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Comment Re:Surprised It's So Low (Score 5, Interesting) 89

Yes, no reason at all... Except the constant removal of your favourite shows. Or things never turn up in your country because, you know, agreements and stuff. Or not being able to watch where you want because of bandwidth issues. Piracy is still the number 1 user friendly service, you get all the stuff as soon as it's out and no-one can take it away on a whim or because a new deal wasn't cut.

Comment Re:From the Wall Street Journal.... (Score 1) 240

"... the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative represents the most significant effort so far to take a new approach to the kinds of problems with which philanthropy has long struggled. ...." Such as trying to take public credit for as much as possible whilst simultaneously in reality actually giving up nothing. Us normal people have a name for philanthropy, taxes. Would be nice if we all got to choose what our "donations" were spent on.

Comment UK government is a shambles (Score 4, Informative) 109

Our government has no clue about energy policy. They are a bunch of utter morons tied to lobbyists' interests. They have already agreed a new nuclear with the Chinese that guarantees a 100% rise in energy costs over current prices and have sold (with the help of the BBC) this to the general public as an energy security initiative. My countrymen are fools and the government is made up very much of their ilk.

Comment Re:But we can (Score 1) 127

What do you mean "if".

In a typical day I will see websites with HTML5 pop-overs, pages not showing content, and (my personal favourite) a banner saying "we can see you're blocking our ads. If you want to see our content disable adblocking", to which I direct my middle finger at the content provider and close the tab.

Would have given mod points for this.

Comment Re:Biased summary (Score 1) 121

Yes, because the NSA is really ever going to be about protecting citizens. How can people still believe that any "security" agency ever has the interests of the majority of citizens at heart is beyond me. They are there to protect the wealthy and powerful, not you. They will never ever be there for you.

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