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  1. policing is by consent on UK Law Enforcement Starts Seizing Music Blogs · · Score: 1

    and that soca notice suggests they have forgottn that so are legitimate targets for public contempt.

  2. Re:Not the only one... on Google To Digitize, Make Available British Library's Historical Holdings · · Score: 2

    technically no - I re-read the article - only the BL automatically gets a copy. The welsh like oxford have to request one within a year. The other difference is the copy sent to the BL has to be the same as the best edition whereas the rest are fobbed off with the same edition as the one currently most popular.

  3. Re:Jumping the gun a bit.... on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually it's orders in council.

    Judges have chambers, monarchs have a privy council

  4. Re:As a practicing Muslim on Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech · · Score: 0

    honorable enemy? don't you mean useful idiot to justify your warmongering?

  5. good for the cannucks on Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's about time someone started cracking down on the neocon hate mongers. I always hated this guys columns in the Times because they basically read like the views of your average school bully. Hopefully it's a capital crime.

  6. But would it really be a loss? on Wikipedia On the Brink? Or Crying Wolf? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I mean there's nothing on wikipedia that can't be found elsewhere - and often without the gratuitous vandalism that wikipedia specialises in. I can't say I've ever seen an article on wikipedia in an area where I have knowledge that wasn't wrong, misleading and/or vandalised. These days I tend to avoid wikepedia links in google because the time taken to check the facts in the wikepedia article for accuracy is time I don't want to have to waste.

  7. even better on UK Report Suggests Tougher Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    Reading the report it applies to video too so all those DVDs I've ripped to watch on my palm will become legit!

  8. Is this the same Bush on U.S. Government Developed the iPod · · Score: 1

    as the Bush that illegally copied his Beatles CD and put it on his iPod (beatles tracks aren't available in digital form in the US and ripping CDs is illegal in the US) Impeach!!!

  9. Re:Okay... on FOSS and Disabled Communities Out of Touch · · Score: 1

    and to the best of knowledge none of those whinge about how their particular disability should be pandered to - like the rest of us they get on with life the best they can. Nothing against that sort of disability but I do have a lot against those ablebodied people that make a living out of whiniging on behalf of the disabled.

  10. Re:Two words: on FOSS and Disabled Communities Out of Touch · · Score: 1

    Excuse me for not being impressed - sufficient of his work has been shown doubtful that the only reason he continues to have any respect is people don't want to be accused of beating up on the cripple.

  11. more dumbing down on FOSS and Disabled Communities Out of Touch · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why is society so determined to ensure that everything is produced to a standard that addresses the lowest common denominator. I really don't see the point in accomodating disabilties by crippling software. The whole point of a disability is the fact it renders certain things impossible and the human race is dead from an evolutionary point of view when we start putting more effort into pandering to the disabled rather than striving for survival of the fittest. Why should development of products I want and can use be delayed because some differently advantaged person might be inconvenienced. Soon you won't be allowed to get an oxbridge physics degree for the simple reason people who don't understand guage theories or whatever can't. OK we can't actually advocate the proper evolutionary answer to these problems because there are too many bleeding hearts out there and the tyranny of democracy rules but we can at least stop crippling ourselves and our tools for no reason other than pandering to the disadvantaged.

  12. so he survived on Arthur C. Clarke Reports From Sri Lanka · · Score: 1

    I've always thought that there was something a little odd about this chap ... certainly not what I'd call a reliable reporter. I think some fairly searching questions were asked a few years ago about quite why he lived in Sri Lanka - not so much a sex tourist as a sex exile I think was the substance of the allegations which to me fitted in with his fiction which I've always thought rather creepy.