This argument is rubbish. I'm an ex-pat living in Sweden and where I live in the winter, at it's worst, the sun doesn't rise until 09:30 and then sets at 14:30. Builders don't stop work here just because it's winter and it's dark (they're building a new 18 storey appartment block across from where I work and they've been working all winter), and there are no significant increases in traffic accidents just because it's dark (there are more due to the onset of winter weather but not because of the dark). As I said this argument is rubbish.
In the debate currently on-going in the House of Commons it was just established that Ofcom can intervene in the application for a broadcast license at any time if they have evidence or believe that the organisation or person making the application is not of good standing.
Ofcom just needs to grow a pair and tell Murdoch to get lost,
It's nice that it's so thin, but how are you supposed to hold it without touching the screen? This seems to be a recurring problem with all these new tablets. You need a bezel at least 1.5cm - 2cm around the screen in order to have something to hold that is not the screen itself.
It's all just a bunch of excuses to cover up for their incompetence and lack of investment.
Fact: Stockholm's Arlanda airport has never in it's 50 year history closed because of snow. They have the infrastructure to clear all three runways in about 20 minutes. Snow fall is common in that area of Sweden any time between mid-October and mid-April.
I'm almost sure that Heathrow generates more money per passenger than Arlanda. They should use this money to invest in some better infrastructure instead of just lining the pockets of shareholders.
I think this is only true for EEA member states that have adopted the Schengen Agreement...
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement)
Which the UK has not. What you say is completely true if travelling from, for example, Sweden to Spain. But travelling from the UK to anywhere or from anywhere to the UK requires a valid passport as I understand it.
The illegality of what they did has not yet been confirmed. They are appealing this verdict. There is still one higher court to appeal to in Sweden and they have already said they will take this to the European Court if necessary.
I agree that the European Parliament seems to be very good at representing out interests. I'm more worried about the European Commission which appears to be unelected, accountable to no one and can just tell the European Parliament to get lost when ever it likes. Can someone explain to me what the European Commission is for?
I don't know if it's different in different countries (I'm in Sweden) but the 2.1 update left all data and applications intact on my Hero. The email, contacts and calendar data was wiped but, as already pointed out, these all sync automatically from the cloud again when you connect. The only thing that was lost was the "Scene" data i.e. the layout of of widgets and icons on the 7 virtual home screens. This had to be manually restored.
As an ex-pat living in Sweden, may I just say I'm glad I don't have to pay the crazy prices you appear to have back in Blighty these days.
I have a HTC Hero Android smartphone that I paid cash for and then bought a subscription separately. I have a mobile subscription with Telia in Sweden. I opted for the cheapest voice subscription that they have (since I use my phone mainly for e-mail and surfing the internet and streaming music via Spotify), and then added an "unlimited" data package. I pay £2.50 per month subscription with no free minutes or included sms or data. Calls cost 2.5p to all mobiles and landlines and SMSs cost 2.5p a pop. I then added "unlimited" data for around £17 per month this gives me 10GB data per month and access to all Telias wi-fi hotspots. There is no limits on tethering, VOIP calls via 3G or anything and I can even connect my laptop to a wi-fi hotspot while using the phone on 3G data. Plus they have just upgraded their network so the maximum theoretical speed is now 10Mb/s using UMTS. O2's price of £60 per month for just 1GB is crazy.
How did they manage to get 15 million users when there are only approximately 5.3 million people living in Finland? If this is a Finnish language website then they must have all the Finnish speaking people in the entire world using their site, which is very impressive.
You're wrong. Bittorrent is hyper efficient. I'm an ex-pat living in Sweden and I have a 100Mbit connection at home. I don't download music or films but I download lots of UK TV programmes using Bittorrent. Most programmes run to about 200-250MB for a half hour programme or 400-500MB for an hour long programme. I can usually download at sustained downloads speeds of 5-10Mb/sec which means bittorrent works almost as an on-demand service for me with even hour long programs taking under 10 minutes to download. The uploaders are very dedicated as well, I can for instance download an episode of Top Gear only an hour after transmission in the UK.
Bittorrent is more efficient than you give it credit for and you should not judge the rest of the world against the crappy broadband speeds you see in the UK.
