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Comment: Re:How DARE they! (Score 5, Insightful) 492

by Gordonjcp (#40159643) Attached to: The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment

Most children just use their bikes to ride about on. One of my friends from school saved up to buy a really good racing bike, then spent all his time taking it apart and building better bits using his dad's workshop.

Now he builds racing bikes professionally, and you *cannot* afford one.

You get all kinds of geeks, everywhere.

Comment: Re:Universal Human Rights Are Above Relativity (Score 0, Troll) 468

These weren't a people who go upset, laid down their arms and walked away. They fought to the bitter ends of it all.

Okay, let's say you disagree with everything your government is doing. Imagine you hate that the government isn't just standing back and letting the medical industry force you to buy the managers new Jaguars, and imagine that you hate that the government is letting women go around with their heads uncovered and own property and stuff and even think they have the same rights as men, and allowing schools to teach that evolution is fact and creation is not. Imagine, in short, that you're a pretty typical right-wing "Christian" American.

Now we invade you. Fucking thousands of deeply warlike Scots, and we are going to take your damn country apart - and you know we could. Once we win, we'll let you shape your government any way you damn well please, but we are taking your country now.

Are you going to fight, or lie down?

Comment: Re:It "might", but it doesn't. (Score 1) 208

by Gordonjcp (#40137155) Attached to: UK "No Tracking Law" Now In Effect

Oh, it's on Wikipedia so it must be true, eh? If there were as many cameras as that then you'd think I'd have actually seen some about.

Really the right-wing are the anti-privacy lot - the previous right-wing government brought in all the really nasty shit about monitoring phones and emails, and the current load of right-wing extremists are just making it worse. But that's what they're all about - high taxes and big government, with lots of expensive public-funded "jobs for the boys" projects.

Comment: Not barbecue weather (Score 2) 169

by Gordonjcp (#40135487) Attached to: Grilling For Geeks

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, it's summer. It's far too hot and sunny to have a barbecue.

I mean really, who in their right mind wants to go and stand outside on a hot day, cooking hot food on a pile of hot burning charcoal? It's stupid.

Have your barbecue in the winter, when you can stand round a big hot pile of burning charcoal eating hot things and there are no annoying midgies or mosquitos.

Comment: It "might", but it doesn't. (Score 5, Informative) 208

by Gordonjcp (#40133575) Attached to: UK "No Tracking Law" Now In Effect

The British Gov might have more cameras up on street corners than just about anywhere else in the world

It doesn't, though. The whole "eleventy billion cameras in the UK" thing was made up by one of the screaming right-wing tabloids a few years ago, by counting all the CCTV cameras in about a half-mile stretch of the main street of a fairly scummy part of London, and multiplying by the total length of all the roads in the UK. So, the figure is probably accurate *if* you assume that every single road in the UK has lots of off-licenses, bookmakers, cheque cashing centres, "we buy scrap gold" shops the like - but, it isn't. For the figures to be correct, you'd have to have something like one camera every 60 metres or so on *every single road* right down to farm tracks.

Most cities in the UK have no more CCTV than cities in the US - and if you think US cities don't have CCTV then I wonder what you think CCTV cameras look like...

Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it.

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