What does credit cards and cash have to do with DoS and Anonymous?!
Do they really think that Anonymous pays people for performing attacks or what? - They seriously need to look up what Anonymous is.
i know what you mean but it happens here in Scotland and, i suppose, in England,Wales and Northern Ireland and in the US too!
the credit card, bank details and,in Scotland, items of value bought within the last twelve years. If it is proven that you are guilty then the resultant items can be sold as "proceeds of crime".
i would however contest that there were no "proceeds of crime" in these cases as it wasn't some tax evasion, drug dealing, gun running or other profitable criminal activity
it may however be just part of standard procedure or just an extra "fuck you" as a warning shot to other Anons.
In Scotland the items ARE RETURNED is a verdict of NIT GUILTY is arrived at or if there is no case to answer or no charges brought
i know this as a buddy of mine had this happen to him recently. the charges were dropped and his lawyer made damned sure he got his stuff back
The credit card may well have been used to pay for domain names/hosting or some-such. and thus easily linking the people to the actions they are accused of.
i remember seeing a TV Documentary on bacteriophage years ago. it was very interesting indeed.
using the search string "bacteriophages + Russia" will give you endless results and show that since Stalin's time this has been used there
one thing that was a surprise to learn from the documentary is that they seem to all be pretty much in sewage and then extracted and cultured from there.
they then test each strain of bacteriophage against an array of nasties and see which one that particular "phage" is effective against
it brings a whole new meaning to "being in the shit"
Actually the Federal Reserve isn't directly elected, and Bernanke et. all are doing a fairly good job. Inflation has been near rock bottom without ever going into deflation for years now, they've done just about everything they can to manage since 2008, including ditching any hint of presidential and congressional approval to make massive temporary loans to banks in order to keep more of them from going Lehman Brother on us, probably keeping the US and much of the rest of the world from collapsing into a second great depression. All said loans were swiftly paid back, and since the Fed has been responsible for the quickest, most coherent response to the recent hard economic times out of just about any governmental body in the world.
Not that they haven't made some quibbling mistakes, inflation might technically be too low, helping banks to sit on top of cheap mounds of capital without the need to restart the process of actually giving out loans. But for the most part they've been doing an excellent job.
all said loans paid back.. oh yeah and then swiftly claimed back against their tax bill and thus they didn't really pay it back if you know what i mean. it was just fucking free money to the banks
in fact you will find the only people really paying interest on those loans would have been the US Govt , and thus the tax payer,who would have borrowed it from the Federal Reserve you better believe the Federal reserve would want it back with that interest.
it was bankers bailing out bankers with a get out clause for returning the payment.. ie the ability to write it off against tax as a "legitimate" business expense
Also the problem with havering VERY low interest rates is that unemployment goes up... this is a basic economic principle... the really key is finding the equilibrium between interest rates and unemployment rates and the banks don't really give a fuck about that they only care about the bottom line.
LOL i don't hate the English and i don't hate the people that say they are British.
i just don't count myself as British.. i am Scottish and happy with that
i just want my country to be able to determine it's own future and manage it's own finances, for it NOT to be drawn into illegal wars and not to have nuclear weapons stored in it
i see you have changed tac however the vitriol and petty venom is still visible in spades.
i shall re-iterate, just because you want your country to be independent, just because you care for and love that country doesn't mean you have to hate anyone
i just want a better future for me,my kids, my family and my country and for any mistakes that we as a nation make TO BE OUR OWN
what is it cederic that makes you think that YOUR opinion should outweigh the democratic will of the Scottish electorate?
Half-pint HAL.. some well made points put forward but more interesting to note is cederics pretty poor attempt to twist what you mean by it!
eh? labour won landslides, well certain;y their 1997 win. Scotland only had 59 seats out of 659(at that time) we now have 52 out of 600
Scotland is pretty much allergic to tories, more so after the thatcher years , so i'll grant you that Scots would generally vote labour(at that time).
Scotland is more naturally left leaning than England, this much is true however labour have shifted so far right they are pretty much tories V2
the SNP are a centre party who believe in having universal free healthcare and all the sorts of things that at one time labour were for but are not now.
the liberals are a washout who jumped into bed with the tories for the only chance they'll have for govt at westminster.
If you are so upset with the system in place.. campaign to change it... in Scotland we are and it's working.....
it is interesting to see though how far reaching attempts to lay the blame on Scotland for Westminster's failings go really.
So you do indeed want to disenfranchise anybody not currently living in Scotland. Which includes many Scots in England, while many English people living in Scotland will be able to vote.
Democracy? Alex Salmond hasn't fucking heard of it. Economist of long standing and corrupt politician, you're welcome to him. Shit, he hasn't even worked out that he can't run a country that isn't in control of its own currency yet.
