Whitey Grandad

What's the battery life like when running? I have TomTom and also Satnav2 by Skobbler on mine. Every map in the World for £7.99.

Honest, that was the first photo I found.

That's ok then, oop north is well out of the way. Just don't put any in Scotland, just in case. If they go independent we shall want our subsidies back.

Heading the right way, at least. The oil price has been a large factor in the recession, IMO.

Not many, certainly not my business. It all depends on how many voters are involved, of course.

And there we can agree...

This is exactly why we should not introduce it. Leave the game as it it, pure and simple.

Ooh, get her! You have to be very careful with statements like that. If it's not viable without a subsidy then it's not viable. That subsidy is just paying for conscience appeasement. And they're so damned ugly.

An alternative view: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/19/the-reality-of-wind-turbines-in-california-video/

Because demand with no wind can last for many days, for example in winter with a high pressure system locked over us. Then we would have the cost of two supply systems. Wind is not free, forever, the turbines are not reliable long-term and need maintenance. And they're so damned ugly.

No, the referee specifically said "is there any reason why I should not award the try", which is a different presumption. The video official decided that the player had stepped into touch, by brushing a couple of blades of grass with his toe, it appeared to me.

Because there's no need for it. It doesn't work for every decision made all over the pitch, and we don't know that the decisions are any more correct. I've also seen bad decisions made on the basis of slow-motion replays, England's disallowed try in the rugby World Cup final for one.

We would have blackouts if we relied on wind.

Congratulations to you all. We're waiting for number 7 grandchild, number 3 grandson, due in about 4 weeks. I don't think two season tickets are going to be enough.

I would refute that. Were any of these sports worse 30, 40, or 50 years ago? Just as exciting, just as historic. Does it make any difference if a human decides instead of a machine?

No, it would have to be outside the post so that the back edge of the near one is in line with the farther one and then you could see if the ball had completely crossed that plane.

They're lucky if they get one.

Mock-ups are a mockery. They can never say whether the ball was one inch over or one inch short of going in because the inaccuracies of such processes are probably at least half a ball diameter.

Because there would not be such technology on my local park.

And I strongly diagree with them. You cannot possibly base any decision upon any of the images that we have seen so far, all of them just fuzzy freeze-frames which have suffered mpeg encoding, and it doesn't help that the white ball is covered with black symbols. It is nowhere near as clear as Lampard's effort and as Lord Duckhunter points out, how many other decisions during that game are you going to review? The best view in the stadium was the bloke in the yellow shirt standing on the goal-line who was staring at the goal looking for just this sort of occasion. Even with a ball that is not moving there is always going to be a position where the decision as to whether it is over the line is a straight 50/50 choice. This is not an exact science and no amount of technology will ever make it so.

A brilliant comment and I would add one more point. It should be the same laws of the game at all levels.

He wasn't there, standing on the goal-line, looking across the back of the goal posts so how can he pass a comment?

It wasn't completely over the line! (stamps feet, tears hair out)

I can't understand all this rubbish. That ball had not completely crossed the line! There needs to be daylight between the back of the posts and the ball and there wasn't, therefore it wasn't a goal. The assistant got it spot on.

I read through all that noble stuff about Freiburg and when you get to the bottom: 'Solar PV and other renewables still only provide 2% of the power that Freiburg needs'