Andrew Oakley
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11:59 pm
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Friends Only
My journal is mainly for friends only. You won't see any of the interesting stuff unless you get a LiveJournal account and I mark you as a friend. If you are one of my friends (or even just an acquaintance from long ago) and would like to have access, just email me andrew@aoakley.com with your LiveJournal username, your real name and other information I might recognise you from (nickname, photo, place/date where I met you etc).
I am a member of the Conservative party, an advocate of intellectual property freedom and rural society. If you don't want to hear these kinds of mainstream political views, do not allow me to post to your journal and do not read mine.
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01:25 pm
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House keys
We're moving house next week. If you or anyone you know has keys to Frampton Cottages, please can you give them back, or post them to me:
Andrew Oakley, Software Development Manager
The Higher Education Statistics Agency
95 Promenade
Cheltenham
GL50 1HZ
I'd prefer you used my work address, as one set has already gone missing in the post, and what with the address on the envelope it won't be difficult for a dishonest postal worker to plan a simple burglary. Not that we care, as the house is occupied pretty much 24/7, but this might not be so for the new arrivals.
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10:56 am
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BBC iPlayer for Nintendo Wii: Answers to questions
In my first impressions review of the BBC iPlayer for the Nintendo Wii games console, I had a few unanswered questions. Here are the answers and follow-up observations.
• The BBC iPlayer is tied to UK geo-mapped IP addresses. So my sister in Holland would not be able to use the Wii iPlayer even if she had a Wii console set to the UK region, regardless of whether she had a British TV licence.
• Playback quality is significantly better than VHS for programmes which do not have fast-panning shots nor detailed backgrounds. If the programme isn't action-based and doesn't have moving tree foliage in the background, you can expect near-SD quality or better.
• English language programming does not have subtitles available. Programmes from BBC Alba, the Scots Gaelic TV channel, are broadcast with in-vision English subtitles rendered as part of the video. I highly recommend trying out Air An Rathad, their low-budget but high-enthusiasm motoring show which includes some beautifully filmed road trips throughout Europe. I don't think that BBC Welsh language output, which is broacast on S4C, is available on iPlayer.
• There are no live streams. You can't watch live TV.
• Most disappointing, the Search option does not support the officially Nintendo licenced Logitech Wireless Keyboard, nor any other wireless keyboard. These keyboards work perfectly in other applications such as the web browser.
• Resume from last position is not supported. If you exit a programme and return later, it does not remember where you left off.
I remain otherwise very impressed with the BBC iPlayer for the Nintendo Wii. The video quality is excellent and the convenience much easier than hooking up my laptop to your TV.
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08:48 am
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BBC iPlayer for Nintendo Wii: First impressions
 The BBC released their iPlayer application ("channel" in Nintendospeak) for the Nintendo Wii this morning. For those not familiar with iPlayer, it provides the ability to play back recently-broadcast BBC TV and radio programmes on demand. I downloaded it this morning and my first impressions are:
• Downloadable free to UK users from Wii Shop Channels (0 points). It requires the Wii to be set to the UK region; if you bought your Wii in the UK this will already be the case. It isn't clear whether it also ties to UK geo-mapped IP addresses, so it would be interesting to see whether ex-pats in other PAL regions, such as my sister in Holland, might also be able to use this.
• Quick to download, takes up very little storage space - less than 50 blocks; even if you've already downloaded plenty of WiiWare games, you're bound to have space for it (the Wii initially has over 2000 blocks free; most saved data take up 1-2 blocks, entire downloaded games take up 100-500 blocks).
• Playback quality over WiFi on my 2 megabit ADSL line in a rural area was roughly equivalent to good VHS. There was no skipping, glitches nor audio dropouts for the 10-15 minutes I watched at 8am this morning. As with all digital video compression, programmes with lots of panning (camera moving about) or changing background detail (eg. trees blown about in the wind) do suffer from a little fuzziness or blockiness. No worse than the browser-based Flash player, and possibly slightly better; I need more time to judge. I did not notice a HD option.
• All BBC playback programmes are available as per the full iPlayer, including BBC 1-4, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News, BBC Parliament and the surprisingly engrossing BBC Alba. Note to self, check to see if English subtitles work on BBC Alba's Gaelic programmes.
