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QFT Indeed. Although that is indicative more of how they're unable to cope by comparison rather than a greater level of importance. I spent the night in the car - got home at about 11am - completely fucked off with it all now although that vitriol is aimed more at the authorities than the weather itself.

An iSlate or whatever its called? Big iPhone or the future of personal computing? Shipping in March according to WSJ. http://www.digitaltrends.com/gadgets/apple...s-wsj/?news=123

Ok... You win. Btw, apart from having a face the would curdle milk, didn't she predict Ipswich would win the Championship while we would go down? Really? I know The Times predicted us to go down, didnt realise she did too.

You were lucky to have a face, we just had another pair of bollocks where the face would be. And instead of snow it was red hot lava. Still got the problem?

I remember hiding behind the wall at the bus stop with about 50 snowballs pre-rolled waiting for the bus to drop people off and pelting the driver incessantly until he had to close the doors and fuck off. We used to do it all the time so there must have been loads of snow.

The Free Market finds a price...then corporations, lobbyists & government artificially inflate it so others can't improve on their cost model. Capitalism rules Cartels rule! Price fixing eh? Have you turned your back on Bill? Still cannot understand how it can be "illegal" to buy commercially sold CD's for ~£3 in the far east, ship them and sell them for £4.50 in the UK though. It's like say "well if coal costs £10 a ton to mine in the UK then that is what will be charged, even if it's actually costs £1 a ton to mine it and ship it from the Ukraine" and then making a law to support it. Just finished Globalization and it's Discontents the other week (Cheers for the recommendation Chez) where Stiglitz highlights the outrageous contradiction in the US where they use "anti-dumping rights" to do exactly that. http://everything2.com/title/Globalization...its+Discontents you should also try The Collapse of Globalism by John Ralston Saul Added to wishlist. Cheers. I dont think it will beat Stiglitz's account or perspective. How could it? Its interesting the law change in France because here, the artist is held in the highest regard. This is a country who have Philosophers on the cover of their celebrity magazines, they immortalise and glorify artistic merit above all else. Back to the busines model, have a think about this. For hundreds of years people bought apples from apple sellers. Then one day, an apple tree grew in someone's garden and everyone realises that if they wanted, they could enter the garden and take the apples for free. Since they all live nearby and pass the garden everday, its not any hassle to nip in and take one. If everybody lived next to the apple tree (no cost) and the apple tree produced as much apples as everyone needed (no scarcity), should they have the right to enter the garden and take the appples from the apple grower just because he can? Or should the apple grower have the right to sell his apples?

breathing is a risk factor for all cancers. afterall, oxygen is the most reactive substance known to man!! Fortunately, it doesnt work like that. "Since all cancer suffereres breathe, then oxygen must be a risk factor". Only when you dont understand the difference between association and cause.

I dropped a very subtle hint before xmas and only alex picked up on it. It was mentioned on NO too.

Think the chord thing is quite common, it happened to my niece too and she had a cone head. She had a very complicated birth though. Mine is due on June 24th.

Nice one PP, great news.

Speculate to accumulate is great in principle but the problem is that football operates across a number of tiers. The leagues first of all, then the 3 distinct groups in the top league we have now, then Europe. The problem for clubs that speculate and do well is that for them to consolidate their position amongst their new peers and perhaps go on to do well in Europe, they need further investment. Hence creating the need to spend before the revenues can be gained. However, removing the ability of clubs like Man City, Chelsea and Real Madrid from operating the way they do should bring down inflation in wages/prices. Price inflation feeds the debt cycle for ambitious clubs, so controlling this may ease the problem. There is imo a bit of mix-up of ideas about competition in sport and competition in markets. Many people like to think of sport as a competitive market, so the rules of the economic market should apply i.e. clubs should be allowed to flourish or die without intervention. This is daft. Football is already a highly regulated game since it has rules. It is the rules that define it as a sport. Therefore, rules of engagement need to be applied to the organisation of the game as well as the game itself. Is the advantage of having debts beyond the means of the club itself just like the advantage gained from controlling the ball with the hand before scoring? Perhaps its even greater but at the moment it isnt even considered 'cheating'.

Was clearly carrying an injury at the start of the season, hence he didnt really do much in the first few games. Still think he is the best footballer we have at the club.

Sounds like the perfect away trip to me - hilarious! Do you mind if i add it to the website? Can use your username or you can send me your proper name by e-mail contact on the site if you want? Aye no bother, just use my username c/o toontastic.

