In the UK there is DST as well but there have been some rumblings to introduce Single Double Summer Time (SDST) (yes, it's a stupid name). This would shift the entire time to be GMT+2 though all the year. It would deprive people in the north of Scotland of a few hours of daylight in the morning, which seems to be the main opposition. For the rest of us it would mean fewer traffic accidents. But ho hum, as long as the farmers are happy.

Well, no one should be surprised by this. No one will be surprised to learn that the banning of TPB has made no significant difference to the amount of traffic to it. The BPI like the RIAA sees every download as lost revenue, where the real link is that the most prolific downloaders tend to be the most frequent purchasers of media as well. The biggest impact on reduction of illegal downloading has been the introduction of legal services such as iTunes, Amazon MP3 store, etc..

Of course, posting this here is just preaching to the choir.

"Your honor, I object!"
"Why?"
"Because it's devastating to my case!"

Note to mods: the above is a reference to famous sci-fi Starship Troopers.

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There's a problem with that theory of yours. People on facebook tend to have their real names on their accounts, so the stupid/offensive things people say on there can be traced back to them very easily.

The thing is that people say both stupid and offensive things all of the time, but if you actually say them to another person, there won't be a paper-trail of it, nor does it have a potential audience of millions. As an example all of the people who say "my boss is a dick", only to have that shared by a colleague who has their boss as a facebook friend. Whoops. You'd probably say that to that colleague to their face, who might agree with it, but neither would say it to your boss' face.

Not those splitters again!?

-- The Penguin's Front of Linux

You must be new here..

It's been tried. Apparently it doesn't even qualify for indecent expose if you claim it's a protest..

Is that because those happy customers got their phones for free, courtesy of being Microsoft/Nokia employees?