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What about the Elysee Palace? Honestly though, they don't own the palaces, it's just felt that the Head of State of a major country might as well live in a place worthy of that country.The palaces are national monuments and would be maintained at public expense anyway.They aren't patricularly...

Once more guys-we don't live in a totalitarian state yet.ALL the police you meet in *************** are CIVILIANS.The police service was designed with great care to ensure that they are separate from the MILITARY.If you are not military you answer to the civil power and civil law-you are a...

Tax dodging? On her accession the Queen gifted all the income from her Crown Estates to the Treasury.These amount to roughly double any payments she receives from the public purse.Most of which is spent on wages and upkeep of buildings which in her absence would still be maintained by the...

Nobody said that we don't have an impact but simply that other factors dwarf it.Human activity has increased massively and constantly for the last 200 years yet for part of the time the planet was cooling, then warming , cooling again and warming again.At the moment it may be cooling .Whatever...

In the 1790s a ship was a four masted sailing vessel, nothing else.So any reference to a ship would be irrelevant now unless you accept a loose interpretation.Just an example of course.

We are in an interglacial period and the underlying trend is for warming and that isn't anything we can control.But hidden in this trend are a number of cycles which bring about more rapid change.When the Romans invaded Britain it was warmer than now;similarly it was warmer 1000 years ago when...

In 1979 the tories inherited the weakest economy in Europe at a time of general world recession and unemployment.It ****** on to Labour in 1997 the strongest major economy in Europe.They had vast problems in modernising crumbling neglected and inefficient businesses so they would become...

In the UK nobody is allowed to discuss any case with the media which is either pending or under way.This is known as being sub judice and is intended to prevent potential jurors being influenced by anything other than the evidence produced in court.

I've never understood the logic behind making such evidence inadmissable - if it's good evidence then it should stand.If somebody's rights have been ******** by getting the evidence then that should be treated as a separate matter. Being pedantic, but all police are civilians except military...

Millenium Dome? Gordon Brown who saved the world?

I don't believe it was ever Danni Ashe-why would it be? At one time the most searched for was Pam Anderson.I just don't believe anyone knows, which makes it easy to claim knowing nobody can contradict them.

Norfolk (England) driving for locals. Drive at 25 mph on the open road and when there is a speed limit of 30 mph speed up to 37.Then slow down again at the deristriction sign.

Yes, Grace and Bradman both dominated the sport in their time in a way which is almost unheard of. To those uninitiated in cricket, a world class batsman in international cricket is lucky to average around 50.Bradman averaged-over his whole international career-99.96. Grace's averages with bat...

Roads? Here (this is true) they spend £60 million a year in compensation for pothole damage and £33 million in repairing the potholes.The asylum is run by its inmates.

Both of mine are fine. We just DON'T LIKE over whitened teeth , they look false.

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Unfortunately the statistics are against you.In the real world a *** doesn't offer overall protection. That isn't to say that there are no instances where a *** offers protection but these have to be weighed against the much larger chance of things just going horribly wrong.Guns raise the stakes...

Not entirely.If a layperson goes to an expert for advice and acts on that advice then some or most of the resulting responsibility rests with the expert.In the UK there have been many instances of companies selling unsuitable financial packages to members of the public who had a right to good...

It's 16 at the bar if the person is buying ****,cider or perry to accompany a meal in an area set aside for food.This came to light when the Prince of Wales did just that as a teenager. To our American friends-cider is what you call "hard cider" and perry is a ***** made like cider but from pears.

It's 17 in the UK and 18 to ***** in pubs .Strangely it's considered less grown up to handle a ton of metal at speed than it is to lift a glass.

That's not how it works.The 30s depression was brought about by this sort of thinking which led to protectionism.There's an idea called "relative advantage" which really means that you do what you do best and leave the other guy to do what he does best and then trade.And the Chinese have an...

The US accident rate is horrific.43 000 dead last year compared with 3000 in the UK despite the UK's massively more crowded roads.One major factor in reducing UK casualties was compulsory wearing of seat belts.

The thing about archery is the firepower.Muskets took quite a while to reload (and in the heat of battle often did it wrongly) whereas an archer could keep up a steady fire.

Actually the most effective personal weapon at the time was still the bow and arrow!A good archer could hit a target at a greater range than a musket was effective and could keep 5 arrows in the air at once.

The Militia Act of 1791 was a clarification and continuation of the 2nd Amendment and written by the same people.You can't have one without the other.

