These days, industrial/EBM (i.e., "goth techno" for the uninitiated) is the big favourite. Bands like Wumpscut, VNV Nation and Front 242 crop up repeatedly in playlists/screenshots/weblog "listening to" fields.
Likewise, it is perfectly within a recording company's right to dictate how users may listen to their copyrighted music, how many times they may do so, and on what equipment. You do not have a right to listen to the RIAA's music on your Linux box unless they give you that right, regardless of what the whining collectivist pirasites say.
The Conservatives are even more pro-American than New Labour (given their pro-big-business, "free-enterprise" stance, US multinationals' dominance of the UK economy and Europe's quasi-socialist economic culture, they'd be for even more cross-atlantic harmonisation). And does anyone really expect Labour to ditch Blair and his cronies and go back to being a bolshy socialist party like in the '70s? (Who are they going to get to replace Blair? Arthur Scargill? Loony Left Red Ken?) As for third parties, with Britain's lack of a proportional house, they are negligible and will never amount to anything.
Janes ran a piece a few weeks ago that said it would take nothing less than a full seal team to get into a Russian nuclear facility so why all the panic? The terrorist dont have that capability.
Except for the missing suitcase nukes (as the old joke goes, there's nothing to worry about, as 95% of Soviet tactical nukes are accounted for), and reactor workers/scientists who haven't been paid for months selling plutonium on the blackmarket to keep their children from starving to death.
Yes, Bush could lose. And pigs could fly. Does anybody really think Bush won't do the full 2 terms? In this climate, they could probably pass a popular referendom to abolish the 2-term limit, allowing America to keep its most popular president in history until 2012.
One reason for alternative systems (GLONASS, Galileo, &c.) is the threat of the US military manipulating GPS accuracy for tactical reasons. Are there any real-world examples of this having happened?
For one, Britain won't have anything to do with it. The Blair administration firmly opposes the EU attempting to become a rival to the US as opposed to a client state. Britain was involved before the Iraq war, though it is doubtful whether in light of things they will continue to be, and find the huge sums of money required. That leaves France, Germany and the like; so the process is at the mercy of not only a multinational, multilingual bureaucracy in Brussels but of the inefficient state-run industries of France and the like.
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These days, industrial/EBM (i.e., "goth techno" for the uninitiated) is the big favourite. Bands like Wumpscut, VNV Nation and Front 242 crop up repeatedly in playlists/screenshots/weblog "listening to" fields.
Likewise, it is perfectly within a recording company's right to dictate how users may listen to their copyrighted music, how many times they may do so, and on what equipment. You do not have a right to listen to the RIAA's music on your Linux box unless they give you that right, regardless of what the whining collectivist pirasites say.
Didn't MS imply that they will require clients to produce a license certificate of some sort to connect?
The Conservatives are even more pro-American than New Labour (given their pro-big-business, "free-enterprise" stance, US multinationals' dominance of the UK economy and Europe's quasi-socialist economic culture, they'd be for even more cross-atlantic harmonisation). And does anyone really expect Labour to ditch Blair and his cronies and go back to being a bolshy socialist party like in the '70s? (Who are they going to get to replace Blair? Arthur Scargill? Loony Left Red Ken?) As for third parties, with Britain's lack of a proportional house, they are negligible and will never amount to anything.
Janes ran a piece a few weeks ago that said it would take nothing less than a full seal team to get into a Russian nuclear facility so why all the panic? The terrorist dont have that capability. Except for the missing suitcase nukes (as the old joke goes, there's nothing to worry about, as 95% of Soviet tactical nukes are accounted for), and reactor workers/scientists who haven't been paid for months selling plutonium on the blackmarket to keep their children from starving to death.
Yes, Bush could lose. And pigs could fly. Does anybody really think Bush won't do the full 2 terms? In this climate, they could probably pass a popular referendom to abolish the 2-term limit, allowing America to keep its most popular president in history until 2012.
One reason for alternative systems (GLONASS, Galileo, &c.) is the threat of the US military manipulating GPS accuracy for tactical reasons. Are there any real-world examples of this having happened?
For one, Britain won't have anything to do with it. The Blair administration firmly opposes the EU attempting to become a rival to the US as opposed to a client state. Britain was involved before the Iraq war, though it is doubtful whether in light of things they will continue to be, and find the huge sums of money required. That leaves France, Germany and the like; so the process is at the mercy of not only a multinational, multilingual bureaucracy in Brussels but of the inefficient state-run industries of France and the like.