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Back in the day on my old steam powered Amstrad Word Processor I very quickly realised that a spell-checker was truly wonderful if indeed peeps knew what some of the alternative words or variations meant. Never troubled me I hasten to add, condescendingly ;)

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Are we keeping a dead industry alive Less debating the merits and values of good spellin' sic

;)

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Yup, known for years. I have no doubt if i was to ask any of my friends and family they to would know as well.

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Fair enough Alan :)

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Appropriate that it is listed on the dead industry thread though. Another one for the long list.

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Indeed, just as the demise of home grown computers can't be considered a thread wander.
We worked through all our own weird and wonderful systems their versions of basic programming and our persistence has been rewarded by being confused by windows 8.
:D

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Yeh mean like you were when they didn't select Mr Blobby?:D

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Probably just a bad habit they got into when they were young;):D

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Not like you to be condescending Mr. D.:rolleyes:

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That wasn't a let down that was utter stupidity, which ensured we now have Jones swimming around in his own little world, sucking up to Mr. Ed :D

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Nah, he didn't need help from your man, he proved himself capable of lying his way into that position all on his own.

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Well I have to admit he is good at it, lying that is;)

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Having scanned through all 190 odd posts there was a mention some time back that seems to have been glossed over.

Whilst it may not have been by design the fact that we stopped mining so many years ago means we have "accidentally" preserved our stock of coal whilst others were prepared to sell their resources so cheaply. As these countries run out we have the option of restarting our mining industry and utilising our own resources and thus not being held to ransom by the few countries still producing today. this buffer could be key to seeing us through whilst alternative methods are put in place. ( Nuclear, wind/wave/whatever).

I personally think Shale gas is going to be a controversial option, whilst I don't see us having San Fran style earthquakes and fire and brimstone being ejected high above morecambe bay our housing/buildings were not built with shakes in mind so are probably not very resilient to them.

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Agreed Ent. I cannot see why any country would take a natural resource out of the ground at a loss. To me that is throwing away my kids resources, worse in fact it was wasting taxpayer money to throw away those resources.

Buy foreign resources while they are cheaper than ours so we might actually get some value out of our own when they are scarce. Coal takes thousands of years to form and, like oil, it is not in endless supply. We have masses of the stuff so get to it when it's £100 a ton or more.

Similar thing happened to oil. I recall not so long ago when it was $13 a barrel and only the Saudis could get to it and sell it above cost. Now the world only about 40 years of oil left the price is going to go one way and it ain't down!

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I also agree. This happened with the Cornish tin mines; they closed down due to difficult mining conditions including water problems and then decades later when world conditions prevailed and mining technology advanced they re-opened. I read not too long ago that one mine was estimated to be worth over £1billion and would be opening again.

I also have a vague recollection of reading one old Cornish tin mine had deposits of a mineral required for modern ipads - if that's true the workers should be laughing all the way to the bank.