um... again i live in a wee bit of a Valley next to Holyrood Park in Edinburgh.. the Salisbury Crags and Arthurs seat used to bugger the reception... not any more.
All those channels, as i said are shit, not that the originals were generally much better to be frank and under 10 of them on terrestrial are +1 channels
i only mentioned satellite in respect of channel numbers and not in reference to this technique for radar
Also the digital switchover finished last year i believe
as for quality.. it's all just shit really.... repeats are endemic due to the rolling 3 hour/4 hour block schedules many of those channels keep.. just shite.. however the TV is for the kids so.. meh, can't complain as i rarely watch these days
As for the BBC it's about to be in deeper financial crisis when it has to pay out over the various scandals including covering up institutional paedophilia with regards to Jimmy Savile and friends, fuck knows they get enough in from the license fees at £140 a year the conning bastards.. the only decent things about the BBC is no adverts as their coverage of Scottish issues is pretty fucking dire at the best of times but leading up to the Scottish Independence referendum they have openly stated they don't have to be balanced in reporting the independence debate which kinda fucks with their alleged reputation for impartiality.. so erm.. fuck the BBC really
Yeah given the fact the UK has had only 4 TV channels for decades, took another decade to add a 5th channel, and reception is piss poor unless you live under an antenna.
And UK is one of the bussiest airspaces in the world.
I do not like this one bit.
um.. we have about 50 channels or so on broadcast TV now and countless bullshit channels factoring in satellite and cable
i get a better reception on the digital channels than i did on the analogue set up... not that i watch it much tbh... it's 99% shit which is generally what happens with hundreds of channels... that and fucking repeats
Rolling stones bent over The Verve and took all the money generated from their #1 hit because it contained "too much of a sample" that they had licensed.
I say let this track run iTunes, and then sue them for all the money it generated.
They Also did the exact same to Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine over the song After The Watershed
They took Carter for a sizeable sum of cash and Jagger then got writing credits as well. apparently the song also contained a bass riff from "satisfaction"
Carter then pretty much used the money from their next album to pay the rubber lipped old twat linky
Look, if the tax rates were reasonable, you wouldn't see people going to extremes to avoid paying them.
bull and fucking shit bud. it is a speciality of those on high incomes to flat out do their utmost to avoid ANY taxation not matter the tax rate,hence the offshore schemes.
what planet have you been living on as it seems you have only recently moved here?
So, everyone has to sit outside, STARK naked, their hands in front of them where the police can see them, and speak clearly into the cameras forever... or they are guilty.
Can you go all across Europe, ie to Spain & Slovenia, without incurring roaming charges?
Then it's not the same as the US.
1GB/month - better not watch Netflix on the road, or get a few emails with large attachments. Also, that's not what I want for a smartphone plan. What's the point of having a smartphone?
Thr USA = 1 nation
Europe =many nations
what part of that do you not get???
btw you get can unlimited data with 200 minutes and 5000 texts from 3 for £12.90 GBP as my gf does, i get 2000 minutes,5000 texts,unlimited data for 30 gbp
there are uk legal minimum wages
Here are the current UK minimum wage rates:
Aged 21 or over: £6.19 per hour
Aged 18-20: £4.98 per hour
Aged 16-17: £3.68 per hour
Apprentices under 19 or aged 19 or over in their first year: £2.65 per hour
3 mobile in the UK , my Mrs has a cheaper plan with 200 minutes (any network),2000 minutes(3 to 3) 5000 texts and unlimited data at only £12.90
i have the bigger deal with 2000 any network minutes, 5000 3 to 3, 5000 texts and unlimited data for £25 gbp.... already had an unlocked Galaxy S3 but you can get a 2 year plan with phone(S3) for £31 GBP. not a bad deal at all really.
To feed a growing world population (with an exploding middle class demanding more and better-quality food), we must take advantage of all the technology available to us, including GMOs.
There is OVERPRODUCTION of food, but the capitalists do not allow for redistribution of goods (they prefer destroying food) so the USA is fat and Africa is dying of starvation. Also the GM crops don't have significantly higher yields for this "argument" to hold water or even grain. The sole purpose of GMO now on the market is to control food production (see India's "success" with GMO) or we would see abundance of drought and frost resistant, nitrogen fixing crops.
i see your whining and i raise you one Norman Ernest Borlaug who HAS saved lives with his modified plants... A BILLION OF THEM... read it and weep my friend
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution" and "The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives". He is one of six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal and was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor.
Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.
During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply.
Later in his life, he helped apply these methods of increasing food production to Asia and Africa.
it's the "Best laid plans o' mice and men" and it's a quote from Robert Burns.. and the quote was used for the title of the book by Steinbeck
MY family are from Ayr, literally just round the corner from where Burns was born and thus it was compulsory learning in school as he is the eternal national bard of Scotland;)
You don't need a fucking EU to travel between countries without passports.
You don't need a stinking EU for peace.
We got all that before the EU.
The Schengen agreement dates back to 1985. 7 years before the EU came into power.
A stable peace between european countries was archieved since WW2. Decades before the EU.
There is NOTHING good about the EU. NOTHING.
Fucking hell!!! it's either Nick Griffin or Nigel Farage!... wtf ? this is slasdot.. no place for either of you two pricks!:P
That case is far more complicated. The only collect the data for the religious communities that want their church tax collected by the government. And what people need to specify is which church people belong to, not what they believe.
A lot of people even of those still going to church will not specify their religion because they don't want to pay the church tax (in theory that also means they can't get married in church etc. but usually you can just join the church again for a little while if you really want that).
And you forgot that you're also supposed to report that information to your bank, since they too are involved in taxation nowadays.
So to summarize:
1) They do not and never did collect info on one's religion, but only church membership
2) It is only done for some churches (which actually is a part of another lawsuit, more churches want the government to collect money for them).
3) All of the churches on that list are on it because they want to be
4) To my knowledge there is no legal problem with you not specifying this to the government etc. as long as you can reach a different agreement with your church (you likely won't be able to, but that's not the government's fault).
Which all makes this not really a privacy issue, since the only case in which you have to specify anything is if you _choose_ to be part of a church that forces you to do it.
Not in Scotland.,.... anything paid to the church by members is volountary such as donations and collections.
i have not heard of a tax being collected for the purposes of giving it to the church happen in Scotland for for a wee while and was in fact officially abolished in think in 2000. in practise though... in fact just looked it up.
Scotland
In Scotland teinds were the tenths of certain produce of the land appropriated to the maintenance of the Church and clergy. At the Reformation most of the Church property was acquired by the Crown, nobles and landowners. In 1567 the Privy Council of Scotland provided that a third of the revenues of lands should be applied to paying the clergy of the reformed Church of Scotland. In 1925 the system was recast by statute and provision was made for the standardisation of stipends at a fixed value in money. The Court of Session acted as the Teind Court. Teinds were finally abolished by the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000.
Why would it matter to Samsung if the deal between Apple and HTC concerns some patents that are in dispute?
erm.. you think maybe that Samsung are happy to get it dealt with in one single go, and not go on a patent rampage like apple are doing and being total fucking asshats about?
dealing with it like this Samsung can then find that Apple quite possibly extorted a deal from HTC based on patents they don't own.. that would not be HTC's fault but apples.
i was rather drunk after drinking a fair bit of lovely ruby Port wine
however you will find that i am right in this instance.
and as they say here in Scotland GIRFUY:P..lol
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[2][3][4][5] in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St Augustine of Canterbury in AD 597.
As a result of Augustine's mission, the church in England came under the authority of the Pope. Initially prompted by a dispute over the annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon, the Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534 and became the established church by an Act of Parliament in the Act of Supremacy, beginning a series of events known as the English Reformation.[6] During the reign of Queen Mary I, the Church was fully restored under Rome in 1555. Papal authority was again explicitly rejected after the accession of Queen Elizabeth I when the Act of Supremacy of 1558 was passed. Catholic and Reformed factions vied for determining the doctrines and worship of the church. This ended with the 1558 Elizabethan settlement, which developed the understanding that the church was to be both Catholic and Reformed:
As of July 2007, across Europe, PayPal also operates as a Luxembourg-based bank.
regulatory link for Europe Here
however they do take the piss as it happens even though they are based in an EU country they seem to get away with some odd procedures i don't think other banks do get away with
Folks have been making pomace brandys, like grappa for centuries. This suggestion is just to put it into an engine rather than drinking it, which many people who have tasted it would approve of.
INDEED, in the places where wine has been made for thousands of years there are no waste products uses include as mentioned Grappa but also getting the grape pumice, mixing it with ash and using it as fertiliser, also it's used in the making of port wine to make the brandy which is added to fortify the base wine and there are other uses to it as well.
Seems that California for all it's over zealous recycling bollocks cannot see the value that European wine producers have seen for thousands of years!
