This can't be restored because the police do not want it restored. The are under investigation for abuse of stop and search powers, and racial profiling. Suddenly all of the reports that they have to file after each stop and search are gone. IT error my ass.

I think it's a little worse here in the UK than I've ever seen it before. Right now, teachers are being suspended if someone they live with has anything show up on their vetting.

Live with a guy who got a DUI 5 years ago ? Get suspended. Live with a guy who had an assault charge (note - charge, not necessarily conviction) brought against him? Suspended.

The government say that they've told the schools to use their discretion, but the schools have learned through issues like the Baby P fiasco not to trust that and will simply enforce the very letter of the new guidelines.

Hmmm - in the UK, I would list the following: Cigarettes, alcohol, unhealthy fast food and cars. All of those kill more people than guns here.

And that's despite tens of thousands of privately held guns. We have very few murders that use legally held guns here.

Could you setup some meetings with thousands of town and city planners around the world and let them know that - thanks!

BT are looking to buy them. If that happens, it'll be as bad as every other BT outfit.

The design of a range I shoot at means that on windy days we'll occasionally be hit with shot on the way down. It's normally either 9 or 7.5 (skeet or sporting), and it's no more than an annoyance.

As opposed to the current government, under which many shotguns and firearms (except handguns other than for humane despatch) are legal ?

I see this statement time and time again. The UK has tens of thousands of privately held firearms and shotguns. Just not handguns.

They're only shaky cam when they come out before / around the same time as cinemas. After that, they're normally high quality rips that offer a better user experience than the official products (http://craphound.com/images/ifurapirate.jpeg)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...

The article has changed since I first read it from 'charged with' to 'accused of'

The Metropolitan Police said the men are accused of taking an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) militant group and arranging to buy a handgun equipped with a silencer and conducting "hostile reconnaissance" of a police station and Army barracks in London using Google Street View.

A number of men in the UK were recently charged with terrorism offences. One of the charges was for 'aggressive hostile surveilance using Google Maps'.

Got any streetview maps that include anything deemed sensitive in the UK ? Your skin a little brown? Don't use a fingerprint for auth here then!

Laws governing some guns here still use foot pound second as the legal measurement.

Firstly, where do you plan to evacuate a significant percentage of the world's population to ? Secondly, how are you going to decide who is worthy of evacuation and who has just put his gun down and is hiding with the locals to make sure he can carry on the abuse and oppression in their new location ? Finally, how are you going to get this food to them ?

Food nutrition or availability isn't the problem - the problem is identifying valid recipients and then getting it past every government agent, checkpoint thug and warlord into the region.

I've worked in strange places in Africa and I've seen a lot of this first hand. The only fix is for people to organise and setup governments that are fair and have their people's interests at heart. That won't happen without massive amounts of education and people believing they can change things, and vested external interests stepping aside so that this can happen. I doubt very much that this will happen in my lifetime, short of a massively powerful nation deciding it is in their best interests.

Watching China's march into Africa is very interesting to me for these reasons.

The biggest problem getting food into remote areas and is making sure it reaches the people who need it. We could feed the whole world today, but there are people with vested interests in making sure that we don't.

Lots of places don't have stable enough connections to rely on for always-on gaming.