Well, maybe, maybe knot (sorry!) ; but it shouldn't take a rocket surgeon or brain scientist to work out which is more likely to kick you in the nuts - a field of wheat or a horse that doesn't know you.
Exactly why I advocate adopting a monetary system in base 7.
That would be for use on Mondays, Wednesdays and alternating Fridays? Decimal for Tuesdays, Thursdays and the other Fridays. And for the nostalgic amongst us, bring back duodecimal on weekends.
Over in parts of the UK i believe its illegal to even have a model gun, so having a lego weapon would be a crime in itself.
By "parts of the UK", I take it that you mean Scotland, as that's the only part of the UK that has a different legal system to the rest of the UK (Northern Ireland has a separate legal system to the remainder of the UK, but I don't believe that it's significantly different). But you're wrong ; it has never been illegal to own a model gun, or even to make one, in the same way that it has never been illegal to own, make or repair a chair leg. However, it has always been unwise to carry a model gun (or a chair leg) in public, or in circumstances where you could come into conflict with the police. People have died in the past for this, and will die in the future.
Two examples :
a number of years ago an amateur carpenter was repairing a chair leg for a friend - I believe turning a duplicate of an existing leg. As arranged, he goes to meet the friend to deliver the replacement at a pub. Friend wasn't there, beer was consumed, carpenter walks out of pub with chair leg in it's bag to be greeted by "Armed Police! Drop the weapon!" A few seconds of confusion, a few bullets fly, and a cover-up ensues. (One significant fact : the pub was popular with the resident Irish.)
Man comes home from pub pissed up with a friend. They have an argument and the friend gets kicked out. Abuse is exchanged through the window, while the resident is lighting a fag with a novelty lighter shaped like a revolver. Calls to the police from neighbours, roads are blocked off, people evacuated, a 4 hour "siege", and eventually the police go in through the door with explosives, tear gas and weapons drawn. Fortunately no casualties.
It's a crazy world. You're glad you don't live here? Well, I suspect that I'm glad you don't live here either.
well, a simple compass would be easy: you just wire the feedback to the nerve to how close you point your arm to the north.
[SIGH] A compass points to the localmagnetic north (or south), not to "north" in any other sense. OK, it may seem trivial to some people, but there's about 5 degrees difference here, and 7 degrees of difference at my last work site. And that site, the magnetic variation changed by nearly 3 degrees across the site, due to the presence of magnetic rock intrusions nearby which hardened under a different magnetic field orientation and remember that orientation. "Simply" and "magnetic compass" do not go together except for the crudest of applications. A 7 degree steering error from the summit of Ben Nevis, for example, would put you either freefalling down Tower Gully or avalanching down Five-Finger Gully, depending on which way you made the error.
So, I wouldn't be justified in publishing information about Mark Thatcher being involved in trying to steal a country, solely on the basis that he's the child of Margaret Thatcher, milk snatcher?
New product coming out of the software division ; we needed to print off around a hundred sets of manuals for upgrading existing clients. Quote from the print shop that we've used previously was around £5000 ; CapEx for an appropriate colour laser printer was around £2000 ; OpEx (paper, toner, comb-binding) brought the costs to a quite close match to the printers. We got the colour laser. (We still use the printer for marketing materials, brochures, etc.)
Each major revision, we did the same calculation ; the previous time the price difference was about 3:1 ; the time before that it was implausible to do such a job outside a print shop, which we didn't want to set up.
If the sums work for you, get the colour laser ; if they don't, don't.
(I write that in the certain knowledge that the HP colour inkjet that I got in response to the wife's demands for something she can print photos on is currently dead, and has printed something like 200 pages at £0.50/page for CapEx and the same in OpEx in it's 3 years of life. I still don't understand why she insisted on that, but she understands the sums now.)
Doesn't that still seem like quite a long time? Four months?
Have you ever tried wiring up the interior of anything built into a shipping container? It seems like a quite reasonable build speed to me, having been involved with the building/ rebuilding of a half-dozen containerised laboratories over the years.
Firstly, if you're using a standard shipping container to simplify movement issues, then you've got to stick to the dimensions, weights and stiffnesses specified for such containers. Otherwise you also need to specify special transport arrangements, unusual crane lifts. Bang goes your "standardisation" justification. That requirement limits the number, size and area of doors you can use to access the interior. Sure, you can build it on an open frame, then put it on the back of a lorry, ship it, and spend the next 6 months ripping it apart on site to find out what got damaged in transit. That in turn constrains the number of technicians that you can get working inside the unit at one time. Personal experience says that you can't realistically get more than 4 people working in one at once before elbows clash enough to slow things down. If you need more people on the job, dump the 8-hour working day for two or 3 shifts. That these units contain lots of standardised 19" racks will help in one respect - you can build and test the racks in the workshop, haul them into the unit, wire them up to the test loom (don't "save time" here, please ; "short cuts make long delays") and if they pass, connect them up fully. But this would be counteracted by the high rack density, and the need for cooling pipework (gas or liquid). The plumbing is going to be "fun". For suitably small values of "fun". I'd be strongly tempted to plan on building the plumbing and commissioning it before anything more than basic power and lighting goes into the shell. which begs the question of building and testing the interconnects as the first (hardest to remove) racks go in. You really don't want to pour water all over the back racks when testing the penultimate racks. Details depend on the technology chosen.
