Damn straight!
Re: Barbecues: the new smoking?
Date: 21 July 2003
Sir – I am a heavy smoker, and consequently a social outcast who, out of consideration to others, confines this activity to the privacy of my own home. On these warm evenings, though, it is impossible for me to enjoy my garden because of the unpleasantness caused by barbecues. Eye irritation, coughing and difficulty in breathing are symptoms from which I do not normally suffer but which always appear when barbecues are in use anywhere in the surrounding area.
Why do people think it is acceptable to inflict their cooking smells and smoke on others in this way? Has any research been done into the harmful effects of passive barbecuing?
Am I alone in thinking that cooking should be confined to the kitchen and that socially responsible individuals should consider taking their barbecues indoors? Is it time that barbecues were banned from all public places?
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Pat O’Keefe, Stockport, Cheshire
I hate the smell of burnt meat in the afternoon. One of my personal culinary dislikes is barbecue. Most people torch their meat so badly that it barely resembles meat at all. The stench for others is amazing and loathsome.
Update: Its true this. Look below for a letter explaining how nasty it can be for everyone.
Read more 6 commentsToo bad he didn’t pick on FIA Lorry racing!
Some mental midget happy-clappy Irish loon ran out onto the track at yesterday’s British Gran Prix. Fortunately, none of the drivers were hurt, unfortunately the moron is fine.
That kilt was horrible as well.
Jonathan has posted his thoughts as well.
Comments are off for this postGo N.H. LP
This via the Rational Review:
“New Hampshire Libertarians are going all-out to convince Free Staters this is the place to be. They tout the lack of state sales and income taxes. And, as local Libertarian Dan Belforti points out, there’s the famous state motto. ‘Live free or die.’ It’s part of our culture to be self-reliant and personally responsible instead of relying on government,’ he said.” (07/20/03)
Comments are off for this postOrwellian Diversity
“There may be no better way to celebrate the centenary of George Orwell’s birth than to explode one of those ‘smelly little orthodoxies which are contending for our souls,’ to use his phrase. In his own, tumultuous times, George Orwell … contended against both fascism and communism — not just in words but in the field. As a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, he wound up having the fascists shooting at him and the communists trying to arrest him; he fled Spain one step ahead of the thought police. I’d like to think George Orwell would also have seen through a current American orthodoxy: Diversity.” (07/20/03)
Via: Rational Review
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‘Can you believe it, Iain? Now girl power’s making the Tories cool’, David Paul & Jane Clinton, Sunday Express, 20 July 2003, pages 10-11
... Florence Heath, 21, joined the Conservatives when she started university at 18.
Now in her final year at Imperial College, London, Florence, who was born in France and now lives in Shepherd’s Bush is a past chairman of the Imperial College Conservatives. “Even since I joined the Conservative Party, the attitude to Tories has changed enormously,” she said. “Whereas before people would say ‘Eugh, you’re a Tory’, now people say ‘Oh, you’re a Tory, why?’ People are a lot more interested and a lot more questioning. I don’t know manypeople who fit into the Tory Boy image any more.” Florence’s boyfriend of two years, Matthew Elliott, 25, works for a Conservative MP and MEP. They are the new breed ofConservative super couples who are challenging Labour’s image as the young and funky party.” ...Its nice to see young Tories in the press not making prats of themselves. Congrats to Matthew & Florence.
Comments are off for this postMac OSX and its relationship to Linux
1) MacOS has a BSD core. The original OS it is based on, NeXTStep, was a Mach microkernel and an integrated BSD 4.2/4.3 personality. MacOS/X is an upgraded personality with a lot tighter integration into the Mach microkernel, some major mach changes, and some major additions to the stock (now) FreeBSD integration.
It is far, far closer to FreeBSD than it is to Linux.
2) FreeBSD is in no way, shape, or form, a ‘linux flaver’. FreeBSD might be referred to as a BSD flavor correctly, and vaguely as a ‘unix’ flavor – but unix generally refers to SysV code, BSD is indeed in a family of it but has diverged from other unix derivatives over time, and more importantly, is strong enough on its own that most others pick up BSD API.
3) Lastly, while MacOS does not currently contain much in the way of Linux API, some of the Linux API will be making it into 10.3 (Panther) release.
Ugh.
Anyways – MacOS is also only tangentially BSD - the reality is most of what you’ll do with it in terms of UI is either Carbon (historical C-based mac toolkit API) or Cocoa (historical Objective-C based NeXTStep toolkit API) and not X11, as you’d use on a BSD box – so while you can run X11, and run most apps that way if they compile today on BSD, you cannot necessarily run a random Mac-written app on your average BSD system.
by Lyroke
A few people have asked me about OSX and its core. This is the best description I have seen of it, yet.
Comments are off for this postcASSt TV anyone?
Colby trashes a lobby group aimed at ending the “theft” of TV signals by satellite dish owners. I agree with his sentiments and encourage you to go read the post.
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