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Well it's sure not going to be Harriet Harman! What a totally hopeless response to the budget speech - so predictable and formulaic it could have been written months ago. Not one iota of original thought, nor any attempt to seize the moment. What's her "real world" job again? Oh yes, a solicitor!

...we should just give up? When we start taking the really big things - like Eurovision - seriously again, we'll be able to kick a bit of leather in the right direction once again!

Amazing but true: Legionnaire's Disease (Legionella bacterium) can be found lurking in one in five vehicle's windscreen water containers that don't have a screen-wash added to them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10293519.stm Van drivers are particularly at risk.

On TV too. Have to agree with you on that one - that must be one of the most irritating and annoying adverts of all time; it really grates! "Get a lot of X-tra annoyance from the HalifaX." I'd go out of my way NOT to take out an ISA with them!

I live in Europe, and I don't like to see American marketing outfits sell overpriced tat when we've got better technology at home!

...and if the N900 is too complex for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrXHXin9Iio You don't have to send it back to the factory and pay megabucks to change the battery; the maps are free; they aren't trying to tell you that you can't view Flash websites because THEY have issues with Adobe; there is a flash memory slot; and the audio doesn't have a ball and chain attached to it. It's most likely pretty good at making phonecalls too! Sample Photo 1

No I didn't! I read it all through and tried a dummy application. That's for the current batch, but they are intending to expand the scheme. The majority of applications will fail for other reasons, so there's no certainty in anything ... except that if you don't apply there's a certainty that you will get diddly squat. I also think that there are other operators currently looking at this market, so hopefully another firm will pilot it in this area first. BUT... You might find this interesting reading. http://www.guardian....-feed-in-tariff The obvious conclusion is that these schemes are bound to be withdrawn as they become too popular - leaving those holding the price guarantees laughing.

So... have you tried booting in recovery mode? Unplug any USB devices. Disable the splash screen so you can read the boot messages.

"know just wont boot" -- could be a keyboard problem! Where does it stop in the boot sequence when you turn on boot messages? Has Windows messed with the loader? Does Windows boot? What does the boot selector give you as options? What did you do just before it stopped booting? Boot from the live CD or a USB stick and examine the logs. Best was to TRY Ubuntu is to install Wubi. No repartitioning necessary as the Linux filespace is then contained in a large Windows file which you can delete. http://wubi-installer.org/

Go here and register your home (which must be South facing): http://www.ashadegreener.co.uk/ Government pays four times the cost of normal electricity, which is why you get it for nowt by simply supplying the site!

The question I'm asking is what prevents you doing something at your own pace? I can see that that pressures in some jobs would be too much, but it would have to be pretty desperate not to be able to pace yourself doing something useful. I'm talking as someone who's had a nasty infection over the past couple of years and still brings up lots of mucus all the time, palms and feet are visibly inflamed and my temperature control is completely shot. I'm not sure that all the various antibio's used haven't contributed to the problem now that the original infection is gone. I'm improving, but nothing like as fast as I'd like to, and I'm having to work hard at improving. But although retired I still put in productive hours around the place, and even service a few paying customers a week. What's different about ME that prevents this? I think if we had an explanation of what it's really like, people (and maybe even GPs - some of whom still don't accept it's a genuine condition) would be a lot more understanding. Difficult I know, but worth a try.

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And.. they have left interest rates at 0.5% today! Could it be that the 2% target is now history, but no one has got around to telling Joe Public?

If you've had an accident at work that wasn't your fault, then.... you're probably a liar, as well as a careless idiot! No matter, Screwu & Suethem (Qualified ambulance-chasers) will pursue your employer through the courts to make sure that all the sensible and careful people in your company have to do entirely pointless things for decades to come to try to avoid us trying it on again! **We, of course, provide this service entirely in the public interest. Sign here and don't trouble yourself reading the small print in the contract - you're such an idiot you wouldn't understand it anyway!

