Too many companies are now abusing this word, typically these are
companies offering internet services.
An example would be of Company A offering mobile/home broadband with
unlimited usage. Then in the terms & conditions there will be a
clause that restricts the customer to download only 1Gb of data per
month.
This is NOT unlimited.
Unlimited is defined as being: not limited, infinite or unrestricted.
If no current law prevents this, then one should be made to cover this grey area.
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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ban the use of the word 'Unlimited' if the subject in question is limited.
Looks like it was a bad landlord try to make the issue bigger than it was, it was only about they pub and not soho as a whole
------ You recently signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "resist
the ban on outside drinking and maintain the liberal culture of
Soho."
A formal response to the petition will be sent to you, and posted
online, once the petition has closed.
In the meantime, you may wish to
know that Westminster Council has released a statement on the subject of the
petition as follows:
Contrary to internet rumours, Westminster has no
plans to ban outside drinking in Soho or in the city as a whole. This is an
inaccurate and misleading rumour.
Indeed, the council is actively
trying to promote responsible alfresco-style dining and drinking in certain
parts of the city by creating calm oases away from the hustle and bustle of
the main streets.
We are, however, reviewing the licence for The
Endurance pub in Berwick Street following a long history of complaints from
nearby residents about noise from drinkers outside the premises. The Council
has previously tried to work with this pub to resolve this problem and we
regret that this review is now necessary.
The review by the council's
licensing committee is due to take place on June 26, 2008. We want everyone
to be able to come to Westminster and have a good time, but we need to ensure
that the interests of residents are protected and licensees must work with us
to this end.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resist the ban on outside drinking and maintain the liberal culture of Soho.
This petition as been created by the licensee's of
Soho. If you live, work or just visit Soho, and you are familiar with The
Endurance Pub and want to support us against Westminster Councils objective for
a complete ban on outside drinking and socializing then please sign our
petition. It is the councils intention to enforce a complete ban on outside
drinking in all licensed premises.
Submitted by Alan Drew of Hope & Glory Public Houses LTD – Deadline to sign up by: 12 November 2008 –
"Please accept with no obligation, implied or
implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially
responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the
winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the
religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with
respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or
their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also
wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically
uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year
2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures
whose contributions to society have helped make this planet great and without
regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or
sexual preference of the wishee. By accepting these greetings you are accepting
these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is
freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no
promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for himself or
others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole
discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within
the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the
issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty
is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole
discretion of the wisher."
Well it seem they decided to put up a poster of a scantily clad Billie Piper in one of the most conservative neighborhoods in London. Someone seems to have taken offense to the poster and covered it in White Gloss.
Hardcastle: "For those of you familiar with Bill Hicks' stand
up, I'm sure you'll rememeber his bit about the ultimate telivision
commercial, where a girl is completely nude and touching herself. All it says
is "Drink Coke". For those of you unfamiliar with this, here's
the clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=z2BTO91iotU
Well, it would seem that fashion designer Tom Ford has
made it all reality.
We provide bespoke or off the peg demonstrations against governments,
corporations and occasionally neighbours at a price to suit all
pockets. No job to small or too big, from a discrete "boo" to a
literally renting a mob, we cater for all your protesting needs!
McDemos is a protest solutions company (06153817) registered at Companies House UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6633745.stm A senior policeman in Los Angeles has been demoted
and his deputy and about 60 other officers have been reassigned after
an inquiry into May Day clashes.
Last week protesters and journalists were injured when police fired some 140 rubber bullets to break up the crowd.
The rally had been peaceful until the clashes, which the
police department said were prompted by agitators throwing rocks and
bottles at officers.
But TV footage showed a police officer pushing people who were walking away.
Judge for yourself from the clips below from the major news networks clip 1 cnn msnbcprivate journo
Begin
with lust and rage and mean-spiritedness if need be, but write yourself
through to shared laughter, one the "victim" shares, unless you
mean a death struggle.
If you
write anonymously about anyone other than a public figure, and mean to
wound, can't help wounding, consider making the victim a "type,"
not a person. Make up a name for your speaker, but also for your target:
"Sir Richard Surly," or whatever.
