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  1. Re:An election's coming, apparently on UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    I would love to know what you think constitutes a betrayal after the Scottish independence vote...

  2. Re:An election's coming, apparently on UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    Labour were making the same noises about the same tax changes that Osborne just announced, so yes, it will happen.

  3. Re:An election's coming, apparently on UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He will do because its a big topic over here in the UK, and has been for a while.

    Personally, I applaud Osborn for doing it - for once we aren't saying "hey, you know those rules we made for you to adhere to? Well, we have decided that there are these other 'rules' as well which we would like you to adhere to, and we will say nasty things about you if you don't. Are they legally binding I hear you ask? Well, no, but that won't stop us from thinking you should be restricted by our second set of 'rules'..."

    Instead, we are actually getting something done about the rules under which companies should be paying tax. As a lot of people have said all along, fuck the spirit of the law, apply the actual law. If the law doesn't say what you want it to say, change it. Don't try and bully people into following your additional 'voluntary' rules which you want to make over and above the actual laws.

  4. Re:Yes he's right on The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty · · Score: 2

    Theres a difference between being *right* and *having people agree with you*.

  5. Re:No thanks... on Windows 10's Biometric Security Layer Introduced · · Score: 0

    It is clearly intentionally deceptive. There is no excuse for this behavior from a corporation who expects people to trust them.

    No, it really isn't.

    But then people like you will strive to find arguments against the things you dislike.

  6. ... this won't last.

  7. Re:what's the point on Top-Secret US Replica of Iran Nuclear Sites Key To Weapons Deal · · Score: 0

    Bullshit - check up on current relations between Israel and the surrounding countries, both Egypt and Jordan are on good relations with Israel. The "surrounded by countries who want to destroy Israel" is a load of propaganda bullshit. Sure, some countries have issues with Israel, its creation and its actions, but that's nowhere near the same as your statement.

  8. Re:Or, it could be unrelated to actually extending on Elon Musk Pledges To End "Range Anxiety" For Tesla Model S · · Score: 2

    Many towns and cities in the UK don't have off road parking, and onroad parking is not allocated so there is no guarantee that you can park within 50 metres of your home. Add in the fact that theres a pavement between the road and your house, and electric vehicles are out for more than 50% of the UK driving population.

  9. Re:feels manufactured. on Elon Musk Pledges To End "Range Anxiety" For Tesla Model S · · Score: 2

    Jeremy Clarkson from the BBC's top gear has done everything in his power, for example, to cast a very negative light on even the most powerful hybrid and electric vehicles.
     

    Really? Did you see the BMW i8 Hybrid piece a few weeks ago? The one where he chooses the hybrid over the traditionally engined car at the end of the segment? The one where he likes the car for what it is?

    Stop with the bullshit that Clarkson hates hybrids or electric cars - he hates shit cars, so shit cars get hated on by him and the Top Gear team.

  10. Re:Leak? on Google Error Leaks Website Owners' Personal Information · · Score: 1

    Tell me where I can submit a free request and get back full ownership details for either a building or a vehicle - both of those are restricted in the UK.

  11. Re:Leak? on Google Error Leaks Website Owners' Personal Information · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And why not? Why shouldn't domain owners have privacy?

  12. Re:Google Product on Google Code Disables New Project Creation, Will Shut Down On January 25, 2016 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So what happens when you have uploaded 100TB to Google NearLine and in a year they discontinue it?

  13. Re: This sucks. on Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66 · · Score: 1

    You assume that the original KJV translation used the correct translation of the original material, and that our later translations don't. Its not as if the Bibles we have today are an update done from the KJV, they are a fresh translation done from original materials, so yes our understanding of the language may have changed since the 16th century, but you can still go back and cross examine different bible versions - which is why serious bible studies are done with half a dozen bibles on your lap, and Church of England vicars need to learn Hebrew.

