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The point has been made in one guise or another-the judicial system at the moment is simply not delivering the correct verdicts in all ****** cases. We had a terrible case here about 4 years ago when a woman lost two sons and the paediatrician in his evidence stated that there was only a 1 in 73...

X has been used from the start of Christianity , it's not a letter X it's the Greek letter Chi which is the same shape. A very common symbol in churches is the Chi/Rho one which begins to spell the name Christ. http://www.rochester.edu/College/REL/symbols/chiro.html The X shape also represents...

Things like ending the cold war , making the people feel proud of their country once more, setting up the economy for unprecedented prosperity (for which later Presidents try to take the credit) are quite major achievements. I agree, however that he doesn't rate as the greatest American...

At $3.50 a US gallon that's almost being given away. It's $8.50 a US gallon here.

I though advertising was on TV to give you a little time to make a ***** or have a ***. I know it works though , just look at the oceans of pitiful **** water sold as ****. Notice the ads don't say how good the product is (I don't think that the makers of Bud,Stella and the like would want to...

Presidents are judged from abroad by how they affect the stature of the US. Nixon extricated America from Vietnam.The sight of American *********** -which it was-now ceased . Carter will be remembered largely by the Iran hostage situation and the ensuing shambles.At this stage the US military...

From a European perspective; Nixon was a good President but had the misfortune to be found out.But he was good for the country. The Carter years were an embarrassment Reagan came in when the US was saddled with self doubts and gave the people back their belief and pride in it.From then the US...

What bothers me about the death penalty is that it's been carried out , even under the full judicial process, on some very flimsy evidence in the past.Very often the prosecution merely proves that someone could have rather than did commit the ******. Look at the Sally Clarke case-she was...

Living in England I don't recognise the culture you mentioned. There has never been an aversion to ****-England is the international **** capital and was for a long time by far the world's biggest consumer of top class wines.It's a climate thing, warm countries make **** and brandy,cooler ones...

Sorry-missed that! I should have read it more closely. I'm not sure though that Americans are the freest people .In some areas they are, in others not.Certainly they make the most fuss over it.

I think that some of us living outside the US might be just as free as you are!For a start we don't have your ridiculous ***** laws :-)

Capitalism will love it! It's difficult to sell somebody something they already have. But now it will have to be replaced with a new energy efficient model.Energy saving goodies will flood the market.Your gas guzzling car will need to be replaced by one using new technology. The money guys have...

Environmentalist jobs largely exist because of the scare.Nobody is going to employ a lot of people who can only say "everything is fine" All the media have environmental correspondents again whose jobs depend in global warming.Can we expect impartial reporting from them?

The graphs represent data taken from ice core samples.From these CO2 levels and temperatures long ago can be inferred. No one is doubting the warming but it (at least to me) seems fantastically unlikely that man made CO2 is the major cause.I posted the graph to show that from historical...

It works for me! But I take your advice ;click on thumbnail for bigger picture.

Sorry about that! The site must have deleted it between my two postings.Just went back to it and it;s there again! http://simplyrandom.com/forum/oct07/CO2%20levelsSmall.jpg

Looks like the graph has been edited out. It can be found at http://simplyrandom.com/forum/oct07/CO2levelsSmall.jpg

Look at the graph.You will see that over the ages Earth temperatures have risen and fallen in a reasonably regular way. The present Earth temperature fits this graph very well and is exactly what you would expect from the cycle. Also note two things-CO2 levels follow temperature and don't lead...

I can remember that time and it wasn't just a few "scientists" musing, it was the consensus at the time.Remember that temperatures were falling then too. http://simplyrandom.com/forum/oct07/CO2%20levelsSmall.jpg Look at the graph and notice the historical temperature cycles.At the moment we...

That the climate is warming is not in doubt. The causes are.The tendency to put the whole blame on human activity leaves a lot of unanswered questions.What other factors are involved? Put it this way, CO2 levels in 1800 were 200 ppm and rose steadily until the 1970s to 330 ppm without any...

Reminds me of a researcher asking this question and one girl replied "not yet" Just take what others say about their sexual performance and success with a sackful of salt.It's in our nature to exaggerate our prowess and there must be plenty of 28 year old guys in your position (most of whom...

Just remember that peer to peer downloads are perhaps the quickest way to infect your computer.

I use this as my default image viewer. It's a brilliant piece of freeware.This is what PC World has to say about it; Irfanview's main task is to view graphics files, and it does a superb job of it. You can view just about any file format you can imagine, and display it lightning fast. It can...

Unfortunately not all genuine reference books are wholly reliable either.Many things have been reassessed or have been overtaken by events since they were published.

Bland,bland,bland. Try something with at least a bit of flavour. I once sampled some Heineken after a pint of ordinary English ale (which was about 50 pence a pint cheaper too) and was totally unable to detect ANY taste-good, bad, indifferent, the flavour level was so low that it just couldn't...

