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The implication presumably being that we shouldn't criticise CofE gender discrimination because their charitable status allows them to control schools? Is that like saying you can't criticise expense fiddling by MPs because they control our hospitals?

Nah Minkey, the link doesn't have to be so obvious to be a ploy: A site's position in Google results has a great effect on commercial success, and this position is largely dictated by the pagerank and relevance to the initial enquiry. The EDF has a higher page rank than the livestrong article, and by adding in a large amount of relevant 'puffer' text it makes the link from the EDF real and relevant. The article in its turn will bleed that pagerank to raise the profile of all the other pages on the livestrong site, and hence bump them up the Google search results. Hence the link 'bleeds' pagerank from the EDF to livestrong. That's what the spam was doing, not trying sell us kidney beans.

Well, since the CofE not only inherit a right to rule over me by merit of adhering to their medieval dogma, they also take the name of my nation in vain, so I feel singularly justified in critiquing their performance. I'm not bashing the CofE because they're easy targets, I'm calling into question their right for dominion over me. I suspect the Italians, Irish and Spanish may feel the same about the Catholic Church, Israelis regarding Judaism, and Iranians about their particular brand of Islam. The fact that Catholics and Muslims may also pursue gender discrimination is neither here nor there, it certainly doesn't justify the CofE position, and it doesn't make me feel sympathetic - 'There, there, it's okay to by bigoted because other people are too...' ?? Bizarre logic.

Hmmm, I think it was spam :(

Interesting, what prompted the first time share Charlotte?

Correct t-e-d, reputation management tools can only search for words and context. Common synonyms and euphemisms will be added by operators. Each occurrence would then be graded, and any borderline ones would be flagged for human review. Lots will slip through the net, but lots won't. I think it's largely redundant, an all out attack on society is not an ideal strategy for a democratic party, so it's more likely he'll cherry pick extreme offenders.

DaveR, am I right in saying that it's been more difficult for sites based overseas though?

That was a cat related question seeming to doubt the motive of this enquiry...

Well if you used one supplier, you could review around 10,000 sites for about ?100. If he used six or seven he could probably expand that to around 20,000 sites for ?1000 - certainly all the popular ones including this one. Suppliers he could use would be Radian6, Meltwater Buzz, Brandtology... I use them for clients everyday. He'd then have to fight a pretty aggressive battle to get the correspondent details out of the sites - could take years. Then the question would be whether anyone had said anything that could be considered to be beyond fair comment. I wouldn't go fessing up anything just yet ;-)

Well I guess at almost ?1bn cost, it wouldn't have been met with open arms, not least because there'd be a few questions about whether the proposed solution would have a real impact on lives saved. For example, what are the odds on the defibrillator proposal given that the victim would have to collapse and be correctly diagnosed in a public building within reach of a defibrillator and a trained practitioner who knew where it was and could implement correctly in the 3 minutes before brain death. I remember that on the railways a few years back the price of a human life was calculated at around ?4m. In other words investment in safety equipment would have to plausibly save 1 life for every ?4m spent. If similar maths applied in the SADS world, the proposal would have to save at least 200 deaths a year - which would be a big ask. So I think the petition is great for publicity, but I fear it would fall short in the real world.

I did discover that the elected positions at the General Synod are elected via Single Transferable Vote. Silverfox must be furious at such demonstrable undemocratic behaviour.

Haha, there's more than a bit of cultural bias in the report. Surrounded by extremes of often destructive conviction in Malaysia and Indonesia, the highest ideal in Singapore is harmony. Announcing disproportionate satisfaction or dissatisfaction is seen as injurious to others and hence to harmony. Consequently asking direct Western style questions about people's mindset is counterproductive - you'll never get a straight answer. There's plenty of ways to determine it by other means :) They're happier than most Brits at the moment!

I wonder how much corporation tax the Blue Mountain coffee shop and others of its kind declared last year? I'm guessing they put back their various loans and business expenses against tax and allocated cash to various contingency funds before calculating it ;-) The idea that it's the big multinationals who are solely to blame seems a bit weird. And as the audience member pointed out, each one of the shops employs a dozen people...

Absolutely take the point on awareness. That would be a good idea, if only it motivated people to check their own health.

