Talk like an Egyptian

Egyptians are bypassing the internet blockade by using old tech such as ham radios, fax and dial up.

I wonder how it would feel if I woke up tomorrow and I found all internet and mobile access had been turned off. Admittedly if it was because the UK was in a state of revolution I'm sure my mind would be on other things - but if it was just an ordinary day and things were just off I imagine it would be rather weird.

That's my bush

President Bush,

An elected idiot,

with quotes like:

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."
Washington DC, 12 May, 2008


"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
Reuters, 5 May, 2000

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
CBS News, Washington DC, 6 September, 2006


Check out more Bushism's at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7809160.stm

Banking

A friends wifes boss recently made these comments on how the banking system works. It's insightful:

NATIONALISED BANKS TO PAY GOVERNMENT FINES WITH TAXPAYERS' MONEY

BANKS controlled by the public which do not lend the public
money will have to pay a fine using public money.

`Seriously, I am this close to just fucking losing it!'
Ministers believe the only way to get the credit system moving
again is to give billions of pounds to the banking sector and
then threaten to take it back from them, bit by bit, in
multi-million pound fines.

Chancellor Alistair Darling said: "We will use the money raised
from the fines to recapitalise those banks that have been forced
to pay very heavy fines.

"The banks must then use that money for lending and if they
don't they will be fined.
"We will then use the money raised from those fines to
recapitalise the banks that have been fined and if they don't
lend that money they will be fined. Again."

Mr Darling said those fines would then be used to recapitalise
the banks that had been fined before he was interrupted by a
senior Treasury official.

The chancellor was then wheeled into the corner of the room
where a heavy woollen blanket was draped over his head.

Meanwhile, Tom Logan, an overdraft holder from Peterborough,
said: "By all means please do stop me if I'm being a total and
utter fuckwit, but if we control the banks and we know what the
banks are supposed to do, why can't we just tell them to do it?"