Posts by Robert E A Harvey

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And is everyone else paying less now the seats are smaller?

so

What search engine do the paraniodista recommend?

Easy

1. Bring the troops home from Helmund

2. Scrap the aircraft carrier project. Carriers are to protect surface ships, and we havn't got any.

3. Scrap the arts council. Small beer, I know, but a lot of noise!

4. Scrap the Olympics. I never wanted it anyway

5. Turn remaining RAF camps in Lincolnshire into housing for asylum seekers. Stop paying rent to private landlords for them

6. Scrap the NHS IT & ID card schemes.

7. Double road tax on Lorries, to get goods back on the railways. charge a per-dieum road tax for foriegn lorries while in the country

8. Tear up the treaty of rome and tell the EU to get stuffed for their money

9. Tell the welsh and scots that if they want full independence they can have it, otherwise we are going to shut down their toy parliaments and scrap the barnett formula while we are at it.

10. Charge parents for schooling used as child minding. Stop giving them vouchers.

11. Charge for NHS maternity care. Pregancy is not a disease.

12. Increase unemployment pay but require at least two days a week of community service organised by unemployed managers

13. Tax all bankers at 100% on earnings above 700K

14. Double the road tax for second cars in a household.

15. scrap income tax. Put it /all/ on VAT. Including local VAT for local taxes. You can't have a black economy if people aren't paying income tax.

16. Tax banks on the difference between deposit rates and loan rates

17. All able-bodied adults to be recruited into snow clearing teams in the winter. Each team resonsible for 1 day in 5 of pavement and road clearing using their own shovels. The army to do bits between towns.

18. double VAT on satellite TV subscriptions and films not made in the UK.

19. Legalise and tax all drugs

20. Legalise and tax brothels.

and next week, my plans for invading Mars!

So

Under the new system, what would have happened to the FOI requests for MPs expenses?

Thought so.

uk.rec.sheds please note

'The bargain price represents the estimated cost of "transporting a shuttle from Kennedy Space Center to a major airport, and for displaying it indoors in a climate-controlled building".'

So you get a free air-conditioned shed with every shuttle, then? Bargain!

Pah!

"Government personal data handling 'better'"

It could not be much worse unless they'd got some walpaper paste and started lining the tube stations with tax returns.

Wrong problem

I don't think we should be worried about the operators being perverts. I think we should worry about them going insane. For every lustworthy body they get to look at through smoked glass, they will have to watch 132 like mine.

what?

"Is Mandy right to cut science funding?"

Can you make me a list of the last six things Mandy was right about?

Paris: she has more integrity

I will admit

I removed all my mp3 files of old BBC radio shows before flying to the USA at the new year, in case they were mistaken for bittorrent downloads and I ended up in gaol.

so lets see if I've got this right

Microsoft bully computer vendors so you can't buy a computer without windoze, and they /still/ have to discount W7 to bribe people into trying it. Just how bad can it be?

contrdictory

"It's time to file each and every story about Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak into the circular "Who Gives a Flying Fuck?" bin." - or, indeed, to write two sides of A4 about him?

Odd

When I was alive ACPO was an acronym for Assosciation of Chief Police Officers.

So now we have investigations being run by a trades union for placemen and timeservers?

What's next? The Grand Lodge organising fraud enquiries?

I'm sorry, but I expect policing to be done by County forces, Scotland Yard, or perhaps MI5. Not the Masters of Foxhounds Association, or th Angler's federation.

paper

why pretend to be somerthing else?

I'd like a 19" screen if it dould be stowed in a walking stick, but just being a bit floppy is needless parody.

Newsprint is fine. Leave it alone. It can be used to line bird cages, crumpled up for packaging, or used to light a fire.

Oh look

132 comments, nearly all the same. I DO hope you will be sending Messrs Bach and Ballmer a transcript!

'ow much Ggggranville?

It looks nice, big battery, lots to recomend it. But no ethernet jack and a silly price.

I hope it is cheaper on contracts, that's all I say.

The Carrot connection

Jasper once said he would not but a DVD until 'they promised never to invent anything else'. This is the second post-dvd idea, and Jasper 'Betamax man' Carrot was right.

3D? HD? not demanded by the public. Things they want to sell me, not things I want to buy.

odd

Quite a lot of my bosses have /been/ a tight tw@, especially in the bar. Never heard of anyone advertising for one, though.

Idea

Memo to Microsoft:

If you want to be big in phones, try making an OS that is quite good.

Mastery of the problem.

I flew to the US on the 4th of Jan, held up by the panic at Newark. I was told to expect more searches and pat-downs, and someone did just that as we entered the gate before boarding.

No such extra security took place on the internal USA flights, or on the return flight to the UK.

Oh, and no-one took any interest in my underpants at all.

it's all about the software

It's not IPtv or tv-on-demand that is 'the end of tv as we know it'. It is 'tv as we know it' that is 'the end of tv as we know it'.

The orignal BBC-only service was obliged to give a variety of programming, to a minimum standard. Then came ITV, with regional obligations and local programming. Even adding BBC2 and ch.4 wasn't a problem: they produced good, varied, programming

Now we have a multiplicity of satellite channels - which are either endless repeats of programmes from before satellite multiplicity (The good life, To the manor born, Fools and sodding horses) or are endlessly and minutely repetitive (escape to the sun in the country cooking kitchen) - and then endlessly repeated.

For glod's sake, further opportunities to view drivel doesn't stop it being drivel. We have enough distribution channels already - arguably far too many. What we don't have is anything remotely worth distributing on those channels.

I'm going to buy a season ticket for live theatre. And renew my library ticket. and then take the dogs for a long walk and check the local wildlife.

Paris. 'cos she is not only who the programmes are aimed at, but who they are about!

Knew it

3 years ago someone came up with the idea of selling off surplus bandwidth capacity for data. Then the marketing people realised it was a 'product' and started competing for the business with other networks.

Snag is, they forgot they were trying a bit of marginal revenue from a bit of underused capacity, and they have oversold it /without putting in any new infrastructure/.

Sound familiar?

Mobile suppliers really are the pits.