clamhan - Slashdot User

Comment Re:As every year... (Score 2) 249

by clamhan on Thursday October 27, 2011 @01:32PM (#37858422) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Are You Haunting Your House This Hallowe'en?

...sign from the local police saying "NO TRICK OR TREATERS HERE" will be going up in the window.

Speaking as a Brit, I feel Hallowe'en here is talked about far more than it is actually celebrated.

Willing to be proven wrong!

No, you're speaking as an Englishman. We've always celebrated Halloween in Scotland.

The U.S. got their Halloween customs from us.

Comment Silence of the Neands (Score 1) 502

by clamhan on Monday May 18, 2009 @05:17AM (#27992859) Attached to: Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans?

I now know why obesity is a problem in the modern world.

It's not been brains or an opposable thumb that got us to the top, it's just been a good appetite.

Humanity has eaten its way to the top of the simian evolutionary tree.

Comment Science Fiction coming true (Score 1) 163

by clamhan on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:14AM (#18898259) Attached to: EU Approves New Stricter Anti-Piracy Directive

About 10 years ago I bought an SF Novel by K.W Jeter called "Noir", the background of the story was a world where copyright theft was punishable by death, if you were lucky.

http://www.amazon.com/Noir-K-W-Jeter/dp/0553576380

The book itself was good but I thought that copyright crime as a capital offence was a fun idea but just a step too far away from reality to be believable.

Not now. Science Fiction can tell the future and it's not one I like.

The European commission and parliament is turning into a bureaucratic corporate playground.

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