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"This clip only plays in the United Stats" Little tip if you have Firefox. You can get some add-ons which let you access the content on dailyshow.com, I use one called ProxMate which does the job. The site might still pop up with a message saying you are accessing from outside the US but ...

Appreciate the input but I did want to avoid the Culture stuff, like I said, I've read them all myself and enjoy them but I was looking for recommendations on Bank's other fiction (not Iain M basically)

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Hey Thought this was the best section for this but mods feel free to move if I'm wrong. Right, simple enough question. I'm a member of a book club, the next meet is in a couple weeks time. It tends to do more "recent" stuff, reading group friendly sort of things, so pretty normal fare. For...

Good win for common sense I guess. It does potentially throw a bit of spanner into medical research however, while I don't like the idea of big medical tech companies "owning" the rights to genes etc, you have to admit they would be able to throw a shit ton of money at it if they could, th...

Perhaps the wording "Comfortable" is a bit misleading and is skewing the discussion on what I think is a valid point by the writer, I disagree with the idea of using the whole welfare bill in 1 big lump to solve it but it's a good way to frame the extreme end of a possible other solution. ...

Kinna taking things off track here but I read alot of crap about comparing "violent crime" statistics between the US and UK which is used in some way to justify gun ownership "look look it does make us safer, just compare us to the UK!!" etc etc. Now call me bias but as a brit th...

Well I got back from watching the Hobbit on Imax, and they went and put the first 5 minutes of Star Trek on there. I'll summarise as a spoiler. Ignoring the plot spoilers what did you think of the 3d? (im guessing you saw it 3d on an imax) I thought the elements close to the screen being blurry and...

Saw it a few weeks ago Niggles I had on viewing was Radagast trying to lead the Warg party away from the group before Rivendell. Seriously there was about 4 or 5 shots of him weaving and skimming along with that stupid rabbit sled thing with a bunch of orks behind him, great, then you'd cut to the p...

I am the only one getting a Khan vibe from this?

Has anyone else seen the 10 minute clip footage?

More importantly did the film end with Leonard Nimoy's Ballard of Bilbo Baggins?

Chuck address the whole planet blasting issue in this one, Which I guess is of interest to fans but sucked up time I thought could have been better used. You know when I was watching it I thought exactly the same, it seemed like padding for me, hardly a major issue that needed discussion really (im...

I've heard that from a close friend who is a civil service middle manager and various public sector beurecrats I've met at dinner parties. No, I don't have a source suitable for public debate right now, but I'm not going to apologise for basing my opinion on the best informed people I've actually m...

Given that, what is your motivation for staying in the public sector? Not much motivation, but as I mentioned, there's not much going on in the job scene in the north east of england. Beyond that I do actually find some enjoyment in the job I do which is in compliance work for National Minimum Wage...

I'm a civil servant (I work for HMRC). Frankly Clarkson is just becoming a parody of himself, regardless of it was meant in jest, it was in very poor taste and not even that funny. I've just had 2 year of pay freeze (I'm on the lowest level of the pay scale which that started, about 22k per year, th...

I was going to write some sarcastic 'this is why I'm proud to be British' stuff, but then I actually watched the video. Oh god that was just depressing.

I think the most depressing thing was she did this with her child in her lap.

The funny thing is the tomato is actually a fruit... go figure.

Some comments on MP: The IR scope is going to have to be either nerfed hard or will just be banned flat out in competitive play. It is a complete and utter game changer in terms of normal game flow, it's an instant hack available to anyone, on any map. The scope itself is shit and 3.4x would be a no...

I am now a fan of TPM. I used to dislike it. Really? I still think for the majority of people either TPM/AoTC/RotS are examples of the worst mass market films in existance. It's actually amazing that Lucas was able to make 3 films which could be terrible on so many levels, that takes talent. Out of...

The transfer isn't too much of a distraction to render Episode I unwatchable, so that's a major plus To be honest, I'd consider it a major plus if it did make it unwatchable... "now this is pod racing" ugh... Ah lucas, you crazy old man. I'm sure he's rich enough already but really wtf he...

ME2's decisions are mostly who is left alive at the end. Well you had the big decision at the end about what to do with that Collector thing, couldn't you either blow it up or leave it for Cerberus. Plus you could decide what do with the Geth couldnt you I think, as part of Legion's mission, I forg...

Confirmed according to the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12221865 Three students have been taken to hospital after a shooting at a high school in California. Local television reports say the gunman is still on the loose inside the Gardena High School in the city of Los Angeles. Steve...

Article from british newspaper the Guardian here Britain's health service makes it the only one of 11 leading industrialised nations where wealth does not determine access to care – providing the most widely accessible treatments at low cost among rich nations, a study has found. The survey, by US h...

They just need UFO attack and then they'll have ticked off the the classic Sim City 2000 disaster options.

Personnally I find this idea deeply repulsive and frankly digusting. How dare we pass judgement on another human being's "fitness" to have a child, where do you draw the line? Parents who are obese are more likely to have obese unhealthy children, should we then offer a year's supply of cr...

How about a mix up of old and new tech? Carrier pigeons could only carry limited information in the past but with the size of memory sticks you can get these days it would be perfectly feasible to use them to carry terrabytes of information at pretty darn fast speeds. (Not sure what the biggest flas...