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Oh, they have no idea how big a mistake they've made.

Firstly, they're now newsworthy, and the persons in question have their pictures plastered all over the place, and the Google Controversy gets a heading in the Wikipedia page on the village. For people preferring privacy, I'm rather surprised they appear happy to have their pictures, names, and even professions indicated in the papers.

Secondly, there are probably 10x as many people zooming in on Broughton Village using Google Earth in map view now, and they know the area is apparently ripe for burglary.

And, finally, inevitably, a host of people are already planning to drop by, take their own pictures of Broughton Village. From there they'll probably geotag them, and make them generally available to fill in the gaps in Street View.

Broughton Village vs. Google Street View car: Broughton Village wins! Broughton Village vs. the Internet: epic fail.

Each resident should have just quietly sent a message to Google rather than pulling this stunt.

Oh, they have no idea how big a mistake they've made.

Firstly, they're now newsworthy, and the persons in question have their pictures plastered all over the place, and the Google Controversy gets a heading in the Wikipedia page on the village. For people preferring privacy, I'm rather surprised they appear happy to have their pictures, names, and even professions indicated in the papers.

Secondly, there are probably 10x as many people zooming in on Broughton Village using Google Earth in map view now, and they know the area is apparently ripe for burglary.

And, finally, inevitably, a host of people are already planning to drop by, take their own pictures of Broughton Village. From there they'll probably geotag them, and make them generally available to fill in the gaps in Street View.

Broughton Village vs. Google Street View car: Broughton Village wins! Broughton Village vs. the Internet: epic fail.

Each resident should have just quietly sent a message to Google rather than pulling this stunt.

Oh, they have no idea how big a mistake they've made.

Firstly, they're now newsworthy, and the persons in question have their pictures plastered all over the place, and the Google Controversy gets a heading in the Wikipedia page on the village. For people preferring privacy, I'm rather surprised they appear happy to have their pictures, names, and even professions indicated in the papers.

Secondly, there are probably 10x as many people zooming in on Broughton Village using Google Earth in map view now, and they know the area is apparently ripe for burglary.

And, finally, inevitably, a host of people are already planning to drop by, take their own pictures of Broughton Village. From there they'll probably geotag them, and make them generally available to fill in the gaps in Street View.

Broughton Village vs. Google Street View car: Broughton Village wins! Broughton Village vs. the Internet: epic fail.

Each resident should have just quietly sent a message to Google rather than pulling this stunt.

Right, because his predecessor was sooooo much better at this sort of thing, huh?

Spare me your sour grapes, and suck it up. Apparently your candidate lost, and now all you can do is complain about very unimportant and petty things, that's sad.

There is no need to preserve everything. A good random selection will tell us a lot. Unfortunately, a lot of what gets preserved is not random. The La Brea tar pits are so valuable because they probably captured a good cross section of the fauna at the time, big and small.

Here's another example. There are many relics of the American Civil war. There are lots of ceremonial pistols and uniforms covered in gold braid. I am told there are no surviving examples of a private's uniform from either side. Demobbed soldiers used them to do the gardening, then to lag pipes or as floor cloths. Fortunately we have pictures.

Take the Roman occupation of Britain. We knew perhaps the names of 50 people who were involved with this, and they were all generals and politicians. Often what they reported was cleaned up to be a part of an official history. Then someone came across a lost bag of Roman mail. Now we know the names of hundreds of people, and something about how they lived...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-508044/They-came-saw--asked-new-underpants.html

It is hard to know what the future would like us to preserve. Nevertheless, I think they would rather have a complete log of Slashdot with all the postings in context for a month then just the bare titles and articles for years.

It's seems the UK government is constantly trying to do some and more to stop it's citizens having any kind of privacy.