Even your fucking slogan of 'Free Scotland' is inherently ignorant. Try living in the 21st century, it's great here. Scotland is free, it's part of a successful nation, achieving far more than it ever did alone (or in its alliances with France).
As I said, I'll vote for Scottish independence. I'll claim dual nationality, as I'll qualify for it on multiple counts. I'll choose to live in whichever country suits me best. I just wont pretend that Scottish nationalists are acting in the interests of their country, because they clearly aren't.
your ignorance and clinging to dogmatic nonsense of the past shows me you are the one who isn't into 21st century thinking
As i said before, the decision is FOR PEOPLE REGISTERED TO VOTE IN SCOTLAND
if you want to vote then live here, be registered to vote......... sorted
your statement of claiming dual nationality just shows your blatant hypocrisy after your denial of being anything but british
the SNP have clearly and repeatedly shown through their action in government that they do give a shit, some of the examples are stated above and many more that i haven't stated.
as i said before, the foaming and frothing at the mouth you are doing speaks volumes about you and it's not good
Well done, you missed the fucking point completely. Every point.
Frankly if cunts like you plan to run Scotland, the country's doomed. But the inability to articulate an economic future for the country's already demonstrated that.
Carry on being vitriolic and stupid. Just don't drag down the rest of us with you, please.
LOL the vitriolic crapioca is coming from your direction.. just have a read at what you wrote
As for the economics of it, well now... if i was you i'd read more about it and especially how westminster hides Scottish oil income and vast amounts of it by marking it as "extra regio territories" in the G.E.R.S report.. you know... the Government Expenditure and Revenue Report".
Also note that income tax raised in Scotland and corporate tax raised in Scotland isn't counted as Scottish revenues as it goes straight to westminsters coffers. Also please find a link HERE to an analysis of the GERS 2005 report done by forensic accountant Niall Aslen. Niall has been a chartered accountant for over 40 years and knows more about accounts and fiscal policy than myself or yourself...... in fact especially you.
Scotland survives at the moment and provides free education,free universal healthcare(including free prescription medicine) and much much more on the pittance on just under 31 billions per year as provided under the Barnett formula.... this is less than half of what we put into the union according to westminster numbers.
once the ACTUAL figures are worked out and the numbers crunched Scotland has revenues of just over 120 billions per year and, from that we can do better and put a little away like Norway does into a national oil fund. their oil fund is so vast now that it earns more in interest than their annual deposit... (hint it's over 300 billions now and rising)
as for running the country.... me..naaaah, but i WILL leave that happily to Alex Salmond... an economist of long standing and great repute and his chosen team from the people elected by Scotland to form government in an independent Scotland.
in summing up, i can only point someone like you in the direction of the facts but it's blatantly obvious that your prejudices and strict adherence to westminster dogma and perhaps the sun or the daily fail will always lead you to be the one full of vitriolic crapioca.
you do realise how bad you are making your side of the debate look don't you? i freely admit to taking a few wee sideswipes for a laugh as your point of view is dated and amusing to me, however you just come out with coarse insults, and frankly, it's making you look very muppet like
it's up to Scotland and it's electorate to decide whether it wants to be in the union or not.
it's not up to people not registered to vote in Scotland, it's not and English vote, Irish, nor Welsh..... it's ours and we will take the first step in the referendum in 2014.
Saor Alba (Free Scotland)
LOL if you were a juke box.. my guess is you'd be a vitriola:P
as for your heritage.....why would i really care what it is?
get this - I'm fucking British, not English, not Scottish, not Irish, not Welsh
you yourself denied being Scottish,Welsh,Irish or even English and stating you were British.. and that was that
so that kinda pissed on your chips there
as for "being full of shit"... well i am putting forward points of debate and you are..........a frothing at the mouth unionist who spews bilious bullshit at everything and who cannot respond to a well put counter points such as i made in my reply above.
Also your comment
Only if there's no fucking democracy.
LOL so holding a referendum of the SCOTTISH ELECTORATE to democratically decide the constitutional future of OUR country isn't democratic???... wow.. that just shows how silly you really are to be frank..... keep digging that hole bud, it's funny:)
oh right... so 400 per month over two months.. to which he actually was entitled compared to castles on duck ponds for tories and the mountains of false claims by labour,liberals and tories combined,
ROFL: as your pure PISH about common language... you know in The Republic of Ireland they speak their own tongue... as well as.... guess what?? english!!! speaking more than one tongue is a bonus in my books and the earlier a child is exposed to other languages the easier they learn others.
Also if Scotland become independent then it won't be part of the "UK" so erm... you might have to rethink your pish about living where you want. your grothing nonsense is quite amusing.
