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aint no point in recording it at a higher rate than the original almost every thing on my Mp3 player is recorded at 96 speech is often recorded even lower at 64 although its perfectly listenable down to 32 (sort of AM radio quality) Im old, Im going deaf and most of my listening is done in the...

pretty much all BBC output is available for at least 28 days on line, some for a year some indefinitely, The other UK TV channels likewise have every thing available for at least 28 days Music radio stations dont archive the content but you can get the playlist I used this facility not so...

didnt you opine elsewhere (one of the Ukraine threads) about a people right to determine their own future? Brexit may have been right or wrong but dont the PEOPLE have a right to choose it even if it is wrong? UK is plenty strong enough to look after the welfare of its people the question is...

Meek is/was an influential EMMY award winning journalist who broke the news of the Pentagon cover up of US army deaths in Niger. In April this year his Washington home was raided by the FBI and "classified documents" seized. The raid on the property last only 10 minutes so they obviously knew...

All the Billy Bragg stuff comes from the Thatcher era so whilst things might not be getting worse they are certainly getting no better. With the exception of special cases such as the miners strike I dont remember food banks or soup kitchens during thatchers time they are everywhere now. During...

When one voice rules the nation Just because they're top of the pile Doesn't mean their vision is the clearest The voices of the people Are falling on deaf ears Our politicians all become careerists They must declare their interests But not their company cars Is there more to a seat in...

schools, churches and charities are opening up "warm banks" for people to go and sit in the warm so that they dont have to heat their houses. I have never been as embarassed and ashamed by my country since food banks became common now they are so common place I no longer notice them And shame...

but they wont be around in 200 years your tombstone would be There have been cemeteries here that have been out of use for so long no one knows that they even exist until a builder pulls up a tombstone with his backhoe Reportedly many caskets have been exhumed that had the inside padding of...

My wifes car has a tape deck (2004 VW) but havent seen a tape deck for sale for years! even CD players are becoming harder to find Maybe 5 years ago my mothers VCR broke I had terrible trouble getting her a new one (she was too stupid to work a digital recorder - I bought her one and tried and...

Right, you vote for / against a law not a person ( do you think that twinkies should be banned) Wouldnt worry about it too much your republic unlike many others has no facility for calling referenda. Switzerland call them all the time every important change of law gets voted on, Ireland has...

tasty and succulent?

I think that a leader of a party who does not win a seat gets stood down and replaced by some one who did win a seat (not sure as I dont think that it has ever happened the party leader usually stands for a seat where they would elect a donkey that was wearing the right rosette) In most cases...

you could run a referendum? you could, if you really wanted, make it a criminal offence not to vote - although given that so much time effort and money is put into preventing or discouraging people from voting that course seems unlikely If you mean that a poll with a sample on a few...

Apple have been doing it for years with their Iphones they remotely turn down the battery so the battery needs charged every day or several times per day officially its to protect the phone unofficially its so you will buy a new phone. When I was doing my post grad one of the lecturers was...

The PM is not elected as such (other than them being an MP) the PM is simply the leader of the party in government. Although on a local level you may vote a certain way because you like the candidate in reality you are voting for the party not the man

telling the world how crap, disorganised and incompetent our government is? this free publicity has already seriously increased the cost of government borrowing and mortgages whilst at the same time driving down the value of the pound a month ago you could get a mortgage at about 2.25% its now...

Just like in an election the candidate with the greatest number of votes gets elected Conservative 39% Labour 30% LibDem 25% Greens 6% Conservatives elected even though more people voted against him than for him The vagaries of the first passed the post system its not really fit for purpose in...

I could literally throw stones and hit the windows of two of my neighbours, one I have been in a virtual state of war with for 30 years the other I have spoken to once in a similar period (he had a rat problem and reported my chickens to the public heath as being the source of the problem but...

the sad thing for me about cremation is that future generations will lose access to the wealth of information that can be gleaned off tomb stones and coffin plates

yes but they tend not to get elected - at least not to anything that matters They tend not to happen ( Cameron–Clegg coalition was the first coalition since WWII) certainly parties will group together on an ad hoc basis to push for or against certain legislation but they are not true...