I was told that we (UK) invaded because he had weapons of mass destruction. Didn't believe a word of it and I don't think Blair or Bush did. Anyway if democracy was the reason why Iraq ? Why not invade Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China or Kuwait? Come on face it... the invasion was ostensibly about control of resources.

That's correct. The iPhone doesn't enable swapping.

Another reason people prefer phonograph over CDs is because of the loudness war. Modern CDs sound terrible because of the way they are mastered to sound loud. So loud in fact the wave is clipped. It also reduces dynamic range. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

That has nothing to do with it. Most people in the UK don't want guns or the things that go with them such as school children shooting each other. If people in the US want guns then fine but don't assume other people do.

Tell the same to Cambodia, Nicaragua, Chile, Mexico, East Timor and all the other countries the CIA has been fucking around with. http://www.soaw.org/

One reason for dropping CD quality is the loudness war resulting in as you said clipping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war Modern CDs don't use the full dynamic range available on the format because it appears loud but lower fidelity CDs sell more.

I like my local Cinema very much. Its one of the oldest purpose built Cinemas in existence. They show a fantastic range of Cinema from Asian, French, Spanish, British and even US releases. Actually many movies I have seen there I don't own because I never heard of them before. Its a fantastic place to find about all kinds of interesting film. Not to mention the incredible coffee, home made cakes and great roof top bar! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_York's_Picture_House

Dude the Birdie Song IS AWESOME!

I cant believe the parent is marked as troll and the gp is 4 insightful! "people die, deal with it." So we shouldn't bother with medicine then ? There is nothing wrong trying to figure out ways to stop people dying even if it does go against the slashdot doctrine.

Well its not talking about banning all knives but yeah basically there is a social problem. Inequality.

Well people use the same argument for guns and in the case of guns well you only have to look at the gun homicide rate in the UK compared to the US. Yes I know correlation isnt causation but still. Actually I don't know what the outcome would be but I wouldn't write it off.

Well who actually knows about the doctors? But most people don't need a lot of esoteric knives. Carrying a knife would probably be called "Carrying an Offensive Weapon" I don't know the punishment.

That's just ridiculous. You could easily cut a water melon with a Chinese cleaver for example. A longer thinner would work just fine.

> If you want to prevent homicides, you prevent WHY > they happen, not WHAT they happen with. If you > want to manage crime, and your population, you > work on the WHAT. I fully agree with that. But the point is people aren't garroting each with guitar strings. They ARE however walking around with kitchen knives.

I would say, England is MORE democratic the for example the USA. American elections depend mainly on MONEY. Rich people essentially buy themselves into office with PR advertising campaigns. US elections arent based on issues but on Personality. The UK is going that way unfortunately but it is certainly less so. As for going to war with the US well that was to do with tax (money), control and power. Just like thee IRAQ war.