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Umiapik posted:The Tories need to do their sums: there's far more voting renters than there are voting landlords.
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Barry Foster posted:Airports are magical, liminal areas that exist outside of local time and space, in which stuff like 'drinking at half five in the morning' is perfectly normal. That's why they're fun places to be.
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May 2, 2014 12:13
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Spangly A posted:"A British court somehow found someone not guilty of Libel for once, but now that they're not in a position to respond because of extraneous legal matters I will make defamatory remarks and insinuate their guilt out of spite"
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May 6, 2014 11:09
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SybilVimes posted:As I remember it, yes, it's perfectly legal, a judge can recuse him/herself if they feel they have a conflict of interest, and either side could file an appeal based on their feeling that there was a conflict of interest, it would then be up to another judge to decide if there was, or was not, and whether that is sufficient to consider the judge's verdict compromised. But there's no inherent illegality of any bias by the judge.
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May 6, 2014 11:25
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The Donut posted:So...when does the revolution start?
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May 6, 2014 12:09
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The NHS is one of the most efficient healthcare systems in the world, so pretty much everywhere else with comparable standards of healthcare will spend more money on it than we do.
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May 6, 2014 20:30
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CountButtula posted:My dad frequently assures me that I'm lazy and don't work as hard as him. I've had 25 jobs in my life; he's had 3. Indeed, we are the lazy generation.
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May 7, 2014 11:09
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lol at his £350,000 mortgage for a family home in Farnham. That would buy you a two-bed flat somewhere in Zone 2 if you took it out these days. How are his kids gonna manage when they need to find half a million quid for their first flat?
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May 7, 2014 16:10
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HortonNash posted:I thought it was very reminiscent of "The Now Show". petrol blue posted:It's like they've had comedy described to them, but don't actually know what it is.
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May 7, 2014 16:33
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The electoral roll is open to anyone to look at. https://www.gov.uk/electoral-register quote:Who can use your details?
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May 7, 2014 18:18
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Bozza posted:I've got no kids like, but the little theoretical bastards will be going to state school like Daddy, not posho schools, even if they did exist. My partner and I actually ran the numbers when we had kids, and once you add on things like food, rent, utility bills, transport to work, a bit of money to do things like replace your clothes when they wear out or pay someone to fix your boiler when it breaks and you can push that number up to £25,000+ quite easily (reminder: the median UK salary is £26,000). It gets a little better once the kids reach 5. State schools will look after them from 9-3 every day, but again, if your'e working, you'll need to stump up the money to keep them occupied until 5.30 or 6 or whenever you can get back to pick them up, and all after-school clubs cost money as well. I can easily see the vast bulk of a £30,000 salary disappearing if you live somewhere where rents are high and living near to work is impossible, like the South East. Particularly if you lack family or friends who can do child-minding off the books. Zephro fucked around with this message at 12:09 on May 8, 2014 |
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May 8, 2014 12:05
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Seaside Loafer posted:For what purpose? just loving ad traffic is that what you are saying? Sites like Buzzfeed are entirely open about this. Their headlines ("17 Ambiguously Gay Cartoon Characters from the 1980s") are specifically designed to be as clickbaity as possible, and their articles are designed to be read quickly so that you can move on to the next intriguing headline - a selection of which are conveniently presented to you at the bottom of the piece. If they have any sense they're doing what Amazon and Netflix do as well and tracking what you read so they can learn about your individual preferences, then serve you up more articles based on that. Traditional newspapers face exactly the same commercial pressures. A few (the Times, the FT) are trying to make a mostly-subscription model profitable but if you decide not to pursue that strategy then chasing eyeballs by the million is your only other option.
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May 8, 2014 12:30
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LemonDrizzle posted:PFI was a way of squaring that circle - not an economically efficient way by any means, but just about the only one that was politically viable at the time. They spent something like £400m just writing the contracts. And once they were written, they couldn't be changed except in pre-specified seven-yearly intervals. Those would (preusmably) have been another expensive festival of lawyerly hair-splitting, and if you got anything wrong you'd be stuck with it for the next seven years. That was never tested, though, since both contracts collapsed before any renegotiations could be completed*. It's also the reason why you hear about hospitals that signed up to 500 meals a day then found out they only needed 400 and have been left unable to change it, etc ad almost infinitum. *There were plenty of other problems with the tube contracts, not limited to the fact that both Metronet and Tube Lines were guaranteed a rate of return, which flies completely in the face of the point of contracting-out in the first place, which is that the contractor is supposed to bear the risk. Then it turned out that 95% of their bank loans were underwritten by the taxpayer too, so when it all went tits up taxpayers had to pay once again.
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May 12, 2014 12:49
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HortonNash posted:Actual blackshirts in support of UKIP, how's Nige going to spin this one?
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May 15, 2014 16:54
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KayTee posted:What happened in between has effectively finished Nigel Farage’s political career.
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May 16, 2014 14:40
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SybilVimes posted:IIRC spotify have 'lost' their entire user database twice to hackers, still refuse to encrypt passwords, and yet are still in business
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May 18, 2014 19:27
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SybilVimes posted:They claim PCI compliance, but there are ways of being PCI compliant without encrypting the card data. AFAIK they've stated that the breaches did NOT compromise the CC data, I'm not sure I believe them.
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May 18, 2014 19:37
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LemonDrizzle posted:Housechat? Housechat. 
