We would have to sort out where we stood on immigration.
We'd also have to storm and occupy the National Liberal club, it is a rather nice club to have after all.
That's workable, If an employer really needs that IT specialist etc, they can pay for them. They'd probably try harder to train them mind....
But we wouldn't have as you say low skilled jobs being undercut all the time.
There's mileage in a party after all... Stodge, do you sign up? What about Richard?
Yes, this was discussed a couple of weeks ago on here. Something like a £5k per annum fee (per person, including children) and no entitlement to in-work or housing benefits would set an effective minimum salary for a singleton of around £35k pa and for a family around £55k, higher in London. It would not only raise money directly but discourage low skilled immigration and encourage employers to invest in training staff rather than hiring cheaply from abroad.
I was slightly worried I thought the £5K per year was for party membership.. Cripes. A bit high.
Then I read the rest. Phew.
But yes that looks workable.
LOL! Party membership would I'm sure be only a nominal fee, maybe the price of a pin badge so the sensible people can identify each other
Like most of these things, it's good to look around the world and see how other countries deal with immigration. Australia and Canada have been mentioned already, less so places like Singapore and the Gulf states who love immigrants with jobs but the arrangement is strictly temporary and tied to employment. My nephew was born in the sandpit, but he will never be an Emirati.
I grew up in the Lebanon. My grandchildren wouldn't be citizens. Not saying that would be the way I would run it but others do.
Yes, different places do it differently and we'd need something that the British were happy with as regards leave to remain, citizenship rights etc. Smaller countries with high immigration are fiercely protective of their identity as nationals, don't want to dilute it any more than it has been already with 90% of the population here being expats, and a foreign language used as the language of business and commerce.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
Will/has anything ever topped the valuation of AOL when they merged with Time Warner?
Netflix and Amazon’s video streaming services could be forced to devote “at least” 20 per cent of their catalogues to European films and TV shows as part of an overhaul of the EU’s broadcasting rules.
Under a Brussels plan to be unveiled next week, video-on-demand groups would also be obliged to “ensure prominence” of any European works, potentially forcing them to replace valuable space on their homepages given to Hollywood blockbusters with French cinema.
Your misuse of 'their' is keeping me well away from Leavers.
Oh really? They're nuts?
Better now?
Or do you still not see the problem? There is no level of lunacy that the EU will not jump to suit a protectionist mindset. It hurts Europe and the rest of the worlds poor, It doesn't hurt Hollywood much though.
No, I refuse to engage with anyone who doesn't know the difference between, there, they're, and their.
You've engage in conversation with me before.
If you really think a typo is a defining factor you're even more small minded than I thought you were.
Debating with you a waste of my time.
I'm still waiting for proof of your assertion that the IMF wanted the UK to join the Euro.
I thought I said the IMF was in favour of the Euro originally but I may be wrong. In any measure the Euro has been an economic disaster for everyone except Germany (and maybe some of the smaller countries) amplified at the southern periphery. The IMF was broadly supportive of the Euro in general when in fact it should have been pointing out that it was a disaster in waiting as Mrs T did in 1989. (When I thought she was wrong on many things though not that.)
In any case the article you highlighted was originally in the Mail and was a hatchet piece with one quote from the IMF. What I was looking for was some actual IMF document.
Genuine obituary from the Richmond Times Despatch yesterday 'NOLAND, Mary Anne Alfriend. Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the age of 68.' http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/article_c21b60bc-1153-5abd-b3c8-268cfd32eb57.html
Brilliant! Always good to see a sense of humour in the obituary columns.
It avoids beauracracy, it's raises money for the treasury, and (most importantly) it doesn't distort price signals in the way that quota systems do.
Really, what's not to like?
Edit to add: if you wish to stay more than three months in the UK, you need to purchase compulsory health care insurance.
Migration policy sorted,
Permenent right to remain and naturalisation next.
Then free trade.
There's another joy about my plan (which has been adopted by MaxPB and others); if economic times are tough, just raise the cost of compulsory health insurance, and ensure a negative flow of migrants.
Economically this sounds equivalent to a flat-rate immigrant poll tax, except more expensive to administer.
No. You apply for a work permit, get an NI number and it's all attached to that.
Is that supposed to show that it's not economicaly equivalent to a flat-rate per-immigrant poll tax or is it supposed to show that it won't be more expensive to administer?
The latter, I am not fused at how it looks to some.
Netflix and Amazon’s video streaming services could be forced to devote “at least” 20 per cent of their catalogues to European films and TV shows as part of an overhaul of the EU’s broadcasting rules.
Under a Brussels plan to be unveiled next week, video-on-demand groups would also be obliged to “ensure prominence” of any European works, potentially forcing them to replace valuable space on their homepages given to Hollywood blockbusters with French cinema.
Your misuse of 'their' is keeping me well away from Leavers.
Oh really? They're nuts?
Better now?
Or do you still not see the problem? There is no level of lunacy that the EU will not jump to suit a protectionist mindset. It hurts Europe and the rest of the worlds poor, It doesn't hurt Hollywood much though.
No, I refuse to engage with anyone who doesn't know the difference between, there, they're, and their.
Your and You're is my bugbear. Someone wrote "you're investment value can decrease" in some of our literature once.
Its and It's my bugbear
This was just poor English all around, and it went on some of the literature we send to clients. I remember reading and sending off a scathing email to our marketing department about the quality of writing. It makes us look unprofessional, but apparently being chummy and having shit English is the "in" thing at the moment.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
Will/has anything ever topped the valuation of AOL when they merged with Time Warner?
Netflix and Amazon’s video streaming services could be forced to devote “at least” 20 per cent of their catalogues to European films and TV shows as part of an overhaul of the EU’s broadcasting rules.
Under a Brussels plan to be unveiled next week, video-on-demand groups would also be obliged to “ensure prominence” of any European works, potentially forcing them to replace valuable space on their homepages given to Hollywood blockbusters with French cinema.
Your misuse of 'their' is keeping me well away from Leavers.
Oh really? They're nuts?
Better now?
Or do you still not see the problem? There is no level of lunacy that the EU will not jump to suit a protectionist mindset. It hurts Europe and the rest of the worlds poor, It doesn't hurt Hollywood much though.
No, I refuse to engage with anyone who doesn't know the difference between, there, they're, and their.
Your and You're is my bugbear. Someone wrote "you're investment value can decrease" in some of our literature once.
