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OMG this explains it.
They figure non-Linux users will be too stupid to figure out that the tracking is identical to last year's. If you really want to know what happened to Santa, well, the Russians know something.
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Re:This doesn't help
Yes, this is how it works in Australia, I assumed the same was true for the UK since these things are based on common law. However this article posted by "canadian right" below seems to indicate the truth of a statement is not a bullet proof defense in the UK (either that or the Judge's brother-in-law is a Chiropractor).
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Re:This doesn't help
One of the big problems with UK libel law is that the truth is NOT an absolute defense. For example, scientist sued by chiropractors for saying unproven treatment is 'bogus'
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Vote For Something Serious!
I am amazed that so many people are willing to vote for X-Factor and who should be no1 in the Christmas charts but will not vote for who runs the UK!
That's like totally horrifying.
At least protest for a something worthwhile - e.g. against clause 11 of the "Digital Economy Bill"http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200910/ldbills/001/10001.13-19.html Essentially gives Lord Mandelson complete control of what is published on Internet and unrivalled power and "interpretation" of copyright law.
You can join petitions here: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/list/open?cat=758
Then again Simon Cowell wants to "X-Factor" politics http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236002/The-Politics-Factor-Simon-Cowell-unveils-plan-launch-election-debate-show.html This mentality scares the crap out of me! -
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Re:How about certain noises?
Don't worry, assuming you are male you will already tune out real babies.
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Is this related to this wormhole ..
Is this related to the wormhole that opened up above Norway yesterday?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html
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Murder and Inheritance
In some areas, there are general laws against inheriting from someone who you were involved in the death of. This would presumably include the victim's copyright assets.
I know that the Daily Mail ain't the world's highest-quality news source, but it proves an extant example of the concept in British law (as well as a corollary; should relatives of the incriminated relative be allowed to inherit from the victim?)
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Re:WARNING - DAILY FAIL
Check out the awesome photo selection on this article.
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Re:Wow...
She also received anonymous threatening letters suggesting her accuser would reveal information to the press.
Doesn't that depend on what was in the letters? If he's demanding something and threatening to reveal it if not, that's blackmail... especially if the supposed "information" is not true.
According to the article, we don't know what the information was or whether it was true or not (emphasis mine).
The amendments made to the woman's entry involved information about her professional expenses claims and details about her child which the judge did not reveal. She has also received two anonymous letters - although it was not possible to say if these were from the same person who altered the website.
It does say it involved expense claims, but that isn't proven to be true or false either... so you're believing someone that has presumably sent threatening letters over the businesswoman. She denies the wrongdoing, by the way.
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Re:Wow...
She also received anonymous threatening letters suggesting her accuser would reveal information to the press.
Doesn't that depend on what was in the letters? If he's demanding something and threatening to reveal it if not, that's blackmail... especially if the supposed "information" is not true.
According to the article, we don't know what the information was or whether it was true or not (emphasis mine).
The amendments made to the woman's entry involved information about her professional expenses claims and details about her child which the judge did not reveal. She has also received two anonymous letters - although it was not possible to say if these were from the same person who altered the website.
It does say it involved expense claims, but that isn't proven to be true or false either... so you're believing someone that has presumably sent threatening letters over the businesswoman. She denies the wrongdoing, by the way.
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It doesn't take a big organization
It takes 16 ships.
A huge part of the atmospheric pollution we see could be terminated with 32 well-aimed torpedos.
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Re:"Pandemics" are the new "terrorists".
well I am not sure about politicians here - it seems to me that somebody was tweaking pandemic definitions of late. Hmmmm who might be this evil person? History of an interview by Sir Roy Andersson is really a teaching one. The article is not very exact possibly (what can you expect from daily mail) but - the guy apparently acquired some problems after his interview with BBC. Donno about conspiracy but the whole story looks just too bad to be a result of incompetence only. Just why they removed mortality and morbidity from definition???
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Re:Good Idea!
Not that I want to take part in a game of oneupmanship, but round these parts we recently had a radioactive paedophile on the loose...
