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What more could you fucking want?

A nice 15 year old scotch and a hamburger would suffice I think.

Treasure any 15 yo single malt scotch whilst you still can...

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/n...

Strange, vertical fins do... oh yeah, all the foam.. There should be lots of that kind of stuff floating around somewhere. Guess we can't reveal our capabilities of spotting stuff that easily. I mean, what does it matter? They're all dead anyway, right? Everybody please, just go home and accept your loss. You're asking too many impertinent questions.

I wish it was that simple:

http://www.grough.co.uk/magazi...

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/n...

you need to read this then http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/n...

I'm no Bitcoin apologist (couldn't care less either way). However -

"Scots cafe becomes first to accept online currency Bitcoin as payment

13 Jan 2014 00:01
THE Brooklyn Cafe, in Glasgow's Shawlands, is the first restaurant in Scotland to allow customers to settle their bills using the internet-based digital currency system, which is faster than using traditional debit or credit card."

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-cafe-becomes-first-accept-3015672

Not to mention he married a former's doctor's daughter (who happened to play his daughter on screen).

Sigmund Freud would have a field day with that.

Not to mention he married a former's doctor's daughter (who happened to play his daughter on screen).

The page that box links to is missing as well.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/cookies/

This guy is generally despised in the UK. In fact when he was caught making his obscene calls and the BBC was fined by Ofcom because of it he said "All I ever wanted to do was make people laugh".

Well Russell, start when you're ready.

Please don't post links to the Daily Mail website, you're not helping our colonial friends in any way by posting links to their bland, lying, untrue, overblown, one-sided shite.

We should point out that the Daily Mail is to good printed journalism as Fox News is to good television journalism. I wouldn't wipe my arse with torn up copies of the daily mail, the ink comes off the paper too easily.

This guy is generally despised in the UK. In fact when he was caught making his obscene calls and the BBC was fined by Ofcom because of it he said "All I ever wanted to do was make people laugh".

Well Russell, start when you're ready.

So now Britain has private police. Do they have private prisons like they do here in the US? How soon until the court system there goes private as well?

Yes they do.

They work just like this where the guards sit back and relax whilst watching a prisoner being murdered from the safety of their CCTV system.

That may be the case where you live, but in the UK, wind power depends on subsidies to exist at all. In fact on top of the subsidies, we've been paying wind farms to NOT produce electricity. The trouble is our peak demand for energy is in winter, when we have a large stable high pressure zone over the UK, leading to very cold clear conditions, and that same high pressure zone means no wind. Hence wind farms are almost useless when they're needed most, but producing power when it's not needed. Until economically viable ways of storing energy from wind farms is found, they'll never be economically viable in the UK, and such storage appears to be a long way off at the moment.

You don't need to specifically call for one of those around here. It just happens naturally, a bit like that scene in the 1978 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".

What, so it's acceptable for a paedophile to look at these images so long as they don't store them or make them available to others? That's not the case anywhere else, I don't see why this should be an exception..

Also, what's to say that they won't take snap shots on their mobile phones - it's not like there's no precedent for that kind of thing, and if this guy is (as they suggested on the news a few weeks ago) in a room on his own to "ensure privacy", he's pretty much free to do whatever he wants.

Gopherspace is becoming too cluttered up with people.

That's not true. Sometimes it misses, and will come back at you again and again. It's the telemarketer that won't take no for an answer.

The "walking on water" story was reported here:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=1764 6670&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=miracle-is- sunk--name_page.html

Who knows if it's true?

It seems the Telegraph may have got it' wires crossed.

even funnier... theres a six bladed one coming out real soon with the extra blade on the reverse for trimming the hard to get areas under your nose and doing the bottom of your sideburns with...

We have obscenity laws on the books, right now, that are being used to prosecute citizens of the U.S. for exercising their dear 1st amendment rights. We have "free speech zones" outside of which protest is illegal. By comparison, some of the EU member states have laws against hate speech.

First, here's the 2004 list: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11716
2005 should be coming out soon. Comparing the 2002 and 2004, the US has improved some, some european countries are a bit worse than before. Then you have some EU countries that are way below the US.

