The arrival of the two restaurants - sited inside giant trailers on a British military base near Basra - won a rapturous welcome from soldiers, whose limited range of rations lost their appeal many weeks ago.
But some officers were less keen on the new arrivals, which are due to start selling food tomorrow.
"I would prefer we got decent showers and toilets sorted out first," muttered one high-ranking officer.
Fastfood outlets are common in US bases, including Camp Doha in Kuwait, but it is believed to be the first time they have been sited inside a British military base.
Another officer, who was directly involved in the franchise process, said: "It's an Americanism, we usually have them off the base, but because it is still a war zone we have to give them protection."
Permission to open the restaurants was granted through the British Army and they will be run by existing franchise holders from Kuwait, with a percentage of any profits going to charity.
But soldiers waiting for a brewery franchise to be awarded are set for a disappointment as military chiefs have already vetoed any alcohol being sold on the base, which is home to almost 8000 British soldiers.
The Kuwaiti franchise holders provided staff and raw materials and the Army escorted them into Iraq, although it is understood it will not provide constant escorts for the supply runs.
A spokesman for the two restaurants, Atef Bassent, said: "I hope we will do good business here."
i think this is a discrace, what are the american leaders doing to the world. they are spreading there money making prophet schemes everywhere, IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLEGROUND, of all places they had to pick there didn't they, i think that this is just the begingin of a new era, when america run this country it will be damned as the new, new york. this may seam as an overstatment but there are many years of development to come.
Posted by: N/A on June 23, 2003 05:54 PMThe Republican Question
We were all amateurs in the face of death
and the thought of putting it aside made the beautiful appear transient
how you fell in love when no one was around to hear your heart stabbed
and the mirror that tells you the time you’ve wasted away
from nothing we let go of what we never had
the faith of a son, the pride of a god
the hair that lets you down
things that had the smell of the burnt, singed and let alone to smell wrong
the right of the weapon gave way to the actuality of the wave
the unpleasant picnic, ants and all, in Iasi, or was it Hungaria,
when I justified the adultery by trips to Key West
how we conquered the soul by radio
watching a film framed by the window of the train
all order had to lose track of itself
my insurance would cover it, but where you put it is another recovery
from wounds swollen with guesses
stabs in the turned out lights
why the mannered hate the Hepburn
and the panic is a taking a good look at wealth.
Thanks for the post.
Posted by: term life insurance on October 5, 2003 05:22 PMi hate burger king's food except the fires and whopper jr
Posted by: someone u dont know on October 24, 2003 02:39 PMOk
Posted by: Dave on November 29, 2003 07:40 AMThis variable is then used in various lines of code, holding values given it by variable assignments along the way. In the course of its life, a variable can hold any number of variables and be used in any number of different ways. This flexibility is built on the precept we just learned: a variable is really just a block of bits, and those bits can hold whatever data the program needs to remember. They can hold enough data to remember an integer from as low as -2,147,483,647 up to 2,147,483,647 (one less than plus or minus 2^31). They can remember one character of writing. They can keep a decimal number with a huge amount of precision and a giant range. They can hold a time accurate to the second in a range of centuries. A few bits is not to be scoffed at.
Posted by: Godfrey on January 19, 2004 05:53 AMFor this program, it was a bit of overkill. It's a lot of overkill, actually. There's usually no need to store integers in the Heap, unless you're making a whole lot of them. But even in this simpler form, it gives us a little bit more flexibility than we had before, in that we can create and destroy variables as we need, without having to worry about the Stack. It also demonstrates a new variable type, the pointer, which you will use extensively throughout your programming. And it is a pattern that is ubiquitous in Cocoa, so it is a pattern you will need to understand, even though Cocoa makes it much more transparent than it is here.
Posted by: Charles on January 19, 2004 05:53 AMNote first that favoriteNumbers type changed. Instead of our familiar int, we're now using int*. The asterisk here is an operator, which is often called the "star operator". You will remember that we also use an asterisk as a sign for multiplication. The positioning of the asterisk changes its meaning. This operator effectively means "this is a pointer". Here it says that favoriteNumber will be not an int but a pointer to an int. And instead of simply going on to say what we're putting in that int, we have to take an extra step and create the space, which is what does. This function takes an argument that specifies how much space you need and then returns a pointer to that space. We've passed it the result of another function, , which we pass int, a type. In reality, is a macro, but for now we don't have to care: all we need to know is that it tells us the size of whatever we gave it, in this case an int. So when is done, it gives us an address in the heap where we can put an integer. It is important to remember that the data is stored in the heap, while the address of that data is stored in a pointer on the stack.
Posted by: Ebulus on January 19, 2004 05:56 AM