Re: "exists merely to be nasty."
That was the old Reg. The new one is all about Global Cultural Touchstones, which I think Mr Fry surely must be. Watch out, Andrew!
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Arm-twisting wasn't so bad on this one. The one we had trouble with was this:
Published it anyway of course.
Or ...
Worst case 2100 is maybe 0.3cm, soonest you could possibly get 1m is 2200. Soonest you could possibly get 3m is 2500AD.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/03/sea_level_rise_barely_30cm_by_2100/
"There is no scientific consensus" on sea levels, say scientists
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/15/there_is_no_scientific_consensus_on_sealevel_rise_say_scientists/
Never did proper E&E complete with resistance-to-interrogation training, no, but we did get a cut down version of it on the commando course. Hopefully not super useful in this situation: the main thing I can remember is the procedure for making a tasty dinner out of a live rabbit.
The government have made it plain that in their view not only foreign powers (ie probably Russia and others) have full access to the Snowden leaks, but quite possibly "non state actors" also. In other words the only people who don't know this are the general public.
And given the colossal automated penetration that NSA/GCHQ are achieving worldwide without anybody being much the wiser, it seemed to us that the public should know - as there's no further intelligence hit for UK.gov to take, by its own analysis.
But, Jamie - I thought you weren't going to read us any more! Let alone give us free content like this. Nonetheless point noted.
However the stats and analysis of the bits of site people mouse over, click through etc seem very clear that there are an awful lot of readers who like such stuff. As ever, not many people are motivated to write in by liking things, and still fewer if they would have to admit to being attracted by pictures of naked ladies.
I don't know if it makes any difference, but one of the main culprits behind these egregious headlines and pics happens to be an attractive young woman herself.
All those years as an EOD operator and mine clearance diver ... but I'm frightened of internet gobshites? That'll be the day. I just don't like having rude little twerps like you scrawling personally insulting graffiti at the foot of my articles.
Anyway, you're zapped for using a spurious email address. Cheerio