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Comment Re:two parties is a natural evolution (Score 3, Informative) 362

two parties the ultimate natural evolution of all democracies, and this is a good thing, despite you and your fringe beliefs, whether far right or far left. your marginalization is a benefit to the stability of your country

Rubbish. The two party system is a consequence of our first-past-the-post electoral system, a vote for any other party is wasted. Also, this is a bad thing because people will vote for the least-worst option, rather than the best, the Conservatives will swing the marginal seats they require to win the next election in the UK. Most people are effectively disenfranchised.

Comment Re:Copyrights are going to be forgotten (Score 2, Insightful) 280

As technology improves, we are eventually going to forget about copyrights;

The way things are going, it looks like you're right. They're going to be completely forgotten, right about the time people start completely forgetting their moral obligation to pay the artist. That's right about the time that culture will (almost) completely be wiped out.

So true, look at how there was no culture at all before copyright.

Comment Re:*readies his version of IDA* (Score 1) 235

Rubbish, there’s no required payment. Microsoft choose to load this on people's PCs whether the customers want it or not. There's no contract between the customers and MS for this software. You buy the PC, you do what you want with, it's called ownership. I don't ask people to put ads on websites and I block them; I'm not morally obliged to read them.

Submission + - Best digital SLR for Beginners?

serveto writes: My daughter (fourteen) is interested in photography and would like to buy a camera. What would you suggest as a good entry level SLR? The budget would be around 250GBP, which would mean a street price of $250.

Comment Re:My experience with Ubuntu (Score 1) 891

I've got two Thinkpads ("designed for XP") that have different wireless chipsets. Both up to date with service packs and drivers. Under XP one will connect about 80% of the time, the other 20% I need to reboot, but it won't connect to a hidden SSID. The other connects about 50% of the the time and although it's set to automatic I generally need to do it manually, the other 50% I have to reboot until I can get it to connect. I've also got a separate drive that I can put in a caddy and use in either machine. With Ubuntu (Intrepid and Jaunty) it connects every single time, hidden SSID or not. If I switch machines I use wicd to change the wireless device and it connects straight away. For these two machines Ubuntu blows XP away for wireless connectivity.

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