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These measures will rapidly become our "normal way of life", at least as far as the youngsters are concerned. I think the age split in countries like Iran has a fair bit to do with what their leaders manage to sell to their populations. If the aim of the terrorists is a Muslim state then it could just be that many here would acquiesce to this on the grounds that its a much more ordered and peaceful existence than our secularists are constructing!

You don't win an argument by insulting people, and on the contrary I do lots of very constructive things. And - gasp - the very last thing I am is a Socialist Worker reader! Most of the people in the police force are well meaning and public spirited. But you have absolutely no grasp of how the system actually works. Where are the Gestapo now, where are the East German and Russian secret police? They were just ordinary well meaning people who got caught up in the madness - just like you are. They are now all in democracy mode and the excesses were someone else's fault. They even thought so at the time but no one would listen. It's posts like this which illustrate how our country is sleepwalking into Orwellian times. When you ignore the warnings from people who have been in power, know the reality and not the perception, and are worried about where we are heading there really is no hope. If yours becomes the real mass view, then we're sadly doomed to re-live history. You believe you are superior to these people and that it can't happen here? Curious how the younger people think that this time it will all be different, and the older heads know that they are deluding themselves.

A very scary remark, particularly because it's so common. Quite a few loyal Germans thought they had nothing to hide either. The ones that ignored the warnings of their fellow citizens and convinced themselves that the authorities would act reasonably and fairly. Approximately six million of them! It's not about what you say or mean, it's about what Maximilien Robespierre says you mean, or about what the party apparatchiks say you meant. They are the custodians of the records, the paymasters of the Gestapo, and the makers and the interpreters of the laws. So you can protest your innocence all the way to the scaffold. When the hard evidence is there (because somehow you upset someone in power, or your removal is expedient) you are screwed! Last week an old newspaper seller also though he had nowt to hide. Quite clearly he wasn't daring to protest against authority, and simply going about his everyday business. But that wasn't the view of the state thug(s) that downed him. If someone gets charged it will because it's not conceivably possible to cover up the problem, and be a damage limitation exercise. The state always looks after its own, because without unquestioning obedience there is no state. We can't have the anarchy that these loony-left protesters wish to precipitate, but equally we are heading for state anarchy under the guise of protecting us from things we don't need protecting from. It has happened so many times before, and at the moment it's as if we've learned nothing!

I mean that the laptop overtook the desktop in sales quite some while ago. Where did the 71% figure come from? You've just got to put your head inside a shop to see where the sales volume now is. Yes, I recently built a "desktop" too, but with an ITX mobo and a case the size of a tin of biscuits it's much closer to a laptop than it is to anything I'd have had on my desk (or on the floor beside it) up to about three years back. And.. there's an increasing volume of media-centre type PCs as well - you can't call those desktops. Ditto true pocket PCs.

I'm not for licking! I'm for handing out to people to prove you've "been there".

http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/feat...l5_2009_dgl.jpg If you trace back the hot air trail you can see the cloud of smoke around the launcher. If a commercial organisation can snap this when the don't know exactly when it's going to happen then imagine what the military is currently up to! http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/feat...29_2009_dgl.jpg Long blue building on the left obviously the assembly shed, and the launch pad in the middle. Why don't the sell advertising space on the roof?

Please support the Town Calendar by posting any events (both Public & By-Invitation) you know about in the area on it. It's not just there to consume, it's there to add to yourself. You know it makes sense that there's a place that everyone in the community can share without having to waste time searching all over the place, and then likely miss out in the process.

The events criteria is where Bedlington(shire) people would find something to do within easy travelling distance. Not as far as the big smoke but maybe as far a Gosforth Park. And... if you can run 10K then you'd probably not complain about having to go as far as Creswell to do it. News criteria is between the Blyth and Wansbeck and maybe a tad further. Blagdon fits that too. Thanks for the compliment Tony, there's more coming.

So you'd have bailed out Northern Rock? Economists (real ones, not part time polytechnic lecturers like Gordo) warned what would happen. It's called moral hazard in the trade. You can't both let the banks go bust and nationalise them! What we have now is the worst possible of all worlds. They should have all gone down the pan with their shareholders. And I say that as a bank shareholder who sold all his bank (and Northern Rock) shares some years back when he sensed this coming! Allowing the banks to fail and protecting both depositors (and the economy) are two entirely different issues. Here the Lib Dems seem much closer to reality than either of the two major parties. The recession is the result of a government (principally the UK one) allowing the banks to create too much debt by ludicrously low marginal reserve requirements. Decades back we had government controls on credit to stop this happening at the consumer level. As I said earlier: you can't borrow yourself out of debt. No, the recession isn't over. Investors call it deadcat bounce - where people are foolishly lured back into a falling market. Future tax receipts have been pledged to cover previous foolish borrowings. And those future tax reciepts probably won't come in anything like as fast as they'd like you to believe. There's nothing left for future investment in the creation of real wealth and real improvements in living standards. We're in the state of a third world country burdened by debt and with a clueless government who can think of nothing but retaining power. None of the fundamental problems have been addressed. They will come back again and again. Bust and Bust to replace Boom and Bust!

