It didn't 'decide' to do anything of the kind. The Beeb has always been far from perfect, but it was compelled to do all those things by successive governments obsessed with supposed free market policies that only ended up sacrificing the creative and technical integrity of the corporation for what ended up being the enrichment of a very privileged few who were in the right place at the right time.
Horses may be monogastric but they have caeca, i.e. a highly developed hind-gut fermentation system. Although they don't need to and indeed cannot eructate (the main source of methane emissions in cattle), they still contribute their fair share. And don't forget decomposition products from manure. The best thing you can say about any form of agricultural methane emission is that the animals involved are on a relatively short carbon cycle - they release carbon that has only recently been fixed from the atmosphere; it's the logistics and infrastructure that goes with supporting, say, intensively produced feedlot cattle (gas for tractors and shipping, intensive feed production etc.) that is damaging.
The ECHR to which the parent refers is not simply an international treaty obligation. The articles and protocols it creates are explicitly enshrined in British law via the 1998 Human Rights Act, an instrument which while hated by our far right parties is IMHO one of the shining achievements of recent times (though not without flaws).
The draconian environment you'll undoubtedly find at UK border control is quite a different issue, but it's one that you'll find familiar the world over.
Just to back up the surprise, my experience of NZ (as a Brit) is pretty similar to yours, and having spent a fair bit of time in both countries I'd broadly validate your assumption about the similarity of Aussie and Kiwi travel habits. If nothing else, the Interislander between Wellington and Picton works pretty well, it's only 90-odd km on the water and you can pretty much get the train straight through!
As Bernard Woolley put it in Yes Prime Minister - "That's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? *I* give confidential security briefings. *You* leak. *He* has been charged under section 2a of the Official Secrets Act."
Dude, that's just flamebait. I'm neither a Google nor an Apple fanboy. I've had two iphones and a couple of Android devices too. Early on in the game your criticism may have had some substance but my current handset, the HTC Desire, is without a doubt the best phone I've ever had. It Just Works in the way that Apple are usually so proud of.
You can prise my Macbook Pro out of my cold dead hands but on the mobile front I'm not a lover of the iphone our-way-or-the-highway approach.
The good news is there's room for all these companies in the ecosystem. Healthy competition breeds innovation from all comers.
"The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as ever, created enormous casualties on both sides." - seemed like an apt Banks quote (from Excession) considering the state of the mobile arms race...
Isn't that what the author was saying - with Matter, Banks' publishers are making an effort to introduce him to the American market?
Anyway, I can heartily recommend him. I've just about finished Matter, and good though it is it hasn't gripped me like some of his other books. I'd recommend Player of Games, Use of Weapons or Excession first if you're new to him.
If only what is now Panic had taken the Apple shilling, rather than Cassady & Greene - I often think an Audion-based iTunes would be much lovelier. Still, I wouldn't be using Coda or Transmit now if they had done, so good luck to 'em.
Correction: he owned - past tense - a Ford GT, for about a month, during which time he did very little actual driving around in it due to it breaking down constantly. He memorably described his time with the car as 'the most miserable month's motoring possible', and the GT itself as the 'the most unreliable car ever made'. Ford gave him his money back.
What was that about crappy British cars?
They're perfectly happy to rave about American cars on TG when they deserve the praise. Than man's wedding car was a bloody Dodge Viper!
And/or a better planned cell structure than you 'home' network. GSM phones are very good at varying their power output depending on how close they are to the base that's servicing them.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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It didn't 'decide' to do anything of the kind. The Beeb has always been far from perfect, but it was compelled to do all those things by successive governments obsessed with supposed free market policies that only ended up sacrificing the creative and technical integrity of the corporation for what ended up being the enrichment of a very privileged few who were in the right place at the right time.
