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Here, people don't have cats - cats have people. The cats that own our land trade in rodents - which they leave just outside the door - for food. They are country cats, not really domesticated, and certainly not stupid. The three kittens who were born here stick around a lot more than the adult cats, who obviously get fed elsewhere too. There's always some cats at feeding time demanding food, but you can never predict exactly how many will turn up.

...or a US Nickel: The physicists/mathematicians seem to believe that the surface is very important to the model, and so is the energy with which it is thrown (more bounces give a much higher probability). So... I sure wouldn't bet on that figure!

Do the electorate even know what will benefit the nation, and what will benefit themselves? Right wingers would tend to say that they are one and the same thing (they mostly believe in enlightened self-interest). The referendum is simple: Remain isn't really Remain, it's further and deeper before you even know it. As just about everyone on both sides agrees that the EU doesn't work well, then logically even more of the same can only be worse. Leave just wants you and your descendants to continue to have a real vote, and not a pretend vote for a pretend parliament. Anyone voting "Remain" has to believe the politician's promises that:

Yes, it's goes on a bit; I watched it when half asleep in the early hours one night. I think its politics are well to the left, but you can't fault the general message. Paxo's recent one on the BBC delivered the same sort of message through his traditionalist Tory glasses. Hilarious to hear the squeals of bias about it from the Guardinistas! Everyone vote on everything was my take when I was at school, but it won't work because then the process is open to small militant groups hijacking decisions through the general boredom that will prevail after a while. You've only got to look at how Corbyn got elected: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/20/labour-membership-jeremy-corbyn-purge With the internet those sorts of things are now much easier to organise, and never rule out the ingenuity of the opposition. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11680016/Why-Tories-should-join-Labour-and-back-Jeremy-Corbyn.html So, I don't think there is a real alternative to some form of representative democracy, but without the right of recall the ruling classes are always going to have the upper hand, and are going to fight right of recall proposals all the way. Like most things in life it's getting the balance just right. Carswell's ideas certainly deserve a listen here. I think the really important thing is where policy comes from. There's only one party where it comes directly from the members, but power corrupts and it's essential that Ukip members firmly lock this down. The ultimate in anti-democracy is of course the EU, where no one really knows where policy comes from - the take-home message of that film (except they explicitly indicate it really comes from international capital, and aren't too wrong!).

Try condescension - because you have before! The converse of your claim about your friends in the pub: if you knew me you'd know that was entirely untrue too.

My ignorance about exactly what? I said probably based on clear statistics - once again you try to personalise things! You can only take the Ashington/Bedlington dichotomy so far; the evidence shows that there are still very significant numbers of Bedlington people whose political awareness is more in tune with the first half of the 20th century that the 21st! But, if you are saying that our unwilling pairing with Ashington is a huge drag, then I'm in 100% agreement. I'm not going to point up the obvious self-contradictions in the rest. If you are "turned-off" then please do turn off, and start a thread about something that turns you on! If this interests me I will join in, but if it doesn't there'll be no expression of sour grapes, or personalised attacks, from here!

Everything which affects our lives today is done from behind a mask. Now you know the what of TTIP learn about the why:

On Saturday the bookies drastically shortened their odds on Dodgy Dave not lasting the year out, but they're still way out. Their book should actually be on will he last June out, because there's zero chance that either of the dodgy duo will last 2016 out! In order to restore credibility whoever replaces him must take another look at his dodgy deals, and I'm not just talking about the pretend EU renegotiation. There's also his stitch up with the BBC bosses to let them off the hook for another 11 years if they play his game, and the other quid pro quos with the civil service, merchant banks, and international big business. An inquiry into how the civil service became so deeply involved in deceiving the public is in order. And, If five former chancellors all say the Treasury has been feeding the public total BS, that is something which can't be ignored.

Far left on far left attack when a German party leader tries to propose a figure for a cap on immigration! Almost needless to say the militant leftie got his way, and the party quickly distances itself from the leader's cruel proposal that there should be any limit on migrants to the EU. All part of the insane asylum (are you still allowed to say that?) that our politicos have signed us up to. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/29/german-mp-slapped-in-the-face-with-chocolate-cake-over-stance-on/

The real question for them to ponder is: can Dodgy Dave survive long enough to hand them their gongs? Live: David Cameron facing leadership coup as Tory MP calls for him to go live on TV This is working against him now, as when you are certain you are going to get the chop for speaking your mind traditional party niceties go out of the window - it's kill Dave or be killed time! Enjoy the spectacle of the Tory party disintegrating as you'll never see anything like it ever again - except from Labour!

I think your mates in the pub probably switched off long before the referendum. That a crook, blustering con-man, and utter ignoramus - one regularly who votes for autogenocide of our nation AND the interests of international capitalism - should poll over 19,000 votes, whilst a miner's daughter who offers real change could only get 7000 (and likely most of those from disaffected Tories in Morpeth) doesn't say much for their political awareness, or appreciation of the issues. Fortunately the referendum ISN'T FPTP, so engaged and informed people don't get drowned out by the general apathy.

