All petrol and diesel which is sold at UK pumps now has to include at least 2.5% biofuels.I read this almost straight after reading George Monbiot's piece in today's Guardian.
These renewable fuels, made from crops such as sugar cane or maize, have been added to fuel sold around the country.
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perlmonger and I were interested in the fish; it seemed to be from reasonably sustainable sources, but we were concerned about freezer space.perlmonger. I told him he nearly lost the sale by making stupid sexist remarks, and he was really quite taken aback. P pointed out that actually, it would in fact be much better if *I* did it. And I did, and 12 tuna steaks and 14 pieces of cod loin* are in there.Many surveys have suggested, regularly, that mature business buyers are actually deterred from promotions - exhibition booths, events and advertising - which assumes a 20-year-old male as the stereotype customer. These surveys are all nonsense, in the minds of the CF devcon organiser. Women don't exist; adult males are all sexually rampant and alcohol-fuelled. Muslims only pretend to be uninterested in getting drunk, and Real Programmers are either adolescent, or wish they were.more here
perlmonger's post here either before, or after, you read mine. Or both. But read it and take note.perlmonger has posted about his e-mail exchange with the organiser of www.cfdevcon.comperlmonger and I will probably be the butt of the joke at their Tequila Slammer party :)
Ministers are preparing to overturn a fundamental principle of data protection in government, the Guardian has learned. They will announce next month that public bodies can assume they are free to share citizens' personal data with other arms of the state, so long as it is in the public interest.
PayPal has frozen Brit Mohammed Hassan's account and banned him from using the service if he refuses to fax the company a raft of personal information.. More from El Reg here.
The online payments service told him his name is "similar to or a match to" a name on the US government's anti-terror assets freezing list.
PATEL, Abdul, Muneem
DOB: 17/04/1989
Address: London, E5
perlmonger and I have a standard set of phrases which we recite to news items - things like, oh, the mistaken shooting of people who unsportingly turned out not to be terrorists or, as last night, the spokesperson from Stoke Mandeville on the story about the infections there, to name a couple of examples.
A deer hunter who took his photographs to a supermarket for processing was shocked to find himself reported to police.story here
Although the sport is legal, Tesco gave his details to officers who questioned him for several hours. [...] Tesco has no ban on photographs of shooting and its privacy policy says: "We will never pass your personal data to anyone else", but it contacted the police without telling Mr Williams.
"Belfast Child" |Glittering Prize: Simple Minds 81/92 | Simple MindsAfter wriggling its way through every possible excuse for inaction, last week the Office of Fair Trading decided to launch an inquiry into the behaviour of the big grocery chains. It's about time. But alongside it we need another one: into whether the OFT, like almost everything else in this country, has itself been taken over by the superstores. The problem the competition authorities are investigating - the dominance of companies like Tesco and Wal-Mart - is the result of 25 years of regulatory failure.
A Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use Verichip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre.. More from El Reg here
There's no doubting the odious nature of the utterances captured on video tape, but I must also confess a very slight concern about the extend to which he and his hook may have been demonised . My editor tells me that it's a typical wet liberal view (not for the first time).which is pretty much how I feel. He's been here for 25 years - if what he did, and said, was so heinous, why did nobody deal with it sooner. If he didn't have a hook instead of a hand, and didn't wear a headdress, would people be so frightened?
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