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The US have admitted using drones against suspected terrorists in Pakistan.

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Grandad,

They should attack them anywhere

"You can run but you cant hide"

Wasnt Bin Laden holed up 1/4mile from Pakistans biggest military camp?

of course they didnt know

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Reminds me a bit of that thread about taxi drivers asking for payment up front - clearly there's a physcological barrier to this kind of thing that's difficult to overcome, but at the end of the day the mind process isn't really rational.

For example, in the early days of the motor car someone walked in front of it with a red flag, didn't they? Imagine someone from that era suddely arriving in this one and being taken for a motorway drive - they'd be scared witless, I suspect, but millions of present day people just accept it as a fact of life.

We already have driverless trains - the Docklands Light Railway, for example - and even some lines on the London Underground have automatic trains, and the drivers are basically paid £40k to open and shut the doors.

Twenty years ago I was a regular traveller on both the DLR and the automated Victoria tube line, and when I found out about this I was slightly disconcerted, but it's just something you get used to.

In 100 years I suspect they'll be laughing at us for our worries about driverless cars.

Can't see taxi drivers being out of a job within 10 years though, but I suspect it will happen eventually.

What a bunch of dead heads on yer.......................you' ll always have a job.............who is going to clean out the puke - the takeaway food portions that they promised to eat when they get home - the chewing gum on the bottom of their shoes stuck on the floor - and for that matter the chewing gum stuck on the seating with their hands/fingers - the ciggy butts - the lost property - the dead head that has gone into a drunken coma - please excuse if I have missed something - OR is the cab going to self cleanse and return lost property - as we say down here - Derrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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if you cannot be yourself, then who can you be.

Yes, but that's what the current drivers will be doing. Or refuelling the car. Or even recharging it. Or giving it a wash down to keep it looking nice.

The other difference will be that a lot fewer ex-drivers will be required to do this kind of thing.

Or they might not like doing that, so will claim benefits instead. So we'll require more immigrants to clean up the puke and kebabs because there's clearly a 'skills shortage' in that regard, and in any case it's a job that the indigenous workers won't do, so we have to invite people in from abroad who'll do this kind of work for pocket money and keep their heads down.

I predict that inside 5 years, diesel will be £2 a litre, petrol will be £1.70, LPG will be £1.20

Im glad ill be ready to retire

In 10 years add 50% the the prices above

I firmly believe the major car manufacturers (and maybe the major oil firms) ALREADY have viable electric cars in the back room but see no good reason to release them just yet, not while the make millions of petrol+diesel engines in factories worldwide and oil can still be had, refined and sold on at huge profits, HMG dont want electric cars with petrol/diesel sales making them billions in fuel duty, which they would lose if i recharged batteries on economy 7 at night or the car had a hydrogen fuel cell

About 10 years ago Renault had a car nicked, it had a trailer on the back, later the car was dumped, the trailer was the target, what the thieves didnt know was that the car had an engine worth millions in it, it was a ceramic engine that ran with no oil, but tell me, is it in production? Do castrol still sell oil fit for Renaults? (yes) do you still pay for oil changes (and filters) and pay VAT on the cost?

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

You could be right, if we get independence we can charge you what we like:D

And when the shetlanders want independence from you?

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Former taxi driver

We could always use the Westminster way.
Spend 300 years lying to them.
Settle their land with our people.
Re-draw the marine boundaries in our favour.
Or clear them all out and replace them with sheep.

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You sound like a man that knows what's what my friend. Have you seen this? If not then check it out asap.


Simply incredible.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxeKeuh_2Bw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ljhGUia ... re=related
Just in case the oil runs out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3azTStX ... re=related

What marine boundaries you have left, that is.

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IDFIMH

Every government in the world collects taxation from fuels sold for transport use, take away that and the whole system will crumble....




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy8dzOB-Ykg

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most