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Headline: MODERATOR IN OFF-TOPIC MODERATION SHOCK Anyway, it is spot on in the case of my pension:

A few trickling out now, but without the GPS and TV (or HSDPA) modules it's about £100 overpriced. So you won't be seeing an in-depth review of it here for a good while. The T101 has been put back for at least a further 2 to 3 months and most probably to pre-Christmas. By that time there will likely be some serious competition. Meanwhile the Gigabyte M912X has been reduced to £359, and if it didn't have the power hungry and under-performing Intel 945GSE chipset I'd buy one tomorrow. Oh for a touchscreen netbook with Nvidia Ion graphics! That might be a tad power hungry too, but at least it would have commensurate graphics performance. So, despite netbooks everywhere now, there's still no obvious best choice machine.

Churchill was actually a Liberal for a good deal of his career. Even as a Conservative he didn't embrace right-wing market economics to anything like the same extent as NuLabour. How about this from the Wikipedia entry: As President of the Board of Trade he joined newly appointed Chancellor Lloyd George in opposing First Lord of the Admiralty, Reginald McKenna's proposed huge expenditure for the construction of Navy dreadnought warships, and in supporting the Liberal reforms.[56] In 1908, he introduced the Trade Boards Bill setting up the first minimum wages in Britain,[57] In 1909, he set up Labour Exchanges to help unemployed people find work.[58] He helped draft the first unemployment pension legislation, the National Insurance Act of 1911.[59] Churchill in 1904. Churchill also assisted in passing the People's Budget[60] becoming President of the Budget League, an organisation set up in response to the opposition's "Budget Protest League".[61] The budget included the introduction of new taxes on the wealthy to allow for the creation of new social welfare programmes. Does that sound like the "pro-wealthy, warmonger" image created by Labour politicians, and spoon-fed to the local electorate (and probably you too as an impressionable youngster)? Wow! Is "waster's locked into social housing" a genuinely held view? Please expand. Isn't that what all parties do? It's several of the things that are uniting all major parties that are the big voter turn-offs. I don't think that anyone thinks it's a bad idea. For the sake of everyone - especially ethnic communities that don't want to fully integrate - it's an excellent idea. In fact at the present state of things it's the only idea. Pity that the BNP can easily pass it off as their idea, when four decades ago when a very respectable politician mentioned it he was shouted down and accused of being a racist. What he was talking about was the then Labour government's Race Relations Act - the recipe for our present disaster. Seems we never learn that when the bill for do-gooder's social engineering is presented few if any of them are still around to help society pay it. Fact: Poles flew Spits during the war. Maybe a deliberate ploy to illustrate that they are not anti-immigration (or a more sinister one to point up that they are only against certain immigration)? Read into it what you will, but don't underestimate their intelligence. Give them time. Yes, but enough of NuLabour, aren't we discussing the BNP? I suspect that if you brought back many of the people who fought (and died) on D Day they would be shocked at the state of our Country. They wouldn't brand the BNP views with the same fascist label as we do today, and very many of them might easily be persuaded to vote for them. A mistake to take things out of their time context. It leads to all sorts of absurdities - like banning golliwogs, and apologising for what your forbears did, as if those people weren't acting decently and honourably by all standards that then applied. Been plenty of rule-rewriting going on in recent years. Problem is that those rules were never written down in the first place and the amendments to them similarly go undocumented. Needs a new term coined, like say precedent slippage. No votes in that. Those that "illegally" download will do it and those that don't won't. Any political pary knows better than to touch this one with a bargepole. They might preside over daft concepts like software patents, but it's more expedient to play it all low-key.

Par for the course where our town is concerned! What decades of socialist dependency culture has inbred. Keep whining on for assistance/grants/special-treatment. Build a bigger better administration to provide the much needed jobs sharing whatever hand-outs come our way. Don't try anything off your own bat, because in the apathetic attitude we've carefully nurtured it will probably fail. A self-fulfilling state of affairs. Sooner or later the message gets trough to the enterprising that in order to get on in life you have to leave. Countless thousands have, leaving only the compost that socialism feeds on. When that socialism is fully discredited - even within your own ranks - then take refuge in carefully spun Alice-in-Wonderland capitalism. But whatever you do don't explain the very necessary change of direction to your power base (as if they would understand it anyway) - they have always voted for you because you are for the workers! All you need is a very few carefully placed political dinosaurs who will square the circle for you. Do I sound depressed? Well, it's all the fault of [insert target of the month, but never me!] and someone had better do something about it, or I will be voting BNP!

