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Especially when they quote bullshit for the reason, i.e. Britain faced one or more terrorist attack per year since 2000 and will continue to do so http://news.sky.com/story/1151954/mi5-boss-warns-of-growing-uk-terror-threat. Now that means that there have been 13-26 attacks according to his figures and we haven't heard of one of them? I remember when the UK really was under the threat of terrorist attacks from the IRA, and though a lot of things were kept secret for obvious reasons during that time, when the security forces scored a major victory or prevented an attack you knew about it. Are they seriously saying that 7/7/2005 was 'the one that got away', and they haven't told us about the others because of secrecy? Just one for an example?

... but why pick Israel of all allies?

Maybe because the US and its partners in this data gathering project (Canada, UK, Australia etc) have outsourced the data analysis to Israel. Could help explain the UK export licence for Israel that was recently reported :

"£7,765,450,000 of the £7.8bn worth of equipment exported to Israel is covered by just one licence approval - for equipment employing cryptography and software for equipment employing cryptography."

Interesting that you'd bring this up. In fact this was not the Syrian government's first use of chemical weapons, but the latest and biggest in a long list that includes last march outside rebel-held Allepo (I believe the one you are referring to), all of which targeted rebel-held or contested territory. The interesting thing is that the rumors I'm hearing this morning is that a Syrian general involved in the attacks has defected, with evidence that his government carried it out.

Unless you are a big Russia Today reader I suppose, in which case what happened was that the syrian rebels gassed their own women and children repeatedly in order to get the sympathy of the West (which has studiously looked the other way instead). Since that tactic hasn't been working, they've kept doing it. Genius! Or its been the CIA or USA State department, hoping to provide a great excuse for intervention so they can rush in and blow trillions more dollars with attacks that will get the whole world hating them. Because, well, they just love the attention or something. All the evidence to the contrary is fabricated.

You know, whichever scenario makes more sense to you.

Or the slightly less recent past when Iraq was on "our" side; Saddam's Chemical Attacks On Iran 'Aided By US'.

Or just "fans". Making the feminine the insult is common and misogynous. "Man-up" is also misogynist (implying a man is better than a woman). http://news.sky.com/story/1122559/liverpool-fans-banned-from-saying-man-up

Nobody expects consumer to confuse SkyDrive with BSkyB. Sky is arguing consumers will confuse SkyDrive with Sky's products like Sky TV, Sky Broadband, Sky Talk, Sky 3D, Sky Go, etc. and think that SkyDrive is made by BSkyB instead of Microsoft.

Not really, that's a lovely media graphic and all, but the proper placement of the batteries is shown here, here and here

Anyhow, the batteries are kept below the passenger compartment, and the damage appears to be along the top of the fuselage (just in front of the vertical stabiliser) - I can see no visible visible damage around the area of the aft batteries.

Footage of starboard side
Footage of port side

Wrap it as a present for your 5 year old child?

I guess it's not new and shiny anymore, so we can just throw it away.

I did want to read the actual article, but the only link is to a 2008 article.

Fail or what?

http://news.sky.com/story/1071902/supercomputer-pioneer-roadrunner-to-shut-down

That is the article. And i see why they are getting rid of it, not as power efficient as new computers.

...no, no -- that's not how it's going to be "picked up".

Let's take a look:

NBC News: Particle confirmed as Higgs boson

Associated Press: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

Reuters: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Wall Street Journal: New Data Boosts Case for Higgs Boson Find

FOX News: Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson

Washington Post: A closer look at the Higgs boson particle that helps explain what gives matter size and shape

Chicago Tribune: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Sky News: Higgs Boson: Experts Sure Of 'God Particle'

New York Daily News: Physicists say they have discovered crucial subatomic particle known as Higgs boson

Boston Globe: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

BBC (UK): LHC cements Higgs boson identification

BusinessWeek: Case for Higgs Boson Strengthened by New CERN Analysis

The Daily Mail (UK): Scientists say they HAVE found the 'God particle' - but admit they still aren't sure what type of Higgs boson it is

The Independent (UK): Have they found the Higgs boson at last? Cern physicists say they're confident of 'God particle' breakthrough

Telegraph (UK): Higgs boson: scientists confident they have discovered the 'God particle'

News Limited (AU): Higgs boson, the God particle, discovered by CERN

US News and World Report: Physicists Observe Higgs Boson, the Elusive 'God Particle'

None of these articles make any links to "God" other than a few -- mostly UK, not US -- sources referring to it as the so-called "God particle", but even those explain exactly what this particle is theorized to be, not anything supernatural, "proving God exists", or having anything whatever to do with God.