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Re:BBC Bias
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ - bullshit ranting, including a post saying that saying "occupied east philistine" is biased.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411846/We-biased-admit-stars-BBC-News.html - Daily mail, nuf said
the times article is not as bad but:Singled out is the coverage of Bob Geldof’s Live 8 concert and the Make Poverty History campaign. The report says there was no rounded debate of the issues.
Debate on what?
I think the best line in an article attack the BBC was:its coverage of conventional politics is judged to be fair and impartial
The wikipedia article is just a catalogue of criticisms from the daily mail and it's ilk.
It's much more effective to check facts than just be exposed to both sets of lies.
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Re:BBC Bias
>>>good example of how an independent, publicly funded news organisation can work.
Yes. But think of all the stories you DON'T see on the BBC because they conveniently don't discuss them. There are many, many of them, and it's become rather well-known that the BBC is pro-European Union biased. http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411846/We-biased-admit-stars-BBC-News.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1942948.ece http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC
I'd rather watch both sides of an argument (FOX and MSNBC) rather than assume I can trust a single source.
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Re:Revealed as feeble...
They are politicians - part of the required skill set is media-savvy. Also, the Internet is not the only medium.
And they do get paid - this is a town council, not a parish council. Quote from a Mail Online story (yes I know) "Local councillors pocketed pay rises of double the level of inflation last year, a study has revealed. Nearly 20,000 picked up an average of £9,300 in 'allowances', the basic pay they get from town halls. In some local authorities, the sum was more than £20,000 a year." -
Re:Hmmm
BBC isn't a good example.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411846/We-biased-admit-stars-BBC-News.html
The BBC is biased and held up by government money.
Can anyone outside of England think of a large competing British news service?
I certainly can't.And it's totally unjust to force those who disagree with the BBC to fund it through their tax dollars. Extortion via taxation. It's the same with NPR in the US.
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Re:ok
Funny, in the UK we had police smash into almost 7,000 safe-deposit boxes.
More than 500 officers smashed their way into thousands of safety-deposit boxes to retrieve guns, drugs and millions of pounds of criminal assets. At least, that's what was supposed to happen."
It was a warrant-expansion, from one of those "seizure of criminals assests" laws, that were started first in the States. Gone ALL wrong, 'tho'.
"Many of the clientele were families who had fled turmoil, pogroms, coups and wars and long had a cultural preference for locking away money and jewels, building up a vehement distrust for the integrity of traditional banks. Here, stepping down the spiral staircase at the back to the darkened boxes below, they felt reassured that their most important possessions were safe."
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Re:I wish I had stayed down the docks.
"That's a peculiar comment from a country where the official government and the opposition do little for workers rights, while bailing large banks for whatever they ask. In the 70's the unions had too much power, not now."
You're making a common mistake, you're assuming in the 70s all unions were weakened, this is not the case, public sector unions were left largely untouched and as such public sector unions still have the same situation of too much power as in the 70s. The CWU is a remnant of these public sector unions that were never castrated as required.
"As for thinking that a union (a political organisation) has no place commenting on politics, I can't see your logic"
Commenting is fine, bombarding members with propaganda through the post every month like "Don't vote for X, vote for Y" is a step too far.
"RM lost the Amazon contract because they have repeatedly provided bad service. The irony is that RM have consistently moaned about the internet killing their business, while ignoring the boom in home shopping. Maybe it's time for a complete change of management."
No, RM originally gained the contract from Amazon by realising the boom in home shopping was one way to save their business. Amazon only a few weeks ago dropped the contract because of the threat of strikes (after RM strikes caused them harm last year). It was not sustainable for Amazon to use RM if they can't ensure reliability. See the following, I include a selection of sources whether you're right wing, centrist, left wing or whatever, it's fact not political biased propaganda:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/07/royal-mail-amazon-postal-strikes
Note also the reference to eBay, many of whose members indeed rely on Royal Mail. Royal Mail management has made strides to support the home shopping revolution- you realise you can even pay for and print of postage barcodes rather than rely on Paypal now right? The problem is all this is useless if it can't guarantee it's workers are going to show up to work to perform the actual deliveries. The Royal Mail has far from moaned about the internet killing their business, it's often been pointed out that it's a problem for them but they've always worked hard to work around the rise of e-mail rather than just moan about it as you seem to be incorrectly suggesting they do.