Best I can say is this. I have yet to see a successful prosecution under those "obsenity" laws in the US, most of the laws being struck down as unconstitutional under the 1st amendment quite quickly. Notice that Larry Flint and Hugh Hefner, among others, are not in jail. The only ones I have heard of lately with this happening to generally deal with sites that have been accused of having either minors or kiddy porn on them. If you can provide a link on one that is about a straight porn site, please provide it, along with any reasons the FBI/DA are providing for the reason.

The EU states have, aside from hate speech you can include a chunk of things having to deal with WWII in germany that, while not hate speech directly, is hate speech related. One other thing that is interesting are their libel/slander laws. Burden of proof is put on the defendant not the plantif.

Back to the US, the "free speech zones" as you reference them is somewhat missleading. They are only setup during major events and used as a way to keep the events flowing smoothly. As has been said, you can say whatever you want, but you can't force people to listen. If someone rents out an area for use, they should be able to deny access to that area to anyone they want to. I'd put it in the same category as keeping abortion protesters a minimum distance away from abortion clinics (usually across the street). If we want to depate the pros and cons of them, that is one thing. But they are essentially set up to keep the protesters away from those who don't want them around them. I seem to recall Richard Stallman complaining a few weeks ago about being ejected from an airport where he tried to publicize something. The Hare Krishna group have been pretty much barred from airports for similar reasons. Here's something similar from the UK. I'd personally say that it is more a point of controlling access to an area in most cases rather than limiting free speech. However, the ones where there are permanent ones I would say are another matter. Basically I see temporary ones for special events as crowd control and permanent ones as problems. Again, we can discuss the pros and cons of them if you want.

The main reason according to the 2002 report that the US is "so low" is:
Arrests are often because they refuse to reveal their sources in court. Also, since the 11 September attacks, several journalists have been arrested for crossing security lines at some official buildings. (Different complaints for the 2004 report)
The first reason is debatable. I have no problem with ones similar to the "Pentagon Papers". I do have problems with ones similar to the revealing of undercover CIA agents or other things of a similar nature, especially when it can/does get people killed. In WWII reporters were revealing what our military was going to be doing and the germans were reading the papers to find out. That got a lot of people killed. Also, it was said during the gulf war that Sadam Husein didn't need inteligence ops, he just needed to watch CNN. Th

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While I may not like racist speach, it is still a restriction on what you can say. Last time I checked I could call another person in the US anything I liked without getting arrested.

Actually the only cut in the Honda cog is at the exhaust (muffler) section when it rolls across the floor (because they couldn't fit all the components in), apart from that and the 606 takes later, its all real, we discussed this here when the advert was first released

Of course the big hoo-haa was Honda (or their agency) was taking all the credit and collecting numerous prestigous creative awards when they (or their ad company) blatently "borrowed" the idea from Rube Goldberg's "Lauf der Dinge" (the way things go) without giving any credit to Rube, all while giving some bullshit story about being inspired by Mousetrap (the board game) if you see Rube's film (1987) you will see the plagiarism for yourself.
I guess Picasso was right ? "good artists copy, great artists steal"

That is, award winning multi million dollar production companies certainly do.

I can't get to the original article site, but someone on the S@H boards says this is a copy. I cannot verify that, but here's the text.

The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service

Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away

19:00 01 September 04

Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues.

In February 2003, astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial
intelligence (SETI) pointed the massive radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto
Rico, at around 200 sections of the sky.

The same telescope had previously detected unexplained radio signals at least
twice from each of these regions, and the astronomers were trying to reconfirm
the findings. The team has now finished analysing the data, and all the signals
seem to have disappeared. Except one, which has got stronger.

This radio signal, now seen on three separate occasions, is an enigma. It could
be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon. Or it could be
something much more mundane, maybe an artefact of the telescope itself.

But it also happens to be the best candidate yet for a contact by intelligent
aliens in the nearly six-year history of the SETI@home project, which uses
programs running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to
sift through signals picked up by the Arecibo telescope.

Absorb and emit

“It’s the most interesting signal from SETI@home,” says Dan Werthimer, a radio
astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and the chief
scientist for SETI@home. “We’re not jumping up and down, but we are continuing
to observe it.”

