Those in authority always go for the easiest targets. If I was a cop I'd much prefer to be arresting teenage kids on bullshit charges than dodging the lead trying to prevent real crimes.
If I must move away from Perl then I prefer Ruby to Python. I dislike the way that Ruby and Python both treat whitespace as significant. I hate having to start a block which I'm supplying to.each on the same line as the.each .
The point is that the people being surveilled aren't terrorists. Phil Woollas knows perfectly well that any repressive policy can be falsely justified on the grounds that - as well as millions of innocent people - it catches a small number of people who have actually committed genuine crimes.
When in the future Stockwell-style shootings have become more widespread, the government will be issuing press releases to say that among the 150 people shot dead by the police in tube stations this week, 2 of them were subsequently found to have previous convictions for dropping litter. This is what Geoff Hoon meant when he said he was prepared to 'go quite a long way in undermining civil liberties.'
In all these New Labour surveillance stories there's always an attempt at justification on the grounds that n arrests for serious crimes have resulted (never n convictions btw). Of course, the corollary is that 74,999,999 of the 75 million passengers mentioned in the quote have been wrongly suspected of those serious crimes.
I call on Phil Woolas to visit every single one of those people and deliver a personal apology for falsely suspecting them.
If this turns out to be anything like as bad as series 7 and 8, they needn't bother. It'll make Russell T Davies comic parody remake of Doctor Who look like a faithful homage to the original.
The UK government uses 'child protection' to justify a wide range of authoritarian measures. It's even better than 'national security' because, after all, only a witch would defend a witch. Burn them!
"when did it become private enterprise's problem to pay for law enforcement?"
That happened when private enterprise realised it needed help from the state to protect its ill-gotten gains.
"Actually, we do know who killed JFK: Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone"
Sure, using a rifle that he couldn't possibly have fired quickly enough to produce the shots that were heard.
The only unexplained question here that's suitable for an X file is how anyone still believes the official explanation.
Burnham will probably decide, after an expensive and extended study by a firm of private consultants who just happen to be major donors to New Labour, that the idea is inefficient.
It will then be replaced by a scheme where anyone falsely accused of copyright violation will be ruthlessly gunned down by armed police at Stockwell tube station.
I'd be pleased if I could get back 20 minutes of the time I spent watching the first series of New Who. It's a nothing but a spiteful parody of the original show.
Phase 1 - transmit power wirelessly. Phase 3 - Profit.
I believe Phase 2 - prevent anything and anyone that comes between the transmitter and receiver from being fried - will prove crucial. And I speak with authority, having several times dealt with Microwave Oops disasters in Sim City 2000.
This is excellent news - since New Labour gave the police the power to arrest people for trivial offences, large numbers of people who were never even subsequently charged had DNA samples forcibly taken and added to the database. Hopefully we can progress from here to dismantling the other parts of the police state New Labour have created.
Excellent news, hopefully this is another step towards getting the whole thing cancelled. What were New Labour thinking when they decided that demolishing half of East London for this project was a good idea?
Ideally any costs arising from the cancellation can be recovered by personal surcharges on the most prominent Olympic collaborators.
Same old same old from the authoritarians on here. So long as someone gets put in jail, it doesn't matter that registering with a website under a net name is made a criminal offence along the way.
I just hope they registered with Slashdot under their full legal names, that's all I hope. Are you football or baseball?
Recession may well mean that people want cash for their contributions. OP fails to recognise that recession will equally mean that there will be less cash to pay them with.
Such a shame to see Wikipaedia being associated with the national curriculum - brought in by the Tories to make sure that schools didn't teach anything that departed from the government line.
My normally trusty kvm switch went tits-up just after I tested procmon. I'm typing this via the on-screen keyboard - now I know how archy the cockroach felt.
Professional organisations as advocated in the article are worse than useless - they invariably end up doing the state's dirty work for it by excluding from the industry those who have displeased the government. And they are as undemocratic as any corrupt union, because workers in such 'professions' have no choice but to join the organisation.
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Those in authority always go for the easiest targets. If I was a cop I'd much prefer to be arresting teenage kids on bullshit charges than dodging the lead trying to prevent real crimes.
If I must move away from Perl then I prefer Ruby to Python. I dislike the way that Ruby and Python both treat whitespace as significant. I hate having to start a block which I'm supplying to .each on the same line as the .each .