As for free prescriptions,free university education etc...... well the LONDON BASED PARTIES... ie labour, tories and lib dums all voted against those free things... the SNP voted for them.... or in some cases abstained due to them seeing it as not their business due to the "West Lothian Question"
as for you being as Scottish as anyone here... YOU ARE HAVING A LAUGH!!!..
maybe next time, before you open your mouth and let your belly rumble you can maybe come up with some more logical,salient points of debate than an old new article about a non event which doesn't matter as the man was CLEARED IN FULL
really the froth you spew says just what a muppet you really are... but hey, why let facts get in the way of your daily mail and sun reading?
what you mean like NOW with the UK in the EU?
while the SNP is considering EU membership, at the monent and the next few years that would probably be folly, purely on an economic basis.
membership of the free trade agreement will do just fine as we are the biggest oil producing nation in Europe, i would assume they would like to do business with us
You think the SNP care about Scotland? No, they are politicians who a want to go down in history as having achieved indendance and b) increase their own power by removing power from Westminster. If you think it is anything to do with what is right for Scotland you are a fool.
they already went down in History as the party which got an overwhelming majority in a system designed to have coalitions.
come 2014 and the referendum Scotland will vote for independence and meanwhile westminster try to interfere more and more and the tories do their usual shit upon the working man and the middle classes all the while chugging on the cock of corporate and banking cock
The tories are HATED in Scotland, more so since thatcher in the 80's and labour are now distrusted due to the recent spate of truths that have come out about expenses scams and generals snouts in the trough and the fact they they feel it's their natural entitlement to be elected.... not now though.
where as you will go down as a bell-end who can't spell "independence"
we have free prescription medicine for all, thus we have truly universal free healthcare.
We also can go to university and not have to pay fees
we have no toll bridges any more, they are all free too
they are actually building more social housing than labour and also not doing it on the disaster that is PFI
we now have signs up everywhere in our own language Scots Gaelic, and a resurgence of interest in it promoted by the Scots govt
They have kept open hospitals departments that labour run councils wanted to close(see Ayr Hospital A&E as an example) which would have put lives at risk if they did close
And they have done much besides all the while labour, the liberals and the fucking tories fill their pockets from public funds in expenses
so yes, i would say they do give a fuck and they have consistently proven their case.
Saor Alba agus Alba gu brath!
Someone asked me the other day about why I hated the labour party in the UK. That ASBOs were introduced on their watch is something I forgot at the time, it'll be in there next time someone asks me.
along with the other 5000 odd laws that were brought in under that bunch of bastards. They most certainly started the slow creep of the nanny state and the fucking tories are going to finish it as the tories started it in the 80's under that nasty old bitch thatcher and labour just kept the ball rolling.
if you think the tories of the liberals will do anything to change it then you are waaaay off the marlkbr>
thank fuck Scotland will be independent soon and we can let westminster so Scots can be rid of this bullshit. At least in Scotland we have the Scottish National party who do actually give a fuck about Scotland.
1. Repeal DMCA.
1a - codify the right to backup to secure one's purchase against accident as a fundamental, protected consumer RIGHT.
i spent most of this evening helping my friend do some DMCA take down notices and send them out to imageshack and to another site where my friends images was being used without her permission on a sex related site.
imageschack complied within 10 minutes and the other site worked over the next hour or so to remove profile pics and also cancelled the account of the person using the images without permission.
there are some provisions in the DMCA that are useful and which would be a shame to lose.
I'm not sure about the countryside, but this has been done in cities for a while. It's pretty common for people who are growing cannabis to do put halogen lights up in their attic so that the plants can get bright light for a long period. Because this is above the layer of normal house insulation, their roofs show up as warmer than the surroundings.
halogen? bad choice tbh, There are really only two choices of lamp types for indoor growers, high intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) and florescent lamps. Other lamps such as standard household bulbs or halogen are just not up to the job of growing cannabis. They convert most of the power they consume into heat not light or produce a light spectrum that won`t support good plant growth..
there are even a new breed of colour balanced LED's which are becoming better by the year. i have a friend who use them in the vegetative stage then moves the plants to the other half of his growing room to use HID's in the flowering stage to great effect.
Halogens, as mentioned above and not efficient and produce a MASSIVE hear signature leading to what you state above.
growers with a brain use more efficient and balanced lighting which provide results which give not just a cheaper electricity bill but a far groovier stone!
They're actually worse than useless because they lead lazy people to believe all they need to do is go to a website, click an "I agree" button and they've fixed the world.
Its as pathetic as a "Facebook Group", if not worse.
