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WANT ADVICE: best small PC speakers for music?
Looking to replace my old Creative Travel Sound which is currently hardwired to the Mac Mini, as seen here: …with something more suited to cranking up the volume for Motown, rock, pop, folk and opera? Possibly including a small woofer; footprint space is at a premium but there’s a shelf below.
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Seems like Eric Pickles has been listening to @newsbrooke
Local councils could be banned from publishing their own newspapers more than four times a year under proposed new laws. Communities secretary Eric Pickles issued guidelines in March 2011 under the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity, requesting that councils reduce their publishing activities. While some local authorities have complied, it goes without
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-05
@TErtelme http://t.co/T93aa8Ev cc: @drjennywoods # Word for today: #higgsteria # RT @MouldS: Set Theory card game is is back on sale! http://t.co/pN2Kht1h . Video here: http://t.co/DZ8IC9aE # favourite game! # ANNOUNCE: The Digital Economy Act: "Three Strikes" isn't Cricket; @OpenRightsGroup London Pub Meet Monday July 16th http://t.co/OCk4TCKM # : Solitary #LiberalDemocrat MEP is the only
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The appellant replied “fuck off I’ve nae warrant” # classic
KENNETH LESLIE STEWART KINNAIRD v. PROCURATOR FISCAL, GLASGOW, 24 April 2001, Lord Eassie+Lord Kingarth+Lord Prosser
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Dryden after Horace
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has
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Terry Pratchett & scarcity economics in communications regulation #commsreview HT: @dml @adamkinsley
I was chatting with DML earlier today about communications regulation and how certain mindsets – common in regulatory environments – are not equipped to deal with the abundance that is possible with digital goods; instead there are always appeals to there being self-evident limits to: how many network addresses remain (yay IPv6) how big a
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If you’ve ever seen the white “ghost bike” screwed to the rails in Notting Hill, this is why, and what happened next #tragic
On 5th February 2009 lorry driver Joao Lopes ran over and killed fit, strong and experienced cyclist, Eilidh Cairns as she rode ahead of him on her daily 10 mile commute through Notting Hill Gate. Just days after what would had been her 32nd birthday in June 2011 he again ran over bright and
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On 30 June more than 2000 clubs across Germany halted the decks for five minutes to demonstrate opposition
The reddit/wikipedia blackout technique catches on… The Club Commission, which represents Berlin’s nightlife industry, says that an average-sized club that now pays €28,000 (£22,456) a year would face a bill of €180,000. “The clubs are fearful for their existence,” said Lutz Leichsenring, spokesman for the Club Commission. A campaign against Gema’s move has already collected
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Who runs the UK? ‘Tories, Lib Dems and Google’ says Harman # Has anyone got a transcript of this?
Covered here in The Register; does anyone have a transcript of Harman’s speech just in case El Reg are selective in their commentary? Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman has slammed Google’s extraordinary influence over the UK’s ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. The Shadow Deputy Prime Minister said “there are three parties in the Coalition: the
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Solitary #LiberalDemocrat MEP is the only UK MEP to support #ACTA; why? #libdems
To understand how the mechanisms of political power have been harnessed, let’s consider the single vote from the United Kingdom in favour of ACTA. Yes, one British MEP voted in favour of ACTA (the rest voted against or abstained). In a vote where Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and even UKIP were unusually united, the one
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-04
HEADSUP: #TorProject discover security flaw in Middle-Eastern DPI interception device; release security advisory: https://t.co/36tBmaVn # .@runasand The irony is delicious, yes. # For those who miss the humour of @runasand / @torproject's discovery, it's not unlike giving a police car a parking ticket… # "Perhaps ones from more competent vendors." #torproject #cyberroam https://t.co/YNfgjWmR (via https://t.co/36tBmaVn)
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-03
"if that had happened, I have absolutely no doubt that there could have been loss of life" http://t.co/5lZOugX5 #compoundedhypotheticals # #Twitter what have you done to your input methods & can you switch them off please? Hashtags cause Username lookups, RETURN forces insertion # IceCreamSandwich broke Wifi tethering on my GalaxyS2, & USB tethering on