"So starting in 2011, freelancers in Ukraine will have several choices: stop doing freelance work, start working illegally, become a full-fledged company subject to multiple cumbersome rules for taxation, or leave the country."
Well, call me cynical but as probably 99% of them already do not declare their work and tax its not really going to affect anyone. They will just continue working illegally. (Speaking from experience of living in Russia here close to the Ukraine)
This is a fair point. I'm a programmer (self taught early age and learnt other languages later) but i'm certainly no developer. Professional experienced developers would either laugh or cry if they saw some of the code I write.
Still, i'd rather have someone like me than someone with an MCSE. I remember one girl who loved to proclaim that she was an MCSE but one day called me to help her because she didn't know how to install Win NT4 Server.... WTF? (I wasn't an MS guy, I was Novell certified).
Watch out for sarcasm. I know in the US you guys really have trouble spotting this, but in the UK we have this perfected.
Also, please dont tell anyone you just love the British accent. It really gets on our nerves, especially as we hate most US accents and can barely tolerate the rest.
Be prepared to have problems understanding the English of people who work in shops. This is because the % of natives working in shops is close to 0. They are manned by indians, middle easteners, eastern europeans, etc.
Actually, don't hold too much hope of meeting a native person as london, aside from the aforementioned shop workers, is full of american and oriental tourists. Your best bet during the daytime is trying to talk to someone on the tube, who may just be native, although probably tired and grumpy from living in or communiting to london every day and may just ignore you or tell you to piss off.
At night time though you can find lots of natives. Males and females are both easy to spot. They are loud and obnoxious and usually quite drunk. Probably best to avoid these. If you spot someone at night who is acting normally and quiet then they may be a terrorist. Report them to the police.
Do go to soho at night though. Its an enlightening experience. Actually you may feel quiet safe in this area, unlike other areas, although you may get nice looking ladies asking you for the time quiet often. One can only presume there is some sort of time-telling-device shortage in the soho area.
Do visit Camden market, afternoon or late evening. This is nothing to do with being a geek. Just wander around until some guy offers you to buy something, usually in a small package. Don't worry what it is. Smoke it, eat it, its all good stuff.
Thats probably the intention, but i think it rarely works like that. Fortunately when i was at school they were not homework crazy. However, i hear the schools near where i live now are homework crazy and i think when my kids start there i will have to lay down the law to the school.
I've heard such stories its unbelievable. Kids spending 4 or more hours a night doing homework, each class giving homework every lesson (when should the kids have free time?). Parents having to help their kids every evening (after a hard day at work) because the problems set are way too advanced for the kid.
Classic case, two parents who are both PhDs in maths had to help their kid with maths homework (because the kid didn't have a clue). Parents were amazed their kid was being given such a difficult subject for the age (something like differentiation at junior school). When the kids homework was scored the teacher marked them down (gave a 3 on a 5 point scale). I think the parents were most annoyed with being rated a 3 by someone who may not even have a degree in maths when they are PhDs.
The problem is, most schools i think do not use homework correctly, and they do not coordinate between classes so all classes are happily dishing out homework on the same nights.
Damn, why is there no edit button? I wanted to give an example of how things can be faked that are meant to be secure.
Many years ago (student days, in the UK) i recieved some spam (physical mail) but not addressed to me. And this gave me an idea. Back in those days passports were only needed for travel and not much else. For example, to get a bank account you could get away with just presenting two utility bills. So, i decided to start collecting 'evidence' that my name was actually the name from the spam mail. Now it was safe to presume this person actually had lived at my address previously, and therefore some corroborating evidence already existed. I therefore registered myself as a new name to go on the utility bills, got a library card, and got the local council to send me council tax bills in my new name (i claimed that "i" had left this address, and a new tenant had moved in... they never checked with the landlord... after all, somebody was giving them money, and nobody would give them money if they didn't have to. Next up was a bank account. "No, sorry, i dont drive, and i dont have a passport, but i have these two utility bills". Within a couple of months i had a very well documented and valid ID that even the police wouldnt question unless they did some real digging. The only thing i didnt go for was a passport, and this was because a) would have required some real forgery work, and b) probably could have ended up in a lot of trouble.
As an interesting PS, you would not believe how many credit cards i got offered in my new name. I even applied and received one but tempted as i was i never used it and in the end just threw it away to get rid of the temptation.
So... do you think you should trust digital signatures if i can create a fake identity? I'm a lot less clever than some of the people out there.
