Waltham fighting the CPZ

residents in waltham fight CPZ – go for it guys

CPZ’s are a stealth tax which get implemented by pushing the commuter parking to new areas by moving the CPZ boundary, its a one way ratchet conversion as the CPZ reaches the fringe of your area the uncontrolled boundary area becomes a hot zone for commuter parking, enabling the council to expand the CPZ into your area, once your paying £25.00 – £101.00 a year it will just become another form of profitable taxation that vicariously allows the council to import and employ more foreign born african traffic wardens for no good reason, and over the years the council will increase the cost of it until in 5 years time, your paying an extra £250.00 a year to park outside your own house on top of Council Tax, the thing is a horror. Also none of your guests will ever be able to freely park or visit you without you or them paying for the privilege think about agreeing to CPZ’s very carefully.

They’re just stealth Taxation and more unneccessary cost and bureaucracy, and the bureaucracy in this country is currently too large, councils only know how to increase the cost to you the consumer of their services, they’re are a gaping waste of money, since they never manage to shrink they’re budgets as well as expand them. But then ridiculous rules on social housing don’t help the cost control for councils.

The situation before CPZ’s were invented was not worse, it just pushes the problem around, if theyre were no CPZ’s it would alleviate the focused stress points of commuter parking and distribute them better, after all people arent going to stop commuting by car to london and parking because of this, theyll just park further out, or waste more energy and productive time driving further to find a place to park, reducing productive economic activity Large underground cheap car parks would be a better solution.

activision a cancer on wow

exactly dial it up and dial it down … you have seen the light, your almost out of the tunnel the blinkers are almost off, your playing the activision rpg variables game designer ego orgasmatron, your char, your gear, the bosses, the game engine, everything is just a big variable storm for them to chaoticalliy jizz their crappy ideas into, they do this to test and see if your a properly conditioned addict, which if you are you will lap it up, I wouldn’t be surprised if wow was pimped into be some rainbow adventure pet puzzler for 5 year olds before it dies, pandaria talent tree looks like something a fiver year old could comprehend, notice how blizzard “improvements” to the game are coming so thick and fast you can hardly keep track, and in the end there wont be any nostalgia left to play except in sadly private servers, most good games die this really awful undignified death and wow will be one of them.

usb flash disk based keychain ejection issues … Apple !

been doing the same as this for years, I constantly have problems once I insert the usb disk that contains my keychain, that if i attempt to eject it safely, it says i have to quit effectively every program on the computer before it will alow me to eject it ? and sometimes it even wants me to quit the finder to eject it, so I end up force ejecting the usb disk, the problem is the dialog that comes up and says I have to quit programs before I can eject the usb disk. Gives no indicator as to which keychain item is causing this issue, I have 400-500 keychain items so its a drag to establish where the problem lies, ever experienced the same … any ideas ?

installing snow leopard via target mode from newer machine to older machine

Ok I was attempting to do a target disk mode install of snow leopard from a thunderbolt 2011 imac to a a slighty earlier manufactured unibody macbook pro whose restore disk was 10.6.3, but i was using a usb flash disc clone of an SL vanilla 10.6.0 install disk on a 2011 imac whose restore disks are 10.6.6 only, ok as listed below when the install entered its second reboot phase , why it does a reboot now i dont know but its irritating to say the least especially when your installing on an external volume and not the boot volume ? at this point my imac proceeded to spool shell text and then kernal panic and refuse to boot ! bear in mind here … I wasnt even attempting to install on the imacs internal disk at all, just via it to a macbook pros hard drive in target mode connected via firewire to the imac, this boot failure on the imac did not resolve itself before I had smc reset the imac removed all peripherals done disk and permissions repair on the imacs disk !, probably the smc reset was the crucial action. Ok the moral of this story is this if installing snow leopard via target mode to an external disk/machine, make sure the version of snow leopard your installing is a version capable of booting the host machine which is doing the installing and capable of booting the machines whose drive your installing to via target mode or ideally the newest version of the installer you can get ie 10.6.8 otherwise at the reboot phase of the install the host machine running the installer may well fail or on restart of the target disk installed machine it will also fail. Not all snow leopard install disks are created equal. at least make sure the version of the installer your running is equal or later in version than the restore discs of all machines involved regardless of the age of machine whose drive you are installing to. Or of course doing a disc/dvd based install you could try the dvd swap trick listed below :

this also indicates that if you are buying a retail snow leopard install disc you really need to make sure its a 10.6.8 retail install disk, otherwise it will fail to work on half the machines you want to install it to ! nearly all early snow leopard retail disk will sadly be 10.6.0 and will fail to boot loads of the machines released after the retail disk release ! you are warned. would apple tell you of any of this complexity, you must be joking apple dont give a shit about informing the user of this kind of mess!