Horses may be monogastric but they have caeca, i.e. a highly developed hind-gut fermentation system. Although they don't need to and indeed cannot eructate (the main source of methane emissions in cattle), they still contribute their fair share. And don't forget decomposition products from manure. The best thing you can say about any form of agricultural methane emission is that the animals involved are on a relatively short carbon cycle - they release carbon that has only recently been fixed from the atmosphere; it's the logistics and infrastructure that goes with supporting, say, intensively produced feedlot cattle (gas for tractors and shipping, intensive feed production etc.) that is damaging.
The ECHR to which the parent refers is not simply an international treaty obligation. The articles and protocols it creates are explicitly enshrined in British law via the 1998 Human Rights Act, an instrument which while hated by our far right parties is IMHO one of the shining achievements of recent times (though not without flaws). The draconian environment you'll undoubtedly find at UK border control is quite a different issue, but it's one that you'll find familiar the world over.
Just to back up the surprise, my experience of NZ (as a Brit) is pretty similar to yours, and having spent a fair bit of time in both countries I'd broadly validate your assumption about the similarity of Aussie and Kiwi travel habits. If nothing else, the Interislander between Wellington and Picton works pretty well, it's only 90-odd km on the water and you can pretty much get the train straight through!
Only because it was raining in Scotland.
As Bernard Woolley put it in Yes Prime Minister - "That's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? *I* give confidential security briefings. *You* leak. *He* has been charged under section 2a of the Official Secrets Act."
Dude, that's just flamebait. I'm neither a Google nor an Apple fanboy. I've had two iphones and a couple of Android devices too. Early on in the game your criticism may have had some substance but my current handset, the HTC Desire, is without a doubt the best phone I've ever had. It Just Works in the way that Apple are usually so proud of.
You can prise my Macbook Pro out of my cold dead hands but on the mobile front I'm not a lover of the iphone our-way-or-the-highway approach.
The good news is there's room for all these companies in the ecosystem. Healthy competition breeds innovation from all comers.
"The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as ever, created enormous casualties on both sides." - seemed like an apt Banks quote (from Excession) considering the state of the mobile arms race...
Ohhhh... the cat's eaten it. Sorry.
And when there is widespread adoption, it won't be milked? Compuserve GIF, anyone?
And one here in Wetherby too!
I wish to register a complaint...
Prepare Spaceball 1 for immediate departure!
Isn't that what the author was saying - with Matter, Banks' publishers are making an effort to introduce him to the American market?
Anyway, I can heartily recommend him. I've just about finished Matter, and good though it is it hasn't gripped me like some of his other books. I'd recommend Player of Games, Use of Weapons or Excession first if you're new to him.
If only what is now Panic had taken the Apple shilling, rather than Cassady & Greene - I often think an Audion-based iTunes would be much lovelier. Still, I wouldn't be using Coda or Transmit now if they had done, so good luck to 'em.
You mean PolicyKit? Surely granular user privileges are a good thing in this day and age? It's a D-Bus interface anyway, hardly super weird.
Correction: he owned - past tense - a Ford GT, for about a month, during which time he did very little actual driving around in it due to it breaking down constantly. He memorably described his time with the car as 'the most miserable month's motoring possible', and the GT itself as the 'the most unreliable car ever made'. Ford gave him his money back.
What was that about crappy British cars?
They're perfectly happy to rave about American cars on TG when they deserve the praise. Than man's wedding car was a bloody Dodge Viper!
> a tin can strapped to a giant bomb. ...built by the lowest bidder.
And/or a better planned cell structure than you 'home' network. GSM phones are very good at varying their power output depending on how close they are to the base that's servicing them.
Or
butthead (mobile)
astronomer (root)
By the time it ships.
Where are the mod points when you need 'em?
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Druids? Long white robes, long white beards... early transvestites - didn't get their shaving together.
In addition to Peep Show, there is also a TV version of their radio show, That Mitchell & Webb Look, which is well worth hunting out.
My brain is suddenly filled with the image of a thousand hairy horsemen all shouting "why do you never have mod points when you need them?" at me.
> Blazer just stinks, and I've practically given up on even bothering to use real websites with it, instead using WAP versions of sites when I can.
Opera Mini is your friend.