My beef with this is a little different i think. While i general i dont like the idea, it goes further than that. I do not trust signed software or web-site certificates. So, just because company X uses a Verisign signature for their security of the website, or in this case signatures are given to software, i still wont trust it just because it has a signature.
This is not paranoia (i hope). Its simply because even security systems are possible to be broken.
Therefore i still would like my security blanket of having to su/sudo to do something that can affect the whole system. A kind of "stop! are you sure?". UAC made a lot of people unhappy, but it was a bold move by MS. I always hated it when applications even back in the days of Win95 would start writing to \Windows\ or \Program Files\
Still, my biggest grief with Windows is the Registry. One file gets corrupt and thats it... bye bye boot up, bye bye many of your licence keys, bye bye everything. Still, this is off-topic, but its a personal peeve of mine, and the day someone proposes something similar for Linux is the day i would switch to BSD.
First off why should religion get special treatment? If it makes money and can pay taxes then why not? Whoever heard of a religion that didn't make money? You mention that they wouldn't be able to afford to pay their property taxes because of reduced congregations.... perhaps time to move to smaller churches then? What i do know is in my city at least two new massive churches are being built by the Orthodox Christians so they can't exactly be poor or suffering from falling congregations.
Oh dear.... you do know with the way our economies and politics are setup there is now way everyone can be rich? There always has to be the poor in our societies, otherwise the economy as it is setup wouldn't work. The peons must exist to do the grunt jobs... and at the end of the day, not everyone has the right qualities to be a manager/CEO/Lawyer/etc... but they can be hard working determined individuals.
It will take a paradigm shift in our culture before we get to the stage where we can propose a workable solution (eg: not communism) which enables a vast majority of the population to be at least relatively well off.
This is a long way off i feel. I don't have a solution (do you?), but i feel the only possible solution is technology, whereby it reaches the point where technology makes the need for workers redundant and therefore no need for companies to pay salaries (maintenance costs and engineer salaries of course still needed etc).
I would love to see articles such as: Unenployment reaches 80% Today the government was praised for its work that saw unemployment reach 80%. Now more people than ever have been freed from the need to labour. As usual, we offer our heartfelt thanks to those who must remain employed and hope the added benefits of being a working class person at least make your 10 year term of employment bearable until you can join the unemployed.
Perhaps the books that really spring to mind are the Dancers at the end of Time by Michael Moorcock. A truly decadent society (and not one i would like to see occur) whose technology was so advanced it was like magic. They never had to work, they just followed their fashions and desires.
You are shitting us? How the hell can you get anything done with 500+ tabs open simultaneously? I don't think its memory leaks thats your problem. I think its the sound of the entire OS deciding enough is enough and its going to take a break.
1) Take the original, convert to PDF, OCR back to text. Voila... enough errors to make it untraceable.
2) Hack into the head of Amazon's computer and download HIS copy of a book. Now release via torrent and wait for the witchhunt to start. He is obviously guilty because it is HIS copy that was pirated.
Quote: The absolute best we could hope to achieve is to launch a very select elite by using far more than their fair share of resources, while leaving essentially the entire human populace behind to deal with the consequences.
Which is a fantastic idea. Lets put all the 'elite' (Bush/Blair/etc) on a spaceship and send them off to the moon or elsewhere. Then maybe we can start fixing whats wrong with this world.
Lots of good advice above. Regardless of processes though, unless you can get your customers on your side and realise you are not the enemy, but are there to help, then things should go a lot more swimmingly. There will always be those who will be bastards but if you charm your users then 99% will come to see you as a friend.
Some suggestions:
1) Start a user group. Offer people to come and air their grievances. Listen to them and look for ways of improving their experience with their computers and IT services. Give Feedback!!!
2) Be open and honest. Don't lie (although bending the truth may on occasion be needed... like when you accidently bring down the server, it may not pay to be too honest here).
3) Be visible. When you can spare the time, go on a walkabout and chat with users. Ask them how they are, if they have any problems, even make quick fixes there and then on the spot. This will increase their opinion of you very quickly.
4) Ask your management to perform an independent user survey (ie: users are anonymous to you, therefore they dont have to worry about you deleting their files and backups), in order to find out what people really think about not only the IT department (you) but also the services and software provided. You then compile a response addressing the most common issues along with what you propose to do (with management support) in order to improve things.
Overall, the main things though is connecting with your users. Listen and give feedback. They are just frustrated and you are the target. Once they understand that its not your fault and that you are doing everything possible to help them (with the time and resources available) they will respond a little better.
