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1962 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2012

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Euro Parliament votes to end data sharing with US – the NSA swiped the bytes anyway

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Re: side note

"...in the interests of the EU Citizen."

You are joking aren't you?

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Windows 8.1: Read this BEFORE updating - especially you, IT admins

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Re: SMEs

We're an SME. We're on 7. And by god we will be staying here!

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Re: No internet for the rest of the month ?

Dickhead.

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MPs to review laws on UK spy-snoopery after GCHQ Tempora leaks

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Re: Hmmm... not sure where to begin with this...

You are sacrificing a massive amount in terms of privacy for almost nothing in terms of security, while opening the door for the state to take more and more control of your, and my life.

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Re: Hmmm... not sure where to begin with this...

It is not the minimalist government supporters that push this. It is the fundamentally left-wing neo-cons that are responsible and they have never had a problem with massive state intervention.

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Limbaugh: If you hate Apple then you're a lefty blog-o-twat hipster

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Re: Disproportionate

I am gobsmacked you put the Express in the right hand column... and the Times is mostly left of center these days as well.

Regardless of which, since seventy odd percent of the population use the BBC as their primary news source, yes, the media in this country has a serious left wing bias.

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Penguin chief: Apple's ebook plan 'dramatically changed' market

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Re: At or below cost

Complete rubbish. The physical cost of a book is only about 10% of the total cost of manufacture. The vast majority is in paying editors, proof-readers, cover artists etc. who are required whether the book is dead tree or electronic.

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UN to call for 'pre-emptive' ban on soulless robot bomber assassins

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Re: Trick question. What is the difference...

The "semi-autonomous killer robot programmed by the military" is on my side...

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Re: Here's the thing...

Yes, because killing all those Nazis was obviously the wrong thing to do. We should have let them take over the world and done whatever they willed with it.

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Apple: ebook price fixing? Nooo, nothing to do with us, no siree

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Re: 'Cost' for an e-book

Bullshit.

To quote Charlie Stross, who knows a thing or two about publishing:

"In particular, about 80-90% of the cover price of a book has nothing to do with the paper and ink object you buy in a shop; indeed, using current production standards, ebook production requires nearly as much work as paper book production. (Paper and ink are dirt cheap; proofreaders and marketing teams aren't.) "

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/cmap-9-ebooks.html

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Boeing 787 fleet grounded indefinitely as investigators stumped

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Re: I'd look at the Battery Power Conditioning Circuits

Why in hells sake are people down-voting this?

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Liberals propose law to regulate social media

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Utterly pointless.

The trouble with real world bullying is that it has in some cases proven to be fatal. It just doesn't leave a twitter account for politicians to scare people with.

It would be irresponsible of any government to spend huge amounts of our money on something which will make no difference whatsoever.

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