Don't look now but nobody is running the Country, and hasn't been for several years. And... I'm sure even you could make less of an a&** of it than Gordo! I wouldn't have bailed out Northern Rock - which was what precipitated the collapse, and sent all the wrong messages to other financial institutions. And.. we wouldn't now be up to our eyes in debt for generations to come! I've done more than Gordon has in running a successful business for decades, and there are a another thousand people in our town alone who are more competent to "run the country" than the incompetents who are currently in power!

At your local book store now: the Book of the Post:

Thanks; pity you can't buy one in Bedders! Think I'll add one of these to the order: I've got a lady that needs fixing, but can't quite decide on the colour.

Simple one: Where can I buy a spectacle repair kit? Either on the web or at a B&M shop (in Bedlington - if only!). I've now got two pairs of quality glasses that a screw has dropped out of the hinge. One is a pair of expensive Ray-Bans This must happen to just about everybody at one time or another; so why aren't there kits of the little screws and a suitable screwdriver in every other shop? Would cost next to nothing to make in quantity, and when you need your glasses you will pay whatever it takes!

Say it isn't true!

Plenty of opportunities to try your own ideas out coming soon monsta. I look forward to seeing the results!

Consider it a work in progress.

If I had an uncommitted pound for every time I've heard the phrase "due to be" in connection with the town... Clive's Clogs on Credit closing!! Ol' Mr J will be rotating in his casket. I'd be made to trot along there for a new pair of something in the 1950's, and a quality British product they were. Last purchase would be some time in the 1980's when my wife brought some in to try on. A regular customer, at least once a decade - on average. Clive will be nearing retirement, if not already retired, and - like may other Bedlington business families - there seems to be no future in the place. An attitude strongly promoted by stay-in-power (by sucking up to ignorance and stupidity) local politicians. Still, we've now got the "due to be" built Enterprise Center (with its vast 6 car park) to regenerate local enterprise. And, failing that, the new Market Place will be a great place to busk in.

I don't understand why anyone would want to comment on something they are not even interested in. If flea-power machines you can stick in your pocket don't interest you then post on something that does. Anyway, it's not a 10" it's an 8.9". I've been using this size of screen for years and my tired old eyes find it more than adequate for most work. Yes, I do use a wide-screen 22" monitor too, and I also use a 4" screen about 20 times a day as well. It's horses for courses. The current 8.9" machine is too heavy to pocket, it's not touch screen, it hasn't got 3G networking or Bluetooth built in, and the GPS on my 4" gismo is useful. So useful that a one built in to a bigger screen that could be pocketed or handbaged would be great. I often use the 8.9 machine just to get away from the desk, and it's sitting at the desk that gives me a sore neck (I have an upper spine problem that's not treatable). So quite the opposite of what you assume there. What will make or break the T91 for me is whether the screen is sunlight readable. This might not matter a scrap to you but it makes all the difference to how and where I use a computer. Even if the T91's sunlight screen readability is a deal-breaker for me this is the way computers are going - see your own post on the demise of the mouse. I'd like to hear about your electricity bill soaring boxes, but excuse me if I can no longer find a use for this class of machine. They are obviously still right for (an ever decreasing number of) users.

http://blip.tv/play/Ae3eUIzSQQ There's a preview of the interface here: I think the disappointment about the two cell un-removable battery might be a bit premature. The Z series CPU is even less power-hungry than the usual Atom N270, and, even more significantly, out goes the usual netbook's Intel 945GSE power-hungry graphics chip, to be replaced by something far more suitable to a lightweight battery operated device. Should deliver better graphics performance than the run-of-the-mill netbook whilst having far lower battery drain. An affordable Sony P11Z with nicer features, shipping next month, maybe.

One thing we wouldn't be able to complain about is that the head of government had never stood for democratic election to his position! BTW have you ever been to Zimbabwe? And, since when was monsta an apologist for Global Gordon? Have you been attending the Mandelson School of Spin - St Benet Biscop Precinct,,,,,,, recently?

Whatever, a star pupil at Ashley's S.O.M - apparently! http://www.ashleysschoolofmotoring.co.uk/s...s__gallery.html You could always ring FREEPHONE 0800 046 7437 / MOBILE 07989416737 / OFFICE 01670 821038 to find out. A Bedlington business that doesn't seen to have a physical address. Curious. Anyway, seems to have an opening for a web-designer - anyone?

Interesting fuel price widget, but needs updating now as last ring-around appears to have been circa 20th January. http://www.whatgas.com/?LatLng=55.13054,-1.59296&Zoom=12 Still, you can update the data yourself.