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  1. Re:Drudge and other U.S. bloggers are next on Arrested Chinese Blogger "Confesses" On State TV, Praises Censorship · · Score: 1

    No prior to the 1920 act you could prity much own what you liked "The right of individuals to bear arms had previously been, according to the 1689 Bill of Rights, "as allowed by law".

    There was a moral panic just post ww1 that led to the clamp down - the new BBC's series "peaky blinders" has a major plot arc about guns immediately post ww1.

    Even post 1920 if you where in with the local bobby's you could own a Tommy gun for example as those who play call of Cthulhu will know.

  2. Re:This is disputed on Its Nuclear Plant Closed, Maine Town Is Full of Regret · · Score: 1

    as opposed to the hundreds of deaths per year in coal mining and oil extraction.

  3. Re:This is disputed on Its Nuclear Plant Closed, Maine Town Is Full of Regret · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most of the solar subsidy goes back to Chinese companies who make the kit - companies like BMW pay 100% more for power than does a similar company in the UK - thats not good for a country based around manufacturing like Germany.

  4. Re:Drudge and other U.S. bloggers are next on Arrested Chinese Blogger "Confesses" On State TV, Praises Censorship · · Score: 1

    UK law (which commonwealth countries derive their legal systems from) has the right of self defense (even for Catholics when they where heavily discriminated against) and before the 20's had quite permissive gun laws - post ww1 there was a panic about red revolution and the laws where tightened up.

  5. Re:No. on Emotional Attachment To Robots Could Affect Battlefield Outcome · · Score: 1

    Ah no that's your company clerk radar O Reilly or Norman Walter Davis Harriman who keeps the unit running.

  6. Re:No. on Emotional Attachment To Robots Could Affect Battlefield Outcome · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the paperwork required to requisition a new robot :)

  7. Re:Well, obviously on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 0

    and Brazil has form in having protectionist barriers which means that pc's are much more expensive in Brazil.

  8. Re:And that was 1984? on How a Grandmother Pioneered a Home Shopping Revolution · · Score: 1

    Not in the Uk its not :-)

  9. Re:Was it really the Grandmother on How a Grandmother Pioneered a Home Shopping Revolution · · Score: 1

    who I have never heard about (I worked for prestel back in the day) - and shall we say has a very gushing wikepeida page.

  10. Re:She was using PRESTEL on How a Grandmother Pioneered a Home Shopping Revolution · · Score: 1

    And you could certainty do some types of online transaction of PRESTEL at that time and that had been going for a while interesting that the Article makes ZERO mention of Samuel Fedida and all the work done At Martelsham and latterly at PRESTEL.

  11. She was using PRESTEL on How a Grandmother Pioneered a Home Shopping Revolution · · Score: 2

    And for fucks sake PRESTEL was far more than a dumb Videotext information service.

  12. Re:baren article on Crooks Arrested Over KVM-Based Bank Heist Attempt · · Score: 1

    I suspect that the cops had been investigating this before hand and let the attempted installation go ahead so they could actually have a crime to charge people with and arrested every one at that point.

    I suspect that the crew tried to recruit an inside man who shopped them to the cops and acted as a double agent.

  13. So on UK Gov't Outlines Plans To Privatize Royal Mail · · Score: 1

    BT have been experimenting with becoming a content producer since the 90's In a mega regulated telecoms market where else do you expect them to expand into.

    Murdoch makes a fortune from cable why should I as BT share holder not get some of that

  14. Re:fattening the cow on UK Gov't Outlines Plans To Privatize Royal Mail · · Score: 1

    Compared to the USA the UK has a much more deregulated telecoms market

  15. Re:Good on Michael Dell To Buy Dell Inc. · · Score: 1

    The argument is is that exactly what Mr Dell is doing taking advantage of a depressed share price to buy the company on the cheap.

  16. Re:Hell hath no fury .. on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    Conspiracy I woudl have said as well

  17. Re:Privitise the enforcement... on New Jersey Congressman Seeks To Bar NSA Backdoors In Encryption · · Score: 1

    what smiling at a white woman's email in the wrong way eh!

  18. Re:Pointless posturing on New Jersey Congressman Seeks To Bar NSA Backdoors In Encryption · · Score: 1

    Term limits just play into the hands of the executive it takes one full cycle to really get how a parliamentary system works and to learn the hard way how the system works - and how to play the game.

  19. And if your in deep shit I am sure that average squaddie will be praising those paper pushing artillerymen who drop a nicely targeted "immediate suppression" on the bad guys - just dont cock up changing the batteries on your gps units though.

  20. Re:Must also... on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 0

    Tet was fought in built up areas

  21. Re:User death imminent. on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 0

    Thats why squaddies Do not like the idea of battlefield life signs monitors - as told me by a RSM.

  22. Re:There is a little history in that fiction ... on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 1

    yes the German helmet in ww1 originally had fixings for a face mask they tied it out with the storm troops late in the war

  23. Re:Air Conditioning... on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 1

    water is heavy you want to save your carrying capacity for important things like ammo,spare socks mars bars etc

  24. Re: "warfighter"? on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 1, Funny

    And the Chicks dig it

  25. Re:the phone issue is the most annoying on How Gen Y Should Talk To Old People At Work · · Score: 0

    um how do you express a complex point in 140 chars we dont write system specs as haiku for a very good reason