Posts by pieface

Israel unbans Apple iPad

Europe?

Israel is in Europe?

Why would they give two hoots about EU standards, all the way out in the middle East?

Train rebrand costs us dear

CSS?

£30,000 - so That's why the rest of us use CSS stylesheets....

British poshos outdrink chavs

Chavs are not manual workers.

What about people who are not manual workers, or professional workers, or any other kind of workers?

Bet they drink more!

Air Marshal: RAF may not have to be disbanded

Backwards?

How about the other way around, and the Army and RN air corps are disbanded and given to the RAF?

Just as the RAF Reg could be given to the Army, and the Royal Engineers boats to the Navy.

Let everyone have what they (supposedly) do best.

Would in return reduce costs of training, procurement and a few senior officers.

Brown offers free laptops to deprived UK schoolkids

Fanbois?

£300,000,000 / 78,000 kids = 1 fully spec'ed, 17" Macbook Pro, and then some left over for admin.

Can this government do anything with IT cheaply?!

Tax dodgers aided by old IT

I'll sort this...

"Weaknesses in the Department's existing systems prevent it from analysing debts by age and value and from calculating a taxpayer's total debts across all taxes,"

SELECT sum(value) FROM income_tax GROUP BY taxpayer ORDER BY age, value

Seriously.