Its and It's my bugbear
This was just poor English all around, and it went on some of the literature we send to clients. I remember reading and sending off a scathing email to our marketing department about the quality of writing. It makes us look unprofessional, but apparently being chummy and having shit English is the "in" thing at the moment.
OK, I'll bite.
Shit=Noun Shitty=Adjective
So it should be 'shitty English.'
I'm not putting it on bank marketing literature though, having shitty English on here is a prerequisite!
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
The latest tech service business model seems to be to burn VC money giving the service away for free, then selling for big $$$ to MS/Google/Apple/whoever on the back of a user base, at the point where the business needs to start earning revenues from all the customers.
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars. They don't have anything that can't be replicated by someone else, which is exactly what will happen when the advertising and sponsorship starts or the service is no longer free.
Genuine obituary from the Richmond Times Despatch yesterday 'NOLAND, Mary Anne Alfriend. Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the age of 68.' http://www.richmond.com/obituaries/article_c21b60bc-1153-5abd-b3c8-268cfd32eb57.html
Brilliant! Always good to see a sense of humour in the obituary columns.
It avoids beauracracy, it's raises money for the treasury, and (most importantly) it doesn't distort price signals in the way that quota systems do.
Really, what's not to like?
Edit to add: if you wish to stay more than three months in the UK, you need to purchase compulsory health care insurance.
Migration policy sorted,
Permenent right to remain and naturalisation next.
Then free trade.
There's another joy about my plan (which has been adopted by MaxPB and others); if economic times are tough, just raise the cost of compulsory health insurance, and ensure a negative flow of migrants.
Economically this sounds equivalent to a flat-rate immigrant poll tax, except more expensive to administer.
No. You apply for a work permit, get an NI number and it's all attached to that.
Is that supposed to show that it's not economicaly equivalent to a flat-rate per-immigrant poll tax or is it supposed to show that it won't be more expensive to administer?
The latter, I am not fused at how it looks to some.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
The latest tech service business model seems to be to burn VC money giving the service away for free, then selling for big $$$ to MS/Google/Apple/whoever on the back of a user base, at the point where the business needs to start earning revenues from all the customers.
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
HBO show silicon valley is a very funny take on all this nonsense.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
The latest tech service business model seems to be to burn VC money giving the service away for free, then selling for big $$$ to MS/Google/Apple/whoever on the back of a user base, at the point where the business needs to start earning revenues from all the customers.
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
Not tens of billions any more! Twitter is buggered. They don't know how to make money and they have pissed off half of their user base, and discovered the half they didn't piss off all use ad-blocking software.
So do I. But then my first financial case was the Guinness scandal which was before any form of regulation. There are people running banks who weren't even born then....... And therein is one of the problems of the City.
Was it actually a scandal? From the outside, it seemed to be a completely victimless 'crime' based on a novel and dubious interpretation of an obscure law, for which absurdly long sentences - more than people get for violent assaults - were handed down.
Tut, tut, Mr N. Fraud - and it was fraud - is NEVER a victimless crime. We do not take it seriously enough, one reason why we keep on having misbehaviour.
It certainly was a scandal. The final official report was released far too late so very few people read it let alone learnt its lessons. In essence it described the essentials - in terms of conduct - of every City scandal since.
And @TSE I acted for one of the others arrested - but not in the end charged - not the infamous Mr Saunders who, miraculously, went on to act as an advisor to Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse fame.
Microsoft Nokia deal has to be up there too...I noticed today they finally got rid of it all.
And Nokia have licensed their name/brand to a new Finnish company in which they have stake. The company will make Android phones and tablets under the Nokia name, rumours are that Nokia will have first option to purchase the company as part of the deal.
I'd be amazed if they can make it successful, but the Nokia brand still carries a lot of weight in Europe and Asia.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
The latest tech service business model seems to be to burn VC money giving the service away for free, then selling for big $$$ to MS/Google/Apple/whoever on the back of a user base, at the point where the business needs to start earning revenues from all the customers.
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
HBO show silicon valley is a very funny take on all this nonsense.
It avoids beauracracy, it's raises money for the treasury, and (most importantly) it doesn't distort price signals in the way that quota systems do.
Really, what's not to like?
Edit to add: if you wish to stay more than three months in the UK, you need to purchase compulsory health care insurance.
Migration policy sorted,
Permenent right to remain and naturalisation next.
Then free trade.
There's another joy about my plan (which has been adopted by MaxPB and others); if economic times are tough, just raise the cost of compulsory health insurance, and ensure a negative flow of migrants.
Economically this sounds equivalent to a flat-rate immigrant poll tax, except more expensive to administer.
No. You apply for a work permit, get an NI number and it's all attached to that.
Is that supposed to show that it's not economicaly equivalent to a flat-rate per-immigrant poll tax or is it supposed to show that it won't be more expensive to administer?
The latter, I am not fused at how it looks to some.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
The latest tech service business model seems to be to burn VC money giving the service away for free, then selling for big $$$ to MS/Google/Apple/whoever on the back of a user base, at the point where the business needs to start earning revenues from all the customers.
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
Not tens of billions any more! Twitter is buggered. They don't know how to make money and they have pissed off half of their user base, and discovered the half they didn't piss off all use ad-blocking software.
Yep. There will be a 'new Twitter' just around the corner, like the old Twitter but with no ads and a few million in capital to burn attracting users, and so the cycle repeats itself.
Ad blocking is now mainstream, and the websites and advertisers have brought in on themselves with 3rd party ad domains, auto play video, pop up and under, processor heavy scripts and outright malware. It's now actually dangerous to use a Windows box on the Internet without an ad blocker.
It avoids beauracracy, it's raises money for the treasury, and (most importantly) it doesn't distort price signals in the way that quota systems do.
Really, what's not to like?
Edit to add: if you wish to stay more than three months in the UK, you need to purchase compulsory health care insurance.
Migration policy sorted,
Permenent right to remain and naturalisation next.
Then free trade.
There's another joy about my plan (which has been adopted by MaxPB and others); if economic times are tough, just raise the cost of compulsory health insurance, and ensure a negative flow of migrants.
Economically this sounds equivalent to a flat-rate immigrant poll tax, except more expensive to administer.
No. You apply for a work permit, get an NI number and it's all attached to that.
Is that supposed to show that it's not economicaly equivalent to a flat-rate per-immigrant poll tax or is it supposed to show that it won't be more expensive to administer?