Privacy? That really depends on who you are. If you're a "nobody" then expect none, but if you're the rich and powerful that set the bullsh*t laws then you hold all the aces on privacy. From The Daily Mail newspaper

Google was at the centre of new controversy last night after pictures of Tony Blair's London home were mysteriously removed from its Street View web service. Images of the House of Commons, the entrance to Downing Street and several Government departments were also blacked out. And it also emerged that Google's own boss in the UK does not have his London house on Street View.

However, Hawkins was a genius even before his ALS got bad, and on average the benefits from avoiding ALS in the first place exceed any theoretical gains. For that matter, it's likely that we'll lose Hawking early, compared to if he was healthy. As for ATP production, does having it be more efficient at the cost of MD make it worth it? Looking at animal life - these are traits that get selected out quickly and efficiently by nature. By nature bad mutations pop up far more frequently than good ones, but the weeding of natural selection promptly removes the bad ones(on average).

I'm not saying that we don't do a thorough workup, it's just that there are any number of hereditary diseases that don't actually have a benefit. Heck - for sickle cell it might be a benefit to simply make sure that no new babies have the double recessive trait. There might be some other recessive diseases that one copy would actually provide some benefits, such as 'Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome' aka 'double muscle'. A double copy turns average joe into an involuntary Mr. Universe, a single copy makes it possible. Overall the double copy is negative because it produces so much muscle it over strains the body - the heart and other organs remain normal sized. But with today's sedentary society, a mild case might actually help.

Still, on average I'd say that we actually already DO know, at some point we can say 'For disorder X, there are no discernible benefits, even for the latent/recessive gene'. There's a whole host of genetic defects that can be classed this way.

Yes, think of the snakes! What will they eat now?

There have been studies on the links between social networking and depression. I totally agree with you, it's a letdown when you realize you aren't nearly important as you think you are. SRC: ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1132788/Why-chatting-long-Facebook-girl-down.html )

I can only imagine how quickly such a program would be brought down, especially given how much harder it would be to hide.

It'll start with "watching the insurgents", then move on to border patrol, then port patrol, then landmarks and other "vulnerable" targets, then major cities, then they'll be everywhere.
(See UAV)

Then the plebs will eventually forget what it was like to live without ubiquitous surveillance.

How about.... http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_05/apeMS2604_800x575.jpg I think it was just mimicry not understanding the purpose of what he was doing but still a cool shot.

I also read a journal once about I believe an orangutan that was involved in a study. It had a serious soap eating addiction. One day it escaped from the lab and stole a canoe type boat, used its hands to paddle and made it across the stream where some native people washed clothes every day and stole some soap. I don't know how much forethought or planning this shows. But it clearly demonstrates intelligence and persistence ability to use very complex tools and so on.

Having your bank's own bank accounts frozen by a foreign power (the main reason Iceland's collapsing so fast) probably does count as "completely unexpected"...

But it appears that Iceland was not completely blameless, as the seizure was prompted by the announcement that U.K. depositors' money would not be guaranteed.

So, while each MCP or MCP's customer may not bear the sole blame for their situation, collectively, what happened was not totally "outside their control", yet another condition necessary to invoke force majeure.

But then, I'm not a lawyer, so maybe in some legal jurisdictions bad government (or national bank; I don't know how Iceland works) policy/announcement is treated like an "Act of God", though God may take offense at that.

The problem is that they didn't do this. They just jump straight to the scare tactic of saying you will die if you play video games.

No they didn't. This campaign has been running since the new year, and they started with telling you how to modify your lifestyle in a positive way. They used no scare tactics, favouring a utopian vision. I'm guessing this resort to standard NHS tactics* means it didn't work.

Besides, I think we have to face the truth here. Gaming to the exclusion of exercise is unhealthy, this campaign has a reasonable point. Denying this makes Slashdotters look like oil executives denying global warming by straw-manning the opposition.

"Oh, so the advert campaign is saying that if you play games you'll certainly die right away! How stupid!" +5 Insightful.

The point of the campaign is that a sedentary lifestyle is harmful to your health, which is true! The self-deluded rage expressed in the summary is moronic.

