My first computer was a spectrum too. I recently I downloaded the excellent open source FUSE emulator which when combined with.TAP format games from World of Spectrum and the right settings, you can watch the tape loading screens.
For the "R Tape loading error" gambler in you, some emulators even let you connect a cassette player to your audio interface's line in for that authentic experience.
I wonder if he watched a recital of Evidently Chickentown? It's a song/poem about living in deprivation in the council estates (projects) of the UK.
The fucking cops are fucking keen To fucking keep it fucking clean The fucking chief's a fucking swine Who fucking draws a fucking line At fucking fun and fucking games The fucking kids he fucking blames Are nowehere to be fucking found Anywhere in Chickentown
The fucking scene is fucking sad The fucking news is fucking bad The fucking weed is fucking turf The fucking speed is fucking surf The fucking folks are fucking daft Don't make me fucking laugh It fucking hurts to look around Everywhere in Chickentown
The fucking train is fucking late You fucking wait you fucking wait You're fucking lost and fucking found Stuck in fucking Chickentown
The fucking view is fucking vile For fucking miles and fucking miles The fucking babies fucking cry The fucking flowers fucking die The fucking food is fucking muck The fucking drains are fucking fucked The colour scheme is fucking brown Everywhere in Chickentown
The fucking pubs are fucking dull The fucking clubs are fucking full Of fucking girls and fucking guys With fucking murder in Their eyes A fucking bloke is fucking stabbed Waiting for a fucking cab You fucking stay at fucking home The fucking neighbors fucking moan Keep The fucking racket down This is fucking Chickentown
The fucking train is fucking late You fucking wait you fucking wait You're fucking lost and fucking found Stuck in fucking Chickentown
The fucking pies are fucking old The fucking chips are fucking cold The fucking beer is fucking flat The fucking flats have fucking rats The fucking clocks are fucking wrong The fucking days are fucking long It fucking gets you fucking down Evidently Chickentown
MATHS TEST FOR STATE SCHOOLS Name: Nickname: Gang Name:
1. Simon has 0.5 kilos of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Matt for 300 quid and 90 grams to Ollie for 90 quid, what is the street value of the rest of his hold?
2. Damon pimps 3 bitches. If the price is GBP40 a ride, how many jobs per day must each bitch perform to support Damon's GBP500 a day coke habit?
3. Crackster wants to cut the kilo of cocaine he bought for 7,000 quid to make a 20% profit. How many grams of Strychnine will he need?
4. Trev got 6 years for murder. He also got GBP350,000 for the hit. If his common law wife spends GBP33,100 per month, how much money will be left when he gets out? Extra Credit Bonus: How much more time will Trev get for killing the slapper that spent his money?
5. If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square metres and the average letter is 1 square metre, how many letters can be sprayed with eight fluid ounce cans of spray paint with 20% extra paint free ?
6. Liam steals Jordan's skateboard. As Liam skates away at a speed of 35mph, Jordan loads his brother's Armalite. If it takes Jordan 20 seconds to load the gun, how far will Liam have travelled when he gets whacked?
MATHS TEST FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS Name:
(If longer please continue on a separate sheet) School: Daddy's/Mummy's Company:
1. Harry smashes up the old man's car, causing x amount of damage and killing 3 people. The old man asks his local Chief Constable to intervene in the court system, then forges his insurance claim and receives a payment of y. The difference between x and y is three times the life insurance settlement for the three dead people. What kind of car is Harry driving now?
2. Fiona's personal shopper decides to substitute generic and own-brand products for the designer goods favoured by her employer. In the course of a month she saves the price of a return ticket to Fiji and Fiona doesn't even notice the difference. Is she thick or what?
3. Tristram fancies the arse off a certain number of debutants, but he only has enough Rohypnol left to render 33.3% unconscious. If he has 14 tablets of Rohypnol, how is he ever going to shag the other two thirds?
4. If Verity throws up 4 times a day for a week she can fit into a size 8 Versace. If she only throws up 3 times a day for two weeks, she has to make do with a size 10 Dolce & Gabbana. How much does liposuction cost?
5. Henry is unsure about his sexuality. Three days a week he fancies women. On the other days he fancies men, ducks and vacuum cleaners. However he only has access to the Hoover every third week. When will he stand for parliament?
I disagree. The current level of 'dry' weather in the UK could have been more easily absorbed if less water was poured into the ground. Also there is not much sharing of water between regions.
Also, a the end of the trailer it says "Commodore OS Vision coming 11.11.11". I suppose they were planning to release it but then they took an arrow to the knee.
The BBC is unique in that is has the license fee. Everyone in the UK has to pay a yearly fee of about $240 if they have a TV or go to jail / pay a huge fine.