The latter, I am not fused at how it looks to some.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
The latest tech service business model seems to be to burn VC money giving the service away for free, then selling for big $$$ to MS/Google/Apple/whoever on the back of a user base, at the point where the business needs to start earning revenues from all the customers.
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
HBO show silicon valley is a very funny take on all this nonsense.
Sounds fun, will take a look. Thanks.
They are on season 3 now...I don't know if they can keep the gag going much longer but season 1-2 are IMO funny parody of what a small start up goes through at the moment.
There was a funny gag in last week episode where an engineer changed his LinkedIn status to.looking for work to find he is bombarded by freebies from other startups just to agree to meet with them.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
The latest tech service business model seems to be to burn VC money giving the service away for free, then selling for big $$$ to MS/Google/Apple/whoever on the back of a user base, at the point where the business needs to start earning revenues from all the customers.
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
Not tens of billions any more! Twitter is buggered. They don't know how to make money and they have pissed off half of their user base, and discovered the half they didn't piss off all use ad-blocking software.
Yep. Ad blocking is now mainstream, and the websites and advertisers have brought in on themselves with 3rd party ad domains, auto play video, pop up and under, processor heavy scripts and outright malware. It's now actually dangerous to use a Windows box on the Internet without an ad blocker.
Tut, tut, Mr N. Fraud - and it was fraud - is NEVER a victimless crime. We do not take it seriously enough, one reason why we keep on having misbehaviour.
It certainly was a scandal. The final official report was released far too late so very few people read it let alone learnt its lessons. In essence it described the essentials - in terms of conduct - of every City scandal since.
I'd like to get the chance to ask you about it sometime. It all seemed over the top at the time, admittedly going only on press reports. In particular, IIRC the original sentences were 5 years' jail. If they'd defrauded grannies of their life savings, they'd have got less than that for a first offence.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
The latest tech service business model seems to be to burn VC money giving the service away for free, then selling for big $$$ to MS/Google/Apple/whoever on the back of a user base, at the point where the business needs to start earning revenues from all the customers.
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
Not tens of billions any more! Twitter is buggered. They don't know how to make money and they have pissed off half of their user base, and discovered the half they didn't piss off all use ad-blocking software.
Yep. Ad blocking is now mainstream, and the websites and advertisers have brought in on themselves with 3rd party ad domains, auto play video, pop up and under, processor heavy scripts and outright malware. It's now actually dangerous to use a Windows box on the Internet without an ad blocker.
I wouldn't browse without adblocking & malwarebytes (blocking functionality) on.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
Autonomy comes to mind!
I thought Autonomy was a good company before HP got it's hands on it. Often the case when smaller more agile(?) companies get eaten by larger and slower companies. A bit like the game Agar.io
hmmm I wonder how many on this site will get that reference.
Did someone really try to claim that wages are rising rapidly this morning ?
From the ONS:
' Between January to March 2015 and January to March 2016, in nominal terms, total pay increased by 2.0%, little changed compared with the growth rate between the 3 months to February 2015 and the 3 months to February 2016 (1.9%). '
By comparison annual RPI in March was 1.6%.
I'm sure we can all do the maths.
During the last decade annual real wages growth (using RPI) has been an average of -0.8% per year ie a reduction. The three decades before that had average annual increases in real wages of 2.0% (1997-2006), 2.2% (1987-1996) and 2.1% (1977-1986) with a mighty 3.4 annual average between 1967 and 1976.
How much the decade long fall in real wages that Britain has suffered is a result of immigration, of more general effects of globalisation or in changes in the structure of the UK economy needs to be researched at a much more in depth level than I am ever going to do.
But what is without question is that there has been a shift in economic power from those who work to those who own.
Yep. Ad blocking is now mainstream, and the websites and advertisers have brought in on themselves with 3rd party ad domains, auto play video, pop up and under, processor heavy scripts and outright malware. It's now actually dangerous to use a Windows box on the Internet without an ad blocker.
Precisely. I don't want an ad blocker as such, but there's no way on this earth I'm going to put up with things flashing, scrolling, playing videos, or otherwise trying to give me an apoplexy when I'm trying to read an article.
If they just displayed static ads, I'd be entirely happy to see them, and I'd click on ones of interest.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
Autonomy comes to mind!
I thought Autonomy was a good company before HP got it's hands on it. Often the case when smaller more agile(?) companies get eaten by larger and slower companies. A bit like the game Agar.io
hmmm I wonder how many on this site will get that reference.
Need to be careful but the boss of autonomy has been taken to court for effectively miss selling what his tech could do....and yes I get the agar.io ref...very good.
You are forgiven. Give the keys a punch now and then, that'll calm them down.
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
The latest tech service business model seems to be to burn VC money giving the service away for free, then selling for big $$$ to MS/Google/Apple/whoever on the back of a user base, at the point where the business needs to start earning revenues from all the customers.
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
Not tens of billions any more! Twitter is buggered. They don't know how to make money and they have pissed off half of their user base, and discovered the half they didn't piss off all use ad-blocking software.
Yep. There will be a 'new Twitter' just around the corner, like the old Twitter but with no ads and a few million in capital to burn attracting users, and so the cycle repeats itself.
Ad blocking is now mainstream, and the websites and advertisers have brought in on themselves with 3rd party ad domains, auto play video, pop up and under, processor heavy scripts and outright malware. It's now actually dangerous to use a Windows box on the Internet without an ad blocker.
That's the thing I can't understand. Why have adverts so heavy that you go away as soon as you arrive or your machine grinds to a halt? It's simply not good advertising.
It even makes Linux machines (what I use at home) grind, though I don't have issues with malware as it's bomb proof.
No. You apply for a work permit, get an NI number and it's all attached to that.
Is that supposed to show that it's not economicaly equivalent to a flat-rate per-immigrant poll tax or is it supposed to show that it won't be more expensive to administer?
The latter, I am not fused at how it looks to some.
Tut, tut, Mr N. Fraud - and it was fraud - is NEVER a victimless crime. We do not take it seriously enough, one reason why we keep on having misbehaviour.
It certainly was a scandal. The final official report was released far too late so very few people read it let alone learnt its lessons. In essence it described the essentials - in terms of conduct - of every City scandal since.
I'd like to get the chance to ask you about it sometime. It all seemed over the top at the time, admittedly going only on press reports. In particular, IIRC the original sentences were 5 years' jail. If they'd defrauded grannies of their life savings, they'd have got less than that for a first offence.
