Bez – Member

“no because you are wrong, it was Ed who was elected due to second/ third/ fourth preferences the tory system is a series of FPTP ballots with an ever diminishing number of candidates. hence the electorate can review who to vote for at each stage”

Heh. That is precisely how AV works. It’s just that you specify all your preferences up-front rather than on an ‘as needs be’ basis (which is thoroughly impractical as a national ballot).

You fill in your favourite. If your favourite goes out, you can opt to vote for one of the remaining contenders or you can walk. And so on. AV is precisely the system you describe, it just saves on time and paper.

dont think this is correct- only the second choice of those who voted for the least popular candidate gets counted, not eveybody’s second choice- a fundamental difference.

torq natural!

http://www.torqfitness.co.uk/acatalog/TORQ_energy_drinks.html

one thought I just had- but my understanding is that if no candidate gets 51%+, then the lowest scoring candidate gets taken out and the 2nd choice of people who voted for them are counted towards the other candidates.
This makes it more likely that people who would vote first choice for extreme parties (BNP etc) have a deciding call on the winner, whereas with the current system their voice is rarely heard….hmmmmm interesting….

What gets my goat on the AV is the campaign- ‘making your MPs work harder’- that only means work harder to be voted in (ie spin) not once they are in parliament- the latter is what is important!!

OK cheers, will have a look into some of those options

There was this bloke on bbc breakfast yesterday had the same op-
This guy was like ‘I’ve tried everything to lose weight- exercise, all diets….this was the only thing that worked’
correct me if I’m wrong but a gastric band op basically stops you from eating too much? ie it has the same effect as a diet (with the necessary willpower)?

I enjoy curling one out on the sofa with a DVD.
would that be well received? 😀

psychle- is that Mosquito’s drawing or IF’s?

some nice ones on this thread…

its basically a big old troll I know but just read up on this ‘problem’ on wiki
wiki leads me to the opinion that the most intelligent among us are those who point to the ambiguity of the question 😉

Therefore he can either have a son and a daughter, or two sons

so 50-50 right?

what cvck says.
are you sure you’ve copied the Q correctly, realman?

There is a difference between randomly selecting a child from two children and then noticing his sex and randomly selecting a two-child family with at least one son.

Apparently. Something to think about anyway.

eh? this is a troll right?
you haven’t worded the original question that way. effectively all we’re being asked is what is the probability of 1 child being male.

Spoiler MK iii
(sorry if done before [and its caine])

yeah….. not one I did i must confess! will never be that good on a bike or with a camera! 😆
but cool, ay. can’t stop wathcing it and thought i’d share!

Have a great 2011, Jedi and keep warm!
happy new year to all
😀

cheers wheelz. good to know, I’m a reasonable spanish speaker so would prefer to have options away from the full english brekky mob!
sounds like it could be a winner 🙂

I take it this one was using her best Gandalf voice 😆

not quite as practical as powder if you’re on a 100 miler road ride with various water stops en route of course- a factor for some..

Are You Tough Enough

Its a concept similar to what could be called ‘in the zone’….

Jedi would explain it a lot better (he introduced the concept to me) but its about how when your skills improve, the trail starts to come at you ‘slower’.
obviously if you’re going too fast for your skill set the trail ‘comes at you’ too fast. (although its not the trail’s fault of course).

Now, there’s gonna be a point relating to skills/speed whereby the trail stops coming at you too fast and begins to slow down but in between it being neither too fast nor too slow you are at the ‘optimum’ or on the edge of your ability….
if we all could tap into that and isolate it we’d all head off into the sunset or perhaps the world would stop spinning. possibly.
I guess DH racers try to tap into this and end up going too far eg Sam Hill crashing… 😀

Nice, cheers. I shall have a look at those and yes of course, try on as tj recc

🙄

Midlands XC was a great race series, Hanchurch course great wooded singletrack.

Nutcracker XC also very good for regional racing.

🙂

sounds lovely, need to figure out where to get polenta but should not be too tricky.

I also did the choc brownie she did on last show (not in recipe list for some reason) using tons of cocoa instead of choc- SUPERB. banged in some crushed hazlenuts and used 2/3 sugar and it was easily sweet enough.

great call woppit, not much else to do tonight for me so i shall crack open a beverage and enjoy! 😛

stumpy01 – Member

erm. I’m of the male persuasion but will admit that I have a habit of riding like ‘a girl’.

I find it funny that there’s not enough girls on here and some of the girls that are on here are pretending to be boys as they don’t want people to know they are girls……

do you see how you’ve answered your own question there? 😆

my old missus who was faster than me both DH and XC would have given you a virtual head-butt for writing that!

speed is your friend, my friend!
I find you have to be able to let off the brakes and let it roll through that stuff! if you’re having to pedal to keep up momentum on the bumpy stuff it can really put you off balance….

not sure if you have knee/elbow pads but these may help to improve confidence as any wee falls on the rocks shouldn’t particularly hurt and put you off.

also, some of the stuff you’re trying is way harder than a lot of people would manage to clear every time, so dont worry about doing all of it straight away…

oh, and look ahead as said above- try it, its amazing how far it will get you
have fun 😀

repped 🙂

“its curtains for Karpets”

TDF commentator

Autocad has ‘True Colours’ TaB,
you could tell client to pick colours in that tab and read out RGB data from there- might work….

also, in the colour selection dialogue, hovering over colours reads out RGB values on the right…

@ Bigbutslimmer go on then, you first! prove me wrong 😆

by the way, I dont read the mail, but without exception, every health care professional (not management) I’ve met in the last year has spent about half the conversation ranting about management stifling their productive output

TJ Germany is about 20% higher funded in terms of GDP – even more than that in cash terms. (30% iirc ) thats why it is better.

dont forget poor management and continual political interference. 😉

can’t say i have any stats to actually back this up but I am lead to believe that the NHS is WAY down the european league table in terms of beds, technology, kit, etc.

The example the programme used was germany where an insurance system is used. people who cant afford insurance get it paid by government.
not sure why that gives a ‘better’ service though

yeah but his point was that the government’s money to spend on those things only comes from taxing private companies (or borrowing)

ahhh i see, didnt know the guy had history. whilst on the face of it plausable, I’d suspected that many of the arguments were over-simplified.

Keynesian from what I’ve skim read there advocates a mixed but predominately private sector-lead economy, whearas we’re over 50% public spending no? I do think that ‘efficiencies’ being made in ratio of front-line to admin staff is not something to argue against though? 🙂

just my tuppenceworth, having mines replaced (this is down in east mids so cant give company) but autoglass were WAY more expensive than local guys quotes…..

my insurance didnt cover windscreen without excess either, so cheaper to go direct.

ripped off another forum but mildly amusing diversion….

aye, we deffo need more questioning of our leaders’ assertions and more particularly the failure of media to challenge or even question them….

Whats worrying is that the supposedly independent bbc just parrots out nonsense about the need for a ‘war on terror'(whatever that means)