Have you ever tried to advertise in the Phone Book or Yellow Pages?
You’ll know it’s incredibly expensive, because they claim such blanket coverage.
And yet, more than half of all Yellow Pages and Phone Books remain unopened. All that processed paper, all those chemicals, all that delivery cost.
Who uses them these days? Directory enquiries are now free again, almost everyone has access to a free directory via a computer, so why bother dumping a couple of kilos of carbon footprint on my door every year?
I rang them and said that I not only didn’t want them (same as I said last year), but that I wanted it to be noted that there was one less copy in print. How could I note that? Apparently, I can’t!
If anyone knows of a campaign to get BT and Yell to have the phone book and YP as opt-in only, I’d love to know. Comment form below!
I’m a Flock convert - I thought I’d never leave Firefox, and in a way, I haven’t. Flock is Firefox on speed, supporting loads of services like Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Gmail…I could go on! Oh, and all the Firefox extensions and Toolbars work on Flock too.
It takes a little while to work it all out, and I haven’t even got the half of it yet, but it’s really nice to have everything integrated into one place, instead of having gazillions of toolbars messing up the place.
Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler was infamous for eugenics programs which attempted to maintain a “pure” German race through a series of programs that ran under the banner of “racial hygiene”.
. In a modern context, it would mean selectively discriminating against a gene which the parent didn’t see as pure. For example, imagine a desperate couple wanting IVF treatment, but stipulating that it must be blond with blue eyes, because anything else would be defective and therefore not pure in your idea of a master race.
Fast forward 70 years and have a listen to this:
Here’s a transcript provided by Stop Eugenics. It doesn’t say what its stance is on this matter - I’m assuming it would be against embryo selection.
I’m glad to see I’m not alone in being utterly appalled at this according to this BBC Have Your Say.
He sees anyone as having all five senses as being inferior. How sad it is that we can’t appreciate a deaf play. Every single comment had him looking down at the inferior beings with their wretched sense of hearing. For he wants to make the pure, superior race with their master language and ability to need a translator to interpret everything for them.
Clearly, this Tomato Lichy is a very selfish, self-centred individual. Let’s just hope his next child doesn’t suffer because of his mental illness.
UPDATE: The Moral Maze covered this - here is the audio
Notes: Here’s an interesting blog, showing the kind of in-fighting that this so-called “audism” brings about.
What’s he saying in the videos? I have no idea. And I’m very sorry I don’t use BSL, but I can’t read Braille either. But then, I don’t speak Urdu either - does that make me a racist?
I’m hoping if anyone has the same problem and finds this post, that they know of a fix.This has me stumped - I have Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2, and was happily running Firefox 2.0.0.12 Suddenly, I was getting error 611 trying to send a gmail. So I tried to post to the gmail forums - it said an error has occured. So, I tried to login to Myspace, it said “length required”. Then I tried to post an item on ebay - it said there was an error. Safari worked fine on all those sites, but there’s no way I wanted to switch to THAT wreck of a browser! So, I cleared cache, cookies, disabled toolbars, ran CLAMxAV - everything I could think of. I also downloaded Firefox 3. Still the same. To prove the point to myself, I downloaded Opera, and all the sites worked fine.
But then, I downloaded Camino and Flock, and it was exactly the same errors as I was getting with Firefox.
What the…?!? It seems like any Gecko based web browser cannot do anything that involves a certain type of POST function - and yet, it gets weirder. I can log IN to gmail and ebay, but not post anything. But I cannot login to Myspace it says “length required” and the mozillazine forums is as if the name and password boxes were empty. What can I do?! I’ve also totally deleted the whole Firefox profile, scanned the drive for permission problems and errors etc.
Note: This story is starting to get some interest - see also Apple Support, Mozillazine, Google Groups and the Flock posts on this subject. Please also Digg it! (See below)
UPDATE! Thanks to the genius work of user swingsetpark in the Mozillazine forums, this has now been resolved.
The official justification from the Office of the Rail Regulator is that the fine marks the seriousness of disruption caused by Network Rail’s overrun on engineering work.
A shopkeeper has said he is “relieved” to not face a murder charge after a man who tried to rob him was stabbed to death with his own knife.
Liam Kilroe, of Billinge, Merseyside, was wanted by police when he was killed in Skelmersdale on 17 February.
Police believe he was trying to rob Tony Singh, who owns the Lifestyle Express shop in Birleywood, Lancashire.
The CPS has decided not to prosecute Mr Singh. The shopkeeper says he does not know how Kilroe’s injury was caused.
I only just heard about this case - this guy needs a medal. I’m amazed the case went his way - there have been so many nuts decisions lately, like in the Tony Martin case, that it’s nice to see justice finally prevailing.
