There was no reason to file this article under "censorship", with the little icon of the guy with his mouth taped shut. One large US retail chain has decided that they won't stock the fourth book in the series. That's not censorship.

If Sam's Club were lobbying Congress to pass legislation banning the book from being printed or sold, or getting an agreement from all of the other major retailers not to stock the book, then that would be censorship.

I can't find anything on the author's Brick Testament Facebook page calling this "censorship", and the author notes on that page that "The Brick Bible remains available at many other major retailers like Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com, and at many independent bookstores as well." The free PR that this is generating will probably boost sales of the book overall.

Yes sorry, didn't mean to imply that it was intentional flamebait. Just noting that it's a topic that raises hackles much too easily. :-) And I completely agree about Westminster and the Welsh Assembly. Just the fact that Peter Hain and Cheryl Gillan have been handed in turn the role of Welsh Secretary shows how clueless Westminster is about Wales.

>The Welsh and Scottish nationalists are fairly pro-Europe because neither country is really viable as a totally independent entity...

Mmmm... yummy crunchy flamebait! Scrunch scrunch scrunch... :-)

But back here on earth, yes, agreed, and from the polls I've seen most people in Wales and Scotland favour autonomy within the UK, rather than full independence. Catalonia is the best argument I can think of for this: they can run all the stuff they want to run themselves, but don't have to pay for a separate military, passports, foreign service, embassies, etc. Seems like a pretty sweet deal, and with Franco dead they no longer have to fear for their lives for proposing such a thing. I'm hearing pro-autonomy noises from Labour, and even from a few Tories lately. For minor politicians in the existing Westminster parties, it would mean they'd get a shot at being bigger fish in the smaller ponds of Holyrood and Cardiff Bay.

Not all nationalists see the EU this way: just those who support the larger, longer-established national governments. Smaller nationalist movements like the SNP in Scotland, etc often see the EU as a potential alternative to their existing "parent" nation-state, which in Scotland's case is the UK.

Of course, this makes the EU all the more irritating to Euro-sceptics in the UK...

Well I like the Chrome address bar too, but again, whether we like it or not is not the point. The original poster (Toonol) was simply pointing out that you can't turn the awesome bar off in FF if you don't want it. You can't turn it off in Chrome either, as far as I can tell.

I like the "awesome bar" too, but that's not the point. As the GP says, eliminating the option to disable it reduces the power of the user.

Yes, users can choose another browser. Is that really all the choice that the FF developers wish to extend to their users? This "take it or leave it" attitude was one of the reasons that I quit using Gnome. The next feature that Firefox forces on you might be one that you don't like.

An "oust side" consultant: what an excellent egg corn! :-)

Wyden has also publicly criticized what he calls the US government's secret interpretation of the "Patriot Act".

Yes. By golly, you can even buy it on Amazon, for some reason.

And while you wait for your delicious diabetes-in-a-box to arrive in the mail, you can watch the 1970s ad.

That's correct: its demographic is neither technically literate nor particularly well-informed or erudite, and comprises a large and influential chunk of the UK electorate. It has the second-highest circulation in the UK, with a slowly rising circulation, and has been the most-visited UK newspaper website for some time. Politicians in the UK therefore take its bigoted rants very seriously, just as Fox News is taken seriously by politicians in the US.

Try switching to these four rectors instead then. They look pretty cooled down from here, and I seriously doubt they'll be around for a thousand days, never mind years.

Apparently it happened sometime between May 18, 2005 and Feb 03, 2006.

Now we need to establish the perp and the motive.

Not surprised. I haven't yet met a single vegetarian who does eat tofu, until they've had dinner at our house, where they can get a big slice of my famous tofu, portobello mushroom and walnut pie, with caramelized onion & red wine gravy. Plus mashed potatoes, of course.

I've never donated pie to support development of a Firefox extension before, but I'm willing to learn. :-)

I would sample insect-based food, for the same reasons that I eat foods made with yeast, if...
a) I was certain it wouldn't harm me,
b) if it had been killed with minimal suffering, and
c) if I could figure out how to cook it in a tasty way.

Nearly all modern meat production and fishery fails test b), so I rarely eat meat.

They used to sell t-shirts at expos to raise money from low-rent types like me, but I've not seen them for sale for some time. There's talk on the wiki of resurrecting branded merchandise sales.

Postgres development team, if you're reading this, I lost my old ash-grey PostgreSQL shirt and would be glad to buy a replacement from you.