At the next PB meet, then. Never rely on press reports of City cases: invariably wrong and incomplete. One reason the sentences were relatively high was because the defendants were all professional men and the courts took a dim view then of such people breaching trust.
I think fraud is sentenced far too leniently. A few lengthy exemplary sentences would do wonders to get the message across. Victimless crime indeed! Real people suffer when someone breaks the trust placed in them.
Anyway, thanks all for the discussion and kind comments.
Did someone really try to claim that wages are rising rapidly this morning ?
From the ONS:
' Between January to March 2015 and January to March 2016, in nominal terms, total pay increased by 2.0%, little changed compared with the growth rate between the 3 months to February 2015 and the 3 months to February 2016 (1.9%). '
By comparison annual RPI in March was 1.6%.
I'm sure we can all do the maths.
During the last decade annual real wages growth (using RPI) has been an average of -0.8% per year ie a reduction. The three decades before that had average annual increases in real wages of 2.0% (1997-2006), 2.2% (1987-1996) and 2.1% (1977-1986) with a mighty 3.4 annual average between 1967 and 1976.
How much the decade long fall in real wages that Britain has suffered is a result of immigration, of more general effects of globalisation or in changes in the structure of the UK economy needs to be researched at a much more in depth level than I am ever going to do.
But what is without question is that there has been a shift in economic power from those who work to those who own.
One of the main reasons I am voting leave though there are many others.
Have you got links? I'd like to put that (or something like it) on my blog.
Re: Manchester mayor. although the tories won't win they should be aiming for a good second after gianing three seats in the GE and holding two, although that might be the S.N.P effect.
Who could the tories select that has a high enough profile to have a good vote (if winning is out of the question)? Please not someone like Graham Brady who only appeals to cheshire really. I suggest they learn from Ruth Davidson and try to go back to a sort of working class torism to have a chance prehaps a candiadate who is not normally associated with the tories so that they can take votes from people who would have never have voted for him/her before again like Ruth was able to do with tory votes going up like 10% in some central belt seats they didn't have a chance in (although I get that was a lot to do with the constitution question). Any suggestions from manchester tories on here?
Microsoft paid $250 million for the British startup & it just doesn't bloody work. I spent more time u doing its incorrect predictions than I do typing messages.
Britain has a fine and honourable tradition of selling duff companies to gullible foreigners. Long may it continue.
The value of some of these tech companies is ludicrous.
The latest tech service business model seems to be to burn VC money giving the service away for free, then selling for big $$$ to MS/Google/Apple/whoever on the back of a user base, at the point where the business needs to start earning revenues from all the customers.
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
Not tens of billions any more! Twitter is buggered. They don't know how to make money and they have pissed off half of their user base, and discovered the half they didn't piss off all use ad-blocking software.
Yep. There will be a 'new Twitter' just around the corner, like the old Twitter but with no ads and a few million in capital to burn attracting users, and so the cycle repeats itself.
Ad blocking is now mainstream, and the websites and advertisers have brought in on themselves with 3rd party ad domains, auto play video, pop up and under, processor heavy scripts and outright malware. It's now actually dangerous to use a Windows box on the Internet without an ad blocker.
That's the thing I can't understand. Why have adverts so heavy that you go away as soon as you arrive or your machine grinds to a halt? It's simply not good advertising.
It even makes Linux machines (what I use at home) grind, though I don't have issues with malware as it's bomb proof.
Yes, online advertising has pretty much eaten itself. When I get asked to roll Firefox and ABP into corporate PC images I know that the average Joe is fed up with the online experience. When I see an almost new laptop with an i7, 16GB RAM and an SSD struggle to load half a dozen web pages, as I did a couple of weeks ago, it amazes me that they don't see how they are screwing with their customers.
One advantage of the move to web apps and tablets is that mainstream software vendors are now coding for multi-platform environments. Maybe 2016 is the year of Linux on the desktop after all
A hacker claiming to have more than one hundred million LinkedIn logins is advertising them for sale online. The extensive list of user IDs and passwords were allegedly sourced from a cyber attack on the networking site four years ago.
According to news site Motherboard, a hacker calling himself "Peace" has placed the alleged details of 117 million LinkedIn users on "dark web" marketplace The Real Deal for the price of 5 Bitcoin - the digital currency - worth around £1,500.
Re: Manchester mayor. although the tories won't win they should be aiming for a good second after gianing three seats in the GE and holding two, although that might be the S.N.P effect.
Who could the tories select that has a high enough profile to have a good vote (if winning is out of the question)? Please not someone like Graham Brady who only appeals to cheshire really. I suggest they learn from Ruth Davidson and try to go back to a sort of working class torism to have a chance prehaps a candiadate who is not normally associated with the tories so that they can take votes from people who would have never have voted for him/her before again like Ruth was able to do with tory votes going up like 10% in some central belt seats they didn't have a chance in (although I get that was a lot to do with the constitution question). Any suggestions from manchester tories on here?
Not tens of billions any more! Twitter is buggered. They don't know how to make money and they have pissed off half of their user base, and discovered the half they didn't piss off all use ad-blocking software.
Yep. There will be a 'new Twitter' just around the corner, like the old Twitter but with no ads and a few million in capital to burn attracting users, and so the cycle repeats itself.
Ad blocking is now mainstream, and the websites and advertisers have brought in on themselves with 3rd party ad domains, auto play video, pop up and under, processor heavy scripts and outright malware. It's now actually dangerous to use a Windows box on the Internet without an ad blocker.
That's the thing I can't understand. Why have adverts so heavy that you go away as soon as you arrive or your machine grinds to a halt? It's simply not good advertising.
It even makes Linux machines (what I use at home) grind, though I don't have issues with malware as it's bomb proof.
Yes, online advertising has pretty much eaten itself. When I get asked to roll Firefox and ABP into corporate PC images I know that the average Joe is fed up with the online experience. When I see an almost new laptop with an i7, 16GB RAM and an SSD struggle to load half a dozen web pages, as I did a couple of weeks ago, it amazes me that they don't see how they are screwing wi their customers.
One advantage of the move to web apps and tablets is that mainstream software vendors are now coding for multi-platform environments. Maybe 2016 is the year of Linux on the desktop after all
If it's running Android its running Linux at the bottom layer so it is already the most popular OS out there.
Alas too many Linux desktops are moving to a more Windows 8/10 style which is sub optimal on the desktop. It's certainly pants on Windows Server 2012.
