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As a driver one is trained to monitor one’s speed all the time. People should be doing that all the time and should be keeping to the speed limit anyway. This urban myth about having to spend more time looking at the speedo means less time to watch the road is nonsense, it was probably started by a motoring journalist or some petrolhead libertarian.
The boss of the speed camera company deserves what he got because he broke the law.
His crime wasn’t to go too fast past ‘his’ camera. His crime was to break the speed limit!they just monitor one aspect of the law and one that doesn’t cause a major problem in and of itself
Excessive speed is the major factor in most serious road accidents, actually.
That’s what the official statistics say, and they carry more weight than uninformed bar-room banter.Another side to this is that cutting down tropical rain forests reduces the global ecosystem’s ability to absorb the CO2 that we add to the atmoshere. Tropical forests have been cleared at an alarming rate for 20 or 30 years.
And yet we in Britain have cleared most of our forests over the last 1500 years, although woodland cover is on the up again now and it’s growing trees that are best at absorbing CO2, not mature ones. Of course, it’s not even a drop in the ocean compared to the lost forests in the Amazon Basin.
Great idea Bas …….. if you could find a property developer stupid enough to want to build new houses right now.
Britain’s biggest housebuilder, Taylor-Wimpey, has just started building 70 new homes in my town. But it’s probably a ‘what the heck’ situation as they are on the verge of going bust!
I read somewhere that the KGB helped the paramiltaries of BOTH sides in the Northern Ireland conflict, as part of the Soviet policy to soften up western Europe in the hope that they could invade more easily, with fewer casualties.
Until the present bumbler took over, we had a prime minister who gave all the appearance of being a Tory secret agent!!!! :lol:
Now it seems that Fiat are to take Vauxhall/Opel off GM’s hands. That would seem to make more sense. Vauxhalls and Opels are identical apart from badges. As new models are designed, that would mean that common designs could be used for Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Vauxhall and Opel cars – but with different superficial body panels – a bit like how VW, Seat and Skoda cars are all the same under the skin now.
UPDATE:
I misread the report a bit – it looks like Fiat group wants to sell its own car making subsidiary, Fiat Auto, which makes Fiat and Alfa Romeo cars, and use the money to buy Vauxhall/Opel! So who will buy Fiat Auto? Peugeout Group, perhaps?Not many British people buy Chryslers anyway, apart from a few Jeeps and even fewer PT Cruisers.
Don’t you mean LDV Vans?
Fiat have expressed an interest in buying or merging with Chrysler, but I can’t see it happening. Daimler-Benz couldn’t make a go of Chrysler so I can’t see how Fiat could do so, especially as they are not in the best of financial health themselves.
The Jeep brand is probably the only bit of Chrysler worth saving, and even then only the basic Jeep models, not the spin-off SUV models.
It could be a natural occurrence, it’s nothing out of the ordinary on the historical scale.
However, there is a scientific model for how burning fossil fuels adds CO2 to the atmosphere, which prevents heat loss at night, leading to global warming. The thing is, in collecting evidence in support of this theory, there’s no ‘control’ to the experiment as you can’t isolate any natural warming effects.Between 1975 and 2000 there was an exact correlation between rising global annual average temperatures and rising CO2 emissions. But since then the trend has been less marked. Global temperatures have not been rising strongly yet CO2 emissions are going up and up. It’s true 2007 was the hottest year on record, but 2008 was much cooler (some scientists earlier in the year were predicting it would be even hotter than 2007!)
The drop between 2007 and 2008 was the biggest drop in global temperature between two consecutive years.But anyway, if we are causing global warming, it will be self-limiting anyway because oil and gas supplies will start to dwindle in a few decades, lowering CO2 levels.
And none of us have any medical expertise, or at least not enough to know the real prognosis.
It’s not a pandemic yet, but it could become one. Previous pandemics have started in a small way.
The global effects of so-called ‘swine flu’ pale into insignificance when you think of the annual death rate from Malaria in Africa alone …… 3 MILLION !!!!! Now THAT is an issue – but hey who cares???? The Media don’t, obviously.
I think a lot fo people do care about that but it’s a sort of steady-state situation, it’s been like that for ages, so it’s not news. Also, there are about 12,000 deaths a year from normal flu in the UK, but nearly all of those are among very weak and frail people.
We haven’t heard anything of the continuing situation of the virus within pig populartions. This is important because viruses multiply and mutate easily in pigs. Of course, pigs don’t matter as much as humans, but what’s happening with pigs has implications for humans.
Presumably it would be possible pigs to catch swine flu from a human. This could happen at farms or livestock markets. Then we have swine flu spreading, multiplying and strengthening within pig poplulations, which is likely to spread back to humans with a vengeance.
