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...or, it's a market mechanism to absorb the excess income of retired and semi-retired people, whist providing much needed employment to ambitious young female entrepreneurs. [Thanks God for auto-spelling checker on the last one! ]

Whilst our politicos and laws still reflect values from the last century it's a whole new world out there. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/europe/a-21st-century-migrants-checklist-water-shelter-smartphone.html?_r=0 There are discussions going on in some places as to Angela Merkel's sanity. I think the explanation is far simpler: she's still living in the cold war era! How long before the German people wake up to this? Well... I believe many Germans already have, and that her political career is rapidly coming to an end.

Crowds snub Ted Heath exhibition Some interesting comments on the article. Precisely what the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation aims are seems obscure; if it's to rehabilitate his memory then a more futile pursuit presently escapes me. Best to revert to three-day-week opening for now, then maybe transfer all the exhibits to Brussels!

A vote of no-confidence in the Prime Minster David Cameron - Calais crisis. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/105402 Is there anyone here who does have confidence in Cameron's handling of the crisis? Plenty of time for this to run, but please don't delay and do it right now! Please pass the link on to friends. ----------------------------------------- Date/Time ---> Signatures 15/08/2015 15:24 --> 13,108

Yes, this time it's for real! But.. there's no flunch (free-lunch); after the first year or so M$ is going to want annual access to your purse for ongoing "maintenance". The upside to this is that they now promise to be good, and stop selling us the same code over and over again in different wrappers. It's claimed that W10 will be the very last version of Windows, and that (as long as you subscribe of course) they'll update it for ever and a day. This might have been innovative if Google hadn't already being doing this with Chrome OS for quite some time. What it really means is that M$ have seen the writing on the wall, and decided that the only way to avoid more customers defecting to free operating systems is inertia and incremental selling. In recent years fewer and fewer people have been buying retail versions of Windows, preferring to stick with what they've got until they buy a new machine.

Now that Windows 10 is making its way onto people's machines you might want to see what Windows 1.01 looked like, and (by the wonders of virtualisation) actually use it! http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pc/machine/5160/cga/256kb/win101/ So... can you figure out how to use it? Remember this was billed as easy-peasy WYSIWYG computing! For maximum impact hit the Full Screen Display button at the top right of the display window. Clue: don't try to overlap the panes, we haven't got around to that yet. Also, don't come away with the idea that that this virtualisation is any slower than a real 8086 or 8088 machine of the day. From what I can recall this emulation has got the response times on an original IBM PC just about right!

Yup, we've all lost count of the number of mass public protests there's been in Bedlington over the years about building on greenfield sites!

Does it say "Made in China" on it? http://www.qscast.com/info.php?mid=16&u=163 Probs Virgin Media.

And.. is always contributing to the town website? Well, she reads it anyway; else she wouldn't be heard complaining when other political parties do contribute to it, or be demanding that their contributions be removed!

Maybe! ?? Substantial sums of money changed hands. "Heath never knew." being the official line, but then "Watergate prosecutor James Neal was sure Nixon had not known in advance of the break-in" either!

Self-confessed liar Edward Heath - the man who subverted our constitution and illegally signed away our ancient democratic rights - is now posthumously involved in child abuse allegations. A retired senior police officer raised concerns about cover-ups in 2014, and in response to a very recent appeal from the delayed investigation (maybe to get the GE out of the way) two males have come forward. I really don't care if these are true or not because this man's crimes are already there for anyone who wants to see, and they involve the ultimate crime of high treason, which until 1998 still demanded the death penalty. The last person to be executed for high treason was convicted on an absurd technicality worthy of Kafkaesque novel, yet Heath escaped his blatant treasonous acts thanks to the complicity of the united interests of our establishment - closing ranks as they always do! LibLabCon didn't want to rock the boat on their own European ambitions, so any move to undo Heath's criminal connivance was ridiculed or otherwise thwarted. For anyone reading this who wasn't around (or politically aware) in those deferential times here's a quick explanation of Heath's treason: http://www.vernoncoleman.com/euillegally.html The guy on the right's crimes were minor compared with the man on the left. But the man on the left got away free and clear with his - thanks to the British Establishment! It's hardly remembered now but Heath committed his very own "Watergate act" by bribing a senior Labour party official for inside information on the party. But, of course, British Justice chose to turn a blind eye to that too!

Bedlington is fully international, so the clock is relative to the time zone (and "daylight savings" setting) which you set in your own profile (click on your name up top right to adjust this). I'm currently on CET so I see Adam's post as 8.06pm. The server itself is UK based, and should always track GMT before the personal offset. Anyway... great news, and beats even local brew! Update: Thinks... the prob might have something to do with the fact that fourgee rebooted the server for the first time in yonks a day or so ago to accommodate some change about which I know not, and maybe didn't account for DST in resetting the RTC. I vaguely remember needing to do this the last time we rebooted. As he's "up a mountain" at the moment it's a little difficult to ask him. Will see what I can do, but many thanks for the heads up.

