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  1. Re:Lawyers on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 0
    was the only bastard in there who *HAD* insurance, and m car was the biggest shitbox of the lot.

    Is inurance not a requirment to be driving on the roads in australia?

  2. Re:Lawyers on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 0
    The second one was a genius who thought backing his truck at a stoplight on Broadway in downtown San Diego was a good idea. He didn't get the simple concept that there is pretty much guaranteed to be a vehicle behind you. He didn't get the concept of a horn blowing behind you means you'd better stop, either.

    Did this guy actualy have a driving license that is just so DUMB but i guess you knew that, Have to tell the sad tale of a friend of mine he had just recently bought himself a new VW golf to replace his old pride and joy (he loves golfs)within half an hour of him picking his car up some scummer without any insurance or a licence ploughed into the back of him at 60MPH (double the speed limit) whilst he was stoped at the lights. This idiot hadn't even tried to slow down despite being able to see the car stopped from 100 yards away. Fortunatly my mates insurance company are taking this loser to court to recover the full costs.

  3. won't the on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 0

    Doctor who set this up get sued himself

  4. Re:Abuse?? Come on. on Getting Around Printer-Manufacturer Abuse · · Score: 0
    We don't *need* to print color pictures after all to live.

    is black cheaper? no it's not and try telling my dad that. Without the ability to print he wouldn't be able to send out invoices to his customer's and get paid so he can afford food to be able to live.

    Fortunatley he lives in the UK and can save himelf 20 ever fortnight about 500 a year not hugh saving but the main thing is it means some rip off merchants arn't getting a penny of his money.

  5. Re:Doesn't this scream DMCA violation? on Getting Around Printer-Manufacturer Abuse · · Score: 0

    dump the euro those europeon economy's with the strongest growth don't have it, those that od have the worst

  6. Re:But... on Losing Control of Your TV · · Score: 0

    Cracked by microsoft themselves a little patch they released (no longer available) effectively removed the copy protection from XP. A good job it did to otherwise i would spend ages with MS customer support trying to get them to change which Pc i could install it to

  7. Re:I fear that's the whole point on Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip · · Score: 0
    The Swiss and the French would be eating out of your hands for a start.

    of your moon surley?

  8. I'm glad i don't....... on Losing Control of Your TV · · Score: 0

    Live in the land of the free. Hang on there's something wrong with that statement.

  9. Re:Good to see... on Germany Muzzles SCO · · Score: 0
    How would you feel if before your big court case a judge told you you couldn't tell your side of the story to the media because he said so?

    I wouldn't be dumb enough to try and prejudice the case by going to the media because by doing so I am trying to gain public/jury sympathy and swing the result in my favour. If I kept doing this after being warned the case would be a mistrial, in no other country would Darl be able to put on the display he has without showing some evidence. Free speech is all very well but what happened to truthful speech

    Put it this way how would you feel if before your big court date your opponent was allowed to tell all sorts of lies about you, the judge did nothing to stop him and popular opinion went against you, but I suppose the truth doesn't matter just how well you can spin your case

  10. Re:Good to see... on Germany Muzzles SCO · · Score: 0
    US courts did something like this to a small business man (rather than to Satan)

    if a small buisness man was doing what SCO are doing then he would deserve it, anyway SCO is a small buisness anyway. Just because someone expreses an opinion on these boards does not mean they speak for all who frequent this site. it doesn't matter who they are big guy small guy it's what they do

  11. Re:Duh on 'Extreme' Web Sites Under Fire From UK Police · · Score: 0
    That was a corrupt dodgy coppers not a corrupt law any country that claim's to have 100% honesty in its justice system is lying badly, in the name of the father damn good film. I personally would not want to live in a country that did this to its own citizens even china would feel guilty about doing that. Even worse is because of the way they have been treated, any evidence gained under duress is inadmissible in a UK court so British prisoners can't be prosecuted here but the British government can't let them be trialled there as judges have a declared the situation unlawful and they have a duty to protect them even US military lawyers believe it is wrong

    Guantanamo is in the name of the father times by 100

  12. Slashdot..... on Borg Cube Case · · Score: 0

    Is an acidental DoS attack waiting to happen

  13. Re:A small clarification on BBC Discusses PVR Software, Creative Archive Plans · · Score: 0
    I know that they can trace a signal to individual rooms

    Actually that's just propaganda there detector vans are not very useful, with the amount of signals going around pin pointing a house without a license it is close to impossible unless no one in the street has a licence. They rely on a datbase of houses that have bought tv's, the reson you have to fill in your adress when you buy one. Then they send letters to those adress along with student's flats and anywhere else that they think might be avoiding paying. Sometimes they send out inspector's the Vans are rarley used, more to intimidate than any pratical use.