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um... again i live in a wee bit of a Valley next to Holyrood Park in Edinburgh.. the Salisbury Crags and Arthurs seat used to bugger the reception... not any more.
All those channels, as i said are shit, not that the originals were generally much better to be frank and under 10 of them on terrestrial are +1 channels
i only mentioned satellite in respect of channel numbers and not in reference to this technique for radar
Also the digital switchover finished last year i believe
as for quality.. it's all just shit really.... repeats are endemic due to the rolling 3 hour/4 hour block schedules many of those channels keep.. just shite.. however the TV is for the kids so.. meh, can't complain as i rarely watch these days
As for the BBC it's about to be in deeper financial crisis when it has to pay out over the various scandals including covering up institutional paedophilia with regards to Jimmy Savile and friends, fuck knows they get enough in from the license fees at £140 a year the conning bastards.. the only decent things about the BBC is no adverts as their coverage of Scottish issues is pretty fucking dire at the best of times but leading up to the Scottish Independence referendum they have openly stated they don't have to be balanced in reporting the independence debate which kinda fucks with their alleged reputation for impartiality.. so erm.. fuck the BBC really
Yeah given the fact the UK has had only 4 TV channels for decades, took another decade to add a 5th channel, and reception is piss poor unless you live under an antenna.
And UK is one of the bussiest airspaces in the world.
I do not like this one bit.
um.. we have about 50 channels or so on broadcast TV now and countless bullshit channels factoring in satellite and cable
i get a better reception on the digital channels than i did on the analogue set up... not that i watch it much tbh... it's 99% shit which is generally what happens with hundreds of channels... that and fucking repeats
Roger Waters - The bravery of being out of range
Screw that, this is where you go Bittersweet Symphony on their ass..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony
Rolling stones bent over The Verve and took all the money generated from their #1 hit because it contained "too much of a sample" that they had licensed.
I say let this track run iTunes, and then sue them for all the money it generated.
They Also did the exact same to Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine over the song After The Watershed
They took Carter for a sizeable sum of cash and Jagger then got writing credits as well. apparently the song also contained a bass riff from "satisfaction"
Carter then pretty much used the money from their next album to pay the rubber lipped old twat linky
Look, if the tax rates were reasonable, you wouldn't see people going to extremes to avoid paying them.
bull and fucking shit bud. it is a speciality of those on high incomes to flat out do their utmost to avoid ANY taxation not matter the tax rate,hence the offshore schemes.
what planet have you been living on as it seems you have only recently moved here?
This is slashdot Let's discuss like adults and let's not mark "insightful" this sort of wink-wink conspiratorial context-less innuendo.
Innuendo... isn't that an .Italian suppository? :P
So, everyone has to sit outside, STARK naked, their hands in front of them where the police can see them, and speak clearly into the cameras forever... or they are guilty.
No.
FTFY
And I should point out that, last time I checked on the map, Ukraine was still in Europe. When did it move away?
and i should point out its not an EU member covered by EU roaming regulations on pricing
Can you go all across Europe, ie to Spain & Slovenia, without incurring roaming charges? Then it's not the same as the US.
1GB/month - better not watch Netflix on the road, or get a few emails with large attachments. Also, that's not what I want for a smartphone plan. What's the point of having a smartphone?
Thr USA = 1 nation ,5000 texts,unlimited data for 30 gbp
Europe =many nations
what part of that do you not get???
btw you get can unlimited data with 200 minutes and 5000 texts from 3 for £12.90 GBP as my gf does, i get 2000 minutes
there are uk legal minimum wages
Here are the current UK minimum wage rates:
Aged 21 or over: £6.19 per hour
Aged 18-20: £4.98 per hour
Aged 16-17: £3.68 per hour
Apprentices under 19 or aged 19 or over in their first year: £2.65 per hour
source- http://www.money.co.uk/article/1009434-what-is-the-national-minimum-wage.htm#ixzz2HRr80DZG
still kinda shitty to ne honest but better than some places that have no minimum wage.
apparently it is to rise 1.8% this year in line with inflation.
3 mobile in the UK , my Mrs has a cheaper plan with 200 minutes (any network),2000 minutes(3 to 3) 5000 texts and unlimited data at only £12.90
i have the bigger deal with 2000 any network minutes, 5000 3 to 3, 5000 texts and unlimited data for £25 gbp.... already had an unlocked Galaxy S3 but you can get a 2 year plan with phone(S3) for £31 GBP. not a bad deal at all really.