Not quite the same thing at all. These restaurants will sell the ethnic food but all Irish bars seem to do is to try to replicate a pub such as would be found in Ireland.But without the locals it won't have the right feel anyway.And Stout by the way isn't Irish although it's made there-it's a...

Yes, only 180 kegs of Guinness , the rest was Carlsberg (like water with the taste taken out) and Budweiser (like Carlsberg with the taste taken out) Like robbing a bank and finding it's all Monopoly money.

The Euro began life as a "joke" currency and many observers gave it 3 years. Its problem was that it was a "one size fits all" currency imposed on a Europe made of separate countries each with different economic profiles and needs. We have had 10 years of excellent world economic conditions so...

I think the author of the phrase has the opinion that you can't have an Irish bar outside Ireland which of course you can't.

Can't recommend any US micros because they are mostly local. One advantage of the small size of the UK is that you can get **** from almost any brewery.In the US, transport costs prevent this. There are some breweries too big to be called micros yet are still small compared to Anheuser...

A brewery itself has been there for that long. The **** now sold under that name is a fairly recent brew.It's not one of the worst factory made lagers though. Another brewery misrepresenting its past is Stella Artois which despite a date of 1366 was first brewed in 1926.A very characterless...

I just can't see why they bother.If it's good enough to remake then it's good enough to broadcast as it is , and a lot cheaper too.

Old Speckled Hen is now brewed by Greene King . They recently reduced the strength but not the price.As with most British **** it needs to be sampled in its live form (from a cask and **** engine) because when canned or bottled a lot of the character is lost.But cans of OSH are widely available...

.err **** isn't about getting a buzz.It's about ******** something with a pleasant taste and Carlsberg, like most false lagers, hasn't got any.

I've searched the **** forums for Guinness Red and this is the sort of post you see; "Guinness Red was launched on the UK market only, and only in one chain of tacky faux-Irish theme pubs (O'Neills). It wasn't made available anywere else. I think they might have canned it - the advertising that...

You have listed what most serious **** enthusiasts would consider to be the worst beers in the world.Most of them are fake pilsners with practically no taste to them at all.They owe their sales to the power of advertising not on their quality. Many of them are misleading too. Becks bottles are...

You've included some reasonable stuff but mentioned none of the really good ones. Bass and Guinness were at one time world class beers (and in turn the biggest breweries in the world) but are now shadows of what they once were. Stella is just a joke and unworthy of consideration. Sam Smith's is...

It most certainly is a show of power.You may notice that a lot of little people are aggressive and big people aren't (this is of course a generalisation but is widespread enough to be recognised) You really show power when you don't need to use it because the other party knows you have it.As...

Politeness and good manners are in fact displays of power.They say in effect "I could shove past you if I wanted or leave you to open the door for yourself. I have sufficient self control not to do that as I have no need to prove myself"

The point is not to worry about it too much.I have recently taken to waking up in the small hours so I make myself a ***** and read a book.After a while the book falls from my hand and when I **** up it's daylight.It's no good trying to go to *****, that's not the way it works.

People tend to let you have what you want if you don't upset them first.I always start off being polite because it reserves my big guns for later, if they are needed. For example , when taking something back to a store under complaint I find it's a lot easier to begin with "I'm afraid there's a...

When you're talking about pollution there are several worse culprits ; the old Soviet bloc and China for example let industrial waste into the atmosphere to a far greater degree than the West. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, if you label it as such then every living and dead thing on the...

Warming is a fact, its cause is hypothesis. Ice core work can give an estimate of what happened in the past , it's not particularly accurate but does show changes. We are in the middle of something that's just a blink in geological time. 30 years or so ago we were cooling.Now we're warming.This...

Nobody disputes the warming, it's its cause that separates us. But the talk of record this and record that simply aren't true , they are journalists' hype.In any case, accurate records are only a recent invention, anything more than a couple of centuries ago can only be calculated by inference...

**********, nobody KNOWS at all , it's just a theory which comes from computer modelling.Unfortunately there are at least 5 million variables, none of which is known accurately.The computer simulations which show no effect aren't publicised.But as with all computing the rule applies;garbage in...

I'm amazed at how so many women just get things done.I envy their multi tasking ability.I struggle with only one task :-)

But is it the truth at all?The Earth is warming that we know , CO2 has a slight insulating effect that we know too.Humans are producing CO2 although only about 3% of the total that gets into the atmosphere-this we know.The question is whether the warming comes from the extra CO2 from human...

Even the panel of UN climatologists only claimed there was a 90% probability that global warming was man made.And this is like asking a synod of bishops whether God is good. They're only there because they already believe it.

Of course, there's an outside chance that he's wrong.But it's a useful bandwagon to jump aboard.

For some reason my real age is 16 years less than my biological age. My life expectancy comes out at 95.3 !Time to wear out a lot of Zimmer frames. What the site proves is that if you're overweight, smoke like a chimney , ***** like a fish and eat the wrong diet but lie a lot you'll live to a...