Does this mean that news editors will get logged in automatically too? It's a bit of a hassle for them needing two sets of logins. I'm sure they will develop naturally. Best not to impose too much structure and have lots of empty categories. Someone needs to contact advertisers and ask them to move their ads. Is there any mechanism to time-out ads? It would be nice if users could select the display period themselves. Would save a lot of moderator work and stale material. Great stuff! Thanks again on behalf of the membership.

Bursting to try it out and all I get is "ERROR: Incorrect password" - duh!!!

T91 launch again postponed if this article dated yesterday is to be believed. http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/news/255763...een-eee-pc.html "£449 inc VAT when it's released in July" This was the proposed launch date of the 10" T101 version. Still remains to be seen if it has GPS and TV in this configuration. If it hasn't it's too expensive, and will likely only appeal to people who buy overpriced gear like macbooks until the discounts kick in! Some more good deals coming though as it's rumoured that Asus will kill off virtually all the existing eee netbook models later in the year. The PC900a is already selling below £200 delivered to the door price in 16GB configuration.

Now there's only one person in the UK who doesn't understand this simple fact. He can't hold the Country hostage to his ambitions of power any longer. His best friends should tell him what everyone else knows. Thing is no one wants to take the wrap for the mess they've created. And they can't get away with fobbing us off with yet another unelected PM, or duck their leadership issue yet again. So they're in a corner of their own making. Him going means them going. We need far more than reforms to the Westminster gravy train, we need some real democracy where a desperate government can't cling on in their own interest and not the Country's, and we need some real local democracy. The dinosaurs must perish - or at least (the British way) be retired on vastly overgenerous unearned pensions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPKzoimYMw...player_embedded As well as run of the mill things like HSDPA and TV Out it's got a microSDHC slot to boost the flash memory (32Gb and takes 32GB cards), and... and... wait for it... the most revolutionary thing is... you can change the battery yourself!

Only a very few weeks now http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/05/08/as...nching-by-june/ £450 sounds a lot for a netbook, but T91 was always going to be £350+. If this is the one with TV, GPS and at least 32GB of single layer flash it will be worth it. Pity it's shipped with Windows, but it will take a while to exploit all that hardware in a Linux distro. Cheaper versions to come. Definitely the machine to be seen with this year. So much more functional than the Apple, and a fraction of the price.

But is he having a raving loony party?

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And this most certainly isn't it!: http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wirel...n/dp/B00154JDAI Best part of £300 and not even got an SD slot! Only an American mega-corporation could be so dumb. And why would you need power chomping WiFi - except to tie the thing into a keep-on-paying-us business model? Come on Alan Sugar; these things can be produced in China for <£50 this year. In five years time every serious reader will have one. In seven or eight years they'll be given away as incentives to subscribe to Which?. Someone will make a fortune hitting the right spot in the market, and my bet is that it's nearer £100 than £200 to £300.

Unfortunately it's not a free market. So-called employment protection interferes. It's often easier just to buy in services from overseas than deal with all the BS that surrounds employing someone, and dismissing them if there's no longer a real job to do. The real problem with this (and the minimum wage) is that trade unions can mean lots of votes whereas employers count for few if any. Hence the law gets heavily slanted. The result is that absolutely everyone suffers in the name of some illusory concept of "fairness" which never existed and can never exist. Spongers play the bent system for all it is worth, and people who really want to work stay idle. The politicians know this but don't have the guts to tell the truth. The trade unionists know this (well the more intelligent ones at least), yet for short-term gain they go on feeding their ever-decreasing membership the party line! Employers and employees generate common wealth. Politicians, lawyers and trade unionists feed on their prejudices, produce nothing, and dissipate that wealth.

