Easier said than done. In the UK, the speed rules are a bit strange. There is one speed for single lanes, one for dual lanes and one for motorways. These are then modified by how close together the lamp posts are in suburban areas, individual rules for specific roads or stretches and so on. Imagine D&D and a couple of D6's to work out how fast you can go.
Sometimes, the signs are missing so you can be going along at 40 on a road that oridnarily is 40 but this particular road for this particular 200yard stretch is actually 30 but some kid stole the sign. Your nicked son, £200 fine and 3 points on your licence for speeding.
The rest of the world have known you guys are being spied upon (along with everyone else) for years. The latest(?) generation of which being Eschelon which happily monitors every phone call, cell phone and byte of data flying about. It's not like the spooks have even been that secret about the whole thing.
So, the Earth warms, the ice melts, coastlines recede, economies collapse. But WAIT! We get more free memory that you can possibly need. That's got to be good, right?
British Airways made over GBP1bn from Concorde, Air France made a loss. AF wanted out but the agreement with BA said neither side could unilaterally stop flying concordes and BA were making money so...
Concorde's airworthiness certificates were owned by Airbus via aquisitions over the years and Airbus under pressure from AF withdrew the airworthiness certificate thus grounding the lot. To guarantee it stayed that way and couldn't be reversed, all the spare parts were sold off/auctioned on Ebay.
BA were particularly annoyed because Airbus had told them it was OK to go ahead and spend some GBP70m (ish) refitting their fleet and bringing them up to date, just before they were finally grounded.
It seems Australia could be used as a testbed for invasive smart card and biometric technologies, seeing as how the populace on the whole embraces the anti-terrorism-means-restricting-our-rights -mantra.
The UK has already started working on exactly this, an ID card that ties multiple government databases together and has multiple biometrics on. We've been old it's 'voluntary to begin with' but also that we can't have a passport without one wither so hardly optional.
More interestingly, apart from the usual 'it will stop terrorists/ID theft/criminals stuff, the biometrics are also (erroneously AFAIK) being justfied as a requirement for entering the US.
Hurrah! Now I can once again enjoy the ending of The Return of the Jedi with the proper, original, Ewok music. That really rocked compared to the wishy washy tat that replaced it.
I was just picking up hardened bits of play-doh off my kitchen floor...Then, there's the ball of brown marbled doh that is hopelessly mixed from all the colors in the play-doh fun pack
Dude, that's not play-doh, you need to let your dog out more often.
If our education sucks, hear care sucks, economy sucks, blah blah, its a wonder why millions flock here?
Another way of looking at the numbers is that around 15% of all asylum seekers aim for the US. 13% for the UK (and we're a fraction of the size and frankly, nearly full) and so on downwards to less popular countries. I am often told by Americans that 'All the immigrants come here', not so, not by a long chalk.
The diet of low-income Britain is generally terrible
The difference is, we have people who eat junk whereas in many cases, America has people who eat *giant portions* of junk. Last time I visited the US, I got full up eating the starters let alone the main course. Order a pie for dinner and get *two* on a giant plate with enough chips/french fries/freedom fires to sink a battleship.
studies have shown that a diet of raw meat is perfectly healthy and natural for the human body
A recent study has shown that the previous opinion that humans could never have evolved to eat cooked meat yet as it's such a recent idea, is wrong. It is now thought we started cooking meat around 2 million years ago so we have almost certainly now adapted to that sort of diet.
foie gras
The devils food - poor tortured birds being force fed food through tubes. Evil, evil, evil.
I forgot to add:
6. The UK govt are trying to pass legislation that allows them to change/add any laws they wish without going through parliament i.e. bypass democracy. That means we have a situation where the govt will know everything about everyone and can make anything illegal at a whim and round up all those distenters. Sounds kind of scary to me.
Here in the UK we have an ID card on the way. Despite massive objections from the public and misgivings from all concerned, it is going ahead.
The biggest issues are:
1. It will be a single point of failure. Instead of needing 3 or more forms of ID to get a bank account etc, you'll need one. Once you have a fake one, the world is your oyster.
2. Behind the card will be a massive database that ties you to social security, police records, medical records etc. It allows the government a hugely intrusive window in to your life.
3. The UK govt (all govts?) have a terrible track record for large IT projects. Always late, buggy, hugely expensive.
4. The citizens will have to pay for it and it's not going to be cheap. No final cost has been mooted but estimated are between $150-$800 per person and it's compulsory.
5. All the reasons given for it don't hold water. We are told it will reduce crime (how exactly?), terrorism (ooh, that always works, waving that card) and reduce identity theft. So far the government have been totally unable to explain how any of these will be reduced whilst people involved in the ID field have almost unanimously said it will make each area *worse*.
Rather worringly, as I get older and am more swayed by personality/intellect than looks, I'm finding Velma kind of hot. Especially her slimmed down version in the newer Scoobies.
Depesh Mode is coming to Kansas City next month. Tickets are around $100 per person for the cheapest seats.
Wow, you're getting fleeced dude. When I saw *Depeche* Mode a couple of weeks ago at Wembley (one of the biggest UK venues) the tickets were 35GBP each.
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Drive slower
Easier said than done. In the UK, the speed rules are a bit strange. There is one speed for single lanes, one for dual lanes and one for motorways. These are then modified by how close together the lamp posts are in suburban areas, individual rules for specific roads or stretches and so on. Imagine D&D and a couple of D6's to work out how fast you can go.
Sometimes, the signs are missing so you can be going along at 40 on a road that oridnarily is 40 but this particular road for this particular 200yard stretch is actually 30 but some kid stole the sign. Your nicked son, £200 fine and 3 points on your licence for speeding.
