Re: See, you keep telling them but they don't listen
The US Army and Air Force are far from the first to use ferrets for cable installation. Allot of early installation of electricity cables in stately homes in the UK was done by ferrets.
Posts by LazyLazyman
63 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Aug 2013
Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic
Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid: Eco, economy and diesel power
Friday 16th August 2013 14:47 GMT
Re: 12 seconds!!!!
"I think you'll find very few people are driving about in cars capable of sub-8s 0-60 times. That means that if there's anything in front of you, which let's face it on most major UK roads happens quite often, then you'll be the one that's held up."
Not sure how you work that out. The speed limit is still the same no matter how fast a car accelerates....
Friday 16th August 2013 10:43 GMT
Re: 12 seconds!!!!
Ye, if you are at all bothered about other road users 12 seconds is very slow. Sub 8 is useful for pulling out of junctions without forcing other people to slow, overtaking smoothly or getting on to a motorway on an uphill slip road without a load of stress. It makes driving so much less stressful to have enough shove to get up to speed, if you care at all about other road users.
On the cost side, it will be a while before we see prices drop to those levels, if they ever do given that much of it is the engineering elements of the 4wd and getting the two drive systems to play well together. I'm sure they will sooner or later, but for the time being that market will be dominated by small turbo diesels. The VW Golf Bluemotion will do everything you ask for £20k, or the Fiesta 1.6 TDCi Econetic for £14,995. Realistically a Focus sized car with a disle is never going to be in the price range you ask, as the base Focus is £14k.
Then there is the size and weight element of slinging that lot in the back of something that is not either a) a big estate where it is a small price or b) a hair shirt eco car where people will live with a tiny boot and high weight.
'But we like 1 Direction!' Rock gods The Who fend off teen Twitter hate mob
That big UK gov leg up for small biz: SMEs bag just 1-in-10 G-Cloud deals
Wednesday 14th August 2013 12:52 GMT
Risk
Unfortunately one problem is risk. Big contracts need careful checks on the risk before punting allot of money at a company. Unfortunately SMEs represent around 23% of bank lending yet make up 40% of the bad debt risk. This is not to say that all SMEs are high risk, but that looking at them as a whole they are more likely to present an unacceptable risk than a large company so are less likely to get past the basic checks.
Boffins harvest TV, mobile signals for BATTERY-FREE comms
Wednesday 14th August 2013 12:40 GMT
Re: And is illegal in the UK
If you can find the name or more details of that case I would love to read why. I assume there must be more too it than "stealing electricity", presumably something to do with it causing interference. Unfortunately all I can find when searching for the obvious terms is lots of psudo science bollacks about the health effects of radio waves and florescent lights (WiFi gives me migraines type of stuff).
Nude swimmers warned of GONAD-GOBBLING FISH ON THE LOOSE
Tuesday 13th August 2013 08:33 GMT
Re: A few details:
Rather than tired, more likely it grew too big. People buy them as 3" fish in a 3' tank not realizing that they can grow bigger than the tank. They then need to get rid of them somehow and most zoos have too many of the things. Take a look at London zoos aquarium, it is full of monster fish, most of which come from people who could no longer look after them.
Also, I would guess that the salinity and lack off food would get to it before the cold.
Robot cop called in after MAD BONGER blown up in LIQUID MARIJUANA EXPLOSION
Netflix dares UK freetards: Watch new Breaking Bad NOW or torrent it?
Study finds online commentards easily duped, manipulated
Cameron demands Brits BOYCOTT angry-troll-infested websites
Thursday 8th August 2013 13:45 GMT
Don't be so ridiculous. Teeth are not "replaced". Having dentures or caps for the rest of your life is not fun, and if someone ends up in hospital for several weeks there is a good chance they could have brain damager or even have died from a beating that bad.
I don't see how anyone could take pride in punching someone. Getting someone in authority involved is standing up for yourself. You know, like an adult should, or do you go around ready to punch people at work or in the street? Lashing out is just a perpetuation of violence. If you are taking pride in that you are part of the problem and if punching someone stops the problem you were not being bullied, you were momentarily picked on. Treating kids to "stand up for themselves" through aggression and violence is what the bullies grow up learning.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
