That's somewhat disingenuous. There are, and always have been, speed limits of eminent sense such as the 30mph limit in built up areas. However, the widespread introduction of limits below the 85th %ile has led to some ridiculous limits.
It isn't the case that all speed cameras are in non-dangerous places, since there's one not 100 yds from where I sit that enforces a 30 limit past terraced houses and a school, where the limit is, if anything, too high.
Broad brush attacks that sensationalise the situation serve, IMO, to damage the case against the blanket use of speed cameras.
No, the roads are for people like me to get from one place to another as efficiently as possible, not for people like you who can barely see over the steering wheel to go at 20mph on the motorway on the way to bingo.
I couldn't agree more. Furthermore, if limits were GPS enforced I would have had an accident today, having been forced into a maneouvre under hard acceleration to avoid another road user, which terminated at around NSL+20%.
But these are people with a million in liquefiable assets. If you're a property millionaire (like me) you can only realise that money by refinancing your home (bad idea, interest rates are on the up) or selling (err, where would I live, the median price here is $1.2m ?) The M'soft employees can realise a million dollars in real money, that still makes them very wealthy by most standards.
They've generated international publicity, but their website is barely more than a poorly designed placeholder and their businesses do not appear to have any products to sell.
Company regulations and council tax issues further the implausibility of this scheme
It's very easy to put out exciting press releases, but if this thing ever hits the road I'll be amazed.
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I'm confused, I only opened Firefox to look at gay porno, and now you're saying that's a bad thing ?
Five years ago you could tell the credit card provider that you'd been defrauded, they'd refund you and then chargeback the company that drew the payment. Now, with the rise in online fraud, they try a lot harder to determine exactly what happened and if you fail to comply to the letter with the fraud investigator's requests the chances of a refund are minimal.
Epoxy based glassfibre reinforced plastics don't burn strongly. Polyester resins, otoh, are both flammable and toxic.
This plan demonstrates that nothing has been learnt from the Tsunami, in the aftermath of which areas where flooded with materials they didn't need and couldn't use when local alternatives were readily available.
Every locality has its own building techniques, the area's economy could be reinforced in the aftermath of disasters by providing locally appropriate materials, rather than a one size fits none solution.
Here is film of the Harrods' Christmas display that started all the hype about these screens. Although I feel bound to be cynical about a £20k piece of glass, the Peter Pan display was pretty extraordinary.
The legal justification was:
"in the 130 days since Resolution 1441 was adopted Iraq has not co-operated actively, unconditionally and immediately with the weapons inspectors, and has rejected the final opportunity to comply and is in further material breach of its obligations under successive mandatory UN Security Council Resolutions"
Not that they had a weapons programme but, rather, that they didn't comply with UN checks on whether or not they had a weapons programme. The legal and supposed 'moral' justifications differ.
It's been known, or at least very strongly suspected, that North Korea has had a nuclear weapons programme for 10 years. In terms of their position of strength against SK "admission" makes very little difference.
The US government's standard line is that countries must permit inspection and monitoring and 'come clean' about their weapons. Iraq's failure to do so was the legal justification for the US invasion.
It may be that in admitting that they have a programme North Korea is aiming to be recognised as a state making moves to defend itself, rather than a danger to international security.
There appears to be a movement to reduce the personality cult and begin to behave as a less totalitarian regime, although probably still a hereditary dictatorship, this may be evidence thereof.
How hard would it be for Microsoft to integrate that sort of functionality into IE, so that it would "resist" homepage changes.
You've not tried the MS Antispyware beta then ? It tries to 'repair' your homepage to msn.com. I would put money on this feature becoming stronger when the final release arrives.
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That's somewhat disingenuous. There are, and always have been, speed limits of eminent sense such as the 30mph limit in built up areas. However, the widespread introduction of limits below the 85th %ile has led to some ridiculous limits.
It isn't the case that all speed cameras are in non-dangerous places, since there's one not 100 yds from where I sit that enforces a 30 limit past terraced houses and a school, where the limit is, if anything, too high.
Broad brush attacks that sensationalise the situation serve, IMO, to damage the case against the blanket use of speed cameras.
No, the roads are for people like me to get from one place to another as efficiently as possible, not for people like you who can barely see over the steering wheel to go at 20mph on the motorway on the way to bingo.
I couldn't agree more. Furthermore, if limits were GPS enforced I would have had an accident today, having been forced into a maneouvre under hard acceleration to avoid another road user, which terminated at around NSL+20%.
But these are people with a million in liquefiable assets. If you're a property millionaire (like me) you can only realise that money by refinancing your home (bad idea, interest rates are on the up) or selling (err, where would I live, the median price here is $1.2m ?) The M'soft employees can realise a million dollars in real money, that still makes them very wealthy by most standards.
+5 Funny ? -5 Asinine might be closer. Unless the £240 BT charges per year for a decent b/band connection is a figment of everyone's imagination.
They've generated international publicity, but their website is barely more than a poorly designed placeholder and their businesses do not appear to have any products to sell.
Company regulations and council tax issues further the implausibility of this scheme
It's very easy to put out exciting press releases, but if this thing ever hits the road I'll be amazed.
I'm confused, I only opened Firefox to look at gay porno, and now you're saying that's a bad thing ?
Five years ago you could tell the credit card provider that you'd been defrauded, they'd refund you and then chargeback the company that drew the payment. Now, with the rise in online fraud, they try a lot harder to determine exactly what happened and if you fail to comply to the letter with the fraud investigator's requests the chances of a refund are minimal.
Please, God (or Bill, or whoever), let this never come to pass. "I'm on the 'plane" "I said 'I'M ON THE PLANE'"
Epoxy based glassfibre reinforced plastics don't burn strongly. Polyester resins, otoh, are both flammable and toxic.
This plan demonstrates that nothing has been learnt from the Tsunami, in the aftermath of which areas where flooded with materials they didn't need and couldn't use when local alternatives were readily available. Every locality has its own building techniques, the area's economy could be reinforced in the aftermath of disasters by providing locally appropriate materials, rather than a one size fits none solution.
I'm glad I are not the only person who noticing this.
Here is film of the Harrods' Christmas display that started all the hype about these screens. Although I feel bound to be cynical about a £20k piece of glass, the Peter Pan display was pretty extraordinary.
The legal justification was: "in the 130 days since Resolution 1441 was adopted Iraq has not co-operated actively, unconditionally and immediately with the weapons inspectors, and has rejected the final opportunity to comply and is in further material breach of its obligations under successive mandatory UN Security Council Resolutions" Not that they had a weapons programme but, rather, that they didn't comply with UN checks on whether or not they had a weapons programme. The legal and supposed 'moral' justifications differ.
It's been known, or at least very strongly suspected, that North Korea has had a nuclear weapons programme for 10 years. In terms of their position of strength against SK "admission" makes very little difference.
The US government's standard line is that countries must permit inspection and monitoring and 'come clean' about their weapons. Iraq's failure to do so was the legal justification for the US invasion.
It may be that in admitting that they have a programme North Korea is aiming to be recognised as a state making moves to defend itself, rather than a danger to international security.
There appears to be a movement to reduce the personality cult and begin to behave as a less totalitarian regime, although probably still a hereditary dictatorship, this may be evidence thereof.
FWIW - another vote for it doesn't work Fully patched XP Home, Firefox 1.0 Yet another reason to check certificates every time.
How hard would it be for Microsoft to integrate that sort of functionality into IE, so that it would "resist" homepage changes.
You've not tried the MS Antispyware beta then ? It tries to 'repair' your homepage to msn.com. I would put money on this feature becoming stronger when the final release arrives.