In 2015, someone will say: well, but what about the crimes that are committed at homes by cruel parents? What about terrorists making their bombs? Let's have homes monitored!
Bullshit. It's one thing to have cameras in then centre of towns and cities, it's another to have them monitoring your homes. I accept the cameras in the town centre, it makes me feeler safer against the drunk, aggressive chavs. It's a similar story with other people I speak to. However, if there was a camera pointing at my house I'd disable the thing by any means necessary.
The cameras are in town/city centres, not pointing at peoples' homes. I don't know if you've been to the UK, but there's a culture where people get out of their tiny minds on alcohol and drugs and then beat the crap out of each other and innocent passers by. The cameras help to catch and prosecute the idiots engaged in this kind of behaviour. I'm not saying the implications aren't scary, but there are valid reasons for the cameras.
Its hard to say who is at blame for that but I can't just walk to the local grocer. It would take a good 45 minutes.
So if you walk at about 4 mph that's around 3 miles. If you cycle at 15 mph (not difficult) you can do that in 12 minutes! It would probably take you 5 minutes to drive so you only lose 7 minutes each way. You just need to do that a few times a week and you can cancel the gym membership...
It is indeed very sad. Using the playground bully analogy that people have been using for the USA, if you humiliate the playground bully he's going to hit you very hard or else lose credibility as a bully.
Right, screw that I'm buying one of those huge trucks. But *oh noes*, a 747 might land on top of me! I'm going to have to drive a tank instead, or little Sally and Jimmy might get squished!
Yes that's right it's big swindle, a big conspiracy against you! They're also reading your mind with microwaves don't you know. Better put on the tin foil hat before it's too late! Teh voices! Arghhh!
(not directed at parent, just society in general).
Not society, just the US. In Europe we have this thing called the bicycle. It can carry several pints of milk and several loaves of bread given sufficient panniers. We also have these things called legs, you can use them to walk to the shop and then put your food in bags and carry them home. Revolutionary, I know!
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Their logo is a blatant rip-off of the ebay logo! Bunch of spamming cnuts!
And just FYI, a lot of people who are really into the competition would accuse you of being jealous. Stupid, but most people are really self-absorbed and have a hard time understanding people with different priorities.
Yeah I've had that before. They also have a hard time understanding why someone would cycle 10 miles to work out of choice, when they're busy trying to run anyone and everyone off the road in their behemoth. Usually I just point to their fat belly and my svelt figure, and then see who's jealous!
I could drive a gas guzzler but choose not to. I have better things to do with my money, thanks. I'll leave the pointless material competition to the braindead masses.
and who is going to compress the air ? Will they use organic slaves, or diesel motors ?
A team of specially trained monkeys will work shifts turning a large compressor via a series of monkey-sized handles. The monkeys will be fed on delicious curry food and whilst not working will entertain each other by farting "zip-a-dee-doo-daa".
recently came out and said that, even with only a 15% ethanol/85% gasoline mixture - your mpg (due to ethanol's lower power density) gets reduced to the point that $3.20 gallon of pure gas becomes a $3.99 of the mixed type.
All I see is Americans constantly bitching about "gas prices" and then driving around in massive SUVs with five litre engines, driving 100 yards to the store, etc.
For one thing, drive a smaller fucking car, you can save money that way. Your gas is cheap compared a lot of countries. You can also save money by taking shorter journeys by foot or bicycle.
Gee Bob, maybe you should complain - I always thought you folks on that side of the pond had some balls! - or was that the Scots?
Mr AC talks about having balls... who said Americans don't understand irony!?
I'm not quite sure what having balls has to do with complaining, though, and whether complaining would actually change anything. Personally I choose to drive a diesel that gets > 50 mpg and cycle to work 10, miles each way. It keeps me fit and happy.
It makes me laugh when I see people diving around here in big American SUVs, you know they're paying for the priviledge, especially as road tax^W^WVehicle Excise Duty is being increased to £400 for gas-guzzlers.
