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Wikipedia: "...a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a future in which global warming and overpopulation lead to depleted resources on Earth. This in turn leads to widespread unemployment and poverty." Only 36 years before its time then? The short answer is probably in an urn; he opted for the more "environmental friendly" cremation. Big carbon re-release but all over in an hour and a half or so. Just like the films really (with the possible exception of the epics!).

Though that there might have been teensy moderation error in your not moving this to the consumer forum. But maybe it's a correct call after all?

Just checking on prices of a gismo I fancy and it stuck me just how poor some of these supposedly consumer orientated sites are. Some list only one supplier of the gismo when in fact there are a score or more on the web. Most do not give the best deal - available by simply using a search engine and a bit of spare time. I suspect it's mostly about kickbacks. There seems to be some reasonably helpful ones though. Do you use price comparison sites, and if so have you found them helpful? Which one do/would you go to first? We'll get around to doing a survey here on a few test items, and sort the con sites out from the consumer orientated ones. Maybe we will give them our own star rating.

Ah "Data-sharing"; what MI5/6 does and calls "intelligence", and the common man calls spying and snooping! All in the public interest of saving us time having to give the same data to lots of different government departments and quasi government organisations. Just think of the work this will save you in having to hand out your medical records to the DHSS (or whatever it's called this week), and the DTI so's they can assign you to a more suitable job - without your having to lift a finger. Brave NuLabor World - it's closer than you think, and in ways George Orwell couldn't even dream about! But you can't Mr Straw! And you won't Mr Straw! And we don't trust you (or your self-appointed unelected "Data-Commissioner") Mr Staw! And you've never asked the public if that's what they want. And you don't have the guts to do this - because you know what the answer will be! So please don't tell me what I want. BTW Mr Straw has great credentials in the matters of data security and civil liberties. Amongst other things he was the person accused of leaking Norman Scott's social security file during the Jeremy Thorpe scandal. And, as home secretary, presided over the small matter of the reduction of our historic right to trail by jury.

I was referring to the very helpful moderator of Talk of the Town etc. forums.

Goodness you are a moderator there too! That's two-timing us and all your punters! Yes, bedlington.org.uk is so uncannily similar that it IS this site. It's one of its many aliases on the nameservers. The slight problem with this is that the board software only kicks out bedlington.co.uk cookies. So you'd better clear out your cookie jar to avoid mixing flavours, thus confusing the computer's palate. There's a link here somewhere to do that. It's late so someone show me where? Otherwise tomorrow. So you want to know just how big the 20 acres actually is? Why not get class to pace it out? Got a GPS that gives proper lat and long? Got a BIG ball of string? I'd loan you my bike with its carefully calibrated bike computer but it's a bit of an up and down hill ride to get it to you! P.S. OK, found it - Click the forum link up top then look right down just above the statistics box for Delete cookies set by this board Covered in the Help files too. Click Help up top then Cookies and cookie usage. If still in doubt then feel free to PM the moderator.

The touch screen isn't the primary screen, it's meant to be used as a media center with a TV (HDMI output). But I can think of lots of other applications - point of sale, home control, etc. It's just a concept machine and may not go into production, but if it does I'm sure it will sell. And how wrong you are about Eee Box sales! Other manufacturers must be considering the same format. I'd like an Eee Box with the N330 dual core chip and maybe the Nvidia Ion support chip. Perhaps the second half of the year, and if Asus doesn't do it someone else surely will. Already built a machine with the N330 here and it's considerably faster than the N270 in video applications - even with the same graphics/support chip. I'd intended it as a home server but am using it on the desk here - picture soon. I see that both HP and OQO have switched to the latest Z series Atoms for their ultra mobiles/netbooks, and now that they are not burdened by a slow VIA chip they have to be worth looking at. In fact I really fancy an OQO 2+ now. Though it will probably have to be the promised cheaper cut-down version, and not this month or next!

The old ones are always the best!

...full specification computer! http://crave.cnet.co.uk/desktops/0,3902942...300492-1,00.htm Another application for the Atom CPU, and a concept which might even be as big as the Netbook or Eee Box. BTW bought our second Eee Box recently and it was far harder to get hold of than the first one a few months back; they just don't stay on the shop shelves.

...and finally: Last bastion of screwing the consumer, Apple ditches it too! Being phased out on iTunes over the next few months.

Oooh I do hope this one about said uomo doesn't get speedily removed like last one - on the grounds that someone might sue someone. Seems like the last one could have had more than a smidgen of truth after all! .

If only life were so straightforward! When you can't pay the bills you ain't going to be happy, and it can seriously impact your health.

You forgot prosperous. OK, I know - one can still wish!

Wishing all our members and moderators a happy and prosperous 2009. 2009 isn't going to be pretty. But remember that we all make our own good fortune, not some third-rate politician who daren't stand for election to the office he gained through a lie, and now desperately clings onto at any cost (our cost!).

No, no, there's no cure possible until you get up on your back legs and use the real word! I am a coffeeholic! There, I've said it!

Generation gap thing here Monsta. Wassa Alchie?

I read it as a question. The difference between private rumours and a public board is that anyone more informed has a chance to say not. An advantage not shared by the "popular press". But, as their story-checking is so meticulous and coverage so balanced, we need have no need for concern - usually!

I'd imagine that the original cash is theirs, but any "returns" they got were fraudulent, so actually someone else's money. Tough if you thought you'd been doing OK for years (even tougher if you've spent it), but fair enough in context. It's only the UK government who can print money to make up for their gross deceptions and blunders. Losers think they've been fully compensated but everyone and everything is poorer in the end. Probably only a drop in the ocean compared with what they pee away on maladministration anyway! And, has Madoff done anything different? No one is suggesting that he did other than rob Peter to pay Paul. Maybe that's why, despite the rhetoric, he's been feather bedded. There but for the wisdom of the electorate go all our senior politicians and bankers! Only the low branches get cropped (caught).

There must be a Hebrew equivalent of that spiffing German word? And did the people who got their money out just in the nick of time have a close encounter of the fourth kind? Jews robbing Jews? Oy vey, what is the world coming to! Of course the real Quote of the Week should have been Gordo's saving the world faux-pas. But he'll be doing that next week, and the week after (ably assisted by Boy Darling), so there's plenty of time.

Nice! Almost said "I fancy a Wii"!! Three people have clubbed together to buy me a Lumix LZ10 camera at a bargain price. All I want now is for it to actually get here. http://www.ukdigitalcameras.co.uk/prod.asp...CFQ9PtAodRDgCCg Not where it's coming from though, or the price paid. First camera I've had (?) with image stabilisation - getting old and I shakke a lotottt. First Panasonic too. Looked a better bet than my usual choice of Canon. Uses standard AA batts; sick of buying cheap Chinese battery packs that don't last or £50+ OEM ones. Some unbelievable bargains in quality digital cameras at the moment.

We've sent the Bedlingtonshire Division of Santa S. Claus PLC a link to this thread. So be plain and you might just get what you wish for.

From The Telegraph discussion about Bernie Madoff's "investors" being taken by surprise when they learned his $50BN hedge fund was just one giant scam:

Ah now this is looking more interesting! http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/index.php Looks like no SDHC support, but you can get an awful lot of .PDFs onto a 4GB SD. Wonder if you can buy them in Europe?

On about the second bottle of Christmas spirit, I'd guess!

Are we talking Christmas Trees perhaps? A neither of the above (Bah! Humbug! - Scrooge Option) seems in order. It's only in UK elections that you aren't allowed to exercise the democratic option of saying S** O**!