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There are photos and video of him apparently being carried/escorted out of the embassy by British police, so it seems more likely the Ecudoreans had just had enough and decided to let them come in and arrest him.

There are photos and video of him apparently being carried/escorted out of the embassy by British police, so it seems more likely the Ecudoreans had just had enough and decided to let them come in and arrest him.

True, that still happens... because the Tube is one of the best ways to get around, so EVERYONE uses is. I get 1 train per minute at my stop, and if there is a 2 minute delay in the service then it's so full you can't get on. Still, it beats trying to drive... what with the traffic, congestion charge (tax) rising to £24/day for diesel cars, then paying on average £42/day to park:

https://news.sky.com/story/die...
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/...

So you're stung for ~£66/day before you factor in your time, etc. Using a private car to commute into London is reserved for the 1%.

Licking priceless books? Sounds like gambling. Baby needs a new pair of shoes. Lick lick.

Since bad jokes like this are usually born out of people's own fetishes it only seems fair to ask: Is this you they are looking for?
Police search for man who licked doorbell for three hours in California

Turns out the privileged majority fight hard when you threaten their privilege:
https://news.sky.com/story/300...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

Of course, the Labour party are the people that changed the law to make it legal for them to discriminate against men. Amazed they found the time in between ruining the economy and taking the UK into illegal wars.

I guess 4th grade was too hard for your tiny, tiny brain. Every time you post your mindless dribble it lowers the I.Q. of the entire Internet.

You got modded down, but your comment is spot on.

The left has been just relentlessly awful the past couple of weeks, and the bad part is that it'll only get worse as the midterms get closer.

Trump's son posts a picture enjoying father's day with his kid, and gets a torrent of insults. Trump's daughter shares a picture cuddling her infant son and triggers a tidal wave of hatred.

To believe some celebrities, the US is torturing children at the border right now! It's exactly the same as nazi concentration camps, young children are ripped (note: actual word used) from their mothers and held in cages by the hundreds!

If we could find a way to harness hatred we could run the entire country off of leftist ideals.

They're not keeping children in "concentration camps" on the southern border. Geeze, you people are self-parody.

They are absolutely keeping children in concentration camps.

First, maybe we should establish a definition of "concentration camp"" According to Merriam-Webster, a concentration camp is, "a camp where persons (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined"

https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Next, we should establish that Trump is indeed keeping children in such places [note: I purposely only include foreign news sources for this, so you can't claim some local political bias]

https://news.sky.com/story/hun...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

https://www.standard.co.uk/new...

And when did this new policy of indefinite detention of children start? May of 2018.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

Further, since people who present at a port of entry requesting asylum have broken no US laws, the Trump Administration is separating children from parents who have done nothing wrong and holding them in concentration camps just to exert political pressure on his opponents.

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

No, because the other 'motorist' wasn't driving at the time.

A passenger in another car spotted him and filmed his Tesla as it drove past

-- https://news.sky.com/story/aut...

but if it's even more free channels you're after, something like a sat dish is probably the way to go in the UK.

That's the way I went - a Sky dish repurposed with a FreeSat box. Picture quality on the main channels is great, even in SD.

Half a million dollars from the head of Venezuela good enough?

http://news.sky.com/story/madu...

Also, Hillary can't have the emolument clause held against her. But sure.

Could be ex and former staff selling mi/gov grade product to their cult, faith, embassy, other parts of the US gov, the private sector.
Once the devices got handed out to NATO nations, the different EU nation police forces all their ex and former staff can sell the US product to the private sector.
The US is now been flooded with its own products as once very secret tech finds its way into every embassy and the private sector.
Other nations front companies, US dual citizens helping their real nations.
The UK had the same issues. Some ore gov, mil other are just random efforts by different groups.
What the UK did can often show what could be in the USA.
Fake Mobile Phone Towers Operating In The UK (09 June 2015)
http://news.sky.com/story/fake...
UK Cops Using Fake Mobile Phone Tower to Intercept Calls, Shut Off Phones (10.31.11)
https://www.wired.com/2011/10/...
Fake mobile phone towers discovered in London: Stingrays come to the UK (6/11/2015)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

