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Listed below are comments made by diabulos between Wednesday, 16th July 2008 and Sunday, 2nd August 2009.

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Kara Vallow from Family Guy talks about tonight's Prom 07:31am on 02 Aug 2009 Great evening, pity that the What's on/proms by week schedule forgets to credit Seth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2009/whatson/season/?week3
FOI or E-Enabled Open Government? 1:17pm on 26 Dec 2008 Sad you wont have time to continue to actively write on this topic. Although I believe in transparency, I find the whole FOI and EIR regimes ill thought. The idea that every Tom, Dick and Harry can wake up wondering what the ratio of blue chickens against red ones is and sending an FOI request and forcing a gov department to not only 'find' the data but find the ratio or find the time and money to request someone to do it (and later charge the individual if he or she accepted the charges earlier) is a total waste of government's time. Also, there has to be certain 'privacy' in the goings on of government, freedom to consider certain issues, certain views, even if dismissed later as nonsensical or inadequate. Thinking that their thoughts will show up in minutes, emails and other records and that they will be happily released to who knows who for who knows what can only deter any right thinking individual from actively engaging with the work at hand, for fear of misconstruction, defamation or even ridicule. Why should average Joe have the right to request every single email and minute of any meetings on conservation of coffee grounds or anything related to the expansion of the first 300m of right lane on the M20....? a total waste of public time and money and surely the wrong mechanism to uphold transparency.
Humbling of our banks 9:58pm on 12 Oct 2008 If the banks are getting out of the mess with my money (as an average tax payer, what is the per capita share of this bail out?) how come I still owe the banks money? I paid them probably more than I owe them, yet I still have to fork out the money to cover my debts...would it not be better to cancel the debts and leave a clean slate? rather confusing, but then again I am not as clever as all of those city people (look where their cleverness got them!)
Park life 12:00pm on 24 Sep 2008 It is clear from the text that he failed to go to a traler park, he went to a prefab home residential...be clear on how you present things, a trailer park is that, a place where people live in trailers, not prefab houses...you did not visit the poorest of them all, you know if you wanted you could have found the closest trailer park off a dirt road and see true utter poverty and mind-boggling levels of ignorance...but you chose not to...
Unfair banking 09:40am on 16 Jul 2008 You don’t' want to be charged for overdraft? don't spend more than you have. You are using a privilege and it should cost you, I don't care if the banks charge 50% on overdraft interest, you should not have gone into overdraft in the first place, you are spending money that is not yours!

Paying for an account is ok as long as the service is fair (real time transactions and payments instead of making money off our money and inconveniencing us by having to wait 4 to 5 days for a payment to clear even when the company being paid uses the same bank! Give me a good interest rate on my savings, not a ridiculous 4 or 5%, so I benefit and you benefit.

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