*I wish it didn't have to be the Daily Mail, but they had the best example.

Adult stem cell research is only at a nascent stage though, primarily because you had biomedical researchers acting like children in the US and elsewhere that banned embryonic stem cell research. Some went abroad but many railed against the "substitute" stem cells claiming for purposes of research or therapy they were inferior or even worthless and refused to work on adult stem cell research out of "principle". Adult stem cells can in fact be manipulated to acting like embryonic stem cells and in fact offer a far more likely therapeutic target since they can be derived from the person receiving treatment. There are now some emerging theories that tie the malfunction of adult (somatic) stem cells to things like cancer, type II diabetes and even some muscular degenerative diseases. These are the sort of things that we can realistically solve with stem cell research and it does not matter which kind, so why would they use embryonic stem cells? To us pro-lifers out there on the left this is a further dehumanization of human life and is inexcusable on both scientific and moral grounds. No embryonic stem cell research has ever produced a viable therapy but adult stem cells have.

Shame on Barack Obama for being morally indifferent to human life and scientifically illiterate on this issue.

Actually the Daily Mail review had this

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1159801/Watchmen-Superheroes-sick-slick.html

It's supremely tasteless, too: a pregnant woman is shot in the stomach by one of our superhero protagonists; two more of them laugh about a man being thrown down a lift shaft; a man is burned alive with cooking fat by a fourth; and a six-year-old girl is torn apart by dogs.

Watchmen is unwatchable - a grotesque squandering of time, talent and technology.

This despicable trash will find an audience among sad sociopaths, deranged pseudo-intellectuals and brutalised, immature men of all ages. I just hope that there aren't enough of them to make it a hit. If there are, God help cinema.

Yeah, I know Daily Mail sucks. But if the first paragraph is accurate, I'd tend to agree with the last one too. Hell it's a fair summary of the sort of people who like movies like Sin City.

Which does actually come from the Daily Fail, but none the less is a source of concern

But how else will we hear stories of the Australian who locked his daughter up in the cellar for years? *ducks*

That was AUSTRIA

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-562377/Pictured-Inside-cellar-father-locked-daughter-24-years-repeatedly-raped-her.html

Not for Jack Tweed See story .

They're attempting to push through a law to put cameras in anywhere you buy booze. Just small steps, small itty bitty steps. Sure makes me wonder when the UK is going to wake up, one time many years ago I considered it a nice place to maybe want to travel and live in.

The cops also get watched on the CCTV cameras -- this can go a long way toward ensuring that they stay in line,

Do you seriously believe this? citation

Like this knob on television?

Hydroponics
(Apogee) Dwarf Wheat
Thanet Earth (Guardian)
Thanet Earth (Daily Mail)
Eurofresh: in inhospitable Wilcox, AZ
Eurofresh: Air-Conditioning Greenhouses
Vertical Farm Project

Artifical light growth rates in a controlled environment (Omega Garden; also a good example of what growing indoors looks like--it's not hard to imagine a blocky wharehouse filled with these, unlikely the fanciful design in the article):

CFL (6 Kilowatts per Hour (KWH))
2 week total: 1646.4 KWH to produce 2160 units of Lettuce
Per Lettuce Unit = 0.76 KWH

LED (0.48 Kilowatt)
2 week total: 171 KWH to produce 2160 units of Lettuce
Per Lettuce Unit = 0.079 KWH

You might want to tell this to the Brit's, all that fresh food they're eating must just be a figment of their imaginations.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1025689/Welcome-Thanet-Earth-The-biggest-greenhouse-Britain-unveiled.html

Yeah, it'll be fine to have this kind of internet once they start putting drugs like these in to the food chain.

The notion that passport RFIDs contain a copy of the passport info seems beyond the pale, that is, too stupid to be true.

Sure! While light on tech details, it IS a starting reference point.

only outlaws will have batleths...

The U.K. has been fighting the Klingon horde for many a fortnight already.
Interpol should contact inspector Mac McGarry, he's got relevant expertise.

