I'm sorry, but you can't have your cake and eat it. If you spend money on wasteful things, then you can't expect to have money for all necessary or desirable things.
Nope, the US can't continue to act as if vast globs of money aren't spend on the war machine, haven't disappeared through tax cuts for the rich, etc. Domestic spending will ultimately suffer - borrowing is merely heaping burdens on the country in the future.
But hey, as long as extreme capitalism is allowed to continue to run rampant in the US (not to mention the whole world!), rest assured all your money will go to corporations and wealthy CEOs. And no, this isn't socialist commie nonsense - the figures lay it bare - the top dogs in the world have more money than entire sections of the worlds population - not to mention even the average Western worker's pay diminishing in comparison! The recent Oxfam statistics are an eye-opener, in only a few decades, we've seen CEOs salaries go through the roof (to 600 times the salary of ordinary workers)!
But the point of the above, which diverges from the topic slightly, is to point out that not just workers, but the government, will have less and less spending power. Both are borrowing insanely to try and ignore the fact - but the banks will eventually demand their pound of flesh from the public - both individually and from governments.
There will be no funding of NASA in the future unless other problems are taken care of.
Yeah - that's pretty much the same as the Magic roundabout in Cork - it sits on a ring-road dual-carriageway with another dual-carriageway junction and two other roads (one to the city's airport!).
Very similar situation in fact. The Cork roundabout was actually supposed to be a grade-separated roundabout - but they got stingey. Even so - that won't be enough!
There is at least one set of lights in my city that are timed rather than radar/rollover sensor triggered. The reason is that they are on the main road out of the city to the capital, where ideally there should be no lights/junctions. So the lights are deliberately timed to only allow traffic from the side junctions for a few seconds every few minutes.
But for all out madness, one cannot beat signal-controlled roundabouts. I don't know is anywhere else but Ireland insane enough to use these, possibly the UK, but it's rather run having to randomly stop at red lights while going round a roundabout.
The two main such roundabouts in Ireland are the Red Cow Roundabout in Dublin (the "Mad Cow Roundabout") and the Kinsale Road Roundabout in Cork (the "Magic Roundabout"). Best avoided - but usually unavoidable. Oh yes, I nearly forgot, the former now has a tram system travelling across it too. Fun fun fun.
How is it possible to see what people in front of you vote? Certainly here in Ireland, and I had assumed in most other democracies, one secretly marks one's ballot in a screened off area, and then places it folded up into a ballot box. I.E. it's a secret ballot.
Those bunch of muppets Eircom deliberately grouped the specific countries in question as "Pacific Islands" (even including one or two west African countries) in a certain tariff band. They then racked up the prices for this band. As it was merely international rate, not a premium rate (we have 15xx regulated premium nos.) people could not have it blocked.
My guess is the business that lost 12,000 and others complained to ComReg (the regulatory authority).
Use everyone elses oil and save yours for last (then sell it for high prices / control everything!)
Even better, have business interests in the other countries selling oil.
Aye, the whole thing is a house of cards, and eventually even the American public might get burnt, but the "country"/economy/administration/millionaires won't.
The EU is doing well (we make quite a packet - irregardless of growth/unemployment figures, whopping HUGE trade surplus), but there is the problem that there's not so very much oil here (what there is doesn't cover domestic needs). So eventually, no matter about selling much more than the US (I think the EU is actually responsible for over half the world's trade) - it won't matter cause we'll have to spend so much buying it off the US. And people wonder why we actually take wind-power, fuel efficiency, etc. some bit seriously here (too little too late IMHO though)
The EU has a much larger combined GDP than the US to play with - and even with the (relatively) paltry "central pot" (EU budget), has plenty of money to spend on spaceflight if they wanted to (scrap agriculture subsidies anyone?). It should be noted that it's doubtful that ESA (not the same as the EU, though mostly EU members), even with more money, would '''want''' to spend it on manned spaceflight - but my point is that potentially the resources are there.
China, much of the population may not have much, but it's a tiny amount of their GDP needed to have sufficient resources for even grander manned spaceflight than they are planning. But to do so would be a gross disservice to the people, for whom the money could be much better used. (The ESA members for similar reasons are unlikely to ever spend as much on spaceflight as the US, even if combined they can spend more by using the same % GDP)
Read it, it's interesting. It does get a wee bit weird when it's describing how you read as you read... a sort of super-conciousness about my eye movements. It's like when you become aware of your breathing or something and then have to conciously pay attention to it for a while to make sure it doesn't stop!
