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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?

Save £50 on the Acer Aspire One A110-L Mini Laptop - now only £179.99 Smaller than an average diary and weighing less than 1Kg, the Acer Aspire One mini laptop features an 8.9-inch screen and 1GB of RAM. The powerful 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor gives you fantastic performance, and the 16GB SSD Hard Drive means that this model has storage capacity and speed to rival many of its larger competitors. Follow this link to get full details of the offer and to place your order today! Normally £229.99 Now only £179.99 Save £50 Postage & Packing is £5.75 Bigger cuts on the way though, and I've seen these in the shops for more or less the same price.

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!

The old ones are always the best ones. The Internet is a bit like the fashion industry, the same ideas come around again years later in only a marginally modified form. There's always a new generation who've never heard/seen them before. This invariant principal must cheer the scammers up no end. The real mystery is where they lurk in the fallow years. I expect that doctors puzzle similarly about diseases. Now where's my copy of the Bob Monkhouse joke manual?

...and spin! Interesting snippet on TV the other night of how the golden boys & girls of Nu Labour sound bite someone else's affordable and substantial rise in public spending as a cut. (not that there are any affordable rises any more!) Pity the ASA's brief doesn't include political claims; few, if any, would make it to the screen. But new Nu Labour has still to learn the only business lesson worth learning: whether your customers are happy, and will buy again. Instead they rely on people having short memories. About time that the chief constable and his crew were locally elected - like in civilised and democratic countries.

Wow, some great action stuff there! Bedlington.co.uk spot-the-ball compy coming soon? "The Big Picture" agency move over! But where's the one of a dog - any dog will do - taken at the Bank Top? I said shoot some terriers not shoot THE terriers! :lol:

This - of course - is almost the very thing we all voted against in the referendum. We were asked if we wanted bigger regional government and everyone with any experience of how these things work said NO! In fact the only reason we had the referendum was that big government - encouraged by poor deluded political dinosaur John Prescott - thought they could win. It's a basic rule of government never to hold a referendum that all indications say you won't win decisively. The result is then pointed to as conclusive for the next 50 years; except if by some extreme mischance you get the result that you don't want - when you keep asking the same question in a different way until you do get your result. Well in this instance British "democracy" didn't even get that glaze of legitimacy. So, I suppose we should all write on our Council Tax bills "Unauthorised Application" and send them back. BTW our new politicos have got off to a brilliant start by holding their very first meeting in secret session. It would be interesting to find out who exactly decided on this and who - if anyone - objected. So interesting that I think I will!

Pawn shops? BTW even solicitors are seeing tough times. A regional one was heard to comment on the budget's new top rate of tax: it didn't matter to him as he wouldn't be seeing a six figure salary again for some time to come!

http://geocities.yahoo.com/ No more new accounts, and users told to find somewhere else before year end. Or Yahoo now wants you to pay for their hosting. The $3,500,000,000 they paid for this a decade ago - and the running costs - now money down the drain!

Bedlington.co.uk is and will remain free. It's a resource for the entire town and only needs a smidgeon of sponsorship (and lots of voluntary effort) to keep it going until doomsday and beyond. Town people's support is all that's needed to see it grow. Sorry for the oversight, the subs option shouldn't even have been there.

There wouldn't be a company. It would long since have been in receivership, and the directors would be charged with fraudulent trading. If only it wasn't about politics! But the necessary swingeing tax rises AND huge cuts in public spending are hostage to the next general election. The fact that Goro's total incompetence has been exposed doesn't seem to matter to Nu Labour. They didn't ditch him when they needed to and now their seats are at risk. Let's just cling on in the hope that something will turn up and sod the country! The tax increases are a political move too. Common sense says that the receipts will be nothing like the "official figure". Why should any high earners stay in the country when you can telecommute these days? What's there to stay for anyway? And those who do elect to stay will - as you say - find avoidance schemes quicker than any civil service can close them. Yes, the burden of Gordo's profligacy will fall on the people who don't have the resources or inclination to take countermeasures. What annoys me more than anything is bloody - a mouth totally disconnected from a brain if ever there was one! I really hope she doesn't manage to cling on to her seat and has to get out and get a real job. But no firm in their right minds is going to employ her.As for our own Dennis Murphy - tireless worker for the local area that he is - I'd like him to come on here and answer the simple question: Do you ever wake up at night and imagine that you are in the wrong political party?