but no major media outlet would make a fuss until the Barclay brothers got fed up with the government pointing the finger at financiers/bankers for all that is wrong in the world.
...servicemen on leave between tours were used to provide security at the offices where parliamentary staff were going through all the MPs' expenses claims.
One of the servicemen was so angered by the MPs' lavish claims that he decided to leak the material.
In the 1980s, the VW Polo used to have an engine that cut out when stationary, the flywheel kept rotating, and restarted the engine when the traffic moved on.
Googling around, I came across an article on Stop/start engines, which seems to be what I'm thinking of.
The point I was attempting to make is that charitable giving correlates just as well if not better with religion.
It may well do, but as the article notes
conservatives tend to regard giving as a personal rather than governmental responsibility
David Cameron, the current British Prime Minister, a conservative, said:
it’s about actively doing the good things.
Not waiting for the state to do it all, but taking responsibility, making a difference, saying loudly and proudly: this is my country, this is my community: I will play my part.
That is social responsibility.
the liberal will gladly give their candy away to the children & the conservative will take the candy away from the little ones and hoard as much as they can get
Although liberal families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household
Way back when, I was considering buying my first computer (an Amstrad), for word-processing, I came across the Sharp 1410 'dedicated word processor'. I can't find a picture online, but it was an electric typewriter, with a 10(?) line LED screen, and some embedded software applications; a word processor, spreadsheet. You could save to 3.5" floppies. Thinking back, I still think that was a good choice for a student. Brother seems to be the only firm making typewriters now, and the dedicated word processor appears to have disappeared as an option.
I thought the second hand book trade was booming? Because of bargains being sought on Amazon/Abe Books etc. It's publishers' back catalogue sales that are suffering.
It might be interesting to see if there is a difference between state run libraries, and community/company run libraries in this. I can't help feeling that the bargains from libraries are indifference to taxpayers' money.
In the UK, Oxfam (a large charity) separates out it's book donations, and sells them in dedicated Oxfam book shops, and prices them with an eye to maximising their cash value. If a charity can do that, why on earth can't a library? They already have the staff, the software (a number of library catalogue systems now link their book records to Amazon), and the retail space.
Carney's ideas are neither new nor untested, as he pointed out in his paper. For example, Comcast, the largest residential Internet service provider in the U.S. with an estimated 16.4 million subscribers, recently announced it would notify customers when it detected a bot on their machines. Comcast will direct infected users to a site that walks them through a malware clean-up chore.
Virgin Media subscribers whose computers are part of a botnet can expect a letter warning them to tighten up their security, under a new initiative based on data collected by independent malware trackers.
The UK's third-largest ISP will match lists of compromised IP addresses collected by the Shadowserver Foundation, among others, to its customer records.
Those with infected machines will be encouraged to download free security software to remove the malware and protect their connection in future.
An old Blogging Heads segment mentioned a science curriculum developed by the NSF [National Science Foundation]. I vaguely remember looking into this at the time, and it being a downloadable, grade/age ordered sequence of projects/activities, but I can't seem to track it down now.
I thought the received wisdom was that when free websites put up a paywall, they lose 90% of their traffic. The Times seems to have done rather better.
ComScore‘s figures suggested the number of unique visitors to The Times web site dropped from 2.79 million in May to 1.61 million in July and that page views fell from 29 million in May to nine million in July as well as readers spending less time on the site. However, consider that first set of numbers again: Prior to the paywall, the site was getting 2.79 million users accessing the site for free. Now it has 1.61 million but all have paid a price to be there. On a figures basis 2.79 million of nothing is nothing but 1.61 million paying a £1 is a lot, lot more revenue.
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No. In the case of the MPs, the story broke because someone sold The Telegraph a CD of the MPs itemised expense claims, and the receipts they used to support their claims.
...and it resulted in some crooked MPs losing their seats, others are facing criminal prosecution. Good. Well done Telegraph.
The Sunday Times did some excellent work on the House of Lords expenses. Well done Sunday Times.
Well, they don't seem to have made any impact at the EU!
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The British government is not some obscure website gagging for a mention in the press.
British newspapers love a scandal, and they'll be expecting to find lots.
I suspect the most dogmatic reviewers will be freelance journalists, looking for a good story to sell.
I believe it was intended to reduce libido (chemical castration). "Turing agreed to take hormone therapy for a year instead of going to prison."
Alan Turing committed suicide. He was not assassinated by Men In Black.
Bletchley Park is not a front organisation for The Nasty Government.
I've just come across a TED Talk you might like: Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives.
In the 1980s, the VW Polo used to have an engine that cut out when stationary, the flywheel kept rotating, and restarted the engine when the traffic moved on.
Googling around, I came across an article on Stop/start engines, which seems to be what I'm thinking of.
Demonising people because you disagree with their politics is silly.
A church is a congregation. It's a social gathering, as much as a religious one.
It may well do, but as the article notes
David Cameron, the current British Prime Minister, a conservative, said:
There was a very good three part, radio piece on conservatism. That might be of interest.
Clearly you need to spend more time with jslint. !== is preferred.
From the same article:
I'm not aware of churches collecting blood during the service, but it's a big world.
Nope.
Thanks for that. They look like much the same thing.
The key difference to the Sharp, was it also had a built in printer, being essentially an electric typewriter with a memory.
Way back when, I was considering buying my first computer (an Amstrad), for word-processing, I came across the Sharp 1410 'dedicated word processor'. I can't find a picture online, but it was an electric typewriter, with a 10(?) line LED screen, and some embedded software applications; a word processor, spreadsheet. You could save to 3.5" floppies. Thinking back, I still think that was a good choice for a student. Brother seems to be the only firm making typewriters now, and the dedicated word processor appears to have disappeared as an option.
My first computer ended up being an iMac 350.
I thought the second hand book trade was booming? Because of bargains being sought on Amazon/Abe Books etc. It's publishers' back catalogue sales that are suffering.
It might be interesting to see if there is a difference between state run libraries, and community/company run libraries in this. I can't help feeling that the bargains from libraries are indifference to taxpayers' money.
In the UK, Oxfam (a large charity) separates out it's book donations, and sells them in dedicated Oxfam book shops, and prices them with an eye to maximising their cash value. If a charity can do that, why on earth can't a library? They already have the staff, the software (a number of library catalogue systems now link their book records to Amazon), and the retail space.
No. The Computerworld article offers an example:
In the UK, Virgin Media (ISP) are also doing something similar:
Just looked through my old bookmarks, and I think the NSF curriculum activities I mentioned above are on the National Science Resources Center website
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An old Blogging Heads segment mentioned a science curriculum developed by the NSF [National Science Foundation]. I vaguely remember looking into this at the time, and it being a downloadable, grade/age ordered sequence of projects/activities, but I can't seem to track it down now.
The Times circulation is 500,000 -ish. So 4x that paying for the web edition looks pretty good.
I thought the received wisdom was that when free websites put up a paywall, they lose 90% of their traffic. The Times seems to have done rather better.
Has he failed?
WSJ.com is a success. The Times? Too early to know, but there are reports that News of the World is following, so The Times' experience can't have been a disaster.