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You must be part of the 1% club. The rest of us who only make six figures can't afford garages. Silicon Valley is just too god damm expensive.

Anyone can have a garage anywhere. You just need to know how to make one.
Here's some examples you may emulate.
https://cml.sad.ukrd.com/image...
https://www.yorkmix.com/wp-con...

Poorly thought out attempts at garage-making.
http://news.images.itv.com/ima...
https://www.jdn.co.il/wp-conte...

This is how you do it, by the way.

http://news.images.itv.com/ima...

Did you try the royal commission? Enjoy your source. You can read the case on the trojan horse scandal when you're done.

If that's too long you can read this article right here.

While that article clearly shows the idiocy of the American public, it has been reported that a Facebook page registered with the family's postal address claimed links to the Taliban and al Qaeda.. http://www.itv.com/news/update... Could it be, as claimed, a former resident, or as it appears, a joke? It could be, but if the TSA discovered the page between when the ESTA was initially approved and the date of the flight, it may have been sufficient cause to deny entry. This is a major problem with these hidden no-fly and terrorist-watch lists: people can get on them by being pranked, and since you're not told why you're on the list, you can't readily get off.

It appears that there is a facebook page registered to the family's home address, claiming a work history of "supervisor at Taliban and Leader at Al-Qaeda" might possibly be related.

http://www.itv.com/news/update...

This is denied by the father, although suspiciously, the name "Hamza Hussain" in which the facebook page is registered, is the same as one of his son's.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/do...

The police of England, at least those in Leicestershire, scanned faces of every person who attended the Download Festival http://downloadfestival.co.uk/

Another source -- http://www.itv.com/news/2015-0...

Give me a single solid example - voter validation leaves a paper trail, so the evidence should be easy to come by.

Utter BS!

What paper trail? You walk in, say you are Joe Blow, live at a given street, make your mark and you get a ballot... the only way you know that this was done fraudulently is if the real Joe Blow comes in later to vote and told that he already did... which mathematically wouldn't always happen depending on how well a fraudulent voter picked their targets.

Want cases of people who were told they already voted? Here are a couple:
http://www.nbc12.com/story/199...
http://www.examiner.com/articl...
And even from Scotland: http://www.itv.com/news/update...

At the end of the day, so long as you keep your mouth shut (unlike this woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) you probably aren't going to get caught: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local... as you don't exactly see many cameras in polling stations synced up to when given names are scratches off as having voted.

This all assumes it's hard to get someone else's ballot, (spoiler: it isn't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You may joke, but there is a show on UK TV where you can win 10,000 GBP by standing on one leg. You barely need to have a functioning cerebral cortex to win big money on this show!

http://www.itv.com/thecube

As a matter of fact, the ship is already surrounded by penguins. What these mischievous beasts are up to can hardly be imagined...

Why do I even bother responding to this nonsense.

Cancer gets cured about once a decade, sometimes by real doctors, sometimes by "quacks." I could show stats from real doctors with similar results to this one, which never saw the light of day once it was discovered (or rediscovered).

Please, do show us the stats. I get tired of the false meme that "oh, we would have cured disease X already if the results weren't being suppressed in a big conspiracy"! Medical research is hard work, and frustrating. Not only do you have to cure the disease in the test tube, but then you have to cure the disease in a living patient, and make sure it doesn't do something equally or more horrible to the patient in the process.

On top of that, the public has been oblivious to the fact that real progress in cancer treatment, and yes, even cures, are being made. Many leukemias and lymphomas are now curable through chemotherapy and radiation. This boy in the article is in the small minority that standard treatment did not work. Solid tumor cancers are getting better early detection and treatment. Mortality from many cancers has been dropping over the last 2 decades. What was once usually a consistent death sentence doesn't have to be.

People don't actually like creativity, even in medicine:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/creativity_is_rejected_teachers_and_bosses_don_t_value_out_of_the_box_thinking.html

Staw says most people are risk-averse. He refers to them as satisfiers. “As much as we celebrate independence in Western cultures, there is an awful lot of pressure to conform,” he says. Satisfiers avoid stirring things up, even if it means forsaking the truth or rejecting a good idea.

In medicine, innovative things happen all the time. When *you* go to the doctor, you get the same ol' thing that has been done since 1952.

