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So his mother just died and he was going through a nasty divorce. His soon-to-be-ex wife is also his manager, so both his professional and personal lives are completely miserable. He was working long hours and he had just spent two hours in a pub where he had been drinking heavily.

I'm ashamed to say I had not heard any of that. Source?

oh, wait, here http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-...

ouch.

On that note: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/w...

On top of the (far more important) reasons give by other commenters I suspect, even if medically possible, it would create more problems recruiting donors. While I'd be dead and not to bothered what they do with it I would have made the donation on the understanding that they'd prioritise the genuinely medically needy who, through disease or calamity, require a replacement over those who simply aren't happy with what nature gave them (same goes for "can I have my small one replaced for a big one?" except in cases where its so small as to impair function). I would far rather it went to a transexual, though, than the guy who tried to re-enact 50 shades of grey with his toaster.

Accuracy tells us very, very little, without information on the number of false positives. In short, we need to know what the chance is that you have cancer if the dog indicates you do, which is TP / (TP + FP). It's easy to see that the number of FPs has a big influence.

Explained further here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
This is one of the best visualizations of it: http://ampp3d.mirror.co.uk/201...

See also this Wikipedia page for a good overview of different measures like accuracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

... discredit upcoming politicians (UKIP being the latest target)

Like they can't do a great job themselves.

Just when will the CIA get off its high horse of believing that this program, in its former form, or any newer form, produces value for the American citizen or state as a whole?

And how do you know that this torture division is not created by some misogynists that get pleasure from torturing someone? Their purpose is not the same.

Before you say "this is not possible", this was also impossible,

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

MI6 and others are still using using torture. And you know, first thing that is irrelevant for torturer is the truth. It's only what they want to hear that is the truth, not reality.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/...

And before you ask for a citation regarding those child molestation/murder cults among the elite:

http://www.theguardian.com/soc...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Tell that to the thousands of girls kidnapped from their homes to serve the isis warriors sexually:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/w...

Or this

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Not that it in any way makes these laws right and proper, but they are probably concerned about things like this:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-isis-fighter-al-britani-threatens-3819631

When one of the militant nutjobs is bragging about holding executions in Trafalgar Square... well, it's probably reason for some level of concern.

Maybe not as long as we think...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/w...

AC you seem to be missing the news that results from "chances regarding employer surveillance policies" are now shared at a nation level.
The results of been watched do not stop when you exit a workplace or seek new work.
"Thousands of workers 'blacklisted' over political views" (07 August 2012)
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
"construction workers punished by employers for raising health and safety issues" (10 September 2013)
http://www.theguardian.com/pol...
Construction workers' blacklist (Nov 18, 2013)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Now is the time to start buying mining rights for all that valuable plastic ore.

"That plastic 'ore"?! I don't think that Katie Price is for sale at the moment...

I Googled Trifigura and nothing relevant came up. Perhaps you can let me know what you're talking about there.

If you're in Europe, thats not terribly surprising: There was a superinjunction gag order issued to keep the whole thing under wraps, but the general fuzzy details were reported by the Guardian. Famously, a member of parliament tried to sidestep the superinjunction with parliamentary privilege, but IIRC that somehow got shut down.

Basically, Trifigura has been dumping some fairly toxic stuff illegally in Africa, and severely understating the risks to the locals there who they are paying for the privilege. All of that is generally a matter of fact, and isnt really disputed (perhaps Trifigura would?). The kicker is that Trifigura is claiming defamation (or slander or libel-- not clear which), and they won their case; so because reporting real world facts could cause "damage", it is illegal.

This isnt isolated, either; it is (AFAIK) not legal to host a default router passwords site in germany because that, too, could be damaging, so a fairly famous default passwords sites a number of years ago had to relocate. There was even a case recently where a judge ruled that, the mere fact that a statement is true does not defend against a defamation claim. As I recall there was a fairly major court case a number of years ago as well regarding a full disclosure of security issues in the underground of one of the EU countries.

So, speaking truth is now illegal in parts of Europe if it happens to be uncomfortable to various parties. That is what

which is a far cry from "a man can be imprisoned for saying anything on twitter that offends someone else".

2012, UK Teens Arrested, jailed
2013, 2 arrested for "suspicion of inciting racial or religious hatred"
2014, Teens arrested, placed on bail for "racist" tweets

Im afraid I am not as hopeful as you regarding European free speech. The push to "PC" seems just too strong.

