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As if millions of habs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
259 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Sep 2007
Maybe he is naive, but their argument is to drop the road tax and charge a general consumption tax to replace it so recording car details wouldn't be needed for that. (Car details would probably need to be recorded for prosecution but thats a different argument).
Why would their be only privately owned news interests if the tv licence was abolished and the bbc took it's money from the general consumption tax?
Also depending on how it's done it could possibly rebalance things fairly. But the problem with using 'fairness' as an argument everybody has a differing viewpoint on whats fair.
Can't see it ever happening though, but probably could do with some consideration without the typical dailymail knee jerk reaction to change.
It also reminds me of a report from 1996 ish where they looked at removing all taxes except a flat income tax (above a higher zero rate band) and a consumption tax. Whether it would have worked without all the nice things politicians like to meddle with to alter behaviour is another thing entirely....
Googles cloud thingie is for a different class of user to Mr Stallman. Its for the casual user who doesn't understand that backups are a good thing for keeping their digital photographs safe etc. For example I know someone who had been safely backing up 100's of photographs onto a 16mb memory card. It's amazing how much space you get if you copy a shortcut rather than the actual photographs.....
If someone were designing the next greatest text editor, i'd guess they'd be a little more competent and have backups.
Yes they may be a dumb user, but most people are dumb users in one field or another. Me i'm crap at surgery although I can put a plaster on.
long story short(ish)
Buying some passion fruits (iirc) noticed when checkout lady processed them she first put through an ugli fruit then a passion fruit. I tried to tell her but she kept 'correcting' me saying they were passion fruits not ugli fruits. Gave up and figured that I may as well buy an ugli fruit so on my way out decided to collect one seeing as I'd already paid for one (and Tesco make enough without charging for phantom items)
Hostile attitude from security guard met uncooperative attitude from myself. Laughing at him whilst he shouted at me that I'd paid for the ugli fruit probably didn't help. But the manager was very nice about it.
In tescos.
Told the security guard to f* off then went to customer services with the photo evidence that they had overcharged me.
I seem to always have trouble in Tescos, they've also tried to arrest me for buying an ugli fruit once.
Just because somebody is wearing a hat for a job it doesn't make them superior to you.
If they ditched putting so much trial ware on the machine if may do something to improve their image. Parents recently brought a midrange home dell and asked for help moving their stuff across. Just turning the machine on was an annoyance as 4 or 5 apps all wanted details to enable a 'trial period', putting a cd in brought up 3 applications thinking it was for them.
a)Hello Domino's Pizza, can i take your order?
c)Hi can i order 10 large Hawaiian pizzas and 10 bottles of coke please <huh, huh>
a)Yes, anything else?
c)No.
a)And the delivery address
c)Jason Smith, Wow forums, the Internet
anyhow, think its a bit of a dumbass idea, much like ploughing on the internet is to start with.
vote with your wallet if you don't like it
People are forced to participate in the forum if they want to play warcraft?
What will happen is a few user created forums will start up and eventually these will whittle down to the core of the users who wish to stay anonymous
Yeah it'll probably won't be as good as before, but thats life in general.
..especially if you count politicians as public sector
If you have a deficit when the economy is at it's peak you're going to have big problems when it goes down, whatever triggers the downturn.
So Labour creating a vast army of public sector workers / more than likely to be labour voters, whilst not being able to afford to pay is the heart of the issue.
Put simply, if you earn £1000 a month and spend ~£950 every month apart from at Christmas where you spend £1500 you've got a cyclical deficit. If you decide to employ a cleaner and gardener for £200 a month meaning you spend £1150 every month apart from Christmas where you spend £1700. Sooner or later the bank manager is going to have a chat about your spending.
Not that I blame the workers, its the politicians who created the environment where money was sucked out of the real economy to create this situation. With any luck the decent public sector workers will either retain work or find a new job.
My media library was a couple of terabytes last time I checked, manage perfectly well on my 16gb phone. Have a core music selection and then a random playlist which shuffles music in or out.
Doubt a 3 or 4tb portable device would be cost effective and fit in the pocket as easily
Tried it last night, and noticed your bootnote was incorrect, looks like you download a 'downloader' which then gets the full install for you.
But anyhow, it started up downloaded the 33meg app and then said you need to be on the internet to download, it then promptly shutdown. Restarted it and it downloaded the 33megs again, and this time it started only to crash a few moments later.
Third time lucky it started up, connected to my account from a few years back listed my few purchases, told me nothing but portal was compatible, which it downloaded. Before crashing.
And the last time it started it hangs at the 33meg download
Lost interest now.
...it's just not for you.
But well done sending a post from the year 1980, hopefully this reply will reach you somehow, you'll find that masses have access to computers well before the millennium.
Anyhow watch out for a company called microsoft, yahoo and finally google. If you follow those when the iPad is finally launched in your 'timezone' you'll think ~$700 is a rounding error.
Not overwhelmed, but will probably impulse buy a wi-fi model at sometime and leave it in the lounge (maybe as digital photo frame) and to grab when I want to look up something on imdb whilst watching the telly. ~$700 to stop firing up the laptop....
But paying for another dataplan is not my cup of tea, especially when it could be quite easily tethered to another 3g device
I reckon its more likely the first option, O2 want to force people to sign up for a new contract before other operators come online.
Hopefully they'll have a decent no phone deal to tide people over until the new phone comes out in the summer
I've been with o2's (previous incarnations) since 97 and felt their service was good and they weren't out to swindle every possible penny from the customer
Now i feel the opposite
Can't say i agree with he password masking, what i disagree with is the undue complexity some site owners go to restrict access
username, johnsmith nice and easy start
password, 10 characters mixture of cases with at least 2 numbers & 2 symbols
kaptcha, refresh, refresh, is that lik kats?
no
username, johnsmith is now taken, johnsmith2
password
kaptcha
wait for email verification
finally i've got in to harry potter fans forums, now i can write the 'meto' post
could understand it for online banking etc but for a trashy web forum, get realistic