Steven P

Whatever you say, simply must be true. Idiot.

There's more than 2 and I've never had a problem - been in far worse pubs if your from 'down south' - but they have usually been awesome nights as well once the locals realise you're not a tit.

Seams to me that too many people are jumping up and down accusing all who do murders and are -not white- as being a terrorist, as opposed to a murderer. Seams to me that we should just call them what they are - murderers - regardless of skin colour, religion, country of birth (or their great grand parents country of birth). Take the religion, colour, nationality out news reports and report 'murders', perhaps there will be some bias removed from what you all read... this story is horrific but has been discussed for the last 10 pages, not because someone went out attacking, but discussed because half the forum don't like their skin colour. Might need to shake your heads a bit, all nationalities do murders. Maybe need to stop all of them?

Could have tried joining the IRA and then popped into the local protestant church then?

So ban all religions. Easy.

So we will just sweep the victims under the carpet because the family are grabbing all they can get? (she was 17, Andrew 35, Epstein went on abusing till he was in his 50s and the victims were as young as 11... but sweep that away, ignore that, if the families are out for some retribution)

50p beer was proper shit beer though, the dregs from whatever brewery had a few barrels 'best before' last week style.

Like it was the mid 90s again!

For legality, she was 17 and in the UK so it was all 'legal', however he was mid thirties so definitely not something that you can defend. As to what Roberts was told to do, not sure Andrew was the instigator in those demands or whether Maxwell and Epstein were the only ones demanding she slept with him as a 'gift'. So legal in the UK... but nothing you can defend I reckon. Like Trump I reckon he knew exactly what Epstein was up to, and is complicit in those crimes also by his silence.

Think I was about £18 last night for beer, wine and a couple of cans of coke.. last time I was in a 'spoons, the beer was a reasonable couple of ££.. which does make you wonder if they can do it why are the rest so much more. However... 30 whatever years ago in the big market you could get a pint for 50p, made the £1 a pint taste reasonable.. but at the £1 a pint, double the price every 10 years for inflation? - 1 (0 years), 2 (10 years), 4 (20 years), £8 (30 years) a pint might actually be the going rate. We are just bitter and twisted (sorry, an intentional beer pun)

He is of course the wrong colour, born in the wrong country, and has the wrong amount of wealth for that to happen.

Not AI but I wouldn't buy a wet belt car again - replacement cost made it a financial write off Some automation in cars is a good thing I reckon - warnings and sensors, not sure I want them taking over though. We did have one - the one with the wet belt - that would park itself, maybe a moaning old man but most of the time I forgot it was there. Not really AI though having a beep if you are getting closer to a vehicle in front or a parking sensor though, just electronics.

"Swivel-eyed loons" !

Yup, saw this on TV last night and made a suitable donation. It is a nice part of the world, you should take a trip up there (Kielder on the edge of this plot of land is one of the UKs dark skies areas - great for stars, and the RAF will blast up and down there every now and then to wake you up). For reference just east of the middle of the country, about 25 to 30 miles from Blyth so not too far away from any of us.

no it hasn't. Montreal agreement universally banned CFC and other harmful gasses - every country in the world signed up to that it was that important - and the hole in the ozone stopped growing at the same rate, this was about 30 years ago. Currently it hasn't repaired itself, it is still about the same size. To note it took about 10 years to be created, estimates reckon another 40 years or something for it to repair itself.

I'll give you an analogy for the CO2 thing - the article say very little CO2 in the atmosphere so how can it have an effect. Go to the chippy on Friday night, get your portion of chips (say about 1kg), add salt (say 5g, or 0.5%)... and now tell me that 0.5% of stuff has no effect.

To be honest he has moved on now. Linkedin doesn't say how to respond to a critique so better move on to a new topic and hope no one notices there is no substance or knowledge behind the linkedin posts. Though I am inclined to believe that the weight of science and worldwide research trumps a one off paper in an obscure publication. With these things always ask "what do the European, US and Russian scientists say"... and if all 3 sets tend to agree then I would go with that... and guess what... they all tend to agree with CO2 being a problem. (I say the 3 sets because they spread the political spectrum and any commercial bias is equalised a bit)

AI: as far as I can tell it is mostly a term applied to a better google search than usual - it will search, work out the most common answers and spew that out as the correct thing. Most of the time this is correct of course - ask it what is the best tool to fell a tree, probably chainsaw pops out (simple google will give the same answer), but ask it whether Stihl or Husky is the best - with a 50-50 online split one AI bot might get one result and another go the other way (I might try that later). That is it's power I reckon, summarising 100 web pages quicker than you can read one. Might look amazing but the programmers have simply worked out a way for the internet to use the internet better than we can. Big benefits: It might reference documents buried 100 results pages in the internet. Big draw back: It might reference document (rightly) buried 100 results pages in the internet. I get put off when everything is written "as AI" produced when a simple search will do the same... makes me think they are jumping on a bandwagon when they don't know what they are doing (but hope we don't either), but there are some things that have impressed - though the google search would give me the same it is the time saving aspect. A few words there but I think there is no 'I', intelligence, applied by the computers really (that was done by the programmers), the machines arn't taking over this week because they can do a google search. As a side thing, our work sends out warnings about the big companies - Facebooks, Linkedins, and so on harvesting your data, what you look for and what you type are sent back for 'AI' learning... money talks and the driver for this is to sell us stuff. That might be the next big thing, 'AI' powered targeted ads written in exactly the same way you will type into the social medias.

A mix, a few Scots pines, most are spruce though. The ones I have were never managed and thinned so a lot are falling over now - which will be replaced as and when I get to it. Squirrels - never thought of that, we only have about half a dozen at any one time (local fox, cats, crows and buzzards, road see to a lot for their control)

Going to put Scots Pine in further away from the road side (currently Ash / Pines / willows along the river)

Driverless trains and trams exist - though the London Mayor scrapped plans for the London Underground. Suspect that means 'paused'. Can't see a problem with driverless trains if they can prove the tech is reliable and secure - to be honest by the time say, a main line passenger train driver sees a problem they have passed it a mile ago. Not sure cars have the computing yet - too many other things to react to

I guess there is a different category for bombardment in a ceasefire?

I have no idea what he was talking about.... Not sure he does either. Is it related to his dementia testing I wonder?

Started to experiment with a couple of trees this year, will see if it worked next year.

The forum has missed this post! Is the tree on your side of the boundary or on the boundary? Your side then I guess all you need to do is ask the neighbour for access to the tree. If your future plans are to replace the building then do it sooner rather than later (future plans could be next spring, could be in 2050).