rnws - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Stop it! (Score 1) 179

by rnws on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @04:43PM (#27850977) Attached to: Virgin Media UK Pilots 200Mbps Broadband Speeds

I was a fiercely loyal Telewest customer - I always had great speeds and great service.
Ever since they got bought out everything's turned to crap. Tech-support on cheap VOIP lines from India that are so bad I can barely hear them - if the call doesn't drop in under a minute.
Link speeds a fraction of what I'm paying for - without downloading anything! Forget about watching iPlayer or YouTube. Downloads of any type (http, ftp, torrent all suck equally - I now download my Linux iso's in the office.
I am seriously thinking of ditching cable and going back to dial-up because the current performance of Virgin in our street is about the same.

Comment Re:That is it? (Score 3, Funny) 470

by rnws on Friday February 27, 2009 @02:31PM (#27014737) Attached to: Wife of Harried Pirate Bay Witness Gets Buried in Internet Love

Unless she is from Omicron Persei 8, then it should read: "I wuv U".

Submission + - Bush Administration Muzzled Surgeon General (scienceblogs.com)

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rnws

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @11:03AM

rnws writes: "The Scientific Activist blog is carrying comment on a New York times article on political pressure applied to the former US Surgeon General:

Yesterday, former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona testified before congress that he was subjected to extensive and systematic political interference in his work by the Bush Administration. From Gardiner Harris of The New York Times:

"The administration, Dr. Carmona said, would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison, mental and global health issues."
"Dr. Carmona said he was ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of his speeches. He also said he was asked to make speeches to support Republican political candidates and to attend political briefings.
And administration officials even discouraged him from attending the Special Olympics because, he said, of that charitable organization's longtime ties to a "prominent family" that he refused to name.
"I was specifically told by a senior person, 'Why would you want to help those people?'""

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