Most of us physicians try to live up to our creed: "First, do no harm." This includes not jumping to try every crazy-ass, untested treatment that some would-be genius cooked up and put in a syringe on the patients under our charge, if there are other treatment options that are still available. And here's a crazy thought: some diseases are better off untreated. I have an 85 year-old with dementia that was recently diagnosed with a lung tumor, likely malignant cancer but slow growing. Am I going to recommend putting her under general anesthesia, the knife, follow-up chemotherapy and possible radiation? Hell no.

If you truly think the standard of care in medicine is the same as 1952, I invite you, when you get sick, to turn down any or all recommendations for an MRI or a CAT scan. No heart catheterizations. No minimally invasive or laparoscopic surgery. No joint replacements. Very few blood pressure, cardiac, or autoimmune treatments. None of the advances for asthma and other lung diseases. If you're infected and allergic to penicillins and sulfa medications, good luck! I certainly wouldn't want the alternatives: veritable bleach in the veins or antibiotics toxic to the kidneys and ears.

tl,dr: You're full of it.

You can get a decent little brand new plane for about the same price as a loaded mid sized car these days ($30K-50).

In this case, the plane was leased by Flying Fox Aviation, based at Bagby Airfield near Thirsk in North Yorkshire, to Sandtoft Airfield and Flying School .

Perhaps I missed it, but, uh, did this actually happen? Look at the video of one of the supposed-attackers after-the-supposed-fact.

a) Why is the supposed knife he is holding blurred out?
b) Why does he look so damn calm?
c) Why is nobody else freaking out? An old lady just walks right in front of the guy who supposedly just murdered a guy and still has blood on his hands. Two young girls go up to him and try talking to him. Is that a reasonable thing to do with a still-bleeding corpse on the ground not a few feet away from the guy who just killed him?

I'm just left thinking 'wtf?'

The Russians have a temporary Ice Camp near the North Pole for the month of April. The first base camp started in 2002.

There's no better place to study the Arctic than being in the Arctic itself.

  Camp Barneo

Private health insurance means that everyone pays a premium dependent on their risk level. An NHS type system means people pay a premium based on their income level.

So with private health insurance I don't really care if you live an unhealthy lifestyle. With an NHS type system I do - my taxes will need to go up.

In fact in the UK there have been proposals to remove NHS treatment for people who injure themselves when drunk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theoneshow/2010/02/should-boozers-foot-the-bill-f.shtml

I work for the NHS on the frontline, and binge drinking is a huge problem, but you can't charge drinkers, unless you charge the smokers and the fatties for the illness their choices cause. You'd even have to charge sportsmen who damange their ligaments running!

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2012-03-07/health-trusts-restrict-treatment-to-those-with-unhealthy-lifestyles/

A nationwide Freedom of Information request by the medical magazine Pulse revealed many types of surgery, MRI scans and IVF treatment are being withheld from obese people and smokers.

In the Anglia region, NHS Bedfordshire has barred obese patients from hip and knee surgery until they loss 10% of their weight or their Body Mass Index drops below 35.

NHS North Essex requires patients to lose at least 5% of their weight, and keep it off for 6 months.

While NHS Hertfordshire patients must have a BMI under 30, while smokers have to attend a stop smoking course to have any type of surgery.

Lawyers warn that health authorities risk being sued by patients if they can prove they've been discriminated against.

It's particularly risky in places like the UK where the rich pay most of the income taxes but the poor tend to have unhealthy lifestyles.

E.g.

http://fullfact.org/factchecks/tax-28258

In 2009-10, the top 1% of Income Tax payers were responsible for 13.9% of declared income before tax. Conversely, the same group paid some 26.5% of the money taken by HMRC in Income Tax. These figures are very close to those cited by Mr Redwood, albeit slightly different.

and

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9819607/Minister-poor-families-are-likely-to-be-obese.html

According to Department of Health figures, the poorest children are almost twice as likely to be obese than the richest.

Government figures published last month showed that 24.3 per cent of the most deprived 11 year-olds in England were obese, compared with just 13.7 per cent of children from the wealthiest homes.

There's a strong incentive for the rich to support an authoritarian model whereby NHS treatment is withheld from the obese and smokers simply because the rich are less likely to be in that category.