• There didn't seem to be any way to stream live channels. I may have missed this option. If you can't stream live TV, that would make sense - this should be legally restricted to British TV licence-fee payers, and the Wii iPlayer did not ask for my TV licence number.
• As well as browsing by channel, genre and date, there is a search option. Note to self, try my Logitech Wii keyboard (or any USB keyboard) to see if this works for entering search terms.
• Scrolling up and down long lists requires the user to click and drag the scroll bar, which is fiddly with the remote. You cannot use the D-pad up/down buttons to scroll up and down, as you can in the Wii Shop, Operations Manual or Internet browser. I quickly found this mildly annoying. This is my only criticism.
• There was no way to save content. Streamed content only. My ADSL contract gives me a whopping download limit, so I don't care. If you're limited to only a few gigabytes per month, you may need to watch your usage.
• I didn't check whether "resume from last position" was supported.
Update: I have answered these questions
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05:12 pm
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Guilty as sin
The Gary McKinnon hacker case annoys me greatly. Yes, the UK:US extradition treaties are biased in favour of the USA. Yes, our Home Secretary could, if he so chose, exercise his discretion to lobby more strongly on McKinnon's part.
But none of these take away from the fact that the chap is guilty as sin.
The fact that McKinnon hacked into the US military computer systems is not contested. There are several main parts to the defence case:
1. McKinnon is a nutjob.
No he bloody well is not. Like most technical experts, McKinnon has some behaviour that fits into the autistic spectrum. But his behaviour quite typical of your average computer geek. He has an interest in UFOs and conspiracy theories. So do I. So do most of the programmers I've met, and I've met a lot. Heck, I jointly founded a paranormal research society. That doesn't make me mental, it makes me interested in investigating the scientific and historical basis, or lack thereof, for UFO and paranormal claims.
McKinnon is perfectly able to function in society, he knew that what he was doing was illegal and could get him lots of prison time.
If every computer geek with an interest in UFOs was declared a head-case, the IT departments throughout the land would be half-empty, and the half that would be left would be those obsessed by Tolkien. Geeks like sci-fi. Geeks like to find out stuff. Being a clever bloke is not an illness!
2. McKinnon's mental health has deteriorated as he awaits trial.
Well, duh. Everyone's mental health deteriorates when they await trial. It's hardly a stress-free event, is it? He is making it worse for himself by his own delaying tactics. That's no reason to delay a trial or deny extradition. Accused people get stressed, bears shit in the woods and the Pope is Catholic. Sort out your defence and face the music.
3. McKinnon's search for UFO material was not a threat to national security.
Bullshit. How can breaching the security of the command and control computers for our largest NATO ally not be a massive, huge threat to our national security? He's a threat to both our British national security and the US national security. They're our fscking nuclear-warhead toting allies, FFS. He's not being done for hacking some tiny inconsequential neutral or enemy force, like Russia or Cuba or France. The British armed forces are so tightly integrated with the Americans that our servicemen literally shit in the same lavatories. We're the number one and number two NATO buddies.
4. He won't get a fair hearing in the US.
Codswallop. The US has a justice system heavily based on our own British system. It is as full and as fair as ours. Our extradition treaty states that the US will not seek the death penalty for any extradited UK citizens. The British government typically pick up the defence legal bill for foreigners overseas, too. There is nothing here to discuss.
McKinnon is not ill, he's just wrong. He knowingly did something blatantly illegal and blatantly against both our and our closest allies' national interests. What's the hold up here? Ship him to our allies for trial.
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12:08 pm
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e-Wine trading
Inspired by Lee Chaos' FB wine dilemma, I think I have solved the "leftover decent wine" problem.
The problem is: You're going to a party at a friend's house. You spend ages picking out a really decent Bordeaux from your Dusty Wine collection in the shed, or make a special trip to Not A Supermarket to get something that costs more than seven quid. As you leave, you notice your decent wine remains undrunk and you know perfectly well that it will remain so.
Some people throw parties where bringing wine seems like a good idea, but in practice they'll have little opportunity to actually drink it. It's like the *idea* of having lots of decent wine is appreciated, but the actual wine just clutters up storage space. The wine becomes aspirational; showing off "this is the kind of wine I *would* drink if I wasn't expecting to be woken up at 4am because someone was too scared to use the potty on their own".
