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Posts by AshC
14 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Sep 2009
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Apple video shows Flashed iPad
Monday 1st February 2010 10:12 GMT
Hold on...
Please consider the following:
1. I like to watch video clips and slideshows on the internet, I do so every day.
2. I like to write and record my own music and videos and publish them myself.
3. My kids like to play games, and I like those games to not cost anything.
4. I like to have the freedom to choose what I see on the internet.
5. I don't like forced censorship.
6. I have a modern computer, I don't care about CPU usage, it doesn't matter.
7. Everything sometimes crashes, even me.
I fully support the freedom of choice for media consumption, and the greater degree to which any device gives me that choice is something I appreciate.
Obviously Apple think differently.
Scientists flee Home Office after adviser sacking
Tuesday 3rd November 2009 10:19 GMT
What about some proper figures?
One thing I've noticed from all the furore surrounding this matter is how little is given over to the levels of drug use in general. I took interest on hearing that the relative number of ecastasy deaths when compared to horse riding is around 1 - 30. Well for comparison, here are some slightly more useful figures from DrugScope:
Drug-related deaths in England and Wales 2000 to 2004
Cocaine 575
Amphetamine 384
Ecstasy 227
Solvents 246[3]
Opiates (heroin, morphine & methadone) 4,976
Alcohol 25,000 - 200,000 approx.
Tobacco half a million approx
Number of deaths England and Wales in 2003 and 2004 (substance is mentioned on the death certificate)
2003 2004
Cocaine 113 147
All Amphetamines 66 83
Ecstasy 33 48
Solvents 42 45
Opiates 766 944
Cannabis 11 16
All deaths 2445 2598
Source: http://www.drugscope.org.uk/resources/faqs/faqpages/how-many-people-die-from-drugs.htm
So there you go, legal drugs have killed hundreds of thousands over the last term of government, the most common illegal drugs have killed around 6000. Oh and of course that's 'drug-related' deaths. As in it includes people who've been killed by someone under the influence of drugs and such. I'm not a scientist and it took one google search to glean these figures, so really, how hard can it be?
Quite where riding horse fits into this I'm not sure, but I reckon it must leave Alan Johnson a bit long in the face.
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