Loz

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not THAT dim. You even reference Huhne so I > know that's who you're talking about. Or rather > using his resignation to launch yet another > cliched attack on "progressives". Who are they by > the way? Is there a club? Yeah, quids, you should really use the correct terminology: it's 'unbathed, looney, sandal-wearing, smug leftie".

Red Devil - do you use yours for scanning? If so, do you find the scanning auto-crop the stupidest idea ever (that you cannot turn off).

eddie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wonder if I can get someone to take the rap for > my parking tickets, you know, like the Liberal > Democrat MP who appears to have had his wife take > his points for speeding? Oh well, perhaps not. He's not the first and he won't be the last. It's not exactly difficult (provided your dopey ex-wife can keep her mouth shut).

Level it for parking. :)) Or a huge Waitrose.

My HP J6410 (two years old) works fine wireless. The stupid scanning software/driver that comes with it is another matter, though.

Ha ha. The put the mockers on him.

A bit torn on the Terry one - the man's an a**e, but the libertarian in me says that he is still innocent before being proved guilty.

12 wickets in two sessions. Do they realise the one-dayers haven't started yet?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > UDT I have to confess I was programming in > assembler from a very young age, practically from > when I was an embryo in fact. This included > coding the moves for chess pieces, of course, > mainly on IBM PDP-11s. I had to solve the 8 queens problem using assembler on a PDP 11/73 at uni. But, since I was 19 at the time, I think that makes me a late starter around this group of prenatal prodigies. (PS PDPs were made by DEC, not IBM...)

I love fonts! Thank you!

If I was given that extra pack of stamps, I too would return it because someone would lose out. Just as I would always correct incorrect change, etc. But a parking ticket? Given how many dodgy, sneaky and - lets not beat around the bush - fraudulent tickets issued every year by parking officials. Sorry, but consider this return on bad karma for the council parking people. They deserve it.

ibilly99 - do councils ever accept people may made an honest mistake in parking where they do? Considering the number of dodgy parking tickets issued every year, each one is fair game for whatever technicality you can dig up, as far as I'm concerned.

Googling 'died with the sun on his back in Dulwich Park' will tell you if you really want to know.

It might, Burbage. The problem is, I don't believe the rates being touted have been set with that in mind - they have been set to achieve a (rather mythical) magic number, generally in the tens to hundreds of billions, that somehow manages to solve any and all problems you can think of - generally all at once. The original website for the Robin Hood tax campaign laughingly said the proceeds of the tax would go to 'good causes', thus making everyone believe their pet issue would suddenly have a limitless amount of money to throw at. The deficit, the NHS, poverty, climate change, overseas aid, world peace - there seems nothing this wondrous tax won't solve. But, as been said before, the biggest problem with it is that, unless it is set globally, it just won't work. If they go ahead, France will make for a very interesting test case.

Cardiffgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ?80,000 may not be much in the context of Southwark Council's budget as a whole, however, > every little helps surely? It would just about pay for the next dodgy CPZ consultation!! (sorry... couldn't help myself)

Chippy Minton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz - I can't quite work out whether you do really think drivers just push buttons and make > announcements or whether it's some sort assuming Alan B'stard type goading that Huguenot seems to > find so funny. Anyway, as people on this forum are so fond of pointing out, people are paid the > market rate for the skills that they bring to the job. There will always be someone that will do a > job for less money than the person that is actually doing the job. You complain about how > much tube drivers are paid, but how much are you paid? There will be plenty of people out there > that, no matter what you are paid, will say they would do it for less. Nope, I really think that that is the bulk of their working day. Considering the Jubilee and Victoria line trains are designed as driverless systems, I'd be surprised if they do as much as that. There is, of course, the time when a train goes out of service where they walk v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y up to check the train and then back v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y closing all the doors. I admit I missed that bit. As for me, I am paid what my company thinks I am worth, reviewed every year (and unchanged for the past three years). If I don't like it, I can ask for more, but I probably wouldn't get it. At that point I would have two options, put up with it or find another employer. If I were to go on strike, that decision would be taken out of my hands. If someone else could do my job for less and management thought that was worth it, I'd be managed out the company. I've seen that happen quite a few times. That's market forces. Tube drivers don't have such market forces; there is no market rate. A member of the general public cannot apply to be a tube driver. A member of the general public could apply to join the company I work for, to do the job I do.

I am not a lawyer, but I would say go and buy a lottery ticket - it's your lucky day. According to the legislation, a notice of enforcement must be made within six months of the date the ticket was served, according to the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General Regulations 2007. Yours is coming up to eight years. I think the council has missed the boat. If the council were silly enough to admit the date was wrong, then the ticket would - IMHO - be unenforceable they would be admitting that the ticket failed to include the correct date the ticket was served. You'll probably need to go through the normal appeal channels. I would venture that if your car was made after 2005 you have a decent excuse right there, anyway...!

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tube drivers to get continually lambasted for getting paid for a job which very few people - if > they thought about it for more than two minutes properly - would actually want to do. Why the heck not? There a hell of a lot of bad jobs that pay rubbish out there. Why not sit in the dark pressing buttons and making announcements for ?45K a year plus some pretty tasty benefits. If my career went up the spout it would actually be pretty high up on my list as a replacement, if tube driver jobs were ever made publicly available (which they aren't).

And if they bring in a decent amount of cash for the council without being too much of a blot on the landscape (which it sounds like it isn't), then I'm for it. TFL have been doing it for years on bus stops.

Undisputedtruth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can't see Cameron scoring for England, can you? Well John Major scored. If Edwina Currie counts, anyway.

I think James meant TJ was responsible for the most recent changes to the licensing laws. But I think you know that already.

Chippy, if LU trained up a bunch of people as strike breakers then all hell would break loose with the unions.

Try Krusty's Klown Kleaner. Available at Waitrose on Lordship Lane, near the kids section.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When it comes to RBS and Hester (and pretty much > anybody's salary), what you think is fair is not > relevant. They have to pay people competitive > rates if they are to have any hope of > attracting/retaining reasonably capable staff. And this is a major difference between a CEO and a tube driver. There is an open market for a CEO position for the people with the right skills and experience. The position of trainee tube driver is only offered to TFL staff/union members. A CEO says 'pay me what I think I'm worth or I'll leave'. You have the option of paying that rate or finding someone else. A tube driver says 'pay me what I think I'm worth or I'll stop work and cripple your business'. You have no option but to succumb or else the tube does not run.

citizenED Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We could encourage the menfolk to let the women do > the parking. Women are better at parking than men. This was a survey done in a car park - so measured the ability to park in a bay based on a number of criteria, including spotting a space, positioning of the car to the space, parking centrally in the space, time to complete the parking manoeuvre, etc. As far as I've ever seen, most people - male and female - can park in bays equally well (or badly, for that matter). They didn't do any measurement of parallel parking, which is a much more difficult spatial awareness task.