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[identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
It genuinely baffles me seeing Alex Salmond petitioning to keep defence industry jobs in Scotland, whilst saying they are critical to the economy, when he and his party stand for independence - which will result in Scotland losing every single defence related job there is.

I mean, the Royal navy are not going to pay to construct ships in Glasgow. The RAF aren't going to keep air bases open in Scotland.

If we want to keep these things under an independant Scotland, we'd have to find the money for doing it ourselves...

[identity profile] burkesworks.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
Government launches scheme to offer borrowers with a poor credit history an alternative to loan sharks

With an APR of 29.9%, that's not far off the kind of rates offered by such bottom-feeders as the Provident or those awful Bright House shops. At times like this, it's important that said borrowers should have the opportunity to learn more about the much fairer deals offered by local credit unions rather than sign up for Government-sanctioned usury.

[identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
So, do you believe that we (be it the UK, or Scotland) need a defence budget, or armed forces, at all?

If you do, then why not make the equipment for them locally rather than buying from another country?

[identity profile] bart-calendar.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The "straight" statistics might be different if society clarified what "straight" and "gay" means.

I think most people take "gay" to mean "I want an emotional relationship with a member of my own sex."

In that context it's perfectly reasonable for 95 percent of the population to identify as "straight."

If the terms "bisexual" or "gay" were expanded to simply mean "I'm willing to or sometimes fantasize about having sex with someone of my own gender" the numbers would be quite different.

For example, I have no desire at all to date a dude. But, I've been with a couple girls who were really turned on by the idea of MMF threesome where both guys interacted sexually with each other.

It both cases it never happened (mostly because the guys she wanted to do it with either didn't want to have sex with a female as well as a male because they identified too strongly as gay, or else the guys thought it would be weird to interact with a straight guy or found one or both of us unattractive.)

Now, does the fact that I would have participated because I knew it would have turned those girls on make me bisexual? Probably on some level. Would I have answered the survey as bisexual, probably not, because I wouldn't think that was a truthful answer to their question.

[identity profile] anef.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Re Robert Peston, it isn't at all clear whether the Royal Mail are using futures to buy equities at a price they want to pay, or whether they are gambling on the price going up or down. It's the same with commodities trading - people who are producing commodities and the end users use futures to give themselves some certainty. It's the middle men who are the gamblers.

[identity profile] a-pawson.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It amazes me there are still any video rental stores left, not least because they are expensive. I last went into a shop to rent a video 7 years ago. Now thanks to the wonders of online/postal rentals, I can rent as many DVD's per month as I can watch for less than I would pay to rent 2 films from a physical store. If Blockbuster hasn't captured a decent share of that market, it's quite understandable that it will go out of business.

I imagine in 5 years time that the idea of even receiving DVD's by post will be pretty much non-existent as broadband speeds will have increased to the point that shipping a physical disc is pointless.

[identity profile] robhu.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
The same survey that you reference about people being straight also showed that seventy something percent of people in the country consider themselves to be Christians.
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