Driver to drive?

[Paul Burke]

Kryten wrote:

Leicester and Peterborough look reasonably located. North of here but not
too north.

You're only too far north if they eat haggis. Except for Yorkshire of
course.

Anybody got any positive/negative opinions of these towns?

I only knew Peterborough up to 12 years ago, when my friend there moved
away. It was very, very dull, the small ancient centre gutted for cloned
shops and the area overwhelmed by xeroxed housing estates designed
entirely (though badly) around motorised commuting.

There's a good steam railway if you are into that sort of thing, and a
pub that had been up for sale so long that they renamed it the Jackson
Stops- the name on the estate agent's sign.

Paul Burke

 

[Winfield Hill]

John Woodgate wrote...

I don't think you CAN mistreat an electron. You would need to present
some damaged or worn-out ones to convince me. (;-)

In a college experiment I used to annihilate them with positrons;
that should qualify.


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

[John Fields]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:21:31 +0000, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Winfield Hill <hill_a@t_rowland-
dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote (in <ct162t014vp@drn.newsguy.com&gt
about 'Peterson's Death Sentence', on Sun, 23 Jan 2005:
Noah Roberts wrote...

Kevin Aylward wrote:
Life can't exist without electrons, so if your argument is
valid, it must also be valid to conclude that we must respect
all electrons. This is plainly daft,

Why?

Why? I have as little respect for electrons as possible, and
mistreat them in all kinds of ways, for both work and pleasure.


I don't think you CAN mistreat an electron. You would need to present
some damaged or worn-out ones to convince me. (;-)

---
I've got some that got fat when I made them go too fast.

--
John Fields

 

[John Fields]

On 23 Jan 2005 15:08:24 -0800, Winfield Hill
<hill_a@t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote:

John Woodgate wrote...

I don't think you CAN mistreat an electron. You would need to present
some damaged or worn-out ones to convince me. (;-)

In a college experiment I used to annihilate them with positrons;
that should qualify.

---
Yeah, I've got a bunch of those too. Well, I used to...

--
John Fields

 

[Clarence_A]

<google_groups_usa@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1106523674.717810.114840@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

http://www3.boxk.net << click link for the good news

More bigoted religious garbage!

 

[Noah Roberts]

Parse Tree wrote:

It's unfortunate that all people aren't active supporters of eugenics.
Breeding with people who have good genes is simply good sense.

You are such a romantic.

 

[Anthony Fremont]

"Clarence_A" <no@No.com> wrote in message news:yHWId.5111

More bigoted religious garbage!

As opposed to that tolerant, compassionate and magnanimous statement?
Thanks for the heads up, I'm glad you're here to vigilantly protecting
us from the deplorable task of judging for ourselves.

 

He just wants to discourage the sado-masochism freaks from watching it
for the wrong reasons ....

-------------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

[Clarence_A]

"Anthony Fremont" <spam@anywhere.com> wrote in message
news:VtXId.63308$Z%.55447@fe1.texas.rr.com...

"Clarence_A" <no@No.com> wrote in message news:yHWId.5111

More bigoted religious garbage!

As opposed to that tolerant, compassionate and magnanimous
statement?
Thanks for the heads up, I'm glad you're here to vigilantly
protecting
us from the deplorable task of judging for ourselves.

That's right! I am every bit as tolerant as those who have

threatened to burn my house with me in it, because my religion is
not approved by them! Stating a fact is not expressing any
constraint to anyone so inclined. Rot your mind as much as you
want.

 

[keith]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:13:51 -0600, Rhyanon wrote:

Gosh, are you drunk? have you been drinking?

No, are you? ...though if I had to live with an ugly twat like you...

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:51:35 -0500, Ayauhteotl wrote:

In article <pan.2005.01.23.15.41.24.44288@att.bizzzz>,
keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

!On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 05:55:17 -0500, Ayauhteotl wrote:
!
!> In article <VPjId.4394$8Z1.3489@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>,
!> "Clarence_A" <no@No.com> wrote:
!
!> !"DW" <DrWoodardOnDS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
!> !news:1106343743.567899.251800@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
!> !> >The term "liberal" gets thrown a lot.
!> !> I saw something a while back that I like to cite w
!> !> when someone slames liberals.
!> !
!> !> 1. Thank a liberal when you go to the grocery store
!> !> and find that it is illegal for them to sell that
!> !> peice of meat that went rancid a month ago.
!> !> 2. Thank a liberal when you go to the emergency room
!> !> and they treat your heartt attack right away. There was a time
!> !> when an ermergency room could decline treatment if you
!> !> couldn't afford it and they would throw you out in the street.
!> !> So what if you died.
!> !> 3. If you're a woman thank a liberal that your
!> !> husband can't beat you. Believe it or not there was
!> !> a time when it was legal for a husband to beat his
!> !> wife in the US.
!> !
!> !
!> !Thank a liberal when you get your tax bill and you have to sell
!> !the house to pay the tax. Then state and federal Income tax
!> !reduces the net from the home sale to a level below what you would
!> !need to put a down payment on a mobile home. And all the license
!> !fees go up each year.
!
!> Bullshit. here in NYC, our $400 tax just got wiped out with Property tax
!> increase. our mayor is Republican and conservative.
!
!Bloomberg a conservative? You're pulling my leg, right? He's a RINO. He
!couldn't buy a nomination as a Democrat so switched. He still supports
!Democrats.

and Giuliani is the Second Coming.