please note i am repeating the information below from a post by john fair and all credit goes to him, wont really work for a usb flash disc based install of OS X but there we go, dvd installs this will solve your problem, by disk swapping at the right moment.
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After 6 days and NUMEROUS attempts I have figured out how to get Snow Leopard onto the new Mac Mini!! It turns out I wasn’t thinking the problem all the way through. I thought that the Mini was causing the kernel panic when connected in Target Disk Mode. However I was trying to install the retail Snow Leopard (which is 10.6.0) onto the Mini using an MBP which required 10.6.3!

There is a step after all of the applicable files are copied to the Mini (TDM) where the Source machine reboots and is supposed to continue the install. This is where my MBP was freezing up and I couldn’t understand why. Well it turns out that the MBP is attempting to boot from the SL disk (10.6.0), however this machine requires a minimum of OS X 10.6.3 so the boot was hanging.

I ejected the retail version of OS X, input the Recovery disk I got with the MBP (which is 10.6.3) and the install continued as usual. Once installed I booted directly to the Mini’s hard drive (TDM) via the MBP and ran Software Update to get to 10.6.8. Then rebooted and let the Mini boot itself…and we’re up!

Steps:
1) Put Mini in Target Disk Mode (Firewire only)
2) Put SL retail install disk into Host Mac and install to the TDM drive
3) When the reboot hangs power the machine down (or if you’re fast hold down Option on that reboot) and restart holding Option.
4) When the boot choice screen appears eject the Retail disk and input your Recovery disk.
5) Boot to the Recovery disk and the install picks up automatically (don’t worry, it’s actually installing 10.6.0 even though you’re booted into 10.6.3’s recovery).
6) Once you’ve gone through the new user introduction stuff (input username, etc) run Software Update
7) Power down the Mini and restart it w/o TDM.
8) Profit

self chosen cultural and sexual ghettoisation

Hebden Bridge apparently a LGBT / gay capital of rainbow wavers.

Lets just hope this isn’t the clagging together of specific types of people whether cultural or sexual to try and dominate an area for their own sense of comfort, because as per usual it proves nothing more than that people as always like to live amongst their own kind rather than integrated into the wider community, personally I think rubbing your sexuality in other peoples faces whatever kind of sexuality, is offensive and not british, the rainbow flag adornement trend being exactly that, as a hetero person I dont go waving my hetero flag in other peoples faces and im not interested in displays of sexuality in public in general of any kind, and im not interested in other peoples displays of sexuality, what is wrong with these people whereby they seem incapable of keeping there sexuality to themselves ? after all no one is really interested ? It could also be construed as masonism of a kind. Sexuality is not as important as contributing something to the wider culture of the country. Segregated culture must be challenged.

Quantative Easing >

Quantative Easing > ie printing money, devaluing the currency and stealing from every saver in the country to prop up an economy mainly based on artificial house price gains, and enable a bankrupt government to keep on borrowing at our expense, compounding the situation further if only these idiots could understand they cant keep creating debts on our behalf theyre gambling that future generations will somehow be able to pay back.

over the last 3 years if you had any money saved then the house owning debt laden class of this culture have stolen from you the saver, the money necessary to keep the charade of this house price based economy afloat by forcefully, diminishing the value of your savings by 25% so as to save the artificial gains they have on their property, and enable a government to keep on spending even though were not going to be able to payback the debt they keep creating.

katie piper helping the disfigured

It’s a bit wierd to see katie piper going around telling some people who are greatly more disfigured than herself, how to deal with it, katie piper seems desperate to get her beauty back ? maybe having been beautiful and used to the power her beauty got her, she realises nore fully, than the ordinary person what an advantage their is in wielding beauty ? the rate her face seems to be getting better I wouldn’t be suprised to see her looking the same as she did before sooner or later but with the benefit of a lifelong career in tv she might not have had before ?

blairs gave jobs on the basis of being gay ?

“As soon as [former Prime Minister Tony] Blair got in, if you came out as lesbian or gay you immediately got a job. It was wonderful.

so jobs are being handed out on the basis of sexuality ? not great

“You just knew the Tory party was riddled with it like everywhere else is.”

“riddled” as in a ship that is rotten ? hmm whichever way

reward on the basis or merit please :

not on the basis of being a foreign disabled lesbian … grr