Many thanks for your pity, but I'm English, not American. I appreciate that your comments probably apply as much to Britain as it does to the US (I presume that you don't necessarily mean South America, Mexico and Canada when you specify American), but I like to think that I don't just believe in the propaganda spewed out by governments and media outlets. I'm sure there's a good mix of sceptical and gullible people in the U.S., so it's a bit disingenuous to portray everyone as if they all think exactly the same.

I say! He just called us all savages.

Sir, I really must protest that although our savagery is debatable (I like to think of myself as a modern humanist rather than a knuckle-dragging savage), I do take exception to your surprising claim that we are all Muslims. I personally am not of a religious bent - I am a card carrying atheist (although the cards are just the normal credit cards and shop loyalty cards that most people carry around).

I am somewhat confused about what you mean by your "Asian militants" statement. Are all the militants coming to visit Britain (probably site-seeing - I do see a lot of Japanese tourists taking photographs of all manner of people, places and things) or did they all move here at an early age? My belief is that if someone has been living in a place for the majority of their life, then it's reasonable to designate that place as their nationality, so wouldn't they then become "British militants"?

I have met several Muslims who were absolutely outstanding chaps and in no way "savage", so I'm begininng to doubt your entire post as some kind of rant.

Good Day, Sir

Last time I was in Mexico (last year on holiday), I didn't notice any pro-US sentiments - just the opposite in fact. I don't think they've forgotten about all of their land that they lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War

I appreciate that English is probably not your first language, but can you stop using the exclamation mark (!) to finish every sentence? It makes your comments look like they're written by a crazy.

Mainly foreigners who are accused of wanting to say it with guns and bombs, but there's no actual evidence and no judicial process or civilian oversight.

I'm thinking of starting a class-action against Quality Street as the toffee penny is not a chocolate. Also, why do they put so many of them in and so few of the green triangles? There's the other chocolate covered toffee, so I fail to see the need for the un-covered toffee penny.

That'd be neat, but there'd be way too much latency to get any kind of accurate time display on a smartwatch.

So, you're a professional DBA and you can't even write a few sentences without using entirely the wrong words? How can you loosen a wire transfer? Your competent what?

I'd hazard a guess that your fingerprints are going to be all over your phone. (Which is why it's the stupidest biometric to use for a phone)

I've encountered that as well. Sometimes it's just an article that is on the Worldwide site and everyone in the world can read it for free UNLESS they live in the UK (and presumably pay the TV License fee). You can usually get to the content via other means, but they just erect ridiculous legal barriers to UK residents.

I don't see how consciousness is a "real" phenomenon. How can you tell by observing whether someone is conscious or is just following a certain set of complicated rules?

If it's real, how do you measure it? I personally believe that consciousness is just a by-product of our brain as a convenient way of formulating models of the real world, but doesn't actually exist. It's so easy to trick the "conscious" mind with false memories or mis-direction, not to mention the clear lag between actions and the conscious decision to make the action (the nerve impulses to move happen before the conscious realisation).

Maybe he keeps an (empty) one in hes back garden just for times when he feels like laughing a lot. He's a strange chap.

I think encryption is the key here. Doesn't matter so much where you store it as how encrypted it is. However, if you put it onto a device that can fit very easily into someone's pocket, then you'd better make damn sure that it's encrypted.

What I don't understand is why there's so many killings in schools that teachers need to be worried about someone looking at a website with guns on it. Do you Americans really shoot yourselves that much that you get scared when a kid looks at pictures of guns?

Unless you were there fighting the war, it's a bit disingenous to take on other people's war victories as your own. I'm a Brit, but I had nothing to do with World War II or any other war since then. Just being born on the same piece of land as someone else is a strange way of measuring your worth.