LOL, I was being just a touch facetious. But to be fair to the ISPs, they have said they wont do anything without a court order, which does become a little closer to "police-state".

Which part of the "Hopefully before Christmas....Quicker than before" makes you think we need to get VPNs up *quickly*?

Welcome to the UK, where your Police State moves that slowly it never catches up to you!

No. The funding came *after* the inital breakthrough which was pure basic science.

People looked at what Bhor had shown, and what Enstein had shown and said, if we put money into this we can make power, or bombs.

Without the pure basic research that came before it, we'd have nothing.

Promptly? Since when do we deport people promptly?

"they are arrested for attempting to setup a joke and eventually deported" would work...

'but it requires massive amounts of deliberate engineering across an entire civilization.'

And a Dyson Sphere doesn't?

What percent of rape is actually reported? That's a valid, well known unknown. It can be guessed at, but that's about it.

I wouldn't assume that. I'd assume the reader is young enough that they don't realise that those things didn't exist when the book was written.

Sci-Fi that's good enough that when the science catches it up, it looks just like fiction. Now that's a skillful writer!

"We need all your servers. Can we have the keys to your datacenter so that we can lock you out, it's far easier than actually removing the srevers?...."

I just tried this and it's amazing! Thanks!

Mouse Guard! The stores may well be over his head, but the art is fantastic. and with Any luck you will be able to draw him intto he the RPG :)

Except that Crashplan will post you out a drive, for you to do a backup to, post back to them, and import into the datacenter..... Same for recovery if you really need it.

But that's easily solved. All the evidence shows that if you reduce the rate of infant mortality, you reduce the no of births per person at the same rate. That's why most developed countries average 1 or 2 births per couple, and most developing countries average 10. It's why 10 was the average in Victorian England, but 2 is the average now....

It's one way to get a foot into getting into the police force in a capacity *other* than being a bobby on the street. I know a person who did it in an effort to get a job in the comms infrastructure.

Or put another way, if they can't even get their basic facts straight, how in the world can they keep up a multi-year, multi-party, lie involving hundreds, if not thousands of people?

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