The BBC cares quite strongly about what we license fee payers want. The reason for this is very clear; it makes them nearly 6 billion dollars a year but yet it's unpopular as it's seen as a tax on televisions. If they don't keep license fee payers happy, it is possible that enough of a revolt would mean that the license fee is finally scrapped. I don't think any amount of US syndication is going to replace 6 billion dollars a year.
The choices made in Dr Who are for a traditional British audience who have been watching the show since childhood. It's one of the few programs that is popular enough that people think the license fee is 'worth it'. Sorry if this bursts your bubble in that everyone in the world is just trying to keep the US happy.
I was glad to see Dungeon Master mentioned. There's a modern dungeon crawler based on similar values in the works called The Legend of Grimrock which is getting released in April. I'm actually looking forward to this more than Diablo 3 and for similar nostalgic reasons.
The OSM data that Apple is using is rather old (start of April 2010)... It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get that on there.
I think this has to be the solution. However, about expanding suburbia; the population of the US has doubled since 1970. All those people have to go somewhere.
but we have something called the "suburbs", and some people enjoy them just fine, thanks.
That's not unique to America at all. Neither are long commutes.
And I find it offensive, to be honest, that you are fine with it becoming "untenable" to live where you want and work where you want.
Commuting is becoming untenable, no-one is trying to offend you. It's a fact of life. I can't live on the moon because, although pretty, the commute is a bitch and costs a fortune. Your case is a smaller version of that except the parameters are changing. It's getting progressively more expensive due to free market forces outwith your control. There's only so much oil in the ground and sooner or later it will all be gone. Then what? You can't get to work and your house is worth dick.
Cheap fuel created the suburb. Expensive fuel will destroy it.
People who "focus their lives in the urban centres" (centers in the USA, btw) are, by and large, some of the most spiritually and emotionally empty, uninformed sheep I have ever met in my life. I want to be as far away from them as possible when it becomes "untenable" to live there.
You might want to read The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
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I wouldn't say it's too close, it's not really walking distance. I'll call the Dean and ask him if he can move the University a few miles west.
My first computer was a spectrum too. I recently I downloaded the excellent open source FUSE emulator which when combined with .TAP format games from World of Spectrum and the right settings, you can watch the tape loading screens.
For the "R Tape loading error" gambler in you, some emulators even let you connect a cassette player to your audio interface's line in for that authentic experience.
That's just the bong talking man.
Well, at least now people might stop pretending that Apple products are magically more secure than the competition.
It's not just Assad in Syria that calls that kind of thing "terrorism".
I wonder if he watched a recital of Evidently Chickentown? It's a song/poem about living in deprivation in the council estates (projects) of the UK.
The fucking cops are fucking keen
To fucking keep it fucking clean
The fucking chief's a fucking swine
Who fucking draws a fucking line
At fucking fun and fucking games
The fucking kids he fucking blames
Are nowehere to be fucking found
Anywhere in Chickentown
The fucking scene is fucking sad
The fucking news is fucking bad
The fucking weed is fucking turf
The fucking speed is fucking surf
The fucking folks are fucking daft
Don't make me fucking laugh
It fucking hurts to look around
Everywhere in Chickentown
The fucking train is fucking late
You fucking wait you fucking wait
You're fucking lost and fucking found
Stuck in fucking Chickentown
The fucking view is fucking vile
For fucking miles and fucking miles
The fucking babies fucking cry
The fucking flowers fucking die
The fucking food is fucking muck
The fucking drains are fucking fucked
The colour scheme is fucking brown
Everywhere in Chickentown
The fucking pubs are fucking dull
The fucking clubs are fucking full
Of fucking girls and fucking guys
With fucking murder in Their eyes
A fucking bloke is fucking stabbed
Waiting for a fucking cab
You fucking stay at fucking home
The fucking neighbors fucking moan
Keep The fucking racket down
This is fucking Chickentown
The fucking train is fucking late
You fucking wait you fucking wait
You're fucking lost and fucking found
Stuck in fucking Chickentown
The fucking pies are fucking old
The fucking chips are fucking cold
The fucking beer is fucking flat
The fucking flats have fucking rats
The fucking clocks are fucking wrong
The fucking days are fucking long
It fucking gets you fucking down
Evidently Chickentown
MATHS TEST FOR STATE SCHOOLS
Name:
Nickname:
Gang Name:
1. Simon has 0.5 kilos of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Matt for 300 quid and 90 grams to Ollie
for 90 quid, what is the street value of the rest of his hold?
