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Comment Re:Good decision by Icelandic court (Score 1) 168

Does this means you will be returning the billions of dollars worth of wealth(after including interest) that you Brits stole from India? You can start with sending back the crown jewels for starters, which were also stolen from India by you guys. I believe *that* is the right thing to do.(Especially with all the lip-service you are giving to "doing the right thing").

Comment Re:Patent good in this case (Score 2) 298

Really? If that is their business, why are we, the *subscribers* paying them?
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Lots of subscribers don't want to see advts. And the sponsors would like as much advts to be shown. If you FORCE advts to be shown, while still charging the subscribers, they will just flock to whatever is more convenient. In all likelihood, pirated shows. For someone who claims to really HATE piracy and equates it to actual terrorism(blowing people up), media companies sure seem to go out of their way to provide all sorts of incentives for pirating stuff.

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Submission + - Politicians get 9 year old's blog shutdown, in retaliation for criticism (wired.com) 5

thej1nx writes: "Fed up of the frequently unhealthy lunches with limited salad options, provided by her School catering service/local council, nine year old Martha Payne from Argyll in Scotland started a cheeky blog, where she posted photos of her daily school meals and rated them. The blog gained quick worldwide attention, gathering over 2 million hits in just 2 months, with school children from around the world sending photos of their own lunches. The resulting public attention on its nutrition lacking food, shamed the local council into changing the skimpy unappetizing meals for healthier ones, after an initial month-long food fight with her.
Yesterday, the council finally retaliated by pulling her out of class and forcing her to shutdown her blog by informing her that she had been banned from taking photographs of the meals, due to the unflattering headlines appearing in the newspapers.
The 9 year old Martha had also started leveraging the blog by asking her followers to donate to a charity called Mary’s Meals that funds school food in Africa, and starting off herself by sending £50 that she got from a magazine that reprinted some of her photos. The effort which had raised £2000 so far, was also thus nipped down in its buds, by the vengeful council."

Comment Re:Yes it does (Score 1) 102

Only thing poorly thought is your comment. You could do with a bit more of common sense.

Because, the moment you posted those dialogs for your friend to see, you effectively made it less private than you think. Nothing is stopping your friend from copy-pasting the whole conversation into a file, and pasting *that* into a blog/forum/printing-and-framing-it-on-a-wall.

Do enlighten us how "exporting" the said conversation is all that much different from his simply copy-pasting the same information into a file?

Oh ok, we get it. Now you want to ban copy-paste. Carry on then.

Comment Re:How do you not see such a device... (Score 1) 171

Perhaps we should start "seeing" all those made-in-China electronics as well. All that stuff inside your PC, those webcams, those sound cards... all those things that can connect to the internet one way or another, just waiting for that "switch-on" signal... oh wait. Cannot "see" them :p

Okay I am making this up. But considering that China is actually conducting cyber-warefare against USA, setting itself as the new rival/enemy, what is the guarantee it cannot happen/hasn't happened?

Comment Re:Vanity is a worthwhile reason for manned space (Score 1) 355

You have in a single paragraph(and what a long paragraph!) argued very successfully for abandonment of following ideas at their conception itself:

1. Research in medical science(why bother saving the poor? It is all vanity in any case)

2. Research in aviation(Oh those damned Wright brothers! Trying to get all these poor masses to fly in air. It will have no practical application! Flight will be of no use to mankind... it is all vanity.)

3. All works of art and literature, cinema etc.. (Entertaining the masses ? Who wants these poor folks to be entertained ? They are a pox on us, I tell you! Wanting your name to live on, after you are dead ? Vanity! It is all vanity, I tell you!).

4. Research in navigation and seafaring.(Bah! Trying to get all those poor teeming masses to float on water and go to some place farway. Discovering new searoutes and lands ? What for? Who cares about whether these damned undeserving poor folks go to this place called the New World and establish some country called America... or populate some place called Australia. America...bah! who needs it!)

Get a clue. You might be actually be right about things being done for sake of vanity. And yet the results are usually of great benefit to mankind, that seem inconceivable at worst, and farfetched at best.

If your forefathers had thought like you, there would be no America or Australia. And you wouldn't be here preaching to us about vanity and questioning the rights of those less fortunate than you, to exist.

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