It used to be you'd get a cool movie or a cut scene epilogue after completing a game and that was a satisfying way of wrapping things up. I finished Civ5 with a Space Race victory after 5 solid days of play, crashes, recovery, AI cheats, and gross over-simplification and what do I get? A dialog saying "Congratulations on your space race victory, do you want to continue playing?" Whoopee-doo... If I'd known that's what I'd get for my £30 and 5 days of struggle with that buggy POS, I'd never have hit the Purchase button. Why should I keep hitting the feeder bar if the food pellets are made of sawdust and ashes?

If you're really worried that they're going to download CP or troll the POTUS, then you probably just shouldn't do it at all. Yeah, the internet is epoch defining communication tool and a great source of entertainment but I seriously doubt your neighbours' lives are going to grind to a halt if they can't browse Craiglist for the next single woman to keep in their chest freezer.

Yes, that would work because everyone working for police IT departments are complete idiots and would never think about imaging the drive as soon as they get their hands on it, getting you to unlock an imaged drive then running a comparison with the unmodified image after you "unlock" the partition. Even if they did they'd never think of charging your clever, clever self with perverting the course of justice and tampering with evidence along with the original charges and reporting at the sentencing hearing that you tried to impede the investigation. They also never read Slashdot, Ars Technica, 2600, or any of the other sites where this infallible solution is regularly discussed. Thank goodness.

Completely untrue. During the Troubles in Northern Ireland most RUC officers carried guns (and still do) and and it was common for politicians to have and carry guns for self-defense. In fact, "self defense" is still an acceptable reason for applying for a Firearms Certificate in NI, where gun ownership rates are significantly higher than the mainland.

In my 38 years in the UK, I owned pistols (.22 and 9mm) for 6 years, until Dunblane. The ban did affect me - I had to surrender property I'd never misused and got no compensation for it because the pistols I owned weren't on the police price list. I was also forced to give up a sport I enjoyed and lost touch with all the friends I'd made. The ban was a massive overreaction and to this day most people in the UK don't understand that the reason it was brought in wasn't because the gun owners couldn't be trusted with their firearms but because the police forces couldn't be trusted to administer the laws. A lot of people died in Dunblane because Central Scotland Police failed to investigate Thomas Hamilton despite concerns and complaints from the local community and gun clubs in the area.

Plenty of gang members carry guns around London too, but somehow I doubt you see more of London than your flat, your office, and the whole foods store. Sadly, your attitude is all too typical in British community life - happy to revoke rights and privileges you choose not to exercise, whilst simultaneously demonising those that do. It's called Tyranny of the Majority - glad to see you're doing your part.

Laws based on fixed speed/rules suck. There should be only one offense: driving dangerously under the conditions. Traffic police should be required to prove that it was dangerous every time.

Ha - you wish! The purpose of the rule of law is that everybody knows where they stand with respect to the law - and that sometimes means arbitrary limits are placed on behaviour. You might not agree with what limits are set but here's a thought: tough titty. Posted speed limits are simple, unambiguous (unless the signs are unclear), and easily tested. They're not unfair as long as they apply to everyone. Except coppers (sadly).

You seriously want to waste a court's time when you know you're in the wrong? When they've got murderers and armed robbers and sexting teens to deal with? There's fighting the man, and there's being a bit of a narcissistic arse...

Ass. Censorship is suppressing information you don't want people to see. Coercion is when you make people do what you want against their will. Imprisonment is when you lock up people you don't want to see. They are different words because they are not the same thing.

Wow. The overheads needed to manage a rota must be fucking staggering

Yes, because it's free to put things in the post.

Oh, wait... The Postal Service don't do it from the grace in their fairy slave hearts, they expect to get paid to deliver the goods, even on a Saturday?! Unless they pay the staff extra on a Saturday, then I can't see what USPS's problem is.

Dunno about the US, but in the UK about 40% (so I hear) of people are single and don't have anyone waiting in all week for a big parcel to arrive. Saturday's about the only day I can get a parcel delivered to my house. Any other day, and I have to wait a couple of days before collecting it from the depot a couple of miles away.