Posts by Ian Lowe

What the Freetard Photo book tells us

No sympathy for photographers.

And what is this with calling any old hack with a camera an artist?

freetards to one side (and yes, Ito's book looks like complete pap), photographers are one of the worst bunch of money grubbing scumbags in existence.

they are, in fact, a perfect example of how copyright can be misused and abused. Let's look... many people will interact with a photographer at some point - when they hire one to capture a wedding for instance.

the photographer will come along, be paid for their time AND for producing a book of photos, but will then declare that they 'own' the copyright of the pictures and proceed to gouge family and friends for every copy of the wedding photos made.

the vast majority have *zero* artisitic ability (producing photos that are either formulaic or downright embarrasingly crap), and use copyright as a cash-stick to beat people with.

so by all means point out the idiocy of the world without anything of value proposed by the freetards, but please, don't expect one iota of sympathy for photographers.

Concrete-jet 'printers' to build houses, Moonbases in hours

Concrete Boats - been there, done that..

Ferrocement boats built using a concrete skin on steel mesh have been in use for over a hundred years - and last for a long, long time.

McKinnon supporters plan Home Office demo

Get your facts straight.

"The crime was committed on US soil"

Rubbish.

This notion of telepresence in law is a nonsense. The crimes were committed on UK soil, by a UK citizen. He should be tried (and if required, jailed) in the UK.

as for "there is a fully ratified bi-lateral treaty with the USA to allow deportation so he should get deportation"...

What planet are you living on? the US Senate refused to endorse that so called 'bi-lateral' extradition treaty. if the situation was reversed and it was our government demanding a US Citizen be handed over with menaces, there is no way that an extradition would happen.

Stop, because it's time to stop looking at McKinnon, and start looking at the larger issue of the rights of UK citizens to a fair trial in UK courts.

US Congress members push Gates's line on visas

Yeah, but the Problem is they are not very good!

The thing is Mike, we have plenty of unemployed people in the UK as well - but there's no point in training them up as IT staff, because we don't need any more lazy unmotivated lack lustre IT Staff - we need good ones!!

Given how incredibly easy it is for every Pole coming across to find work, do you not find yourself starting to think that the unemployed people are unemployed because they are, well, you know... a bit crap?

Pope tells astronomers to pack up their telescopes

Get rid of..

All these atheliometers! We don't need your "truth"!!

McKinnon earns Lords appeal

Why in the United States?

I agree that McKinnon should be tried for his crime, but what makes you say that this should take place in the United States? This sets a very dangerous precedent. McKinnon committed this offence in the UK:

Consider someone looking at a website that is perfectly legal within the United Kingdom, but hosted within, oh, Saudi Arabia. Would you be calling for this person to be extradited?

It's a long standing principle of law that you break the law in the jurisdiction where you the physical person are located, not where you are operating as a remote agent, whether that's by giving instructions over the phone or on a PC.

We are a sovereign nation, and mr McKinnon is, for all his criminality, a UK citizen who deserves due process under OUR law, not thrown to the wolves in a foreign country. He stands absolutely zero chance of a fair trial in a US kangaroo court.