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This all presupposes that the draw isn't rigged.
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What are you public sector lot up to on Weds then?
badgerx16 replied to JackanorySFC's topic in The Lounge
What irks is not paying more per se, it's Government ministers publicly admitting that this has nothing to do with addressing the affordability ( or not ) of pensions by pumping the extra funds into the schemes, and everything to do with raising money to assist the Treasury's efforts to trim the deficit. -
What are you public sector lot up to on Weds then?
badgerx16 replied to JackanorySFC's topic in The Lounge
Remember that at current contribution rates, 6.5% of the Social Worker's salary would have been deducted to cover their contributions, my rough maths puts that at £79k over 40 years, although there is a small NI discount. If only we knew how many years each of us would be drawing our pensions for, it would enable us to draw neat and accurate comparisons ! -
What are you public sector lot up to on Weds then?
badgerx16 replied to JackanorySFC's topic in The Lounge
Taking the LGPS scheme as an example: for all service up to 31/03/2008 you get 1/80 of salary as pension and 3/80 as a lump sum. for service after that date you add 1/60 of salary and no additional lump sum, ( although some pension can be exchanged for lump sum ). Currently this is a final salary scheme, but the Govt want to change it to an average salary, although entitlement already accrued will not be lost ( I think - though how you work it out I'm not sure ). So for any given salary level, it is fairly easy to work out : As far as I can deduce the following are typical 'average' salaries in Local Government, so you should be able to work it out for yourself: Office Administrator £16,700 Social Worker £27,000 Environmental Health Officer £32,000 IT Support Technician £20,800 -
Hotmail IP address - Country verification
badgerx16 replied to Barney Trubble's topic in Technology Chat
There is no 100% foolproof way of determining this for any e-mail system if you don't have administrative access to the mail servers and access systems - I could just as easily send an email from my work's email system from a PC at the South Pole as from my desk, it's the access system's that would hold the key identifying data. -
Hotmail IP address - Country verification
badgerx16 replied to Barney Trubble's topic in Technology Chat
The IP address you see in the MIME headers on a mail message is the address of the mail server. With something like Hotmail or GoogleMail you will never see the IP of the sending client PC. (For instance. I have a yahoo.co.uk email account,- if I was in Malaysia and sent a message, the recipient would see a UK based IP ). If, on the other hand, you are looking at the domain portion of the sending mail account, and tracing that via WHOIS, be aware that it is extremely easy to spoof this information so that it looks to have come from somewhere else. -
What are you public sector lot up to on Weds then?
badgerx16 replied to JackanorySFC's topic in The Lounge
"But he also said the unions had raised some genuine concerns....." "I think there is a genuine issue between the unions and ministers about the pension contributions, which I hope is the subject of further discussion," A solution is in there somewhere, but both sides need to stop posturing and start negotiating. -
Jutkiewicz and Maynard have only scored as many as Guly.
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There are fans at 23 other Championship teams who would swap league table places with us tonight.
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"We are Southampton. We're top of the League!"
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She's the tatoo artists girlfriend ( now former gf ). She wanted a tatoo of Narnia, but he found out she was cheating on him !
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No it's opinion. There is still more than half a season to go, and whatever opportunity the January window might offer us. I'd rather we had a little slip now and finished strongly than struggle for the last 8 games of the season and flop in the payoffs.
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Spudgun, did you know your avatar has been copied ?
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Jeez, there's some bloody miserable folk about, and most of them seem to be on here this afternoon.
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Hotmail IP address - Country verification
badgerx16 replied to Barney Trubble's topic in Technology Chat
If it's coming from hotmail, then all you will find is a Microsoft mail server somewhere. If you go to http://geoip.sifavi.com/ip/ and put the IP in the host/IP box on the left hand side, this will show you where the server is accoring to ISP/WHOIS data. -
Just seen this mentioned on "Have I Got News For You" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060908/Tory-MP-Patrick-Mercer-calls-David-Cameron-worst-British-politician-Gladstone.html Comments...........
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What are you public sector lot up to on Weds then?
badgerx16 replied to JackanorySFC's topic in The Lounge
Now, now, BTF, you know full well that Thatch was infallible in all she did for the greater good of this wonderful, and under her tenure totally united, nation of ours. -
I haven't been in a union since 1989.
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If you accept that Clarkson is a complete Yorkshire ***t, and everything he says is part of an unpleasant public facade linked to an extremely effective marketing machine, you can pigeonhole him into an appropriate space, and judge him accordingly : he is just an animate 3D edition of VIZ. Yes he says some unpleasant things, but he's very funny when discussing and derogating the French and the USofA. The over reaction is exactly what he wanted -more publicity.
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No it isn't. I despair of the glut of sensationalist 'celebrity' magazines, and as for the tabloids - i wouldn't even wipe my arse with them.
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What are you public sector lot up to on Weds then?
badgerx16 replied to JackanorySFC's topic in The Lounge
Because in the same way as the Government the unions are self serving and dogmatic, and this is more to do with public posturing on both sides to impress their own respective audiences. -
What are you public sector lot up to on Weds then?
badgerx16 replied to JackanorySFC's topic in The Lounge
Which brings us nicely back to the question 'why won't the Treasury permit an independent audit of the schemes ?', so as to verify if it is indeed the case that certain of the public sector schemes, such as the LGPS, are cash rich and do not require propping up by the taxpayer. -
What are you public sector lot up to on Weds then?
badgerx16 replied to JackanorySFC's topic in The Lounge
I don't take issue with any of that, in fact the % of GDP is supposed to be going down. Where there seemed to be an issue on Newsnight yesterday was that Mark Serwotka was claiming the increased contributions being demanded were not, in fact, going to be fed into the pension schemes, but would be siphoned off by the Treasury. -
What are you public sector lot up to on Weds then?
badgerx16 replied to JackanorySFC's topic in The Lounge
The LGPS is administered by Local Authorities ( the employers ), who invest the funds on behalf of the member employees. It has no direct link to the Government, other than the over-riding regulations concerning how it should be managed. -
I didn't realise you were a leftie.