Now that should have been me. Back in the '80s when I worked for Visionhire I predicted that folk would just want cable TV they would have access to TV/films and all sorts of information via their telephone wires!
I should be as rich as Suranga Chandratillake!
Monday, 28 October 2013
Saturday, 26 October 2013
strictly
Dave's dance was either Bob Hope Road to Strictly with Dorothy Lamour or Eric Morecambe!
My vote was for Abbey - why no standing ovation?
My vote was for Abbey - why no standing ovation?
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
No to Asserby - more evidence to Damn Windmills
Read this - look at the Graphic describing just how Futile Windmills are (sorry Windturbines). Don Quixote would be proud.
To get the same output of the Hinkley B on its 430acre site they would have to cover upto HALF a MILLION acres with Turbines. Also they'd pay them more than Hinkley for the priveledge of generating (or not) since wind isn't 24x7 output.
CRAZY
To get the same output of the Hinkley B on its 430acre site they would have to cover upto HALF a MILLION acres with Turbines. Also they'd pay them more than Hinkley for the priveledge of generating (or not) since wind isn't 24x7 output.
CRAZY
Monday, 21 October 2013
Hooray for New Nuclear Power Station at Hinkley Point - No to Asserby Windfarm
I'm against Windfarms and Nuclear but in this case I think we've got a good deal for the New Hinkley point Power station from EDF and the Chinese.
Forget for now my anti- Nuclear stance for another day. In this case I think the £92.50 per Megawatt hour they will get. Remember this is not until 2023. Quite probably the price of electricity will have doubled by then. the wholesale price is£50 per MWH right now. It has doubled in the last 10 years and this power station is about 10years late due to the last Governments dithering and the Dash-for-gas - which is why we're in a pickle now.
WE NEED THE POWER.
IT WILL ONLY GIVE US 7% (Less than a tenth what we need). What else will they build?
Compared to Wind Energy which is unreliable at least this will give us a reliable decent chunk.
Don;t forget that £92.50 per MWH
WINDFARMS already get £100 per MWH and £155 per MWH if they're at sea. This payment is index linked until 2037. No wonder all these wind turbines are going up. Its not to power Britain just to make the Landowners very rich.
Who's complaining about that?
Not to forget that Windfarms get paid for NOT Generating electricity - now what about that!
Who's is complaining that they get over £200 per MWH when NOT generating electricity. these are known as Constraint payments and are perfectly legal under current (daft) rules.
Windfarms get the wholesale price for selling their electricity plus 1 ROC on land, 2 ROCs at sea.
When the Grid doesn't want their electricity, for example when its WINDY and WARM in summer they CHARGE compensation to the GRID but can get £220 per MWH.
Is this not JUST PLAIN STUPID?
Complain to Dave about this. Tell him to cut the ROCS and build proper power stations. Or does he just like to be plain sCameron?
We're not fooled.
Forget for now my anti- Nuclear stance for another day. In this case I think the £92.50 per Megawatt hour they will get. Remember this is not until 2023. Quite probably the price of electricity will have doubled by then. the wholesale price is£50 per MWH right now. It has doubled in the last 10 years and this power station is about 10years late due to the last Governments dithering and the Dash-for-gas - which is why we're in a pickle now.
WE NEED THE POWER.
IT WILL ONLY GIVE US 7% (Less than a tenth what we need). What else will they build?
Compared to Wind Energy which is unreliable at least this will give us a reliable decent chunk.
Don;t forget that £92.50 per MWH
WINDFARMS already get £100 per MWH and £155 per MWH if they're at sea. This payment is index linked until 2037. No wonder all these wind turbines are going up. Its not to power Britain just to make the Landowners very rich.
Who's complaining about that?
Not to forget that Windfarms get paid for NOT Generating electricity - now what about that!
Who's is complaining that they get over £200 per MWH when NOT generating electricity. these are known as Constraint payments and are perfectly legal under current (daft) rules.
Windfarms get the wholesale price for selling their electricity plus 1 ROC on land, 2 ROCs at sea.
When the Grid doesn't want their electricity, for example when its WINDY and WARM in summer they CHARGE compensation to the GRID but can get £220 per MWH.
Is this not JUST PLAIN STUPID?
