ChezGiven
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2-1 win. 5 mins too late again!
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"We have hope...Rebellions are built on hope! " Delivered with the gravitas of an Oxo commercial.
I love the cheesy cum face they all make when she says that
To be fair, only the exceptional skills of Alec Guinness meant that even worse lines were gotten away with in the original
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It's gong to be a steaming pile of shit.
Just pulling at the nostalgia strings of old men and playing to 14 girls. Absolutely nothing to offer.Its going to be great and you're going to give it 3/10. The end.
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A shop (not this branch) has 3 signs like this on its front window. I laugh every time i pass it.
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That slav channel with Subjoi on it is fucking great Parky.
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Captain Fantastic
Favourite film of the year
Watched that last night, really enjoyed it. I think i agreed with the conclusion too.
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Very nice.
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I dunno, maybe they're trusted allies, maybe so she can retire them when they fail to get hard. I can't second guess the angel of death.
She appointed the 3 Brexiteers for the simple reason of party cohesion. The whole episode of Brexit was based on Tory party unity. The simple lesson is this, the political fallout of Brexit is better than a split in the party as the latter is an existential threat, whereas the former was a risk with manageable downside.
Proof? The Labour party.
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It's called the Real Effective Exchange Rate. It's referenced in the article. It looks at the trade balance between the Uk and a range of other countries, so excludes the impact on the demand for sterling from e.g speculative flows.Not sure I understand why fair value for sterling is $1.10 when historically it has sat at around $1.50.
You can argue that the WTO tariffs are now neutralized as our new sterling prices have fallen by more than the expected tariff. However, if the economy regains strength based on export competitiveness then this will be short lived as the exchange rate will rise to reflect the increased demand for sterling from the new purchasers of our exports, hence neutralizing the advantage. As this basic economic mechanism isn't explained by the currency expert and its in the Telegraph one can assume its political nature.
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Watched Derren Browm's Miracle earlier. Curing blindness was an interesting trick.
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Still getting lots of announcements about them on flights. Today they even made a point about them being turned off but on a portable charger.
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Don't have much to add to whats been said but i was in Brussels last week meeting with a Policy Officer from DG Sanco (a Directorate of the commission). She gave me the sense that there is an incredible amount of caution in the EU and that their own 'balancing act' is just as tricky. She referred to the 'sense' in the commission that pushing for 'too much Europe' would be politically counter-productive. From this, on a separate subject to Brexit, i would infer that the entrenchment of Europe post-Brexit discussions where the union appears to be ever more binded together is not an impression they want to give out. I think this is, among other things, going to give the UK some leverage to achieve concessions. The position of the EU is very much up for grabs right now as those vested interests that want to protect the project are not necessarily going to be gung-ho in negotiations.
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Doesnt get away with a music source though, you need to spend a bit more for one which stores music.
The non-Apple ones that do store music are apparently a fanny on to sync and have manufacturer headphone pairing issues with not all brands supported.
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I still don't see the point of them.
Running, exercise etc without the phone. Now the new one has the GPS its independent (ish) of the phone for run tracking, which is what the intended use is. You sync a playlist of up to about 100 songs and you have an iphone for your run without the need to carry the iphone.
Not sure its worth it but i was given one for free so use it for running. Most people who run have a sports watch and the best GPS watches from Tom Tom and Garmin are about the same price (think top of range Tom Tom cardio GPS is around 400 euros). I wouldnt have bought the first model but this second one seems ok. Not going to update the one i have though, better things to spend money on.
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That's a really interesting question - but would any of us be capable of assessing that moral quandry in the few split seconds we'd have to make a decision. Surely your brain would just pick a direction and go for it. The car would have to be programmed on something along the lines of assessing which object it was farthest from and aiming for that one, I think.
Its not just about the difference in how we might react, its that the programmers need to insert a morality into the programme.
That gets tricky once you specify a rule, like 'do the least harm' as then algorithm will be able to calculate numbers of people. However, that might not be in line with people's moral 'preferences' if a newborn baby was involved. There is no limit to how complicate the algorithm is an of course the calculation and reaction time would be quicker than any human brain.
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The trouble they are having with discussions with regulator is in being able to pre-specify the moral actions of the vehicle when in danger. So, if the car has to take evasive action to avoid running over a group of 5 people but to do so the only action it can take is to swerve and run over a child, how should the programmers incorporate the pre-determined choice into the software algorithm?
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Uber downgraded the Tesla S from the 'Berline (or Black)' category. Its now under Uber X which is ridiculous. Shows how significant Uber thinks Tesla is as a competitor.
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Do they come with a 3.5mm headphone Jack?
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I'm not sure what Gemmill's point was as the phone was released over two weeks ago. No one was queuing for it this weekend.
He's made a bit of a tit of himself with all this fuss over a phone released 2 weeks ago and hallucinating queues outside of retail stores.
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It's a technical issue which won't affect a purchaser today though, so I don't see the relevance personally.
The 787 had significant battery issues when it first flew, potentially lethal ones. I take it you would still fly on one today though.
You cant use them on planes mate. If you buy one today and get on a plane tomorrow, everyone else will be listening to music, playing games, watching vids and you'll be reading the in-flight magazine.
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I got a Sony Experia recently btw, I do like Android on phones. Just not sure about the ones which blow up.
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Only in a very strange world where directly competing products in an intensely competitive market arent relevant to each other
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Dont get this. "People" in the democratic party conspired to keep Sanders out. That's what leadership battles are about. As all of Clinton's team are 'democrats', does this accusation mean that there are people in the party who are firewalled against supporting candidates by some internal rules who broke these rules?
Clinton has some questions to answer (for me) for being a hawk and aggressive on foreign policy. Would never cast her as the perfect candidate at all. However, to be accused as 'conspiring' with her own party to beat her opponent is basically trying to cast every single political battle for power in any organisation ever as corrupt. Fine, call it that if you want but be clear that its no different to what happens in all political parties and boardrooms across the world every day.
Or have i missed something about the nature of this? Were the people she worked with to win the candidacy meant to be impartial? Or is this story, 'people in group act together to get what they want'?.