Posts by Tim B

Let's just hope this "communicate with each other" is secure...cos I really don't want a virus/trojan getting into my self-driving car!

Hard to choose

Sooo many to choose from. I was dithering between the ones that are currently top of the list and in the end it just had to be blade runner...

There are some films on the list and in the comments I haven't seen. I'm gonna need to do something about that I think.

@ Jamie

I think that was sarcasm....

24 hours?

Funny how people blame 24 hour licensing hours but that's never where I've seen a problem.

The problem isn't people drinking moderately over a spread out period - it's people drinking heavily for a short time.

I don't drink or smoke, so for all I care ban the lot. But then we have seen how well prohibition (didn't) work....

The problem is nothing to do with open times. It's to do with a culture that somehow thinks it is a good thing to get so off your face you can't even remember what happened the next morning. Fix that and you will do far more good than the fascists we call a government restricting one more freedom.

It is a travesty

The new law makes it criminal to possess images of entirely legal acts and expects the consumer to know what is legal to possess or not. It isn't an update to the obscene publications act as that requires a jury to determine whether something is 'likely to deprave or corrupt'. In this law though there is no similar jury-decision.

You could take a snippet from an entirely legal mainstream film and that snippet would land you 3 years in jail for possession if it was being used for erotic purposes.

If you are into BDSM and take images of your own entirely legal private bedroom activities then those photos could land you 3 years in jail. That's right, you can do entirely legal and consensual things with your boy/girl friend but possessing a photo of those same actions would be illegal.

Because after all we have plenty of space in jail and all the serious criminals like murderers and rapists have been caught so the police have plenty of time on their hands. Now we need to criminalise people because they like rough sex/BDSM/fetish.

There have been petitions, protests, most of the individual respondents to the proposal when it first came out opposed it, and yet still they are going ahead with this.