I hope that the prison rape enthusiasts who post comments on here will learn their lesson from this story.
It may be a 'doctoral' degree but it's given after three years of instruction, and no research. It's certainly not an equivalent to a PhD.
'Don't fall under suspicion'
True, after all I used to enjoy smoking but that didn't mean it was beneficial to me, or anyone else in the same room, in the long term.
The point is that the people being surveilled aren't terrorists. Phil Woollas knows perfectly well that any repressive policy can be falsely justified on the grounds that - as well as millions of innocent people - it catches a small number of people who have actually committed genuine crimes. When in the future Stockwell-style shootings have become more widespread, the government will be issuing press releases to say that among the 150 people shot dead by the police in tube stations this week, 2 of them were subsequently found to have previous convictions for dropping litter. This is what Geoff Hoon meant when he said he was prepared to 'go quite a long way in undermining civil liberties.'
In all these New Labour surveillance stories there's always an attempt at justification on the grounds that n arrests for serious crimes have resulted (never n convictions btw). Of course, the corollary is that 74,999,999 of the 75 million passengers mentioned in the quote have been wrongly suspected of those serious crimes. I call on Phil Woolas to visit every single one of those people and deliver a personal apology for falsely suspecting them.
If this turns out to be anything like as bad as series 7 and 8, they needn't bother. It'll make Russell T Davies comic parody remake of Doctor Who look like a faithful homage to the original.
The UK government uses 'child protection' to justify a wide range of authoritarian measures. It's even better than 'national security' because, after all, only a witch would defend a witch. Burn them!
"when did it become private enterprise's problem to pay for law enforcement?" That happened when private enterprise realised it needed help from the state to protect its ill-gotten gains.
"Actually, we do know who killed JFK: Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone" Sure, using a rifle that he couldn't possibly have fired quickly enough to produce the shots that were heard. The only unexplained question here that's suitable for an X file is how anyone still believes the official explanation.
Good to see us rationalists getting a name check (and emphatic gesture).
Burnham will probably decide, after an expensive and extended study by a firm of private consultants who just happen to be major donors to New Labour, that the idea is inefficient. It will then be replaced by a scheme where anyone falsely accused of copyright violation will be ruthlessly gunned down by armed police at Stockwell tube station.
I'd be pleased if I could get back 20 minutes of the time I spent watching the first series of New Who. It's a nothing but a spiteful parody of the original show.
Phase 1 - transmit power wirelessly. Phase 3 - Profit. I believe Phase 2 - prevent anything and anyone that comes between the transmitter and receiver from being fried - will prove crucial. And I speak with authority, having several times dealt with Microwave Oops disasters in Sim City 2000.
The sooner the IWF is stripped of its charity status the better.
This is excellent news - since New Labour gave the police the power to arrest people for trivial offences, large numbers of people who were never even subsequently charged had DNA samples forcibly taken and added to the database. Hopefully we can progress from here to dismantling the other parts of the police state New Labour have created.
Excellent news, hopefully this is another step towards getting the whole thing cancelled. What were New Labour thinking when they decided that demolishing half of East London for this project was a good idea? Ideally any costs arising from the cancellation can be recovered by personal surcharges on the most prominent Olympic collaborators.
Same old same old from the authoritarians on here. So long as someone gets put in jail, it doesn't matter that registering with a website under a net name is made a criminal offence along the way. I just hope they registered with Slashdot under their full legal names, that's all I hope. Are you football or baseball?
Yeah, push off, Tennant, you gurning Gordon Brittas lookalike, and take New Who and its chips/mobile phone/slapper campery with you.
Recession may well mean that people want cash for their contributions. OP fails to recognise that recession will equally mean that there will be less cash to pay them with.
Such a shame to see Wikipaedia being associated with the national curriculum - brought in by the Tories to make sure that schools didn't teach anything that departed from the government line.
My normally trusty kvm switch went tits-up just after I tested procmon. I'm typing this via the on-screen keyboard - now I know how archy the cockroach felt.
Professional organisations as advocated in the article are worse than useless - they invariably end up doing the state's dirty work for it by excluding from the industry those who have displeased the government. And they are as undemocratic as any corrupt union, because workers in such 'professions' have no choice but to join the organisation.