Well that's where you are wrong. An online petition along with a facebook group and other pressures helped raise awareness and created enough stink to have
The Wallace Letter returned to Scotland to be displayed in the National museum instead of sitting in a drawer in Kew archives in London.
the petition and the facebook group helped raise awareness of the issue to a point where Members of theSociety of William Wallace along with members of the Scottish government were able to negotiate it's return.
the only thing that's pathetic bud is you aloof apathy which just goes to shows your own feeling of impotence hiding behind a false assumption that you know better when there are instances which prove you wrong... this letter being one of them
If you live in that country you may as well just stop using the internet completely then, since it's effectively not the internet anymore, just an extremely small walled garden..
Only bad thing about WP7 is that you can't run apps outside markets as easily as with old Windows Mobile's. It really sucks. But it's something iPhone and Android mandated, so blame is on them.
Erm.. android? erm... no there is a nice simple setting where you can chose to install things not from the official android market, there are also other markets such as the app brain market for android.... so yer kinda of.. well way off the mark
we want to declare independence as that is what we want...... 69 seat majority in the Scottish parliament for the pro independence SNP
increasing rates of approval all the time
independence getting higher % of the polls each time
Also what's wrong with drawing parallels between Scotland and Norway?
Norway has roughly similar population , slightly less oil/gas reserves and is also due to it's "national oil fund" coasting easily through this recession as it has over 300 billions in the bank to help it.... what's not to like about it?(except maybe the price of a beer there..lol)
As for braveheart ~shakes head~ the only thing that film did was get people interested in the story of William Wallace
his love interest in the film , in reality, would nt be born for another 100 years, ther are many other glaring historical inaccuracies therein as well. BUT those with half a r4ain can then go on to READ more about it andfind.... Mel gibson is full of crapoica.... in fact him promoting the passion of the christ as "factual" whe it was written in the middle ages to foment anti-jewish feeling should be enough about that.
As for Alex Salmond.. he is a politician of high standing, clean reputation, and can run circles around anyone who debate him. i have never in my 23 years of interest in politics seen him lose a debate
you are right about the killing thogh RDW..lol as long as you man the original Danish/Swedish production and not the American remake albeit i suspect the remake of the killing will be better than the remake of the millennium trilogy:/
Alba Gu Brath agus Saor alba:P
you mean the real Scots regiments never shown you the "dance of the flaming arseholes"?
I guess they assumed we had a "don't-ask-don't-tell" policy;) Is that what you boys do after the sheep run away?
you've obviously never see n it.. also there is no "don't ask don't tell" policy in the Uk forces, that's a yank thing
and yeah, even being Canadian , without the airborne head dress you re a crap hat:)
True 'nuff. I got offered the jump course several times, but somehow the idea of a 1-in-10 chance of broken limbs didn't really appeal to me. Now that we've finally gotten parachutes that don't date back to medieval times I'd definitely go for it, but at the time it seemed like a loose-loose proposition. I did my jumps civvie-side, where the success of a landing isn't measured in how well you can walk after.
BWAHAHAHA typical crap hat wendy response
at a guess you got yer ass kicked by real Scottish regiments and hence the bullshit about Scotland
On that point, I'll have to concede; while we always did very well against every other nation, you lot brawl like nobody else:)
yer damned tooting we do hence a high percentage of SAS soldiers come from Scotland and their unit of origin is the Parachute Regiment. i never did the 22 selection course personally but i did do the 14 int one.. not an easy task.. 14 int has now become the S.R.R
btw yer response is in Irish not Scottish Gaelic:P
Yeah, realized that after I wrote it. Close enough!
Laughed my ass of when I got the translation of your original barb. Truly, only the Scots could come up with that kind of insult.
they have Scottish Gaelic insults online?.. bargain o hope it's use grows as that brings interest into the language. also when you live "next door" to the Sassain you kinda have need of those phrases.. as they are generally quit fitting:P
you mean the real Scots regiments never shown you the "dance of the flaming arseholes"?
and yeah, even being Canadian , without the airborne head dress you re a crap hat:)
the is a method to the madness of the Scots and the fact you don't get it speaks volumes LOL
that twinned with the fact that, as a nation, Canada doesn't know what the fuck bacon actually is speaks more as well:P
at a guess you got yer ass kicked by real Scottish regiments and hence the bullshit about Scotland
btw yer response is in Irish not Scottish Gaelic:P
just shows your own pig ignorance and the fact they let too many sassain into Scottish regiments..LOL
The exception is the Canadian Scottish regiments where Canadians join even at that many of them learn the guide of Gaidheal tongue.
you though sound like, albeit this may not be the case, a silly unionist/sassainach 'nad fhaighean with an axe to grind with a fine and soon to be independent wee country
As an ex-serviceman myself i can only but laugh at your craptasticness. albeit the queens Own and my Regiment(the Parachute Regiment) have had ties of respect and mutual loss going back to Warren Point, in general if you don't have that illustrious head dress of the airborne forces you were just a crap hat and life wasn't that hard for you.. yer jist a gallooot wi no a touch a a'hin saunsie aboot ye... yah radge:-)
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argh.. damn my craptastic typage! a verdict of "NOT" guilty..... :P
NIT GUILTY.. the fleas did it sir!"