Posted Wednesday 19th May 2010 09:18 GMT
Steve Brammer
Clever move by Swedish PP ahead of national elections
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I'm an ex-pat living in Sweden and what most people here don't seem to realise is that this is quite a clever move on the part of the Pirate Party in order to raise their profile ahead of national elections here in September. They would just love for the music or film industry to try to take them to court over this as they know there would be a big enough backlash to almost certainly gain them a place in parliament at the next elections. The impressive number of votes they got in the last European elections was connected directly to the public's discontent at the Pirate Bay trial. The Pirate Party would have a field day if the music and film industry were to try taking them to court as it would be possible for them to move the whole debate from just a copyright issue to one of political censorship and an attempt by the industry to suppress a legitimate political party.
My guess though, is that you will see the music and film industry taking a rather low profile and not rising to the bait. They know it would be a disaster for them if the Pirate Party actually got seats in parliament. It will be interesting to see how this pans out in the coming months.
Lots of people are willing to pay but aren't able to due to the fact that paid apps are only available in 13 countries. Piracy is bound to be rife in the Android world given this environment.
The problem is compounded by the fact that it's not only bad for consumers, but for developers as well. If you live in a country which doesn’t have paid apps then, as a developer, you also cannot sell your apps to anyone anywhere in the entire world, even to the countries that do have paid apps. You can only give them away for free.
The Android Market will never compete with the iTunes Store until it is available in all the same countries.
They do, sort of. The HTC Hero has always had multi-touch in the "civilised" world, but not in USA. There was, and still is, much speculation as to whether the Nexus 1 will be different in Europe compared to USA.
It could have been April fools day the weather looks about right. It certainly wasn't recently since there is almost certainly snow on the ground in Finland right now.
This is not exactly true. If you move to another country (I live in Sweden) your UK license is still valid as long as it is valid in your home country. However the DVLA do not allow you to update the address to an address outside of the UK. I have a written reply from the DVLA stating that in the case that you move to another EU country it is accepted that the address on your license will be incorrect.
I also use my UK license (with the incorrect address) to rent a hire car each time I travel back to UK. I explain the situation to them and they just ask me to write down my actual address, no fuss or suggestion that anything is wrong.
I'm an expat living abroad in Sweden and I would happily pay the whole of the license fee to receive all the BBCs UK channels streamed live. I'm sure there are many others who would also be willing to do this. Why isn't this even being considered? It's completely crazy. It's exactly the same as the situation with streaning music. Give customers what they want and they will pay. Give them something inferior, useless and too expensive and they will resort to piracy. It's as simple as that. Until media companies final understand how to use the internet piracy will always reign supreme.
Threats of exactly this kind of surveillance is the main reason that the Pirate Party in Sweden polled over 7% in the recent European elections. The file sharing issue is bottom of the list of issues that the Pirate Party campaigned on, personal integrity in the digital world is the top of their list followed by copyright and patent reform.
The U.K. needs it's own Pirate Party to let the politicians know that the electorate really care about these kind of issues. I know it's more difficult to make an impression in the U.K. since you don't have proportional representation. But the whole point of a one issue party like the Pirate Party is just to make the established parties change their policies as they realise the electorate aren't happy. The press in Sweden have been critical of the Pirate Party saying that they won't be around after the next European elections, but the leaders of the Pirate Party have always said they only exist to make the established parties change their views, they don't want to govern. They have said that if the government change their policies they won't be needed any more.
So vote Pirate Party at the next local, European or general elections if they are available on the ballot paper and if you care about your privacy on the internet!
As the leader of the Pirate Party has said "The government thinks the internet is just some video game that they can take away from us when we are naughty." and "If privacy in real life was treated in the same way by the government as they want to treat privacy on the internet then the postal service would be up in court as the country's largest narcotics supplier.".
Vote Pirate Party! (from a UK ex-pat living in Sweden)
Posted Tuesday 7th April 2009 00:02 GMT
Steve Brammer
Quick explanation of those song titles from an ex-pat living in Sweden...
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I'm an expat living in Sweden and I have a 100Mb/sec connection from Bredbandsbolaget (one of the larger ISPs here in Sweden) for 320sek per month (£26.60 - using the latest conversion from google). Just another case of rip-off Britain I suspect. I can't see how they can justify prices that are more than double the price of a country like Sweden where most things normally cost slightly more than in Britain, not more than 50% less.
At almost exactly the same time as the first region in Britain switches off their analogue TV signal, Sweden completed their complete changeover to digital TV with the closure yesterday of the analogue signal in Skåne in southern Sweden. The transition from analogue to digital TV in Sweden began in September 2005 and was due to finish in February 2008, but with typical Swedish efficiency they completed the job early.
