Fly to Madrid or Barca: train and ferry north from there.

I know this isn't the question you're asking but you can also get software that'll do it with webcams (or normal cameras as webcams), I believe. Depends what you want to shoot, obviously.

Is the guy mentally unsound or just an ar5ehole?

Tsk, why would you bother suggesting something that's legal and likely to be effective? We're looking for macho and counterproductive here!

Engineering have a lot to do as there are certain tasks that need to be taken care of to maintian the serive logs and keep the aircraft ready for flying again once things clear

A good year to be a BA maintenance worker, then? Mega-overtime!

Can you reduce driving time by ferrying across somewhere? And is the boss prepared to rent a Merc Vito minibus or something?

From my colleagues, I've got 1 stuck in Paris, 1 in Warwick & 1 in Roma… What a mess.

The guy in Warwick got the worst deal by bar.

there's little or no point going home at all as I've got meetings out here starting Tuesday morning.

MHO – forget it. It would be a hassle of a journey even if the planes were flying, it's gonna be a nightmare now. Just buy/dry clean a couple of shirts and relax so you don't have to worry about it. (And maybe book an overnight sleeper ferry for next week ;) ).

How many sites do you need to monitor? Can't you just use a search term like this in the wee search term box?:

singlespeed OR bombers OR "wee in his shoes" site:singletrackworld.co.uk

Can't quite see how to get it to search multiple sites at once, though. If it were LexisNexis you could do nested searches. My search-fu is weaker than it was…

Most of the UK's food is imported (and the % is getting higher each year), how do we protect that supply?

Most of everything is imported, at least partially. Martin Luther King said "Before you've finished your breakfast, you will have relied on half the world", and that was fifty years ago!

How do we protect that supply? I dunno – what's the biggest threat?

I'm new to the whole GPS thing (beyond just getting co-ordinates and then looking where I am on the map) but I have been thinking about getting the e72 as they're going cheap.

Does this: "has sport tracker which is great for gathering route data" mean that I could use the phone's gps signal to track where I have been on a ride and then upload it to, say, Google Maps?

And by the same token, could I download routes for rides from t'internet and have the phone mounted on the handlebars to show me the way?

Also – how do you find media playback on the e72?

OH! Nokia website says that Sports Tracker isn't available for e72, just e71. Piss. Edit again – forums say that you can use other phones' versions on the e72 and it will work, and that you can download data as Google Map compatiable KMZ files.

OK, then, fair enough – what is "food security"? There is no problem with supply so long as we have the money for it – same with oil.

something to do with an rss reader…?

Why not spend the money on ensuring our countries food security.

What would be "food security"? What would be the use of it if we didn't have "energy security", or "connectivity security"? It's impossible to be totally self-reliant on anything these days. Ask North Korea…

Simple maths states that 20000 workers earning an an average of 30k over 20 years = £6000million in taxes and ni contributions have just gone down the swanney.

This is a complete dogturd of a justification. There is no bigger dolemole than the arms industry: 13,000 subsidy per job.
http://www.caat.org.uk/resources/publications/economics/subsidies-factsheet-0504.php

As the graffiti in Brixton used to say…"let's be strident, let's ban trident".

"Big Issue, sir?"
"No, thanks"
"Have a good day. Big Issue, madam?"

– typical exchange around my way. I don't see what the problem is.

Nowhere near as annoying as the **** free newspaper distributors that shove it at you or the chuggers. And, Jesus, if you're gonna cut anyone a bit of slack about using the pavement to make a bob or two, surely it's the homeless or the ill?

i think ukip's policies are essentially a collation of the daily mail's letters page aren't they?

Best summary ever.

derek – too late to buy travel insurance?

did it cost a lot in detergent apart from the machine hire?

Graz is very expensive for car hire. Ljubyana is much cheaper.

I dunno – I'm going back a couple of years where hiring a car that was allowed to be driven through Croatia, Slovenia, BiH was actually cheaper to do from Graz than either Slovenia or Croatia. But probably it pays to check everywhere every time, as it might well change every week.

Unfortunately the place in Ljubljana that rented out Renault 4s has closed down!

I thought that was actually a thing that came out for a while – a fiver and they'd spray you with lotion in a fine mist. Maybe I imagined it all.

OP: might just be the shop you work at, might be the industry. One thing, though: if I have it right, at the moment, you have a job where as soon as the shop shuts and you walk out the door, you're finished i.e. when you're not working, you're really not working. There's a lot to be said for that!

But otoh there is even more to be said for doing a job you actually enjoy.

