I'm pretty relaxed about relatively free movement. It's people immigrating to live in the UK that's causing so many problems.
We don't have the housing, the infrastructure or the natural resources to support them. The country is too crowded anyway. Lower population would be better.
Lets be honest, the baseline for any car is the lap time for a diesel Ford Transit van. If the Tesla can't beat that then I think Musk should be forced to drive one.
In the UK that's a non-issue. The police here almost delight in pulling over a flashy car. Class envy as much as anything.
Do 95 in a Vauxhall and you're far more likely to get away with it than if you're in a Maseratti, and trust me, that's about the only thing the Vauxhall has going for it.
I still love the aesthetics of a well designed car. I'm finding I lack the tolerance for the discomfort some high performance cars would cause.
For this reason I'd happily have something that doesn't look great if it gives me a good blend of performance and comfort. I'm probably turning into a Bentley customer:(
Apparently, he was also falsifying messages in some way, and that is a reasonable basis to ban someone in a conversational forum.
That was all rather strange, but given how easy it is to post a faked twitter screenshot I can understand the desire to clamp down on such behaviour. That doesn't do Twitter or its users any favours.
Not quite as bad though as some online message boards that have had moderators/admins invisibly edit posts made by others. The moment I see that I delete my account and stop frequenting any such forum.
The UK is doing the same thing and we are already finding it hard to get the skills we need. Wages are not going up, companies are just moving more of the work to places where the skills are, or simply not doing it.
This is because schools were told to prioritise KPIs and league tables, not educating children. This is because the educational attainment standards were lowered to improve outcomes for girls. This is because companies are encouraged to import skilled people and not train them.
This is not because there's a fucking shortage of university places. There are more people at university than ever before in the UK. They're just not being given an education to the standard previously required or the training in the workplace that takes them from educated to professional.
You weren't paying $24k/year on accommodation and transport then.
Yes, it's possible to live frugally and pay off debt, but a lot of people would prefer to live comfortably.
This is particularly an issue in the UK. Average wages are stagnating, the cost of living is not and the costs of education are rising rapidly. This is not a good situation for teenagers looking to start their careers.
My local pizza shop. It's run by people that have physical characteristics typical of the Indian subcontinent and all its staff share those characteristics.
You're doing a terrible job here of defending Twitter's policy and approach. I highlighted an example of the speech they're suppressing and you're telling me I'm a sheltered baby?
Yet another fucking example of the hypocrisy taking place.
Me, I'm fine with people disagreeing with me. I just wish they'd show some intellectual rigour, self awareness and honesty about it.
Brexit is all well and good but someone declares war on the UK, France, Germany, Italy or the smaller countries in between and there'll be a pan-European response.
History tells us that nations unable to defend themselves have poor outcomes. Shit, current affairs do - ask the Ukrainian Government how they're doing in Crimea these days.
History also tells us that there is a strong correlation between military power and economic success. The USSR is the obvious counter example here, but their economic and social policies were the big weakness; it's arguable that economic collapse would have happened sooner without their military capability.
You can call it world wide imperialism, the rest of us will call it domestic peace, security and prosperity.
To be fair, the army have the weapons to sink anything in the Channel, let alone the RAF. The Navy are a force projection these days, home waters defence is easily handled through air power.
The problem is that there's no definition for 'alt-right', no homogenous group, no salient belief system and indeed no commonality except a desire from certain parts of the media and vocal fuckwits to silence viewpoints with which they don't agree.
Given people accuse supporters of Gamergate of being alt-right, people that voted for Trump of being alt-right and white supremacists of being alt-right I think it's pretty obvious that the label is just being thrown around as an accusation and is fundamentally useless as a sociological class. Those three communities alone don't fully intersect and members within them can strongly disagree with each other, let alone the members of the other two groups.
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I'm pretty relaxed about relatively free movement. It's people immigrating to live in the UK that's causing so many problems.
We don't have the housing, the infrastructure or the natural resources to support them. The country is too crowded anyway. Lower population would be better.
The daft thing is that if they stopped for a few years in another EU country then yes, they could just get on a train and come to live in the UK.
Unlimited is a lie in that only 300 million people can come and live here, rather than everyone from the Middle East and Africa too.
Next you'll be telling us that France hasn't been in a state of emergency for the last year.
Lets be honest, the baseline for any car is the lap time for a diesel Ford Transit van. If the Tesla can't beat that then I think Musk should be forced to drive one.
To be fair, when Musk announced the 2.5s 0-60 the claim explicitly caveated "in production".
There's an entire Slashdot debate about it if you go hunting on your favourite search engine.
Yeah, he's good at publicity.
Where he falls apart is delivering on the promises. Even there he's doing better than some.
In the UK that's a non-issue. The police here almost delight in pulling over a flashy car. Class envy as much as anything.
