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Dead right Maggie: we probably wouldn't have had any politics, and certainly no democracy, after gullible champagne-socialist upper-crust and ever-so-slightly-nutty Tone had (likely unknowingly) put his soviet-agent chums into government! He'd have been one of the first in the tumbrils as wholly expendable, once they were in firmly in control. http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/3665728/we-came-close-to-losing-our-democracy-in-1979/ Callaghan almost lost control to the communist infiltration of Labour in any event. The real tales haven't been told yet, but our democracy was a lot more fragile than most folks would have liked to believe. It was a near-run thing, and the threats were from both directions. If the Soviets had pulled all the strings they'd painstakingly set up in Labour and the unions (not to mention their sleepers in our old-boy-network and institutions) we'd surely have ended up like Greece. The military would have had the excuse they were looking for on any one of multiple occasions. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4789060.stm Scargill's was probably the last serious attack on our democracy. What a tragedy so many totally genuine local people allowed themselves to be so badly misled by a self-declared Stalinist! And, they are still under the delusion that it was a trade dispute! The real blockbuster is yet to be made, but too many people who will be distinctly embarrassed are still alive.

Listen very carefully to what Balls said at the LPC. What the delegates came away thinking he said (and probably want to believe he said), and what he got past them, are two entirely different things. They think he said that he will eliminate the deficit! What he actually said was that he will manage the interest payments and make no attempt at the principal. He also pulled a con trick on the NHS. Through all the smoke and mirrors - and taken quite literally - what he said is that he'll keep spending in line with inflation. This government has kept the spend about one percent ahead of inflation, and during the whole of Maggie's government the yearly increase averaged a full 3% ahead of inflation! So, despite all the "Tories want to privatise the NHS" B(b)alls, he's planning to spend even less that the current lot in order to meet national debt interest payments! The pretence is that "the mansion tax" and soaking companies will pay for a much bigger spend, but he knows that this will raise next to nothing, and is simply playing to Labour voter ignorance. Put simply, and by his own mouth: this crook is planning to spend far less on public services than the present lot, and clamp down on benefits even harder - because he knows he can get away with it! Taking candy out of the mouths of children comes to mind. Never underestimate the stupidity of a tribal Labour voter and you can't go wrong. Yes, he's got an Oxford PPE in that!

Where do you propose to run this software? If it's on your computer then how is the usage of other devices connected to your WAP/Router going to be monitored? Some (if not most) ADSL home gear logs packets transferred, or can be persuaded to do this. You can approximately translate these into gigabytes by finding the packet size (generally about 1.5KB) and doing the math. Is your Sky box hard-wired to the Router/ADSL box? If so pay attention to the lights on the Ethernet port it is connected to. The Sky box itself may have a tiny activity LED on the Ethernet connection. Spin it around and watch this. Sky sounds to be the most likely culprit UNLESS neighbours or others are taking a free ride on you WiFi. I'd be watching my activity LEDs for a quick answer. What's going on will be broadly evident that way, without the need for exact measurements.

If you are prepared to wear make-up and a wig I will sneak you in! Well, there's Google ___'ed then! I think it's meant to be read to this music: Pity about those ads YouTube! Did I mention we are starting GluTube.com? The one you stick with!

Thanks for those useful info snippets Steve. As it happens I'm just testing a cheapo 32GB for integrity right now. I've been at this game since 4 bit processors were truly amazing, and suffered enough data loss to be almost paranoid. Currently I've got two NAS both with RAID drives, as well as numerous portable hard drives and flash memory devices. What I really need is software that keeps track of what is where and when! And - of course - something to tell me where the backups of that info are too! BTW there are no "old topics" here; there are quite a few that are simply resting though!

Word on the street has it that Ello is picking up new users in droves due to its policy of no ads and no sales of user data. I seem to remember that someone here billed FB as a new paradigm, and rubbished Fourgee's assertion that FB was just a fashion that would go the same way as MySpace, Friends Reunited etc. etc. The thing about any mass phenomenon like this is that when the suits try to "monetize" it users are quick to cotton on to the fact that they are being exploited, and that their own time is valuable too. If I were a FB stockholder I'd see this as the writing on the wall.

Hi Steve! Why don't you add that to the new Directory (link up top) so that it's permanently available to everyone. Posts tend to get buried. Anything else you think may be relevant to the town too.

Thanks Vic but I can't take any credit, it's all Fourgee's project.

Another members-only feature. More on the way! http://www.bedlington.co.uk/live.html Please note that there is no recording available so it is pointless asking for "replays", "tapes", etc. - such data does not exist! As Bedlington Live! is a members-only feature the tab will not appear on your main menu until after you've logged in. It is one of the features casual site visitors are not made aware of. Technical Note We don't currently support Microsoft Internet Explorer for streaming (there's no proprietary .wmv support). Windows users who are using IE should seriously consider downloading Firefox (or a similar open-source browser) for their own peace of mind - it's free! Bedlington Live! also works in both the standard Android bowser and the Android Chrome one, if your smartphone and mobile data connection are fast enough. Although currently untested we'd guess that it works with pure Google Chrome devices too. If you've got Apple or proprietary Microsoft hardware (such as a Windows Phone or Windows RT tablet) some other members will surely appreciate a report as to what works for you, and what doesn't. If there is enough demand we could be persuaded to find time to address clearly reported compatibility problems.

