Posts by Lars 4260 publicly visible posts • joined 21 May 2007
"We can also look at similar countries that are not in the EU like say Norway and Switzerland.".
Not similar at all as they are in the single market, follow their obligations and pay for the privilege. The Norwegians pay more per capita than you in the UK, too lazy to find out about Switzerland.
Be an optimist, but your comment seems to prove you have been listening to Farage & Co and trusted them.
Some due diligence is always worth it when making decisions.
@ amanfromMars 1
All I would add is that Trump should stop whining when NATO has to pay for those.
What I find so astonishing and a bit disturbing is how we boys always find i so exciting to dream about weapons of great interest. My $DAITY how I loved guns as a kid, took me almost 18 years to get over it and here I am again appalled by a missing cannon
Here in Finland we are looking for new planes and I really hope it won't be those.
It's very typical that different people in different countries work on the same "patent" at the same time building on each others experience.
About Fessenden:
"In the late 1890s, reports began to appear about the success Guglielmo Marconi was having in developing a practical system of transmitting and receiving radio signals, then commonly known as "wireless telegraphy". Fessenden began limited radio experimentation......".
The first patent related to steam engines was Spanish for instance.
One of the funnily mad "the world's first" is "the world's first war correspondent" in this story about the Crimea war (1853) I happened to see some time ago. Quite a good program actually in three parts, but that "world's first" is indeed ridiculous, the lie about the fortress Sveaborg, a bit British I suppose.
The comments on that program is annoyingly not available anymore.
Each time I read about "the world's first" I just have to check it, for very good reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqik0WDMDco
Was there any claims of Russian meddling in the referendum. Putin is all for Le Pen and against the EU as it would be easier for him to deal with individual European countries than with an united block. Then there is that new! American twat, the ambassador to the EU who says he will "reign in the EU" and then there is the Twitter twat. I suppose the logic is that the EU has become a disturbing world economy.
"welding giant-sized Lego blocks together". That is the way to do it today and nothing new. Have a look at how the Liberty ships were built during WW2 in the USA and why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6A9ms26SaM
PS. Edd China was mentioned on some other thread, here saying good by, too bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IB15T1LYiY
Notrickszone like "no spin zone" by the bullshitmountain man O'Reilly one has to assume.
Those seven Russian scientist don't deny climate change but guess it could all be about "Cosmic Ray Flux",
like this "Russian Scientists Dismiss CO2 Forcing, Predict Decades Of Cooling, Connect Cosmic Ray Flux To Climate".
Should we now tell the Chinese to burn more coal and tell people that if they cannot see their way to work to just get a GPS device, preferably one that works indoors too and remember to cough properly.
Just keep the air and the water clean and I am totally happy with the climate change and will dress accordingly.
Then there is of course the question about who is financing this Notrickszone to reveal all those great scientific stories like:
"Australian Psychologists Now Claim Climate Science Skeptics Are The True Moon-Landing Conspiracy Theorists".
"Dutch Expert: With Trump In Office, Now Safe To Expose The Many Myths Of Climate Alarmism".
"what do you recommend I do". Let me do it for you. Just give me you information, I will provide the photo my self, just as a prank, if needed, I will try to do it by internet first and no need to thank me in advance. I would suggest two bank accounts too, just for safety.
@Kiwi. If it was about a trade deal, the way normal people think about a trade deal. But it's not. it's about everything else too, like with the TTIP.
Think about it for a moment, is there any country in this world that does not sell their products in the EU (including the UK), now I am sure perhaps there could be some island in the Pacific, perhaps a country in Africa that has nothing to export.
And then there are people who claim we have no trade, no products from China, the USA and so forth, but just believe me, I have seen American cars on the street, Chines tools in my home.
And then there are, of course, Brits who think nobody wants to sell them anything because of the EU, totally forgetting that trade is both import and export where importing stuff is just nice and easy while again exporting stuff is about actually producing something somebody wants to buy, and that the EU has, the bastards, prevented the UK to produce wonderful stuff for 40 years and now the whole world is waiting for all that new wonderful stuff and Boris is forced to answer the phone all the time. There was that time, in the past, when trade was about importing for "one" and then exporting that same stuff for "ten", are May & co still living in those times.
"the auto unions since they're both corrupt and only interested in money and power while paying little more than lip service to the workers and paying vast sums to political hacks.".
What a sad and stupid thing to write. The smallest sin in this world is to be stupid. But as I assume you are not, and that was not just a copy/past, more is demanded from you than a sad and stupid sentence like that.
Read some more, grasp some more about industrial history in this world, how it works and doesn't work yesterday and today.
Trying to make this comment short, it's like with a nice bath, it's about the right combination of both cold and warm water.
"At the moment, you can opt out of paying the license fee". Yes, but I have now been allowed to totally opt out of this whole license fee question. There was a dog tax too long ago. Why mess around with silly things for no good reason, why add to the bureaucracy. And besides those who can hardly pay any tax can watch for free as far as I am concerned.
PS. the way to opt out cleverly was to newer opt in.