The Militia Act of 1791 placed the militia under the command of the President who also has the right to order members back to their homes.

I'm afraid that German cars are much overrated. VW have continued reliability problems, Mercedes Benz have a very tarnished reputation since the beancounters got involved. quote "the cars are no longer worthy of the three pointed star" Both my sons have BMWs,I have a Ford. They would be the...

The Iraqi army was pretty well equipped and a lot of good that did them.And they were fighting for their own soil. By the way, the Militia Act which followed the 2nd Amendment placed the militia under the command of the President.......... That whenever the laws of the United States shall be...

No. It's the notion that ownership protects against tyrannical government or provides overall personal safety. Neither is true, the second one is demonstrably false and the first is ultimate self deception.

Yes. a *** makes a weak criminal as strong as any householder. It's almost frightening looking at the arguments put forward in justification for *** ownership.They are so flawed as to be ridiculous but remember the people who actually believe them are the ones who actually own guns.The last...

You have just hit on the difference.Many things can be USED to **** , guns are INTENDED for it.They cause loss of life simply by making it easier to take it.They were not designed to make the world a better place.They were certainly nor created for hunting and defence, they were initially...

Certainly it has a car industry-we are a net exporter of them. But only a few of the makes are British owned .

I'll have them both on alternate weeks.

The argument that people not guns **** people is such a weak and facile argument that it hardly deserves correcting.But unfortunately many people are taken in by it when a few seconds' worth of thought show its fallacy. If I have a flat tyre I need to raise up the car.I use a tool called a jack...

WE don't get fog much these days , our pea soupers were the result of millions of tons of coal burning. We were the first to industrialise and among the first to de industrialise knowing the futility of trying to compete with countries like China with massively lower labour costs.And in any case...

By modern standards Marx was a sexist and a racist , his meaning of "people" was entirely white males.He was also a share owner by the way.

I receive free (at the point of delivery) health care and if I visit the doctor I get a full and thorough investigation.If nothing can be found I am referred to a specialist.They do not cut corners. It's true that most people don't think they have had a full consultation unless something has...

Hitler was a socialist in many ways-economics, dislike of big business , affinity with the common man.Interestingly enough his fellow Fascist Mussolini also considered himself to be a socialist.They both detested Communism but as the only communist state was the USSR that wouldn't be surprising...

Yet for all your peacefulness Canadian ****** were among the most feared and respected by their enemies, certainly your Southern neighbours can't teach you much about soldiering!

If people didn't actually believe this it would be hugely funny.It's the ultimate in self deception that a few hillbillies with guns can take on a well organised state.And it would be a few because even with an immensely unpopular government very few people would take up arms against it.Often...

I'm English, other posters in the thread are from different English speaking nations and it's interesting to look how our countries have developed since the 18th century where we all have some common ground. The US Constitution was drawn up from people with British backgrounds and is really an...

This is self defence , of course if you have very good reason to believe he's going to ****** you then use whatever it takes to prevent this.But the vast majority of intruders are simply after valuables and money.

This has to happen as the world changes and situations arise which were never envisaged at the time of writing. Laws have to be amended or updated.As an example,until recently a cab driver in the UK was obliged to carry a bale of hay because the law was drafted in the days of ***** drawn vehicles.

When the caution says "used against you" it doesn't mean in opposition to you, it simply means the statement is placed alongside any other evidence involving you.

I live in a country with firearms restriction (though in living memory there was none) but I do have a nicely equipped kitchen which includes some rather large knives. I have a right to own these but there exists no right to stick them into another human being , even if he is an intruder.This...

The right to bear arms is quite different from the right to own them.The right to own guns already existed and needed no legislation.

Canada, Australia are both sparsely populated too.I don't really get the point-a certain proportion of people are criminals.In a densely populated area you are going to encounter more of them.Call the cops? If you're lucky you'll get a text message telling you they're too busy to come out. Being...

Didn't make it clear , I was meaning the UK situation. House prices in the US are I believe very much lower indeed although in both countries there is wide variation.

UP to a point and no more.People needed somewhere to live and had to pay the going price.They also saw house prices rising steadily and they didn't want to delay purchase and then see prices out of reach.That way they would never get on to the housing ladder.They also thought that their house...

Re: The US Federal government OWNS (essentially) our banking system ... Certainly regulation would have helped. Banks were lending money they didn't have to people who couldn't afford to repay.Regulation would have prevented this nonsense from happening. When I bought my house no lender would...