Broadcasters cannot stop customers using cheaper foreign satellite TV services to watch Premier League football, an EU legal adviser has said. Link to a report on the BBC Website.
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Open Learn from The Open University
The Open University has a new feature on their website called Open Learn where you can do free short taster courses. The courses are in the Learning Space section. The site is a beta version so they haven't got all the bugs out of it yet, so don't be surprised if everything doesn't work on it.
I don't know if it works outside the U.K., but if you are outside the U.K. suck it and see.
I don't know if it works outside the U.K., but if you are outside the U.K. suck it and see.
Find Out Who Rules and Owns The World
A few Interesting websites to checkout:
They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class.
It takes as its focus the boards of some of the most powerful U.S. companies, which share many of the same directors. Some individuals sit on 5, 6 or 7 of the top 1000 companies. It allows users to browse through these interlocking directories and run searches on the boards and companies. A user can save a map of connections complete with their annotations and email links to these maps to others. They Rule is a starting point for research about these powerful individuals and corporations.
A few companies control much of the economy and oligopolies exert control in nearly every sector of the economy. The people who head up these companies swap on and off the boards from one company to another, and in and out of government committees and positions. These people run the most powerful institutions on the planet, and we have almost no say in who they are. This is not a conspiracy, they are proud to rule, yet these connections of power are not always visible to the public eye.
Karl Marx once called this ruling class a 'band of hostile brothers.' They stand against each other in the competitve struggle for the continued accumulation of their capital, but they stand together as a family supporting their interests in perpetuating the profit system as whole. Protecting this system can require the cover of a 'legitimate' force - and this is the role that is played by the state. An understanding of this system can not be gleaned from looking at the inter-personal relations of this class alone, but rather how they stand in relation to other classes in society. Hopefully They Rule will raise larger questions about the structure of our society and in whose benefit it is run.
CJR's Who Owns What is Columbia Journalism Reviews guide to what the major media companies own.
LittleSis is a free database detailing the connections between powerful people and organizations.
We bring transparency to influential social networks by tracking the key relationships of politicians, business leaders, lobbyists, financiers, and their affiliated institutions. We help answer questions such as:- Who do the wealthiest Americans donate their money to?
- Where did White House officials work before they were appointed?
- Which lobbyists are married to politicians, and who do they lobby for?
They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class.
It takes as its focus the boards of some of the most powerful U.S. companies, which share many of the same directors. Some individuals sit on 5, 6 or 7 of the top 1000 companies. It allows users to browse through these interlocking directories and run searches on the boards and companies. A user can save a map of connections complete with their annotations and email links to these maps to others. They Rule is a starting point for research about these powerful individuals and corporations.
A few companies control much of the economy and oligopolies exert control in nearly every sector of the economy. The people who head up these companies swap on and off the boards from one company to another, and in and out of government committees and positions. These people run the most powerful institutions on the planet, and we have almost no say in who they are. This is not a conspiracy, they are proud to rule, yet these connections of power are not always visible to the public eye.
Karl Marx once called this ruling class a 'band of hostile brothers.' They stand against each other in the competitve struggle for the continued accumulation of their capital, but they stand together as a family supporting their interests in perpetuating the profit system as whole. Protecting this system can require the cover of a 'legitimate' force - and this is the role that is played by the state. An understanding of this system can not be gleaned from looking at the inter-personal relations of this class alone, but rather how they stand in relation to other classes in society. Hopefully They Rule will raise larger questions about the structure of our society and in whose benefit it is run.
CJR's Who Owns What is Columbia Journalism Reviews guide to what the major media companies own.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)
In 2008, Tokyo Electric, forced to shut the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant after an earthquake, posted its first loss in 28 years as oil and gas costs soared.
On August 29, 2002, the government of Japan revealed that TEPCO was guilty of false reporting in routine governmental inspection of its nuclear plants and systematic concealment of plant safety incidents. All seventeen of its boiling-water reactors were shut down for inspection as a result. TEPCO's chairman Hiroshi Araki, President Nobuya Minami, Vice-President Toshiaki Enomoto, as well as the advisers Shō Nasu and Gaishi Hiraiwa stepped-down by September 30, 2002. The utility "eventually admitted to two hundred occasions over more than two decades between 1977 and 2002, involving the submission of false technical data to authorities".
