You've rather twisted my words or misunderstood. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a misunderstanding. I'm most certainly not saying that being honest is more sneaky than lying, that's rather absurd. What I was really getting at is that if you think such laws guarantee those reporting the news are being honest then you're fooling yourself. It's my suspicion that legislation of this kind, like all legislation that attempts to control speech, could end up causing increased subversion and sneakiness in an effort, conscious or subconscious, to further the message we agree with. Let's not be absolutist about it though, please don't think I'm saying this is true for all reporters or journalists working within such regulations, merely that thinking they assure truth is utterly foolish in my view.

Starting a reply to a post that ends "cavity searches" with a sentence about wiping your shit creates an unwelcome mental picture. :-P

I think it's the "knowingly" part of that that's the problem though. Many people, even politically savvy reporters and journalists, are subject to subconscious bias meaning that they might not be intending to slant their reporting but their worldview colors their perception of events making such a law only useful in causing outright falsehoods to not be reported as "news". It's purely speculative but I would suspect that such laws might have the more insidious consequence of making people more sneaky and subversive about furthering their personal views in the guise of news.

I think it might have to do with volume and visibility of output. There's a general perception that the majority of movies are sequels or remakes these days whereas with music you have comparatively more original content. That and the number of new movies being released is smaller than that of new songs. Interesting thought though, people do rarely get as violently indignant about cover versions than movie remakes, unless they passionately love the original that is!

I'm currently really enjoying Stephen Fry's most recent memoir "More Fool Me". He has a very engaging writing style of which I'm rather fond.

OK, I know I shouldn't take the flaming troll bait but this is just too funny. Firstly, I said Birmingham was my "home city" which, I think, implies that I no longer live there. In fact, I no longer live in the United Kingdom. I was raised in Birmingham in the 80's/90's and left in the early 2010's so I was among the children of the Muslim immigrants of whom you speak. I recognize that there's a problem with Islamic extremism in the UK, inner-city Birmingham (where I was raised, on the border of Balsall Heath/Moseley if you must know) I've seen it first hand. This doesn't mean there are no problems and you're right in saying that the politicians try to gloss over it.

This is just hilarious, I am assuredly not a socialist, champagne or otherwise and I do not support any of the policies I've heard British political parties push on immigration, they're all stupid. I was raised very close to the "ghettos" you speak of, it is true that there is a problem there, when I still lived there there was an attempt to change the name of either Sparkhill or Sparkbrook to "Apna Town" which I was informed translates to "Our Town" implying it belongs to the Muslim population. This endeavor went nowhere, however, that's the point I'm making. The fear mongering is so overblown and the notion that the Muslim population is going to be the majority isn't borne out by the data.

It really depends on the context. I think OP was saying that this isn't a common term of reference for Islamic places of worship, having grown up in a place where there are a good portion of Muslims I can personally attest to this, though with the caveat that this term may be in use in other Muslim communities. It's also not true to say that "temple" is always a "non-specific word for a place of worship" (I know you didn't say always, I'm just inferring). The example I would give would be that of The LDS (Mormon) church. They have distinct places that would be referred to as churches (or chapels) and a completely separate category of places called "temples" that are not general places of worship, regular open services do not take place there, they are reserved for specific practices.

This prediction has been made in my home city, Birmingham, since I was born and it has never come to fruition, perhaps get your news from places other than the EDL, National Front or UKIP.

Ah shit you're right. Makes me wonder if that half minute to which they refer is a bunch of short touches or one 30 second touch and that's what reset the alert system as the clock kept starting over. I'll read more carefully next time!

It's fairly common to use a cruise control-type system for extended periods. As the article stated, he only had his hands of the wheel for a short period. The system seems to have alerted him a good amount in such a short time. Sadly, given that someone lost their life, I think this is a big case of user error.

From what I've read, in the US it wont be on Netflix (at least not until CBS All Access dies). Outside of the US it'll be the primary distribution method, not sure if that'll be simultaneous with the September release date mentioned in TFA though.

"A Demon Haunted World" and "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan are two I wish I'd read in my teens or early 20's.

I'm with Comcast who are nice and quick but I truly loathe them as a company. Not sure where the 1.5Mbps figure is coming from though since they state that they provide a service at 250Mbps to 1Gbps.

They just put fibre in along my street in Layton but apparently want $5k to run it to my house (about 20 feet) I wonder if they'll let me run it myself?

There was a vendor at a recent conference handing out "Make Mainframe Great Again" hats, I have one in my cube. It's blue so less likely to get confused with the real deal but I'll admit that the thought has crossed my mind that it may be mistaken as tacit support if I were to wear it in public.