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May 20, 2014 10:55
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Bozza posted:I like Andrews and Arnold's philosophy but Plusnet are a shitload cheaper if you want fiber to cabinet and unlimited down/up. 
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May 20, 2014 22:23
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Remember all that "Farage's career is over" stuff? Yeah http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/20/labour-tory-poll-ratings-farage-attacks quote:Labour and Conservative polling is showing that attacks claiming Nigel Farage is a racist have backfired since voters do not regard him as such and see the assaults as a sign members of the political establishment are ganging up to undermine him.
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May 21, 2014 08:14
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Ddraig posted:I'm stuck using Three mobile Internet at the moment as it's the only thing I can get. They're getting increasingly lovely, though. Zephro fucked around with this message at 08:20 on May 21, 2014 |
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May 21, 2014 08:18
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Answers Me posted:Which was the first time?
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May 21, 2014 09:11
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The thing is, Farage is right about one thing - the other parties absolutely are cooperating to attack him. The problem is that, like some kind of video-game villain, doing that only makes him stronger by reinforcing his whole "crusading outsider" thing.
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May 21, 2014 09:16
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Jedit posted:You want the media to be wrong about Farage's career ending? *At least for a while. I think it'll crash and burn eventually. Zephro fucked around with this message at 14:31 on May 21, 2014 |
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May 21, 2014 14:27
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I will never get fibre because I don't live in a village. When the quasi-hobbyist who runs my ramshackle WISP croaks it I will literally be without internet at home.
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May 21, 2014 17:46
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uuuugghhh I wish the greens weren't so anti-nuclear and cherry-pickingly weird on science.
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May 22, 2014 20:06
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keep punching joe posted:You can always join them and influence the party direction, they are very democratic.
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May 22, 2014 20:09
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Bobstar posted:Down here somebody managed to top An Independence from Europe by starting their party with a 4.
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May 22, 2014 20:19
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Extreme0 posted:"2BR1TISH4U"
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May 22, 2014 21:27
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hs2 is proposed to go to newcastle, glasgow & edinburgh
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Alecto posted:51st, in fact, by my reckon.
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May 23, 2014 14:38
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:At least someone would finally step up and just tell Farage to get hosed.
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May 26, 2014 21:58
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ronya posted:now he's a "consummate politician" rather than a racist outsider
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quote:Meanwhile, research showed that central London property prices have risen by £729 a day over the last year. quote:We cheerled the rise of property prices not realising that it would destroy, if not our own lives, but the lives of our children.
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I actually think the politics of house prices are going to get quite interesting in the next ten to twenty years. The only way most young people can afford to buy is with a big dollop of cash from their parents, and the only way most parents can afford to provide that dollop is to sell their existing home, which has appreciated in value enormously. That's fine if you have one child, but it works less and less well the more kids you have. If you have two children then you have to split your house three ways, effectively (cos you need somewhere to live too, remember). Some people I know in their early 50s, who have (on paper) done very well out of rising prices in London and the South East, are just now beginning to realise what a massive problem this is now that their own kids are entering the workforce and finding that they're paying £800 a month to rent a windowless closet twenty minutes from a Tube stop somewhere in Zone 5. Zephro fucked around with this message at 09:36 on May 30, 2014 |
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May 30, 2014 09:33
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Betjeman posted:There's a shitload of entitlement that thinks young people should be able to afford a decent place in a decent part of London straight out of college. There are still loads of affordable areas in zone 5. £800 a month gets you a one bed flat near East Croydon which is only 20 minutes to Victoria. £450 a month gets you a room in a houseshare in zone 3 Tooting, 30 minutes on the Northern line. Also, 25 or 30 years ago, you COULD afford to rent a decent place in London straight out of university. That did a lot to help turn the city's declining population around in the 1980s.
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Betjeman posted:There's a shitload of entitlement that thinks young people should be able to afford a decent place in a decent part of London straight out of college. There are still loads of affordable areas in zone 5. £800 a month gets you a one bed flat near East Croydon which is only 20 minutes to Victoria. £450 a month gets you a room in a houseshare in zone 3 Tooting, 30 minutes on the Northern line. I don't know whether it's easier to fix London's housing crisis or fix the UK's city-state-itis, but there's no political will to do either. edit2: America is an interesting contrast, as a country with more than a dozen legitimately big cities. I assume they must all provide something of a safety valve for each other. Zephro fucked around with this message at 10:57 on May 30, 2014 |
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May 30, 2014 10:53
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Umiapik posted:Articles on this very subject are now regularly appearing in the Telegraph, where posh journalists have switched from gloating over their house price gains to indignantly complaining that neither they nor their children can afford to live in London any more. Here's a good example: It's refreshing to see the poshos freely admitting how things work and not hiding behind big inky clouds of bullshit. Zephro fucked around with this message at 11:06 on May 30, 2014 |
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May 30, 2014 11:02
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Munin posted:Yeah, but it is also a much bigger country and arguably only 2 or 3 really are London like and the rest more Manchester.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:£800 a month is an absolute fuckload of money (almost 50% of take-home pay for someone on the London median wage, plus you have to add on £200 for your zone 1-5 travelcard). It speaks volumes that you think spending way over half your wages just on rent and travel is reasonable. edit: also by the time you have a kid you'll need to find £12,000 a year after tax to put it in childcare so that you and your partner can both work to pay your colossal, barely-affordable rent / mortgage. Zephro fucked around with this message at 11:15 on May 30, 2014 |
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