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Nothing to say about the budget Tony? I'd offer that a discussion about who leads the Labour Party now is about as relevant as a White Star Line board meeting to decide on a replacement for Captain E.J. Smith!

Microsoft to cut 7,800 jobs, take $7.6B charge as phone woes drag on http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-reportedly-plans-another-major-round-of-job-cuts/ Bye bye Ballmer; bye bye Elop - you were both utter disasters, and totally undeserving of your obscene remunerations! There is hope for (real) Windows in the mobile phone space though, once Intel starts shipping 14nm Atoms with on chip LTE. Only then will Microsoft have the leverage to acquire real market share. The proposition of phones that run desktop code at decent speeds will be the game changer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/521441.stm Those must by my pix they used, and I don't ever remember cashing a royalty cheque! Foxy would have an answer to that problem though.

New(ish) Matrox Graphics cards. Read about them at Tom's Hardware.

The BBC get around that one by selective reporting. i.e. always inviting their Guardinista friends in for interview, whilst only paying lip service to (or in the case of "global warming" and the EU, totally excluding) contrary views and evidence. bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK has become bringing the UK to the EU and the EU to the UK! Merc, if what you say is correct then it's time to tear up the Charter and start again. Now seems to be just the time to do it, And, if the people like Smudge, who think the TV Tax is excellent value for money, don't want change, then the 75% of people who don't want to pay it (under threat of being criminalised) should be relieved of the threat. The minority will doubtless cheerfully shell out £600 right away, and progressively more as their numbers drop off.

A new article that pretty much sums up today's BBC: The BBC is in a fog of groupthink and can't see how biased it is If you can't be bothered to read the lot then at least skip forward to: 3. What the BBC never tells us about 'Europe'

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Definite case for banning the burka in public places there!

Hi pilgrim! I'm not sure what you are saying here. You ask "would it really make all that difference if ALL debts in the Eurozone were wiped out and we started again??" And you go on to say it wouldn't. Then - somehow - that's an argument for a single currency! Greece is fine on a day to day basis. They can pay their way. It's the crippling interest and debt payment they can't afford. They are paying interest on interest on interest... and they are borrowing to pay interest from the very people they owe to. Go try that one on your bank manager. In fact go visit wonga.com (that ultra responsible lender! ) and what will you see on their homepage: You shouldn't use our loans to manage existing debt. Hey, great advice IMF and ECB; contract Wonga to vet your loan book, they sound a lot more responsible people than your astronomically-paid international bankers! Most of the other Southern Eurozone countries are in the same boat, and Italy's relatively giant economy is in an irrecoverable debt spiral, where they will certainly be in the same position as Greece in three or four years, unless they drop out of the Euro before then. Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi arrived at this conclusion in late 2011, and the Eurocrats immediately had him replaced with an unelected Brussels puppet! Does all this still sound like "a very good argument to justify the single currency" to you? It sounds like a total surrender of democracy, and subjugation to a foreign power to me. The Greeks aren't going there, and, whether they are nominally communists, or fascists, or Martians, they should have the support of every freedom-loving person on the planet!

Not with this government Malc Varofakis is a smart cookie, I've been reading all his stuff for a while now, and he's into "game theory". If the (b|w)ankers had read it they'd not be allowing themselves to be strung along whilst the ECB pours more billions out. On the other hand it's not "in the manual", which makes it impossible tor the Germans to come up with a counter. The only way for Greece is default. Even the IMF seems to be able to see that they are simply digging a deeper hole, but the Fourth Reich is back to Teutonic bunker mentality. It's easy to see how the whole EU political project will end: tears, hostility, and recriminations all around. Rather than unite Europe it's going to reinforce traditional suspicions and downright hatreds. Other trading areas around the world are doing far better, because they had the good sense to dispense with most of the political baggage. Centralist command driven economies don't work, and essentially that's what the EU is. It's simply not possible to "reform" it; we need to start again with a clean slate, or simply commit ourselves fully to the WTO!

Full article: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/europe-knows-greece-will-be-better-off-exiting-the-eurozone-2015-06-16/ One to recall when the EU propaganda machine goes into full swing for the referendum! And.. we all know it's true because the UK is consistently outperforming the EuroZone; this contrary to all those scare stories about what would happen to us if we didn't abandon the pound. Just think how much better we'd be off if we didn't have all the drag of the EU bureaucracy, and weren't consistently paying out huge sums to prop up the failing EuroZone!

