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OK, let's accept the Biblical version.6000 years is around 300 generations , in that time the population has gone up from 2 to about 10 billion.Wow!

There you are. I just thought the UN was a bunch of incompetents.But then, so are most governments.

Really? He was a founder member of the UN, along with FDR et al , but the UN was never contemplated as world government but as a forum where international tensions and disagreements could be thrashed out without resorting to war.

Agreed.To be up there you have to DOMINATE the sport , to be so far above the rest that they look ordinary in comparison.It isn't enough to be like Tiger Woods, just a little better than other golfers .To dominate golf you would have to consistently beat the opposition by several holes in most...

It was a guy called Bishop Ussher who dated the Creation as 4004 BC. People actually believe it. I'm staggered that there are many who prefer to accept a Middle Eastern creation myth than to actually look at the evidence around them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology

The USA is smaller than your northern neighbour Canada.

The fact that too many people take advantage of a system does not imply a fault in its underlying principles.It's like saying that medicine is a bad thing because it enables criminals to survive. The point I made was that he wasn't a Socialist yet he set the British welfare state on its path.It...

Re: Consider ... Americans like to forget that without French help they wouldn't have won the war of independence. The media in Europe aren't state run. The BBC , the biggest news gathering organisation in the world by far , has constantly resisted any influence by the government and protects...

I know I'm quoting myself but I forgot Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers as the greatest cricketer in the history of the game. Not as good with the bat as Bradman though his average was 58 , not as good a bowler as Shane Warne but put the two together and he was the greatest all round performer...

Will, any argument has to be based on a sound premise or axiom.Yours is that Socialism is a bad thing.But in certain areas it's the best way.You wouldn't want the military to be privately owned and answering to its shareholders.Nor the police or emergency services.And neither would those of us...

That simply isn't the way it works.You commit any act and you are responsible for the consequences.This isn't God or the law, it's simply what the word means.

Make sure your new computer is fully up to date with antivirus ware and transfer your work to a dedicated folder.When downloaded, scan the new folder.If it's all media files (jpg and video files) they are in any case unlikely to be infected.

Jennifer Lavoie. End of thread, there's no point in arguing over #2.

If you have a ***** you are responsible for it.Period.You can, if you are a big enough ****, refuse to act on this responsibility but it doesn't take it away.

There is a degree of anti-American feeling throughout the world but on the whole it's to do with its foreign policy.The US is seen as a world bully which goes round flexing its muscles knowing nobody can do anything about it.A similar feeling existed regarding Victorian Britain and like the...

Best thing in my view is to do what you should do to all the stuff that comes bundled with Windows (like IE) and ignore it. Download one of several freeware vewers and wonder why you ever bothered with WMP. Suggested-VLC Player, SM Player, Media Classic,BS Player to name a few.I'm sure other...

When judging a President you have to place things in context.Some , like Carter, inherited the poisoned chalice and had little chance to shine.Reagan also was unlucky in his timing, there was a massive recession under way and the USSR was making a lot of threatening noises.Clinton was a lucky...

Mentally disturbed? I can't understand why people should want to tattoo themselves anywhere.To deliberately disfigure ones self unecessarily makes no sense, to have tattoos to make a statement or to demonstrate individuality makes me wonder why they feel the need to do this.On the whole people...

The Constitution is centuries old, on the whole it was well thought out and has served the nation well. But times and circumstances do change and amendments have to be (and have been) made.People who do this aren't traitors at all. I despair though that people still believe that *** ownership...

The same thing happened in the UK-the banks lent money they didn't have.But the government had relaxed rules to allow this to happen, there were those who could see what lay ahead but everybody was mesmerised by the apparent immense wealth that was being created. Given a stricter banking code on...

It's recoverable, of course it is. Look what happened to Germany in the 1930s when money was literally worth less than the paper it was printed on.But within a very few years her economy was thriving. All of you guys arming yourselves to the teeth-has it escaped your notice that the other guys...

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Socialism is the concept that we not only look after ourselves we look after each other too. Or in other words there are people looking out for you too as well as for themselves. That's the theory but in practice it needs to be directed.We all pay taxes here and if taken ill we are treated at...

Does Yorkshire count?

A lot of good advice already. At a junction try for eye contact with the other driver-you know then that he's seen you. And however hot the day ,NEVER ride without protective clothing.What happens to unprotected skin if you fall off even at low speeds is too horrific to think about , at high...

