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Comment On pleading guilty (Score 1) 922

He plead guilty.

Should he have been charged? Maybe, maybe not. But the option was always open to him to plead not guilty, and go to trial. I suspect that he would not have been convicted.

Whether a custodial sentence is appropriate is entirely another matter, but that really is a side issue.

Comment Re:And do what with them? (Score 1) 211

Such as if you happen to have fasted for Lent and shows symptoms of jaundice due to your biochemical abnormality.

When it cannot be assumed to be the cause without further testing. Further harm - paient assumes that the reason that they have gone bright yellow is due to GS & does not seek medical help. (GS only causes mildly raised levels of Bilirubin.)

Comment Missing the point (Score 5, Insightful) 342

"The reason for this statement by the UK government is very simple - it has intranet and business systems in virtually every government department which work only with IE. They frequently ridiculously old versions at that - IE6 take a bow - giving the lie to the "latest, fully patched" comment anyway. There is no way that the UK government is going to incur the conversion costs for these systems at this moment given the state of its books at the moment. Stating that IE was insecure would create an inexorable pressure to do exactly that. This statement has nothing to with security, and everything to do with internal government politics.
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Hand Written Clock 86

a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."

Comment Re:More government corruption (Score 1, Insightful) 853

Democrats don't lie to people, then send them in buses to town hall meetings to shout down the speakers while screaming irrationally. They don't sponsor commercials and meetings that specifically lie about the health care bill and spread fear. They don't send e-mails out talking about "death panels" just to scare people. They don't send talking points to a "News" organization, something that is technically illegal. Have you even SEEN the Republican party's speeches on government healthcare in Congressional meetings? At one point one Congressman was using giant poster boards with children's book pictures of a "knight" swinging a sword at a chicken egg. He called him sir Lancelot, then put up another board that labeled the knight Sir Taxalot. It was so incoherent and stupid and did nothing to actually address the issues at hand.

Comment Re:Up the BBC (Score 1) 703

"You call that honest?"

Yes I do, because everything he has said has been exactly what he thinks. Also, I have never, ever heard him say anything disrespectful about Britain. Perhaps you could give an example? btw. Criticising Britain's Government, politicians or institutions is not "disrespect", it is "democracy".

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