Huguenot

Ah, very clever. ;-)

I don't think James was saying that nylonmeals, I think he was saying that parks are locked overnight in general to combat petty crime, and the opening times have an associated cost. Marmora Man, I think 'petty' kind of covers the crimes committed that are defended by locked gates. Committed crims will scale the gates, but petty crims won't. I'm guessing 'petty' covers 90%+ I also think rapists would have difficulty getting their victims to scale a wall. Random partols don't address petty crime, and they're also the first thing to get cut (as an invisible benefit) when the Toreis want lower taxes. Cuckoo. Land.

No no no! :)) I was being literal. I can't see it, hear it, whatever it is. Not because I'm blind or deaf, but because the links send me in a circle. I'm probably being stupid, but it seems to want to make me pay a million, which is a bit ambitious. I meant, you'll find it difficult to get a fanbase if they can't see it or hear it. How do I see it or hear it? Can't you put it on youtube or something?

Like Barclays Bank? That flashing apostrophe neon never seems to work. In terms of Guys and St. Thomas I wouldn't want to mess around with a posessive on a word ending in 's' anyway. I'd invert the sentence and use 'of' or 'from' instead. There are redundant grammatical conceits in English - for instance the 'an' preceding words beginning with 'h': 'hotel'. The 'an' only works if you're cockney. I refuse to let some half-arse like Pepys dictate clearly impractical ideas simply because his printer was struggling with consistency.

Lost as I am, in the nether regions of n'erdowell, Ross is a loss. Mind you, after getting edited to nothingness, I'd have farted in their general direction too. Having said that, watching Atila squirm is worth 6m. *Bob* I'm sorry you don't get a licence fee. Well, just a bit of it, occasionally, if you're melodic.

I didn't realise you were a girl, legalbeagle, but after four years it does give me the opportunity to get fluffed up in your honour. There is no defence of apostrophes in titles. Shouldn't be there. In general it's considered bad form. Hence Sainsbury's could be Sainsburys if you accept Huguenot's 22.3 law of accepted parlance and headline writing. I understand the logic - the shop of J Sainsbury, i.e. Sainsbury's. But it's not. Sainsburys is a collective noun. Like sheep. It refers to singluar, plural and ownership. Brush youself down, let me take that mud off your cheek with a wet thumb, and we shall get a lollipop. 'Shall', there's a word. On a less important topic, anyone who lampoons Sainsburys staff on the grounds that they didn't get involved in a gang fight is frankly silly. To them I offer this: "Look in the mirror you arse".

Much as I respect your brand of facile idiocy reggie, you reached a new low there. None of the clicks work, I saw your wordpress feature, which said nothing, and following links sent me in a circle. I'm sure that niggling my middle class logic will send you and your pot smoking friends into a paroxysm of giggles, but gosh, you'll find it difficult to get a fan base.

Alternatively.... Maybe the guy was a bit daft, had been living on 30 quid a week for eight months. His wife and children had been raped and murdered in front of him. He'd bought a prawn sandwich with his last one pound thirty and had it slapped to the ground by a heavy arsed egotist from Nunhead as he tried to get on the bus. Maybe the 'barge' wasn't inadvertent. Maybe some retard kept staring at him muttering 'immigrant' under his breath and tried to curry favour with fellow passengers by pointing his finger and saying "you shoodint be here". Maybe KK is right, but maybe he'd had so much grief the preceding 3 months, that the only way he gets rid of people is to say "Al Qaeda". Maybe he had post traumatic stress. Maybe he had Tourettes. Maybe this guy's life is a fecking tragedy. All he needs now is some white prick whose biggest tragedy was the kebab house being shut to haul him out of the bus and lecture him on social mores. Don't get me wrong, I'm no liberal, and my ability to fight in pubs is the subject of popular myth.

Alternatively.... Maybe the guy was a bit daft, had been living on 30 quid a week for eight months. His wife and children had been raped and murdered in front of him. He'd bought a prawn sandwich with his last one pound thirty and had it slapped to the ground by a heavy arsed egotist from Nunhead as he tried to get on the bus. Maybe the 'barge' wasn't inadvertent. Maybe some retard kept staring at him muttering 'immigrant' under his breath and tried to curry favour with fellow passengers by pointing his finger and saying "you shoodint be here". Maybe KK is right, but maybe he'd had so much grief the preceding 3 months, that the only way he gets rid of people is to say "Al Qaeda". Maybe this guy's life is a fecking tragedy. All he needs now is some white prick to haul him out of the bus and lecture him on social mores.

Considering the amount of people who wanted to sue Thames Water for installing water pipes to solve some of the ED aqua-delivery issues, it comes as no surprise that the powers that be would steer clear of digging an underground line. Even if the clay issue was resolved ED would still have the nimbys. It's a very conservative working class enclave.

Well not so much of its own volition, but because we raised the average temperature by just enough to break the seal, as it were. As HAL9000 points out, we have very little idea of what that tipping point is. Because it was under permafrost noone really noticed it was there until it started bubbling out - in tandem with unprecedented ice reductions across the arctic.

Was that the first for monniemae in the DR? It's a scorcher...

So just to confirm on that... I only need to change the channel on the router, and the various PCs in the house will still pick it up?

