As if it would matter if she was a murderer.

At least he didn't get ripped to pieces by dogs or hung by the neck with taser wire.

I don't understand why this is on here.

He's from the north, or the midlands anyway. In the south we'd pronounce it 'maul', except we wouldn't, we'd call it a 'shopping centre'.

Surely it's generally meant with irony and affection.

I mean, there's really only one kind of trap I'd happily stick my dick in.

But we need to keep growing forever and ever because the economy.

Why digest your own food like some stupid cow, when you can make a tree do it for you?

Just got around to reading The Quantum Thief, which you recommended about a hundred years ago in one of the 'what are you reading' threads. Thought I'd send a little note of thanks since I really liked it and don't think I would have come across it on my own.

Constructing a sort of crime novel around the subtle implications of technologies that don't exist yet must be difficult work. When a break in the case comes about because the detective realises that, oh of course, since the thief used the key to his encrypted external memory to steal his identity, that must give him access to recordings of the thief's activities during the few minutes of the impersonation, and what's this, he used a quantum entangling drone to beam only one stolen minute of Time away from the victim, there's only one thing that can mean: to the resurrection house! - well it's a step above bootprints in the flower bed isn't it? And calling time-rich nobles 'millenniaires'...mmm, juicy.

It's taken 25 years from tabletop RPG to board game to computer game to VR and it turns out people still really, really want this.

These problems would evaporate if only juries could be relied upon to find not guilty in murder trials where the victim clearly deserved to die.

*promote

You had your chance.

Was that cat named Sue?

We have the enormous misfortune in the UK to live in a democracy; how could it not? As more people from, effectively, the past enter the country the progress we've been making will be slowed or reversed.

Western, or probably more specifically north-western europe is that special region in the world where religion is actually dying off. More people in the UK are non-religious than religious. Christians in this country finally have the decency to be ashamed of their faith, and any extravagant public expression of belief is met with contempt from believers and non-believers alike - look at the minor scandal created when Tony Blair admitted to being a catholic, and engaging in such outlandish behaviours as prayer.

Orthodox christians from easten europe, and refugees from even less civilised areas, haven't had the opportunity to develop the same attitude. As they settle in their nasty little insular communities, the danger is that they're in a position to act as voting blocs that damage public policy.

Anyway, I'm sure it's heartening for eric to discover that basically none of us has any idea either.

Not a one of you has made a point to reply to. No discussion is possible on a basis of absolute relativism.

That's why, rather generously, each of my comments has asked some variation of the question that's necessary to BEGIN the conversation.

You know what that question is, either answer it or admit that you're too much of a scared little bitch to consider its implications.