Give Brucie a Knighthood

Sign this petition to give Bruce Forsyth a knighthood. Why's he been overlooked all this time?

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Divis will be BIGGER! And also SMALLER!

A confusing explanation.


Can we have a defined postion on the divi's this week. There is still a lot of confusion. We going to get a brucie bonus if we hang onto whatever we had last week?

RIGHT, here's the rules I made up as I understand them... to make up for divis not being paid out last week while ther server was being moved, the weight of the divis will be DOUBLED this week. So say a number one single would normally pay out 10p, this week it will pay out 20p. To make this a bit fairer on people who've been hanging on to their shares, the normal time period you have to hold shares to realise the full divi will also be doubled - so usually if you've held the shares for less than 60 hours, you get proportionally less of the dividend. This week it'll be up to 120 hours (that's five days). It's not completely fair, but it's the best I could do at short notice. Those who've hung on since the weekend should get the full whack, those who're still day trading now won't.



Now, there's still a problem at the new hosting centre - while we can communicate with THE BEAST (the server this all runs on), The Beast can't communicate with the outside world. This means the clever crawling spider that looks at things like the NME, BBC Entertainment News, etc isn't working. So there will be less dividend information in the system than usual, so this week, it's all about chart positions and the details you've submitted yourself, there will be no other automatically added dividend info, apart from the chart positions, which I've done. FYI the chart positions count for far more than anything else as far as dividends go, the crawler just adds a little more into the mix, so bands who're touring but not currently in the charts will pay out a bit, etc.



Those cash figures are purely illustrative, a number one pays out significantly more than that. If this is confusing then RAH! I have achieved my aim, can't go giving away all the internal workings.



As these changes have involved some programming on my part, and popex is a delicate system, there's every chance something will have gone wrong. Please, all keep your fingers crossed and your lucky soya based rabbit foot substitute well rubbed.

pauly :: 2003 :: Comment / reply

Alright, Mr Gordon Brown is listening to me...

Another petition, regarding a tax on plastic bags. With the news that M&S are stopping giving them away, things are rollling in a greener direction. With this, and the recent sunday newspaper story that Brucie probably WILL be getting his knighthood soon, I'm feeling like some sort of government advisor right now. Next stop; abolition of stamp duty in Canterbury, a reduction in ale duty, and a prohibitive tax on dairy products.

Thank you for signing the e-petition about the usage of plastic bags.

As you may have seen from recent media reports, this is a subject that the Prime Minister feels strongly about. As he said last year, our eventual aim should be to eliminate single-use carrier bags altogether. Plastic bags are the most easily reducible form of waste, cutting them out of our lives is one of the most straightforward ways we can all do something directly to improve our environment, reduce pollution and stop their harm to wildlife.

We want people to refuse disposable bags in shops, but if they do accept them, to reuse and eventually recycle them. If we all adopted this approach as a nation we could cut sharply the 13 billion plastic bags, or ten a week for the typical household, which are used and wasted every year.

But we can go further than this. As the Prime Minister has said, if Government compulsion is needed to make the change, we will take the necessary steps. The Government does not take such steps lightly but the damage that single-use plastic bags inflict on the environment is such that strong action must be taken. We have not decided on what precise scheme would work best - we will look at the experiences of other countries around the world in deciding how to approach the problem.The important thing is to come up with a scheme that will be of most benefit, most quickly. Ideally at the same time to secure funds for organisations that help protect our environment.

The actions of millions of British people will send a message right across the world that - as with light bulbs, and standby settings - we can address the danger to our planet. Through the Climate Change Bill, our Act on CO2 campaign, and a new impetus for renewable energy, we are leading the way.

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