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Look at the Yamaha YZF600 (Fazer) if you get them in the states. Good riding position and has an R6 engine in it. I regularly do 100-200 mile journeys. (It goes faster than I need to +100 easily) Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

It was explained to me that we are afraid of heights cause our mind is telling us to jump! Makes sense to me. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Why is it that people here spout so vehemently anti-europe/anti-USA? The US has an unfortunate public image problem that means that many people who have not been there absolutely hate the place, and yet when you go to the US and "see" what people are like it is completely different. I figure the same holds true in most of Europe (I have only been to Germany and Switzerland on mainland europe and there is no widespread animosity towards the USA. Jeez I figure ppl on speakers corner should get a handicap rating next to their name unless they have been where they are bashing. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

on the spreadsheet does the UK not being on it mean that it is not in the top 45? Sorry I could not find a top level above the spreadsheet with a description. They are members of the OECD. I am not shocked if they are not their attitude towards education sucks big time... just surprised that some of the other countries listed would be better. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Am I being overly skeptic here? The dollar is falling as the world market is worried about the US trade deficit. The Bush government does not seem to have a credible policy to fix the situation (if they did the banking sector would not be dumping the dollar for the euro to the extent that they are). Then yesterday CNN runs a story about imported food being open to bio/chemical attack which I assumme the report was based on a terror alert/government notice or report being released. Is this about terror or economics? Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I think Italy may be in shock/awe/anger that the US have moved them to west of Germany Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

13 religious extremests smuggled 36 barrels of explosives into the basement of the House of Lords with the intention of destroying the Houses of Parliament. In the early hours of November 5th special forces raided the basement and caught the ring leader. The leader (Guy Fawkes) was tortured and sentenced to death. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

it is traditional to congratulate presidents on re-election. Hell even Mugabe gets congratulated by the west usually... but to ensure you're not misguided in believing that all is well check out the front pages in some of the UK press Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

That is not what Tenet and the CIA believe. The Afganistan war was executed initially with US Special Forces supporting CIA paramilitary teams. The CIA was funding the Northern Alliance, and Tenet warned Bush that the biggest risk was that in Afganistan you "rent" peoples loyalty & they always default to the highest bidder. Apparantly Taliban commanders were defecting for as little as US$50K. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I thought under Bush logic that means he is REDUCING terrorism - suicide bomber dies = 1 less terrorist. Isn't that the whole point of Iraq attract all the badies and let them blow themselves up away from us civies so its all good. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

unfortunately the "eat sand Saddam" (nice phrase), mindset with virtually no post war planning has resulted in terrorist havens. One of Bush's key strategies is eliminating safe havens for terrorists - defined by his team as "lawless states without proper government". He's created 1 haven (Iraq) & not solved Afganistan. At least one reason why Bush politically should have got into bed with the UN at the beginning, was that they have beauracrates who are better than his team at that type of planning. Secondly while I dislike the man, strategically if he had engaged the UN, he could blame them for the shite nation building - and keep his nose clean. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Bush is good at planning for war - just hopeless at planning for the post war phase. This has been proven in Afganistan & Iraq. Maybe he doesn't think he'll win and therefore no need to bother? By now he should have learn't his lesson - but maybe its politics - No US troops for Nation building thing? Who knows but some of us are getting pissed off with him blowing countries up & leaving them in ruins Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

first answer - drunk driving requires she get caught in the act by the police - we've tried but when a police car appears on the road at 1am - her kids phone her and she parks up - its not that easy... Secondly it is not only the UK that has screwed up laws (& some are: read up on Tony Martin you'll enjoy that one) but last night there was an article on the California three strikes and you're out law - people there have been given 25 yrs (life) for stealing a slice of pizza. I think thats as screwed up as anything we've got. I am sure we could all list screwed up laws from ALL countries that we live in (but we've got to keep politicians and lawyers busy ) Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

and the reason Bush got Florida was http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3960679.stm Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3961557.stm More freedom from Bush? Seems he doesn't want "foreign" visitors to his site... Or maybe it's a conspiracy to prevent disgruntled US citizens in Iraq from having their say Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

firstly I believe ASBO's mostly result in a fixed penalty fine (mr2mk1g can probably clarify this). I seriously doubt that the ASBO's are handed out arbitarily as the UK has very high burdens of proof. Personal experience we have an alcoholic neighbour who runs around naked (yuch 50 yr old woman), drives drunk (extremely drunk) and causes on average so many 999 calls that most of us are on first name terms with the emergency services - but still the burden of proof is not high enough... It's ok though as we have "free" terrorists here in the UK courtesy of the US government torturing them and thereby prejudicing a free & fair trial - i'd rather see that problem cleaned up first Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

thats what caught my eye... I have no idea on why or where these reporters were involved that warranted arrest - but the fact that it affects "press freedom" I assume means that someone deemed the arrests a supression of free speech. Journalists getting arrested for reporting bad news about the government is the stuff that results in countries having leadership like Mugabe (Zimbabwe = 155 in the list) Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

extracted from the Europe pdf file Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11715 for a country that puts itself out as the "land of the free" I find it interesting how low they are on the list... Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Seems to me that there is still concensus that the weapons were there - or maybe the Pentagon in just plain incompetant and this NBC reporter should replace them? Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

agh I see it was all Blix's fault Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

you're just saying that cause you're not from a "free" country & big brother is watching you 24/7 on CCTV Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I realise the question is based on the armchair general - 20/20 hindsight principle

Well hopefully someone would ask of Woodward, Bush & Kerry 1) The questions do not ask "why" the war was necessary 2) Why state 72 days after 9/11 - why did he believe that Iraq was involved in 9/11 (which is implied in the question by tying it in days since 9/11) when his senior aides were telling him it was Afganistan & Bin Laden. 3) If Bush is anti-terrorism why does he fund it in order to overthrow Sponsors of terrorism - Northern Alliance in Afganistan, Kurds in Iraq? Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

What concerns me is - surely this comes under gross negligence/incompetance? The IAEA clearly had documented sites with known explosives/military equipment. Surely the first thing you do when you invade is to "secure" these sites. I mean they planned for the oil sites why not these? 350 tons is probably a decent supply for the "insurgents" - a standard 18 wheeler is 30 tons I guess so its dozen 18 wheelers full of explosives. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.