TFA is about UK public sector, firing is practically impossible,

Yes, it's so impossible that only 631,000 public sector jobs have gone since 2010. With about another 400,000 currently scheduled.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Yes, it's a left-wing paper. The 631,000 figure is correct and undisputed though.

"The most likely cause was one of a the pilots going insane,", A more likely outcome is that the a radicalized pilot of MH370 decided on course murder/suicide after attending the sham trial of Malaysiaâ(TM)s opposition leader a few hours before takeoff.

Seams to me, if one were to make a simple assumption that the plane was on auto pilot for the last few hours(pilot suicide, anoxia), the Geostationary SAT ping times from those previous fixes would narrow the search scope considerably. I.E. Mathematically wise, one data point, verses five or six data points, would make a huge difference.

That explains why the Kindle Fire is the third best-selling tablet.

Look at the sock puppets we get on slashdot :)
Pentagon Spokesman: Public Affairs Must Change With Times (Jul. 25, 2013)
http://www.defense.gov/News/Ne...
"We must communicate with the American public in crisp and memorable lines that deliver a clear and accurate message,”"
Expect to see a lot of hints of new options to shape the flow of information and public opinion in the next few years.
Blocking select servers, the turning of online activists into "busy work" or traps
"Jeremy Hammond: FBI directed my attacks on foreign government sites":
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
All this will require an inner cadre of new people skilled with the slang, memes and culture to enter and thrive in different online communities building trust, spreading disinformation long term.
Why new people? They may know nothing but a constant war on a tactic and may find aspects of 'privacy' i.e. the domestic legal protections are historical/just red tape/understood talking points to them.
Think of it a cyber 'cannon fodder' for 1000's of sites, chatrooms, forums been flooded with 1000's of unique new/old user names to spread disinformation.
"Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media" (18 March 2011)
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
to "From Twitter with love: American spies snooping on our social media feeds" Feb 17, 2014
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/t...
also see http://cryptome.org/2014/02/ar...

Oh, ok, now that makes sense. Finding it was easy now, too.

For those looking, searching "undercover cop+divorce" gives plenty of hits about that case, and even a candid video of negotiations.

The organ theft urban legend has been around for a long time, but organ transplant isn't just something any unethical surgeon can do in the back of a fan.

Unethical surgeons aided by criminal enterprises (which is sometimes the state) seem to be available.

Kidney Thefts Shock India

GURGAON, India — As the anesthetic wore off, Naseem Mohammed said, he felt an acute pain in the lower left side of his abdomen. Fighting drowsiness, he fumbled beneath the unfamiliar folds of a green medical gown and traced his fingers over a bandage attached with surgical tape. An armed guard by the door told him that his kidney had been removed.

Mr. Mohammed was the last of about 500 Indians whose kidneys were removed by a team of doctors running an illegal transplant operation, supplying kidneys to rich Indians and foreigners, police officials said. A few hours after his operation last Thursday, the police raided the clinic and moved him to a government hospital.

Many of the donors were day laborers, like Mr. Mohammed, picked up from the streets with the offer of work, driven to a well-equipped private clinic, and duped or forced at gunpoint to undergo operations.

Illegal kidney trade booms as new organ is 'sold every hour'
China Admits Selling Prisoners’ Organs

Stolen baby is found alive - Woman arrested in grisly case

The baby who had been ripped from her slain mother’s womb was found alive and well in New Hampshire last night, and a woman was arrested in the grisly killing and kidnapping

Social workers 'seize unborn baby from the WOMB' after mother has panic attack

Head up to Venezuela for a better deal:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/venezuelan-government-sends-troops-electronics-2718204

Is in Rio de Janeiro, were the heat is setting off sprinklers.

If you really think that anyone who has not made it by age 30 has only themselves to blame you are an idiot.

Hans Christian Andersen — a most respectable European indeed — exposed this type of argument as rather fraudulent... And he did it in a manner, that was entertaining, educational and well-articulated (all traits, you ought to pursue developing in earnest). The fable was about emperor's new clothes, which only a fool ("idiot" being too rude a word for the times) would not see.

Everyone else, including the middle classes, ate better off with socialism.

Although the top 1% lives better — by the very definition of "top" — in any society, a street beggar in New York is better off than a North Korean general...

