To have IDs to wear, they would have to have been actual police instead of the military dressed in ill fitting police uniforms.

I wax always really pro open source I used Linux since the days of Debian potato, libera/open office was the software that convinced me to give up on open source and buy a mac. It's just bloody awful if you have to do anything remotely technical, mail merges suck worse than anything I have ever known. Even with the latest libra office you still have to use a database rather than a spreadsheet, and don't get me started on the running that is base. It makes access 95 seem good

If you are into astronomy in London, do you know about the Baker Street Irregulars? They meet once a month at Regents Park (They open a gate at the park near the hub late for them) I never quite got back the love of astronomy I had as a teenager so don't go regularly, but my flatmate goes every month, I have been a handful of times and am always surprised by how good a view you can get of deep sky objects from the capital. Normally you get one hundred or so people with about 20 - 30 telescopes of various sizes. They are a friendly bunch and always welcome new people.

The society website is http://bakerstreetastro.org.uk

Cheers

Bill
       

Wouldn't a libertarian socialist basically just be an anarcho-syndicalyst?

  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism

I know I'm responding to a troll, but Social Darwinism, has been largely debunked as a theory , the great secret to the human animals success has been cooperation. If you actually look at how hunter gatherer societies that still exist opporate, food is shared out among the entire tribe and people work together without screwing over their neighbours.

I used to work for a UK government contractor, some of the people I worked with are very very talented people, the problem is the massive layers of useless middle management and procedures designed to stop anything getting done not the coders and techies. That being said, despite being one of those "pinko commie" types, I'm far happier in the private sector where I can actually get stuff done.

Thats utter rubbish, I'm from a mining town near the Notts/Derbyshire boarder, most in Derbyshire struck and many in Nottinghamshire didn't, as a result we were the frontline of the Miners strike, and I know a lot of former miners that were part of the strikes.

Thatcher closed the mines because she wanted to break the political power of Trade unions, the unions had brought down the previous Tory goverment. The pits would still be economically viable today if they had not been closed.

As you can see from , we are now importing a large amount of our coal to fuel our existing stock of Coal fired power stations.
http://www.edfenergy.com/energyfuture/energy-gap-security/coal-and-the-energy-gap-security

To claim the miners were luddites who didn't want change is untrue, they were fighting to save the communities they lived in from a political attack, not to lock the country in the industrial dark ages.

In the UK this week our Prime Minister lost the vote to bomb Syria because MPs from all sides (even his own party ) rebelled due to the strength of public opinion. The last time a PM lost a vote to go to war was the US war of independence. Democracy can work in the age of the Internet.

It's because America loves free speech so much, they want to hear every word of free speech in the entire world. America F *ck Yea!