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- Birthday 11/29/1981
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Farm subsidy I.T. fiasco
Jie Bie replied to Mee's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Yeah that's actually a fair point - although as Renfrew says that sounds like an agile approach, which has its own pros and cons. -
Average weekly shop
Jie Bie replied to hampden_loon2878's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
BlueGaz is spot on - decide at the weekend what your meals are going to be for the week ahead and use that to make a shopping list (and check your cupboards and fridge first to ensure you are going to use whatever is left over from the week before). Then you will only buy what you need and use most of it. -
Farm subsidy I.T. fiasco
Jie Bie replied to Mee's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
I've been working in IT since 2003, and I've seen what is described above happening time and time again. Too many projects end up completely rudderless with everyone blaming each other once the money has run out and not even half of the system is complete! The worst of it is that it is completely avoidable, but no senior manager wants to hear about investing time and money developing a detailed requirements specification and low-level design, they just want project teams to "get on with it and get it built". -
By Elections
Jie Bie replied to weekevie04's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Were any of those wards SNP gains from Labour? Or were all those by-elections as a result of SNP councillors winning seats in May's election? -
Jermy Corbyn
Jie Bie replied to ParisInAKilt's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Income != Wealth I'd rather he came out in favour of LVT as a redistributive policy. -
The Budget
Jie Bie replied to ParisInAKilt's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Under 25s without kids don't get working tax credits, and an over 25 without kids who is working full-time on the minimum wage gets £360 a year. Not exactly a kings ransom. Why not just tax them less? Just scrap the working tax credit while at the same time abolishing NI for workers earning less than the income tax threshold (although they'd probably need to take a nominal NI payment of £1 a year to ensure they have a NI contribution record to ensure they qualify for contributions based jobseekers and the state pension). The problem is that out of the three sources of taxation (consumption, income and wealth) we tax people too much on consumption and income, and not enough on wealth. So we penalise people for earning and spending while the wealthy hoard what they've got. Redistributing wealth across the economy gives it to people who will actually spend it and as a result creates jobs and growth. But I have little faith we will ever see a genuinely redistributive budget from Westminster in our lifetimes. -
Glasgow Pub For Cl Final
Jie Bie replied to ParisInAKilt's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Aragon is good but it's quite wee, so you might want to get there early to get a decent seat with a view of a telly. Further up the road you've got Tennents which is decent enough and if you go the other way you've got Gallus (probably best of the lot). -
Pavement Parking
Jie Bie replied to Charlie Endell's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
A bigger problem for me is the folk that park their works van in the street taking up a space that could accommodate two or three cars! -
Austerity
Jie Bie replied to ParisInAKilt's topic in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
Yep. That "there is no money" letter Cameron brandished at every opportunity will have cost Labour far more votes in England than a potential deal with the SNP.