Luke1972

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• Commented on Under the spreading cellphone tower, I bought you and you sold me
  This happens a lot more than just this incident. I suppose you have minimum wage call centre workers getting tempted by easy money and they take it. As a long time Vodafone customer I always get various rivals phone me...
• Commented on Quickdraw Noir, by Merrill Markoe
  That was great. How on earth did they get a cartoon to match the dialogue? I *really* enjoyed it....
• Commented on Is Apple's tablet a kindle-killer?
  And via this tablet & iTunes Rupert Murdoch gets his paywall for online news....
• Commented on Peek looks back on first year
  I still wished this was available in the UK. :(...
• Commented on London cops finally apologise for mugging geek -- four years later
  As #4 said too damn little, too damn late. I'm sure this apology means nothing to the poor chap that suffered this....
• Commented on Sysadmin of the Year 2009 -- nominations open
  Pity it is USA & Canada. There are sysadmins elsewhere too you know!...
• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  The kid is a desperate attention-seeking idiot. I hope he goes to prison for a few years....
• Commented on Twitter in 1935
  @reginald beat me to pointing out this is a dupe.. :(...
• Commented on Stephenie Meyer vs. 4chan -- XKCD
  From the top of /b/ today: Twilight Appreciation Station The darkest place on the internet—for vampire compatriots....
• Commented on Video: Connecting to the internet with a modem from 1964
  I was an office manager for an organisation that had an office in Brussels whilst we all worked int he London office. They used to spend thousands in fax calls every month until someone told them to use email. There...
• Commented on The gaming computer you dreamed of in 1983
  If this had a modem it would be great fun phoning up BBS's for the true 80's experience....
• Commented on Publisher Klutz lives up to its name: "Bristlebots," Scholastic, and Evil Mad Scientist Labs *UPDATED*
  What if it is a genuine co-incidence? If it is then nothing needs to be added to anything....
• Commented on Plainclothes allegedly police beat up 12-year-old honor student girl then arrest her 3 weeks later
  Just think what would have happened if this had occurred in Greece!...
• Commented on Peek email-only handset is Wired's gadget of 2008
  To me this looks like a great gadget and I can't wait to get hold of one here in the UK. IMAP would be great on it though....
• Commented on 4-1 odds on the existence of God
  Not fair, muteboy @ #19 bet me to posting about Skepticism Inc. Great book, I enjoyed it a lot....
• Commented on Open Rights Group call for photos on Britain's march into the surveillance society
  I just thank god that the majority of these cctv cameras arent connected and monitored by the same people. There are police cameras to check traffic, local authority cameras monitored on main roads for "public safety", cameras for security on...
• Commented on Indonesian /C/h/i/n/e/s/e/ schoolgirl flips off old begging woman
  As others have said above, the angle the girl is facing really doesn't look like she is flipping the begger. That said one so little shouldn't be flipping the bird to anyone....
• Commented on Subprime mortgage primer -- online comic
  This was floating around on emails as a pps a while ago. Odd thing was is an Econmics professor sent it to me and he told me he is planning on using it on his new class of freshman this...
• Commented on Rooibos tea made with espresso machine
  Seems the makers don't sell to UK online and a quick google didn't find any suppliers. SO anyone know where us Brits might be able to buy some of this? Thanks...
• Commented on Video: <i>Climb Dance</i>, Peugeot 405 T16 run up Pikes Peak (1990)
  This is great and have to agree with #8 about putting his hand up. The French Rendevouz is great too and supposedly the driver is a famous French F1 driver not C. Lelouch....
• Commented on What is on Keith's tongue?
  To the people that say they don't have them try (gently) scraping the bottom of your tongue on your lower teeth, especially the area of your tongue that Kevin's "dangly bits" are and see if you can loosen them....
• Commented on Busy Hanoi intersection has no traffic lights
  I drove through an area with a powercut at the weekend just gone and all the traffic lights were out. It was the middle of a Saturday so very busy and it was the smoothest and fastest time I've ever...
• Commented on What is on Keith's tongue?
  I thought everyone had these but they were usually stuck to the bottom of the tongue by saliva. Kevin's does seem to be more pronounced than most peoples and also seem to be not stuck down like most peoples'. When...
• Commented on Little Brother encoded in microdots on a papercraft desk-pot
  Hmm I just tried this and ended up with much much denser dots. I wonder what I did wrong?...
• Commented on Crashed drug plane owned by US Government?
  All the people assuming the CIA and world governments do that sort of thing themselves are very mistaken; they use people like Viktor Bout to move things around for them. A lot less hassle and accountability contracting someone to do...