Comment Re:World Cup 2018 (Score 1) 151
Why not create an UK team ? You would have more chances of success.
double zero is still zero!
Why not create an UK team ? You would have more chances of success.
double zero is still zero!
How about getting the England football team beyond the first round for the next world cup? This I see as a much better plan for 2018.
We prefer realistic goals.
David Cameron is currently undertaking a feasibility study on the possibility of holding a piss-up in a brewery.
But it's being pushed by Scottish politicians. I still think it's politics, but for the other side: It's a way for Scotland to demonstrate the have high-tech capabilities too, and are more than just an outpost of England.
It doesn't sound like it, from TFA:
Ministers want to establish the UK spaceport by 2018 - the first of its kind outside of the US.
Eight aerodromes have been shortlisted and Scotland has six of the potential locations.
If the French people want the small booksellers etc. they can simply choose now not to go to amazon. Amazon offering cheap shipping isn't forcing anyone to use it.
It comes down to whether you want to make a considered decision on something or rely on the populace's impulse purchases to determine the direction your country moves in.
At least for now with this most recent situation, an online giant has found a relatively quick and easy way to regain the upperhand.
Why the assumption that it is good for for-profit companies to find loopholes and avoid the will of democratically elected governments. The French government has made a decision that will have repercussions. If this is followed, books will be more expensive in France, but they wont lose the independent small bookstalls in town high streets that so many other countries will have. It may also inhibit the ability of online companies to start in France. But, guess what, the people can decide. They can lobby for it to be an election issue, ask their representatives which way they vote, etc. If they don't like the law they can get it changed.
Why is it assumed to be better for a private company with a board who the French people ave no influence upon circumvent this decision?
I worked on the beginning of Regan's Star Wars project. We viewed the problem as one in which you try to stop a bullet with a bullet. Add long range and intelligence to the bullet and the problem gets harder.The problem is hard and physics places many constraints on the solution. At one point management thought that space based defense was what we wanted until we showed that the time/distances were too great to be effective. Now we just have a scaled back terminal defense with very limited capabilities. After all these years the only value that I think that missile defense has is PR. Effective? Not really. Forget Star Wars the movie. It's not going to happen.
Except perhaps in a galaxy far, far away
That seems completely arbitrary.
It'll put a dampener on their July the 4th celebrations - oh sorry March 2nd - it's Texas.
oh the hubris! Does the rest of the Galaxy know about this? Are they ready?
They're boycotting it because it doesn't sign up to the Andromeda and District port worker's labor union.
Get with the times! Switch to Y10K compliance already.
I don't like that type of short term thinking. When Y100,000 comes along you'll regret not doing it properly in the first place. Everyone should implement rfc2550.
Soundblaster cards don't have the imaginary qualities audiophiles look for?
Maybe you're only imagining that. I imagine that's a possibility anyway.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
