When developers in Russia stop accepting work for companies in the UK then I'll consider giving a fuck about them getting to buy the same fucking products at half the price that they're available to me.

Globalisation has to work both ways.

Yes. San Franscisco, USA.

What, California's now a country? The size of fucking China?

This is the bit that fucks me off.

IT industry wages are depressed because of competition in regions of the world with lower costs of living.

So I get paid less, but I still have to subsidise their fucking computer games? Sorry but that's just fucking inequitable.

I live in a country where people have been prosecuted successfully for murder because they killed the driver of a car that had been trying to run them over, and the fatal shot was fired after the car had passed them - by inches.

It's called the rule of law. The judges are compassionate, court cases take into account mitigating factors, the prosecution service can and often do choose not to pursue certain cases.. but people are definitely held to account if they seek to exact extra-judicial revenge.

Delightfully I live in a country where beating someone up because you don't like what they've done is illegal.

Maybe you should move.

Comically the BBC is currently getting bashed for supporting a book about assassinating a former British Prime Minister.

But verbal feedback is some way from threatening mass murder. I'm not sure that any movie justifies that, and particularly one that gravely offends some cunt with no sense of humour.

Yes Kim, I mean you.

Only to people that lack the wit to differentiate between "they're" and "their".

I'm not even joking. There's a whole class of hollywood comedy based around "stupid people being stupid" that just isn't terribly funny.

I prefer my comedy to be very dark (Old Boy - in Korean) or played straight (Blues Brothers or Monty Python) or situational (Ferris Bueller). Don't be giving me some badly scripted shit based on stupid people doing blatantly stupid things (Dumb and Dumber).

Hmm. Does that mean that literal translations are
Seppuku : Ritual disembowelment
Hara-Kiri: Stupid posh bloke killing himself

Oh, no. We'd spank you for being naughty.

Of course, everybody would laugh at all my secrets too. The police would arrest me. I'd get spanked too.

Spankings all round I guess. But you breaking in doesn't mean everyone should ignore my bad behaviour.

What, like picking up a gun off the shelf in Walmart, or committing the terrible crime of "being a child with a toy"?

..and fail.

Now they're guilty of assault but at least they don't have a family to miss while they're in prison.

erm. 6 for 6, given he was quoting 'harmful assumptions'.

Why, to the shadowy figure stood behind you with a beautifully crafted knife to your throat of course.

You, err, have actual evidence of this?

Law enforcement find that people they arrest for raping small children also have fantasies. Big fucking surprise. Still doesn't follow that A causes B.

This is quite tricky, given most pedophiles come under the category "Parents".

What if Google includes click-through rates by users in its search rankings?

People in Spain wont be clicking through links to Spanish news sites via news.google.es so Google will algorithmically have no choice but to deprioritise those sites in comparison to e.g. Mexican ones.

Of course, we're both assuming that Google are even allowed to link to Spanish news sites in search results - when I search google it shows me an excerpt of the matching text; if Google have to pay the news sites to include that then it's illegal for them to include those sites if they haven't paid.

Personally I take the view that it's Google's website, Google's index and Google that succeed or fail by whether the results they show meet the needs of their users. So let them make the call and not politicians.