Tag: Economy
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Pay your Taxes Vodafone!
…and while we’re at it, US embassy and others pay your congestion charge bills! One of the reasons I didn’t go with Vodafone with my new mobile phone contract is that they recently avoided 6 BILLION POUNDS in UK taxes – a decision by George Osborne, typical for the Tories to protect their own, big…
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Dear Glenda – the response
Followers of my Twitter and Livejournal will know I wrote to Glenda Jackson, my MP about the stupid ‘3 strikes’ rule that EU (not just UK apparently) are trying to pass with the Digital Economy bill, where if you’re caught 3 times filesharing they can cut off your internet. Thinking ‘I don’t fileshare’ or ‘I…
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depression: new digital debris!
OK a lot of you may not even have heard of Radio Clash’s shy sibling, the arts/experimental podcast digital debris. Well finally got to the 3rd proper episode ‘depression‘ I go back to 1929 via 78. 2(00)9 recurring, as we crash, crash, crash. Crunch. Loads of classic Great Depression-themed 78rpm records, readings from novels of…
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Happy Buy Nothing Day!
After stuffing your faces during T-Day (glad we don’t have that here, hate Turkey) and in the run up to the Xmas Economic Meltdown, we have Buy Nothing Day – today in the US and tomorrow internationally. Happy Buy Nothing Day – may your wallet stay heavy and your purchases be nil!
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libsyn’s FTP has fallen over…
…which means the show I was uploading has disappeared, and now means you won’t get the latest show for at least another day. Hmm coupled with the fact that it looks like I’ll have to upgrade, and pay more as 250Mb is slightly too small, I’m not really impressed with libsyn atm.
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50 Pound Note goes Counterfeit…
Lee from I Motor Away and myself spent a merry trans-atlantic Wednesday afternoon/morning hijacking Jeb’s 50 Pound Note podcast…so I present to you: 50 Pound Note 59: Counterfeit editionIt’s all about fakes and musical forgeries, rip-offs, mashups, sampling and legal issues, copyrights, and famous cases and examples that have changed history. And we get to…