If this is such an important issue why wasn't it included in the contracts that were signed when Brazil won the rights to host the event? I think FIFA need to think ahead more in future.
Anyhow, what will they do if the Brazilian government refuse to cave? Should they revoke Brazil's right to host the cup they will have several problems.
Firstly they have just two years to find an alternative location and organize the event. In the current economic climate? Good luck with that.
Secondly they would have to do without Brazil playing in the event, and probably other South American teams too.
And finally no doubt Brazil would sue for breach of contract.
Funnily enough although I spent hours online the blackouts had no effect on me at all. I didn't hit a single blacked out site. Which goes to show not only that the protest wasn't as widespread as those involved would like to think, but that the sites involved are not as significant as they might think.
Had they not pre-publicized the blackout it would have had very little impact.
@tehyoshi if Winnie-the-pooh doesn't make you stop and think then you don't actually think. Those books were probably the most philosophically challenging books for such young children published at the time.
The lesson to be learned here is: When something doesn't feel right at 130mph pull over nice and gently and check it out. Don't charge on with your foot hard down.
If that's a trailer it seems a bit silly. Why not use the wheels of the model car as the wheels of the trailer. Trailers have been built to work that way before. But I really prefer the trailers made from the rear part of a real car.
This sort of thing http://www.flickr.com/photos/31221270@N07/2926159090/
@zooph a doornail wasn't just the one that was hammered by the knocker. Indeed most doors would not have had knockers back when he phrase originated back in the 13th or 14th century. Door nails were, as Yakim says, clench nails or clinkers. Which is to say they were bent over at the sharp end after being hammered through. Usually big fat square section nails.
The reason the phrase door nail was used rather than just nail is because nails were not commonly used in woodwork in those days. Wooden structures were usually made with tight fitting joints often augmented by wooden pegs. However the construction of some things did require nails. It would have been difficult to build a door or indeed a boat without nails. Doors were certainly the most common every day use of nails which is probably why the term door nail was used.
I suspect those things will actually encourage train surfing. There's plenty of clearance so train surfers will just try to duck them. And there are always those who think that such a risk makes things more fun.
I recently read about Microfsoft wanting to licence their Kinnect technology to TV manufacturers to control the TVs. Of course the result of this would be that the entire family would have to sit still when watching TV. What happens if mom is doing the dusting while dad watches sport? The channel changes at a critical moment.
Similar things apply to such a system in a car, but safety becomes an issue as well. It would certainly distract the driver if a passenger caused something to happen by waving their arms, even if that event was non-critical such as the radio suddenly switching on.
Of course Douglas Adams predicted all this years ago. "For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme."
@Cassandra78 I think you need to get a sense of perspective. It's an advertsing campaign (heard of them?) not somebody giving orders.
Or do you react like that when you see a McDonald's advert? "I'll eat what I wish when I wish you totalitarian get-a-freaking-life burger flippers!!!"? Yeah that's right, it was no more a librarian that wrote these ads than it is a burger flipper who writes the McDonald's ads.
Oh, and I'm with Pratchett on multiple exclamation marks.
That first sentence should have read: "Sorry Will, but the fact that the rate for gun homicide is 100 TIMES higher in the US than the UK tends to disprove your theory. "
Anyhow, what will they do if the Brazilian government refuse to cave? Should they revoke Brazil's right to host the cup they will have several problems.
Firstly they have just two years to find an alternative location and organize the event. In the current economic climate? Good luck with that.
Secondly they would have to do without Brazil playing in the event, and probably other South American teams too.
And finally no doubt Brazil would sue for breach of contract.
Had they not pre-publicized the blackout it would have had very little impact.
This sort of thing http://www.flickr.com/photos/31221270@N07/2926159090/
The reason the phrase door nail was used rather than just nail is because nails were not commonly used in woodwork in those days. Wooden structures were usually made with tight fitting joints often augmented by wooden pegs. However the construction of some things did require nails. It would have been difficult to build a door or indeed a boat without nails. Doors were certainly the most common every day use of nails which is probably why the term door nail was used.
A vandal is somebody who damages property for no reason. These guys had a reason, to whit stealing alcohol.
Similar things apply to such a system in a car, but safety becomes an issue as well. It would certainly distract the driver if a passenger caused something to happen by waving their arms, even if that event was non-critical such as the radio suddenly switching on.
Of course Douglas Adams predicted all this years ago. "For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme."
Or do you react like that when you see a McDonald's advert? "I'll eat what I wish when I wish you totalitarian get-a-freaking-life burger flippers!!!"? Yeah that's right, it was no more a librarian that wrote these ads than it is a burger flipper who writes the McDonald's ads.
Oh, and I'm with Pratchett on multiple exclamation marks.
No.