We didn't have to in Bermuda, which is still a colony. Though they don't like it much. In fact with the exception of BBC World all the television was North American anyway.
Prime example was the iPOD mini. When the rumours appeared everyone was talking about how inexpensive it would be. Then it cost more than predicted and a lot of people were upset
Mind you it hasn't stopped them from selling as many as they could make at the higher price point. Hmmm. Maybe they do know what they're doing.
I think you're getting Hunters confused with Rednecks there. The average pissed idiot isn't likely to shoot anything other than another pissed idiot, and that's evolution.
Well that's simply an issue of enforcement. Historically this wasn't a problem as there was only the BBC. Now there are three free to air comercial channels as well as the Beeb. The same technology is used for all 5 channels, so how do we stop people who don't want to pay for BBC from watching the BBC.
Oh I know, we could put some sort of tag in the broadcast which would limit what people could watch on their TV... Oh wait.
Sounds terrible doesn't it! Until you realize that the revenue from the Licence is used to fund the BBC. Now arguably the Beeb aren't what they used to be, but their average quality of content is still way above commerical television
My biggest fear is that because of the political climate here the fee will begin to be distributed to comercial chanels. Then I will resent my licence fee. Having to watch comercials and see my fee fund yet more crap reality programs would no make me happy
Growing up in Canada I found the television series most accessable as a lead in. It was a regular on PBS, and I'm sure it still must be.
One I was hooked I read the books which I loved, followed by the radio play. Thing is I think they're all good for different reasons.
The only worry I have, is having lived in England now for four years I still find bits I didn't get the first time around. So how is that going to translate to the typical Disney audience?
Well, I was working in an office above a grocery store when the Air Conditioning let go. We were told it would take two weeks to get parts because the company was too cheap to fly them in, they had to come by sea.
This was July and my office went up to about 40C. Oh and it was the kind of company where the servers were in my office, and just as an aside they were running an old version of SCO UNIX on the servers.
To keep us happy they put a huge exaust fan in a window outside in the main office. Which did absoulutley nothing to cool my office, but did make a tremendous noise.
As you can imagine it didn't take long for the servers to start crashing so to add to my pleasure I had managers coming in to yell at to me because the machines had crashed.
Six months later they installed the new A/C they had bought because of machine problems. They decided that it would be best used in the Marketing office.
But it was all OK because I could look out my office window and be happy I was living in Bermuda.
In any case surely if there was an accident the chances of it breaking close to the centre point are quite low.
If you look at the probabilities there are surely three high risk areas. The ground station where it's prone to attack or earthbound natural disasters, the lowest portion of the atmosphere up to about 20'000 feet where it's prone to environmental effects, and geostationary orbit where it's prone to space junk.
Either of the first two disasters end with the majority of the elevator flying off into space, the final one would be bad news, but risks could be minimised by a good cleanup before construction, and a geostationary object, say controled barrier flying ahead of the elevator. In any case most designs for these elevators have the elevator thickest and strongest at the geostationary point.
The biggest risk in the event of a break would be to passengers in transit below the break point. Engineering constraints dictate that the structure would be too light to cause much damage at any single point of impact.
Reminds me of a story about a friends husband who on visiting England and going on about how horrible it was said and "they kept calling me Yankie, and they knew I'm not American". Everyone else at the table got the Wanker reference.
Now if you want real trouble call an Canadian, American.
The electoral college of course cast the votes. However given the situation in Florida it can be questioned whether the electors from Florida truly represented the wishes of the voters of that State.
In any case as I said. I don't think on matters like this there is much difference between the two parties, and that is the real problem.
Last time I checked Gore got the Majority. Not that the Democrats are any better.
The problem is that Corporate rule is already or soon to become reality in most of the "free" world, and with a lack of options it will be difficult to dislodge.
In London prior to the introduction of congestion charging it was alleged that the timing of some lights was deliberatly changed to increase delays at intersections.
It was obviously never confirmed, but if true is evidence that traffic engineers can work for evil as well as good.
