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Commented on Traffic cameras used to harass and limit movement of peaceful protestors
Point taken. But please please please stop inappropriately invoking Chekhov's 'first law', as you call it. It was painful enough the first time, but it's starting to get really annoying....
Commented on UN goons destroy academic poster describing China's censorwall
It does help, enormously -- thank you for clarifying. And I'm very happy to stand corrected. FWIW the credibility of this story was undermined by several factors. First, the OP could have been more informative and forthright; the headline alone...
Commented on UN goons destroy academic poster describing China's censorwall
Well spotted! This would also explain why there were no other posters visible anywhere in the room. (This was apparently an ONI reception, but still, it was being held in what looks like a main meeting hall under the auspices...
Commented on UN goons destroy academic poster describing China's censorwall
Since no-one else has so far thought to do so, here's a link (from the youtube info box) to an image of the offending poster. It's not a photo of the actual poster, but presumably it's identical -- and there...
Commented on Richard Metzger on Ayn Rand
Joelfreeman said -- Her rationality twisted itself to make sense of her damaged heart. Nicely put. And doesn't that apply to pretty much all of us? And in particular to those who seem to be protesting too much about how...
Commented on Soviet war painting gallery
Thanks. That would make sense. I did a search on 'anti tank grenade bundle' and found a picture of a couple of German ones at the top of this thread here . So it must work something like a limpet...
Commented on Soviet war painting gallery
Also, in this painting (as well as in several others) can anyone tell me what she's holding in her hand? Thanks....
Commented on Soviet war painting gallery
These are some of the most visceral, powerful paintings I have ever seen. Thank you for linking to them here. What I don't understand though is why an artist like Norman Rockwell would be mentioned in the same breath. I...
Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
Re 10x: Of course, that's just a plucked-out-of-the-air estimate. It's hard to quantify. If it makes you feel better, I guess you could always say one step forward, two steps back. :-) On the plus side, hey! We're making progress...
Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
wtf point is there in all this tech we've built[?] Oh, that's easy. The technology means that when the boot starts stamping on the human face for ever and ever, we'll all be able to watch it on Youtube. Seriously,...
Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
It's one evil sitting in several chairs in the studio. Yup, that pretty much sums it up. So the question becomes, in the words of another noted humanist, 'What then must be done?' And the answer sure as fuck isn't...
Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
Octopod said -- [...]if that's what the majority of people in Britain want, like. Either you believe in democracy, warts and all, or you don't. Antinous responded -- You just retroactively defended the Third Reich. Antinous, you just repudiated democracy....
Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
@Rob -- Aha! Thanks for explaining. I think I now finally understand your post. It's not Griffin you object to, or even his appearance on TV, it's the way that the media and the public reacted to his appearance that...
Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
To paraphrase one noted humanitarian, a civilized society would either kill him or give him his bookings. 'Kill him' I understand. But can anyone tell me what 'give him his bookings' means? Or is there some kind of obvious typo...
Commented on European Internet sinking fast under 3-strikes proposals
JBeat, It's all very well to say that copyright provides an incentive to create intellectual property, but sadly, that quaint idea no longer applies. These days copyright is used primarily as a legal weapon to coerce, extort, and intimidate. The...
Commented on Anvil Shooting: using explosives to fire anvils -- yes, ANVILS -- into the air
Between this clip and the Omaha Beach veteran on gay marriage, my faith in humanity is temporarily restored. And yeah, I'd have parked my truck a few hundred feet further away as well. (I've seen that 'car bowling' video.)...
Commented on Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the paranormal industry
Sethum, thanks for that explanation. I had a feeling it should be something like that, and your water going down a plughole analogy makes it very plausible and clear. Nice one! (And the plughole phenomenon is nothing to do with...
Commented on Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the paranormal industry
The convection thing is straightforward enough -- but I still don't see what causes it to spin. The system seems to be essentially symmetrical, so how come there's a net rotational force in only one direction? If it's due to...
Commented on Brit ISP TalkTalk shows why cutting people off because a record exec says they're file-sharers is dumb
Yeah, but there's no smoke without fire innit. I mean, sure, that laser-printer may not have actually illegally downloaded an Indiana Jones movie, but if you look at all the details, you'd probably find that it had done something wrong....
