Posts by evilhippo

Re: So...

"it's no surprise that in the last 50 or so years the rich have gotten richer and the poor poorer, a trend that has been accelerating in recent years."

Manifestly untrue, indeed mankind has seen an unprecedented increase in prosperity almost everywhere over the last 50 years. Many of the 'rich' have indeed have got richer, and most of the 'poor' have got richer too. Moreover, someone else getting richer does not make someone else poorer as economies is not zero-sum games, which is why socialist 'economics' are such arrant nonsense.

Re: Um

Just Tory? You seriously think the other parties are any different? The Stupid Party & the Evil Party always look after themselves first

Re: re: The solution is to educate people

It is not the best way, it is the only way. Same applies to Islamosfacist material, Marxist material, Nazi material, Deep Green Human Extinctionist material, etc. etc. etc.

Refute bad ideas rather than try to hide them & pretend they don't exist.

Re: Horse carts vs delivery trucks again.

Because they can't possibly find another job doing something else?

Re: Who defines hate speech?

You really do love and trust Big Brother, don't you.

Re: So one remainiac commissions a report from load of other remainiacs...

Because everyone should want an extra tier of state bureaucracy scrutinised their tax dealing so they have have their money expropriated more easily?

Re: @ Naselus

So what? I was never a fan of Damien Green, but as he did not break any laws, so it is a scandal & almost certainly a crime that police information was to do the legs of a politician that the Plod didn't like.

Because objective reality is politically incorrect.

Expect a lot of down votes.

Re: Why Shutdown? Build Up (walls)!

True, when you are a nominally communist state with an unrepentant history of mass murder within living memory, on a scale unmatched in human history, it is amazing what you can force through

Re: Feel Good

"I've read the full memo not just the synopsis"

Well that puts you in a tiny minority.

I read a couple critiques of this thing, then actual read the memo... and then went back to check I had read the correct memo because it did not have much in common with what the outraged protests were ascribing to it.

And you are right to be uneasy, Net Neutrality, particularly as structured in the United Snakes, make it harder for new market entrants to get a toe hold with some innovative new approach to things, so naturally large established players just love these regulations to bits (see what I did there?).

Seriously, how did people not see that from the beginning?

Re: Canada debating a bill that would criminalize Islamophobia

"That claim would not stand up in court as the koran (and bible and, and ad nauseam) actually contains the items you mention."

Your faith in courts is touching. Once the state passes a law against hurt feelings (i.e. branding free speech "hate speech"), the truth of a statement becomes irrelevant, only what emotional effect the statement has.

Re: "Control of personal data"

"Good luck with that! Facebook / Google / Microsoft / Uber make up their own rules / write their own laws"

And that is as it should be. If you don't like those companies, don't use their services (I only use Uber in that list).

Re: @GATTACA

" I suggest you look up the following terms: "empathy", "humane" and "golden rule"."

The actual issues here are "who pays for someone's health issues?" & "are they allowed to actually assess the risks they are agreeing to underwrite?". The money has to come from somewhere.

Re: Reward the little guy

At twice the price? No thanks, I'll stick with Uber.

Re: "the job of Government is to support the people, not tax the people"

As there is nothing 'ethical' about government itself... various aspects of government may or may not be desirable, but supporting government (via tax or whatever) is not a matter of 'ethics'.

But it *does* affect their bottom line actually, even if some are too blind too see it.

Re: Facebook?

"So, a company that makes money spying on you, has been found to have a backdoor in one of its free apps to spy on you?"

Except it hasn't, it was just another Guardian "fake news" story. Did you actually read the whole article?

Re: Lying so-and-so's

What? Get with the program! Yes, China may be unilaterally annexing a huge chunk of the South China Sea but TRUMP is the problem! Can you not read all the insightful comments by the geostrategic geniuses here?

Re: Obligatory rifling pockets icon

Ireland is toast if that happens. Northern Europe and France want a high tax cartel but it is hard to see how that is in Ireland's interests

Re: Americans, again not realising there's a world outside them

There is no "lesser evil" in the next US election, just two qualitatively different Greater Evils

Re: Simple answer

I too have stopped going to the USA due to the hassle of getting through the border, but I hope my comment does not mark me as a complete oaf in the way yours marks you.

Re: As usual, PETA is lying.

"Or shoot a wild boar ... they may be varmints, but they sure taste good!"

Truth! Occasionally do that in Croatia. Best tasting meat ever!

Re: "He was found not guilty, therefore he is innocent"

"You can see why the medical practitioners and the police are very concerned."

Who cares? Since when can medical practitioners and the police punish a man without either sectioning him under the Mental Health Act or convicting him of a crime? The "concerns" of the police and medical practitioner is utterly irrelevant or we *are* living in a Police State.

Indeed, when perverse incentives are provided, people act perversely. That is why so much "well meaning" regulation ends up having the opposite effect to that imagined by the people who propose it, or at least assorted other highly undesirable effects.

Re: El Reg, please

But, well what? It is a full on propaganda outlet.

Woah you are so going to get a lot of down votes for pointing that out.

Yes Milo might be a pain, but being a pain on the right seems makes you "baffling" apparently, whereas being a pain on the left just makes you edgy ;-)