That veg scheme sounds bad. Most of the veg I've gotten have been very good - maybe they do some quality control.
Glad to hear that Farmer's Markets are happening in the USA too. At mine I can buy local veg, cheese, meat, smoked fish, honey.
In fact, we're a bit spoilt here in Wiltshire - a local organic cheese producer, couple of good organic meat producers, plenty of organic veg producers, an organic brewery just over the border in Berkshire.
As for veal, I don't do the crated veal. I have a supplier for non-crated which is more humane
Officially I believe the Queen has the power to dissolve the government if it became undemocratic, and I think she has some level of official power over the lawmaking process too. She's just a figurehead really now, but those powers could be invoked if neccessary.
That's a monarchist defence by saying "if the nazis got elected, they'd be there to help us" (because at least technically, the armed forces are loyal to the queen).
Trouble is, the queen would then be acting against the will of the people (however bad that will was).
Personally, I'd rather we had a proper constitution, checks and balances and all that, than a PM who can just do anything, and hope the queen might be able to do something if it all went wrong.
Diana was much more to do with celebrity than monarchy.
There was a time when people looked up to the monarchy, but after Diana, when the Queen was basically forced to go on TV and make a statement, it showed the end of the monarchy as an institution. The people control the monarchy now, and they will be expected to entertain them, like Posh and Becks.
There's a great deal to be said for organic produce, particularly in terms of enriching the soil and reducing pesticides being put into rivers (as well as the risk of it remaining on food).
It doesn't work for everything, and sadly a lot of it comes from thousands of miles away from the UK, so is damaging to the environment.
For it to really work, you have to work on local supply. I'm lucky to live in rural England in an area near plenty of food producers. I buy organic cheese from a local market. The producer lives about 5 miles from me. A veg box system operates here, so I can get veg that's less than 10 miles away, and picked very fresh.
You are right about costs. It costs more for me to get this produce from local suppliers than to just go to my local supermarket and fill up bags. But there's so many benefits - I have a relationship with the people producing the food, I'm helping to sustain local businesses, I'm reducing food miles, I'm eating better food and my cooking ends up better.
Petrol Protests. People were willing to switch votes because the Conservatives promised something like 3p off a litre. To most families, that's about 50-60UKP per annum. Meanwhile, they get their pensions taxed and don't raise an eyebrow.
The dome. Never mind it was not tax money, people made a load of fuss about it. Never mind the Jubilee Line extension that cost about 10 times as much.
Personally, I'm getting fed up with driving in the UK. Traffic jams day and night (M25 this Sunday morning!), ludicrous petrol prices, lack of parking (esp free parking), police officers pulling people over using any excuse to breathalyse.
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Keep in mind that many of the people that originally came to this country did it to escape religious persecution. So in other words many of the worlds religious nuts came to this country and are now sending letters in to fox because they said the word "ass" one too many times.
It's a little like white Australians trying to keep immigrants out.
The USA is now a 'stale' country. Lack of immigrants, misguided belief that the state can protect them from terrorism, and a very strong isolationism that is helped by the geographic position. Fear is a big help for people to join up with churches.
I'm starting to wonder if these initiatives are going to piss off the mobile operators who paid billions for the 3G licenses.
Changes like this, and wireless POPs are taking away some of the incentives to upgrade to 3G phones (for me, data is more important than video messages - and if I have to find a POP, that's good enough.
But without the Mac, would as much work have been put into OS2/Windows? If IBM and Microsoft hadn't done it, Apple's market share would be 90+%. The GUI popularised computing for millions of people.
Microsoft largely take other people's ideas, shake them up a little and repackage them as Brand New Technology. There's even a site somewhere which struggles to find a genuine MS idea that has lasted (so that whole channels thing don't count). I think they've got the wheel mouse at the moment.
It's certainly not Real Ale, or at least what's sold in 90+% of places isn't. I know lots of stouts that kick Guinness' butt.
Maybe I should send Linus something from one of my local brewers next time he comes to the UK. It would be much more in the spirit of "open source" - beer produced properly with the right ingredients.
On the other hand, will this affect his kernel work?
I have a family to support, and it doesn't stop me applying some principals (although less so than when single!).
Whilst I want to support my kids and that they can have a good life, there's also the "leading by example" thing. Could I tell my kids not to cheat and lie and work for a dodgy operation that did just that.
There's also a self-preservation angle. I don't believe that dodgy companies last.
It's just that I've heard people who enjoy a lot of quality cinema talking up seeing some Bollywood movie, and I think they either think there's a 'knowing' or 'ironic' message of the film makers, or they somehow think that by saying they are into Bollywood filmmaking, it makes them more right-on.
However, that is not to say that Indians are not capable of making great art, and have done for many centuries. The Apu trilogy by Satyajit Ray is supposed to be a masterpiece.
