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There is a danger of confusing good Presidents with good men.I suppose it's possible to be both , but to actually bring about real change requires a degree of ruthlessness.It's been said that Clinton's success with the economy was because he was too distracted by other things to interfere with...

I once saw a program about twins separated at birth.One guy was brought up in Germany, the other in New York. The first time they met (at about 50 years old) they were both identically dressed.

That is hardly the point.The Taleban consider him to be more important than all the other soldiers for obvious reasons.Apart from all else he's 3rd in line to be Head of the Anglican church.He is therefore not taking the same risks as everyone else who enlists. I'm sure he would be the last to...

Agree with SUPER , it's better than a lot of similar commercial offerings. Can't understand why the old faithful Irfanview hasn't been mentioned, it's an awesomely capable and easy to use piece of freeware.I recommend people to do what I do and make it their default image viewer.

Having ******** is hereditary.If your parents didn't have any neither will you.

There is a thing called the "moggie line" - in some parts of the UK "moggie" means a cat and in other places it's a mouse.

No surprise , there are bacteria practically everywhere.

Don't know the answers to all these.A flat is an apartment which is on one level , French fries aren't French,we have lawyers.A lawyer who does general law work is called a solicitor and a barrister is a lawyer who represents clients in court. Why do you call rounders baseball?

I love both (but detest instant coffee which bears no relation to the real thing)-good coffee beans need none of the additives the US likes like hazelnut, vanilla or caramel.They spoil the pure flavours of rich fresh coffee. Please don't place "coffee" and "Starbucks" in the same...

I have yet to see anyone who has been improved by a tattoo. It's a form of self inflicted disfigurement. I find it difficult not to judge a girl because she has followed a trend-to do something stupid just because others do it just isn't worthy of respect.

A thick pair of socks usually works. Agree with Ladylove. People will accept you as you are.

Most places have a charity box on the counter-that's the place to put unwanted coins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullinan_Diamond

Blackthorn is a commercial cider not a ****. If you ever see any try some real cider like Old Rosie or Thatcher's; the difference is like going from instant coffee to fresh roast beans.

Apart from being totally nondescript and lacking taste or character? Really it's annoyance at claiming a "****" first brewed in 1926 has an ancient history, that a **** so cheaply produced should be sold as "reassuringly expensive" It's factory produced megaswill from the biggest brewers in the...

If spelt "******" it comes from Scotland, if "*******" it's from Ireland. The problem comes with drinks like Bourbon which really shouldn't be called whisk(e)y at all but it's too late to change that. They are attempts to make a spirit from other grains , they make a good ***** in their own...

And a large proportion of the great new US brews are modelled on British ****. We have megaswill here too -Stella,Fosters and Carling are nearly as bad as BMC .

For a nothing country it's had an immense impact on the world, the Scots are perhaps the most innovative and inventive people on the planet.Look at some of it and remember there were only ever just a few million Scots; http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html

Hong Kong was on a lease , when the term was up it reverted to China. There was no question of giving it up. And Gordon Brown is a genius? He hasn't yet even sussed out how things work.

Go to the local chip shop and you will see many a man eating fish.

Macallan produce a whole range of Scotch ****** ; I once had a 1965 vintage which was very fine.Glenfarclas is good too (in my ****** book it "goes down singing hymns") and there are many, many other superb distillers all with profoundly different characteristics. Moving to Ireland the word is...

I've crossed the Humber Bridge , at the time the longest suspension bridge in the world and it was amazing.

The war against Japan was also waged by Britain and the Empire, at times that was the major effort on land through Burma etc.The Royal Navy also had a massive fleet in the Pacific.

********* has a lot - a lot - more carcinogens than tobacco smoke. Statistics about its use are incomplete because being ******* nobody has any clue about how much is being used.To confuse things even more, users are often tobacco smokers too.The bottom line is that smoking either is bad news.

