I might change my mind on this in twenty years time, but personally I think funerals are for the living, so I'd only do something if it was a "make life easier for whoever it is that has to deal… (View Post)

"If you could vote *against* one party [...] who would you vote *for*" seems like terrible question wording... (View Post)

On the poll in the thread header: this seems to me to be in line with psychology research that shows that humans will generally be willing to punish what they see as "violations of fairness"… (View Post)

Right: if loss of a laptop is going to open the government's secrets to a passing spy then the solution is to not give employees laptops to take home, because eventually somebody *will* leave one on … (View Post)

IIRC there was some academic research into the US voting population some years back which concluded that the average voter assumes everybody else has the same opinion as them on policies, hates "… (View Post)