I wonder if the changeover in Britain will go as smoothly as in Sweden?
(Steve - From UK but currently residing in Sweden)
What will the creationists in the current US government think. I thought that they believed that the whole Earth is only 6000 years old. They're not going to take too kindly to their tax dollars paying for NASA to do research that disproves their creationist beliefs. :-)
As I understand it (I am English but I live in Sweden) under Swedish law any evidence, not matter how it was obtained, is admissible. The judge will be made aware of how it was obtained and this may or may not affect the case, that's up to the judge. If the evidence was found to have been obtained illegally then a completely separate case will be opened to deal with this and the parties that obtained the evidence may be prosecuted. The successful or unsuccessful prosecution of whoever obtained the evidence can in no way affect the outcome of the other case where the evidence is being used.
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Posted Tuesday 17th January 2012 21:31 GMT
Steve Brammer
Rubbish! → #
In Boffins quarrel over ridding world of leap seconds
This argument is rubbish. I'm an ex-pat living in Sweden and where I live in the winter, at it's worst, the sun doesn't rise until 09:30 and then sets at 14:30. Builders don't stop work here just because it's winter and it's dark (they're building a new 18 storey appartment block across from where I work and they've been working all winter), and there are no significant increases in traffic accidents just because it's dark (there are more due to the onset of winter weather but not because of the dark). As I said this argument is rubbish.
Posted Wednesday 2nd November 2011 15:58 GMT
Steve Brammer
Flick knives → #
In Catholic Bishops: 'Would you mind not bringing guns to church?'
I believe I read somewhere that flick knives are allowed for disabled people with only one arm.
Posted Wednesday 6th July 2011 13:43 GMT
Steve Brammer
Ofcom are wrong → #
In BSkyB/News Corp merger: Wait for the cops, says Ofcom
In the debate currently on-going in the House of Commons it was just established that Ofcom can intervene in the application for a broadcast license at any time if they have evidence or believe that the organisation or person making the application is not of good standing.
Ofcom just needs to grow a pair and tell Murdoch to get lost,
Posted Monday 6th June 2011 22:02 GMT
Steve Brammer
If Spotify had an iPad app... → #
In Apple hit by new competition complaint as iCloud launches
,,,which they don't, then your argument might carry some weight.
In any case, Spotify were made to wait more than 3 months for their iPhone app to be approved a couple of years ago.
Posted Wednesday 27th April 2011 13:08 GMT
Steve Brammer
Bezel too small → #
In Toshiba readies über-thin 7in touchscreen
It's nice that it's so thin, but how are you supposed to hold it without touching the screen? This seems to be a recurring problem with all these new tablets. You need a bezel at least 1.5cm - 2cm around the screen in order to have something to hold that is not the screen itself.
Posted Thursday 24th March 2011 12:07 GMT
Steve Brammer
Just a bunch of excuses → #
In BAA promises to get its Heathrow act together
It's all just a bunch of excuses to cover up for their incompetence and lack of investment.
Fact: Stockholm's Arlanda airport has never in it's 50 year history closed because of snow. They have the infrastructure to clear all three runways in about 20 minutes. Snow fall is common in that area of Sweden any time between mid-October and mid-April.
I'm almost sure that Heathrow generates more money per passenger than Arlanda. They should use this money to invest in some better infrastructure instead of just lining the pockets of shareholders.
Posted Wednesday 2nd March 2011 11:59 GMT
Steve Brammer
@amcharliesheen → #
In Charlie Sheen explodes onto Twitter
See also the ramblings of @amcharliesheen which purports to be Charlie Sheen's brain's own twitter feed :-)
http://twitter.com/#!/amcharliesheen
Posted Wednesday 26th January 2011 09:51 GMT
Steve Brammer
Schengen agreement → #
In Passenger cleared after TSA checkpoint stare-down
I think this is only true for EEA member states that have adopted the Schengen Agreement...
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement)
Which the UK has not. What you say is completely true if travelling from, for example, Sweden to Spain. But travelling from the UK to anywhere or from anywhere to the UK requires a valid passport as I understand it.
Posted Monday 6th December 2010 18:21 GMT
Steve Brammer
Limited market? → #
In Google aims Nexus S smartphone at US, UK
What about the rest of the World apart from US and UK?