Do 95 in a Vauxhall and you're far more likely to get away with it than if you're in a Maseratti, and trust me, that's about the only thing the Vauxhall has going for it.
On a drag strip, sure, it makes a difference.
Pulling away from traffic lights, both come in the same bucket: Fast.
The S4 is a substantially more practical car, and anything under 8 seconds 0-60 tends to be adequate for daily driving.
I still love the aesthetics of a well designed car. I'm finding I lack the tolerance for the discomfort some high performance cars would cause.
For this reason I'd happily have something that doesn't look great if it gives me a good blend of performance and comfort. I'm probably turning into a Bentley customer :(
When these stars spout dangerous nonsense or cheat on their spouses, it harms society as a whole because people will follow their examples.
No, someone that's going to cheat on their spouse is going to do that anyway. Adultery predates Hollywood by pretty much the whole of human existence.
Apparently, he was also falsifying messages in some way, and that is a reasonable basis to ban someone in a conversational forum.
That was all rather strange, but given how easy it is to post a faked twitter screenshot I can understand the desire to clamp down on such behaviour. That doesn't do Twitter or its users any favours.
Not quite as bad though as some online message boards that have had moderators/admins invisibly edit posts made by others. The moment I see that I delete my account and stop frequenting any such forum.
The UK is doing the same thing and we are already finding it hard to get the skills we need. Wages are not going up, companies are just moving more of the work to places where the skills are, or simply not doing it.
This is because schools were told to prioritise KPIs and league tables, not educating children.
This is because the educational attainment standards were lowered to improve outcomes for girls.
This is because companies are encouraged to import skilled people and not train them.
This is not because there's a fucking shortage of university places. There are more people at university than ever before in the UK. They're just not being given an education to the standard previously required or the training in the workplace that takes them from educated to professional.
So yes, send them back. Train your own citizens.
You weren't paying $24k/year on accommodation and transport then.
Yes, it's possible to live frugally and pay off debt, but a lot of people would prefer to live comfortably.
This is particularly an issue in the UK. Average wages are stagnating, the cost of living is not and the costs of education are rising rapidly. This is not a good situation for teenagers looking to start their careers.
Sure.
My local pizza shop. It's run by people that have physical characteristics typical of the Indian subcontinent and all its staff share those characteristics.
You're doing a terrible job here of defending Twitter's policy and approach. I highlighted an example of the speech they're suppressing and you're telling me I'm a sheltered baby?
Yet another fucking example of the hypocrisy taking place.
Me, I'm fine with people disagreeing with me. I just wish they'd show some intellectual rigour, self awareness and honesty about it.
look what happened to him
Russia geared up her manufacturing and overran his armies through callous disregard for the welfare of her own troops?
You seem obsessed by other peoples' penises and faggots.
Now, I like a good faggot myself, preferably with gravy and some creamy mash, but I'm not sure Slashdot is the place for it.
Hmm. Nuclear weapons used at sea is a massive escalation, but it's still a step below land attack.
Retaliatory attacks on ground targets would be a further escalation and almost certainly result in global warming ceasing to be a concern.
Yeah, he should've used NM or nmi.
Sounds like he's in the German Navy though, so maybe everybody just uses nm as they know what they're talking about.
Pretty much, yeah.
Brexit is all well and good but someone declares war on the UK, France, Germany, Italy or the smaller countries in between and there'll be a pan-European response.
History tells us that nations unable to defend themselves have poor outcomes. Shit, current affairs do - ask the Ukrainian Government how they're doing in Crimea these days.
History also tells us that there is a strong correlation between military power and economic success. The USSR is the obvious counter example here, but their economic and social policies were the big weakness; it's arguable that economic collapse would have happened sooner without their military capability.
You can call it world wide imperialism, the rest of us will call it domestic peace, security and prosperity.
To be fair, the army have the weapons to sink anything in the Channel, let alone the RAF. The Navy are a force projection these days, home waters defence is easily handled through air power.
No, I called it hate driven harassment. Apparently basic English is as far beyond you as simple discussion skills.
Well, he would've quoted Twitter but it's a fucking echo chamber.
But well done on accusing people of being afraid of women. Your post is this sort of hate driven harassment that Twitter is claiming to be banning.
The problem is that there's no definition for 'alt-right', no homogenous group, no salient belief system and indeed no commonality except a desire from certain parts of the media and vocal fuckwits to silence viewpoints with which they don't agree.
Given people accuse supporters of Gamergate of being alt-right, people that voted for Trump of being alt-right and white supremacists of being alt-right I think it's pretty obvious that the label is just being thrown around as an accusation and is fundamentally useless as a sociological class. Those three communities alone don't fully intersect and members within them can strongly disagree with each other, let alone the members of the other two groups.