Interesting Links for 29-06-2012

[andrewducker]

• The internet will never catch on! (Article from 1995. Looks like satire from this perspective.)
  (tags: internet EpicFail history )
• More details (and insider info) on what happened to RBS with their "software glitch".
  (tags: rbs software outsourcing EpicFail )
• 35% of Scottish electricity needs came from renewables in 2011 - and 2012 is up 45% on 2011 so far!
  (tags: electricity renewables scotland )
• If the writers of computer programming books wrote arithmetic textbooks
  I have seen so many coding books which use examples that are whole, useful programs to illustrate things, rather than tiny snippets that a beginner can actually understand.
  (tags: maths coding education funny EpicFail )
• JPMorgan's $2Billion Trading Loss May be a teensy bit higher
  (tags: banking investment money EpicFail )
• Money-laundering and corruption charges rock Edinburgh council.
  As Zornhau put it "HEADS ON SPIKES! BRING BACK IMPALING FOR CORRUPT OFFICIALS!"
  (tags: edinburgh corruption crime scotland uk )
• When SCOTUS Upheld Obamacare
  (tags: healthcare funny obama law )
• People Who Say They're Moving To Canada Because Of ObamaCare
  (tags: healthcare usa canada EpicStupidity )
• A great review of Season 1 of The Legend of Korra which highlights all the things that annoyed me about it.
  (tags: review tv avatar )
• Is 40% the maximum level for UK public expenditure?
  (tags: economics uk )
• Labour’s cowardice on immigration is sickening (Lib Dems also far too quiet)
  (tags: politics labour uk immigration )
• Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Aren't Remakes, Sequels or Prequels
  (tags: thefuture scifi movies )
• Ursula the Sea Witch Forced to Get Liposuction for Disney Villains Beauty Line
  (tags: makeup disney weight )
• Verdict on 'not proven' sought from Scottish public
  (tags: scotland law )
• Time to scrap the tax on e-books
  (tags: ebooks publishing tax europe )
• Scientists come up with spray on battery
  (tags: batteries technology )
• Israel stages Holocaust survivor beauty pageant
  (tags: israel Holocaust beauty wtf )
• A touching story of intolerance that brought a tear to my eye.
  (tags: lgbt bigotry epicwin )
• The Nordic Model - I thoroughly approve
  (tags: norway nordic economics society inequality )

Comments

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I think it’s been adopted and adapted and made into a virtue (I think) of the system.

There are little bits of Scottish law is are cross-fertilisation from England (mainly) but then you could argue that most of Scots Law is a cross-fertilisation of Dutch law with a vague memory of Roman Law.

I recall an interesting case (possibly English) where some guy was arrested and his defence was entrapment, which is a doctrine that exists in the US but not in the British legal systems. The guy has basically been watching too much LA Law.