Posts by Santa from Exeter 376 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Oct 2009
Dan Paul.
Get off a UK site and crawl back under your rock.
The *only* 'Muslim threat to this country' is the one that has been generated by the bombing of civilians carried out under the 'War on Terror' TM, courtesy of the US Right Wing Idiots.
Trump is quite capable of ruining the US all on his own.
Attitudes like yours seem to match rather well with the cletus analogy offered earlier.
How's your banjo playing?
Dell DRAC requires the IcedTeaWeb plugin in order to launch the remote console. We use this extensively here at work, along with VMWare plugins.
I think that Red Hat will have to either port Firefox, or start supporting another browser as we have 600+ Linux desktops for Scientists and support staff.
"Unfortunately, our obsession with CO2 emissions has led to an explosion in demand for diesel-engined cars (in this country at least)."
A rather simplistic view of diesel cars in this country (assuming you mean the UK).
I think you might find that a lot of people (myself included) with older diesel cars *don't* see any benefit in VED, as they are assessed as PLG (one of the highest rates). Instead, they opt for diesels for the fact that they are relatively bullet-proof engines, which will easily last for over 200K miles and give far superior day-today MPG returns that petrol engines, especially in larger MPV's doing high mileage with significant load.
Alliances change indeed.
It wasn't really until the World Wars that the French were the Allies and the Germans were the Enemies.
Historically, the English have fought with the Germans (and their predecessors) *against* the French rather than vice versa, and have had a pop at the French on our own as well.
Except, of course, if You're Scots, in which case the French are the 'Auld Allies'
I remember seeing a display by the Red Arrows with my partner (a Dead Sparrows afficionado).
As the display ended her comment was 'That's wierd, that's not how they usually end'.
Shortly afterwards they returned with the Vulcan in formation!
The noise accross the bay as she stood on her tail, went to full power and climbed near-vertically hit you in the chest with a sudden whoomph!!! and the alow motion aerobatics were a delight.
I'll definitely be making time to go to one of this years displays.
Recipe for 5 gallons of 'Mock Hock'
5L clear apple juice
50g dried Elderflowers
5Kg white sugar
1 sachet wine yeast
Water
Pour apple juice into 5 gallon wine fermenter.
Add sugar
Add 2 kettles boiling water and dissolve sugar
Top up to 5 gallons with cold water
Add wine yeast and stir
Suspend small muslin bag containing elderflowers in top of liquid
Screw lid on and ferment under airlock until bubbles are < 1/minute
Rack off sediment.
Fine if needed
Filter/Polish if wanted
Bottle
Drinkable straight away, tastes better after about a month, keeps for 18 months without deteriorating in taste.
Makes about 30 bottles.
And yes, I brew beer as well :-) --->
What a load of tosh that site is.
They lump a load of policies together and ask you to decide if you'd consider voting for them or not.
"Cut the number of MPs and make constituencies more equally sized to give everyone’s vote a more equal weight." does not go with "Maintain the First-Past-The-Post voting system that makes it easy to kick out unpopular politicians, and delivers stable government."
If they really want it to be representative, they should split them all up.
Incidentally, first past the post doesn't make it easy to kick anyone out, due to voter apathy and voting for parties, rather than policies/personalities
I find Tesco here far better than Sainsbury, also quite a bit cheaper. The staff in Tesco are friendly, and the customers don't give me snotty looks for my dress code not matching theirs :-) Also a lot easier since they re-introduced the 'scan as you shop' phasers.
I now refuse to shop in Sainsbo's anyway after the way they treated my daughter in their employ.
Lidl is okay, but there are always too few tills open for the queues.
Aldi isn't realistically any cheaper, and a right pain to get to with a *small* car park.
Morrison's is out of my way, and no cheaper than Tesco.
I have refused to shop in Asda since the chicken I had cooked leaked water out of the breast when I carved it (seriously, if it's that underweight it needs a litre of pumping up - put it back!)
The only thing I would consider buying in Waitrose is EPC horseradish since Tesco stopped stocking it.
Horses for courses
Icon *almost* looks like a shopping bag.
John 110
"The idea of gaining independence and having to make our way by ourselves, knowing that our Southern neighbours are just waiting for a misstep"
I call prejudice myself there. If Scotland decide to go it alone; I, for one, won't be waiting with 'bated breath' for them to fail. I think there are pros and cons for both sides of the border in both scenarios.
I know a number of 'perfectly reasonable people' who just happen to be Scots. Some of them are eligble to vote in the referendum and some are not (by virtue of the fact of living in England, despite still being recognisably Scots and identifying themselves as Scottish, *not* English).
I have yet to hear one of them express a single positive opinion of, or thought for Salmond and his crew; and to a man/woman they are all opposed to this rhetoric fuelled, ill thought attempt to split from the <rhetoric> Big Bad English </rhetoric> although they might be of a different opinion if it wasn't being done in such a manner.
I used to play Runequest for 'serious' roleplaying and Tunnels and Trolls for 'back from the pub and skin up' fun. I still fondly remember my T&T character going around with his testicles in his pouch looking for someone to sew them back on (he'd missed spotting the broken chair when jumping into the pit full of Troll shit)
I think you'll find that in negotiations there is no 'victim'. Hachette are hardly small fry being tromped over by the big boy here despite their claims. They are using the press to try and sway opinion in their favour, and it looks like the 'Amazon haters' are doing some of the work for them
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