The other US side would be to track US police, city workers to ensure they did not have a task force on any emerging private sector products or services.
Once a map of every phone in a wide city area was tracked, tracking undercover officials would be easy given a lack of digital counter surveillance training.
New "staff" or users reporting back into a government building every few days or weeks for a set time would be very easy to map.
Another aspect would be to counter any journalist trying undercover work. Their origin and return to their place of work would be detected if they ever had two working phones with them. Their undercover story phone and their journalist phone.
Other tracking could counter bloggers and web 2.0 attempts by citizen journalism to enter political parties or party political fund raising.
They might make an error with two phones in use. One they used for undercover work in the past, one they use for their blog.
Lack of cash could see device reuse and very easy tracking.
Also the meeting of any gov worker, federal official, contractor, mil, political staff with any journalist would be tracked by the mil, gov, party, contractor. A vast database of journalist. A political and private sector version of the NSA's FIRSTFRUIT.
The Most Intriguing Spy Stories From 166 Internal NSA Reports (May 17 2016)
https://theintercept.com/2016/...
“.. over 5,000 insecurity-related records” ranging from “espionage damage assessments” to “liaison exchanges.”
Someone is not tracking the fake networks for some reason. Political over, mil, police or gov use? Gov workers detect the fake cell products and nothing is done?

the side that says my coworker would not be dead if he meet the same type mentally deranged guy in New Zealand, Australia, Britain, China and most of Europe

Are you so sure about that?

http://news.sky.com/story/chin...

They brought back the nudity apparently.

http://news.sky.com/story/hefn...

It depends if George Soros funds the protests or not.

George Soros (Hillarys primary financer) instructing Hillary on what policies to carry out as Secretary of State:

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/28972

https://i.sli.mg/64gA6D.png

Top contributors for Hillary Clinton page:

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?cycle=2016&id=N00000019&type=f

Soros admits creating the European migrant crisis:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/02/soros-admits-involvement-in-migrant-crisis-national-borders-are-the-obstacle/

Soros tells Europe to take in at least a MILLION refugees every year:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/616541/European-Union-Migrants-Refugees-George-Soros-Hungary-Viktor-Orban-Europe

Soros finances Handbooks to spur EU-bound immigration:

http://news.sky.com/story/1551853/sky-finds-handbook-for-eu-bound-migrants

Soros urges giving Ukraine $50 billion of aid to foil Russia:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-soros-idUSKBN0KH0NQ20150108

Hacked emails expose George Soros as Ukraine puppet-master:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/hacked-emails-expose-george-soros-ukraine-puppet-master

George Soros funds Ferguson Black Lives Matter protests:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/?page=all

Soros funds paid "protestors" to spur civil unrest:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ferguson-Missouri-paid-protesters/2015/05/25/id/646587/

Soros funds MoveOn and Media Matters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America#Funding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn.org#Financial_contributors

Soros funds Black Lives Matter:

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2015/11/13/anti-american-left-funds-blacklivesmatter-now/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/?page=all

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/hired-black-lives-matter-protesters-start-cutthech/

Globalists Unite: Hillary Clinton Running Mate Tim Kaine Dines with George Soros Son as Donald Trumps Rise Terrifies World Elite:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/12/globalists-unite-hillary-clinton-running-mate-tim-k

How about theTrump scum who just killed 6 people is a Mosque in Canada, an alt-right terrorist.
http://news.sky.com/story/cana....
Knock that one down, you dumb fuck.

Julian Assange 'stands by' extradition deal pledge after Chelsea Manning release

No. Like the UK - our police officers should not be armed at all.

Looks like they've been readjusting their expectations: http://news.sky.com/story/poli...

So why can't we do the same with guns ? Why can we not at least restrict gun ownership to people who have proven they know how to be responsible with them ?

No problems there. Not everyone should have a gun, but anyone who is willing to learn and train and abide by the law should have that right.

I can't imagine why anybody would want one in a residence

Not saying these are high frequency occurrences, but the obvious answers:

* home invasion
* WROL scenario (riots, for example, that I have personally experienced)

Put another way, it's better to have a gun and not need one, than need a gun and not have one :)

Using a gun defensively just increases the risk of it being somebody else who dies.