Ironically, in 2009 Chavez ordered to confiscate one of these body exhibitions that was on tour in Caracas, because he said it was immoral to put unsepulchered bodies on display.

http://news.sky.com/story/676071/chavez-blocks-venezuela-dead-body-art-show

In case you understand Spanish, you can hear it from the man himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2MfLT-U2qo

Look again, in this case, it took 1 generation. /* anon since I modded this thread */

Um, how do you reconcile these two statements:

Surveillance cameras on every corner. Bollocks.
and
We have all main road (and city) car movements tracked in real-time through an enormous increase in ANPR

No freedom of speech. Bollocks.

You're just in denial here. The Public Order Act of 1986 makes insults an arrestable offense.

No right to self defence. Pretty much bollocks.

Again, this sounds like denial on your part. There are way too many stories like this:

Hertfordshire Police officers warned Klass she should not have used a knife to scare off the teens because carrying an "offensive weapon" - even in her own home - was illegal.

What actually seems to be the case is that the UK officially acknowledges the right to self defense, but has put so many conditions on it that you're likely to be victimized again by the state after doing so. That's not what I'd call having the right to self-defense.

Now I'll happily grant you your other points. I won't claim that the US is better than the UK. I am actually pretty sure that it is not. But that doesn't mean the UK is a free country.

BSkyB would disagree with you there. As would OfCom, the Competition Commission - Sky have owned Virgin Media since June 2010.

U.S. TSA personnel will be stationed at British airports during the Summer Olympic Games, according to SkyNews. Authorities are scrambling to shore up security before the games open in 11 days. Organizers are already under withering criticism after G4S, the private contractor coordinating security preparations, said last week that it can't supply enough security. Now, TSA seems to be augmenting a beleaguered UK Border Agency. The US agents would begin arriving at Heathrow and other major UK airports next week. The agents will not be allowed beyond boarding gates or onto British aircraft.

U.S. TSA personnel will be stationed at British airports during the Summer Olympic Games, according to SkyNews. Authorities are scrambling to shore up security before the games open in 11 days. Organizers are already under withering criticism after G4S, the private contractor coordinating security preparations, said last week that it can't supply enough security. Now, TSA seems to be augmenting a beleaguered UK Border Agency. The US agents would begin arriving at Heathrow and other major UK airports next week. The agents will not be allowed beyond boarding gates or onto British aircraft.

Why did we go intervene in Lybia and haven't done much yet in Syria? One's an oil producing nation, the other isn't.

Rather, because Russia and China vetoed the security council resolution. Russia only today declared it would temporarily stop selling arms to Syria. Western powers unanimously supported the resolution.

Really? Then who was it that made this decision: http://news.sky.com/story/710266/man-22-dies-after-liver-transplant-refused

When someone else gets to decide whether you live or die based on a whim, you have major, MAJOR problems as a society. Some try to hide from the truth. A brave person would confront it, even if it meant having to take an extreme step like changing your mind.

Sarkozy is an "Operation Gladio"-style fascist mole. A "Manchurian Candidate".

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16194033

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243240-Toulouse-Shootings-Gifts-Sarko-the-Avenger-Climb-in-Election-Opinion-Polls

"He deliberately force-landed the plane by diving down in a steep manner until the Ground Proximity Warning System gave off a signal 'sink rate, whoop, whoop, pull up'."

He said Komar ignored 15 GPWS warnings as well as his co-pilot's warning and brought the plane into the sharp dive, causing it to drop suddenly by 1,600 feet per minute compared with a normal 1,000 feet per minute and to overshoot the runway.

