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  1. Re: Ugh... no thanks. on Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Has Cameras and a Huge Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate to say this, but shge was possibly suffering from the early stages of dementia. We had very similar issues with my gran, she was convinced the local council (uk local goverment) were watching her fridge. 5 years later, she now has end stage dementia. I do wonder if her fridge paranoia was a result of rationing during the war?

  2. Re: This is Republican-style... on Persistent Storm Detected On Low-Mass Star (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ISS? Why that's just one letter away from ISIS. NASA are funding the terrorists! We should cut all their funding and giv it to Donald Trump, derp derp!

  3. Re: Government monopolies are not fair competition on 'Legacy' London Car Hire Companies Lawyer Up Against Uber · · Score: 1

    Only the lives of the rich matter,as for the rest of us our lives only matter for the money we make for the rich and the services we provide for them. Anti regulation types (particularly USians) are just slaves working against their own interests

  4. Re:Not gonna happen on Physicists Gear Up To Catch a Gravitational Wave · · Score: 1

    Gravitational Lensing already proves spacetime curvature.

    Lensing Image

  5. Re: Can't turn them off? on London Police To Wear Video Cameras In Pilot Project · · Score: 2

    To have IDs to wear, they would have to have been actual police instead of the military dressed in ill fitting police uniforms.

  6. Re:Hmm on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 2

    I wax always really pro open source I used Linux since the days of Debian potato, libera/open office was the software that convinced me to give up on open source and buy a mac. It's just bloody awful if you have to do anything remotely technical, mail merges suck worse than anything I have ever known. Even with the latest libra office you still have to use a database rather than a spreadsheet, and don't get me started on the running that is base. It makes access 95 seem good

  7. Re:Libertarian Socialist? on City Councilman Resigns Using Klingon · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a libertarian socialist basically just be an anarcho-syndicalyst?

      http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism

  8. Re:What people are really like on Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split · · Score: 1

    I know I'm responding to a troll, but Social Darwinism, has been largely debunked as a theory , the great secret to the human animals success has been cooperation. If you actually look at how hunter gatherer societies that still exist opporate, food is shared out among the entire tribe and people work together without screwing over their neighbours.

  9. Re:Stop pretending Snowden is competent. on Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache · · Score: 2

    I used to work for a UK government contractor, some of the people I worked with are very very talented people, the problem is the massive layers of useless middle management and procedures designed to stop anything getting done not the coders and techies. That being said, despite being one of those "pinko commie" types, I'm far happier in the private sector where I can actually get stuff done.

  10. Re:UK Coal Miner Strike on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    Thats utter rubbish, I'm from a mining town near the Notts/Derbyshire boarder, most in Derbyshire struck and many in Nottinghamshire didn't, as a result we were the frontline of the Miners strike, and I know a lot of former miners that were part of the strikes.

    Thatcher closed the mines because she wanted to break the political power of Trade unions, the unions had brought down the previous Tory goverment. The pits would still be economically viable today if they had not been closed.

    As you can see from , we are now importing a large amount of our coal to fuel our existing stock of Coal fired power stations.
    http://www.edfenergy.com/energyfuture/energy-gap-security/coal-and-the-energy-gap-security

    To claim the miners were luddites who didn't want change is untrue, they were fighting to save the communities they lived in from a political attack, not to lock the country in the industrial dark ages.

  11. Re:Without restraint on UK High Court Gives OK To Investigation of Data Siezed From David Miranda · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the UK this week our Prime Minister lost the vote to bomb Syria because MPs from all sides (even his own party ) rebelled due to the strength of public opinion. The last time a PM lost a vote to go to war was the US war of independence. Democracy can work in the age of the Internet.

  12. Re: Give them an inch... on Leaked Letter Shows UK ISPs and Government At War Over Default Filters · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's because America loves free speech so much, they want to hear every word of free speech in the entire world. America F *ck Yea!