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Of course not. One can not accidentally forcibly find their way into your house, car or pocket. One can, however, accidentally host copyrighted material on ones website. The act has just as much potential to damage legitimate websites on which users post copyrighted material as it does the Pirate Bays and other illegal to borderline illegal websites in the world. Well that's just a case of laws reflecting the majority of people. Most people don't produce great intellectual works but most people do have bank accounts.

Because Wikipedia is never wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban#Definition_of_assault_weapon

Bit of a development, Wikipedia is going ahead with a 24h blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA tomorrow. clicky For the sake of adding my own opinion, I personally disagree with the act. I can see the reasons for producers wanting to pass it but people will always find ways to access copyrighted material on the internet.

Your source is a poll commissioned by the British Humanist Association (assuming that was the BHA you were referring to), hardly a neutral party. Assuming YouGov have no particular agenda, their sample size in a population of 85,002 people was only 1,896. My source was the National Offender Management Service, the government branch directly responsible for managing Britain's prison population. Their sample size was, as I have stated, the complete prison population of 85,002 people. Regardless, you do not, in my opinion, have to be religious to define yourself as belonging to a religion. Being religious implies that one is an active member of a worshiping community, something many people who belong to a religion are not. All of that being said, the purpose of my post wasn't necessarily to make an atheist vs. theist argument, but instead to draw comparison between the three religions which are named in the title of this thread. Using my statistics one could also draw the conclusion that non-believers are less "evil" than believers as they make up only 31% of the population but again, that wasn't what I was trying to achieve. Given the proportion of believers of all faiths to non-believers in general society, expecting the latter to be the majority in prison would be foolish.

Slightly random fact time, but it is vaguely religiony. Of Britain's 85,002 prison inmates in 2010, 26,830 of them claimed to have no religion. This was the largest denomination of people. 40,130 claimed to be some denomination of Christian (20,526 Anglican, 14,437 Roman Catholic, 5,167 other), 10,437 were Muslim and only 233 were Jewish.

Turkey navy to escort aid ships to Palestinians in Gaza Tbh I have no real opinion on this (I'm far too tired) but thought some of you might find in interesting. edited because it would appear I've forgotten how to use markup

I couldn't get it to work with Chrome but it's fine with Firefox. I'm using a MacBook Pro btw.

Not to start another 'Israel is Evil' thread but why should the then Palestinians (or Arabs or whatever you want to call them) have had to agree to any partition plan?

"A good representation"...only if that's what you want to believe. I'm partial to believing in facts. Are you saying it isn't a good representation?

Forget that, I'm afraid of the ground. If I'm on it or thousands of feet above it I'm fine, it's that grey middle area that's the problem. Still like looking over the edge of tall things for kicks though

Well the first issue I see with that idea is that not everyone who immigrates to England see themselves as English. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that many would identify more with their original nationality and up bringing than with English culture. Second or third generation immigrants may not even see themselves as English, though many consider themselves British. What would you like to see the distinctly English culture you talk about consist of?

His implication seemed to be that patois is directly linked to criminality, as though if you spoke a certain way you were automatically going to stray a little too often to the wrong side of the law. Which is untrue. The way you speak is merely indicative of the company you keep. Crime is a personal choice.

Put bluntly, I think it's a load pf utter bollocks. I'm impressed he had the balls to say it but it's still a load of steaming donkey crap.

I know that "Tennessee whiskey" is, not surprisingly, whiskEy made in the state of Tennessee (but other than that is pretty F'in' vague), but WTF is "Tennessee whiskey yeast"? Are you telling me there's some special yeast they only use in Tennessee to make their special state branded turpentine? And yes, I am expecting some comments from JD lovers, but come on! As a lover of all (well, most) things alcoholic JD is one of the brands I get nauseous thinking about. As for a name, you should call it remibond. I'm not quite sure why but it's definitely a good idea.

