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• #1402
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/10/20101027132136220370.html
Dr Ott said: "People are already dying from this… I’m dealing with three autopsy’s right now. I don’t think we’ll have to wait years to see the effects like we did in Alaska, people are dropping dead now. I know two people who are down to 4.75 per cent of their lung capacity, their heart has enlarged to make up for that, and their esophagus is disintegrating, and one of them is a 16-year-old boy who went swimming in the Gulf."
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• #1403
yeah but they are going to widen the A35 into Norwich so its not all bad.
It's the A11, and it's a massive deal for people down here. It's thought to be the silver bullet that will bring investment, riches and fame to the area.
Me, personally, I think trains are better.
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• #1404
Frankly, the real story is how a 100 mile long road between Norwich and London was ever left with a tiny, nine-mile section as single carriageway while the rest was made double. What an enormous cock-up. Talk about leaving a job half finished...
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• #1405
91% finished, surely?
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• #1406
Bad point about these large roads is that they are a motorway in all but name but the money comes out of a different pot to motorways. So they are funded out of money meant to help all road users but are not for all road users. If would be fairer if it renamed a motorway.
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• #1407
whoever wrote that piece of intellectualy lazy, vapid toss clearly doesn't like fixies very much. how refreshing. moving on.
It was the Bikesnob dude wasn't it? I had a flick through, he definitely wrote at least part of it. Pic of him holding his (fixed gear) bike above his head.
There was a funny line about recumbent cyclists looking like they were fighting off a flock of eagles (or something) with their feet.
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• #1408
It was the Bikesnob dude wasn't it? I had a flick through, he definitely wrote at least part of it. Pic of him holding his (fixed gear) bike above his head.
There was a funny line about recumbent cyclists looking like they were fighting off a flock of eagles (or something) with their feet.
(edit: I should've clicked the link before writing all that. It's all there)oh fair enough then. take backsies. actually his bit about girls on dutch-ovens was pretty on the money.
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• #1409
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/10/20101027132136220370.html
"The dispersants are being added to the water and are causing chemical compounds to become water soluble, which is then given off into the air, so it is coming down as rain"
Now, I'm no Nobel prize-winner, but that strikes me as bullshit.
You can dissolve whatever the fuck you like in water and when you evaporate the water off, you tend to be left with exactly what you dissolved.
Anyone who ever grew copper sulphate crystals at school knows that.
Unless the dispersants are volatile and/or the compounds they make with the oil are volatile (both quite possible I suppose), all the shitty stuff will be staying well and truly in the sea to either float, sink or be washed ashore, no?
Any Chemists in the house?
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• #1410
The blood of all three females and five males had chemicals that are found in the BP Crude Oil
Water and salts? :)
Not arguing that crude oil and the dispersants aren't nasty and toxic - I think crude is generally acknowledged as such and the dispersants are probably similarly bad, but the article seems fairly poor quality to me. I think they should have stuck to the observations, culled the layman assumptions and avoided trying their hand at a bit of science. It would've come across as much more credible
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• #1411
some of the people mentioned either had dispersants sprayed over their houses, swam in the sea or lived near the coast.
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• #1412
Now, I'm no Nobel prize-winner, but that strikes me as bullshit.
You can dissolve whatever the fuck you like in water and when you evaporate the water off, you tend to be left with exactly what you dissolved.
Anyone who ever grew copper sulphate crystals at school knows that.
Unless the dispersants are volatile and/or the compounds they make with the oil are volatile (both quite possible I suppose), all the shitty stuff will be staying well and truly in the sea to either float, sink or be washed ashore, no?
Any Chemists in the house?
(I haven't read the article, and I'm not expert myself) It depends on the solute. Evapourated water is full of minerals, carbon dioxide, nitrogen etc. In areas of pollution you get large quantities of stuff that gives you acid rain.
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• #1413
(I haven't read the article, and I'm not expert myself) It depends on the solute. Evapourated water is full of minerals, carbon dioxide, nitrogen etc. In areas of pollution you get large quantities of stuff that gives you acid rain.
Hmm, but aren't those things picked up from the air? I thought acid rain was when the sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere dissolved into the water vapour in the clouds?
I can quite believe that these things give off nasty vapours near ground level, but to say that it's going up into the clouds and being rained out seems unlikely to me.
I read the bit about planes apparently dumping dispersant over residential areas, which wouldn't surprise me - there's a lot of incompetence about and dispersant is presumably a lot more nasty than just spreading fairy liquid over the oil.
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• #1414
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqVwI2pxmFA&feature=player_embedded
Tim Profitt -- the former Rand Paul volunteer who stomped on the head of a MoveOn activist -- told told local CBS station WKYT that he wants an apology from the woman he stomped and that she started the whole thing.
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• #1415
CCTV shows police punching park stab victim.
The footage, which was captured on council cameras, shows him being pinned to the ground and punched in the face.
Supt Mike Shaw, from Merseyside Police's professional standards department, said he understood how people may be concerned when watching the footage. However, he said CCTV images "never show the whole story."
True. The whole story is that the copper lost his rag and punched him viciously and repeatedly.
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• #1416
The force voluntarily referred the incident to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which said it was happy for Merseyside Police to conduct its own investigation.
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• #1417
Jusus. Person with head injury in altered personality shocker.
Do the dibble not have even basic 1st aid knowledge? Probably not...
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• #1418
Boris Johnson; next leader of the Conservative party
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/28/boris-johnson-kosovo-style-cleansing-housing-benefit
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• #1420
Not sure if this is true or very old but it is wonderful:
Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years,it's parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were for cars (£1.40),for buses (about £7). Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.
The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility.
The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee.
The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.
Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or France or Italy ... is a man who'd apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about £560 per day -- for 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over 7 million pounds ... and no one even knows his name.
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• #1421
Just searched. It's an urban legend. Pity.
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• #1422
Dam. I was happy for a brief few seconds.
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• #1423
George Osborne letting off Vodaphone 6 billion tax bill
For years now, Vodafone has been refusing to pay billions of pounds of taxes to the British people that are outstanding. The company – which has doubled its profits during this recession – engaged in all kinds of accounting twists and turns, but it was eventually ruled this refusal breached anti-tax avoidance rules. They looked set to pay a sum Private Eye calculates to be more than £6bn.
Then, suddenly, the exchequer – run by George Osborne – cancelled almost all of the outstanding tax bill, in a move a senior figure in Revenues and Customs says is “an unbelievable cave-in.” A few days after the decision, Osborne was promoting Vodafone on a tax-payer funded trip to India. He then appointed Andy Halford, the finance director of Vodafone, to the government’s Advisory Board on Business Tax Rates, apparently because he thinks this is a model of how the Tories think it should be done.
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• #1424
George Osborne letting off Vodaphone 6 billion tax bill
Read that in Private Eye too. They've got some serious beef with the head of HMRC too. Sounds like a right cnut.
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• #1425
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUZ6LN0enas"]Monkeys
on Fox News, courtesy of Russell Howard[/ame]
I'm not suggesting anything, merely observing that the report states:
"But yesterday top judges decided the lorry's driver could in no way be blamed for the accident."