I think these wine gifts could be replaced by some kind of online wish list crossed with e-gold, where you could trade in real gifts of decent wine for more practical stuff like In The Night Garden DVDs without having the inconvenience of finding space for the actual bottle of wine in your own house. The bottles would still exist, but in some escrow agency's cellar; only their ownership would change hands. You could print off an ownership certificate for the purposes of wine-ponce discussion at parties. There's a Web 2.0 marketing opportunity there, I think.
Sort of like sponsoring an animal at the zoo, only with wine instead of a tiny species of mammal that none of your friends even knew existed.
If the recipient did eventually foresee an opportunity to actually drink the wine, the ownership certificate could, of course, be redeemed against the actual bottle of wine, which would then and only then be shipped at cost. A bit like the theoretical ability to redeem bank notes for gold or silver (a right long since rescinded).
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08:18 am
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Twins born yesterday
Jacob (left) 6lb7oz (2.9kg) born 13:29 Sat 5 Sept 2009 eldest by 1 minute; Beatrice (right) 6lb14oz (3.1kg) born 13:30. Non-identical twins. It all went a bit panic-stations towards the end, but mother and twins are now fine.
When a doctor decides to call a caesarian section because they're concerned that the erratic heartbeat might indicate a cord is tied around a baby's neck, they really don't hang around; total time from call to birth <15 mins. I got the impression that if they had been really, really worried it could have happened even faster. As it turned out, the erratic heartbeats were due to them fighting over who was going to get in position first. Jacob had been head down for a week or more, but when the birth was induced, Beatrice tried to push him out of the way. Result was, neither were in position which ground everything to a standstill.
Beatrice briefly had some laboured breathing due to fluid in lungs and was sent to special care for about two hours (exactly when maternal grandparents turned up, which must have been stressful for them). She returned safe and well. Both twins spent the night in a cot at mummy's bedside. Mel and the twins will probably stay in hospital for observation until Tuesday morning.
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02:52 pm
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Adric - He was my companion
 Two classic Doctor Who articles recently caught my eye, an oldie Adric: An Appreciation and this year's Re-Re-examining Adric (the second page of the latter is perhaps most pertinent to the point I'm coming to).
I have to be quite honest, I would have never got in to Doctor Who if it hadn't been for Adric. I was nine when he appeared on screen, and ten before I was a regular viewer.( Read more, including how Adric is related to R2D2, Twiki and Jar Jar Binks )
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11:55 am
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Netbook reinstall
cd /home/wife && sudo chown -R wife.wife .* DOES NOT DO WHAT YOU THINK IT WOULD DO
Arse, arse, arse. So that was a complete re-install required for my netbook, then. On the plus side, it gave apt-cacher-ng a smugly satisfactory test.
Absolutely do not try this at home. chown -R whoever.whoever .* applies to .. , ../.. and so forth; it recurses DOWN the directory tree! Rather than changing ownership for hidden files and folders (eg. ~/.config/ ), it basically chowns every file on the machine to be owned by one user.
I watched helplessly as it changed the ownership for everything in /bin , /etc and so forth, erroring momentarily when it hit /dev and /proc ... arse-sticks. You really don't get a chance to hit ^C with an SSD disk drive, do you?
Unsurprisingly, Linux wouldn't boot after that.
And I then made a passing comment to the missus about her account being "unpriveledged"...
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09:42 am
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Barbie - The Magic Of Pegasus - DVD Review
This is a CGI animated made-for-DVD movie featuring a Vagnarian theme. The heroine is a tall Teutonic blonde princess, who is fond of high leather boots. The animation is of high quality, although sometimes her legs do seem to walk rather stiffly.
The heroine's bloodline rule over a large kingdom. Their enemies include a camp man with an eye deformity, a bulky man with dark coloured skin, and a jeweller/pawnbroker with an odd-shaped nose. The heroine's sister has been corrupted by these enemies of the state, and together with her shorter, dark-haired, jackbooted boyfriend (whose right arm is also animated rather stiffly), they outwit their enemies, who are always depicted as having lower intelligence, in order to return her sister to her genetic purity.
So far I've only watched it about half way through. There's no sign of the kingdom being invaded by any Americans yet. Maybe some Russians will arrive first.
My three-year-old daughter loved it. Also recommended: Bugs Bunny "What's Opera, Doc?", "Herr Meets Hare"; Mel Brooks "The Producers"; BBC TV "Allo, Allo"
Soundtrack is in English and German. Available from Amazon or Gloucestershire Libraries.