Named SHGb02+14a, the signal has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz. This
happens to be one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common
element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy.

Some astronomers have argued that extraterrestrials trying to advertise their
presence would be likely to transmit at this frequency, and SETI researchers
conventionally scan this part of the radio spectrum.

SHGb02+14a seems to be coming from a point between the constellations Pisces
and Aries, where there is no obvious star or planetary system within 1000 light
years. And the transmission is very weak.

“We are looking for something that screams out ‘artificial’,” says UCB
researcher Eric Korpela, who completed the analysis of the signal in
April. “This just doesn’t do that, but it could be because it is distant.”

Unknown signature

The telescope has only observed the signal for about a minute in total, which
is not long enough for astronomers to analyse it thoroughly. But, Korpela
thinks it unlikely SHGb02+14a is the result of any obvious radio interference
or noise, and it does not bear the signature of any known astronomical object.

That does not mean that only aliens could have produced it. “It may be a
natural phenomenon of a previously undreamed-of kind like I stumbled over,”
says Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath, UK.

It was Bell Burnell who in 1967 noticed a pulsed radio signal which the
research team at the time thought was from extraterrestrials but which turned
out to be the first ever sighting of a pulsar.

There are other oddities. For instance, the signal’s frequency is drifting by
between eight to 37 hertz per second. “The signal is moving rapidly in
frequency and you would expect that to happen if you are looking at a
transmitter on a planet that’s rotating very rapidly and where the civilisation
is not c

What?. I think you need to change your signature. If there are no WMD, then there could not have been a binary chemical artillery shell filled with nearly a gallon of Sarin in Iraq. This was not an old shell either. Iraq didn't have binary chemical capabilities before the first Gulf War.

Sounds like a threat to our precious bodily fluids!

Actually, it sounds more like this guy.

I doubted this was true (the quality of the light is almost "too perfect") so I did a bit of looking around and found a little more about the production. Wow. (And it only took 606 takes.)

As someone else noted, there's one bit of CG work. Quoting the Daily Record Just one second of computer generation is used to link the two halves - when an exhaust pipe rolls across the floor.

OTOH, "The Way Things Go" is a single 30 minute take.

Not quite. They couldn't get the whole thing to run correctly in one take because the studio was too small, so they split it in half at the muffler and used CG to link the takes together. source

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As any French citizen (including myself) knows, French justice is completely fscked up. Check here. To be completely fair, at least the lawyers here are still half decent.

How's that free healthcare working out?I mean, the hospital I go to here in California has air conditioning...

Another simple Google search shows that every other article says the plane was an Airbus A321.

Speaking of records, I can't believe the article links to the Daily Record, arguably Scotlands worst news "publication". That just scares me.

I'm sorry, but that is one of the dumbest responses I have ever read. It's pretty obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about, but let me try to help.

if you have one apple, and you destroy that apple, how many apples do you have?

Once again, not even France is claiming to know where all of the weapons are. Hans Blix refers to large amounts of anthrax and Vx that are "unaccounted for." True, we know Saddam did use some against Iran (a number that was greatly inflated in the UN declaration, btw). He also used some chemical weapons against the Kurdish population in northern Iraq. He also destroyed some banned weapons in the presence of inspectors after the Gulf War. But there are a lot more that we just don't know what happened to them.

To put this in perspective, pre-Gulf War estimates were that Iraq had enough Anthrax to kill everybody on the planet 3 times. It is not trivial to destroy Anthrax, and so if it was destroyed, we should be able to easily verify it.

but they still haven't found any evidence to say that iraq still has any of their weapons

The burden of proof was on Saddam to account for the weapons we know he had. Are you suggesting that amid numerous UN resolutions, intense international scrutiny, and weapons inspections, Saddam decided to secretly destroy these weapons without documenting it?

watching the news last night, i didn't hear any reports of iraq firing any weapons at anyone, even though the air raid sirens went off 3 times in kuwait city.

Surprise, surprise. He still has banned missiles.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objecti d=12760939&method=full&siteid=89488
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2870941.stm
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topN ews&storyID=2423930

The British isles are a part of Europe, because, according to the insane EC they are not islands

Now THAT is what we call "Flawed Reasoning".

And more PC insanity here.