What does credit cards and cash have to do with DoS and Anonymous?!
Do they really think that Anonymous pays people for performing attacks or what? - They seriously need to look up what Anonymous is.
i know what you mean but it happens here in Scotland and, i suppose, in England,Wales and Northern Ireland and in the US too!
the credit card, bank details and,in Scotland, items of value bought within the last twelve years. If it is proven that you are guilty then the resultant items can be sold as "proceeds of crime".
i would however contest that there were no "proceeds of crime" in these cases as it wasn't some tax evasion, drug dealing, gun running or other profitable criminal activity
it may however be just part of standard procedure or just an extra "fuck you" as a warning shot to other Anons.
In Scotland the items ARE RETURNED is a verdict of NIT GUILTY is arrived at or if there is no case to answer or no charges brought
i know this as a buddy of mine had this happen to him recently. the charges were dropped and his lawyer made damned sure he got his stuff back
The credit card may well have been used to pay for domain names/hosting or some-such. and thus easily linking the people to the actions they are accused of.
i remember seeing a TV Documentary on bacteriophage years ago. it was very interesting indeed.
using the search string "bacteriophages + Russia" will give you endless results and show that since Stalin's time this has been used there
one thing that was a surprise to learn from the documentary is that they seem to all be pretty much in sewage and then extracted and cultured from there.
they then test each strain of bacteriophage against an array of nasties and see which one that particular "phage" is effective against
it brings a whole new meaning to "being in the shit"
Actually the Federal Reserve isn't directly elected, and Bernanke et. all are doing a fairly good job. Inflation has been near rock bottom without ever going into deflation for years now, they've done just about everything they can to manage since 2008, including ditching any hint of presidential and congressional approval to make massive temporary loans to banks in order to keep more of them from going Lehman Brother on us, probably keeping the US and much of the rest of the world from collapsing into a second great depression. All said loans were swiftly paid back, and since the Fed has been responsible for the quickest, most coherent response to the recent hard economic times out of just about any governmental body in the world.
Not that they haven't made some quibbling mistakes, inflation might technically be too low, helping banks to sit on top of cheap mounds of capital without the need to restart the process of actually giving out loans. But for the most part they've been doing an excellent job.
all said loans paid back.. oh yeah and then swiftly claimed back against their tax bill and thus they didn't really pay it back if you know what i mean. it was just fucking free money to the banks
in fact you will find the only people really paying interest on those loans would have been the US Govt , and thus the tax payer,who would have borrowed it from the Federal Reserve you better believe the Federal reserve would want it back with that interest.
it was bankers bailing out bankers with a get out clause for returning the payment.. ie the ability to write it off against tax as a "legitimate" business expense
Also the problem with havering VERY low interest rates is that unemployment goes up... this is a basic economic principle... the really key is finding the equilibrium between interest rates and unemployment rates and the banks don't really give a fuck about that they only care about the bottom line.
LOL i don't hate the English and i don't hate the people that say they are British.
i just don't count myself as British.. i am Scottish and happy with that
i just want my country to be able to determine it's own future and manage it's own finances, for it NOT to be drawn into illegal wars and not to have nuclear weapons stored in it
i see you have changed tac however the vitriol and petty venom is still visible in spades.
i shall re-iterate, just because you want your country to be independent, just because you care for and love that country doesn't mean you have to hate anyone
i just want a better future for me,my kids, my family and my country and for any mistakes that we as a nation make TO BE OUR OWN
what is it cederic that makes you think that YOUR opinion should outweigh the democratic will of the Scottish electorate?
Half-pint HAL.. some well made points put forward but more interesting to note is cederics pretty poor attempt to twist what you mean by it!
eh? labour won landslides, well certain;y their 1997 win. Scotland only had 59 seats out of 659(at that time) we now have 52 out of 600
Scotland is pretty much allergic to tories, more so after the thatcher years , so i'll grant you that Scots would generally vote labour(at that time).
Scotland is more naturally left leaning than England, this much is true however labour have shifted so far right they are pretty much tories V2
the SNP are a centre party who believe in having universal free healthcare and all the sorts of things that at one time labour were for but are not now.
the liberals are a washout who jumped into bed with the tories for the only chance they'll have for govt at westminster.