Sounds like you've just come back from Doncaster Malc! I don't see India on your list, the nation that is currently celebrating a successful Mars mission. You know, the one WE recently paid for (and about five others!). http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/441263/India-sends-a-spaceship-to-Mars-after-UK-gives-280million-in-aid And if you think that's a scandal then it is dwarfed by what we throw at the EU so's they can waste it to buy votes in other countries and ensure the grand European junket goes on regardless of and austerity measures. What yesterday's Tory MP defecting to UKIP says: So now we know that together both Cameron & Miliband have an Oxford degree in "sincerity", or what passes for sincerity in current Westminster circles. http://bedlington.co.uk/community/uploads/David%20Cameron%20-Together.mp4

And here come the election bribes - buying our votes with our own money! If you are stuggling to pay utility bills Miliband's bribes sound good, if you are desperate to get on the housing ladder then you simply have to go with Dave. Either way you'll be feeding the system which keeps them all in clover. Where did they learn their manipulative skills, and how to bullshit the public so effectively? Well, The Spectator elucidates: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9322492/the-politics-of-ppe/ Let me check out that list again. David Cameron, William Hague, Theresa May, Jeremy Hunt, Ed Davey, Danny Alexander. Matthew Hancock, Ed Miliband, David Miliband, Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper, Angela Eagle, Maria Eagle, Rachel Reeves and Stuart Wood. Ah yes, Mrs Balls too - the mouth without a connected brain - that explains a lot. Shouldn't Mandelson be in there too? There you are youngsters, there's how to really get on in life: aspire to an Oxford PPE, move to London, and you are guaranteed a ticket on the lefty-liberal-elitist gravy train that will ultimately take you to Brussels. Just leave any principals you might have at home, you won't be needing them on the journey.

Good find! I'd heard about that be not seen it. The short answer is that Nigel is a good European, not one of the ones that seek to enslave it. Ask Kirsten Mehr (n.k.a. Mrs Kirsten Farage). Ask Italian Bepe Grillo, and the leaders of other European political parties working with UKIP to liberate their own countries and establish an efficient European free trade area. That's "Team Europe" - what the British people voted for, but not what they got! Europe and federalism only go together in the minds of the the ex-Nazi types who currently control the EU.

Outrage as Apple users complain new iPhone 6 BENDS in their pocket Had my Note 3 for coming up to a year and have accidentally sat on it in the back pocket a few times. I'd have killed myself if I'd smashed it in just the first couple of days, if at all. BTW if you compare the current Note 4 specs with the iPhone 6 Plus it's absolutely no contest. The only thing which is arguably better on the Apple is the fingerprint sensor. Otherwise, It's on par with a Note 2 but without the convenience of expandable flash memory, a swappable battery, and the smartpen. What's a near new Note 2 currently worth? Maybe £250? It's still a secret how much RAM both models have, and they won't even reveal the battery capacity - unlike every other manufacturer on the planet. This is treating customers with contempt. Update Umm... about that excellent fingerprint reader: seems it has stopped working! http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-releases-ios-8-0-1-a-week-after-ios-8-launch/

LOL! Presumably, these days, there's an app for this? Apart from being self-contradictory, and illustrating a likely general laziness, there are no dates of the employment history. Why should I, as a prospective employer, have to extract this information when it should have been clearly presented? I like to tie this to the references to locate the skeletons in the cupboard - there should have also been a list of available references. Pretty basic really! Having carried out hundreds of job interviews the one which sticks in my mind is the guy who sloped in and before he'd even sat down asked "What's the money like then?" Needless to say... If you really have to reduce "job seeking" to a box ticking exercise then you need to hit the boxes! I'm old school that much prefers someone to come up to me and ask politely for a job. There was a time - before all the "job protection" crap - when I made a point of always saying "OK, we'll give you a chance. When can you start?". In a growing enterprise there really is no such thing as "Vacancies"- either you can earn more for the organisation than your keep, or you can't and are more trouble than you are worth. And, who wants to work for an organisation that is "unfair" to them, or where they are "being carried", anyway?

Amazing! Some really useful work there. It took me a few seconds to get orientated, but we are looking in a North Westerly direction from above the Jubilee Terrace / Palace Road area. All we need now is for someone with a decent drone to take a contemporary shot to superimpose.

Fiddling the accounts never goes down too well in the City! Shares going on for 9% down today so far. Something must have been suspected a lot earlier as there was quite a sharp drop around 27th August with some huge sales, and steady falls leading up to that. The stock exchange needs to look closely into all those large trades. http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=36

Oh dear, oh dear! Normally, at this point, the iCrowd are in seventh heaven. http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2014/09/19/iphone-6-plus-gets-really-hot-when-charging/ The comments at the bottom are more telling than the report itself. If this is general Apple shares are in for a real hammering when the markets open on Monday. The iPhone accounts for almost two thirds of Apple profit, and the stock is at pretty much an all-time high.

