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But I am not an eCommerce company, just somebody who has worked in IT since 1982 and who first encountered PCs when they had 640k max RAM and 8086 processors, and many lacked an HDD - using 2 FDDs instead. I can also remember CPM and Windows 1.

Firefox, because it isn't from Micro$haft, but keep IE9 in reserve as one of work's VPN systems won't work properly with FF. Have looked at Chrome but didn't like it. Mind you, FF does have issues; it always seems to throw up incompatibility issues with plug-ins after upgrades, and I don't like the persistence it shows in trying to force you to accept the upgrades.

Should be OK with Security Essentials as well as McAffee. As for speeding it up, how old is it, what processor, and how much RAM ? The easiest gain is to increase RAM and possibly defrag the HDD. Another thing to do is check everything that loads up at boot time, use HijackThis, and remove redundant device drivers, etc.

Never said I was perfect, but how anybody gets caught by GATSOs is beyond me; they are painted bright yellow and prominently positioned, warning signs are posted at least a mile before them, SatNavs know where they are - as do road atlases, and you can even check their location on Police websites. Additionally, local newpapers tend to carry advance notice of the planned location of the mobile units for the next week. Claiming they are a 'cash cow' being milked is just sour grapes, you know you are speeding, you know you will be fined if caught. If you don't want to subscribe to the Police Benevolent Fund, don't get caught.

At least there aren't any accompanying YouTube clips.

Surely that reads that the budget was actually £7.3Bn, but they set aside a £2Bn contingency as costs inevitably increase to exceed available funding, so it isn't 'under budget', it's 'over estimate'.

Not the first time this sort of thing has hit the news, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343959/Driver-flashed-headlights-warn-motorists-speed-trap-fined.html

If you don't speed you don't get fined, and don't need to be warned - simples !

But then again, good old Tux trumps them both :

Thomas Peckhart has just come on for the Czechs. how many other non-English ex Saints are at the Euros - I know Anders Svensson played yesterday.

Why bother trying to have original ideas when you can get elected by merely slagging off the other side. As you said earlier, all as bad as each other.

The 'bust' was a GLOBAL phenomenon, fuelled as much by the bubble in the US housing market as by the arcane derivatives trading and incestuous repackaging and reselling of 'debt as an asset'. It would have been beyond the control of whoever was in Government. There are possibly arguments about whether the economy could have been managed better in terms of it's ability to ride the storm, but they are moot, as I doubt Tory financial policy towards the City would have differed much from the Nu-Lab 'light touch' - the illusion of easy money would have been too tempting.

OK, let's put it another way - how many Conservative MPs in 2004, especially the front benchers, opposed the knighthood ? How may concurred ? How much of the media questioned the logic ? If the didn't argue against it, does this make them Tory 'thickos'.

And how many people in 2004 opposed or even questioned it ? Who was predicting the meltdown that would happen 3 or 4 years later ? Hindsight is a most wonderful weapon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city This is the squad that won the title, English players are definitely in the minority. More of these players are at the Euros for other countries than are representing England. Compare to Man Ure's 1996 double winning squad : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%E2%80%9396_Manchester_United_F.C._season#Squad_statistics

I'm flattered that you chose to grace this new alias with a capital letter whilst missing out on 4 others in that statement, ( assuming Toadx16 and Rattyx16 are of equivalent status to Weaselx16 ). I guess that this leaves me free to use Toad to refer to yourself, particularly when appearing in the Washer Woman disguise.

Presumably the Football League is not a capitalist organisation then ?

The only weasel around here is you, forever starting snide trolling threads to satisfy your lust for attention. Now trot along and try to find a suitable YouTube clip to justify the opening gambit of this one.

As anybody making a major donation to Tory party funds might say, "What's tax ?".

Yes, but the pub gave her back.

Come on June old girl, fess up - how much of your JSA do you donate ?

I make the decisions as to which charities I donate money - Guide Dogs for the Blind, for family reasons, always get a donation when I pass a collection, and I have a 'Give as You Earn' deduction at source for the Marie Curie cancer trust. I also support the Lifeboats and some local animal welfare charities, such as Lurcher Link and the Thoroughbred Rehabilitation Trust. So yah boo sucks to you, June.

If you cannot hold up your side of a debate, you have run out of 'copy and paste' opportunities, and there are no YouTube videos to hand, you can always hide behind your keyboard and throw in an insult. ( Before anybody points it out, I realise that sometimes I allow myself to be drawn down to Dune's level. It makes me feel used, but sometimes you cannot avoid spontaneous reactions ).

No, "he has 'learned' to post cheap attempts at point scoring like Dune". Comme ci :-

Maybe he's learned it from Dune ?