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It's like a time machine.
For Robert:
If we're talking about the same javascript pop-up/redirect I think it mainly comes from Ad's? But it's hard to believe Google/Adsense would allow it through their network and Vanilla does seem to be playing up generally with comments tonight so perhaps it has come from Vanilla?
David L: Assuming we're talking about the same javascript pop-up/redirect hijack I found I had TWO suspicious files in my downloads folder. Although removing them does help I found it was only by re-installing the latest version of Javascript that the issue resolved 100% - Before I did that I still got the occasional pop/redirect.
That was back in February, BTW.
No idea where this malware came from (I've got a suspicion it could have been through AOL's email service) but doing a Google search showed that MANY websites were being infected and thus a lot of the users of those website's were being infected.
As for Blair and his expense records, you seriously believe that was on the level? If she's done nothing wrong then she should have happily co-operated with the inquiry. While she has every right to defend herself if she's guilty, and the lack of evidence means the case could not be proven, then she shouldn't have been fined any more, but she certainly is of the moral probity that we should require to be a minister. If you can't even co-operate with the rule-judging authorities then you should not be in charge of making rules for the nation. Journalists are quite entitled to ring a doorbell once and ask some questions. But that's just distracting from the main point here. It was very obviously a push by her office to use her position on the Leveson committee to wield extra authority. That's outrageous and she should resign for that, regardless of the expenses.
And that's before we find out what happens with the tax situation.
I found I had some interesting stuff I didn't know about like SweetIM toolbar's and something called Price Gong. From my Google Search I found there is a connection to the company that installs these seemingly harmless programmes which are actually back-door spyware's and the company that I eventually traced the javascript malware/redirect/pop-up back to and I think these nasty malware infections can be installed on your PC through things like SweetIM.
If you've got anything that looks strange or unwanted in your programmes, uninstall.
Or install Malwarebytes and that'll do it all for you.
Good luck.
With the message inside. Ed Miliband will be for 5 years not just for christmas if you vote Labour in May. Make the sensible choice, vote conservative.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bbgkf9VIMAAl3l h.jpg <- This picture on the front.
Sun Politics @Sun_Politics 32s
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead by three points: CON 33%, LAB 36%, LD 10%, UKIP 14%
Broken, sleazy, corrupt, expenses fiddling Tories on the slide?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_2Ro5lHrY
*chortle*
COYS
Has Vanilla been up the spout at all today?
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead by three points: CON 33%, LAB 36%, LD 10%, UKIP 14%
"A few weeks ago the middle-class left in Britain hugged itself with delight when the Conservative Party issued an advert which announced that it was ‘Cutting the Bingo Tax & Beer Duty to help hardworking people do more of the things they enjoy. Once political tacticians would have said it was mad for an opposition to repeat incessantly that a government was cutting tax. But the British left republished the ad thousands of times. It thought the right had damned itself by saying it wanted to help to help ‘hardworking people do more of the things they enjoy’. You see the Conservatives had said ‘they’ rather than ‘we’, and to the left’s mind that slip of a pronoun revealed a whole worldview. Conservatives were patronising the working class. And by saying ‘they enjoy’ Tories revealed that they were not working class themselves – as if anyone had ever thought Conservative leaders were."
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/nick-cohen/2014/04/you-sexistracistliberalelitist-bastard-how-dare-you/
I remember the furore in March 1982 very well, but the play itself marked a nadir of British self hate. This was when Michael Foot was ahead in the polls, and Britain had sunk so low that even the Argentinians though we were there for the taking.
A few weeks later it all turned around...
http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3365/UK-becoming-more-local-and-global.aspx
"There is a weaker sense of connection to people across the country than ten years ago – 16% say they feel more of a connection to people in their country than 10 years ago compared with 25% who feel less of a connection. Over half (54%) say they feel no differently. "
Sounds like New Labour went a long way to achieving its goal of wrecking British identity.
V v poor.
I find our modern obsession with not just celebrity, but even near celebrity, quite bizarre.
We are all Europeans now...
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/battersea-flower-station-guggenheim-architect-frank-gehry-unveils-plans-for-new-8bn-riverside-development-9243143.html
Mike Smithson@MSmithsonPB·12 mins
The LAB YouGov 36% share in tonight's poll equals the lowest of the year. UKIP's 14% equals highest of the year
I posted. a link to the other day to an article about the licence fee becoming a poll tax.universal charge on all households.
FX: Googling... Ah, here's one:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10746109/BBC-wants-you-to-pay-TV-licence-fee-even-if-you-dont-own-a-set-as-shows-go-on-iPlayer-for-longer.html
That'll go down well.
(Edit: sorry, I can see that's what you were referring to above).
It hasn't appeared yet:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/seanthomas/
"A nation's parliament should reflect the people it represents.
