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PRINCE CHARLES' wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles would not be postponed if the Pope's funeral was also held on Friday, a constitutional expert claims.

The Vatican today revealed that Pope John Paul II's funeral was likely to take place between Wednesday and Friday.

But Lord Fawsley said of the Royal couple: "I think they are so anxious to get April 8 out of the way. "If there was an eclipse of the sun they would stick to that date.

"I know they are absolutely determined to get it out of the way as soon as they possibly can.

"It might turn people's attention away from them, but that would not be entirely unwelcome.

"My feeling is that nothing will make them move their wedding. They just want to get it out of the way.

Lord Fawsley, a committed Catholic, added: "I do not see anything inappropriate about it.

"It is a very unfortunate thing about the English - they can never resist an invitation to a party."

Enjoy your hat, Lord Fawsley!

Here. This is the film trailer, rather than the sneek peek. Looks awesome!

Is this users of Solaris or readers of the Sun Times newspaper?

I'm guessing t_allardyce is a Brit, he's probably referring to this, uh, quality publication...

According to this interview with David Duchovny, it sounds like they want to do a "Monster of the Week" movie rather than something based on the mythology story arch (ie. aliens + government conspiracy). I'm glad to hear that, because despite the fact that I'm an X-Files fan I found that the mythology episodes got old in a hurry.

Let's hope they shoot it in Vancouver, because California doen't have that authentic spooky feel that the X-Files used so well in its first few seasons.

Although as this is The Sun, I wouldnt put it past them to make articles up...

"...some people get their news in a way they could never before, most of them just get a bunch of untrue gossip and sensasionalist trivia. And that's exactly what they wanted." You can get that today, its called The Sun.

Darn, and here I thought it'd be another article about the new exploding wonderbras.

Can't ?????????? words of more than one ????????? Try the ??????? from ??????? ???????'s ????? UK ???????, The Sun.

The Sun is good, but it still has a few big words in it. I will fix the few big words for you:

Egg-heads said we need to guard us from blitz of death bugs -- from Mars.

They fear space probes that scout Mars may taint Earth with bugs when they get back.

Egg-heads say we could be at risk of ills for which there are no cures.

The heads up comes after egg-heads looked at finds from the probe which put down on Mars in Jan.

One egg-head of the Feds said lots and lots of big words so it didn't make much sense. All I can quote is: "...with... or... to Mars, we must... for..."

He said it looks more and more like life has been on Mars.

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Can't understand words of more than one syllable? Try the version from Rupert Murdoch's other UK tabloid, The Sun.

TheSun is what i call a newspaper for Ken and Barby, reflecting the depth of the souls reading it. Some say TheSun is more for smarter ppl these days. I guess they might have a point here as in these times its wise to be rather superficial.

Robert

the rest of the world watches news - america watches fox

Actually there's this assumption that the US news tends to be a lot worse than the rest of the world's; I mean -- it's bad, but it's mostly just notable because it's so exported.

I mean -- Fox News, as bad as it is -- is still quite a step up from Germany's most popular newspaper, Bild Zeitung ("Picture Times"), or how about England's most read paper, The Sun ?

It's easy to look at Fox from inside the US and think, "Wow, this is terrible..." and it is, but that's not a unique phenomenon to the US and just as the UK tends to export The Guardian, the BBC, the Economist -- or Germany the Frankfurter Algemeine, Speigel or Die Zeit the US tends to export CNN, Newsweek, the New York Times, the New Yorker and so on. That's not to say that any of those are perfect, but they're markedly better.

Finally you could do away with the BBC, the last source of REAL news and get the bullshit that is on American TV every day.

You mean like people masturbating pigs? Seems like Britain already has it's share of "bullshit" and there's no need to drag America through the slop this time.

I'm sure you were just referring to our news programming, right? I can get all the news coverage I want on the internet and I don't have to pay any outrageous taxes for that. So thanks for the jab at America, I know it's hard to resist doing so. It's so cliched for Europeans and others to trashtalk the United States. Too bad they can't see that their own countries have just as many stupid laws and practices; there's are just different but no less idiotic.

I guess I'm just too nerdy, for I have a hard time understanding the value of something like this. When I look at a piece of abstract/modern art like this I can note the skill and effort that was involved, but I don't follow any of the social or emotional sentements that others seem to freely associate. (I'm not alone in this, apparently, either.)

Can someone clue me in? What's the secret? Is there some special brain implant or drug I didn't get at birth or something?

I'm sure they "lost" the watch right onto their wrist later that day. As for the Laptop, Who knows.

• The current population of the US,
• The base of the Taliban and al-Qa'ida,
• A question about the Euro (I can't believe ANY Europeans could've possibly got this wrong),
• A question about Kashmir,
• The location of the US on a world map (the Russians, Japanese, Mexicans, Italians, and Swedish all did better at locating their own countries),

I wouldn't expect the average person to know the answer to some of the questions (for example, the question on El Nino), but the ones above are real howlers. I think part of the problem is the 'tabloid culture' that exists (on this side of the Atlantic, anyway). People need to stop reading toilet paper and start reading real newspapers.