The plane's front wheel snapped off, causing the aircraft to bounce three times before skidding on the runway, crossing an airport fence and a public road and hitting a dyke before bursting into flames, the prosecutor said.

Source.
 
A few years ago, a friend claimed that a member of the flight crew aboard GA-200 actually said "Stupid American" or something along those lines in an attempt to shut up the GPWS (which wouldn't particularly surprise me knowing Garuda). I'd dearly love to hear the CVR recordings for that flight if anyone knows where I can get them, I'd like to see whether that rumour is fact or fiction.

What you say totally makes sense but it may just be a thing of the past:
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16148629

(The article conveniently omits that one British court had already dismissed the guy's case, effectively saying he didn't commit a crime in the UK. Then another British court okayed his extradition to the US.)

Sky in the UK requires it for online viewing so I use it (on the Mac too).

Appears to have been in Cornwall.

If that article's accurate, they actually had a policy against anyone except married heterosexual couples sharing a room with only a double bed. I wonder whether they also (in practice) excluded unwed opposite-sex couples who wished to share a room, and if so, whether that's permitted in the UK (can you distinguish between married and unmarried couples so long as you treat same- and opposite-sex alike? I have no idea).

People do eat horses though - and not in the same way that people eat dogs (as in only very few countries).

  I've probably eaten enough salami and chorizo in my life to account for 2 or 3 horses and if I stop eating those varieties of sausage it won't be because they contain horse meat - it'll probably be the bowel cancer :P

Despite the prevalent idea that most people are against it, there are a growing number of Restaurants in the UK taking on the French style of cooking horse meat and it seems there are a number of places in Canada that also serve horse dishes.

Seriously - in a country where black-pudding and haggis are part of a good breakfast (Full Scottish breakfast - try it next time you're here :) ) horse meat isn't exactly stretching our minds or stomachs.

No no, this is the broadcasting corporation part owned by Rupert Murdoch, Sky.

Keep that up, and you'll be rolling out your own search engine before too long ....

http://news.sky.com/home/showbiz-news/article/16092788

In the UK http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=70764
Japan http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/27/polar_bear_breeding/
Germany http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/15260029

SKy BB - 7.50 per month for totally unlimited use

And the small print:

When you take a Sky TV package (from £20 a month)
with Sky Talk & Line Rental (£12.25 a month)

So if you already pay at least 32.25 you can add 7.50 for broadband, that's hardly a fair comparison. The lowest you can get broadband only for is 10 + 12.25 = 22.25/month, three times your quoted price.

The victim of a police shooting may not have fired at officers before he was killed, according to a report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

An IPCC ballistics report said there was "no evidence" that a handgun found near where Mark Duggan was shot by armed officers had been used.

The 29-year-old died after a gunshot to the chest on Thursday. The death sparked the first night of rioting in London in Tottenham.

His family issued a statement saying: "We feel completely gutted. Someone must be made accountable for this. We can't believe that they can do this.

pieces of shit ...

The people worst affected by all this are blameless people who made the mistake of owning shops on a high street or renting apartments above shops or similar things. I mean who didn't see that coming?"

Also related:
    "Can Economic Factors Explain The Riots?"
    http://news.sky.com/home/business/article/16046645
"There's no one root cause for the riots across the country, but a range of economic indicators often associated with social unrest have been on the rise for some time. ... Add this to the fact that overall UK inequality levels have risen to the highest levels since the 1960s (or alternatively the 1930s, depending on whose statistics you trust). It's notable that many of the areas affected by the rioting are within touching distance of poorer areas, as is the case in Tottenham where the rioting began. ... London's local authorities have borne much of the brunt of the Government's austerity package -- their grants from Whitehall fell by 11.3% this year and will drop a further 7.6% in 2012/13. And the first non-essential services to be cut include youth services budgets -- Haringey's was slashed by 75% leading to the closure of youth clubs."

"Blameless" is a problematical term when we are talking politics including how people vote about long term trends. People vote for the world they want to live in, and sometimes their assumptions or predictions are wrong.

