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  1. Re:Out of step with reality on Hungarian Law Says Photogs Must Ask Permission To Take Pictures · · Score: 1

    Not the UK, only England.

    There has never been a UK wide NHS.

    The UK tried to stop people photographing the police but the law has been dropped.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

  2. Bazzer on Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade · · Score: 0

    Still seems to play the wife's Manilow I'm afraid.

  3. Re:Just England on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure Berwick wants to move back with us.

    We used to have Carlisle too. It's not in the Doomsday book because it wasn't in England at the time.

  4. Re:Just England on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    We have lots of space, you're welcome to move here.

    Just watch out for the midgies.

  5. Re:Just England on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    Well hopeful not after the referendum.

  6. Just England on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    The riots are only in England, Cameron can leave the rest of us alone.

  7. UK government doesn't have powers over power. on UK Sticks With Nuclear Power · · Score: 2

    The Scottish Government doesn't agree.

    http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2011/05/31082406

    Westminster aims to recover the power to build nuclear stations in Scotland with the passing of the Scotland bill/Calman commission. We export electricity to England as it is so perhaps the next generation of nuclear stations will be so safe they can be built in Battersea where it's needed.

  8. Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I suspect most people aren't that bothered by picture quality.

    DVDs are handier than tapes, you don't need to rewind.

  9. Phones, tv and wifi on New Houses Killing Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    We moved from a '70s to a brand new house two years ago.

    My Elgato stopped working, the BT Homehub signal doesn't make it to the garden (the Apple TImeCapsule does) and my phone battery doesn't last as long as before.

    Other people moved into the street and said they wouldn't bother getting a land line so we see them standing in the front garden to make phone calls.

    Heating bills are lower.

  10. Kirk on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    I don't know about other people having sex in space but I'm sure that Captain Kirk KAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHN!

  11. Re:Isn't his the opposite approach? on Man Repairs Crumbling Walls With Legos · · Score: 1

    You can build a whole house with Lego if you want to.

    http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/james-may-lego

  12. Re:Let's get this out of the way, shall we? on Apple Quietly Goes After Mac Trojan With Update · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, it's like coppery.

  13. Re:Australia? on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 1

    Monty Python,

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruces_sketch

    And Pixar called one of their Australian sharks Bruce in "Finding Nemo".

  14. Re:Immoral is what it is on What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought it was an "I Got Yew" tree.

  15. Re:Smartphones and Flip Format on What's Happened In Mobile Over the Past 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Flips are harder to use when you're on a bike. Ordinary ones I just have to pull out of my pocket and push the green button which I can do with one hand.

  16. Re:What he really cares about... on Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" · · Score: 1

    Aluminium magnets? Are they transparent?

  17. Re:Great! on BBC Planning To Launch Global iPlayer VoD Service · · Score: 1

    This League of Gentlemen film?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052997/

    It's great and very much ahead of its time in the way it took the micky out of the English establishment and in its presentation of gay issues.

  18. Re:The UK isn't a country on Windows 7 Released Early In UK · · Score: 1

    I did when I lived there and you hear them on the TV/radio. BBC presenters rarely get it wrong these days.
    George Harrison doesn't seem to have differentiated between Britain and England either, check the original version of the cover for Somewhere in England,

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_in_England

    but I think we can forgive him for this.

  19. Re:Ride a bicycle on Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?" · · Score: 1

    What on Earth are you talking about?

    I take it you have backed off from your earlier statement or do you still hold to it?

    Try to make sense next time.

  20. Re:Ride a bicycle on Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?" · · Score: 1

    No, I mean kill rate for the non occupants.

  21. Re:Ride a bicycle on Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You changed your proposition. Specify what you mean by "never position yourself in the blind spots of large vehicles". I'm not clear on how anybody could avoid that. I don't ride up the left hand side of them but I could be behind one and not be visible in their mirror thusly I would be in a blind spot.I over take them on the right unless they are signalling to turn right.

    Pavements and red lights I don't do unless you include using drop kerbs which let me get into my driveway as riding on the pavement. Why would I ride on the pavement? The road usually has a better surface. Why would I ride though a red light? I'd come off worse in a collision.

    Have you checked the kill rates for cyclists and cars? Do you still stand by "Cyclists are all - without exception - the most dangerous road users."? Or does it look like a silly comment? You are really saying that 43 year old me on a Brompton riding to work is more dangerous than a beered up 17 year old with no insurance driving an Astra with more power going to the woofer than an African village uses in a year?

  22. Re:Ride a bicycle on Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?" · · Score: 1

    I ride a bike to work every day and I don't do any of the things you list.

    Some cyclists do fit cams to record car driver behaviour. I don't as they usually fit on helmets and I have better things to spend the cash on.

    Check the kill rates for cars and cyclists.

    Review your comments.

  23. Genius on Personalized In-Game Advertising In Upcoming Titles · · Score: 1

    A little like iTunes Genius feature?

  24. Re:Surprise? on Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter · · Score: 1

    MacPlaymate.

    I've got it on an SE/30 in the loft.

  25. Re:depends on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 1

    I'm currently using a Brompton for a 10 mile each way commute (Glasgow, Scotland). I have used it for 19 miles in the past. I have a couple of faster Bromptons now so I wouldn't mind doing that kind of distance again.

    In the last three years I've only used the car once when I had to pick someone up from the airport after work.