I'm not unsympathetic, and I do appreciate that this is a genuine condition that wasn't recognised by medics until very recently. The only thing that puzzles me is *why* you can't work in some capacity or other? You're obviously as intelligent as the next person, and in no way physically disabled, so what makes it impossible to do something for the community instead of staying home? Even staying home AND doing something for the community if you can't manage a regular job? Not being critical at all, just trying to understand.

More ways to extract revenue (the margins on these products are so thin! ).

Post count at 29,999! Yay!!!!! Teeshirt or a coffee mug Fourgee?

You heard it a zillion times from Gordon Brown and his cohorts, and it was all a load of complete ^^^&(*! Simply a desperate excuse to pretend we could go on spending far more public money than any government could reasonably raise in taxation. It's now becoming clear that there is no recovery (in the historic sense of the word), and what was being touted as normal conditions was in fact an unsustainable government-spending-led boom. Some of the NuLabour survivors still haven't got the message, but the more intelligent members of Gordon's gang have: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/politics/10270585.stm There are sad times just around the corner.

Not that simple! You have to fence it and USE it, and someone might just notice. Also there was a rule change quite recently which makes acquisition through "adverse possession" not quite as easy as it was.

21405 the first time around on an 8.9" screen! Will do better next time now I know click accuracy matters. Vilnius got me though; must look up the Baltic states, always confuse them with the Balkan ones.

Difficult to see how that Estonia thing could be possible as since 1976 the cost of the final has been shared amongst the participants. The 2005 rules state: Rule 4 looks particularly relevant as it effectively means each entrant has to pay all their own renumeration, travel, accommodation, subsistence, etc. The cost must also be an awful lot less to broadcasters who can use their own facilities. And this must penalise smaller countries who have neither the facilities nor the home audience size to offset the production against their normal prime-time programming cost. So I'd stick with my £2M (net after normal prime-time cost) as being a reasonable figure for the present day. A large broadcaster like the Beeb *should* be able to bring a decent show in inside this figure, unless they pad the books by amortising things they'd probably be committed to pay for anyway.

And it's confirmed: you can't swap the battery on the 4G either. http://www.damego.com/the-iphone-4g-features-specs-and-release-notes 4G marketing pitch: "This changes everything. Again" Reality: Nothing changes. Apple is arrogant and treats their customers like idiots. (Chiefly because there's a surplus of idiots with more money than sense around at the moment). Proof of this the iPad launch where the audience is hanging on Steve Jobs every word, and their applause when the most basic things are being passed off as innovative. Any other company and a critical audience would be pointing out that this or that product could do exactly the same thing, and asking what was really new. They'd also have been asking why it couldn't multitask, and how much of the snappy presentation was because of the lack of any multitasking overhead - a point neatly swept under the carpet by those masters of marketing. What's really galling is the huge price differential between the same Apple product sold in the USA and the UK. It's almost as if they are saying we know where the biggest idiots live!

Cost of staging Eurovision, of the same order as Bedlington's new marketplace - give or take the odd million. Cost of 2012 Olympics to the nation £8Bn, and probably more when all the bills are in. So... for the cost of the London Olympics we could afford to *win* Eurovision every time for the next 4000 years!

10 reasons not to buy Apple's new iPhone 4G ...the handset is a triumph of marketing over functionality. And it's so ubiquitous it's not even cool any more. http://www.telegraph...mpaign=tech0706 From The Telegraph; I could have written this (but didn't!). The only thing they missed was a mention of the N900, and in the "Its battery life is terrible" bit they forgot to say that you can't pack a spare, unlike any other phone on the planet! Or maybe with the 4G Apple is going to recant on that particular diktat?

Only shortly before apparently. It was nevertheless the only available chance for detecting his state of mind. That's considering that the abnormally large number of powerful firearms transactions reported to the police in a very short period didn't raise any interest from people who are paid to be "interested". Seems to me that with loners like Ryan you need a lot longer than a 12 week probationary membership period!