Incidentally, I mentioned earlier that one of the hghly concerning 'unknowns' was the release of methane from frozen undersea beds as the temperatures changed over a very small range. Methane is 20x more warming than CO2 Coinciding with some of the smallest arctic ice coverage in recent history, measurements in Russia are starting to pick up this feedback. Methane releases To reassure people, this isn't the beginning of the end, it's seasonal stuff - but it does demonstrate that this effect can take place. Edited for speling

Ah good, if he clarifies his point then all well. I note that he's sprepared to attribute upo to 26% of global warming to CO2 - that doesn't seem to me to be discounting the effect of CO2. There's not an intelligent scientist in the industry who would argue that CO2 is solely responsible for warming. My point that arguing to gain a higher profile for one cause does not negate the other influences still stands. I like his logic. It appeals to basic physics. I can see that he doesn't have a broad constituency supporting his caculations, and wonder whether the reason is that he over estimates the figures? I think his point about "gases, aerosols and humidity" is infuriatingly generalist. It's well known that aerosols would have a cooling effect, and that the combination of global warming systems PLUS the general clearing of pollution will result in faster global warming than originally predicted. However, to talk abut gases when the atmosphere IS gas is slapdash.

I don't think reggie was being tit for tat. He pointed out quite reasonably that a lot of the failings you level at Labour would have been delivered to an even greater degree by the Tories. Your arguments are disingenuous. The Tories would have been in Afghanisatan and Iraq, they would have reduced financial regulaton and steered the economy away from manufacturing. Much of Labour's investment in health and education was to try and make good some of the horrific damage done by the Tories. My Dad had to sell the playing fields of his 1,600 pupil school to fix the leaking roofs on temporary classrooms housing 45 pupils per class. A generaton of kids with no idea about teamwork, hard work and social responsibility. That's the Tories. Fine if that's what the population wants, as Quids pointed out if you don't want to pay the taxes that's your choice. But how about telling the truth about the consequences?

That's a deliberate misinterpretation, the author is observing correctly that the atmosphere is a greenhouse effect, and lucky for life on earth. No-one with any sense disputes it. It's about change. The author emphatically does not say that the recent additional 2% has no warming effect. Straws, camels backs etc. He just doesn't say it HAL9000. His argument is that thermal pollution will deliver 1.8 degrees rise in its own right. You're seeing ghosts in the machine. Anti-greenhouse gas arguments are neither explicit or implied.

Can you log onto the router itself when hardwired and check that the wirless facility does or doesn't have a security code? Easiest way to log on to the router is usually to go into your 'networks' tab in the start menu, and right click on the router icon, and "view device webpage". There's usually a 'wireless' or 'wireless security' tab that will show the passphrase. Then go back to the start menu: Networks, look for the Network and Sharing Tab, and from there to 'Manage Wireless Networks'. Click on 'add' and it should scan for all networks. Even if you don't see your own, you may see the neighbours. Add your own, and it should then ask for the passphrase.

That's where you misread it HAL9000, it absolutely does NOT discount atmospheric CO2 as a cause - it simply makes on observation an additional cause of climate change. It's a great paper, and great for addressing a novel argument for renewable energy as opposed to nuclear. The reality is that to avoid road traffic accidents you need to both slow down and pay attention. To argue for one of those concepts does not negate or discount the other. That's kind of simplistic.

Is that the mean, median or mode?

I think that was probably the checklist from Conservative Central Office from MM there. It's good to know the stategy in advance, but it's probably a wee bit wasted. From the outside looking in, my biggest disappointment is that Labour's reached a natural end, the Tories look incompetent, and the Lib Dems look silly. How one of the world's oldest democracies managed to elevate such a parlous board for UK PLC is something the electorate need to look long and hard in the mirror about. Mind you, having seen some of the rubbish on the Climate Change threads, maybe the biggest mistake was universal suffrage. Where now the philosopher kings?

HAL9000, you brought up this one before, and it's still not an alternatve view. You misread it then, and you still misread it now. He is quite clear in his observations that the Earth on current energy expenditure patterns will reach an equilibrium 1.8 degrees hotter than it is now. He states that this is partly a consequence of turning stored chemical energy into heat as a consequence of burning fossil fuels: that is explicitly what he refers to in the term 'thermal pollution'. This is man-made climate change. He does point out that a reduction in CO2 emissions will not solve global warming in isolation, but did anyone imagine it would? He certainly does NOT suggest that a reduction in CO2 emissions is misguided, but points out that reducing carbon dioxide emissions through sequestration will not be a reasonable solution if we are continuing to change the thermal equilibrium through energy consumption patterns. Effectivey he's saying "we must do more to combat man made climate change than simply addressing CO2 emissions".

Perhaps there's a study demonstrating the positive effects of shouting out your wife and hitting your kids? A sort of combo effect?

Nothing legitimate about me, I'm not even Huguenot. He's dead in the bath. For those confused by Justin, who has no favourite places.... 'weather' is a series of datapoints. Lots of them, all over the world,as I'm sure you can imagine. 'Climate' is a line of best fit, it's an 'aggregate' of weather. As an engineer and an investigative healthcare practitioner, Justin knows this. Hence his comments on this thread are deliberately disruptive, and against his core beliefs. One has to question his motives for... well you know, the 'L' word.

Talk to a newspaper journo. You'd ne surprised how quickly the TV guys will sort it. I once had a problem with a web ISP. I rang Margaret Drabble at the Guardian. I think they shat all over Milton Keynes in their haste to rectify the situation. Actually had a girl turn up at the door to apologise. Took 5 mins, but she must have invested 7 hours in travel and anxiety.