There are at least 5 different ratings - allowing much greater flexibility.
G (Irl, General) - U (UK, Universal) PG (Irl, UK, Parental Guidance) 12PG (Irl, over 12s only, or under with a parent/guardian) - 12 (UK, over 12s) 15PG (Irl, over 15s only, or under with a parent/guardian) - 15 (UK, over 15s) 18 (Irl, UK, over 18s)
Whatever about the subject of this story, having such a glaring error on the map (that's presumably gone unchanged from goodness knows when - win 3.1?) REALLY means Microsoft should hang their heads in shame. Man, if Ireland was missing for example, I'd be rightly %&*^ed off.
Wow, I really can't believe this. Someone confirm to me that it's a new map only around since 2K as suggested by the parent post!
...possibly not a valid comparison. New things keep being set on fire, and the map redrawing hasn't yet happened... (bad stuff will eventually happen re: Kurdistan or the lack thereof). Come to thing of it, they're having problems killing the remaining "bad guys" too - plus new ones keep popping up.
I guess it will continue to be a question of "occupy indefinately", or "abandon to civil war + new Islamic state(s)".
Ah yes, free BBC (off-air or from Satellite) and four other channels to boot too (RTÉ1/2, TV3 (ITV Ireland), TG4).
Interestingly, in Ireland, you can get BBC from satellite with no subscription, but not RTÉ. Our state broadcaster signed up with Sky. Oh, and Granada have been blocking UTV/ITV free-to-air what with TV3 being what us Irish are supposed watch. In fact, with an Irish Sky subscription, one doesn't get UTV either (but you do get C4). Apart from that, Ireland gets a very nice deal with the Sky subscription. Everything the UK gets (minus UTV), plus the 4 domestic Irish stations.
You also get 50 points extra...
on
Word Up
·
· Score: 1
"Internet Explorer May Shut Down Unexpectedly If You Have Set Windows and Buttons to Windows XP Style"
Now that one *should* read:
"Internet Explorer May Shut Down Unexpectedly If You Have Not Disabled Windows XP Style Windows and Buttons"
BTW, if you don't like the XP look anyways, I *highly* recommend going back to bog (bug?) standard Windows skin. Even on a newer sys it just speeds things up a lot. Combine with disabling useless services, not allowing RealPlayer/Quicktime/Driver Apps/Quick Starters to run in the background, Windows is nice and snappy - one can get it to well below 100MB mem usage. (Even if you have lots to spare, this is A Good Thing).
Pah! SP1 is nothing compared to SP2. Also from the list, this problem is allegedly fixed with XP SP2 - "Your Windows XP computer stops responding after you log on"
I mean come on. That must have taken some work. With SP2, once you've logged on, XP won't ever stop responding? I mean that is absolutely fantastic!
Yes, I know. I'm being mean. That line amused me though!:o)
What you are describing is more accurately termed a "diesel-electric" locomotive, for obvious reasons. There have been/are plain diesel locos.
Interestingly, here in Ireland, our newest diesel-electrics are required to supply three-phase 220v a/c to the carriages from the head-end power (HEP) unit. Being US locos (GM-EMD), it seems they were merely retrofitted for this. We now have ten-year old locos that are more unreliable than 40 year old ones (also GM-EMD)! In addition, due to the engine overload, three locos have burst into flames while pulling passengers.
Being Ireland, there's not much being done but rotating the locos to ensure even wear. (Only the cross-border Dublin-Belfast service, requiring 3 out of 34 locos, uses the HEP).
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sorry, but you can't have your cake and eat it. If you spend money on wasteful things, then you can't expect to have money for all necessary or desirable things.
Nope, the US can't continue to act as if vast globs of money aren't spend on the war machine, haven't disappeared through tax cuts for the rich, etc. Domestic spending will ultimately suffer - borrowing is merely heaping burdens on the country in the future.
But hey, as long as extreme capitalism is allowed to continue to run rampant in the US (not to mention the whole world!), rest assured all your money will go to corporations and wealthy CEOs. And no, this isn't socialist commie nonsense - the figures lay it bare - the top dogs in the world have more money than entire sections of the worlds population - not to mention even the average Western worker's pay diminishing in comparison! The recent Oxfam statistics are an eye-opener, in only a few decades, we've seen CEOs salaries go through the roof (to 600 times the salary of ordinary workers)!
