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Unions exist because otherwise an employee has little protection.In an ideal well run business there would be no real need for unions though they are good at sorting out many small problems. There is an argument put out by some posters that you choose your employment and must accept what comes...

There is a program called Firefox Preloader which loads on bootup , installing many of the files required for when you want to use Firefox.Speeds things up a little.

Studies like this are effectively worthless.Whatever a study finds there'll be another one along in a while which tells you the opposite.It's because people compare two sets of figures regardless of other factors.

As a couple of senior politicians have already said, the people who really matter know the information already. We used to keep all information secret in the days of the Cold War-does anybody think that the Soviets or the Chinese hadn't got full details?

It's not an issue.They quite often just don't know there are better browsers out there.It doesn't occur to them , a PC is a tool , IE gets them onto the net , OE gets their e mails, WMP does their videos etc. and they only download programs which enable them to do things they can't do already.

The vast majority of PC users aren't particularly knowledgeable about computers and if a browser comes along with the operating system they will use it because it's there and they know no better. To use Firefox or Opera requires positive action ; this will only be done by those who look into...

They are all better than IE.What a surprise. If IE didn't come already installed in most computers I wonder how many people would use it?

Stupid anyway because the police need public support if they are to do their job successfully.This sort of thing does the police no favours at all. Agree with FacialHair-the police are not military.It annoys me that they refer to members of the public as "civilians" - what do they think they...

New dinosaurs? Still making them then?

Look-I know you made a dreadful mistake all those years ago but drowning your sorrows in ***** isn't going to make things better.

In London you will be able to find **** that's as the brewer intended that is not bottled,canned or chilled and propelled by gas.Look for a row of hand pumps on the bar and avoid like the plague anything served by just pulling a lever or opening a tap.

No , Independence Day is an American celebration.

I did a check later and the updates are now there!Like you, I didn't have all the latest versions.In particular I use the "undo last closed tab" addon because I'm always closing the wrong window! Happily using v 3,5 now

I just did a check and quite a lot of my addons will be incompatible with it. I'll hang on a bit before updating.

Actually it's not that easy to **** in this way , you have to get close and the victim might have other ideas.Also it requires a degree of premeditation and many *** crimes occur on the spur of the moment because a *** is handy. England is having a massive wave of *** crime? Home Office...

We don't get many hot days here and not many cold,shitty snowy icy slushy shitty days either! We actually got a couple of inches of snow here last winter, it lasted a couple of days and that was the first real snowfall for many years.Most winter days are in the 40s.

Doesn't sound a high temperature to lots of you but it's all relative to what you're used to.Mind you, my ****** lives in Australia and if she visits when it's hot here she says it FEELS hotter.

Yes we do but we call them politicians and they make their living by fiddling their expenses.

That's been done somewhere recently-from memory it was about 22 times more likely that a ****** member was shot by accident than a burglar but I've no source to back this up. Generally-and there are exceptions of course-people illegally entering a home aren't interested in confrontation , they...

This just isn't true.Guns remove some of the obstacles in ******* somone, they make it possible to do it at a distance, they make it possible to do it on impulse (which may later be regretted) they make it more certain and less risky than a direct physical confrontation and they make it easier...

The question is though, what happens to the rounds that miss? They are going to end up somewhere and would pass through many internal walls like cardboard.Or even out into the street.

I always said there would be occasions where having a *** would be helpful to you.There will always be anecdotes to support any point of view.When car seat belts were introduced opponents quoted examples when belted passengers had been trapped in a car but unbelted ones had survived by being...

The bit about suicides was to emphasise there is a downside to ready availability of guns. The self defence idea has been widely discredited but people persist in trotting it out so they obviously prefer to ignore the evidence, Re cars-I don't think so-in both countries everybody who wants a...

It was a well constructed well thought out article written by people who were neither pro or anti guns.They calmly looked at all the evidence and drew their conclusions from it. If it doesn't agree with your own viewpoint then find another way of explaining things. Certainly in some countries...

The extract provides evidence that a lot of gunshot suicides succeed before the victim has had time to think it through or for the circumstances to change.Most other methods offer a reprieve.Read it through carefully. Regarding vehicular related deaths we have a significantly lower death rate...

My source ;http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=726110 Regarding suicide, from the New England Journal of Medicine; But the Supreme Court's finding of a Second Amendment right to have a handgun in the home does not mean that it is a wise decision to own a *** or to keep it easily...

