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Listed below are comments made by NoggintheNomad between Tuesday, 14th October 2008 and Monday, 10th August 2009.

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The day Twitter stopped 7:10pm on 10 Aug 2009 Anyone who even cares about twitter is as sad as that guy on the late night Five Live show. Bacon or something?
Wikipedia is censored 6:16pm on 08 Dec 2008 I reckon it's a ruse by the Schenker brothers to generate sales. OK, they weren't bad guitarists (UFO fans note), but they weren't exactly AC/DC either.

An ordinary band, ordinary music, Berlin attitude to sex.

Typical Eurotrash really, and hardly worth the fuss.
Wikipedia is censored 6:04pm on 08 Dec 2008 Frankfisher, the BBC is not at fault here. The BBC, on the contrary, is encouraging this debate.
Wikipedia is censored 6:02pm on 08 Dec 2008 Fact is, we should ask the person photographed whether she feels she was abused. No point in proselitysing.

If she is not upset, it's a non-story.

If, on the other hand, she feels badly treated in any way, then there is a case to answer.

Somehow, my instinct tells me that she would not feel abused. However, should she do so, she is perfectly free to take appropriate action. She does not need 'holier than thou' campaigners to fight her case. She is an adult.

Let's face it, the kid (then) is in her late 40s or early 50s now. 32 years is a long time. I doubt she suffers, and I doubt even more strongly that there is any need to make a fuss. It was an album cover. IS ALL.
Mac malware - were we wrong? 3:30pm on 08 Dec 2008 And by the way, I'd love to see an itemised rundown of what PCs can do that Macs can't. Other than certain games and dinosaur software like Corel Draw.

Even those run with VM Fusion/Parallels/Boot Camp etc. on an Intel processor Mac. Should one feel the need to do so.

However, the best choice is surely to choose the most appropriate system for one's needs. Macs aren't expensive, when one compares specs. I recently costed out a Dell laptop running Vista to a comparable spec to my MacBook Pro.

The Apple hardware worked out £300+ cheaper.
Mac malware - were we wrong? 3:07pm on 08 Dec 2008 Never listen to the PR men from antivirus software producers, where Mac is concerned. If one is completely paranoid about passing infections on to the great unwashed PC brigade, simply install the free and effective ClamXav, otherwise (and I guess Mac users are in most cases fairly computer-literate) just use common sense.

In the past 15 years on the internet, using only Macs, I have never suffered a virus or malware attack (touch wood).

Most infestations, and I refer to Windoze here, are due to computer users' ignorance, complacency and/or stupidity.

While never complacent about the Mac situation, a watchful eye is surely enough. No need to pay good money for the proprietary 'security' products. OSX is a robust and generally secure system, when used in combination with the brain.
Wikipedia is censored 10:32am on 08 Dec 2008 I have an original copy of the Scorpions LP in question somewhere in my old vinyl collection. It features the 'offending' cover - and I recall that no particular fuss was made about it back in 1976 when the album was released. It was just regarded as a 'Berlin' thing, with an element of mild shock attached, and little more.

It was a pretty good album, actually.

However, with all the fuss over the Wikipedia article, does this mean that the collector's value of said LP is now on the rise? I must dig it out and post it on eBay (with the cover image suitably 'Photoshopped' for decency's sake, naturally) and see how much it could earn me.
Football and the young lady of Riga 4:42pm on 14 Oct 2008 Since when did 'Riga' rhyme with 'tiger'? The limerick either doesn't work, or it's American!

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