Clearly, you're being ironic, but you cannot out-irony the authorities.

a robot snake swallow whole an injured soldier, and poop out the same soldier completely healed :D

Or it can just come back out the way it went in.

It's all a myth anyway, according to the Daily Mail. Richard Littlejohn said so, and he knows more than all those "scientists" combined!

There was a case late last year when a reputable reporter recognized a police officer she had talked to in amongst the protestors at an anti-war demonstration trying to incite people to breach police lines and physically harass officers.

That's a very serious allegation. Could you post a reputable source?

The original article from the Daily Mail has now expired but you can find an account of the incident in numerous places if you search for it. The reporter was Yasmin Whittaker-Khan who writes for the Daily Mail, one of the UK's largest papers. The story was here and the incident took place on the 15th June '08 during protests against George Bush. The reporter recognised a particularly loud and agitating protestor who was trying to get people to charge the police lines, trying to get people chanting "kill the pigs" and in one instance showed a protestor how to decouple the police barricade and got him to help throw it at an officer. She had actually talked to him at a press function where he had been representing them on some subject (I forget what). She confronted him, he admitted who he was. The officer's name was "Chris Dreyfus." If you want to know how reputable this story is, a UK MP wrote to the police about this. The MP's letter is here and contains further details.

I have more anecdotal and second-hand evidence from people, but this is the only established source I can provide in the UK (there are plenty of incidents verified in other countries also). However, it's pretty clear from the above that this takes place and it is a very serious matter.

I have no idea why the parent post was modded "Troll"?? This is what concerns me more than anything. The Daily Fail will sensationalise anything, and unfortunately it's read by a lot of old people and a lot of people who are marginally too intelligent to read The Sun but not intelligent enough to realise the Daily Mail is no better. People who will turn out in record numbers to vote for any legislation that will hang hoodies and expel immigrants.

Light bulbs...not a particularly sensational story right? Wrong. Apparently. My grandad now believes it's every citizen's right to be able to buy "traditional" light bulbs, especially as those new-fangled light bulbs can give you The Skin Cancer!

The 70 and 80 year olds around today may have fought in the war, but they didn't know why. They were at war with The Hun and that's about as far as there understanding of world-politics ever went. "The 60s" as you say, was an era of love and peace, but think about all the 25-40 year olds who couldn't shirk responsibilities like work and family to discover theirselves. While Mary Quant was stirring up the Kings Road, and The Beatles were visiting the Maharaja, they were working to put food on the table. So the dissonance between those two things is actually quite easy to understand. And don't forget, anyone over 18 between 1939 and 1952 will have had to carry an ID Card, as they see it, if you have nothing to hide, then why should you have anything to fear?

I have no idea why the parent post was modded "Troll"?? This is what concerns me more than anything. The Daily Fail will sensationalise anything, and unfortunately it's read by a lot of old people and a lot of people who are marginally too intelligent to read The Sun but not intelligent enough to realise the Daily Mail is no better. People who will turn out in record numbers to vote for any legislation that will hang hoodies and expel immigrants.

Light bulbs...not a particularly sensational story right? Wrong. Apparently. My grandad now believes it's every citizen's right to be able to buy "traditional" light bulbs, especially as those new-fangled light bulbs can give you The Skin Cancer!

The 70 and 80 year olds around today may have fought in the war, but they didn't know why. They were at war with The Hun and that's about as far as there understanding of world-politics ever went. "The 60s" as you say, was an era of love and peace, but think about all the 25-40 year olds who couldn't shirk responsibilities like work and family to discover theirselves. While Mary Quant was stirring up the Kings Road, and The Beatles were visiting the Maharaja, they were working to put food on the table. So the dissonance between those two things is actually quite easy to understand. And don't forget, anyone over 18 between 1939 and 1952 will have had to carry an ID Card, as they see it, if you have nothing to hide, then why should you have anything to fear?

