Posts by Adam West

Jason Bourne disses James Bond

other way around

From what Ive read so far, its the Bourne posse that are acting like rabid fanboys.

Council employs automatic PC shutdown

Waste of cash

The council bought software that will shut down PCs, hoping it will save money.

But you know what would have saved even more money? Actually shopping around first and realising that not only are there free pieces of software that will do this for you.

Worm eats music on infected PCs

re: Autorun

Why is it "thick" to not disable autorun? For the average user out there (and despite what you may think, that means the majority of PC users) autorun is an entirely useful feature.

Second Life gets its first copyright law suit

Truer words...

"He's making his living doing it and it's just not right"

Im sure he has no idea just how true those words are.

UK foreign language teaching hits all-time low

Le souris manges les fromages

I took GCSE French and German and got a respectable grade in both.

Ten years on and the only phrases I remember from either langauge are the ones anyone could find in a tourist phrase book, and weird useless phrases about mice eating cheese picked up from those awful audio clips we were played.

I dont think we as a country can afford NOT to teach our kids languages other than English. The benefits of being multilungual are (or should be) obvious. Raising a generation of kids who can only speak English (very poorly, at that) is an appalling prospect.

It just needs to be taught in a far better manner than the "mechanical and boring" way we all remember from school.

FCC's ban on 'fleeting expletives' ruled unconstitutional

Remember what the MPAA says...

"Horrific deplorable violence is ok, as long as nobody uses any naughty words"

Cyberstalker caught after months on the run

re: Felicity Lowde is rhe victim he

Who'd have thought Felicity would be allowed Internet access while in custody?

"She also left threatening and obscene messages on North's blog and answering machine, and began her own blog where she made defamatory and false allegations against North."

Freedom of speech doesnt cover threatening someone. Having an opposing viewpoint is fine. Telling someone youre going to beat their face in because you disagree with them is entirely different.

The only thing Lowde is a victim of is her own stupidit and misguided hatred.

NASA chief regrets having unpopular opinion

Wikifacts

"700 years ago the Romans grew grapes in Northern Briton and Scotland"

Get that off Wikipedia, did you?

Korean schools to deploy robot chaperones

Reminds me of America

I was in the US visiting my then-girlfriend about 3 years ago. For whatever reason she ended up taking me to school with her one day. She's 18 at this point, so not a minor in any sense.

We were having an innocent cuddle in the playground when suddenly this fat twerp with a security badge waddled up to us and demanded we get our hands off each other. My reply doesnt need repeating.

I guess some backward and introverted cultures have a big problem with people expressing their emotions and opinions. Their loss, I think.

Can we have a proper study of Wi-Fi, please?

My Brain Hurts!

Good God. It's all true! The cleaning lady just started up her vacuum cleaner in the same room as me and now I have a headache!

Parliament IT dept is rubbish

15 to 20 minutes?

"whenever a member of my staff or I telephone the PICT Service we can expect to wait 15 to 20 minutes"

Let's just clarify this.

Does she mean that herself or her staff are on hold for 20 minutes? In which case, she should try calling NTL support and see how she does with that.

Or does she mean that a technician arrives withint 15 to 20 minutes? In which case I suspect a lot of businesses and educational establishments across the UK would kill for this kind of response time.

Why Last.fm isn't sweating the RIAA's royalty hike

Different planet

Yep. It's called the USA.

Businessman takes NatWest for £35k

Strickley

Not everyone has an overdraft, moron. Im very happy for you that you have so much money you dont know what to do with it. Some of the rest of us struggle to make ends meet. Not because we're financially reckless, but because we simply dont have any money. If you want to continue living in that make believe world in your head, where everyone is loaded and debt is a sin commited only by the damned, feel free. But do us a favour and keep it in your head, hmm?

Jedi denounce UK sabre ban plan

Ignorance and Idiocy in Parliament

Some people collect stamps. Some people collect butterflies. Some people collect coins. I collect replica swords and I can say with complete confidence that my hobby is just as safe as the ones I mentioned above. If I go out into the street and wave one of my swords at someone, I'd be arrested, rightly so. Why should it be illegal for me to hang them on my wall at home?

During the middle ages, there was a (albeit relatively short lived) belief among the "doctors" of the time that if someone had been stabbed, it was better to bandage the sword rather than the wound. This legislation is the same type of thing. Banning the sale and ownership of replica swords will not stop the criminal who would have used them from being criminals. They'll just find something more convenient to use.