Incidentally if you add in VAT and duty on tobacco and alcohol you find that the poor pay about the same percentage of their income in tax as the rich

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/household-income/the-effects-of-taxes-and-benefits-on-household-income/2009-2010/data---the-effects-of-taxes-and-benefits-on-household-income.xls Table 3

Still despite that there is an incentive for NHS trusts to deny treatment to people with unhealthy lifestyles - it cuts down on the expensive medical care you need to provide.

It's like in the US where you pay your premiums and then get denied treatme

You must not have seen the pictures of the new LaGuardia seaport.

see http://www.itv.com/ been a UK TV company since like forever

That won't put Apple off. Remember Apple Corps v Apple Computer. One thing that ITV will have learned though is not to do any deal allowing them "limited use".

see http://www.itv.com/
been a UK TV company since like forever

speculations, please.

I will speculate that the thing won't be called an iTV... if Apple wants to sell it in the UK, that is.

And their main competitors ITV I believe Apple are aware of them, because they called their TV product the Apple TV rather than the iTV.

For those looking at doing this it's worth knowing that as well as iPlayer there is now 4OD, Demand Five and ITVPlayer for all your C4, 5 and ITV watching needs.
They've all ditched their paid for P2P based systems for advertising supported Flash players.

Incidentally, we're about to build 5 new prisons. And to think some cynical people are pointing out that we're in a recession

Uhh, recessions cause increases in crime. Think about it for a moment - lots of people with no jobs and no money and nothing to lose and nothing better to do -- what do you expect to happen if not burglaries?

ITV News was stating it was also effecting 6 RAF admin bases as well and they outbreak has been running since well before Christmas. All of this hear-say as the MOD (rightly IMHO) are keeping alot of this info to themselves.

Also no signs of how the malware got into the systems, accidently or a deliverate 'attack'.

given the time to clear up and the large number of systems it's compromised it's a little worrying to the least.

REAL geeks are currently watching "No Heroics". . .

"I wonder what happens if you inform a cop that you are recording him when he pulls you over."

Oh..that's simple...camera mysteriously gets dropped and smashed on the ground (probably while you are being slammed against the car), and you get charged first with obstructing justice...with more charges to follow later as they have time to think them up.

I think you've missed the point of the article (assuming that you read TFA). What the cop-on-the-take is worried about is that when they're pulling Joe Bloggs over, they're being video-taped by John Doe from the other side of the street. Should they notice John Doe, and start trying to take out his "sous-veillence" they still have to be looking over their shoulders because they've now attracted a crowd and there are 4 more video cameras trained on them. They can't assume that the crowd is either friendly, or even non-hostile. Again, this is in the UK context, where by all accounts, the police are much more "community interaction" than "fist of god" compared to the States.
The context I saw was very much more in-town arrests rather than being shaken down on a quiet country road.
There's a very good reason that, when I go work in to third-world countries, I get a native driver for driving me around out of town and I just sit in the back pretending to not understand either the tongue language or the body language. In town though, often in the presence of other foreigners, things are generally considerably safer. The reason for the native driver out-of-town is that it is cheaper and safer for their high-value, high-insurance cost assets. No disrespect to the drivers, often very nice, very intelligent blokes ; but a month in a coma in a hospital for them costs the insurance company less than if it were me. Plus they're far more likely to talk their way out of a problem before I'd even notice it. That talking, knowing the local "squeeze" rates and procedures, is their job (which is probably why they're mostly intelligent, personable blokes). In the third world, an argument with the police that you crawl away from and spend a month in a coma is a good police interaction.

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Billie Piper doing an anal GFE in her school uniform. Now there's an idea.

Truth hurts, doesn't it? For all your demagoguery, the truth remains is that over 50% of the stuff on your local TV, and over 90% of the stuff on your local "warez" server is produced in America (and copied without permission of the creators/owners).

Ahem, I'm in the UK, and looking at the BBC TV guide for this evening, across three channels, I can only see two episodes of Family Guy, 'Dracula 2000' and a couple of late-night episodes of Star Trek. Not quite what I'd call 50%. Over on ITV, there's a couple of American films spread across four channels of content, and Channel 4 is awash with American-made content, with one whole episode of the Simpsons.

