* Posts by Mickey Finn

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TV election debate 'worm' graph found to undermine democracy

Mickey Finn
FAIL

Our pristine democracy...

"If our results were to generalise to the population at large, a biased worm in a debate shortly before polling day could determine the result of a close election," says Professor Colin Davis of Royal Holloway."

Otherwise, the system is perfect.... It's why we keep insisting on exporting our pristine system to the Afghanis, Iraqis, Vietnamese... Oh and Libyans.

Channel VAT loophole shrunk, not shut

Mickey Finn
Headmaster

It's called competition...

And if we left the EU, and closed down 80% of our British bureaucracy, we would be able to compete with the Channel Islands too.

Busted Romanian TV star fingers Bulgarian airbags

Mickey Finn
Big Brother

Can't see where I have erred...

My post was rejected by moderators, I was commenting on the stupidity of government and the adaptability of human beans, but it somehow got misconstrued.

So... Again...

In Romania citizens can get up to five years in the can for driving with illegal documents, whereas in the UK, whilst not being praised, people are not really punished, so if you are a Romanian and you want to drive illegally, it is far safer to do it here.

Osborne urged to end islands VAT-holiday by small-biz group

Mickey Finn
Big Brother

Better business model.

Presumably the reason that the Channel Islands can avoid charging VAT and have lower overall taxes is because their government does not enter into illegal alliances with foreign political entities against the wishes of the people.

The reason that Tesco does what it does (if it does) is because they can, it has an uncomplicated view of the world, it seeks only to make profit, which is fair enough. If only government were so single minded about looking after the genuine interests of its citizens... Property rights etc.

So, in essence "Gideon" Osborne (Little Lord Fauntleroy) and the rest of his treacherous pals should perhaps put their house in order and make it a daft move to set-up in somewhere like the Channel Islands. They could start by butting out of about 80% of peoples' lives and reducing taxes appropriately.

George Orwell, because Gideon changed his name to George, like Orwell (Eric Blair)... Orwell wrote an apocryphal story and Osborne and Little (aka Scam...eron) treat it like an operating manual.

Whitehall to puff punters: 'Hide your fags'

Mickey Finn
Big Brother

The missing link...

I have just read some of the comments, searched the rest and read the text, and I have not found any reference to the European Union (EU), which I have to say, is typical.

The last time an article like this appeared in the Register, I made the same observation; it was in regard to the Spanish abandoning their "traffic light" system and implementing a total ban on tobacco in public places.

Anyway, there is no point in complaining to Cameron or criticising the implementation of this "law" to Westminster...

Its implementation is written in stone, it is a conglomeration of European Commission "Decisions, Regulations and Directives", and by hook or by crook (crook probably) their "Will Be Done".

http://ec.europa.eu/health/tobacco/docs/tobacco_consultation_en.pdf

Make no mistake, whether one agrees with their attitude to tobacco or not, the problem for the people affected by this sort of thing, is not the product but how the ban came into place... Whether we have any democratic redress, should we disagree.

I am pretty sure that the majority of people just do not understand (or even have an inkling) of just how pervasive is the nature of the European Union/Commission.

If they were, they would surely be voting UKIP (and any other anti-EU party) in droves... Maybe the recent idiocies in regard to voting prisoners and equal opportunities for women drivers etc. have had a small effect, but people should not forget that this is widespread and not just related to minority issues like those above.

Feeling heat from Macs, Microsoft sells PCs sans crapware

Mickey Finn
Boffin

Signature PC's

I have only ever built PC's and installed vanilla copies of Windows (whatever version) and so I am used to running these "super fast" Windows boxes...

Didn't stop me replacing PC's with Mac's though!

It is impossible to remove the crapware from Windows and have it install and run, it's built in... out of the box!

Traffic-light plague sweeps UK: Safety culture strangles Blighty

Mickey Finn
Go

Traffic Lights

The author's first remedy is to experiment with a flashing amber period, when drivers use caution and discretion etc..

Though it is a good idea, what needs to happen first is the introduction of "roundabout rules" at every junction with lights. Following this change, there would be no reason why 95% of traffic lights could not be switched off for some part of the day, pedestrian signals would respond "on demand".