And just for the record, I got 18 out of 20. I guessed the religion question wrong and incorrectly stated that China and Russia both have populations of over a billion.

I think the UK tabloid newspaper, The Sun might object to borrowing the "Sun Bird", especially when it reaches version 0.3 ;)

you just have to lick all the chocolate off it.

The Ox Stu (as the paper is known) is the student tabloid. It has been sensationalist, self-agrandising and eager for attention grabbing headlines. Breifly, it is the nearest Oxford equivalent of the Sun. No-one in the UK puts much store by the journalistic ethics of the Sun's journalists, and I don't think we should take these guys seriously either: the writers of the article are publishing "in the public interest" - to promote themselves perhaps as "hard-hitting investigative journalists".

And a literary magazine called The sun, that does mostly personal essays, fiction, interviews, poetry, and photographs.

I've never seen it described that way before!
Although now you mention it, its does publish a lot of fiction and the page 3 photographs aren't bad...

Pimples, zits and blemishes galore. Heres the article. The Sun

For non-UK ./'ers, Page 3 is a page in one of our more popular tabloids, The Sun, that publishes a large picture of a semi-naked lady every day. In fact, Page 3 is the only reason anyone ever buys The Sun.

Our country has been reduced to a giant open prison, with cameras monitoring our movements to realtime analysis of data and communication, sometimes i wonder what D-Day was all about, all those yanks/uk/russia/human beings died and for what ? fucking waste
no wonder i don't log in to comment

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/03/text_punk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004252004,,0 0.html

By HARRIET ARKELL
and JOHN KAY, Chief Reporter
PUNK rock fan Mike Devine sent an innocent text message containing lyrics by The Clash -- and was quizzed as a terror suspect after it was INTERCEPTED.

Computer worker Mike, 35, was confronted by a Special Branch cop at his office and taken for a grilling.

He was stunned to be shown a printout of his text which contained the words "gun" and "jet airliner".

Mike, who in his spare time plays bass in a Clash tribute group, had sent the lyric from the song Tommy Gun to a bandmate a month earlier.

Grilled ... fan Mike

The cop accepted his explanation and let Mike go. But last night experts said the amazing incident proved NO phone call or text was now safe from monitoring in the war on terror. Mike, of Bristol -- who works for mobile firm Orange -- admitted: "I was bricking it."

He told how his tribute band London Calling -- named after a Clash album -- had been struggling to remember a line in Tommy Gun. His text to singer Reg Shaw, 35, read:

"How about this for Tommy Gun? OK -- SO LET'S AGREE ABOUT THE PRICE AND MAKE IT ONE JET AIRLINER FOR TEN PRISONERS."

Mike told how he was leaving a meeting at work last week when a Special Branch detective introduced himself.

Mike said: "I was thinking, 'God, what have I done?' We went into a room and sat down and he asked me if I knew about Special Branch.

"I said, 'Yes' -- even though I didn't really.

"He asked me lots of questions about my phone, such as was this my number and did I use it at the end of April. Then he produced a printout of a text and asked me if I had sent it.

Punk idols ... The Clash
Picture: REX

"I said, 'That's the lyrics from Tommy Gun'. I explained, 'I'm in a tribute band and was sending the lyrics to the singer.'

"The bloke said, 'Oh I see' and looked a bit embarrassed."

The song, written in the late 1970s, is about terrorists.

Mike said: "It hadn't even occurred to me that it might look a bit dodgy. The man wrapped the interview up quite quickly. I was so relieved to find out that was all it was. It was quite nerve-racking for Special Branch to come looking for you at work."

Terrorism expert Chris Dobson said: "It is clear from this incident that the computers at the GCHQ listening operation in Cheltenham have been programmed to listen in on all vocal and textual mobile phone traffic.

"They are probably programmed to pick out key words like bomb and hostage.

"Having this kind of surveillance is the price we have to pay in a modern society to protect us from terrorists."
# ARMED cops arrested council worker David Grey, 59, in Lanchester, Co Durham, after he told colleagues at his leaving do: "The chief executive should think himself bloody lucky I'm not the kind of person to use a gun." He spent 17 hours in a cell before being freed without charge.

If its not democratic then howcome I've just had a letter through telling me when and where to go and vote for our euro minister.

Stop spreading FUD spewed forth by the Sun

installing it on a high shelf.

Holy crap, I know!

That London newspaper is the Sun, it is a national tabloid and also Britians most popular paper. The topless girls can be found on page 3, unless there has been some tragic event in the world, in which case out of common decency they don't.

