Problems problems

I picked up some wireless headphones, so that I can play Guitar Hero loudly without annoying sleeping/working people.

The problem being that when I went to plug them in I discovered that already plugged into the sockets by the TV are:

TV
RAID server
Wii
XBox
DVD Player
Cable TV Box
Cable Network box
Wireless router
Amplifier
Subwoofer

and thus I am completely unable to plug anything new in without buying another power block.

Edit: Found another power block at the other end of the room - switched it over - and now have spare slots to plug things into.  Mwahahaha - the power!

Visions of The Future

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

Riot in the Streets!

Ok, that's it.  I've not voted Labour in the recent past, but I had felt that they'd done a fair bit of good, which almost countered various awful decisions they'd made.

However, this quote is enough to make me want to line them all up up against a wall and pull the trigger:

"The Prime Minister has said it is not acceptable and therefore it will not be accepted. It might be enforceable in a court of law this contract but it's not enforceable in the court of public opinion and that's where the Government steps in."

For fuck's sake, one does not change the law in order to strip any one person of something.  You certainly don't do so retrospectively.  This is not the rule of anything but the mob and a government that doesn't give a damn for the rule of law.

I don't like that Fred Goodwin has wandered off with £16million - but he broke no law to do so, and it was all, so far I understand, approved by the correct people at the correct time.  To talk of passing a special Act of Parliament just because they don't like the result?  Madness!

I'll leave you with the obligatory quote from A Man for All Seasons:

"What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? ... And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's, and if you cut them down -- and you're just the man to do it -- do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"

Original article here.

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-1-2009

• Sleep better than sex, say tired Britons
  Researchers from the Edinburgh Sleep Centre also found seven out of 10 have trouble sleeping and almost a quarter said they suffered from insomnia. You lot need to _relax_.
  (tags: science UK sleep)
• Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic
  God, he's turned in a grumpy bastard.
  (tags: watchmen alanmoore interview)
• Artist Dave Gibbons' Gut Feelings on the 'Watchmen' Movie
  long interview in Wired
  (tags: watchmen comics art DaveGibbons)
• How to be happy in life: let out your anger
  According to the Harvard Study of Adult Development, a piece of research that has tracked the lives of 824 men and women since 1965, those who repress their frustration are at least three times more likely to admit they had hit a glass ceiling in their careers and have disappointing personal lives. On the other hand, the study found, those who learned to harness and channel their anger were far more likely to be professionally well-established, as well as enjoying emotional and physical intimacy with their friends and family.
  (tags: psychology life)
• That Voodoo That Scientists Do
  Following up a recent link on neuroimaging and statistically invalid methodologies. Interesting to see how the internet has changed scientific discourse.
  (tags: science internet neuroscience academia)
• Health warning over water coolers
  Consumer Focus Scotland said 23 out of 87 samples from dispensers in Edinburgh and the Lothian and Borders region showed bacterial contamination.
  (tags: health disease water)
• M. C. Escher - Economist
  Various economic policies, as explained by Escher
  (tags: funny economics finance art Escher)
• Supply &amp; Demand
  McDONALD'S is lifting prices in poorer suburbs where it believes consumers are more likely to accept higher charges without complaint. Costs were previously based on restaurant overheads and ingredient prices. But the multi-national fast-food chain is using socio-economic factors to determine charges under a new "demand-based pricing" scheme.
  (tags: economics food australia)
• Emotional Abuse Checklist
  In a relationship? Not happy? Just running through this test might make you realise why...
  (tags: relationships)

Hang on, I'll put in my hearing aid.

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