Paralympics Problems

Olympics

There are two major problem with the Para Olympics. The classification and the equipment. The Classification system defines an individual's level of disability and bunches them together ( there are 27 different 100m gold medals to compete for ). This is suppose to level the playing field but there is to much room for error or cheating. ( China had 700 athletes reclassified before the games ). 

Then there is the equipment. The richer you are you can afford the best and most expensive equipment ( wheelchairs, limbs etc ) competing against inferior equipment. 

Team UK tested chairs in wind tunnels with chairs costing €30,000 up. The limbs can be replaced by Blades but this is also a problem with the famous South African blaming his loss on the size of the Brazilians  blades. 

So keep these in mind when your watching.

Batman shooting. Kids !

Batman shooting ! The youngest victim was a 6 yearold girl. There was a couple with a four yearold boy and a four month old. This was a midnight show ! Why were they there ? What dose say about American society ? This was in a middle class area. Is it normal to have kids going to cinemas so late at night. Modern Batman movies are dark and violent and loud, are they suitable for young childern ? R.I.P. all those who died and my sympathy with those who are now scared for life with injuries and mental stress for the rest of there lives.

European Championship & British Media

It over, after weeks of soccer. The British media must be disappointed. No riots, no racism, no sign of neo nazies. All there doom and gloom did not come true. The stadiums were perfect, finished well built, green grass that could take a down poure of heavy rain.. Ticket sales were great. No empty stadiums. Happy fans having a good time. The Britism media years ago started with delays in building the stadiums, then the roads and railways. Then there would be no hotel rooms in Ukraine. Then riots at Polish league games and how the British fans would be targeted. Then they got into racism, how the players would be treated. Then they got former players to tell the public there lives would be at risk. So the British fans did not travel in big numbers. In Ireland the fans did not get all this media frenzy and traveled. The worst that happened was a disturbance on a bridge with Russian and Polish fans, and a few racist chants at coloured players. These were un acceptable but not wide spread. So a great tournament for all except the British media. Yet they still sold there cheap and nasty newspapers.

iPad prices world wide.

Apple The New IPad   16GB USA €396 Au    €426 Uk.   €492 Irl.  €479 Ger. €479 Fr.   €489 These are the price of the new iPad in Junen2012 from Apple online store in each country. You cannot get one direct in India or Chinaw. Buying one in a different can give you small problems such as buying goods etc.

Discovery TV at it again.

You have to question programmes on Discovery channel. Are the real or not ? Operation Repo is just recreations of actual events but you would think they were real documentaries until you read the credits . Now they have a new one. Moonshiners is an American reality-television series on the Discovery Channel that dramatizes the practice of individuals who produce moonshine, an alcoholic beverage that when made and sold without permits and taxes paid is illegal. The alcohol runs to about 180 proof. The series documents their practice, law-evading techniques and life. It looks real but it's not. No alcohol was made. Beware what your watching and don't be fooled.

Fake China

With each week the Irish customs catch fake Tobacco products and imitation products being smuggled into Ireland. This is going on in a bigger scale throughout Europe. Why don't the EU take a case against China under the World Trade Agreement. The Chineese could crack down on the production of these fake goods if they really tried. They are happy to keep this system going undermining the economies of Europe the EU is to slow in attacking this problem and Ireland to small to go against China on its Own.

Post prices ?

Is the cost of posting packets and parcels going to kill ecommerce in Ireland. It is so expensive to post anything in Ireland it is hardly cost effective to buy small amounts in Ireland on the Internet. For example sugarfree.ie sells bars of chocolate on the Net but charges a flat fee of €5. All these small Internet companies have the same problem " the cost of deliveries " . The large companies can spread the costs but are also having delivery cost problems. Amoson UK has free deliveries on the Mainland but charge in Ireland north and south. The post offices around the world are loosing millions and making thousands redundant. They can't square the circle of cheap post with high overheads and fewer posting letters more positing packets and parcels.