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    OcUK Moderator's elderly mother abused on the phone

    They'd also be shooting themselves in the foot if the data obtained turned out to be a breach of the DPA in itself. In other words if peoples names and addresses where in there without permission.
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    Mate Injured in Afghanistan

    Part of the package is aftercare in the event of injury/disablement. How many times does it need to be said? The Army looks after its injured, always has done. That is part of the job description.
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    OcUK Moderator's elderly mother abused on the phone

    It was his account that is atop all the posts that are being distributed from the DR. It was last time too iirc. I would imagine that having his account inactive stops further "hacks" into the forums.
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    OcUK Moderator's elderly mother abused on the phone

    I'm not sure if "hacked" is the correct term, someone used a Don's login to browse the Dons Room and to copy and paste a load of threads in there.
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    Mate Injured in Afghanistan

    It'll be very little, he was low ranking so it'll be a disability pension and not much more. Army life can be pretty harsh when it goes wrong. An ex girlfriend of mines father was a Colonel and was killed in an RTA. They got a small payout and 4 weeks to find a new place to live. Then that was...
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    Mate Injured in Afghanistan

    Very true. Most of the new spending is on replacing some very outdated major equipment, it is not going on bullet proof vests, rifles, boots, helmets, toilet paper or other day to day requirements of a squaddie in Iraq in his green camo whilst fighting in a desert... For those who say that...
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    Mate Injured in Afghanistan

    Defence cuts over the last 10 years have been huge :( We have a smaller armed servie than ever before, military hospitals have pretty much been wound up, army houses are being sold off and many are in a right state. Blair wanted to go from a well respected Army to a specialist task force. Then...
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    Mate Injured in Afghanistan

    And they signed up knowing that if they got crippled that the Army would offer some assistance to them....... Do you begrudge him his brain damage and loss of legs? Do you want to swap places with him or something?
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    Mate Injured in Afghanistan

    One of the first casualties of defence spending cuts, cheers tony....
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    Mate Injured in Afghanistan

    Equally he would be aware that he would be compensated - it is part of the job.....
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    virii

    Yeah! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus
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    India / Pakistan division

    Learn some history. It is a fact. Get over it. Britain went there simply to trade and build a tea business. As did the dutch, french etc. That led to lots of fighting. We got invited to arm, train and fight for various princedoms. India only has itself to blame. Get over it. I don't know the...
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    India / Pakistan division

    It changed hands multiple times hence Iran and Afganistan amongst others have tried to claim it is rightfuly theirs :) I doubt it is possible to find out who originally owned it, like many things possession is 9/10 of the law.
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    Uni living expenses

    You must be joking. The mess isn't free at all and officers have to buy a huge amount of their own kit. Do you think that army houses are free to officers as well when they get family postings?
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    Uni living expenses

    £56 on wine and champagne. £30 on steak. Bwahahahahahahaha. Melon slices? You can't cut a melon yourself? Ready made salad? Ridiculous in the extreme unless you have an income of some description but that is hardly typical student fare. I doubt most students really appreciate a £10...
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    India / Pakistan division

    I think Africa would have been better off but only if it had remained completely isolated from the rest of the world with no access to western weapons etc. Then again if the west hadn't been out colonising and hadn't fought off the muslim invaders in europe I am sure we'd be much worse off.
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    India / Pakistan division

    The developed world colonised the rest of the world. Had it not then the rest of the world would still be living in mud huts. If it had not been the British then it would most certainly have been the Dutch or French. We went there to trade, we got dragged into their petty infighting, we fought...
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    India / Pakistan division

    India have benefitted plenty from UK rule. The UK benefitted tremendously from Roman and Norman conquest. Neither of whom conquered the UK for the benefit of the UK. Sounds a tad xenophobic and racist..... ;) It was a brief and clearly not welcome union is that what you mean? India were never...
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    India / Pakistan division

    Why would the British need to cunningly do anything? The most powerful nation in the world at the time were not exactly afraid of upsetting people or sweetening deals. If you need any further proof of that look at what we did to China when they stopped buying our opium......
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    India / Pakistan division

    So we should rewrite history because your mother "practically" spent half her life there? Is that even English? Comments like that are just begging for some patronising response. Oh dear, the "Royal Decree" was given by the Ottomans not by the British Monarchy....... So who was being...
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