I have no idea why the parent post was modded "Troll"?? This is what concerns me more than anything. The Daily Fail will sensationalise anything, and unfortunately it's read by a lot of old people and a lot of people who are marginally too intelligent to read The Sun but not intelligent enough to realise the Daily Mail is no better. People who will turn out in record numbers to vote for any legislation that will hang hoodies and expel immigrants.

Light bulbs...not a particularly sensational story right? Wrong. Apparently. My grandad now believes it's every citizen's right to be able to buy "traditional" light bulbs, especially as those new-fangled light bulbs can give you The Skin Cancer!

The 70 and 80 year olds around today may have fought in the war, but they didn't know why. They were at war with The Hun and that's about as far as there understanding of world-politics ever went. "The 60s" as you say, was an era of love and peace, but think about all the 25-40 year olds who couldn't shirk responsibilities like work and family to discover theirselves. While Mary Quant was stirring up the Kings Road, and The Beatles were visiting the Maharaja, they were working to put food on the table. So the dissonance between those two things is actually quite easy to understand. And don't forget, anyone over 18 between 1939 and 1952 will have had to carry an ID Card, as they see it, if you have nothing to hide, then why should you have anything to fear?

I have no idea why the parent post was modded "Troll"?? This is what concerns me more than anything. The Daily Fail will sensationalise anything, and unfortunately it's read by a lot of old people and a lot of people who are marginally too intelligent to read The Sun but not intelligent enough to realise the Daily Mail is no better. People who will turn out in record numbers to vote for any legislation that will hang hoodies and expel immigrants.

Light bulbs...not a particularly sensational story right? Wrong. Apparently. My grandad now believes it's every citizen's right to be able to buy "traditional" light bulbs, especially as those new-fangled light bulbs can give you The Skin Cancer!

The 70 and 80 year olds around today may have fought in the war, but they didn't know why. They were at war with The Hun and that's about as far as there understanding of world-politics ever went. "The 60s" as you say, was an era of love and peace, but think about all the 25-40 year olds who couldn't shirk responsibilities like work and family to discover theirselves. While Mary Quant was stirring up the Kings Road, and The Beatles were visiting the Maharaja, they were working to put food on the table. So the dissonance between those two things is actually quite easy to understand. And don't forget, anyone over 18 between 1939 and 1952 will have had to carry an ID Card, as they see it, if you have nothing to hide, then why should you have anything to fear?

This is certainly true in the UK. As long as it has all the correct information on they will cash it. However, who you are paying could turn round and charge you extra for "handling and processing". That's exactly what happened to this gentleman who paid his parking fine (in protest) via a cheque written on toilet paper;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1096553/Payment-loo-Toilet-paper-cheque-lands-man-court.html

The courts accepted the payment, but wanted another £15 to process it.

Just to follow up - the "plastic sword" thing isn't completely a joke:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084886/Rambo-student-charged-possessing-inch-plastic-knife-case-dropped.html

Tim.

Really? Even in the UK?

In ten or twenty years, it will be a very real question where the burden of proof is to lie: Should the prosecution have to prove child abuse (as criminal law normally demands)? Or should owners or producers of such images have to prove it is an artificially rendered image (on the side of caution)? Or should the content, real or artificial, be banned completely because, well, "ew, you sicko"?

Unfortunately, the only debate that people pushing these laws are concerned with is on the last of those questions.

There might be an argument to say that with realistic images, the burden of it being fake is on the defendant. But typically, laws on fake child porn do not even allow such a defence! Sure, supporters of the law will claim the difficulty of proving guilt as a reason, but they'll never allow such a defence in law, despite the fact that such a law would already be biased against the defendant.

And then with laws on non-realistic images, as in this case, the question of it involving actual children is irrelevant - that clearly isn't the case.

Note, there's no reason to wait ten or twenty years. It's been possible to construct realistic faked images for years - just a simple copy and paste, for example, although Photoshop allows for more advanced methods.