Defensive use of a gun doesn't require you to discharge your weapon, just as defensive use of your car doesn't require you to sideswipe a reckless driver off the road. Simply having the weapon can be enough to deter a criminal most of the times, and more than that, just having the *chance* of having a weapon can be enough to deter a criminal most of the time. tl;dr - there's a reason why most high profile mass shootings happen in gun free zones

Optimists don't worry about negligible risks like violent crime.

Sure they do. It's idealists that don't :)

I really don't trust cops with guns - but I can't in good conscience take their guns away and let you keep yours.

Funny, I feel exactly the opposite way. Knowing the culture of "gun guys", I would much rather have the guy practicing at the range with me armed than a cop who simply requalifies once a year. In fact, given the fact that civilian use of force is so much more scrutinized, I'll even argue that civilians are much more likely to be safe with their weapons than police. A police officer who kills someone in the line of duty has the protection of his union, and a bunch of the legal system. A civilian who kills someone in self defense, even when it's completely legit, is held accountable in extreme ways.

A reasonable projection - based on the century long continuous decline in voilent crime rates - of when that reverse would come into being if it really hadn't done so already.

My problem with your choice of a century as a timescale is that there are too many confounding variables. Society, culture, technology, economy, infrastructure, have all changed dramatically over 100 years, and it's very hard to assert even a standard reporting of violent crime over that period of time.

Cognitive dissonance exercise for you (since I think you mentioned you believed in global warming obliquely) - given that 1916 was a worse time for humanity than 2016, and we experienced a change of approximately +0.8C of warming, why shouldn't we expect the same benefit from the next +0.8C of warming over the next hundred years?

A responsible gun owner, by definition, is not keeping his gun ready - that would not be responsible.

I firmly disagree. A CCW holder is a responsible gun owner, and keeps his gun ready. And even if you're not carrying in the house, if you have a proper safe, you can get to your loaded firearm in an emergency while still keeping your family safe from accidents. (Oh, and don't forget to keep your wife trained and your kids trained in safety and operation too!)

Those guys may not be any better with a gun than you - but they show up with their guns already loaded and they are q

It depends why any telco issue exists and is fixed or not fixed.
Greek wiretapping case 2004–05
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05
SISMI-Telecom scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
or why "Fake Mobile Phone Towers Operating In The UK"
http://news.sky.com/story/fake...

Last time I checked, the government wasn't trying shut him or 4chan up/down.

Our government actively shuts down speech it does not agree with.

And in Europe, government shuts down un-PC speech all the time. The new anti-troll policies are just part of the assault; these governments also collude with social media and raid the homes of people who say the "wrong" things.

Do you trust government to define what is true, and what is not, by censoring what they perceive to be untrue or "offensive"?

The next gen will not drop the telco generation or need to swamp an area with different power settings to be the new cell tower.
Its getting hard to map out. Unless all telco towers are visible/distant and a van/truck/car is also a very powerful new telco tower.
Gov and mil sites usually mask it with their very own "real" big normal looking cell tower or some very normal looking telco extender or standard contractor decorative private sector cell network.
The Greek wiretapping case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05 showed at the mil and gov level its all done via any telco network :)
also (Sep. 29 2015) https://theintercept.com/2015/...
SISMI-Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
From the UK (09 June 2015) http://news.sky.com/story/fake...

Thank you for supporting my point. You start by claiming that those women didn't "suffer" or got extradited (which would have never been an issue for Assange if he had faced the charges in Sweden instead of running away) then you ramble on about honeytraps and Afghanistan. It always come back to the smear campaign scenario.

Here's a citation.

The woman, whose name has not been disclosed, said that when the allegations became public she received threats and found it impossible to work.

She said that she was judged in a "gigantic court of public opinion with anonymous judges and witnesses who guessed wildly".

http://news.sky.com/story/juli...

There's also a good article on Slate about this. And many others. All shills and honeypots of course.

You're one of those anonymous judges and witnesses, thank you for your contribution to making the world a better place.

He's right, the Leave EU campaign was based on lies and half-facts.
And immigration was one central theme and lie, along with the lie that £350 million will go towards the NHS.

