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Oh look, a simple 2-4 hour web project. Should be easy.

Haha you can't make that sort of stuff up! And wow, I knew I disagreed with certain green policies, but had no idea they were that insane.

That spitfire on the BNP leaflet is actually from one of those Polish squadrons, flown by a Polish ace.

I had an email from our UKIP MEP regarding a letter I wrote them all. He actually said that UKIP just votes against everything, regardless of content simply because it comes from Europe. Idiots.

Finally, and perhaps the most important note: A green vote is a vote against science, and *for* quackery: http://www.layscience.net/node/581

It proved effective at getting votes, but seemed fairly ineffective at their stated aim of sending a message to the out-of-touch politicians - none of them seem to care.

Expressing a view at the ballot box is fine, but no party seems to have taken notice of those views in the past, and nothing suggests they will in the future. Might as well vote for an alternative party that will actually try to do something.

Re UKIP:

"Even their own pamphlet implies they're only good as a protest vote, to "send out-of-touch politicians a message they cannot ignore". Yes, because that proved so effective at the last european elections."

Indeed it did! They walked away with 16% of the vote, beating the Liberal Democrats.

There's a very good reason why you can't see anything they would do as MEPs: they wouldn't do anything as MEPs. They don't believe in the EU so see no reason to actively participate in it, other than to act as spoilers when the opportunity arises.

It may therefore seem illogical for them to even stand for election, but it's no more illogical than the SNP or Sinn Fein standing for Westminster. They do provide an opportunity for those who would like us to withdraw from the EU to express that view at the ballot box.

While it's true that they have failed in their stated objective, it can be argued that given Labour is the only party in a major grouping in the European Parliament, it's actually the only party that has a chance of getting its European policies enacted.

Oh yeah! I remember posting that!

I am you from the past. I took a wrong turn somewhere....

I do have a preference for Kuwaiti girls, actually. However, good luck with the CMS.

Gosh! Well, thanks for the warning - I guess I can sacrifice my CMS for the sake of the pudding. Seems like a pretty compelling reason to spend the rest of the year playing GTA. Thanks, future me!

I am you from the future. You cannot ever release your CMS. If you do, the very laws of physics themselves will untangle, resulting in an extreme mess and making it impossible to ever make pudding again. You cannot allow this to happen.

My wife is half-Turkish.

I love Kuwaiti girls!!

A most thought-invoking opinion piece, but onions are still bitter, and syrup is still sweet.

That's assuming humanity hasn't already blown itself up by then...

The expansion of the universe is gradually slowing down, it will eventually collapse inwardly on itself when, according to the laws of entropy, all of its primary thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endevour *ultimately pointless.*

I like pie

Its the slippery slope towards being 30 :-P

Amazingly cool.... want want want :) I'm imagining what could be done with hidden projector/camera combos, perhaps in a necklace...

I think awesomeville may not be descriptive enough...

That's pretty odd - sounds like it's just a problem with your package manager. Shouldn't be too hard to fix - once you get it running you won't run into too many problems.

I've just installed Ubuntu. nVidia graphics driver won't install and security updates also refuse to install. I can't say I've ever suffered the same nonsense from Windows. Back I go...