Commented on Parish leader denies marriage license to interracial couple
For the sake of humanity, won't someone *not* think of the children?...
Commented on Dress looks like a pair of 3D glasses
OK, well, good for you. But even though I have 'no artistic vision' I still think it would have been better if the colors had been the other way round....
Commented on Dress looks like a pair of 3D glasses
Dress looks like a pair of 3D glasses? Dress also looks like she's having some heavy menstrual flow. This kinda reminds me of that unfortunate 'labia dress' from a couple months back....
Commented on Early 1990s TV commercial - pay $2 a minute to hear a story that will make you cry
They'd market that differently these days: Are you man enough not to cry?...
Commented on BBC wants to encrypt "free" TV -- talking points debunked
Cory, your 'new' Guardian Column seems to be exactly the same as your old Guardian column and BB post from a couple weeks ago. I scoured it looking for updates on the situation, but there's nothing. (The links within the...
Commented on The speech Safire wrote for Nixon if Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the moon.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum and all that, but that opening paragraph strikes me as tacky as all get out. I mean, did he really have to open with a pun FFS? (ie to explore in peace/to rest in peace)....
Commented on Nabokov Edits Kafka's Metamorphosis
@Ilovechocolatemilk #10, while your point still stands, there's no way Nabokov would ever have written anything so doubtful as 'from a terrified dream'. If you look at the page more carefully -- and it's striking that such a sublime writer...
Commented on Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour
I like the way they turned the lights down at 3:56. Except not down far enough. And they should have done it earlier, like at about 0:00. And it would have been better without sound too. Except for those 8...
Commented on BBC wants to put DRM on the TV Brits are forced to pay for
Camp Freddie asked - Does anyone else think that the alternate proposal (totally encrytped content) is only added in order to make the main proposal (essentially encrypted keys to the content) seem more acceptable? Yes, since you ask, that's exactly...
Commented on BBC wants to put DRM on the TV Brits are forced to pay for
Fuck it. I've had enough of this bullshit. I just followed Tsuki Chama's fine example and sent an email to Ofcom....
Commented on BBC wants to put DRM on the TV Brits are forced to pay for
Takuan, you're right of course. But the Beeb likes to think of itself as a provider of entertainment....

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nic0mac commented on Traffic cameras used to harass and limit movement of peaceful protestors
I find it hard to understand why there is so many calls for monkeywrenching in this forum. while a random register plate approach would be nonviolent the general public would remember it as the police were taken off the street to correct the problem caused by it and equate that with a danger to the public by way of lost police services. A lot of environmental groups found in the 90's that they would lose a lot of their hard won support every time that a splinter group like the ELF pulled off a monkeywrench protest. Similarly its a...
Piers W commented on Traffic cameras used to harass and limit movement of peaceful protestors
EH #22 "MPs (and former MPs) are exempt, silly." Citation? Do cameras magically pixellate them or what? Antinous #26 "Although congress members can (and are) pressured to vote a certain way in the US, MPs can be (and are) forced to vote with their party on many issues in the UK. So, no." You refer I guess to the fact that if an MP defies a three line whip they can be expelled from their party. There are plenty of examples of them doing so and getting away with it, however. RedShirt77 #51 "For all the British bravado about anarchy,...
shadowfirebird commented on Traffic cameras used to harass and limit movement of peaceful protestors
Can anyone point me to evidence that the congestion charge cameras are actually being used this way? The guardian article just says "number plate recognition camera"....
Piers W commented on Traffic cameras used to harass and limit movement of peaceful protestors
London issues over five thousand fines for nonpayment of the congestion charge every day. Harry down the road in CarPoint Rental used to proudly display a pile five feet high. He was contesting every single one of them (something to do with whether a car was legally off the road or not). All of those fines need some sort of evidence to back them up, because they can all be contested in court by simply saying "No I wasn't in London in my car, and there's no proof I was". So yes, I think they do use the cameras for...
shadowfirebird commented on Traffic cameras used to harass and limit movement of peaceful protestors
Yes, obviously the congestion charge cameras capture number plates; that's what they are designed to do. But is there any evidence that they are being used as part of the ANPR system?...

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