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Do you mean the 33 year old stripper whose life savings was confiscated while it was in transport to purchase a nightclub? Daily Mail

I've heard about stuff like what the AC mentioned. From what I understand that particular interpritation is routinely defeated whenever it reaches a judge or jury. Problem is that the person often plea-bargains out, resulting in a 'conviction' without precident.

Even if they know the dude will be able to get off in a trial, it amounts to police harassment to the tune of thousands of dollars to defend yourself. Even if the charges are dropped before significant lawyer bills, it can still add up to harassment along the lines of this poor guy.

I've also heard where cops take 'concealed' to mean that there's an angle it can't be seen from, as opposed to not being able to be seen from any angle. As such, 'rubber banded to your hip' would still count as concealed if the cop can't see the firearm THROUGH your body. This resulted in jokes about carrying it on the top of your head.

Honest, Mr NSA Sir, I was just searching for happy kitty cats and not "How to load a nuclear bomb in a suitcase" -- it must have been those nasty cosmic rays changing up my searches!

(I WONDERED why I kept finding lead suitcases with "Hello, Kitty" emblazoned on them.)

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Calling 911 when you life is in danger rarely does any good. Even when it is not screwed up chances of the police showing up in time to stop what you think is about to happen to you are small indeed.

Cops protect cops.

How many cop murders go unsolved? Not many. Why? Because when a cop gets murdered cops think it is important to catch that person. It is not very important to catch your murderer though.

if you're wondering

How about those pesky American journalists in Iraq? Or all those unlucky suckers in gitmo? Probably some more in the rights-free zone 100 miles near any border too. Unfortunately those records are sealed, you can only access them via an order from a court that officially doesn't exist, and that's all by the orders of your Kenyan King.
 
If you're not up to BEWAREOFTHELEOPARD clearance then you wouldn't be expected to know...

Wait, I checked the Daily Mail website and it seems to be peddling porn... Even child pornography. Are they trying to get themselves banned?!

Wait, I checked the Daily Mail website and it seems to be peddling porn... Even child pornography. Are they trying to get themselves banned?!

Cripes for the last sports event here they had M16 machine guns in the open and wearing full military armor.

It takes a lot of firepower to stop a ball.

Obvious troll is obvious.

Quite. Show me a Christian minister supporting child marriage and I will show you:

• Clerics at 18 mosques are caught agreeing to marry off girls of 14
• New Saudi Fatwa Defends Pedophilia as ‘Marriage’
• Nigeria: Senate Denies Child Marriage Wrongdoing, Says Law May Be Revisited (age limits to marriage deemed un-islamic)

A recent skydiving accident story with a more cheerful outcome: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487761/Wisconsin-skydivers-survived-mid-air-collision-said-extreme-sport.html

Like this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066828/Bugatti-Veyron-owner-gets-ticket-parking-disabled-space-Essex.html

It was chosen, no-bid, to a political ally of Michelle Obama.

By the Bush administration. Before Obama was inaugurated.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477403/Michelle-Os-Princeton-classmate-exec-company-built-Obamacare-website.html

What bid . . .?

Revealed: Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is top executive at firm that that built disastrous Obamacare website after being awarded no-bid $93m contract

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477403/Michelle-Os-Princeton-classmate-exec-company-built-Obamacare-website.html

. . . it just shows you where the real value of a good education is . . .

Yes, we have the example of Flight 93 but I think that's an exception to the rule

No so much:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/29/world/asia/china-plane-hijack-foiled/

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=man-attempts-to-hijack-thy-plane-in-istanbul-reports-say-2011-01-05

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-149289/Italian-plane-hijack-foiled.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442195/Why-want--Harry-Reid-dismisses-funding-childrens-cancer-research-separately-rest-government.html

Obviously, I don't mean Snapchat is the same as Digg, but rather that they are making the same mistake as Digg. After all, Digg did turn down $200 million from Google and was eventually sold for only $500k only 4 years later.

