I have to say that I live in the UK as well and although you can get into the country easily enough it's not open, empty countryside it's farmland. Unless you go to some of the National Parks or the far North of Scotland you are going to have to try very hard to find any substantial area of land which is not used for anything.
I have written to my MP ( a labour one ) on other matters, ID cards for instance, and although she is thankfully a sensible MP and agrees with me and votes against / asks awkward questions about the subject it doesn't make the slightest difference to the outcome.
I will keep writing to her to encourage her on the offchance that one day other MP's will begin to think for themselves and listen to their constituents but I think it will be a long time yet before there is any payoff.
I think you missed out the step at the beginning where the European Commission is taken to dinner by large multinational companies where it is explained to them ( the commission ) just what exactly it is that the people want.
You're wrong about the big secret tanks, the oil the administrations companies now have control of is sold to make money and used to affect oil prices in general ensuring all oil companies make as much money as they can.
C'mon, surely everyone loves watching people fall over right ? Surely.
I'm not sure about the class differences thing, I think what they mean is just rich people and poor people rather than lords and peasants which is surely a feature of American life as well as British.
I'm surprised that never found it's way to the US, I am willing bet that everyone over the age of say 16 in the UK has watched The Good Life and enjoyed it !
I think I agree with the Americans here, Open All Hours was a great series. It had good scripts and the David Jason/Ronnie Barker combination was brilliant, both of them are both great comic actors and they work together really well in this series.
The Likely Lads & Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads is another series which doesn't get shown half as often as it should.
Why don't you knock it off with the negative waves Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here. Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
If you are intending on planning a bank robbery without ever actually going to have a look at your intended target, or employing trusted agents to do it for you I am definitely not joining your criminal gang.
Yes but you would be getting lost in the virtual city in the comfort of your living room with plenty of time to get your self unlost rather than doing it for real with heavy bags in a torrential downpour at 3 in the morning.
There is a difference between the information you can get about a place from a map and the way it actually looks like when you're there.
When you are driving or walking somewhere you do not look around you and see a 2D map or the same thing you see looking at a map, you have to look for road names, count the number of junctions you have gone past etc etc. If you could see actual images of the key direction changes on your route and of the place you are going to it would make things an awful lot easier.
For example knowing that the building you are looking for is opposite a gigantic red brick flagpole is a lot easier than knowing it's midway between the 18th junction on the left 300M before the road forks.
I think this is just what MS say they would like to do, so far as know the court has yet to decide whether they would allow it or not. I suspect they wont.
Every child can no doubt become talented at something but the term gifted usually means they are considerably better at something than than the general mass of other children.
I think it's probably true to say that whilst some children may be gifted it's highly unlikely that all of them are and if that was the case then the term gifted would essentially become meaningless.
I used to work for on a helpdesk for a company supporting a number of prominent investment banks and we would get a lot of questions about how to use VB in Excel, this probably explains why !
Unfortunately with one or two exceptions the bankers had the mental age of 8 year olds and would never work out to do what they wanted in Excel no matter how many times you explained it to them, this then became 'your fault' and enabled them to do what they were apparently best at which was throwing tantrums, stamping their feet and crying that you wouldn't do their work for them. In short 98% of investment bankers are in fact utter tools.
Honestly, this is just empty nonsense. For example if someone is claiming something, anything, then it is up to them to prove their claims or at least share their evidence for review, not least because as the claimant they are the best placed person to understand what claim it is exactly that they are making.
You seem to be under the impression that people are faced with an either/or choice of investigating something themselves or analyzing the evidence of other people which does in fact completely mischaracterize the process which should take place. You say "if everybody believes the burden of proof lies with the claimant then no one will ever search" which is in fact not true or even likely, anybody seriously intent on investigating anything will do both; pursue their own investigations and build upon the work of the others.
A witness who has gained a powerful insight but who is scared of submitting his insight to criticsm or review should really question why they think they are right and are worried about why they think everyone else may disagree.
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Portugese may be more useful for Brazil.
I have to say that I live in the UK as well and although you can get into the country easily enough it's not open, empty countryside it's farmland. Unless you go to some of the National Parks or the far North of Scotland you are going to have to try very hard to find any substantial area of land which is not used for anything.
I think you'll find that there are a large number of regimes/civilisations/empires who openly advocated, their own, racial superiority.
"The children watched Black Beauty on the same screen that was used earlier for geography."
And that is supposed to be reward ? Poor Kids.
Purnells voting record
Basically he's a eager tool of the party and another of these self serving brainless excuses for MP's which seem to be becoming so common nowadays.