Traffic congestion cured...

Simples.

MozyHome stiffs unlimited users

Mickey Finn
FAIL

Climate change...

Clouds are far more unpredictable than we have been led to believe.

Keep out of the cloud... Keep out of trouble.

Disconsolate Spanish smokers driven out into blizzard

Mickey Finn
Big Brother

No mention here of the real culprit

I always wondered how it was that the Spanish seemed to have arrived at a sensible position, where the many bars were divided into smoking or non-smoking, with a green or red label on the door, so that non-smokers could avoid having their otherwise pristine lungs violated.

The reason that I wondered was that I knew that this was contrary to an EU directive. I needn't have wondered, it was just the Spanish which like many Mediterranean countries, are fairly creative about such matters.

No doubt, there has been some sort of withholding of Germany's or the UK's largesse though, until they complied implicitly...

The fascist EU goes marching on, and nobody even bothers to mention it.

Make your iPhone patriotic - for free

Mickey Finn
Big Brother

Un-needed App shurely?

What is the point of this app, if the authorities already have access to every piece of intelligence?

I believe they know my URL, the contents of my email and phone calls, the websites that I visit, and their cameras know where my car is and where I am.

So what's their problem?

Telegraph to charge for online news

Mickey Finn
WTF?

Mirror mirror...

And this comment is not lefty trolling?

Brussels blocks UK from biometric superdatabase

Mickey Finn
Happy

Net Contributors

I believe the net contributors to this exercise in fascism are Germany (as one would expect), the UK and the Netherlands.

As I understand it, the French are are net recipients.

The problem of course is that every penny, is a nail in the coffin of independence and national sovereignty.

Isn't it perverse that at a time of national poverty due to the profligacy of our former leader, coupled with the fallout from the criminal activities of our banking fraternity, that our so-called government is increasing public spending, rather than cutting it. Worse, it is diverting public expenditure away from the welfare system (for what seems to be ideological reasons), whilst increasing its spending on such mad leftie schemes as "climate change" £18.3bn per annum, the EU (membership fees only) £7bn rising to £12bn by 2012, and overseas aid, rising from £7bn to nearly £12bn?

Given the above nonsense, it makes complete sense that our government thinks that it is OK to carry on paying for information that we don't get.

BTW: Did anyone realise that according to Pravda (BBC), under the part of Schengen that the UK has agreed to, it is incumbent upon our government to honour prescriptions wherever they are written in the EU? This means, that if a Doctor in the Netherlands writes a prescription for cannabis, it is perfectly legal to import (via ones favourite koffieshop) a three month supply of said "medicine".

A case of the biter bit, methinks.

Margaret Thatcher celebrates 85 years

Mickey Finn
Megaphone

She had her faults

For instance she did not like to be beaten, so attacks by Scargill, Galtieri, or the IRA were like an invitation for her to bare her teeth, however she frequently threw the baby out with the bathwater in her zeal to overcome.

However, there were more subtle enemies, like the teacher training colleges that were infested with marxists just dying to get at the kiddies. From reading the majority of the above comments, they look like they have succeeded. Then there was her own back office... The civil service, which conspired against her throughout her eleven years in power. Oh and then there was/is our new anti-democratic and fascist government in Brussels.

There just wasn't enough time.

Anyway, I do not think that any of the so-called leaders since 1945 have been any good, they have too much power. Rather than live through the Thatcher regime, I would have much rather have had far less overbearing government throughout that time. Far lower taxes, far less interference from the EEC/EU and more power for the people of this country.

What we really needed was the death of so-called representative politics, Margaret Thatcher did not represent the people of this country and neither did any of the other politicians or union leaders... They all had/have their own ideological agendas.

My view is that the only way to stop this sort of crap is for the people of this country to campaign for a "Direct Democracy". This would effectively put the Thatchers, Attlees, Blairs and all the other superstars that bestride our benighted little island back in their unproductive boxes where they belong.

The most prominent example of a direct democracy is Switzerland. This is a nation made up of a microcosm of European types. It has very little by way of natural resources and yet it is the richest per head nation in Europe and in the world is only surpassed by those that have immense natural resources. Watch them pick up the fallout from the EU's AIFM directives and further destroy the fabric of this country and the enrichment of theirs.