The page three girls can be found here. Enjoy :)

Change "Linux Users" for "Muslims" and "Internet Zealots" for "Terrorists" and you've practically got a story worth of The Sun. And here I'd come to expect better of the BBC.

X-Ray girl "sees" broken bones


By LUCY HAGAN

THE SUN has brought the incredible X-ray eyes girl to Britain and seen her amazing powers at first hand.

Russian Natasha Demkina, 17, has stunned doctors in her home country with her ability to see medical conditions inside people.

We flew her 1,500 miles to London to demonstrate her extraordinary powers on Sun reporter Briony Warden, who suffered multiple injuries when she was knocked down by a car in October last year.

She is still recovering from the hit-and-run and uses crutches or a wheelchair to get around.

Before Natasha arrived at Briony's North London home, our reporter removed a leg brace and hid all clues to her injuries.

Then the petite blonde teenager, who looks years younger than her age, began her examination.

Briony, 36, said: "I stood up and let her eyes scan over my fully-clothed body.

"Her pupils dilated and she seemed to go into a trance for a couple of minutes.

"Straight away she began identifying a pain site at the base of my spine which she called a 'blockage'.

"In fact I have four healing spinal fractures and some nerve damage.

"She described my pelvic area as being asymmetrical and pointed to the right side -- where I suffered several fractures.

"Pointing to my jaw, she reported seeing a 'hard, alien part' - it was exactly the spot where a titanium plate holds my bones together.

"The most astonishing moment was when she saw the injuries to my left leg.

"Both the tibia and fibula bones -- the two below the knee -- are broken. I was amazed as she identified the two separate breaks and told me I had problems bending my knee joint.

"Then she said she saw 'traces of several metal pins and screws' which had left their mark on the bone.

"She could not possibly know, without seeing the scars, that until two weeks ago my leg was held together by half-a-dozen pins and screws.

"She even said the scars where the screws had been were covered over with new tissue -- which is exactly what my last X-ray showed."

Stunned Briony added: "Natasha is amazing. I was very sceptical at first but after just a few minutes she focused on my major fractures.

"I was very impressed. It was as though she was looking at X-rays of me. Only my orthopaedic consultant could have known more."

After the examination we told Natasha about Briony's accident.

She said: "I can see she is healing very well."

Natasha first demonstrated her extraordinary ability at the age of ten, when she told her stunned mum Tatyana she could see "two beans", "a tomato" and a "vacuum cleaner" inside her.

The child was referring to Tatyana's kidneys, heart and intestines but did not know their names. Doctors at first refused to accept that her astonishingly-accurate descriptions were genuine. But exhaustive tests have failed to discover any trickery at work.

The teenager is famous in her home town of Saransk, the capital of Mordovia -- a Russian republic 400 miles east of Moscow.

People queue down the stairs outside the family's flat, waiting to be assessed by Natasha. She calls her power "medical vision" and believes it is a divine gift.

Speaking through a translator, she said: "The only way I can explain it is that my brain sees before my eyes. I seem to have two visions -- one is normal, the other I call medical vision. I can see inside the human body but not through it. If someone held something behind their back I wouldn't see it."

Natasha summons her "medical vision" by focusing on her subject for around two minutes.

Recalling the first time it happened, she said: "At first I was disgusted, then I became used to it. It seems normal now and if I don't see anyone for a while I miss the experience."

Natasha's family believe her powers were triggered when she suffered complications from a childho

FWIW, I've been watching the BBC covering the Hutton enquiry on TV today, and did not feel that their coverage was anything other than even-handed. Naturally they will want to present their case, but any journalist should be presenting the BBC's case - aswell as that of Hutton, UK Government and all other parties involved.

There is no possibility for anybody not to have a perceived possibility of bias when reporting on a story that involves them, especially when it is in a negative way. But what are they supposed to do; not report on it at all, hire CNN's coverage or something?

I find it irking to see my TV licence fee money be used for website advertising, but have no problem with the concept of an involved party advertising their coverage - or indeed side of the story.

For those looking for a convenient summary, The Sun, a UK tabliod who broke the story after receiving a leak, manages to make an exception to a deserved reputation with an accurate representation of the report. I think the key thing to take away from it is that all sides take some fault one way or another, though the weaknesses of the editorial systems at the BBC take the brunt of the critisism. There's no apparent implication of any deliberate underhand shenanigans.

The Sun 'sexes up' page three every day.

The BBC didn't sex up the dossier. They accused the UK Goverment of doing so. The Hutton Report officially is released today, (28th Jan 2004), at 12:30[GMT]. One newspaper, (News International's The Sun), is claiming they have a leaked copy of said report, and according to them the BBCs reporter "Gilligan is effectively accused of LYING in a bombshell broadcast blaming Number Ten for "sexing up" a dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction." source http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2004041477,00.h tml

Read about it here

I really hope you will just be able to copy files to these new mini iPods with ordinary file management software (i.e. Explorer on Windows, cp and friends) and have them playable on the iPod. I don't want to use iTunes or MusicMatch bloatware, especially as you need Win2k or XP to use iTunes on Windows (and yes, even though Windows 98 has been 'retired', there are still a heck of a lot of people using it. Trust me).