Varius articles have said snapchat image files may not be erased, but just hidden from the file system. (I have not verified this myself.)

Occasionally, this comes at a cost to human life, such as Thatcher's deliberate underinvestment in the railways, followed by Major's spinning off of Railtrack without any clear identification as to who is responsible for maintenance. But usually it's just a huge fucking waste of money, and the privatised industry ends up enjoying multiple subsidies and regulatory capture.

Ooh... you're so cynical, but be fair- it's resulted in a far more efficient and low-cost railway system that's affordable by everyone in the country.

Oh wait, no it hasn't. It's given us railways that cost far more than comparable systems in other countries, resulting in obscenely priced tickets that are only affordable to well-paid professionals. You know it's bad when the first result from Googling "British railways expensive compared" is a f*****g Daily Mail article making this point.

How all of us were "ok" with the companies collecting this information. When an intelligence agency combines this info, we suddenly scream for privacy. I'm scared enough that google accesses my Gmail content, and Apple my iMessages and contacts.

i was fine with google taking my info because i know they a singular goal: use the information to provide more targeted ads. they don't care what you are interested in, just get an ad to you. Microsoft and Apple have a bad track record of psychopathic behavior and denying any responsibility for their actions. the NSA has psychopathic behavior and a god complex which is extremely dangerous.

you may think this is extreme but it's no exaggeration when i say the NSA has no problems with killing anyone that posed a threat to them. snowden had already done the damage, so there's no point in killing him after the fact. though if the CIA thinks he's cooperating with another government, the CIA will slap a bomb to the side of his car. if you still think i'm paranoid, consider that you previously thought the NSA spying on and tracking everyone was a delusion.

the mistake we made was underestimating the enemy. make no mistake, the NSA mindset is that everyone is an enemy, even the people and government they are sworn to protect.

You can actually generate electrical current from beer, or at least from the brewing process, so you could actually work out an ampere-equivalent rating per volumetric unit of beer (at a given voltage, of course). Okay, I sound waaay too nerdy.

Give a more profitable use to jellyfish (even if it is for making glow-in-the-dark ice cream, or other uses) better than "normal" fishes and the balance could be reached again... before is too late.

I don't know about GCHQ but Special Branch and MI5 are actually worse (or at least as bad) as paedophiles. see here

Indian regime is spending $1 billion/year on space research where 836 million of their people are starving on 50 cents/day wage slavery.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2480424/VISUAL-EDIT-India-little-better-Ethiopia.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/836-million-indians-live-on-less-than-rs-20-a-day/47645-7.html

The helmet cam thing has been done, and hasn't work out so far.

I get bored in lines and if there are advertising that I am interesded in displayed I will be more entertained. I can do without adds for tampons and justin bieber albums. That is the usefulness to me.

What benefit are some people being denied. The benefit of seeing ads they are not interested in?

Would you not be better served by a worker that you can say "no thanks" to as opposed to a CCTV system that will scan your face and pop up ads as you browse for your butter as it feels fit, not as you see fit? I think you are making my argument for me, though you may not realize it. The "automated" system will not be yours to turn off as you see fit, it turns on as the company sees fit.

Reference please. Where is your proof that the government was involved when it was the government that found it and stopped it.

You did not try very hard.

No, I am claiming that they will be easily caught and stopped if they tried it.

Because everything that the GCHQ does is public information available for you to scrutinize? Even if you knew something you would receive data on request? Come now, you can't be that daft can you?

Can you buy a sandwich with gold shavings?

Yes, you can ... well, with gold dust, anyways: Gold Sandwich

oh, none of us who are aware of thre reality would weep any tears if the tsa, nsa and even cia went away tomorrow.

I'm curious, does the "reality" you inhabit have foreign nations simultaneously revealing their nuclear submarine force along with state media published maps of nuclear strikes against the US?

Does your "reality" include another foreign nations probing the defenses of the US and its allies with nuclear bombers?