Channel 5 I'll give you, as all I ever see on there is terrible CSI knock-offs and shows about people having nose jobs, but across the board it's about 10% American content, maybe less, and you guys can hardly complain when you have a whole TV station dedicated to showing British content on American TV (though looking at the girls in the Torchwood banner at the top, who can blame you?). Also, I'm sure I read somewhere that France has laws ensuring more than 50% of shows on French television are French language productions produced in France, but I don't have a source for that so I could be wrong, and I can't see the rest of Europe being dominated by American television as you don't actually speak the same language, and nobody likes watching awful dubs all the time.

Then you wouldn't mind people copying your passport, your high school/college diplomas (if any), your date of birth and drivers license, your credit card numbers and bank accounts, your address and pictures of your family and pets in the nude?

There is a not-so-subtle difference between data A (a Metallica .mp3, for example) and data B (my credit card details). It's not like if the RIAA waved a magic wand and stopped piracy tomorrow everyone who would have previously downloaded 'Metallica_Discography_342342Kbps_OGG.torrent' is going to rush out and buy the pieces of crap that were 'Load' and 'Reload', but if I were to publish my bank account details on some identity theft forum, the vast majority of people would go in and steal all my cash. I don't want me or James Hetfield to be deprived of rightfully-earned cash, but the fact is 99% of downloaders wouldn't buy the CD if the torrent wasn't availible anyway, whereas 99.9999% of people interested in my bank account details are only interested in affecting my bank balance significantly and negatively compared to what it would be if that information was not published.

As for the other stuff - and in fact the bank details as well - there is a difference between personal information and creative output. The problem there is identity theft. By downloading The Black Album (to continue the Metallica theme - I don't even like friggin' Metallica) you are not able to steal Lars Ulrich's identity and make his life a living hell to pay for your own enjoyment. You could make your neighbour's life a living hell through the use of the files you downloaded and an amplifier that goes up to 11, but Lars Ulrich wouldn't care. You stealing my identity and using my credit card information to purchase child porn would land me, an innocent party, in deep shit, but I can't think of anything you can implicate someone in by downloading an MP3 of them.

As for pictures of me in the nude... that'd hurt you more than it'd hurt me, but if you really want, I'll bust out the Polaroids.

Sharing information is as natural a human trait as walking and talking.

Of course! What could possibly be wrong about this group's actions? Too bad, they are going to prison for 4-8 years each over their little "civil disobedience". Truly, America has lost its way!

It enables people to pass knowledge and culture from one generation to the next.

And if the right to do so is infringed, the important works of the entertainers will be completely lost on the next generations. Just think — your son might never know, who Britney Spears was... What unthinkable loss to humanity.

Fortunately, hundreds of millions of CDs produced by the entertainers will make sure, anyone, who wants to, can preserve the cherished memories. They just have to pay for each one.

it's also a British network of television stations. http://www.itv.com/ Besides that, when Jobs debuted the product, he said that "iTV" was only a developmental code name until they released it.

If you really want to survive in emergency situations, just be wide enough to float.

Can you guys explain to me why appleTV was not called iTV?

I hate this kind of look, tv.yahoo.com, BBC, ITV, C5. Something about the space, (widescreen aspect) images and boxing really irritates me.

We've had ITV for years in the UK. Trust me, you don't want it.

No, put "The Silmarillion" on Animal Planet, with Nigel Marven traveling back in time to capture and tangle with dragons and trolls.

Can't Apple come up with a name that is not already used by the biggest commercial television network in the UK ?

from Carlton Communications PLC who own the trademark ITV

see http://www.itv.com/

I think ITV might have some reason to complain about that product name

They might have a few problems calling it iTV

I'm not sure if the name ITV is already trademarked, as there's a long established TV station in the UK called ITV, which stands for Independent TeleVision.

so - the new media box is going to be called "iTV" - im just wondering what the largest independent supplier of television here in the UK will make of that?

You can bet that if Apple were to do that, they'd want to avoid the stigma of the name iTV.

Speaking of things best left untalked about, you may have missed this report on the BBC:

(Incredibly Bizarre) Mistakes led to tube shooting

8.25PM, Tue Aug 16 2005

ITV News has obtained secret documents and photographs that detail why police shot Jean Charles De Menezes dead on the tube.

The Brazilian electrician was killed on 22 July, the day after the series of failed bombings on the tube and bus network.

