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electric motort

why can't you use an electric motor to power a generator that in turn creates electricity to run the electric motor?

Are we now all safe?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-109351 8/We-saved-world-Browns-gaffe-defends-billion- pound-rescue-banks.html We can all sleep easy in our beds now. 'Flash Gordon' has saved the world.

jake-the-peg

Why must we always do our kids down?

News item: British 10 and 14 year olds are out performing almost all other western countries in maths and science How is it reported? School children in the UK lagging behind the Far East!...

Lakitu

Assisted Suicide

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-109309 1/Why-I-want-husbands-death-suicide-clinic-sho wn-TV---wanted-people-thinking-talking-it.html What are your thoughts on this article? Was he right to...

brionon

Brilliant Idea

Unemployment is Soaring so lets encourage those already out of work to find a job. Politicians ? Dummies.

youngmafbog

Are we heading for a Spring General Election?

All of a sudden some labour politicians are talking sense. Mr Woolas doesn't want a country full of imigrants, particularly non english speaking ones, Straw wants to tear up the HRA and Balls seems to...

R1Geezer

Is there an answer to the ever growing social underclass.

Highlighted recently by the Mathews case, what can be done about the whole swathe of society that have developed into a parasitical layer, an underclass, contributing nothing and living on an ever...

anotheoldgit

Should he be sent to jail?

Should this father be sent to jail or is the life sentence of being responsible for the deaths of 4 of his children punishment enough? Incidently on the TV news it showed this vehicle being put...

Tom Braider

Are racists ashamed of themselves?

There's a current thread in the news section in which there are some quite obviously racist comments but some, at least, of those making them add that they are not actually racist. Why do people deny...

R1Geezer

Smoking, when will.....

...this disgusting habit finally be consigned to history? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7771210.stm do you think this latest initiative will help? I know that smoking is being actively encouraged...

what..the?

About energy saving light bulbs

Why have all the free ones I got through my door as a british gas and EDF energy customer all bayonet and not a screw fitting? I cannot get them to fit anywhere lol And whats the low down on them...

Lucy-Thomas

So who's correct? Cameron or Purnell?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7769889 .stm

Gourmander

A worthy cause.

The Foreign Office has said it expects about 200,000 Zimbabwean refugees to arrive in Britain just before Christmas. Will the country be able to cope with such numbers? What are other countries doing...

anotheoldgit

Now the Guardian is pinching the Mail's stories.

What's all this then the mighty Guardian using sloppy journalistic methods, to pinch a story from the Daily Mail? Isn't it the Mail that is often criticised by some on here for using these deployable...

Lucy-Thomas

Alan Carr

Have I missed something here because I cannot see anything 'sick or insensitive' in Alan Carr's remarks. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorksh ire/7770323.stm

Theland1

What's Beyond The Big and The Small?

We generally judge the entirety of the universe by the insignificant yardstick of our own experiences, and dare to speculate with our imagination what lies beneath and beyond our personal spectrum of...

claymore

artificial intelligence?

If you wrote a program for a computer which contained all the numbers from 1to 100 and instructed it to pick a random number , would it be able to, and if it did how did it decide which one to pick?

flip_flop

"Eco-Warriors" at Stanstead

If the idiots at Stanstead had caused your holiday flight to be cancelled, on a scale of 1 to 10 how painful would you like their torture to be?

danchip

political rant

we all know the government have reduced taxes to try and get us spending and to compensate for this they will eventuall reinstate the 17.5% rate and maybe even increase it to cover the losses instead...