Neil

I can't help noticing that most people that complain about banks are the same people that go over their overdrafts and account limits. I'm with Llloyds TSB and have never had a single problem with them.

I admit I don't have a complete understanding of what's being proposed, but is the jist of it going to be that council tax will be replaced by an increase in income tax? If so, then doesn't this hit families with two working parents quite hard? At least with council tax you are paying that tax for your property, with a small discount if you are living on your own. If you're living as a family then will both parents not be taxed extra and end up paying more than they were in council tax previously?

And it's going to be sorted. Good show. Google on Chrome EULA controversy: our bad, we'll change it

Before you all get too excited over Chrome. It has a fairly nasty EULA: Burned by Chrome | The Register

Namely their IT department... Scotland's oldest newspaper exposes readers' smalls in public | The Register Whoops! Ever heard of attack and penetration testing?

Since when has Polish been a race?

Yeah, I was going to mention this as well. Can someone please give me an example of what they are talking about here? We already have the thread rating system to give an "overall" rating of the quality of a thread.

If it isn't, then it is someone who has access to his e-mail account.

Another one depriving this web site of funding then. I mostly have web development related extensions installed. Namely: Firebug, HTML Validator, Web Developer and YSlow. Also have Forecastfox for weather reports, British English dictionary for spell checking and ColorfulTabs to make it easier to identify all my open Firefox tabs.

Looking at that web site just reminded me of my first mobile phone. The devastating Motorola mr30: Tel: 01923-804444 Orange Mobile Phones - Specifications - Orange Motorola mr30 Ah, the good days of when a mobile phone being able to send an SMS message was a "top new feature".

Here is a working link: MySpace.com - BRING ME THE HORIZON (THE COMEDOWN VIDEO UP NOW!) - steel city!, UK - Metal / Hardcore / Thrash - www.myspace.com/bmth Bad hair. Ugly band. Bloody awful music.

They haven't actually bombed Tbilisi. They have hit military targets outside Tbilisi (I think there was a radar base and an airbase) but they haven't intentionally targeted any cities as far as I'm aware. Comparisons can't be drawn with that conflict at all. That's absurd. The Russians aren't targeting civilians (at least not intentionally) as Israel arguably did in that conflict. Israel intentionally destroyed civilian infrastructure and buildings in that war and that was over a couple of their soldiers getting kidnapped (who of course they never saw alive again - their military action was a complete failure). It was completely disproportionate. However, this is a very different conflict. I agree Russia are using much more force than Georgia, but that is because they have a much more military might and they want to make sure Georgia are not going to have the military capability to try and strike South Ossetia again. The West (especially the UK and US) are making the most noise about this "disproportionate" action because they realise this conflict will probably end up unseating pro-NATO, Western-friendly, Saakashvili. Or at the very least, leave Georgia in a much weaker and insecure position (remember BP have oil and gas pipelines running through this country supplying the West). Saakashvili took a gamble with invading South Ossetia and it has back-fired spectacularly. It's his fault this conflict started and no-one can argue with that. Russia are pulling back now and will be able to dictate the terms of the cease-fire, as they still hold the moral high ground (at least in their eyes). Georgia have probably lost the territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia for good now.

What exactly are you looking for? Are you looking for a web host or a web developer/designer? Because it seems what you are asking for is someone to enhance your web site. You don't need dedicated web hosting by the way, although your idea of dedicated web hosting and my idea might differ. When someone says "dedicated" web hosting they are usually referring to paying for a dedicated web server for their one web site. Normally web sites are hosted on shared servers.

Indeed! Easy done. Glad you got it sorted.

