Car Free

Hurray! I sold my car today. £525 on the nail. Down with climate change! Plus I can get my bike and lawnmower in and out of the garage!

Actually, now I've got a bit of space in the garage, does anyone know how I can use the space to make …

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I do not think Dawkin's ever makes a claim about t...

I do not think Dawkin's ever makes a claim about the superiority of atheism, in terms of being a 'better person'. He only claims organised religions can be detrimental to society but also freely admits people like Stalin\Hitler, alleged Atheists (debatable), didn't necessarily have religious incentives for their attrocities …

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Freecycle

Everyone seems to know about FreeCycle except me. It's a brilliant idea. If you want to get rid of useable stuff, don't take it to the tip, post it on FreeCycle and someone who wants it will come and collect it. I've done this with my unwanted TalkTalk modem. We'll …

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Holier than thou

'The God Delusion', is an enjoyable polemic against faith in god. I agree with Richard Dawkins that the best scientific explanations of the world are superior to god-based supernatural explanations. I begin to diverge from Dawkins when he makes the claim that being an atheist makes you a better person …

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Imprimatur 009

A new version of Imprimatur has been released. The only change is with <parameter> elements. They used to look like:

<parameter name="emailAddress" value="adam.smith@localhost"/>

but now they look like:

<parameter name="emailAddress">adam.smith@localhost</parameter>

This is so that you can conveniently have parameter values with …

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The Hawking Fallacy

It's amazing how dated the story has become. Set around 1987 when I was at school, Clifford Stoll talks about how he single handedly tracked down a hacker in 'The Cuckoo's Egg'. The internet seemed like a new thing and there wasn't a WWW.

Stoll paints himself as a long-haired …

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I'm sure the policing and bureaucracy amount to n...

I'm sure the policing and bureaucracy amount to next to nothing - what is there to do? I would also guess the prosecutions for non-compliance could be counted on no hands.

Secondly, and employee would never 'agree' to £4 per hour - only be forced into a position where they had to …

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First of all, the policing and bureaucracy of admi...

First of all, the policing and bureaucracy of administrating the minimum wage costs a significant amount of money.

Secondly, if an employer and employee agree to say £4 / hr, I don't think it behoves the state to stop them.

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"Abolishing the national minimum wage" - whoa hors...

"Abolishing the national minimum wage" - whoa horsey! how does that save money and in what way is it a good idea?

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Stop taxing the poor!

My friend Andy has published his Andifesto. The section on tax made me revisit the section on tax in my manifesto.

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