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Well the footie manager and other bits and bobs exclude linux/chrome. Depends really on how worried you are about viruses really (not that mac's are virus free). If you could wait Windows 8 coming fairly soon is supposed to be more secure against a number of threats.

A bit more info about what you need it might help. For example if it was mainly for web browsing then you could go for a google chrome book which is very resistant to viruses, quick to book but does not run anything but a chrome browser. Fairly cheap and also low virus risk is to buy a windows laptop, download a linux distro and install that in place of windows.

Too late I am afraid. Earlier your said and I accepted so we have now saved even more money by just putting me in charge...... serf..

Looks like Samsung are following through on their threat: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/05/samsung_wants_injunctions_in_france_and_italy/

I know. I was just trying to make the point that if people think the european council are appointed not elected that the same logic applies to the PM. Both are appointed by the people we elect (except the unelected conservative members in the case of the PM). The main difference is that the council appointments are effectively one level higher up.

The soverign stuff is just rubber stamping so that bogus in this context. The fact is the leader of the conservative party who is currently the prime minister is elected via a combination of MP's and conservative members. In that respect I would say that if you think the members of the european council are not democratically elected then the situation with the PM is even worse as it relies in part on conservative members who have no mandate from the general public.

I thought from history that installing a new version of iOS on a older device made it slower and sluggish? If you are the sort of person who will pay £100 pounds for £10's worth of memory chips because they refuse to include a memory card slot and believe iTunes is wonderful and not an awful program then it may be the phone for you. Also it may be the fastest now but unlike iPhones new android phones are being released almost daily and I predict its crown on various area's will be lost very soon. Finally as I noticed someone had pointed out on another site though they used fairly new phones for the camera speed comparisons they used older phones for the network speed comparison, I wonder why that was?!

You could say that Cameron in a political appointee as it is the elected MP's who decide who is prime minister not the voters.

More fun and cross referencing with the eu thread the reason why May said it was true was because it was printed in a tabloid http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2009/10/mail-and-sunday-telegraph-cat-alysts.html Later this week the transport secretary will announce new bus routes have been set up on the moon.

I don't believe he ever went so far as to say "Honestly I am not making this up".

Also having voice control on a phone sounds fine. The google voice search works well on android. However you do feel as bit of a fool standing there talking into the phone saying things like "Find Joe Bloggs" and I use it a lot less than I thought I would.

One assumes that like facetime the other person has to have a suitable apple product as well. As to knowing where someone is it sounds just like google latitude.

She will probably claim that it was someone else who made it up so that her statement was factually correct...

So it in parts a rip off of google latitude then!

Are the civil servants who write the UK laws directly elected? The point is unless it passed the elected European parliament it will not become law so it does not matter who proposed the law does it?

European laws have to go through the European parliament and the European Council. The UK is represented on the council and you hopefully voted for a member of the european parliament. so the idea that some unelected pencil pusher in brussels produces a law and it automatically enforced is wrong. It has to pass both the council and the parliament before its passed. on top of which as I understand it (wife's sister does this stuff) what happens is that it is then down to the individual countries to write the laws based on the european directives and often the government will add more stuff to these laws that was in the original directive. This gives them a way of adding the bits they want and is it is complained about they blame the original directive.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/04/why_not_buy_an_iphone_5/

Whilst we are on (or were on) the subject of just making things up to try and disparage something. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/04/theresa-may-clashes-judges-cat

One of the initial reasons for setting up the EU was to make trading within it easier yet you don't think that moving out of the EU would make trading harder? Even those above supporting withdrawing from the EU recognise the advantages of being inside for trading purposes.

Because deals within the EU are simpler than deals from someone within the EU and someone outside the EU. For example I believe the situation with custom regulations is different?

I am sure trade would continue as we would still buy cars from abroad (given we hardly make any ourselves). The question is would someone in the EU buy something from the UK where there is extra paperwork and the variance in the exchange rate compared to buying a similar item from within the eu. Find me a quote from a trade group that represents exporters to say they think it would be okay to leave the EU? Our balance of payments deficit even as it is shows that trade deals are not 'tit for tat'. Often they are to protect the internal produces of similar items and in many cases are close to protectionism. Anyway trade deals apply in few cases in most its is 'free trade' when you are at the whim of the markets. My point was to renegotiate we would need the agreement of the other countries. If the other countries see we are trying to gain an advantage why would they agree to the renegotiation.

Nothing as long as it is not being cynically manipulated by one side of the argument. Sounds good to me

Ah. EFTA that counts broke Iceland and the Principality of Liechtenstein as half their membership. We would definitely be a big fish is a small pond then!

Lets look back the fear, uncertainty and doubt, let alone the lies about costs etc being peddles by the FPTP side for the recent voting reform referendum to show why these things are never a fair as they should be.

I believe that if we leave the EU the paperwork etc involved in exporting to europe will increase. If we left I would expect our imports and exports with the EU to decrease. Additionally I believe that we really too much on financial services than we should and many of the foreign banks have their european headquarters in the UK. Would that change if we were no longer in the EU. Paris or Berlin would be falling over themselves to offer then a headquarters in the EU.