Today the BBC announced that they will be sharing coverage of Formula 1 with Sky from next year, each party showing half the races live. The BBC will show highlights of the races it doesn’t show live. They will however continue to show live coverage of all races online. I know I’m never really in…
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Formula 1/2
The blind unleading the deaf
David Blunkett came out on the side of the common man this week, by suggesting that the government should scrap this idiotic ID card idea. Paraphrasing Dave…”What sort of stupid twat thought of this ridiculously expensive and almost certainly unimplementable system? The British public are afraid of this single ‘mythical database’ and we should allay…
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More IDiocy
The home secretary ‘Waqui’ Jaqui Smith or Unterführer Schmidt as I like to think of her, has been continuing the relentless drive to spend billions on the National ID card and National Identity Register this year. Implementing this pointless system makes even less sense in the financial winter ahead of us. Expensive Kit Before I…
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More of our rights in the gutter
When I first decided to go back to school and forget all the dreams of becoming a famous guitarist one of the first projects I had to do I chose the subject of encryption. Even back then in 1996 the governments of the western worlds were trying to find ways to stop people from encrypting…
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No conspiracy here…
TV is shit, but it is too shit to be a weapon of oppression.
There have been several times when I have considered that there might be intelligent design behind the vast majority of dross on TV. An evil cabal plotting to keep the masses passive by spoon feeding us anaesthetics via the media. Mind numbing pap to dull the wit and destroy the soul. I couldn’t possibly entertain that idea any more though….
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