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Archive for March 5th, 2004

Dark side, moi? Never!

March 05th, 2004 | Category: Nutty stuff

If you only knew the power of the dark side.
Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis.
“You do not know the power of the Dark
Side.” There are two possibilities: you
are a Star Wars geek, or you are unreasoningly
scary.


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Fly Me To The Trabant Factory

March 05th, 2004 | Category: Technology

The Baade 152 had four turbine engines and was designed to hold possibly 30-40 passengers. This was East Germany’s only attempt to build an airliner and it is not hard to see why!

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That is indeed one Baade Mo-Fokker. Complete with steroid-powered stewardesses, I presume.

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Of course it’s a bloody waste!!

March 05th, 2004 | Category: Crazy Government Stuff

Once again, HMG is proposing to spend the taxpayers’ money on more and bigger layers of pencil-pushers and bean-counters, all in aid of The Children.

Surely the best way to help the most vulnerable isn’t to create an extra tier of expensive bureaucracy, but better-trained, well paid social workers.

What most families need isn’t a database, children’s tsars or baby bonds. Parents don’t want more regulations and worthless freebies, but good services – proper policing so children can walk home from school without feeling threatened, efficient hospitals for when their offspring become ill, and a good education system. What most children need is for us to stop obsessing about them, and let them get on with their lives.

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