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Socialism For The Rich; Capitalism For The Poor

There’s a phrase going around that the times we live in practise ‘socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor’.

The State bails out the rich but acquiesces in no pay or low-pay rises for the poor, pension-reduction for public sector workers, diminished employee rights and…

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10 Oct, 2011
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Boring Bill

It took Apple to teach him Windows-based computing, Yahoo to introduce him to browsers, Google to show him the power of search, and the iPhone to teach him the joys of touch sensitive control.

Bill Gates’ final speech at the CES, long a convention at the show, talked of…

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10 Jan, 2008
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Is 4.30am the worst time to wake up?

What is it about 4:30am? Whenever in a majorly different time-zone I always seem to wake up at 4:30am. Too early to get up. Too late to go back to a decent, deep sleep.

It makes no difference which time zone it is. Last week, in California…

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07 Mar, 2007
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