Whilst I can see the benefits of the proposal, I do wonder about the cost. There's at least 40,000 public buildings in the UK (because that was how many took part in an energy survey recently). A defibrillator costs around ?1000 to acquire, and I'm guessing that training at least 3 people to use it at each location would cost an additional ?1000 per venue. So that would mean that the defibrillator proposal alone would cost at least ?80million in the first year, and probably at least half that every year for refresher training and maintenance. An annual ECG test for the 15 million people who fall into that age brack will be around ?50 each per annum or around ?750 million pounds annually in total. So the whole proposal will likely cost around ?800 million per year. Not only that, but the proposal can't make any estimate about what the impact of those two exercises would be on actual lives saved. That's a hell of a lot of money to spend on guesswork. Now I know that instinctively everybody will knee jerk respond by saying 'I want that test', but are we absolutely sure that ?800 million per year on healthcare can't be spent more wisely than on what is after all a VERY rare condition.

Moving in with someone entails sharing legal responsibility for your accommodation and what may take place there! What now may be just a minor behavioural tic can be a major issue if bailiffs rock up at your door... I think you have to develop a greater sense of trust before you make that kind of commitment.

Know's = Julia's baleful gaze at your amateur rouge.

I'm increasingly lucid when I dream - particularly in the mornings. So I know I'm dreaming, and that the situations I'm in are being generated by my own diseased imagination. Like a spectator in a Hieronymous Bosch landscape, I'm quite frankly scared of the thoughts that cross my mind when asleep compared with the rose tinted spectacles I wear when awake.

Haha eco, there's a few on here who would suggest that your use of the word 'lady' betrays latent gender discrimination on your part, since 'lady' signifies demure, inoffensive and self abasing traits. Overlooking that... The Koran makes no statement about whether women can lead people in prayer, so it's all down to interpretation of related literature. As a result certain sects allow female imams and some not. The debate is whether references to females not being allowed to lead prayer is actually a reflection of Islam, or just a hangover from medieval patriarchal tradition. Female rabbis were first ordained in 1972, but as with Chritianity different movements or orders treat this differently. So I think your question was about whether Christianity was being treated differently to other religions in terms of women's role in the hierarchy. The answer is it's not, other major religions are suffering the same internal wrangles as the old male guard fights for their control. Incidentally, I challenge the entire premise of your question, as it seems to hinge on whether decisions regarding one religious structure can be made on the basis of whatever another religion may do. This is completely illogical, these are religions with a violent history of social manipulation, not after school clubs. If one religions decides genital mutilation is okay, it doesn't mean the rest can too..

Interesting one Coman. It's putting a verbal contraction down on paper, as in "everything I know is stupid, everything I do is inspired" becoming "everything I know's stupid, everything I do's inspired" I can't find any affirmation online that such a written contraction actually exists or is documented in practice. It certainly feels clumsy, and doesn't help comprehension unless you say it out loud - a bit like Irvine Welsh. :)

In a 'guilty until proven innocent' kinda fashion? Kiera I think you may simply misunderstand what pollarding is about with London Plane trees. It's not because the tree surgeons are underfunded, lazy or stupid. Pollarding at 3 to 6 year intervals keeps trees leafier, denser, younger, less threat to houses or passers-by and allows them to live much much longer. It limits root spread and damage to foundations. I can see you have an instinctive born free let nature take its course approach, but you're wrong on this one - and I'm sure that I've explained this to you before. So I guess you may not have been listening then, and probably won't listen now ;-)

I think it was a joke Ray ;-) I can't work out a way in which both approaches could be simultaneously grammatically correct? If her name was Julia Know, then the apostrophe would work, but the lack of one would not. However I suspect it's just an imperfect conjugation of the verb 'to know' for the third person singular. If it was a sales and marketing strategy it was a poor one, since the deliberate error would only appeal to grammar pedants whose obsession with words suggests that like me they're no oil painting.

I used a solicitors in Warrington for several ED purchases, no problems and no London prices. Saved a LOT of cash.

I'm not sure they were calling us stupid though, more highlighting that it's often important to avoid extraneous complications when going about our everyday business - i.e. we don't forget to eat because we're too busy worrying about world peace! :)

Education, education, education... I know someone who at one stage was so put off by the idea of vegetables that she wouldn't let them anywhere near her... "Do you want gravy with your beef?... Has it got herbs in it?... Well I expect so for flavour?... Then NO. and NO potatoes, carrots, peas etc. etc." :D