Complain to Dave about this. Tell him to cut the ROCS and build proper power stations. Or does he just like to be plain sCameron?
We're not fooled.
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Claudia Winkleman - NO! rather watch a SLug!
I normally respect Amanda Platell's opinions but this is just wrong. How on earth can she think Claudia Winkleman is any good at all?
She has the charisma of Mr Dead and her dress sense, who died?
What she says never makes sense - just about any other presenter would be preferable except perhaps Jonathan Ross!
Tess is a lovely girl and brings fun and style to the show. Sir Bruce is par excellance.
There she was again - wearing a Sack this weekend. Has she got a medical problem? She makes funny noises - oh I think its supposed to be merry banter!
She has the charisma of Mr Dead and her dress sense, who died?
What she says never makes sense - just about any other presenter would be preferable except perhaps Jonathan Ross!
Tess is a lovely girl and brings fun and style to the show. Sir Bruce is par excellance.
There she was again - wearing a Sack this weekend. Has she got a medical problem? She makes funny noises - oh I think its supposed to be merry banter!
Thursday, 17 October 2013
British Gas rise
No surprise BG put up prices just 10+% is a bit steep . The rest Will follow . What do we do? People Will revolt . It Will take a while but when it bites? Riots? Its the government's fault. There's been no sensible policy for years. Dash for gas, no nuclear ~ now no gas, coal shutting down. if like France we had solid cheap nuclear now the prices would be stable. For now they could help by cutting VAT. Why tax the poorest ?
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
No to Asserby Windfarm - meeting Huttoft Village Hall - Thursday 17th Oct 19:00
Get your self along here and see what's going on and have your say.
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Privatise the BBC
Why doe we run a publicly funded Entertainment Empire called the BBC?
The Government have just privatised the Royal Mail for £3.3.billion - what would the BBC be worth?
WE don't pay SKY anything, you're free to subscribe or not. Buy a newspaper or not, go to the Pub or not, smoke or not, its your choice your money but why does every household in the UK have to pay.
The TV Licence is £145.50
Roughly if there are 24million households in Britain and they all buy a licence (watch TV) that's an incredible £3.5billion pounds a year. Just about what the Government got for the Royal Mail. SO sell it off and give us all shares in it. No more TV Licence - let them make money like Sky and BT etc.
That's and end to wrangling in the Houses of Parliament of who got paid what etc.
No one is elected to run the BBC. I pay £120 a year to my local council in Council Tax - for this they empty my bins every week and more - that on its own is good value. What if all the council employees left all their lights and computers on 24 x 7 you'd be angry? YES! Yet the BBC every day I see the news and behind there is a room full on top notch computers and screens all left on with no one working there. The lights are blazing too - no dim withs there! Yet yes the BBC is just like your council WE ARE PAYING the bills! SCANDALOUS. but do They care - no because they're accountable to no one. If it was private it would be different the Board would insist that all teams were accounted for their costs or they'd be out.
I believe in Public Service Broadcasting but not at £3 billion. Some of the Overseas aid budget could be diverted into this perhaps.
They need to do something for the unfortunate folk who either won't or can't get on broadband, education by the BBC that could be paid out of the education budget.
Surely in the 21st Century, especially in a financial crisis, when we're cutting Benefits, we shouldn't be paying for Entertainment on our taxes?
Or maybe I'm wrong and its Opium for the masses? We don't want riots in the streets, let folk stay at home and watch Eastenders/ Coronations Street or X factor (oh dear the BBC doesn't do 2 out of 3 of those).
The Government have just privatised the Royal Mail for £3.3.billion - what would the BBC be worth?
WE don't pay SKY anything, you're free to subscribe or not. Buy a newspaper or not, go to the Pub or not, smoke or not, its your choice your money but why does every household in the UK have to pay.
The TV Licence is £145.50
Roughly if there are 24million households in Britain and they all buy a licence (watch TV) that's an incredible £3.5billion pounds a year. Just about what the Government got for the Royal Mail. SO sell it off and give us all shares in it. No more TV Licence - let them make money like Sky and BT etc.
That's and end to wrangling in the Houses of Parliament of who got paid what etc.
