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Don't forget, it wasn't just ok to smoke around children - it was actually good for you.. or at least, that's what the doctors in the adverts told us

See if you can spot the cigarette advert featuring the babies in there!

As for the Disney-fied theme park, you should watch "Churchill: the Hollywood Years", where a (US marine, of course) Winston Churchill first appears with the Enigma machine that's he's single-handedly (well, with his black sidekick's assistance) captured from the Germans, but then visits London's East End which, as every American Hollywood person knows, was populated entirely with happy, singing, Irish Cockneys.

... just because some juvenile asshat gets his kicks playing with his toy near a flight path.

Like this dickhead - literally over the road from a London Heathrow runway.

My office is on an old Halifax (WW2 bomber) airfield and we get RAF Pumas and Chinooks doing low (shakes the building low) level training over it. So when I built my quadcopter and was testing/tuning it, I double checked whether we are in a MATZ - it ends on pretty much over our office (though the chart is a small scale, so it' difficult to be precise), so I can fly up to a thousand feet (if I was stupid enough).

The problem is that I know what to lookup to work out if I'm flying safe or not, but most people wouldn't even have heard of a MATZ, even if they're aware that flying at the end of a runway at the word's busiest international airport is monumentally stupid.

Google is actually based in the United States and the law doesn't affect Google in any way

Perhaps you should check out google's own map. Not to mention this CCTLD. Still sure a particular countries law could not possibly apply to an international company operating in that country?

Google is actually based in the United States and the law doesn't affect Google in any way

Perhaps you should check out google's own map. Not to mention this CCTLD. Still sure a particular countries law could not possibly apply to an international company operating in that country?

It's not so much "Taboo" as it is frequently brought up by idiots who have no substantial evidence and a strong history of using made up bullshit to push injustice.

There's very little evidential reason to consider anything said by "racial realists" as anything other than the babbling of childish nincompoops. There is scientific evidence that genetic variation within "races" is greater than the variation between the median genetic profiles of "races".

Suffice it to say, given how much debunked "science" there is in the history of racist fuckery, not expecting any good science from them now isn't unreasonable.

It's even worse. The "right to be forgotten" is also being abused for political motives.

Take as an example a query for "Anna Ardin" in Europe versus the US version. Spot the difference? I'd say the US clearly wins this one with regard to freedom of information.

(These links might not work directly where you live, because they assume you're in Europe. If you live elsewhere you might need to find you own proxies that ensure that queries are really 'entered' in the US or Europe respectively.)

I wonder whether it would be possible to write a Firefox plugin that detects the omitted search results and launches a proxy search automatically. Until something like that exists I will always use a US proxy when Google Europe yields "rights to be forgotten" results.

As opposed to many fellow Europeans I'm generally very pro-EU, but fuck them for this one...

Something like a railway cable trough, typically concrete, is common in Britain at the side of most railway track.

But it's a criminal offence to trespass on the railway.

Better example: buried cables along canals in London. Only pedestrians and cyclists (and horses) can use that path, could it stand up to cars and lorries?

(I'm pretty sure the electricity company will use boats and barges to maintain the cables, which is probably a lot easier than having to divert road traffic etc, and earns them eco-points.)

I'd agree with you if it weren't for the fact that measures put in place to combat terrorism have been abused before.

LOL that you're trying to tell Matt Fucking Dillon off about Amiga history

I am strongly in the opinion that I am right here, but it doesn't offend me if I get schooled.

A good source can be found on Page 60 of "Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity" by Michael Perelman, published in 2004 through Palgrave Macmillan (Amazon link).

Alternatively, you can probably find an on-line source using Google.

I do have to say it's a new one to me, so congrats on originality I guess

I'm not original, I've read this story and heard this story from/in a few places of authority previously.

My Great aunt, who donated her body to Science (Also in an Open Source way(1)) never drank any Cola, yet they were still way down when she died at the age of 115.

A search on van andel telomeres will give more detail. I have the study somewhere around here, but am not able to find it just now.

(1) Not only did she donated her body to science, she wanted the science to be used for people to learn AND have her name linked to it. To be honest, she thought she would end up on a shelf somewhere after they cut her up. She never thought it would result in so much results in research.