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Happens all the time
In the twisted world of intellectual property. Seems very similar to this ridiculous case involving a teapot.
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Russians we're already owning Japanese with their land attacks
Given Russian actions in Eastern Europe one could argue that it was better to absorb two nuclear bombs and wind up occupied by the United States than it would have been to be sliced in half with a large portion of your population at the mercy of Stalin and his army of rapists.
But Americans had to show off too (as Cold War was already kind of starting), so they launched those nukes.
It seems to me that you should produce some evidence to substantiate such an outlandish claim.
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Re:An unemployed LAWYER was perhaps....
For financial crimes, it's the accountants that find the loopholes, it's the MP's that try to close them, it's the Inland Revenue that tries to demand the unpaid money, and the lawyers that try to deny that demand.
Just look at the arguments that have been caused by the IR35 legislation dealing with private contractors/freelancers, which has now spread to entertainers:
Big earning BBC stars set up their own companies to escape high tax bills
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Re:I'm sure it didn't help.
Thanks to the TPA (Travel Promotion Act), there's really No Problem(TM). In addition to all the border troubles, simply charge the poor guy visiting another $10, which can then be spent on promoting tourism.
What a brilliant idea: An entrance fee to the US... just like a theme park.
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Mod parent up
Funny and insightful at the same time
Yes, it's extremely unlikely that there will be no frost damage. Modern science only now starts to venture timidly into the realm of freezing small organs that are much simpler than the brain, thawing and transplanting them.
http://www.landesbioscience.com/curie/chapter/4347/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1038859/How-deep-frozen-organs-spell-end-transplant-waiting-lists.htmlThere's much more money at stake in the field of preserving organs for transplantation than in the field of freezing a few nut jobs with way too much money on their hands and an over-inflated ego. I were a scientists in the year 2300, I would think twice before spending the effort to revive someone foolish enough to have themselves frozen with early 21st-century technology, and to believe that the company that did so would be *that* far ahead of mainstream science.
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Re:Go Full Sail
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Re:from TFA...
I drove 8 hours yesterday with a 1.3 year old. Trust me, it is almost impossible to eliminate child distractions. If you don't have kids yourself you won't understand.
I agree with the GP here. Sure, they can make looking at maps illegal, or texting while driving punishable like drunk driving, but they aren't addressing all the possible ways to being distracted. What about reading a paper while driving. A friend of mine got rearended by a man doing that. Or a woman putting on makeup while driving? Or a man shaving while driving? Or driving a dangerously modified vehicle? Or someone eating while driving?
There are simply too many ways to get distracted while driving to eliminate them all with laws. The bottom line is that driving is boring and a waste of time, and we do far too much of it. We should focus instead on better safety systems, and eventually computer controlled cars. -
Re:Crosswinds
You are taking advice from Jeremy Clarkson ?
He is the one who thinks that going backwards through Pearly Gates is a good way to die. And his friend Hammond nearly succeeded . OK, he was about to get in upside down through the gates, not backwards, but still.
Clarkson: "If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die!" Hammond: "I love that vision of just blasting through the gates, backwards, in a flaming Swedish supercar! 'Yes! I'm here! Where are the women?'" -
Re:Neat, but...
I'm also not an expert in the field but I have heard of a procedure in which a tooth is removed and implanted into the eye, It was completed in Great Britain and the patient got to see his wife for the very first time. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197256/Blind-man-sees-wife-time-having-TOOTH-implanted-eye.html
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Computer cause global warming!
I'm not too sure about the anthropogenic global warming, but I'm starting to come around to it. Earlier my contention was that global warming scientists are causing global warming, but I'm beginning to think that maybe -- just maybe -- computers in general might be the cause. I mean, if computers are having to pump cold water from the ocean depths to cool computers, that's gotta be dumping a lot of heat back into the ocean, right? Right...?
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Re:3 strikes on 3 strikes
The whole world perfectly understands that having guns & ammo in your home (sorry, should I say "arms") in not the way a society should be run
Why posit your off-topic bias as if it were fact? You were doing so well until then. Short reply: there are good reasons why law-abiding folks have every right to own and bear arms, none of which are directly related to the original topic.