But the point of the above, which diverges from the topic slightly, is to point out that not just workers, but the government, will have less and less spending power. Both are borrowing insanely to try and ignore the fact - but the banks will eventually demand their pound of flesh from the public - both individually and from governments.
There will be no funding of NASA in the future unless other problems are taken care of.
Yeah - that's pretty much the same as the Magic roundabout in Cork - it sits on a ring-road dual-carriageway with another dual-carriageway junction and two other roads (one to the city's airport!).
Very similar situation in fact. The Cork roundabout was actually supposed to be a grade-separated roundabout - but they got stingey. Even so - that won't be enough!
There is at least one set of lights in my city that are timed rather than radar/rollover sensor triggered. The reason is that they are on the main road out of the city to the capital, where ideally there should be no lights/junctions. So the lights are deliberately timed to only allow traffic from the side junctions for a few seconds every few minutes.
But for all out madness, one cannot beat signal-controlled roundabouts. I don't know is anywhere else but Ireland insane enough to use these, possibly the UK, but it's rather run having to randomly stop at red lights while going round a roundabout.
The two main such roundabouts in Ireland are the Red Cow Roundabout in Dublin (the "Mad Cow Roundabout") and the Kinsale Road Roundabout in Cork (the "Magic Roundabout"). Best avoided - but usually unavoidable. Oh yes, I nearly forgot, the former now has a tram system travelling across it too. Fun fun fun.
How is it possible to see what people in front of you vote? Certainly here in Ireland, and I had assumed in most other democracies, one secretly marks one's ballot in a screened off area, and then places it folded up into a ballot box. I.E. it's a secret ballot.
Those bunch of muppets Eircom deliberately grouped the specific countries in question as "Pacific Islands" (even including one or two west African countries) in a certain tariff band. They then racked up the prices for this band. As it was merely international rate, not a premium rate (we have 15xx regulated premium nos.) people could not have it blocked.
My guess is the business that lost 12,000 and others complained to ComReg (the regulatory authority).
...it's learnt, not learned. :o)
Roger, cleared for B'DIT, B'DIT, B'DIT...
Seriously though, I find it somewhat alarming that my mobile phone interferes with simple PC speakers.
As for the amount of equipment on an aeroplane, hmm... I remain unconvinced there wouldn't be things affected.
Use everyone elses oil and save yours for last (then sell it for high prices / control everything!)
Even better, have business interests in the other countries selling oil.
Aye, the whole thing is a house of cards, and eventually even the American public might get burnt, but the "country"/economy/administration/millionaires won't.
The EU is doing well (we make quite a packet - irregardless of growth/unemployment figures, whopping HUGE trade surplus), but there is the problem that there's not so very much oil here (what there is doesn't cover domestic needs). So eventually, no matter about selling much more than the US (I think the EU is actually responsible for over half the world's trade) - it won't matter cause we'll have to spend so much buying it off the US. And people wonder why we actually take wind-power, fuel efficiency, etc. some bit seriously here (too little too late IMHO though)
The EU has a much larger combined GDP than the US to play with - and even with the (relatively) paltry "central pot" (EU budget), has plenty of money to spend on spaceflight if they wanted to (scrap agriculture subsidies anyone?). It should be noted that it's doubtful that ESA (not the same as the EU, though mostly EU members), even with more money, would '''want''' to spend it on manned spaceflight - but my point is that potentially the resources are there.
China, much of the population may not have much, but it's a tiny amount of their GDP needed to have sufficient resources for even grander manned spaceflight than they are planning. But to do so would be a gross disservice to the people, for whom the money could be much better used. (The ESA members for similar reasons are unlikely to ever spend as much on spaceflight as the US, even if combined they can spend more by using the same % GDP)
"The boy ate a ham___er"
No automatic recognition here.
Hamster?
Hammer?
You just need to be a bit more lose about it all. There's no need to loose the rag!
(Actually, I don't know HOW anyone can be content with the misspellings. But then, I don't see how Americanese holds water either.)
Read it, it's interesting. It does get a wee bit weird when it's describing how you read as you read... a sort of super-conciousness about my eye movements. It's like when you become aware of your breathing or something and then have to conciously pay attention to it for a while to make sure it doesn't stop!