And I'm going to call bullshit on that:
To feed a growing world population (with an exploding middle class demanding more and better-quality food), we must take advantage of all the technology available to us, including GMOs.
There is OVERPRODUCTION of food, but the capitalists do not allow for redistribution of goods (they prefer destroying food) so the USA is fat and Africa is dying of starvation. Also the GM crops don't have significantly higher yields for this "argument" to hold water or even grain. The sole purpose of GMO now on the market is to control food production (see India's "success" with GMO) or we would see abundance of drought and frost resistant, nitrogen fixing crops.
i see your whining and i raise you one Norman Ernest Borlaug who HAS saved lives with his modified plants... A BILLION OF THEM ... read it and weep my friend
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution" and "The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives". He is one of six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal and was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor.
Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.
During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply.
Later in his life, he helped apply these methods of increasing food production to Asia and Africa.
Was not a book !!
it's the "Best laid plans o' mice and men" and it's a quote from Robert Burns.. and the quote was used for the title of the book by Steinbeck ;)
MY family are from Ayr, literally just round the corner from where Burns was born and thus it was compulsory learning in school as he is the eternal national bard of Scotland
Hello, Neil.
hat doffed.. well done sir!
Bliadhna mhath ùr!
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you forgot air conditioning units! saw them in Faro this year on holiday at the hotel ;)
You don't need a fucking EU to travel between countries without passports. You don't need a stinking EU for peace.
We got all that before the EU. The Schengen agreement dates back to 1985. 7 years before the EU came into power. A stable peace between european countries was archieved since WW2. Decades before the EU.
There is NOTHING good about the EU. NOTHING.
Fucking hell!!! it's either Nick Griffin or Nigel Farage! ... wtf ? this is slasdot.. no place for either of you two pricks! :P
That case is far more complicated. The only collect the data for the religious communities that want their church tax collected by the government. And what people need to specify is which church people belong to, not what they believe. A lot of people even of those still going to church will not specify their religion because they don't want to pay the church tax (in theory that also means they can't get married in church etc. but usually you can just join the church again for a little while if you really want that). And you forgot that you're also supposed to report that information to your bank, since they too are involved in taxation nowadays. So to summarize: 1) They do not and never did collect info on one's religion, but only church membership 2) It is only done for some churches (which actually is a part of another lawsuit, more churches want the government to collect money for them). 3) All of the churches on that list are on it because they want to be 4) To my knowledge there is no legal problem with you not specifying this to the government etc. as long as you can reach a different agreement with your church (you likely won't be able to, but that's not the government's fault). Which all makes this not really a privacy issue, since the only case in which you have to specify anything is if you _choose_ to be part of a church that forces you to do it.
Not in Scotland.,.... anything paid to the church by members is volountary such as donations and collections. ... in fact just looked it up.
i have not heard of a tax being collected for the purposes of giving it to the church happen in Scotland for for a wee while and was in fact officially abolished in think in 2000. in practise though
source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe#Scotland
who said advertising agencies were immune from being nonsensical?
the point made by me before still stands...
kill me dead..... erm...isn't "it will kill you" enough? the added "you dead" seems utterly extraneous
erm.. you think maybe that Samsung are happy to get it dealt with in one single go, and not go on a patent rampage like apple are doing and being total fucking asshats about?
dealing with it like this Samsung can then find that Apple quite possibly extorted a deal from HTC based on patents they don't own.. that would not be HTC's fault but apples.
i was rather drunk after drinking a fair bit of lovely ruby Port wine :P..lol
however you will find that i am right in this instance.
and as they say here in Scotland GIRFUY
erm.. the truth is confusing... ......riiiiiiiiiiiight
Catholicism is very much tied to Pope.
oh really? :P
such to be wrong eh? :P
regulatory link for Europe Here
however they do take the piss as it happens even though they are based in an EU country they seem to get away with some odd procedures i don't think other banks do get away with
Folks have been making pomace brandys, like grappa for centuries. This suggestion is just to put it into an engine rather than drinking it, which many people who have tasted it would approve of.
INDEED, in the places where wine has been made for thousands of years there are no waste products uses include as mentioned Grappa but also getting the grape pumice, mixing it with ash and using it as fertiliser, also it's used in the making of port wine to make the brandy which is added to fortify the base wine and there are other uses to it as well.
Seems that California for all it's over zealous recycling bollocks cannot see the value that European wine producers have seen for thousands of years!