I reckon that we should have the upper hand in the running of our homeland and politicians should be mere functionaries, there to do our bidding.

So, to sum up, they are all f**king disasters but Thatcher was less of a disaster than most of the others.

Schmidt: Google is the 'inverse' of Apple

Mickey Finn
Black Helicopters

Open/Closed

Neither of these "features" is anything other than a business model, neither are "good" or "bad" in the scheme of things.

Now what would be good would be a bit of privacy and security.

All CO2-spewing kit now in existence is OK for the planet

Mickey Finn

@NoDosh

"On a serious note, the reduction in resources as a trigger for change strikes me as being how this will play out. The human race has a poor track record for changing without some degree of compulsion and a worse one for ignoring difficult decisions. I’d venture that for every great moment in history inspired by altruism and philanthropy, there will be a dozen driven by force."

I can see no reason to exchange my Saabs for a G-Whizz or a Pious, all that this really achieves is a massive increase in the cost of production without any noticeable improvement in consumption, it might well be worse... Instead of using oil which I directly load into my fuel tank, I now use oil/gas/coal/uranium/wind-haha that is converted by some filthy power station.

I agree with your general slant, but I don't agree with your idea that necessity is the great driver, rather I think that it is novelty. Novelty sells, people like selling and people like buying.

As an example, consider the device we are all currently using as we read and write here... The PC/Mac etc. Who would have thought that we would have a use for one of these in 1980... I worked with computers from around 1972 and it wasn't exactly a common perception that everyone would have one of these, although we knew they were getting relatively cheaper and more compact.

EC consults on low take-up of e-commerce

Mickey Finn
Pirate

EC CONSULTS ON LOW TAKE-UP OF E-COMMERCE

Surely there is no need for a consultation!

The solution is as plain as the n on your f...

More government!

ICO warns coalition on benefits snooping plan

Mickey Finn
Grenade

Diversion

Surely this 'noise' was more to do with the EU's announcement that as agreed in the Lisbon Treaty, it was about to start taxing so-called EU citizens directly.

That git Cameron wouldn't want that to be widely known, would he?

Sneaky bin chipping still in the bag for UK.gov

Mickey Finn
Grenade

Same old, Same old.

The only difference between the "new" scheme and the "old" scheme (out with the old), is one of presentation.

The reason why...?

There is no manoeuvring room under the underlying EU directive. We are actually governed by a completely alien quango, which we cannot elect or throw out (apparently).

So, the fact is, that this country is covered in friggin' holes, but under the EU waste directives, the only officially appointed bodies (councils and their usually French contractors) that are allowed to fill them, have to pay dearly to achieve this, and consequently we have to pay them.

NB: This applies to almost every facet of government in the EU nations, so we have just been participating in a re-shuffle rather than a general election... different faces... same policies.... very slightly different presentation.

And as for the one called Sarah Bee... Have a good laugh... you did the last time I commented in this vein, but remember, one day there will be a directive governing the minutiae of what is written in august journals such as this, and you will be out of a job.

Small firms say UK taxes are strangling growth

Mickey Finn
Grenade

The BIG question.

Of course the big question is what the fuck are they doing with all our money?

Or put another way... What have the Romans ever done for us?

Apart from...

The CCTV.

The endless new crimes.

The perpetual attacks on personal transport.

The monitoring and databasing of all of our personal information.

The dumbing down of our schoolchildren so that they won't have too high expectations.

The protection that they are "giving" us when we want to use an aeroplane (aka the war on terrorism).

The pursuit of illegal wars in support of some weird concept they call "democracy".

The endless pursuit of people who want to be free to stick something into their bodies that make them feel different.

The provision of a national ill-health scheme and its subsequent rationing and threats to anyone that doesn't behave according to current dictum.

The re-jigging of our energy provision which will ensure that within ten years, most people won't be able to afford heat, light or fuel for transport.

The pursuit of the Malthusian concept that if we don't increase taxes to 100% we will all burn in hell as a result of climate change.

