Olympics Ban on Personal Hotspots

Re:Olympics Ban on Personal Hotspots by excuse-me on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @11:16AM (#4291309)

Start with laws rewriting copyright to make it a CRIMINAL offence to use: the name of the country's capital city together with either the numeric value of this year, or the name of the season between spring and autumn.

Spending $Bn of taxpayers money on 'infrastructure' that is going to be used for 2weeks and then given away for next to nothing to friends/supporters afterwards. And at the same time cutting funding to schools and community sports.

Using the army as cheap labour when the company given the contract for security decided it was going to be profitable enough and walked away

All this so a bizarrely coiffured lunatic and his oily friends in Westminster can appear on global TV

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Re:Olympics Ban on Personal Hotspots by DanWaterworth on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @11:23AM (#4291349)

You missed the truly abysmal logos and mascots.

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Re:Olympics Ban on Personal Hotspots by ceejayoz on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @12:21PM (#4291623)

Which are worse even than they look on first glance. Colourize them right and they look like Simpsons characters. http://media.nowpublic.net/images//00/f/00f893c2ac7430de95e1...

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Re:Olympics Ban on Personal Hotspots by excuse-me on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @12:19PM (#4291613)

If children wish to draw "one-eyed trouser snakes" or Lisa Simpson performing an intimate act, on their school books that's fine.

I just don't think that consenting adults should be exposed to this sort of thing - especially not splashed over every wall

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Re:Olympics Ban on Personal Hotspots by b0 on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @12:23PM (#4291630)

I've never heard the one-eyed trouser snake one before - I nearly spat my (non-Olympic-overlord approved) water in my ThinkPad :-)

They are by far the worst mascots ever.

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