There should be as many women as men in the chamber, and the balance of ethnic, religious, social and economic backgrounds should be broadly similar to the country at large. Every progressive, modern parliament should aim to meet this standard.
Sadly, as figures published in The Herald today demonstrate, Scotland's parliament is failing to pass the test in one critical respect: education. A breakdown of the educational records of MSPs shows that 17% were educated in independent schools compared to only 4% of the population at large. It is a striking difference, particularly as educational background is one of the most important drivers of social mobility.
The figures vary for each of the parties. Conservatives are much more likely to be independently educated, although the proportions are relatively high too for the Labour Party, with 13% of its MSPs having gone to a private school - almost 10% higher than the rate for the population generally. The figure in the SNP is another 2% higher than that at 15% and for Liberal Democrats it is zero, although the party only has five MSPs."
Generally the degree to which someone regards a poll as "shite" is in direct proportion to their dislike of the findings
The current London based boom and hubris reminds me of the late eighties, when the Masters of the Universe fell from grace, back into the greyness of Major's London.
Got an email a few weeks ago (and I can't find it at the moment , as per usual, but YouTube video showed what to look for and delete included) warning of extras somehow have been added to the files in WP. You need to go into cPanel and check the site files in public_html and check if any files have got a lot of extraordinary program garbage added. Unfortunately that means every file.
Of course you will have been doing a weekly backup, just like wot I do O:-)
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Poll after month, month after month irrespective of how the other parties may be faring, the LibDems seem to be stuck solid on or around 10%.
It seems inevitable that they are set to lose a significant proportion of their present clutch of MPs. Were they to retain 40 seats, this would doubtless to received with considerable relief, whereas were they to finish up with only 20 seats or fewer this would be seen as a disaster.
The likelihood is surely that their tally will be somewhere between these two figures which if so appears to offer an interesting betting opportunity by combining the following two seats bands currently on offer from Ladbrokes in the proportions shown which would produce a winning return on the combined stakes of just better than evens:
21-30 seats ....... 41.18% staked at 4/1
31-40 seats ....... 58.82% staked at 5/2
PBers should note this when betting on the local election this year and the General Election next.
Some nice shots of London in the West End Girls video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs
IMO the poll about localism and globalism is a good example of setting up a series of questions to get the results you want.
If you wanted to get results saying people are becoming less interested in nationalism, the way to do it would be to give people three choices: localism, nationalism, globalism. Almost by definition the number of people saying they care about things from a national perspective is going to be lower than expected because if you give people three choices instead of two — localism vs nationalism, or nationalism vs globalism — the results are going to be more split.
It's a strange one - I think that there's obviously the family history, the inevitable shock when someone so young dies, especially when she seemed to have laid off the vices that make an early demise more likely, starting a family etc. Also because for people of a certain age she's been a bit of a constant - buzzing away in the background, someone who it's very difficult to ignore, always in the media - a boon to lazy diarists, without ever being hugely famous. That coupled with a lot of media types tweeting their unbridled love, with no one other than obvious trolls saying anything to the contrary and understandable sympathy for her family given past traumas, has whipped the whole thing into a bit of a frenzy.
Everything's loading quicker and cleaner and in particular my internet is now opening in full screen mode, rather than my having to double click the top edge constantly to achieve this - a problem I've had to endure for yonks without having previously been able to find a solution.
It's an ill wind alright.
Yes, we do have a constitution, and yes we do have a written constitution, but I prefer Professor J.A.G. Griffith's formulation "The Constitution is what happens", according to which it is not "undermined" but developed, evolved, advanced, etc...
How would he know? They didn't have the resources of modern journalism or modern communications, so any accounting of the numbers killed would have been wildly speculative and subject of guesswork, rumour, propaganda and Chinese whispers. I don't see how it can be stated with any great certainty that it was 100,000 or 10,000 or 2,000 or whatever.
So why is the figure of 100,000 (which seems suspiciously too big to me) so often quoted and repeated as if it's considered accurate?
"Let me begin by stating that I cannot recommend Under the Skin to audiences in search of a mainstream movie experience. This film, a cryptic adaptation of Michel Faber's novel, is all about mood and setting. It's as existential as a sci-fi/horror film can possibly be. It requires that the viewer slip into a meditative mood and remain there for more than 90 minutes. The film has the capacity to hypnotize but only for those willing to go where director Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) wants to take them. It's slow moving and contemplative. The horror elements are slight. There are no "boo!" moments. The special effects are limited and rather primitive. Those who fall under Glazer's spell will applaud Under the Skin as visionary. Those who don't will find it dull, opaque, and largely a waste of time. It's easy for me to see both viewpoints although my personal perspective is closer to the former than the latter."
http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=2748