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I hadn't spoken to him in 4 years but I had been thinking about him recently and wanted to get back in touch. This news has hit hard, I used to love speaking with him and getting sneak peaks at the things he was working on. I'll always remember working with him on Limey Lizard and I'll always be immensely grateful to him for the opportunity.
I'm sad I'll never get a chance to speak to him again and hear him fall asleep mid-conversation only to immediately pick up where he left off.
RIP

Any ideas what's causing this?

You're using a norton product

Vacation for me, so I'm totally OT!

Boyd, Dual, happy to know that! Where do you two work?

I'm doing telesales for a kitchen company, I started on tuesday. My girlfriend's cousin works there too

I just got a job, and although I do use a computer all day I don't have internet access. And now that I'm actually forced into using a computer all day I find that I don't want to, even though I've been doing it pretty much constantly for the last 10 years of my own free will...

Thanks everybody!

Okay, I've been delaying posting this for a while because I really didn't want to have to say it.
Stickens has now been officially cancelled, hopefully we can get something better organised for next year some time and generate a lot more interest.

I use a small little programme called TreeSizeFree which is pretty quick and very minimal.
But after seeing that screenshot of WinDirStat I think I'll be switching, TreeSizeFree only lists folders and doesn't give you any idea of the files they contain.
So thanks for that Vince

i'll take that cookie thankyou

for one night only! http://www.tokbox.com/conf/rb1llsjd3uft3y00

Wow, good job Haddas. I have been kinda working on an entry but I doubt I'll finish it.

I must actually agree with the positive affects of healthy living; last year I decided to really cut back on sugary foods, drinks and junk food in general and stopped drinking fizzy drinks and instead just stick to bottled water, and I feel a lot better. I also have the advantage of not smoking and hardly ever drinking alcohol.
It really does seem like such an obvious thing to say but if you give it long enough (like a couple of months rather than days) healthy eating really will have you feeling better.

Why dont we just trade all the scroungers for the immigrants? Anyone caught benefit cheating gets shipped off to a country in place for someone whose coming in.

imho if it weren't for the the religous extremists blowing our country to pieces we wouldn't have political extremists like the BNP (or at least they wouldn't get the widespread attention they are at the moment). But ffs, lets not get on a topic about religion.

Besides Im considering following suit and immigrating elsewhere (once I have money and a job). As I stated earlier I'd love to see the states, and it makes you wonder how you'd feel if you travelled elsewhere and got the response we give these immigrants (even if you do hate them).

It's not as easy for us in the EU to get job in a non-EU country, as far as I'm aware you can't just move there and get a simple old boring job, you have to have a trade, setup your own business or have a unique skill.
And yeh, I've thought about moving country too, I wanted to go live in Finland and did a lot of research, I also planned to save up atleast £10,000 before I did it as I read that you have live in the country for 6 months before you can work there. And if I hadn't been able to find a job I would have just come back home, but as it is I'm having a hard enough time finding a job in my own country right now and the answer isn't just moving somewhere else where there are jobs. Atleast not for me.

Nope, not a link to an active Tokbox conference, just an acknowledgement of my recent absence from them. Good to see that people actually are keeping things going though, I haven't been around much due to a mixture of the really annoying text chat sound and things happening in my life.

Do you have any idea how many brits I've met who are milking out tax credits? Give me a fucking break (since you like this kind of language)!

It's nice to know the Brits have such low faith to their systems and laws.

That's kind of my point Nikolas, there are already so many people doing it in this country we don't need to import them too.

I don't think it is a stupid way of looking at things, could you elaborate on why you think so a little more? Also dude, there was no need to be so rude.

Boyd, (legal) immigrants are entitled to nothing at all until their first two years of a working history in the UK, by which point they have paid taxes and contributed towards their own benefit allowance (should they ever need it).

Bla bla bla....

First off, not trying to be rude with the bla bla bla, just you said a lot of other stuff and I don't really need to quote the entire post.
Second off, I'm not entirely sure that this is true of those migrant workers who become pregnant, there has actually been a baby boom amongst the immigrants in my town of late. Including one woman who lives near me who seems to have suddenly acquired a baby, seemingly without ever being pregnant.

