Blackberry is dead anyways. One way or the other it's going to be cannablised. Move to a platform with a future.

MS Watch: Hi there, I see you are trying to find the time.
Human: Yes, please tell me the time.
MS Watch: Would you like that in military time or civilian time?
Human: Sigh...civilian please.
MS Watch: Which time zone are you in?
Human: Hell, I don't know, you figure it out.
MS Watch: Hmmm....you must be in Tuvalu's time zone, are you on the east or the west side?
Human: Egads...just give me the time and tell me what time zone you got it from.
MS Watch: I don't think I like your attitude.
Human: You don't know the time, do you?
MS Watch: Why don't you tell me the time?
Human: ** shoots self in head **
MS Watch: Look, I'm not telling the time to a dead guy, are you really dead?
Human: ** raises a weak hand with gun...the final shot is fired **
MS Watch: Errr....I need a software upgrade and could you please reboot me? Yoo hoo? Yo? Sign...bloody humans!

At the ice truck? ARE YOU INSANE?

That path leads to MADNESS!

A lot of people that show up are not prepared and mooch off of everyone in the name of "community"

We would hide our resources and tell others "nope dont have any" on a lot of occasions and those we could tell were in real need and not just lazy potheads we would share.

I just tried to exclude all BH postings (using the "excluded terms" thing in the options settings) and when I do I don't see any stories at all. Is his name somehow attached to every single story on /.?

It's Burning Man. The people who attend have fried their brains so the obvious dichotomy of the situation is lost on them.

Trader Joe's does the same thing. One big line, many registers.

Funny how efficient it is compared to many lines for many registers.

Perhaps this link will explain better. Government only exists to build a fraternity of human beings.

When poor people buy phones, they choose the free model. and all the windows phones are the free model as nobody in their right mind would intentionally pay the $399 premium phone price for one.

IT will be, it will probably be as horrific as the LG, Motorola and Samsung crap.

If the Watch can not do 2-3 days on a charge , it is a complete and utter fail.
If the watch does not have an open API so apps can easily be written for it, it is a complete and utter fail.
And honestly, from what we have seen from Microsoft for mobile devices over the past 3 years, it will be a complete and utter fail.

Um, this law is wholly illiberal, why would liberals ever want this? Anyone wanting this is not liberal by definition.

This is a classic conservative type proposition, not surprisingly, being put forth by the UK's Conservative party who sit on the centre-right (with a handful of far-right elements like Peter Bone).

I suspect what you really mean is "People I don't like will love this law", but whoever those people are, I assure you they're not liberals by the very fact that this law change goes against liberalism.

Because Richard and Judy got a bit of backlash when Judy decided it was okay to grossly upset a rape victim by belittling the harm done to her and we can't possibly have a situation where it's okay for celebrities to grossly offend people but not do anything when they suffer an inevitable backlash from their stupidity can we?

Right but that wasn't the AC's question was it? The question was how many had received 6 month sentences.

The answer is very few, of the thousands you cite, most didn't even get jail sentences, and even fewer again got a full 6 months.

Part the problem we have with the act though is the use of magistrates in the first place. Magistrates are kangaroo courts really, untrained busy bodies handing down judgements based on their own social hangups.

Which is a wider problem, because magistrates sit over many other cases.

Ironically, the proposal in TFA might actually therefore be an improvement - more cases being passed up to actual real courts with trained professionals overseeing the cases rather than magistrate chimps wont likely me more and longer jail sentences, it'll just mean more cases being thrown out because they're so fucking stupid in the first place.

Except this is a reference to the provisions in the malicious communications act 2003.