Posts by James Butler
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Can you prove that eating a sandwich is a victimless crime?
Yes: eating a sandwich isn't a crime.
(haha, Mr smartypants!)
Umm, if it's not a crime, it can't be a victimless crime. Own goal :-)
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Is this the right time to mention Panopticlick's browser uniqueness test?
Damn:
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 812,895 tested so far.
And this is Firefox on Ubuntu, which is the most common browser/OS combination I use...
EDIT: I lie - from now on I'm browsing exclusively on my iPod Touch.
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I always confuse "brazen" with "brazing", and get odd visions of a scantily-clad woman operating a welding torch.
To continue the threadjack, Braze-on hussy?
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Hellfire, are cargo shorts a daft 90s throwback thing? I'm wearing a pair right now!
I keep a pair to wear with my old Radiohead t-shirt at retro parties.
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See, I have this problem with increasingly loving cycling, but thinking that fancy cycling gear looks daft and try-hard on people who aren't proper competitive cyclists.
I'm going to have to get over it though. Any more than 20km without padded cycle shorts does get a wee bit uncomfortable ...
You can get padded cycling shorts cunningly disguised as cargo shorts - so instead of looking like a daft try-hard cyclist, you can look like a daft 90's fashion throwback.
My commute (which I don't cycle that often TBH) is 17km each way, and normal sports shorts are fine now that I have callouses in the right places.
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I think Jeremy Clarkson is a world-class fuckwit, and yet still I am compelled to watch. I can offer no excuse.
My wife blames the flashy editing. She says she can't turn her eyes away from it.
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Am I the only one who finds Richard Dawkins and the other "atheism uber alles" usual suspects to be at least as objectionable as overtly in-your-face religious types? What's the difference between his "There is only one truth, and that's my truth" and that of organised religions?
<glib>Falsifiability.</glib>
But no, you're not the only one - this atheist too. I think they are too ready to attribute various ills to religion, which are really just consequences of human nature.
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Had a dour laugh or two when I saw a HCC sign suggesting that spectators take a 'green' route by walking to the track--so they could watch expensive cars going round and round in circles, burning up finite fossil fuel!
Srsly, at your average motorsport event the spectators burn orders of magnitude more fuel than the competitors.
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...and I presume you mean QCD?
BANG on Duckie. Quark Quark!
<facepalm> I just re-read your post... shall we say it gained a new spin I hadn't noticed previously?
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CERN is right into colour these days
...and I presume you mean QCD?