Lucifer Sam

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• Favorited BBtv - Russell Porter with Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Boing Boing
• Commented on Nuclear detonators sent to Taiwan were from 1962
  We should hang onto all of that old stuff - once we go past peak oil and start using these thermonuclear bombs in anger - the flint-locks, swords, slings, bows & arrows, the horse linament and pointy sticks are all...
• Commented on Air safety proposal: shock-bracelets controlled by flight attendants
  In fact, why would a citizen who's done nothing wrong ever have to remove the auto-tazer bracelet? I think as well as a mass issue of these devices, Bush and the TSA should mandate RFID enabled electric-shock devices to be...
• Commented on Aussie comedy duo explain subprime meltdown
  Here's another good one - esp. if you're in the UK and know who Northern Rock and Melvin King are.. "IT'S CREDIT and IT'S CRUNCHY!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br8mOmH9frE...
• Commented on How mortgage-derviatives tanked the economy
  It's explained here quite well also. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_qK4g6ntM http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7073131.stm...
• Commented on How mortgage-derviatives tanked the economy
  ... I think the telegraph (UK newspaper) had an astute observation in a cartoon it runs, along the lines that many of the people who fled after setting up this house-of-cards system are now re-employed at different banks calculating "risk...
• Commented on How mortgage-derviatives tanked the economy
  @ #3 -- What you have to remember is many of the people who work in finance are grunts straight out of college who can be hired and fired at the drop of a hat. Each day is potentially their...
• Commented on Amsterdam currency exchangers won't take US dollars
  Right on at #36. The knowledge economy can't be at the expense of real work....
• Commented on Scotland Yard wants DNA samples from 5-year-olds in case they grow up to be criminals; Oyster card records to become part of "war on terror"
  @ #5 : + Why is there any need to test their DNA? Surely the Director chose it in the first place, long before they were decanted? All the police need to do is to make sure they're learning properly:...
• Commented on BBC's iPlayer DRM cracked again
  Just verified the new Ruby script works. It looks like downloadable video is not about to vanish from the Beeb. I just hope this is not a sinister play by Apple - releasing a popular device - the iPhone -...