Update: Amazon have now published my review.
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05:44 pm
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Thirteen shall be the number to which thou shalt count
When Doctor Who fan conspiracies collide... Okay, what if the reappearance of the St Johns Ambulance logo on the TARDIS (significance) combined with the series canon that a Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times (13 lives) means that the Beeb have realised that they're running out of regenerations and have decided to reboot Doctor Who? What if Matt Smith is the young William Hartnell? Would this account for why Doctor Who magazine quotes Steven Moffat as referring to the next series as "Series One"?
That'd be cool, for a few episodes anyway. But I do hope they keep the canon. The canon is what keeps it as a family show, as people from different generations can talk about ''their Doctor'' and how his stories affected the present storyline. The Doctor Who format - anywhere in space and time - is sufficiently flexible for this not to be necessary, and both Romana and the Master have already shown us that 13 lives is not necessarily the limit.
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04:32 pm
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How Torchwood Day Five Should Have Panned Out
I've mentioned my dispair at how pants Torchwood Day Five was compared to the excellence of days one through four. Subsequent to Morph and Adrian's posts, here's how I thought it should have panned out.
Our heroes were facing an alien who claimed to have invisible ships, superior technology, rather nasty biological weaponry and a large number of fellow aliens supporting it. It had actually only demonstrated:
• A widespread but non-harmful parlour trick of getting all the children in the world to chant and point in unison, no more threat than a stage hypnotist.
• A small-scale lethal biological weapon whose effects quickly dispersed.
• An extremely primitive transmat (and here, as a Classic Who purist, I refuse to use the word "teleport") which looked highly vulnerable to interference.
• Dependence on a specific athmospheric environment which contained its movement to one room.
• Highly addictive dependent behaviour, from a drug supply controlled by humans (i.e. their children), with side-effects including spasms and nausea.
How I predicted Day 5 to conclude was:
• Somebody (possibly Captain Jack, after a dewy-eyed moment with his grandson) makes a heart-warming speech to the UN, US, UNIT, COBRA, whoever, and they decide that sacrificing 10% of the children would destroy society anyway, and commit to calling the alien's bluff at some point on Day 5. There is also a realisation that a drug addict will never kill his supplier so it must be a bluff.
• A faux-unofficial pirate TV / pirate radio / internet viral meme advises everyone to stay indoors on Day 5, ostensibly to safeguard the children (but actually this is a government scheme to contain potential virus spread). The BBC web department get to mock up some cool fake websites and the BBC World Service gets to make some cool fake pirate broadcast trails which are shown eminating from a various radios around the world including a tribe of nomads that they shot whilst on location in Dubai for the last Doctor Who special.
• The army turn up, ostensibly to collect the children (but actually to ensure everyone stays indoors; they don biohazzard suits at the appointed time).
• The bluff is called. Small outbreaks of virus deaths are briefly reported and stop within a couple of hours.
• A law enforcement representative of the alien's race turns up, arrests the alien and apologises for the inconvenience caused by the tiny minority of their race who have succumbed to drug addiction.
That is how an intelligent show like Classic Who or Quatermass would have done it.
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12:12 am
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Torchsoft
Well, the Torchwood finale was an utter let-down, wasn't it? There was me, four nights into thinking that "this RTD, I have misjudged him, this is excellent stuff, reminiscent of Quatermass and in a good way" and then he goes and throws in a Deus Ex Machina ending like he does EVERY FUCKING TIME so I don't even need to put this post under a spoiler-cut because that's what RTD does EVERY FUCKING TIME oh what's the point of even making the effort to critique it myself it iz exaktly wot Adrian sez.
A couple of days ago, I was genuinely thinking that Doctor Who would miss RTD. Now I'm reminded that he couldn't have fucked off fast enough.
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06:09 pm
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Unenforceable Parking Restrictions in Cheltenham
Following someone else's Freedom of Information request and the subsequent Gloucestershire Echo newspaper article "35 streets where cars can park illegally" (their lack of capitalisation, not mine), I found the actual list of streets missing from the CBC FOI disclosure log. So I emailed CBC, and within a few days they replied with the list.
Since all FOI responses are public domain, I have now published the list of Unenforceable Parking Restrictions in Cheltenham June 2009 on my site. Enjoy your freedom responsibly, Cheltonians!