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But do not miss any opportunity to invoke the memory of our war heroes to gain a few votes: This is of course from the website of Mrs Ed Balls - the mouth disconnected from the brain otherwise known as Yvette Cooper. Our current Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and aspiring Prime Minister (well at least Ed thinks the electorate won't see right through her; but maybe he's planning another PM coronation instead).

I'm surprised no one has added the requisite upper lip hair. Guess the one on the right with the adoring look has to be Eva Fawn-Brown. The one on the left may bear some resemblance to Gobbels; certainly checks out on a testicle inventory. Anyway it's clearly not impressed by the standard of propaganda delivery, and seems to be mooting some sort of mass extinction of innocent people, or fabricating an excuse to start a war. Oh, sorry, clean forgot: Nu Labour already did both!

You got further than me then. When I try to open the .doc file I get: Of course as a software engineer I'm doing something wrong and the average member of the electorate with no computer skills will have no difficulty in exercising their democratic perogative.

Perhaps they didn't think anyone would notice, so they didn't bother to go to the expense of writing one? All in the interest of saving public money of course. I like the "Head of democratic services" bit. In true DDR (German Democratic Republic) fashion if you don't actually have any - no one actually voted you into existence - you absolutely need to proclaim that you are. Title: Ministry of Health - Reality: Ministry dealing with Sickness Title: Ministry of Employment - Reality: Ministry for the Unemployed, etc. Give things a positive spin and everyone can be happy - until the bill arrives.

Mandelsonian Rhapsody ================== Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a recession, No escape for LDV Open your eyes, Look at the wrecked economy, They're just a poor firm, they need some sympathy, Because it's easy come, easy go, Little cut, little blow, Any way the custard goes, doesn't really matter to Mandy Mama he just killed an industry, Put a gun against its head, pulled the trigger, now it's dead Mama, recovery had just begun, But now they've gone and thrown it all away ... (Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo politico Magnifico It's just a poor firm and nobody loves it It's just a poor firm from a poor industry, Spare it its life from your pomposity Easy come, easy go, will you let it go Northern Rock! No, we will not let it go (Let it go!) RBS! We will not let it go (Let it go!) Merchant Bank! We will not let it go (Let it go) Will not let it go (Let it go) Will not let it go (Let it go) Ah No, no, no, no, no, no, no ... Nothing really matters, Anyone can see, Nothing really matters, Nothing really matters to Mandy Any way the wind blows

I think he's waiting for us all to say go on then Malc we'll all vote for you (and I for one would). BUT... a word of caution. Don't expect Parish Councillors to be able to actually do anything, because they have nothing to spend and appear to be completely powerless. Which raises the obvious question why do we have then anyway. Someone please explain? This someone will probably have to be non-political, because it seems that all our politicians, from the top downwards, are busily fiddling their expenses, and therefore have no time to come on here and engage with their electorate. Even if they had their spin doctors wouldn't let then for fear they said something that wasn't in accordance with the current party line. Someone might even ask them the terribly difficult question of how come we now have major local government reforms foisted off on us when the overwhelming majority of people voted against this!

Rumour has it that Apple Store sales are down about 22%. They are planning to reduce prices and/or launch a new range of "value" products to hold onto market share. Other manufacturers are sure to counter this. There are already some pretty hefty cash back offers to clear surplus stock. New, more attractive models, also gives the excuse to slash prices on the current ranges.

The FT is reporting that LDV (formerly Leyland DAF Vans) have given up all hope of getting the £4M to £6M necessary to keep going until better times. Someone remind me how much is being spent on unnecessary "improvements" to our Market Place - that's not even a market place and which won't create/save a single job! Also some back of the envelope figures to work out how much extra dole the taxpayer is going to be in for here? So it's OK to throw billions of public money at bankers to cover backsides and save political skins, but if you're doing a real job and creating something that people will want to buy come the upturn (and that doesn't run up our huge import bill any further), you're screwed! The French are pulling their motor manufacturing back to France to preserve their industry. They know that we are dumb enough to continue buying their cars when we no longer have any capacity to produce our own.

Ssh.. everybody, I'm busy helping this nice Nigerian gentleman repatriate his ill gotten gains. Only thing I can't work out is why he chose me and no one else. Must be that I'm so trustworthy - getting involved in fraud like this!