There are at least 5 different ratings - allowing much greater flexibility.
G (Irl, General) - U (UK, Universal)
PG (Irl, UK, Parental Guidance)
12PG (Irl, over 12s only, or under with a parent/guardian) - 12 (UK, over 12s)
15PG (Irl, over 15s only, or under with a parent/guardian) - 15 (UK, over 15s)
18 (Irl, UK, over 18s)
Whatever about the subject of this story, having such a glaring error on the map (that's presumably gone unchanged from goodness knows when - win 3.1?) REALLY means Microsoft should hang their heads in shame. Man, if Ireland was missing for example, I'd be rightly %&*^ed off.
Wow, I really can't believe this. Someone confirm to me that it's a new map only around since 2K as suggested by the parent post!
...possibly not a valid comparison. New things keep being set on fire, and the map redrawing hasn't yet happened... (bad stuff will eventually happen re: Kurdistan or the lack thereof). Come to thing of it, they're having problems killing the remaining "bad guys" too - plus new ones keep popping up.
I guess it will continue to be a question of "occupy indefinately", or "abandon to civil war + new Islamic state(s)".
But I'm probably being optimistic!
Ah yes, free BBC (off-air or from Satellite) and four other channels to boot too (RTÉ1/2, TV3 (ITV Ireland), TG4).
Interestingly, in Ireland, you can get BBC from satellite with no subscription, but not RTÉ. Our state broadcaster signed up with Sky. Oh, and Granada have been blocking UTV/ITV free-to-air what with TV3 being what us Irish are supposed watch. In fact, with an Irish Sky subscription, one doesn't get UTV either (but you do get C4). Apart from that, Ireland gets a very nice deal with the Sky subscription. Everything the UK gets (minus UTV), plus the 4 domestic Irish stations.
...for using all your letters.
So a grand total of 194 points.
Yep. Actual quotes!
"Internet Explorer May Shut Down Unexpectedly If You Have Set Windows and Buttons to Windows XP Style"
Now that one *should* read:
"Internet Explorer May Shut Down Unexpectedly If You Have Not Disabled Windows XP Style Windows and Buttons"
BTW, if you don't like the XP look anyways, I *highly* recommend going back to bog (bug?) standard Windows skin. Even on a newer sys it just speeds things up a lot. Combine with disabling useless services, not allowing RealPlayer/Quicktime/Driver Apps/Quick Starters to run in the background, Windows is nice and snappy - one can get it to well below 100MB mem usage. (Even if you have lots to spare, this is A Good Thing).
No - not matchsticks. Oil. The world is built on oil. Matchsticks are useful for lighting oil though.
Pah! SP1 is nothing compared to SP2. Also from the list, this problem is allegedly fixed with XP SP2 - "Your Windows XP computer stops responding after you log on"
:o)
I mean come on. That must have taken some work. With SP2, once you've logged on, XP won't ever stop responding? I mean that is absolutely fantastic!
Yes, I know. I'm being mean. That line amused me though!
Another item on the list is:
"Computer stops responding after you put it into hibernation, and then resume it from hibernation many times"
And here's an extract from the KB article...
"For example, the computer may stop responding after you put it into hibernation and then resume it from hibernation approximately 300 times."
(THREE HUNDRED TIMES??!!! I'm not surprised that causes problems!)
A) Zeitgeist only shows up to June
B) Notice that in June, IE for the first time in ages, actually dropped - or remained level.
Me - I'm VERY interested as to what July's stats will show.
What you are describing is more accurately termed a "diesel-electric" locomotive, for obvious reasons. There have been/are plain diesel locos.
Interestingly, here in Ireland, our newest diesel-electrics are required to supply three-phase 220v a/c to the carriages from the head-end power (HEP) unit. Being US locos (GM-EMD), it seems they were merely retrofitted for this. We now have ten-year old locos that are more unreliable than 40 year old ones (also GM-EMD)! In addition, due to the engine overload, three locos have burst into flames while pulling passengers.
Being Ireland, there's not much being done but rotating the locos to ensure even wear. (Only the cross-border Dublin-Belfast service, requiring 3 out of 34 locos, uses the HEP).
...as opposed to getting stitches for a scalp wound, my brother was administered staples, by what looked suspiciously like a bog-standard staple gun.
Ow.