I think I'm right in saying this and I'm sure others will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think all members of staff have received e-mails and private messages from other members stating that they no longer feel comfortable posting and/or want their account deleted due to either the way you have replied to their posts previously or they fear what you may reply with if they start a new thread. Only just a couple of weeks ago I deleted a user's account on here by request. They explicitly stated that their reason for leaving was because how you behaved on the web site. I think if you search the forums you’ll even find some people who have stated the same thing publicly. I'm afraid I’m going to have to ask you to enjoy your remaining time on this web site as I will be banning your account over the next few days. I think most of us would agree it is time for you to move onto pastures new. You've dealt out plenty of damage to this web site's reputation over the years and caused no end amount of grief to us as moderators and to our other members. This thread only helps highlight this fact to me again. I don't want to see this web site slowly wilt away under a hail of childish argument and slagging matches and so I'm going to do everything I can to try and reverse this trend. If that means I have to remove a few troublemakers then so be it. That said, I think even you would have to agree that you spend an unhealthy amount of time on this web site. Hopefully you will use the time that is returned to you more constructively in the future.

As you've proven time and time again, you're incapable, either intentionally or otherwise, of partaking in a discussion in a civil manner a lot of the time. I would have thought that you might have discovered that from other people's replies to your posts that you would have realised that you've crossed a line and caused offence. However, this unfortunately never appears to be case. We know for a fact that new users don't post on this web site and others have in fact stopped posting because of people like you. I now have to weigh up whether it is in the best interests of this online community to continue to tolerate members like you and decide whether what you are posting is actually damaging the quality of discussion rather than making any meaningful contribution. It's getting close to the crunch time now.

Georgia has always refused to recognise South Ossetia as an independent state (ala Kosovo) and the peacekeepers there have been Russian soliders, not Georgian. The Russian government gave 80,000 of South Ossentian's citizens Russian passports not so long ago and they very much consider themselves more Russian than Georgian. I believe what triggered this conflict was Georgia "invading" South Ossentia a few days ago and killing a number of Russian peacekeepers. It's hard to tell what's true and what's not though at this stage. Either way, Russia are definitely making a play for taking the region.

Russia probably can't believe their luck to be honest. They are now within 60-odd miles of getting to the BTC oil pipeline that runs though Georgia and is the West's only oil export route from the Caspian Sea that bypasses Russia. It's not a simple conflict by any means with plenty of blame on both parities, but as much as the US and fellow NATO allies may protest, I don't think any of them will risk getting involved. I suspect South Ossetia will just become part of Russia ultimately. I don't think Russia would risk trying to invade the whole of Georgia.

I'm sorry. Are we looking at the same thread? Because I didn't read anyone calling you telling you to "fuck off", but I did read you posting: "...all televised sport should be put on some obscure pay-per-view cable channel with porn in the ad-breaks so that the drooling, bloated, 3-fingered cross-eyed pie eating unwashed who want it can be satisfied without clogging up the airwaves and wasting licensepayers money on such completely inconsequential shit." You knowing quite well that the majority of people not only on this web site, but in general, like watching televised sport of some kind of another. There is only one person who stopped a perfectly civil discussion carrying on (until we intervened) and that was you, as per usual, by deliberately posting this inflammatory post trying to get a rise out of everyone else. It's getting all too predictable, tiresome and won't be allowed to continue for much longer.

So I take it I can remove your account then?

Yep, the rules are due for an update. We're going to be adding some new rules in about trolling and the importance of constructive discussion as well. These intolerant users won't be on these forums for much longer, don't you worry.

Let's get back on topic please, otherwise there is going to be more posts deleted and more infraction points handed out.

To which you then replied with the deeply insightful, constructive and inoffensive... "the olympics is a total waste of money and should be abolished, and all televised sport should be put on some obscure pay-per-view cable channel with porn in the ad-breaks so that the drooling, bloated, 3-fingered cross-eyed pie eating unwashed who want it can be satisfied without clogging up the airwaves and wasting license payers money on such completely inconsequential shit." You're the one trolling here and don't kid yourself otherwise. So please stop trying to ignite yet another thread and start some constructive discussion for a change or get lost.

Exactly. Please stop feeding the trolls everyone. Give them negative rep, add them to your ignore list and then move along.