There's this amazing stuff called water, it hydrates your body, has zero calories and tastes great. I don't know if there's a "lite" version, I'll have to check. You see, your body does not need artificially flavoured and coloured, chemically flavoured fizzy water and what's more, it costs a fortune. The sugar water corporations are pointing at you and laughing their asses off. Who would have thought people would be stupid enough to buy this rubbish at 50 times the cost of the water and sugar? But wooo! Look at the brand! It has a big fat santa claus and dancing polar bears, TEH FLUFFEH!!! WTF?? Is this still artifically coloured and flavoured sugar water we're talking about? Absolute fucking marketing genius. If you need hydration, drink water. If you need caffeine, drink a coffee. If you need sugar, eat a fucking sachet of sugar. If you need artificial sweetners... oh wait, no one needs those.
yeah, we all want to rely on the english who are the model of physical perfection for advice.
I'm english and I cycle 150-400 miles per week, it keeps me nice and fit, and slim. You don't need a degree to figure out that if you eat more calories than you burn you get fat. Still, some people will always try to argue with common sense.
Your post is so heavily laden with management terms like "enterprise" and "leverage" I think it must be bullshit. And you like EJB, which is the biggest joke ever. EJB 3.0? Do yourself a favour and use hibernate. I'm a Java developer but you just sound like a fanboy, we don't need no stinking fanboys.
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The cameras are in town/city centres, not pointing at peoples' homes. I don't know if you've been to the UK, but there's a culture where people get out of their tiny minds on alcohol and drugs and then beat the crap out of each other and innocent passers by. The cameras help to catch and prosecute the idiots engaged in this kind of behaviour. I'm not saying the implications aren't scary, but there are valid reasons for the cameras.
Its hard to say who is at blame for that but I can't just walk to the local grocer. It would take a good 45 minutes. So if you walk at about 4 mph that's around 3 miles. If you cycle at 15 mph (not difficult) you can do that in 12 minutes! It would probably take you 5 minutes to drive so you only lose 7 minutes each way. You just need to do that a few times a week and you can cancel the gym membership...
It is indeed very sad. Using the playground bully analogy that people have been using for the USA, if you humiliate the playground bully he's going to hit you very hard or else lose credibility as a bully.
Right, screw that I'm buying one of those huge trucks. But *oh noes*, a 747 might land on top of me! I'm going to have to drive a tank instead, or little Sally and Jimmy might get squished!
Yes that's right it's big swindle, a big conspiracy against you! They're also reading your mind with microwaves don't you know. Better put on the tin foil hat before it's too late! Teh voices! Arghhh!
Don't forget the technical architects!
I don't know about Scotsmen, but there's a lot of Welshman in their sheep!!!1
I could drive a gas guzzler but choose not to. I have better things to do with my money, thanks. I'll leave the pointless material competition to the braindead masses.
Good points, you're actually better off with a Ford/PSA tdci engine which will get you up to around 65-70 mpg under normal driving.
For one thing, drive a smaller fucking car, you can save money that way. Your gas is cheap compared a lot of countries. You can also save money by taking shorter journeys by foot or bicycle.
I'm not quite sure what having balls has to do with complaining, though, and whether complaining would actually change anything. Personally I choose to drive a diesel that gets > 50 mpg and cycle to work 10, miles each way. It keeps me fit and happy.
It makes me laugh when I see people diving around here in big American SUVs, you know they're paying for the priviledge, especially as road tax^W^WVehicle Excise Duty is being increased to £400 for gas-guzzlers.
There's this amazing stuff called water, it hydrates your body, has zero calories and tastes great. I don't know if there's a "lite" version, I'll have to check. You see, your body does not need artificially flavoured and coloured, chemically flavoured fizzy water and what's more, it costs a fortune. The sugar water corporations are pointing at you and laughing their asses off. Who would have thought people would be stupid enough to buy this rubbish at 50 times the cost of the water and sugar? But wooo! Look at the brand! It has a big fat santa claus and dancing polar bears, TEH FLUFFEH!!! WTF?? Is this still artifically coloured and flavoured sugar water we're talking about? Absolute fucking marketing genius. If you need hydration, drink water. If you need caffeine, drink a coffee. If you need sugar, eat a fucking sachet of sugar. If you need artificial sweetners... oh wait, no one needs those.
Your post is so heavily laden with management terms like "enterprise" and "leverage" I think it must be bullshit. And you like EJB, which is the biggest joke ever. EJB 3.0? Do yourself a favour and use hibernate. I'm a Java developer but you just sound like a fanboy, we don't need no stinking fanboys.