yes. There's about enough space in front of the podium for half a dozen people to stand. I say, if you're going to make noise in London there are better places to do it, such as right under Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square (I've done this, I managed to stop traffic and attract the attention of three or four stations' worth of Metropolitan Police officers). You can pack a fair few thousand people in there.

if freedom of speech is the right, then the obligation to accept the consequences of that speech has to go with it.

Which, to any right-minded individual, should make perfect sense.

This. Paragraph two of the United States Constitution states, in part, that: "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..."

(damn, my memory's good, that's almost perfect recall. I'm going to leave the punctuation as is)

These are individual rights, not human rights. Individual rights granted by God and only to be taken by God. Human rights is the biggest load of wank ever put to paper. It's designed - ostensibly - as a Statutory protection from the abuses of State but what it actually does is distract us from the individual rights we were born with and have at our disposal until the day we die. In the UK (I'm an Englishman and ashamed) the Human Rights Act 1998 is missing one very important clause: Article 13 as in the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms that guarantees the Right to Effective Remedy. Basically this completely, utterly nerfs the rest of the Act in that the courts up and down the country mention the Human Rights Act and in the same breath dismiss it if it stands in the way of the Rights of the State to do whatever the fuck it wants with no comebacks because they've basically got us all to accept the Human Rights Act as a substitute for Individual Rights which it isn't because it doesn't fucking work. That is the point of rights given by the State: they can also be taken away by the State.

funny that, by definition you don't own the mortgaged house, the bank does. You're only occupying it and by extension, looking after it for the bank.

It's about as meaningful a term as the one they use in the UK public family law as a threshold to steal children - "risk of future emotional harm". If you can define "serious emotional distress" in clear legal terms, you should also be capable of defining "risk of future emotional harm" - something no legal entity in the UK has EVER managed to do.

political dissenters.

Let's face it, no Government likes it when informed people share their information (that more often than not pulls back the curtain on the blatant criminality perpetrated by Agents of State), backed up with evidence, when all the State has is spin, distraction and empty rhetoric, which very quickly devolves into threats of imprisonment and other deprivations and superinjunctions - which, like Fight Club, I'm not allowed to talk about...

From the OutOfTheLoop subreddit:
"...no-one, excluding a select few of the administrative team, knows precisely why /u/chooter was removed as an admin, and that will almost certainly continue to be the case until the admins get their house in order: both parties are at being professional in that they aren't talking about the reasons why it occurred...."

Take a lesson here, slashdot: stop fucking with the layout!

It costs far less in delta-v to lauinch from a site closer to the equator for an equatorial orbit (ie LEO, GSO). Point: Canaveral, being at 28N. NZ is at 42S.
There's a bit of a physics cheat being closer to the equator and launching prograde to rotation. At the equator, this amounts to 1,000mph, the advantage diminishing as you go toward either pole. Winner: Canaveral.
This advantage negates any advantage launching from closer to the pole for a polar orbit. Winner: Canaveral.

someone want to tell me how launching from NZ, apart from political issues, is in any way advantageous over launching from the US?

(BTW, to keep it in perspective, Baikonur Cosmodrome is at 45N. It suffers from the same DV overhead over Canaveral that a NZ site would, which is one reason the Russian launchers are bloody humungous).

translation: the fab shop can be located on the carrier negating the need for yet another hulk in the fleet for the submarines to protect.

This is about saving money in paying crews, maintaining ships and nerfing the group's speed to that of the slowest boat.

sounds like a subplot for Homeworld.

the 65xx series are still being manufactured. You can get a 40-pin DIL package for change out of thirty Dollars.

the V-Force was retired with no replacements even planned, never mind implemented. Same as we're seeing now with our carriers. And our combat air wings.

...Until your 3-D printed weather deck delaminates.

The F22 was briefed as a JSF, it found its niche as a low-return ASF since it *can* supercruise. It can do BVR very well, dogfighting? Hells to the no.