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Roger is having a spot of trouble: everyone is being nasty to him. Once upon a time the mighty Prometheus bestrode the world like a Colossus and ate big fish for breakfast, but now it seems Roger swims with the...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:49 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Hardly an original sentiment I know, but I feel moved to make a token gesture of disgust at the monstrous bloated pile of junk that can't even paste text sanely and appears unable to resize a table in a comprehensible...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:17 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Tim Lambert normally does the Iraq war, for example this. But I was struck by a recent Economist (you know, those left-wing pinkos) article bemoaning Iraq's descent into a police state. Which is a shame, because in the nearly-unmitigated disaster...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:14 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Is wander around blowing up schools. Fairly obvious really, but some people will never learn. Bozos. [Pulled from the comments (thanks): its fun to watch: -W]...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:12 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The story so far: arbitrator User:FT2 posted a bizarre Arbcomm decision in which a user was, apparently, tried and sentenced in secret. Unsurprisingly, outrage ensued. One other arb then repudiated the judgement, and said it was done "without the approval...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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So, nothing new there you may well say. My morning paper tells me that Broon has won a pointless victory over the bizarre 42-day-detention stuff. He had to buy off the Ulstermen to do this, and the Lords will veto...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:57 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...said the oily US spokesman on R4 tonight, as it turns out the US has been telling us porkies about torture flights. Though I doubt our govt asked too hard, since it enabled them to make denials when it was...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:11 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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In order to prove my financial acuity, when Northern Rock fell to about 200p and the govt guaranteed its deposits, I bought £250 worth, believing it would bounce back. Its now down to 90p, and the news now is that...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:01 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I thought I'd take advantage of a rant (sorry, yes, another one) to push some of our tat that we're selling (we hope) on ebay. So there is the disc firing robot, the ATV buggy, and the nervous alligator science...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:39 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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UK teacher jailed over teddy row: "A British teacher has been found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad."...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:04 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks