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Re: We should be increasing pensions, not cutting them

John — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:25:51 -0000

At last some sense in the debate. Where's my local Green Party? (Pontefract)

Re: Death of a friend I never got to know properly

Teresa Bivar — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:38:13 -0000

These are the people in our lives who count!

Re: Why should the BBC pay its own way?

Tynamite — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:32:19 -0000

The post is missing. Can you please put it back?

Re: Why we should legalize narcotics

are_ams — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:06:37 -0000

good ideas dat had come to me as well. but, evn den, problems will arrive. often occurs dat ppl loses control due to od, nd yes ofcourse making it legalize nd taking good care of users may repent da situation a bit as the oder way round is of very lil good as we can c. a moderate amount helps u to revive ur innerself nd evn health beneficiary(eg cannabis) to some extent, but, when it will come to an affordable price, ppl will b very reluctant to consume less. in dat case,it can b rationed out. certain amount an individual will b alowed to purchase for a certain period of time. Yes, it is time dat we try out new solutions, which will definitely reduse a lot of crime and often save a lot of innocents.

Re: What is a pegatron g310de?

Asdasd — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:36:01 -0000

That's what you get when you buy Dell...

Re: Guerilla Grammar: why no apostrophe?

Martyn W — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:12:12 -0000

Yes, Tony it was tongue-in-cheek. Yours is a good reply, though. Thanks very much.

Re: Guerilla Grammar: why no apostrophe?

Tony DiLascio — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:05:58 -0000

I'm going to assume there's a bit of tongue-in-cheek in your post. Otherwise, the answer to your question is rather obvious. Pronouns are one of English's few grammatical areas to retain inflection. Possession is built into the words my, your (thy), mine, yours (thine), theirs, hers, his, etc. All the apostrophe 's' ever accomplishes in English is to stand in for the now long-lost inflection of possession.

Re: Death in both ears

Chris Burke — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:50:01 -0000

Excellent graphic account of state murder, many thanks for being in the fight for a better Britain.

Re: Death in both ears

Chris Burke — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:49:13 -0000

Excellent graphic account of state murder, thanks for being in the fight for a better Britain.

Warmest Regards,

Chris.

Re: Bankers Are Ripping You Off

loachjack — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:31:25 -0000

Update .May 26th. - 2011.

Nov23rd----Nov26th.2010.

The following sent to ----312 Lords.------- House of Lords.( inc. Lord
Myners.)

The following sent to ----649.M.P’s--------House of Commons.

BANK - PARTNERS
IN CRIMES.

Pictet
& Cie Bank.

Ivan
Pictet.

Nicolas
Pictet.

Charles
Pictet.

Jacques
de Saussure.

Jean
– Francois Demole.

Renaud
de Planta.

Philippe
Bertherat..

Pictet & Cie.- claim they are the “Rolls
Royce”of Swiss banks.

Swiss Banks or more
correctly Swizz banks.

Swizz. ---- “ a great disappointment.”
or a “ fraud.”

Fraud. ---“ an intentional
deception or dishonesty.”— “a crime.”

Crime. ---“ an act committed or
omitted in violation of a law.”

Serious Crimes .

Conspiring to pervert the
Course of Justice.

Perverting the Course of
Justice.

Contempt of Court.

Pictet & Cie.

Pictet & Cie Bank –Partners –(1996—2011 )- guilty.

Peters
&Peters – Partners.— (1999---2011 )-
guilty.

The bank and it’s
officials/lawyers deliberately withheld crucial documents requested under a
High Court order. The bank and it’s officials/lawyers deliberately withheld
evidence from the Police, and one of it’s account managers Susan Broadhead gave a false witness statement .

Another one of it’s managers Nicholas Campiche ( Now Head of Pictet – Alternative Investments.)
concocted a letter pretending to be a client and closed his account. The senior
partner (Ivan Pictet.) sought to
have numerous documents destroyed,along
with those copies held in their London
office’s of Pictet Asset Management.
Initially stating that they were forgeries then their lawyers Peters & Peters – Monty Raphael .Q.C.–and
the barrister Charles Flint.Q.C. later
had to admit in Court that the documents were genuine.