Why modded Troll, this is absolutely true.

I bet there weren't any individuals in the EU who asked them to explore the idea.

I'll bet there were, but not ordinary citizens. The whole EU project was designed with a strong authoritarian streak at its heart, it naturally attracts little oberstgruppenführer types as well as the more normal 'parasite' politicians.

..We've not been told the financial situation this country is in truthfully as it would scare the shit out of the people.

And, with stories like this appearing from the usual suspects, they're currently both in the business of attempting to scare the further shit out of people, and engineer a future crash if the Brexit vote goes against them..
If the vote does go with 'leave', then like the Irish were with the Lisbon Treaty we'll be ordered to 'vote again till we get it right' by our masters, standing by with their financial whips in their hands..

http://www.sfgate.com/science/...

I'm sorry the burden of proof is on you people. You want to say this is all global warming? Have fun substantiating that.

This is my state. I know it and I know its history. Most of the chumps commenting on this are either out of state hacks that are just bandwagoning an issue they don't understand. And the rest are mostly millennial twinks that don't know what happened yesterday much less the historic climate patterns of anywhere... even the fucking state they reside within.

http://articles.latimes.com/19...
http://news.sky.com/story/1193...
http://www.californiadrought.o...

The AGW hissy fit has gotten old. Shouldn't we be getting MORE water if your chicken little bullshit were right? After all, more heat, more humidity, more precipitation?

We brought water to the desert. Our cities do not thrive on the rain that falls on our land. It thrives on the water we bring to our land.

No part of the country has as elaborate a water transport system as California. That is what made our cities possible and is what allowed them to grow. Men that moved the water. Our population has grown and all we have to replace those old lions of the past are a bunch of head up their ass hippies that do very little besides whine and waste money.

That is why we have a problem. There is plenty of water. The old city fathers of Los Angeles would have already taken care of this bullshit. They would have gone to any of the many places in the north that have loads of fucking water and they would have made a deal. What is more, Our water system is not well designed to share water within itself. It is frequently compartmentalized. Simply by bringing water into the top of the system and then allowing reserves in the north to spill into reserves in the south... the problem solves itself.

Here someone will say "but every place needs every drop of their water". Bullshit. Oregon and Washington state are loaded with it. You talk to them and work out an arrangement. Buy it. Move it.

Here someone will say "but its hard to do things because we're so fucking incompetent!!!"... you have to imagine that with a really whiny voice to get the statement in its proper context. The Romans moved water hundreds of miles. This is the 21st century and we're talking about a major population center that is a huge economy and huge food producer... so... The fuck? Did we lose the ability to make pipes and concrete? I was unaware that level of incompetence had been reached. Because that's straight up Idiocracy levels of fuckwittery.

Unless your family medical history suggests otherwise, attempting to budget your retirement to reach 90 or 100 probably means you've deprived yourself of enjoying that wealth while you were young and healthy to no good purpose.

I would rather be the guy everyone thinks is poor for living a modest lifestyle and surprise everyone by leaving a fortune behind. Living a modest lifestyle has its own rewards.

http://news.sky.com/story/1422048/frugal-janitor-was-secret-multimillionaire

How is it that you can be so thick not to understand that if the FBI can compel Apple to unlock even ONE phone, they can compel them to unlock ALL phones.

Have you not been following? Apple has unlocked phones for the FBI (and other federal agencies) many times already. They've done it in the past and they could do it again, obviously your idea that it sets a precedent is completely false.

The FBI gets any phone unlocked that they want. Dont you GET this?

No i dont, if it is going to set a precedent then what about all the iphones apple has already unlocked for them? Why did they not set a precedent but you think this one will?

Arabic shouted before the two airport bomb blasts, according to Belgian news agency Belga. http://news.sky.com/story/1664...

There was once this couple that got carjacked by some niggers, and then they were both raped, tortured and murdered.