Longer reply: However, the longer I considered your post, the more parallels I saw between government restriction of internet access (freedom of speech, essentially), and government restriction of firearms. I suppose for the sake of argument and relevance , I will try to whip up a comparison.
Internet access, like a weapon, is merely a tool, and is neutral in nature. It can be used for good or evil, but is not intrinsically one or the other.* Like internet access, weapon ownership comes with certain responsibilities, such as proper use and ensuring that others do not use it improperly. Like internet access, owning a weapon is a choice; one can choose to exercise it or not. Like internet access, the government has no business abrogating the rights of responsible individuals (or society as a whole) in this fashion. Like the gun-control debate, this "internet-control" bill seeks to put the wishes of special interest groups above the welfare and interests of responsible individuals and society in general, and (for this and other reasons) is a bad law. The internet can be a tool of a criminal (stealing a mp3, stealing an identity, stealing a corporate secret), it can be a used as a weapon by citizens against a bad government by facilitating dissent (Iran) or a used as a weapon by a government against citizens by stifling it (Iran). It can be a weapon wielded in war. People speak of the 2nd amendment serving to protect the others. Whether you agree with that or not, the internet serves a similar purpose in protecting humanity's rights to free speech, freedom of religion, and free association. As long as we keep the world's governments' hands (mostly) off the internet, we preserve what leverage we have over those who govern us.
IMHO, gun ownership (and self-defense in general) is an intrinsic civil right whether your government recognizes or not, and therefore I am not generally persuaded by arguments that lower crime will result from abolishing or restricting gun ownership, or that we should do it because the rest of the world does so. If anything, the export of idiotic US laws to the rest of the world should serve as warning to everyone that adopting laws from other countries is often a very stupid idea, and often represents an infringement upon citizens' rights. However, since you appealed to the "whole world" fallacy, let me point out that in that world, the places with the tightest gun control are more violent. The hated USA with its evil and barbaric gun ownership rights has a violent crime rate far below that of the far more civilized UK and France, among others.
* As the Dalai Lama said, "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times) There are those who insist that a weapon's only purpose is to kill, and therefore weapons are evil. These people are wrong on a couple levels. First, sport shooting is a legitimate non-lethal pursuit. So is hunting. Collecting firearms is another. Second, lethal use of a firearm is not in itself evil or bad for society; that entirely depends on the target and the circumstances. As you say, murders make the headlines, but I've noticed that legitimate self-defense rarely does, creating an impression among many that it is rare and inconsequential compared to the danger that criminal gun use represents. This is grossly incorrect, but I'm not about to write the thesis required to prove this assertion, especially since others have literally already done so. -
It's already worse than you thought
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Start by educating journalists
How could anybody be stupid enough to report this as a factual story? When was the last time you read a new report about any scientific development that actually contained the facts necessary to understand the relevance of the discovery? First thing we need to do: make understanding the subject a prerequisite to writing about it.
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What about...
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Re:Waste of time?
I doubt mainstream media will pick this up, "evolution" is still very controversial stuff. They just virtually banned the current Darwin inspired film in the US.
Charles Darwin is on the back of the £10 note, he's hardly controversial here.
The Daily Mail calls Darwin, "the great evolutionist", and that's considered a conservative newspaper (Wiki: "The Mail takes an anti-EU, anti-abortion view, based upon "traditional values", and is pro-capitalism and pro-monarchy, as well as, in some cases, advocating stricter punishments for crime. It also often calls for lower levels of taxation. The paper is generally critical of the BBC, which it argues is biased to the left.")
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Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong
This "party" was an advertisement on MySpace to show up at a vacant house that someone owns, break in, and completely and utterly trash the place. 200 kids showed up and from the look of the pictures got pretty creative in their destruction, and managed to trash the house to the tune of 30 thousand British pounds.
Look for "what could possibly go wrong" in the summary above.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-448842/MySpace-invaders-trash-second-home-tune-30-000.html
What's scary is that the article mentions that this is the SECOND home to be trashed in this manner.
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Re:Well, we all know what to do...
He's been demonised for opposing the media groupthink on some hot-button issues, e.g. this or this. His Conservative leadership failed because the media didn't like him, preferring the Blairite David Cameron. The central issue is that, to quote one left-wing blog, "Our vision of civil liberties is fundamentally different to that of Davis". I found this interview with him to be quite interesting.