Sat next to Bobby Davro on the plane to the Real Mallorca UEFA game. I was stuck between him and his sound engineer in the middle seat and got an insight into his questionable recreational habits. On the trip, drank a bottle of spanish brandy after lunch, got told off by Peter Beardsley's brother (alex's dad might have been there), had a tab slapped out of my mouth by a copper and got on the telly at half time. One of Steven Taylor's first full games iirc.

From a personal perspective, if the fuckers are guilty, am not arsed if they pull their fingernails out with pliers. This is the exact point. They're held without charge. over 50% were eventually released without charge after several years. It's barbaric. You see opposition to torture as a religious position? I'm as atheistic as they come and I'm dead against it, especially prior to trial and determination of guilt. I think expectations have been dropped so low by Bush a lot of people are glad just to have the "erudite inspirational leader that the world has been crying out for". But that should be a given. The most powerful man in the world shouldn't be a drunken hick zealot. He should be able to string 2 sentences together as a bare minimum and be judged on actions rather than words. There isnt much to reply to that as i agree with your fundamental point. Just to clarify, there are two basic types of morality, rule based and outcome based. Religions use rule based morality e.g. thou shalt not.... torture. Outcome based morality says, torture is acceptable if the ends justify the means. This morality is a bit grey around the edges and leads to some sticky issues. Can i also remind you that Obama was defeated by the Senate in April (?) when trying to get funding to sort out the mess in Guantanamo.

Special interests will block a public option in the U.S. till the there is some kind of revolution. If you spend $1000 of tax per capita on a public option or $1000 per capita on a private subsidy towards coverage offered on an insurance exchange, which is the more efficient? Focus on the 'public option' is wrong since it makes the debate about how you fund something, rather than the 'outcomes' of the policy i.e. the increase in the number of people who will have access to healthcare. But that still doesn't address what happens to someone who loses their job and them presumably has no healthcare (unless my understanding is wrong). Presumably providers won't provide care without premiums. I could understand the dismissive attitude if there was an economic boom and everyone was "safe" but at the moment I don't get why there arses aren't twitching. I think there is still concern for those who will fall between the cracks in the system. This legislation would fail John Rawls' difference principle (a political philosopher who dominates european social policy, even though he was a yank) as it does not improve the welfare of the least well off in the US. It does address some of the issues faced by the lower middle classes though. As Sullivan pointed out in the Sunday Times, the big battle is getting legislation on the statute, once that is done, tweaking it to improve the faults will be relatively easy. There are some bold assumptions in the analysis, if employers dont behave the way they are predicted, then further legislation will be necessitated by the federal finances. If Obama gets a second term, these tweaks will be of the 'socialist' variety. This is his strategy imo.

From a personal perspective, if the fuckers are guilty, am not arsed if they pull their fingernails out with pliers. The moral calculations are complex though; is 'innocence + torture' a greater suffering than a plane load of dead people? Probably. Is 'guilty + torture'? Not sure. I'm not someone who subscribes to religious style morality, so 'thou shalt not torture' holds no water with me, if you excuse the pun. I only put that article up because i think between the bashing he gets from the right and the left you'd think the bloke was some sort of twat, instead of the erudite inspirational leader that the world has been crying out for.

Dopey looking birds? Sounds decent.

I got given that Miike Snow album, which was a surprising gift to say the least. My favourite album is definitely that Luke Vibert - We Hear You. Fave track of the year is What Would I Want? Sky by AC. Have i said that already?

Special interests will block a public option in the U.S. till the there is some kind of revolution. If you spend $1000 of tax per capita on a public option or $1000 per capita on a private subsidy towards coverage offered on an insurance exchange, which is the more efficient? Focus on the 'public option' is wrong since it makes the debate about how you fund something, rather than the 'outcomes' of the policy i.e. the increase in the number of people who will have access to healthcare.

The article is entitled 'Inch by inch, Obama is moving mountains'. My point has always been the same. These things take time.

Republican? The anti-Obama agenda isn't controlled by the far left, its the far right that feeds them. This story hasn't been concocted by the Republican party. It's the Obama plan. Aye, whatever. You think Samuelson is feeding off far left rhetoric? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6968384.ece

Am on the Cotes du Rhone tip this year, Crozes-hermitage all the way. [/wanker]

Yeah i need to get me one of them. Our lass got us one of those nespresso things, constantly broken.