Simply putting three characters in every post means nothing, as any AC could do the same pretending to be you. Like I care, or it matters.

When I joined /. all those eons ago (after lurking for years) it asked me for a username for login. As my university username was just an encoded course and student number (that, incidentally, was a bitch to remember) I saw no reason to put my real name in that box when a short name I didn't mind being referred to as existed. Same thing with IRC, although I used a different one (and the nature of IRC demands a nick - it's when called that - of 9 chars or less, which my real name wouldn't fit into). In any case, these names are something I choose to be referred by, because I can call myself anything I want.

For "official" purposes, like paying tax, those that need it have my "official" name. Everybody else gets to call me what I want because they aren't the arbiters of my identity.

You posted as AC, hypocrite. I have always posted under a specific name, meaning there is a verifiable trail.

APK /s

It would take so much effort to hunt seagulls to extinction that out wouldn't be worth it. At least around here. So, instead, the gulls will flourish on all the tasty rotten human corpses to become the next dominant race.

ISTR a few years ago some other school tried this (for similar reasons: the kids won't get beat up for their lunch money if they aren't carrying any, "ease of use", blah blah). The parents told them to fuck off and spend the money on important shit like textbooks and classroom supplies.

At least it will have the funkiest theme in sci-fi to see it off

It's more than that. BA allows *two* bags. So you can have your larger-than-Ryanair-allows bag *and* a laptop. Or handbag (yes, that's right ladies, to have to put your handbag *inside* your carry-on if you fly with Ryanair or EasyJet). Or camera bag.

However, Ryanair allows you to have loads of bags filled with clanking duty free. But then so does everybody else.

You get more mileage from a cheap pair of speakers.

The airlines do it. So do ISPs. Why should the music business be any different?

I'm pretty sure Norman Cook has a few bob. As does Pete Tong, Danny Rampling and Paul Oakenfold.

Does deadmau5 count?

I prefer a nicely shaven... leg

Except a) it's not their rules and b) this is to (ostensibly) flag up known criminals, not those who actually commit crimes at the festival. That you might have been done for nicking phones in the past does not equate you going to a music festival with the intent to continue to do so. But, hey, fuck you forever if you have a criminal record, right? Want a job? Fuck you. Want a loan? Fuck you. Want to go to a music festival? Definitely fuck you.

They can only charge a fee if the data was collected with your permission in the first place.

If it is a registered business anywhere in EU (and usually EEA as well) then it most definitely has to comply. Last I checked, Santander Brazil wasn't a EU registered business.

"Tell me, Mr Anderson... What use is web chat when you are *unable to connect*"

Indeed. The hypocrisy in this thread is unfortunately not surprising.