Posts by Naughtyhorse

i guess that depends whos flying it

you or me :D

this, of course assumes that the unreliability manifests itself prior to take off!

FFS

thats all

majority

60 million and change populace....

sun and daily fail shifting a couple million copies a day...

need to get a petition to have the OED to alter the definition of majority methinks

(alright i hold my hands up on the x-fucktor thang... actually no i dont! they dot get 30 million odd fuckwits in everyweek do they)

nah you got that all wrong

being on death row increases the life expectancy of black people.

ergo it's positive discrimination gone mad

well...

i can give you a pass on the security guard thing

but professional writers, and newspapers??

would you like to have another go at that one?

true...

But on top gear the other day he admitted to having put 37,000 miles on it!

quite long in the tooth for a thoroughbred

or to put it another way

your average fan of an artist in their 60's is probably going to be middle aged, have a massive mortgage - far greater than the value of the property, contemplating a significant increase in pension contributions and funding their kids through university, and little job security....

If people - fans care enough about the band they'll find a way to be there. Thats why wrinklies go to see the stones.

25-30%

you are right,

if only wind could generate as much as that.

I have no objection to renewables, but wind and solar are too unreliable to use as a generation 'staple'

you need equivalent spinning reserve or pumped hydro for evey kw of wind, cos the wind sometimes stops (or changes speed by more than a few percent which renders wind turbines unuseable - same thing really) either that or a _radical_ reform of the operator licensing conditions for dno's

Big business is in wind for the subsidy. end of!

just look at the 100's and 100's of solar farm plans that suddenly got pulled when the subsidy went away a couple of months back.

blackouts - not because of lack of capacity - that is incorrect. just look at the sudden upswing of interest being shown in black start strategies by the DNO's just now, why do you think that is happening? thats a lot of money to invest in something you dont think is going to happen.

if the regulation is broke - fix it. sure it's hard, if it was easy then everyone would be doing it.

we clearly have to do something, having the lights go off would be a massive desaster, i just dont believe wind is the answer, it's politically more acceptable than nuclear, and as far as the politicians are concerned (remember what blair was like) when the strategy bites us all on the ass, they will be out of office and therefore, not their problem.

them solving their problems != them solving our problems

theres no evidence to support this

but it's a scientific fact

you gotta love brasseye!

errr...

few issues.

a) 1km^2 bloody small power station

b) typically located in industrial areas - do me a favour! apart from the power station they are typically in the middle of nowhere.

c) mahoosive windfarm, so that means offshore then! :-)

common misconcenption

Wind farms are not about generating energy.

they generate something altogether more valuable

subsidy

oh no you didnt!

The coils dont make the noise, its the line output transformer.

an thats at about 17kHz, so easily audible to the young and or asthmatic (really!) or anyone with good hearing.

'Uncanny knacks' of all flavours tend to have more to do with the knackees failure to understand probability more than anything else :-)

i was wondering about that

motorways much worse, noise, flashing lights and air polution. of course only poor people live there, and didnt pay a premium for living in absolute monastic silence.

nimby's!

fuck em

that said windfarms are a joke, and we'll be pulling them all down in a few years anyways

lol

top post!

although i do sometimes feel bad mocking the hard of thinking, i mean it's a bit like standing infront of someone in a wheelchair and dancing.

hilights???

what hilights?

alonso passing vettel into the first corner...

then vettel winning th erace

coo!

not a good plan

dont support sky

and dont support dipshit landlords who support sky

why all the downvotes?

I've been watching for 40 years and for the last 20 the previous commentard is about right - 10 minutes of intense excitment in about 2 hours of endless round and round - thats why the commentary team are vital.

thing is...

footbalists work for 45 minutes, then take a breater (cant have the poor dears getting out of puff) then do another 45 minutes stint.

F1 is 2 hours in which mostly nothing much happens, but sometimes incredibly exciting stuff happens, and no one can predict when.

which buggers up the advertising schedule

on point 2

nO the bastards wont

lol

as no doubt would be the jacals!

and when the first post...

is me poking my lawyer.

it's all inadmissable :D

(yer know i thought about law as a profession, would have done so. but for the rigour of the exams, people come staggering out of exams saying 'god that was rigourous!' so i beame a coal miner, much less rigorous, in fact 1 question; 'what is your name?' I got 50% at mine)

advisable???

it's bloody well obligatory if you want to get on in thei church sonny!