Having tried both — first in the Socialist USSR and now in the Capitalist USA — I can tell you first-hand, that you are wrong. But don't take my word for it — perfectly scientific evidence of you being wrong exists today. While many factors affect the country's success and happiness, several accurate and well-controlled experiments have been inadvertently staged in the last century, where the nearly identical societies have taken different routes. I invite you to compare:

• Socialist East Germany with its Capitalist Western sister.
• Soviet Estonia with Capitalist Finland
• North Korea with the South.

Can you offer even one counter-example?

FWIW, the Daily Mirror* does attribute the quote to her. Not sure where they got that from:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/grace-hopper-top-10-facts-2907958

* Yeah, yeah, I know.

The EV part just doesn't save enough gas to pay for the higher price point.

Depends how many miles you do. Don't underestimate the potential savings:

"Kevin Sharpe, 51, made the 894-mile trip from John Oâ(TM)Groats to Landâ(TM)s End in an electric car, stopping six times to charge up the American-made Tesla Roadster.
The 36-hour trip used £20 of electricity â" a family saloon would use £138 of fuel."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/motorist-drives-from-john-ogroats-to-lands-135383

Fuel at 1/7th the price is an interesting prospect.

Which would be amusing if it wasn't so sad given that both parties in government have been linked to alleged paedophile scandals within their ranks.

Perhaps we should fight back by making the same accusations, though if we do it and get it wrong because the allegations are unproven we apparently get sued for it:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lord-mcalpine-to-sue-10000-twitter-1444634

Perhaps Snowden should similarly sue the government for their allegation that he's aided and abetted child abuse and let the government prove it in the courts or give him a hefty payout and a public apology?

'North Korea's nuclear weapons could hit UK': Alarm at David Cameron's claim

I just want to point out that "alarm at David Cameron's claim" is actually "alarm that UK PM is delusional."

Unfortunately EMP is a genuine serious threat, and North Korea poses a potential threat not just to the US, but to Australia, Japan, and other nations as well.

Inside the Ring: North Korean missiles deemed a serious threat to U.S.
'North Korea's nuclear weapons could hit UK': Alarm at David Cameron's claim

An EMP Could Cripple the U.S.

An EMP is a torrent of electromagnetic energy that disrupts and destroys electronic devices within an affected area. As a result of such an event, most electrical devices would fail, most cars would cease functioning, airplanes would fall from the sky, and critical infrastructure—such as water and sewers, banking, energy, transportation, information technology, and others—would shut down.

Importantly, the electrical components and transmission systems would be permanently destroyed, requiring enormous levels of repair and rebuilding. Huge swaths of the U.S. would be without even the most basic of services for years, and it could take decades to fully recover. The economic and human losses would be catastrophic.

EMP Attacks—What the U.S. Must Do Now

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack represents one of the greatest threats imaginable—to the United States and the world. An EMP occurs when a nuclear device is detonated high in the atmosphere—a phenomenon of which America’s enemies are well aware. The electromagnetic discharge can permanently disable the electrical systems that run nearly all civilian and military infrastructures. A massive EMP attack on the United States would produce almost unimaginable devastation. Communications would collapse, transportation would halt, and electrical power would simply be non-existent. Not even a global humanitarian effort would be enough to keep hundreds of millions of Americans from death by starvation, exposure, or lack of medicine. Nor would the catastrophe stop at U.S. borders. Most of Canada would be devastated, too, as its infrastructure is integrated with the U.S. power grid. Without the American economic engine, the world economy would quickly collapse. Much of the world’s intellectual brain power (half of it is in the United States) would be lost as well. Earth would most likely recede into the “new” Dark Ages.

A single nuke exploded above America could cause a national blackout for months.

One EMP burst and the world goes dark

Why? Don't they have their own subscription to The Guardian?

One interesting thing about threats is that you absolutely must be able to follow through and the threats most be seen as a positive action. Cameron has just put his head in a noose. (Well, more than usual)

When The Guardian publishes again --- which it absolutely will --- he can choose to do nothing and further relinquish control, further harming himself politically. Or he can take it to the courts like he threatened, spending a fortune trying to get an unpopular order which will also harm him politically. If he succeeds at getting the order all it will do is make the UK government and the crown look even more the fools. He is playing a game that has no winning moves.

By all means, I hope he continues to make threats like this. If he doesn't follow through he will be seen as weak, and if he does follow through he will become even more unpopular. Boris Johnson is already twice as popular in the polls, Cameron is already less popular than his party (which is also rapidly sinking) and idiotic statements like this will just cause the ship to sink faster.

