Don't worry about it - Oxford likes to be either "Oxford University", or "University of Oxford" but I can never remember which, and I bloody studied there.
If it comes down to it, I do think the elected house should be the one with most power - I think the real answer is not to elect a bunch of unprincipled muppets and perhaps proportional representation so everyone has to compromise a bit instead of steamrollering their plans through (cf. Heathrow, 42 days detention, etc, etc.)
We don't have a complete tyranny of the majority in the UK as seen by things like our lack of capital punishment despite most voters being in favour of it.
I find it ironic that your unelected upper house is the voice of sanity in the UK. Perhaps you made a mistake when you stripped them of all their power?
It is indeed ironic, but I think you'll find that most of that work was done in the 1911 parliament act. Can't blame the Dear Leader (aka Tony Blair) for that one. They have got plans to get rid of hereditary peers, but nothing's happened as yet.
You've just made it harder for people to visit - hope that goes down well with your tourism industry. Most countries I can just turn up and get a 60 day tourist visa when I turn up - NZ, Argentina, etc. Of course, all the EU is open to me as well, as a British passport holder. Now the pound has tanked against the dollar, and the long standing shitty treatment of visitors by CBP, it's getting harder and harder to justify a trip to the US to myself. Not saying it's evil and wrong, but visitor numbers will drop further.
Back in the mists of time, even when we were all using LILO instead of grub, it was much frickin safer to get Linux to boot Windows than vice versa. I've never broken Windows with LILO/grub, but Windows never wants to play nice. It had it's chance ten years ago, now I do it my way.
There are three types of people that can afford to be zealots about open source: those who don't need to worry about money, those who never use a computer at work and are pure hobbyists, and FSF employees.
Apart from running Linux at home - where I do make money, though not a lot - and running Linux at work even though I'm not a FSF employee, you're exactly right. A lot of sysadmin/system programming gigs mean Linux these days, because it's the best tool for the job.
Why was Theo van Gogh killed by a muslim extremist?
I'm not condoning this in any way, but a lot of groups will probably kill you if you call them goat fuckers. Church of England will probably let you get away with it, anyone else is a risk.
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The EU turned me into a newt!
But, but, then how do you plug it into the UPS? Priorities man!
Don't worry about it - Oxford likes to be either "Oxford University", or "University of Oxford" but I can never remember which, and I bloody studied there.
I "funded mind control research using LSD", but I didn't inhale.
What? Where's the tea?
Sorry about that then.
If it comes down to it, I do think the elected house should be the one with most power - I think the real answer is not to elect a bunch of unprincipled muppets and perhaps proportional representation so everyone has to compromise a bit instead of steamrollering their plans through (cf. Heathrow, 42 days detention, etc, etc.)
We don't have a complete tyranny of the majority in the UK as seen by things like our lack of capital punishment despite most voters being in favour of it.
It is indeed ironic, but I think you'll find that most of that work was done in the 1911 parliament act. Can't blame the Dear Leader (aka Tony Blair) for that one. They have got plans to get rid of hereditary peers, but nothing's happened as yet.
You've just made it harder for people to visit - hope that goes down well with your tourism industry. Most countries I can just turn up and get a 60 day tourist visa when I turn up - NZ, Argentina, etc. Of course, all the EU is open to me as well, as a British passport holder. Now the pound has tanked against the dollar, and the long standing shitty treatment of visitors by CBP, it's getting harder and harder to justify a trip to the US to myself. Not saying it's evil and wrong, but visitor numbers will drop further.
They do flag people randomly for special screening, or whatever you call it.
Back in the mists of time, even when we were all using LILO instead of grub, it was much frickin safer to get Linux to boot Windows than vice versa. I've never broken Windows with LILO/grub, but Windows never wants to play nice. It had it's chance ten years ago, now I do it my way.
I love the smell of bitter conservatives in the morning. It smells like... victory.
And the television will not be revolutionised.
* 1999 - I was happily compiling 64-bit apps on IRIX without moaning on and on it about it the whole time. Now, get off my lawn.
Apart from running Linux at home - where I do make money, though not a lot - and running Linux at work even though I'm not a FSF employee, you're exactly right. A lot of sysadmin/system programming gigs mean Linux these days, because it's the best tool for the job.
I'm not condoning this in any way, but a lot of groups will probably kill you if you call them goat fuckers. Church of England will probably let you get away with it, anyone else is a risk.
Holy shit, people PAY for php?
But LED lighting doesn't show up on the police infra-red helicopter-mounted cameras - a great benefit to many "herb" growers.
Now I'm seriously tempted to do:
IN MX 10 www.foo.com
just to fuck with people's heads.
"I realised my job was to get porn to people as fast as possible" - ex-AOL network engineer.
Neither has Linus hasn't caused a "major philosophical movement". He's just good at what he does.
You can only punish the defendant *after* they've been found guilty.
Sarcasm fail.
Yeah. Zero works for me.
Yes, briefly.
Couple of things:
1. We don't call it the English System, we call it the Imperial System.
2. It should be called the British system if you're going to call it anything.
3. It's not the same anyway because your pints are smaller.
4. No one here uses Fahrenheit ( what a quintessentially English name!) any more, except the Daily Mail and we like to pretend they don't exist.
5. Most things are metric now anyway.
But apart from that, please go on calling it the English System. It's not at all confusing.