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Floating About In Space

So, I’ve still not amanged to get an awful lot of time in-game under my belt this week. However there ahve been some interesting developements in the meta-world surrounding eve which merit some mention.

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Sending a Message…

Sign this, its a new one though there have been many before it. I’m a bit dubious as to the worth of these petitions but we should at least make the effort to tell the dour idiot what we really think of him. You never know it may spur the opposition into some sort of [...]

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Sean Gabb Gets It Right, And Oh So Wrong.

Free Life Commentary No 181, 16th February 2009.
This speech, given to the think tank Conservative Future by the Director of the Libertarian Alliance, Sean Gabb, has many good ideas but unfortunately is either ignorant of, or in denial regarding the impossibility of these ideas being put into practice.
The meaning of this is that you should [...]

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A Rant About the MSM

How boring: Celebrities sign up to Twitter to reveal the most mundane aspect of their lives | Mail Online.
Oh dear, the Daily Mail doesn’t like the fact that some celebs are using twitter. Surprise, surprise.
What bugs me about this is the sheer hypocrisy of it. On the same page , in the sidebar there is [...]

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Sign this, sign it now.

Sign this please, and then sign another one for the next one, and the next one, and the one after that, until they get the message that we will stand for them no longer. Express your displeasure at the status quo. Tear the system down and start anew. Deny them the consent they need to [...]

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Police set to step up hacking of home PCs – Times Online

Police set to step up hacking of home PCs – Times Online.
W. T. F. ????
Unplug your webcam, encrypt everything and possibly invest in a dummy machine designed to inject a horrible virus into the computer of anyone who even attempts to snoop. Keep your private property private.
Gleaned this thru trying to figure out what loudmouthman [...]

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What Shits Our Government Are…

I mean, we’ve all heard about Joanna Lumley’s campaign, these are people who have risked far more for Britain than the average dole scrounger, yet the government cannot do enough for “social justice”.
And now, via the Big Mac, we have a particularly egregious example of the government taking the piss:
On 15 November, Colour Sergeant Krishnabahadur [...]

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Government regulation of opinion…

The latest step in the British government’s attempts to regulate opinion and restrict the freedom of businesses to deal with whoever they choose (or not) can be seen here (BBC). What business is it of the state to decide what services a business offers to its customers? This is something that the market should be [...]

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The law is not only an ass…

…it is cruel, counterproductive and dangerously idiotic.
Guess which law I’m talking about. You get the satisfaction of knowing me and my hobby horses better than you might want to if you get it right.

This law leads to the prosecution of people who want to alleviate anothers suffering because the NHS won’t use the most effective [...]

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The People Should Read Churchill

If you will not fight for the right, when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. [...]

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