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.

A new 2018 'killer' Mercedes is coming:

http://nseavoice.com/cars/2018-mercedes-e-class-autonomous-opens-to-killing-peds-920019948.html

In Salford, Manchester, women have been shopping in Tesco's whilst still wearing their night wear clothing (eg, pyjamas, dressing gowns, nighties).

Some of the customers and also some of the Tesco staff got quite affronted by such behaviour and one guy photographed some of pertinent shoppers from behind and popped the shots up on Facebook.

Now there are rules about taking such photographs (how, where and when and of who) and what you can do with them afterwards (what, where and how) and also rules about who owns the copyright of the photographs (the photographer, the shoppers or even, say Facebook).

Here are some interesting legal opinions on it:

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/tesco-shoppers-pyjamas-criticised-facebook-rules-around-taking-photos-public-uploading/

Most of us these days have a modern mobile phone with camera facilities.

Are you familiar with what you can and cannot photograph and if, when and how you can use the shots afterwards?

Let's say you see such as the following:

1. A man with his dog on the lead letting the dog defecate on the pavement.
2. A man urinating in your garden.
3. Kids in a farmer's field being visciously cruel to sheep.
4. A person dropping litter in the park.
5. A kid dropping litter in the children's part of the park.
6. A group of children (eg. 8-10 yrs old boys) in a very bad state of undress (ie. partly naked) in the park, but possibly getting ready to do football training.
7. Driving past a car accident on the M1 round about the exact time that it is happening.
8. Driving past a car accident on the M1 which happened, say roughly 30 minutes ago.
9. You are behind a vehicle which, say has obviously extremely problematical rear suspension.
10. You are travelling along the M1 and get yourself behind a white van. The rear door opens and an occupant starts urinating out of the back of the van.

Questions:

A. From the above scenarios, what can you take a photograph of and what can't you?
B. Having taken your photograph of any and each the above, what can you and what can you not do with it?
C. Some of the above are a bit obvious. eg. It's a bit daft to get your camera out whilst you are driving down the M1 and take a picture of someone urinating out the back of a van in front of you. But could your passenger do it for you?

Another great idea being proposed for Scotland.





The Scottish pioneer whose plan for a basic income could transform Britain

Support is growing for an idea that used to be considered eccentric


Kevin McKenna

Sunday 8 January 2017 00.05 GMT



In the city where Adam Smith developed the free-market theories that inspired Thatcherism nearly 300 years later, a young Labour politician is pursuing an economic vision that takes a drastically different approach to “the wealth of nations”. Councillor Matt Kerr, an anti-poverty specialist on Glasgow city council, has been exploring how people become enslaved by poverty – and how they can escape it.

A meeting in Glasgow last month with Guy Standing, the radical economist who founded the Basic Income Earth Network, inspired Kerr to seek cross-party support to pilot a “universal basic income” in parts of Fife and Glasgow. He acknowledges that these are very early days and that there are many obstacles ahead, but the move makes him the most senior incumbent politician in Britain to contemplate a radical scheme that only a few years ago was considered beyond the political pale.



More: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/08/universal-basic-income-glasgow-welfare-revolution

What do expect from a FAR LEFT political mouthpiece, backing a Labour no mark,
advocating the proliferation of squandering taxpayers money...

There was a program on ch4 i believe, either last year or the year before
where they gave 4 or 5 people/families an amount of money(to replace their
weekly benefits) and to do as they wished, ie start own business and be more industrious..

Most went on a spending spree and others took weeks to decide, but were
still having to use the capital to live off and pay bills, one of them bought a
van but didn't/could'nt drive, with the intention of starting a secondhand-
carboot sale..

The end result wasn't too encouraging...

If anyones interested in a share that has great growth potential(who
hasn't), then you should take a serious look at Satallite Solutions Worlwide
group(SAT).

They provide broadband where its not available by the usual means/suppliers.

Could be a star performer in 2017?..

From: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/10/echr-swiss-muslim-girls-must-attend-mixed-sex-swimming-lessons

Swiss Muslim girls must attend mixed-sex swimming lessons
Tuesday 10 January 2017

Muslim extremists/fundamentalists are not going to like this one!

Switzerland has won a case at the European court of human rights over its insistence that Muslim parents send their children to mixed-sex school swimming lessons.

The parents in the case argued that their beliefs did not allow their children to take part in mixed-sex lessons.

However, the court rules, that Swiss authorities did not violate right to freedom of religion in rejecting parents’ request for exemption.

Hmmm? Extremely important case this, IMHO. As well as saying how important it is for safety reasons to teach your kids to swim, it sets an example about social integration being more important than religious teaching. Lots of Imams are surely going to be pretty pee'ed off about this.

Exec,

I would also suggest banning of single-sex schools in the UK. (10+% at the moment.)

But read this first :

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151715/http://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/00389-2007BKT-EN.pdf

Make the Imams go to mixed sex swimming lessons then. Just as long as they dont do their peeing in the pool.

Is that what you do!

Silly little boy!

if you go to a mixed sex school then i think all should participate across the board ..... this applies not only to moslems but also to the likes of jehovah's witnesses and plymouth brethren

It's Fred that will do something in the pool ,he can't help it these days.

Manuel.

In what?

all that school's activities, and that includes assembly which may well have aspects of religion that do not coincide with the beliefs of all pupils or that of their parents

When I was a little boy, Jews and Catholics were excused "Assembly" in the school which I attended.

"They could arrive late."

Being an atheist I was a little miffed at not being allowed to skip the "procedure" and thought of declaring myself a "pagan".

But, other than that I can't say it altered relationships.

Same in our school Fred. My best mate was catholic but decided to attend assembly as it was warmer in the hall than the little room they were excused to.

It was also an all boys schools and every year rumours did the rounds that plans were in the pipeline to merge with the girls school. These rumours are still doing the rounds today but on reflection can't think of a reason why we were any worse or better off being an all boys school.

we had all sorts and creeds and all had to go to chapel

Through circumstances that neither I nor my parents ever quite understood, I managed to fool the 11+ examiners and went to a Roman Catholic all boys grammar school. Irish Christian brothers, although most subjects were taught by lay teachers. We did have morning assembly but no going to chapel/church on a routine basis that I can remember. It is now a mixed sex school and had to change the school motto from "Viriliter Age" - act like a man. Fair enough I suppose. As long as it isn't "LGBT Age" .

I hope it was a Welsh Chapel, but reading your postings you weren't that lucky!

8-)

Ps. We had real girls at our school as well as other problems.

Was you a problem child little fred....Did you have a gender identity crisis?