Congratulations, you are offended by my views on religion

Just to clarify, I in no way intended to make that comment directly to Mr. Anonymous Coward, 'you' was intended to be a random religion. It was a poor choice of words on my part. Obviously, I have not had a chance to offend Mr. Coward (yet) as I have not explained my views to him.

I further apologise for assuming that Mr. Coward is, in fact, a Mr.

You cannot place this on any one religion. Blasphemy laws exist in many countries to protect the dominant position of religion in society. Even in the UK, where the Blasphemy laws were abolished, you can still be taken to court for 'offending' someone. Congratulations, you are offended by my views on religion. I find your desire to push religiously motivated policies onto those who do not share your faith or beliefs to be offensive, but apparently that doesn't count.

There is a fine line between 'hard' and 'masochistic'

We have had one minor dose of common sense this week with the revised social media legal guidelines. It was far to much to hope that it would continue

Two major changes have been the increase in speed and breadth of information access. We simply know about more crime, from a wider area, than we ever have before. When all you knew about was your local community, crime would often be seen as very rare. It wasn't long ago that millions could die in war or famine that most of the rest of the world knew nothing about. Now, a single death can be global news in seconds. So, just because some bad stuff happened somewhere is not necessarily proof that the world has gone to hell in a hand basket. Reducing the sensationalist elements of death, crime and war might be an idea, but has its drawbacks. Education - to understand what you are being told - is probably the key but who knows if that would ever be possible. The second major change has been the increase in the capability to kill large numbers of people in a short space of time. A lot of this is the by-product of technological development. You will never control it all, but you can make items difficult to access. Its that, or we all go back to living in the trees.

So non-religious people dont perform moral acts? Utter rubbish.

and some people who attend places of relious worship are taught hate, bigotry and intollerance. Your basic assumption that religious people=good, non religous people=bad is utterly flawed.

Planet? Pah! I demand a Ring World!

I bounce between Windows, Ubuntu and OSX reasonably regularly and am quite able to work with Unity without any problem. I know it does have its detractors, but it is all pretty simple and straight forward to use without getting too many things in the way to confuse a poor Windows user

Seriously. Why hire someone that you know is going to cause a problem for the team? I'm sure a suitable HR acceptable reason could be found to not hire a person if you *know* its going to cause an issue. I don't understand why you build a rod for your own back.