The British press presents European commissioners as Hitlerian Reichskomissars waging wars on British bananas, British vacuum cleaners and British tea. I wonder why they don't want to volunteer to present an agreed vision to a Leave campaign that doesn't agree on an agreed vision itself, for good reasons like the democratic right of the electorate to change the proposed shape of the UK under Leave. Well, Europe is democratic too. Such a unilateral exercise in offering hostages to fortune would be tantamount to "Remain's policy on arms"!
"The European Commission wants to tap streaming video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime to fund the production of European movies and TV programs, after intense lobbying by France to help protect its industry.
A draft of the regulation obtained by POLITICO says, “member nations may require providers of on-demand audiovisual media services … to contribute financially to the production of European works.”
On-demand-video streaming services would also have to ensure that at least 20 percent of their catalogs for EU viewers were European productions. There is currently no quota."
When prisoners are released we want them to walk through the gates as better men and women, with the skills to hold down a job. That way, instead of being liabilities to society – bringing misery into the lives of others and costing the state millions – they become law-abiding, economically active assets to our country. I believe in the power of rehabilitation and redemption because I believe in the innate worth of every individual. I refuse to write anyone off and I reject the idea that we should give up on any human being.
"The European Commission wants to tap streaming video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime to fund the production of European movies and TV programs, after intense lobbying by France to help protect its industry.
A draft of the regulation obtained by POLITICO says, “member nations may require providers of on-demand audiovisual media services … to contribute financially to the production of European works.”
On-demand-video streaming services would also have to ensure that at least 20 percent of their catalogs for EU viewers were European productions. There is currently no quota."
Well it didn't take long for Neil Hamilton to embarrass UKIP did it.
Even by UKIP standards allowing Hamilton any prominence is bizarre.
I was thinking earlier on, assuming Remain wins, Farage stands down as UKIP Leader, and Neil Hamilton is elected as the new UKIP Leader.
Then I thought, nah, the Tories can't be that lucky.
Unless Remain win big ie close to 60%+ if Remain win narrowly whoever leads UKIP is likely to get a bounce
Looking at that MORI poll I have to say Leave on 37% looks wrong. They managed 33% in 1975 when there was considerably less euroscepticism than today. It also doesn't accord with the canvassing returns that I've been made aware of (unless everybody is lying).
To be honest I feel the podcasts are perhaps more for a wider public who might be drawn into PB (and nothing wrong with that). This one didn't really say anything that hasn't already been said quite a bit in the comments - all perfectly sensible, but nothing deeper-going than what we routinely chew over.
Not tens of billions any more! Twitter is buggered. They don't know how to make money and they have pissed off half of their user base, and discovered the half they didn't piss off all use ad-blocking software.
Yep. There will be a 'new Twitter' just around the corner, like the old Twitter but with no ads and a few million in capital to burn attracting users, and so the cycle repeats itself.
Ad blocking is now mainstream, and the websites and advertisers have brought in on themselves with 3rd party ad domains, auto play video, pop up and under, processor heavy scripts and outright malware. It's now actually dangerous to use a Windows box on the Internet without an ad blocker.
That's the thing I can't understand. Why have adverts so heavy that you go away as soon as you arrive or your machine grinds to a halt? It's simply not good advertising.
It even makes Linux machines (what I use at home) grind, though I don't have issues with malware as it's bomb proof.
Yes, online advertising has pretty much eaten itself. When I get asked to roll Firefox and ABP into corporate PC images I know that the average Joe is fed up with the online experience. When I see an almost new laptop with an i7, 16GB RAM and an SSD struggle to load half a dozen web pages, as I did a couple of weeks ago, it amazes me that they don't see how they are screwing wi their customers.
One advantage of the move to web apps and tablets is that mainstream software vendors are now coding for multi-platform environments. Maybe 2016 is the year of Linux on the desktop after all
If it's running Android its running Linux at the bottom layer so it is already the most popular OS out there.
Alas too many Linux desktops are moving to a more Windows 8/10 style which is sub optimal on the desktop. It's certainly pants on Windows Server 2012.
Very true, although my Mum likes that Ubuntu looks almost the same as W7 she had before, and doesn't ask me too many questions about how to use it!
Anyway, this is PB not Slashdot, and it's 3am where I am. Laters.
When prisoners are released we want them to walk through the gates as better men and women, with the skills to hold down a job. That way, instead of being liabilities to society – bringing misery into the lives of others and costing the state millions – they become law-abiding, economically active assets to our country. I believe in the power of rehabilitation and redemption because I believe in the innate worth of every individual. I refuse to write anyone off and I reject the idea that we should give up on any human being.
I see he is not going for the throw away the key vote.
When prisoners are released we want them to walk through the gates as better men and women, with the skills to hold down a job. That way, instead of being liabilities to society – bringing misery into the lives of others and costing the state millions – they become law-abiding, economically active assets to our country. I believe in the power of rehabilitation and redemption because I believe in the innate worth of every individual. I refuse to write anyone off and I reject the idea that we should give up on any human being.
I fundamentally believe Michael Gove is a good and intelligent man. I am not in a position to extend that compliment to either Cameron or Osbourne.
"The European Commission wants to tap streaming video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime to fund the production of European movies and TV programs, after intense lobbying by France to help protect its industry.
A draft of the regulation obtained by POLITICO says, “member nations may require providers of on-demand audiovisual media services … to contribute financially to the production of European works.”
On-demand-video streaming services would also have to ensure that at least 20 percent of their catalogs for EU viewers were European productions. There is currently no quota."
I get sick of the American dross that pads out their catalogue, as if we are just an afterthought to their real market. Bring it on!
It's full of US TV shows to explore, then all the mediocre cultural arbiters insist that means US TV must be good. Well, maybe it just means US TV was better-promoted through the might of US capital, while the main British broadcaster is cowed into shrinking itself. So it is especially good news for the English-speaking countries, which would be unlikely to have a similar domestic service that can compete with the established American players due to the linguistic commonality. Beyond the UK there's more than enough American culture to be seen anywhere in Europe, in the cinemas, in the art galleries, on the news stands, on the TVs, and on the Internet generally as well as streaming. Thank God for the French who won't unilaterally cede the sphere of culture just because American investors are heavily backing the dissemination of its own culture.
Well it didn't take long for Neil Hamilton to embarrass UKIP did it.
Even by UKIP standards allowing Hamilton any prominence is bizarre.
