Personally I don't smoke any more. But I don't condemn those who do. And the last thing I want to do is to ban anything at all- especially smoking. Individuals should be allowed to make their own minds up whether they can smoke or not. Currently British smokers have less rights than farmyard pigs! This is wrong!

The British chef Antony Worrall Thompson has created a petition to canvas the UK government to reconsider their position on smoking in Britain- especially places like clubs and pubs. I miss the acrid stench of the British fag!

Thompson is trying to raise 100,000 signatures. Spread the word by signing up here;

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(epetitions.direct.gov.uk)

(Original source, Joe Jacksons's website here; http://www.joejackson.com/smoking.php)

@unknownuser said:

Where's the 'fist' emoticon??

Oh don't listen to me! I'm just an Apple fanboi purist!!!

Oh dear. Not a proper 'port' just an X11 nightmare

Oh well- can't complain too much?

I'm actually half Irish, half Viking!

Take that and put it in your Longship Whiskey then set fire to it!!!

@alan fraser said:

Someone's been at the akevitt again.

How is one supposed to get pissed on Akevitt??? You'd die of caraway poisoning first!

I think there are a few people who want to beat the shit out of me?!

No way! Brilliant news! Thanks for sharing that Pilou!

Unbelievable! Make sure your children aren't watching!

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Don't say I didn't warn you!

Happy birthday Rich!

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@john.warburton said:

Don't hold your breath - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15830844

Seems that there is reason to doubt the results after all.

Yeah, but this is what they said the first time round. that's why they did it again. And they'll probably do it again, and again....

Like environmental theories ("according to THE Science", an over used term often branded around to evoke environmental doom/ hypothesis etc etc!!), science is always been there to be proven wrong anyway?

....said the barman....

Scientists have just run the faster than lightspeed experiment again....

...and got the SAME result- AGAIN!!

Time travel IS possible!!!!!

Neutrino experiment repeat at Cern finds same result

A refined version of the experiment that showed neutrinos could travel faster than light is repeated - and comes to the same conclusion.

BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

.......A neutrino walks into a bar......

I just found this little gem elsewhere. I don't know if it's been posted up here yet?

@solo said:

I'm curious about the naming of the OS, they are now on lion the 'king of the jungle' (lions don't generally live in jungles) so what comes next? meercat? wombat?

I'm a little concerned to what comes after 10.9.x

"Dead Cat"?

Still not on Lion. Still at 10.6.8 on both machines.

@unknownuser said:

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English plates too? I hope that fat **** of an Audi driver got prosecuted.

In Britain, this kind of behaviour is an offence, and you can be prosecuted for doing that.

It happened to me a couple of years back (I got soaked, not prosecuted), but I didn't get the crim's licence plate number He was going to fast, and I was too busy shouting & swearing- and it was absolutely pissing it down!!!!

Yes I think they did!

Shouldn't there be a link on this page too, as well as the existing screenshot?

Okto,

Don't forget, that if you know someone who works at a university, they can get a Mac ever cheaper- usually with all the VAT knocked off, and a load of Applecare thrown in for free.

@unknownuser said:

The Air is not the platform you need. It's fine for day to day crap like browsing/editing documents/admiring but outside of that it's like tinsel on a Christmas tree. Nice to look at.

Steady on old chap!

The Air is actually pretty darn good- especially as it also has an i7 processor. It ain't no netbook!

@unknownuser said:

For the price of a MacBook Pro you'd get a pretty powerful Sager Notebook.

Yep, that's right. And for the price of a Sager notebook, you'll get a pretty powerful Macbook Pro!

Windows 7 and OSX are both excellent. The advantage of a Macbook Pro though is at this time, the graphic card doesn't quite cut the mustard in an Air (although the Air is superb for other software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Logic Pro, XCode etc) that both the computer and OS are built under the same factory roof allowing for far better compatibility and intergration. And you also get the best of both worlds too of course with the Mac.

FWIW, I'm typing this on my Macbook Pro 2.16gHz. It's 5 years old and still runs Sketchup well. There's Windows XP SP3 on another partition. These can be picked up for about £350 secondhand. It's also built like a brick sh*thouse!

Fanboy and proud!

If its renders you want, go for the 15" Macbook Pro, which has an AMD/ATI dedicated graphic GPU. Both the 13" and the Macbook Air have Intel HD3000 where memory is shared with the CPU.

But if you are simply posing to your mates, and you want a beautiful streamlined laptop, the Air wins hands down!

Good luck!