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Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Five UK students who were charged under the UK's 2000 Terrorism Act for possession of jihadist materials were acquitted after the jury found that, while they had downloaded the materials, there was no evidence that they were planning any sort of crime. The Lord Chief Justice was quoted as saying, 'Difficult questions of interpretation have been raised in this case by the attempt by the prosecution to use [this law] for a purpose for which it was not intended.'"

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  1. Mirror? by anagama · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where's a mirror? I'd like to read ....

    hang on, someone's at the door.

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    1. Re:Mirror? by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Funny

      the government can't catch you as long as you use a foreign-based prox-- brb door

  2. Better solution by physicsphairy · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you don't want your students to read something, have one of their professors assign it as homework and mention that there will be no grade or quiz.

    Better yet, say there *will* be a quiz and then symlink "Jihadist Pamphlet Cliffnotes" to "Partial Differential Equations Vol. I, II, and III" in the google results.

  3. Incendiary Device by the_other_one · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read instructions on how to operate an incendiary device.
    I hope they don't arrest me for potentially committing future arson.
    I believe the instructions said "close cover strike match".

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  4. Re:Well, they are just students, after all. by anagama · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw Bush and Cheney on youtube once. So that makes two for me.

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  5. Yeah, but that just means more totalitarian action by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Expect requests for terror websites to redirect to 2girls1cup in 3... 2...

  6. I confess by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I smashed into a building in Flight Simulator(tm). Please, go easy on the water-boarding, I'm allergic to water.

  7. Frosted Butts by TurinPT · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bottle Bomb

    Ingredients:

    * 20 oz soda bottle (empty and dry on the inside)
    * black powder (the more fine the better)
    * steady burning long wick (at least 15 seconds delay) Instructions:

    o Poke a small hole in the cap of the soda bottle.
    o Pour a small amount of black powder into the bottle (just enough to cover the bottom with a thin layer, but totally covered, no empty spots on the bottom).
    o Insert wick into the cap about halfway and put a bend in the wick.
    Note: Be careful not to break the wick or it will shorten it causing possibly disastrous results.
    o Screw the cap on the bottle tightly and set somewhere so that it is standing up.
    o Light the fuse and get back about 30 feet. Watch the bottle to light up orange. The second after this happens the bottle blows up.

    How it works:
    The fuse drops onto the layer of black powder in the bottom of the bottle after it burns through the hole. The wick ignites the powder causing it to burn. This builds up pressure inside the bottle causing it to explode.
    I have seen these fly up to 25 feet. You can try experimenting with different size bottles or, try a glass bottle with a metal cap if you have steel balls!!! Note- I'm not sure it has enough pressure to blow a glass bottle apart. It may just act like a rocket engine and flare.


    There. Now were all criminals.

  8. Re:How novel by AndGodSed · · Score: 3, Funny

    For once the crazies lost a case!

  9. Re:Student or not... by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's the exact rationale I used to download the Paris Hilton sex tapes.

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  10. So what do we learn from the article? by fluch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never leave a note to your parents if you want to go fighting abroad... ...but I have to catch a plane to Afganistan ... see ya later, guys!

  11. Re:Well, they are just students, after all. by meringuoid · · Score: 3, Funny
    Germans might think about the IRA when terrorism comes up because the RAF had ties to them.

    No wonder it took so long to sort out the Provos... the bloody Air Force were secretly on their side all along?

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  12. Re:Free speech in the UK? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    I thought I was the only one in the UK who realised that, for a system to work, you need balancing pressures, and a hereditary Lords is an ideal unbribable chamber. All politicians are easily corrupted, and paying them more only makes them greedier.

    The best way to fight corruption is to grant substantial political power to a bunch of people with absolutely no qualifications, but who aren't politicians? It's amazing more people in the UK don't subscribe to that.

  13. Re:Well, they are just students, after all. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Loads - I live in ireland - practically every really old person you met while growing up would tell you about their adventures taking potshots at the british b4 they left (even ones that wern't even born at the time or had fought for the brits - these terrorist are a tricky bunch). So for me even to this day the word terrorist conjours up images of slightly senile old men, half cut on guiness smelling like they need their colostomy bag changed - a dangerous bunch indeed!!