I was thinking earlier on, assuming Remain wins, Farage stands down as UKIP Leader, and Neil Hamilton is elected as the new UKIP Leader.
Then I thought, nah, the Tories can't be that lucky.
Unless Remain win big ie close to 60%+ if Remain win narrowly whoever leads UKIP is likely to get a bounce
Looking at that MORI poll I have to say Leave on 37% looks wrong. They managed 33% in 1975 when there was considerably less euroscepticism than today. It also doesn't accord with the canvassing returns that I've been made aware of (unless everybody is lying).
I agree, having spent the evening at a meeting in fairly sceptic Rutland. I stick by Leave on 41.57
My betting strategy is not looking good, I bought Leave at 4 on betfair thinking the odds would shorten and then go all green.
Well it didn't take long for Neil Hamilton to embarrass UKIP did it.
Even by UKIP standards allowing Hamilton any prominence is bizarre.
I was thinking earlier on, assuming Remain wins, Farage stands down as UKIP Leader, and Neil Hamilton is elected as the new UKIP Leader.
Then I thought, nah, the Tories can't be that lucky.
Unless Remain win big ie close to 60%+ if Remain win narrowly whoever leads UKIP is likely to get a bounce
Looking at that MORI poll I have to say Leave on 37% looks wrong. They managed 33% in 1975 when there was considerably less euroscepticism than today. It also doesn't accord with the canvassing returns that I've been made aware of (unless everybody is lying).
I agree, having spent the evening at a meeting in fairly sceptic Rutland. I stick by Leave on 41.57
My betting strategy is not looking good, I bought Leave at 4 on betfair thinking the odds would shorten and then go all green.
Re: Manchester mayor. although the tories won't win they should be aiming for a good second after gianing three seats in the GE and holding two, although that might be the S.N.P effect.
Who could the tories select that has a high enough profile to have a good vote (if winning is out of the question)? Please not someone like Graham Brady who only appeals to cheshire really. I suggest they learn from Ruth Davidson and try to go back to a sort of working class torism to have a chance prehaps a candiadate who is not normally associated with the tories so that they can take votes from people who would have never have voted for him/her before again like Ruth was able to do with tory votes going up like 10% in some central belt seats they didn't have a chance in (although I get that was a lot to do with the constitution question). Any suggestions from manchester tories on here?
"The European Commission wants to tap streaming video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime to fund the production of European movies and TV programs, after intense lobbying by France to help protect its industry.
A draft of the regulation obtained by POLITICO says, “member nations may require providers of on-demand audiovisual media services … to contribute financially to the production of European works.”
On-demand-video streaming services would also have to ensure that at least 20 percent of their catalogs for EU viewers were European productions. There is currently no quota."
"The European Commission wants to tap streaming video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime to fund the production of European movies and TV programs, after intense lobbying by France to help protect its industry.
A draft of the regulation obtained by POLITICO says, “member nations may require providers of on-demand audiovisual media services … to contribute financially to the production of European works.”
On-demand-video streaming services would also have to ensure that at least 20 percent of their catalogs for EU viewers were European productions. There is currently no quota."
Did someone really try to claim that wages are rising rapidly this morning ?
From the ONS:
' Between January to March 2015 and January to March 2016, in nominal terms, total pay increased by 2.0%, little changed compared with the growth rate between the 3 months to February 2015 and the 3 months to February 2016 (1.9%). '
By comparison annual RPI in March was 1.6%.
I'm sure we can all do the maths.
During the last decade annual real wages growth (using RPI) has been an average of -0.8% per year ie a reduction. The three decades before that had average annual increases in real wages of 2.0% (1997-2006), 2.2% (1987-1996) and 2.1% (1977-1986) with a mighty 3.4 annual average between 1967 and 1976.
How much the decade long fall in real wages that Britain has suffered is a result of immigration, of more general effects of globalisation or in changes in the structure of the UK economy needs to be researched at a much more in depth level than I am ever going to do.
But what is without question is that there has been a shift in economic power from those who work to those who own.
Well, I thought there was a reason that tax credits rose from £4bn to £31bn!
When Hilary is confirmed at the Democratic conference I will win approximately a months wages. With Donald's confirmation I will win two months. Most will be folded into my betting 'bank' for future bets, but a local charity that helps an politically unfashionable group in desperate and genuine need will also get a fat cheque. My point is that if you have an understanding of politics you can still put it to good use even if you feel it is all going wrong and given up trying to change it.
Failing that I have just bottled some cracking wine made out of Aldi fresh apple juice. I can save you a bottle for June 24th.
Did someone really try to claim that wages are rising rapidly this morning ?
From the ONS:
' Between January to March 2015 and January to March 2016, in nominal terms, total pay increased by 2.0%, little changed compared with the growth rate between the 3 months to February 2015 and the 3 months to February 2016 (1.9%). '
By comparison annual RPI in March was 1.6%.
I'm sure we can all do the maths.
During the last decade annual real wages growth (using RPI) has been an average of -0.8% per year ie a reduction. The three decades before that had average annual increases in real wages of 2.0% (1997-2006), 2.2% (1987-1996) and 2.1% (1977-1986) with a mighty 3.4 annual average between 1967 and 1976.
How much the decade long fall in real wages that Britain has suffered is a result of immigration, of more general effects of globalisation or in changes in the structure of the UK economy needs to be researched at a much more in depth level than I am ever going to do.
But what is without question is that there has been a shift in economic power from those who work to those who own.
One of the main reasons I am voting leave though there are many others.
Have you got links? I'd like to put that (or something like it) on my blog.
Annual earnings increases by month from Jan 1964 to Dec 2000:
"The European Commission wants to tap streaming video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime to fund the production of European movies and TV programs, after intense lobbying by France to help protect its industry.
A draft of the regulation obtained by POLITICO says, “member nations may require providers of on-demand audiovisual media services … to contribute financially to the production of European works.”
On-demand-video streaming services would also have to ensure that at least 20 percent of their catalogs for EU viewers were European productions. There is currently no quota."
Did someone really try to claim that wages are rising rapidly this morning ?
From the ONS:
' Between January to March 2015 and January to March 2016, in nominal terms, total pay increased by 2.0%, little changed compared with the growth rate between the 3 months to February 2015 and the 3 months to February 2016 (1.9%). '
By comparison annual RPI in March was 1.6%.
I'm sure we can all do the maths.
