Goodbye to cellular data traffic management
All those telematics projects, snuffed out. Marvellous.
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This is the kind of discussion that goes on in the USA, not Britain. I don't even want to get into "the officer was intimidated so he shot the suspect" nonsense. It's not up for debate. I want my country back the way it was, and that starts with tasers in the hands of trained firearms officers ONLY.
Yes, of course. Sony made the only MP3 player that didn't play MP3s too. Are you going to tell me I took mine back to the shop because I like bitching about Sony?
No, my friend, I bitch about Sony because they deserve it: they want to bully the world into doing things their way. Well they may have a few gimps who like it, but the rest of us who have a choice in cameras, music players, laptops, PDAs and phones will go with the solution that (and I repeat for emphasis) everyone else uses.
"But what PC card reader doesn't have a MS card reader slot?"
My camera doesn't have an MS card reader. So I can't re-use SD cards there. And my laptop has an SD card reader built in, but won't read MS cards. And I have an SD card with a USB snap out tab on it so I don't need a reader. Never seen an MS card that can do that.
Sony needs to stop attempting to bully customers, even the gimps commenting here who apparently enjoy being dominated.
"So what you're saying is that it's the EU that is trying to save us from our own government."
No. The European Court of Human Rights, the ultimate court for the European Convention on Human Rights, a treaty signed after WWII and drafted by a British civil servant. So a case of a less-hysterical era trying to save us from an post-Enlightenment era of idiocy.
"I would think that the net result of this could be the UK's departure from the European Community"
it's called the European Union now.
And anyway, the European Court of Human Rights is nothing to do with the EU (it in fact predates it).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights
But then you knew that already, didn't you?
The poor bastard is going to have RDX residue over all his clothes, and in his flat. Whenever he goes through an airport with a gas chromatogram sniffer (which all will soonish, thanks to Underpants Boy) he's going to get the free prostate exam. I don't know how long residue will continue to trigger the ultra-sensitive tests, but I bet it's years.
"In 2007 the Royal Mail made about £1.6m from licensing the Postcode Address File (PAF) database."
And how much would the Government have made if the database was freely accessible and companies using it made extra profits and paid a third of that in extra tax. It's such a short-sighted approach (but then, it's government).
"You think we need more non-doms earning £100,000s and fewer seasonal minimum wage fruit pickers?"
The top 1% of earners pay 25% of all income tax. If you make these people go away then the rest of us have to pay more tax to make up the shortfall. Quite frankly, I don't want them to go, so I think you should have to make up the shortfall on your own.