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Pre-meditation is a completely irrelevant concept and has no bearing on murder in UK law. Tony Martin was convicted because he used more than reasonable force. Simple.

But that's an inherent contradiction. If it's manslaughter, it's criminal. Manslaughter is homicide. If it's legitimate self defence under the Criminal Law Act, it's not an assault of any kind. With all due respect, you've highlighted perfectly the problem - 99.9% of 'lay people' don't really understand the technicalities of the law, so they rely on the invariably hopelessly simplified (and incorrect) summaries provided by the media to base their opinions.

But isn't a real offence

So, Ryan Dunn the death by careless driver then...?

But that's the whole point. I don't find entrepreneurs and bankers distasteful at all. I grew up in a private sector household, which paid all its taxes and took none of the benefits, I had a very good private sector job myself. My career change was about finding something I enjoyed doing, nothing more. I don't exist in this ridiculous myopic vision you seem to inhabit whereby every public sector worker is a socialist leech and every public sector worker is a paragon of capitalist virtue. Because obviously, all this 'wealth creation' is for the good of the country, isn't it! The country has really benefited from the reckless financial largesse of the last decade... A healthy private sector means a healthy public sector, and vice versa. One should not and must not suffer at the hands of the other. It's simply a matter of balance. The problems that we are in weren't created by the public sector - so how can it possibly be good logic to punish it as a result? Here's a point though. You seem to be obsessed with 'creating wealth' above all else. At a very conservative estimate, the cost of me not doing my parasitic public sector job for the past, say, 5 years, would be put in the low millions. That is, if I hadn't done my job, that would be how much it would have cost 'the economy' to make right what would have gone wrong. How does that stack up against the average private sector worker, do you think? I might not directly generate any wealth, but I alleviate an awful lot of cost. So which is better for the country?

Depends where you live, you're better off going to a decent school of any discipline than a crap school of one in particular. And most are crap.

I work in the public sector. I graduated from a very good university with a very good professional degree, and had a very good job in the private sector. I found it unfulfilling and demotivating, so took a 50% pay cut and changed my career. I went into it with my eyes wide open. I knew I would earn substantially less than if I continued doing my old job, but I figured job satisfaction was more important to me. I didn't do it for the salary, and I didn't do it for the pension, although it was obviously nice to know that I did have that security. I don't regret that decision at all. Or at least didn't, until very recently. It feels very much like the goalposts have moved. I know that we are in the poo. I know that we all have to face some tough choices. But it feels like I am being expected to shoulder a disproportionate amount of the burden. The changes already made or proposed to my pension scheme in the last couple of months have wiped about 30% off its value. If the retirement age changes, that will be (for me) another 20% off. If the calculation changes come in, that will be anywhere between 10% and 50% of the remainder gone. That is, by anyone's count, a pretty huge dent. That's without mentioning any of the other pay and condition changes. And the best thing is, it's totally unnecessary. The actual impact of the public sector pension schemes has been massively overstated. All the research shows that the vast majority of the burden is being funded by current participants. By going for insane overkill, the government will just force people to withdraw from the scheme completely, decimating contributions and in all likelihood causing the gap to widen, not narrow. I think the greatest trick that the government has pulled in all this is to pit 'private sector' against 'public sector'. It's simply not that cut and dried, but they've done a brilliant spin job on each to demonise the other, thus when either gets screwed there is no sympathy. Divide and conquer. Superb. We ALL, regardless of which 'sector' we work in, have an interest in protecting ALL of our pay and conditions. If the public sector suffers, the private sector suffers, and vice versa. Some of you talk about 'taxpayers' as if public sector works don't pay tax... equally, where do you think your wages come from? They don't fall out of thin air. We all, sooner or later, pay each others wages. And to think, the deficit could be negated almost overnight with proper reform of the welfare and tax systems... but then, that would upset all those people that are needed to get re-elected, wouldn't it...

All four of you are sufficiently irrelevant to me that if you all disappeared tomorrow, I probably wouldn't notice. So I think that's a draw.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure mid-air collisions involving jet airliners that result in no damage whatsoever are pretty commonplace...

Maybe consider somewhere that doesn't feature regularly on "Britains ****ed Up Chav Underclass On Tour" or whatever it's called?

Already been to Bali. Was amazing, but then it should be given the cost. So a couple of long weekends in Devon and Cornwall will be all that is on the cards for the rest of the year, although thinking of taking the missus to one of the big Christmas markets in Germany in December, she loves all that guff.

In 2050 this will look as stupid and short sighted as the robot butlers that they told us in the 70s we'd all have by now

There Is No Such Thing As Spot Reduction

Why on earth would we be sold to a not-very-rich-consortium if we got promoted?

As if we would be able or willing to pay Wes Browns wages... what a load of old ****e

Whilst the maths don't add up, when you look at the list it does show how much stronger this league is than the one we've just left. There are arguably a dozen teams that will fancy their chances of a playoff place. Makes it all the more mystifying why some seem to think we are a shoe-in for top 6. I guess you get used to winning more often than not very quickly...

Went two years ago but was sailing out of Split so didn't see a great deal of the country itself, but did like what we did see. The sailing was terrible, incidentally! If you go to the north of the country there is a very strong Venetian influence (obvious why if you look at a map!) in the food and culture. Gets blisteringly hot in the summer months. Nowhere near as cheap as it used to be, although still cheaper than Italy. I'd like to go back there for a land-based holiday, but equally there are a lot of other countries that I will visit before I do, if that makes sense.

What's the point in this? Is it really just a list of every single player that every single forum user think would be a good signing? Okay, Messi, Ronaldo, Xavi, Vidic... I can see the point in doing this with a transfer rumours/ITK thread (mostly because it shows how much ******** some people on here talk!), but what difference does it make if someone thinks we should sign Player A and he goes to a different club?

And they wonder why our national side is so pants...

Well not really, because you're not evicting them. Both sides are mutually terminating the contract. You call them up and explain the situation and ask if they can move out with a month's notice. If they say yes, you email them and just say "just to confirm, you are moving out and the contract terminates on this date". They reply in the affirmative. It's done.

No it isn't. It's an alloy of gold and (usually) nickel or palladium. It doesn't look or physically behave like silver. The plating that jewellers apply to white gold is rhodium.

I love the outbreak of moralising on forums when anyone asks any questions about speeding... almost as funny as the invariable righteous indignation at getting points... To your original question... penalty points are valid for 3 years for totting up purposes (ie ban when you hit 12), they stay on your driving licence for 4 years, and you must declare them to your insurance company for 5 years. So in this case, it's the 4 year expiration date that is relevant to you.

Whilst Gd is spot on, have you tried just talking to them and asking them if they could move out within a month? They might be agreeable to it. ime people dealing with landlord/tenant issues often automatically jump to the dispute stage without simply trying normal, friendly conversation first. And it beats sodding around with courts and bailiffs and eviction notices any day of the week.

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