She calls US paranoid for thinking that the government would ever trample our rights.

LK

Nah. A cheap satellite is £50k, maybe £80k including deployment into orbit.

For $300m you can build a fucking big, fucking complex satellite and it's fucking expensive.

Two aircraft flying in V formation are more efficient than two aircraft flying 500 metres apart side-by-side.

One larger aircraft is more efficient than two aircraft.

But feel free to construct a model, build a wind tunnel and do some testing - if you're right, there's an entire industry interested in buying your idea from you.

Plus, technically they weren't lost. We know where they ended up. In landfill.

I mean, in the wreckage of the two-towers.

Multiply by the 78 other devices that might save a life one flight in 400 million.

Or just accept that airline travel is already exceedingly safe, and surprisingly cheap, and choose to fly or not.

Technically, yes - see the Hudson river landing for a fine example. But see my point above, and accept that sometimes you hit the sea so hard you die from the impact, sometimes you drown, and sometimes - if you're lucky, just like 28 million other people that day - you land safely at your destination.

They'd be just as fucking dead even if you knew where to find the bodies.

Apple are acting like total cunts.

Whether they're in the right or wrong, under current patent law, they're still acting like total cunts.

No comment on how that compares to their customers.

Yes, I can come up with a thousand free market answers. And yes, that pretty much answers your question.

Would you buy a vehicle from any company whatsoever if you knew that parts were difficult to acquire? A manufacturer can play a game with parts availability only if they don't plan to stay in business.

Maybe we should go back to renting our phones from ATT as well.

Yes, All spending bills must originate in the house but when there is a Republican house and a Democrat president, any attempt to reign in spending is cast by the Democrats as obstructionism and a willing media parrots that narrative until the public demands that the spending continues unabated.

It's funny how a Democratic house with a Republican president doesn't face the same media pressure.

LK

Georgia? Come on, at least pretend to be credible.

They are effective deterrents. "Withdraw or lose Moscow, St Petersburg, Sochi and all of your naval bases"

You say 'running with open arms', I say 'prodded with bayonet equipped guns'. Funny how things can look differently depending who you believe.

I haven't seen evidence that the population wants to be part of Russia.

Who is making them abandon homes? Must be something the UK media isn't reporting. I hadn't heard of any ethnic (or nationalistic) cleansing taking place.

Incidentally, the treaty still exists - it's with the nation, not the government of the time.

Given the attitude of Russians to gay people, I'd say propaganda is alive and kicking there.

You don't need propaganda everywhere for a world war, just enough success within the aggressors. Or do you expect the rest of the world to lie down and roll over?

Astroturfing.

You don't have to invade the Crimea to query the validity of the government in Kiev. The easiest way to avoid the "neo-fascists" arming themselves with nukes is to withdraw from the Crimea.

Bullshit. The terms agreed by Russia and Ukraine do not include laying siege and threatening assault on Ukrainian military bases, which is what Russian troops are doing.

Incidentally, what the fuck is this mythical 'Autonomous Republic of Crimea'?

Building strong defences is an act of aggression only to the paranoid.

Who the fuck turned a blind eye last time? And yes, it cost us the world's largest and greatest Empire.

Now, fuck off with your blatant propaganda. Maybe this works in Russia but the rest of us have the advantage of an education.