If you
need therapy, get therapy.
Remember
that satire by definition has a moral point. Vindictiveness,
flaming, making an example out of a minor figure, none of that is satire.
I
believe that by definition real satire is directed at those who are, in
ordinary life, in a position to not only retaliate, but are in a position
to retaliate by inflicting real injury: the pillory, Guantanamo, an IRS
audit, termination from a job. Unless the risk to yourself is heroic, don't
call your cruelty satire.
Remember
that satire is a gun that recoils upon the speaker, and the author too.
Remember that it "takes one to know one." The Fool reviles the
Knave, and the Knave reviles the Fool.
Often
the strongest and best satire isolates in the "Other" the
writer's own faults. We overcome ourselves by wounding our own sinful
nature. But remember that the boil that most needs lancing is on your own
laughing face.
To
rejoice in the suffering of those weaker than yourself, or vulnerable people,
is not satire but malice. (As Oscar Wilde would say, "That is a
fault.")
To run
with a mob and lynch even a person who deserves it is not satire, but a
sin.
Satire
wounds only to heal, inflicts pain only to instruct, and leaves the target
either untouched (since only a type has been satirized), or laughing, if
ruefully.
When the
victim laughs at his own folly and the crowd laughs too, the satirist has
prevailed.
When the
victim extracts the satirist's blood, or sues and wins, the satirist has
lost.
The
satirist also loses when the victim, innocent or guilty, is broken upon
the wheel, while the mob jeers. This is only excusable as a last resort
when the victim is the Tyrant and the mob are those who were his minions,
including the Officers of his Kangaroo Court, his Palace Guard, and his
own Headsman.
Satire
is a noble trade, but no easier than butchery to master. If you have never
vivisected a dog, don't practice on a friend.
Did you hear the snigger as Britain complained that Iran had broken international law
It is an awkward question to ask but did anyone else hear the rest of the world sniggering?
I
thought I heard it, that’s all. The sequence of events went like this:
the unfortunate British soldiers were kidnapped by Iran, Britain
announced that Iran had broken international law... and that was when I
thought I heard a global giggle, though it could have been a snort of
derision.
The US Marines are banning the wearing of large tattoos, saying they do not represent "traditional values". From Sunday, tattoos on the head or neck, or large
tattoos on arms or legs will not be allowed. Marines already with the
tattoos are exempt. Unit commanders will photograph and document all existing tattoos to make sure Marines do not touch them up. Dozens of Marines are reportedly queuing up at tattoo parlours to beat the deadline.
Marines have long been banned from having racist or sexist tattoos. But from 1 April, "sleeve" tattoos that cover most of an
arm or leg will be banned, as will smaller half or quarter sleeve
tattoos if they are visible on arms or legs when a Marine is wearing
shorts and T-shirt.
How extreme were conservative commentators in their remark this year? How
about calls to nuke the Middle East and an allegation that a "gay ... mafia"
used the congressional page program as its own "personal preserve." Right-wing
rhetoric documented by Media Matters for America
Millions
of Britons who visit the United States are to have their fingerprints
stored on the FBI database alongside those of criminals, in a move that
has outraged civil rights groups.
The Observer has established that
under new plans to combat terrorism, the US government will demand that
visitors have all 10 fingers scanned when they enter the country. The
information will be shared with intelligence agencies, including the
FBI, with no restrictions on their international use. more on link
To the people who say "if you're innocent you have nothing to fear. I would gladly have my ten toe prints taken too if only to be able to step foot in the 'Land of the Free" I present this:
The
war on terror has been used to justify many things from the Brian Haw
law (to make protesters get permits) to illegally invading Iraq. It is
indeed a small wonder that John Prescott when caught shagging didn’t
opt for the “war on terror” defence.
I for one would pay money to
see him declaring, “We have it on reliable intelligence information
that unless I put my penis in the woman’s vagina then terrorists will
detonate a nuclear dirty bomb device. In London, quite possibly at
Battersea Dogs Home or somewhere else with a large collection of
vulnerable pets.” more here
I have now found that the story is FAKE.......the picture has been faked
The photo is found on DOGS DESERVE BETTER website which is a
nonprofit organization dedicated to freeing the chained dog, and
bringing our ‘best friend’ into the home and family.
