What bemused you today?

[Reinardina]

Exactly.

Money has to be earned/made somewhere, before it can be spent, or redistributed.

[Oldboy]

And wealth is not restricted to old money, or old industries.

No, that is very true. If you want to make plenty of money become Prime Minister, join America in a war looking for WMD's, (this gives you access to the American speaking circuit), strut about on the world stage and indicate that you are happy to accept lots of filthy lucre. Remind you of anybody? 

[Reinardina]

And wealth is not restricted to old money, or old industries.

No, that is very true. If you want to make plenty of money become Prime Minister, join America in a war looking for WMD's, (this gives you access to the American speaking circuit), strut about on the world stage and indicate that you are happy to accept lots of filthy lucre. Remind you of anybody? 

Another bright spark with a good idea.  You forgot to mention the freebies.

[Simple]

And wealth is not restricted to old money, or old industries.

No, that is very true. If you want to make plenty of money become Prime Minister, join America in a war looking for WMD's, (this gives you access to the American speaking circuit), strut about on the world stage and indicate that you are happy to accept lots of filthy lucre. Remind you of anybody? 

Another bright spark with a good idea.  You forgot to mention the freebies.

And be even happier if you have a wife with the same deplorable standards.

[ABERS]

..and the more you have the more you want apparently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27356896

I wonder if HMRAC will chase them as hard as they chased me for the £68 I apparently underpaid last year.

[Graham]

..and the more you have the more you want apparently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27356896

I wonder if HMRAC will chase them as hard as they chased me for the £68 I apparently underpaid last year.

  You'll remember all the fuss over Jimmy Carr's perfectly legal tax affairs last year, where our glorious leader called him immoral in the house.
  The said leader has been conspicuously quiet about Garry Barlow. But then Jimmy Carr isn't a known Tory supporter and doner!

[ABERS]

But then Jimmy Carr isn't a known Tory supporter and doner!

I've always regarded Carr as about as funny as a kebab and the current PM about as oily and greasy as one. So perhaps your spelling mistake was perhaps completely on the button.

[Graham]

But then Jimmy Carr isn't a known Tory supporter and doner!

I've always regarded Carr as about as funny as a kebab and the current PM about as oily and greasy as one. So perhaps your spelling mistake was perhaps completely on the button.

  Should it be double "n"? It just doesn't look right! 

[ABERS]

Donor I believe.

[Graham]

Donor I believe.

  Thanks Alan.
  I can spell big complicated words (like wheelbarrow) but sometimes struggle with simple ones. 

[Andrew]

And wealth is not restricted to old money, or old industries.

No, that is very true. If you want to make plenty of money become Prime Minister, join America in a war looking for WMD's, (this gives you access to the American speaking circuit), strut about on the world stage and indicate that you are happy to accept lots of filthy lucre. Remind you of anybody? 

Another bright spark with a good idea.  You forgot to mention the freebies.

And be even happier if you have a wife with the same deplorable standards.

I'll not have a word said against her. She got me off a train ticket fraud charge by using her excuse for not buying a ticket - and I reminded the court that as her husband made the law of the land, if it was good eonugh for his wife it should be good enough for me 

[Andrew]

..and the more you have the more you want apparently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27356896

I wonder if HMRAC will chase them as hard as they chased me for the £68 I apparently underpaid last year.

  You'll remember all the fuss over Jimmy Carr's perfectly legal tax affairs last year, where our glorious leader called him immoral in the house.
  The said leader has been conspicuously quiet about Garry Barlow. But then Jimmy Carr isn't a known Tory supporter and doner!

Our current Prime minister has shown he is a true Tory in that he operates one rule for them, and another rule for the rest. I often wonder why Jim Davidson ever got arrested!
Oh yeah - he stopped donating 
It is the last 20 years of government that have created the ground for the likes of Farage to exist.
Not that the unions are doing much to make things any better.

They're all as bad as each other.

[anglefire]

The thing is Gary Barlow's wasn't illegal either - until it was determined by the courts that it wasn't. It's normal to try and reduce your tax bill - sometimes the accountants try it on with dubious, but arguably legal ways.

Though I think now you can still do the dubious avoidance schemes, but you have to pay the tax first and when agreed it is legal, get the tax back. Makes more sense to me.

As for Jimmy Carr, what he did was perfectly legal. I really don't see what the issue was.

I wonder how many people that are calling for the blood of GB can honestly say that they pay all their taxes, don't do anything for cash, don't over estimate the mileage claims etc etc. 

[spinner]

What bemused me? Mac OS. I've pretty much switched over to Apple. I use a 27" iMac for my photo work and I picked up a used MacPro to use as a server. Everyone else in my house (4 adults) use MS. so I set up my server to 'serve' both systems. Today I tried to transfer some photo files on the MacPro server to the iMac. Long store short, the files were on an external drive and I ended up having to transfer them to a Win7 machine because the Mac's can't see external drives on each other, but the Win7 can. So, Mac to Win7 then Win 7 to Mac.

[donoreo]

You would still need to share those external drives for the two Mac's to see each other.