What we need is free-trade cocaine
Legalise it to put the cartels out of business, then make it fair trade so the farmers get more money and aren't on subsistence wages any longer. Win-win all round I reckon.
Posts by markfiend
63 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009
UK telly in coke blizzard shock
Aussie Sex Party in evangelist head-to-head
Tories oppose charges and speed cameras
Wednesday 7th October 2009 13:42 GMT
@ StooMonster: ToryTard
I had a bet with myself on how long it would take to jump to Thatcher's defence. So thanks for that. When she goes I'll be dancing in the streets.
And trying to blame Labour for this recession? Well, it's funny, I didn't see Gordon Brown in the boardroom of Lehman Brothers...
Wednesday 7th October 2009 10:49 GMT 
Tories pandering?
There's a surprise.
Unfortunately, given the state of Gordo-n-co's popularity, the Tories could announce the sacrifice of everyone's first-born as a policy initiative and still win. Remember the Thatcher years and prepare yourselves for a rocky ride.
Mine's the one with the UB40 in the pocket.
Opera lobby dubs IE ballot screen 'threatening and confusing'
Tuesday 29th September 2009 10:11 GMT 
"I blame all the masses of website creators that force you to use IE instead"
Refuse to use the site. Or move bank.
My bank's* website works on Firefox in Windows (which I use at work) and Firefox in Linux (which I use at home) as well as every other browser I've tried it on. In general, I find that more sites are broken in IE than in FF
*Alliance & Leicester if you must know. God forbid I should be accused of astroturfing for them lol.
Oh and the only browser "bundled" with my Linux install was Lynx...
NASA probe scents crusty bonanza in dark moon bottoms
Friday 18th September 2009 14:38 GMT 
Space naysayers
I just can't understand the attitude of people like the first commenter. Did you not dream of living on the Moon when you were a kid? If not, lose ten geek-points straight off.
The more I see, the more I realise that Robert A Wilson was right; 99% of the human race is Homo neophobe, afraid of anything new or different. Get ready to be left behind by the few of us who are Homo neophile. Or as Bill Hicks would have said, "wake up, it's time to evolve."
NZ scientists identify giant, man-eating eagle
Dell: Linux v Windows netbook returns a 'non-issue'
Thursday 13th August 2009 09:24 GMT 
Linux on Dell? Good luck finding it on the higher-end hardware!
I recently bought a Dell laptop but there was no Ubuntu option available for the hardware I wanted. I've ended up paying extra for a Windows I'll never use*.
OK, I had a Linux CD ready and never even booted into Windows, but if the only laptop they ship with Ubuntu is the crappy netbook, it's not exactly a commitment to open-source, is it?
* Yes I've heard that technically I could send the Windows disks back for a refund, but I've also heard that pigs might fly.
Exotic star's 'violent ejections' during companion's visits
Palm slams Apple, hoodwinks iTunes
Wednesday 5th August 2009 10:06 GMT 
You buy an iPod, you use iTunes to manage it...
And then when your Mac's HD dies, your iTunes library goes with it, and the next time you connect your iPod it gets wiped too. >:-(
I was one of the lucky ones. I had backed up the 30+ GB of music I'd put on my iPod (yes, legally) onto an external HD. How many people bother to do that?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