What will likely be more of an issue is people role-playing sexual acts in online games, where one of them uses a model that might appear under 18. But given how doing this in Second Life with non-realistic graphics is already causing people to call for criminalisation on non-realistic images (e.g., in the UK: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/13/pedo_art_illegal/ , http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022387/Cartoon-style-child-sex-abuse-images-banned-MPs-close-paedophile-loophole.html ), I think it's clear their concern is not the abuse of children.

Don't get me wrong, freedom of expression is important. But so is the safety of children. This is not just some nanny-state legislature about whether the word "fuck" can be said in public.

A false dichotomy. How on earth does anything you have said relate to non-realistic images that clearly did not involve actual children?

You mean the pagan holiday with the lights and the tree and the gift giving that the Christians stole? Because Easter(Ishtar) and Christmas(Winter Solstice) are both as pagan as you can get. The Christians in the Catholic church didn't even bother changing the traditions, they just stuck some made up Christian reasons for doing them. BTW, just FYI, Jesus was born in June, during the Roman tax census IIRC.

Now to TFA, I don't know who made the voting machines we used this year in AR(not Diebold because these actually work) but IMHO they really need to roll these out nationwide. It was truly a pleasure to vote this year. In fact the entire process was so friendly and orderly and voter efficient it is a shame they don't just copy it nationwide, as it makes it truly nice to vote. Who would have thought AR would be ahead of the curve in something?

Anyway I walk in and everything is nice and neat with 5 machines and an orderly line. Before I even get a chance to vote I'm already impressed by the way they handled voters who went to the wrong polling place. Instead of sending them all over town trying to find the right place an election official asked them to set aside for a moment and he would get on his cell after finding out which district they voted last in and have them transferred. Those that showed up in the wrong place only had an extra 5 minute wait before being allowed to vote with everyone else. Very nice. Then I get up to the machine and you could tell some serious thought went into this one. A large screen with a big round blue circle that you would touch to choose your candidate or position, and when you made your choice a large pop up would read "We believe you wish to vote for...Is this correct? If not please push the green cancel button to the left of this message" and when you confirmed a large, easy to read printout would scroll up under a glass plate to the left of the screen, so you could easily look down and make sure the machine was putting down your choice. Very nice. Then when you were finished the machine would blink and a volunteer would collect the electronic vote with this cartridge and the paper ballot. Then the ballot was placed into a box and the electronic vote was placed on the table with the election officials for use with the next voter.

The entire process took less than 10 minutes and made voting truly a pleasure. Volunteers were offering coffee and donuts to those waiting in line and were just as friendly and helpful as could be. I only wish all government dealings could be as friendly and efficient as voting was this year. And this year there weren't any "surprises" and the election results went pretty much exactly what the polls taken the week before had said they were going to be. So all in all I was quite happy with the machines this year and only wish that everyone could have as nice an experience voting as I did. On and Merry Xmas!

You naysayers and pessimists! How about instead looking around and seeing a company that still gives a Christmas bonus to it's employees - and congratulate them.

I don't see why congratulations are in order. Many of those christmas bonuses are undeserved and paid for by taxpayers.

In Germany the cameras blur the person on the right seat.
And then one can do this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1081607/Speeding-puppet-seat-British-car-makes-muppets-German-police.html

The researchers weren't quite sure where the wreck was on the ocean floor, but the Navy suggested that they have special-purpose sonar that's really, really good at finding lengths of cable, and would that help?

What they should have been asking was why was the navy volunteering in the first place?

It's pretty impressive that Facebook has been able to grow so quickly and handle so much traffic. Their down time has been pretty insignificant related to the sheer number of requests that blow through their servers every day.

There's probably a thing or two that can be learned from their developers and IT folks. I just wish I knew more about the whole underlying structure so I could appreciate exactly what they've done.

Well, call me cynical but the things that interest me about Facebook are what has gone wrong. Like hackers selling account details for pennies. This is the end result:

The scam works by a victim clicking on a spam link that appears to be coming from one of their Facebook friends or someone in their address book which lodges spyware in their machine. This then records all the information, including passwords, when they log in to various sites.

