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MINTS
11 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2012
Here in the UK you got a few companies that supply boxes from Sky, TalkTalk, VirginTV to BT and they are a cross between Cable,Terrestrial to Satellite arw free if you subscribe for 18 months and you own the boxes after that but I was going to write a huge piece on all the goodies we get in the UK and how you Americans are being screwed but I realize that I don't have to its already on wikipedia for you all to read under UK TV should get you there enjoy don't get to jealous especially the new SKY Q 4K
Sky UK gives it boxes out FREE there's a nationwide service called Freeview (built in to all flat screen TVs)(which you pay a low price)which is mainly terrestrial but you can get Freesat (built into some top of the range TVs) not to mention TalkTalk/BT boxes which use the Youview (Built in to some TVs)Cable plus Freeview system and Sky boxes I don't know how many channels of the top of my head I'd say 300 but if you want to know just ask wikipedia on Freeview,Sky and Sky Q their new 4k satellite/cable hybrid system but I think the USA has a raw deal on Cable when a basic Sky package pays for the whole of Sky TV and SKY pay Billions every year for the total TV rights to football/soccer and still make billions profit that with free boxes and basic package of £21 a month and Channel 4 has got the rights to American Football and that's a nationwide free channel in SD & HD and it shares F1 with Sky
Yes you are right about predicting the weather lol , just recently the Met Office spent a billion pounds and a supercomputer system to predict the weather 1 week ahead after spending billions over the years buying crays and other supercomputers the 2 weeks has dropped to 1 week so it seems the weather is more Fractal than they thought with a hint a Chaos Theory thrown in so basically they only can predict the weather at 3 days ahead and even then it can throw a spanner in the works so how the hell can scientists pseudo or not claim that global warming is happening ffs its just bad weather because we have the equipment to measure that even fifty years ago could not measure , record or film let alone a hundred years or so when the records started ,, Oh the trees are not the lungs of the world ,,Plankton is the largest supplier of oxygen to the planet ,,i know cause it was on the BBC's QI program and another bit of useless info Tacitus the roman historian said about Britain in roman times having very warm weather for growing things like olive trees and vineyards as well as the wheat and barley because he said that it was too hot in italy or spain to grow most things ,,so there you have it we were warmer in the roman times..lol
Hear is the news, A BLOODY BIG COMET/METEOR STRUCK PERU JUST OFF THE COAST IN THE LATE 400s disturbing the locked in methane on the seabed as well as rest of the stuff that comes with an event of this size. IT WAS IN ALL THE PAPERS OF THE TIME.
And only now are we getting back to the conditions we had before the event..