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Ric dees
#1 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 7:01:46 AM
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Yesterday i traveled from London to Paris in the new Eurostar and had to ask whats new about it as it was quite similar to the other old ones or what was i missing??

Well the new Eurostar has quite and elaborate mechanism, due to the high speed it travels once it brakes instead of it producing heat on the rail track there is a dynamo that converts it to electricity that is then donated to the national grid..how about that!!!

Do we see ourselves here in the near future?? RvR!!

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Magigi
#2 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 7:10:06 AM
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...dude, when do you work? You are always on the move or you are paid to Travel (Light note...)
Jangwa la Jangili
#3 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 7:23:21 AM
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Now that is what I call impressive!
Katika Jangwa la Jangili ndipo Pwagu hupata Pwaguzi.
Njung'e
#4 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 7:37:08 AM
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Ric,
3020 maybe.....This country is lead by hopeless idiots.....Now,did you say Euro donates the electricty for free??.......If we can grab cemeteries how so do we go about donating?...Add another 500 years to 3020!
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Fundaah
#5 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 7:43:57 AM
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True Njunge,

Just as we are draining BILLIONS following elusive Oil 1000s of KMs deep down the earths crust ....when we have already Coal in Mwingi just waiting to be mined .....

Greed of Kenyan leaders is just amazing....do they think they will live in this world forever?
Isaiah 65:17-Look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth, and no one will even think about the old ones anymore
Ric dees
#6 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 7:53:29 AM
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@Magigi
Hehe nice one i wish i was paid to travel.. am just a KYM.

@Njunge
This guys amaze me time and again...now whoever thought of that.

On the other hand UK seems to be moving backwards currency traders are sweating it out,my stand stick with the Euro, come May we might see a new UK order tough times for the immigrant!!!

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Intelligentsia
#7 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 8:24:49 AM
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@Ric Dees
Eurostar is a high speed train...we are yet to get it right on slow-speed trains (read RVR)!
Njung'e
#8 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 9:35:25 AM
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Intelli,
C'mon.....RVR got the speed right long ago!!...Actually they doubled the slow speed by putting one engine at the front and another at the back......Very "creative"...eh??...GNN!!
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Intelligentsia
#9 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 9:56:35 AM
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Do u think if the Nyayo Pioneer car took off they would have done a BOGO offer (buy one get one free)..tihihiii
Magigi
#10 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 10:24:41 AM
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...last travelled in RVR (cant remember its names by then...0 from Sultan Hamud to Mombasa. Of course the fare was ksh 30. The fun of it was sitting next to a man from the lake with his gramaphone blaring a song by Kanindo Brothers and offering you a piece of fish and some Ugali...all the way from the lake. Those were the days whhen a brother/sister was a brother/sister regardless of where s/he came from...where has that generosity disappeared to?
gathinga
#11 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 10:25:01 AM
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@Ric Dees. Do you see Gordon Brown beating David Cameron in the coming elections? Whats the mood on the ground?
Njung'e
#12 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 10:34:50 AM
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Intelli,
Those things used to chemka mpaka steering wheel.Why would you want to have two hot wheels??smile ...
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Ric dees
#13 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 10:48:36 AM
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@Gathinga
Unfortunately anything broken in the UK now is associated with Gordon Brown (not labour) NHS decline, Crime, Joblessness, Immigration, etc overtime the Conservatives have been leading by a margin of 4 points +/- 1 and they have kept the lead consistently.

Now unless Gordon Brown has an ace in his sleeve i don't see him pulling this off, he is not a great orator thus i fail to see where or what stage he can build on to the gap, i stand corrected.

Also to note i have been watching the meteoric rise of BNP party and i must say, this is one to watch, they are pro - white and it's engrained in their constitution and the support these guys have is massive not to mention chilling. For you to be a member you have to prove descendants prior WW1 living in Britain.

@all
What are your thoughts on the following:
"Can Churches escape a state-imposed diktat to conduct gay weddings? Should they? Is the Catholic Church right to fight gay adoption in the courts? Is homosexuality a distraction from bigger issues? Have the Churches themselves been corrupted by a public-sector mentality? And can we trust Dave''s Conservatives to protect Britain's historic contract between Church and State

Real issue folks..

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
gathinga
#14 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 11:48:21 AM
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@Ricdees. UK media argues that since the Tories need to capture in excess of 135 seats in the commons in order to have an outright majority and which may be a tall order, the result could be a hung parliament. In the event, the lib dems will be the king makers and obviously lean towards labor rather than the Tories. Whats your take on the electoral math?

Could Brown's apparent resurgence be just another media hype as we saw in Sri Lanka earlier this year, where media created an impression that the incumbent president was losing elections, only for him to beat the opposition comprehensively?
Impunity
#15 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 11:51:35 AM
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@Ric....This RvR thing reminds ME of the now famous Mitsubishi RVR (the other R facing backwards).I hated this car with a passion and I doubt whether those who bought it are enjoying any ride better than the bijuti.Sad

@Njunge...RvR put two engines on either side of the whole train and the the engines pulled in the opposite directions....you can imagine the overall net speed>below sluggish!!!Pray
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Ric dees
#16 Posted : Friday, March 26, 2010 12:04:14 PM
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@Gathinga

Uniform Swing Projection

The standard method of translating shares of the vote into seats is to use a uniform swing calculation. This means that the national change in vote share for each party is applied to each individual seat to see how that would effect the result, and then these theoretical results in each seat are totted up to produce a projection for House of Commons.

This is a crude measure and can result in some illogical and impossible projections – for example, if a poll showed Labour support dropping by 13%, as one poll did during Summer 2008, then a uniform swing calculation using those figures would project Labour getting less than zero votes in 48 seats. This is clearly nonsense. Such projections also ignore any regional variations, tactical considerations or variations due to incumbency effects of new MPs or MPs standing down. Despite all these drawbacks, it normally does a reasonably good job and, given that it is a straight extrapolation of current voting figures it is at least accepted as a fair projection that is not at the whim of individual guesswork or assumptions.

There is no such thing as a seat that a party needs to capture to win an election, one MP’s bum on a seat is as good as another.

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