I haven't the faintest idea one way or the other - which is why I would like to have that information. When the information is available if it turns out that all the other smart TVs do exactly the same thing then I know not to buy a smart TV. If it turns out that most do and a few don't then that acts as the first filter to my buying decision. Not having that information available makes it impossible to make that decision.

Rosie

See the subject. Those are the most useful pieces of information that could have been put in the article but they were omitted for some reason. Does anyone know?

Rosie

Information reported by the Daily Mail and The Commentator making the BBC look bad is reliable? Really? The Evening Standard (part-owned by the Daily Fail anyway) is similarly as reliable.

The report you refer to was published 10 years ago and meant that "As a result of the internal BBC publication of the Balen Report, changes were instigated in the methodology of the BBC’s Middle East" (http://bbcwatch.org/the-balen-report-2004/). The results of the changes seem to be fairly reasonable (http://bbcwatch.org/bbc-responses-to-criticism/).

I am not sure that I find the evidence terribly compelling at this point. Do you have any more?

Rosie.

Oh, thank you for noticing. I AM adorable but I don't like to draw attention to it, being the modest sort.

I was asking an honest question as I hadn't come across any reports one way or the other. Given the BBC are meant to be unbiased and I tend to (more-or-less, hopefully without descending into hopeless naivety) use them as my primary news source. So if there are areas where there is endemic bias I would be interested in knowing them so I can adjust my impressions accordingly. Do you have any reliable sources that would show where there is bias please?

Rosie.

It is? I have never noticed it. I thought the BBC had some kind of institutional policy that forbade them from showing nay bias.

Rosie

Do you have any proof that the NUT would object to efforts to weed out bad teachers? If so would you mind citing a few references?

I bet you I could find a few which directly counter anything you might post. It will all be politics and all politics is lies and deceit.

Rosie

I am not sure that I understand the point you are trying to make. Gay folk are perfectly capable of having stable family life including a steady partner and children so how is this different from straight people? I am not aware of anything that says a gay couple shouldn't arrange things so there is a worker bee and a house-spouse.

As the the possibility of relationships between more colleagues of differing seniorities (NOT superiorities FFS) - I don't know that sexuality has any major impact there. Beside which - icky power differentials are really grotty in a relationship (though that last bit is just my preference).

Rosie

All the moon are belong to us. All intruders will be strung up with soup.

Signed,

The Clangers
http://www.clangers.com/

P.S. we have a dragon, and a chicken and are not afraid to use them.

You could learn a bit of tolerance and use a search engine that doesn't try to profile you like https://ixquick.com./

Rosie

Which bit of the software are we talking about? Presentation layer? Business layer? Service layer? Persistence layer?

Each of these needs have input of varying degrees from different populations, so the users have important things to say about the presentation layer but I am not sure I would want them anywhere near the persistence layer.

Stupid question really.

Rosie

Blimey! That's a great deal of effort to go to - I didn't realise I was talking to an SME.

I don't expect you change your mind based on anecdeotal evidence posted up by a stranger on the internet - that'd be silly. I suppose you checked out Belle de Jour? Other than that I can't think of any online resources to point you towards.

Anyhow, my friends, whilst not being entirely sparkly clean, are hardly a scourge on society either - just like pretty much everyone else in the world.

And they're NOT the kind of people who act as a warm, wet, hole - they're services are for an entirely more discerning kind of customer.

Point of order sir. I have a number of friends who work in the adult services industry and they are certainly not the disease-ridden, duplicitious individuals you are generalising them to be.

Nick

I'm not sure that paying someone a fair price for a product (which is what fair trade aims to do) constitutes giving them aid.

Really? That's not the medicine that I recognise. It seems to be more along the lines of 'this looks about right so we'll give it to some people and see what happens'. There seems to be very limited understanding of how the drug actually works and interacts with other compounds in the body.

In that ways it's a lot like climate - both deal with large. complex, only partially understood systems. Both get reasonable results most of the time. Both acknowledge there are gaps and both are workign to close those gaps.

Possibly, but there's evidence (http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/fst30years) to the contrary.