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That is exactly free speech. A right to express an unsavoury view without the system punishing you. Never gave you a right not to be ignored by your neighbours, or not banned from …

Me, I'd rather emulate a few classic games. But it had me wondering for a while if I'd get any value from this, before deciding "no". I find it interesting that so many of the peop…

For those who weren't around, Usenet was built on uucp in the early 80s. As messages were store and forward you had to wait a good while for your messages to propagate - many serve…

Well the luck of finding a place that can deal with a middle-aged apprentice means I'll be collecting those skills for a while yet! I came across the opportunity whilst looking for…

This has come up a few times!... I left because I was utterly sick of churn, NIH, and the endless succession of this week's magic (javascript framework etc) bullet. OK. It's differ…

> Hmm, this donut's a bit stale, I'm not prepared to pay anything for it thanks Mr.Tesco. You go to the customer service desk, say "This doughnut is stale" show your receipt along …

The Amiga kernel and Intuition (the GUI). Partly because it was just so damn clean and intuitive. Equivalent Windows apps were an order of magnitude larger, but seemed to offer les…

In the case of Google, and to a lesser extent Microsoft, I don't have enough trust they'll keep their offering around to ever start using and relying on it. Google and to a slightl…

..and despite the Readme implying it may not be stable yet and it being prerelease I've found it flawless for the 2 or 3 weeks I've been happily running it!

To start I'm probably outside the usual IoT demographic - it mostly doesn't deliver what I'd like. I looked at your campaign and thought it interesting, but didn't back it. Here's …

Well there's been several pretty negative pieces on the Guardian front page in the last month. OK they're left of centre, so will undoubtedly have a view on the sexism aspect of re…

I've seen a few large, well-known places downgrade candidates from certain places by dint of ability or technology stack in use. Or to be honest, just plain prejudice. So they'd be…

Before it was FB/Internet/Phone games, it was TV, so we're perhaps just continuing further down a well worn path. See Roger Water's underrated Amused to Death album or the book tha…

Hah. We got rid of the tv a decade or more ago. Though being pretentious wasn't part of the decision. :)

...and how much steel goes into your typical 50 or 60,000 ton oil rig? They're mostly steel after all. Given we're starting from nearly all fossil of course fossil fuel needs to bu…

Surprisingly the Daily Mail has a much more extensive write up of the vehicle and drone [0], along with plenty of photos. Normally I'd avoid linking to the Mail! Jag's SVO group do…

> So? Millions of users do want it, judging from the huge popularity of Dropbox Yet just about everyone uses local FS with cloud for backup or sharing of a small subset. Giving us …

Did you ever hear of a man losing his job, or getting ill, then shortly after his wife leaving? It's quite common. It's very much both sex's perspective of role. Clichéd it may be,…

Except no. Plastic milk containers and bottles have to be thoroughly washed before recycling as the plastic is incredibly easy to corrupt with contaminants. Every roadside recyclin…

There's been a number of pieces that bread prices, or water, can be indicators of likely conflict. It's also revealing that so many regimes subsidise wheat prices. Try this [0] Mot…

Mozilla is growing, experimenting more, and can acquire startups. Mozilla doesn't have the resources to continue with Thunderbird. I am increasingly baffled by their decisions and …

Sometime in the 80s or 90s there was interest in introducing the same as plastic was starting to be used for more bottles. From memory it was very popular with the public at the ti…