many floppies from that long ago but I do have data from that long ago which has been stored and moved through several different computers and is now also on CD Roms.
If you have important stuff you want to keep such as photos it's likely you will make sure you transfer it to your new whizz bang equipment of the future so that in 50 or 100 years time it may not be on the same media but the data will still be intact.
Personally I love being laid off every 4 or 5 years or so. Provided you get a nice redundancy package it leaves you free to take the next year off on holiday and a nice change of scene and salary increase when you get the next job.
I liked the bit where he said he spent a few hours reading about how to rebuild his big important server and the moaned when the task was given to someone else who "had no experience of rebuilding the big important server".
How come the good Dr hasn't patented this method of curing stomach ulcers ? He should by rights be a very rich man by now, the fact he has been awarded a Nobel prize for his discovery proves it was certainly non obvious.
Yes but it's probably worth bearing in mind that CG are doing there best to manage IT helpdesks for as many councils as they can, maybe including Newham, whereby a part of their payment comes from the number of problems raised with the helpdesk above a specified amount. Also all their helpdesk staff are well trained in Windows problem resoloution but not in Unix or Linux issues to anything like the same extent so in this case it might not have been there interest to be entirely impartial.
4 years ago Virgin Music stores ran on an AS/400 with old IBM Terminals at the POS and pretty old and crappy PC's running terminal emulation software in the office. In some of the bigger stores I think they these have been replaced by Wyse terminals but I'm sure in many cases this setup has not changed during these last 4 years.
The POS terminals were a breeze to fix but the PC emulation session would constantly crash or the PC would crash and these were a right pain to fix remotely.
But since it has turned out that those individual rights are to be extended only Americans ( and only god fearing, patriotic Americans who support the Administration in everything they do ) and not to anyone else it's perhaps not surprising that non Americans are uncomfortable with having anything more to do with America than is absoloutley necessary.
I would think that swimming about in flooded basements in scuba gear is absoloutley the last thing anyone should be doing, you won't be able to see much, you don't know what might be down there waiting to hook or snag you, you will be in an enclosed space and the water it's self may be polluted with goodness knows what. You can drown in 2ft of water just as easily as you can in 30 or 300ft.
Because I'd definitley a remember if I had. I think I might have assigned that job to one of my helpers but I spend most of my time in Iraq at the moment.
Oh right I see. So Johnny Prospective Terrorist thinks to himself
"OK, I believe in a theocratic dictatorship spanning the globe and I think the best way of achieving that is by attacking America with some kind of cunning yet devastating terrorist atrocity.
Now those guys with the box cutters did pretty well and so did those guys in London on the tube but I'm not going to do this the easy way and attack innocent civilian targets. No, I shall take myself off to Iraq and take on their military directly because this is what would please God most.
Except maybe I won't actually attack the American military in Iraq 'cos that's quite hard so perhaps I'll attack the innocent Iraqi civilians instead because that will surely further my aim of bringing America to it's knees."
I think not, most of the terrorism in Iraq is going on because of the situation going on within Iraq. If the Iraq war had not happened they would not have swarmed into America box cutters and airline tickets at the ready. The terrorists who do want to carry out an attack on America directly are not going to be fooled by any look at the ewok strategies to get them bogged down in Iraq although they may find a handy supply of well armed and experienced fighters there if they need to swell their numbers.
As soon as the terrorists announce they have inserted suicide bombers into orbit and will soon be able to found a theocracy on the moon you can bet George W will be on the moon so fast you wouldn't believe ( obviously I don't mean George personally will go there )
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Give me the Euro. I think an awful lot of people in the UK are well aware of the exchange rate between the pound and the euro, most of us take enough European holidays nowadays to give us an idea of the differences.
Trade barriers are a slightly different issue to relative pricing and something the EU should work more on breaking down.
The reason the UK Government opposes market barriers on alcohol is because they would lose the large amounts of tax they gain with the present system, most of the UK population would be right behind such a move.
Bringing the UK into the Euro simply in order to make it easier for consumers to relate what they pay in the UK to prices on the continent is uneccessary and would also result in far more negative consequences than are worth it for something which most people don't need any help with in the first place.
That's true, I find it really irritating with the fairly common assumption that people living one hundred or one thousand years ago or whatever were less intelligent than us when there is no reason whatsoever for that to be the case. The fact that we have the knowledge and scientific discoveries that we do today is in fact living proof that they weren't since all our knowledge today is rooted in the discoveries and thought of our ancient ancestors.
Only 8 ? I am sitting here surrounded by 16 super duper wide screen mega monitor TV's most of which surround me in a circle and the rest of which are suspended from a gantry above my viewing position and underneath the diamond crystal super adamantine clear vu floor enclosure.
I have hacked up my chair to enable me to change channels and rotate the viewing platorm simply by thinking about it, quite easy to do in Linux I found.
On my left eye I have the thought controlled super precision telescopic monocular to enable me to view the pip within pip within pip within pip within pip I utilise on roughly 65.3244 % of my viewing stations and on my right eye I use the pseudo stereoscopic transparent video monocle to provide real time video overlays to simualte alternate environments or to watch UK Gold.
I thought most people on here would have a similar setup but I guess it's becoming obvious no one can match my superior skills.