There was this white supremacist who with his girlfriend murdered his own father and stepmother, a 19-year old kid whom they mistakenly believed to be Jewish, and a Black man. The two were finally stopped and apprehended by a police officer.

http://newportnewstimes.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=44700&page=86
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/crime/2014/08/04/white-supremacist-sentenced-carjacking-deaths/13598589/

And this piece of work who murdered one person and wounded five others during a shooting spree that included a carjacking and a home invasion (all of which were perpetrated by him).

http://news.sky.com/story/1447897/white-supremacist-charged-with-gun-rampage

So, yeah, if we can't get these white supremacists under control maybe all right-thinking citizens ought to arm themselves after all.

Seriously? Right now, when Amnesty International is complaining that Russia is committing some of the most egregious war crimes that the world has seen in decades, you're going to complain about the US killing people? The US, the country that sat out the whole conflict until Daesh started committing genocide, and has thusfar resisted pressure from all of its allies in the region to send in ground troops or even establish a no-fly zone?

Really?

Sometimes the double standards amaze me. The US takes out one MSF hospital in Afghanistan and the world is aghast and enraged. Russia takes out four hospitals in a single day, including coming back to double-tap an MSF one later in the day, adding to the near obliteration of the hospital system they've nearly conducted in Syria thusfar. And most people's reaction? Crickets.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of the US. I was out there protesting both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But seriously people, the hypocrisy here can be cut with a knife.

I had no idea David Bowie died until I read it here on Slashdot! How come the mainstream media didn't report on this at all in the last 16 hours since it was formally announced?

I don't know where in the world you are. But in my part of the world the media have been talking about little else since early this morning.

40% of Trump voters are in favor of bombing the Kingdom of Agrabah. A third of Republicans overall. A fifth of Democrats. Agrabah is the fictional setting of Disney's Aladdin.

While the governments we have now are based on horses and pidgeons, in terms of technology, and are totally obsolete, putting people directly into power never works. Putting representatives into power never works either. Power kills.

Work to replace these ancient barbaric systems, not augment them.

Oh God, not this line of crap reasoning again.

This guy killed every person at a house party with a knife.

33 dead in mass stabbing

87 dead in Happy Land arson attack

44 killed in school bombing

Why is it so hard for people to understand that the tool is not important? In fact, the tool in the most deadly of the above attacks is was a match and some gasoline. If you read that article, you'll find that he resorted to this after not being able to get ahold of a gun. Yes, you read that right. Had he gotten a gun, the likelihood is that FAR FEWER people would have died.

No such thing happens with islam. Every day atrocities are committed in name of islam. There's a billion muslims out there who could stand up and show disgust for the atrocities. Doesn't happen.

http://news.sky.com/story/1298...

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

http://www.yourlocalguardian.c...

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/new...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Like fuck it doesn't happen. Get your head out of your ass.

It's looking increasingly likely. Apparently a Chinese water bottle and some Indonesian cleaning products have now washed up on Reunion as well.

I dunno if AC will check back or not - but in no particular order:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.reuters.com/
http://rt.com/
http://www.cbc.ca/
http://www.news.com.au/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com....
http://news.sky.com/
http://kurdishdailynews.org/
http://rt.com/
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.aljazeera.com/
http://www.china.org.cn/
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...
http://english.pravda.ru/
http://www.projectcensored.org...
http://www.arabtimesonline.com...

I think I've covered the best - be aware, some national sites are heavy into propaganda. Pravda very much so, RT somewhat less so.

Depending on your own interests - you might type in some country in a Google search, and add "times" or "post" or "news". From time to time, I do something like that - the earthquake in Tibet for instance. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=pale... That search offered up a number of sites, but I didn't add any of them to my feeds. Note that many of the hits are very politicized, but you can still find Tibetan news sources among them.

Have fun!

But that doesn't impact bonuses for the top layer.

The top layer doesn't get bonuses. RBS is owned by the UK taxpayers, is continuing to bleed cash, and will likely eventually be shut down.

Sky do at least link to this page: http://help.sky.com/articles/w... showing who has demanded the blocks.

http://news.sky.com/video/1404...

Assuming that the dead are buried safely just isn't going to happen. When you have that many people dying, nobody's going to be in a rush to join them by burying them. "Let someone else do it." And eventually, there just won't be enough people to bury all the dead even if they were willing. They'd be spending way too much time meeting their own basic survival needs in countries that are falling apart.

Nobody's going to be running to the local clinic for examination when they know that they can't even be fed there if it's confirmed they have the disease - and that's already happening.

