Yeah, I'm loving my "Labour" party government that only 23% of the population and 37% of those who voted actually voted for. And Democrats in the US think they've been disenfranchised...
Not that the Tories would have been any better, mind you. It would just be nice to have a government that didn't ride roughshod over the opinions of the 63% of voters who don't agree with them.
Don't know about San Francisco, but it would certainly be useful here in Edinburgh. It's possible to get lost in 3 dimensions here. If you don't know the city you can easily be standing exactly where you want to be according to the map, but be looking up thinking "how the hell do I get up there?"
Glasgow is probably the most socialist part of the UK by a long stretch. No parliament constituency goes any direction but Labour, and it's the power base of the Scottish Socialist party. Preaching capitalist ideals to the majority of the public there will get you nowhere.
45 kids in a High School class? Seriously? My god Americans are right to slag off their state education system. When I went to school here in Scotland the legal maximum was about 31 for theory classes (English, Maths, Geography, Modern Languages, etc.) and 22-ish for practical (Sciences, Art, PE, Tech, etc). And I believe that has been lowered since.
I can import Levis 501s for $32 that's £17.13. Here they cost £45. Even if Customs and Excise notice and charge me duty I'm still paying less than half the price they set here. Typically I get my American friends to bring a new pair over for me when they visit.
The import allowance on shipped goods to the UK is £18 (£36 for gifts). This means that customs would leave you alone if you had them sent over, as no VAT or duty would be payable.
Yeah laugh it up, funny boy. Great argument. Get back to drinking and watching the sports channel and remove yourself from intelligent discussion.
Yes. I will do that. I drink like an idiot all day and watch nothing but sports channels. You've summed me up so well. Be careful what bucket you put people in. They normally don't fit it.
Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ecstasy is safe but you keep drinking alcohol forever and ever until it kills you, with a complete inability to stop, even for a moment. Okay. You're absolutely right. You win. Nobody ever died due to the fact that E buggers up your body's water retention system and you can either dehydrate or give yourself water poisoning. That's never happened to any first time users. E doesn't kill people. Ever. Never has. Never will. But alcohol is the great plague.
Yeah. LSD's fine. No bad flashbacks for years afterwards. No-one gets those. And ecstasy - classed as a recreational drug - can kill you the very first time you take it. The effects of long term pot use on the brain are still very much unclear, although recent studies seem to show it has its own problems.
Alcohol is not addictive to the vast majority of people. It has been shown that low to moderate alcohol use has been shown to be beneficial to your health. All drugs have problems. There is a point where you draw the line, and that point is open to discussion, but it's a very odd shaped line if you're putting LSD on the good side and alcohol on the bad side.
1) Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. She is Queen of England, but not just that. She has two very specific and technically distinct crowns (Scotland and England) for starters.
2) Only part of Ireland is part of the UK. That part known as Northern Ireland, which consits of most, but not all, of Ulster. The Rebublic of Ireland also has it's own FA and hence national football team. But isn't part of the UK, and don't ever suggest it is in hearing range of an Irishman.
3) You forgot Wales. But that is easily done.:-) and pedantic
4) Learn to spell Ireland.:-P
Countries should not be making political mountains out of real life ant hills. This is football. You don't see the Queen of England making noise when England, Scotland and Irland are listed as seperate nations.
As far as it being theft or not, think of it this way--if it were east Antarticans (fictional) sneaking in and taking a copy of the United States plans for a nuclear missile, I think most everyone would agree that it was theft, even if they left everything intact at the facility. This is the same thing, even if it is just a game.
No it's not. It's espionage. It doesn't change the legal and moral implications, but if you're discussing semmantices, it's not theft.
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Yeah, I'm loving my "Labour" party government that only 23% of the population and 37% of those who voted actually voted for. And Democrats in the US think they've been disenfranchised...
