The only significant terrorist attacks in the UK have been carried out by white Christians.. We've never had any bother from the Muslims here, at all.
Talk about selective memory.. have you missed the last 10 years or so?
Does this not count as significant in your books?! "The 7 July 2005 London bombings conducted by four separate Islamist extremist suicide bombers, killing 56 people and injuring 700."
I gave up trying to get a RaspberryPi long ago. I was looking forward to it for months, I had such plans for it, but it's one hurdle after another to actually buy one. I check back every few months to see if anything changed - today I looked again and what do I see in the availability column? "Awaiting delivery". Wonderful..
I'll just go back to tinkering with a picaxe instead.. it was cheap and easy to get and easy to make it do cool stuff even though I know nothing about about electronics. It may not run linux but it plugs into my ubuntu netbook and can be programmed with basic. It's actually fun, unlike the Pi which so far is just an exercise in frustration.
Argentina is effectively implementing a blockade against British ships these days, not allowing even cruise ships to dock in Argentine ports to protest the British control over the Falklands where all the residents are British and want to remain so and which are hundreds of miles away from Argentina anyway.
Argentina's dumb behaviour is being supported by other countries in the region including Ecuador..
Only a matter of time before Britain starts hitting back one way or another and an excuse to storm the Ecuador embassy would be a nice way to remind those nations that there will be consequences for their current anti-british actions.
Or person kicking you in the nuts claims they were not your nuts to begin with and so you have no right to complain when said nuts are removed. You can though file a counter claim and in the fullness of time, all things considered, following a detailed examination, your nuts may be returned. However they are under no obligation to do so and may in fact expose your nuts to anyone they please at any time. More than likely you will find that your nuts now belong to someone else forever.
I guess that's what you get from a guy who knows nothing about physics but saw something about string theory on the TV and found it cool.
"Milner studied theoretical physics at Moscow State University, graduating in 1985. He went on to work at Lebedev Physical Institute, one of the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in the same department as the future Nobel Prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg. As a doctoral candidate in particle physics, Milner befriended Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov. Sakharov's forward thinking would inevitably influence Milner's venture investment strategy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Milner#Early_life_and_education
Katie Holmes?? I knew there was more to that whole marriage deal with Tom Cruise - she was a CIA mole tasked with infiltrating Scientology.. that explains so much!
Also of course living (much) longer means long space journeys and ultimately colonization becomes more likely.
Being able to take a much longer view for big projects could open up all sorts of new opportunities that don't get much attention these days since people generally like to live long enough to see the fruits of their labours.
I always wondered why they bother with windows on spaceships these days (cue jokes about bsod and crashing) - why don't they just stick cameras on the outside and screens of some sort on the inside, or even a projector so you could make the 'window' as big as you want.. saves all that structural complication associated with having holes in the hull. I suppose they would drain power but they only need to be on when you actually want to look out.
Why did we go intervene in Lybia and haven't done much yet in Syria? One's an oil producing nation, the other isn't.
That has nothing to do with oil and everything to do with the fact that russia and china (and iran) are standing firmly behind assad so there's very little the west can do without creating a major confrontation with those two.
There's also the added risk of any military action against syria causing assad to drag the whole region (ie. israel) into the war which he could very easily do.. if he's backed into a corner the easiest way out is to deflect his predominantly islamic opposition onto every muslims favourite enemy.
Lastly, along with the powerful backing he has and the risk of regional war there is the small issue of syria having a very large, very real and not at all secret stock of chemical weapons and possibly biological too although that part is somewhat more secret. They also have no shortage of missiles to go along with those weapons.
So all in, Syria is a much different and vastly more dangerous beast that Libya.. no oil conspiracy involved this time.
Maybe he's just having a nap? He is 100 after all.. is he wearing his slippers?
But seriously - just how do you know a giant tortoise is dead? Did they check his pulse? Did they wait until he started to smell? (I refer back to him being 100..)
Well back in my day the usual behaviour in such instances was to throw the bike in the nearest ditch in disgust then walk home and tell the parents that some tea-leaf half-inched it.. then get a new one on the insurance.;)
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Obviously someone blew up the local true blood factory.. time to get the garlic out.
The only significant terrorist attacks in the UK have been carried out by white Christians .. We've never had any bother from the Muslims here, at all.
Talk about selective memory.. have you missed the last 10 years or so?
Does this not count as significant in your books?!
"The 7 July 2005 London bombings conducted by four separate Islamist extremist suicide bombers, killing 56 people and injuring 700."
I gave up trying to get a RaspberryPi long ago. I was looking forward to it for months, I had such plans for it, but it's one hurdle after another to actually buy one. I check back every few months to see if anything changed - today I looked again and what do I see in the availability column? "Awaiting delivery". Wonderful..
