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Comment: Re:Can they stop them all? (Score 1) 100

by LQ (#39375151) Attached to: Turkey Bans Pastebin and Tinyurl

Turkey has a governmental department that regulates what the imams will preach in the mosques.
The military forced out the government four times in the last sixty years, the last time was fifteen years ago.
There's literally hundreds of judgements by the European Court of Human Rights against Turkey.
There's still ongoing concerns about torture in the judicial system.
For fuck's sake, this is a country that once executed a guy for opposing a ban on a certain type of HAT.

So no, Turkey isn't "just another liberal democracy right".

Yet Turkey is held up as something the countries of the Arab Spring can aspire to. Shows how far theyve all got to go.

Comment: Re:Disposable (Score 0) 120

by LQ (#39363223) Attached to: Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites

Serving the military of a free nation is as much of an honor as it is a sacrifice

It is scary that a lot of people regurgitate this military honour crap at the drop of a hat. The point of an army is to kill or intimidate foreigners and to project national power. And the world's most indebted nation wants to spend even more on doing so.

Comment: Re:I (honestly) do not have a Facebook account (Score 1) 550

by LQ (#39287229) Attached to: Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You

Just Linked In. Do I not get a job?

(Seems that if you are over 30 and have a Facebook account, it calls into question your maturity anyway, no need to actually look at your profile.)

I have extended family members who only communicate via FB. There are photos of great nephews etc that I wouldn't otherwise see. So it's be in or be antisocial. Mind you, I wonder if a prospective employer could find my nephew's wife's wittering any less interesting than I do?

Comment: Re:I thought this was known by now (Score 1) 777

Hypothesis: his wife caught him with it. He claims that he accidentally downloaded it instead of some music.

According to TFA, on discovering the images he discussed the situation with his wife and immediately called police to report the incident. The police took the laptop to investigate the source but didn't charge him then social workers waded in with their usual hysterical over-reaction.

Comment: Re:Pre-industrial? (Score 1) 277

by LQ (#39137977) Attached to: Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind

There's countless millions of pre-industrial people alive today. Do they commonly exhibit this behavior? You don't need to dig through medieval diaries when there are humans alive now who exist at varied levels of social and technological development. I'm more interested how agrarian and hunter-gatherer societies treat sleep today than urban Europeans a few hundred years ago. Urban Europeans have always engaged in bizarre activities.

The account I read http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783 mentioned an anthropological account of modern tribes in Nigeria.

Comment: Japanese scanners (Score 1) 343

What are the scanners they use on liquids in airports in Japan? I took a lot of internal flights there last winter and each time had a water bottle strapped on the outside of my hand baggage. Security set the bottle on a little stand, pushed a button and waited for (IIRC) a green light before handing in back to me.

Comment: Sound (Score 1) 1880

by LQ (#38025542) Attached to: What's Keeping You On Windows?

I've dual booted dozens of boxes at home over the last 20 years. I've wiped Windows and single booted Linux on a few too. But every time I get some new kit, Windows comes pre-installed and all the hardware just works. Nearly every time I've had a struggle to get Linux sound working, or video out or something else that was just fine under Windows.

Really, Linux on the desktop is still not there. And the fissiparous nature of desktop environments doesn't help.

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