Also be visible to your managers. Make reports for them (powerpoint does get overused but some charts may help them see how things are, rather than screaming at them you are overworked and not appreciated). This is where a ticketing system can really help.
Trust me, i've been there, done that, and got the t-shit. If you do it right within a few weeks you wont be able to walk past users without someone offering you to sit and have a coffee with them and them thanking you for your help.
PS: Final. Us IT guys... well, a lot of us dont put too much effort into our appearance (eg: wear t-shirts with geeky things on), many are overweight, shave infrequently, and baths are infrequent. If you fall into any of these categories then doing a little with your appearance to be a little more presentable will help quite a bit. Image counts for a lot.... and can lead to other things as well including no longer having to crawl under girls desks with the pretense of checking out LAN ports in order to see their pants.
So, just to get this straight, if you are a teacher in the US and you have 'reason' to suspect, you can order a 13 year old girl to strip to her underwear?
So that is why there are so many pedophiles in the USA! Probably already in the job queue applying to be teachers after this story came out.
Its been posted on slashdot... i think this means it is now Public Domain.
Actually this reminds me of the kinda quizes that we gave to each other at school.
1) You ever kiss a girl 2) You ever put your hands down a girls pants. 3) You ever had sex with a girl.
Of course everyone flagrantly lied on these (after all we were about 12-14) but we all claimed to have done the most heinous things with girls (and the full list was usually around 100 questions relating to things you may have done with girls, animals, vegatables, and minerals.
I wanted to keep out of the religion/anti-religion aspect of this thread until i read this post and unfortunately i now have to dive in (along with the dozen or so i note below this post).
As a 99.9% non-believer in a higher power (99.9% because i don't have any proof it doesn't exist), i still live with hope.
I hope that my children grow up well and have children of their own.
I hope my children can grow up in a world without hatred, prejudice, and bigotry (fat chance... but i can hope)
I hope that me and my wife live to a ripe old age (although the cigs are probably not helping with that one).
I hope that man makes it to the stars in my lifetime and finds intelligent life elsewhere (because its sorely lacking here on Earth).
I am human and i have many hopes and fears. However, i do not let my fears regarding death drive me into believing that there must be something after life or that there is some reason to existence. I live with my fears and try and live my life as a good person without someone telling me what it is to be a good person be they legal or religious in nature.
PS: Your comment about life ending when the sun goes boom... Erm, even if we don't crack how to go FTL or create wormholes or whatever, there are still generation ships. If we don't wipe ourselves out or some deus ex machina occurs to wipe us out, i hope within the next few million years we will be settled out among the stars. If nothing else, nano/bio eingineering should by this time allow us to live in almost any planetary or spacial conditions as long as there is a viable energy source. And i BELIEVE when we eventually get out there, we will not be alone. The universe is just tooooo big for life not to exist elsewhere.
To believe that intelligence only exists on Earth is to fly in the face of all evidence to the contrary... there is no intelligent life on Earth;-)
Hi! I am fr*m the futurE and i ha3e one of these probabilistic comp--uters, and i must say they are great, murble murble murble. Low power but fast ÐÐÐÐ and we now use them almost everyw]here.
Of course Excel had to g0, but since then businessmen have been maki\g decisions based on knowledge and understanding rather than nu>mbers so the whole world() economy has picked up.
The only downside wa"s last years election where a dog was made president due a far out probability calculation:. Still, this means our current president is not only more l1ked than any previous pr+++esident he also is better looking, and so far has started no wars!!! His last resolution 'Woof' went ^down very well in both the upper and lower hou#se.
PS: Sorry for the text errors... these things happen, but you get used to &$it.
PPS: Heart of Gold drive currently under development!
Don't know about crack head but i used to drink in the same pub where he used to frequent (White Horse in Harpenden). He liked a tipple he did.
I think i upset him one night because we were talking about Robot Wars with friends and i shouted 'Activate'. He grabbed his drink, downed it, and left the pub.
Slashdot Mirror
"So starting in 2011, freelancers in Ukraine will have several choices: stop doing freelance work, start working illegally, become a full-fledged company subject to multiple cumbersome rules for taxation, or leave the country."
Well, call me cynical but as probably 99% of them already do not declare their work and tax its not really going to affect anyone. They will just continue working illegally. (Speaking from experience of living in Russia here close to the Ukraine)
Duh! This was years ago.
