Posts by Steve Barnes

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  • Hard News: Another nail in the coffin of…,

    And when you consider This
    and think about who is up Googles chuff and who has got a chunk of Yahoo.................it all starts to either make sense or looks like a vast conspiracy (it's ok, I have my foil hat on)

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report

  • Hard News: Foreign Affairs,

    A country viewed from a company/business perspective has far too many intangibles, ie. the good that employment alone contributes to the good of society, meaning that an overblown bureaucracy has a good in that it keeps more members of that society "in the loop".
    The opposite of this is a slimming down of the public sector and leaving more to the private sector and the resultant "Market Forces" ie. lower wages and a profit driven economy.
    Of course, countries have to trade and the more balanced and free that trade is, the better it is for all concerned.
    Well that's politics sorted, what shall we talk about now?
    ;-)

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report

  • Speaker: That Long And Winding Road,

    Your sister here might have been perhaps two or three years old when I first same here to speak with your family, and the people who live round here.

    Don't feel too bad Che, you listened to these people, that, in itself, helps their esteem. To be listened to is far better than being ignored and/or used. Through your work others can now listen too.

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  • Busytown: If you build it...,

    Something funky with DNS, methinks, coz I get the same IP address from boxes on which it works.

    Trcert takes me to "sedoparking.com" (82.98.86.174) which is not the same as yesterday, "mint.hmdnsgroup.com" (63.247.141.23) which would suggest the domain up for grabs. Maybe your getting a cached page from somewhere or there's a misplaced redirect. Who knows, maybe someone has sued them into oblivion ;-)

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report

  • Hard News: Foreign Affairs,

    How exactly do you reduce government income (i.e. tax receipts) without reducing government spending, again?

    To paraphrase a campaign we are spending money on "It's not what we're spending, it's how we are spending".
    Until someone comes up with a way to run something that isn't a business like a business we will always have inefficiencies. I think we would all agree that waste is endemic in any government department when the only incentive you have is to increase the number of people below you.

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  • Cracker: How about You You You?,

    My daughter saw the zebra and yelled "documentary!

    How about pointing at the Gorilla and saying "Phil Collins" ;-)

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  • Busytown: If you build it...,

    Weird. Network solutions whois shows the domain for sale but a thumbnail of the front page.
    Domain Tools whois shows;
    thumbnail of the front page and
    IP Address: 63.247.141.23
    IP Location - Florida - Jacksonville - Dns Services
    Response Code:
    Blacklist Status: Clear
    Domain Status: Registered And Active Website
    I'm going to get to the bottom of this.

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  • Busytown: If you build it...,

    Tried that and disabled my hosts file just in case. Seems odd, what browser are you using? I've tried Opera and IE6.

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  • Busytown: If you build it...,

    OverLawyered

    I get a 403 on that one (Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access / on this server.) ?

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  • Random Play: Couch life and low opinion,

    The fridge was almost empty and there wasn't enough cash in the till to get $20 on the ATM card either. I asked the bar person if they actually had any beer from London, all I got was a blank stare.
    I won't be going there again in a hurry I can tell you.

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