  14. Re:Wow.... on Minter on the History of Llamasoft · · Score: 0

    Meta mod parent up teach moderators to read comments before moderating

  15. Re:Atari ST emulation is the way to go.. on Minter on the History of Llamasoft · · Score: 0

    You get your Atari lads together and i will get my Amiga boys together and well meet in the lane at the back of school. Ah thoes where days i do seem to remember that by the end of my school years most Atari users had defected to the Amiga or gone on to PC.

  16. Re:Duh on 'Extreme' Web Sites Under Fire From UK Police · · Score: 0
    This makes a fearful society extremely dangerous because society is paranoid of its own citizens whenever it is paranoid without having to hunt the convenient piece of legislation

    That sentence makes no sense at all.

    Makes it hard to gauge whether a decision maker is overly biased..

    Not really as a biased decision will go against the precedent of previous cases the refreshing and updating only applies if there is something new and different about this case and the decision can be appealed and any bias will stand, current example being the Hutton report which stands out as possible the most bias decision ever made by and acting judge

    A dangerous decision made by a dangerous man can easily seem local and isolated

    Again this makes it more obvious (see Hutton report) that a bad decision has occurred and again no decision is totally final and is subject to peer review.

    This makes a fearful society somewhat dangerous, because only a very fearful society would dig through all that code to find that old junk which was encoded when society was highly fearful as a standard

    This helps the first sentence make sense but this does nothing to stop them trying to bring in new laws like TIA Governments change laws all the time to suit there bias.

    The amount of time someone like Bush spend yapping about it to the public to try to convince people betrays his bias and it's a signal clear as daylight that people need to be worried.

    Very true but there is little that can be done once he has got a law passed because "In the US laws are hardly ever refreshed and updated or for that matter thrown out." and then the judges are stuck with the bias something that is less likely to happen in the UK because "In Britain the law is constantly "updated and refreshed" because the judge can decide whether some section applies or not." so a judge is not stuck with government bias. Which is more middle of the road and which is more extreme a legally system that is hard to change even if the law is makes a complete mockery of justice (US) or a legal system that can change when the law makes a complete mockery of justice (UK)

  17. Re:Duh on 'Extreme' Web Sites Under Fire From UK Police · · Score: 0
    The will of the people needs to bow down to the law Spoken like a true dictator.

    The few Truly concerete laws that were laid down were done by Oliver Cromwell the UK's first and last dictator, (some kings and lord's have tried to be a dictator in the past but there were to many knives pointing at there back)and most of those laws were aimed at keeping cromwell in power and those who he disliked down. After he died cromwell was given a posthumous execution! hung drawn and quatered, he was an evil sod but why bother he was dead already.

    Amazingley Britains answer to Hitler and Napoleon came 10th in a poll of great britains, but you could only vote for what the bbc decided was the top 10 so in effect he came last

  18. Re:yet again on US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter · · Score: 1, Insightful
    you wouldn't give a flying fuck about wasting an unruly underground populace (that blends in with the decent people) who wants nothing more than to see you dead

    That's the atitude that turned the populaton of vietnam against american soldiers and who won that war.

    Victory is impossible without the support of the populace

  19. Re:Boeing on US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter · · Score: 0
    The fact is that slow, low flying aircraft are way too much of a target

    But even with smart weapons fast high flying planes will miss the target

  20. Re:I don't care... on US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter · · Score: 0
    Replacing the A-10 has never made much sense to me. But then, I'm neither a military professional nor a defence contractor

    One plane model is easier and cheaper to maintain than a mix it's not military but monetary value that is the deciding factor and as the A-10 won't ever be a fighter an f-16 can be a ground attack plane meaning the A-10 is the first for the chop.

  21. Re:I don't care... on US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter · · Score: 0

    The American airforce didn't exist as and independant Force until after ww2. It's the polititions who won't bang heads together and allow the air force to ignore the ground

  22. Re:So what? on Open Source Group Victoria v. SCO, Part II · · Score: 0
    where there's smoke there's fire

    You could just reply that there smoke bombs thrown by Mcbride and co.

  23. What a nerve on Nerve Cells Successfully Grown on Silicon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    these scientists have and now they can grow there own we must submit ourselves to our nervy silicon overlords.

  24. Eating is important on DARPA Offers No Food for Thought · · Score: 0
    Your body dosen't just need various vitamins minerals etc eating also help improve energy and reaction time without the potential dangers of stimlants.

    Eating well and getting some rest is probably the best way to recover from any activity.

  25. Re:Guitarist's are traditionalists on The Self-Tuning Guitar · · Score: 0

    Slight revison to the above studios are more likley to buy this for session work than induviduals