Monday, 24 January 2011 12:54 'A petrol rationing programme has been proposed by MPs as prices look likely to soar to £8 a gallon this summer. Households would be given a set number of free energy 'tokens' which would be offset against any fuel burnt in a vehicle or at home, under the proposals made by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil. Under the Tradable Energy Quotas programme, surplus energy units could be sold and extra tokens bought.' Read more: Petrol Rationing Programme Proposed by MPs as Prices Set to Hit £8 a Gallon by the Summer
Monday, 24 January 2011 12:28
'Ministers may be axing valuable public services while leaving wasteful programmes unscathed as they attempt to save £81billion, a leading think-tank has warned.
The Government has focused too much on the bottom line and is implementing the cuts in the ‘wrong way’, it claimed. The policy could even lead to ‘social breakdown’ if cuts are not better targeted.
Monday, 24 January 2011 12:12
Well, that's definitely true, although another word more appropriate than 'differently' comes to mind.
I have just called the Nationwide Building Society, based at Swindon in the UK, to ask why I have been blocked from accessing my account via the Internet due to what they call 'security' - something to do with anti-virus software or something.
I spoke to someone at the call centre called 'Steven' who asked me a series of 'security questions', all of which I answered until it came to financial details that I needed to see my account to tell him. But I couldn't see my account because 'Steven's' company had blocked me from seeing it due to 'security'.
'Steven' then informed me that I had therefore 'failed' the security questions and so he was ending the call and I could not talk to him about unblocking my account due to 'security' because I had not answered his questions (which I couldn't without seeing my account', which I was not allowed to do because of 'security').
I asked 'Steven' for his second name so I could take this further and break the ludicrous Catch 22, but he said he couldn't give it to me because of 'security'.
'Thank-you for calling Nationwide - have a nice day.'
The World Is Mad.
Monday, 24 January 2011 10:03
'I’m sure that there are plenty of reasons why this isn’t weird, but I’ll just make a note of it in case Coincidence strikes.
Via: Federal Business Opportunities:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) procures and stores pre-packaged commercial meals to support readiness capability for immediate distribution to disaster survivors routinely. The purpose of this Request for Information is to identify sources of supply for meals in support of disaster relief efforts based on a catastrophic disaster event within the New Madrid Fault System for a survivor population of 7M to be utilized for the sustainment of life during a 10-day period of operations. FEMA is considering the following specifications (14M meals per day.'
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