Agreed. I sort of assumed the TFA would have something called 'facts' in it, that people won't buy cars, or that the killer app for Glass just isn't there. But it's just hand-waving opinion-based clickbait. Sigh.

Bang on the money. The well reasoned arguments here: http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/...

were made before the DPRK link was fixed in the news cycle. It was then instructive to watch workings of the new McCarthyist cheerleaders, even (especially) here on Slashdot. People seriously writing 'the FBI have all the incriminating evidence, they just can't share it with you' type-comments.

The eleven years since the non-existence of WMDs may seem long time for the kiddies running the military's multiple personality software, but most people here won't ever buy that crap again.

No, Occam's Razor said the simplest answer is most likely true. The OP didn't go on a flight of fantasy, you did. Nation state hacks corporation with possible major diplomatic consequences over a B-movie? Pull the other one, it's got WMDs on it.

Apparently, when Chile play Bolivia at football, the Chile fans delight in singing, "Vamos A La Playa" ("Let's all go to the beach") at the Bolivians.

Are surge protectors a 110 V USA thing? Can't say many Europeans I've met have ever had one, except the super-cautious.

This year, I sat on camping chair at the edge of a cricket pitch on a fine July evening in the UK. Over the 90 minutes I and the other couple of dozen spectators were repeatedly brushing tiny spiders off our heads. Average height of grass, 1 cm, cf 1 m for those previously comfortable humans.

Only question is did we arrive in a normal migration cycle or did the appearance of a hundredfold increase in launchpad height stimulate the spiders?

"`Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."

You've been watching too many Dukes of Hazzard re-runs.

My worry is that this is laying the foundations for criminalising the obfuscation of your online identity. "You used encryption? You must be a Twitter troll trying to avoid detection".

"...where entire debates have been erased on Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's watches"

Let me think, what's more likely? The established parliamentary record compromised or your memory being fallible? Tricky one for Ockham's Razor.

Although I'd be seriously interested if you have some proof.

Not offended, just curious at the use of a quote for one term. Apologies if it came across that I was affronted in any way.

Thanks for the correction- but why is Spaniard in quotations? It's not derogatory or euphemistic. It's the name for people from Spain!

If the journey were reversed, Columbus would have discovered the Azores. The first exploration by Europeans [who recorded their discovery] of continental North America in 1497 was led by John Cabot. He was always thought of as the discoverer of America until the early C19th (why would a bunch of British immigrants credit a Spaniard?).

Then came the War of 1814, burning of the White House, etc. and a wave of anti-British sentiment. Suddenly, the US's founding father became good ol' Christopher.

A lot of citizens would like the 'He was going for my gun' excuse to be revoked too.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

At least he lived to tell the tale.

The London Metropolitan Police Press Office released this statement. When challenged by a lawyer, they could only point vaguely to anti-terror laws and say things like "Do you want people to watch it". So it's PR people, probably with no legal training, who are making up laws on the hoof (and with no apparent correction from their superiors).

Fuller story here (free reg required):
http://blogs.ft.com/david-alle...?