I'll just go back to tinkering with a picaxe instead.. it was cheap and easy to get and easy to make it do cool stuff even though I know nothing about about electronics. It may not run linux but it plugs into my ubuntu netbook and can be programmed with basic. It's actually fun, unlike the Pi which so far is just an exercise in frustration.
Or it never actually existed in the first place..
FTFY
Max Planck Institute for Intelligently Designed Anthropology ;)
Argentina is effectively implementing a blockade against British ships these days, not allowing even cruise ships to dock in Argentine ports to protest the British control over the Falklands where all the residents are British and want to remain so and which are hundreds of miles away from Argentina anyway.
Argentina's dumb behaviour is being supported by other countries in the region including Ecuador..
http://falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/ecuador-calls-britains-attitude-to-the-falklands-shameful/
Only a matter of time before Britain starts hitting back one way or another and an excuse to storm the Ecuador embassy would be a nice way to remind those nations that there will be consequences for their current anti-british actions.
Hotmail provides pop3 access so you can certainly download your mail.
Or person kicking you in the nuts claims they were not your nuts to begin with and so you have no right to complain when said nuts are removed. You can though file a counter claim and in the fullness of time, all things considered, following a detailed examination, your nuts may be returned. However they are under no obligation to do so and may in fact expose your nuts to anyone they please at any time. More than likely you will find that your nuts now belong to someone else forever.
Kind of like marriage, now that I think about it.
I guess that's what you get from a guy who knows nothing about physics but saw something about string theory on the TV and found it cool.
"Milner studied theoretical physics at Moscow State University, graduating in 1985. He went on to work at Lebedev Physical Institute, one of the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in the same department as the future Nobel Prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg. As a doctoral candidate in particle physics, Milner befriended Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov. Sakharov's forward thinking would inevitably influence Milner's venture investment strategy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Milner#Early_life_and_education
Just another clue that Holmes was a CIA asset.
Katie Holmes?? I knew there was more to that whole marriage deal with Tom Cruise - she was a CIA mole tasked with infiltrating Scientology.. that explains so much!
It's not like there's any science involved in any sports and sporting events these days right? Oh wait..
would it kill you to put on the veneer of respectability?
Like a banker? ;)
Also of course living (much) longer means long space journeys and ultimately colonization becomes more likely.
Being able to take a much longer view for big projects could open up all sorts of new opportunities that don't get much attention these days since people generally like to live long enough to see the fruits of their labours.
I always wondered why they bother with windows on spaceships these days (cue jokes about bsod and crashing) - why don't they just stick cameras on the outside and screens of some sort on the inside, or even a projector so you could make the 'window' as big as you want.. saves all that structural complication associated with having holes in the hull. I suppose they would drain power but they only need to be on when you actually want to look out.
It will be in about 2 years..
An apparently Pakistani news site for one (which is actually mentioned in the summary)
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/12579/an-achievement-we-cant-call-our-own-higgs-boson-done-erum/
Why did we go intervene in Lybia and haven't done much yet in Syria? One's an oil producing nation, the other isn't.
That has nothing to do with oil and everything to do with the fact that russia and china (and iran) are standing firmly behind assad so there's very little the west can do without creating a major confrontation with those two.
There's also the added risk of any military action against syria causing assad to drag the whole region (ie. israel) into the war which he could very easily do.. if he's backed into a corner the easiest way out is to deflect his predominantly islamic opposition onto every muslims favourite enemy.
Lastly, along with the powerful backing he has and the risk of regional war there is the small issue of syria having a very large, very real and not at all secret stock of chemical weapons and possibly biological too although that part is somewhat more secret. They also have no shortage of missiles to go along with those weapons.
So all in, Syria is a much different and vastly more dangerous beast that Libya.. no oil conspiracy involved this time.
Had to be said. That series was and always will be awesome.. all those that followed pale in comparison.
Maybe he's just having a nap? He is 100 after all.. is he wearing his slippers?
But seriously - just how do you know a giant tortoise is dead? Did they check his pulse? Did they wait until he started to smell? (I refer back to him being 100..)
This is very, very embarrassing, slashdot. Not even recognising a Red Dwarf reference... sigh, slashdot is really going downhill.
No crumpet here either.. ;)
Wonder if Na'vi will end up there now that all the cool kids have moved on to learn the Dothraki language.
Well back in my day the usual behaviour in such instances was to throw the bike in the nearest ditch in disgust then walk home and tell the parents that some tea-leaf half-inched it.. then get a new one on the insurance. ;)
Damn.. for a moment then I thought you said "Microsoft's oroficial stance" and my mind was boggled.
By the same reasoning it could have been made by Iran..
Awesome private trip into space without any of that getting blown to bits problem!
Lot cheaper too..