  14. Re:The author is not an American... on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    Reads well to me - to become law it needs to be passed in the Senate. To be passed in the Senate, it needs to be introduced by a Senator, no one else can introduce a bill into the Senate. And this bill has no Senator signed on as a sponsor of the bill, so it can't be introduced into the Senate, so the Senate cannot pass it, so it cannot become law.

  15. Re:Is it sad that it is old hat on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that works for crack houses and drug dens, doesn't it?

  16. Re:Not going to end well on Google's Angular 2 Being Built With Microsoft's TypeScript · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, it "worked out" with Microsoft opening up Entity Framework, ASP.Net, vNext, .Net, C#, F#, Typescript and a host of other things, on the industry standard platform for open source projects, GitHub, using the industry standard SCM for open source projects, git.

    How did it "work out" in your mind? Because from where I'm standing, open source won, it embraced and extended MS...

  17. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on UK ISPs Quietly Block Sites That List Pirate Bay Proxies · · Score: 1

    Let me introduce you to the rule of law, where *intention* has very strong weighting on actions being judged.

    Google *intention* in their actions is completely different to The Pirate Bays *intention* in their actions.

    Put this particular issue, as in blocking sites proxying torrent sites, in front of a judge, and the judge is simply going to say its an acceptable action by the ISPs, as the *intentions* of the sites in question is to circumvent a legal court order. Judges dont like their orders being circumvented - the correct approach is to over turn them.

  18. Re:System worked, then? on On the Dangers and Potential Abuses of DNA Familial Searching · · Score: 1

    How often does that *not* happen during a police investigation - everyone who is interviewed or classed as a suspect that is later cleared undergoes the same "issue", its part of the process of the police investigation. If they had to avoid such an "issue", no police investigation would ever go anywhere.

  19. Re:We've redefined success! on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 0

    I live in the UK, and all of the above stands for both sexes.

    Annulments can be asked for by either party, and if you back it up with enough evidence then the judge will grant it without both parties agreeing.

    If you father a child and you are not in a fit state of mind to do so, the other parent cannot exert their rights on you legally (and no, being drunk does not count as not being in a fit state of mind). Again, a judge will back this up if you present enough evidence.

    "There have been cases in the US where men who donated to sperm banks" - if you use a properly registered doctor and sperm bank, you are protected by state and federal laws against child support claims. If you use a doctor or bank which is not properly registered, then you will be liable. Nothing wrong with that.

    "men who were raped by women when they were underaged" - evidence please.

    "men who weren't even related to the child have been forced to pay child support" - evidence please.

  20. Re:We've redefined success! on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you are not in a fit state of mind when you get married, you can get an annulment. If you are not in a fit state of mind when you have the child, you can let the child be adopted or temporarily fostered. If you are not in a fit state of mind when you signed the mortgage, it can be nullified.

    If you are not in a fit state of mind when you kill yourself, there is no going back.

    I personally have no issues with suicide, even assisted suicide, so long as the person who has elected to kill themselves has done so in a fully concious, fit state of mind.

  21. Re:We've redefined success! on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    Can't we do both? Why does doing one thing (block the exits) preclude doing the other (treat the issue)?

  22. Re:And that's half the story on MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired · · Score: 1

    So why no contact with the outside world via any of the numerous systems available to the pilots?

  23. Re:What about military satellites on MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired · · Score: 5, Informative

    The satellites in question would have to be looking for the signal - GPS and GLONAS are passive systems, they send signals out in a broadcast sense, not a 1:1 client communication sense, so there is nothing for them to track.

  24. Re:What really happened: on MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired · · Score: 1

    And yet counterfeit parts are still a big problem in Asia-Africa airlines and maintenance facilities...

  25. Re:And that's half the story on MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired · · Score: 5, Informative

    They were also carrying a load of lithium batteries, which other passenger airlines refuse to carry due to past accidents

    You make it sound like Malaysian Airlines is the odd one out in allowing shipments, when infact the norm at the time of MH370 was to allow lithium battery shipments - sure, some airlines had bans in place already (Cathay, BA) but others such as United Airlines put their restriction in place just this month, while Delta put theirs in during February.