Russian bombers buzz U.S. territory — again
Russian Bombers Perform Simulated "Strikes" on Sweden, U.S.
US scrambles jet fighters after Russian nuclear bombers circle American airspace over Guam
Pictured: The moment RAF jets intercepted Russian bombers flying in British airspace

Do US allies in your "reality" worry about invasion or blackmail by rearming adversaries?

NATO stages exercise as rearming Russia worries some allies

Did the TSA in your "reality" keep 1,549 firearms off planes, not to mention other weapons?

TSA Finds Guns on Hundreds of Passengers Each Year

all those opaque cant-see-thru orgs have no reason to exist other than TO exist and keep themselves in power. blech! the american public (and world public) has had enough of this BS!

The TSA, CIA, NSA aren't "in power." They answer to the government in power, just like the FBI, Interior Department, Coast Guard, Social Security administration, and a host of other government agencies.

oh, none of us who are aware of thre reality would weep any tears if the tsa, nsa and even cia went away tomorrow.

I'm curious, does the "reality" you inhabit have foreign nations simultaneously revealing their nuclear submarine force along with state media published maps of nuclear strikes against the US?

Does your "reality" include another foreign nations probing the defenses of the US and its allies with nuclear bombers?

Russian bombers buzz U.S. territory — again
Russian Bombers Perform Simulated "Strikes" on Sweden, U.S.
US scrambles jet fighters after Russian nuclear bombers circle American airspace over Guam
Pictured: The moment RAF jets intercepted Russian bombers flying in British airspace

Do US allies in your "reality" worry about invasion or blackmail by rearming adversaries?

NATO stages exercise as rearming Russia worries some allies

Did the TSA in your "reality" keep 1,549 firearms off planes, not to mention other weapons?

TSA Finds Guns on Hundreds of Passengers Each Year

all those opaque cant-see-thru orgs have no reason to exist other than TO exist and keep themselves in power. blech! the american public (and world public) has had enough of this BS!

The TSA, CIA, NSA aren't "in power." They answer to the government in power, just like the FBI, Interior Department, Coast Guard, Social Security administration, and a host of other government agencies.

The link to the Independent appears broken and all I can find is a story in the Daily Mail which seems to be a bit of a rag: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2485533/Technical-fault-left-RAF-pilots-unable-flying-100-million-aircraft.html#comments

Can anyone tell when the "blinding" incident actually happened? Daily Mail appears to imply the BAE helmet program was de-funded as a result but there's no way the government could move that fast.

There is ample reason for concern about Russia, China, and even Pakistan.

Number of Russian spies in the UK back to Cold War levels, say security services
Chinese Espionage: Britain's MI5 reports epidemic in spying
China's spies come out from the cold
Pakistani spies 'operating in Britain'

I very much doubt that the US has ever aimed nuclear weapons at the United Kingdom. The Soviets / Russians certainly have. They still come for visits.

RAF catches Russian bombers in UK airspace
Yes, yes, I know, but still. Scramble! Scramble! Russian nuclear bandits at 12 o'clock!': The Kremlin's taunting Britain with Blackjack bombers

I recall a study from several years ago (10 years? possibly) that showed the probability of failure increased with the size (budget) of the project. Above about $5 million in then-dollars the probability was near 100%. As I recall failure was defined as either technical failure, or budget overruns going so high the project was cancelled. Of course, I have no citation. That would be too easy. :)

However, I did search for "Probability of Software Project Failure", and got some fascinating results. This is one of them: Statistics over IT projects failure rate - a summary review of several of the most definitive studies over the last 20 years. And this one: Healthcare.gov website 'didn't have a chance in hell' notes that:

The Standish Group, which has a database of some 50,000 development projects, looked at the outcomes of multimillion dollar development projects and ran the numbers for Computerworld.

Of 3,555 projects from 2003 to 2012 that had labor costs of at least $10 million, only 6.4% were successful. The Standish data showed that 52% of the large projects were "challenged," meaning they were over budget, behind schedule or didn't meet user expectations. The remaining 41.4% were failures -- they were either abandoned or started anew from scratch.

