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Also, please don't forget that CO2 is not the only 'greenhouse' gas: Nitrous Oxide levels have increased 18% in the last 200 years, from a fairly static level held for the previous 11000 years, and N2O is estimated to be over 300 times as effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2. About one third of N2O entering the atmosphere is due to human activities. Methane is over 20 times as effective as CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Since 1750, global levels of atmospheric NH4 have increased by 150%. Other chemicals enhancing the greenhouse effect are Chloroflourocarbons, whose levels are starting to slowly decrease as they have been widely phased out of industrial processes; and the flourinated gases used to replace CFCs. Whilst not destroying the ozone, like CFCs do, these flourinated gases trap more heat in the atmosphere than equivalent amounts of CO2.

Don't SHOUT at a TONGUE-IN-CHEEK post, getting a little dig in at our redneck chum across the pond. However, the problem with trying to use statistics in this sort of argument is that whilst we produce a comparatively small amount of CO2, look at it like this; If the Earth naturally produces 100 "units" of CO2 in a period of time, ( from volcanoes or whatever ), Mother Nature has historically found way of soaking this up, generally by growing trees in the rain forests and starting 'blooms' of algae and phyto-plankton in the seas. Mother Nature might also be able to cope with the additional 2 "units" produced by man, but the problem these days is that we are chopping down the rain-forests and polluting the seas, which kills off the algae and plankton, so not even the Earth's own 100 units are no longer getting 'soaked' up. MMCC is not simply down to our production of CO2 from hydrocarbons, it's our interference with the balance that otherwise exists to absorb it. Oh, I forgot to add,----- FACT!

A talentless Geordie slapper, with a a complete t0$$er for a husband. I wouldn't go near her her with yours, let alone mine !

There's almost a logic here - if we get through all the hydrocarbon fuels as quickly as possible, then when it's all gone our production of CO2 will effectively come to an end as there is nothing left to burn, and the problem of man's contribution to climate change will be solved. Admittedly we'll probably all be sitting in a desert, or under the sea.

Not sure about the base O/S, but unless you have a PS3 Slim you certainly can add LINUX as an alternative boot option, so that you can use the console as a PC.

$ echo "YES" $ YES

Better not to try too hard with the touch typing I had to point out two weeks ago, to three of our support desk team, that I was fixing PCs before they were born; back in the days when the main OS was DOS; command line interface, 8086 CPUs, a big hard drive was 40Mb, and a maximum of 640Kb of RAM.

Still the best way to manage ICT kit, be it servers, workstations, routers, or firewalls. No GUI, no mouse, just white text on a black background.

My favourite scene in a film - the bit in Jurassic Park where the female brat runs over to the main control console and says "Hey, this is UNIX, I know this". :smt046 It's funny how the Windoze techies that work for me won't even try to learn a 'proper' OS. But then again, I still think ICL's VME was the best mainframe OS ever created.

My wife has an ASUS notebook running LINUX, and I have a laptop cannibalised from parts of 3 dead ones that I have installed MINT LINUX on. From a cold boot, the notebook takes 45 seconds to get onto the GOOGLE home page using our home wi-fi network. As I have worked on UNIX systems for about 25 years, I don't have issues, but agree that for the uninitiated, the fact it doesn't say Micro$haft on the box does intimidate. If your system has enough disc space, I would go with SS's suggestion of dual-booting. You won't need more than 10Gb for a LINUX partition.

Is suicide really painless ?

Please explain the difference.

The council are apparently blaming the new vetting law. Now, if that were the case, ( and I think the new law is an absolute disgrace, insulting to every member of the adult population of this country, and complete waste of time and money ), surely every council in the country would be doing the same thing ? All she is doing is making local politics even more of a laughing stock, ( if that were possible ).

This is what happens when you elect a LibDem !