I imagine that many people in India don't have the money to go and attend film schools. There's also a question about the censors in India, and how they restrict what can and cannot be shown. Maybe there's also quite a strong studio system or links between distributors and productions which keep more interesting work from appearing.
So, you can pick 1 bad film. And yes, there are plenty of bad films produced by Hollywood, no doubt. From what I've read here and heard elsewhere, people are talking up something like 5 out of thousands of movies.
The Bollywood industry doesn't produce classics, or certaily have failed to export them (although a small film maker like Ray managed it). Out of thousands and thousands of movies, how many do you know? And yet, I imagine you could name some French, Australian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese movies.
This industry is more like the film making of Roger Corman - transient, fast buck making work.
but it wasn't meant for you to draw some stupid ignorant racist conclusion
There's a huge defence mounted for bollywood in the west because it's non-white. I have 2 friends who are asian, whose families used to watch these, and they too said they were garbage. They explained the plots, and they sounded like scripts that even Elvis would have rejected. Just because something's ethnic doesn't automatically make it good (there are some excellent non-Bollywood indian movies out there).
It's nearly all repetitive trash. Think of the most predictable dross about a boy and a girl you can, add in a load of songs. That's most of Bollywood.
Stores for books and CDs are going to struggle if they just become "box shifters".
They have to offer a lot more, because ultimately online can often beat them on price, and range. For me there's also a convenience factor. I don't work near a record shop, so I'd have to travel into town, park (including paying for parking).
But, I would travel if I had a good local record shop, like the one I had near me as a youth. Somewhere where they played the music that the manager liked, not what was being pumped from a head office radio station. Where you could talk for more than 2 minutes before being moved on by security.
The 'good name' of Pixar could be a major problem with Disney, were Pixar to stop dealing with them when their contract runs out.
Would I go and see a 'Disney' movie? Probably not. Haven't heard a good review for one for many years now.
However, I'll be there getting a ticket or buying a DVD for the next Pixar movie, and millions of others will too. And you are right about the storytelling. They get it right BEFORE worrying about the animation. If only a few movie studios would remember this before spending millions on a cast and half a million on a script.
The worst thing is that comedy is rarely taken seriously;)
Last comedy to win Best Film? Probably Annie Hall in 1977.
The academy it seems would rather pick something grand or worthy than an excellent, well crafted comedy. Groundhog Day is a gem, but got how many Oscar nominations? None (saying that, against Schindler's List, The Piano and Remains of the Day it's a tough call, but it's better than The Fugitive).
There's two things I want to buy..."Music Madness" by Mantronix and "We'll be right back" by Steinski and Mass Media.
Neither are available on CD, and the former is deleted on all formats, so would require me to shell out a small fortune to buy secondhand.
For producers to expect people not to download or pirate when there's no legal choice is ridiculous. Make them available, and you've got a position to defend.
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Glad to hear that Farmer's Markets are happening in the USA too. At mine I can buy local veg, cheese, meat, smoked fish, honey.
In fact, we're a bit spoilt here in Wiltshire - a local organic cheese producer, couple of good organic meat producers, plenty of organic veg producers, an organic brewery just over the border in Berkshire.
As for veal, I don't do the crated veal. I have a supplier for non-crated which is more humane
Who do I write to to suggest it?
That's a monarchist defence by saying "if the nazis got elected, they'd be there to help us" (because at least technically, the armed forces are loyal to the queen).
Trouble is, the queen would then be acting against the will of the people (however bad that will was).
Personally, I'd rather we had a proper constitution, checks and balances and all that, than a PM who can just do anything, and hope the queen might be able to do something if it all went wrong.
There was a time when people looked up to the monarchy, but after Diana, when the Queen was basically forced to go on TV and make a statement, it showed the end of the monarchy as an institution. The people control the monarchy now, and they will be expected to entertain them, like Posh and Becks.
There's a great deal to be said for organic produce, particularly in terms of enriching the soil and reducing pesticides being put into rivers (as well as the risk of it remaining on food).
It doesn't work for everything, and sadly a lot of it comes from thousands of miles away from the UK, so is damaging to the environment.
For it to really work, you have to work on local supply. I'm lucky to live in rural England in an area near plenty of food producers. I buy organic cheese from a local market. The producer lives about 5 miles from me. A veg box system operates here, so I can get veg that's less than 10 miles away, and picked very fresh.
You are right about costs. It costs more for me to get this produce from local suppliers than to just go to my local supermarket and fill up bags. But there's so many benefits - I have a relationship with the people producing the food, I'm helping to sustain local businesses, I'm reducing food miles, I'm eating better food and my cooking ends up better.
Petrol Protests. People were willing to switch votes because the Conservatives promised something like 3p off a litre. To most families, that's about 50-60UKP per annum. Meanwhile, they get their pensions taxed and don't raise an eyebrow.