We did that and the money needed comes from the budget a bit like with the army. The downside is of course that all those persons with that healthy profession walking around knocking on doors lost their jobs. The cash bonuses of £15,000 a year I find very disturbing, next you will have "report your neighbour and you could win £15,000".
I agree with Big Boomer, you can still feel proud about the BBC. It's the influence of guys like Murdoch you should worry about.
Around 1950 Britain was the number two in car manufacturing in the world, not because Britain as a country was anything special but because the rest of Europe was in no shape after the war. And then it all disappeared in no time, nothing left. And still, amazing idiots, people so damned stuck up with their head in their own national English arsehole that they just cannot get it and that it has absolutely nothing to do with anything else like the EU but their own disability to produce, to compete.
Damn you dear Brits, what is it with you, why is it so difficult for, apparently a majority of you, to think rationally about what you are good at, and what you are rather rubbish at.
See, even old Napoleon knew you, with appreciation, for what you were, a bunch of shopkeepers, (a educated and clever guy, that Napoleon who unfortunately was, eventually, at old age, hit with a "Napoleon complex" underestimating his neighbours in the best English tradition ).
What the fuck, there you go so determined to fuck up that one and only thing you are/were good at, trade then, and only digits to day.
Do I live in a country with as a stupid and totally unaware of the reality bunch of countrymen as you do. Wow, time to think indeed.
PS. last year you produced 1.7m cars, best since 1999. 80% for export, about 60% to the EU and the parts needed for that production with 30% from the EU.
Last time my wifi didn't work the problem was between the chair and the keyboard as I was too lazy to put my glasses on and got that "wifi code" wrong. Could it be that you have misunderstood the "out-of-the-box" regarding wifi. Just trying to help and as for those who talk about a wifi card a five year old laptop should have an inbuilt wifi and could be broken and does that wifi of yours work with some other device and how old is your Linux distro, perhaps you need some help.
"to any one of the three pilots on board", Let me guess, you are Russian and there is nothing wrong about that you could correct, but it's a long time since three pilots were needed in the western world of aviation, and quite frankly was that ever needed. That Russian plane was indeed a Airbus and not a Russian Aeroflot design plane. As for the Airbus cockpits here they are.
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/cockpits/
@ Andre Carneiro
Yes I know that and due to a limited vocabulary I called the yoke a stick (the one between your legs, not that other one).
My point was about education, in lack of a better word, in both cases mistakes were made by the pilots.
I would claim we who drive cars have made very silly mistakes too.That reminds me of a friend of mine who decided to open a bottle when driving and as he had a bottle opener with the ignition key ring he pulled the keys out and everything was fine except there was a bend in the road and the steering column locked and he ended up in the ditch. I fore one went of the high way at high speed trying to lit a fag, managed to get back but it was a rather scary moment.
The second point was about the topic between automation and too much automation. In this case automation saved the plane and in the case in Siberia a bit more automation could perhaps have saved the plane too. And what about the plane that crashed in the Everglades.
And what about that Lufthansa suicide, could some more automation have prevented it. Like a "plane" refusing to crash and realizing there is only one pilot in the cockpit and that the door is locked, who knows, but it's clear this topic is ongoing. Perhaps I find the topic interesting from a programmers point too.
Yes, some of us remember the "Russian" Airbus which crashed in Siberia when the pilot let his son sit behind the stick. I can to some "extent" understand that father. I have stood behind the wheel of a ship aged eight, when my father was a captain and I have let my son behind the helm of a yacht too, and I can understand all of that. But in that case, over Siberia, everything went wrong, and had they just let the "stick" alone the plane would have tried to saved itself, but as it was, they were overriding the system pulling the stick. This topic between automation and too much automation and education will not disappear ever.
@aberglas. What a hard life you have. First it was the fly-by-wire that was so bad, but now that Boeing uses it you will have to go with the joystick, eventually you will have to go with the colour or something. And if it was the opposite way you would claim Airbus is old fashioned when they don't use a joystick. Just accept that both companies compete and make great planes. And the fact there is competition is a damned good thing.
@ Baldy50
I am not quite sure if I understand your comment or not, but that face and voice of that man I don't think I would use for anything else but a scarecrow. Poor birds. And if you are American he is indeed absolutely convinced he is the reason Trump is the president and he would indeed love to be part of his administration. Would Trump be that crazy I really don't know. You can have him as far as I am concerned while I am not British I am not surprised he has been unable to become a MP in Britain. Perhaps you could let him loose in Texas for a Brextex just for the fun of it.
"As for using it to improving the economy. Ha. Not while tied to the Euro.".
Try to get over it, or do you still believe the EU was going to force the Euro upon you as the Brexiters claimed.
Just get over it although it's a bigger currency than the Sterling, and by the way I cannot have too many of them.
The Eurozone is a monetary union of 19 of the 28 European Union member states.
Free up your mind, think about the Rand for instance.
The Brexit angle is a stupid effort to try to hide there is world outside England.
