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Totally agree @DickyP It's always difficult to get the balance. Labour nationalised the railways and the mines after the war. Claiming that the country would benefit by using the profits to improve the lives of everyone. Problem was that during the war the government did totally control them...

It'll Be Freezing this Christmas, complements Sir Stalin's Loony Labour government.

Royal Mail is now owned by an unknown Czech. But maybe Daniel Kretinsky knows more about software than Paula Vennells ever did? Brilliant, Royal Mail has now joined with water, gas, electricity, train companies and the M6 Toll Motorway, as all foreign owned. The only way is down with this...

I have what is called a smartphone that just goes online at home with WiFi. Only used for outside camera and a once a week call on Signal to Australia. The telephone number on it I'll just use for some online accounts. I never look at emails on the phone. Only on the PC and each email has a...

Does it have an ejector seat more like. Something going wrong means the doors won't open.

The basic rule is that you are insured for everything, except the things you claim for. Back in the days when I was in steel fabrication, our insurance guy told us that for all small claims, they'd look to recover 110% within two years. So maybe think before you claim for a damaged carpet etc...

Looks about as interesting as the new Jag. I'll only buy a car that I'd have been pleased to have designed. So haven't had a Jag for years. Not since Ford based them on the Mondeo. THen Ford sold them to Tata and they became a Tata Jag, which is not good. Mind you Renault named on of their cars...

Being a bit of a luddite, I'd be quite happy running XP. But not bothered if Win10 doesn't have any more security updates. My remaining Win10 laptop is one of my machines that never goes online anyway.

Whilst a Carrington or solar storm are expected to take out satellites, substations and Datacentres. What is the likelihood of them causing battery operated vehicles to explode?

So what about the millions of PCs that have been unnecessarily thrown away? The $billions pointlessly wasted? But the cynic in me wonders if it is to install the Win11 spyware onto PCs that their owners cannot afford to replace and may just go and buy a RaspberryPi5, or a Chromebook. As I have...

An update from a UK newspaper today.

Like I said, I simply installed it into a folder that I had created. I have located a very, very old install instruction and just amended it by removing the company and program names. Maybe that will help. Without spending quite a lot of time I haven't any details about later improved versions...

How is this not theft? How different is it to someone entering your house and then stealing something. The thief sis doing it because they understand and believe it will be to their benefit and not yours. How different is that to what Microsoft doing for their sole benefit?

I always installed RunTime on customers' PCs to prevent them running the program using a different version of Access to my developed version. If they had the same version of Access installed, I still used RunTime, just in case they installed a later version afterwards. But mainly because I...

Tony Benn, Clinton and Jo Brand....what are you doing with rubbish like that on your shelves? Surely you haven't paid for them? Maybe it's a bit fuzzy because whoever took it was shaking with embarrassment? You'll never sell them if that is the intention.:)

On the Bovaer and the Gates equivalent Rumin8, organic farms cannot feed those synthetic feed additives to their cattle. Hopefully, only buying organic milk, cheeses and yoghurt will avoid any future issues. We'll see. Last week I did see some advice that those additives should not be Fed to...

Those in the USA may have a problem with her Moss Side, Manchester accent.

Giving a bunch of goat herders, just off the boats, jobs on road repairs is proving to be a mistake. However, I have been told that the person in charge of this gang was Angela Raynor. Which may just explain it as she has only just started doing sentences and things. (for those in the USA...

A knowledgeable synopsis from the Dos, which after reading it you have to conclude - "why am I eating anything with it in" It is in sliced meat over here. I first saw dextrose, or fructose in the sliced meat in France maybe ten years ago. Then not long after it was in ours. So not eaten any the...