If you are so upset with the system in place.. campaign to change it... in Scotland we are and it's working.....
it is interesting to see though how far reaching attempts to lay the blame on Scotland for Westminster's failings go really.
So you do indeed want to disenfranchise anybody not currently living in Scotland. Which includes many Scots in England, while many English people living in Scotland will be able to vote.
Democracy? Alex Salmond hasn't fucking heard of it. Economist of long standing and corrupt politician, you're welcome to him. Shit, he hasn't even worked out that he can't run a country that isn't in control of its own currency yet.
Even your fucking slogan of 'Free Scotland' is inherently ignorant. Try living in the 21st century, it's great here. Scotland is free, it's part of a successful nation, achieving far more than it ever did alone (or in its alliances with France).
As I said, I'll vote for Scottish independence. I'll claim dual nationality, as I'll qualify for it on multiple counts. I'll choose to live in whichever country suits me best. I just wont pretend that Scottish nationalists are acting in the interests of their country, because they clearly aren't.
your ignorance and clinging to dogmatic nonsense of the past shows me you are the one who isn't into 21st century thinking
As i said before, the decision is FOR PEOPLE REGISTERED TO VOTE IN SCOTLAND
if you want to vote then live here, be registered to vote......... sorted
your statement of claiming dual nationality just shows your blatant hypocrisy after your denial of being anything but british
the SNP have clearly and repeatedly shown through their action in government that they do give a shit, some of the examples are stated above and many more that i haven't stated.
as i said before, the foaming and frothing at the mouth you are doing speaks volumes about you and it's not good
Well done, you missed the fucking point completely. Every point.
Frankly if cunts like you plan to run Scotland, the country's doomed. But the inability to articulate an economic future for the country's already demonstrated that.
Carry on being vitriolic and stupid. Just don't drag down the rest of us with you, please.
LOL the vitriolic crapioca is coming from your direction .. just have a read at what you wrote
As for the economics of it, well now... if i was you i'd read more about it and especially how westminster hides Scottish oil income and vast amounts of it by marking it as "extra regio territories" in the G.E.R.S report.. you know... the Government Expenditure and Revenue Report".
Also note that income tax raised in Scotland and corporate tax raised in Scotland isn't counted as Scottish revenues as it goes straight to westminsters coffers. Also please find a link HERE to an analysis of the GERS 2005 report done by forensic accountant Niall Aslen. Niall has been a chartered accountant for over 40 years and knows more about accounts and fiscal policy than myself or yourself...... in fact especially you.
Scotland survives at the moment and provides free education,free universal healthcare(including free prescription medicine) and much much more on the pittance on just under 31 billions per year as provided under the Barnett formula.... this is less than half of what we put into the union according to westminster numbers.
once the ACTUAL figures are worked out and the numbers crunched Scotland has revenues of just over 120 billions per year and, from that we can do better and put a little away like Norway does into a national oil fund. their oil fund is so vast now that it earns more in interest than their annual deposit... (hint it's over 300 billions now and rising)
as for running the country.... me..naaaah, but i WILL leave that happily to Alex Salmond... an economist of long standing and great repute and his chosen team from the people elected by Scotland to form government in an independent Scotland.
in summing up, i can only point someone like you in the direction of the facts but it's blatantly obvious that your prejudices and strict adherence to westminster dogma and perhaps the sun or the daily fail will always lead you to be the one full of vitriolic crapioca.
you do realise how bad you are making your side of the debate look don't you? i freely admit to taking a few wee sideswipes for a laugh as your point of view is dated and amusing to me, however you just come out with coarse insults, and frankly, it's making you look very muppet like
it's up to Scotland and it's electorate to decide whether it wants to be in the union or not.
it's not up to people not registered to vote in Scotland, it's not and English vote, Irish, nor Welsh..... it's ours and we will take the first step in the referendum in 2014.
Saor Alba (Free Scotland)
as for your heritage.....why would i really care what it is?
you yourself denied being Scottish,Welsh,Irish or even English and stating you were British.. and that was that ... well i am putting forward points of debate and you are..........a frothing at the mouth unionist who spews bilious bullshit at everything and who cannot respond to a well put counter points such as i made in my reply above.
so that kinda pissed on your chips there
as for "being full of shit"
Also your comment
LOL so holding a referendum of the SCOTTISH ELECTORATE to democratically decide the constitutional future of OUR country isn't democratic???... wow.. that just shows how silly you really are to be frank..... keep digging that hole bud, it's funny :)
oh right... so 400 per month over two months.. to which he actually was entitled compared to castles on duck ponds for tories and the mountains of false claims by labour,liberals and tories combined, ... ie labour, tories and lib dums all voted against those free things... the SNP voted for them.... or in some cases abstained due to them seeing it as not their business due to the "West Lothian Question"
ROFL: as your pure PISH about common language... you know in The Republic of Ireland they speak their own tongue... as well as.... guess what?? english!!! speaking more than one tongue is a bonus in my books and the earlier a child is exposed to other languages the easier they learn others.
