Comment Re:Grumpy (Score 1) 558
Keith Allen also (two years ago I think?) did a documentary on a group of children with Tourette's Syndrome which, while very informative and surprisingly sensitive, was hilarious.
Comment Re:Chernobyl (Score 1) 413
www.tourkiev.com is the one my friends and I used.
They also can arrange apartment rentals in downtown Kiev (we rented a really nice large one just off Independence Square for about 140 Euros per night).
Comment Re:Dude, your dose must be through the roof ... no (Score 1) 413
I was there in May 2009 and I had much the same experience as you did.
Unfortunately my friends and I opted to join a big tour instead of paying for a private one; the stragglers from the bus constantly kept us behind schedule, eventually to the point that we didn't get a chance to see the KGB offices or the swimming pool, both of which we'd been promised a tour of. I was fucking enraged.
Anyway, we also had dosimeters and were told where we could and couldn't go. I'm not too worried about my kids being born with two legs.
I'm pretty certain I'll go back, and this time pay up for a private tour.
Comment What? (Score 1) 171
Maybe they should look at other, more effective road safety measures, like installing limiters for trucks that stop them exceeding 56mph (like they do in the UK).
Being overtaken by a tractor/trailer at 70+mph is quite disconcerting.
Comment Re:Not really (Score 2, Informative) 197
All six teeth, you mean? Well, we are British...
Comment Re:Government Services (Score 1) 318
Where do you live? Here in the Netherlands my 16/1 MB DSL costs me 40 Euros a month
Comment Re:I will happily give BBC more of my money... (Score 1) 246
Oh god. Between that and the fucking 'compare the meerkats' advert, I frequently want to put my foot through the TV.
Comment Re:I will happily give BBC more of my money... (Score 1) 246
Mod parent up. I live in the Netherlands and I receive British channels quite easily and freely via Freesat. Adverts and all.
AU Internet Censorship Spells Bad News For Gamers 152
eldavojohn writes "Kotaku is running an investigative piece examining what internet censorship means for games in Australia. Australia has some of the most draconian video game attitudes in the world, and the phrase 'refused classification' should strike fear in game developers and publishers looking to market games there. Internet censorship may expand this phrase to mean that anybody hosting anything about the game may suffer censorship in AU. Kotaku notes, 'This means that if a game is refused classification (RC) in Australia — like, say, NFL Blitz, or Getting Up — content related to these games would be added to the ISP filter. [This would bring up] a range of questions, foremost of those being: what happens when an otherwise harmless website ... hosts material from those games (screenshots, trailers, etc) that is totally fine in the US or Japan or Europe, but that has been refused classification in Australia?' Kotaku received a comment from the Australian Department of Broadband Communication promising that the whole website won't be blocked, just the material related to the game (videos, images, etc). Imagine maintaining that blacklist!"
Comment Re:Apple fanboys for another reason (Score 1) 1136
Arbeit Macht Frei
