A BBC new site article yesterday had this passage...

Whether anything happens as a result of those investigations remains to be seen. And in case you're wondering why there is no such action taken in the UK, the reason can be inferred from the next paragraph...

G2 on the stellar classification as I recall. Not hot enough to be white. Too hot to be orange. Yellow seems a good enough label.

I have heard of lynchings of blacks in the US where burning the victim alive occurred. I have no citations to provide, maybe someone who lives there knows the history better.

The "it was a different time" argument probably applies in that case but the current standard "western" cultural conventions are not shared across the globe .

This poll is really lacking an "I don't know/care" option.

My laptop is supplied by my employers and I use it for nothing else; indeed corporate policy says I can't. I don't travel for work and so for over 2 years on every working day the laptop is plugged into a mains supply during working hours. It has never had to run on battery. I guess I might find out if there is ever a power cut.

Actually, given this taste of the teenage mindset about christmas, my own theory is that they just didn't get Xbox Ones or PS4s as presents.

Yes, you did not say the Scottish vote was solely behind the majority so I apologize for misinterpreting your words. Just my over-reaction because of too much annoyance with the whole "there can't be a Labour government without Scotland" meme that I encounter too frequently.

The council areas where the vote was Yes, and I thought there were just three, do have one thing in common; they are the poorest in Scotland. So another demographic in the vote split does seem to be personal wealth

Fallacy.

Scotland has 59 Westminster MPs and historically about 40-50 of them tend to be Labour. The smallest majority of the Blair\Brown Labour governments was 66. Now 66>59, so tell me again how Scotland voted in these governments.

That's the real problem with the UK; the right-wing, swivel-eyed loons do such a sterling job with their propaganda that all of England automatically believes without question that there can't be a Labour government without the Scotland vote when it only takes simple fucking arithmetic to debunk.

So are you going to be honest and put "Can't do basic arithmetic" on your next annual appraisal?

This is all reminding me of an episode of Odyssey 5 where Ted Raimi portrays an AI that learned everything from those aspects of the internet and was inadvertently housed in a synthetic body instead of the nastier AI the body was intended for.

He turned out not to be the villain that the Odyssey 5 crew had been expecting.

A more useful algorithm would be one that evaluates if the decision is free from bias and not influenced by money.

Of course, finding the test data for it would be a bit of a problem.

Well, not really. See, the elite are not actually going to use those tests on themselves or their offspring so there are always going to be incompetent cretins put in charge of things because being born into privilege is divorced from any natural ability. They're not interested in making themselves better, only richer.

What this is really about is that they need an easy way to identify skilled workers. There is not going to be any state education so they need to be able to identify potential candidates from within the uneducated 99% and if a machine can just scan someone then that's their ideal solution. Something that's easy to use and gives results that are easy to interpret, obviously.

Yeah, it's a bit of an out-lier in the spectrum of brain injuries. All I got from mine are ataxia and diplopia which are things I can't see anyone wanting.

I enjoyed the hell out of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Singular. The sequels were shite.

Media Wars: The executives of established media feel they aren't getting richer fast enough and some Johnny-come-latelys who initially made their money through technology are stepping on their lawn.

• Be reduced to tears when you see the legislative ideas they come up with to protect their turf
• Gasp at the amounts spent on bribery, I mean lobbying