Posted Friday 26th November 2010 19:11 GMT
Steve Brammer
Illegality not yet confirmed → #
In Pirate Bay verdict: Three operators lose appeal
The illegality of what they did has not yet been confirmed. They are appealing this verdict. There is still one higher court to appeal to in Sweden and they have already said they will take this to the European Court if necessary.
Posted Friday 26th November 2010 15:16 GMT
Steve Brammer
Legal system hijacked by media industry → #
In Pirate Bay verdict: Three operators lose appeal
It's plain to see that the Swedish legal system has been hijacked by the media industry.
Typical fines dished out recently by the courts in Sweden..
Murder: 75000kr (£6825)
Rape of a 14 year old girl: 50000kr (£4550)
Pirate Bay fine for aiding Copyright infringment: 46000000kr (£4.1 million)
Posted Monday 22nd November 2010 16:57 GMT
Steve Brammer
Playing catch up → #
In Apple to give away iPhone tracking tech
Playing catch up with Android in general and HTC in particular (with the Find My iPhone function), but competition is good for everyone.
So bravo Apple and bravo HTC!
Posted Saturday 11th September 2010 05:26 GMT
Steve Brammer
yes and no → #
In MEPs try again to force ACTA transparency
I agree that the European Parliament seems to be very good at representing out interests. I'm more worried about the European Commission which appears to be unelected, accountable to no one and can just tell the European Parliament to get lost when ever it likes. Can someone explain to me what the European Commission is for?
Posted Tuesday 29th June 2010 21:26 GMT
Steve Brammer
Re. Contacts and Settings → #
In HTC posts Android 2.1 update for Hero phone
I don't know if it's different in different countries (I'm in Sweden) but the 2.1 update left all data and applications intact on my Hero. The email, contacts and calendar data was wiped but, as already pointed out, these all sync automatically from the cloud again when you connect. The only thing that was lost was the "Scene" data i.e. the layout of of widgets and icons on the 7 virtual home screens. This had to be manually restored.
Posted Thursday 10th June 2010 14:50 GMT
Steve Brammer
Rip-off Britain → #
In O2 to step back from unlimited mobile data deals
As an ex-pat living in Sweden, may I just say I'm glad I don't have to pay the crazy prices you appear to have back in Blighty these days.
I have a HTC Hero Android smartphone that I paid cash for and then bought a subscription separately. I have a mobile subscription with Telia in Sweden. I opted for the cheapest voice subscription that they have (since I use my phone mainly for e-mail and surfing the internet and streaming music via Spotify), and then added an "unlimited" data package. I pay £2.50 per month subscription with no free minutes or included sms or data. Calls cost 2.5p to all mobiles and landlines and SMSs cost 2.5p a pop. I then added "unlimited" data for around £17 per month this gives me 10GB data per month and access to all Telias wi-fi hotspots. There is no limits on tethering, VOIP calls via 3G or anything and I can even connect my laptop to a wi-fi hotspot while using the phone on 3G data. Plus they have just upgraded their network so the maximum theoretical speed is now 10Mb/s using UMTS. O2's price of £60 per month for just 1GB is crazy.
Posted Wednesday 2nd June 2010 09:53 GMT
Steve Brammer
How many users? → #
In Finnish police raids target virtual thieves
How did they manage to get 15 million users when there are only approximately 5.3 million people living in Finland? If this is a Finnish language website then they must have all the Finnish speaking people in the entire world using their site, which is very impressive.
Posted Wednesday 19th May 2010 11:46 GMT
Steve Brammer
Re: Bit Torrent aint worth the hassle → #
In Pirate Bay now run from Pirate Party 'mountain bunker'
You're wrong. Bittorrent is hyper efficient. I'm an ex-pat living in Sweden and I have a 100Mbit connection at home. I don't download music or films but I download lots of UK TV programmes using Bittorrent. Most programmes run to about 200-250MB for a half hour programme or 400-500MB for an hour long programme. I can usually download at sustained downloads speeds of 5-10Mb/sec which means bittorrent works almost as an on-demand service for me with even hour long programs taking under 10 minutes to download. The uploaders are very dedicated as well, I can for instance download an episode of Top Gear only an hour after transmission in the UK.
Bittorrent is more efficient than you give it credit for and you should not judge the rest of the world against the crappy broadband speeds you see in the UK.
