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4 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2011

BBC: Monster cargo ship delivers '863 million tins of baked beans'

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What about the BBC's asteroid comparison last week...

I still haven't got over the "olympic swimming pool" from outer space that narrowly missed us.

A wonderful image of Michael Phelps flippering up and down in outer space, silently cruising between the Earth and the moon - made me smile.

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Sheryl Sandberg offloads $41.5m in Facebook shares in just 6 weeks

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Re: Get out while the gettings good

I seem to recall from somewhere that the capital gains tax rate was going up from 15% to 20% in the US after Dec 31st - that's a reason why a whole bunch of profit taking / tax planning would be going on.

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Google KNEW Street View cars were slurping Wi-Fi

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Re: WTF?

That's "theft by finding" which is an offence.

Google, for all that we may not like what they've done, have been cleared of committing an offence here.

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Cambridge gets a white (space) wash

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Joke

flat earth

That's why they're doing the trial in Cambridge - no hills!

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