I don't know much about UK politics, but as for the USA, the current dominant voting pattern follows the idea that if we give all out money to rich people they will stick in their mattresses (or maybe use it in poker games with each other) and this will create jobs for everyone. If that does not work to create jobs, then the potential consequences are severe. Are the people who vote for such policies "blameless" if the consequences are social collapse?

Actually the earthquake was predicted and the warnings were ignored. Italy 'Dismissed Expert's Quake Warning Sky News / 9:06pm UK, Monday April 06, 2009 / Nick Pisa in Rome :

Seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani had warned "a big one" was on the way and even toured the region in a van with loudspeakers warning people, as late as last week.

But he was reported to the police by authorities for "needlessly spreading panic" and also dismissed by L'Aquila's mayor and other civic officials.

Dr Giuliani based his theory on increasingly high levels of radon gas that had been noted in the area and even posted his findings on his website.

However, he was forced to take them down and the site has not been working.

Dr Giuliani, who works at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at nearby Gran Sasso, said: "There are people who need to apologise to me. These people will have these deaths on their conscience."

At least they are sorry: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Sony-PlayStation-Bosses-Bow-In-Apology-Over-Security-Breach-That-Hit-Millions-Of-Online-Accounts/Article/201105115983171

wrong. I submit these as proof:
New record sniper distance, 2 kills at 8,120ft
Sniper kills 5 in 28 seconds range 1+ miles

Nope, you can subscribe to Sky Player separately - you don't need a Sky box or a dish or whatever. There's a link on the front page: http://skyplayer.sky.com/vod/page/online-tv.html

I read Paulos' "Innumeracy" book and never quite understood how those security people come up with cost figures for cyber attacks... especially when it's in the billions range e.g. Skynews reports "Last year, cyber attacks cost Britain £27bn. The global hub for targeted attacks is China. An estimated 1.6 billion attacks are launched from the country each month."

It's a little late to be vindicated, but I am posting this to complete the record. Today April 17 more photos are released. It is much better than the earlier photos. The photos very clearly show scattered fuel rods that are not in a pool or core. After they found a rod about a mile away in a report, I knew either a reactor lost it's lid and ejected part of the core, or one of the dry well primary containment failed and the failure ejected the contents of at least one of the storage ponds contents.

Here is a link to scattered fuel rods.
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Apr/Week3/15973518.jpg

The news article is here;
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/A-Strong-Earthquake-Has-Hit-Japan-Shaking-Buildings-In-Tokyo-After-Release-Of-New-Fukushima-Photos/Article/201104315973503?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15973503_A_Strong_Earthquake_Has_Hit_Japan%2C_Shaking_Buildings_In_Tokyo%2C_After_Release_Of_New_Fukushima_Photos

More recent photos are here;
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2011-04/16/c_13832377.htm

It's a little late to be vindicated, but I am posting this to complete the record. Today April 17 more photos are released. It is much better than the earlier photos. The photos very clearly show scattered fuel rods that are not in a pool or core. After they found a rod about a mile away in a report, I knew either a reactor lost it's lid and ejected part of the core, or one of the dry well primary containment failed and the failure ejected the contents of at least one of the storage ponds contents.

Here is a link to scattered fuel rods.
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Apr/Week3/15973518.jpg

The news article is here;
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/A-Strong-Earthquake-Has-Hit-Japan-Shaking-Buildings-In-Tokyo-After-Release-Of-New-Fukushima-Photos/Article/201104315973503?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15973503_A_Strong_Earthquake_Has_Hit_Japan%2C_Shaking_Buildings_In_Tokyo%2C_After_Release_Of_New_Fukushima_Photos

More recent photos are here;
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2011-04/16/c_13832377.htm

We have Freeview+, Freesat+, Sky+, and whatever Virgin Media call their DVR (I'm one of the unlucky sods living in the half of the country without cable). TalkTalk TV also has the option of a DVR box, although I'm not sure that service is open to new customers at the moment.