This is a fair point. I'm a programmer (self taught early age and learnt other languages later) but i'm certainly no developer. Professional experienced developers would either laugh or cry if they saw some of the code I write.
Still, i'd rather have someone like me than someone with an MCSE. I remember one girl who loved to proclaim that she was an MCSE but one day called me to help her because she didn't know how to install Win NT4 Server.... WTF? (I wasn't an MS guy, I was Novell certified).
Watch out for sarcasm. I know in the US you guys really have trouble spotting this, but in the UK we have this perfected.
Also, please dont tell anyone you just love the British accent. It really gets on our nerves, especially as we hate most US accents and can barely tolerate the rest.
Be prepared to have problems understanding the English of people who work in shops. This is because the % of natives working in shops is close to 0. They are manned by indians, middle easteners, eastern europeans, etc.
Actually, don't hold too much hope of meeting a native person as london, aside from the aforementioned shop workers, is full of american and oriental tourists. Your best bet during the daytime is trying to talk to someone on the tube, who may just be native, although probably tired and grumpy from living in or communiting to london every day and may just ignore you or tell you to piss off.
At night time though you can find lots of natives. Males and females are both easy to spot. They are loud and obnoxious and usually quite drunk. Probably best to avoid these. If you spot someone at night who is acting normally and quiet then they may be a terrorist. Report them to the police.
Do go to soho at night though. Its an enlightening experience. Actually you may feel quiet safe in this area, unlike other areas, although you may get nice looking ladies asking you for the time quiet often. One can only presume there is some sort of time-telling-device shortage in the soho area.
Do visit Camden market, afternoon or late evening. This is nothing to do with being a geek. Just wander around until some guy offers you to buy something, usually in a small package. Don't worry what it is. Smoke it, eat it, its all good stuff.
Thats probably the intention, but i think it rarely works like that. Fortunately when i was at school they were not homework crazy. However, i hear the schools near where i live now are homework crazy and i think when my kids start there i will have to lay down the law to the school.
I've heard such stories its unbelievable. Kids spending 4 or more hours a night doing homework, each class giving homework every lesson (when should the kids have free time?). Parents having to help their kids every evening (after a hard day at work) because the problems set are way too advanced for the kid.
Classic case, two parents who are both PhDs in maths had to help their kid with maths homework (because the kid didn't have a clue). Parents were amazed their kid was being given such a difficult subject for the age (something like differentiation at junior school). When the kids homework was scored the teacher marked them down (gave a 3 on a 5 point scale). I think the parents were most annoyed with being rated a 3 by someone who may not even have a degree in maths when they are PhDs.
The problem is, most schools i think do not use homework correctly, and they do not coordinate between classes so all classes are happily dishing out homework on the same nights.
Damn, why is there no edit button? I wanted to give an example of how things can be faked that are meant to be secure.
Many years ago (student days, in the UK) i recieved some spam (physical mail) but not addressed to me. And this gave me an idea. Back in those days passports were only needed for travel and not much else. For example, to get a bank account you could get away with just presenting two utility bills. So, i decided to start collecting 'evidence' that my name was actually the name from the spam mail. Now it was safe to presume this person actually had lived at my address previously, and therefore some corroborating evidence already existed. I therefore registered myself as a new name to go on the utility bills, got a library card, and got the local council to send me council tax bills in my new name (i claimed that "i" had left this address, and a new tenant had moved in... they never checked with the landlord... after all, somebody was giving them money, and nobody would give them money if they didn't have to. Next up was a bank account. "No, sorry, i dont drive, and i dont have a passport, but i have these two utility bills". Within a couple of months i had a very well documented and valid ID that even the police wouldnt question unless they did some real digging. The only thing i didnt go for was a passport, and this was because a) would have required some real forgery work, and b) probably could have ended up in a lot of trouble.
As an interesting PS, you would not believe how many credit cards i got offered in my new name. I even applied and received one but tempted as i was i never used it and in the end just threw it away to get rid of the temptation.
So... do you think you should trust digital signatures if i can create a fake identity? I'm a lot less clever than some of the people out there.
My beef with this is a little different i think. While i general i dont like the idea, it goes further than that. I do not trust signed software or web-site certificates. So, just because company X uses a Verisign signature for their security of the website, or in this case signatures are given to software, i still wont trust it just because it has a signature.
This is not paranoia (i hope). Its simply because even security systems are possible to be broken.
