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  1. Re:Can you imagine... on Misunderstanding of Prior Art May Have Led to Apple-Samsung Verdict · · Score: 1

    No, you're insulting people that post considered viewpoints and making up ridiculous shit that you can't possibly justify.

    You're discounting the professional views of informed people that happily admit that they themselves couldn't have reached a verdict - any verdict - in three days and that it's pretty ludicrous that 9 people with no prior grounding in the issues can read, assess, understand and reach a reasonable judgement on such a complicated set of issues in that time frame.

    Now throw in the multiple statements by members of the jury that reveal that they didn't follow the prescribed processes and that they made demonstrably false assumptions. Add in the fact that they awarded damages for something they didn't find to be infringing and top it all off with the suggestion that they wanted the payment to be punitive and not just damages.

    I suggest you switch off your computer, disconnect your keyboard and sell it. It might stop you looking such a cunt online, but I can't promise that - the compelling evidence is that you'll manage it no matter how much we try and stop you.

  2. Re:HOW ABOUT SOME GENERAL DENISTRY FIRST !! on Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? · · Score: 2

    You ignorant shit. Teeth are not naturally white. Just because you damage your teeth by painting them (or scratching the protective cover off them) every day doesn't make our dentists shit.

    It means we spend less on cosmetic surgery than you.

    Hey, that's fine. I have no issue with you spending your disposal income on worthless vanity. But please, don't go pretending it makes you any better than people with a more mature outlook on life.

  3. Re:Why not in Cambridge? on Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    a large pool of experienced, well-qualified people?

    Because the locals suffer an unjustified superiority complex, the imports that went to Manchester Uni have an ego-inflated but still unjustified superiority complex and the city is a shithole.

    Well-qualified? Most people in Manchester are living in the 70s still. It's like stepping backwards in time. It doesn't actually matter how intelligent, experienced or qualified they are, they're unwilling and incapable of actually learning, improving and doing things properly.

    I fucking hate the place.

  4. Re:Why not in Cambridge? on Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? · · Score: 2

    Nottingham has tried it several times already.

    (...)

    *Nobody* is interested in setting up shop there

    Probably because the city council is stupidly anti-business.

    The local population doesn't really have a history of working in 'intellectual' industries. If you want a skilled or unskilled labour workforce then sure, come to Nottingham - but the manufacturing industry just doesn't employ as many people as it used to.

    Nottingham attracts a lot of students (and has a great university) but then suffers the self-perpetuating cycle of "There are no good graduate jobs"->"Graduates leave Nottingham"->"Businesses don't have a pool of talent to recruit from".

    Capital One paid rather over the odds to entice people to move to Nottingham when they set up there, but (many of) the brightest most intelligent people have left and gone to better businesses elsewhere in the country.

    Incidentally, you forgot Thomson-Reuters, who have a development house in the city centre.

    Owned and run as a secured building by the City Council, with the accompanying extortionate office rents.

    I rest my case. Shit, you haven't even mentioned the punitive anti-business car parking tax that makes Derby, Leicester, Peterborough, Grantham, Newark and even Melton fucking Mowbray more attractive options than Nottingham. ...and yet, the Government think East fucking London needs the investment? Stupid fucking corrupt MPs is my guess.

  5. Re:But actually living in London is a challenge on Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure. Live in London and spend 30 minutes crammed in a sweatbox with other cunts to get to work, paying over a third of your salary in rent.

    Or live outside of London and work outside of London, with a gentle commute and a disposable income that lets you enjoy life.

    If the Government wants to create a new industry fucking base it outside of the overcrowded under-resourced stupidly expensive shithole known as the South East. There are entire swathes of the country with affordable housing, cheap labour and strong demand for jobs of all types. So fucking invest in them.

    Fucking London fucking bias. It fucks me off.

  6. Re:its called HUGE tax breaks for R&D on Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? · · Score: 2

    Non-competes aren't necessarily unusual. They are however difficult to enforce.

    The courts use awkward terms like "Restraint of Trade" to back individuals' rights to go and get a job.