Your ISP (or your own computer or router) is caching the old IP address. This changed a good while back now and most places worldwide will see the updated one. I'm PM'ing you a link, and will send you details on how to locate the camera the next time this happens for you. We now have a fixed IP for the camera, but it isn't currently being used..

How can a white girl spend her life trying to pass off as "African-American"?! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11670528/White-woman-posed-as-black-civil-rights-leader-in-years-long-deception.html Some might say that this is because Western society now awards more "brownie" points (oops! pun unintended) to "ethnic" people than natives, but personally I don't think that that's a major factor. What I do think is that this sort of thing - in a milder, less physical sort of way - is not at all uncommon on the extreme political left. Interesting to hear Syms views on this anyway.

A timely piece: http://www.ukip.org/bbc_must_disclose_its_22m_plus_interest_in_britain_s_continued_membership_of_the_eu

With Christopher Lee you can NEVER be sure!

Sorry for not making myself clear. I meant a coincidence between the Latin gula (derived French goulet) and the surname Guillotin. I sort of imagined that the Dr may have had gully or similar manufacture in his family line and was simply expanding the family franchise! OK, not a perfect match, but close enough to wonder. Thanks for eponymous; I was groping for the word, but in the moment it escaped me!

I don't know Willy - haven't researched it, but the BBC would be in pole position to deny it if it were untrue and they don't! There's no doubt that C4 is bought and paid for by the EU though. Prove me wrong someone, but I believe it's the worst kind of subsidy. Not a blanket subsidy but where individual programs are funded - programs that project what Brussels wants to hear, and suppress what they don't want to hear. And - like all EU funding - it's our very own money being turned against British democracy, and toward an entirely undemocratic future European superstate. We have almost an entire generation carefully nurturing the eggs of the EU Cuckoo when only a minority of the population are screaming pitch them out of the nest before it's too late! It's utterly disgraceful that we should even need to pass a law to force the BBC to abandon its EU propaganda campaign, but this seems to be necessary. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11664797/BBC-could-be-forced-by-law-to-cover-EU-referendum-impartially.html If Bill Cash et al don't get their amendment through we can look forward to torrents of EU BS from establishment media trying to swing the referendum. That's in addition to all the off-shore tactics that will be used - all paid for by our own EU contributions, as per usual.

We know a website all about those! http://www.guillotine.dk/pages/history.html Interesting that his name was Dr. Guillotin. Simply a coincidence or a derived moniker?

According to Merriam-webster the first known use as a knife was from 1582, and the first known use as a ditch, or water course, etc. is from 1637. Origin: "probably alteration of Middle English golet ravine, throat".

It seems simply to be too many users at times. We'll address this by inserting a intermediary server that can handle more than a dozen or so simultaneous connections, but that's not possible until late Summer. Meanwhile we'd appreciate if members don't hog it by connecting for extended periods of time.

Looking at the problem - sorry!

Money the Greek government has to find this year: You'll note the small lull after May before many more big bills start to become due. My bet is that Putin is lending a hand by secretly printing a new currency for Greece right now! If they went to the regular sources the cat would be out of the bag in no time. Are the Greeks imaginative enough to call this something slightly more political than the Drachma? That would be the sensible thing to do; but there are alternatives here, and there's no doubt Greece wants to cling to the Euro as long as possible, have banks receive every Euro in ECB liquidly assistance they can, then actually be seen to be ejected from the EuroZone - mainly by Germany. So, if there is such a currency printing arrangement, it would be billed purely as a contingency plan, even if the truth were slightly different. It wouldn't be at all surprising if Greece were to unofficially adopt the Rouble as a temporary measure though, having been given a nod and wink on this score by Putin. Those talks weren't entirely about oil pipelines! Interesting times. BRICS New Development Bank Threatens Hegemony Of U.S. Dollar

It always happens: once the election is over they vote themselves a massive pay increase. Very few oppose this on principle - mainly because most of those elected MPs don't have any principles! Please sign the petition to Cameron to veto this: https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-stop-the-11-pay-rise-for-mps-salaries Note that Ukip has refused the £3.3M "Short money" due to it, but Labour has once again taken its £7M plus in public money, and what's left of the LD's are back at the feeding trough too! That's something intelligent voters would do well to remember next time around. If you elect people who put their own interests before the Country, don't complain when that's exactly what you get!