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  1. To his credit, isn't Brown trying to encourage developed countries to write off this debt? I'm sure I saw that on the news. With regards to the money getting to those that need it, if you donate to a responsible organisation like MSF or to the DEC, the money will be used to provide direct aid, rather than to potentially corrupt governments that will pocket the money.
  2. Primark may have the legal right to ask you to leave their store for no reason, but that doesn't exactly scream good customer service does it! If the guard was initially following you because he was supsicious of the back pack, the chances are they were filming it too, so the whole incident is probably on tape in the store somewhere. I've worked in a few different M&S stores in my time and the security guys there were always excellent (I think the used a company called Sabre security). Even when they caught some red handed, they would deal with them professionally and without prejudice, so it's a shame there are a few bad apples in the trade.
  3. They are called Peak Imaging now (it's the one I recommended above). All the prints I've had from Jessops have been absolutley appaling, but I suppose B&W would be done by a 3rd party, so you might get away with it. I really wouldn't recommend it if you want decent prints though.
  4. Agreed, but sadly Ilford have gone into administration, so not sure what state they're in at the moment.
  5. Are they proper B&W, or C41? If C41, I'd recommend Moor Prints at the bottom of the Moor. If proper B&W, I'd recommend Peak Imaging which is near West Bar.
  6. I note that the original journalists name was David Blair. Wasn't that journalist fired from the NYT for making up stories also called Blair? What is it with Blairs and lying?!
  7. Rother Valley is pretty good. Not as cheap as the 3 redinsheff mentioned (although it is still quite cheap), though on the plus side, it has a good driving range.
  8. Yes they have; the issue is now widely known about, whereas this was not the case before. I for one certainly didn't know how bad the situation was before they started dressing up as Batman and scaling walls and the like. They have a long way to go, granted, but at least the issue is now on the agenda.
  9. I say good luck to them. It is a sad fact that occasionally you have to get off your backside and rattle some cages in order to get justice. That's what these guys are doing and they are getting their message across.
  10. Hang on, that is not quite what I said. I said that I have only seen articles discussing Salmon levels increasing where pollution has been reduced. I'm not necessarily disagreeing what Lickszz is saying, just pointing out that as Lickszz has not provided any links supporting the claim, it should probably be treated with caution.
  11. Doi you have a link at all Lickszz? I'd like to read more about this. I've tried Google, but have so far just found articles about where salmon has returned because polution has been reduced.
  12. I think the worst I've managed so far is when my software locked out around 50 employees in the Maidenhead office from their email for half a day. Not too bad, though sod's law was the fact that the 50 employees contained my boss, my boss's boss (the COO), the CEO and the CFO. Otherwise known as the people that approve my pay rises!
  13. Joe, when you were my boss, I believe you had a euphemistic phrase for this sort of thing - "a career limiting action". I've made a few mistakes at work in my time, but killing 60,000 PCs in one go, that deserves some kind of award. Imagine the panic the guy must have felt when he realised what he had just done.
  14. I think that was one of the funniest editions of Newsnight ever, almost on a par with the "Did you threaten..." edition. I just loved the concept of sending Paxman out to follow Howard for the day and heckle him!
  15. They were filming at the bottom of my street in Crookes a short while ago. I bet their continuity department must be having a mare with all the different weather we've been having and a forecast to have.
  16. I think there is a kind of Batesian Mimicry element that would explain why so many people appear to belong to this same social group that has become to be known as chavs. Most of these kids are really just normal decent kids that have unfortunatley aligned themselves in appearance with a much smaller and malignant group, which is why they seems so abundant.
  17. What is that information based on? I ask because that is a claim that I've not heard before.
  18. I'm on Loxley View Road. When I lived on Mulehouse Road, it was there all the time too.
  19. There's one that does the rounds in Crookes virtually every evening.
  20. I think we are very lucky though these days to have the proliferation of blogs that cover politics and world affairs. They are not motivated by money (yet) and so don't have to resort to the tactics of the red tops to generate "news". Of course, they are nearly all pretty biased towards the beliefs of the author(s) so the same caveats about not getting all your info from a single source applies, but they undeniably add extra angles that simply aren't covered by the "mainstream" press.
  21. Interesting you bring up the Huntley case. My aunt was deputy head at the childrens' school, and the Mirror, presumably trying to find another angle from which to exploit their deaths, wanted to interview her. She refused, so they just pretended they'd interviewed her instead, and ran a full page story, not a word of which was true! It's really kind of pathetic.
  22. I like Texas Sayings myself. There's a whole bunch of them here.
  23. There's an interesting collection of maps here.
  24. The Republicans would have found meaningless smears for whoever the Dems put up. And what's with this "Hollywood phonies" crap? Didn't Bush wheel out Arnie on a number of occasions?
  25. I feel genuinly sad for the US this morning. I truly believe they've just done themselves incalculable harm. I don't really mean in terms of terrorism and foreign policy, Bush has dropped the ball on that already, and I think it naive to think Kerry could have begun to repair the damage done by the neo-cons. But if the first term was the time of the neo-cons, I think the second will be the time of the Fundamentalist Right. Let's make no mistake about this, Bush is a born-again, evangelical Christian. He has <i>faith</i> and he uses that faith to guide him in the decision making process. Actions based on faith rather than logic are bound to fail at some point. And what is particularly disturbing for the deomcrats is that the electoral support for Bush is based on faith too, and faith is something you simply cannot counter with facts and logic. To see in some way what I mean by this, take this quote from another website I saw this morning... If I was a US citizen, I would feel nothing but despair right now.
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