Posts by DriveBy

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo good two go

Re: @Drive

Oh yes...

I forgot the fabled 70,000 "rebels" ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....

Whilst it might be true that there are some stray "locals" still remaining in the area, that have been set-up as the enemy of Al Assad, the secular leader of Syria, who is supported by Putin. Putin has been merrily bombing the virtually permanent convoy of oil tankers that are ribboning their way across the Levant, since he understands that this situation is the reason that "Isil" seem to have unlimited funds.

Don't forget to take your copy of the Daily Mail, along with "your coat"... (and hat).

Re: EU trying to set itself up as a rival to Nato?

Tell the Yanks that Nato is 78% "European", they will laugh heartily.

I mean to say.... All those European missiles, aircraft, warships, aircraft carriers, soldiers, airmen and sailors.

You eejit!

Sorry, but I cannot see how a still theoretical system (note the title of this piece) can be more accurate than a working model.

Apart from that, the punter on the street does not get to use the military system that is available to NATO co-signees. We have a FREE system that is only accurate to a metre or so.

This is all about eency weency little tin-pot politicians like Cameron and Hollande wanting to puff themselves up.

Meanwhile the Turks, aka ISIS supporting Sunni Moslems attempting to recreate the centre of the old Caliphate in Istanbul, are getting closer, and only that rogue Putin is prepared to save our a*ses.

But carry on chaps.

Re: @DriveBy

So because of your fear that the USA (our allies for the past 70 years plus) might do something that they have never suggested they will do, you are prepared to hand the EC (effectively a clone of Brezhnev's politburo) billions of Euro's, to make use at some point in some distant future of a system that they have already promised will be chargeable?

You don't work for them do you?

We already have a free navigation service, so one might wonder what the purpose of the expenditure of our "hard-earned" on this project is for?

...Perhaps they intend to scramble the already existing consumer level US system..."Road pricing", here we go again.

Rather more scarily, we can only hope that the EU is not trying to set itself up as a rival to Nato, bearing in mind its hopeless performance in dealing with Turkish aggression... (or is cheap oil the only thing that our politicians are concerned with?).

I mean you could not make this up... They are intending to bomb Assad, apparently to destroy ISIS, whilst simultaneously accelerating the accession of the real supporter and funder of ISIS into the EU. Next thing I suppose will be to have Saudi Arabia in the EU too!

These are dangerous times, and the politburo at the top of the EU is no help to any of us... Time to leave!... No! ...Time to destroy it!

Have politicians already forgotten how dangerous its original USSR model was for humanity? Or are they just common criminals?

Testing times as NASA rattles Mississippi with mighty motor burn

Presumably this is just another example of NASA demonstrating its concern for the threat of global warming/climate change?

Under the Iron Sea: YES, tech and science could SAVE the planet

You are probably right Tim... sadly.

V.Similar to the carp about "vaping"...

Same sort of people, same sort of objection...

Not... Oh deep joy, we've solved that problem... Let's go and do something else...

Oh no... Rather.... Get your BALLLS off of my green!

Men who sleep with lots of women lessen risk of prostate cancer

Re: Does it follow

Yeah... But it makes you blind...

So it's a bit of a toss up really.

Euro banks warned off Bitcoin as Canada regulates it

Re: Bitcoin is more stable and less crooked - are you kidding?

Good point...

"As stable" then...!

BitCoin is only the start of the private currency game...

We cannot trust state currencies, they are less stable and more crooked than these "new" currencies, and what is more the increasing speed at which cash is being turned into a pariah, even more private people are going to enter the game.

Just like everything that the state (mis)handles, once it is part of their "responsibility", which of course they stole, on the basis that the king was the government... A classic example of confusing your own money with that which belongs to the people. Money is only a trusted medium of exchange...

...So why should we trust the least trustworthy among us any more than the new kid on the block?

KA-BOOOM! Boffins blow up mountain to make way for telescope

A tiger?

In Africa?

WANTED: New head of crashingly expensive, error-prone and frankly cursed one-dole-to-rule-them-all system

I wonder whether the quiet man of politics, is quietly crying himself to sleep at night?

Anonymous means NO identifying element left behind – EU handbook

Re: A false mask of respectability...

I have posted that because under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, (i.e. the treaty that I mentioned in my original comment), all member states have to abide by the terms of the ECHR...

An example of this might be the knots that our so-called government got itself into last week when some of the MP's attempted to force the government to opt out of one or more provisions of the ECHR... Namely the repatriation of foreign criminals, following the end of their deliberately shortened sentences. Cameron thought that it was illegal, and he was right (for once).

So, if they really wanted to adopt some of the daft things that Theresa May has been prattling on about, they can't, it is just window dressing.

And it is this veneer of respectability that lead some gullible folks into believing that the EU is somehow better than the governments of the member states....

Note that in order for a nation-state to join the EU, it has to repeal any provisions for capital punishment... So a state cannot execute people, but the EU can...

All it has to do is organise a riot, and then shoot the participants.... There is no redress.

The peasants are revolting...

Jean Monnet is 126.

Re: A false mask of respectability...

SECTION I RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

ARTICLE 2

Right to life

1. Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.

2. Deprivation of life shall not be regarded as inflicted in contravention of this Article when it results from the use of force which is no more than absolutely necessary:

(a) in defence of any person from unlawful violence;

(b) in order to effect a lawful arrest or to prevent the escape of a person lawfully detained;

(c) in action lawfully taken for the purpose of quelling a riot or insurrection.

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Is that clear enough for you Tel?

Particularly Clause C!

A false mask of respectability...

The EU loves this sort of thing...

Until it comes to the politburo (European Commission) itself... Take a quick look at the provisions of the recent Lisbon Treaty (aka EU Constitution), and you always find that the last clause in our list of "rights" (tee hee), is the bit where the EU can do what it likes.

E.G. We have a right to free speech, unless the EU decrees that we are saying something that it doesn't like.

We have a right to life, unless the EU decrees that we should be executed.

And we have a right to privacy, unless the EU deems it necessary to stick its big nose into our affairs...

NHS website hit by MASSIVE malware security COCKUP

Re: Nurse!

Arrrgh....

Too late.