I too am a very regular BBC radio listener on my mobile phone, and generally have News 24 on in the background here too. Nine deaths were mentioned YESTERDAY but only because it was Nigel Farage who pointed them out in interview. On that particular bulletin the BBC mentioned the overnight death and no history. Prior to that I've never heard any mention at all on the BBC, but have seen regular mentions in other media. There does not seem to be much of an overall "master plan" to distort, and the objectivity does vary a lot depending on the individual editor, but there is a culture of not telling the unvarnished truth when the truth doesn't coincide with a left-wing liberal narrative. There is certainly a "master plan" with reference to "man-made climate change" though. Much recent contradictory evidence is being excluded from reporting. I noticed this dance with truth most recently in the lack of reporting of the the race of the Aylesbury rape gang. On the rare occasions when skirting around the facts was becoming farcical the information was introduced in ambiguous terms. It's not as if many BBC people themselves don't recognise this. But, they have excuses: Maybe it wouldn't be "product of the types of people the Corporation employs" if they could bring themselves to place their job adverts in a major circulation newspaper, and not in commercially failing, minority interest, Guardian! But, with the BBC now stacked out from floor to floor with Guardianistas would normal people ever get past the job interview these days? Ever Feel You're Being Patronised? "Ideological Sheepdip” - couldn't have put it better myself!

Not the deaths, they slip by unreported. But the core problem is no longer something that even the Beeb can ignore. And, remember this? (The Guardian - of course) Wonder where the independent clear-thinking Owen Smith is now? In fact just how independent was he before he made these remarks? Something that The Guardian forgot to tell its readers then? But doubtless he's a good Welsh socialist nevertheless, with a position on immigration not in the slightest tainted by international corporatism, or any thought of personal reward? Except... And, where is he today? Well, giving tacit approval to Cameron's butcher welfare bill despite howls of protest from the people who voted him back. The excuse for voting against his constituent's solid wishes: So, party and self first, constituents and country a very poor second. And, when the heat gets too great... https://www.facebook.com/owensmithlabour Any wonder principled Corbyn is way ahead in constituency polls!

Last night it was a Sudanese, and as ever the EU-bought-and-paid-for BBC is totally silent on the matter! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11770497/Nigel-Farage-Calais-migrant-crisis-a-disaster.html Will they try to cover up the first British casualties too? The official immigration figures - incredible though they may be - are a total fiction. The sad truth is the government hasn't a clue who and what is in the country!

Right click on task bar and select Start Task Manager. Select Process tab and make sure the most CPU hungry tasks are at the TOP by clicking CPU in the title bar. You can then right click on a process that is hogging the machine and kill it. Anything to do with Java is OK but there are things it isn't advisable to kill. Once the machine becomes responsive again, then you can tackle the root problem(s). Mainly you'd do this by removing programs using Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features, but there are more sophisticated ways of tackling start-up problems. Anyway, if you report which processes are gobbling CPU time I will try to help further. The background Java helper can be a pain and I always de-install it. All it does is shave a second or three off the start-up time for Java apps (which I try to avoid anyway), at a cost of memory, CPU time, and boot time. It also gets up to other annoying tricks which I, for one, can live without! I'm not talking about the IE Java helper plug-in, but if you use IE you should probably get rid of that too. http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=762

On Duplicitous Dave: That's pretty much what most senior Tories will tell you in confidence, but only Carswell and Reckless have had the courage to come out with it in public. And, we now know what those absurd HoL attendance fees are really for (play vid). http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6561588/Lord-Sewel-bra-snap-released-as-he-resigns.html

Well, seems I was right: there certainly was an undisclosed 'Plan B', but Tsipras ducked out. Hence the strange (at the time) resignation of Varoufakis. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11764018/Varoufakis-reveals-cloak-and-dagger-Plan-B-for-Greece-awaits-treason-charges.html What's currently more relevant is what Varoufakis is now saying. That's entirely believable, and I wonder how Duplicitous Dave is going to spin the even larger "surprise" cash call on the UK taxpayer this next time around. This statement is not going to go unnoticed by the French right - who will have a field day! It's worth millions of extra votes to them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/conservative-mps-expenses/11760523/John-Bercows-172-taxi-ride-vs-walking-Which-one-was-quicker.html I wonder if he has a health club membership, and how much that costs in central London? And... the cost of that "£172" journey to someone not on the public gravy train: Scroll down the Torygraph article for the actual route.

Wow! Jeremy Corbyn now the front runner, and the Highgate and Hampstead champagne socialists are horrified at the prospect! Tell me why you aren't supporting the guy with the beard Tony? Is he simply too left-wing for you? There's one reason I'd be tempted to pay the £3 and vote for Corbyn, and it's not to make Labour completely unelectable, although that's the natural consequence. Unlike the other four Corbyn clearly has some principals. They aren't rational principals, or 21st century principals, or vote-grabbing principals, but, uniquely, he does believe in what he says. And, what he says is that he could vote NO at the referendum, because he thinks it could be in OUR best interest. Right for totally the wrong reasons is nigh enough for pit-work, when all the alternatives represent sickening Blairite post-democratic elitism! Meanwhile... Tony urges Labour voters to get a [brain] transplant - yet another, right for the wrong reasons! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3170460/Don-t-Blair-issues-stark-warning-Labour-old-fashioned-left-wing-policies-lead-defeat.html

What's your solution Tony? "Soak the rich"?