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It could be worse, e.g. the general crapfest and hard hack that is GNOME :D In seriousness, outside of the nightmare of browser plug-ins, Java is reasonably self-contained, depending on the JRE/JDK etc you have on your systems.

Be very careful what you wish for; would you want to deal with the abomination that is C++? :wink:

I guess it makes common sense :wink:

Is it just me or does the typeface for the new Northern Banner logo look a lot like a lighter variant of the old Northern Spirit logo?

it would seem to me that it would be more appropriate to provide Lowland Scots translations rather than Gaelic, so I guess it's another political vanity exercise.

Nah, just dish out the SSRI/SNRI/TCA of choice.

I don't know about that, though I am sure they wouldn’t have shown it in public if there were doubts about the coach’s structural integrity.

Talking about the sleepers, Porterbrook did do a sleeper to open coach conversion.

I wonder if they could be adapted for the Tyne and Wear Metro? Unfortunately even our refurbished Metrocars seem well past it!

I'd rather have the 141s for mainline services, at least they can do 75 mph :)

No Cuts, No Buts, No Coconuts, the madness we have endured for too long needs to promptly come to an end. While the Daily Mail many be a nationalist xenophobic love feast, I agree with the general undertone of the comments on there that privatisation and the current set up has been an abject...

Blue-sky thinking here: Could the surplus MK2/3 coaches be converted to push/pull rakes with 1/3-2/3 door arrangements like what New Zealand did with some of their imported MK2s?

I would hope that the 4 unrefurbished units would receive mods to allow them to work with the refurbished units. Also, if the 4 units aren’t going to have their corroded frames repaired, wouldn’t that affect their longevity and potently their crashworthiness?

Fixed that for you :wink:

Well of course not, but at the same time the SNP were trying to give the impression that everything would be handed to them on a sliver platter. Likewise Scotland's EU membership is though the union, it is not counted as a member state. Again you are making the mistake of dressing up your own...

Exactly, there is no president, and you can't guarantee the status quo. As I have said before, I can foresee a iScotland joining the EU, my question is under what terms and when. muz379's post above illustrates this. What about the breakup of Czechoslovakia? Where would that fit in your...

How do you know the starting position would be the status quo? You are making the mistake of dressing your own opinions as facts again. At no point have I, nor would anyone with a rational view point want to deprive a iScotland of any assets, however the petulant attitude of the SNP and...

Again, the very fact that the SNP said they would need to negotiate EU membership undermines your argument, and will do every time. If automatic membership was assured, then there would be no need for any negotiation. In contrast to the Baltic states back in 1991, Scotland has a long...

Aside from a readjustment of payments based on population size etc. I don't see how our terms would need to change, we would be the continuing state remember. I fail to see how Spain vetoing an independent Scotland's EU membership would somehow trigger a larger crisis. However you have...

That's easy: the rebate and opt-outs. I'm sure the rUK would like to keep 100% of the rebate and the opt-outs as we would be the continuing state. I feel Scotland would need to negotiate their own terms with the EU without the expectation they will be given the same terms. It is Spain's...