British Parliament. Hansard
.29th March 2007.

Barry Sheerman .M.P.—quote.

---------“ Constituents of mine have lost £2 million
through fraud. The fraudster used Pictet & Cie - - a French Bank - - and
Pictet Asset Management to back the fraud being perpetrated.””

(1) It is a criminal offence for a bank to knowingly act for
an undischarged criminal bankrupt in so far as it seeks to assist that criminal
bankrupt in the fraudulent movement of monies. ( Money Laundering.)

(2) It is a criminal
offence for a bank to lie to the police and the bankrupts trustee in bankruptcy
in so far as any knowledge of, or dealings with the bank was refuted .

(3) A bank can be
guilty of Contempt of Court if it fails to comply fully with the Courts order
for discovery .

(4) The banks
contempt is further compounded if it fails to address its error after it is
specifically drawn to the to its solicitors attention. ( Monty Raphael).

Re: Nailing the lie of Conservative propaganda

Martyn W — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:47:38 -0000

That... and Gordon's inability to get the people to warm to him.

Re: Annoying facts

Martyn W — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:47:02 -0000

Not a bad idea - although equilateral triangles would have the same problem, unless it didn't matter which way you plugged them in.

Re: Let’s make financing the Royal Wedding voluntary

Martyn W — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:46:14 -0000

I despise them.

Re: My gift to Nick Clegg

Martyn W — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:45:59 -0000

I should have...

Re: Is it time to bring back pirate radio!

Martyn W — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:45:47 -0000

The Internet is the new medium for pirate radio.

Re: The Micro$oft tail wags the end-user dog

Martyn W — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:44:43 -0000

Symantec have a vested interest in saying OS X is as vulnerable as Windows. It's not. They just want to sell you Norton for Macs. This is a product that won't work either. None of the anti-virus products work properly, including Comodo and AVG and while the belt and braces method you use is better than just having one of their products installed, it will still leave holes... because the Operating System has inherent vulnerabilities. One of these is not separating the Operating System from the GUI. In Windows they are the same thing, so attack the GUI and you attack the OS. In OS X they are separate and in Linux, the OS is modular - so even if the OS could be attacked through the GUI, it would be contained in one part of the operating system. If you run Windows, and you download and install Malwarebytes AntiMalware, or SuperAntiSpyware - I guarantee they will find something on your system.

Re: Why should the BBC pay its own way?

Martyn W — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:36:27 -0000

Thanks for your comprehensive comments. It's always pleasing when someone takes the time to think about what they write and offer a sensible and constructive commentary. Your ideas have given me food for thought - and I may well steal them... errmmm expand upon them. Cheers ~ UKHamlet.

Re: Nailing the lie of Conservative propaganda

Tynamite — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:22:42 -0000

The reason why Labour lost the election and the Conservatives won, is because the newspapers blamed Labour for the credit crunch, the lack of jobs, and the lack of education in schools in the pre-election period. Who owns the newspapers? The middle class. Exactly the sort of people who are the Conservative's voting demographic.

Re: Annoying facts

Tynamite — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:18:51 -0000

They should have made them triangle sockets.

Re: Let’s make financing the Royal Wedding voluntary

Tynamite — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:18:35 -0000

I hate the upper class!

Re: My gift to Nick Clegg

Tynamite — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:09:25 -0000

I love it! I hope you sent it to him.

Re: Is it time to bring back pirate radio!

Tynamite — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:37:30 -0000

We need pirate radio stations because all the commercial stations go mainstream and only play pop music. We need a consumer uprising of pirate radio, to stand up against the commercial stations.

