Start here to see what this is in response to. ... how many of you go back to the pre-web days? I do - graduated in 1987, I've had to practically start again 3 or 4 times in the last 20 years - Un

Bloody hell! Although I suppose it might save us from tourists (joke, definitely joke, I hope). Is there any forum you can have a go at them about wasting public money? There's an idea - why not get off your backsides and do your job preventing i

Insightful few paragraphs here.  If John and others are right, the climate change folks look like tools, if they are wrong we might be in deep trouble.That's the problem.That said, I agree that we can overcome difficulties with technology an

Comment left  Eschew bullet points - they are there to prompt the speaker Use diagrams and pictures - people think in pictures Give handouts - That's where screeds of text belongs. I read a paper that says one of the shuttle disasters was i

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I think that right-thinking people should reclaim the word "liberal". To me it means allowing people to get on with their lives without too much interference, or at least that's what it meant originally. I do think that ensurin

If you want to see a very coherent and logical explanation of why software patents are such ridiculous nonsense see http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/9/93357/91614.Can you imagine a world where the particular genius of your favorite author's rende

Quoting from this site:Acpo vice president Chief Constable Denis O'Connor welcomed the consultation on the power to take fingerprints by the roadside and take footwear impressions without consent. But he sounded a "note of caution" on plans

I was reading http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA518.htm. I loved the line [Michael Howard] jumps on any bandwagon that seems to be going somewhere, then promptly falls off on the first bend. I think this describes most of our political e

SATsMy daughter has done nothing for the past term other than be trained to pass her SATs. As she could already do this standing on her head she's bored out of her mind. With the amount of attention that the school pays to them and the amount of cram

Many years ago I was involved in left wing politics and I remember having a lot of arguments on street corners with people who used to say that there couldn't be a society where people shared things because greed was human nature. For some reason thi