The patient escaped from Monrovia's Elwa hospital, which last month was so crowded with cases of the deadly disease that it had to turn people away.

One woman at the scene said: "The patients are hungry, they are starving. No food, no water.

More and more, it appears the "best-case" scenario is that the disease burns itself out while being contained to only a few countries. And please keep in mind, even the UN agrees that we're going to see more of this once more diseases gain antibiotic resistance.

That's why they , hold various campaigns, negotiate with relevant parties in domestic disputes and so on.

LOL I missed that in my first reply. You've really been sold a bill of goods, and bought into some specious marketing claims

patrol the streets

Very little of police resources are used for this type of activity, but when it is, it is more properly termed "looking for someone to arrest for something."

hold various campaigns

...In an attempt to "improve their image". You've obviously bought into this marketing, but many people have not.

negotiate with relevant parties in domestic disputes

There are now federal rules (Violence Against Women Act) that generally requires an arrest to be made when a domestic call is made. The "negotiation" you're so fond of the police conducting is basically an exercise of "deciding who to arrest" and "collecting evidence on the perp". The only "prevention" aspect of this is that someone gets locked up, and prevented from beating up their domestic partner again for a day or two.

People have been detained or arrested in the UK under various iterations of the terrorism act for really pathetic things. In one example, a woman was arrested for walking on a cycle path.

http://news.sky.com/story/3792...

Given that we have already abused the terrorism laws by using them to detain and arrest people for offences that are clearly not terrorism related, how can we trust our system to hold trials in secret just because they are terrorism related ?

For all we know, these people walked on a cycle path - we have arrested people under terrorism related acts for things like this, so how can we be sure that the cause for arresting these people wasn't this trivial ?

Not a tech problem, not a tech solution.

Just check your phone when you've arrived or pull over into a parking lot if you're that desperate. Seriously, how hard is that?

Apparently for some people it's a lot harder than you would think; Driver Dies After Posting Facebook Selfie.

Does British Sky Broadcasting offer a remote storage solution?

They did: Sky Store & Share.

Closed at 2011-12-01, though: Sky Store & Share has closed

http://news.sky.com/story/1187998/meteor-mystery-as-fireball-caught-on-cctv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SdI7KnLGN8

See this article: http://www.neowin.net/news/foxconn-intern-claims-ps4-was-sabotaged-during-manufacturing Seems the workers were not happy.

Is this the same plant in Yantai where Foxconn essentially forced students to work for free on Apple and/or Sony stuff? If so, the sabotage is understandable, albeit still reprehensible.

That's 50+ years in jail. If it was a black person, there wouldn't be a problem.

FTFY.

http://news.sky.com/story/1165923/detroit-girl-shot-dead-while-seeking-help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BART_Police_shooting_of_Oscar_Grant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin

Yeah, so what's your point?

That has been in the news again recently.

MI6 Spy in a bag Gareth Williams 'probably locked himself inside it'

Two experts, working for the coroner, tried 400 times to lock themselves into the North Face bag and one claimed even Harry Houdini “would have struggled” to squeeze himself inside.

But days after the inquest a retired Army sergeant showed that it was possible and now police believe it was possible to do so. Mr Williams, a fitness fanatic, had an interest in escapology and confined spaces, visiting little known websites on the internet.

Spy In Bag: MI6 Man Probably Locked Himself In

Maybe he/she meant these poor people?

...and how does region locking play in to that? Best I can tell, you could prevent multiplayer piracy without locking people out of the game in central ohio because you think their located in London for some idiot reason.

Region locking allows them to sell the game for different prices to different regions. YES, you pay more for video games then someone in Nigeria does - get over yourself!

Also, the biggest benefit you get from region locking is the ability to do a staggered release. This is CRITICAL for a primarily multiplayer title BF4, because they don't have to deal with the server load spikes (and associated technical support peaks) you get with a simultaneous release. Or have you already forgotten what happened when Rockstar let everyone rush online at the same time?

This is a BUG - the players here were supposed to be included with the rest of the US block, but were not. But this is a bug that will fix itself, and rather quickly - they will not die from waiting another day.