Iron Maiden - Sign of the Cross followed by The Clansman , ( from Rock in Rio )

Every time I go past Rotten Ronnie's burger shack, I wince at the lack of capitalisation in "i'm lovin' it". There's no excuse for laziness, nor for promoting poor grammar or punctuation in advertising, particularly with spell-checking and automatic grammar correction, ( provided, of course, that you ensure you are using 'International English', whatever that is - colour has a 'u' and grey has an 'e', aluminium is not 'aluminum', and nuclear is not pronounce 'nucl-err'; why can't the Yanks refer to their dialect as 'Americanese' ).

I wonder if a well known local second-hand photocopier salesman might start sniffing round ?

Define 'improved'. Privatisation of any service means that the profitable parts are bolstered and cultivated, those bits that need to be provided because the 'public service mandate' requires it, are reluctantly tolerated, ( and with any luck wither and die ), unless public subsidy can be provided. Classic examples are found everywhere a previously public service has to maintain it's presence in rural areas, an obvious example being bus services. ( Admittedly British Airways does not fall into this general argument, but most air passengers don't use them, preferring much cheaper alternatives ). BT have an unfair advantage over other TELCOs as they are the only one with full national coverage, and they use their monopoly position to force prices of many business related services upwards, because they know there is no alternative - something I have direct professional experience of in the field of high-speed computer network provision. If the Post Office is fully privatised, will the new commercial master wish to maintain the current mandate of 'next day delivery of first class post, ANYWHERE on mainland Britain, at a single fixed price', I doubt it very much.

http://www.btcomplaint.com/2009/04/bt-last-in-home-phone-survey-sky-phone.html http://www.which.co.uk/news/2009/09/npower-and-british-gas-worst-for-customer-service-185002.jsp http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/911096/Virgin-tops-airline-customer-satisfaction-poll-BA-scores-below-average/ Maybe the City likes them, but their customers aren't impressed.

I wouldn't trust the Daily Mail to tell me the sun was shining, HTH !

Connolly may well be the final bit in the jigsaw. 5 in a row with the next game and out of the bottom 4. :D:D Has the 'feel good factor' returned ?

In my understanding..... Technically the line into your house shouldn't change, it just gets patched into a different DSLAM in an upstream exchange, but as this can involve reconfiguring traffic balancing on the ISP's kit, they may well tell you that for about 7 days their automatic monitoring systems will be fine tuning things, and may transiently degrade or upgrade service as things settle in. Ultimately, all DSL services are shared, so if an ISP is particularly heavily subscribed in a particular area, performance can be quite badly impacted. This is normally seen at 'peak' times; between 18:00 and 21:00 in particular, though I think most ISPs are getting their acts together and putting in more capacity. If it persists, yet seems to be with specific sites, it may be a routing or DNS issue with your ISP. Give it a couple of days, and if FaceBook is still effectively u/s, there may be some other tests that can be used.

I am not sure that Holocaust Denial is strictly illegal in this country, as we have opted not to implement the entire directive, ( if indeed we have implemented any of it ) : " European Union Directive for Combating Racism and Xenophobia (2007) The text establishes that the following intentional conduct will be punishable in all EU Member States: - Publicly inciting to violence or hatred , even by dissemination or distribution of tracts, pictures or other material, directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin. - Publicly condoning, denying or grossly trivialising - crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as defined in the Statute of the International Criminal Court (Articles 6, 7 and directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin, and - crimes defined by the Tribunal of Nuremberg (Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, London Agreement of 1945) directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin. Member States may choose to punish only conduct which is either carried out in a manner likely to disturb public order or which is threatening, abusive or insulting. The reference to religion is intended to cover, at least, conduct which is a pretext for directing acts against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin. Member States will ensure that these conducts are punishable by criminal penalties of a maximum of at least between 1 and 3 years of imprisonment." The crucial bit for this instance is in blue. Pr1ck Griffin seemed to be more concerned with French law than British, and Straw was saying he'd fix things with any of our EU partners who might have objected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial

As somebody outside London, and quite obviously a northerner, I do find very little of interest in what you say, so perhaps you got your statement the wrong way round

Yes it would. Have you tried one of the online ADSL speed checks on the new service ?