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To all the deluded fools defending the BBC...
It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.
A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.
It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23371706-details/Yes,%20we%20are%20biased%20on%20religion%20and%20politics,%20admit%20BBC%20executives/article.do
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411846/We-biased-admit-stars-BBC-News.htmlAnd straight from the horses mouth:
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Re:Mandelson
Put slimebag Mandelson into perspective...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/471585.stm
"Mr Mandelson resigned from the Cabinet in December last year after it was revealed he took a secret £373,000 home loan from his ministerial colleague, Geoffrey Robinson, who also resigned over the affair."Pulled in a few favors and got away with mortgage fraud on the mortgage application form by not declaring the secret loan. Anyone else would be in prison for that fraud.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1210506.stm
"Peter Mandelson and Europe Minister Keith Vaz have been cleared of wrongdoing by the Hammond inquiry into the Hinduja passport affair. The inquiry into the circumstances that led to Mr Mandelson's resignation in January accepted that he had not deliberately lied about making a call to a Home Office minister. Secondly it found there was no connection between the Hindujas' donation to the Dome and their successful applications for citizenship."Pulled in a few favors, got away with arranging a passport for a Labour donor, whitewashes inquiry into affair.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205049/Lapping-sun-super-rich-friends--Mandy-man-whos-supposed-running-country.html
Story seems to have been strangely deleted and not in anyone's cache about Mandelson living it up on a rich benefactors behalf.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207060/Mandelson-met-Gaddafis-son-Corfu-ahead-Lockerbie-bomber-release-talks.html
"Lord Mandelson faces the prospect of a sleaze investigation after he met Colonel Gaddafi's son days before it emerged that the Lockerbie bomber was to be freed."Now reports that the alleged bomber may be freed on compassionate grounds.
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Re:Mandelson
Put slimebag Mandelson into perspective...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/471585.stm
"Mr Mandelson resigned from the Cabinet in December last year after it was revealed he took a secret £373,000 home loan from his ministerial colleague, Geoffrey Robinson, who also resigned over the affair."Pulled in a few favors and got away with mortgage fraud on the mortgage application form by not declaring the secret loan. Anyone else would be in prison for that fraud.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1210506.stm
"Peter Mandelson and Europe Minister Keith Vaz have been cleared of wrongdoing by the Hammond inquiry into the Hinduja passport affair. The inquiry into the circumstances that led to Mr Mandelson's resignation in January accepted that he had not deliberately lied about making a call to a Home Office minister. Secondly it found there was no connection between the Hindujas' donation to the Dome and their successful applications for citizenship."Pulled in a few favors, got away with arranging a passport for a Labour donor, whitewashes inquiry into affair.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205049/Lapping-sun-super-rich-friends--Mandy-man-whos-supposed-running-country.html
Story seems to have been strangely deleted and not in anyone's cache about Mandelson living it up on a rich benefactors behalf.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207060/Mandelson-met-Gaddafis-son-Corfu-ahead-Lockerbie-bomber-release-talks.html
"Lord Mandelson faces the prospect of a sleaze investigation after he met Colonel Gaddafi's son days before it emerged that the Lockerbie bomber was to be freed."Now reports that the alleged bomber may be freed on compassionate grounds.
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Re:So...
There have been a certain number of arrests in circumstances that would be considered absurd in any other country:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4200952.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai#Zero_tolerance_drug_policy
I've been through Dubai and I did think it seemed quite strict, security-wise. They didn't do much more than X-ray most people but I wouldn't be at all surprised if you were to find some silly percentage in the 80-90s were "carrying drugs" if you use machinery as sensitive as they do.
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Re:Transparent? How is this government such?
Dissent isn't un-American. What Pelosi said was that drowning out the other side so that there cannot be any debate is un-American. I agree. The town hall protesters are not interested in a debate. They are showing up, and walking up within a few feet of the speaker to yell at them in a physically-threatening manner.
