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  • The downloading of music

    05 June 2019

    Napster, Limewire, Morpheus etc etc etc allowed us all to download music for free and I agree it was wrong but it didn't take long for a lot of people to get really fed up with the quality of the MP3s they were downloading. I think it's Youtube, spotify...

  • Big Brother is the Evil Facebook.

    29 June 2018

    Facebook have patented a system that can remotely activate the microphone phone using inaudible signals broadcast via a television. This intrusion into homes, particularly as the ambient audio recording would likely catch snippets of people’s private...

  • Wednesday: A day to buy books

    27 June 2018

    Wednesday. Soon will be the holiday time for spending in the mountains and then on the beaches. A good time for being with friends that we see on this marvellous Holiday, friendly time. So this is the time to prepare, and a regular visit, to the library...

  • Rosneath

    21 June 2018

    In the summer of 1941, despite their neutrality in the European war, the American government, following meetings with British leaders, secretly despatched civilian contractors to the British Isles where they would build 'advance' bases for use by American...

  • Monday is a joy

    18 June 2018

    Monday is a Joy. A pleasure as the morning arrives Delight in the garden before breakfast. The insects feeding on the nettles. Birds arriving with the dawn chorus. A multitude of birds feeding on insects. Slowly leave the garden with a smile. Breakfast...

  • Monday morning

    26 March 2018

    Every day I am astonished by how little I know, and discouraged, obedient as I am to the demand to know more — always more. But then there is the slow seep of light from the day, and I look to the west where the hills are darkening, setting their shoulders...

  • France save by the new Technology

    16 June 2018

    France need to improve before they meet Peru in their next match in the World Cup. Against Australia they were not quick enough on the pitch, offensively France was not as good as they should be. France was lucky with the VAR France must do better than...

  • Airbnb

    16 June 2018

    Airbnb London Early last year Airbnb brought in new measures to ensure its London hosts were complying with rules banning them from renting out their entire home for more than 90 days a year unless they have the relevant permissions. Paris Since January,...

  • Commons

    19 August 2019

    land that was once open to all locals was progressively swallowed up by the powerful aristocracy. A succession of royal land raids, peaking with Henry VIII, followed by a prolonged campaign of enclosures, meant that the roughly 50% of land that was held...

  • Iceland for the world cup

    16 June 2018

    Iceland for the World Cup It's good to think positively and it makes a refreshing change to see an underdog go in with some fight but it's also piling on the pressure and not helpful for those situations when things aren't going so well. These kind of...

  • Yoshi Hattori

    23 March 2018

    射殺された日本人学生の母親は、米国の銃改革の勢力となった 服部芳夫の母親は米国で行動を求めるだろう 服部芳は米国に到着し、ハロウィンパーティーに行く途中で致命的な間違いを犯した。 16歳の日本人留学生がルイジアナ州バトンルージュの間違った家に近づいたとき、彼は自分の人生を恐れていたと主張する住宅所有者によって銃撃された。 ロドニー・ピアーズは、国民の自衛に致命的な力を使うことを可能にする「あなたの根拠となる」法律の米国議論の先駆けと見なされた場合には、たとえそれが後退によって回避されたとしても、代わりに。批評家は、それらを「最初に撃つ」法と呼びます。...

  • Lego Jokes told to me by Florian

    16 February 2017

    It is going to be Lego Jokes What is a hot dog that walks? . A hot dog man . Ha ha ha Where do Captains leave their ships in the Lego city? On the Sea ha ha ha Which dragon invade themselves? . A fire and a snow dragon What is Camsta's favourite car ....

  • Lego ninjago jokes

    31 May 2017

    . Nearly all the lego blocks were defeated but then the ninjagos attacked the skeletons, scorpions, and the Ironmen. This is a joke of a fight and now we get some more jokes - ha,ha ha Which ninjago attacked first ? : Ninja ratak ... ha ha ha Which scorpion...

  • Technology

    16 June 2018

    The technology we use today is the technology of capitalism, driven by greed, and increasingly owned by billionaires. This technology - from its earliest origins - was designed to defeat the "laws of nature" and allow us to escape the restrictions of...

  • Killing or murder

    15 June 2018

    War is legal. murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Killing and murder are not synonymous. A morality and individual interpretation of right and wrong. A death in war casualty is not murder. The murders can occur during...

  • Agriculture

    14 June 2018

    Agriculture has changed dramatically, especially since the end of World War II. Food and fiber productivity soared due to new technologies, mechanisation, increased chemical use, specialisation and government policies that favoured maximising production....

  • What is the proper role of government?

    14 June 2018

    What is the proper role of government? Aristotle would say that the end of politics is happiness and the means to that end would be virtue. He believes the state exists for the sake of the individual. Machiavelli would say that the stability of the State...

  • Otters fight against the minks

    13 June 2018

    Otters are rather like hedgehogs in their attitude to road traffic; they simply do not appear to recognise the danger it presents and will carry on with their activities oblivious to the dangers. Fortunately roads are not their normal habitat and they...

  • A death warrant in England

    13 June 2018

    A cannabis anti-epilepsy medication can transform an effect on people who live with the epilepsy. It is prescribed throughout the world yet it is illegal in UK. Now anti-epileptic medication is being confiscated in England. Without this anti-epileptic...

  • Plant more trees in cities

    11 June 2018

    Plant trees - in cities. Planting trees in urban areas is a low cost, low-tech solution to many environmental problems that face our cities. By the year 2050, 70% of the earth's population will live in cities. Some would say that this is a bad thing....

  • The Dominican of Order

    10 June 2018

    A community of nuns in Mexico have become the unlikely collaborators in the race to save one of the world's rarest amphibians from extinction, The zoo, along with the Michoacana University of Mexico, a Mexican government fisheries center and a group of...

  • The Scottish origin of "Buddy"

    10 June 2018

    A common use in Scotland is to call someone from Paisley a “Paisley buddy”. “buddy” is a phonetic spelling of the Scots word “body” or person as in “abody”-everybody. In Robert Burns’ song “Comin Through the Rye” it is used in every verse and particularly...

  • The Finnish sniper

    09 June 2018

    Depending on the record, Simo Häyhä was born in 1905 in the farming town of Rautjärvi. Once the Soviet Union was formed and Finland had gained its independence, the town in which he lived found itself to be only a very short distance from the Russian...

  • Legal vs Lawful   

    09 June 2018

    Legal vs Lawful Legal, lawful, legitimate are some words that describe things, events, and activities that are permitted by law and do not attract punishment under the law. However, the words legal and lawful are not synonymous as many believe as there...

  • Facebook is a publisher

    03 June 2019

    We should have never allowed Facebook to get away with saying „we are no publisher“. They are. Without them, these posts would never see the eyes of other people or they would languish in silence with 7 followers. Many private blogs have just 9 readers...