Chindie

It was one those matches were any result wouldn't be a massive surprise, but I still reckon you'd have to favour the draw. So I am.

I'm not sure what that rants in aid of CED since what problems people have with the education reform, and vice versa, don't appear to be on party lines at all, and rather that they think the reforms proposed are not good, like myself and Trent, or other wise. I'm right with you on petty party politics, it pisses me off, but it's unwarranted here.

how about "Bloody Hell" or in view of the garlic the "Vampire Slayer" ..has a nice ring to it in the oh whats one of those sense and gets people talking about it The Van Helsing?

Jesus Anthony, I love my booze and thats made me retch just thinking about it.

On the schools front what Trent has said was basically exactly what I was thinking - I don't think parents, regardless of what they think, would be terribly good at running a school. It's a policy that sounds good until you start considering that, as Trent has said, teaching is something that takes rather a big investment of time and effort to be skilled at. And parents don't have that. That doesn't mean that the system can't be improved, I'd certainly advocate getting teachers to advise more on what they feel could be improved, maybe even have a specific... body?.. of teachers that do directly advise the top level on education. They see the effect of everything on the front line anyway.

He must have some previous in your mind or a reason to hold that kind of motivation though?

What's Spielberg's involvement given you reason to be suspicious of?

Ammend this, stat. It's fantastic, wunderbar, und shall last in it's greatness ein thousandt years!

I'm not sure we'd see a full blown invasion of Iran BOF as that, as a prospect, is right now probably a bit much for the assorted Allies. A strike on Iran though, more possible. Or even more possible, the attack dog being let off the leash. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway... is this any good compared to Band of Brothers?

...mice.

This is degree generally more than diss. I paid £3k a year to learn about terrorism, joy! I was considering this earlier, well something similar anyway. We've become a species that can adapt spectacularly quickly, and more over adapt beyond our natural capability. We augment our environment to our needs, we improve ourselves beyond our means with medicine. That got me thinking, we've become rather resilient. It'll take something absolutely catastrophic to destroy us. Either so massive a change it undermines our ability to adapt to it, or something so quickly catastrophic we don't have time to. And because of that, even things like widespread nuclear war would have to literally wipe the population away, which is reasonably unlikely, to destroy our race.

I know terrorism extends far beyond the grass roots level. Sadly, once you get past 'grass roots', you effectively get to state terror which I've already said is the only possibility of nuclear terrorism, as they are the only entities that can afford to acquire them.

It's probably the best song of their last album... the crescendo makes it though, you spend 6 minutes with this comparitively simple song, and this symphony builds behind it you just don't notice until it crashes through. It's quite different to Hoppipolla, more grandiose. (give the Engineers a try as well, I'm determined to convince people their first album is a classic chilled album )

Nuclear arms could easily bring about the end of mankind, though perhaps not at the moment, that I agree with. Kenneth Waltz wouldn't though and he's smarter than me. But I really don't buy the nuclear terrorism angle. It's the kind of absolutely mad incredibly unlikely scenario that is peddled by the same people that think 9/11 marks the beginning of 'the new terrorism'.

Iran isn't my strong point admittedly. It isn't enough for a state to simply have 'weapons grade uranium'. Theres far, far more to making a nuclear weapon and it's vastly expensive. Couple that to sheer difficulty in using one, the trouble of moving it and storing it, and it becomes a thing that non state terrorists cannot achieve. The UK and US have had trouble with storing nuclear arms before now and they've the best in the world and all the necessities to do so. To buy a nuclear weapon a terrorist organisation would require hundreds of millions of dollars, at least. It would probably verge on billions. That money just isn't in the hands of terrorist organisations. The best they could do is a dirty bomb. And they aren't so much dangerous as a nuisance, if one was used against the UK for example the harm would be much greater to the economy than the people.

Dinnerjacket isn't, as far as I'm aware, a terrorist, regardless. The reason terrorists won't get nukes is because they can't develop one themselves, because of the expertise and cost, nor can they buy one because the cost is so great. This will also prevent states giving them the technology - no state is going to spend the ridiculous amounts required to develop nuclear arms and give them away. Thirdly, they won't do that from a logic point of view because there is nothing to prevent the weapon you just gave away being aimed right back at them sooner or later. The only ways terrorists can get hold of nukes is if a state loses one and they manage to get hold of it, which in itself is more difficult than it sounds because a nuclear weapon isn't something you can easily use. Or they would have to take power in a nuclear armed state.

Terrorists won't get nukes. EDIT - not in a non state sense of terror anyway.

Destruction to make way for a hyperspace bypass

I'm curious about the schools thing in the Tory manifesto - they apparently want to allow people to set up their own schools... ...that sounds like an absolutely horrendous idea to me and I can only hope theres considerably more to it than that. Anyone know? Apparently there's a similar system in Sweden.

Since Jupiter is made of gas it wouldn't so much hit us as engulf us. Personally I reckon we'll suffer some sort of environmental disaster.

I'm sad to say that took me a moment, but nice one.

Not by a long shot. My dad worked as a carpenter and joiner for Birmingham City Council Housing Dept his entire life until retiring early after illness, and was born in Nechells. And my moms a school cleaner born in Lichfield. Definitely working class. Not a massive household income.

I intend to just be comfortable for life. I don't need to be spectacularly rich. Happiness is a great priority. (though obviously you could be spectacularly rich and happy, I just imagine barring obscene luck, I'd have to work hard for the cash. And I really won't want to). I think I aspire to be middle class, and thats **** sad.

Sigur Rós - Ára Bátur Crescendo on this as it builds is brilliant. Engineers - Come In Out of the Rain.

My faith's kept it's just this has draw written all over it in big **** off letters to my mind. Will be betting on that eventuality as well.