There are no Saddam loyalists.

Bullcrap.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article= 36512&d=16&m=12&y=2003
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/specia l_packages/iraq/7511113.htm
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003580992,00 .html

The freedom fighters are just that - fighting for control of their own country.

They don't have to fight- Iraqis get control of the country at the end of June.

You can't dismiss as everyone who is anti-US as an Islamic terrorist

I didn't, and on the same note, you can't dismiss the entire nation of Iraq as anti-US. We are doing a lot of good in Iraq, and they are appreciative (unlike some countries)

Economic sanctions mean nothing if one or more countries are willing to ignore them.

There was an arms embargo on Iraq, remember? Well, somehow Iraq ended up with some pretty new French missiles, which were used to fire upon the Baghdad hotel a couple of weeks ago.

With friends like the French, who needs enemas.

There was an arms embargo on Iraq, remember? Well, somehow Iraq ended up with some pretty new French missiles, which were used to fire upon the Baghdad hotel a couple of weeks ago.

With friends like the French, who needs enemas.

And get in trouble with Rupert Murdoch?

Revoke the Sun? Please do! There are too many tabloids around anyway.

Well, the ever-groovy The Sun thinks it will be that chap who played Egg on This Life according to this story.

I think we can excuse any non-Brits for not knowing who he is.

The Sun Was There!

In other words, I'm just pointing out that the British tabloid had picked this up first, but I'll be instantly modded to -1 troll for my subject line before anyone actually clicks the link. Oh well, I've got karma to bur-....nevermind. =P

Am I the only one here to think that maybe they're actually doing this for the very reasons they quote - i.e. they're scared to death at the idea of being associated with all these net-paedophiles stuff ?

Clueless journalists are just as dangerous for MS as they are for others (note: I'm talking from the UK, homeland of such some monuments of fair, objective et reliable reporting as The Sun). They've seen those stories about paedophiles "hunting" over the internet, and they know how 'sensitive' the public is about anything related to paedophilia (Britain is also the place were angry mobs assaulted a doctor's house because they confused the word 'Paediatrician' with 'Paedophile').

This may be a much more compelling reason than locking out a few thousands 3rd party clients.

Thomas Miconi-

It got moderated by a sun reader.

For those of you wondering what this whole SCO vs. Linux thing was about, I can finally reveal the truth.

As chairman and CEO of Canopy I've done a lot for the Open Source community. I've promoted investments in companies like Linux Networx, who make the third fastest supercomputer in the world and use Linux to do it. Companies like Lineo the masters of embedded Linux. Also Trolltech producing the incredible QT widget set used by the KDE project. And of course Caldera, producing the finest Linux distribution and pushing forwards the United Linux initiative.

But one shadow lay over my record of achievements. Despite all I had done for the Linux and Open Source communities, I still had never achieved the triumph I most desperately sought. Not once had an article I submitted been accepted by Slashdot :(

I'm sure my fellow Slashdotters can understand how this gnawed away at my soul.

Together with Darl McBride and David Boies I hatched a master plan, to achieve my dream of an accepted Slashdot article or to destroy Linux trying.

Caldera would purchase IP rights from the Santa Cruz Operation and with funding from Sun and Microsoft would use them as the springboard to launch a devastating legal and PR blitz against Linux. As part of this Darl would write a searing open letter to the Open Source community, drawing responses in return. One of these from Groklaw would give me the opportunity I needed...

As you can see everything has gone exactly to plan. I have my successful Slashdot submission, and I'm sure that looking back on it you can all see it was worth any 'collateral damage' along the way.

Darl, you can call off the dogs now.

God bless you all.

Ralphie

It's worth noting that the fish wrap this article appeared in a tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, a man whose publications are not known for their in-depth reporting skills. The Sun is only slightly more fact based than, that bastion of journalistic integrity, the Weekly World News .

What? Are you trying to tell me this story isn't true either?

It'd be so utterly hopelessly fallible that they'd pull the plug on it in months and we'd never see its like again. We just don't have the technology for this level of snooping, and anybody who thinks about this story for more than five seconds will realise as much and carry on.

For those of you not familiar with The Sun's "journalism, go check out their website for your taste of Great British Journalism. This is the paper which brought you such great headlines as "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster", folks.

Since the handgun ban, crime has steadily gotten
much much much much worse. :) So much for the myth of the safer britain.

So I assume that focus was to get all the babes? :)

If only he'd waited a week more for this story to circulate the net.

but it's used to pay for Stephen Hawking's cover charge