Some of the biggest lies in the referendum campaign are being told by George Osborne: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/674792/proof-Britain-will-not-lose-trade-deals-leave-EU-Chancellor-George-Osborne Except - as the eminent lawyers confirm in their report - that's lying nonsense. No further negotiation is necessary as following a Brexit everything carries on as before until WE decide differently.

With the obvious exception of this one! You are entitled to switch off; but there are many many people who don't appreciate all the issues, and others are entitled to campaign for their support. It's called democracy; if you want to end it then vote for the salami-slicing antidemocratic EU, and let the Euro-elites do all your thinking for you. It was a good 1000 years - whilst it lasted!

Today only and it looks like they are going fast. http://www.ebuyer.com/665518-sandisk-960gb-ultra-ii-sataiii-2-5inch-ssd-sdssdhii-960g-g25 Input discount code: SSD at the checkout. Free next working-day delivery too. Did I order one myself? Yes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/26/plans-to-create-an-eu-army-kept-secret-from-voters/ It's right there in yesterday's passionately Remain-supporting EU-friendly Times people; what, exactly, do the deniers not understand?

There's just so much jiggery pokery going on from the Remainers that it's near unbelievable. Behind it all is the really big money being funnelled in by Dave's puppet-masters. The true origins of this big money is quite shady. Official pro-European Union campaign is part-funded by Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup and Morgan Stanley and France’s Airbus and Eurostar, Electoral Commission figures show

That would be to fall into the trap that it's just another election where - if we make a mistake - we can re-vote in five years to correct it. This one is for keeps and it's about our very nationhood and democracy. I guess that if this was WW11 you'd be saying all right I've had enough lets just get back to the 1930's! It's a life and nation changing event, and deserves a bit more application.

Watching the so-called "BBC EU Debate" we are informed that a major benefit of being in the EU is that it has reduced our mobile phone roaming charges. Yes, the kids honestly believe this EU propaganda! The truth is more prosaic: It's that the weight of EU regulation that has kept European roaming charges high, at a time when international pressure has equalised them downward in other parts of the world. The prime mover in this is the ITU (the clue is in the name), but once again the EU claims credit for something that would have happened anyway, or has itself has been actively militating against. http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regulatory-Market/Pages/Roaming_info.aspx The EU pretty universally keeps ALL prices higher than they would otherwise be, and forces worker wages down. Large international corporations control the EU at every turn, and that's why they love it so much! Hear the truth from a paid EU lobbyist's own mouth in this great film:-

They do not USE GPS for primary navigation or collision avoidance; they only use it in the same manner as a human does. It could be dispensed with, but is a useful adjunct. I'm not sure why you are even arguing this! It's not about "having to worry about driving". The highways are usable because people conform to a common rule-set and there is an acceptable degree of predictability in people's actions. Those who drive unpredictably get rapidly weeded; smart vehicles do not change that paradigm in any way. Why on earth does a smartvehicle have to conform to a "predetermined route" or operate on a schedule? It's entirely up to the owner(s) how they are operated. We SEEM to have gone from the proposition that they are too dumb to one that they are too smart for humans. It's a false dichotomy either way.

Why would you call your smartcar number 31 (unless you had a large collection)? I'd call mine Rover! You are talking like this was some government imposed "planned" technology. Did you ever see the French Minitel? What you are missing is that this delivers a mechanism for the market to decide the optimal path, and government only gets involved to provide the common glue. Of course government will see opportunities too and add to the technology mix. Wait is what we do now. Uber and others have disrupted the market by the simple innovation of removing the person in front of the radio in a taxi firm, and placing positional information in the hands of customers. Bus companies will cotton on to this soon - assuming they haven't already. The real problem with transport is not that people need to be at the controls, it's that they need to know exactly what is going on and be able to use that information to exercise market choice. People don't thump the counter of airport check-ins over inevitable delays, they get angry about not being told exactly what's going on. Smart vehicles don't limit information, choice, and available routings, they greatly expand them all. I suspect that I will be in a position to post a link of "a royal" in a autonomous vehicle a lot sooner than any of us might now imagine - and that might even be HMQ.

Oh, I see. Well... in that scenario you'd probably be better off throwing large sacks of diamonds instead. The spectral properties of the gems might blind the optics, and it's highly likely that this contingency won't have been properly tested for!

The proposition is that a GPS spoofer used from a motorway bridge would cause "carnage". It would do no such thing. Smartcars use the same visual and spatial clues as human drivers, except that they react to them more reliably, and a lot faster. The rest is just to gild the system, and because it is possible to go even further. And further we will go as the explosion in available telemetry information is pooled to the general good.

No, but that doesn't translate into remotely the scenario that is being suggested. Smartcars don't use GPS for primary navigation, and certainly not for collision avoidance.

Unlike CL I can't! What do you think would happen?