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03:08 pm
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Last Chance To See: Sporadic E TV
 I'd like everyone in Britain to take a few minutes this summer, for your last chance to see a very dear friend of mine, Sporadic E Propogation.
During a hot, damp, muggy day, take a moment to retune your old analogue TV and see if you can find some foreign TV stations!
Propagation is the term us radio geeks use to describe a radio signal that, due to the Earth's athmosphere, manages to travel a very long distance that it otherwise normally wouldn't. The classic example is skywave propogation, the way that AM-MW band on your radio allows you to hear foreign radio stations overnight. These often interfere with other AM-MW stations such as Talk Sport, Absolute Radio (Virgin 1215) or local independent "Classic Gold" stations. By day, the signal travels in a straight line, and what with the Earth being round, it disappears into space at the horizon, so you can't hear distant stations. By night, as the atmosphere cools, the ionosphere is at a lower altitude and reflects distant radio signals back to the surface. Radio Luxembourg, an overnight English station which ran from 1933-1992, is probably the best known example. As with all propogation, these signals tend to fade in and out, seeming to become quiet, loud then quiet again.
Sporadic E propogation is different. The heat and humidity allows radio signals to be reflected, or bent, by a higher ionospheric layer than would normally be the case, and affects much higher frequencies. This is not fully understood, but the end result is that FM-VHF radio and UHF TV channels can be received five hundred miles or further away from their normal reception area.
Although FM-VHF radio is going to be with us for several years to come (although not as long as you might think if Labour stay in power), analogue TV is not. Starting later this year, old analogue TV signals will be switched off in many areas. Digital TV cannot be manually retuned, you won't be able to simply turn a knob or press some +/- keys to retune your TV, it will tune itself automatically from the digital signal. Once the ability to manually tune analogue TV goes, you'll also lose the ability to witness Sporadic E Propogation and its ghostly images of fuzzy foreign TV channels from overseas. With most European countries starting to shut down their analogue TV output, 2009 may be your last good chance to receive long-distance terrestrial TV; digital signals aren't suited to being received in short bursts.
So, what are you looking for? Well, first learn how to manually retune your analogue TV. Typically you go into a setup menu and select something like "tuning", "frequency" or "UHF channel". The UHF channel numbers will be between 22 and 68. Don't use "auto tune", you need to manually check each channel yourself for the weak signal. You are most likely to see Sporadic E examples on the lower UHF channels during hot, muggy, humid days, particularly in the afternoons and early evenings. You're looking for a ghostly image, probably black and while (many but not all European countries use an incompatible colour system) with, most importantly, foreign language audio. It will fade in and out, and will probably last no longer than 20 seconds or a couple of minutes before disappearing completely.
If you're in the West of England, Welsh doesn't count, it's too close for Sporadic E, neither does French if you're on the eastern English Channel coastline. Having a TV aerial that faces the European continent (ie. south or east) will generally give you a better chance of success, although due to the bouncy nature of Sporadic E, you never know.
Here's some screenshot examples to get you in the mood.
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12:28 pm
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Dragonmeet gaming convention, this Sun 28 June, Swindon
Just a reminder: http://www.dragonmeet.co.uk/
RPG & tabletop gaming convention, Swindon, this Sunday 28 June. 2 quid entry. CJ, Luke, Lloyd and I are already going. There may be spare car seats left if anyone else would like a lift.
See a list of games being run by a Sussex gaming club, or this forum thread. Also, Mongoose Publishing are doing a lecture on how to be a games writer.
There should also be a trade fair with dice, cards etc. It won't be big, but it should be fun.
Pick-up is 9:30am from near Enterprise car rental, Swindon Road, Cheltenham (near FCH). Return lift should arrive back in Cheltenham by 7pm if not well before. Email me: andrew@aoakley.com
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09:30 am
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More on minor parties
One thing I did see in another election leaflet for a minor party - Fair Pay Fair Trade - with which I surprisingly agreed, was the idea that all imports into the UK/EU should come from companies who have to abide by the same standards as our own companies. For example, their employees should be paid the same minimum wage as per the average minimum wage in Europe.
http://fairpayfairtrade.com/Home_Page.php
I don't hold with "immigrants are stealing our jobs" but I do have a lot of sympathy with "my job was off-shored to someone who isn't allowed to join a union, is paid a hundredth of my minimum wage and works in disgusting conditions". The problem isn't immigrants stealing our jobs, it's that British companies are exporting low-skill jobs. Not everyone is bright enough to go to university, and these people should have the opportunity of a fair job for a fair wage. Quite a few high-tech skilled jobs get offshored too, solely so that companies can avoid paying UK wages.
