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  • in reply to: Long Shot Artillery Battery Sets Lethal Record #1792236
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    They are both valuable tools IMO

    in reply to: General Discussion #250763
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    There also needs to be more transparency about where the money is really being spent in general!

    As for the cuts, it seems to me as if we allow the bureaucrats to decide what to cut, and they choose to cut frontline services instead of their own useless selves. It’s almost as if the bureaurats are trying to get their own back.

    The aid to India issue is what happens when you let a government spend money in a way that makes them look good, rather than how the public at large want it spent.

    @Creaking Door
    Cutting the military isn’t going to make any difference to the budget problems! Foreign aid is an easy cut to make, but not one that is going to balance the books. To balance the budget we need to look at welfare spending inc pensions and benefits, unproductive bureaucrats in the welfare/education/nhs departments!

    @Merlin3945
    If you want exports then you’ll have to have good quality products from a well trained workfore, with access to funding for R&D and production, and a reduction as far as possible in the level of taxation and regulation on business.

    in reply to: What has this Country come to?. #1842861
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    There also needs to be more transparency about where the money is really being spent in general!

    As for the cuts, it seems to me as if we allow the bureaucrats to decide what to cut, and they choose to cut frontline services instead of their own useless selves. It’s almost as if the bureaurats are trying to get their own back.

    The aid to India issue is what happens when you let a government spend money in a way that makes them look good, rather than how the public at large want it spent.

    @Creaking Door
    Cutting the military isn’t going to make any difference to the budget problems! Foreign aid is an easy cut to make, but not one that is going to balance the books. To balance the budget we need to look at welfare spending inc pensions and benefits, unproductive bureaucrats in the welfare/education/nhs departments!

    @Merlin3945
    If you want exports then you’ll have to have good quality products from a well trained workfore, with access to funding for R&D and production, and a reduction as far as possible in the level of taxation and regulation on business.

    in reply to: General Discussion #251064
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    How does one compete in photography? Surely judging just becomes a matter of taste (snobbery)?

    in reply to: Why? #1843081
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    How does one compete in photography? Surely judging just becomes a matter of taste (snobbery)?

    in reply to: General Discussion #251074
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    A new tool in the war against step ladders…

    http://www.holtsauto.com/images/products/repair-and-maintenance/maintenance/holts-spray-grease-hi.jpg

    and a new tool in the war against windbreak fortresses…

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mpOkbB0_0bo/TCbW_CO8Y7I/AAAAAAAAAHM/5-IYSVz0Fbw/s1600/kick_me_large.jpg

    in reply to: Why? #1843085
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    A new tool in the war against step ladders…

    http://www.holtsauto.com/images/products/repair-and-maintenance/maintenance/holts-spray-grease-hi.jpg

    and a new tool in the war against windbreak fortresses…

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mpOkbB0_0bo/TCbW_CO8Y7I/AAAAAAAAAHM/5-IYSVz0Fbw/s1600/kick_me_large.jpg

    in reply to: General Discussion #251077
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    But, according to you, it’s all sub-standard.

    The copper is fine, the circuit layout could do with being redesigned though 😎

    in reply to: 11 Billion, and still counting. #1843086
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    But, according to you, it’s all sub-standard.

    The copper is fine, the circuit layout could do with being redesigned though 😎

    in reply to: General Discussion #251210
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    Take the lead off, first, and they’ll leave it alone.

    Plenty of copper to steal inside a police station

    in reply to: 11 Billion, and still counting. #1843152
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    Take the lead off, first, and they’ll leave it alone.

    Plenty of copper to steal inside a police station

    in reply to: General Discussion #251212
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    Could be anything really. Perhaps she fainted for some reason… I don’t suppose this is the sort of situation she expected she would get such serious injuries though! Hopefully she makes a full recovery.

    @J Boyle

    From the BBC pictures it looked like the truck was sufficiently out of the way. It’s quite an unlikely thing to happen so the positioning of the truck probably isn’t much to fault. The irony is the lift on the truck was probably at her head height in the car for health and safety reasons, since if it was low or flat they might claim it to be a trip hazard to pedestrians!

    in reply to: F1 Marussia driver Maria de Villota in Duxford crash #1843181
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    Could be anything really. Perhaps she fainted for some reason… I don’t suppose this is the sort of situation she expected she would get such serious injuries though! Hopefully she makes a full recovery.

    @J Boyle

    From the BBC pictures it looked like the truck was sufficiently out of the way. It’s quite an unlikely thing to happen so the positioning of the truck probably isn’t much to fault. The irony is the lift on the truck was probably at her head height in the car for health and safety reasons, since if it was low or flat they might claim it to be a trip hazard to pedestrians!

    in reply to: General Discussion #251498
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    Maybe not current, but gives a reasonable idea of where the money comes from and where it goes…

    http://engtechmag.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/olympics-2012-budget.jpg

    According to some estimates, the olympics will benefit the economy to the tune of £16.5 billion, so we may be in net profit?

    http://www.forexlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/iraqi-information-minister.jpg

    http://robertgraham.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/russian-1000000-tractors.jpg

    in reply to: 11 Billion, and still counting. #1843339
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    Maybe not current, but gives a reasonable idea of where the money comes from and where it goes…

    http://engtechmag.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/olympics-2012-budget.jpg

    According to some estimates, the olympics will benefit the economy to the tune of £16.5 billion, so we may be in net profit?

    http://www.forexlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/iraqi-information-minister.jpg

    http://robertgraham.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/russian-1000000-tractors.jpg

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