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Journalists who try to incite violence and then profit from it? Yes, absolutely.

The majority of Americans, sadly.

You know the NSA are part of the US gov't, right?

You say problem, I say fun filled activity for all the family.

This is how I do most of my holidays. I don't have the time to plan holidays in detail, so typically book flights to/from two different places, and go. The other option is that I j…

That looks to be a very dead Roomba or Scooba... which do not live on kitchen countertops, and have no means of knowing that they're going onto a hot surface, as cleaning your coun…

There already are such things - see COBIT.

Yup, just said the same as you. Hobbes and Hayek both anticipated this. Revolution is the only way out.

No, it isn't, but it appears to be the endgame of representative democracy. I'd suggest reading Hobbes' Leviathan, or perhaps Hayek's Road to Serfdom, if you haven't already, as bo…

"Responding officer"? You mean, the phone drone whose job it is to go "sir, burglary is a civil matter, you will need to pursue it yourself"? Already have.

Politicians have always run the police - a police force is the government's visible threat of violence and method of control over the population. They're not there to protect you. …

The police are there to: - Do you for speeding. - Protect the establishment. - Threaten violence. - Prop up the prison-industrial complex for the benefit of private corporations. T…

Fighting fraud which loses them money. Fraud which makes them money is fine, because it's not fraud, it's "for your convenience".

The UK is sadly becoming increasingly like defective ex-soviet states, where doing things in the "right, open and upfront" way is no longer possible, as one is actively punished fo…

Software development, metalwork, carpentry, all have the same base skills, of planning, patience, and perseverance. I do all, and many more such engineering/mechanical/creative typ…

I've a friend who principally for a living shoots things - pigeons, rabbits, and other such pains-in-asses for farmers. In the UK, there's a fairly complex framework as to where yo…

Yes, my petrol engine wakes me up with coffee whenever I'm unconscious.

S3's horrendous drivers cost me months of my life, trying to get XFree86 to run on a Toshiba laptop in about '95.

Britain is equally broken - and as you say, the whole west is complicit, and all, to varying degrees, suffer from the same malaise.

2) Is very true. I crashed my first car aged about 7 on a friend's farm - old volvo estate, slammed it diagonally into a tree doing about 30, and rolled it down a bank. Terrifying,…

They also gave the NSA and co. front-door access, and probably knew about the back-door access, but couldn't do anything about it.

Yes, you're right, it's racist to oppose NSA spycraft. > They can start by asking nicely. "Can you please kindly, stop perpetuating your morally bankrupt spy-state?" Gosh. That ach…

Yeah, but US citizens vote for their government, so are therefore accountable. I don't see you out in the streets with pitchforks, so you're as culpable as the primary perpetrators…

Sorry, that's the funniest thing I've read all week. An American president with a moral backbone? Give me a break. That's like expecting it to rain candyfloss. The presidency is a …

500m LOC?! I smell bullshit, unless the entire thing is procedural and so not DRY it's not funny.