Therefore i still would like my security blanket of having to su/sudo to do something that can affect the whole system. A kind of "stop! are you sure?". UAC made a lot of people unhappy, but it was a bold move by MS. I always hated it when applications even back in the days of Win95 would start writing to \Windows\ or \Program Files\
Still, my biggest grief with Windows is the Registry. One file gets corrupt and thats it... bye bye boot up, bye bye many of your licence keys, bye bye everything. Still, this is off-topic, but its a personal peeve of mine, and the day someone proposes something similar for Linux is the day i would switch to BSD.
LOL... this is a joke?
First off why should religion get special treatment? If it makes money and can pay taxes then why not? Whoever heard of a religion that didn't make money? You mention that they wouldn't be able to afford to pay their property taxes because of reduced congregations.... perhaps time to move to smaller churches then? What i do know is in my city at least two new massive churches are being built by the Orthodox Christians so they can't exactly be poor or suffering from falling congregations.
Oh dear.... you do know with the way our economies and politics are setup there is now way everyone can be rich? There always has to be the poor in our societies, otherwise the economy as it is setup wouldn't work. The peons must exist to do the grunt jobs... and at the end of the day, not everyone has the right qualities to be a manager/CEO/Lawyer/etc... but they can be hard working determined individuals.
It will take a paradigm shift in our culture before we get to the stage where we can propose a workable solution (eg: not communism) which enables a vast majority of the population to be at least relatively well off.
This is a long way off i feel. I don't have a solution (do you?), but i feel the only possible solution is technology, whereby it reaches the point where technology makes the need for workers redundant and therefore no need for companies to pay salaries (maintenance costs and engineer salaries of course still needed etc).
I would love to see articles such as:
Unenployment reaches 80%
Today the government was praised for its work that saw unemployment reach 80%. Now more people than ever have been freed from the need to labour. As usual, we offer our heartfelt thanks to those who must remain employed and hope the added benefits of being a working class person at least make your 10 year term of employment bearable until you can join the unemployed.
Perhaps the books that really spring to mind are the Dancers at the end of Time by Michael Moorcock. A truly decadent society (and not one i would like to see occur) whose technology was so advanced it was like magic. They never had to work, they just followed their fashions and desires.
Quote: 500+ tabs open simultaneously
You are shitting us? How the hell can you get anything done with 500+ tabs open simultaneously? I don't think its memory leaks thats your problem. I think its the sound of the entire OS deciding enough is enough and its going to take a break.
1) Take the original, convert to PDF, OCR back to text. Voila... enough errors to make it untraceable.
2) Hack into the head of Amazon's computer and download HIS copy of a book. Now release via torrent and wait for the witchhunt to start. He is obviously guilty because it is HIS copy that was pirated.
Quote: "Cheerleading the GPL gets you mod points around here..."
Really? Wow, thanks for the tip.
Goooooooo GPL!
Can i have my mod points now?
I want an app that shows the location of nymphomaniacs in my region.... now thats an app i would pay for!
More Colenel Deering!
Quote: The absolute best we could hope to achieve is to launch a very select elite by using far more than their fair share of resources, while leaving essentially the entire human populace behind to deal with the consequences.
Which is a fantastic idea. Lets put all the 'elite' (Bush/Blair/etc) on a spaceship and send them off to the moon or elsewhere. Then maybe we can start fixing whats wrong with this world.
Lots of good advice above. Regardless of processes though, unless you can get your customers on your side and realise you are not the enemy, but are there to help, then things should go a lot more swimmingly. There will always be those who will be bastards but if you charm your users then 99% will come to see you as a friend.
Some suggestions:
1) Start a user group. Offer people to come and air their grievances. Listen to them and look for ways of improving their experience with their computers and IT services. Give Feedback!!!
2) Be open and honest. Don't lie (although bending the truth may on occasion be needed... like when you accidently bring down the server, it may not pay to be too honest here).
3) Be visible. When you can spare the time, go on a walkabout and chat with users. Ask them how they are, if they have any problems, even make quick fixes there and then on the spot. This will increase their opinion of you very quickly.
4) Ask your management to perform an independent user survey (ie: users are anonymous to you, therefore they dont have to worry about you deleting their files and backups), in order to find out what people really think about not only the IT department (you) but also the services and software provided. You then compile a response addressing the most common issues along with what you propose to do (with management support) in order to improve things.
Overall, the main things though is connecting with your users. Listen and give feedback. They are just frustrated and you are the target. Once they understand that its not your fault and that you are doing everything possible to help them (with the time and resources available) they will respond a little better.
