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Comment Re: That's not what Frankenstein means (Score 1) 132

Wrong. YOU are the one name calling. Have you actually READ the book? 'Frankenstein' is the doctor... not the monster.

Or perhaps the monster is the mad scientist who put together a patchwork revenant rather than the patchwork revenant itself.

Or maybe the article is using the patchwork part as the link.

Gotta love the pedantics who blindly pursue their pedantry in the face of fact.

Comment Re:Great Firewall of China is bad enough ... (Score 1) 270

I do not understand. I just can not understand.

China is a communist country, a country in which the regime is NOT elected.

They have their "Great Firewall" in place in order to protect their totalitarian regime.

Why in the world the UK, with a supposedly "ELECTED" and "DEMOCRATIC" government, want to follow China in erecting their "Great Firewall" ??

Well if you read Animal Farm you'd realise that it's a commentary on the fact that Polar opposites are pretty much the same as each other.

The conservative proletariat have long stolen from the communists in their drive to make the world bland.

Comment Re:not the Christians (Score 1) 120

That's because they weren't paying attention when their leader told them to stay separate from the world's political affairs. Or more likely because they were greedy, power-hungry idiots using religion as a cover for their ambitions.

To many words.
Christian suffices but Organised Religion covers it.

Comment Start with their UI experts and then.. (Score 1) 1009

Perhaps Microsoft needs to look at whatit's users want rather than constantly changing to meet a trend that's mainly over by the time it gets to market.

I dunno they seem to have a cycle where incompetent fools drive a release then competent fools fix the problem and are replaced by incompetent fools.

I'd start by shooting the fool who decided that making everything look the same was a good idea.

Unfortunately history suggests the inompetent are becoming more frequent at MS.

Comment Re:LOL WTF LMFAO (Score 1) 117

Seriously, what is the "trickery" that gets one to download and install this "Google Vx" application, and how many Chinese people does it take to read our LOLs? Is someone out there texting their social security number or bank PIN?

Yep they are. Peeps do most everything including texting things to themselves to remember stuff. Creating draft SMS to remember, not sure if that is sent to the server but probably. /guilty - Not of sending bank data but sensitive url's /shamed

Comment Re:How about NEW cars? (Score 1) 487

How many ran over heavy, jagged pieces of metal at highway speeds?

Probably a few given how the Petrol, gas for you foreigners, tank is usually less protected than the battery would be.

Reminds me of the hysteria paraded by the manufacturers / vested interests about how unsafe LPG, dunno what the yanks call Liquefied Petroleum Gas, was when it came out.

Vested interest screams loudly about the things it hasn't bought into yet.

Comment Re:Liberty is the only thing in danger here. (Score 1) 550

I would like to see a ban against completely ineffectual laws. How effective were the "bans" on guns in movie theaters, malls and schools?

No law protects against those mentally ill or just plain evil. Unfortunately I'm not sure where the American love of assault weapons fits into that analogy but it's one of the choices.

As Australia, and many other countries, have shownlaws banning access to specific types of firearms does work. It needs the willpower not to be bought by vested interests and the sanity to hold firm.

Comment Re: In other news (Score 1) 663

Ill never own one either, but keep in mind those chargers are shit and break. Its not that hard off the beaten trail to assume they are trying to protect their brand by eliminating the levels of suck.

Ah so because the clone is crap the Ebil Fruit Empires actions are OK.

They aren't protecting themselves from levels of suck up it seems.

Comment Re:Awesome (Score 1) 582

The truth doesn't need anyone 'standing behind it.' It is self evident. Individuals (or societies) who ignore it will end up chewed apart by it eventually. Whether the argument is made by 'anonymous' or 'john smith' is immaterial.

That's so seriously shallow you must have got it off a cereal box.

The truth needs to be nurtured to fight the efforts of the wankers of the Earth like #newscorpse etc.

I have no issue commenting under a pseudonym and supplying my real name to the admin but would be restricted by the thought of professional harm if I used my real name.

Comment Re:Piracy! (Score 1) 323

Yes. Of course the cartel, oops the publishers, demanding Amazon increase the price of E-books year or so ago hasn't helped. Why an E-Book should be around the same price as a hardbook is beyond me given there is no printing, binding, lesser storage or shipping costs.

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