Also if Scotland become independent then it won't be part of the "UK" so erm... you might have to rethink your pish about living where you want. your grothing nonsense is quite amusing.
As for free prescriptions,free university education etc...... well the LONDON BASED PARTIES
as for you being as Scottish as anyone here... YOU ARE HAVING A LAUGH!!!..
maybe next time, before you open your mouth and let your belly rumble you can maybe come up with some more logical,salient points of debate than an old new article about a non event which doesn't matter as the man was CLEARED IN FULL
really the froth you spew says just what a muppet you really are... but hey, why let facts get in the way of your daily mail and sun reading?
here here sir! ,an MP in 1977 , asked The West Lothian Question
what you call the benefit for England is what Tam Dalyell
what you mean like NOW with the UK in the EU?
while the SNP is considering EU membership, at the monent and the next few years that would probably be folly, purely on an economic basis.
membership of the free trade agreement will do just fine as we are the biggest oil producing nation in Europe, i would assume they would like to do business with us
You think the SNP care about Scotland? No, they are politicians who a want to go down in history as having achieved indendance and b) increase their own power by removing power from Westminster. If you think it is anything to do with what is right for Scotland you are a fool.
they already went down in History as the party which got an overwhelming majority in a system designed to have coalitions. .... not now though.
come 2014 and the referendum Scotland will vote for independence and meanwhile westminster try to interfere more and more and the tories do their usual shit upon the working man and the middle classes all the while chugging on the cock of corporate and banking cock
The tories are HATED in Scotland, more so since thatcher in the 80's and labour are now distrusted due to the recent spate of truths that have come out about expenses scams and generals snouts in the trough and the fact they they feel it's their natural entitlement to be elected
where as you will go down as a bell-end who can't spell "independence"
we have free prescription medicine for all, thus we have truly universal free healthcare.
We also can go to university and not have to pay fees
we have no toll bridges any more, they are all free too
they are actually building more social housing than labour and also not doing it on the disaster that is PFI
we now have signs up everywhere in our own language Scots Gaelic, and a resurgence of interest in it promoted by the Scots govt
They have kept open hospitals departments that labour run councils wanted to close(see Ayr Hospital A&E as an example) which would have put lives at risk if they did close
And they have done much besides all the while labour, the liberals and the fucking tories fill their pockets from public funds in expenses
so yes, i would say they do give a fuck and they have consistently proven their case.
Saor Alba agus Alba gu brath!
Someone asked me the other day about why I hated the labour party in the UK. That ASBOs were introduced on their watch is something I forgot at the time, it'll be in there next time someone asks me.
along with the other 5000 odd laws that were brought in under that bunch of bastards. They most certainly started the slow creep of the nanny state and the fucking tories are going to finish it as the tories started it in the 80's under that nasty old bitch thatcher and labour just kept the ball rolling.
if you think the tories of the liberals will do anything to change it then you are waaaay off the marlkbr> thank fuck Scotland will be independent soon and we can let westminster so Scots can be rid of this bullshit. At least in Scotland we have the Scottish National party who do actually give a fuck about Scotland.
1. Repeal DMCA. 1a - codify the right to backup to secure one's purchase against accident as a fundamental, protected consumer RIGHT.
i spent most of this evening helping my friend do some DMCA take down notices and send them out to imageshack and to another site where my friends images was being used without her permission on a sex related site.
imageschack complied within 10 minutes and the other site worked over the next hour or so to remove profile pics and also cancelled the account of the person using the images without permission.
there are some provisions in the DMCA that are useful and which would be a shame to lose.
I'm not sure about the countryside, but this has been done in cities for a while. It's pretty common for people who are growing cannabis to do put halogen lights up in their attic so that the plants can get bright light for a long period. Because this is above the layer of normal house insulation, their roofs show up as warmer than the surroundings.
halogen? bad choice tbh, There are really only two choices of lamp types for indoor growers, high intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) and florescent lamps. Other lamps such as standard household bulbs or halogen are just not up to the job of growing cannabis. They convert most of the power they consume into heat not light or produce a light spectrum that won`t support good plant growth. .
there are even a new breed of colour balanced LED's which are becoming better by the year. i have a friend who use them in the vegetative stage then moves the plants to the other half of his growing room to use HID's in the flowering stage to great effect.
Halogens, as mentioned above and not efficient and produce a MASSIVE hear signature leading to what you state above.
growers with a brain use more efficient and balanced lighting which provide results which give not just a cheaper electricity bill but a far groovier stone!
