Walsingham

What the hell? Someone's been listening to Oliver Twist.

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation...cott_awards.htm Is it just me or is the guy handing out prizes clearly wearing some sort of elder sign?

People pay a lot of money for exclusive experiences. I have to say that cynical as I am about luxuries, there would be something terrifyingly awesome about being in space, however briefly. To chase back down through your genome and reach out a hand from up there to your ape grand^200 parents. Even if their leathery palm smelled faintly of ape poo.

People get really excited about house prices going up, as in hurray! But unless you trade down you don't see any improvement. Actually, I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I'm going to have to sit in my nice northern three bed house, drinking and eating cheaply, and enjoying women who smile back at you; while my friends are all stuck in London, ekeing out tins of beans from waitrose by the flickering light of hobo fires outside their tiny flat.

Learned your lesson hopefully. You gotta keep your head down son, otherwise you get nailed by the hammer of society. Not to mention the entire thing was relatively trivial and the outcome predictable. I know. Still, people gotta stand up for what they think was right or the status quo will never change. I understand your concerns here, but you might want to also look at it from the point of the view of the dean and the teacher. Did you expect him to just fire her because of a couple student complaints? She has probably worked hard and put in a lot of years to get into a college level position. It would be pretty messed up if she just lost it all because you didn't like her teaching style. This is one class for you, it will be forgotten by next semester, but this one class is her entire career. I don't want to sound lairy, but actually these calsses are the careers of every student who goes through them.

I'd have thought them having fun was a prerequisite of that particular scientific study.

I concur.

Iran, a nation with a population that falls in line, lock-step, with its leaders.

It's a bit more sinister than this. All members of the ICCP use data that is based on the falsified data these core members made. Also the database where all data is stored and the code used to make the simulations is apparently so messed up that no one can make sense of it, not even the ICCP. So it could be that while the vast majority of the scientists working for the ICCP are honest and legit the core data which they compare they results to has been falsified or corrupted. For example tree ring data, which has been used to measure earths temperature differs from thermometer data. Tree rings show a decline in temperature since the 60s while thermometers show its been steadily rising. This puts into question the validity of all data based on tree rings which is iirc the majority of what ICCP has. That was startlingly coherent.

Like I say I'm making an economic case. If it turned out that pumping shows based on more than immediate viewing figures wasn't a better commercial approach then I wouldn't advocate it. My argument is simply that dropping a show based on a few week's ratings strikes me as being inherently vulnerable to external factors, and unrepresentative of the show's true worth to the company.

It's no use having a consumer union which doesn't have collective action. I'm not saying people get forced into unions. You can leave any time you like, but if you want to get coverage from your union you have to participate en masse with your union. If you fail to participate in sanctioned boycotts then you get ejected from the union and can't rejoin that union. If it's some ideological mismatch then you just start another union and collect anyone else who didn't fit in the last one. The alternative will be people constantly badgering for action and never bothering to participate.

"Lisa, honey... Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

I hope you weren't wearing them at the time. ROFLMAO "Whoaaaah! Put me down!"

You'd think so, except you had to crap into the corner of the room while you were at fancy parties and everybody had bowel problems. So... you're saying it's like Thailand?

But London is also very expensive. People move there to make a living, but then seem incapable of enjoying that living whilst they are making it, because they spend all the income on ridiculous mortgages and taxi fares. The reason I'm actually vexed by all this is that London acts like a gravity well, hoovering up people from the regions. This places an unenduarble strain on public services in London, and saps the rest of the country of workers and investment. Hopefully things like moving part of the BBC to Manchester will help shift media attention outside zone 1.

That might be true in principle. Actually it IS true in principle. But FOX are huge. They could weather a few seasons underperforming if it would net them a big return long term.

I hope you weren't wearing them at the time. ROFLMAO

IMO recommendations are that ships do not resist pirates or hijackers beyond making course and speed alterations.

But people in London are so goddamn unfriendly. I held the door for someone once and they looked at me as if I'd farted.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...-at-550000.html As many will have noticed, I f***ing hate London. I hate the pollution. I hate the miserable bastards who live there. I hate the way they spend all day doing nothing but being even more miserable and miserifying each other. I especially hate the insistence that it's full of culture when no-one ever seems to use any of it. But more than anything I hate the house prices. The house in the above link is 66 inches wide, and going for

I'm afraid I'm going to be slightly rude to you GD: you're loopy. Or at least by some perspectives. Government, all government exists to harness the people (usually via tax these days) under it to a given objective. That objective depends on the government. In theory this can be world-changing, especially in your country, where a fraction of your output represents hitherto unimaginable potential. I would think it was self-evident that there are a great many massive projects which can benefit all under them. The military is an obvious one, and an ancient one. But it could be the space race or a cure for cancer. It is no good expecting private companies to embark on some of the most ambitious and useful projects. Returns have to occur within an investor's lifetime, and they usually have to compete with the return on other investments like internet porn or oil futures etc. That is even where private companies might possess the capital in the first place. If you accept this then you must admit that governments have huge potential for good. The USA has its constitutional roots in a different era, when mankind was basically incapable of large scale projects other then war (and then very badly). But most democratic countries now work on the premise that provided they do what we as the people say then good things will happen. However, you are arguing, or so it seems to me, that governments are both out of control and incapable of being domesticated, which I think is slightly loopy. As I say.

This just made me cry. I USED to have nights like that. Damn you Shryke! Let's kill him.

Sunni Islam doesn't even have a heirarchy, so even if heirarchies had the capability to speak on behalf of all their adherents it wouldn't be the case here. Never mind the simple fact that Islamofascists claim an arabic centre for their religion, when that is demosntrably not the case by population. There are quite enough genuine reasons for wars without ignorance buggers going inventing them from nothing. 'Islam' is not the enemy. Terrorism is the enemy. Fascism is the enemy. Mussolini wearing a turban and ludicrous beard is still Mussolini.

Are you mad? Companies spend all their time panicking about people not buying their products or services. The problem isn't the capability, it's the delivery of that capability. I've been giving this quite a bit of thought recently, off and on, and reckon you need something like a consumer union, with legally binding group behaviour. So when people say they will boycott they actually have to do so. Set something liek that up and the banks would absolutely wet themselves.