Also because of her, they now have proof that alzheimers is not a given with old age thus a solution is at least possible. There were no traces of Alzheimers found anywhere.

Do what every IT professional in the world has to do. Google the full offline installer / MSI:

https://www.google.co.uk/chrom...

https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

You can get a Sansa Clip+ for £20-30 plus a 128GB microSD card for about £60. Slap Rockbox on it and you've got something smaller and with better sound than an iPod.

I have a link to the seperate 'older' versions that I want to use. Also use it for the search bar:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?output=classic to see the old output by default
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=linux&sout=1&tbs=isz:lt,islt:4mp as search in the searchbar, where here linux is what I am looking for. 4mp is the size of larger images.
If I could use something like that for Bing, I would start using Bing for image searcgh as I hate, out of priciple obviously, that Google filters my images and I have no way to turn off that censorship.

"but until it makes financial sense enough to get places like China and India to start using this stuff"

They are:
Chinaâ(TM)s Coal Consumption Has Finally Decreased
Beijing Cut Coal Use By 7 Percent, Proving Intentions

How many times do I have to say renewables are getting cheap?
http://costofsolar.com/cost-of...
(2013 charts out of date - solar is cheaper now!)

Solar is not 4-5 times more expensive now, it is reaching parity with coal.
Solar at Grid Parity in Utah, a Coal State With No RPS

"a huge jump in technology."
Lots of them, and they're not slowing down.
http://bxhorn.com/wp-content/u...

I have given you the proof that wind is cheapest and you choose to ignore it. How can a generator that requires fuel competewith a generator that doesn't require fuel?

Like I said, your arguments are all out of date.

There is ZERO chance that solar will knock off 3/4ths of their costs in the next decade.

It's funny, because if you care to look, you'll see that from 1977 the price of solar went from $76.00 a watt to less thaqn $0.74 a watt now, that's one hundred times less.

You seem to be having difficulty facing the truth of the current situation.

Global installed wind:
http://www.eenews.net/assets/2...

Global installed solar (take your pick):
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_...

Vacuum cleaners

Last time I looked 1400W was common, now 2400W is common.

I'd be happy if they banned putting the Wattage in the product title as a temporary measure, no doubt some of these 2400W are still crap and edging towards being a fire hazard with that much power enclosed in a small space.

What do you do with your vac' when you've finished with it? Shove it in the cupboard with lots of highly flammable materials, perhaps underneath the stairs?

Quick search confirms it happens:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

To the Muslims life is cheaper than a robot car. They are always going on about how they love death and killing infidels, so they are just as likely to do it in a normal car just like they do now.

There are a host of plants that will absorb heavy metal contamination, however the problem is that using them in this way is prevent by patents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
http://www.google.co.uk/patent...

When cars move, do they disperse? No.

The ocean has currents:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

So, the radioactive waters can traverse to ocean without completely dispersing. And note the diagrams all showing the current goes from japan to the US... and back.

In fact where I live in Europe is warm because water travels around the globe without dispersing
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

When cars move, do they disperse? No.

The ocean has currents:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

So, the radioactive waters can traverse to ocean without completely dispersing. And note the diagrams all showing the current goes from japan to the US... and back.

In fact where I live in Europe is warm because water travels around the globe without dispersing
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

even purely observational academic studies need ethical approval and informed consent.

In what jurisdiction?

That's interesting, because a lot of "purely observational academic studies" have been done with no informed consent at all.

Examples: - Robert Levine's experiments linking a city population's average walking speed with their degree of helpfulness and their health (actually, this is not merely observational - parts of those experiments involved getting people to pick up dropped pens, return lost letters, etc). That was done in many parts of the world including the USA.

- In a car, sitting at a red light. Wait for it to go green, and deliberately fail to move off. Measure how long it takes for drivers behind to honk. Then do the same thing on a car with a foreign plate and compare results. They did that one in Western Europe, if I remember correctly. Unfortunately I can't find a link to that one, but I think I also read about that one on Quirkology.

Neither of those experiments (and many more, those two are just off the top of my head) were done with informed consent. That would have rendered them completely useless, obviously, due to bias.

Yes, because people not even being ever confronted with programming before enrolling into a university course is the optimal approach to STEM promotion.

Who told you you couldn't learn programming on an iPad?

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp...

Apple hasn't been able to provide programmers with a decent consistent and modern language for over a decade.

Objective-C and Cocoa continue to be great, and produces far better quality apps than on exist on Android. Swift one day might be better. But the "oh there's something new coming along so the old thing must be crap" game is juvenile.

It's possible that an organism might resemble the hexagonal parts of a buckyball but not the pentagonal parts if the pentagonal parts are uneven or convex.

Although this looks just like a normal icosahedron. I can't find a transalation other than an automated one.

How often do you hear cars honking there horns because some idiot car driver is doing something wrong. In a few places that they made the mistake of introducing licenses for cyclists they revoked those rules because they outright didn't work.

London Bicycle Hire scheme has about 10k bikes and millions of hires, not once was the big readable number taken and reported to the police. With a time+date, the number can say who the rider was.

There are several places like that which are just as (if not more) confusing. Though spaghetti junction is the most famous.

Swindons Magic Roundabout for example

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/...

Then near where I grew up there is the A19 meeting the A66

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/...

What you can see if you follow that:

At the bottom (South of the river): Similar but not as bad as spaghetti junction
At the top (North of the river): The roundabout below has up to 6 lanes in places with 2 mini roundabouts
On the right hand side (just south of the river): This one isn't as bad when you're actually drivintg it, as it's a standard roundabout with a few shortcuts if you happen to be taking the first exit for you).

There are several places like that which are just as (if not more) confusing. Though spaghetti junction is the most famous.

Swindons Magic Roundabout for example

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/...

Then near where I grew up there is the A19 meeting the A66

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/...

What you can see if you follow that:

At the bottom (South of the river): Similar but not as bad as spaghetti junction
At the top (North of the river): The roundabout below has up to 6 lanes in places with 2 mini roundabouts
On the right hand side (just south of the river): This one isn't as bad when you're actually drivintg it, as it's a standard roundabout with a few shortcuts if you happen to be taking the first exit for you).

steve balmer chair throwing is still there.

I know that's supposed to be a joke but, just in case, it should be pointed out that the ruling only applies to queries consisting solely of the person's name -- adding keywords is fair game.

Right, so you chose the wrong word that had the biggest negative weight behind it.

As for Islamophobia, I doubt many people are actually frightened by Islam, more that they are disgusted by its attitudes to other religions, women, apostasy and homosexuality. So again, wrong word. Anti-Islamic would probably the best description, and many people would not feel that being described as such would be negative, for the reasons stated above. I'm wouldn't really class myself as an anti-theist - believe what ever makes you happy, but if your beliefs start impinging on the rights of people who don't toe the line, then fuck you, you deserve no respect.

So we're left with prejudice and bigotry. Prejudice may or may not apply - it was preconceived, but not necessarily without reason. As for bigotry, it is a result of somebody's prejudices which as I said may not be a valid argument for him being a bigot.

It's quite possible that Muslims were mentioned because Catholics priests (who may want to remove any mention of themselves from google) would fall under the paedophile group already mentioned.

Of course ChrisQ may be a complete Islamophobe (who shakes with fear when he sees a niqab), and loathes every Muslim, no matter how moderate, but to base that opinion on a line of text is just plain stupid. What's certain is that both yourself and myself are both being prejudiced against ChrisQ as we've been passing preconceived comments on him without knowing the actual basis of his comments.

steve balmer chair throwing is still there.

Give them some time, removing all the references to Steve and chair throwing is going to keep a few dozen Indian IT people busy for months.

steve balmer chair throwing is still there.

In Europe when you buy a phone, you sometimes get a reduction if you bring in your new phoen. It has to start and no broken display. These are then sold to people who export them to Africa as second hand.
No problem there as it is working second had that is going to be re-used.

OTOH many electronic parts get exported as waste, so they can salvage the materials in them. This does not happen in the most enviromental frienly way.. See some images here

The problem is not that it has added value for the people in other countries. The problem is that we decided the waste should be treated in a certain way for security (of humankind, if you will) and this is not happening.

So yes, the waste is more valuable and because of that people will die of toxids. There is no excuse to do this other than "I do not care if people die." to allow this.

Sure it can Hell, MI 48169

FYI if you add &output=classic at the end of the URL, you get back the old Google Maps. Don't you love it how they change things around all the time?

The strongest evidence for the reduction in crime around the entire Western World is that explained by legalised abortion.

http://scholar.google.co.uk/sc...

Forgetting something?

Google already filters content (Try looking for porn images) they are able to filter torrents as well: harry potter filetype:torrent shows that they are unwilling to do so.
I also looked at torrenz.eu and I did not find that they are promoting piracy. They are a seachengine. Yes, they are focussed on torrents. Just read https://torrentz.eu/help
The real issue here is however not if what they do is legal or not and if it is, so is what Google is doing. The issue is that the police abused their power.

This is a standard way for police to try to get things done. This is NOT illegal and THAT is the reasl problem. From torrentfreak.com t the first instance of a website being confirmed as providing copyright infringing content, the site owner is contacted by officers at PIPCU and offered the opportunity to engage with the police, to correct their behaviour and to begin to operate legitimately. which means that the police decide who is guilty and who is not. That is NOT their job. What they must do is see if they THINK a crime has been done and then ask if that was reala the case or not and THAT is what the court is for. They will be deciding what action to take.

I'm not an expert on US case law but it's certainly an insurance issue, and I believe that there has been criminal liability in extreme cases.

https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Interesting, I'd never really looked at the knot I use to tie my laces - it turns out I've been doing it "correctly". So I had a look at the resulting knot - the correct way results in what looks like a Reef Knot whereas the incorrect way ends in a "granny knot" (I'll have to find the etymology of that one).

Odds are, I managed to do it correctly because of years of having to tie knots with cold water being dumped over me, a sailing flapping in my face, trying to steady myself on a deck at a 40 degree and with a tactician shouting "hurry up" because he gave me 45 seconds to change a sail. It turns out that I now struggle to tie knots while looking at them.

What excuse will all the conspiracy theory lunatics use to explain rainbows now?

Warning - watching these may cause severe face-palming
The 2nd one is my favourite, a rainbow from a sprinkler - the horror.

There are hundred of natural [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperaccumulator"]Hyper-Accumulators[/a]

However active use of these is blocked by patent e.g. http://www.google.co.uk/patent...

So when are they going to update the actual MAPs themselves?

My area has changed CONSIDERABLY in the past 10 years alone.
There are whole new housing sections, entire section of town knocked to dust, both of my schools knocked down, new schools built, whole shopping district, hotels and various eateries.
I can still see my childhood in Google Maps, in another town over. My childhood! THAT IS OLDER THAN GOOGLE MAPS. (27)

And it's not like it is just some random crappy little town either (ish...). It is a middle-tier port town with fairly famous history of people (mainly literature), football club and fairly popular horse racing as well. Ayr, Scotland if you are wondering.
Besides, it is the main road that is the biggest problem since it is a major road network in Scotland that goes to Glasgow. And that area is SO different.
That is probably one of the areas that has changed most in fact.
Hit this and pop in to street view after looking around at the general layout. Main Ayr Roundabout

And it doesn't just apply to here, I've seen loads of other places with barely a change. Even hugely popular places.
Although they do seem to have Blackpool updated. That went through a massive change by them adding a whole artificial shoreline to protect against the worsening weather. And damn does it look pretty. Now if only they can fix the scummy people problems it can become glorious again.

How hard can it be to get updated visuals?
I mean, I can find an aerial photography company that has 2010 visuals of the whole country. Real nice ones as well from what I remember.
And this was pre-cheap Google that cutback SO much stuff that probably barely made a dent on their servers and could have likely been rolled on to less servers that were shared. ("but we don't want a slow Google" they say as Gmails loading got worse somehow)
Does 20% time even exist any more? Does x% time even exist? Or did they just destroy personal project experimentation entirely to become a fully evil company? (even Microsoft aren't that cruel, their R&D and dev communities are pretty decent, and actually exist now)
Oh Google, what happened to you? They even cut things they could have easily made money off of like iGoogle. Instead they replaced it with Now, a hilariously awful replacement at that. Tablets, they're the future! Ugh. (and I say that even though I have one)

It was done in the 60's - so why no video now? http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa...

Global mean temperature (from the report)

While I'm most certainly not a climate change denier, I am an optimist and I hope the model's are wrong because otherwise we're right royally fucked.

It does look like we're about to come under the temperature rises predicted... but the recession could of been responsible for that, it looks like there is no end in sight for the burning of coal and now tar sand. Tar sands are going to be environmental destruction on a shocking scale.

Your UID suggests you should have seen this style of troll back when it first came around - a quick google returns dozens of hits for slashdot alone. It's intended as a joke, and is mocking the mindset (less present now than it was then) about UNIX/linux being seen by people who never got fired for buying IBM/Microsoft/Oracle as both too basic for business but yet still somehow intractably complicated.

So... whoosh. You might not find it funny but it's certainly not deadly serious and certainly isn't going "ha ha, they use LUNIX!".

Next bombshell: Linyos Torovoltos not actually a real person.

Here's a nice bit of history about religious tolerance and liberty in the colonies right in the middle of the American Revolution:

http://books.google.co.uk/book...

"It is difficult to overestimate the degree to which, on the eve of the Revolution, Catholics in America were still widely discriminated against. Several members of the Continental Congress, including Congregationalist Roger Sherman, were opposed to hiring Catholics to fight in the Continental Army. Only three colonies allowed Catholics to vote. They were banned from holding public office in all New England colonies save Rhode Island. New Hampshire law called for the imprisonment of all persons who refused to repudiate the pope, the mass, and transsubstantiation. New York held the DEATH PENALTY [emphasis mine] over priests who entered the colony; Virginia boasted that it would only arrest them."

In Virginia, the birthplace of the separation of church and state, it took *seven years* for Thomas Jefferson to convince the General Assembly to pass the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and debates on the matter bear a striking resemblance to the sorts of thing one might read in YouTube comments.

By the time that the United States Bill of Rights was ratified, the freedom to practice any religion without fear of being barred from holding land, accessing the courts, or holding most professional jobs had been established by law in most of the British Empire.

This is not entirely surprising as many of the most influential people who formed the Federalist faction in what became the United States were in close cooperation with the Foxites in the British parliament from well before the Revolution until well after, and agreed on many -- or even most -- civil liberties and constitutional issues. The American Revolution weakened the common enemy (principally the Northites and Grenvilleites, who are all fairly called Tories in spite of their claim to the Whig mantle).

By comparison, the erosion of Tory (see above) dominance in the British parliament in the wake of the Seven Years' War led to a series of religious Relief Acts relaxing restrictions on Catholics. It's noteworthy that the first major such act, the Quebec Act 1774, was one of the "Intolerable Acts" protested by the Americans (in the political faction sense) that they argued justifed Independence. Additionally, in the thick of the Revolution, the British parliament passed the Relief Act 1778 and the Schools and Bishops Act 1782, in spite of vigorous domestic opposition (there were riots in Britain in the wake of each), and even more vigorous opposition in the parts of the Thirteen Colonies not already in full rebellion, and some upset in several of the others that ultimately did not join the American Revolution.

Indeed there is no such thing as secure self-destructing messages.

I think the "mission impossible"tape recorder that catches fire comes close ... Apple have been doing their best to implement this.

The majority of young americans: hate Obama; think public healthcare is a waste of money, whilst not understanding the new laws; believe Snowdon was serving in the public's interest; blame colleges (and not the lack of a subsidised education system) on student debt; are pro-life and would like to see abortion made illegal; are against banning assault weapons; as well as, of course, believing astrology is a science.

I think it's time to look at exactly who and where these people being surveyed are. The old adage of "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics" seems very relevant here.

no sign of a trend yet, perhaps there is a twitbook tag? http://www.google.co.uk/trends...

For the same reason, speed cameras in the UK are blight-f*cking-yellow: https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

I meant there are plenty relative to the size of the territory. See https://www.google.co.uk/searc...