The third world population would at least hope for resources to keep warm and have enough to eat.They might reasonably want the means to store food safely , to obtain clean water and so on. America is locked into fossil fuel dependency. There just isn't any alternative on the horizon without a...

What race? Ah , that one where there will be 1 winner and 300 million losers.

Because by doing so we deny the people in the third world the means to achieve some sort of decent living standard.

As a small boy I was watching a Test Match when a Gloster Javelin flew over, it had the speed haze from the cockpit rearwards.The cricketers stopped play to watch it and it was an awesome sight.It must have been in 1953.

Reading the Second Amendment and its clarification the following year the Militia Act it's quite clear to me that there was never any intention to allow universal private ownership of guns , it was all about the security of the state.The Amendment however was sloppily written which is why it's...

I've never been to the US but a senior policeman friend spent some time with the Dallas PD and they told him that the idea of keeping a *** as self protection was wishful thinking and self delusion taken to an absurd level.It's not rocket science to see the reason why. It unfortunately accounts...

There have been many threads before about what the Second Amendment actually means .It may well have been made redundant by the creation of the regular military,

Of course it's about guns, that's what the victims were shot with.If there are guns all over the place it's so very easy for a deranged person to pick one up and cause untold damage with it.A head case is one thing, a head case with a *** is a different thing altogether.

There was some up to about 1985 because video tapes weren't covered by the obscenity laws (when the laws were drawn up,video was a long time in the future).this loophole was exposed by Mary Whitehouse and her friends and new legislation was enacted.

They tried that in the 17th century , it went so badly afterwards that they got another King. Nobody mentioned Edward Jenner's discovery of vaccination in 1796 , an event which was to save more lives than anything else.

Pretty warm here too in the English midlands. And we livefurther North than Winnipeg.

Of course it's cruel. It's cruel to anaesthesise a small ***** at all if it isn't necessary, it's an assault on his human rights too. And it will hurt when the anaesthetic wears off.

I am amazed by the proportion of cut men in US porn.Do Americans persist in this cruel and unnecessary practice and if they do, why?

These things have been round for years as concept cars but not of course on general sale.I wonder how they would deal with a head on collision with a tank transporter. Volvo is of course owned by Ford.

The deterrence argument has generally failed throughout the world.Perhaps because like most criminals they don't expect to get caught anyway because the biggest deterrent is a high detection rate.

I can't remember what it looked like because although we discussed having it we didn't think it would pay for itself.The internet has taken its place now.

I've seen it mentioned in support groups and the consensus is-don't rush to download it, much is only the collected security and other updates since SP2, just wait until it's clear there aren't any problems connected with it.

Slightly off topic but does anyone remember Prestel? It was like the forerunner of the net, operated by the Post Office using phone lines and viewed on a TV screen.

1955 austin A30 I got it in 1969 , it was a touch rusty but drove well enough.It had a heater too which was very rare at that time (I remember Lord Stokes the car boss saying "wear an overcoat like I do") Always a faint smell of oil in the car but that was normal at the time.

Still utterly devastating. Makes the rest look ordinary.

You are taking this out of context.There was a severe world recession at the time and that's when governments have to borrow and boost the economy.And there was a cold war on which he knew he could win if the USSR tried to match US defence spending. I remember his tax rate cuts-at the time the...

This is what we all had in the 1980s , after the zx80 it seemed very fast and powerful! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum

FF users can install an add on called Site Advisor" (their spelling not mine!) which flags up sites which contain nasties.

The first electronic computer (1943) wasn't that slow Quote "The parallel design of Colossus made it incredibly fast even by today’s standards, a modern Pentium PC programmed to do the same decoding task taking twice as long to break the code."

Not having gone through all the posts carefully I may be repeating stuff. The first rule is to avoid IE. I an involved with a computer help forum and believe me IE has so many vulnerability issues compared to Firefox or Opera that it's a no brainer. FF has its vulnerabilities too but they are...

You don't know when you're well off with your (still) cheap gas-the UK tax alone is around $4 a US gallon and that's makes it around $8 altogether.