The Design, visually, like all other of the previous sites have always been what I considered to be quite pro, Though I would wish if anything I could use the older site layout. My reason is that there is a fundamental issue in that if you really need all those web02 features and ajax cruft, just so that you can have prettier scroll animations and static side bars you trade off a massive amount of CPU horses via your browser. Multiply that by the amount of your readers and you've used enough power to light up a small country. Just typing this post has increased the temp of my laptop but about 5%. Can people really consider that really acceptable ?

I think there is more to this than meets the eye. Firstly there is the issue in how did these scanners come into place. There has been a lot of discussion regarding trialing this device. There was an attempt to blow up an airplane and all of a sudden, they are in place in a few airports across the UK. Personally I have several issue with having these scanners. The matter that they (the government) assures the public that they get deleted afterwards must mean they get saved somewhere in the first place. The second issue is that not everyone is happy to accept the UK governments stance in that its ok for us to trust a complete stranger in another room in sussing us out. To be perfectly honest, it may not seem much of any issue, but Its one of many steps that takes place to live in a Orwellian society. But even with all these principles like the UK government 'looking tough' on terrorism I still reken there is a bigger underlying factor, MONEY. These machines are really expensive, the company responsible would have probably lobbied hard about their presence and I am relatively positive that some politician would have benefited greatly with having them in place. For me its going to be fuck that shit, I would rather be patted down and trust a government department with images of nads.

Why brother putting themselves to the risk when there is the capacity to put one in with windows updates.

This is the unfortunate case in the UK. Its a fact that the PRS actively search for people all over the country to impose royalty payments. Our local diner where we collect lunch was only the other day been threatened with a court summon if don't obtain a royalty license to play their tiny radio in their kitchen. Their argument is that customers can hear it and thus they require a performance license, the true fact is that its so damn quiet that you hardly notice it. But in its true nature, its not about being fair, its simply a money grabbing exercise. Time to write to my MP.

Im a tit I rightfully got marked as a troll, I didnt know about the joke originally and thus genuinely got marked accordingly, I thought it was a genuine flame bait to start with which I fucken cannot help. # *bow*