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That's not quite what I'd read, afak it was to ensure that there was no confusion between Windows 95/98 especially in regards to potential coding issues: "Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form...

There will be a simple in out referendum, and the 'outs' will lose. Never underestimate fear, fear will win out, its so much easier to convince an electorate to maintain the status quo than it is to get them to take a leap of fail into something new. Expect the rhetoric about job losses...

A more accurate comparison would be: Of the 650 parliamentary seats: UKIP contested 624 seats = 6250 votes per seat SNP contested 69 seats = 20289 votes per seat Effectively the SNP gained just over 50% of the combined votes cast in the seats they contested. UKIPs vote, though...

I enjoyed the selective cropping of the last quote, you are arguing that benefits are a bribe and ive explained how its a not the case. Benefits are a necessity, its society's way of helping the less fortunate and its open to all that requires it, it is more a gift than any form of bribe and you...

No benefits give you ownership, prior to the RTB everyone paid rent (or was subsidised based on circumstances), this cannot be said to be a bribe in any shape or form, its a sophist argument, I'm unsure how you fail to grasp this, is it willful?

I didn't say anything about benefits and in any case its a completely spurious comparison. I said RTB was a bribe and explained why, regardless of whether or not you had any form of other 'benefits', it deliberately gave the demographic that the policy was aimed at free money either by equity or...

No. The proposition is that the RTB was a bribe, which in real terms it was to those that could/wanted to exercise that right. The feckless in society weren't the target.

The council house is never yours, its not an asset you can monitise, the RTB gave you an asset at greatly reduced rates giving immediate and potentially substantial equity, this is the bribe portion alluded to. Also, with a full discount at the time, mortgages ended up much cheaper than the...

Sorry, long post This was posted by someone who can explain the existence of religion substantially better than i could, i kept it specifically these types of threads :) "Default Re: Would the world be a better place without religion? Everything starts with the need to understand...