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)

If only they were led by an absolute bounder, eh? (View Post)

I don't think the people at the top of the Iranian regime who make the decisions about what to do or not do are suicide bombers who want to die -- you are mixing up some of the people on the ground w… (View Post)

The invisible hand has largely determined that people select suppliers for that sort of thing on headline price, not on what kind of reputation they have for customer service: so the businesses adapt… (View Post)