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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 01-05-2012

May 01, 2012 12:00

With The Avengers, Joss Whedon Masters the Marvel Universe
(tags: joss_whedon movies comics writing )
How the Scottish council elections work. (STV FTW!)
(tags: voting politics scotland stv )
I am very, very glad I was not on any of these planes
(tags: video weather airplanes travel )
High Court rules that The Pirate Bay must be blocked by ( Read more... )

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How the Scottish council elections work cartesiandaemon May 1 2012, 11:25:52 UTC

And apparently some form of electronic counting. By now I'm so twitchy whenever I see "electonic" anywhere near "voting" I hope it all goes smoothly (at least its counting, not just purely electronic voting).

Re: How the Scottish council elections work andrewducker May 1 2012, 11:28:58 UTC

Yeah, I wouldn't trust purely electronic voting, but properly supervised, validated counting seems safer.

Last time round was a shambles though, so I'll hold off on judgement until the weekend :->

Re: How the Scottish council elections work andrewducker May 1 2012, 15:54:34 UTC

Some background info, if you're _really_ bored:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/116601/0110435.pdf

(via fanf's link blog:
http://dotat.at/:/feed.html

la_marquise_de_ May 1 2012, 12:24:15 UTC

The woman who brought the case against Stringfellows was on Radio 4 this morning, in fact. Interesting, smart individual!

andrewducker May 1 2012, 12:33:49 UTC

I think she'd have to be at the least strong-willed to make it through a court case, particularly to win the first of its kind.

Any additional information come out in the interview?

la_marquise_de_ May 1 2012, 13:14:29 UTC

Only in terms of how this ruling may affect other categories of workers who are classed as self-employed to save the de facto employer money. (It was on Woman's Hour, if you're interested: the first item. Should be on the Listen Again function.)

bart_calendar May 1 2012, 13:19:34 UTC

Who uses Pirate Bay anymore?

Kick Ass Torrents is faster and more reliable.

This is like if the Chinese wanted to block Friendster and keep Facebook up.

andrewducker May 1 2012, 14:02:38 UTC

I've certainly found the TV listings on Kick Ass Torrents more reliable than on TPB.

That and http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat give me everything I'd need :->

bart_calendar May 1 2012, 14:05:21 UTC

I sort of feel like Pirate Bay is the land of viruses and rick rolls, while KAT and Eztv.it seem to have found a way to filter out the bullshit and only have good torrents.

skington May 1 2012, 15:19:07 UTC

Even years ago, I always found isohunt and demonoid to be better torrent sites; and for Brit TV you can't beat thebox.bz.

And of course anyone who torrents regularly will just shrug and switch on TOR.

henriksdal May 1 2012, 17:33:54 UTC

holy crap, those aeroplane landings are impressive. Pilots are incredible. (my brother was on a flight out of Santander last week and his plane got hit by lightning, which sounded equally terrifying)

andrewducker May 1 2012, 20:58:01 UTC

It's terrifying - because I don't think those planes should be anywhere near the ground. But on the otherhand, I'm not convinced they should be in the air either...