Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Also designed to make it impossible for elected officials to vote against them.
My opponent voted against the "Apple-pie and mom act"
But it authorised the use of nuclear weapons in kindergartens !
My opponent is against Apple pie and Moms
Did anyone dare vote against the Patriot ACT ?
It has no chance, almost all Amazon shares on the open market will be held by ETFs, mutual funds etc who have no interest in voting. This is a publicity event.
How effective it is depends on how Amazon reacts.
You could say that they should have just ignored it and avoided the Streisand effect, but then you could make their shareholder meeting an endless series of votes on every cause by anyone with a single share. It's as if a single vote on a you-gov petition required a parliamentary vote.
I suspect they will change the articles to require a larger percentage of shares to table a motion.
Any company that wants to keep access to the Eu market, employee both UK and Eu citizens and live under the tyrannical jackboot of Belgian oppression telling them what shape their bananas could be - just has to register an Eu domain to signal this.
Companies that wish to breath the clean air of a new Jerusalem, employ only the stout yeomen of England (and Scotland, Wales+NI) and benefit from the trade deals with Faroe, Tuvalu and Narnia can keep using the .uk domains.
See a simple technical solution was possible all along.
Only the New Territories were leased, Hong Kong itself was given to Britain by the will of G*d and a large number of gunboats.
The deal with handing it back was a facing saving measure on both sides. Britain ignores the fact that the 100 million strong People's Army could walk in and overwhelm the 6 British guards at any time - and we aren't abut to fight a land war in Asia against a nuclear power to do a Falklands.
China pretends that this is all a business transaction and since they are so international-law abiding could they join the WTO and start selling crap soon please?
>Yes, in the last 10 returns to the UK, not once have the damn things worked with my passport
It's part of a new biometric nationality identification system.
If you just sigh and follow the instructions you are sufficiently British and allowed in, if you make a fuss you are probably some sort of undesirable foreigner, probably continental, and if you shout about how goddamn inefficient it is and can't this country do anything right you are an American.
(if you apologise to the useless machine you are Canadian)
>You do realise that a cotton bag needs to be re-used about 150 times to beat the resources used by a placcy bag?
That's completely untrue.
It's 7100 times for a cheap cotton bag and 20,000 for an organic cotton one.
At least according to hose arch neo-cons at the Danish environment ministry
The optimal strategy is to be the only one that DOESN'T vaccinate.
That way you are safe from the disease because of herd immunity but avoid any microscopic risk of the vaccine.
Of course, like being the only driver who runs red lights, it fails spectacularly once there are more than one like you.
>Any such organisation will have been upgraded from a shed to several glass buildings employing many hundreds while failing to complete audit trails.
They are hoping to expand into the corner shop next door.
>You aim for the head
There used to be an ad for shop safety glasses with a shotgun fired at a polystyrene manikin head wearing the safety glasses - obviously turned to dust except for the eyes.
Seemed like an obvious flaw if the accident still took the rest of your head off.
>When it comes to water navigation GPS is only one tool in constant use.
Which is why competent navies require their crews to be able to navigate anywhere with only charts and sightings/soundings.
One interview with a captain, we don't rely on markers either, if the enemy is blocking GPS we assume he has the good sense to move the channel bouys as well.
Lots of safety features are optional.
Did you order the auto-braking radar for your car? Lane departure warning?
What about fitting self-sealing fuel tanks, bullet-proof windows (if you live in S London), 5 point harness, rally seats, roll cage, fire extinguishers?
Would you get on a train without these safety features?