I said nothing about Giuliani, you retard. Though if you think he's a
conservative you really do need a check-up from the neck-up.

"Republican and conservative", my ass.

Ah, so you are of the NeoConFundee whinge of the Part. Nixon would be a
"RINO" by your definition.

Ah, so you're ducking the issue once again. I called you on *Bloomberg*
being a "Conservative and Republican". So far all you've done is blather
on about Giuliani and Nixon. You must have something more between the
ears than the mush you've shown so far.

!
!http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aaf991c301b.htm

I didn't think you had a brain in your head.

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:32:52 -0600, Rhyanon wrote:

Nah -- just wishful pukings from someone who hasn't the balls to flame
effectively, nor the fortitude to admit defeat and slink away.

What wit!

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:58:58 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:23:43 +0000 (UTC), toor@iquest.net (John S.
Dyson) wrote:

[snip]

It is true that some idiot called the non-DST Indiana timezone to be
'Gods time', but it is also true that alot of psuedo-intellectuals couldn't
explain the historical reason for the oddity.

John

Arizona doesn't observe DST for a very simple reason... the drive-in
movie theater lobby argued that it would hurt their business on school
nights... because they couldn't start the show until 9PM.

I AM NOT pulling your leg ;-)

Makes perfect sense to me. I love DST, since it gives another hour of sun
in the evening in summer and gives it back in the morning in the winter.
It's enough of a PITA to have sunlight at 4:00AM, we don't need it at
3:00AM. Likewise it's rather nice to at least go to work this time of
year in the light. It's dark by the time I leave. I'd vote for double
DST. Perhaps another half-hour on both ends.

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:46:54 -0600, Brian wrote:

"John Larkin" <jjSNIPlarkin@highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote in
message news:edu7v0ds5rsn88ld69uhea9skfgb1d67t1@4ax.com...
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:29:58 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:



That's a stretch! Do you actually think Bloggs is capable of
reproduction?

Well, there's nothing like having a couple of kids to teach a guy
humility. Draw your own conclusions.

John

Funny you say that. My 6 year old daughter works with computers, can program
VCR's etc. At 6, I think I was eating buggers.

At 6 I was taking apart my dad's typewriter to figure how it worked. He
wasn't much amused, but learned to keep me interested in other things.
WW-II avionics (complete with gyroscopes) made for many hours of
investigation and saved the lives of countless typewriters. ;-)

--
Keith

 

[Anthony Fremont]

"Clarence_A" <no@No.com> wrote

That's right! I am every bit as tolerant as those who have
threatened to burn my house with me in it, because my religion is
not approved by them!

Who did that? The "GOOD NEWS" web site? Christians here in the group?
Muslim extremists? Who are you talking about?

Stating a fact is not expressing any constraint to anyone so inclined.

"Stating a fact"? I didn't see anything resembling a *fact* in your
original assertion.

Rot your mind as much as you want.

Well, I suppose that no one will ever accuse you of not following your
own advice.

 

[keith]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:12:21 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:22:13 GMT, richard mullens
mullensdeletethis@ntlworld.com> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

The ultimate measure of freedom is: are you allowed to leave?




And are you allowed to go to Cuba - or is it a criminal offence ?

Lots of people do, indirectly through Mexico usually. I don't know of
anybody being prosecuted lately for it. It's standard procedure to
have a "Mexican" vacation and return with nothing but "Mexico" stamped
on your passport.

Or Canada. I know several who have come back with winter tans after
visiting sunny, tropical, Canuckistan.

--
Keith

 

[Dave VanHorn]

According to L Ron Hubbard, scientology is science, there is nothing
religious about it.

Of course that was his statement before he discovered the tremendous tax
advantages of being a religion..

After that transition was announced, he said to the newly faithful not to be
concerned about the transition, it was simply a matter for tax accountants
and attourneys.

Now, if you want to get really mad, look up the story, broken by the New
York Times, about the secret agreement between the IRS, and scientology, and
watch the identities of the leaders of scientology, and the IRS over the
years.

http://www.xenu.net/

Ted Gunderson, former head of the FBI's Los Angeles office, quoted in TIME
May 6, 1991:

"In my opinion the church has one of the most effective intelligence
operations in the U.S. rivaling even that of the FBI."