You can check whether they do have any ( official ) discussion on www.theyworkforyou.org. I think this is a fantastic site for UK voters.
I have written to my MP ( a labour one ) on other matters, ID cards for instance, and although she is thankfully a sensible MP and agrees with me and votes against / asks awkward questions about the subject it doesn't make the slightest difference to the outcome.
I will keep writing to her to encourage her on the offchance that one day other MP's will begin to think for themselves and listen to their constituents but I think it will be a long time yet before there is any payoff.
I think you missed out the step at the beginning where the European Commission is taken to dinner by large multinational companies where it is explained to them ( the commission ) just what exactly it is that the people want.
I am a terrorist but right now I'm masquerading as a hard line neo-con to prevent detection.
DTDD was an excellent series, for a long while I was in love with 'Joy'.
You're wrong about the big secret tanks, the oil the administrations companies now have control of is sold to make money and used to affect oil prices in general ensuring all oil companies make as much money as they can.
C'mon, surely everyone loves watching people fall over right ? Surely.
I'm not sure about the class differences thing, I think what they mean is just rich people and poor people rather than lords and peasants which is surely a feature of American life as well as British.
Have you seen the original ( English ) version of The Office ?
Both Are You Being Served and Keeping Up Appearances are godawful excuses for comedy !
The whole amusement of The Office was the utter painfullness of David Brents behaviour rather than any regional jokes.
I'm surprised that never found it's way to the US, I am willing bet that everyone over the age of say 16 in the UK has watched The Good Life and enjoyed it !
Is Sanford & Son a remake of Steptoe & Son ?
I think I agree with the Americans here, Open All Hours was a great series. It had good scripts and the David Jason/Ronnie Barker combination was brilliant, both of them are both great comic actors and they work together really well in this series.
The Likely Lads & Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads is another series which doesn't get shown half as often as it should.
The Young Ones was and still is brilliant.
Why don't you knock it off with the negative waves Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here. Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
If you are intending on planning a bank robbery without ever actually going to have a look at your intended target, or employing trusted agents to do it for you I am definitely not joining your criminal gang.
Yes but you would be getting lost in the virtual city in the comfort of your living room with plenty of time to get your self unlost rather than doing it for real with heavy bags in a torrential downpour at 3 in the morning.
There is a difference between the information you can get about a place from a map and the way it actually looks like when you're there.
When you are driving or walking somewhere you do not look around you and see a 2D map or the same thing you see looking at a map, you have to look for road names, count the number of junctions you have gone past etc etc. If you could see actual images of the key direction changes on your route and of the place you are going to it would make things an awful lot easier.
For example knowing that the building you are looking for is opposite a gigantic red brick flagpole is a lot easier than knowing it's midway between the 18th junction on the left 300M before the road forks.
Avec Le Dalek.
I think this is just what MS say they would like to do, so far as know the court has yet to decide whether they would allow it or not. I suspect they wont.
It's, bad, science fiction - it's not supposed to be real. Jedi and Lightsabers appeared at the same time in the first Star Wars film !
Every child can no doubt become talented at something but the term gifted usually means they are considerably better at something than than the general mass of other children.
I think it's probably true to say that whilst some children may be gifted it's highly unlikely that all of them are and if that was the case then the term gifted would essentially become meaningless.
I used to work for on a helpdesk for a company supporting a number of prominent investment banks and we would get a lot of questions about how to use VB in Excel, this probably explains why !
Unfortunately with one or two exceptions the bankers had the mental age of 8 year olds and would never work out to do what they wanted in Excel no matter how many times you explained it to them, this then became 'your fault' and enabled them to do what they were apparently best at which was throwing tantrums, stamping their feet and crying that you wouldn't do their work for them. In short 98% of investment bankers are in fact utter tools.
Honestly, this is just empty nonsense. For example if someone is claiming something, anything, then it is up to them to prove their claims or at least share their evidence for review, not least because as the claimant they are the best placed person to understand what claim it is exactly that they are making.
You seem to be under the impression that people are faced with an either/or choice of investigating something themselves or analyzing the evidence of other people which does in fact completely mischaracterize the process which should take place. You say "if everybody believes the burden of proof lies with the claimant then no one will ever search" which is in fact not true or even likely, anybody seriously intent on investigating anything will do both; pursue their own investigations and build upon the work of the others.
A witness who has gained a powerful insight but who is scared of submitting his insight to criticsm or review should really question why they think they are right and are worried about why they think everyone else may disagree.