True-with 6 "Ifs" I could rule the world. The point is that the *****/gangs scene is where all the shootings are ; up to a point it's very restricted and the population in general isn't involved.They tend to shoot each other. Practically all the guns registered in the UK are shotguns ...

If you take the ****/gang scene out of the UK picture then *** crime drops to practically zero.It's not a part of mainstream crime.Guns are rarely used in robberies because they add 5 years to the sentence. You must also look at suicide rates , a lot of US *** deaths are from this.You might...

Re: Imperial v. Domestic ... Agreed. We can't judge past eras with present day attitudes.The 18th century was not the age of the common man anywhere.Technology had not yet reached the point where there could be plenty for everybody.Life was hard and often short. The British had struggled for...

Throughout your life things change a lot-you might be in and out of work,be healthy at times and sick at others, you might have an accident or contract some chronic ailment. An insurance based system would charge low premiums in the good times and high when things go wrong (probably at a time...

My reply was directed to someone who doesn't have house insurance but protects his property with a ***.But only,of course, while he's in. It's been known for a very long time that the sense of security when armed is illusionary and delusionary.You might feel safer with a *** , sometimes of...

Why not? House contents insurance is dirt cheap (in fact my insurers don't even charge for it if I take out buildings insurance with them and it remains free until I make a claim.After that it might be $50 a year or so). Unlike sitting there with a ***, the insurance works even when the house...

I was meaning that slavery was never around in Britain itself.The colonies were a different matter. Regarding slavery , apparently it was a lucrative business for the Africans themselves.Slavers placed an order with a local chief (many of whom lived in fine houses in London!) and simply...

Look at the wording. If the intention had been simply to grant the right for all to bear arms there would have been no need to mention the militia AT ALL, But the Amendment BEGINS with the need for a militia , it defines the conditions ;in other words that is the basis of the whole thing. "The...

So the government could rely on finding a body of armed men (the militia) when it needed them.The Militia Act clarified all this in 1792.There was no standing army so a "pro tem" ***** was required.

I didn't know God was an active member of the Founding Fathers.Where did He sit? Where is His signature or evidence that He was involved? The world is full of people who think they are directed by God-or Allah and they can't all be right unless God is playing games with us. You still don't...

Looking through the posts so far I can see some strange beliefs.A God given right? God doesn't give out rights , all he gave out was a set of rules by which to live among which was "Thou shalt not ****" He certainly didn't give the right to own firearms, this came from the government.In fact...

I am given to understand (but have no first hand knowledge) that the wearing of the burka is not a part of Islam but a later development.

You get this impression if you watch "Prime Minister's Question Time" which is a free for all lasting an hour each week. The vast majority of the time issues are debated with a lot of old fashioned courtesy where an MP is allowed his say;if anyone wishes to speak he raises his order paper and is...

The sad thing about the House of Lords was that it was doing its best work when it WAS just a collection of unelected hereditary peers.Anachronistic yes, but these were well educated and well informed people who took each issue on its own merits without regard to Party lines.And they sent back a...

Not at all.The Second Amemndment is clearly there to establish a militia.A well regulated one at that.The follow up to the Amendment was the Militia Act which clearly places the militia under the president's control. In other words the Second Amendment was framed to prevent threat to the nation...

So free speech is restricted to America? I have news for you, we had it a long time before you did.

Really? The House of Commons became the House of Representatives , the House of Lords became the Senate and the King became the President.A similar set up with a lawmaking assembly , a revising chamber and a Head of State.The difference is in the detail. The settlers in America were British or...

except that the southern rebels were armed too.When everybody is armed the advantage disappears.

That's what I said. It was nothing to do with protection against a tyrannical American government .

Bill of Rights 1689 (not demanded at gunpoint) * That the pretended power of suspending the laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is *******; * That the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it...

The Second Amendment reads ; A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The Militia Act soon followed, written by the same body and ****** May 2, 1792, provided for the authority of the President...

What happens much more often-and regularly-is that somebody fires at the "intruder" only to find that it wasn't an intruder at all but a ****** member or friend. Also , if there are 3 men with guns you might just be able to deal with one or two of them but the last one might well settle your...

More about definition of "Empire" (apologies if it's already been mentioned) but Germany after reunification was termed an Empire ( the Kaiser was also called an Emperor and as such outranked Queen Victoria , and she was hurriedly made Empress of India as a consequence) Japan's Head of State has...

True enough-the founding fathers looked at what had gone before , picked out the good bits , modified some and threw out the bits they didn't like.But a lot of the thinking was British-for example Thomas Paine was very influential and wasn't an American. The separation of powers had in fact...