"Amazon to create record 15,000 new full-time jobs across Europe in 2017"
"Many of the roles will be in new fulfillment centers that have been announced over the past several months and are currently under construction in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and UK".
https://www.amazon.eu/p/feature/dxd673pupxt68qv
@ Alexander J Martin was it really this difficult to include this link to Amazon. And why did I guess it.
"I'm happy to stick with the green bits of paper thank you.".
If I a want a paper one then I ask for one, no problem, thank you. But I (old man) must admit I am a bit pissed off with doctors who politely asked me if I have heard about this new exciting e-prescription system.
"But the doctor mailed it yesterday"
I am writing about the Internet, like with bank transactions, not mail pidgins.
Which reminds me of a true, or not so true, story about people who tried to outrun the computer system, when the first ATMs came, by running to the next ATM in the hope they could get the same money twice.
And there are two more advantages with the e-prescription. First should the sum of my pills exceed 640E from the start of the year then I will pay only 1.5E for my prescription at the pharmacy for the rest of the year, and that is automatic, while if I use paper stuff I have to work it out and send it in to the "NHS" my self.
The second advantage is that if I, at the pharmacy, find out that my prescription is used up, then I can ask them to phone my doctor to extend my prescription right there and then. And in case they cannot get in tough with him they send a message to my phone when it's OK and I don't use time and energy getting that new "paper" prescription.
I know systems are different in different countries, I did study Computer Science in England many years ago (and liked it) but I also know that the words "world leading" at times doesn't quite mean what some of you Brits think it means.
"Are you saying that emailed prescriptions go to a "central point" from where they can be accessed by any pharmacy; ".
Yes exactly, although I cannot understand why you think one would use emails to make an entry into a data base.
It's a scary world, I use a bank, actually two, I drive a car and electricity enters my house.
PS. how wide is your geographical assumption of "any pharmacy",
PPS. "sitting somewhere at a common location from which they can be hacked". Are you serious!!.
@ heyrick
Apart from that the white paper also admits the UK was always sovereign but that some Brits did not quite get it. I am also slightly surprised about how often the "car manufacture" is mentioned when it's totally foreign owned producing cars for the UK and the rest of the EU. I have no doubt they will in the future produce cars for the UK market but what will happen to the production for the EU market. And what about Airbus.
What a fucking mess you Brits have created for yourself and worst of all you have started to lose friends in the EU because you just cannot hide the arrogance, and that's not just at the top.
What you, May, finally have to understand is that while the UK is almost as important to the EU as France or Germany, the EU is more important to the EU than the UK is to the EU. This is not only about money there is a lot more to it,
My advice to you Brits would be to stop voting in those "Eaton" guys like Cameron, Mogg, they don't live in the past, as I have sometimes claimed, they just don't know the past is in the past.
About the APT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Passenger_Train
Judging from some of this, is history repeating itself.
"APT became the focus of a storm of negative press reporting, with every failure extensively reported on and continued claims that the entire project was a white elephant." ................... the press dubbed it the "Accident Prone Train"
"The introduction of the Squadron fleet designated APT-S did not occur as had been originally envisaged. The APT project succumbed to an insufficient political will in the United Kingdom to persist in solving the teething difficulties experienced with the many immature technologies necessary for a ground breaking project of this nature. The decision not to proceed was made against a backdrop of negative public perceptions shaped by media coverage of the time.[31][32] The APT is acknowledged as a milestone in the development of the current generation of tilting high speed trains.[citation needed] 25 years later on an upgraded infrastructure the Class 390 Pendolinos now match the APT's scheduled timings. The London to Glasgow route by APT (1980/81 timetable) was 4hrs 10min, the same time as the fastest Pendolino timing (December 2008 timetable). In 2006, on a one off non-stop run for charity, a Pendolino completed the Glasgow to London journey in 3hrs 55min, whereas the APT completed the opposite London to Glasgow journey in 3hrs 52min in 1984".
As for the Italians:
In 1982 Fiat Ferroviaria purchased BR's active tilting patents for development of their own tilting train concepts. They had previously developed the locally designed ETR 401 using the Talgo-like pendulum arrangement and tested it in the 1980s. For its second-generation machines, the ETR 450, the company used BR's active tilt. These entered service between Rome and Milan in 1988. This led to a series of newer designs, known collectively as the Pendolino.[24][c] Italian Pendolino systems incorporating original APT technology have since been sold internationally, including, ironically, the British Class 390 Pendolino introduced on the WCML from late 2003 onwards
The UK arms industry is fairly successful and the number five exporter behind the USA, Russia, Germany and France with China as number six according to the Daily Mail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest_arms_exporters
Industrial espionage is hardly anything new but I agree it must be hard to prove exactly who is behind every hacking attempt (and I am sick and tired by the word cyber for now, and so is my spellchecker).
I wouldn't worry about Sarah Palin. Was anybody ever angry about her, surprised yes, as a possible vice president. But seriously we laugh at Larel and Hardy and similar while we know they play "stupid", Sarah on the other hand does not play, she is totally genuine.
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