It doesn't work that way.Any company that outsources-and does it properly-will have a large price advantage over companies that don't.Other companies have to follow or go bust. In another age-mid Victorian times-Britain produced 70% of the world's manufactured goods.Yet even then much more...

www.jenniferlavoie.com Great site, updated twice a week every week.500 galleries,over 100 videos.

If tax dollars are being pumped into the banks then the politicians have to make sure that the taxpayers' money isn't ****** or diverted.The taxpayers don't want their hard earned money to go to pay senior executives bonuses for failure.

True.The British found this out-once the native inhabitants wanted us to go there was nothing much we could do about it.The biggest problem was trying to leave a stable administration.

History has been unkind to Prince John. While his ******* King Richard was ******* away the country's wealth on things like the Crusades poor John was left with trying to balance the books.

You haven't a clue as to what it's like to live under real socialism. I've always voted against socialist parties because on the whole their policies don't work very well and they aren't the people to be put in charge.But that isn't to say that some things don't benefit from it. The military for...

Get Irfanview , it's free and a brilliant program to use as your default viewer.Amazingly capable yet light in resources.

Probably a few but not many.Where most people live there isn't far to go to find shelter.Road deaths actually fall during snowfalls , a combination of fewer drivers and slower speeds.

Strangely enough if you need medical attention as a member of the US ****** you get socialised treatment and it works well.

Not as daft as it sounds.Our "traditional" Christmas with snow etc really dates back a few hundred years when a) we were in a little ice age and b) we still hadn't changed the calendars to the Gregorian one and Christmas Day fell on what is now January 5th. For those of you not in the UK who...

The point is that it isn't a vast majority of scientists that believe it.I'm a scientist and very few of my scientific friends are convinced either.Science is about proof , looking at alternative theories etc.I even met one senior scientific officer (Government scientist) who resigned because "I...

YUp, we've got a bit too. It's been years since we had a full covering though we're North of Winnipeg!

Of course it's getting warmer because we're coming out from a glacial age.The climate also changes in a variety of cycles.There is for example a roughly 1000 year cycle. Temperatures around the time of Christ were higher than now.A thosand years ago Greenland was under cultivation, again warmer...

It will only collapse if its citizens want it to.They don't, whatever their differences Americans have strong patriotism and faith in themselves.

Please can you be more precise? Don't like fuzzy answers.

German cars are HORRENDOUSLY overrated. For God's sake, VW are still benefitting from the reputation of the original Beetle which because of Mr Hitler's interest was fully developed before it went on sale.Yet I can buy a breakdown warranty for a Ford a lot cheaper than for a VW.The reputation...

It takes less than 5 minutes to reinstall it.

It's a lot faster than having to spend hours getting rid of malware because you use IE.

In fact the fear was in 1945 whether or not the USSR would stop its marcg westward.America didn't in fact have the bomb,it only had 3,one was for testing and the other two were dropped on Japan. Also, although the bomb was made at Los Alamos it was a joint effort between the US and the UK which...

My first post was quite simply that if a country of 60 million people take 3 million immigrants the effect will be equivalent to a lot more immigrants going to a country of 300 million.Not to mention that the UK is much more densely populated to start with. My other point was that the mass...

Re: Stupid ... Not entirely true.The USA began as a smallish group of 13 states and slowly absorbed much of the rest of the continent-a sort of Empire accomplished by supplanting the original inhabitants.Look at how Texas became part of the Union.

Immigrants don't leave, they are emigrants if they do. Your argument about sustainability makes no sense-the people you mention have simply changed places.The planet is sustaining them wherever they are. The US population was 23 million in 1850,76 million in 1900, 161 million in 1950 and it's...

The UK has undergone massive immigration from Eastern Europeans, this isn't ******* as all EU citizens can live where they choose.Nobody knows how many because there's no border control but it's probably about 3 million.This would correspond to 20 million in the US. Don't overlook that America...

The Suze Z3 was an electro-mecanical computer.The first PROGRAMMABLE ELECTRONIC computers were the ten Colossus machines used in the UK during WW2.Some Americans worked with them at Bletchley Park and used knowledge from this to design and build the ENIAC computer.The Atanasoff–Berry Computer...

It all seems rather pointless to me , if there is a sense of injustice there will always be a steady supply of volunteers, and new leaders will come forward.It's no good locking up a few (or a few hundred) of them if they are replaced so easily.And to give them a valid reason for a heightened...