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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.