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I don't mean to be offensive here, but this is exactly the "Little Englander" attitude I was talking about. Britain both pays into the EU as it is a comparitively rich country, and receives funds for specific projects such as regional development, although not as much as it used to. IIRC, it...

As does the Royal Bank of Scotland and Clydesdale, it's one of the things that Scotland retained when it formed a union with England, along with its legal and education systems, and the Church of Scotland. It's mostly the "Little Englanders" that complain about the EU, there's a silent...

I liked your cream teas comment. I don't agree with you on cutting aid though. After all, most of the problems in Africa were caused by Britain and other former colonialist countries. If anything we should be cancelling more debt, doing more trade and giving more aid, however if we didn't have...

You don't have to lecture me on the differences MrTAToad, I'm well aware of them. My point was that you appeared to use England interchangeably with Britain, which is incorrect of course, however I didn't realise you meant England specifically, apologies. Out of interest, what do you mean...

Just to remind you MrTAToad that UK != England. However much I dislike Blair and his administration, he is still Prime Minister of the UK, not England. Once the union is dissolved then I'm sure England could try and pull out of the EU if it wanted to, however it would be incredibly complicated...

Ah I see, sorry I misunderstood you there.

I don't see immigration as a problem reed. Scotland especially needs skilled workers, as does the rest of the UK, and those coming over from Poland, Lithuania and other countries are valued by our employers because of their strong work ethic. I was discussing this on another forum and somebody...

We don't want Blair and Brown either ora. Bear in mind that breaking up the union doesn't mean living in isolation. Scotland, England and Wales and Northern Ireland would all remain within the EU and John Reid's visions of barbed wire and passports at the border are ludicrous (not to mention...

Just to keep you updated, there's a new track up on my MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/moosemaloney and I'm also playing a free gig at Beanscene Kelvingrove in Glasgow on Thursday 8 March if anyone's in the area. Cheers, Craig

Yes, Britain does suck, it's not functioning as a democracy anymore and it's high time we ditched it. The UK doesn't seem capable of tackling crime, from petty crime to violent crime, while creating more and more legislation that infringes on civil liberties. We also seem to have let illegal...

I'd forgotten about this thread, thanks for the comments. We never did get that second recording back (was a guy in my old college who did it for us) but hopefully we'll get some new stuff recorded this spring. We've been on a bit of a hiatus since last summer as we've all been busy with work...

I've found Skype to be great overall but the call quality can vary a lot. The first time I used it properly I was speaking to my friends over in Philadelphia and it sounded really good, however a while later I called my friend down in Leeds and it sounded ass. Could have been his cable...

America's Army is quite fun, it also gave me something that no other game has; a little twinge of shame for downloading it in the first place.

Do any of you guys know what the salary scales arelike for the UK Apple Stores? Apple have been in touch with me about a position (Creative I think, although I applied for Mac Specialist too) at the new Glasgow store and I wanted to get a rough idea as I'm waiting to hear back about a job with a...

Assuming Apple will allow 3rd party development, presumably VLC or something similar will be ported to the iPhone. I've got a WM5 PDA/phone, which does all the things that iPhone does (and more as it supports 3G and video calling), however it doesn't do them very well. However I have TCPMP on my...

Nope. You'd have to buy an EyeTV and a digital TV tuner and connect them to a Mac I think.

AppleTV isn't something that I can see being useful, for me anyway. We've got my old G4 plugged into the TV as a media server and since we don't have an LCD/Plasma, the biggest drawback is the poor resolution for using the Finder. I've tried stuff like MediaCentral but I still end up using an...

IIRC Steve mentions in the Keynote that the price is not subsidised by Cingular. Sorry I might not have phrased the thing about the remote very well. I haven't come across any news of this, I just thought it would be a great idea and something obvious to have available at launch. I was...

The iPhone looks awesome, I want one even more than I want a Wii. However I'm disappointed that it's been compromised my America's weird mobile market. Firstly, EDGE is uncommon outside of the US. To be fair, I don't use 3G on Orange in the UK anymore because it's ludicrously expensive and my...

Usually it doesn't matter if ISPs support OSX or not as there shouldn't be anything to do with the connection that's specific to using a Mac or Windows (or Linux), i.e. if you're using a router then it takes care of the connection, or if you're using a USB/internal modem then your Mac/PC will...