Can 9 Million Skype Users Be Wrong?
The software has the capability of automatically updating and upgrading itself, allowing it to acquire new features at any time—potentially without the permission of the user. The software uses a secret protocol; all communications are encrypted. And Skype Technologies does its engineering in Tallinn, Estonia, has some business operations in London and registers its website in Amsterdam.
If I were going to write an information warfare thriller with a theme based on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this is certainly where I would start.
Have you noticed anything a little ‘Hello Sailor’ about the Merrill Lynch logo?

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Appliances on standby pump one million tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Wasted energy of appliances on standby could power 400,000 homes. Up to 85 per cent of power used by a video recorder is consumed on standby. Government says Britain would save 240,000 tons of C02 emissions by switching off televisions
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I miss D & B.

Does the switching things off theory really work? I get annoying post it notes each night telling me to turn off the screen….but doesn’t it consume more energy to power the thing up each day?
D & B …….ick!
I have many fond memories of dandelion and burdock… summers evenings, jumpers for goalposts, Top Trumps, Wonderful World of Disney, Stretch Armstrong…yep, I loved 2003. Arf.
Perhaps its a northern thing? Never met anybody from the south who liked it…
Oh, and Sainsbury’s in the UK are doing 2L bottles, sugar free, for 63p, and its tastes just the same. Fantastic!
Oh, boy, you really have got me on the ML logo. Yes, it does look very very gay. Going to make fun of my mates when they proudly wear their ML white polo shirts.
Luv it!
James, I’m from the North, but I don’t like licorice. Thats my excuse.
Come to think of it, my sister hates it too… so bollox to that theory then.
Is it a boy thing?