That, my good man, was beautiful in so many different ways. Kudos.

Thank you for saying what I was trying to get at but was too fucking hamfisted to actually get across. :P

Nope, I am talking about the American Budweiser and not Budvar (which perversely I haven't tried - and probably won't for the foreseeable future, thanks to my diet plan I can't drink beer). Mind you, this is when I want lager - if I drink beer (which I will probably celebrate with when said diet is over) I'd rather drink ale. Aforementioned Innis and Gunn probably.

Carling is worse than Budweiser by a long shot. It's standard cheap British beer for people who drink to get drunk. It tastes like shit. Budweiser is just an easy-drinking, decent (not great) tasting refreshing beer.

In the UK it's nicknamed "Wifebeater". The premium marketing here is nothing more than a desperate ploy by InBev to link it with prestige and class, as opposed to domestic violence.

It's not very nice lager anyway. Mind you I drink Budweiser* so who's kidding who here?

* it's a light, refreshing lager which is ideal for summer evenings, and it's a damn sight better than some of the pisswater we have over here like Carling. That said I'd rather have Innis and Gunn all things considered.

You can buy it in cans (certainly done so here in the UK). Why you'd want to is another matter.

The question isn't about whether she was lying. Nobody is contesting what the blogger has claimed to have happened

Aside from the TSA member of staff, who considers it to be defamation. That seems to be a pretty strong sign that they contest what happened.

Defamation is not protected by the first amendment.

The 1st Amendment does not cover defamation.

I'm not from the USA, and even I know this. No reasonable free speech law covers libel or slander.

So what you're saying is you've bought blacklights for your grow-op?

Those who don't want this bullshit can install the lovely Facebook Disconnect extension for Chrome, which removes any and all Facebook tracking from any non-Facebook pages.

Pain in the arse to have to install an extension because of one company's idiocy, but there we go.

RIM have somewhere near 40% of the youth market in the United Kingdom. Anecdotally, BlackBerry phones are quite popular for people who need functional smartphones for very cheap prices (I have a BlackBerry Curve 3G, which you can currently get for £10 a month) and BBM is considered a killer app for them given that it costs absolutely nothing and so is a godsend for those on pay as you go (prepay) tariffs.

Of course they're also still popular with corporate types. But they have a strong foothold in the personal side now as well. Certainly I prefer my Curve to the piece of shit Android phone I had before.

Those crappy devices are still smartphones, in the same way that Model Ts are still cars.

Symbian and WM were developed for the regular mobile phone market - before smartphones existed, and before IOS existed.

What on earth are you talking about? A mobile phone running a general-purpose embedded OS such as Windows Mobile or Symbian is a smartphone.

I can see the sense in having a disparity there. Leading a school or whatever in prayer is clearly going in favour of one particular religion, while views critical of religion as a whole do not exclude anyone.

People I hear saying that about BioShock either don't pay attention to the plot, the audio diaries, the setting etc or don't care.

It isn't a game for people who want to run and shoot things. Hell, while it's good (very, very good - damn near my favourite game ever) I'd hardly call it fun. A lot of thought is put into it but it demands the player put a lot of thought in too.