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UK.gov slams Facebook over Moat fan clubs

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its already in the water supply...

Prozac is so over perscribed by the medical profession its already detectable in the water supply apparantly http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3545684.stm

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Osborne pledges simpler biz taxes

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Ouch new companies only

Reading other statements that have been made it looks like this will only apply to startups for the first one or two years, hopefully the promissed review of IR35 will result in some better news, that or I need to close my company and re-open a new one to remain competative on rates.

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Wait a while jim

Most likely they will slip in something that excludes those caught by IR35, or it will not actually make it into the real world at all...

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Woman finds Romanian living in shed

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Same readership as the Mail

Well what do you expect when the quality of the journalism is much the same...

Although I would like to add that it was men in sheds that made this nation Great, maybe this is the start of a new outsourcing oppertunity.

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The Pirate Party is the shape of things to come

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Something a bit off topic maybe..

One question i have regarding the ever increasing extension of copyrights is what about all us wage slaves who have (or in my case had) contracts that assign all copyrights, patents and our first born children to the company paying our salaries. At the time i last signed this kind of contract the copy right term was life + 50 years, now its life +70 so the company i worked for gets an extra 20 years to profit from my creative works (or would if anyone wants to buy some really badly written and out of date CRM software).

For most of us this will be irrelevant but should a change in copyright term mean the copyright reverts to the original creators estate at the end of the life + 50 year term?

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Air France offers two-seat deal for fatties

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Damn someones been taping my conversations...

Having had too suffer next to a lard arse flying home from amsterdam last friday I suggested this very thing (well actually I suggested that if your arse is wider than the seat you should get put in the baggage hold).

Seriously on an hour and a half flight to Edinburgh my entire right side went numb as I was contorted into such a strange position.

Still better to than the poor bastard I saw before Xmas on the same route when a rather large couple had booked themselves into the ailse and window seats, his kind offer to swap so they could sit together was turned down.

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Govt promises unemployed free laptops, net access, websites

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Its all much more civilised in the Netherlands

Having spent 6 months looking for an new contract at the end of last year/start of this year i sympathise with those trying to find work, I'm now over in the Netherlands where unemployment benefit is 70% of your last salary (up to 177 euros a day) depending on how long you have been employed for this last for between 6 months and 3 years, not sure what happens after that.

The downside is higher Taxes, (although not buy much as NI is lower). At least having been a contractor I planned in a period of not being employed but when I was an employee I assumed there was some kind of safety net in place the bad news is the net is closer to the ground than you think and a lot of stuff just doesn't apply for a long time and if you have a mortgage you are totally fucked.

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