Posts by Paul

I'm still convinced...

of the concept, but not this execution. What about these beauties? http://www.fit-pc.co.uk/

And MythTV

At that price I'm going to use it for some MythTV frontends as well - oooh, the digital revolution is just round the corner (How much bandwidth am I going to be using now with a few of these eating up iPlayer?)

@neoc

I alway thought, and it drives me mad every time I hear otherwise, that is was the missed word "presumed" which was important here.

I believe that everyone is guilty of a crime the moment they commit it, but in a court of law they work on the principle that the defendent is "presumed innocent until proven guilty".

"made to feel that he is drowning" - slight understatement

Waterboarding is not some sort of slight inconvenience - it is controlled and prolonged drowning. Water is poured into your lungs in a perfectly civilised pace, the "interviewee" is given the opportunity to decide whether they want to speak or drown, more water is sent into the lungs, uncontrollable shakes happen as the interviewee's body reacts to the threat to its existance, more water is poared into their lungs, repeat until either the interviewee gives up, dies or the interviewers diecide to do something else.

All the time, of course, the interviewee is restrained to stop them moving and all they can really do is twitch against the restraints and experience the pain - would you like to undertake this?

For D.A. and N.W. NI IS in UK

Actually you are correct. The UK is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. If you look at your passport and look at the correct manner of saying it, it is the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Great Britain is the mainland-y bit (plus the odd island like the Isle of Wight).

Paul