And I suppose this: £12bn NHS computer system is scrapped... and it's all YOUR money that Labour poured down the drain fits into this model pretty well. (Regardless of one's opinion about the Daily Mail.)

Not if he buys his yacht from New Zealand. Then if New Zealand has a sales tax they get the money, otherwise he just keeps it and fills a swimming pool on his yacht with money.

http://phys.org/news/2013-01-ancient-dna-reveals-humans-years.html [phys.org]

Or, more presently...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449265/Who-Discovered-America--Controversial-historian-Gavin-Menzies-claims-Chinese-reached-New-World-first.html [dailymail.co.uk]

Liberals let their feelings dictate their actions, regardless of the consequences.

Ah the evul libruls. What about the commie-nazis?

. That is why the UK has higher violent crime rates than the US,

lolwut?

The obvious search turns up this first:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-25671/Violent-crime-worse-Britain-US.html

Which is, of course the daily fail. Quoting from that has about as much credibility as quoting from the National Inquirer.

If you read a sendible analysis, then you get:

http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/01/12/fact-checking-ben-swann-is-the-uk-really-5-times-more-violent-than-the-us/

which paints a very different picture.

Violence ALWAYS follows disarmament.

In the UK, violent crime has been reducing both before and after the 1997 gun ban. The gun ban didn't appear to make a significant change on the trend.

people were turning in unsharpened movie prop fantasy knives, kitchen utensils, and yard tools afraid they were going to get prosecuted for owning lethal weaponry

Yeah, those, and also real Klingon Bat'leths (I mean, with actual sharpened edges that could take someones head off). Along with machetes and lots of other things that typically aren't needed in suburban Britain.

I would expect panics about people 3D printing guns to be relatively commonplace in the UK and throughout Europe in future. Being an island, the UK has had a particularly effective form of gun control that has seen criminal gangs reduced to trying to make their own ammo and weapons, often shittily and resulting in much less lethal weapons than those professionally made. Random shootings are extremely rare. However plenty of Brits read the newspapers and see how the USA experiences lethal shootings seemingly every day at the moment, which is completely insane. Now I read that children as young as 12 are shooting their teachers.

Everyone in the UK knows that it tends to experience a lot of US "cultural imports", and basically nobody I know there would want to see US-style gun crime. So gun controls are likely to remain popular and if it takes licensing of 3D printing equipment to enforce that, it won't surprise me at all to see such a thing be implemented.

All you fools who called Bush II "the worst President ever" are now seeing the true worst President ever in action.

Jimmy Carter - previous holder of that title - is ecstatic.

Don't think 0bama is the worst ever? 0bama's taken a minor civil war in Syria and managed to turn it into a true fiasco - getting schooled by Putin, and alienating everyone so badly they're cutting diplomatic ties to the US.

This is because the care offered by the NHS is already to a high standard. Private providers need to compete in order to make people feel that additional insurance has value.

Apparently feeding & providing water to patients is gold-plated service, far beyond the "high standard" that NHS offers: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287332/Nearly-1-200-people-starved-death-NHS-hospitals-nurses-busy-feed-patients.html

You are technicaly right, but if you use logic in order to tell things that are true but do sound very different from what they actually are you are doing weaseling with weasel word.

As in "our prices are the lowest we ever did* (* on selected products)" sounds cheap but just means that you are offloading some unsaleable junk..
Or "Blue Sky initiative" sounds ecological, it just means that you called some activity "blue sky initiative"

Some ... could mean "all of them" but then it would be natural and honest to say "all of them"
Some ... could mean "the majority" but then you would be invited to use "the majority"
Actually the only legitimate reason to use "Some" is that there are no other adequate word, so it should not be "one" or "very few" nor "a significant number" or the majority or all...

Try "tragically some civilian died, but it was unavoidable due to the immediate danger M. EvilGuy posed to humanity" ...
You might want to avoid having somebody point out that you killed them all, and if you have only 1 out of 10 000 "collateral dammage" you would probably say it too..