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Amazing. An obvious troll makes the front page.
Easy, In order to start the player you have to press the £ (pound) key. :-)
Canada has some very nice submarines bought from the UK. No wait....
We didn't have to in Bermuda, which is still a colony. Though they don't like it much. In fact with the exception of BBC World all the television was North American anyway.
As a Canadian and British citizen, I'm a lot happier about my Canadian side at the moment.
This is not offtopic. I was looking for a Reference. Spherical Security guards are hardly a new idea.
Prime example was the iPOD mini. When the rumours appeared everyone was talking about how inexpensive it would be. Then it cost more than predicted and a lot of people were upset
Mind you it hasn't stopped them from selling as many as they could make at the higher price point. Hmmm. Maybe they do know what they're doing.
I think you're getting Hunters confused with Rednecks there. The average pissed idiot isn't likely to shoot anything other than another pissed idiot, and that's evolution.
So I'm curious,
I think it's obvious that even the provisional ballots are not going to swing Ohio, but, if, and I mean really big if, what happens if they do?
Or will they simply be ignored?
Well that's simply an issue of enforcement. Historically this wasn't a problem as there was only the BBC. Now there are three free to air comercial channels as well as the Beeb. The same technology is used for all 5 channels, so how do we stop people who don't want to pay for BBC from watching the BBC.
Oh I know, we could put some sort of tag in the broadcast which would limit what people could watch on their TV... Oh wait.
Sounds terrible doesn't it! Until you realize that the revenue from the Licence is used to fund the BBC. Now arguably the Beeb aren't what they used to be, but their average quality of content is still way above commerical television
My biggest fear is that because of the political climate here the fee will begin to be distributed to comercial chanels. Then I will resent my licence fee. Having to watch comercials and see my fee fund yet more crap reality programs would no make me happy
One I was hooked I read the books which I loved, followed by the radio play. Thing is I think they're all good for different reasons.
The only worry I have, is having lived in England now for four years I still find bits I didn't get the first time around. So how is that going to translate to the typical Disney audience?
This was July and my office went up to about 40C. Oh and it was the kind of company where the servers were in my office, and just as an aside they were running an old version of SCO UNIX on the servers.
To keep us happy they put a huge exaust fan in a window outside in the main office. Which did absoulutley nothing to cool my office, but did make a tremendous noise.
As you can imagine it didn't take long for the servers to start crashing so to add to my pleasure I had managers coming in to yell at to me because the machines had crashed.
Six months later they installed the new A/C they had bought because of machine problems. They decided that it would be best used in the Marketing office.
But it was all OK because I could look out my office window and be happy I was living in Bermuda.
In any case surely if there was an accident the chances of it breaking close to the centre point are quite low. If you look at the probabilities there are surely three high risk areas. The ground station where it's prone to attack or earthbound natural disasters, the lowest portion of the atmosphere up to about 20'000 feet where it's prone to environmental effects, and geostationary orbit where it's prone to space junk. Either of the first two disasters end with the majority of the elevator flying off into space, the final one would be bad news, but risks could be minimised by a good cleanup before construction, and a geostationary object, say controled barrier flying ahead of the elevator. In any case most designs for these elevators have the elevator thickest and strongest at the geostationary point. The biggest risk in the event of a break would be to passengers in transit below the break point. Engineering constraints dictate that the structure would be too light to cause much damage at any single point of impact.
Now if you want real trouble call an Canadian, American.
The electoral college of course cast the votes. However given the situation in Florida it can be questioned whether the electors from Florida truly represented the wishes of the voters of that State.
In any case as I said. I don't think on matters like this there is much difference between the two parties, and that is the real problem.
Last time I checked Gore got the Majority. Not that the Democrats are any better. The problem is that Corporate rule is already or soon to become reality in most of the "free" world, and with a lack of options it will be difficult to dislodge.
In London prior to the introduction of congestion charging it was alleged that the timing of some lights was deliberatly changed to increase delays at intersections.
It was obviously never confirmed, but if true is evidence that traffic engineers can work for evil as well as good.