During the last decade annual real wages growth (using RPI) has been an average of -0.8% per year ie a reduction. The three decades before that had average annual increases in real wages of 2.0% (1997-2006), 2.2% (1987-1996) and 2.1% (1977-1986) with a mighty 3.4 annual average between 1967 and 1976.
How much the decade long fall in real wages that Britain has suffered is a result of immigration, of more general effects of globalisation or in changes in the structure of the UK economy needs to be researched at a much more in depth level than I am ever going to do.
But what is without question is that there has been a shift in economic power from those who work to those who own.
One of the main reasons I am voting leave though there are many others.
Have you got links? I'd like to put that (or something like it) on my blog.
Annual earnings increases by month from Jan 1964 to Dec 2000:
We'll probably get the first crossover in the polling averages before the conventions... Clinton' staff must think it's a nightmare.
Her 30-day median lead is down 2% in barely a week...
Seems Trump has the Big Mo'
As you said, at some point President Trump will assume an air of inevitability. At that point it's difficult to make the case that electing a corrupt old has-been is the more compelling future for America.
To be honest I feel the podcasts are perhaps more for a wider public who might be drawn into PB (and nothing wrong with that). This one didn't really say anything that hasn't already been said quite a bit in the comments - all perfectly sensible, but nothing deeper-going than what we routinely chew over.
To the extent that this is true, it's only because PB's comment section is miles ahead of the "below the line" section of the vast majority of websites - in fact, often ahead of the "above the line", albeit with a somewhat dilutes signal-to-noise ratio.
Did someone really try to claim that wages are rising rapidly this morning ?
From the ONS:
' Between January to March 2015 and January to March 2016, in nominal terms, total pay increased by 2.0%, little changed compared with the growth rate between the 3 months to February 2015 and the 3 months to February 2016 (1.9%). '
By comparison annual RPI in March was 1.6%.
I'm sure we can all do the maths.
During the last decade annual real wages growth (using RPI) has been an average of -0.8% per year ie a reduction. The three decades before that had average annual increases in real wages of 2.0% (1997-2006), 2.2% (1987-1996) and 2.1% (1977-1986) with a mighty 3.4 annual average between 1967 and 1976.
How much the decade long fall in real wages that Britain has suffered is a result of immigration, of more general effects of globalisation or in changes in the structure of the UK economy needs to be researched at a much more in depth level than I am ever going to do.
But what is without question is that there has been a shift in economic power from those who work to those who own.
One of the main reasons I am voting leave though there are many others.
Have you got links? I'd like to put that (or something like it) on my blog.
Annual earnings increases by month from Jan 1964 to Dec 2000:
"The European Commission wants to tap streaming video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime to fund the production of European movies and TV programs, after intense lobbying by France to help protect its industry.
A draft of the regulation obtained by POLITICO says, “member nations may require providers of on-demand audiovisual media services … to contribute financially to the production of European works.”
On-demand-video streaming services would also have to ensure that at least 20 percent of their catalogs for EU viewers were European productions. There is currently no quota."
This would be better phrased as "The European Commission wants *to let France do* [various stupid shit]".
Quite, and therein lies one of the biggest problem of the EU
Well it lets member states do a lot of stupid shit in their own territories as long as it doesn't harm other member states too much, but I think that's better than trying to decide everything itself.
Does the German court's injunction against publication of the poem "Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdoğan" by Jan Böhmermann, apply only to Böhmermann himself, or is it a general injuction covering everybody in Germany? Either way, hopefully the Streisand Effect will come into full force over the next few days and weeks throughout Germany and beyond.
Sackdoof, feige und verklemmt, Ist Erdogan, der Präsident Sein Gelöt stinkt schlimm nach Döner, Selbst ein Schweinefurz riecht schöner. Er ist der Mann, der Mädchen schlägt Und dabei Gummimasken trägt. Am liebsten mag er Ziegen ficken Und Minderheiten unterdrücken. Kurden treten, Christen hauen Und dabei Kinderpornos schauen. Und selbst abends heißt’s statt schlafen Fellatio mit hundert Schafen. Ja, Erdogan ist voll und ganz Ein Präsident mit kleinem Schwanz. Jeden Türken hört man flöten, Die dumme Sau hat Schrumpelklöten. Von Ankara bis Istanbul Weiß jedermann, dieser Mann ist schwul, Pervers, verlaust und zoophil, Recep, Fritzl, Priklopil. Sein Kopf so leer wie seine Eier, Der Star auf jeder Gangbangfeier, Bis der Schwanz beim Pinkeln brennt. Das ist Recep Erdogan, der türkische Präsident.
When Hilary is confirmed at the Democratic conference I will win approximately a months wages. With Donald's confirmation I will win two months. Most will be folded into my betting 'bank' for future bets, but a local charity that helps an politically unfashionable group in desperate and genuine need will also get a fat cheque. My point is that if you have an understanding of politics you can still put it to good use even if you feel it is all going wrong and given up trying to change it.
Failing that I have just bottled some cracking wine made out of Aldi fresh apple juice. I can save you a bottle for June 24th.
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In any case the article you highlighted was originally in the Mail and was a hatchet piece with one quote from the IMF. What I was looking for was some actual IMF document.
As for debating I suspect you mean baiting.
http://aconservatives.blogspot.co.uk/
Shit=Noun
Shitty=Adjective
So it should be 'shitty English.'
Harsh but fair. *
*I have no idea how good he is at football, nor in fact, do I care.
Trump 45 Clinton 42
Trump 42 Sanders 46
https://twitter.com/foxnews
See Twitter for a good example of a company that doesn't understand how to actually make any money, yet be somehow valued in the tens of billions of dollars. They don't have anything that can't be replicated by someone else, which is exactly what will happen when the advertising and sponsorship starts or the service is no longer free.
Even by UKIP standards allowing Hamilton any prominence is bizarre.
Their polls have been fine so far - and it fits the general poll of improving Trump polls...
Hillary is having a right old slog against the Bernster whereas Trump is already "Presumptive nominee".
Further interest rate rise due in US next month.
Has Carney missed the boat over here leaving Osborne with no wriggle room when the recession hits?
It certainly was a scandal. The final official report was released far too late so very few people read it let alone learnt its lessons. In essence it described the essentials - in terms of conduct - of every City scandal since.
And @TSE I acted for one of the others arrested - but not in the end charged - not the infamous Mr Saunders who, miraculously, went on to act as an advisor to Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse fame.
