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But that figure is dwarfed by the total tax evasion of sole traders and small businesses....

Well, add VAT onto the purchases they make and you're over your 65%. But I do agree, the situation we are in with the banks is deplorable. Personally I think they should've all been allowed to go to bankrupt. Yes it would've caused a lot of disruption, but we would never again have banks acting so stupidly.

They still have that choice, noone is saying you can't go to Uni, it's just the method of paying for it has changed.

Those bonuses are taxed at 51% if over £150,000, so the bigger the better I say ;-)

So true, we like to winge and moan about the mess this country is in, but there are far, far worse places to live. We really are very fortunate to live where we do.

Lol, it's amazing how many of their policies have actually been implemented by the mainstream parties :-) I've voted for them a couple of times, my favourite bunch of nutters to use as a protest vote were the Natural Law Party, the lot who did the yogic flying. Think they're still about in some countries, but they've given up over here.

Nothing to stop you setting one up...

Yep, and I remember the Labour lot before the last conservative lot, who combined with their union buddies really did manage to bring this country to it's knees.

No offence taken ;-) Can't open that link, it's blocked, but in answer: Why do they salt the money away offshore? Apart from being greedy it's because the tax rate is too high here. If it was lower, then it wouldn't be worth offshoring and we would get the tax revenue from it. If you don't approve of what a certain company does, don't use their products/services, it's supposed to be a free market after all ;-)

Yep :-) btw, I'm from a working class background, not some Eaton Boy tosser as some on here believe you have to be to ;-)

No, but they have a certain 'spin' on it. If we start raising taxes excessively on the banking sector, how do you think they will reclaim the lost profit? Quite simply, from us in higher interest rates on loans, even lower rates on saving and higher bank charges. Also, I say bring on massive bank bonuses, they're currently taxed at 51% when over £150,000 and that's not going to change any time soon.

Ok, thanks, will have to look into it :-)

If you find something and don't hand it in to the police or return to owner, technically it's theft. I presume the idiot returned to the scene and surprise surprise it's missing. I hope the police are also investigating how he obtained £80k in cash and that the Inland Revenue are taking an interest.

Do you have to pay extra for this above the normal LoveFilm subscription?

Well, this one BBC News - Man leaves £80,000 on top of car then drives off

Yeah, it's called chicken ;-) Worked in the kitchens for KFC during my students days many many years ago and the ones I worked in were very good and kept the kitchens run very well. Can't say it's the same in all of them as they're a franchise operation but they do all get randomly inspected from head office. It's the little one man band places you really need to be careful of unless you know they have good rep. Soo, weird stuff I've eaten: horse steaks, Bretton Fricase (don't ever be tempted, there are things floating in it you really don't want to see again in your life)

Sounds like it's a Windows Live authentication problem. I had something similar once and the only way I managed to fix it was to go into Internet Options, Advanced and click on Reset Internet Explorer settings.

Yes, most of the big boys will sell you Sun stuff, but they don't get the same 'incentives' as they do from the other SAN manufacturers so prefer to sell you the other stuff. You'll be amazed at how the core brands in the SAN area will fight for your business ;-)

Age of Empires 3 on special for 10p on Windows Marketplace here if you're quick as it's today only.

Either i've had too many beers last night, or the 'The IT Professionals Lifeline' bit has gone blury, especially on the Children in Need logo...

Launch of the first Amazon Kindle in 2007? Gettysburgh Address in 1863?

We've moved away from recycool as we weren't getting any money back from them. They have a continually changing list of cartridges which they'll pay for, if you send back cartridges not on this current list they will make a recycling charge and you end up getting no money. We have moved to Greentech, who seem to take back everything we use and we get paid a fair wack for them.

Yep, this explains perfectly why us blokes always procrastinate on diy jobs for a couple of months before we give in to the constant nagging, we're really doing a Health & Saftey assessment during that time

Or get a SAN with dual head clustered failover, which would work must better than 2 seperate SANS.

If you're going to use de-dupe, that can use quite a bit of processing power unless you use large block sizes, which then makes de-dupe pointless. The Oracle stuff is based on AMD or Intel server processors so they have plenty of grunt.