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usury

But first you have to qualify as a human being, eh ?

Can't you find a WSC quote to go with that ?

Fraud

On the basis I received a letter from work over Christmas, informing me that I will be getting at least £70 per month cut from my salary, on top of the pay freeze, and the threat that I may still be made redundant, do you know something I don't ?

dragon ( of the magic variety )

To fix this you will need an installation disc, ANY installation disc, as long as it does not say VISTA anywhere on it; ( a LINUX variety for preference, though Win7 or WinXP, or even SOLARIS will do ). Power on the PC, insert the CD, and follow the installation instructions, paying particular attention to the bit that says "are you sure you want to overwrite the existing operating system ?". The problem will be solved in about 10 minutes.

Bad news for 'righties', deep down inside they are all 'lefties' : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/12/why-genes-are-leftwing I also found this http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201003/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-conservatives, which includes this paragraph; "Analyses of large representative samples, from both the United States and the United Kingdom, confirm this prediction. In both countries, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to be liberals than less intelligent children. For example, among the American sample, those who identify themselves as “very liberal” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 106.4, whereas those who identify themselves as “very conservative” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 94.8." Johnny B and Dunce, over to you

night

Streaming link : http://www.cricket-365.info/ A few seconds behind the radio commentary. Can't see Harris bothering to come out so only 2 more to get.

That's as maybe, but it serves as a warning to pretentious social wannabes like Dunce

Marie Antoinette and Tsar Nicholas II underestimated 'the masses'.

Perhaps I should have said "οἱ πολλοί" ? Do you think DunCe would understand ?

How much attention do you pay to what is posted ? I live in the bloody countryside, I spend my leisure time in the countryside, and I am extremely concerned about animal welfare, whether it be domesticated, like my rabbits, hens, dogs, cats, and ponies, or wildlife. Hunting is an extremely INEFFICIENT method of controlling fox populations, ( where I live there is no local hunt, and we are not overrun with vulpine invaders ), and if the 'thrill of the chase' is what you are after you can drag hunt. All this activity now provides is a form of snobbish exclusivity, where the majority of participants are nouveaus who work as solicitors, architects, etc, and are looking for a way to prove their escape from merely being part of the hoi-polloi.

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There are oh so many questions that you avoid ! As for foxes, it depends on whether you conside them vermin requiring 'control', which I do not, ( and please take into account I live in a very rural area, and keep rabbits and chickens ). If I were to feel the need I would rather trap them and move them, but if killing was necessary, shooting them is the most humane way. On the subject of effective control of foxes, how many avoid the kill ? Do you believe badgers spread bovine TB and should be gassed ? IMO another foolish and misguided injustice.

In the main, the ones that Dune dismisses, though that isn't the reason for doing so; I merely believe the evidence for the 'pro' argument wins out.

In your experience, how long between the first detection of the scent, and the coup de grace ? ie - how 'quick' is it ?

In that case, drag hunt.

There is nothing humane about chasing a fox across several miles of countryside with a pack of baying hounds and then ripping it to shreds, for sport.

And a guillotine is a humane way of controlling upper class twits.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/

For your information, the Millenium Bug was real. Computer systems the world over would have failed or generated unpredictable results, except that thousands of IT staff, myself included, worked their socks off in the 18 months running up to the turn of the century, reprogramming and rewriting code to correct the issue. The fact that there were only "minor issues" is testament to their efforts. In the case of my work place, the only system that failed was the networked backup system, which as 1999 ended, switched it's clock back to 1900 and refused to make any security copies as the databases were 99 years 'younger' than the last recorded tape copies. ( This was based on a promise made by the software supplier that the system would not suffer any issues ). Now if we could only put a similar amount of effort into managing climate change. And as for historical data, we can go back many tens, if not hundreds, of thouands of years in measuring CO2 levels in ice cores, and can extrapolate temperatures based on what we have observed, and built the models on.

lion

Particularly as Jeremy Hunt, ( no spoonerisms here ), is on record as saying he can see no problems with the idea of Murdoch regaining control of BSkyB.