[Scottish] The Future of the LUG

[ed]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 01:40:23 +0000, Willie
<willie at itscotland.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.
>Oh go on, you know you want to

True, but still ain't.

>> Try Annabel Goldie as well, she is, or was, a Psion user and had to deal
>> with the Parliamentary mob not wanting to allow Psions or Palms
>> connecting to their networks.
>No great love for the feisty Annabel. Reminds me too much of a former 
>headmistress. And she's a tory too. But I'll defend her right to use a Psion 
>or whatever. That is just crazy.

I have no fondness for the Tories either. I only know she is a Psion
user because I saw her use on on the Glasgow-Edinburgh train and since I
also used a Psion, a 3a compred to her Psion5, I was aware of the
difficulties Psion using politicos were having. However if you could
convince her then, irrespective of her party, I'm sure she'd be a good
advocate int he Parliament,

>I doubt she is/was the only PDA-dependent MSP either. Of course its not only 
>the MSPs that are hamstrung by this, its their support staff as well. 
>Looks like the Civil Service Mentality is alive and well. Bet their pensions 
>are safe though. And the head of dept will get his/her gong on retiral too.
>Don't get me started. Ooops, looks like I already have.........

There I have to take issue with you. Our pensions are now royally
screwed as they have moved us from a final salary scheme to a fund
scheme, like the ones failing in Private Industry, the folk who took the
Equitable Life AVCs are as screwed as anyone else and there are still
too many Civil Servants dependant on thinks like Family Credit to
survive from one month to the next. We ain't all Sir Humphreys or Russel
Hillhouse you know.

cds
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