The dome. Never mind it was not tax money, people made a load of fuss about it. Never mind the Jubilee Line extension that cost about 10 times as much.
Personally, I'm getting fed up with driving in the UK. Traffic jams day and night (M25 this Sunday morning!), ludicrous petrol prices, lack of parking (esp free parking), police officers pulling people over using any excuse to breathalyse.
It's a little like white Australians trying to keep immigrants out.
The USA is now a 'stale' country. Lack of immigrants, misguided belief that the state can protect them from terrorism, and a very strong isolationism that is helped by the geographic position. Fear is a big help for people to join up with churches.
That's probably the "xmas terrorist threat" that Blair and co have been talking about.
Changes like this, and wireless POPs are taking away some of the incentives to upgrade to 3G phones (for me, data is more important than video messages - and if I have to find a POP, that's good enough.
Microsoft largely take other people's ideas, shake them up a little and repackage them as Brand New Technology. There's even a site somewhere which struggles to find a genuine MS idea that has lasted (so that whole channels thing don't count). I think they've got the wheel mouse at the moment.
It's certainly not Real Ale, or at least what's sold in 90+% of places isn't. I know lots of stouts that kick Guinness' butt.
Maybe I should send Linus something from one of my local brewers next time he comes to the UK. It would be much more in the spirit of "open source" - beer produced properly with the right ingredients.
On the other hand, will this affect his kernel work?
Whilst I want to support my kids and that they can have a good life, there's also the "leading by example" thing. Could I tell my kids not to cheat and lie and work for a dodgy operation that did just that.
There's also a self-preservation angle. I don't believe that dodgy companies last.
There's not much choice on Spanish. Almodovar is a terrific director, makes really exciting films.
Good choice on Japanese too. Kurosawa was great.
It's just that I've heard people who enjoy a lot of quality cinema talking up seeing some Bollywood movie, and I think they either think there's a 'knowing' or 'ironic' message of the film makers, or they somehow think that by saying they are into Bollywood filmmaking, it makes them more right-on.
However, that is not to say that Indians are not capable of making great art, and have done for many centuries. The Apu trilogy by Satyajit Ray is supposed to be a masterpiece.
I imagine that many people in India don't have the money to go and attend film schools. There's also a question about the censors in India, and how they restrict what can and cannot be shown. Maybe there's also quite a strong studio system or links between distributors and productions which keep more interesting work from appearing.
The Bollywood industry doesn't produce classics, or certaily have failed to export them (although a small film maker like Ray managed it). Out of thousands and thousands of movies, how many do you know? And yet, I imagine you could name some French, Australian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese movies.
This industry is more like the film making of Roger Corman - transient, fast buck making work.
There's a huge defence mounted for bollywood in the west because it's non-white. I have 2 friends who are asian, whose families used to watch these, and they too said they were garbage. They explained the plots, and they sounded like scripts that even Elvis would have rejected. Just because something's ethnic doesn't automatically make it good (there are some excellent non-Bollywood indian movies out there).
It's nearly all repetitive trash. Think of the most predictable dross about a boy and a girl you can, add in a load of songs. That's most of Bollywood.
Like Grease 2, only worse.
They have to offer a lot more, because ultimately online can often beat them on price, and range. For me there's also a convenience factor. I don't work near a record shop, so I'd have to travel into town, park (including paying for parking).
But, I would travel if I had a good local record shop, like the one I had near me as a youth. Somewhere where they played the music that the manager liked, not what was being pumped from a head office radio station. Where you could talk for more than 2 minutes before being moved on by security.
Would I go and see a 'Disney' movie? Probably not. Haven't heard a good review for one for many years now.
However, I'll be there getting a ticket or buying a DVD for the next Pixar movie, and millions of others will too. And you are right about the storytelling. They get it right BEFORE worrying about the animation. If only a few movie studios would remember this before spending millions on a cast and half a million on a script.
Last comedy to win Best Film? Probably Annie Hall in 1977.
The academy it seems would rather pick something grand or worthy than an excellent, well crafted comedy. Groundhog Day is a gem, but got how many Oscar nominations? None (saying that, against Schindler's List, The Piano and Remains of the Day it's a tough call, but it's better than The Fugitive).
I know that people like the BBC like Real. I guess because it's more cross-platform.
Like shutting them off on webpages? Isn't the default to warn users before downloading?
There are some useful activex controls on webpages out there.
What I meant to say was that I don't forsee upgrading from an 1800Mhz to whatever's next until maybe 3 years from now.
Neither are available on CD, and the former is deleted on all formats, so would require me to shell out a small fortune to buy secondhand.
For producers to expect people not to download or pirate when there's no legal choice is ridiculous. Make them available, and you've got a position to defend.