Upon taking over leadership responsibilities, TEPCO's new president issued a public commitment that the company would take all the countermeasures necessary to prevent fraud and restore the nation's confidence. By the end of 2005, generation at suspended plants had been restarted, with government approval.
In 2007, however, the company announced to the public that an internal investigation had revealed a large number of unreported incidents. These included an unexpected unit criticality in 1978 and additional systematic false reporting, which had not been uncovered during the 2002 inquiry. Along with scandals at other Japanese electric companies, this failure to ensure corporate compliance resulted in strong public criticism of Japan's electric power industry and the nation's nuclear energy policy. Again, the company made no effort to identify those responsible.
Source: Wikipedia.
On August 29, 2002, the government of Japan revealed that TEPCO was guilty of false reporting in routine governmental inspection of its nuclear plants and systematic concealment of plant safety incidents. All seventeen of its boiling-water reactors were shut down for inspection as a result. TEPCO's chairman Hiroshi Araki, President Nobuya Minami, Vice-President Toshiaki Enomoto, as well as the advisers Shō Nasu and Gaishi Hiraiwa stepped-down by September 30, 2002. The utility "eventually admitted to two hundred occasions over more than two decades between 1977 and 2002, involving the submission of false technical data to authorities".
Upon taking over leadership responsibilities, TEPCO's new president issued a public commitment that the company would take all the countermeasures necessary to prevent fraud and restore the nation's confidence. By the end of 2005, generation at suspended plants had been restarted, with government approval.
In 2007, however, the company announced to the public that an internal investigation had revealed a large number of unreported incidents. These included an unexpected unit criticality in 1978 and additional systematic false reporting, which had not been uncovered during the 2002 inquiry. Along with scandals at other Japanese electric companies, this failure to ensure corporate compliance resulted in strong public criticism of Japan's electric power industry and the nation's nuclear energy policy. Again, the company made no effort to identify those responsible.
Source: Wikipedia.
SATBEAMS
Check out this http://www.satbeams.com/ website for satellite info such as satellite footprints and channels/programme information
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
DISHPOINTER
I have added a new link to a satellite dish pointing site which uses a mashup of Google Maps to show you which direction to point your dish when you are installing it. It gives you the altitude/elevation angle, azimuth, LNB skew and the distance to your chosen satellite from your location. There is even a few iphone and android apps on the site which can help you. This can be used anywhere in the world. The link is in the Home Entertainment section in the column on the left of this page or you can click on it here DISHPOINTER . I cannot guarantee it's accuracy, but I assume it will work o.k. One of the cool features is that it gives you the true azimuth which you have to know true North to use, but it also gives you the magenetic azimuth so you can use a compass to find magnetic North and then work out the direction to point your dish. Knowing all this in advance makes it a hell of alot easier to set up your dish especially when you are up an extension ladder.
Saturday, 12 March 2011
Join the British Army and commit suicide while on Guard Duty
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Small-stakes racegoer scoops £1.4m Jackpot
£2 bet scoops £1.4million Tote Jackpot as reported in the Racing Post.
Row Row Row Your Boat!
The Welsh have arrived in Graiguenamanagh to start building boats, it could be the start of big things, who knows....maybe someone in Ireland will build a big ship like the Titanic some day! Ah well, at least we finally have prove that Ireland is going backwards. The South Koreans must be shaking in their boots.....or boats!
Monday, 7 March 2011
Prince Andrew Has Got His Name In The Daily Mail!
Check out these stories about Prince Andrew. Story 1 and Story 2. What I don't understand is why Wee Willie Vague is defending him! Trust Big Willie Clinton to be involved in it somehow!
It's good to see that Ghislane Maxwell has moved on from all that nasty pension fraud business, she now seems to be involved in exploiting people at the other end of the age spectrum (i.e. child labo(u)r).
Don't they have child labo(u)r laws in the mighty states of New York and Florida?
Isn't it against the law to employ underage minors as live-in employees in these great states?
Surely it must be against some law to run a child labo(u)r employment service for rich billionaires in these states?
It's good to see that Ghislane Maxwell has moved on from all that nasty pension fraud business, she now seems to be involved in exploiting people at the other end of the age spectrum (i.e. child labo(u)r).
Don't they have child labo(u)r laws in the mighty states of New York and Florida?
Isn't it against the law to employ underage minors as live-in employees in these great states?
Surely it must be against some law to run a child labo(u)r employment service for rich billionaires in these states?
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