Soon all our household needs will be served by our little mechanical slaves!
…um… yes. I might wait for version 2.0
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November 8th, 2014 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
 The EU sticks us with a bill. Ministers double it, apply the rebate, return to the original figure and claim victory. We’re meant to cheer? November 8th, 2014 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
I missed this when it first came out, but once again, it is proven that there is no better way to serve niche markets than innovative capitalism! Awesome. November 7th, 2014 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
It is very difficult to find an issue that voters place lower on the list than climate change November 7th, 2014 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
Any CEO who thinks his sexuality is the greatest gift god has given him, is not keeping his eye on the balls I want him to. October 31st, 2014 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
Back in 2001, Brian Micklethwait once said something that has since become part of my standard operating procedure. Speaking from his experience actually organising activities, rather than just talking about organising them as is the case with most people, he said if someone starts to offer you unsolicited advice about how to improve whatever it is that you are doing, immediately ask if they are prepared to get involved and implement their suggestion themselves. If the answer is yes, listen to what they have to say. If the answer if no, stop them right there and change the subject. October 28th, 2014 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)
An exchange of badinage overheard on TeamSpeak earlier today during an online team game, with the appropriate links added in the chat window: HadMacksFTW: “Fighting must be hungry work because when I watch those guys in Syria blowing the crap out of each other on YouTube, they keep screaming “I wanna snack bar! I wanna snack bar!” over and over again! Hummus must be for girlie men, warriors need a serious god damn snack bar!” CyberneticHippoOfDeath: “Poor ill educated fool! They are shouting “Admiral Ackbar! Admiral Ackbar!”… Its a Star Wars reference that involves traps, you cultural ignoramus! They do this because it increases the chance they will hit the target from zero percent by five percent by invoking the power of western civilisation! It works in Call of Duty too, not just in mere real life!” October 7th, 2014 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
Does anyone have noticed that when a Kremlin supporter talks about Eastern Europe the first thing he/she does is to erase the Eastern Europe countries from discussion, presenting the case as US/EU vs Russia? This is a typical debate framing. For [the Kremlin apologists] of this world Ukraine, Poland, the Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia don’t have any right to an opinion. Erased with it is a history of occupation under Soviets. For them only Russia has a right to be paranoid. The others once occupied by them for 50 years don’t. – Samizdata commenter LuckLucky September 30th, 2014 | 33 comments - (Comments are closed)
This was sixth form socialism of the most uninspiring kind. It is lazy and dangerous to implement populist measures that won’t raise the money politicians promise. Windfall taxes will hurt pensioners who rely on stable returns for a comfortable retirement, sin taxes hit the poorest hardest, and a Mansion Tax would be a vindictive gesture that will eventually find its way down the property ladder to hit much less expensive homes, too. September 24th, 2014 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
The server was a tad querulous for a while earlier today, but it seems it was nothing a little spanking could not cure (like most things really). September 22nd, 2014 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
September 16th, 2014 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
The only ‘cross’ most westerners care about is the little cross hair in a laser guided bomb aiming unit used to send a 500kg cultural critique in your direction, from our technologically advanced culture to your dark ages one. September 14th, 2014 | 57 comments - (Comments are closed)
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