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Comments by davorg


1. New British Petition: Stop the Nightmares

Comment #191892 by davorg on June 12, 2008 at 4:16 am

50. Comment #191880 by hungarianelephant on June 12, 2008 at 3:42 am

49. Comment #191878 by davorg on June 12, 2008 at 3:31 am
Of course that response will be hand-wavy and waffly in the extreme, but at least a civil servant will spend time composing it.
Then why do they all look like they came from the same random text generator?
Because all civil servants are trained in writing prose that looks like random text.

2. New British Petition: Stop the Nightmares

Comment #191878 by davorg on June 12, 2008 at 3:31 am

You have to be a british citizen?....
oh well.
Why not create a new one where you accept the signing of everyone who wants to sign?
After all this form of child abuse isn't ONLY happening in Britain.
In case it's not clear, the site where the petition is based is an official UK government site. For that reason, it only takes signatures from British citizens and residents. Once the petition deadline has passed, the signatories will all get an official response from the government.

Of course that response will be hand-wavy and waffly in the extreme, but at least a civil servant will spend time composing it.

If you want to start a similar petition on another site then feel free. But you won't get a response from the British government :-)

3. Blogger spreads the gospel of science

Comment #189299 by davorg on June 6, 2008 at 1:49 am

I wonder if PZ is a Kentish Man or a Man of Kent :-)

4. Pat Condell: Anthology DVD available now!

Comment #172718 by davorg on April 30, 2008 at 1:38 am

I'd love to buy this, but I'd much prefer it if it was available in PAL and I could pay in sterling.

The RDF operates in the UK as well doesn't it? Why does the shop side seem to be exclusively aimed at the US?

5. Fossil find could be Europe's first humans

Comment #151002 by davorg on March 28, 2008 at 1:39 am

In #150840, padster1976 said:

check out the link below for the BBC's idea of a blog
Actually that's not "the BBC's idea of a blog". You can find the BBC's blogs at www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/. What you've found there is a message board for users - which, hopefully, explains why it's full of such nonsense.

6. Fossil find could be Europe's first humans

Comment #150585 by davorg on March 27, 2008 at 6:25 am

Did anyone else notice the URL for that article?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/27/archaeology.dinosaurs

Should someone point out to the Guardian science desk that early human remains have nothing to do with dinosaurs?

7. Britain cannot put its faith in religiously divided schools

Comment #113566 by davorg on January 20, 2008 at 3:56 am

"sectarian schools" might be a better name
I've always prefered "superstition schools" :-)

8. Britain cannot put its faith in religiously divided schools

Comment #113543 by davorg on January 20, 2008 at 1:24 am

This piece was written before Ed Balls spoke to MPs and is therefore largely guesswork about what he might say.

What he actually said was rather different.

The Government has decided against backing more faith schools, the Children, Schools and Families Secretary, Ed Balls, told MPs.

In what is being seen as one of the most significant policy shifts of the post-Tony Blair era in education, he told a Commons select committee: "It is not the policy of the Government nor my department to expand the number of faith schools. We're not leading a drive for more faith schools."
See http://news.independent.co.uk/education/education_news/article3324436.ece

9. New attempt to end blasphemy law

Comment #109870 by davorg on January 10, 2008 at 1:17 am

The BBC have a story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7178439.stm) explaining what happened in the debate.

The Justice Minister, Maria Eagle, said that the government has "every sympathy" with the case for abolishing the blasphemy laws and has promised a "short and sharp" consultation with the Church of England which is likely to be followed by a government amendment to remove the laws. On the basis of this, Dr Harris withdrew his amendment.

You can read the full debate on TheyWorkForYou at http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-01-09a.437.4 (hmm, not sure why that URL hasn't been recognised and automatically made clickable - there might be a bug in the URL recognition regex).

10. 'Growing Up in the Universe' now available free online

Comment #87989 by davorg on November 14, 2007 at 2:47 am

There goes my weekend :-)

Am I missing a subtle joke here? Why is each part labelled as an "Edpisode"?

11. A Revelation

Comment #78230 by davorg on October 12, 2007 at 8:03 am

The title on the original web site is the more sensible-sounding "A Revelation".

12. 'Root of All Evil? The Uncut Interviews' Released on DVD

Comment #67860 by davorg on September 5, 2007 at 2:42 am

Ignore me. I'm talking nonsense. My DVD player _does_ play NTSC DVDs. It's non-region 2 DVDs it can't play until I apply the hack. And that's not a problem with your DVDs - as they're multi-region.

Sorry for the confusion.

I'd still be interested to know why you can't produce both formats though.

13. 'Root of All Evil? The Uncut Interviews' Released on DVD

Comment #67859 by davorg on September 5, 2007 at 2:37 am

I know that my DVD player doesn't play NTSC disks. There's an upgrade procedure, but it costs £30 and I haven't got round to it yet as I haven't needed it.

Is there some reason why it's hard for you to release these disks in both formats?

14. 'Root of All Evil? The Uncut Interviews' Released on DVD

Comment #67853 by davorg on September 5, 2007 at 2:18 am

Please consider releasing your DVDs in PAL format as well. We're not all Americans :)

15. Send The God Delusion to your MP

Comment #27486 by davorg on March 25, 2007 at 12:40 am

The pledge reached its target overnight. Which is excellent news.

16. British Book Awards shortlists 2007

Comment #24694 by davorg on March 8, 2007 at 4:42 am

You can vote for your favourites too.

http://www.britishbookawards.co.uk/pnbb_vote2007.asp

17. Memo: Stop teaching evolution

Comment #22618 by davorg on February 20, 2007 at 12:49 am

ScienceBreath said:

"Should I infer that some christians like to taste their god? Eew!"

Haven't you ever heard of holy communion?

But you trying telling christians that their beliefs endorse ritualised cannabalism. They don't like it one bit.

18. Send The God Delusion to your MP

Comment #18966 by davorg on January 24, 2007 at 3:59 am

A copy in every hotel room would be a wonderful target.
That would be excellent. Right next to the Gideon Bible. How do we start? And how do we ensure that it's not removed by the cleaning staff?

19. Send The God Delusion to your MP

Comment #18952 by davorg on January 24, 2007 at 1:03 am

Excellent pledge. I'm in.