Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Youd do well to read this Cyners and realise your wel out of date......

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/01/how-economic-growth-has-become-anti-life

because as i understand it, once you have posted something on those mediums (media?) you cannot delete it
also, to become a member of either, i'm unsure what other info you have to give out to start with
on the other hand, we all happily give out full cc details and other stuff including passport etc whenever we book a flight or similar
frankly, if someone is really that desperate to dig into your private life and worse, i'm sure it's not really that difficult

First of all wrong on you cant delete it. Just placed a tweet up and Im given this option below.........

Reply Delete Favorite More Expand


As you will see I can delete it immediatly or whenever I want.

Not only that say I had some nutcase reply to me immediatly what can I do......

Im given this option

Block @jimmhk
Report @jimmhk for spam


I tell you now Sticky SNR its far safer than b/board sites like this one advfn etc etc.

You cant immediatly come back with an alias and have any effect aswel.

You should listen to your business associates and join up.

You can use a clapped out Pc you dont need a mod con phone.

Details to be given just like any B/board, nothing more.

o/topic, crikey its volatile out there today.

SGP up and down faster than Jordans knickers.

thanks for that .... perhaps i shall dip a toe into twitter as one of my clients would certainly like me to sign up

i go nowhere near advfn
20 minutes on there 3/4 years ago was more than enough for me
makes this board look polite :-)

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close shave for jordan i take it :-)

LOL, I honestly think you would enjoy Twitter you get analyst reports much faster than on the web in general and also some top knobs posting from all the funds and the business news world...... whatever your interested in.

Youd probably be able to build your business up aswel, i know I have.

How many "followers" do you have gf?

Not having a dig, just interested.

I don't use twitter etc.

Max 775 personal ones and on a shared community board 9002.

Well worh joining up, I know i was sceptical at the beginning because of various rumours but in about 18 month of use ive had i think just one spat and I immediatly removed her ie blocked her and she cant trace me again.

It helped me source building materials for my business and I now get them far cheaper than previously.

Also helped me to advertise for more customers.

Cant do without it now.

Brilliant for the stock market.

European Union Costs Outweigh Its Benefits, Say Business Chiefs

Most business leaders want changes in Britain's relationship with the European Union, with nearly half saying they believed the costs of complying with existing EU rules outweighed the benefits of membership.

The findings came from a new survey of 1,024 firms by YouGov for the Business for Britain campaign, which backs Prime Minister David Cameron's pledge to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership and put it to a referendum.

The businesses surveyed agreed by a margin of 46% to 37% that the costs of EU single-market regulation outweighed their benefits, while 56% said meaningful reform needed treaty changes and a return to a trade-based deal.

This comes after the report that British businesses had been hit by 3,580 new EU rules under David Cameron's premiership, and DHL Express boss Phil Couchman warned a British departure could be a "backward step".

The pledge of an in/out public vote by 2017 should the Conservatives win the next general election was backed by 66% to 26%.

Chief executive Matthew Elliott said: "It will come as a surprise to many that a nationwide and representative poll of business leaders finds a clear majority support EU treaty change and a return to a trading relationship.

"The reason is clear: most business leaders think the costs of the Single Market outweigh its benefits.

"Now that business has spoken, the pressure is on the Government to get a better deal from Brussels and make life easier for Britain's job creators."

GF,

That is an interesting article summarising future problems,

Extracts

"Limitless growth is the fantasy of economists, businesses and politicians. It is seen as a measure of progress. As a result, gross domestic product (GDP), which is supposed to measure the wealth of nations, has emerged as both the most powerful number and dominant concept in our times. However, economic growth hides the poverty it creates through the destruction of nature, which in turn leads to communities lacking the capacity to provide for themselves."


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Increase of moneyflow through GDP has become disassociated from real value, but those who accumulate financial resources can then stake claim on the real resources of people – their land and water, their forests and seeds. This thirst leads to them predating on the last drop of water and last inch of land on the planet. This is not an end to poverty. It is an end to human rights and justice.

Nobel-prize winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen have admitted that GDP does not capture the human condition and urged the creation of different tools to gauge the wellbeing of nations. This is why countries like Bhutan have adopted the gross national happiness in place of gross domestic product to calculate progress. We need to create measures beyond GDP, and economies beyond the global supermarket, to rejuvenate real wealth. We need to remember that the real currency of life is life itself."

• Vandana Shiva is a guest of the Festival Of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House, this weekend.

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With that, good night Manuel and I will have bacon with two eggs and black coffee for breakfast.


Who the F#ck care's

gf.

My business is based on tech and discretion, I really cant go hooting on about what I do for clients (and no, I'm not on the game)

But I'll keep an eye on it, just in case.

Fred, yep its a very interesting read and shows how the way that people are evolving the world over and looking at social costs in a differing and more compasionate way.

Cheers Max.

Right off out for the weekends tit bit grocerys.

sticky - it's certainly an interesting article but from that you really cannot draw the conclusion you choose - i suspect one should say that the view is personal and from a certain spectrum and viewpoint and far from empirical; it's certainly not a balanced view

it's all very well getting on one's soapbox and spouting "those who accumulate financial resources can then stake claim on the real resources of people – their land and water, their forests and seeds. This thirst leads to them predating on the last drop of water and last inch of land on the planet", but it's not exactly true either

you first need to start with the "problem" that the world's population continues to grow at a frightening rate and all those extra people need feeding - somehow

thus, those in kenya, ethiopia, brazil, peru and a myriad of other countries are (rightly) encouraged to become economically self-sufficient, and that will include growing sufficient crops both for their domestic market as well as for export

do i really need to explain even further?

No.

Right off to Sainsburys.

Who are those emerging countries going to sell to?

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go to your supermarket and look to see the provenance of the likes of asparagus, snap peas, french beans etc

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as an important aside, it's fresh water that is already a problem and it will get much worse
however, i note that vast reservoirs have been found beneath the sahara