Re: Good looking on Radio

The trouble I tend to find with "beautiful" people is they are quite dull. You don't need to be exciting when everyone thinks you're amazing and fantastic to look.

It's about 4-5 months in you realise they don't actually do anything but look pretty.

Therefore they can't be any good for radio. Moyles wasn't pretty, but he was entertaining.

Re: Commission?

You're both quite right in what you are saying and I certainly wasn't implying otherwise, tax is paid on where the sale is made.

Google is, it would seem, is trying to say that they have absolutely no sales at all in the UK. Only sales people work on commission, so if bonuses are changing that a very good sign of commission being paid, meaning that Google is lying to us here.

I don't know where it gets us exactly, but it shows them being dishonest in these statements at least. It's up to our politicians to decide what to do with this information.

Re: Tea making

Simple solution to that - I point blank refuse when anyone is offering to make a cuppa so I then don't owe anyone either.

I never let anyone near my cup, partly because most people can't stand the stains left from the previous week, but mainly because they just never get it right!

Re: @Pete 2

Ok, so Starbucks decide that if they have to pay this tax then they are simply going to pass the cost straight on to the customer, and whack whatever % on top of their current prices.

Costa, who already pay all their tax and still turn a profit don't increase their prices and so are now undercutting Starbucks by whatever %

Given Costa are already making a profit they are happy with why would then increase their prices to match Starbucks?

Yes, in the pursuit of pure profits this may seem an easy thing to do, but they'd have to be retarded to bump the prices in line with Starbucks in this situation as it's just another way of showing themselves to be better than Starbucks, thus driving more people into their stores, leading to more profit anyway.

Re: Glad I'm not on contract

I've always found it comes out about an even break between a contract and a buying a phone out right, I've got a HTC sensation (the week it came out) on £25 a month from Orange so that's £600 over 24 months. When it launched the sensation was £500 (and even now it's around £250). I'll sell it when I upgrade, get say £50 for it, that's £50 left, 50/24 = £2.08 a month for 200 minutes, unlimited texts and 750MB data, the other £22.92 is just an interest free loan on the phone, I'll take that.

On 18 months I'd be quids in, but they were having none of that.

And of course you could always argue I'm a sucker for getting it on the week of release, but I'm happy this will last me 2 years, I don't need to upgrade to the latest greatest all the time, just once so it lasts.

Plus it never hurts your credit rating paying a contract every month, I know my Orange payments show on there in green.

But...

No good to a click clack reader if they're flat

Re: Re: Re: Re: The law is there to protect us.

@ bobbles31;

"If they have done their homework then surely they have some evidence of his guilt that would then cause a Court to compel him to release the keys to the drive."

Bwwwwwwhahahah! Don't make me laugh, I got raided and and everything computer related taken from me for 9 months because someone had given them a "tip off" that we were kiddy fiddlers. The officers doing the raid even stated "we don't have any internet logs or anything or we'd be arresting you right now", though they couldn't actually say "it's just a tip off" it was near as dammit implied.

Thankfully I'd already gotten rid of our backup tapes for the day so they couldn't go blagging me for the encryption keys to those, my boss would not have been best pleased had they taken them.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather than over checked stuff and cleared me than skipping over stuff, they'd get far more of a pasting if they didn't respond to a tip off and later something happened.

However, I would have been happy to hand over the keys to the tapes, I know full well there's nothing dodgy on there. I would be very interested to know why they are even looking at this guy, do they have logs to show he has been accessing dodgy content? Or has someone he's pissed off decided this would be a good way to get a bit of easy revenge?

"There is a subtle difference between "you have some encrypted disks, you must be a peadophile." and "We have evidence that you are a peadophile and believe that there is more evidence on those encrypted disks.""

That is the key difference I think.

Don't be daft

That's a sensible idea

@Robert

Not round these parts

I read that as...

Party-bollock-tickling, I'm sure that's all they get up to.

Just to put a spanner in the works

I actually got £50 knocked off when I moved from a town to a village just outside the town, so it's not always both ways that add costs on.

I still feel it was £300+ over what I should have been paying on a 1.4 16v 5 door Astra at 23 years of age, no one is boy-racing around in a 5 door and I've logged the car as being used for business use as I can't do my job without it!

How about..

The fact that they'll only need to fire one missile now to guarantee a kill, as oppose to a shed load, so that will be cheaper. Or only send one heli out to handle a whole swarm of boats/tanks.

Picture the scene....

It's 3am, your on a four lane motorway cruising at 70, not doing anything wrong.

Then you hit a 50mph average speed check area. You look around, there's no head or tail lights in sight, there's certainly no workmen about, yet your forced to drop to 50.

Is there really any logic to that?