Your Letters
17:54 UK time, Monday, 6 October 2008
Re story about orthodox , Chairman Moshe Weiss says that searching for "banana" in Google will bring up porn within the first few results. Purely in the interests of research, I tried this out. But after 10 pages of results, I was unable to see any links that could even be regarded as porn.
Mike, London
Re : how about Fiscal Anti- Ruminant Tax ?
Andrew Nicholson, Milton Keynes
In many cases the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ report on rising sea levels. Where all the extra water is coming from has never been addressed. Please could you fully explain this as the "standard" answer of melting ice does not add up, most of the ice is underwater and has a greater mass than water itself. There is only a finite amount of water in the world.
Chris Emms, Havant
To SA (Your Letters, Friday), when an employee is required to resign (often for more minor misbehaviour) he is not treated as having been fired, especially important when applying for new jobs. He might also remain entitled to benefits under his employment contract which would be unavailable to a fired employee.
David Taylor, Cambridge, UK
SA, Salford: being dismissed from some jobs - local government or the Civil Service - means you can never work in those or allied services (hospitals, prisons, etc). Resigning, albeit under duress, avoids that stigma.
Fee Lock, Hastings, East Sussex
I watched Jamie Oliver's latest programme and think that . I don't think it was a bad reflection of Rotherham at all, rather it showed very clearly the problems that low income families face, in terms of money and in some cases having no support to teach them healthy and often cheaper ways of cooking. The government has failed to help them, full marks to Jamie for giving it a go, and putting up with the stick.
Joanne Moores, Wimbledon
Re sports journalese. We've mentioned the cases of British players crashing out and SW19 being the abbreviation for Wimbledon, but I wonder why to a player?
Lester Mak, London
I was interested in the story about . Are the couple aware that that Tesco has now withdrawn this reward scheme, originally to have been rolled out across the country over the next two years, as so many were cutting cans into pieces to get additional unearned points (as the couple admit to doing)?
Lydia, Bracknell
"The couple... maximised their point-earning potential by cutting cans in half..." Isn't this fraud?
Claire, Watford, UK
Phyton? (Your Letters, Friday) Sounds like something that the LHC might have found, if it hadn't been turned off.
Martin Hollywood, Luxembourg
Re . I work for a large forum software development company. Last week, forums (from several providers, including us) were targeted by spammers right across the net. The Damilola Trust should not take this personally - it affected tens of thousands of websites.
Anon, UK
With a second county in Wales , Powys, the first County, is being urged to leave lights on in crime 'hotspot' areas. But won't the absence of lights create new crime 'hotspot' areas?
Lee Pike, Auckland, NZ
If only they had earlier, it might have avoided the need for .
Andy, Leeds, UK
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