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Small child at Woking station has a plastic roaring dinosaur on a stick, so disproving existence of God
By the ontological argument God exists because there is nothing conceivably greater than him. However: 1) Everything is better on a stick. 2) Everything is better with dinosaurs. Therefore the existence of dinosaurs on sticks creates a quadratic class of infinities each of which may be added to any conceivable greatness to create something greater,
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-30
"@nrosier: So true 🙂 https://t.co/sEOksMJF" # Drug use declines. Drinking declines. Smoking declines. Irrespective of Gov't policy. Perhaps it's the #economy ya think, @BBCr4today ? # @ae_g_i_s @BBCr4today Perhaps that's why Tesco is stocking homebrew kits? # Truly Epic: "Will The Labour Party Entirely Abolish Ethical Investing?" http://t.co/OvqzSzzU #unintendedconsequences # RT: BBC Headline Writers 'incapable'
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Funniest political thing I’ve read in ages: “Will The Labour Party Entirely Abolish Ethical Investing?” #unintendedconsequences
Tim Worstall: And this is what he is going to say this afternoon: Mr Miliband is proposing a sweeping new legal duty on any financial service which manages savings, including pension funds and banks, to maximise the saver’s returns. Failure to do so would mean them breaking the law. There’s some other stuff there too,
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BBC Headline Writers ‘incapable’ of making or endorsing definitive statements
Just look at the above, taken from the BBC News app this morning. Wikipedia has an explanation of what is going on which actually references the BBC as an example: Example 2: Kazakhstan’s famous “130-year-old”—Headline on BBC News web site The quotation marks around 130-year-old indicate that the news source is reporting but not endorsing
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-29
Has anone seen updates on the status of the #Apple Thunderbolt Cinema Display? Is there a revision due anytime soon? # @DeirdreS I clicked "Watch the Video" on http://t.co/eefjf07c – and see no video ? # #VirtualBox has really screwed up its OSX UI – try creating a VDI in a nonstd place for a
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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