Posted Wednesday 19th May 2010 09:18 GMT
Steve Brammer
Clever move by Swedish PP ahead of national elections → #
In Pirate Bay now run from Pirate Party 'mountain bunker'
I'm an ex-pat living in Sweden and what most people here don't seem to realise is that this is quite a clever move on the part of the Pirate Party in order to raise their profile ahead of national elections here in September. They would just love for the music or film industry to try to take them to court over this as they know there would be a big enough backlash to almost certainly gain them a place in parliament at the next elections. The impressive number of votes they got in the last European elections was connected directly to the public's discontent at the Pirate Bay trial. The Pirate Party would have a field day if the music and film industry were to try taking them to court as it would be possible for them to move the whole debate from just a copyright issue to one of political censorship and an attempt by the industry to suppress a legitimate political party.
My guess though, is that you will see the music and film industry taking a rather low profile and not rising to the bait. They know it would be a disaster for them if the Pirate Party actually got seats in parliament. It will be interesting to see how this pans out in the coming months.
Posted Monday 19th April 2010 12:56 GMT
Steve Brammer
Mandelson???? → #
In Ash cans flights for another day
What the hell has this got to do with Mandelson? Why is he even involved?
Posted Tuesday 2nd March 2010 16:12 GMT
Steve Brammer
Even more people would pay for apps if Google would allow them to → #
In Android app brings in $13K a month
Lots of people are willing to pay but aren't able to due to the fact that paid apps are only available in 13 countries. Piracy is bound to be rife in the Android world given this environment.
The problem is compounded by the fact that it's not only bad for consumers, but for developers as well. If you live in a country which doesn’t have paid apps then, as a developer, you also cannot sell your apps to anyone anywhere in the entire world, even to the countries that do have paid apps. You can only give them away for free.
The Android Market will never compete with the iTunes Store until it is available in all the same countries.
Posted Friday 22nd January 2010 10:27 GMT
Steve Brammer
Re. What I don't understand is → #
In Hacker brings multitouch to Google's Nexus One
They do, sort of. The HTC Hero has always had multi-touch in the "civilised" world, but not in USA. There was, and still is, much speculation as to whether the Nexus 1 will be different in Europe compared to USA.
Posted Wednesday 16th December 2009 20:17 GMT
Steve Brammer
It's Finnish not mumbo jumbo → #
In Intel staff 'fired' in ring piece stunt
How rude of you to call the Finnish language "mumbo jumbo".
Posted Wednesday 16th December 2009 20:17 GMT
Steve Brammer
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 → #
In Intel staff 'fired' in ring piece stunt
5 - Viisi
4 - Neljä
3 - Kolme
2 - Kaksi
1 - Yksi
Posted Wednesday 16th December 2009 20:17 GMT
Steve Brammer
April fools day → #
In Intel staff 'fired' in ring piece stunt
It could have been April fools day the weather looks about right. It certainly wasn't recently since there is almost certainly snow on the ground in Finland right now.
Posted Monday 14th December 2009 17:01 GMT
Steve Brammer
Nothing to do with Nokia... → #
In 4G network goes live for lucky few
No Nokia involvement whatsoever I'm afraid. The infrastructure in Stockholm comes from Ericsson and in Oslo it comes from Huawei.
Posted Monday 14th December 2009 15:28 GMT
Steve Brammer
@Lee → #
In DVLA data powers likely to be abused by foreign officials
This is not exactly true. If you move to another country (I live in Sweden) your UK license is still valid as long as it is valid in your home country. However the DVLA do not allow you to update the address to an address outside of the UK. I have a written reply from the DVLA stating that in the case that you move to another EU country it is accepted that the address on your license will be incorrect.
I also use my UK license (with the incorrect address) to rent a hire car each time I travel back to UK. I explain the situation to them and they just ask me to write down my actual address, no fuss or suggestion that anything is wrong.
Posted Thursday 8th October 2009 00:45 GMT
Steve Brammer
Stupid → #
In Top prices, old shows - the Beeb's iPlayer goes global
I'm an expat living abroad in Sweden and I would happily pay the whole of the license fee to receive all the BBCs UK channels streamed live. I'm sure there are many others who would also be willing to do this. Why isn't this even being considered? It's completely crazy. It's exactly the same as the situation with streaning music. Give customers what they want and they will pay. Give them something inferior, useless and too expensive and they will resort to piracy. It's as simple as that. Until media companies final understand how to use the internet piracy will always reign supreme.
