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Comment Re:Put your money where your mouth is? (Score 1) 335

You Americans are so cute with your fear of terrorists. You're quite happy for thousands of people to die on the roads, but one itty bitty terrorist attack and you go cower indoors.

Home of the brave my ass - you should try living somewhere with a real history of terrorism and you'd see we pretty much just get on with our lives. Some idiots blow up the tubes yesterday? Ah well, as long as mine is still running, I'll use it today with no changes to security. The IRA blow up another pub? Well, this one is still standing, so I'll have a pint. ETA blowing up shit all over the place? Can't let the fuckers win, so we'll get on with our lives.

But no. America has ONE attack on their own soil and they go mental.

Maybe, but what was the reaction of the British population after the first IRA bomb went off? Or after the first multi-pronged attack that killed 3000 people and destroyed two iconic skyscrapers in your "prestige" city? Oh, I guess that second one has happened yet. Lucky you.

Comment Re:Open to strangers? (Score 1) 926

If that were the case, wouldn't the city have to maintain my driveway and sidewalk to my house? Since they don't, it is private property. That and the fact that the technical term for what you are describing is an easement, which would have to be declared when the house was sold. So again, I don't think you'd get much traction arguing that my driveway is an extension of the public street, and by extension public property.

Comment Re:Technically correct (Score 1) 547

You seem to be missing an important point. Bags of cement and boxes of ceral aren't advertised and sold as "up to" 50 pounds (for cement) or 18 oz (for cereal). They are sold as that weight, which is why they normally weigh pretty darn close to that weight. Your comparison/complaint would only be valid if the ISPs were offering "8 Mbps", not "up to 8 Mbps".

Comment Re:The terrorist threat is overrated (Score 1) 502

Perhaps the reason other countries don't have to "meddle in other's affairs"" so much is because the US is doing it for them? The rest of the "free" world has pretty much outsourced the security of said "free" world to the US, so it is a little bit hypocritical to start complaining now.

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