Not that the Tories would have been any better, mind you. It would just be nice to have a government that didn't ride roughshod over the opinions of the 63% of voters who don't agree with them.
Don't know about San Francisco, but it would certainly be useful here in Edinburgh. It's possible to get lost in 3 dimensions here. If you don't know the city you can easily be standing exactly where you want to be according to the map, but be looking up thinking "how the hell do I get up there?"
Not at the salaries my marketing collegues are on.
She was Mancunian. From Manchester. i.e. not Irish but English.
Glasgow is probably the most socialist part of the UK by a long stretch. No parliament constituency goes any direction but Labour, and it's the power base of the Scottish Socialist party. Preaching capitalist ideals to the majority of the public there will get you nowhere.
Man, I so hope you are typing in your sleep.
About the same time it stretched to include the guy who comes to install your cable. Sad, isn't it?
45 kids in a High School class? Seriously? My god Americans are right to slag off their state education system. When I went to school here in Scotland the legal maximum was about 31 for theory classes (English, Maths, Geography, Modern Languages, etc.) and 22-ish for practical (Sciences, Art, PE, Tech, etc). And I believe that has been lowered since.
Well, it's still the House of Hanover, although they did change their name to Windsor during the First World War.
She's as Scottish as she is English, being Queen Elizibeth the First of Scotland.
Of course, she's more German than either Scottish or English...
The import allowance on shipped goods to the UK is £18 (£36 for gifts). This means that customs would leave you alone if you had them sent over, as no VAT or duty would be payable.
Yes. I will do that. I drink like an idiot all day and watch nothing but sports channels. You've summed me up so well. Be careful what bucket you put people in. They normally don't fit it.
Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ecstasy is safe but you keep drinking alcohol forever and ever until it kills you, with a complete inability to stop, even for a moment. Okay. You're absolutely right. You win. Nobody ever died due to the fact that E buggers up your body's water retention system and you can either dehydrate or give yourself water poisoning. That's never happened to any first time users. E doesn't kill people. Ever. Never has. Never will. But alcohol is the great plague.
So can water. So can salt. E can kill you with the normal dosage.
So that's all businesses then.
"Hi, we at company X have the lowest customer satisfaction record for after sales support. Buy our stuff."
Even the best products and companies have problems.
Yeah. LSD's fine. No bad flashbacks for years afterwards. No-one gets those. And ecstasy - classed as a recreational drug - can kill you the very first time you take it. The effects of long term pot use on the brain are still very much unclear, although recent studies seem to show it has its own problems.
Alcohol is not addictive to the vast majority of people. It has been shown that low to moderate alcohol use has been shown to be beneficial to your health. All drugs have problems. There is a point where you draw the line, and that point is open to discussion, but it's a very odd shaped line if you're putting LSD on the good side and alcohol on the bad side.
Yes. People often hightlight the negative aspects of the product they're advertising. It's a sure fire way of selling more stuff.
So, selling alcohol is "evil", but recreational drug use is morally acceptable. What? Way to go on the consistent argument there.
GSM phones regularly try to poll their base station even when not in use. When there's no signal, they do this at maximum power.
Off the top of my head:
:-) :-P
1) Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. She is Queen of England, but not just that. She has two very specific and technically distinct crowns (Scotland and England) for starters.
2) Only part of Ireland is part of the UK. That part known as Northern Ireland, which consits of most, but not all, of Ulster. The Rebublic of Ireland also has it's own FA and hence national football team. But isn't part of the UK, and don't ever suggest it is in hearing range of an Irishman.
3) You forgot Wales. But that is easily done.
and pedantic
4) Learn to spell Ireland.
AAAAARGH! My eyes! Too many misconceptions....
No it's not. It's espionage. It doesn't change the legal and moral implications, but if you're discussing semmantices, it's not theft.
Yeah, right. Like you could fly a helicopter over Maryhill without it being shot down.
22nd December is midwinter's night. Why the hell would winter start at midwinter?