....oncoming vehicles about stationary mobile accident prevention units, (speed cameras) should not be against the law. Today I was listening to a live (UK) radio phone-in show (BBC Radio 2) debating about the successful conviction of a motorist after being caught flashing oncoming drivers which was adjudged as an attempt to warn them of a stationary mobile speed camera. He was charged and convicted of obstructing a certain WPC whilst on the course of her duties. Various analogies were...
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The proposition on offer is that the events of September 11, 2001 were orchestrated actions perpetrated by the United States Government. Caveats: * Ignorance and stupid decisions are not evidence of conspiracy. * "Willful Ignorance" must be demonstrated to be part of a conspiracy (i.e. Rice's non-meeting a week before). * Facts about collapse rates, debris clouds, etc... must be backed up by both sides with math, not conjecture. * This debate is limited to WTC 1 & 2. ***************...
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(regards to David Baugh for re-instigating my interest in this question) PROGRESS is a word that is bandied about in contemporary society. Hegel felt that civilization was on a 'march-of-reason'. Political movements are sometimes 'progressive', people think that society and culture also progress in some way or another - they cite instances such as the end of slavery, the death of spiritualism in the west, computers, globalization, modern-science & medicine, humanism, you name it - its consi...
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I was involved in a rather unpleasant incident on a British Airways flight from Aberdeen to Heathrow recently. (1) The aircraft was an Airbus A319 with a single economy (coach) class cabin which was fitted with seats with a width of 17.0" (2) and the aisle seat I was allocated was located next to a grossly overweight gentleman, whose considerable girth was overflowing onto my seat, thus preventing me from putting the armrest down or fastening my seatbelt. I therefore challenged the man and here...
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