Sorry – that's probably not much help.

ask on bikeforums.net – they have loads of extracycle users hanging around there.

Is it digital or analogue levers? ;)

WTF???

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HolidayAutos usually does pretty good deals which are all-inclusive and usually the cheapest IMHO. But also checking whether your credit card covers it is a good idea too.

Hmm, on one hand, not much to gain from killing Pres of Poland (no ongoing disputes and NATO missile shield isn't going to disappear if you kill the one guy – in fact, you might guarantee his brother's election next time around).

On the other hand – heavy fog, no instrument guiding system at a military airport, numerous attempts to land, plane full of senior people used to getting their way and "don't you know who I am-itis", and two pilots being prodded to land so they don't miss the big ceremony the next day.

I'm not saying Putin wouldn't do it cos he's a good guy, just that there's no real incentive. Besides, there's a putsch to be managing in Kyrgyzstan right now.

But having said that, I'm surprised they had the plane serviced in Russia. How would you know it wasn't filled with listening devices?

maybe just get to trieste in Italy, get the train over the border and organise it yourself?

Or Ryanair/Easyjet to Graz, Zagreb, Ljubljana. (Graz is prob cheapest for car rental).

auctioneers didn't go to much effort in that eBay ad.

The European Union as it has turned out to be was the Nazis idea originally, read The Tainted Source by John Laughland for the real history of Europe.

Utter balls. If you think the first attempt at political and economic union in Europe came after 1933, you don't know much history.

I walked off a temp job for this exact reason – I CBF'd cleaning a kitchen that I didn't use. Actually, that place was awful: there was a normal kitchen and a temps' kitchen. Temps were not allowed to use the permanents' kitchen and there would be emails along the lines of "Will ALL temps PLEASE NOTE that BISCUITS are provided as a snack only and ARE NOT TO BE EATEN IN LARGE QUANTITIES to replace a meal". **** that!

We have a two party system (we pretend otherwise).

Not really – parties are coalitions internally two. Most likely we have at least six parties: the left and right wings of Labour and Tories, the completely batshit right wing of the Tory party, and the Lib Dems (which is more of a smear than a bloc). Blair's impact was so strong because he had a Blairite majority so that he didn't have to rely on the left wing of the Labour party.

And then of course there's the 4 party systems in Wales, NI, and Scotland.

Apparently the MD guy locks himself in a room once a month to mix the recipe before it is then produced.

PR nonsense out of the Coke playbook, surely?

I know his daughter, also a lovely lady. I met her at a party, but she refused to lend my girlfriend the last economic and social history book in the Glasgow uni libary.

Well, look, in the current economic climate, do you really think it's prudent to be lending significantly to low-income, high-risk students? ;)

Chrome but would be better if I could find out how to kill ads – Google likes ads.

Quattro!

IRN BRU: Its the official hangover cure.

We once convinced our mate that Irn Bru had been specifically designed to cure hangovers and that if you were ever in Glasgow with a hangover you could go to the Irn Bru Hangover Research Centre and they'd give you a sofa and a dark room and new varieties of Irn Bru to test to see how effective they were at treating hangovers…

Does Hari even mention Marx ?

Does he mention whippets, claret, supper v dinner and other social class shibboleths?

(Private Eye does a good line in tracking Hari's fantasist tendencies).

I'm seriously considering voting for the lib dems. Is there any "smack you in the face" reason I shouldn't? Have I missed something?

Depends on your constituency and what you want to happen.

If you're in a safe seat, it probably doesn't matter which way you vote.
If you're in a Lab/Con contested seat, voting Lib Dem might not achieve anything.
If you're in a Lab/Lib contested seat, voting Lib Dem is the better way to get rid of Labour.

But if you get rid of Labour and the Lib Dems won't be a moderating force on either as a coalition partner, you could end up with an untrammelled Tory govt. Not a good idea imo but you and others may differ. :?

So, ernie/fred/talkemada: you didn't read the thread or the original article but you still think blah blah blah? Well…RTFA, then! It's all about how the state structures tax and whether it favours the rich or whether it benefits the poor.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies just published a long-term study of how Labour's tax changes have affected different classes, compared to the last Tory government. It found that the richest 10 per cent have seen their incomes cut by 9 per cent, to pay for an increase in the incomes of the poorest 10 per cent. A rich man has lost on average £25,000 a year; a poor woman has gained on average £1,700 a year. I have seen these changes among my own family and friends: gaining £1,700 is the difference between struggling to pay the bills, or being able to give your kids a summer holiday.

Rad to the power of sick.