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		<title>A 3G map of Britian</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC has released an interesting mapping of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in relation to its 3G coverage. With it you can see how available and dense 3g would be in your area however; it’s just a rough guide and doesn’t detail every nook and cranny in the UK. A Government incentive to make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The BBC has released an interesting mapping of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in relation to its 3G coverage. With it you can see how available and dense 3g would be in your area however; it’s just a rough guide and doesn’t detail every nook and cranny in the UK.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-586" title="46028432_uk_3g_coverage" src="http://www.pennyblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/46028432_uk_3g_coverage.gif" alt="46028432_uk_3g_coverage" width="447" height="480" /></p>
<p>A Government incentive to make every household in the UK broadband ready using the conventional copper wires is a long and expensive process; they should lend their support to filling in some of the county sized gaps in coverage across the county with a wireless <a href="http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband ">mobile broadband</a>.</p>
<p>Home internet is fastly becoming more of a utility like gas and electricity then a luxury of the past. It has not quite reached the level of essential need it to live day to day, but a growing number of people are now relying upon it for work and leisure.</p>
<p>There are still significant spots when it comes to 3G mobile coverage in the UK, regulator Ofcom has revealed.</p>
<p>It has pledged to investigate why some places, particularly in rural areas, are still failing to get any coverage.</p>
<p>It also said it will investigate <a href="http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband/Pay_As_You_Go ">pay as you go mobile broadband</a> speeds, which vary tremendously in different areas and at different times of day.</p>
<p>Between February 2008 and February 2009 there were two million new connections to mobile broadband, said Ofcom.</p>
<p>3G services allow people to connect to the web via a wireless network, either using a phone, a dongle or datacard which can be plugged into a PC or a laptop using service providers like Vodafone, Orange, O2, T-Mobile and 3. How reliable these services are is always bing questioned due to broadband research firms who state the average download speeds of the <a href="http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband ">best mobile broadband</a> was just under 1Mbps.</p>
<p>The concern is that if mobile networks are going to become increasing used and relied on for day to day life, they’re going to need to do a lot better then they current are to meet the coming demand for such services.</p>
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		<title>Misogyny without calling it that.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 13:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today in our little corner den of the internet we have something a psychology major would have a field day with. http://www.trueforcedloneliness.com/  True Forced Loneliness is apparently a &#8220;movement&#8221; spearheaded by three, whats the word, insecure men who believe that the reason they are alone is because all women are by nature, cold calculating creatures. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today in our little corner den of the internet we have something a psychology major would have a field day with.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.trueforcedloneliness.com/" target="_blank">http://www.trueforcedloneliness.com/</a></p>
<p> True Forced Loneliness is apparently a &#8220;movement&#8221; spearheaded by three, whats the word, insecure men who believe that the reason they are alone is because all women are by nature, cold calculating creatures. Now I may be like that, but surely not all women can be pigeon holed into such a clearly slanted sterotype! Yes, we are all &#8220;Satan&#8217;s daughters&#8221; and you are just too caring and nice for us devil&#8217;s spawn to love, obviously.</p>
<p>The community is mainly on YouTube but there are apparently multiple websites devoted to this. What caught my eye about it though, is that they actually consider this some sort of psychological condition that they, as a group have been subjected to:</p>
<blockquote><p>There are many reasons for TFL including such examples as not having the &#8220;bad boy image&#8221;, being judged in 1 to 5 seconds due to appearance, not fitting in with society&#8217;s matrix norm and lack of finding a person who relates to one&#8217;s personality. The complex mechanism and issues of TFL takes up entire Radio Programs and video blogs.<br />
<strong><br />
But the following are NOT reasons for TFL: Improper social skills, mean or inappropriate behavior, lack of conversation, or anything else that is of personal responsibility or control.<br />
</strong><br />
In other words, TFL is a term reserved for the experience of loneliness where it is not one&#8217;s own fault, rather forced against their will and best efforts. This is an introduction text for the TFL Board and an understanding of TFL requires a look at much more on the board and sister sites.</p></blockquote>
<p>Many of the users and contributors to this moment appear to have deeper seeded issues about themselves then merely being rejected by the opposite sex.</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/user/saiyanblood888</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Vonzie">http://www.youtube.com/user/Vonzie<br />
</a><a href="http://members.boardhost.com/trueforcedloneliness/msg/1242685442.html">http://members.boardhost.com/trueforcedloneliness/msg/1242685442.html</a></p>
<p>Apparently women everywhere are being &#8216;brain fed&#8217; into learning every single one of our vales from the giant media machine that insane conspirosy nuts or creeps looking to stuff you into the back of their <a href="http://www.volkswagen-vans.co.uk/">vans</a> with blacked out windows are actually the nice honest rational men out there and not anyone else. Luckily, given that they embrace their problem instead of try to fix it, they&#8217;ll be gone in a generation or so.</p>
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