Posts by bill 36 280 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Mar 2010
Put him in front of a Muslim jury and lets find out if he's guilty or not.
Like i said in a previous post, the Americans have been caught with their trousers down in the park and in the past week, they have switched on every defence mechanism they can think of to try and shut the gates.
Too late, the leaks confirm what many have long suspected but couldn't prove.
Where's the "pissing into the wind" icon?
But the "regime" have always been experts in selling the wholesome American family thing for generations now. All apple pie and popcorn and Sunday best on for a trip to the church once a week.
The image is as phoney as the crooks in the White House
I just hope that this farce gets played out all the way so that people can finally lay to rest this mythical image of the good 'ol US of A and see it for what it really is.
Football is the biggest game on the planet. It's a religion followed by millions and while it divides it also joins.
Religion on the other hand is purely divisive. Practised by millions and has killed many millions more.
Football, however corrupt, is infinitely less corrupt than most of the churches so i think i could stand a month long piss up while talking shite with all the others bar room experts, knowing that what i was watching is at least transparent and infinitely less likely to kill millions in the process.
We should celebrate football as the great bringer together.........and at a national level, gets us at least talking to each other and not trying to kill each other.......most of the time.
So, is it heads or tails?
I just counted 30 possible free bet bookies from freebets.co.uk with various offers from 5 to 100 quid.
I assume that you only get this offer once and therefore to be continuously successful requires multiple user id's and multiple debit cards unless you are playing with the profits on subsequent bets.
If the average freebie is 50 quid and the average bet is even money then the most that can be made is 1500 (gross) using the free money. Assuming that they are indeed even money bets.
have i missed something?
"we were able to replace two large old and ineffective radiators with one half-size double-skin"
ALL radiators are 100% efficient and are rated in BTU's relevant to the surface area available that the water flows through.
If you are saying that you replaced 2 x 1 kw radiators for 1 x 2Kw radiator that is half the physical size then i'm with you.
If not, i don't get it!
And no computers required. Just a few million brainwashed people.
You can just imagine the first conversations in an Inn a few thousand years ago...........All we need to do is invent a leader, insert the name of your choice here....Jesus, Mohammed, Brian,.......tell the people that he will look after you, get them to pray to him, believe it, and they will fill our pockets with gold.
And they do!!!
Amazing!
I think MS is going the same was as DEC and Sun.
Tablets running unix will be all the rage very soon. Most of them will be running unix. The market for Netbooks is dead. I believe laptops could follow within a couple of years. There is only one game in town now and thats Android, Macos and RIM for smart devices with Windows on the subs bench.
Many large corporates have moved on and have even installed Unix on mainframes now.
All this means of course that the average user will get used to not seeing the windows GUI, will get more and more familiar with Unix and decide that actually MS has become irrelevant and that's dangerous for Microsoft.
is how after 10 years of sustained growth in the UK with many people able to afford second homes and holiday homes, massive public building projects including new schools and hospitals etc, suddenly a fraud of biblical proportions was perpetrated by the American finance industry on an unsuspecting international banking fraternity, vaporising peoples pensions and investments over night and it was all Browns fault!!
Then, come the election, the UK lurches towards the old Etonians and we start crying when the axe is brought out and we lose even more wealth and prosperity. WTF did people expect?
The tories are responsible for looking after the top 10% of the population, always have been and always will be and how the average middle incomers can vote for them is beyond me.
Thatcher was responsible for the biggest breakdown in community spirit of the 20th century because of the way she attacked the very people who sustained most of the economy. She should be burnt at the stake never mind buried by the state.
Amen!
that nobody else has reported antenna problems on the 3GS, similar to the 4.
After 3 months of having this Jobsian controlled handset, which is beginning to really annoy me, low and behold i find that whenever i pick it up in this admittedly, weak signal village, the reception falls off to zero with the resulting loss of service notice.
Put it down and suddenly.....3 bars again. And i'm talking leaning on a bar here so you can imagine how far the phone is moved between picking it up and laying it down.
Of course, i have no scientific evidence, but 2 and 2 has always been 4 and the iphone, at least the 3GS and the 4 BOTH have problems with antennas and how you hold it.
I really do regret not buying an Android machine. The HTC Legend would appear to be miles in front of it.
Actually i agree with you! BUT
"Telling people who aren't the problem to stop breeding will fix nothing.
Thats not what i said!" or implied!
"it's not over-population in the developing world that's the problem, it's over-consumption in the developed world."