They never really accomplish anything.
They're actually worse than useless because they lead lazy people to believe all they need to do is go to a website, click an "I agree" button and they've fixed the world.
Its as pathetic as a "Facebook Group", if not worse.
Well that's where you are wrong. An online petition along with a facebook group and other pressures helped raise awareness and created enough stink to have The Wallace Letter returned to Scotland to be displayed in the National museum instead of sitting in a drawer in Kew archives in London.
the petition and the facebook group helped raise awareness of the issue to a point where Members of theSociety of William Wallace along with members of the Scottish government were able to negotiate it's return.
the only thing that's pathetic bud is you aloof apathy which just goes to shows your own feeling of impotence hiding behind a false assumption that you know better when there are instances which prove you wrong... this letter being one of them
You just squint your eyes. When there is a will there is a way........
well as we say here in Scotland it's more like "where there's a willie, there's a way" :P
If you live in that country you may as well just stop using the internet completely then, since it's effectively not the internet anymore, just an extremely small walled garden. .
apple fans will LOVE it! :P
Only bad thing about WP7 is that you can't run apps outside markets as easily as with old Windows Mobile's. It really sucks. But it's something iPhone and Android mandated, so blame is on them.
Erm.. android? erm... no there is a nice simple setting where you can chose to install things not from the official android market, there are also other markets such as the app brain market for android.... so yer kinda of .. well way off the mark
we want to declare independence as that is what we want...... 69 seat majority in the Scottish parliament for the pro independence SNP .... Mel gibson is full of crapoica.. .. in fact him promoting the passion of the christ as "factual" whe it was written in the middle ages to foment anti-jewish feeling should be enough about that. :/
Alba Gu Brath agus Saor alba :P
increasing rates of approval all the time
independence getting higher % of the polls each time
Also what's wrong with drawing parallels between Scotland and Norway?
Norway has roughly similar population , slightly less oil/gas reserves and is also due to it's "national oil fund" coasting easily through this recession as it has over 300 billions in the bank to help it.... what's not to like about it?(except maybe the price of a beer there..lol)
As for braveheart ~shakes head~ the only thing that film did was get people interested in the story of William Wallace
his love interest in the film , in reality, would nt be born for another 100 years, ther are many other glaring historical inaccuracies therein as well. BUT those with half a r4ain can then go on to READ more about it andfind
As for Alex Salmond.. he is a politician of high standing, clean reputation, and can run circles around anyone who debate him. i have never in my 23 years of interest in politics seen him lose a debate
you are right about the killing thogh RDW..lol as long as you man the original Danish/Swedish production and not the American remake albeit i suspect the remake of the killing will be better than the remake of the millennium trilogy
what, the UK only has one party like that? Hell, we have TWO! we're fucked either way! Gawd Blezz the Yewnited Corprit Bee-Yatch States of Merica!
thank fuck we have another choice in Scotland... the SNP
you've obviously never see n it.. also there is no "don't ask don't tell" policy in the Uk forces, that's a yank thing
BWAHAHAHA typical crap hat wendy response
yer damned tooting we do hence a high percentage of SAS soldiers come from Scotland and their unit of origin is the Parachute Regiment. i never did the 22 selection course personally but i did do the 14 int one.. not an easy task.. 14 int has now become the S.R.R
they have Scottish Gaelic insults online?.. bargain o hope it's use grows as that brings interest into the language. also when you live "next door" to the Sassain you kinda have need of those phrases.. as they are generally quit fitting :P
you mean the real Scots regiments never shown you the "dance of the flaming arseholes"? :) :P :P
and yeah, even being Canadian , without the airborne head dress you re a crap hat
the is a method to the madness of the Scots and the fact you don't get it speaks volumes LOL
that twinned with the fact that, as a nation, Canada doesn't know what the fuck bacon actually is speaks more as well
at a guess you got yer ass kicked by real Scottish regiments and hence the bullshit about Scotland
btw yer response is in Irish not Scottish Gaelic
just shows your own pig ignorance and the fact they let too many sassain into Scottish regiments..LOL .. yer jist a gallooot wi no a touch a a'hin saunsie aboot ye ... yah radge :-)
The exception is the Canadian Scottish regiments where Canadians join even at that many of them learn the guide of Gaidheal tongue.
you though sound like, albeit this may not be the case, a silly unionist/sassainach 'nad fhaighean with an axe to grind with a fine and soon to be independent wee country
As an ex-serviceman myself i can only but laugh at your craptasticness. albeit the queens Own and my Regiment(the Parachute Regiment) have had ties of respect and mutual loss going back to Warren Point, in general if you don't have that illustrious head dress of the airborne forces you were just a crap hat and life wasn't that hard for you