I'd be amazed if they can make it successful, but the Nokia brand still carries a lot of weight in Europe and Asia.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/HP-Autonomy-chiefs-face-court-2018/story-28585111-detail/story.html
Then I thought, nah, the Tories can't be that lucky.
Ad blocking is now mainstream, and the websites and advertisers have brought in on themselves with 3rd party ad domains, auto play video, pop up and under, processor heavy scripts and outright malware. It's now actually dangerous to use a Windows box on the Internet without an ad blocker.
There was a funny gag in last week episode where an engineer changed his LinkedIn status to.looking for work to find he is bombarded by freebies from other startups just to agree to meet with them.
The Conservative party could have Hamilton as leader, caught in flagrante with a miner (deliberate) and still get elected.
hmmm I wonder how many on this site will get that reference.
From the ONS:
' Between January to March 2015 and January to March 2016, in nominal terms, total pay increased by 2.0%, little changed compared with the growth rate between the 3 months to February 2015 and the 3 months to February 2016 (1.9%). '
By comparison annual RPI in March was 1.6%.
I'm sure we can all do the maths.
During the last decade annual real wages growth (using RPI) has been an average of -0.8% per year ie a reduction. The three decades before that had average annual increases in real wages of 2.0% (1997-2006), 2.2% (1987-1996) and 2.1% (1977-1986) with a mighty 3.4 annual average between 1967 and 1976.
How much the decade long fall in real wages that Britain has suffered is a result of immigration, of more general effects of globalisation or in changes in the structure of the UK economy needs to be researched at a much more in depth level than I am ever going to do.
But what is without question is that there has been a shift in economic power from those who work to those who own.
If they just displayed static ads, I'd be entirely happy to see them, and I'd click on ones of interest.
It even makes Linux machines (what I use at home) grind, though I don't have issues with malware as it's bomb proof.
I think fraud is sentenced far too leniently. A few lengthy exemplary sentences would do wonders to get the message across. Victimless crime indeed! Real people suffer when someone breaks the trust placed in them.
Anyway, thanks all for the discussion and kind comments.
Goodnight all.
It is an excellent article.
Have you got links? I'd like to put that (or something like it) on my blog.
Who could the tories select that has a high enough profile to have a good vote (if winning is out of the question)? Please not someone like Graham Brady who only appeals to cheshire really. I suggest they learn from Ruth Davidson and try to go back to a sort of working class torism to have a chance prehaps a candiadate who is not normally associated with the tories so that they can take votes from people who would have never have voted for him/her before again like Ruth was able to do with tory votes going up like 10% in some central belt seats they didn't have a chance in (although I get that was a lot to do with the constitution question).
Any suggestions from manchester tories on here?
One advantage of the move to web apps and tablets is that mainstream software vendors are now coding for multi-platform environments. Maybe 2016 is the year of Linux on the desktop after all
A hacker claiming to have more than one hundred million LinkedIn logins is advertising them for sale online. The extensive list of user IDs and passwords were allegedly sourced from a cyber attack on the networking site four years ago.
According to news site Motherboard, a hacker calling himself "Peace" has placed the alleged details of 117 million LinkedIn users on "dark web" marketplace The Real Deal for the price of 5 Bitcoin - the digital currency - worth around £1,500.
http://news.sky.com/story/1698462/millions-of-linkedin-logins-for-sale
Oblivion.
Alas too many Linux desktops are moving to a more Windows 8/10 style which is sub optimal on the desktop. It's certainly pants on Windows Server 2012.
A draft of the regulation obtained by POLITICO says, “member nations may require providers of on-demand audiovisual media services … to contribute financially to the production of European works.”
On-demand-video streaming services would also have to ensure that at least 20 percent of their catalogs for EU viewers were European productions. There is currently no quota."
http://www.politico.eu/article/amazon-prime-european-movies-commission-wants-to-hit-netflix-with-movie-tax/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/18/hope-is-at-the-heart-of-my-prisons-reform/
Good stuff.
I get sick of the American dross that pads out their catalogue, as if we are just an afterthought to their real market. Bring it on!
Anyway, this is PB not Slashdot, and it's 3am where I am. Laters.
He is right though.
My betting strategy is not looking good, I bought Leave at 4 on betfair thinking the odds would shorten and then go all green.
My betting strategy is not looking good, I bought Leave at 4 on betfair thinking the odds would shorten and then go all green.
Edit: is/was his dad a pakistani bus driver?
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When Hilary is confirmed at the Democratic conference I will win approximately a months wages. With Donald's confirmation I will win two months. Most will be folded into my betting 'bank' for future bets, but a local charity that helps an politically unfashionable group in desperate and genuine need will also get a fat cheque. My point is that if you have an understanding of politics you can still put it to good use even if you feel it is all going wrong and given up trying to change it.
Failing that I have just bottled some cracking wine made out of Aldi fresh apple juice. I can save you a bottle for June 24th.
sign the petition to make @TSE tory candiate for Greater Manchester mayor!
http://web.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/data-selector.html?cdid=MD9S&dataset=emp&table-id=AWE17
For Jan 2001 onwards you need to download a spreadsheet from here:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/summaryoflabourmarketstatistics
Annual RPI increases here:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/czbh
Seems Trump has the Big Mo'
momentum as in the physical force not the hard left loonies!
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ms804/#9c0b766
Sackdoof, feige und verklemmt,
Ist Erdogan, der Präsident
Sein Gelöt stinkt schlimm nach Döner,
Selbst ein Schweinefurz riecht schöner.
Er ist der Mann, der Mädchen schlägt
Und dabei Gummimasken trägt.
Am liebsten mag er Ziegen ficken
Und Minderheiten unterdrücken.
Kurden treten, Christen hauen
Und dabei Kinderpornos schauen.
Und selbst abends heißt’s statt schlafen
Fellatio mit hundert Schafen.
Ja, Erdogan ist voll und ganz
Ein Präsident mit kleinem Schwanz.
Jeden Türken hört man flöten,
Die dumme Sau hat Schrumpelklöten.
Von Ankara bis Istanbul
Weiß jedermann, dieser Mann ist schwul,
Pervers, verlaust und zoophil,
Recep, Fritzl, Priklopil.
Sein Kopf so leer wie seine Eier,
Der Star auf jeder Gangbangfeier,
Bis der Schwanz beim Pinkeln brennt.
Das ist Recep Erdogan, der türkische Präsident.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36309492
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/579183-egyptair-804-disappears-radar-paris-cairo.html << pilots' forum, usually good at finding information quickly in these circumstances.