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.

tabasco

it depends how much i've had to drink ;-)

Dow futures only showing 200 downbit optimistic that!

Would you believe it. Well yes.

Prisoners at HMS Kirkham, an open prison, can win a day out of jail as a top raffle prize in their Christmas Draw.
This 1 draw is open to all 590 inmates.
The 1 fee will come out of the prison funds (IE paid by the tax payer). I kid you not.
It has been confirmed that this does fit in with the current system of prisoner rehabilitation.
First of all I could not see any point as after all if they want a day out, they usually just walk out the gate.

This though got me thinking. Perhaps to give our unfortunates (but I'm innocent guv) a bit more interest during their incarceration, they could have their own lottery. After all you can't play sports/games, go to the gym, watch films in a private cinema and watch 'sky' on a plasma HD big screen all day.
Obviously a big money lottery win would cause awkward questions, but they could have prizes such as,

Main Prizes.
First....A get out of jail free card.
Second.....A British passport for illegal immigrants (those who already have one could sell it on).
Third......A years supply of drugs of their choice.
Forth.....A voucher for the services of a top barrister, for the next time they are locked up, and did not do it.

With several runner up prizes of pot plants (Cannabis of course).

Anyone else have suggestions for a prize list.

Blimey, what flood gates have I opened.

Well, you've pretty well got it covered with that list, Greek.

How about a 50" plasma to replace the cell's, sorry, I mean living room's, living room's (don't want to get arrested for being derogatory to prisoners, sorry, I mean lodgers, lodgers) much smaller 42" model?

Congratulations to Commonwealth middleweight champion Darren Barker as he added the British beltthat makes 20 from 20 with 13 kos.quite an achievement after the personal tragedy Darren has suffered.a world title shot is on the cards next year
No such congratulations to Denise Lewis after her appearance on All Star Family Fortunes resulted in a winning performance and the large cash winnings going to her selected charityAfrican and Caribbean leukaemia Society I think it should have read the Leukaemia society which is so much more helpful to all

Borders



Let me see if I understand all this...



If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years

hard labour.

If you cross the Iranian border illegally, you are detained

indefinitely.

If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot.

If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally, you will be

jailed.

If you cross the Chinese border illegally, you may never be

heard from again.

If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally, you will be

branded a spy and your fate will be sealed.

If you cross the Cuban border illegally, you will be thrown

into political prison to rot.




If you cross the UK borders illegally, you get:
A job
A drivers license
A social security card
Welfare
Food stamps
Credit cards
Subsidised rent or a loan to buy a house
Free education
Free health care
And in many instances you can vote



Does that make sense to you??????

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had
never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.

That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be
poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class
on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive
the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied
little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had
studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a
free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all
resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of
anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that
socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great,
the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward
away, no one will try or want to succeed.

It could not be any simpler than that

Tabasco, Sounds like a decent society in Britain.

Tim. egocentric values are eventually narcissistic in consequences!

I guess Im a flat earther then?If you want another holocaust let the environmentalists have their waywas it not down to them that we have seen food prices skyrocket over the last couple of years their biofuel policies and taxes being the main causethe Worlds poorest are sufferingwith the very poorest starving to deaththat seems like more of an issue to medo you think all countries will comply?There is still no agreement between developing nations and the richer countries over the carbon cutsUSA wont deliverChina wont deliverand I have to turn my central heating down.bit like Sadaams weapons of mass destructionwhen America only possess a pea shooteror is this view a beguilement?

Hey you clever guy's, completely off topic... sorry didn't know where I could ask the question.
I would really like to be able to see a number of live charts of stocks I'm interested in one place, say a spreadsheet or web page. I don't have a web site of my own but maybe that would be easiest way to insert charts and link them there, but have you guy's any other idea's of how we could just scroll over a number of charts and see whats suddenly dropped or climbing when your eye has missed it in the stock watch area.
Cheers BB

This is me.

Very good post. Just shows how weak this country is. Cut and pasted to several fiends.

Balerboy,

Not ignoring you, would like to help but, I am to IT what Pavarotti was to ballet dancing, so can't.
But as you say this thread is great for asking/posting just about anything, as there is a fountain of knowledge available.
Now if you want specific IT type questions, the best thread is PC Mac and online problem solving. Its on page 2 at the moment, and in the past I found found them to be a great help.
Now if it's women and lustful wanton sex you have a question about, well I will say no more, except that this topic (sex) is probably mentioned on here (not by me of course as I am far more civilised than most) more than any other subject.

Regards Greek.

Your nose just grew several inches greekman, lol. many thanks will try there later if no idea's here. have a good christmas..BB

Balerboy

Set your own up with a subscription to MoneyAM's 'Terminal' facility

(see the Demos for it on the linked web page to the LHS)

Execline, thanks but I think you could only study one chart of one company, I would like to see say 10 mini charts of 10 different companies so as you could see at a glance something interesting going on. BB

Balerboy, use the "paste chart to bulletin board" to get a link to the chart. Using notepad, paste the links in, each on one line. Save the text file with extension .htm (not .txt). Then in a browser type the full link to the file preceded by file:///, e.g

file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Username/Desktop/charts.htm

P.S. you can have multiple charts in terminal, and more besides (e.g. level 2 windows, trades, etc.) so that may be an ever better option.

Thanks kayak will give it a go. BB

A link for the atheists amongst us. Oh, and Kayak, too:

The God Equation

I originally thought this could be useful. However, the equation mentions and uses the Speed of Light. I tested the equation with a value for the speed of light in 'slug acres per fortnight - expressed as an 'H' number' (as per the Google calculator) and personally, I don't think it stands up. Furthermore and importantly, it does not give '42' as the answer, either.

Does anyone else know of any other good equations (particularly those written to music)?

Formulas ... there's always this twit ... or is that Dr. Twit?

http://godknowswhat.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/how-to-spot-a-really-bad-science-story/

42 is right
i used to know the reason and had all the explanations but i have forgotten. must be getting old. seriousley. i really did, maybe it was happier or should that be hippier days,
will try to meditate once again and take a trip back to recall.
wonder if it might work? of course it will.
have forgotten outwardly and unable to explain but still KNOW inwardly,
last post 3 in a row, didnt plan it.
regards
jkd

Hi JKD,

Age is nothing to do with it. I am 42 and the correct answer is actually 61, or is it the other way round. What was the question again.

Regards er Greek.