Posts by Lars Johansson6 posts • joined Wednesday 25th July 2007 14:11 GMT
...buy the SAAB 39 Griffin, now partly (49%) owned by BAE. It will give you air-to-air, air-to-gound and recon capabilities (it was specifically designed to do all three from the start), all in a 4th generation fly-by-wire airframe, while keeping roughly the same amount of spending within the British economy as buying more Eurofighters would.
It has a fixed gun, can carry drop tanks, does in-air-refueling, carries NATO-standard munitions, etc...
But then, it's designed by those pesky Swedes... ;-)
Ahem...
Ericsson (the telecoms giant) runs Windows 2000 on all it's desktops and laptops, including my brand spanking new HP nw8440 with 4Gb ram (fat good that last Gb did me...)
On the positive side, I can heat my coffee by the CPU fan exhaust, since Win2k doesn't do SpeedStep, at all...
/L
Laxman - democracy - the people have the right to elect whatever representatives the like, to make whatever laws they like and set up whatever bodies they like to enforce those laws. If the result of that is fair competition laws and a commission willing to enforce them, then sad for Microsoft - they will just have to comply or stay on their side of the pond, plain and simple!
Certainly not IBM - sowing Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt among competitors' customers..? ;-)
"newly minted political entities tend to be that way [touchy about their sovereignty] until they mature"
For some nations, that maturing process can last some 230+ years or more...
If these artists hadn't put all that energy into evading tax and NI contributions when people were actually buying their albums, they might actually have had pension rights to collect. Or, if they hadn't blown all that money on Champagne and Coke and put some of it in a private pension plan... but hey, I'm just an honest bloke actually working for my money...