If you've ever been a member of the BNP or EDL etc. you are barred from UKIP membership - fact! Not true of the other parties though: http://liveraf.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/conservatives-select-former-bnp-activist-for-safe-seat/ etc. etc. Or vice versa: http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.it/2008/11/former-labour-tory-and-lib-dem-members.html

I wouldn't be so sure about that. It will have been carefully explained to Cameron the Confused that his latest blunder has some likely upside. In his current "the people have spoken, we must have more real democracy" mode Teflon Tony's cunning plan to allow Scottish MPs to vote on English matters is going to come under a lot of pressure. Actually it's getting so close to the GE now that Cameron - if he had any guts - could produce an all-embracing electoral reform plan solo, and then challenge the rest of them to vote it down. He hasn't, so he wont! It will all be down to the highly democratic deals that can be done in those smoke-filled rooms, and Labour will be put under max pressure to give up some of the the electoral advantages it has cooked up for itself. Also, all the politicos have now got troubles with their own constituents - the party leaders having been seen to have been promising the earth to Scotland. With a general election coming up, they may be emboldened to stand up to party whips, and actually vote against their own party before the more-goodies-for-Scotland train leaves the station. This will be particularly true for those who've fully woken up to the UKIP threat to their lifestyle. Two by-elections coming up real soon. We live in interesting times!

Looking like the worst possible outcome for the NE. Even more of our resources to placate the UK loyalists north of the border, and the moaning Mcs will moan even more about their "subjugation". Hoping the polls are wrong. Fairness says we should now have a poll on whether we want to be associated with a nation that is in a perpetual state of having its hand out for more! Not much hope of that though. Barnett has just said that his formula is grossly unfair to the rest of the UK, was only intended as temporary, and should have been scrapped long long ago. Instead our politicos have committed to heaping further pain onto the UK taxpayer. Come UK polling day I hope that people have longer memories than the main political parties give them credit for. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11100400/My-funding-formula-for-Scotland-is-a-terrible-mistake-Lord-Barnett-admits.html Remember that £4.500,000,000 (and yet more again) when we are being told that we can't afford a few tens of thousands to keep this or that public service going locally!

I'd like to see a comparative review, but just at the moment the new Pana seems to be about double the price of the Sammy. No Xenon flash would likely be a deal breaker too, unless the Pana's LED one is way better than anything else so far.

LOL! Does he force people to buy those shirts? Anyway, it seems likely that he must have got that $5BN by doing more than just selling overpriced shirts. Will look into it and get back to you. Really?! And I honestly though UKIP was about quiting the EU so that we could give British workers first crack at the 800,000 jobs we currently advertise to EU workers. That would mean a lot less of those "evil" zero hours contracts as native unemployment falls and employers are much more willing to commit to guaranteed hours in order to retain their workers. The EU drives UK wages down, that's a hard fact that none of the three political parties will tell you. That's why Miliband won't even discuss the EU, and dodges all questions. The other two stooges simply lie about it! http://www.wageindicator.org/main/labour-laws/collective-bargaining/2013/news-items-2013/eu-sources-zero-hours-contracts-on-the-rise-october-21-2013 Got the connection?

Oh THAT Mike Ashley! Why don't you like him? What has he done to you? I think ever-increasing cohort of UKIP supporters would say that they are the least gullible section of the populace. That they've finally woken up as to how they've been manipulated all these years. They see people who vote for the three main parties (for no reason other than dumb and blind tribalism, and against their own interests) as the gullible ones. You see when the establishment is threatened they stick together to protect their own interests not ours: UKIP says let's break that mould; let's stop being gullible; lets make politicians truly represent us once again. It's our country and should be run in our interests, not that of the Westminster ruling elites. Anyway, I'm genuinely interested to know about Mike Ashley. And not just because (according to Forbes) he's currently worth $5.5 billion dollars.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/devices/#zte_openc The Alcatel One Touch Fire is being sold by national network TIM in Italy for less than sixty euros just at the moment, though they seem to have run out them for now. Out of the entire bunch the Alcatel One Touch Fire E seems to be the best proposition: Apparently they are being made available in: Czech RepublicGermanyPolandRAM is still limited to 512MB but it has a more usable 4.5" screen and a tad faster dual core CPU. qHD means quarter HD i.e. 960x540 which isn't at all bad for general use. The only price indicator I can find for the Fire E is 6000 Indian rupees (just over £60), which is pretty hard to believe for such a specification. I'm trying to get hold of one and will report here if/when I do. The models with 128MB RAM (or even 256MB) are avoids, and likely only made for sale other than in "the first world". One of the models is being sold on UK eBay I'm told, not sure which at the moment. I've no information that any UK retailers are stocking any just yet. The Android One devices look interesting too but it's still very early days here too. Microsoft now has real problems if it's intending to peddle Nokia devices with Windows Phone into the developing world.

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane [you aren't alone] In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, [often go awry] An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy.