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  1. Re:The dry land is an established fact, right? on A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf? · · Score: 1

    there was also a land bridge from the british isles to continental europe where human ramains are dredged up by trawlers.

    amusingly it's called "Doggerland"...... which makes me laugh and think of ancient car parks and marital tomfoolery :P
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

  2. Re:The land is under water... on A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf? · · Score: 2

    BBC programs are much more sane, but we don't get them much on this side of the pond.

    -- BMO

    easy..... go download Expatshield and you can watch all the BBC, Channel 4 and brit programs you want :P

    you are very welcome!

  3. Re:Noah, etc on A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf? · · Score: 1

    - Why do we have different languages?

    that's dumbass.. even within a single language there are regional dialects and variations which can make it seem like a different language.

    there are times when one language can become so split by these variations that they do indeed become seperate.........it happened a lot and as language evolves it still happens.

    mind you some god bothering tit will tell you it's because of the tower of babel

  4. Re:If Telstra is for it, you can bet it's no good on Australian Telstra Monopoly Dead · · Score: 2

    a very similar thing happened to British Telecom and British Gas.. the retail and wholesale branches were split by law to allow for competition.....

    same plan... different country is all. it HAS meant BETTER deals and increased competition here most notably for the telecoms industry

  5. Re:Stephen Fry's previous good stuff: gnu bday on Stephen Fry and DVD Jon Back USB Sniffer Project · · Score: 4, Interesting
    actually Stephen Fry is extremely intelligent and computer literate.

    he IS deffo a mac fanboi however, saying he doesn't understand just shows your complete ignorance of the man.

    For example, Emma thompson's laptop went tits up and she thought the script for the movie she had written was all but lost. she called stephen and asked his help....

    he managed to recover the script and everything else on the macbook that emma thought she had lost.

    so check the Production section of sense and sensinility wiki page for this little snippet
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_Sensibility_(film)

    On an episode of the popular quiz show QI, Emma Thompson revealed that she lost the screenplay on her faulty computer. When a repairman could not retrieve the file, she took the computer in a taxi to friend Stephen Fry, who, along with flatmate Hugh Laurie, spent seven hours retrieving the missing file.

    personally i am not a mac fan either however stephen fry does like their stuff and it was the writer Dougles Adams that got him into apple products

    he has also been dealing with mental health issues and WINNING.. he's not the type to run off in a strop....

    perhaps you should not comment on subjects that YOU can't understand or people you blatantly know nothing about eh?

  6. Re:PCMag on RIAA Now Blames Journalists For Its Piracy Trouble · · Score: 2, Informative

    addition .... this includes range of mags you were refering to!

  7. Re:PCMag on RIAA Now Blames Journalists For Its Piracy Trouble · · Score: 2, Informative

    what ......like this?LOL

    membership of that site required tho ;)

  8. Re:What is limewire? on RIAA Now Blames Journalists For Its Piracy Trouble · · Score: 1

    i cannot believe they missed soulseek!

    i have heard it said :P it's great for finding those obscure, hard to find single tracks and albums

  9. Re:No, it is theft. on Witcher 2 Torrents Could Net You a Fine · · Score: 1

    erm....species..eh? and what happens IF you try to invade of threaten "their territory"??? their will bite, sting or carve yer ass because you have invaded "their space". animals are territorial..... they need their space... i could go on... but tbh i cannot be bothered

    i hope you find comfort in your cloud cuckoo land...

    just because you might think an idea is how it should be bears no reflection on the cold hard facts of reality that day to day life is lived in.

    why don't you give me access to your bank accounts and i shall redistribute it amongst my friends as beer and weed? no? didn't think so.. as that's YOUR stuff....

  10. Re:No, it is theft. on Witcher 2 Torrents Could Net You a Fine · · Score: 1

    well logically if there is no property there can be no theft. anyone can take anything as it doesn't belong to anyone.

    "property is theft" is an an idiocy really... pie in the sky.. people just want "stuff" for many reasons they just "want it".

    this is the real world where people want their own stuff, not some 1840's french anarchists pipe dreams......

  11. Re:Ultra thin... on Ultra-Thin Alternative To Silicon · · Score: 1

    i was thinking more proportionate boob implants for skinny chicks :P

  12. Re:Intended Reaction? on Witcher 2 Torrents Could Net You a Fine · · Score: 2, Informative
    property is theft was first coined by a french dude called Proudhon in the 1800's.

    even Marx criticised it as bollocks.... ok he never actually said "bollocks" but that's what he meant..LOL

    here is a quote from the wiki

    Karl Marx, although initially favourable to Proudhon's work, later criticised, among other things, the expression "property is theft" as self-refuting and unnecessarily confusing, writing that "... 'theft' as a forcible violation of property presupposes the existence of property..." and condemning Proudhon for entangling himself in "all sorts of fantasies, obscure even to himself, about true bourgeois property."

  13. Re:Great...now just one more issue.... on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 1

    quite right, i was ecently in the states and they asked me to go through the scanner

    due to having two courses of radiotherapy over the last two years i declined and asked for a pat down

    one of the guys at minneapolis where i arrived in the states was a complete dick about it and seemed incapable of understanding my reasoning

    however i asked for a supervisor and explained my case and her was quite understanding and i got the pat down which wasa fondle-fest in both the genital area and the ass crack was in front of EVERYONE... blatantly. i would have thought it was to be done in a private room but nopes.. front centre

    i got the same on the way back ay Denver airport when i began my journey home to Scotland

    i'll still take the pat down instead of the irradiation thanks very much

    as to "Falsified"'s comment below... the effects of radiation can be cumulative which is why pilots are not happy about being asked to go through the scanners and why i wasn't happy after my radiotherapy on top of the flights(3 there and 3 back) and thus it CAN be a worry

  14. Re:Not quite on Security App For the New German Personal ID Hacked · · Score: 1

    aye it was the National Bard of Scotland Robert Burns

  15. Re:burst on Dutch ISP Demos Symmetric 100Mbps DOCSIS3 · · Score: 1

    i am with the UK ISP mentioned by the AC above and it's 24/2.5 ADSL2+ utterly uncapped and i FTP plenty of files fdor work and stream video etc till the cows come home, download like a madman and no complaints from my isp.

    i once pushed them on the contention ratio being 1:1 and was informed that it was a "virtual 1:1 contention ratio" , peforms well enough as i am close to the exchange(400 meters by wire)

  16. Re:Great on UK Reviewing Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    i am already in America atm..LOL..... i am in denver(englewood) at the moment and the prices are nothing like that at all

    prices seem reasonable and not at the level you are quoting at alland i have been partaking mre than frequently

  17. Re:Great on UK Reviewing Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    You'll note that even the biggest busts, e.g. the seizure of 30 tons of cannabis last week in San Diego, seem to have no effect whatsoever on either supply or pricing.

    $60 per 1/8th? not on yer life my friend. even in Scotland the finedst of herbal cannabis can be bought for £40 per 1/4 ounce. whoever quoted £60 per 1/8th is either the dumbest muppet ever to walk into a dealers path or it's a quote from the police/govt on "street prices". and those govt/police quotes are often WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY out s they can claim they have taken a higher value off the street than they actually have.

    in Scotland they claim that even the crappiest of moroccan "soap bar"(nasty hash) is £5 per gram, when in fact an ounce of that crap can be bought for £40 pretty much anywhere.

    when it comes to herbal cannabis then the police claim £10 per gram, which again is overly inflated as an estimate, when you can get a 1/4 oz(7 grams) for £40. and this isn't crappy weed , it's the likes of northern lights, laughing buddha, power plant and all sorts of primo herbal cannabis.

    the primary cost in growing is the cost of running the lighting.... those big puppies suck up electricity like you would not believe , however, new colour balanced LED's than run at 1/8th ther cost are becoming more popular and thus removing the big giveaway for the grower... heat signature. smell is easy to deal with by using an ozone generator or even a carbon filter system.

    however to recap... $60 per 1/8th?????? hardly

  18. Re:Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Arms on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 1

    mod parent up! .. spot on!

  19. Re:Good tactic on British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    without the DDOS attack the info would never have been accessible to those who took it thus , it could be said the DDOS was successful

  20. Re:Advertising? on On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking · · Score: 1

    from some tasty sufy stuff like link wray, to velvet underground, to some classic non soft rock to punk,alternative 80's, goth, EBM,Electro,Noize,futurepop,aggrotek but bsically anything i think is good, non chart, mass consumer crapioca

  21. Re:Obvious... on Mozilla Unleashes the Kraken · · Score: 1

    correction to the above.. i made a typo.. it's the i7 975 extreme runs at 3.3 stock

  22. Re:Obvious... on Mozilla Unleashes the Kraken · · Score: 1

    an i7 920 at 3.8 on a Mac?

    they run a 2.67 stock
    the i7 955 extreme runs at 3.3.. so mr AC... how you keeping that processor cool?

    are you actually using a Mac or a hackintosh sorta dude?

    what bios(for hackintish) settings and what EFI (for Mac)settings do you use to clock it to that?

  23. Re:200,000 dollars on Simon Singh Talks With Wired About His Libel Battle · · Score: 1

    as was most sagely stated above.......

    there is NO SUCH THING AS "BRITISH LAW"!!!

    England and Wales have the same legal framework....... Northern Ireland has it's own legal framework

    Scotland has had it's own legal framework.. separate from the english one.. ooooh.. lemme think.. since forever....

  24. Re:hard disk speed on Everything You Need To Know About USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    well..... with my coolermaster CM690 II advanced case

    i get a nice little tray on top in which you slot in a SATA drive .... it's got the eSATA built into it... very very handy indeed and my mobo has the eSATA port at the back as well...

    linky

    all in all it's the best case i have ever had in my life tbh

  25. Re:Mmmm on Scottish Scientists Develop Whisky Biofuel · · Score: 1

    Nonsense.

    What a horrible waste of scotch whiskey. :-/

    only if it's a decent single malt... if it's grouse, teachers,black and white, johny walker, chivas regal of any other of those cooking whisky blends then fair enough

    NEVER mess wtih a finbe single malt... especially islay malts! all you need occassionally with an islay malt is a tiny spot of water if it's too peaty