[–] 20 points 22 hours ago* (4 children)

Because that one time they do ignore a bomb threat and your family are all massacred I'm sure you'd be a bit annoyed.

The IRA used to warn the UK police about bombs some of the time, they even had codewords so the police knew it was legit.

The warnings came when they wanted to make a statement but weren't intending to hurt people.

Although they killed and injured thousands over the years.

The IRA are the reason why you won't find litter bins in transit stations.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    If i was in charge but couldn't make it illegal for people to donate money to political funds, I'd make it a requirement that for every single £ they donate, they must donate the same amount to charity.

    They dont pick the charity.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Are you sure about them not working?

    Its been cloudy here all day and they were still generating a kilowatt per hour at around 11am.

    Also, we have tariffs here where electricity in the day is more expensive but its dirt cheap at night. So when the battery needs it, I top it up overnight from the grid. 10kwh costs me £0.80p (1€) instead of £3.50 (5€). Do you have anything like that?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    First "pirated" game i ever got was Elite for the Acorn Archimedes in 1991. Came with a photocopied manual which was essential as the anti-piracy measure was having to type in a word from the manual (think 4th word of the 3rd line of page 12 sort of thing).

    That was given to me on a floppy disk.

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