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The electoral role in Bradford has been reduced by 5% as a result of the new system* to stop electoral fraud. That's 20,000 people. In the City Ward, it's dropped by 14%. That's quite alarming.

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... clampdown/


*Each person has to register individually now, and not just have one person signing up a whole household.

Electoral rolls in Oxford have been heavily hit because colleges and halls are no longer able to register students en-masse.
I'm torn on this one.

Access to the ballot is extremely important and we should put nothing in the way to prevent those eligible from registering. On the other hand, we need to feel that the register is accurate and contains only eligible voters, and if people are unwilling to register they should not be surprised if they don't get a vote or find it hard to get insurance. Certainly, more publicity is needed, but it's depressing that people don't think it's important.

One step to combating fraud would be to curb the use of postal and proxy voting and restrict it to the severely ill, the disabled, or those with long-standing arrangmenets to be elsewhere. I've always felt uncomfortable with the ease postal or proxy votes can be obtained as they carry the risk that the voter's choice will not be secret or not be their own decision.

That UKIP official who was in the Sunday press for saying that bigots should have a party of their own too?
Went to college with him, where he was called 'Matt the Bigot'. He was a bit of a ('Piers Morgan' - Ed.) back then, too.

I feel dirty using this as a claim to fame.

Well at least he is honest.

I don't agree. We need to make it easier for people to vote, not harder. The current system is archaic, if I couldn't postal vote then there is a reasonable chance I couldn't get to my local polling station, due to work commitments. (I work a long way from my house on a daily basis, and regularly work away from home on short notice.)

Surely it wouldn't be beyond the wit of man to devise a system whereby you could go to any polling station.

I wonder whether the negative name calling only served to harden his views where his views should have been challenged in a constructive forum. College, aye?

Just a thought. I'm not saying that you didn't challenge his views but surely the moniker "Matt The Bigot" couldn't have helped. And I'm not saying that's anyone's fault either. It's just a thought. I'm not picking a fight or nothing I'm just saying I don't like name calling and name calling can actually be incredibly hurtful. Unless your nick name is Rad Johnny Johnson Jnr of Funkytown.

*whispers*

National ID cards

The whole system underneath is archaic, there isn't any join up of data between parishes. It possible, but not easy.

I think he encouraged it.

Northern Ireland has an electoral ID card, which is free to obtain. Any such system risks becoming a form of poll tax, and people shouldn't be denied the right to vote because they haven't bought a card.

Exactly

Trains are fucked, so i've come back home! Woohoo!

My 85 year old neighbours have either a phone ringtone, doorbell or similar which seems to play what sounds like a Casio Keyboard version of the first few bars of Nirvana's Come As You Are.

It won't stop going off this morning.

It's driving me up the wall.

Working from home = working with bacon.

I am also at home. Though not working. And completely baconless.

Actually, I may have done Quorn bacon in the freezer. I definitely have some awesome veggie sausages.

Hmm... Might be a plan.

Mrs T was away at the weekend. My lunch on saturday was 16 rashers of bacon.

I'm also working from home, with a cat that won't leave the bloody laptop alone. Strangely, productivity is unaffected.

Just a bit of reordering.

Yeah, it's not the same, but makes a nice sandwich

I always find fake bacon flavour to be overly strong and not actually taste of bacon.

We're having to move our Warrington office in a couple of months time.
The preferred new location has offered us a "premium fibre" internet connection for £130 a month offering 2mb of high speed access.
Or for just £350 a month we can increase that to 10mb...

By contrast Virgin will give us 152mb for £45, but the landlords don't want us to install our own connection. No prizes for guessing why....

I couldn't find any in the great freezer dig of January.

I had a veggie sausage sandwich instead. It was THEMOSTAWESOMEFOODEVER

How was that not a deal-breaker?

I've only just found out about it, and don't know if anything has been signed yet. If it's down to me, it absolutely would be a non-starter.

Sorry for the lay-person stupidity, but why do they not want you to install your own?

Is the broadband provider your landlord?

Because they're getting a backhander from the current provider, I suspect.

I can't get fibre where I am in Warrington so count yourself lucky you bastard.

It's brilliant downloading 18GB patches at 300k/s.

Ookie... I see, so kind of acting as a reseller by factoring in the service with the rent. That's crap.

It looks like the Red Bull F1 team (including drivers) are on the ski slope at Xcape, if you wanted something to do at lunchtime

I "snapped" the folder explorer thing into the corner. Then I "snapped" Word in ANOTHER corner.

FUCKING I FUCKING RULEZ.

#snap #snapping #snappysnapsnap

You can't do one in each corner though. Boo-urns.

Doesn't look to be much of a spectator event, and i'm not sure me wiping out an F1 driver a month before the first race would go down too well

Assemble, Peons!

I am about to try and make the tellybox function...

Russell actually left me instructions here somewhere.

Not quite, but not far off.
All the IT services in the building are provided by a separate company, and it's part of the conditions of the lease that you can't get your own lines installed. The owners of the business centre and the owners off the IT company all used to work together, so it's very incestuous.

This wouldn't be a problem if they were charging a sensible amount, but they are taking the piss.
They will have their own leased line into the building which they are then subsdividing for the tenants, and charging far more than it's worth.

Try the windows key plus the arrows keys?

You need better instructions man.

That's not #snapping though is it? You can only #snap side by side on windows 8, can't you? A quick search reveals that you can #snappitysnap windows in each corner on windows 10 though. #flimflam

Yeah, in Windows 8 and 7 you can only do half of the screen for each window using #snappitysnap. If you have dual monitors, the only way to snap things to the "inside" of a display is with the Windows key and the cursor keys (as far as I'm aware).

There are doubtless little applications you can get that can tile things nicely, though.

I never knew that... Cheers

That info (and much more) is in the highly useful "Today I learned" thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7221

Since I've got my website working again I can promote my wonderful recent success in the field of personal injury.

It's got Front Page on ... my website.

pisupport.co.uk

Go there. Look at it. Marvel*.








*There's no marvel.

Piss up port!

I think he used to be a teacher at my school.

Superlatif.

Bravo!

I bought a Pukka steak and kidney last Tuesday, but there was barely any kidney. What can you do to help?

When you've got a few success stories, you should use the blog posts bit in WordPress to keep those updates, then set your front page to display snippets of your latest updates or similar