Or to take your examples if you tell you child : Some ravens are black ... the natural answer will be ? what color are the non black ravens ... ? so unless you want to confuse him or her you will probably tell "ravens are almost always black although there are some rare exceptions" : http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_01/ravenNNP_468x311.jpg

Good laugh on the former president of Iran. I enjoyed that more then you can realize.

That being said, the Zionist regime is a pejorative used by middle eastern Islamist to refer to the state of Israel. There is one situation in which Imadinnerjacket has said something that was wrote down on the transcripts of his speech differently from what people claim was actually said in the speech and people claim the entirety of the slam on Israel was a mistranslation. However, if everything was insulated to this one instance, I could agree with that presumption of a mistranslation. But that is not the case, in 2005 he called to move Israel to Eruope and boasted that it was illegitimate in the Palestine territory. In 2008, he made comments about Israel being destroyed by the surrounding nations because it wasn't legitimate. In 2012 he said "any freedom lover and justice seeker in the world must do its best for the annihilation of the Zionist regime"

The list goes on. And do not get stuck on "regime" in the term Zionist Regime. If he was talking specifically about Israel's leaders, he would have used terms like Netanyahu's regime much like we did with Saddam before Iraq. "Zionist Regime" has specifically to do with Israel as a nation, not the governing parties of it.

BTW, the division of the middle east happened after WWI with the collapse of the ottoman empire in it's defeat in WWI. I agree that there might be problems with the way it was divided but most all of the territories within the division had worked together sufficiently enough to become fully acknowledged states or countries within their own right and sovereignty. The fact that Iraq is muddled is more to the modern experience as previous as they through democratically elected government satisfied all of the west's demands for self government (remember, Saddam was elected originally).

The other thing you need to keep in mind is Iran was a modern secular country, until the CIA decided to dispose of the president and install a dictator more pliable to the USA's so called interests. And then we wonder how extremists come to power? Because they promise the people a 'saviour' from the current conditions.

Of course. It still is to a minor degree. For instance, they don't mind Christians living inside their border as long as they can tax them for being Christians and even go so far as to allow the use of alcoholic beverages in Christian rituals. But, if those Christians don't pay the tax or evangelize outside of Christians already, they go to jail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2402254/Saeed-Abedini-U-S-pastor-sentenced-8-years-Iranian-prison-preaching-Christianity-appeal-rejected.html

But you are correct, the US did screw them over and the people rose up in opposition. We even missed an opertunity to put that behind us at the start of the Afghanistan war but feared ta possible outcome more then a likely outcome. Iran actually supported the US in it's initial invasion of Afghanistan. They wanted to send troops and supplies to help. The US thought there might be more to the package like Russia expecting to keep conquered/liberated territories after WWII, but had even grater fears of the neighboring countries seeing a middle east country (Iran) invading as a larger plot and involving them against us. Our rejection of Iran's help in this matter sparked the start of Iran's president hating the US and publicly speaking directly against us and Israel.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/porter.php?articleid=8590

Don't let that page's bias suggest anything is untrue. It's just the first page I could find accurately reflecting the situation mixed in with all the pages about Iran's influence after we leave. I was following this closely at the time. I had a friend who

and the first group of people that came to America.

http://phys.org/news/2013-01-ancient-dna-reveals-humans-years.html

Or, more presently...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449265/Who-Discovered-America--Controversial-historian-Gavin-Menzies-claims-Chinese-reached-New-World-first.html

Keep telling yourself that, if it makes you feel better. To use the words of former British ambassador Christopher Meyer, who doesn't seem to have a any horses in this race, The Tea Party is "[a] combination of grassroots populism, professional conservative politics, and big money, floating on a sea of economic distress" (with excuses for linking to the mail; don't worry, it is Sir Christopher Meyer who wrote the article).

Actually, if you follow international news at all, there has been a strong Conservative/Tory assault on the NHS for several years now.