  7. Re:I call BS on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    So I take it you're going to have a proactive surgery to remove your prostate? (...) nobody really needs it...

    Erm. Actually, it's quite a sensitive organ that can play a role in sexual excitement.

    There's even a wikipedia page on prostrate massage..

  8. Re:I call BS on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think a 50% lower risk of HIV is a bad reason for circumcision

    I agree, primarily because there's no fucking evidence of such a drop in risk. Even amongst "men that don't wear condoms".

  9. Re:I call BS on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    Divorce the child abusing bitch.

    No, I'm not kidding. Yes, this would be a relationship breaker for me. Yes, I would demand that the courts give me custody of the child. Yes, I would fucking knife her before letting her mutilate my child.

    Why do some people think it's acceptable to mutilate children?

  10. Re:I call BS on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    Most of the women I've talked to about it

    Would those be American women, or ones from countries where the majority of men haven't been mutilated as children?

    But of course this is just one mans opinion, and those of his partners over the years.

    Which is my point. People get used to whatever's familiar. Women in America fear a natural penis, and that in itself is one reason they insist on mutilating their children.

    Luckily that trend has been changing and circumcision is far less prevalent in the US than it used to be. Personally I attribute that to improved educational standards, but I have no evidence either way.

  11. Re:I call BS on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the surgery required for an elastic organ, namely an adult penis, is more delicate than what is required for a fixed size organ. So doctors like to perform circumcision before puberty

    erm. Baby boys get erections too.

  12. Re:Lies on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    Please be aware of the strong deficiencies in the Ugandan trial referenced here:
    http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/05/when-bad-science-kills-or-how-to-spread-aids/

    At this moment in time there appears to be no compelling argument for broad scale circumcision across the population.

    There's no argument at all for circumcision of children. Please stop mutilating children. Just stop.

    Adult men can make their own decision whether to cut their cock off.

  13. Re:Lies on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    You obviously have a problem with mutilating children.

    There are no health benefits to boys from cutting off that part of their body. When they reach adulthood, they can choose to
    - have surgery
    - wash properly
    - risk infection

    What's the problem with that?

    STOP MUTILATING CHILDREN you fucking sociopath.

  14. Re:Burden of Proof? on UK License Plate Cameras Have "Gaps In Coverage" · · Score: 1

    record video in the areas you state

    Where the fuck did I claim that the speed cameras were recording video? "Filming" is an imprecise term - and ANPR is going to be pretty fucking hard without some image digitisation.

    But tell you what;

    Feel free to speed down the A52 in Nottingham. You wont get your photo taken by a film camera, I promise you.

    Feel free to speed down the A46 in Farndon. I promise you wont appear on film.

    Feel free to speed down the A610, the B6004 or through Nuthall in Nottingham. If you only speed when you're not going past the film cameras then obviously you wont get your picture taken on film.

    Of course, speed through any four of those locations and you lose your licence. Not a single film photograph involved. But hey, feel free to prove me wrong.

    There's irony here for sure, in that you prove my point by spouting sensationalist nonsense that does not hold up in light of the facts whilst believing you're somehow proving me wrong. You've done quite the opposite.

    Really? Then how am I naming specific digital camera locations? Shit, only one of those is more than five miles from the centre of Nottingham and you're telling me they're not commonplace?

    As I said, maybe where you live.

  15. Re:I left on UK License Plate Cameras Have "Gaps In Coverage" · · Score: 1

    What about British people that aren't from England?

    Or Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland?

    I'm British. I'm not English, I'm not Scottish and I'm sure as shit not fucking Welsh. I'm not Irish but I'll pretend if it gets me laid.

  16. Re:Burden of Proof? on UK License Plate Cameras Have "Gaps In Coverage" · · Score: 1

    Standard yellow speed cameras aren't even technically capable of filming everyone, they have no video capability and still use limited capacity film

    Wait, where do you live? Across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Lincolnshire where I do most of my driving the cameras are all electronic.

    The average speed ones in the West Midlands and Derbyshire work exactly by filming everyone.

    This really illustrates how far out of proportion kooks like you have blown the argument, if you don't even understand the technical capabilities of the devices you're suggesting can do more than they actually can then how can you be respected in a discussion on them?