The Sky, Virgin and TalkTalk boxes are supplied by the service provider, but there are loads of Freeview and Freesat DVRs available on general sale. TiVo isn't even a blip on the UK DVR market, and I'm not surprised that they're risking the wrath of their existing users, all five of them, by cancelling the service.

Do you think that they might still be a bit rattled after the release of this?

Those bastards. They're probably too busy blogging/tweeting etc. about the triviality of their daily lives. Maybe when they can just about be bothered we can get the much needed details of how they're doing it in the form of a wordpress blog or a flickr stream.

why would it ever be ok to light things on fire in public and subject others to the results of said fire?

Because I would never force another person to stand next to me when I did it? Because that person had a choice whether or not they went to a bar/club/privately owned business etc. that allowed smoking? Because other people are allowed to wear gallons of caustic aerosol that has a known ill-effect on health and then parade around in public subjecting everyone to the fumes?

There have to be limits of course - schools, offices etc. places where people have to be either by law (schools) or to earn a living. But to take it to the point where we can't even have a dedicated smoking room in buildings was taking the piss.

Sarah Palin assumes communist regime is US ally. If you vote for Palin and republicans, you're voting for communists!

Despite the item already being declared a treasure trove by the coroner, it looks like the British Museum will likely buy the thing and the proceeds will be split between the kid and the landowner. Apparently this is not uncommon. Sky news has (unsurprisingly) a better article than the daily fail.

That sounds like he can't get cable, but there should be better DSL options available. Even SKY t.v. has a pretty good plan compared to that -- truly unlimited and 20 Mb download speed, my sister and brother-in-law have it and are quite happy with it for their purposes. Downside is that it's Rupert Murdoch's outfit. http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/

The figures I was referring to were in the telegraph article yes, but you hadn't posted that one up before, which is why I was asking where the "TWO MILLION POUNDS to solve ONE CRIME" stuff was coming from.

I appreciate attempts to educate me, I know I'm ignorant on many topics, but saying "I'll get out the crayons" when you hadn't actually linked all the articles you were getting your figures from felt very insulting to me.

I guessed you missed the bit about only 1/1000 crimes being caught by cameras. I had mentioned that statistic - I didn't realise that negating to put a link caused you to call me an arsehole.

Especially when I then explain WHERE the stat came from; and you say "Why bother to provide references at all if you were only going to link half of them" - all the info was there in the post you replied to.

Anyway, that statistic is fairly widely available.

I'll try and remember to cite every single source next time.

Still, I'm a little offended at being called a 'conspiracy theorist' for giving real-world statistics. In reality it's more like the other way around.

http://www.sky.com/helpcentre/broadband/getting-started/sky-broadband-equipment/

It's right there, under "How can I access the settings on my Sky Broadband wireless router?". Cryptic.

Show me where BP has officially said oil isn't that dangerous.

Tony Hayward told Sky News the following, which, I guess, is kind of saying that it's not all that dangerous:

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest. It is impossible to say and we will mount, as part of the aftermath, a very detailed environmental assessment as we go forward. We're going to do that with some of the science institutions in the US.

Source

Undefeated bull here - the matador ran out the ring and got arrested...

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Bullfight-Matador-Flees-From-Bull-In-Mexico---Cristian-Hernandez-Arrested-For-Breach-Of-Contract/Article/201006315649393?lpos=Strange_News_Third_World_News_Feature_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15649393_Bullfight%3A_Matador_Flees_From_Bull_In_Mexico_-_Cristian_Hernandez_Arrested_For_Breach_Of_Contract_/

Why is that always the example that gets trotted out? Did somebody actually do it?

Here you go. It's the Rembrance of the Dead (a yearly two minute silence in honour of the victims of WO II) in the Netherlands, May 4th 2010. A crazy drunk guy started yelling, resulting in 30 people getting injured. More info.

But frankly the way society is going we're getting closer and closer to the point when some man talks to kids in the park and is arrested as a direct result.

Closer and closer? We've passed that point. Now taking photos of your own fully clothed child in public is reason enough to suspect you of being a pedophile: "Dad Branded A Paedophile Over Pic Of Son"