If you follow the news you realize that Labour might have some involvement since they ran the government for so long.

Labour must bear the blame for the shameful decline of the NHS

Up to 1,200 needless deaths, patients abused, staff bullied to meet targets... yet a secret inquiry into failing hospital says no one's to blame

- Up to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily because of appalling care
- Labour's obsession with targets and box ticking blamed for scandal
- Patients were 'routinely neglected' at hospital
- Report calls for FOURTH investigation into scandal

I'm sure there is plenty more to find.

Are you seriously using Mexican healthcare as an example to follow? The linked example is quite common across a broad spectrum of medical care issues in Mexico. You're uninformed, and you should stop while you're behind.

Yeah, and both NBC news and Fox News are reporting on the government shutdown. And English newspapers are also reporting on this mouse - Oreos- cocaine story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2462624/Oreos-addictive-cocaine-Connecticut-College-scientists.html

News is news, not every single website is expected to have unique content.

Since 2000, we have seen serious major acts of terrorism in this country typically once or twice a year.â

Really? I don't recall one or two major acts of terrorism a year since 2000. In fact I only recall one (7/7), and maybe you could count the bungled attempt to bomb an airport but those guys were laughably dumb. So what are the other 20 odd major acts of terrorism that I somehow slept through?

( Note to moderators: The question was asked, I'm answering it. )

Here is a starter for you. I'm quite sure there are more out there since this was just a hasty search. When I started this post I was assuming that plots would count as "acts," but it looks like the number goes well over anyway between the various Islamists and the Real IRA. (As this was done in haste I may have posted something redundant, but it really doesn't alter the outcome much. A more careful search would no doubt turn up more.)

Bomb plot: Life sentence for Irfan Naseer, ringleader of Birmingham men planning wave of UK suicide attacks

London terror bomb plot: the four terrorists

Four men pleaded guilty to plotting a Christmas bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange and causing a 'Mumbai-style' atrocity.

Fertiliser bomb plot: The story

Five men have been convicted of plotting to build a bomb which police say could have killed hundreds of British people. The men were caught after police and MI5 launched a massive surveillance operation.

British terrorists conspired in bombs plot - security officials

Counter-terrorism officials said last night they believe British terrorists who are still at large were involved in the conspiracy to launch car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow.
Details emerged as it became clear that five of the suspects under arrest are doctors working and training in the NHS, and one is a doctor working in Australia where he was arrested last night.

Airline terror trial: The bomb plot to kill 10,000 people

On honeymoon in the sunshine, Britons who forged a terror plot to plant peroxide and bleach bombs in Jewish areas

Shasta Khan and her husband also had beheading videos, bomb-making guides and bleach at their home
Police found the terror-related material after being called to a domestic dispute at their house
A satnav showed they had been on multiple trips to Jewish populated areas looking for targets

British soldier hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack

A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday, in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack.

A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just minutes after the killing showed a man with hands covered in blood, brandishing a bloodied meat cleaver and a knife. "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day," the black man in his 20s or 30s, wearing a wool jacket and jeans

You mean like Britain's with higher death rates?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-195277/NHS-death-rates-times-higher-US.html

I love it when a group who opposes an expensive government takeover of healthcare refuses to shill for the Democratic Party.

FTFY

The idea that socialized medicine gives better care than the American health system is a myth, since those under the UK's NHS are four times more likely to die than in the US.

A little more background, courtesy of the Daily Mail. The Slashdot summary is a bit vague, referring to "donating a small sum of money to an organization that the federal government considered terrorist in nature." Apparently Mr. Moalin once missed a telephone call from "Aden Hashi Ayrow, the senior al Shabaab leader," which makes it likely that a little more was going on than merely the donation of "a small sum of money." You may recall al Shabaab as the group behind the recent slaughter at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. So to say "an organization that the federal government considered terrorist in nature" is to omit some rather important background. By any rational definition, al Shabaab is certainly a terror group.