    Ah, the irony.

  17. Re:I'd just call bullshit. on Creative Commons Urged To Drop Non-Free Clauses In CC 4.0 · · Score: 1

    Copyrighted work is not your property.

    My photographs of someone else are potentially not my property, even under copyright law. So no, I will not publish them under a CC licence without a non-commercial use constraint. I don't have the legal rights.

    My photographs are however my intellectual property. I get to dictate my terms for you to use it. As it happens, I'm pretty relaxed about that. Feel free to use a wall painting robot to decorate the side of your house with one of my pictures.

  18. Re:No on Creative Commons Urged To Drop Non-Free Clauses In CC 4.0 · · Score: 1

    More to the point, I don't have model release forms for my street photography. When there's an easily identifiable person in the picture, I can't use those images commercially, and neither can anybody else.

    There is however no bar to using them non-commercially, so I post them as 'free for non-commercial use'.

  19. Re:Why bother? on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have no issues with that. Rule of law, etc.

    Violating diplomatic conventions to get him though? Sorry, but that's just not justified. Even the threat (blown out of proportion as it was by Ecuador) was excessive and unnecessary, and shows that this isn't just a normal case with a normal suspected criminal.

    Ideally Sweden would guarantee non-extradition, Assange would go there and face trial, we'd find out whether he's a rapist and then the UK could issues a European Arrest Warrant to get him back here for punishment for jumping bail.

    Can't see that happening though.

  20. Re:London Policeman Obviously Supports Wikileaks on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 2

    Nobody "accidentally" carries a restricted document outside on the front of a clipboard.

    Actually yes, they do. Government ministers have had internal documents photographed while walking into Downing Street before now.

    This wasn't even a restricted document. It's handwritten notes, probably taken down during a briefing, and probably being carried around by a senior officer to make sure his people are all aware of the directions they've been given.

    "Policeman can write" hasn't been news for over a century.

  21. Re:Why bother? on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    How the fuck do you think he got into the embassy, without passing through a UK controlled area? One he'd been living in for several months, had appeared in court in a number of times, had been to police stations on a number of occasions?

    Getting him into a UK controlled area has never been on the agenda because he's been in one for several fucking months. The UK's only (public) interest in him is in meeting the terms of the European Arrest Warrant and passing him back to Sweden. That's the only reason the UK want him out of the embassy.

    The efforts that the UK are going to are excessive and suggest ulterior motives, but he's been living in the UK for several months and that is clearly a UK controlled area, you fucking idiot.

  22. Re:Why bother? on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    Depends on a number of factors. Would I shag someone sleeping if we've never shagged before? No! Even if she did agree to share a bed, that's not consent.

    Would I shag someone sleeping if we've been living together for a few months or years and I'd just woken up and she still had my sperm trickling out from the activity that led us both to collapse with exhaustion? Actually, she might like to be woken that way.

    Would I wake someone that way if I've only met her in the past week and I don't know her limits, her preferences, even if we did shag early that night? No. It doesn't feel right.

    Anyway, whenever I'm with someone new it's because I didn't have anybody at all just beforehand so I'd rather snuggle up close and just enjoy having someone asleep with me.

  23. Re:drugs on Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing · · Score: 1

    I became more aggressive, arrogant and had sudden mood changes. I just became much less emotional, more like a machine.

    Shit. I'm like that normally. I don't do drugs at all :(

  24. Re:In the UK you pay for the right to watch TV ? on BBC Criticized For Snooping Under RIPA Powers · · Score: 1

    AC wasn't me.

    Note that I didn't say in which channel those complaints were received. I believe those complaints were made via multiple complaint mechanisms, and not any single channel.

    Your problem is that your initial post indicated an extreme bias and you're just not receptive to criticism based on first person anecdote that counters your unfounded claim.

    No case to answer? You have no case.

  25. Re:It's not all graphics on CPUs Do Affect Gaming Performance, After All · · Score: 1

    You forgot the mouse manipulation subgame which punishes you for a single misclick.