No idea, I only know what's been reported. If I were being cynical I would suggest that if he had threatened officers then a statement would have been released by the Met saying so. To be perfectly honest, what interests me more is how a police officer happened to shoot another police officer. Maybe the other copper was Brazilian? Haha, took me a second I just read that it was probably a ricochet, none of which is particularly reassuring.

No idea, I only know what's been reported. If I were being cynical I would suggest that if he had threatened officers then a statement would have been released by the Met saying so. To be perfectly honest, what interests me more is how a police officer happened to shoot another police officer.

As yet there is no evidence that he fired his weapon at all. Which would mean the bullet found in the police radio was fired by another officer. Which, in turn, raises more questions than it answers.

Yeah well...screw you too! I think now would be a good time for me to turn this into a rant about how health and safety laws are stifling British youth.

Blacks were brought here as slaves after being forcefully removed from their homeland and were humiliated for generations before being freed. Would you support them having to pay no income tax? Seems to me the Indians didn't get as short an end of the stick. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity 38,929,319 blacks. 2,932,248 indians. What's worse, genocide or slavery? Both is worse. I wonder how many Africans lost their lives in the slave ships and died due to lack of healthcare or from beatings by the cruel slavemasters. I say if we are going to give the Indians tax breaks, that we also give them to people of African decent. Let them open Casinos too. Why should the Indians get all the tax breaks and special treatment? That makes no sense. Slavery was terrible but black people in the US make up over 10% of the population. Indians are to all extents and purposes an endangered race on a worldwide scale. In the words of Chris Rock (quite possibly the first time he's ever been quoted in SC)

This covers me. I've been shooting since I was about 12 or 13 since my school had a fairly large C.C.F. unit (even though I was in the RAF section for the free flying lessons) and got tons of experience on the SA80 as well as the .22 Lee Enfield No.8. They taught us about maintenance and cleaning as well as respect and accuracy. I think at one point I was going through about 30-40 rounds a week on the No.8 Happy days. eta: For what it's worth I'm about as city as they come, lived in London all my life. It was the same for me, except the weapons also included the Lee Enfield 303, the 7.62 SLR and AK47 on occasion. That's pretty cool. Like I said, I was in the RAF section of the CCF (wedgewood blues and all) but I hear the army guys got time on some other interesting weapons. We had to make do with flying upside down and experiencing zero gravity. It's a hard life

Lucky Limey The only time that I got to fire weapons for free was during familiarization fire off of the ships fantail when I was in the Navy. Got to shoot some cool stuff. M60s, M16s, 50 cal machine gun mounted and anything else they had in the ships armory. I have a 50 cal round that I drilled the casing to remove the powder and fire the primer. I also have part of a bandolier with spent casings from the Vulcan Phalanx, as well as a few dummy rounds. Now, that Phalanx, that's a gun! Yeah well...screw you!!! I have what you could describe as military ambitions so hopefully I'll soon be shooting so often I'll be sick of it. Question about the drilled .50 round, was that to thread it or what? I didn't know you could drill into live ammo.

Jammy bastard . Though in fairness I was 1) doing it through school and 2) getting it all for free. Well apart from the £55 yearly membership but it's really peanuts compared to the benefits. We had our own underground range so we could go straight from geography or something to target practice. All in all not bad for someone in the U.K, dontcha think

Blacks were brought here as slaves after being forcefully removed from their homeland and were humiliated for generations before being freed. Would you support them having to pay no income tax? Seems to me the Indians didn't get as short an end of the stick. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity 38,929,319 blacks. 2,932,248 indians. What's worse, genocide or slavery?

Well that's...dramatic. Dramatic ? Really young man? Obviously your ignorance of history is now apparent. Congratulations, you've learned how to underline. Albeit you seem to be underlining random and irrelevant words but hey, it's a start. Yes, dramatic. A simple "Taxes are bad, grrrr" would have sufficed but instead you chose to half quote Lincoln (incorrectly might I add) and lose even more reputability. Again, I congratulate you. Oh and thanks for your concern as to my awareness of the past but I would suggest you find better ways of expressing yourself if you want to be taken seriously.