After my post the other day about
Naseem Hamed being stripped of MBE and wanting Jeffery Archer to go the same way, well Steve Ayland sent me this petition that is on the goverment's Number 10 site and it is a petiton to have Jeffery Archer stripped of his peerage. So get down and sign up and tell your friends.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Strip Jeffery Archer of his peerage.
Submitted by Steve Ayland – Deadline to sign up by: 03 July 2007
Former world boxing champion Naseem Hamed has been stripped of his MBE after serving a jail term for dangerous driving.
32-year-old Hamed served 16 weeks of a 15-month term in Moorland Prison, Doncaster for causing serious injury to Anthony Burgin in a high-speed crash in May 2005.
An official notice said the Queen had directed that Hamed's name be erased from the Order of the British Empire. So does that mean we can get rid of these too?
Lord Brocket - convicted of insurance fraud, having dismantled and hidden four of the Ferraris, claiming them to be stolen. Lord Archer - Convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice and sent to prision for 4 years.. Dame Shirley Porter - convicted in the high court of running an council Building Stable Communities policy that was completely illegal and ordered to pay £27,000,000.back to Westminster Council Sir Clive Thompson - Chairman involved in the collapse of the Farepak Christmas hamper company
Or sorry I forgot it doesn't work like that does it...if it did the honour system would be fair and you would not be able to throw them at members of your family for doing what they done since birth...ie: prat around on a horse
Iraq:
Shortly after the execution of the dictator Saddam Hussein, his dog
Blondi followed the same fate to the gallows. Contrary to Saddam,
Blondi’s execution was ... more»
Radio 4 the Today programme is having a poll to decide which laws should be repelled. The SOCPA law (permission to demonstrate in Parliament Square) has made it on to the short list. If you want to vote to scrap the law follow instructions bellow.
YOUR CHANCE TO VOTE AGAINST THE SERIOUS ORGANISED CRIME AND POLICE ACT - SOCPA
The Christmas Repeal! Now is our chance to vote against this law that ban unauthorised demonstration anywhere around Parliament.
You can vote by phone: 0901 5221001 to repeal the Dangerous Dogs Act 0901 5221002 to repeal the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 0901 5221003 to repeal the Human Rights Act 0901 5221004 to repeal the European Communities Act 0901 5221005 to repeal the Hunting Act 0901 5221006 to repeal the Act of Settlement
Or go to the web link above to vote online.
Please distribute this info far and wide to make SOCPA win this vote - it will be a moral, if not actual, victory.
Some how I think it wasn't the goths that we being violent, binge drinking or causing anti social behaviour and the council had to give the chavs a target.
Student to file suit against UCPD
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, who was stunned several times with a Taser in Powell Library Tuesday, plans to file a lawsuit against university police alleging "brutal excessive force" and false arrest, his lawyer said Friday. more»
House of Commons Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny First Joint Report of Session 2005–06 Twelfth Report from the Defence Committee of Session 2005--06 Fifth Report from the Foreign Affairs Committee of Session 2005--06 Fifth Report from the International Development Committee of Session 2005--06 Seventh Report from the Trade and Industry Committee of Session 2005--06
What a bloody title.....the goverment just love it don't they?
"I welcome that Saddam Hussein and the other defendants have faced justice and have been held to account for their crimes. Appalling crimes were committed by Saddam Hussein's regime. It is right that those accused of such crimes against the Iraqi people should face Iraqi justice. Today's verdicts and sentences by the Iraqi Higher Tribunal comes at the end of a trail during which evidence has been offered and challenged in the full glare of media scrutiny. "
These are the words of Margaret Beckett British Foreign Secretary, it fills me with discust that anyone in the 21th Century never mind a British Goverment Minister the same Goverment that will not deport people to regiums that have the death penalty as a punishment .Can speak out and back the death penalty. There is no crime that taking a life can be called just, instead he should be inprision at the hague Never being given the easy way out and every day having to atone for his crimes.
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder
assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty
for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed
by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking
of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.