The rest of the world have known you guys are being spied upon (along with everyone else) for years. The latest(?) generation of which being Eschelon which happily monitors every phone call, cell phone and byte of data flying about. It's not like the spooks have even been that secret about the whole thing.
Power = heat.
AC = cool
Planet = In trouble
So, the Earth warms, the ice melts, coastlines recede, economies collapse. But WAIT! We get more free memory that you can possibly need. That's got to be good, right?
Britain has a long memory, and we remeber all to well the way were shafted by the US over the original jet engines.
And the TSR2
Why was the Conconrde retired
British Airways made over GBP1bn from Concorde, Air France made a loss. AF wanted out but the agreement with BA said neither side could unilaterally stop flying concordes and BA were making money so...
Concorde's airworthiness certificates were owned by Airbus via aquisitions over the years and Airbus under pressure from AF withdrew the airworthiness certificate thus grounding the lot. To guarantee it stayed that way and couldn't be reversed, all the spare parts were sold off/auctioned on Ebay.
BA were particularly annoyed because Airbus had told them it was OK to go ahead and spend some GBP70m (ish) refitting their fleet and bringing them up to date, just before they were finally grounded.
It seems Australia could be used as a testbed for invasive smart card and biometric technologies, seeing as how the populace on the whole embraces the anti-terrorism-means-restricting-our-rights -mantra.
The UK has already started working on exactly this, an ID card that ties multiple government databases together and has multiple biometrics on. We've been old it's 'voluntary to begin with' but also that we can't have a passport without one wither so hardly optional.
More interestingly, apart from the usual 'it will stop terrorists/ID theft/criminals stuff, the biometrics are also (erroneously AFAIK) being justfied as a requirement for entering the US.
"Well how do they hope to stop terrorists with this?"
Well, if you held it tightly and used it with a slashing motion..?
Hurrah! Now I can once again enjoy the ending of The Return of the Jedi with the proper, original, Ewok music. That really rocked compared to the wishy washy tat that replaced it.
Altogether now.. dah, dah! dada da dah!
I was just picking up hardened bits of play-doh off my kitchen floor...Then, there's the ball of brown marbled doh that is hopelessly mixed from all the colors in the play-doh fun pack
Dude, that's not play-doh, you need to let your dog out more often.
If our education sucks, hear care sucks, economy sucks, blah blah, its a wonder why millions flock here?
Another way of looking at the numbers is that around 15% of all asylum seekers aim for the US. 13% for the UK (and we're a fraction of the size and frankly, nearly full) and so on downwards to less popular countries. I am often told by Americans that 'All the immigrants come here', not so, not by a long chalk.
Even McDonalds have been forced to change their menu to include salads etc
Although somewhat amusingly(?) the McD salads have more grams of fat than the Big Macs because of the salad dressings.
I take it you didn't read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras#Production_ methods then?
Work NEVER killed anyone
Curiously, over here we say 'no-one ever had 'I wish I'd spent more time in the office' on their tombstone.
The biggest problem with the US is people use phrases like far less functional person.
The diet of low-income Britain is generally terrible
The difference is, we have people who eat junk whereas in many cases, America has people who eat *giant portions* of junk. Last time I visited the US, I got full up eating the starters let alone the main course. Order a pie for dinner and get *two* on a giant plate with enough chips/french fries/freedom fires to sink a battleship.
studies have shown that a diet of raw meat is perfectly healthy and natural for the human body
A recent study has shown that the previous opinion that humans could never have evolved to eat cooked meat yet as it's such a recent idea, is wrong. It is now thought we started cooking meat around 2 million years ago so we have almost certainly now adapted to that sort of diet.
foie gras
The devils food - poor tortured birds being force fed food through tubes. Evil, evil, evil.
It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to God
With 11 orrifices and 9 protruberences, how can you tell if a martian is gay or not?
I forgot to add:
6. The UK govt are trying to pass legislation that allows them to change/add any laws they wish without going through parliament i.e. bypass democracy. That means we have a situation where the govt will know everything about everyone and can make anything illegal at a whim and round up all those distenters. Sounds kind of scary to me.
Here in the UK we have an ID card on the way. Despite massive objections from the public and misgivings from all concerned, it is going ahead.
The biggest issues are:
1. It will be a single point of failure. Instead of needing 3 or more forms of ID to get a bank account etc, you'll need one. Once you have a fake one, the world is your oyster.
2. Behind the card will be a massive database that ties you to social security, police records, medical records etc. It allows the government a hugely intrusive window in to your life.
3. The UK govt (all govts?) have a terrible track record for large IT projects. Always late, buggy, hugely expensive.
4. The citizens will have to pay for it and it's not going to be cheap. No final cost has been mooted but estimated are between $150-$800 per person and it's compulsory.
5. All the reasons given for it don't hold water. We are told it will reduce crime (how exactly?), terrorism (ooh, that always works, waving that card) and reduce identity theft. So far the government have been totally unable to explain how any of these will be reduced whilst people involved in the ID field have almost unanimously said it will make each area *worse*.
Velma
Rather worringly, as I get older and am more swayed by personality/intellect than looks, I'm finding Velma kind of hot. Especially her slimmed down version in the newer Scoobies.
Those are BATTLE SCARS, you insensitive clod.
Yeah, battle against *acne*.
That goes double for Boomer.
AT the same time too, ideally. Or maybe I could just it back and watch.
Depesh Mode is coming to Kansas City next month. Tickets are around $100 per person for the cheapest seats.
Wow, you're getting fleeced dude. When I saw *Depeche* Mode a couple of weeks ago at Wembley (one of the biggest UK venues) the tickets were 35GBP each.
Good gig too!
Just as long as Smellivision is never used in the porn industry
Dude, you're hanging with the wrong women. OTOH, if they bring out scratch n catch, I'm not buying.