Posts by Liz

If they can break the law, why can't we?

@Lee Manifestos vs Individual Policies

"I assume when you say "most of us in Scotland" you mean "Students"."

You assume wrong then, just as you are wrong to assume that the tuition fees question alone would be enough to cancel out the other issues that would influence you to vote, say, Labour or SNP.

As a middle-aged engineer who benefited from free university education in the dim & distant past, I hate the idea of charging those who want / need it now. But not enough to vote LibDem & risk letting a Tory in!

Coalition governments force parties to co-operate, compromise, and all those other girly virtues rather than being macho & extreme, which is what you seem to value ;-)

@Lee STV - Scottish University Fees

"coalition with LibDems, which meant that concessions had to be made to (and incorporated in law) for a party that clearly had minority support. Look at University fees. 70%+ of people actively voted for partys that stated they would introduce fees, the Libdems opposed this and accordingly through the botched PRish system got their way"

Actually, most of us here in Scotland are very pleased that the LibDems managed to get tuition fees stopped, in spite of being a minority party. One of the flaws of the current system (any of the party systems used in the UK) is that you are assumed to have voted for every policy in whole manifesto when in reality you have to pick the least bad group of policies on the whole, and hope that somehow the policies you don't like get dropped or derailed.

I would say that your example is actually one that proves the value of PR!

UK.gov data review calls for... data

@Tawakalna

When England stops getting all the pork, Scotland won't need / deserve / want the little rebate we get.

Child protection site to show Scottish sex offenders

Doppelgangers / Changed appearance / Going Underground

We are told that this website has already allowed police forces in England to track down 9 of the 13 "missing" sex offenders originally poste, so the problems can't be too bad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7097059.stm

AC, ignoring your dodgy views about sex and consent, the point of the sex offenders' register and the requirement to report to the police is to protect further children (or, heaven forbid, women) from suffering at their hands. Punishment (if such it is) is a side effect.

New emails address you by name, then try to hose your PC

Any teckie chicks, please feel free to flame me.....

As if we could be bothered....

and as if you have a girlfriend rofl

UK gov offers car CO₂ rankings by class

More CO2 is NOT better

"So what does this number tell you exactly? That the manufacturer has made the car burn fuel inefficiently in order to reduce CO2 emissions and score better on this test at the expense of a higher mpg?"

I don't think so - the CO2 figures are per km driven. I imagine that a lot of the improvements in CO2 figures are really improvements in mpg.

Women prefer well-built blokes: official

male undergraduates...

wouldn't LIE about their number of sexual partners, would they?