Sony, that huge electronics and media behemoth, is struggling with its latest PlayStation games console. Over on Rational Geekery, I explain why the platform isn’t necessarily a lost cause and highlight a couple of options open to Sony.
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Iain Dale may be keeping tight-lipped*, but The Daily Mail reports that Derek Conway has cost the taxpayer £1,535,716.70 in the past 6-years.
Jesus. H. Fucking. Christ.
Slippery Dave looks a bit of a pillock now, doesn’t he? Now the Conway family have creamed off over one-and-a-half million of our money, I wonder, could they kindly visit their local police station, pick out a particularly cold and damp cell, and settle down for a very, very long time?
I understand that a lot of the Tory bloggers have criticised Conway in non-too-pleasent prose, and I respect them for it. I for one can stand up and say that I have slated every political party when they’ve broken the rules, so I can slate this particular family of twats without conscience.
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Tory MP facing suspension ‘paid another son’
A senior Tory MP facing suspension from the House of Commons for paying his son out of MPs’ staffing allowances could have the whip withdrawn and be questioned by police amid allegations that he paid a second son.
Derek Conway yesterday apologised “unreservedly” to MPs after being reprimanded by the Commons Standards and Privileges Committee for paying his son, Frederick, more than £40,000 between 2004 and 2007 when he was an undergraduate at Newcastle University.
When most people couldn’t give a monkeys about politics, is it any wonder it attracts such contemptible scoundrels?
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Off into Nottingham - it was Mrs. tyger’s birthday yesterday so she wants to be spoiled. No doubt this will mean the Visa will get a hammering, but she’s worth it (I may even get to squeeze in a few record & electronics shops). I have a few ideas for posts this week. Hopefully I’ll get chance to do some writing. I seem to be being pulled in every direction at the moment.
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UPDATE: Seems this is an old video, regardless of the “1-week ago” YouTube date. Warning bells did sound when they referred to “Bill Frist”, but hey(?), not everyone’s perfect.
As one terrorist is jailed for 17-years, Bush and his cronies ensure justice never reaches their door, as they look for a retroactive pardon from any actions that could be defined as illegal under the Geneva Convention. Should Congress really give immunity to the White House for War Crimes? Hell no.
May they rot in hell.
Sphere: Related ContentToday’s netcast is up, over at LC.
Mrs. tyger is back from Madrid, and has brought back some tasty Iberian dried ham. It’s so yummy. I rushed out for fresh coffee and Petit Pains, and we had a continental breakfast to die for. Now Mrs. tyger and her sister have gone into Nottingham shopping - with the kids(!!!!), leaving me the afternoon to myself. Well, I have coffee and XBOX so I’ll be fine, don’t worry.
I’m going to be really busy for the rest of the week on a finance project (yeah, I have my accounting hat on again), so blogging (even maybe even the netcast) will be irregular.
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“septicisle” makes writing LC’s Casting the net a very predictable affair.
BTW. LC seems to have gotten over the holiday malaise very well.
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Global shares fell Wednesday as burgeoning U.S. mortgage loan problems and soft economic data provoked fears that the world’s largest economy may enter a recession and drag down smaller economies with it.
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Citigroup, the biggest U.S. bank, on Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $9.83 billion. The biggest loss on record for the 196-year-old company reflected write-downs on subprime mortgage investments of $18 billion.
For many of the world’s developing nations, the United States represents the primary or secondary export destination for goods produced. As the American economy continues to cool, global markets are beginning to reflect concern among investors. Many have predicted that emerging cash-rich nations such as China will take up the slack, but this is still some way off - mainly because few nations have a culture of profligacy to match the US.
Many progressives wish to see a reduction of consumption in both the US and Europe (see this video), but would they also welcome slowed growth in the developing world?
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