He is right about the state of policing in the UK. The reality is, most officers in the UK who join up get their 2 years in then go to another country either in Europe, or Aus, NZ, or Canada. Because PCness, and the inability to do their job, is now their job. Peel did a lot of good things for the state of policing and many of his ideas are in use today still. But it's gone from the 'work with' to 'blind eye' because someone will get upset that you arrested their 'darling' who has their own binder 2" thick full of sanctions, arrests, and court appearances. A lot of police services take the 'hands off' approach to even serious crimes, because it might inflame someones sensibilities. Or enrage the minority.

Oddly even here in Canada we have something similar albeit on a smaller scale. It's called Toronto. The average cop until they instituted a contract signing agreement would stay on at the TPS for roughly 2 years, then go anywhere else they wanted. It wasn't just the workload(though it's very heavy), it's that there is so much political correctness, that policing is becoming ineffective.

Well you get what you want. You want police to go easy, they go easy. And you get the NEET's rioting because a drug dealer pulled a gun, and got their ass killed. And you arrest some punk for smashing windows, charging them with vandalism, and criminal intent and you're suddenly going 'too hard'.

>> ^Sagemind:

True, true, but not all wood splits that easily. Try splitting spruce and pine with all the knots and pitch in it. It would have to sit for two years, covered up, before you could split it that neatly.
It all depends on the wood, I suppose...


True but if you're using such a soft, sappy wood, you're not using it for much besides either getting your hard wood going, to make yourself a meal fast, or getting heat fast in an area so you don't freeze to death. So it being nice and easy to split doesn't matter too much. Softs have their place, and it isn't for long burning.

I'm not sure what's worse. The commercial or that for all the good things in the 80's, there was so much bad your eyes still bleed over it.

Oh look! Consolitis

>> ^imstellar28:

google is so fucking evil these days. when are people going to wake up and realize that? i think they need to re-evaluate the whole "don't be evil" motto over there.


Did I miss when they instituted the kitten toss, and puppy skull pudding?

Tip: Never put a battery on concrete.

>> ^sawtooth:

Looks like a perfect spot for a new bridge!


Won't happen. They'll wait for the runoff to go, then rebuild it. And I can't see them getting an easement from the county to put in a bridge--too expensive too. Simply put, here in Northern Ontario we had a lot of winter snow, and a lot of rain recently and it's built up in low-lying areas making mini lakes. Anything north of about Barrie you start running out of dirt, clay, gravel and so on. And you're getting into the shield, with no where for the water to really go.

>> ^Payback:

If Harper is Palpatine, Ignatief is that other pod racer from Phantom Menace, and Layton is the Gammorean Guard Jabba dropped into the Rancor pit.
(The Bloq are those Bothans who died getting the fake Deathstar info to the rebels)


You just didn't say that the Bloc was were the Bothans who died in getting the fake deathstar info to the reb's did you? Well yes I see you did. I'm having trouble fitting the context, since the Bloc are xenophobic, actively anti-anglophone, and several other dozen things. Along with the belief that the rest of the country 'owes' them, and they should be able to keep getting money even if they leave.

>> ^taranimator:

Thank you for posting this -- this renewed my positive energy about .. renewable energy.
I sincerely hope we are the laughing stock of our grandchildren's generation ..
"So... Grandma... tell us about how they blew up all the mountains in Virginia, dropped nuclear waste onto the ocean floor, and flooded entire valleys .. so you could turn on the lights, tee hee .. "

Pft. We're more likely to be a laughing stock of future generations because the previous generations insane response to nuclear power generation, that effectively set back fusion power by 50 years.

Amazing. Not only were you bitter enough to downvote my comment, but you missed the entire joke. I suppose reality, and humor have no place in the world. You may now continue with your self-imposed bitterness.
>> ^xxovercastxx:


Contrary to popular belief, it's not established whether cats or dogs are generally smarter. What is well established is that cats and dogs are very different types of animals and have very different motivations.

>> ^WaterDweller:

Kitty on a leash?

Sure. Contrary to popular belief, you can train cats. The difference between a cat and a dog is one is smart enough to know it's being led around, and will rebel against it. The other is happy, happy enough to go into OMG FREE FOOD MODE *PUKE* Omnomnomnom!

>> ^maximillian:

Also, This doesn't really look like a computer motherboard, more like a generic, custom circuit board.
Still cool though.

It's defiantly not a standard board, double-sided mating surfaces for interconnects, integrated cpu, gpu, and onboard prom and ram chips probably means it's for a notebook, eeepc, or some type of tablet.


One thing I miss working in the industry was the smell, there's something unique about the smell of a freshly coated board just having been hot-soldiered. Of course now with all the whining they've switched to lead free. Wonder what the failure rate based on hot-flexing and tinning is. If it's under 15% I'll be surprised. I'll say it's at least 10%, which is a miserable failure.

I mean come on, it's not like people chew on motherboards. Replacing a tried and tested technology with something inferior and without proper testing is setting you up for failure. Well I guess we can blame environmentalists and insane politicians for that one.

Meh. Just hurry up and figure out that the Israeli's have the right idea on airport security. And you won't put up with anymore of this nonsense.

Eh it's interesting. But you can tell that the base head was built using a male mesh which skews the ability to make a proper female head.

The theory has been known to be wrong for awhile especially when dealing with gravity and non-consents. It's still right for a lot of stuff. But this is pretty interesting.