And yeh, I know a lot of british people do that too, but in most cases they wait until retirement age to do it, and you do ofcourse have these british celebrities who claim to love the country but decide to keep their millions in offshore accounts or just not live here at all, so that the tax man doesn't get his cut. I am kind of divided on that one though, one one hand it's money they've earned fairly so why should the government take a big chunk of it? And on the other hand they earned that money really easily and with their accumulated millions they can afford to pay 40% tax.

Also, LimpingFish brings up a valid point; the discussion does seem to have wandered a bit off of the original topic. But these are the reasons that people are turning away from the main political parties to those such as BNP and UKIP. And although it may be true that immigrants don't really do much harm other than make us feel uncomfortable (after all, when an animal pisses all over it's home it's not too happy when some other animal comes along - and we really have pissed all over our country here) but can anyone really argue that it does any good when because of them the BNP gets more seats and supporters? And also gets us all blaming them instead of actually trying to sort the country out?
My dad has worked alongside a lot of immigrants - including one Lithuanian woman who by her own admission hated the english, asians and any other eastern european - and the vast majority of them really do miss their homes, which makes me think they would really be better off trying to fix the problems with their own countries instead of running all across the EU. And although you could argue that because a lot of them do seem to send money across to their families that it is helping their own economy get stronger it isn't really that affective.

There are plenty of British people with those exact traits. But yet you single out immigrants?

Equally, there are plenty of immigrants that don't conform to this stereotype. Plenty of tax revenue coming from immigrants also.

So you think that because we already have people on benefits in this country (family members of which have most likely paid taxes towards for all their lives) that it's okay to import people to jump straight on to benefits they have never contributed anything towards?
Sorry but that's really a fucking STUPID way of looking at it Hudders.

A migrant worker is the greatest economic event that can happen to a country. It brings in new wealth, new ideas and new people.

I'd have to strongly disagree with that statement, often these migrant workers do not keep their money in british bank accounts which does not help the economy, they also qualify for benefit which is paid with tax payer money, which again does not help the economy.
And not all these new people are nice honest caring people, some of them are violent criminals and I very much doubt that criminal record checks are done before they're allowed to enter the country either.
To be honest with you I don't blame the migrant workers for flocking here for work, I blame the government for allowing it to get so out of hand to the point where they do not accurately know just how many immigrants there are in this country.

Other peoples' problems with it isn't my problem, I've explained twice now what I meant by it but if you want to keep trying to twist it around with your ifs and buts that's your choice. But you're ignoring the fact that some americans, be they black, white, asian or any other "minority" you want to label people with will have voted for Obama simply based on the colour of his skin. And yes, some will have NOT voted for him for the same reason, and what I'm trying to get at is that both of those things are bad.

I really do fail to see how white people voting for the BNP or UKIP is any different from black people voting for Obama.

Good gravy, Boyd, this really takes the prize

I already explained what I meant by that, but as I'm in a good mood I'll explain it again, a lot simpler this time.
If black american people can and will vote for people whom they believe have their best interests at heart, why can't white british people vote for those whom they think have their best interests at heart?
Got that? Okay, then that's the last thing I'm going to say on that matter because people obviously want to brand me a racist.

you know, that would have worked much better if you actually had an understanding of the english language 

That's actually more pathetic than it is funny, violence isn't the way to protest and is hardly going to get any of the BNP supporters to change their tune is it?

Also, no matter what his beliefs this is true:

"It's a very, very sad day for British democracy," he said.

"People should be entitled to hear what we have to say and to hear journalists question us robustly."

He described protesters as an "organised mob that's backed by all three main parties to stop us getting our message across to the public" and added: "It does not represent ordinary people."

It would actually have been much better to let the media handle the event, watching politicians squirm and repeatedly ignore questions is more damaging than seeing them chased off by a mob as it make them look like fools, not cowards.