Interesting Links for 28-10-2011
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andrewducker- French government 'banning vegetarianism' in school canteens
- Wheat is EVIL. Apparently.
- Samuel L. Jackson Is the highest-grossing actor of all time.
- Sentencing laws: Mandatory life and public protection. A difficult balancing act
- Livejournal apparently having massive privacy/security issues right now.
- An explanation of the latest Livejournal security/privacy mess.
- Ex-Prime Minster's claim £1.7million for "public duties".
- Company makes children's toys out of their own drawings. Almost offensively cute.
- Google's latest response on pseudonyms on G+
- Google+ is now available with Google Apps (migration tool coming soon)
migration - Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone sales. We'll see how they are once the 4S figures come in.
- How the new public sector pensions will work
- UK clocks change trial being considered - moving us onto Central European Time.
- Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality
- Wired Readers Suggest The Greatest Geek Books of All Time. They are clearly old.
- Directors' pay rose 50% in past year.
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Date: 2011-10-28 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 04:54 pm (UTC)Unless Scotland goes independent it seems unlikely that they'd put it on a different timezone than the rest of the UK. But if it does, all bets are off.
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Date: 2011-10-28 05:36 pm (UTC)This is more a solution to the problem if the UK remains united – we can give the English and the Scottish what they want without having to have two different time zones, if you see what I mean.
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Date: 2011-10-28 05:46 pm (UTC)I'm not sure how your solution gives the English and Scottish both what they want?
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Date: 2011-10-28 05:58 pm (UTC)(Not trying to patronise, but curious as to which part you don't get?)
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 06:34 pm (UTC)I'm not actually convinced that a majority in either country want a specific timezone - but I haven't seen any opinion polls on it.
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:37 pm (UTC)If that's not true, then it means that the Scots and the English both get what they want because they're not disagreeing on the matter! :D
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:39 pm (UTC)Until I start seeing stuff that says "67% of Britons want to live on Paris time." I'll be taking it with a pinch of salt.
Happy to try it out as an experiment, of course. If we try it for three years and love it then great!
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-29 09:25 am (UTC)GMT. Not just a curiosity.