Also be visible to your managers. Make reports for them (powerpoint does get overused but some charts may help them see how things are, rather than screaming at them you are overworked and not appreciated). This is where a ticketing system can really help.
Trust me, i've been there, done that, and got the t-shit. If you do it right within a few weeks you wont be able to walk past users without someone offering you to sit and have a coffee with them and them thanking you for your help.
PS: Final. Us IT guys... well, a lot of us dont put too much effort into our appearance (eg: wear t-shirts with geeky things on), many are overweight, shave infrequently, and baths are infrequent. If you fall into any of these categories then doing a little with your appearance to be a little more presentable will help quite a bit. Image counts for a lot.... and can lead to other things as well including no longer having to crawl under girls desks with the pretense of checking out LAN ports in order to see their pants.
Who audits the auditors?
All hail the inanimate carbon rod!
So, just to get this straight, if you are a teacher in the US and you have 'reason' to suspect, you can order a 13 year old girl to strip to her underwear?
So that is why there are so many pedophiles in the USA! Probably already in the job queue applying to be teachers after this story came out.
Its been posted on slashdot... i think this means it is now Public Domain.
Actually this reminds me of the kinda quizes that we gave to each other at school.
1) You ever kiss a girl
2) You ever put your hands down a girls pants.
3) You ever had sex with a girl.
Of course everyone flagrantly lied on these (after all we were about 12-14) but we all claimed to have done the most heinous things with girls (and the full list was usually around 100 questions relating to things you may have done with girls, animals, vegatables, and minerals.
Maybe something strange with my school though....
But it works so well for Women who develop big breasts. They are not much use (at least from a practical perspective) but they get lots of looks.
I wanted to keep out of the religion/anti-religion aspect of this thread until i read this post and unfortunately i now have to dive in (along with the dozen or so i note below this post).
As a 99.9% non-believer in a higher power (99.9% because i don't have any proof it doesn't exist), i still live with hope.
I hope that my children grow up well and have children of their own.
I hope my children can grow up in a world without hatred, prejudice, and bigotry (fat chance... but i can hope)
I hope that me and my wife live to a ripe old age (although the cigs are probably not helping with that one).
I hope that man makes it to the stars in my lifetime and finds intelligent life elsewhere (because its sorely lacking here on Earth).
I am human and i have many hopes and fears. However, i do not let my fears regarding death drive me into believing that there must be something after life or that there is some reason to existence. I live with my fears and try and live my life as a good person without someone telling me what it is to be a good person be they legal or religious in nature.
PS: Your comment about life ending when the sun goes boom... Erm, even if we don't crack how to go FTL or create wormholes or whatever, there are still generation ships. If we don't wipe ourselves out or some deus ex machina occurs to wipe us out, i hope within the next few million years we will be settled out among the stars. If nothing else, nano/bio eingineering should by this time allow us to live in almost any planetary or spacial conditions as long as there is a viable energy source. And i BELIEVE when we eventually get out there, we will not be alone. The universe is just tooooo big for life not to exist elsewhere.
To believe that intelligence only exists on Earth is to fly in the face of all evidence to the contrary... there is no intelligent life on Earth ;-)
Maybe related to this?: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/10/new_dns_amplification_attacks/
Does slashdot have a hidden repository of tranny porn? And if so, why wasnt i informed??!!
Hi! I am fr*m the futurE and i ha3e one of these probabilistic comp--uters, and i must say they are great, murble murble murble. Low power but fast ÐÐÐÐ and we now use them almost everyw]here.
Of course Excel had to g0, but since then businessmen have been maki\g decisions based on knowledge and understanding rather than nu>mbers so the whole world() economy has picked up.
The only downside wa"s last years election where a dog was made president due a far out probability calculation:. Still, this means our current president is not only more l1ked than any previous pr+++esident he also is better looking, and so far has started no wars!!! His last resolution 'Woof' went ^down very well in both the upper and lower hou#se.
PS: Sorry for the text errors... these things happen, but you get used to &$it.
PPS: Heart of Gold drive currently under development!
Don't know about crack head but i used to drink in the same pub where he used to frequent (White Horse in Harpenden). He liked a tipple he did.
I think i upset him one night because we were talking about Robot Wars with friends and i shouted 'Activate'. He grabbed his drink, downed it, and left the pub.
He was probably thinking 'bunch of loosers'.