No one is elected to run the BBC. I pay £120 a year to my local council in Council Tax - for this they empty my bins every week and more - that on its own is good value. What if all the council employees left all their lights and computers on 24 x 7 you'd be angry? YES! Yet the BBC every day I see the news and behind there is a room full on top notch computers and screens all left on with no one working there. The lights are blazing too - no dim withs there! Yet yes the BBC is just like your council WE ARE PAYING the bills! SCANDALOUS. but do They care - no because they're accountable to no one. If it was private it would be different the Board would insist that all teams were accounted for their costs or they'd be out.
I believe in Public Service Broadcasting but not at £3 billion. Some of the Overseas aid budget could be diverted into this perhaps.
They need to do something for the unfortunate folk who either won't or can't get on broadband, education by the BBC that could be paid out of the education budget.
Surely in the 21st Century, especially in a financial crisis, when we're cutting Benefits, we shouldn't be paying for Entertainment on our taxes?
Or maybe I'm wrong and its Opium for the masses? We don't want riots in the streets, let folk stay at home and watch Eastenders/ Coronations Street or X factor (oh dear the BBC doesn't do 2 out of 3 of those).
Sunday, 13 October 2013
WindFarm Anger - Andrew Marr show - Ed Davey is WRONG!
Just had the biggest LIE from Ed Davey on the Andrew Marr show.
He said "Windfarms only get paid when they generate electricity".
This is a LIE.
Constraint payments pay them for NOT generating electricity. We pay the greedy windfarm owners even more to NOT generate electricity.
Is this right?
Also because the infrastructure is not there yes they get paid for generating electricity but then it isn't used by the Grid. So what use is that?
Sorry Andrew - get him back and put him right.
He said "Windfarms only get paid when they generate electricity".
This is a LIE.
Constraint payments pay them for NOT generating electricity. We pay the greedy windfarm owners even more to NOT generate electricity.
Is this right?
Also because the infrastructure is not there yes they get paid for generating electricity but then it isn't used by the Grid. So what use is that?
Sorry Andrew - get him back and put him right.
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Energy Price Hike - what should Dave do?
Now we are being hit, just when the winter begins. Last winter was bad enough I guess our bills went up by around 15% because of the cold.
On my bill there is approximately 15% that is Tax. 5% is VAT the rest is the Social Payment! That is what they pay to the Windfarm Gold Miners.
OBSCENE. Pensioners and people on beneits are Taxed to make greedy landowners ever RICHER. Robbing the poor to make the rich richer,
Have I mentioned the MILLIONS that the Windfarm owners GENERATE in income?
LOOK
4 x Turbines producing 10MWh
Even at 30% efficiency over 25 years they GENERATE
£61 million!!
Not to mention if they're in the wrong place and can't export their power the owners get even MORE in CONSTRAINT payments.
Appallingly obscene.
WE'RE Paying for this. Write to your MP to get it stopped.
On my bill there is approximately 15% that is Tax. 5% is VAT the rest is the Social Payment! That is what they pay to the Windfarm Gold Miners.
OBSCENE. Pensioners and people on beneits are Taxed to make greedy landowners ever RICHER. Robbing the poor to make the rich richer,
Have I mentioned the MILLIONS that the Windfarm owners GENERATE in income?
LOOK
4 x Turbines producing 10MWh
Even at 30% efficiency over 25 years they GENERATE
£61 million!!
Not to mention if they're in the wrong place and can't export their power the owners get even MORE in CONSTRAINT payments.
Appallingly obscene.
WE'RE Paying for this. Write to your MP to get it stopped.
| Total MWh of Farm | Percentage Efficiency | Total annual MWh produced | ROC price | Wholesale Electricity price | Total annual income | 25year income |
| 44 | 50 | |||||
| 10 | 1 | 87600 | £3,854,400.00 | £4,380,000.00 | £8,234,400.00 | £205,860,000.00 |
| 10 | 0.5 | 43800 | £1,927,200.00 | £2,190,000.00 | £4,117,200.00 | £102,930,000.00 |
| 10 | 0.3 | 26280 | £1,156,320.00 | £1,314,000.00 | £2,470,320.00 | £61,758,000.00 |
| 2.6 | 0.3 | 6832.8 | £300,643.20 | £341,640.00 | £642,283.20 | £16,057,080.00 |
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Help to Buy?
The Government are "helping people" to buy by getting the banks & Building Societies to lend upto 95%
that's how it used to be, so what's changed?
Basically they make money from lending out money but since the Crash the Government have bailed them out so they don't need to lend money plus they daren't take the risk. Remember If you put 5k down and borrow 95k and you can't keep up the payments, (rates Will go up!), then the BSoc has to sell your house to get the 95k back 0 what if they can't? YOU still owe the money. If say they only get 80k for the house the Government now gives them the 15k you can't pay so they can't lose.
In the old days banks & Building Societies used to guarantee the 15k by taking out an insurance policy, built into the fees. They can't get these policies now - everyone is scared prices aren't going up. After these few years of stagnation and no building - no ones buying (they have no money/jobs) no price rises to stimulate the market no wonder ! If this scheme stimulates some house price inflation its a small price to pay to kick start the market then building will start and the ball will be rolling a bit like the old days.
Houses are still way too expensive.
The last boom was cause by greed. Folk thought they could make money by buying a house. It never really works like that - you have to live somewhere.
My first house cost £7500, I put a £500 deposit down. Those were the days (3 times my income).
that's how it used to be, so what's changed?
Basically they make money from lending out money but since the Crash the Government have bailed them out so they don't need to lend money plus they daren't take the risk. Remember If you put 5k down and borrow 95k and you can't keep up the payments, (rates Will go up!), then the BSoc has to sell your house to get the 95k back 0 what if they can't? YOU still owe the money. If say they only get 80k for the house the Government now gives them the 15k you can't pay so they can't lose.
In the old days banks & Building Societies used to guarantee the 15k by taking out an insurance policy, built into the fees. They can't get these policies now - everyone is scared prices aren't going up. After these few years of stagnation and no building - no ones buying (they have no money/jobs) no price rises to stimulate the market no wonder ! If this scheme stimulates some house price inflation its a small price to pay to kick start the market then building will start and the ball will be rolling a bit like the old days.
Houses are still way too expensive.
The last boom was cause by greed. Folk thought they could make money by buying a house. It never really works like that - you have to live somewhere.
My first house cost £7500, I put a £500 deposit down. Those were the days (3 times my income).
Monday, 7 October 2013
Lottery - half a chance
Lottery . At a stroke they've halved everybody's chances. What annoyed me is i don't gamble but do lottery online. I updated my filter that the isp provides after all the publicity about porn. I don't want to go to dodgy sites accidentally . Then later found the lottery was blocked . I had to unlock gambling. This seems wrong somehow. I want all the other gambling blocked just access to the lottery .
Friday, 4 October 2013
Bruce poorly - not Winkleman !
Please no. With sir Bruce poorly Claudia Winkleman is to take over. Ugh, please no. Anyone else or no one. She knows as much about dancing as a slug and is as entertaining as one too. If she came on wearing a bin liner it would be an improvement.
Surely Tess could manage on her own or get one of the dancers in. Chris hollins. Please. she'll lose viewers .
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Lottery Scam - £2 ticket actually HALVES you chances
Lottery Scam - £2 ticket actually HALVES your chances.
Yes they have increased the winnings, actually by only 60p!
but its peanuts in realty. Its all to do with probability which no one has
explained so here’s a quick lesson.
Throw a dice – you have a 1/6th chance of getting
a 6
If you 2 6s in a row its not 2/6 its actually 1/36!
Why? You have one chance of a 6followed by a 6 as opposed to
all the other combinations 1+1 1+2, etc.
So lets say you spend £10 a week on lottery tickets. That
makes 10 tickets previously, 10 chances of winning the jackpot. Now you £10 only
gets you 5 tickets so you have HALF as many chances of winning SEE? The odds of
winning haven’t changed.
Prize increased from £10 to £25 = 60p rise. Why?
Lets say
Previously you had 10 tickets, 10/40 000000 (10 in
40million)
Now you have 5 tickets 5/40000000 (5 in 40million)
So prize £10 x 10/40 000000 versus £25 x
5/40 000000
Quick arithmetic
Chance of winning £10 = ¼ – versus £25 1/8
¼ of 10 = £2.50
!/8 of 25 = £3.12
Increase a mere 62p – thank you national Lottery.
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