We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Huge saying something like:
You're entitled to your opinion, meaningless as it is.
You probably still don't know what I was getting at in my original comment, or do you just take any less-than-glowing comment on the Good 'Ol US as adverse criticism?
If Callaghan had remained in power there would have been fewer coalmines shut and at least 6 nuclear power stations built.
Apply for jobs in the civil service and police. Oops! That would be sponging off the taxpayer
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I won't know if there is any effect until the Autumn; Summer is always very quiet. However, as I am in the business of supplying cheap ink cartridges, I am hoping for a growth as people try to save money.
Colin Bignell
I've always liked the Bill Hicks quote;
"Gun Control? "England, where no one has guns; fourteen deaths. United States -- and I think you know how we feel about guns; whoo! I'm getting' a stiffy -- 23,000 deaths from handguns. But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a communist to make one."
I wonder why the summer should be quiet? You would have thought cheap ink cartridges would be steady all year round. People on holiday perhaps?
I like Micheal Moore's quote in "Bowling for Columbine": "How many people are killed by guns every year? In German, 381 In France, 255 In Canada, 165 In United Kingdom, 68 In Austrailia, 65 In Japan, 39 In United States, 11127 "
However, as he points out later on, it's not just due to having guns. Canada has a similar number of guns per capita as the US, but they don't feel the need to go around shooting each other. In fact, a number of the Canadian incidents are by US people who've come across the border.
If you haven't seen "Bowling for Columbine", I recommend you do.
I was talking with a contractor I used to hire (a Unix sysadmin), and asked him what he'd seen of it so far. Apparently, the contractors go first, followed by a load of perms. Then the companies suddenly find they've got no one running their systems, and they rapidly bring contractors back in. So basically, a number of his colleauges all had a 2-3 week holiday in the middle of the summer, and are now back working (in most cases, somewhere else).
Holidays are certainly a factor. Christmas goes dead, followed by a surge in photo colours in January, when everyone is printing off the pictures they took. There is also more demand for ink for homework during school term time. Bad weather at weekends is also good for sales.
Colin Bignell
She was even more powerful than people think. Coal mines closed all over Europe and the USA at the same time, presumably that must have been due to her policies too.
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Well I'll buy them as long as they are about as good as the originals which they rarely seem to be!..
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Really? Why would you pay any attention to that fat lying s*it?
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You just need to dig a big hole to get it out. The spoil would be used to construct a mini-mountain range thus gaining some high ground on which to install a wind farm. When the coal is exhausted the hole could be used for landfill for rubbish from which the methane is tapped.
Funny reaction, in the UK particularly. I first saw it some years back as one of the in-flight films when flying to the US. It had been out long enough at that point that many people had seen it, but was still relatively new.
It came up at the lunch table during the visit. I was not surprised to find the americans all had very strong views on it - no one was sitting on the fence. The ratio was probably
2/3rds very supportive and in much agreement, and 1/3rd very dismissive. One of my US colleagues was trying to find out which bits of it the dismissive group (about 7 people) really took objection to or disagreed with, but wasn't getting anything back except personal comments about Micheal Moore. Upon further probing, only one of them had even seen the film, whereas all the supportive group had seen the film. Although it's not something I would bring up in conversation with those I work with in the US, it has come up on a few other occasions too. This pattern of being dismissive of it until actually seeing it seems reasonably consistant, although there are almost certainly some americans who haven't seen it who would remain dismissive of it even if they did. This is California -- views on this sort of thing do vary by region quite a bit too.I didn't think much of his follow film though -- not to find fault with it so much as it didn't grab my attention enough that I could remember afterwards if there was anything I agreed or disagreed with it.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Alan saying something like:
And of course, the spoil tip would be landscaped and dry-sloped for recreation.
And then (sigh) decorated with windmills...
It is absolutely true - I work on the motorways and it`s great fun seeing the difference in traffic speed and volume over the holidays. Although for the last few months `ve seen fewer cars on the road, and the ones I see are going closer to 56mph than i`ve ever seen before. Most of my colleagues agree too. I think the fuel price increases are biting and people are realising that public transport is actually a viable option for most journeys.
But there are certain layers of traffic speed with volume of traffic - speed decreases for a while with increasing numbers of cars, then increases as the lanes get too busy for much lane swapping, then the speed drops quickly. And when someone uses the brakes, all bets are off as everyone behind them brakes, or drives into the back of another vehicle :-)
I wish that were true. I'm doing a daily journey that I would use PT for if it were available/sensibly priced/got there on time.
To get to work before 0900 I would have to leave the previous day. If I could negotiate starting after 0930 then I could do the journey for £82, if after 1000 then for £35. The cost of doing it by car is less than £30, it's only 50 miles each way.
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