Boy! Did I get out of bed on the wrong side this morning!

However, my point is valid, what exactly is the point of government which is effectively out of control, like ours?

The further point of course is how the fuck do we get them under control?

Mickey Finn
FAIL

I don't believe you...

Do you buy anything?

If yes, you are a taxpayer.

Chinese e-tailer lights up ciggie-lighter phone for smokers

Mickey Finn
Pint

Wrong priority...

Personally, I would rather be able to make the odd phone call with my lighter.

You're never alone with a Strand.

Tory surveillance backlash: Worthy, but is it workable?

Mickey Finn
Big Brother

AC Thursday 17th September 2009 09:08

"All our databse laws have nothing to do with Europe people... I seem to remember the EU complaining about innocents on DNA database and requesting their removal because it violates a directive, and also their hammering of the government over the Phorm secret trials issue."

Yes, and all ducks are made of wood, so they are witches! Burn them!

The fact that British bureaucrats "gold plate" EC legislation, does not affect the origin of the legislation.

UKIP is not only anti-EU, it is anti-police state and its policy is to push all laws downwards for local people to make local laws for themselves.

Only UKIP amongst all of the talking shops that exist, understands that it is votes that count, the "other side" understand this also, so they want to remove voting opportunities not grant them.

More and more people are beginning to accept that a vote for LibLabCon is a vote for loss of sovereignty and democracy, and are voting accordingly. Hopefully the tipping point will arrive sooner, rather than later, because later (too late) will mean revolution or war, as in the Soviet bloc in the early 1990's.

Mickey Finn
Big Brother

AC 16th September 2009 15:02 GMT

" ...until you vote us in. Then it all goes out the window and anything is fair game.

Don't you wish that political parties were legally obliged to hold to the letter of their pre-election proposals? Then again if we did that we might actually get a fair representation during an election."

Yes it would be nice, however it is impossible under the current circs.

It is not possible because your Nulab/Nucon ARE NOT THE GOVERNMENT!

The government is in Brussels, it doesn't have meaningful elections, it is anti-democratic and essentially fascist.

They only have one solution to every problem, sometimes even for problems that don't exist....

MORE GOVERNMENT!

Brown says the 'C' word

Mickey Finn
Joke

Brown has gone Dutch

Actually Brown was speaking Dutch when he started talking about c(k)uts...

Windfarm Britain means (very) expensive electricity

Mickey Finn
Big Brother

They are all the same...

Lewis Page wrote…

“ROCs are often misleadingly described as a "subsidy", but they cost the Treasury nothing:”

I would just like to inform you, that NOTHING COSTS THE TREASURY ANYTHING!

Where do you think they get their income from?

On the broader issue:

In a “brave new world”, where all our electricity needs are (under ideal conditions) generated by the wind, conventional generating systems, will not be switched off, they will be merely resting, as it is not possible to bring any of these systems up to full capacity from cold immediately, they have to be kept ticking over.

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"-- Mussolini

This is what is really going on; government (and its unspeakable mouthpiece, the BBC) is in an unholy alliance with big business, and ALWAYS at the hapless citizen’s expense.

BNP pleads for cash after reported DDoS assault

Mickey Finn
Stop

@Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 12:29 GMT

Absolutely correct.

BNP is far left, nothing to do with the right...

The problem for the traditional left:

EG. Labour party, LibDums, BBC, Mirror, Grauniad, etc.

Is that they do not want the great unwashed to realise that their theories are not THAT different to those of the BNP.

Add the European Commission to the above list, and you have a neat list of the fascist leftie political organisations operating in the UK. Those that shout loudest about what they are NOT are usually hiding something.

Jobs bloodbath at Brit, Danish wind turbine factories

Mickey Finn
Pirate

@ac 29th April 2009 14:54

Instead of "Tit for Tat"...

How about "Tat for Tit"?

How about the British economy makes a point of becoming competitive...

Instead of levying an import tax against the Chinks...

How about removing a good part of the 90% tax that our own government levys against its own people, to spend on idealistic crap like... er...

Inefficient and subsidised wind power projects?

Skull and CB... cos the gubmint ARE the pirates.

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