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They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
a gallant son of eireann was Owen Roe o'Neill.
Internet is a bad place for info Gaelic Cowboy
dyson attempts to bring back engineering to the UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...ng-vacuum.html
Furunculus Maneuver: Adopt a highly logical position on a controversial subject where you cannot disagree with the merits of the proposal, only disagree with an opinion based on fundamental values. - Beskar
The problem with some of the things (which I actually agree with), is that many people whine about the costs and the fact it would need to be a nationalised industry, since private sector wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
I would love to see big engineering projects returning to Britain and have high-speed rail akin to France and Japan. British Rail was basically the blueprint which everyone else copied and improved upon while we stuck with the past. Many of his other ideas in that article I agree with.
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Not necessarily the key is automation which requires getting rid of jobs and ensuring quality outsourcing is NOT a bad thing but like everything it should not be carried to any extreme. Price and costs are big issues but no company takes them to the ultimate low price. If price is the only key factor then Myanmar is where you go to not China but costs are not the be all and end all of the equation duty customs access to raw materials energy water people safety etc all need to be factored.
Large scale rail projects in Britain are unsuitable as the country is too small and too crowded maybe if the link was to Scotland or something from London but the route is hardly that profitable and my favorite Irishman from Mullingar would probably undercut the whole thing with cheap flights. Furunculus has shown what you do in his last link encourage someone to invent as it were the next big thing and then try to leverage it which is good for consumers and Britain.I would love to see big engineering projects returning to Britain and have high-speed rail akin to France and Japan. British Rail was basically the blueprint which everyone else copied and improved upon while we stuck with the past. Many of his other ideas in that article I agree with.
They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
a gallant son of eireann was Owen Roe o'Neill.
Internet is a bad place for info Gaelic Cowboy
I am still wanting a tunnel to connect Northern Ireland and Scotland together, like the Channel Tunnel.
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"We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
You never know it may happen one day although if the tech was available it might be more profitable to go from Wexford to Wales closer to London and all that course that would be like star trek stuff with maglevs and all that
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They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
a gallant son of eireann was Owen Roe o'Neill.
Internet is a bad place for info Gaelic Cowboy
I hope companies also take into account the theft of their IP when outsourcing production to China.
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