Mr Cameron, every time you open your mouth you make it easier for those who will oppose your party in 2015. Please carry on.

Oh, and the hospitals are a mess, too.

NHS has clearly been under pressure for quite some time. Strange that it rarely comes up in discussion.

Complaints about doctors 'double in five years'

Crackdown on migrants rights to NHS and council homes
Patients facing eight-hour waits in ambulances outside A&E departments
Watchdog issues NHS with financial health warning
Why do the UK's cancer survival rates still lag behind the rest of Europe?
Thousands of NHS operations cancelled because of blunders as complaints about standard of treatment rise
The frightening truth: NHS-managers are incentivized to ignore problems
Hungry, thirsty, unwashed: NHS treatment of the elderly condemned
Dying for a drink: Over 12,000 killed by dehydration in hospitals every year

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

Or, to put it more cynically, US health insurance is a great deal, right up until the point where you need to make a claim.

Tell it to the people waiting in ambulances, dying of thirst, and the elderly. (And that is barely scratching the surface.)

The presence of SAS men

One man and he was off-duty.

and Israeli commandos in Westgate

Those commandos were airlifted after the siege began. They were not there when things happened.

Either go back on or get your off meds because the tinfoil isn't working.

And you know what else is exciting? Since this find in Nigeria, there have been reports of 106 episodes found in Ethiopia (clearly, the preservation of civilization requires getting as far away from the BBC as possible): 106 doctor who episodes uncovered

It is not clear that this Ethiopian 106 that they're talking about is entirely composed of "lost" episodes, so I would guess that it is not (despite the way this story is billed in some circles) but it's entirely likely that there are a few more the ones on the list of the 97 officially "still lost" list.

Attention slashdot: an update to this story, adding the Daily Mirror link, would not be out-of-line.

The BBC press release has now been postponed to the end of the week.

And an youngest [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-worlds-youngest-terrorist---aged-386734] person ...

Hm, interesting conversion from article name to URL. -386734 is indeed a very young person.

The oldest suicide bomber I can find was a 64 year old woman. And an youngest person arrested for trying to be one is 11.

Not quite your 4 to 80 range, but close enough that you look pretty silly and uninformed.

The internet as it has become has made me thus.
But i still remember being able to log in at 300 baud and and anyone you talked to would be intelligent.

Now you can go for months without seeing intelligence. Tends to make you bitter.

Now get off my lawn. boy.

Dementia's a curse on modern living

They descend into bad temper, irritability, abusiveness, self-centredness, anti-social behaviour.

Another side of this lies somewhere between Freud and Konrad Lorentz. The reason people are unfair in the first place is because an unfair system serves the genetically mediated (and archaic) impulses of those who seek power. It's not enough to be rich if everyone else is. The vision of a world in which everyone had more than enough , and is therefore equal, is anathema to the unconscious of this kind of person and they , unconsciously, will always and automatically work to defeat anything that takes society in this direction.

Remember that Freud saw in the run up to WWII a depressing confirmation of this theories of the unconscious, even going so far as to theorize another psychic force, thanatos, or the drive to die. The work of Konrad Lorentz effectively materialized and contextualized a lot of Freud's theories within evolution and specifically the mechanism of genes, which has been carried forward by the development of sociobiology.

Both of these theories say that human behavior, human impulses are structurally locked outside of human awareness , evolved to serve ancient needs, and anyway immune from the prosecution of a more evolved "self" The best we can hope for is to uncover their expression in our world and counter them, consciously, with energy and in the face of resistance . The good life redirects it's energies to love and work and the good society expressed those countermeasures in its customs and norms and codifies them into laws

Personalities like as diverse as Rush Limbaugh , Lance Armstrong, Rupert Murdoch, Harvey Weinstein and Steve Jobs need not just to succeed, they need to succeed differentially. Pushing the other guy down through any means and keeping him there is at least as essential a technique as excelling through work.

It has to do with genetic fitness, materialized in the human partly as attracting females through being "better" , having more stuff. Power itself is an unconsciously interpreted by humans as a presumed form of genetic fitness, Implicitly facilitating the Ghengis Khan Effect. : no need to attract women when you can just take all you want through overwhelming force.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_genghis.html

The impulse is innate, the motivation to behave in certain selfish ways and not other, egalitarian way\ , is unconscious and never sleeps or grows old. The old shriveled dick of these personalty types yearns ever for green pastures, even unto death.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/tony-blair-denies-affair-rupert-1953684

To combine Freud and Lorentz together in one contempoary observation involving these types, if there were no differential to be created, why would anyone fuck them in the first place?