--Corretta Scott King
Update:
Mr Roy has posted some example of what other goverments are saying to give you some perspexive
Lets see how the Finnish Presidency of the EU puts it: "The EU opposes capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances and it should not be carried out in this case either."
or the Spanish PM: "Saddam Hussein, like any other citizen or political leader, has to answer for his actions, for what he has done in his government task.It is well known that for a long time the EU has not been in favour of the death penalty. Obviously it is a penalty which is not provided for in any legal system in the EU or, of course, in our country. "
or the Irish:
"The minister welcomes the end of this long legal process.Ireland and its EU partners have made it clear in the past to Iraqi authorities that we are opposed to courts applying the death sentence.Ireland is also opposed to it being applied as a penalty in this case. "
The US is to
corral "like-minded" nations behind a global immigration database after
proving with a trial link to British computers that such an ambitious,
global plan is technically feasible.
Allies of the US have joined it in talks to formulate an
international policy framework that would allow the sharing of
immigration databases, effectively creating a global border control.
Their
aim is to stop criminals and other undesirable migrants at a
vast, biometric border that is likely to include, at the very least,
the EU countries, Australia, and Canada.
Troy Potter, biometrics programme manager for the US Department of
Homeland Security's biometric border control programme, told The
Register
only those countries "of like mind" would be allowed to join the
scheme: "People with similar goals, aspirations, laws and ability to
implement such a scheme.
"It's about keeping out folks from countries, to have more of a
global border per se," he said. "Shouldn't like-minded countries be
told when someone's been kept out of the US? That's a necessary next
step [because] immigration has become a worldwide issue.
Frank Paul, head of large scale IT systems at the European
Commission, hinted to an audience at the Biometrics 2006 conference
last week about EU support for such a scheme.
"We trust everyone enrolled in the US and they trust everyone in the
EU system. Then I don't see why the systems shouldn't be linked in the
future," he said.
Terrorists would be the prime target of the system. Terrorism had
been the reason the US government gave for setting up US-VISIT, the
immigration database for which Potter is biometric manager. The US
database had yet to snare a terrorist, and the Department of Homeland
Security has since been advertising it as a means of keeping foreign
murderers out of the country.
An international agreement for sharing immigration data would also
target criminals and "habitual immigration violators", Potter said.
"If there's a murderer in another country we would rather not have
that murderer in the US, especially if they are on the run," he said.
But he stressed the system would not finger normal people, or "Joe
Public". People's privacy would have to be respected, he said.
"We would violate the privacy laws of individual countries if we
shared data as we wanted to," said Potter, but added: "The last thing
we want is for someone who has changed their ways and then we keep
harassing them."
It could take years for the US and its allies to form an agreement
that deals with all the emerging privacy and legal concerns about
sharing immigration data. Other developments at the Department for
Homeland Security could complicate matters further. It is developing a
permanent link between immigration and criminal databases, while US law
enforcers also want links to civil databases so they can get a full
biographical history of people who catch their interest.
"There are fine lines and that's where these agreements are not
going to be easy. But this is not routine data sharing on everyone.
This is not big brother," said Potter.
Similar concerns have slowed the progress of the European Visa
Immigration System (VIS). A continent-wide version of the US plan,
legislation to allow the VIS is stuck between the European Parliament
and member states in the Council of Ministers.
The concern is that European efforts to share information for
immigration are being subsumed into a broader security effort that has
no legal obligation to Europe's proud data protection authorities. This
has created tension between member states and the European Parliament
over other controversial data sharing arrangements - the US trawling of
passenger name records and secret snooping on banking data handled by
SWIFT being two recent examples. In neither case is the EU's authority
to impose data protection laws that would protect citizens from being
caught up in the zealous hunt for terrorists being conducted by the
security agencies.
The European VIS is being built by European Commission civil
servants anyway, and will be completed in 2007. There will simply not
be any legal basis for the system to be switched on.
The US faces the same problem, said Potter: "
The
policy and legal
framework is not in place to do routine data sharing between countries.
but that's something we were discussing."
The UK's Home Office and US Department of Homeland Security have
already trialled a link between their immigration databases, which
Potter said was successful.
"It was a technical trial. It showed we could share data between
countries if agreements were there so we could do it," he said. "Our
biometrics were compatible...when the legal and policy framework
catches up, we can do it." ®
