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This is a normal post Anti-US sentiment?
Eh?
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 10:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Lost me too...

(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:01, Reply)
This is a normal post I read the headline as "big bad FBI turns off the internet"
why not "FBI cracks criminal internet gang?"
 (I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Aaaah!

(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:03, Reply)
This is a normal post Diverts users to a 'FBI approved' website to check for viruses.
*pppfffttt*
 (Spin Its a thing., Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:05, Reply)
This is a normal post an

(I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:07, Reply)
This is a normal post am

(pissflaps. FSPW, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:10, Reply)
This is a normal post a
A discussion happened many years ago at work as to whether a car should be referred to when written as 'an MG' or 'a MG' - apparently the latter is correct (I lost the argument - still seems wrong to me)
 (I helped save b3ta! TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:12, Reply)
This is a normal post I stayed out of it as I knew I woz rite

(Spin Its a thing., Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:24, Reply)
This is a normal post Fellow Jampots are meant to stick together you know!

(I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:25, Reply)
This is a normal post The story basically states
"FBI fix broken internet, provides handy website to test if you are effected".

How the HELL did you get an anti american story out of that?!
 (Dijital Flouncing Back!, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Just from the headline.
And this is B3ta after all!
 (I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:30, Reply)
This is a normal post You win!
From the Collins Dictionary of English Usage:-
"Where the indefinate article is followed by an abbrieviation in the form of letters, the form follows the sound of the letter rather than the word it represents"
 (I helped save b3ta! MyFrontFellOff ; his mouth full of teddies, urinating defiantly, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Yup.
TP is correct: it should be "an", as in "an Em Jee".
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:05, Reply)
This is a normal post What if you have a/an citroen?

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:14, Reply)
This is a normal post a citroen.
an lemon.
 (I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:31, Reply)
This is a normal post You calling my 2 liter Xsara picasso with collapsing trolly and ample bootspace a lemon?

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Uhm Yes!... No?
I don't know.
 (I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah, OK.
Thing is, though, the gang was cracked in the past. This story is related, but it's not the same. So the headline "Thousands face internet loss as FBI shuts off servers" I took to be a fairly neutral one, on the grounds that thousands do face internet loss, because the FBI is shutting down servers.

If there's bias there, it's not in the headline. It's in the reality.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:04, Reply)
This is a normal post
oooohhh... damn you and your logic!
 (I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Tue 10 Jul 2012, 22:38, Reply)