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  1. Re:More SNP Bollocks on Scottish Government Targets 66% Emissions Cut By 2032 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not actual government debt and is based on the GERS figures that have one heck of a lot of guess work. As I have said the Scottish Gov isn't allowed to have any debt.

  2. Re:More SNP Bollocks on Scottish Government Targets 66% Emissions Cut By 2032 (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um...the Scottish government has no debt, it wasn't allowed to get any until the last Scotland bill (even then it is very constrained), the only debt it ,arguably, has is the PFI crap that the labour signed up to. The EU has not said no to an independent Scotland joining (even spain has not said that). What happened to the price of oil (now climbing again) can hardly be blamed on the SNP.

    Oh as for the healthier scotland crap...why are the unionist parties and friends doing all they can to block minimum pricing of booze?

    But facts never get in the way of a good yoon rant.

  3. Re:Rebellion against political consensus on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Scotland bought into Blairism?!?!? Since when? Scotland was the last bastion of old labour until too many Blairites got into power in the rotten "Scottish" Labour party, then well...They now have one MP and some how managed to be less popular than the tories in SCOTLAND!!!

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  5. Re:Wipe on Ubuntu Tablet Now Available For Pre-Order · · Score: 1

    Um the n900 (phone...well more kinda a pocket computer that made phone calls) was basically debian, nice bit of kit, shame nokia killed it. The Neo 900 showed promise, but that project seems to have stalled.

  6. Re:bunch of naggers on British Politicians Delete Negative Wikipedia Descriptions Before Election · · Score: 1

    I still don't get the problem with the SNP, they are a leftwing progressive party and would be a good fit with labour (might even remind them that they are suposed to care about people who are worse off). They might also have made the UK less so utterly london centric.

  7. Re:Simple answer on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    0 is a cold winter day, and 100 is a hot summer day.

    My what a objective scale. For me anything over 30 C is a hotday and anything below 3 C is a cold day. So 86 F is hot and 37.4 F is cold, doesn't quite work, does it?

  8. Re:Kinda ok, kinda not on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 1

    They will be sending the letter to the person who's name appears on the bill. If your that person and didn't do it, the point is for you to have words with the person doing it or have the name changed on the bill to thiers. Basically it's saying "Hey your name is being associated with dodgy activity, you might want to stop this, but over to you about what you do."

  9. Re:UK is not HIPAA compliant. US is. on UK Police Will Have Backdoor Access To Health Records · · Score: 1

    Which NHS? The rules for NHS Scotland I believe are different, different legal system and all (there is no such thing as a UK wide NHS).

  10. So glad there is no UK wide NHS on UK Police Will Have Backdoor Access To Health Records · · Score: 1

    Only applies to NHS England as there is no UK NHS, and never has been, for those confused (mostly in better together), the Scottish NHS is septate and always has been :-D. Thank god(dess) for our septate legal system. Out of interest does this mean all the UK police forces can have a nose about NHS England’s records?

  11. All the same on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 1

    The problem is MS current ad campiagn that pushes windows everywhere. This does not help the hardware bods, they can get stuff free (android) rather than paying MS. This does not help MS with an OS that sucks on anything other than a touch machine. MS is ignoring it;s corp customers, It thinks it can get off with it, and it will for now (one release of the OS) but is now on trial with the corps who are now concered about ms's comitment to them. I work in a SME (the core market for MS) and we are likely to nuke our last MS server and machine when XP support ends. Apple in some places and linux everywhere else. They play well with each other.

  12. Re:Yeah right. on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 1

    Erm, sorry to bust your bubble but MS wants apps they control. MS doesn't want to be open anymore if they can help it.

  13. I see what they're doing on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The ISPs don't want to implement this as it will cost them money to run so what they are doing is stymieing it by putting everything that could possibley be non-child friendly on the filtered list. Thus making the net largly usless to the majority of adults, thus getting everyone to opt out and then they can say to the gov, "look we implemented it, infact we went beyond what you asked". As almost everyone opted out they can put most of the kit they had tied up running this to more profitable use.

  14. Re:Should we transmit? on UK Steps Up the Search For Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Do you really think any advanced civ out there hasn't picked up that we are about? We have been broadcasting our existence for a about a century (or more). Anyone looking knows we are here for about 100 light years about. Should we broadcast....we have been for decades. That genie is well and truly out the bottle. Tis too late to worry about it.

  15. Re:If it makes you sleep well at night.... on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    Well my English friend, I know your English as no one from any of the other nations of the UK would think the way you are, England as well as Scotland ceased to exist as a state when the act of union was signed. A new state called the United Kingdom was formed, not an enlarged England. Just to make this clear England != United Kingdom. Anyway if your going to take the oldest nation that formed the UK Scotland was the elder nation.

  16. That explains it on UK Apple Shop Forced To Change Its Name · · Score: 1

    That explains why me and my fellow tramps keep being kicked out of apple stores when we ask them for white lighting or frosty jack.

  17. Re:And they are cheap... on Handheld Black Hornet Nano Drones Issued To UK Soldiers · · Score: 1

    This just in: short production runs of 160 pieces have an expensive per-piece cost.

    Paying off our establishment mates aren't free, buddy.

    -- BMO

    Fixed!

  18. Re:Not Bill Gates' Microsoft on Does Microsoft Have the Best App Store For Open Source Developers? · · Score: 1

    Where is shrill -1 when you need it.

  19. Re:Still sceptical on Electrical Grid Hum Used To Time Locate Any Digital Recording · · Score: 1

    Intelligent life on earth?!?! Where?

  20. Come on on In UK, Apple Must Run Ad Apologizing to Samsung · · Score: 2

    It would have been so much better if the judge had specified comic sans 24 pt.

  21. Re:Who gives a shit? on US Military Tested the Effects of a Nuclear Holocaust On Beer · · Score: 1

    Really, if I see a mushroom cloud and a 6-pack, the last thing on my mind will be "oh, I hope that's not irradiated." I'm getting WASTED!

    Funny, in that situation my first though would be to get as wasted as possible (the odds are your dead anyway before long so why in gods name would you not get wasted?)

  22. Re:Firefox on Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    Meanwhile debian will be on 6.0.6 (though they might still be on 6.0.5).

  23. Saw this comming on UK Gov't Reneges On Open Source Promise For Cloudstore 2.0 · · Score: 1

    The head of IT acquisition and the tech head of the civil service quit no long back. Thhe tories have got there mates in. (would provide links but...well hibs lost so am in no state to do so...see el-reg)

  24. Re:I'll bet that'll be effective on Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance' · · Score: 1

    hey the scottish gov is not backing them but is against the laws http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2012/apr/snp-condemn-uk-government-surveillance-plan yet another reason to vote yes when the referendum comes.

  25. Re:sad... on Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance' · · Score: 1

    oddly the government of scotland is http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2012/apr/snp-condemn-uk-government-surveillance-plan not that the bbc will ever mention it though.