just don't try and use it as a coffee table though... you wouldn't want to knock a cup over on it and blow the works...

don't believe it... they left it switched on while the wiring for the firehouse was renewed as it surely must have done during that 107 years... and what about power cuts and other interruptions to the supply?

amazingly impracticable for me as I play Bass... that buckle would result in a major case of buckle rash on it...

I make my own music now... so much more fun than simply consuming it like like the good sheeple they want us to be...

why do you Americans have such problems with the words lose and loose???

you lose a game...

you let something loose (release it, loosen a rope)

caustics...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic_(optics)

purely and simply, they're caustics...

she's got some sort of bowl or other glass object in the window...

Bassists do it with their fingers all night long...

Air traffic, getting things down safely...

#11, Just send an email to the department with a link to the youtube video... that'll get all three of them in trouble...

I'm very surprised the idiot with the camera didn't get busted for using the C word in public...

Ausweiss bitte!!!

hey guys... just so you know... Middlesborough is a long way away from London...

lefties have always been worse... just look at what used to happen in East Germany... Labour have always had wet dreams about doing that... My MP is useless, he's a boot-licking Labour toady... he publicly sucks up to GB on every occasion... Campaigned to save post offices, yet voted with the rest of his Labour toadies to kill them off, and claimed that he'd been elected to vote Labour on every issue... the man has no conscience... he won't question the Government on this issue...

you do realise that dumping the surplus pork on third world contries just kills the market for the pig farmers in those countries...

why else is it called an honour system??? so as to rely on people's inate sense of honour...

some people get caught short with no money, but intend to make it up later... some of those forget... some of those actually do make it up later...

and then again, some people never intend to pay... those people have no honour...

"Daddy, you can't expect me to stay here. It's like Hogwarts for Pikeys!"

the rest of the class are now wondering what all the fuss is about and will be sniffing marker pens they find at home... nice one school... you've just clued an entire class or more into something they may not heve even known was possible...

there's a defence for 2G1C???

The Colombs are coloured??? you could have fooled me...

ah, nice... take 20 years worth of "data"... makes it look nice and well studied... such a pity we're talking about average solar output over several hundred years, not short term cycles... the short term 22 year solar sunspot activity cycle barely has any effect on the global temperature...

One factor that doesn't get mentioned much is the solar systems' passage through the different arms of the galaxy... those density waves don't stay put going round the galaxy at the same rate as the stars do... who's to say whether we haven't recently passed through a slightly denser patch that caused the solar heliopause to get pushed in and resulted in more cosmic rays getting through to form clouds...

and what about volcanic activity?... that has a major effect over geological timescales...

do you actually have to agree to the EULA before you can walk out of the shop with it???

to quote the wizened old man on Thunderbirds when something new was being trialled... "It will be a great disaster"...

anyone else think of The Scarlet Letter?

or the Star of David being worn by Jews in Nazi Germany?

#2... yet it's obvious from the shots that even these are faked... blatantly cooked up and served by a professional chef who hasn't used the actual product...

I'll bet if you tried to serve the actual product up in the company exec's dining room no-one would eat it, yet they expect their customers to buy it...

if it had really been planted by an intelligence unit, there would have been nothing pointing back to whoever had really planted it...

one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish...

BBC are carrying a story about fake gold bars being found in the vaults of the Ethiopian National Bank...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7294665.stm

how much actually gets to you after all the middle men take their cut of what the "True fan" pays for your goods or services? you're going to need an awful lot more than 1000 "True fans"...

I've got one of those Danelectro "Vintage" 9 volt batteries. It came "free" with my headphone practice amp... made no difference to the sound, the amp has a horrible fixed volume hiss at all times when on...

Cables... well, I always relied on using three-core mains cable for my speaker runs... so much cheaper than the audiophile stuff they were pushing at me when I bought my system back in the late seventies...

I still have my Dark Side Of the Moon Mobile Fidelity 1/2 speed remastered 12 inch disk... the sound quality still beats the latest CD version easily...

That would make a real mess of the back of my Bass Guitar...

what's wrong with Flickr these days? I can't save the image and the size is fixed small... have I got to create a yahoo account just to get access to the old features?

(saving the image results in a 1x1 pixel spaceball.gif file...)

pray tell me what constitutes a "malicious" operating system??? the linked article doesn't mention them, but merely mentions that an image can be obtained for malicious (or forensic) purposes...

water boarding is a very old torture... the Dutch used it on the British back in 1632... it was most likely used well before then as well...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7139708.stm

come the revolution, they will be the first up against the wall...

strange how you have to remove a motorbike helmet when you enter a bank, yet a burka wearing muslim woman is allowed to keep her burka on...

UPSO: "why
on
earth
did
i
listen
to
the
whole
thing?"

so that I don't have to???

this sounds like a first class case for the EFF to get involved with...

#16: "From what I understand talking to Muslims, the Burka is something that is usually only worn by women in Afghanistan, because they are forced to."

you should see them all wandering around the streets of Gloucester, England then...

Antinous:

We get our water from an underground aquifer. Except, it's so depleted that we buy it from the Colorado River and pump it into the aquifer to replenish it. The local water agency isn't worried about water shortages because we have long term contracts to buy water from the Colorado. They're either oblivious or pretending not to notice that there won't be any water to buy.

got their heads buried in the sand then?

Benguiat is a pretty neat font too...

http://www.linotype.com/576/itcbenguiat-family.html

however, I hate Times New Roman... those lower case 'e''s are so ugly...

"Flying is not a right granted under the Bill of Rights and due to the state of the world today, we must all make smart decisions. I am proud of what we do and what we represent. Thank you Mr. Hawley!!"

hmmm what about the Ninth amendment??? just because it isn't "Expressly" enumerated in the "bill of rights" doesn't mean you don't have the right...

it's a bit small isn't it???

I he had to pay for it then I doubt he'd pester them so much... Directory enquiries in UK is obscenely expensive...

obviously she was interfering with "official" Police business... the officers wanted their burgers... the only other thing I can think of is that they were in the queue and got tasked and couldn't get past her cos she was waiting for her order...

well, they know where the rover was, they can send the rover back there... and if it's a rock, it'll still be there...

you have to keep a close watch on them... they'll try and sneak it through the fisheries committee or somesuch...