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Fascinating. Can't see it though...not until 2012.

I never knew a monkey's fist was a knot until just now. Happy Birthday.

TBF "You're going down with the hoaxer" is one of my favourite chants of all time.

The thread on NO has been gold like.....

Paula's mam should get a bonus payment from the BBC.

REPORTS are coming in that wanted gunman Raoul Moat may have been located. Moat has been pinned down near the river that runs through the market town. He is understood to have a gun to his own head. Chief Supt Mark Dennett warned residents of Rothbury to "stay inside for your own safety" as a major police operation got underway in the town.

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Probably down the back of the sofa.

The Tories got in.

Some legacy sytstems still use punched cards.

Manchester City have officially bid £45m for Raoul Moat. They've no idea who he is, but they've heard everyone's after him.

I have no doubt that opportunistic idealism plays a very large part in the eagerness for instant cuts from the Tories. I work on new IT for the DWP, we're in the middle of several upgrades that should save lot's of money in 2 or 3 years. They're already being put on hold one by one until the comprehensive spending review completes in Sept/Oct. It's saving a little bit of money on this years budget, and maybe next, but if they're canned altogether it only serves to ensure there's no savings to be had in the long term future, once you've cut all new projects there's nothing left to cut, all you have is the original expensive systems going back to the eighties that we were justifiably investing capital in streamlining for long term savings. Can you imagine any business nowadays still using pre windows applications without a mouse? It makes me wonder what they thought these projects initially got the green light for. It wasn't because being able to use a mouse is more fun. They really are cheaper/easier/require less training than keyboard only applications. Cost effectiveness always takes a back seat to political motivation.

Can't believe Messi is up for player of the tourney.... Sneijder, Villa, Forlan, Gyan, Iniesta, Messi, Robben, Schweini, Ozil & Xavi

So, how much Red Matter will fix it?

I'd be interested in reading about how they measure that. Source? I know the sun's getting bigger as part of it's natural cycle towards being a red giant like all the other stars, and that it will sooner or later swallow the earth (and all the other planets). But I thought it was an exponential thing and we had a couple of billion more years before the expansion starts ramping up big stylee.

Henry Winter: Not quite on the Moat scale of evading justice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/latin_america/10565346.stm

Strikes will save a few bob.

Christ, it's Krusty the clowns mum....

The Sun is middle aged. It'll soon have less life left to go than it's had so far. It's all downhill for this solar system.

Yeah, i retract my guess, I'll tell you in May. Not sure why waiting till the end of August is controversial. I admire your faith that we'll be moving and shaking in the transfer market to such a degree.

There is no scientific method available to us that can prove we are the cause of Global Warming. Read Popper. Irrespective of what, or how we pump crap into the ecosystem at the end of the day the planet will be fine, we may not be, but hey ho. Millions and millions of years of heating and cooling and all of a sudden it's all our fault Bit like dark matter, maybe it exists, maybe it doesn't. Humans have been having heart attacks for hundreds of thousands of years and all of a sudden smoking causes it. Yes, that's right. Science has managed to isolate many of the causes of ill health and just about double average life expectancy in the last 100 years. Of course, unless we hurry up and invent a self sufficient space vehicle that requires no maintenance or natural materials then we will eventually be finished as a species whatever we do. It's pretty much a certainty we will become extinct at some point. There's no need to embrace it so soon though.

Humans are responsible for 3% of atmospheric Co2. Global warming is made up. Lock it. I disagree, man made global warming is made up, but I think a totally natural cycle of warming is a fact. Is that just a hunch? You "think" a natural cycle of warming is fact? There's no thinking required on that score. It's a self-evident fact. Sea levels have risen and fallen repeatedlty for millions of years. The sea was low enough that humans could walk from Asia to America tens of thousands years ago. Imagine there's a bowl of water sat in your garden. Throughtout the day and night it warms and cools, evaporates and replenishes naturally depending on the sun, the humidity, the wind, rain etc. That's a natural cycle. Science has shown that in this analogy the water seems to have started boiling up spontaneously on a scale way off the natural process, it's like a kettle's been switched on which the natural cycle can't account for. If you don't believe the science that says it's man made, you'll need to posit another theory than natural cycles. Natural cycles as recorded in ice cores is no good? Well that's science for ya I guess. I am a healer I am telling you the planet is safe. I think you skimmed the post. Natural cycles as recorded in ice cores is perfectly valid as empirical evidence of what we all know is a fact, the earth warms and cools naturally. That doesn't suggest that the sudden increase in the RATE of warming since the industrial revolution is part of that natural cycle though.

Fol Chen - In Ruins Love any ramshackle stuff like this that twists and turns all over the shop. Beta Band or Fiery Furnaces stylee.