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Every time I go past Rotten Ronnie's burger shack, I wince at the lack of capitalisation in "i'm lovin' it". There's no excuse for laziness, nor for promoting poor grammar or punctuation in advertising, particularly with spell-checking and automatic grammar correction, ( provided, of course, that you ensure you are using 'International English', whatever that is - colour has a 'u' and grey has an 'e', aluminium is not 'aluminum', and nuclear is not pronounce 'nucl-err'; why can't the Yanks refer to their dialect as 'Americanese' ).

I wonder if a well known local second-hand photocopier salesman might start sniffing round ?

Define 'improved'. Privatisation of any service means that the profitable parts are bolstered and cultivated, those bits that need to be provided because the 'public service mandate' requires it, are reluctantly tolerated, ( and with any luck wither and die ), unless public subsidy can be provided. Classic examples are found everywhere a previously public service has to maintain it's presence in rural areas, an obvious example being bus services. ( Admittedly British Airways does not fall into this general argument, but most air passengers don't use them, preferring much cheaper alternatives ). BT have an unfair advantage over other TELCOs as they are the only one with full national coverage, and they use their monopoly position to force prices of many business related services upwards, because they know there is no alternative - something I have direct professional experience of in the field of high-speed computer network provision. If the Post Office is fully privatised, will the new commercial master wish to maintain the current mandate of 'next day delivery of first class post, ANYWHERE on mainland Britain, at a single fixed price', I doubt it very much.

http://www.btcomplaint.com/2009/04/bt-last-in-home-phone-survey-sky-phone.html http://www.which.co.uk/news/2009/09/npower-and-british-gas-worst-for-customer-service-185002.jsp http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/911096/Virgin-tops-airline-customer-satisfaction-poll-BA-scores-below-average/ Maybe the City likes them, but their customers aren't impressed.

I wouldn't trust the Daily Mail to tell me the sun was shining, HTH !

Connolly may well be the final bit in the jigsaw. 5 in a row with the next game and out of the bottom 4. :D:D Has the 'feel good factor' returned ?

In my understanding..... Technically the line into your house shouldn't change, it just gets patched into a different DSLAM in an upstream exchange, but as this can involve reconfiguring traffic balancing on the ISP's kit, they may well tell you that for about 7 days their automatic monitoring systems will be fine tuning things, and may transiently degrade or upgrade service as things settle in. Ultimately, all DSL services are shared, so if an ISP is particularly heavily subscribed in a particular area, performance can be quite badly impacted. This is normally seen at 'peak' times; between 18:00 and 21:00 in particular, though I think most ISPs are getting their acts together and putting in more capacity. If it persists, yet seems to be with specific sites, it may be a routing or DNS issue with your ISP. Give it a couple of days, and if FaceBook is still effectively u/s, there may be some other tests that can be used.

I am not sure that Holocaust Denial is strictly illegal in this country, as we have opted not to implement the entire directive, ( if indeed we have implemented any of it ) : " European Union Directive for Combating Racism and Xenophobia (2007) The text establishes that the following intentional conduct will be punishable in all EU Member States: - Publicly inciting to violence or hatred , even by dissemination or distribution of tracts, pictures or other material, directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin. - Publicly condoning, denying or grossly trivialising - crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as defined in the Statute of the International Criminal Court (Articles 6, 7 and directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin, and - crimes defined by the Tribunal of Nuremberg (Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, London Agreement of 1945) directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin. Member States may choose to punish only conduct which is either carried out in a manner likely to disturb public order or which is threatening, abusive or insulting. The reference to religion is intended to cover, at least, conduct which is a pretext for directing acts against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin. Member States will ensure that these conducts are punishable by criminal penalties of a maximum of at least between 1 and 3 years of imprisonment." The crucial bit for this instance is in blue. Pr1ck Griffin seemed to be more concerned with French law than British, and Straw was saying he'd fix things with any of our EU partners who might have objected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial

As somebody outside London, and quite obviously a northerner, I do find very little of interest in what you say, so perhaps you got your statement the wrong way round

Yes it would. Have you tried one of the online ADSL speed checks on the new service ?

Are you inside or outside London ?

Well, did Griffin convince anybody ? no ?

I bet Nick Griffin claims to be a direct descendant ! Mind you, they were talking about post ice-age immigration, on the basis that when Britain was under 1Km of ice, nobody lived here.

Click on the START icon ( normally bottom left of the screen ), select RUN, then enter CMD. In the box that opens type in IPCONFIG, and look for the line showing Default Gateway. Then enter PING xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -t ( where xx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the value showing for the gateway, as stated above this is usually 192.168.something ). This will give a series of response times for your home network. Let it run for about 10 to 12 lines and then press &C, which should stop the test. EG: Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner>ping 192.168.1.1 -t Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1: Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms Control-C ^C C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner> The value given as 'time' should be as small as possible.

Sitting Pr1ck Griffin next to Bonnie Greer is a master stroke.

Nick Griffin harks back to the 'original indigenous people of these islands', Bonnie Greer points out they were the Neanderthals. :smt046

Griffin tries evading a question by claiming the law won't let him answer, Jack Straw ( the Justice Minister ) says "Don't worry I'll fix it, just answer the question". LOL!

We tolerate you !

What would be the reaction if somebody announced 'White History Month' ? When will we realise that categorising us by our differences only reinforces the sterotypical tribalism that leads to such as the BNP getting elected ? If you go in for a kidney transplant they decide on a donor by blood group typing, not the melanin content of the donor's skin. There is only one 'race', the Human Race. ( Ooops, there goes my liberal loony leftie streak again ).

1) Should they be invited to participate, as a 'legitimate' political party involved in the democratic process ? 2) Should 'public opinion' or political point scorers, ( such as Dianne Abbott on the Breakfast News ), sway the BBC's position, or are the BBC just being controversial for the sake of it ? 3) Does anybody really care ? 4) Will this thread just degenerate into name calling - "loonie lefties" vs "racist bigots " ? Lights the fuse and stands back.......

Plays alongside Brett Ormerod & Stephen Crainey. ( Jermaine Wright was released in August at the end of his one year contract ).

There used to be a cafe on Portswood Road, just up from the Talking Heads I think. Used to go there with my dad on Saturdays and get a Coke or 7-UP, in the classic bottles, and then up to the shops for a DC comic or a Commando book.

"Love's a mystery ( I don't understand) ", "Don't touch me there", classic songs. Did the girls get their kit off ? They got banned from Bournemouth because of that part of the act.

3 goals in 12 starts this season for the Tangerines.

The lowest footballing point for me was the game when relegation to League1 was confirmed, and it became apparent that any points penalty would be taken this season. The lowest point for the club's existance was when Pinnacle unveiled their 'money man', and the whole thing was finally exposed as a cruel con trick, the period from then up to ML stepping in was like being on Death Row. The Bristol Rovers game was just a cringe-making televised revelation to non-Saints of how poor we were at that time, and probably the single worst performance you are ever likely to see by an excuse for a football team.