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The actual marathon race nearly killed me…/quote]
In the very hot summer of a couple of years ago the wife and I were walking the half marathon between Bradford on Avon and Bath along the canal towpath when we were stopped by a crowd of people of all ages running up a long steep hill out of Bath Although the <50s were making a good fist of it, the older ones were within a hairs breadth of pushing themselves beyond their physical limits having only done a couple of miles. Luckily they had a group of medics at the top of the hill to try and dissuade the more stupid ones from continuing their marathon attempts.
It struck me that people over 50 doing a marathon need to get their brains checked!
The BBC beat you to it with a serial called “The Capture“. Without too many spoilers it is about the trials and tribulations of a squaddie who was put on trial for the apparent murder of an Afghani ISIS(?) tribesman during the course of a skirmish. The poor bar steward then gets into a very tangled web of on-the-fly manipulation of video evidence. All very believable and not scify if you know ought about the tech.
What I really don’t get Bob is that there were people in Ireland who battled long and hard to separate themselves from UK rule but then signed up to the EU empire. Honestly I don’t get it.
You failed to draw the obvious conclusions from your comments
The EU is neither British or an Empire (not ruled by an Emperor) it is therefore a fine body to join.
There is actually little to choose between Chrome and Firefox browser speeds, with many saying that Chrome is slower. Your slowdown suggests that something has gone wrong. First try ‘refreshing’ Firefox.
Cache can be a big source of problems but a refresh is a nuclear option that fixes that issue. The other problem area is Javascript as advertisers load on more crud and the Google tracking spy is often quite slow. NoScript kills that nicely and does not adversely affect too many sites.
However if all else fails try Midori or Vivaldi link
Hopeful news from Eire but something had to give to make progress. I wonder if duplicitous Boris is planning to DUmP one of his supporters and run the border down the Irish Sea!
I suppose that action gives him the vote of no confidence he desires, but until the fat lady sings I do not see it being backed in the UK parliament.
Nothing like having two emotive topics running in one thread! Both subjects share a common trait – the protagonists of both sides believe the other to be deluded in their viewpoints.
Steve, as most teachers support the CO2 theory, so do their students, as a result you are more likely to be burnt at the stake than to get them to change their minds.
In any case, it really does not matter – even if the main cause is less space dust between us and the sun then reducing CO2 will probably offset that somewhat. It will also shaft those Middle East countries that seem to be our enemies.
Personally I would welcome Southern France temperatures on the Gower peninsular, my heating bill would be much lower!
Wiki it – I’m afraid I cannot be bothered to write the pseudo-code of how I quickly solve them, but it is something like the constraint programming method in the wiki. The only ones I now find difficult are the ‘degenerate’ ones where there are multiple possible answers. (The so-called impossible ones that require back tracking)
They would argue with you that it is a fact (as shown by NASA data) that the earth is warming up. They have however quietly dropped the ‘Hockey Stick’ graph as that was just total BS plus manipulated numbers.
The speculation then comes that because CO2 is a greenhouse gas then it must be primary cause and not just one of them. There are of course many other possible causes and contributing factors e.g. the Indonesians/Brazilians chopping down bazillions of trees to grow palm oil, intensive farming etc.
Until someone can come up with a proof that something else other than CO2 is the primary cause then it is difficult to convince them otherwise – as said in a different context any counter arguments are just FUD. You cannot counter a religion with ordinary facts they have to be mind blowing.
I’m afraid that just like Boris the FOE/Greens have a long history of distorting facts.
Which we have already established has as much Umph as yours
Yes but I thought that Graham posted that AMD can not meet the very tight patent licensing requirements of Intel’s SGX. The AMD equivalent has (so far) not been accepted by the BluRay cartel.
Perhaps ‘Total Pratt‘ should be added to Boris Mendacious Johnson’s epithets. He told the country that the EU would blink and went down his blind alley instead of seeking proper negotiations. Both the country (per latest opinion polls) and MPs want to avoid a Hard Brexit. It looks like a Government of National Unity and a consensus negotiating approach is now the only way to achieve a sensible Brexit that meets most people’s needs.
To the best of my knowledge the Wilson Coup story was based on fact. At that time I worked in Westminster for a US boss who was closely associated with the US Embassy. He ordered me not to work in London the following week as he said that the US Embassy had warned him that there was a high probability of an armed coup. Needless to say I did not come to London, but neither was there the much rumoured coup.
Apologies for using the word ‘coup’, I thought people would understand the short hand in the context of a Coalition Government.
Dave’s correction was spot-on, nothing like the Wilson Coup is being planned afaik. However maybe the Queen has other ideas!
Check FB TOR. Iirc this FB post sums it up:
“Technically, you own all of the content you post on Facebook; therefore, you can copyright it. HOWEVER, by posting something on Facebook you:
…grant [Facebook] a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on… Facebook.
and while this license ends when you delete the content from Facebook or delete your account, this does not apply if “your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.”For practical purposes, this could reasonably be interpreted as meaning that if somebody saves content you shared on FB to their computer, then while you still own the copyright to that content, Facebook has full rights to use that content, as does anyone they choose to sub-license or transfer that right to.”
There is nothing the remoaners can do about Borris without triggering a general election. No one takes power in the UK without one, talk of a coup is fantacy that could and would be stamped on by Royal decree.
Quite wrong I’m afraid. A vote of no confidence triggers the following process, and they have 15 days to do it in, after which it is a General Election. (this time period stops as soon as a new Government steps forward)
a) The leader of the opposition is asked if he has the mandate to form a new Government. Corbyn probably does not so that then rolls to the next step.
b) A coalition leader can come forward and state that he has a sufficient majority in Parliament to form a Government. Refer to Government of National Unity
Imo any politician who wants the leadership in that situation is a political fool. It is a no-win situation because nearly all options will upset at least half of the country. Best that it falls to someone who has declared their intention to retire at the next election.
Graham you are assuming that the Mendacious One manages to cling onto power past October 31st.
Graham, you have to remember that ‘duplicity’ is Johnson’s middle name. He has a history of dumping things if they interfere with his ambitions of power.
He cannot call an election but he is vulnerable to a coalition coup. Watch for him bending his previous undertakings in order to cling on to power and try to achieve some sort of Brexit even if it means further straying from the creed of the right-wingers.
I read that our so-called MEPs are talking of disrupting the EU business if there is an extension. Obviously we have managed to elect a bunch of cretins who do not appreciate that any Brexit agreement then has to be followed by a cooperative negotiation on trade, agriculture, fishing etc. These neo-fascist idiots seem to think that we can just sever all relationships with mainland Europe and Ireland.
Anyone know a good ditch for the Mendacious One? In the now very likely event that either Parliament or the EU will find the Government plans to be unacceptable, the Mendacious One has given an undertaking in court to seek an extension. Its either that or find a ditch in which to expire.
I must admit that at least he is funny, I would much rather see his fellow Nasty Party Ministers assume that position.
Or Sein Fein decide that they will sit their 7 members to ensure that the DUP cannot pork-barrel or gerrymander* its way to power. Maybe attend just for a symbolic EU vote as they say they look to the EU for protection of their democratic rights.
*Funny that all English words for political corruption are American in origin. Trump may yet add a few more!
If the EU want to be sneaky they could say “We would reluctantly agree to your deal BUT we could never agree that we would not be forced to impose a Hard Border in Eire if ever the UK significantly diverged from the EU Customs Union.”
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