The crucial mistake that ultimately led to his death was made at 9.30am when Jean Charles left his flat in Scotia Road, South London.

Surveillance officers wrongly believed he could have been Hussain Osman, one of the prime suspects, or another terrorist suspect.

By 10am that morning, elite firearms officers were provided with what they describe as "positive identification" and shot De Menezes eight times in the head and upper body.

The documents and photographs confirm that Jean Charles was not carrying any bags, and was wearing a denim jacket, not a bulky winter coat, as had previously been claimed.

He was behaving normally, and did not vault the barriers, even stopping to pick up a free newspaper.

He started running when we saw a tube at the platform. Police had agreed they would shoot a suspect if he ran.

A document describes CCTV footage, which shows Mr de Menezes entered Stockwell station at a "normal walking pace" and descended slowly on an escalator.

The document said: "At some point near the bottom he is seen to run across the concourse and enter the carriage before sitting in an available seat.

"Almost simultaneously armed officers were provided with positive identification."

A member of the surveillance team is quoted in the report. He said: "I heard shouting which included the word `police' and turned to face the male in the denim jacket.

"He immediately stood up and advanced towards me and the CO19 officers. I grabbed the male in the denim jacket by wrapping both my arms around his torso, pinning his arms to his side.

"I then pushed him back on to the seat where he had been previously sitting. I then heard a gun shot very close to my left ear and was dragged away onto the floor of the carriage."

The report also said a post mortem examination showed Mr de Menezes was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder, but three other bullets missed, with the casings left lying in the tube carriage.

Police have declined to comment while the mistaken killing is still being investigated.

Why are you worrying about something improbable like a nuclear attack from readily available internet information when there is a lot more dangerous weapons out there?!?

THANK GOD, for the new World ID Card ! That should keep us ALL safe!

BTW, Your OS sux, Slackware roolz

The only downside is the long extension cord.

However, as the BBC points out, people are not necessarily buying these phones for their camera or music features."

Really! This pub chef story was carried by the BBC World Service, this morning (California time) regarding a chef bitten by a spider and had the presence of mind to snap a picture or two of it, which helped identify which spider it was and how to treat the venom. I think this link carries and actual photo from the phone.

The problem with this logic is it assumes the citizens aren't paying for the "free" wireless via taxes.

You're paying for the infastructure with your taxes. You're not really paying for service, per se, becuase service would include support. You pay for the trasportation infastructure (roads) with taxes. The government doesn't have a number you can call when you are lost and need directions. (That would be support.) You buy a map or pay for a third-party service (AAA, OnStar). Yes, you can call the police for "support" for certain things on roadways, but you pay taxes for that too.

If the government offers a "free" wireless solution that everyone pays for with taxes (no opt-out), then it will undercut every other commercial wireless provider effectively driving them out of business in that market.

Not necessarily. Make me want to pay you for service rather than using the public one. Maybe the municipal service is 802.11b and it is crowded. (Slow!) You could operate an 802.11g service on a different channel. Your service would be attractive becuase the technology is not only faster, but there won't be as many people using it. Plus I will have someone to call if I do need support.

Just becuase the government operates a service doesn't mean private companies can't compete. Look at the BBC in the UK. If you have a TV, you have to pay the licence fee, which supports the BBC. However, this hasn't stopped commercial broadcasters from setting up shop and staying in the market.

It carries only BBC programming,

Well, apart from the odd Channel 4 (Faking It, Father Ted) and ITV programmes (Prime Suspect, 60s stuff like The Avengers, The Saint and The Prisoner) as well. Although it's mostly BBC programming.

It's a bit suprising how badly EastEnders does in the US though, considering it's the highest rated show on BBC One...

Despite being wrapped up in the industry by being the winner of a [cheap knock-off] American Idol* contest

Don't blame the yanks for this one, it's all our (the British) fault.

it was an ITV not BBC show :)

Computer experts are investigating whether a worm that takes advantage of a flaw in the Windows operating system might be to blame.

Heh, ITV is reporting that
Computer experts are investigating whether a worm that takes advantage of a flaw in the Windows operating system might be to blame. [last paragraph in article right now]

I mean, wtf?

Right about then.

Oh, and since you didn't manage to watch the news, let me catch you up on current events:

The bush administration bombed a crowded marketplace.