March 10, 2013

March 10, 2013 by yorksranter 1 comment

Rewind on a project

Remember BuyThisSatellite? So your man heard about Terrestar going bankrupt and one of their comsats going begging, and had the brilliant idea of crowdsourcing the money to buy the thing and redeploy it over Africa or perhaps Iran and, uh, provide Internet access to people who really needed it. So what happened? Well, someone with…

March 10, 2013 by yorksranter 0 comments

Fixed in place

It’s time to review this post on the implementation of the Tories’ Health & Social Care Act in my local area. The news is, I think, good. The local rag: The Haringey branch of national pressure group 38 Degrees is only the third in the country to get all its suggested amendments on buying health…

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