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5 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

To be fair, there's no evidence that Juncker leaked anything.  If he wanted to leak things why would he choose just one regional German newspaper to do it?

 

May certainly does appear haggard and after cocking up her snap election and getting shafted by the electorate, she clings on to power with a cabinet of back stabbers, arse lickers and opportunists. Hardly surprising then.

 

Jucnker doesn't bother with these fleabag journalists so won't do them the respect of commenting. Don't blame him. But at some point he will make an example if they are lying.

She wasn't exactly dragged screaming into the job and even she is not stupid enough to think it would have been easy. You can bet she'll be considerably richer when she does go though and still trying to dress like some alluring siren, while looking like an air raid siren.

The US still spends more than it earns. That's why its debt is $20 trillion+

About time they started paying off their debt instead of increasing it.

2 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

I paid 60% of my (very large) salary to the UK government during my working lifetime. (40% tax, 10% NI, 10% employers NI +VAT on top of that).

That's the way the system is supposed to work, pay in while you're young, get back when you're old.

I'm guessing I paid in more than you or your  family ever did (or will).

How much did the single mothers, Romanians, Polish, Syrian refugees (et al) ever contribute.

Except, of course, 40% tax is NOT payable on the whole salary, only on that above the threshhold - currently £45000 + allowance = £56500. 20% payable between £11500 and £56500.

NI has an upper limit, currently £866/week (lower limit under which no NI is paid is £157/week).

And, in response to your last question, the answer is, quite a bit more than Philip Green or Richard Branson.

A cheque?

How very quaint. Haven't seen more than a couple in the last 5 years going through my business.

Can probably get more for it by selling it on the rare items bit of ebay.....

9 hours ago, jaltsc said:

"Why give these people anywhere to smoke at all...?

 

Along with alcohol, these two legal substances are responsible for more deaths than all the illegal substances combined. Tobacco has the added danger, through second hand smoke, of affecting people who don't even choose to imbibe in it. Yet, governments makes billions of (name any currency) off them in taxes. Basically, the governments are the biggest dealers in deadly substances in the world, and yet have the audacity to hunt, arrest, sentence, and in some countries, execute those doing the same thing. Prohibitions on substances need to be based on the amount of danger they pose to the general public, and not on what a government deems to be legal. 

I wonder how many times people have been threatened violently by someone who has just had half a dozen Marlboro or if anyone can recall the thousands of road deaths caused by smoking drivers. It is relatively easy to avoid a violent drunk, just as it is to avoid a smoker. Not so easy to know who is dangerously drunk when driving though. Get the priorities right.

19 hours ago, jenny2017 said:

How many hours does such an offline upgrade take? 

Not easy to say exactly but at least an hour in my experience. But then some windows auto updates can take an age.

Incidentally, as with all Micro$oft upgrades, it is ALWAYS preferable to back up your data and do a clean install. Far quicker, far more certain to work first time, far less frustrating.

On 17/10/2017 at 7:51 AM, Gunnar Horpestad said:

Hurrayyyyyyyy for stupidity
What in the hell are they thinking?
They must be totally brain dead.
On the beach:
No eating
No drinking
No smoking
What is next???
No swimming????

Ban sand because it causes a mess on the roads to/from the beach.

See? Thai logic is easy :)

8 hours ago, gandalf12 said:

I have 2 laptops and I read it and tried it by swapping the HDD from one machine to the other. It immediately recognised it was not the same machine as the one it had been originally installed on. Further investigation provided the answer in that it is the motherboard that is identified. Suggest all these people who don't believe look it up at www.tomshardware.com

Not quite the same thing though. Once installed, the OS uses something called the UUID which identifies which disk is being used. If you swap hard drives, the disk will be assigned a different UUID (which it gets from the motherboard) and the OS will have trouble.

I have used these used keys to install W10 on 3 machines. I paid less than £3 for each and they all installed and activated without problem. All are still functioning perfectly.

As pointed out above, if you have a legal and working W7 or 8, you can look up Assistive Technologies on M$ and their free upgrade is still available. I have used this around a dozen times on friends machines. All work just fine.

If you choose either method to upgrade, it is vital to ensure the existing system is fully updated before upgrading. Windows update often does not deal with this properly and you get left with an upgrade stuck at 99% with nowhere to go. I use an offline updater (look up WSUS update) which takes a while but prepares a machine properly for the upgrade. My upgrade success rate is 100% using offline updating.

1 hour ago, MUSICMAN16 said:

send the nigerians back to africa

they are criminals and fraudsters

parasites they ruin everything they come into close contact with

send the tanzxanians back to africa 2!!!!!!!

 

 

i'm black myself so its not racist

 

its true

they just in thailand to steal and defraud???!!!

While you are probably a good man, does it not disturb you that this crackdown includes yourself? Do you mind being pulled by the police and searched/questioned for no reason other than skin colour?

