Dear Govt.

We haven't exactly been on good terms for some time now, but even so, please understand that if it gets to the point where I read a Mail on Sunday scare story entitled "Stasi HQ UK" and find myself agreeing with them against your actions? You're Doing It WrongSeriously, know any vegetarians? Or someone involved with a "foreigner"? How ( Read more... )

This one made me laugh. Dramatis Personae:

• Northern Rock: British bank in a little bit of financial difficulty.
• Wikileaks: Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Set up intentionally to allow documents to be hosted without censorship.
And get this, this is the genius one...
• Schillings: ( Read more... )

At the beginning of last year during the Bantown cracking incident, I posted about the sucky LJ customer relations. For those wondering why I, and a lot of other unaffected people, are pissed of this time, liz_marcs has done a very similar explanation, thus saving me the effort. Summary:

• The fans who posted the pics were idiots
• LJ/6A still haven't clarified ( Read more... )

Hey, guess what? You'll never get it. Six Apart are useless! Oh, wait, you've heard that one? Ah, well, here are the new details of this one anyway. Y'see, they've managed to mess up a perfectly good idea by a really badly timed and poorly worded announcement, and they've got a bunch of sockpuppets plugging a new film.

So, short version. ( Read more... )

Economics should be taught at a basic level right from age 11. Understanding the ruules of supply, demand, a free market and a free economy are essentials to get on in the modern world. Otherwise?

You get this sort of thing. Still, it killed time while I was eating lunch ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen. I present the death of intelligent humanity. Three posts, on the same LJ community, all of which boil down to a complete inability to either look things up, check the help files or indeed thinkI'm normally very willing to help give advise, but just look at her comment responses "I can't restart my PC, I'm watching an eBay ( Read more... )

Hey everyone, guess what? Yup, you've got to log in ( again) and are probably going to encounter some more problems for a bit longer. It appears that putting news, lj_dev and lj_maintenance on your main friends page is currently an esential plan ( Read more... )

In their infinite wisdom, LiveJournal have expired everyones cookie without warning us. There were already some logout problems due to the new subdomain as well. I didn't realise until page 2 of my friends page, clicked reply; reloading got me 3 friends locked posts from people ( Read more... )

There's a perfect community to post this to, but, well. In a discussion on price rises on stamps, a few of us Brits explain the superiority of selling stamps as "1st" and "2nd" insttead of by value for letters. In contrast to other countries which sell them only by value, so you need to buy more when the prices go up. A few random comments down ( Read more... )