 

[John Fields]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:32:47 +0000, Guy Macon
<_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote:

Since January first, I have had to add the following words
to my killfile for sci.electronics.design:

alcohol
alpha centauri
arafat
bookcase
bovril
bush
business
cartoon
circumcision
clinton
coalition
congress
dbade
death sentence
desk
disaster
dubbya
fallujah
foxpro
free will
genome
god
google
inauguration
metaphysical
nazi
nouveau
parents
parrot
political
president
religion
tingling sensation
troops
tsunami
virus
woodgate

..and I just added "god"

In addition, I have over 50 email addresses in my
killfile of posters who *never* write anything
about electronics design - the above listonly
reflects post from those who sometimes write
about electronics design.

What kind of god would allow this without smiting
you people for posting your off-topic flamebait in
an engineering newsgroup?

---
A god that hates you?

--
John Fields

 

[keith]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:55:20 -0600, Brian wrote:

"SioL" <Sio_spam_L@same.net> wrote in message
news:25LId.8473$F6.1515148@news.siol.net...
"Brian" <brian@w3gate.com> wrote in message
news:SsidnbKv_4ncf2_cRVn-tw@centurytel.net...

Its hard to argue with the jealous. Yeah, we go to Europe for vacations.
Because it is quaint. Rustic perhaps. Old World. But the US is, by a huge
margin, the best country in the world. As the gap widens, the outsiders
and like-thinkers whine more? Why? Simply because they BELIEVE they are
entitled to some of the wealth created by us. The reason we are so great
is because we have a distinct lean toward the right.....


Here you go, you're a good example of what the majority of the US thinks.
And than you wonder "Why do they hate us so much over there in Europe?

By the way, the best place to live in the world is Norway. And US is not
even
second or third.

Quote:
For the fourth year in a row,
the United Nations has ranked Norway as having the highest standard of
living in the
world. Sweden, Australia and Canada are next in line, while the United
States is further
down the scale.
End Quote.

The United States landed in eighth place on the list. So much for your "By
a wide margin".
Although I'd give it a much worse rating, below 15. There are many
countries I'd pick
rather than the US, countries with higher levels of Democracy with people
who are a lot
less arogant, are better educated overall and are a lot slimmer. Who wants
a 150Kg+
girlfriend?

I've been to the countries mentioned here so I know what I'm talking
about.
I bet you've never been outside the US, have you? So what is your
position based
upon, government propaganda? Did your mama tell you US was the best place
to live
and you were gonna kick those EU asses?

S


You really aren't trying to tell me that UN stuff is believealbe? The same
organization that wants to disarm the world! Heck, the UN HATES freedom! Who
is a nincompoop listening to propaganda?

Come on, Brian. What about the UN Human Rights Comission? The Sudan is
such a fine upstanding place.

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:06:55 -0600, Brian wrote:

"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:41F3CE35.9090602@nospam.com...


Frank Bemelman wrote:
"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@nospam.com> schreef in bericht
news:41F3BB10.8040602@nospam.com...


Brian wrote:

"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:41F3366C.5020109@nospam.com...


Brian wrote:


I've read "the bull" and of course, not being sick like you, I read

both

sides and determined what is probable. Hence I am not single minded
and
sick like you. However, please tell me how many people a monster must
murder, must gas, must torture and kill before you find it offensive.

Why don't you ask Bush , Rumsfeld, or Gonzalez that question...



Because I asked you. And, even if you blame us for every death from
liberating Iraq,

There has been no liberation of Iraq- people are afraid to leave their
homes in many parts of the country, it is in a state of total chaos-
this is not liberation.


it is still but a tiny fraction of what Saddam killed.

Isn't that just like a moron to fall back on statistics like that. Well
that "tiny fraction" is pushing the better part of a million people.


Perhaps Brian can give us some numbers. That will force him to
do some research. It also depends on how you count. The war between
Iraq and Iran (1980-1988) has killed quite a few. Not that those
numbers have upset the western world at that time.. we couldn't
have cared less. Many died as a result of the trade embargo's after
the 1st Gulf War, lack of simple medicines etc, who's blame is that?
Nobody wanted to believe that Saddam didn't have the impressive
amount of WMD's that we thought he had, and instead of finally
accepting that fact, the US decided to turn the place into an
100 times greater hell. Just at the time that weapon inspectors
were getting more realistic view on the amount of weapons. A bloody
shame it is. Okay, the US can repair the material damage, no
doubt. But that doesn't make the mistake undone. It could repair
some of its international reputation by sending their war criminals
to the International Court of Justice, Bush on the top of the list.

BTW, I've killfiled Brian a while ago. I have no interest in his
postings. Freedom of speech is great, but I don't need to listen
to these idiots.


I never heard of the schmuck until yesterday- you can see he packs a small
caliber brain amd is a good example of these dogmatic, evangelical, rural
freaks who put that other freak back in the white house.


My God, its the "Frank" twins now! They are holding hands, ignoring facts
together, spewing venom and hatred, shouting "Do as we saay, not as we do"!

Wait a minute! I though Bloggs and Sloman were the same person.
Sheesh! Now you're saying Bemelman is another sock from the same drawer?

--
Keith