2 hours ago, Juan B Tong said:

Just saying now..

 

Living in a country where racial profiling is OK is kinda OK.

 

 

Until the race being persecuted becomes yours. Then its not so kinda OK.

2 hours ago, farcanell said:

Picky picky picky... obviously the reference is to the times , based in London, and locally called the London times.... regardless, most would surely realize the connection

 

 

 

 

You seem to have not read your own reference. It says 'In countries where these other titles are popular (referring to The Times of India and The New York Times)'.

Neither of these titles are popular in the UK and so, locally, The Times is known as - The Times - and has never been known otherwise, as is the case for most UK national newspapers. (Telegraph, Mail, Express, Sun, Star, Mirror). Slight exception is the Guardian, which was renamed from The Manchester Guardian in 1959 and is called so by very old readers.

23 hours ago, craigt3365 said:

Amazing some just don't get it.  Do they read sites like zerohedge and breitbart? LOL

 

You know how to make insurances companies less rich?  Make health care available to all.  No more health insurance companies.

Even that won't fix a lack of humourous observation.

Ban kettles.

Ban vegetable steamers

Ban hot water

Get rid of all these awful vapour producing things.

Burn more plastic. That can't be dangerous as it hasn't been banned.

"Junta chairman and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha earlier this week said the date would be announced in June 2017, and the actual poll would take place five months later, in November."

So the poll takes place next month then in November 2017.

Its only a vote. No need for accuracy. I expect the timetable to be more along the line of a) date announced June 2018, b)Result decided August 2018, c) election takes place November 2018.

4 hours ago, Curmudgeon1 said:

What does he know that isn't told....

...... that which he makes up?

3 hours ago, TunnelRat69 said:

Good for You President Trump, stop making the Insurance Companies rich.   Not surprising, all the states listed have sanctuary cities in them, and  a high level of welfare recipients................

As I understand it, the withdrawal of these subsidies means the insurance companies will increase their premiums and cost middle America more each month. The insurance companies have not been stopped becoming richer - the premium hike will make up for the loss of subsidy and, presumably, the loss of income from those who can't afford the rise. It does assume their remaining customers will be delighted to pay a lot extra. If there is any danger of the insurance companies making a loss, I'm sure they will just walk away, as any business would. A nice thank you to the middle American Trump voters.

34 minutes ago, tropo said:

Dementia coupled with anxiety and anger.

In that case he shouldn't be in Thailand but a hospital, shouldn't be driving and certainly should never be left in charge of an 8 year old.

Everything was all right and then this ghost appeared.......

Best to sit back and watch a relaxing film.

Perhaps Doctor Strangelove....

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Is truck ahead moving ? NO. Go round, not through.

It's 2am, its dark, the truck was probably unlit.

3 hours ago, craigt3365 said:

As a tax payer, and thus one who funds the UN, I'm not sure I'm all for the UN doing the bailout.  How about going after the Myanmar government to stop the violence and repression of these people.  Make them pay for this.  We shouldn't have to.

The people who are 'paying for this' are the Rohingyas and they are paying with their lives. Sending a stern note doesn't usually work, it didn't in Germany, Yougoslavia, Lebanon, Rwanda etc etc

4 hours ago, OMGImInPattaya said:

My view is we should finish what we left unfinished 70 years ago...and the sooner the better.

Like you did in Vietnam 50 years ago? That didn't end well but has been almost erased from the memory.

The UK told Johnson to bugger off then when he said we should join him. And quite correctly. But then we had a PM with some guts, not some rightist nutter.

5 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

There is speculation that they have the capability to just be able to reach Guam, a mere 3,400 miles from NK. The UK, on the other hand, is a further 5,000 miles away - I am willing to be educated about the need only to tweak the rockets slightly to achieve such significant improvements in range, but my engineering experience tells me that they are still a long way off hitting the UK. But if they could hit the UK, they could also hit mainland USA - I think that would be a far bigger prize for NK. 

For years, billions and billions have been spent by the US and the UK in developing systems that can take missiles out en route. Do none of them work? Have we all been ripped off?

28 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

It's the same thing, surprisingly, with all the local store-sold brands of Thai ice cream.

 

You might think ice cream sold in the stores in Thailand would have CREAM or at least milk and cream as an ingredient. But amazingly, they DON'T.

 

Try reading the labels sometime for the local brands and you'll find: sugar, palm oil, whey solids, glucose, lots of chemicals and stabilizers, etc etc.

 

It's ice cream without any CREAM!

 

Much the same as ice cream sold throughout the world then.

3 hours ago, champers said:

If you believe Boris to be an idiot, you should remember who appointed him as Foreign Secretary in the first place.

So that would be the tax dodging billionaires who run the Daily Mail, Sun, Times, Telegraph and Express then.