Posted Friday 10th July 2009 10:14 GMT
Steve Brammer
One small problem... → #
In Rogue CA update bricks Win XP systems
...how do you roll-back when your PC won't boot?
Posted Wednesday 17th June 2009 09:48 GMT
Steve Brammer
U.K. needs it's own Pirate Party → #
In MPs launch probe of massive net snooping project
Threats of exactly this kind of surveillance is the main reason that the Pirate Party in Sweden polled over 7% in the recent European elections. The file sharing issue is bottom of the list of issues that the Pirate Party campaigned on, personal integrity in the digital world is the top of their list followed by copyright and patent reform.
The U.K. needs it's own Pirate Party to let the politicians know that the electorate really care about these kind of issues. I know it's more difficult to make an impression in the U.K. since you don't have proportional representation. But the whole point of a one issue party like the Pirate Party is just to make the established parties change their policies as they realise the electorate aren't happy. The press in Sweden have been critical of the Pirate Party saying that they won't be around after the next European elections, but the leaders of the Pirate Party have always said they only exist to make the established parties change their views, they don't want to govern. They have said that if the government change their policies they won't be needed any more.
So vote Pirate Party at the next local, European or general elections if they are available on the ballot paper and if you care about your privacy on the internet!
As the leader of the Pirate Party has said "The government thinks the internet is just some video game that they can take away from us when we are naughty." and "If privacy in real life was treated in the same way by the government as they want to treat privacy on the internet then the postal service would be up in court as the country's largest narcotics supplier.".
Vote Pirate Party! (from a UK ex-pat living in Sweden)
Posted Tuesday 7th April 2009 00:02 GMT
Steve Brammer
Quick explanation of those song titles from an ex-pat living in Sweden... → #
In Swedes mash Japanese pop pineapple
My Favourite Tofflor - (Tofflor is Swedish for slippers so 'My Favourite Slippers')
Suddenly Sibylla - (Sibylla is a famous chain of hot dog stands)
Ramlösa - (Ramlösa is a popular brand of mineral water)
....I'll get my coat
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 17:09 GMT
Steve Brammer
That's expensive!! → #
In Virgin Media opens bandwidth choke for 50Mb launch
I'm an expat living in Sweden and I have a 100Mb/sec connection from Bredbandsbolaget (one of the larger ISPs here in Sweden) for 320sek per month (£26.60 - using the latest conversion from google). Just another case of rip-off Britain I suspect. I can't see how they can justify prices that are more than double the price of a country like Sweden where most things normally cost slightly more than in Britain, not more than 50% less.
Posted Tuesday 14th October 2008 09:36 GMT
Steve Brammer
Already on sale in Sweden → #
In November debut for Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 on O2
The X1 went on sale in Sweden,from all Swedish operators and to buy without a contract, last Friday (10th October).
Posted Tuesday 16th October 2007 14:03 GMT
Steve Brammer
Happy coincidence → #
In Digital Switchover: town to lose BBC 2 tomorrow
At almost exactly the same time as the first region in Britain switches off their analogue TV signal, Sweden completed their complete changeover to digital TV with the closure yesterday of the analogue signal in Skåne in southern Sweden. The transition from analogue to digital TV in Sweden began in September 2005 and was due to finish in February 2008, but with typical Swedish efficiency they completed the job early.
I wonder if the changeover in Britain will go as smoothly as in Sweden?
(Steve - From UK but currently residing in Sweden)
Posted Friday 28th September 2007 20:04 GMT
Steve Brammer
What will the creationists think? → #
In Oxygen pollution began earlier than we ever thought
What will the creationists in the current US government think. I thought that they believed that the whole Earth is only 6000 years old. They're not going to take too kindly to their tax dollars paying for NASA to do research that disproves their creationist beliefs. :-)
Posted Monday 24th September 2007 15:14 GMT
Steve Brammer
Evidence not admissible → #
In Pirate Bay sues media giants for 'sabotage'
As I understand it (I am English but I live in Sweden) under Swedish law any evidence, not matter how it was obtained, is admissible. The judge will be made aware of how it was obtained and this may or may not affect the case, that's up to the judge. If the evidence was found to have been obtained illegally then a completely separate case will be opened to deal with this and the parties that obtained the evidence may be prosecuted. The successful or unsuccessful prosecution of whoever obtained the evidence can in no way affect the outcome of the other case where the evidence is being used.