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    Yeah, it's good advice, so why shouldn't we want to hear it here?

     

    Presumably there are ways to avoid these pitfalls. Covenants in the will of parent A.

     

    Capital gains, you'll have to explain that one, it doesn't normally apply when you sell a house.

     

    When you sell the property you inherited you have to pay 40% capital gains tax on any profit you made on it over the value it was given at the time of your parents death. So if you value it low for Inheritance Tax you pay more in Capital Gains Tax. They get you either way.

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    The planning application for 35 apartments on Storth Lane, Ranmoor is recommended for approval. I cant believe how every new apartment block that looks 99% the same as the last can be described as modern / contemporary / in keeping with its surroundings/ quality etc by the developers when quite obviously its a cheap both in terms of design and materials.

     

    What happened to the links on your post. I was just reading them then when I looked at your post again they were gone!

     

    Here they are again -

     

    http://planningdocs.sheffield.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Officer%20Reports-168650.doc;jsessionid=0B3C7A9B2B37D783291C012A575CF514?extension=.doc&wmTransparency=0&id=168650&wmLocation=0&location=Volume3&contentType=application%2Fmsword&wmName=&pageCount=1

     

    http://planningdocs.sheffield.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Application%20(Drawings)-162429.pdf?extension=.pdf&wmTransparency=0&id=162429&wmLocation=0&location=Volume3&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=18

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    When I first cme to Sheffield in the late 1970's I was surprised to see a different kind of beer pump here, used in lots of Stones pubs. There was a horizontal glass cylinder and some sort of piston arrangement inside that dispensed the right amout of beer and pulled the next measure behind it at the same time.

     

    I think one stroke was 1/2 pint so you would see the piston go one way then the other and your pint was poured.

     

    Anyone know more about these and any pubs still use them?

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    I'm dead against ID cards and I'd go to jail before having one. It completely changes the relationship between citizen and state, and is an insult in a so-called free society. The state works for us, we don't work for them, and I object to having to prove who I am upon request. If I'm not breaking any laws then what I do is absolutely none of the government's business. Don't you think there's a good reason why the right to privacy is always included in human rights lists?

     

    A DNA database automatically makes us all a nation of suspects and could be data-mined in unimaginable ways. Let's say that a complete genetic profile of your DNA reveals that there's a small risk of you getting an obscure disease. Straight away you'd be unable to get insurance, even if you're never likely to actually contract the disease.

     

    A DNA database could also lead to increasingly lazy policing. If the police can find DNA at the scene of a crime and have a complete record of all DNA in the UK, why should they bother investigating for motive, alibi etc? If you've walked your dog through a field one evening, you've got dandruff, a murder happens to be committed in the same spot a month later and your partner was out so you have no alibi, well the murderer has to be you because your DNA is there isn't it?

     

    I read about a recent case of mail theft where the stolen letters were recovered and the police managed to obtain DNA from them. After arresting a suspect who proclaimed his innocence, the guy's lawyer eventually found out why the police thought it was him. They'd found his DNA on christmas cards that he'd sent out to friends and family which were among the stolen letters retrieved! It wasn't him who'd committed the crime at all, but the police had DNA so that was enough for them. The charge was then thrown out, but only because the lawyer had investigated further. There's a mistaken belief that DNA is 100% accurate, but it can never be because it's processed by humans.

     

    If ID cards are introduced you'll have function creep so that they're needed to purchase virtually everything. It'll start off with government departments like the HMRC, passport office etc, will move onto the NHS and education and will finish up so that you can't get a job without one. NO ID card? You can't board this train then I'm afraid. If your record is deleted then you've suddenly become a non-person. What's to stop senior government or security service figures deleting records of those they don't like purely out of spite? If an investigative journalist or political activist has the government on the run with an imminent huge scoop, what better way to stop them than delete their record? If someone goes out with the daughter of a high-level bureaucrat and cheats on them, what better way to get revenge?

     

    Even if you ignore the civil liberties arguments, the whole scheme just doesn't stand up to reason. There's no way that a complete biometric database of the entire UK population with tens if not hundreds of thousands of access points from public sector workers could ever be secure. The entire database would be an identity thief's dream. They'd no longer have to root through dustbins or set up phishing websites, they'd just need to learn how to hack. If they can hack the database then they have complete information on a person. In an age where teenage schoolboys can hack into the pentagon, this is entirely possible. About two years ago the Department of Work and Pensions database was hacked by identity thieves and the identities of thousands of its employees were stolen. Not to mention that the contracts for the databases will probably be given to the usual suspects like EDS who have proven track records in cocking up governmental IT projects.

     

    Then there's the canard about crime and terrorism. ID cards will stop neither. Criminals will just obtain forgeries of ID cards (anything which can be made can also be forged). The July 7th bombers were British citizens who would have all had ID cards, and the Madrid bombers also had ID cards. The whole scheme will cost billions which could be better spent on countless other things, such as Britain's shocking child poverty performance revealed today.

     

    Saying all this though, I don't think ID cards will happen. The conservatives have now said that they'll scrap ID cards if they win the next election, and there are a lot of people rolling their sleeves up for a major fight over this if the government are stupid enough to press ahead with it. I think that if the scheme did reach an advanced stage, once the average Joe realised that they were required to shell out at least £80 (probably much more) for something they'd never asked for in the first place, the whole thing will die on its arse.

     

    I agree 100% with everything said and already signed the petition a while back when it first came out.

     

    One more thing to note is that this database once set up won't go away and could be used for extremely malicious reasons by a future government who may not be nearly as benign and liberal as the current one. I can imagine the return of an extreme right wing government who wanted to introduce mass repatriation - easy with the DNA database, how many generations would Sir want to go back. Eugenics anyone? Yes lets weed out the cripples and feeble minded and also those likely to give birth to them. Easy with the DNA database.

     

    It's been done before so don't ever say it wont happen again, and with this technology it would be a doddle.

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    I saw Sky were offering a package for £26 for telephone + broadband + TV so I checked what I am paying to Virgin Media (ex-Blueyonder) for the same service and found it's a staggering £53.50

     

    I phoned them up and got no joy so I then checked the Virgin Media website and found the deal I have is being sold to new customers for £30.

     

    Not happy :x

     

    I noticed on their website existing customers can get the new deal only if they sign up for a new service. I scanned the list and found something called Anonymous Caller Barring, sounds cool and only £2.50 a month and signed up for that :thumbsup:

     

    I now wait and see if they will honour the deal....

  22. Posted

    oooh I bet you feel better for that dont you Tony,your just a coward who hides behind his key board,one day someone will find your identity then we will see just how BIG you are.

    ******.

    Your not fit to be admin.

     

    That sounds very much like a threat of violence to me. I'm surprised he's still here!

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