You have to know the true , deep nature of the thing you're proposing to take on is, even if there's till nothing you can do about it.

Now Google iPhone or HTC and look at the sales slump these two companies are facing. Guess their flagship phones don't come with an SD slot.

I Googled iPhone sales and saw that they've sold more this last quarter than they did in the same quarter last year. Isn't that odd?

Then I Googled iPhone 5 v Samsung Galaxy S3 sales and these were the top 3 results:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/iphone-5-overtakes-samsung-galaxy-1798091

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57570235-37/iphone-5-beats-galaxy-s3-as-top-seller-says-report/

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/20/apples-iphone-5-passes-samsung-galaxy-s3-in-q4-global-sales

I'm trying hard to see your point but the figures just don't back it up. If the iPhone is in a slump what does that say about the Galaxy S3?

The SD card slot is a feature that appeals to a very small demographic. You may be in it, but just because its part of your decision making process doesn't mean that its part of everyone else's. Personally I don't care. I don't want to micro manage storage in this century.

Re: "control surveillance state is bollocks...."
The problem for the UK is the long term slide from a real judicial warrant to a bureaucratic warrant to a self signed police letter to your local council all "just having a look".
Recall:
Private watch lists:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/blacklist-thousands-of-construction-workers-denied-1469233
Less public review/press when caught legal vision
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163799/UK-soldiers-beat-innocent-Iraqi-men-black-ops-jails-new-secret-justice-law-means-torture-hidden-forever.html
The "wish" lists:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/11/police-software-maps-digital-movements
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/government-may-sanction-chemical-incapacitant-use-on-rioters-scientists-fear-6612084.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9046668/UK-riots-paratroopers-are-trained-in-riot-control.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/09/riot-control-chemicals-plastic-bullets
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114601/Water-cannons-streets-months-Tear-gas-Tasers-police-wish-list-combat-riots.html
Going private:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/20/g4s-chief-mass-police-privatisation
Going "undercover" for a good few years :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/20/undercover-police-children-activists

I welcome the R rating; adults should be able to play any game they want.

I'm also an Australian parent of game-enthusiast children, and I share the problem with the rating system which assumes that all kids and all families are the same. The coarse measure of a "rating" is often unhelpful, especially if your kids are at those "in-between" ages where some material would be okay and others would not.

My kids have been going to art galleries since before they could walk. They fully know what a human without clothes on looks like. The ratings system, however, thinks it's a big deal. Nudity (we're not even talking about sex here) almost always pushes the ratings of something that would otherwise be rated PG into M.

In the Australian ratings system, Portal was rated M and Portal 2 was rated PG. The only difference, as far as I can tell, is that in the first one, there is some blood splatter on the wall when you're shot by a turret. For the regulations, that's apparently an important difference. My then-ten-year-old daughter had already seen worse violence in various film versions of Shakespeare plays which she watched for a school project (if you've never seen the Roman Polanski version of Macbeth, I thoroughly recommend it), so this wasn't a huge deal.

Things that I do care about are essentially not covered by the classification system, or dealt with in such a way that a parent (at least, one who knows exactly what their kids can and can't handle) is none the wiser.

It wasn't so long ago that my kids couldn't understand a subtle depiction of racism or certain other kinds of bigotry. (If there was a big neon finger saying "this is a bad thing", as most kids' TV shows do, then it wasn't so bad.) The same goes for (even quite mild) depictions of mental illness, or suicidal feelings, or divorce. If any of that is in a film, all you get is the unhelpful phrase "adult themes".

On one hand, the movie Drop Dead Fred has strong themes about emotional abuse in the context of a dysfunctional family, some quite specific references to sex, and a lot of other material that any self-respecting parent would definitely want to check out before they let their child see it. It's rated PG, and sits in the "family" section of my local DVD store.

On the other hand, there are some very impressive documentaries like Anatomy for Beginners and Mummifying Alan which are rated MA15+, but many children can handle just fine. There is no sex or violence in either of these shows; the Anatomy episode on reproduction does acknowledge the existence of sex at a level similar to most primary school sex education programmes. Both shows feature real unclothed dead bodies being dissected in the context of an anatomy lesson and mummified in the context of historical research, respectively. Of course, we did everything you're supposed to do: watch it first to make sure there's nothing they can't handle, then watch it with them and talk about what's happening. They were totally cool with it, and completely fascinated.

