Have you considered competing with someone else about losing weight, I find petty one-upmanship quite motivating. Perhaps you could do this with a with a short northerner of some description.
I can only speak for my experience in the UK... Animal experiments require a home office licence to comply with various parts on animal welfare regulation. Chemistry and physics experiments do not (as far as I'm aware, as a university researcher) require any licencing. But on a more practical level, chemical companies such as Sigma-Aldrich or Alfa-Aesar would be very reluctant to ship to a non university/company address, and I have had to sign declarations for certain specific chemicals promising not to synthesize drugs with them. Interestingly one of the most annoying things to deal with is buying ethanol, due to stupid customs and excise rules.
Most (all?) countries now seem to have big problems with corruption, terrorism hysteria and growing state power. You only hear about the US and UK most on slashdot because the site is US based so it has every US story. It has UK stories to make them feel less bad about their own issues. It seems especially bad in the UK because slashdot reports any suggestion by a police chief, MP, or tabloid news paper as incontrvertable fact when its frequently just a suggestion.
I think your view of history might be a little over simplified. The american revolution wasn't like hollywood, it was essentially one group of mainly british and irish people fighting another group of british and irish people. The colonists were fighting for their rights as englishmen, and many people in the british isles supported them in their struggle, at least until they invaded canada.
Parts of the empire that were settled by colonists (New Zealand, Austrailia, Canada) were gradually encouraged to become more and more independent by britain. Developed areas gradually conquered by the british such as india and egypt (or more accurately, by indians with a few british and irish commanders) were exploited and post war nationalist movements got them to leave. Undeveloped unsettled areas such as the afican colonies britain was eager to get rid of in the 1960's as they spent far more money developing infrastructure than they ever extracted. Most of the colonial wars they fought they won (Malaysia, Kenya) but they didn't want to hold on to the colony, they usually just wanted to stop it being communist after they left. Ireland was partitioned after a successful war of indenpendence after WWI as it was effectively half settled (North Ireland) and half exploited.
I've been at an election count (only local government) and all the counts are done by local council employees on from paper ballots on tables infront of them. Candidates or helpers from any party can look at any of the counts to check its all ok and independent observers from the electoral commission are also present. For very close results any side can ask for recounts. Its really not that difficult, all the results were known before the night was out and this will have been repeated over most of the country.
IAASS (I am a synchrotron scientist). This looks like the ideal solution to the always crippling problem of never having enough beamtime. This will become especially bad in the UK over the next few years as the SRS closes but before Diamond has all its beamlines running.
In my own area we like to combine the problems of not having much beamtime with all the problems of vacuum systems. I would love to have my own source at university with out having to moving everything for every experiment.
I think a lot of NIMBY problems come from the fact that planing permission is about the one thing local councils can still control so they like to do their best to block things. Presumably as a flexing of their political muscle.
I was in there recently thinking about getting back into it. I casually mentioned that I'd got some stuff from ebay and the shop guy had a go at me saying it was ruining the hobby! No, trying to rob your customers blind and aggressive sales are what are screwing you over. Why do I care if you're closing shops thanks to ebay?
Slashdot Mirror
Have you considered competing with someone else about losing weight, I find petty one-upmanship quite motivating. Perhaps you could do this with a with a short northerner of some description.
But if everyone could understand the Law you wouldn't need as many lawers.
I can only speak for my experience in the UK... Animal experiments require a home office licence to comply with various parts on animal welfare regulation. Chemistry and physics experiments do not (as far as I'm aware, as a university researcher) require any licencing. But on a more practical level, chemical companies such as Sigma-Aldrich or Alfa-Aesar would be very reluctant to ship to a non university/company address, and I have had to sign declarations for certain specific chemicals promising not to synthesize drugs with them. Interestingly one of the most annoying things to deal with is buying ethanol, due to stupid customs and excise rules.
I'm sure they'll care exactly as much as the US government did about Bhopal.
Most (all?) countries now seem to have big problems with corruption, terrorism hysteria and growing state power. You only hear about the US and UK most on slashdot because the site is US based so it has every US story. It has UK stories to make them feel less bad about their own issues. It seems especially bad in the UK because slashdot reports any suggestion by a police chief, MP, or tabloid news paper as incontrvertable fact when its frequently just a suggestion.
I think your view of history might be a little over simplified. The american revolution wasn't like hollywood, it was essentially one group of mainly british and irish people fighting another group of british and irish people. The colonists were fighting for their rights as englishmen, and many people in the british isles supported them in their struggle, at least until they invaded canada.
Parts of the empire that were settled by colonists (New Zealand, Austrailia, Canada) were gradually encouraged to become more and more independent by britain. Developed areas gradually conquered by the british such as india and egypt (or more accurately, by indians with a few british and irish commanders) were exploited and post war nationalist movements got them to leave. Undeveloped unsettled areas such as the afican colonies britain was eager to get rid of in the 1960's as they spent far more money developing infrastructure than they ever extracted. Most of the colonial wars they fought they won (Malaysia, Kenya) but they didn't want to hold on to the colony, they usually just wanted to stop it being communist after they left. Ireland was partitioned after a successful war of indenpendence after WWI as it was effectively half settled (North Ireland) and half exploited.
It saddens me that so many people on slashdot seem quick to defend it.
I spent an hour playing about with this and now 'dances with elks' is one of the keywords!
If it flies, floats or fucks. Rent it!
I prefer to think of it as constitutional Moronity
the GBA slot is also the hardware expansion port
isn't the news at 11?
he had a pet elk, but it got drunk fell down some stairs and died :(
so other regimes have tortured people, therefore waterboarding is ok!
it is
I've been at an election count (only local government) and all the counts are done by local council employees on from paper ballots on tables infront of them. Candidates or helpers from any party can look at any of the counts to check its all ok and independent observers from the electoral commission are also present. For very close results any side can ask for recounts. Its really not that difficult, all the results were known before the night was out and this will have been repeated over most of the country.
may I heartily recommend DEFCON (www.everybody-dies.com)
My old boss once found 20p in his soup in that canteen, I thought he was doing a magic trick.
Didn't know the cat had died, I haven't been there in just over a year (thank God)
not for much longer though :(
and there will be a 1-3 year after the SRS is shut but before diamond is completely active with no soft x-ray beamlines in the UK
I've spent many an unhappy week at that damn place, I miss the Ring o' Bell though
IAASS (I am a synchrotron scientist). This looks like the ideal solution to the always crippling problem of never having enough beamtime. This will become especially bad in the UK over the next few years as the SRS closes but before Diamond has all its beamlines running. In my own area we like to combine the problems of not having much beamtime with all the problems of vacuum systems. I would love to have my own source at university with out having to moving everything for every experiment.
I think a lot of NIMBY problems come from the fact that planing permission is about the one thing local councils can still control so they like to do their best to block things. Presumably as a flexing of their political muscle.
...you'll be Canada?
just a thought, but you could cut down your tape usage by putting it over your eyes instead of on all the LEDs
yes, this is squid pro quo
I was in there recently thinking about getting back into it. I casually mentioned that I'd got some stuff from ebay and the shop guy had a go at me saying it was ruining the hobby! No, trying to rob your customers blind and aggressive sales are what are screwing you over. Why do I care if you're closing shops thanks to ebay?