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Er no, the US government doesn't dictate what is and what is not life, liberty and happiness whereas the Church does dictate what is and what is not religious, what exactly gods will is and who or what god wishes you to attack next. Nowadays obviously the church is weakend in the face of the enlightened non religious majority so it's dictates do not have as big an affect on peoples lives as it once did.
Listen, here's a hot tip if you ever want to get on a cops good side ( such as when they are giving you a traffic ticket or whatever ). All you have to do is ask them loudly "Why aren't you out catching the real criminals eh ?" and they will instantly feel warm and friendly towards you and treat you with the deference, courtesy and respect you deserve.
I think we have already established that is the case with that off shore prison/torture facility the US has built for non US citizens with no rights.
Regarding your comments on the free market. I think we should be reminded that freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
I used to work on a helpdesk which handled calls from around 20 or so major international companies and anyone who had the name of someone at one of those companies could pretty much phone up and get a name and password off us. The chances are they could also get us to talk them through dialling into the network as well if they were a little rusty on the technical side of hacking.
The one time I did refuse to reset someones password ( because he admitted he wasn't the person the account belonged to, not immediatley mind you, and he wasn't calling from any of the companies offices ) ended up in no end of trouble and moaning that I had annoyed the customer.
I'm sure you could phone pretty much any IT helpdesk at 3 in the morning and get them to do whatever you wanted them to.
You'd think having been in the navy you would have learned how to spell destroyer. PT Boat does not stand for Plywood Torpedo boat.
Yes and quite often it would be the Church trying to grap the money, land and power for it's self co-ercing countries/kings into fighting wars for them which seems to me a pretty clear case of religion being responsible for wars.
Ah yes but when lunch consists of 5 courses and serves to fill in the time before golf maybe it doesn't seem quite such a burden.
I don't actually have many floppies from that long ago but I do have data from that long ago which has been stored and moved through several different computers and is now also on CD Roms.
If you have important stuff you want to keep such as photos it's likely you will make sure you transfer it to your new whizz bang equipment of the future so that in 50 or 100 years time it may not be on the same media but the data will still be intact.
Personally I love being laid off every 4 or 5 years or so. Provided you get a nice redundancy package it leaves you free to take the next year off on holiday and a nice change of scene and salary increase when you get the next job.
I liked the bit where he said he spent a few hours reading about how to rebuild his big important server and the moaned when the task was given to someone else who "had no experience of rebuilding the big important server".
How come the good Dr hasn't patented this method of curing stomach ulcers ? He should by rights be a very rich man by now, the fact he has been awarded a Nobel prize for his discovery proves it was certainly non obvious.
Yes but it's probably worth bearing in mind that CG are doing there best to manage IT helpdesks for as many councils as they can, maybe including Newham, whereby a part of their payment comes from the number of problems raised with the helpdesk above a specified amount. Also all their helpdesk staff are well trained in Windows problem resoloution but not in Unix or Linux issues to anything like the same extent so in this case it might not have been there interest to be entirely impartial.
4 years ago Virgin Music stores ran on an AS/400 with old IBM Terminals at the POS and pretty old and crappy PC's running terminal emulation software in the office. In some of the bigger stores I think they these have been replaced by Wyse terminals but I'm sure in many cases this setup has not changed during these last 4 years.
The POS terminals were a breeze to fix but the PC emulation session would constantly crash or the PC would crash and these were a right pain to fix remotely.
But since it has turned out that those individual rights are to be extended only Americans ( and only god fearing, patriotic Americans who support the Administration in everything they do ) and not to anyone else it's perhaps not surprising that non Americans are uncomfortable with having anything more to do with America than is absoloutley necessary.
I would think that swimming about in flooded basements in scuba gear is absoloutley the last thing anyone should be doing, you won't be able to see much, you don't know what might be down there waiting to hook or snag you, you will be in an enclosed space and the water it's self may be polluted with goodness knows what. You can drown in 2ft of water just as easily as you can in 30 or 300ft.
Better to bring a pump and pump the basement out.
Isn't it possible that elements of toxic sludge may also evaporate and drip into the bucket ?
Because I'd definitley a remember if I had. I think I might have assigned that job to one of my helpers but I spend most of my time in Iraq at the moment.
Oh right I see. So Johnny Prospective Terrorist thinks to himself
"OK, I believe in a theocratic dictatorship spanning the globe and I think the best way of achieving that is by attacking America with some kind of cunning yet devastating terrorist atrocity.
Now those guys with the box cutters did pretty well and so did those guys in London on the tube but I'm not going to do this the easy way and attack innocent civilian targets. No, I shall take myself off to Iraq and take on their military directly because this is what would please God most.
Except maybe I won't actually attack the American military in Iraq 'cos that's quite hard so perhaps I'll attack the innocent Iraqi civilians instead because that will surely further my aim of bringing America to it's knees."
I think not, most of the terrorism in Iraq is going on because of the situation going on within Iraq. If the Iraq war had not happened they would not have swarmed into America box cutters and airline tickets at the ready. The terrorists who do want to carry out an attack on America directly are not going to be fooled by any look at the ewok strategies to get them bogged down in Iraq although they may find a handy supply of well armed and experienced fighters there if they need to swell their numbers.
Fighting wars in Iraq does not improve your security from things like truck bombs, hijacked planes etc on tiny bit.
As soon as the terrorists announce they have inserted suicide bombers into orbit and will soon be able to found a theocracy on the moon you can bet George W will be on the moon so fast you wouldn't believe ( obviously I don't mean George personally will go there )