Posts made by PeterCharles

Save yourself the trouble of installing a cad programme on your PC (or iPad, iPod or iPhone).
Just make sure you have a few 'blank' ACAD drawings you can start with.

https://www.autocadws.com/

What's the cost of the software?
What's the cost of support for the software?

These factors are likely to colour my thinking on the subject.

With the cap now appearing to contain the oil, the existing pollution is now suggested to being dispersed quicker than some environmental "experts" were suggesting!

Anybody read about the oil spill in China?? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10819987
Note the extensive personal protective equipment being used in the clean-up operation

@watkins said:

Let's hear it for sealing wax and string (loud sound of applause).

Yes, lets. Don't forget the doped linen used in the Hurricane was much easier to repair than the metal in the Spitfire.

Well not Halliburton, they've just got SO MANY friends in the administration they'll be protected from EVERYTHING!

@unknownuser said:

Obama administration has told US oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp and another group, believed to be Chevron, that it would not oppose a bid for BP

Now there's a surprise, isn't it!
Kick, kick and kick BP, crush it's share price then grab it at a cut price.

It has been suggested in a UK newspaper that the England team would play better football if they were paid more.

Interestingly, someone else has suggested the exact opposite

@unknownuser said:

i think the real solution (besides not drilling in the first place) should have been a preventative one via some sort of shut off valve or something.. [obvious]too late for that[/obvious]

Something from Cameron International as referred to here maybe.....
http://www.australia.to/2010/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3367:cameron-international-fourth-partner-in-deepwater-horizon-disaster&catid=125:edward-j-oboyle&Itemid=165

What I have difficulty in understanding is that

1. this oil leak is in Americas back yard
2. America is the most technically advanced country
3. anything America doesn't know about the oil industry probably isn't worth knowing

So why haven't the American government stepped in, used American experts to fix the problem and back charged BP?? Don't they have an underwater "Red Adair"??

Or is it as simple that the American experts haven't got a fix for the problem anyway and are just keeping a low profile.

I see our new PM has a phone discussion scheduled with Obamah tomorrow. Lets hope he doesn't grovel and kiss a**e like his predecessors. Or maybe he should suggest the UK government underwrites the clean-up operation for BP. But as we don't have much money in the bank at the moment we'll get the money by bringing all our troops back from Afghanistan and use these Defence Department savings..... (on balance probably a better use of the money anyway).

@escapeartist said:

Frankly, I don't think many Americans even know that "BP" stands for British Petroleum. Anyone that makes an anti-Brit based on BP's origins statement is a short-sighted nationalistic fool, and certainly has no a selective memory of the damages done by US companies - economically and environmentally.

Your President seem's to enjoy spitting out "British" Petroleum, apparently ignorant of the fact the company has been "BP" for years.
An anti-British streak seems to run through him and on this side of the Atlantic it's starting to irritate us. If he manages to stop BP paying any dividends that's going to hurt British pensioners who rely in no small part on them for their pensions.
Then there will be the suspicion that some in the US will encourage BP to be crucified so they can make an asset stripping killing.
Is there any truth in the reports that fishermen now working for BP in the cleanup operation are making twice/three times the monthly income they ever made by fishing?

Tell me again,how many Americans have died as a result of the oil spill (not the explosion).
Worthwhile comparing their attitude on their back yard environmental pollution to death and destruction on the other side of the globe.....

http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/politics/30905-bhopal-case-exposes-us-double-standards.html

@khai said:

try calculating the body count in Doctor Who sometime....(nout counting mass bombings by various races)

Then there's Midsomer Murders on ITV, total carnage..... but all done in such nice settings.

“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
Henry Louis Mencken

Or anyone else either!

I shall just be glad when it's all over

@mike lucey said:

PS: The recliner and young lady are not included

Damn!!

@tig said:

Are they kosher ?

Can pork be kosher

@olishea said:

@unknownuser said:

looks like a love fest over there

i know, how sweet. do you think they share a bunk bed?

Well don't forget they are both Public School educated .....

The polls have closed, the count begins!

The exit poll suggests a hung parliament, Conservative biggest party followed by Labour, then Liberals.

Won't wait up, read about it in the morning.

Got to be blue, (I didn't see the BNP)

That bas**rd Gordon Brown wrecked my final salary pension scheme with his thieving tax grab. I shall be lucky to get half of what I was promised during all those years of paying in!!

Just the latest variation on the theme of "the kings new clothes" subsidised by public money.