The passwords can then be sent on to money-laundering gangs who use them to infiltrate users' bank accounts.

While this is true of any other networking site, I think this severe security issue needs to be address successfully one of these days.

All I've seen Facebook do to remedy this is explain how to clean it off your computer.

I fear for the millions of homes where a kid logs onto Facebook, gets mail from Timmy. Clicks the link, finds nothing and leave. Mom and dad log into their online banking/credit card statement later that night and ... it's only a matter of time.

Recently, a guy sleepwalked to death from his hotel room balcony:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3727373/Briton-sleepwalks-to-his-death-off-hotel-balcony.html

and another guy was acquitted of rape because of sleepwalking:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1085927/How-man-raped-cleared-sleepwalking.html

You may joke, but read major newspapers these days about Mumbai. Gone are the word "terrorists." They are replaced by "militants", "practitioners", "gunmen", "alleged gunmen" despite the photo to prove it.

The BBC avoid the use of the word "terrorist" in some cases because it is a can of worms. Sure, 9/11 may obviously and reasonably referred to as terrorism, but it gets sticky when you are reporting about bombings and fighting around the world, where it is not clear about the legitimacy or justification of such acts. Not everything is black and white. As stated at http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/advice/terrorismlanguage/ourapproach.shtml : "The use of the words can imply judgement where there is no clear consensus about the legitimacy of militant political groups."

BBC even admits their bias for Islam.

I might have more respect if you weren't referencing the Daily Mail, who whinge that atheists criticise and upset Christians. As an atheist, I'll gladly criticise religious beliefs equally, but the Daily Mail think that offending Muslims is fine, but heaven forbid you say something that Christians don't like.

You may joke, but read major newspapers these days about Mumbai. Gone are the word "terrorists." They are replaced by "militants", "practitioners", "gunmen", "alleged gunmen" despite the photo to prove it.

On newspapers with liberal leaning, you don't hear about Islamic terrorism or Islamofascists. You don't hear muslims in connection to a negative story. They are replaced with "youths", "North African" or "Asians" to the offence of all non-muslim, non-Pakistani Asians to be lumped with them (yeah, lumping them with Chinese, Koreans, Japanese altogether ain't racism). They have have a guideline to discourage the word "terrorist."

BBC even admits their bias for Islam.

The UK has significantly less fatalities from road traffic accidents compared to most Western countries.

Further, the government says only 3% of road deaths are a direct result of speeding.. so no.. not "a large part" at all.

Yes, you're right. a load of fat fucks who never get injured are far braver than stuff like this:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_03/BreakPA_468x303.jpg
http://www2.hoahoctro.vn/Upload/20071003/David%20Busst.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d145/MickyHatton/cisse.jpg

You obviously live in a cave, or a jail, or in the ghetto (hmm, mac davis). Clones are here, and living amongst us. You can't tell them from regulars except by the lack of a belly button.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/17/article-1086567-027B7FE0000005DC-361_233x553.jpg

is an example of a clone. Notice the lack of a belly button.

See this is the myth that still permiates much of socity and their way of thinking. What you and many others are not realising is you don't have to be important to be followed around 24/7. The government is doing this to average people. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-559123/Why-earth-Stasi-state-spying-families.html [quote]Fast-forward to 2008, and we discover that those same laws have been used for surveillance of a family in Dorset whose only "crime" was to want the best for their youngest child. They were spied on by their local council, on suspicion of falsifying their address to get their daughter into the popular local primary school. [/quote] These people and many others were followed around 24/7 and they had intrusive surveillence, there every moment was recored. Closed the curtains, went to the door, etc. So please stop permiating the myth. This is happening to a lot of people who are not important, and it was used for things like anit-social behaviour and dog fouling, or putting out the trash on days you should not have. Some were tracked for months in this way.