That my friend is a symptom, not the cause and demonstrates precisely why root cause analysis of a problem is fraught with difficulty and why so many get it expensively wrong.
To move along a bit, CO2 is a major issue, almost everyone agrees. Some American researches who were studying ice bores from the Antarctic regions last year concluded that warming of the planet in its various phases could be tracked quite accurately and because of the ice formations concluded that levels of CO2 had risen dramatically AFTER the warming event. That is also a fact!
I think you missed the point entirely, but hey you are not alone which is why this argument will last a long time.
Quote "what's mostly driving CO2 emissions is the rapid pace of industrial development in several parts of the developing world"
Do a root cause on that statement and you might get the point.
Would someone else like to do one? Another techie perhaps? Because i reach this conclusion based on CO2 emissions, which i don't believe either just for the record.
Assuming CO2 is the reason for global warming then CO2 emissions must be reduced.
What drives consumption of fossil fuels and thereby CO2 output? Humans do.
So the root cause is that there are too many humans on the planet and the numbers get larger everyday.
But this is way too controversial isnt it. So until somebody has the balls to stand up and say it we will never reduce CO2 output.
Or have i got it wrong somewhere:>)
Fact is
If you ask at your local authority in every european country, they can supply statistics on every minority who live in a community. They do this for public service planning reasons but of course these DATABASES can be used for more draconian measures.
I for one am so pissed off with the PC, health and safety and human rights dogooders that are so prevalent nowadays.
The fact is, every european citizen, Roma included, have the right to live and WORK in any other european country under the laws of that state. But they have to obey the rules whether they like it or not and if they don't, then THEY have to take responsibility for THEIR actions.
Thats the way it is, we are all in a database somewhere and while the vast majority are law abiding tax paying citizens, those who choose not to comply can expect to be treated with contempt.
And its easy, fill the form in, supply a copy of your passport, register with the local authority, apply for housing, go to the local job centre, learn the language.
If not GTFO as somebody has so eloquently explained in a previous post.
Furthermore, since we live in a democracy and not as some would have us believe under some nazi dictatorship, those who want a free for all can quite simply vote for the party that will deliver a politically correct, totally safe and healthy environment with complete human rights for all irrespective of whether they are state spongers or criminals; while having no cars, no concrete no co2 emissions, no chemicals and no aircraft. No mobile phones and no internet.
Lets see how long we survive under that kind of regime.
Bullshit!!
because the very first article of the French Constitution asserts that the Republic "guarantees the equality before the law of all citizens, irrespective of racial origin or religion".?
Well thats a stupid argument! They are not French citizens! They are from Romania and the French police presumably wanted to keep an eye on the criminal activities of some of them. Whats the problem? Most of Europe requires immigrants to register with the police when you move into a community.
No matter what we might think, the police and the locals all know that when they roll into town and park up, up goes the crime rate and it requires bulldozers to repair the land once they leave while paying nothing towards any public service.
A short story,
I needed a euro roaming biz contract quickly with a smartphone! Orange had no stock of HTC or Iphone and Tmobile Salzburg had 1 3G Iphone left in stock. I bought it with the contract..49 bucks,,,a deal!
4 hours after first hooking it up to the pc, it was online. Why, because XP pro has an obscure bug which i had to trawl the forums to find, download and install the patch, in order to register it with Itunes. And download and install 4.1, more on that later.
Then,,,,,,load some apps...try Skype, BUT because i live in Austria i get the German version of the shop...no choice in the matter, but i don't want Skype in German,,,,,,,go to the UK shop no problem,,,except the phone is barred from downloading from the UK domain. Yes even the free stuff! So i'm sitting here thinking i am very pleased that i don't live in Hong Kong.
Yesterday the phone was fully charged and has been on standby since then,,tonight the battery ran out???????
i'm less than impressed with this Jobsian control freak and i think i'm going to regret not buying an Android machine.
I read this article the other day and thought, yeah why not give it a go on an old laptop (Siemens Amilo) just to see what all the fuss is about. So i spent 5 hours yesterday including the download time, trying to get an iso image on cd to boot.
I tried the beta first, then the latest supported version on 3 different machines all written on a CD-R as recommended......and at the slowest speed.
So, after that, and utterly pissed off, i took an old copy of the Sarge Debian kernel, written with the same burner on the same machine, and with exactly the same media,4 years ago, and it boots and loads without any trouble at all.
So i agree, you must have got lucky with the hardware support.
Just another case of bullshit i'm afraid.
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