Mr. Gingrinch opines that Obama's health care plan has spectres of Nazism. Protesters promptly paint swastikas onto the door of politicians who support the plan and waive signs calling Obama a Nazi. A black politician received death threats, and references to himself and Obama as "niggers". They are standing outside of town hall meetings with guns strapped to their legs with a sign saying it's time to water the tree of liberty.
The protesters don't even have anything intelligent to say other than, "YOU'RE LYING TO ME!" and "YOU'RE A BUNCH OF SOCIALISTS." That's not debate. That's a hateful mob trying to rule by intimidation. Look up videos of these confrontations. It's freaking terrifying. Tell me that's American.
For more fun, look up how Republicans and conservatives freely called Democrats un-American or anti-American. For fuck's sake, a few months ago, Republican Senator Inhofe called Obama "un-American" for opposing the war in Iraq. A speech is un-American but showing up threatening physical force and painting swastikas is not?
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Re:The thing that no one ever thinks of..
CCTV all over the place
I love this part. You lot have video cameras recording every innocuous moment of your lives, except when it involves the police, whereby the video suddenly, consistently, gets "lost".
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Re:Technical details?
Does anyone have any technical details on how this was achieved?
I guess you aren't familiar with the Daily Mail, they are usually quite thin on details. Great at hyperbole though!
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Security concerns of social nets not trivial
Consider the networking software law enforcement uses to create charts of the relationships of bad guys. Such software is, in a manner of speaking, like the reciprocal of a networking site. When you aggregate a person's friends you have much of use about the private person, that is, the real person. In a networking site the network of contacts is fully exposed instead of being teased out of investigative data. Things that are usually hard to find out about a person are made very easy.
Soldiers are by nature involved in many classified things. A person's social site contacts can tell the thoughtful investigator (this time a bad guy) much. They could expose compromising relationships. Or questionable activities. Even the appearance of impropriety might give a bad guy undue leverage. Look at this kerfuffle over the new MI6 chief And to think his wife posted with no privacy settings at all. Admittedly this was not compromising, just insecure, embarrassing, and possibly dangerous for her very own family. People with classified access should think long and hard about what they do with these admittedly appealing and engaging (for some) social networking resources.
On the other hand, having such a site makes life very easy for security clearance investigators and potential employers.
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And Now, The Vocational Gudance Counselor Sketch..
Counselor: Well I now have the results here of the interviews and the aptitude tests that you took last week, and from them we've built up a pretty clear picture of the sort of person that you are. And 1 think I can say, without fear of contradiction, that the ideal job for you is chartered accountancy.
Mr. Anchovy: But I am a chartered accountant.
Counselor: Jolly good. Well back to the office with you then.
University, despite it's commercial perversion in the years since 1980, is not a trade school.
Although a key to gainful, professional employment may be a classic liberal education, it does not therefore stand that the objective of this education is commercial marketability of graduates. Nor is the measure of education's success the commercial placement of these graduates.
The "liberal" in the term "Liberal Education" refers to it's breadth and fullness of development. This is as opposed to the vocational training of a specific skill-set, solely focused towards career placement.
I have not reviewed this plaintiff's transcript, but I would not be suprised to discover that she showed only cursory interest in those aspects of her education, which did not seem destined to provide professional remuneration. She may well have "chuffed this off", as uninteresting and irrelevant. I have witnessed this myself - especially in younger, contemporary University students:
"Why do I have to learn about Charlemagne!? Who cares!"
Well, I needn't bother to refute the type of vapid ignorance and pathetic intellectual narcissism represented by that incurious statement. Persons of such a view do not belong in Graduate education. They are unlikely to be happy with the institution, nor successful in academic outcome.
Me? I was a monster at my A-Level, then declined the universities for the immediate lure of slacking-off in cafes and night clubs. With a lifelong academic for one parent, I'd understood my temperament would not result in satisfaction on either the part of the school or myself.
Counselor: Er, well, Mr. Anchovy
Mr. Anchovy: A what?
Counselor: An anteater. Not a lion. You see a lion is a huge savage beast, about five feet high, ten feet long, weighing about four hundred pounds, running forty miles per hour, with masses of sharp pointed teeth and nasty long razor-sharp claws that can rip your belly open before you can say 'Eric Robinson', and they look like this. http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_01/LionBAR0602_468x393.jpg
