Once your in-vogue internet company is worth $160 million here's some advice: SELL IT! Seriously, don't hold out for more - this is 'Deal or No Deal' on a grand scale so take the money while it's there, don't risk getting a box with $500,000 in it. Yes you'll kick yourself if the value rises to $250 million, but that $160 million will be some small consolation.
"If you want a hat for the Summer Olympics then just use a summer straw hat like men and women used to wear"
Someone has obviously never experienced a typical wet and miserable British summer (so far the wettest on record, blame the jet stream for its inconvenient wiggling). I'd like to know where the pictures of wellington boots and plastic overcoats are - they are going to need them.
The only people who think the clothes they wear are made in their own country are the people of China. And maybe India. Etc.
No country is going to do (or try to do) nearly enough to affect climate change - there are enough deniers and special interests to make that a certainty. Hence we'll all just have to carry on and adapt to whatever the planet throws at us.
Over here we had droughts in winter and now have floods in summer - if the US wants to know who stole their rain, it's been falling all over the UK for the past few months, the wettest summer (so far) on record. You'll be seeing a lot of it during the Olympics coverage!
Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451) is on there too, Edward. Edgar Rice Burroughs is named for Tarzan, but his John Carter books (among others) are sci-fi too.
Great video, which unlike some here I watched without thinking 'I must post a link which proves that this video isn't so great because MY country is number one in everything'.
I live in the middle of the country (UK) on high ground. Don't come swimming to me for help in 100 years' time!
Personally I think that there is a zero per cent chance that enough countries will come together to do what's needed to reverse or reduce climate change. History says no, that's not what we're good at (super-long-term planning). We don't like fixing things BEFORE they are broken. What we ARE good at is reacting and adapting to a crisis, so I'm resigned to the fact that we'll wait and see what happens, and if the worst does happen we'll try to do something to reduce the impact of any catastrophe.
I will watch the wildfire burning of the US landscape with interest, and meanwhile here in the UK it's been raining for months and more rain is forecast... forever. All good fun.
With the amount of restoration worked needed on it, it might have been cheaper to just build a new one from scratch, but I suppose the fact that it's genuine prop is a big part of the value.
America seems to have turned from 'a land of opportunity' to 'grab what you can, stamp on anyone who gets in your way, and don't bother to help anyone who can't keep up'. I wouldn't call that great.
The Citizens United vs FEC ruling effectively ended representative democracy in the USA and now ensures that all its politicians can be bought, easily, no questions asked.
When bribery is legal (unlimited funding of SuperPACs by wealthy businesses), when the super-rich corporations own/control your politicians with impunity, I can't see how anyone can call a country like that 'great'.
Go for the run off. If you think you're good enough to compete in the Olympics, you'll want to go there knowing you're the better competitor, not that you lucked into it. Losing a coin toss would be far more difficult to come to terms with than losing a race.
"If you want a hat for the Summer Olympics then just use a summer straw hat like men and women used to wear"
Someone has obviously never experienced a typical wet and miserable British summer (so far the wettest on record, blame the jet stream for its inconvenient wiggling). I'd like to know where the pictures of wellington boots and plastic overcoats are - they are going to need them.
The only people who think the clothes they wear are made in their own country are the people of China. And maybe India. Etc.
Over here we had droughts in winter and now have floods in summer - if the US wants to know who stole their rain, it's been falling all over the UK for the past few months, the wettest summer (so far) on record. You'll be seeing a lot of it during the Olympics coverage!
Personally I think that there is a zero per cent chance that enough countries will come together to do what's needed to reverse or reduce climate change. History says no, that's not what we're good at (super-long-term planning). We don't like fixing things BEFORE they are broken. What we ARE good at is reacting and adapting to a crisis, so I'm resigned to the fact that we'll wait and see what happens, and if the worst does happen we'll try to do something to reduce the impact of any catastrophe.
I will watch the wildfire burning of the US landscape with interest, and meanwhile here in the UK it's been raining for months and more rain is forecast... forever. All good fun.
The Citizens United vs FEC ruling effectively ended representative democracy in the USA and now ensures that all its politicians can be bought, easily, no questions asked.
When bribery is legal (unlimited funding of SuperPACs by wealthy businesses), when the super-rich corporations own/control your politicians with impunity, I can't see how anyone can call a country like that 'great'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6DrH6P9OC0