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[OldGit]

Is there a point where the amount of tax falls below the cost increase?

It's not just the tax element. There's also the cost of the benefits that have to be paid to the poor sods dumped on the dole.

Not to mention the human cost

 

[Matt_B]

Fair enough, o just don't trust articles that present such one sided opinions without any numbers or facts.

 

[Steven]

Melton is revealed as accidental death capital of England

 

[Darth Vodka]

If it's half the price then they are saving money, a good thing.

if the quality of the Indian workers were the same as here...

which it isn't

 

[pork pie fox]

Melton is revealed as accidental death capital of England

:icon_lol:

Residents were baffled by the high death rates. "Nothing much really goes on here apart from pork pies and Stilton cheese," said Malise Graham, a Conservative councillor in Melton.

 

[Steven]

if the quality of the Indian workers were the same as here...

which it isn't

I worked for a company that did an empirical study on Indian (based in India) v UK (Indian and non-Indian) based IT workers. The conclusion they came up with was that the Indians based in India were only some 66% productive as their UK based counterparts. This was using a software company rather than their own IT department based in India.

The cost of the Indians in India was cheaper, but not a third cheaper, and not enough to cover the extra management costs of outsourcing.

As far as I perceive it, outsourcing is a means for a lazy management group to redistribute the IT resourcing problem rather than solve it.

 

[Motown Fox]

Relatives of workers who died of an asbestos-related cancer won a compensation fight at the Supreme Court today

Britain and Ireland's largest trade union, Unite, welcomed today's "landmark" ruling, which it said will affect "many of the 2,500 people who are diagnosed with mesothelioma each year".

 

[Motown Fox]

Just when you thought you were buried you end up being cremated

 

[Motown Fox]

So does anyone live near this angry OAP

 

[Mawsley]

So does anyone live near this angry OAP

He seems totally unlike anyone here.

 

[Steven]

You couldn't make it up. :icon_roll

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...-after-113000-stolen-from-police-station.html

 

[Steven]

You couldn't make this up. :icon_roll

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ive-carving-removed-park-complaints-rude.html

 

[Mawsley]

Come on - tell me it's never happened to you.

It's a very common accident.

http://t.co/Yuu7fhYp

 

[Macky]

Come on - tell me it's never happened to you.

It's a very common accident.

http://t.co/Yuu7fhYp

What a ****ing amateur. He obviously doesn't know the condom and the lollypop stick trick, you should never put anything up your hole unless it's tethered somehow

 

[Mawsley]

you should never put anything up your hole unless it's tethered somehow

Like a goat.

 

[FryattFox]

'The Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year has been awarded to the Thai recipe book 'Cooking With Poo'. 'Cooking With Poo' by Saiyuud Diwong beat other shortlisted titles including 'The Great Singapore Penis Panic: And the Future of American Mass Hysteria' and 'Estonian Sock Patterns All Around the World'...In a Telegraph poll in February, only 24.63% of readers voted for the book to win the award. The most popular choice among Telegraph readers was 'Mr Andoh's Pennine Diary: Memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer in 1935 Hebden Bridge' which had 30.3% of the votes (406 voters)'

The Daily Telegraph.

 

[Cate Fox]

Come on - tell me it's never happened to you.

It's a very common accident.

http://t.co/Yuu7fhYp

that has brightened up a dull afternoon.

 

[Macky]

that has brightened up a dull afternoon.

Will you be having chips for dinner?

 

[Cate Fox]

Will you be having chips for dinner?

Not a chance :icon_bigg

 

[SwedeFox]

This is what the DVD release of 'The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo' looks like apparently, love it!

http://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/2012/...nium-un-faux-dvd-pirate-perturbe-les-fans.php