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This item is interesting in a couple of ways. How great it is to be able to use elcectronic devices on-board and how the airline industry has moved on the safety matter. The second point is that this article stresses the extreme nature of the signal required to do the deed and this is level of testing is going over the top. What the article does not explain is why terrorist are deemed incapable of designing "laptops" etc which will pass any scan but the electronics are designed for spoofing or jamming. Seems a little bizarre that scissors and liquids can be seen as dangerous whereas electronics are new its OK devices. AND if as requested a demonstration of what can happen. The logistics of it and the time involved I have no idea.

I thought this was interesting. I am so impressed that QV decided to master the languages of her most populous dominion. i can also see the benefits of having an information source outside the normal channels.

Quote: Originally Posted by Bugged Ah, yes, but we're informed idiots. =) But are you well-informed idiots? Michael I am awaiting some crude poster to say: But definitely a well formed idiot : ) oops that was me

Given a finite number of minutes per day and time to interact with fellow-humans is it best to ignore those people you are in physical proximity with and only talk to old acquaintances? Having sat at at meal with both my neice and nephew playing with their phones it did occur to me that social graces are going, and also the idea that you can learn something from new people. I call us new as we see and speak to them 6 monthlyish. I love meeting new people and do not particularly feel that there is an inherent virtue in being in contact with your school mates from Grade 1 through 12. Facebook has though thrown up a storm of troubles - notably the number of divorces attributed to it. Also lax secutriy and the commercialisation of the information. But then if you make something glitzy enough and it apprently fills a need the majority of people do not see the downsides.

Nations have always bent the rule of law whilst paying lip service to what is meant to happen. In this instance it is not as though "we" are invading a sovereign country or destabalising a regime - this is straightforwardly a war against pirates. In a war people get killed. Police operations are what happens within a state.

Can I recommend green power as a sensible alternative to nuclear? To be honest I think we must all be grateful that the Japanese take earthquakes so seriously. God forbid it were Italy. Still 55 Npower stations is quite a few on an island prone to quakes.

If I were a devious cunning sod one might have an aborted mission to the rebels as the British and be suitably sent home. Demonstrating your are not hand-in-pocket with the wicked West but just possibly arranging for the shipments : 0 Nothing too obvious in the way of weapons. Perhaps a link with a SAS observer but you must allow the natives ownership of the revolution. Of course this does fly against the established cock-up theory of history. Of course I was enraged at the heading to Lybia!

Not inadavertant - I don't either. As for industry using Twitter - it lowers my opinion of the \company .... : )

Well this is a real humdinger for a thread, personal rights, state rights , inter-state relations, and Federal rights. And then "good government" and the people. I am afraid you need to read the link for the full flavour of the problem. And the "underlying" problem is not unique to just the US.* And the rest of the world http://www.eoearth.org/article/Aquifer_depletion

As I am just so totally anti-celebrity culture I could almost take a malicious pleasure in a blow-up. Unfortunately I am aware the media builds them up to crush them down as it makes such good copy for the masses. Yuk

You do wonder at the West and other shipping nations being so supine in dealing with the problem. Gunboat diplomacy, Q-ships, and mysterious sinkings at sea without the problem of courts and trials would speedily curb their enthusiasm.

My opinion is that they are probably not as no distinction can be made between the idiot and the intelligent person. Of course I do have a suspicion really intelligent people do not use either Anyway what brought it up: So the question is derived from the last paragraph - are they bluidy insane!

I had a hunt for mackeral cheeks and came across this amazing [i many ways] review of the Loft Project ... before the link this is a flavour http://www.qype.co.uk/place/1440613-The-Loft-Project-London

Escapism is good I actually feed my wife those novels because they are good for the "soul". However there are people working for that simpler society now. Reduced Government intervention in all areas of life, minimal tax, no unions ...... The USA may yet reach that state. Whilst pouring scorn on previous eras as being dangerous I do wonder if people were more or less happy than now. Thinking solely of Western civilisation and taking into account that man is a relatively simple animal is modern society good. There is plenty of evidence on how many concepts man/woman can juggle. On what is greed. How you can manipulate humans by simple words, by temperature, by food etc. The only outcome of the research seems to be that people are using the knowledge to make money by better pressing of mankinds buttons. It would be nice if the information was actually used to improve peoples lives. This might be as simple as removing egregious button playing. The problem lies in who controls the agenda that might allow change. Simpler taxation would be mightily popular with everyone : ) *Societies with women empowered Celts in Europe The Iroquois Confederacy or League, combining five to six American Indian nations or tribes before the U.S. became a nation, operated by The Great Binding Law of Peace, a constitution by which women participated in the League's political decision-making, including deciding whether to proceed to war,[35] through what may have been a matriarchy[36] or "'gyneocracy'".[37] The dates of this constitution's operation are unknown; until written in "about 1880",[38] it was oral[38] and the League formed centuries earlier, approximately 1000–1450;[38] it still exists.