2. Damon pimps 3 bitches. If the price is GBP40 a ride, how many jobs per day must each bitch
perform to support Damon's GBP500 a day coke habit?
3. Crackster wants to cut the kilo of cocaine he bought for 7,000 quid to make a 20% profit. How
many grams of Strychnine will he need?
4. Trev got 6 years for murder. He also got GBP350,000 for the hit. If his common law wife
spends GBP33,100 per month, how much money will be left when he gets out?
Extra Credit Bonus: How much more time will Trev get for killing the slapper that spent his
money?
5. If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square metres and the average letter is 1 square metre,
how many letters can be sprayed with eight fluid ounce cans of spray paint with 20% extra paint
free ?
6. Liam steals Jordan's skateboard. As Liam skates away at a speed of 35mph, Jordan loads his
brother's Armalite. If it takes Jordan 20 seconds to load the gun, how far will Liam have travelled
when he gets whacked?
MATHS TEST FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Name:
(If longer please continue on a separate sheet)
School:
Daddy's/Mummy's Company:
1. Harry smashes up the old man's car, causing x amount of damage and killing 3 people. The old
man asks his local Chief Constable to intervene in the court system, then forges his insurance claim
and receives a payment of y. The difference between x and y is three times the life insurance
settlement for the three dead people. What kind of car is Harry driving now?
2. Fiona's personal shopper decides to substitute generic and own-brand products for the designer
goods favoured by her employer. In the course of a month she saves the price of a return ticket to
Fiji and Fiona doesn't even notice the difference. Is she thick or what?
3. Tristram fancies the arse off a certain number of debutants, but he only has enough Rohypnol left
to render 33.3% unconscious. If he has 14 tablets of Rohypnol, how is he ever going to shag the
other two thirds?
4. If Verity throws up 4 times a day for a week she can fit into a size 8 Versace. If she only throws
up 3 times a day for two weeks, she has to make do with a size 10 Dolce & Gabbana. How much
does liposuction cost?
5. Henry is unsure about his sexuality. Three days a week he fancies women. On the other days he
fancies men, ducks and vacuum cleaners. However he only has access to the Hoover every third
week. When will he stand for parliament?
That's another one for my vocabularmory!
Well, it's all fucking unraveling for Murdoch. It couldn't happen to a nicer person. Schadenfreudegasm.
I disagree. The current level of 'dry' weather in the UK could have been more easily absorbed if less water was poured into the ground. Also there is not much sharing of water between regions.
BBC Worldwide is a separate entity.
Also, a the end of the trailer it says "Commodore OS Vision coming 11.11.11".
I suppose they were planning to release it but then they took an arrow to the knee.
This is more due to mismanagement than weather however. Thames water leaks a 1/3 of it's water into the ground through broken pipes and so on.
The BBC is unique in that is has the license fee. Everyone in the UK has to pay a yearly fee of about $240 if they have a TV or go to jail / pay a huge fine.
The BBC cares quite strongly about what we license fee payers want. The reason for this is very clear; it makes them nearly 6 billion dollars a year but yet it's unpopular as it's seen as a tax on televisions. If they don't keep license fee payers happy, it is possible that enough of a revolt would mean that the license fee is finally scrapped. I don't think any amount of US syndication is going to replace 6 billion dollars a year.
The choices made in Dr Who are for a traditional British audience who have been watching the show since childhood. It's one of the few programs that is popular enough that people think the license fee is 'worth it'. Sorry if this bursts your bubble in that everyone in the world is just trying to keep the US happy.
Honest question, why didn't they just go with Android?
No, it isn't.
Also pretty ironic in an article about censorship.
I was glad to see Dungeon Master mentioned. There's a modern dungeon crawler based on similar values in the works called The Legend of Grimrock which is getting released in April. I'm actually looking forward to this more than Diablo 3 and for similar nostalgic reasons.
From the article:
So yes, they do require it.
Apple is the best marketing company in the world. They made them want a larger iPod Touch.
Information wants to be free and so does Ryan Harris.
We only need to count to 5.
I think this has to be the solution. However, about expanding suburbia; the population of the US has doubled since 1970. All those people have to go somewhere.
That's not unique to America at all. Neither are long commutes.
Commuting is becoming untenable, no-one is trying to offend you. It's a fact of life. I can't live on the moon because, although pretty, the commute is a bitch and costs a fortune. Your case is a smaller version of that except the parameters are changing. It's getting progressively more expensive due to free market forces outwith your control. There's only so much oil in the ground and sooner or later it will all be gone. Then what? You can't get to work and your house is worth dick.
Cheap fuel created the suburb. Expensive fuel will destroy it.
You might want to read The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
Yes, kids do love to ride that railroad. Wait... what?