Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

what would you like explaining about 45550?

Hazy,

Haystack Send an email to Haystack View Haystack's profile - 07 Sep 2014 13:16 - 45565 of 45580

Why not have better educated people running the country?


There is a difference between better educated and being more intelligent.

As can be seen from yourself and the results of present U-turning bunch of failed PR merchants in the present government.

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You can read a book, reproduce much of verbiage, but show little understanding of the real meaning of its content.

Hi Cyners, you are the expert on chemicals/oil etc etc your company dealing in it, but what about link below? I thought liquid could now under new technologies be transported as a mass???. Your thoughts please.

http://www.shareprophets.advfn.com/views/7517/encouraging-bump-in-the-baltic-drys..............

HAYS do us all a favour and get your facts right. Especially the one Reeves V Camoron, do you really want me to prove you wrong???. Have you forgotten Reeves stay at the London School Of Economics or are you just playing dumb.

Cameron yes did get a first class BA and then MA but Reeves got a first MSC at the London School Of Economics rated second only to Harold Wilson in exam results.

some chemicals are liquids and some are powders or whatever

in simplified terms, to carry fairly small quantities of either, they are drummed and then loaded into dry freight containers (the corrugated steel things you'll often see on the back of lorries.
carrying larger quantities of liquids may make drums uneconomic, so the next step up is the tank-container, typically holding 5/6,000 gallons
after that, you get into parcel tankers and the like

world economies are effectively dependent upon chemicals for all sorts of obvious reasons

when economies are weakening, companies will reduce their deliveries (shipments) and stockpiles of chemicals

until a few months ago (3/6), everything was looking pretty chirpy, but the severe unrest in m/e, and clearly to some extent in europe, which in all honesty has not yet come out of the recession (unlike uk) and is now suffering again thanks to russia/ukraine, has brought trade to a shuddering halt

depots bulging with idle containers is the manifestation of this .... hence my original comment

Cameron didn't do an MSc so it is not possible to compare them.

http://order-order.com/2012/02/07/what-was-rachels-bonus/

I think you'll find in Cameron's case that, at Oxford, the MA will have been automatically awarded 7 years (21 terms to be precise) after matriculation. He won't have needed to sit further exams.

Seems to devalue the qualification making it trimmings.

Similar to attending the university for 2years and getting a degree without any proof of ability.

So you get an MA added to your name simply for turning up?

It was so, at one time for O and C.

That it why some referred to the BA from those institutions as B.A.


A bit like giving ordinary degree at some other universities.

Yes. It is the same with the older universities. Even Aberdeen works the same way. Some courses at older universities such as Aberdeen only award an MA.

Max,

No you get an MA added to your name for being part of the brightest 0.5% in the country, passing a rigorous admissions process to prove that you're not only exceptionally clever, but also possess a high level of common sense, personality, self-confidence, and good humour, and then working exceptionally hard for 60 to 70 hours a week, 52 weeks of the year for 3 or 4 years, and then passing a strenuous set of exams at the end of it all.

I didn't know it was that easy

About time!


Plans to make strikes illegal unless at least half of union members take part in ballots will leave them "with about as much power as Oliver Twist", the leader of the TUC has warned.

The Conservatives want to set a minimum turnout threshold for union votes after the next general election.

TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady called this was "anti-democratic".

But the Conservatives said "militant" union leaders should not demand strikes without majority backing by members.

The party has called for strikes to be illegal unless at least 50% of balloted members of a union cast a vote, with this policy to be included in its general election manifesto

It says the law as it stands allows a minority of union members to take action which damages the economy.

Thanks Hilary, you've summed it up nicely.

You get an MA for turning up and being connected.

My niece went to Cambridge, and she is not most of what you describe above...but she was connected. And no doubt she will be pleased to know an MA is in the post.

Post 45593

Bull.

The delusional state still continues.

You can rub peoples noses in the shit for only so long.....



7 September 2014 Last updated at 17:58


French far-right 'at gates of power' - PM Manuel Valls



Marine Le Pen's popularity among voters is rising



France's far-right National Front (FN) party is "at the gates of power", Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned.

He said his Socialist government had to act and speak "differently" to counter the threat from FN.

His comments came after an opinion poll showed that FN leader Marine Le Pen would beat incumbent Francois Hollande in presidential elections in 2017.

Meanwhile, a far-right rally held in Calais, in the north, demanded that the port city be "saved" from migrants.

Large numbers of migrants have arrived there in recent months. Many of them have been trying to cross illegally into the UK, a country they see as providing generous benefits to refugees.

French police have boosted their presence in the port after dozens of migrants tried to storm a ferry bound for Dover.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29101128

Crikey !....neck and neck with the Scottish no and yes vote......(I bet some of the voters up there get it wrong)...euhhh..I mean yes...euhhh hang.. on no !....perhaps yes....to remain in the UK....euhh...no.....that sort of thing...very confusing these elections...(canz I changze zat ballot paaapeeer pleeze ?)...