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Annexe A page 33 of the report says different. : ) In fact more things than you can think of with railways.

Britsh Rail ... : ) http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/publications/list/reports/Global_Navigation_Systems.pdf is actually worth a read.. There are interesting examples of what has gone wrong in the past. Also a case study on navigation which would probably interest Somali pirates. And every 100*200 years there might be one of these Carrington size events: and what Wiki says about the 1859 solar flare

1 CRISP BELLY PORK ROAST Ask your butcher to score the skin finely for this, as the crackling is essential. The first brief roasting at the higher temperature is necessary to set the crackling on the route to crispness. I rather like a pile of Chinese greens, lightly steamed, with this. SERVES 5-6 belly pork – 1-1.5kg, boned, skin intact and finely scored For the rub: garlic – 3 cloves light soy sauce – 2 tbs groundnut oil – a tbs salt – 2 tsp Chinese five-spice powder – a level tsp Put the pork in a china or glass dish. Peel and crush the garlic to a paste, stirring in the soy, oil, salt and five-spice powder. Spread this paste over the skin and underside of the pork. Leave it to marinate for a good 4 hours, if not overnight. Set the oven at 220°C/Gas 8. Place the pork in a roasting tin then cook, skin-side up, for about 20 minutes. Lower the heat to 200°C/Gas 6 and continue cooking for a further 40-50 minutes till the skin is dark and crisp. Leave for 10 minutes to rest before carving. Actually we had only 380grms bit it was really very very nice. Only marinaded for an hour and served with rice [with added tiny tomatoes, peas, raisins, and peanuts making the rice more yummy .... and probably nutritious] An incredibly cheap meat but really first class meal. And pig cheek talk here: http://thegraphicfoodie.blogspot.com/2010/01/recipe-pigs-cheeks-in-cider-with-roast.html

The problem is not really war butwhat happens in some sort of solar storm or indeed another satellite equipped to destroy/blanket out/ or alter signals. For all I know the rail system in the UK is effectively reliant on GPS timing, that goes and rail traffic grinds to a halt. Everybody tries to go by road. You could severely damage a country by knocking out or poisoning just one system. With commercial satellite launching who checks what a device can do or do you just take someones word that it is a SETI hunter.

Gosh, something no one could have foreseen until now [stable door shut etc] : ) I must admit I had never considered the timing issue as being an important factor.

I disagree with SP. The number killed AFAIR can vary but WIA is always the same number of men. Effectively it is men lost from the fight that are scored no matter what. As for him scoring more points I would like to know if there is a flag on your trial map. If I assume no flag the difference could be that the game auto-surrenders and the survivors are worth 3 times their purchase value. BTW the surrender values I have played with over the years and it is never very precise what a single surrendered man is worth. Just to illustrate how complicated it gets if you shoot a single man in an elite Tiger that is counted AFAIR as 20% of the Tigers cost. But then tanks and infantry are different. However the up-shot of this - is that you cannot precisely calculate these things which is a good idea as it makes gaming the system difficult.

In case its not explicit from the above Windows 7 is really advanced - and does not necessarily file things were you want.

Ogh yeah - like professional politicians. Most professions are designed to control numbers and therefore the wealth of its members. Who pushed for the tank? Who fought the concept of armoured divisions? Who was Jan Smuts? As for architecture: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3670049/Architects-who-design-bad-buildings.html The most favourite buildings in the UK are Georgian style - by a huge majority. Is it just possible that the human eye knows a nice design when they see it. : )

"Is this another 'abscence of evidence' question? I'll phrase my response like this: probably more than you appear to care about the 100,000+ that actually have been killed. " JonS "I don't have numbers handy, but I'm guessing you're lumping Iraq and Afghanistan together here. That would be a mistake." VAB Well thats Iraq, and of course only counts violent deaths so all those aborted or misshapen babies in Fallujah will not count.

I have a copy, dated 1900, of I S Bloch's "Modern Weapons and Modern War" *in which he correctly predicts that warfare will actually be a matter of economic might. He does suggest warfare will be too deadly to be fought, but does add the caveat about people realising how deadly it is. * A 380 page abridgement of his 6 volume " The War of the Future in its Technical, Economic and Political Relations" with a discussion with W.T Stead. It is full of facts and figures. But I see Wikipedia has something: