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well there is no way i am buying this if that is the case – i have no interest in single player and like to choose who i play with 🙁
loved the hitler vid btw
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i was just invited, however it didn’t bring me any invites i can hand out, think this will be a matter of time
how hard do we have to bed when you get some????
i am farly sure there is a flash based plugin which we can integrate in to phpbb which logs the user on to irc as the use they are logged into phpbb with
any use?
do you really think that existing private school give good value for money?
what incentive would there be for school to take on pupils who suck? what about pupils with massive special needs? they would refuse to touch them and the end result would be no different to what you have now.. a large percentage of disengaged pupils only this time no one wants to try and help them.
i know what you mean but things can improve and change drastically in a short space of time with the right leaders with the right balls.
we have schools who have gone from 34% a-c to 85+ in less than 5 years… it can be done it just takes the right leaders to do it.
as for private.. by definition this means that someone is profiting from the process and that just does not feel right to me. like you say.. some things are special and health and education are 2 of these things that people should not be making money on the back of.
I think those who drew up the proposals have forgotten that pumping public money into the economy had benefits beyond expensive schools. eg pay a builder to build a school and you not only get a school but he has a job and can spend that money in the economy.
I have just finished our BSF procurement (i headed up the ICT side of things) and it was 18 months of hell. we had 3 bidders and they estimate the costs were about £1m for each of the biders. we are a small authority and in the 1st instance there are only 6 school and only 1 of which is a complete rebuild. the others are substantial rebuilds. will they make the 1m back over the 25 years of the contract?.. easily and it strikes me that for a 1 in 3 chance that is fair odds for the private sector. what was frightening were the legal costs we ran up as an authority.. they were shocking.
the schools are not happy either.. they are locked into long term contracts that will be a squeeze for them to afford. having said that i cant think of any other way to guarantee that they will maintain the nice new shiny buildings. i cant believe the state schools have been allowed to fall into.
in fact skimming down the list i cants see all that many things i would want to see the end of..
stop the bloody government advertising, stop identity cards seem quite sensible.
as for slimming down the LEA (ignoring for the moment that there is not such things as a local education authority.. a council is a council).. there are some areas that may be over staffed but in general there is no one left to get rid of. same goes for cutting non-front line staff in schools… that just means the front line staff will have to do the back end jobs.. and then there will be less front end staff. i think there is an argument for less teachers and more skilled non-teaching adults but that is a different matter.
i have a better plan.. more tax for all the bastards who earn more money than me (to be kept in line with any future pay raises I may obtain of course)
it was somewhat contrived but this is just a continuation of what you expect from a star trek movie..
virgin only throttle if you go over a certain download amount between 16:00 – 20:00 (or something like that) and then they will cap you for the next 24 hours.
tell you downloader to pause between these times and all will be well
i know this sucks ass but a recent ofcom investigation still had virgin at about twice the speed of adsl providers wich were all about the same.
ISP and package Average speed
AOL Broadband (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 3.3 to 3.9Mbit/s
BT (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 3.8 to 4.2Mbit/s
O2 (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s)* 4.1 to 5.1Mbit/s
Orange (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 3.8 to 4.5Mbit/s
Plusnet (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s)* 3.8 to 4.9Mbit/s
Sky (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 4.0 to 4.7Mbit/s
Talk Talk (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 3.8 to 4.6Mbit/s
Tiscali (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 3.2 to 3.7Mbit/s
Virgin Media(‘up to’ 10Mbit/s) 8.1 to 8.7Mbit/sfull details here
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/features/broadbandspeedsjy
cheers
i would make the effort if there were times and servers published but otherwise i am lucky if i get an hour a month spare.
oh looks good
tis a great time for tele at present
heroes season 4, fringe season 2, dexter season 4, lie to me season 2, the vampire diaries, harpers island, supernatural season 5 and i keep hearing about good things about flash forward… must dig it out.
so much happiness down one little cable