In all of the above examples, I would argue that the rating is highly misleading and unhelpful for most parents. I think that the ratings system only works as well as it does because the vast majority of TV shows, movies and games fit easily identifiable stereotypes and formulas. The best ones are often precisely those which challenge the boundaries of the ratings system. If I care about my kids watching good movies or playing good games, the ratings system isn't much use to me.

If we're talking about child safety, I want to know things like whether or not my kids will be interacting with other people online in an uncontrolled way. The ratings system only covers this with the nebulous statement "gaming experience may change online", and it typically doesn't affect the rating.

We'll show them the light ! Here they are, all of them in all their glory:

http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.irishexaminer.com/
http://www.irishtimes.com/
http://www.thestar.ie/
http://www.herald.ie/
http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.sundayworld.com/
http://www.businesspost.ie/
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/fr/viewer.aspx (they don't even have a website, how funny)
http://www.farmersjournal.ie/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.ie/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Most of them don't even have an irish dedicated website. They are pathetic. It's like passing a decree that makes people owing me $300 if they ever whisper my name in their car. There. Be warned.

maybe its the most clever link bait :)

We'll show them the light ! Here they are, all of them in all their glory:

http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.irishexaminer.com/
http://www.irishtimes.com/
http://www.thestar.ie/
http://www.herald.ie/
http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.sundayworld.com/
http://www.businesspost.ie/
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/fr/viewer.aspx (they don't even have a website, how funny)
http://www.farmersjournal.ie/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.ie/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Most of them don't even have an irish dedicated website. They are pathetic. It's like passing a decree that makes people owing me $300 if they ever whisper my name in their car. There. Be warned.

maybe its the most clever link bait :)

We'll show them the light ! Here they are, all of them in all their glory:

http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.irishexaminer.com/
http://www.irishtimes.com/
http://www.thestar.ie/
http://www.herald.ie/
http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.sundayworld.com/
http://www.businesspost.ie/
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/fr/viewer.aspx (they don't even have a website, how funny)
http://www.farmersjournal.ie/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.ie/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Most of them don't even have an irish dedicated website. They are pathetic. It's like passing a decree that makes people owing me $300 if they ever whisper my name in their car. There. Be warned.

We'll show them the light ! Here they are, all of them in all their glory:

http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.irishexaminer.com/
http://www.irishtimes.com/
http://www.thestar.ie/
http://www.herald.ie/
http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.sundayworld.com/
http://www.businesspost.ie/
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/fr/viewer.aspx (they don't even have a website, how funny)
http://www.farmersjournal.ie/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.ie/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Most of them don't even have an irish dedicated website. They are pathetic. It's like passing a decree that makes people owing me $300 if they ever whisper my name in their car. There. Be warned.

Apparently you aren't old enough to realize that not only insurance prices, but the actual cost of care has been going up faster than the rate of inflation for many years. But Obamacare has been a force of its own, and has resulted in many workers losing their coverage since employers see the writing on the wall. There are other roads they could have taken in reform, but they decided to jam this one through on a party-line vote, heavily amended up till the last moment, unread, late at night, requiring massive bribes to even their own. You might be cheering now, but will you in the end?

Judging by NHS experience, I wouldn't bet on it, the games have barely started.

Is the BBC turning into The Onion? Or is the author just plain daft to start with?

Substituting the words "mini-livestock" in place of "dead insects"? What the fuck are these Brits smoking?

I know crushed-up insects may pass for a semi-decent gourmet meal by British culinary standards, but here in America I'll stick to my 97% lean ground beef and REAL pork chops, thanks.

The other 3% being made up of god knows what of course (in addition to the expected fat):
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2507910n
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLmJ_-Ygaww
http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-mcdonalds-workers-kick-around-a-dead-rat-like-its-a-soccer-ball-2012-6
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kfc-says-sorry-for-dead-caterpillar-941451

livestock [lahyv-stok] Show IPA
noun ( used with a singular or plural verb )
the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch.
source:http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/livestock

No reason not to use the words mini-livestock when talking about insects bred on an insect farm, for example, that would be sold as food.

By the way, if you're going to be offensive you should at least get your shit straight before vomiting it up on here and embarrassing those of us Americans that don't want to look like complete idiots.

They totally plagiarized the country name. They just took Rome and added -ania to it.

Also, this is the same country that has news like this