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Pedestrians Killed By: Car=256 HGV=61 Bus=34 Motorbike=18 Other=11 Cycle=2
From the Guardian – full data and spreadsheets are there. So remember: Pedestrians killed by cyclists = 2 = 0.52% = zero point five two percent …next time someone is complaining of the dangers of lycra-clad hooligans hurtling around the streets and pavements. All deaths are tragic but risk is inevitable; to understand and deal…
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All Fair Use And No License Fees Makes Room 237 An Interesting Test Case | Techdirt
point. This negotiating of fees has been a contentious subject for copyright holders who feel they are being exploited. “This is where I take [Donaldson] to task,” says Cathy Carapella, who handles rights and clearances for Global ImageWorks and speaks on fair-use issues for the nonprofit Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors. “If it’s fair…
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Nick Clegg Q&A on #CCDP | starts well but rapidly goes to pot #libdems #snooperscharter /ht @markpack
Incidentally Nick – in case you see this – the referred World at One interview was so contentious that someone transcribed it: NC: …exactly, exactly. What we, what we were against in opposition was the creation of a Government data base which had a real sort of Orwellian air about it. What these proposals are…
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‘Gerontas Pastitsios’ Pastafarian Facebook Page Leads To Blasphemy Arrest In Greece # if (legit) then {incredible}
A 27-year-old man has been arrested by Greek police for what the authorities called “malicious blasphemy,” according to a HuffPost translation of a press release. Police allege that the man managed a Facebook page that lampooned the deceased Eastern Orthodox monk Elder Paisios, a widely popular religious figure, using the name “Gerontas (Elder) Pastitsios.” Pastitsios…
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Simple, interactive graphic from #EFF showing the benefits of combining SSL and Tor for anonymity /ht @kaepora #MUSTPLAY
This is really good, clear and useful: https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
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Am depressed that the Ubuntu12 UI’s default assumption is that people still use wordprocessors.
What’s more depressing is the thought: perhaps they do? But… We have all this free-form text. We have file formats oozing out of our ears. We have content creation tools inconceivable in the 1970s. We even argue about the best formats for e-books. And yet what are the big icons in the Ubuntu Launcher? Wordprocessor,…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-28
…am finding it very hard to take the term "anti-vax propaganda" seriously… # @metal_max https://t.co/UdmNATs1 # "it used to amuse me no end that to run ANALYZE in diagnostic mode, you'd ask users to type ANAL/PROBE" http://t.co/lFPm2glq # Why didn’t I buy Urquell instead? a.k.a. "Plze?ský Prazdroj" At least it has character. Beck’s is the…
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Samuel L. Jackson’s Wake The Fuck Up Ad – YouTube # maybe the #LibDems can hire Samuel L Jackson? #MUSTWATCH
Samuel L. Jackson’s Wake The Fuck Up Ad – YouTube. Just image Nick Clegg and Samuel L. Jackson mashup Party Political Broadcast … N: I’m sorry. S: WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SO DAMN SORRY? ARE YOU A MAN OR A MOUSE?
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A question for all my #LGBT friends
Hypothetical: Assume that fully-equal, level playing field, non-discriminatory marriage rights have been established; with that in mind, do you refer to your lifetime-committed, deeply-beloved, same-gender, other-half-to-whom-you-are-married as: a traditionally gendered noun such husband or wife a gender-neutral noun such as partner “the old ball and chain” “him/her indoors” other, please describe I’m actually most interested…