If the non-EU company fails to meet EU standards, then tax/duty should be levvied upon the imports to bring them up to an equivalent price as if they'd been produced under EU standards. We could use this extra tax revenue to reduce taxes for our own workers.
Another example, abattoirs. In the UK, farmers have to ship their cattle hundreds of miles to government-approved slaughterhouses. The approval requirements are so strict that almost all small local slaughterhouses have closed down. Rather than improving animal welfare, this has meant adding hundreds of miles of stress to the end of an animal's life. If you don't believe this is a serious problem, just think what happens when cattle try to stampede inside an articulated lorry. The animals often arrive looking like they've been in a fight, which, of course, they have.
Local slaughterhouses can't implement the approval requirements for a competitive price. Foreign meat, killed in a slaughterhouse which doesn't have to meet these requirements and doesn't have to pay its employees a minimum wage, easily undercuts (excuse the pun) EU-slaughtered meat by several hundred country miles.
This would, of course, mean that either the price of luxuries (such as meat[1]) would have to rise, or we'd have to reduce our standards to a more realistic level. I don't see a problem with either of those. If we really cared about animals, we wouldn't eat them, duh. And if our minimum wage means that we can't produce goods for a reasonable cost, then... just reduce the minimum wage. The minimum wage is a self-fulfilling prophecy, a circular argument. "You need to earn so much because things cost so much... things cost so much because people need to be paid so much..." We only avoid this circular catastrophe by off-shoring our employment to what amounts to little more than bonded slavery.
[1] Meat clearly is a luxury. Vegetarians do not die from, and do not suffer from significant health problems from, being vegetarian. British citizens, including me, eat far too much meat. If you have a sedentary life such as desk job, you don't need to eat meat at all.
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04:45 pm
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Did the LibDems really do WORSE than Labour?
For the past month, the political media have been chanting the same refrain; that Labour would be beaten into fourth place by UKIP in the European elections.
Fourth place.
What actually happened is that Labour were beaten into third place by UKIP. The elephant in the room, which no journalist apparently wants to talk about [1], is that the Liberal Democrats actually fared worse. The LibDems came fourth. The LibDems did worse than Labour.
So what's happened here? Something which even I, as a (literally) card-carrying Conservative party member, can scarcely believe. It would seem that disaffected Labour voters in the North of England and in Wales have switched directly to the Conservatives or UKIP, instead of going to the LibDems. I find this really, really odd. Most pundits would have you believe that the political rainbow of the UK goes, from left to right, Green/PlaidC/ScotN, Labour, LibDem, Conservative, UKIP. To jump straight from Labour to Conservative goes directly against this shared conciousness.
Labour to Green, fine. Labour to LibDem, fine.
Labour to Conservative? Very odd.
Labour to UKIP? Unbelievable.
What can have gone on? I find this result fantastic - as in, it appears to be the work of fantasy. But let's just have a look at the actual numbers,( Read more... )
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10:29 am
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(B)allot (N)ot (P)rotest
Nick Robinson's blog points out what I've been saying until I was blue in the face in the lead-up to the Euro election:
The BNP won two Euro MP seats despite getting fewer votes than the last Euro election because
people defected from Labour to either not voting at all, or voting for minor parties
In particular, it appears that in Yorkshire, around ten thousand people switched from Labour to the Greens (2009, 2004).
If the protest voters had stuck with Labour, or switched to another major party such as the Conservatives, UKIP or the Lib Dems, the BNP wouldn't have got in.
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05:25 pm
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Club DJ wanted
Genuine request: "Club DJ required for Red Sea Resort. 6 Month contract - Monthly Salary + full accom package. Sun Sun Sun Sun Sun Sun Sun."
An old school friend of mine manages a resort near Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on the Red Sea. He is after a "club DJ". Audience is a mix of wealthy Russians, wealthy Arabs and wealthy Israelis. Email him direct: harryholliday@ukonline.co.uk (note the double L in Holliday)
It's effectively a gated community, if you want to live an entirely Western life you can provided you stay on campus.
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