part of the problem is that, at the moment, horrible,racist,bigoted arseholes from UKIP(euro-sceptics and SEVERELY right wing) are getting shitloads of airtime and have been for a while.
Twice now when their leader Nigel Farage came to Edinburgh here in Scotland ...lol.. we have protested this racist pricks presence and he ran off.. once with a police escort... no violence or anything like that...... just a large volume of people who don't fig his racist, bigoted VERY FAR right shit.
Scotland , in my guess will become independent after the referendum in September due nto all the utter bullshit and hideeous shit the conservatives are doing such as privatising the NHS by the back door and treating the poor, the sick and disabled like criminals and getting their rags such as the daily mail to run campaigns slamming the poor, and such like.
For example they like to say that people are scrounging on benefits and are defrauding the DWP.. when in fact only 0.7% of the entire DWP budget is sucked up by fraud and half of that is.. INTERNAL!.. meanwhile sick and disabled people are being declared fit for work while terminally ill.. being penalised for having an extra bedroom when they need one for their carer/medical care/children.. it's a fucking disgrace.
luckily in Scotland we have protected universal free education,healthcare,prescriptions etc and the money is ring-fenced to protect the NHS in particular.
Scotland is pro-eu however we won't go for the euro.... not yet anyway due to the shenanigans going on atm. however should all go well and it's a YES vote in september then Scotland would remain in the EU and the EU will appreciate that as we have the largest oil and gas reserves in Europe.. not just the north sea but also off the west of Orkney and the west coast but also off Rockall (whichever Whitehall minion annexed that lump of rock saying it was in Scottish water did scotland a huge favour..LOL).. we are also a world leader in renewables too and everyone loves our whisky! mind you even without the oil/gas Standard and Poor(credit agency which downgraded the UK's AAA rating) would give an independent Scotland a tyriple A rating... much grooviness... roll on the vote!

How to you account for the economical benefits?. Do you think Schiphol would be a a an attractive airport if there would still be bordercontrols in the EU? How about your harbors?

Schipol is a major international hub with many transatlantic flights starting and finishing there, it'd be huge even outwith the EU ,as for ports.... the Netherlands has always been a huge maritime trader.. so i imagine that would be the same

The real concern though is how far are they willing to go these threats. People who believe a higher purpose guides their destiny have a diminished sense of responsibility and should never be allowed to possess nuclear armaments.
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I repeatedly warned him against doing it, but our fearless leader decided to outsource all the menial work in our office to Eastern Europe. Of course when the bosses up on high realised it was only the menial work that was actually making any money, we didn't need to come into the office any more.... ever again.
At least when our entire office was closed down, the manager that screwed us all for a Christmas actually screwed himself out of his own job too; and hence also his Christmas bonus.

So, could I in theory make a homoeopathic bomb. As it becomes more powerful the more it's diluted, eventually I could just rid the world of stupid people.

A minimum wage worker will typically have to get some kind of governmental support just to survive. Technically then the government is giving the corporation who employs minimum wage workers the hand outs. Is raising the minimum wage really encouraging companies to employ more high-tech solutions? Or is it about reducing subsidisation of big companies by forcing them to actually pay their employees a survivable wage?

The alternative obviously becomes replacing them with robots but I'll bet people who have to maintain these machines and replacement parts don't come cheap. It wont always cost effective even if it seems cheaper at a glance.

I believe he/she meant to say, "However, the UK probably has most tornadoes per area per year, 0.14 per 1000 km."

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Soaring energy bills in the UK is little short of a crisis but with little correlation to the wholesale cost of the energy, I the prices here don't fall at all.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/nov/16/energy-prices-rise

My apologies, I misread your post and made myself seem a little bit dafter than usual. I mistakenly believed it made you sad that Apple were being strong-armed into following local laws, rather than sad that they had to be forced to comply with local laws. Hence my rather unfounded sarcasm in the previous post. My bad.

Thankfully, with the ugly exception of worldwide tax avoidance, it's only in the USA that Apple appears to be above and beyond the law. Because you love them so much, this genuinely makes you sad?

It's not as daft as you might first think. This is a genuinely serious avenue that many will believe should be monitored.

When I worked for another huge online MMO catching exploiters, botters, real world traders and gold farmers, there was a genuine and perhaps justified concern about real life criminality among the player base. The fact is that virtual currency has real world value. Buying very sought after items or mountains of gold and then reselling it in a different currency gives you a perfect way to quietly transfer funds from one country to another or launder it. Even just using in game private messages to pass on information.

No, its cameras. Suddenly we will have millions of cameras in the sky but I'm sure we can comfortably trust our respective governments with that..... right?

It's possible this gig is a double bluff and is actually a rival oil company or environmental group trolling BP by accusing them of trolling others. Note the lack of direct evidence in the article.