Re: The Micro$oft tail wags the end-user dog

Tynamite — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:24:38 -0000

Symantec, a security company that discovers viruses says that macs are not less secure than Windows.
Just do what I do. Use Comodo Internet Security and AVG Free both at once. You'll be running 2 free antiviruses at once, for free. Also they don't conflict with each other, so don't listen when it says to uninstall one. Also the AVG one automatically scans your computer in the background without slowing it down, and when you exit it or turn off your pc, it will continue where it left off, unless you cancel the scan.

You'll get a anti-virus, firewall, defence and sandbox all at once. I've never had a virus from it, unless my little brother downloads some dodgy video game off the internet and installs it so I have to get rid of it. I'm sure you won't be installing dodgy stuff.

Re: Why should the BBC pay its own way?

Tynamite — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:15:48 -0000

I agree fully with with your blog post, and I also agree with someone else who said that the BBC is like the Mafia doing extortion off people, except that it's legalised in the form of a tv license. I think it's the lesser of 2 evils, be public and you pay for it, or go private and get less quality programming.

What people are failing to understand, is that the BBC is a public service broadcaster (PSB), meaning that they have a legal duty to produce as well as broadcast programming that is useful to people. By that I mean programming that reaches every possible demographic, and programming topics for the purpose of the public's viewing instead of the advertiser, (even though they don't generate enough money).

Do you want to know why ITV keeps showing reality tv shows? Do you want to know why they stopped producing children's programming. Because in 2008, ITV didn't make a profit. They were in minus figures of debt, millions of pounds of it. In 2008, ITV made the decision to stop producing children's programmes because they don't produce enough money. Ofcom tried to make ITV change its mind, but they couldn't. Ofcom doesn't want it to be, that only the BBC produces children's shows, but there's nothing they can do about it.

Did you know that ITV, Channel 4 and Five are also PSB's? That's the reason why Channel 4 shows The Hoobs at a time slot that nobody will watch it. That's why Channel 5 once showed Shake! NGA, and Milkshake for a good slot for hours long. Also, as a PSB, they have a duty to show all types of programming, such as religious programming (Songs of Praise). Also ITV is in a financial crisis, even today in 2011, so that's why they keep showing reality tv, to make money.

Sky is not a PSB however, it has no obligatory duty to the public to create programming FOR the public INSTEAD of the advertiser. Most their shows are imported, and their only original programming was "Got To Dance, There's Something About Miriam, Terry Pratchett, Derek Acorah, Brianiac, and Pineapple Dance Studios. They commissioned those shows, and Sky1 has been around for a long long time. The line up for all their years of broadcasting is pathetic. It doesn't stretch far back.

So all the UK channels commission programming to some extent, but the only UK channels responsible for producing their own programming are the BBC and ITV. The BBC has an advantage over ITV, and it will always have the advantage. The BBC has an advantage that it can produce a public service broadcast without having to cancel a programme because it doesn't make enough money. The BBC can broadcast programmes that don't make enough money, that you enjoy anyway.

What about BBC 1Xtra, and Asian Network? Do you think they would prosper if they went to a commercial private sector organisation? Do you think that those two stations would continue to play underground music, or do you think they would go the way of Kiss 100 in London, or be another The Box, Capital FM, and play mainstream stuff?

What about the documentaries that the BBC makes? They don't make any money really, but they're critically acclaimed worldwide? What about Horizon and Panorama? What about their radio stations? What about Songs of Praise? What about See Hear? What about World Service? What about CBBC? What about BBC Three? What about BBC Four?

Would they exist if the BBC went commercial, or would they be considered to expensive and not profitable to run? Think about that.

Re: Was that Wales playing or Whales?

Rugby Nick — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:28:38 -0000

Sorry - I read 'not good enough any more' as 'past it' - imagine that! ;)

Shane was looking tired last season but prior to his injury was back to his best for the Ospreys and I was hoping to see him doing the same for Wales. Injury robbed him of the form but I have hopes that once he gets the rust from his enforced lay off out of his system he will be back and firing on all cylinders - if his form earlier in the season is anything to go by then I see no reason why we should be counting him as not good enough any more.