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When Farage quit the UKIP leadership many were speculating that this was not the last we would see him flying the UKIP flag and there’ve been hints that this is the case.
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In an interview on Russia Today suggested that he in fact might return as UKIP leader if Brexit is not delivered as he would like.
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UKIP MEP Jonathan Arnott says he is withdrawing from the race to be the party's next leader because the best he could hope for would be second place.
Mr Arnott, who represents the North East of England, said there was "no prize for a silver medal".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37084410
I hate to kick a man when he's down, but there is a prize for silver medal, it's the medal
"In an interview on Russia Today suggested that he in fact might return as UKIP leader"
I mean, when he rides bare chested on that horse, you can't help but swoon.
Presumably the latter [better battery storage] brings solar more into the energy mix. But there is still the issue of efficient transport of solar - the best sources are not particularly close to the bigger conurbations.
In the US, Musk, through Solar City, is trying to really push the house-top solar market.
By the way, it took me some minutes flicking through channels on an hotel TV before I realised that there was something oddly biased about the news channel with a discreet 'RT' in the corner.
Maybe the moustache is an attempt to go for a full 'Stalin'.
Mandelbum's tache is thin and wispy and a bit gay if you ask me.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/15/the-numbers-dont-lie-splitting-would-be-catastrophic-for-labour/
"In almost all the scenarios, the combined Labour parties win fewer seats than they did at the last general election. Only if overall Labour support increases by 20 per cent do they even equal their 2015 performance. And in all cases, the Conservatives remain the largest party in parliament and are almost certainly in government."
Unfortunately he doesn't discuss the other possible replacements, simply saying that "The also-rans in the Republican primaries are all too bloodied and blemished" and that "Ryan stayed above the fray". Is he Ryan's agent or what? Unlike John Kasich and Ted Cruz, Ryan has endorsed Trump. I don't think that rules him out, but still.
If Trump is going to quit, then the later he does it the more likely it is that his replacement will be Mike Pence. Problems that a replacement will experience in "getting on to the ballots" have been exaggerated.
I find it slightly funny that in UK from the 1930s-1950s we moved from small-scale local power generation, with a power station in most towns, often in the centre - to massive power stations outside towns with a countrywide transmission grid.
Yet we're now moving back to small-scale generation, often local in scope. How the grid will cope is another matter.
(On a side-issue, Musk's SpaceX made another launch yesterday, and another successful landing, even though it was a high-orbit launch that made the landing much more difficult. I think that's five out of the last six launches with a successful landing).
https://twitter.com/clpnominations/status/765182129722499073
Anyone who calls himself a patriot would not appear on the propaganda channel.
Phil Kuntz
Into 4-5 now. Will probably end up 4-7 or so.
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Irregular verb:
* They "spread propaganda"
* We "only ever tell the world the facts"
I'm quite sure Nigel Farage "calls himself a patriot", as doubtless does Garry Kasparov when he appears on the BBC.
Most places the local grid is owned and run by the local incumbent utility, which are mostly private but sometimes publicly owned at the state or municipal level. Often there's a mixture. In New York State where I live, conEd is the privately owned utility in most of NYC and Westchester County, but the State's Long Island Power Authority covers the rest of Long Island after the old LI Power Co was compulsorily purchased in the 80s or 90s after some catastrophicly pisspoor management. We have a notionally competitive power market in NYS on the same model as the UK, but it's far less developed and almost everyone, including us, sticks with conEd or whoever their incumbent is.
I understand there are federal mandates to maintain a strategic mix of generation capacity. Most of NY's electricity comes from several nuclear plants plus hydro-electric from the Niagara river and imported from Hydro Quebec, but there are small local fossil fuel generation stations all over the place, including in NYC itself so that there is some local fallback supply for essential usage in the event of a grid failure. Not that seems to work when there have been all-out grid failures in the past.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_for_presidential_candidates
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On your point, under FPTP it's always been true that nearly everyone puts up with things they don't like in the party they support because they think it's better or less bad than the alternative. There has never been any pretense that, say, Ken Clarke and Bill Cash are of a similar mind and direction, when they hardly agree about anything at all, except that they're Not Labour. The position for a centrist Labour MP who sticks with Corbyn will be identical.
Incidentally, an oddity about the Lasbour MPs telling George Eaton (FPT) that turnout at local meetings is untypical because they're full of keen young Corbyn fans sits oddly with the previous complaint that the new members don't turn up for meetings and only the old stalwarts bother. It might be true, but it's second-hand speculation from biased sources. What I think is happening is that the Smith camp are trying to prevent a sense of inevitability which could depress their vote (the sources fo Don's article in the last thread may be relevant to that too).
However, I agree that Don and the MPs are whistling in the wind. The NEC CLP vote is the best indicator there is and that points to a clear Corbyn win.
I wonder if an organised boycott by clean nations is far away. Phelps & co were also very unhappy, apparently.
But young Sophie Hitchon just took the bronze at the death
Can't believe I missed a Spacex landing! Mind you there was alot going on in the world yesterday.
Witnesses say hatchets and harpoons were used in the Sisco beach brawl.
The five injured on Saturday were later discharged from hospital, but tensions are simmering in the area.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37082637
Clinton 49 .. Trump 45.5
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/08/15/UPICVoter-poll-Hillary-Clinton-leads-Donald-Trump-by-35-points/8741471264502/?spt=sec&or=tn
OK good how?
"By controlling what people wear".
*facepalm*.
The answer is screamingly obvious - anyone with a drugs ban can compete. Their times will be recorded. But they are not eligible for the medals. You have two lists - the complete field, and the clean medals list. It would stop drugs cheats overnight if they could never get on a podium for the rest of their lives.
Clinton 340 .. Trump 198
http://election.princeton.edu/todays-electoral-vote-histogram/
Talk about a target on your back... everyone in the competition will want to be able to say that they beat Muhammad Ali!
SpaceX is doing quite amazing things - although I still reserve judgement until they've a few successful reflights under their belt. They're currently doing multiple full refirings of the landed stage that suffered the most stress during landing, before launching one or two previously-landed stages this year.
That's the moment when they might change the space business for good.
As an aside, I've been doing some further reading up on SpaceX. Even when throttled down as far as it can go, one Merlin engine produces more thrust than the weight of the landing stage. For this reason, they fire it only for a very short period immediately before landing to stop its momentum, and then let it drop the last distance (the landing legs have deformable sections to take the worst of the impact).
Compare to Blue Origin, whose engines can be throttled even lower, allowing it to hover.
I makes the landings even more amazing.
If Bond gets the Sabre engine right, SpaceX could have spent a great deal of money for nothing.
Maajid Nawaz gets this issue right.
Probably only 20% full for the morning Athletics session now though. They really need to go and find some school kids from somewhere.
Sabre won't even be flight-tested for many years.
But Sabre's worth doing, as it may be a game changer if it works. And even if it does not, the tech and knowledge developed may well be useful elsewhere.