I am amazed that my frothy latte with chocolate sprinkles, a dose of cinnamon syrup and 3 sugars is only 5 calories.... :-)

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

I just wish everyone would lettuce alone....

...or you could phrase it as the UK that had to preserve the independance of Canada by burning down the White House... ..or the UK that assisted with the development of codebreaking and radar so you could win against the Japanese ...or the UK that got the US started on jet and atomic weapon technology

etc etc.

Does it make ne extremely low in the Drake equation?

It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere.... Red Dwarf

No even in these cases we believe that gun use should be controlled and limited. Your average UK policeman does not carry a gun, although I accept he/she can call on backup which does. The military is only allowed to play with guns when the Prime Minister says so...

Why not for intentionally snuffing someone? As a murder weapon, a plastic gun has a lot of benefits - you can simply melt the gun after the event and therefore eliminate a major source of forensic evidence.

Citation needed

Royal Ordnance (now BAE Systems Global Combat Systems Munitions)

Google is not arbitrarily farming personal data, it is providing a link to an item that was in a local paper. The information in the local paper is a matter of public record. As you have stated yourself, local papers should be able to have searchable archives and these archives should exist for eternity in my humble opinion.

I am not of the opinion that people should be screwed forever, but if I vote for someone I definitely want to know his entire history for a lot longer than 6 years. Every side has a chance to mud-sling and it should be easy for people to fact check for themselves. If one side is mud-slinging I want to be able to find out for myself if the mud-slinging has a basis in fact or is an unsubstantiated allegation. There is an equal belief in America that people are allowed to get back on their feet after screwing up - its almost a badge of honour to have a failed business startup and the big question is whether they learned from their mistakes.

From browsing your comments, you seem to take an actively hostile and abusive, ad-hominem line in your arguments when someone has the temerity to disagree. I think this law will gain "mission creep" and is antithetical to the idea of the ability to easily access information that the Internet supports today.

It explains how Han managed to shoot first.

Amusing, but on seeing this news article I can't help but wonder if Slashdot celebrated every 5 year anniversary with such enthusiasm. 95 isn't really a special marker, and this story is a bit of a non-event.

The Gonzales case is exactly about the archives of a local newspaper being referenced by a search engine - it relates to a newspaper reference to a property auction due to Gonzales having financial difficulties in the past. It is basically saying that such archives are no longer searchable or indexable online.

What this can mean is that if you're about to enter politics, you can clean up your record before there is a public interest defence and then enter politics with a shiny clean record.

I think that was the news agency, not the judge.