The timescale doesn't sound too unrealistic to me ; I've done similar jobs, and while they're not as bad as scraping up guinea-pig shit, they're harder work than my present job.
I would buy the typewriter before I would buy an Interwebs-capable machine because there would be a smaller chance of finding someone else's semen in the keyboard.
Oh, to be young again, and devoid of imagination!
Actually, seriously, I lost my virginity to one of my sister's girlfriends with her propped up against the typewriter which she was meant to be teaching me to type with. On. Using. Something.
He never said the slavery wasn't bad. Merely that most people's conceptions of every "massa" trotting out the whip at the drop of a pin is generally inaccurate.
Of course the "massa" wouldn't get out the whip at every random opportunity. What do you think he ("Massa") gives his overseer slave a better hut and an extra serving of food for? It's to energise his whip arm. As the old joke goes - you don't buy a dog and then bark for yourself.
If you're doing a document for company use, you're on a corporate network were there are shared folders for... wait for it... sharing.
Reasonable enough for most environments. Of course, it rather breaks down when you have staff working at remote locations, whose network access (if they have ANY ; 'no internet access for contractors' is still a common policy) is through a client's network and it's attendant firewalls which are set up to block exactly this sort of data leak.
Also everybody has the same version of document editing software.
Oh, come on, you're joking aren't you? For our IN-HOUSE specialist software we have about 4 versions in use at the moment (depending on the whims and licensing of particular clients) ; commodity software like MS-Orifice means that we get whatever was the default when a particular machine was brought, so we've at least 3 different versions of Word going around in the office, and it's a complete dice-roll whether a particular machine has PowerPoint, or even the PowerPoint viewer. Things may be different in a mega-corp with 28000 identical desktops in each of 14 cubicle farms, but most people work in much smaller companies with much more piecemeal environments. (And even in the mega-corp, the localisation can screw things up ; getting the right currency symbols across a multi-language, multi-script document is another lottery.)
Seriously? They could impound any servers in America, arrest, try, convict and kill any staff and/ or users. And for the rest of the world? Who gives a fuck ; they'd only have taken down one country's access to it's local WikiLeaks mirrors.
I don't know, and I'm slightly thankful that I can't think of anyone I know who is likely to know at the moment. On the other hand, I can think of several people who might relish the challenge. There's a zoo a couple of hundred miles away which I think has some camels.
Tell you what, you go and blow a camel over the weekend, and I'll round up the various bestiality homos I can think of and see if I can persuade them to go to the zoo one night. We can compare notes next week?
Drink it straight down. No noticeable problems with drying out the throat. You're not drinking the stuff by the litre, after all. (What would the lethal dose of pure ethanol be? In the order of a half-litre?)
Hmmm, my braincell tells me that injection of significant quantities of high-grade ethanol into the stomach has been used as a method of inducing stomach cancers in rodents. Don't know where I know that from. But so what? It's not as if anyone was unaware that the "toxic" in "intoxication" is the same "toxic" that you see in "toxic", and means "toxic".
No, you can drink pure ethanol. Not much of it, but you can drink it.
Confirmed, from personal experience. A friend would bring a 250ml bottle of absolute ethanol down to the mountaineering club's new year meets to see the old year out with a kick. Biological grade reagent - several hundred pounds per bottle at the time. The exact concentration is a bit dubious, because it's hygroscopic (absorbs water from the atmosphere), but it's close enough to "100%" to satisfy the chemist in my background. It's more like "inhaling" than "drinking" ; you can barely taste it and it's main progress is a wave of cold fire into the back of your throat.
Give me a still and a fire to fuel her by... (to mis-quote Earendil, or the Ancient Mariner, or someone).
35% - witout RTFA, I know it'll be a "fortified drink", which is perfectly respectable as long as that's how it's described. Is that those nutters from Peterhead again? I'm still trying to get some of their "Speedball". Pere Trappistier for the Belgians ; "Shotgun" for me ; nothing wrong with a Penguin joining the illustrious company though.
Yeeeeah. He was... fishing... at night, in stormy weather, a thousand miles off the coast of Somalia, but within 300 yards of the only merchant ship within 50 nautical miles.
If you care to learn a little geography (yes, I know that it'll make your penis smaller and attract the unwelcome attention of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities ; but that's a small enough price to pay), you'd learn that the "Horn of Africa" sticks out into the middle of one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world - the stream of traffic going to and from the Suez Canal. Which is why it's one of the busiest areas for piracy in the world. I'll give you another hint : ships, just like airplanes, strive to travel great circle routes between the geographical constraints of their route (start, finish, headlands...) because it's cheaper. Put yourself in the position of someone paying 1$ per tonne-kilometre to ship your 40-tonne container of goods from point A to point B which are 5000km apart (great circle distance); you look at the tenders from two shipping companies, one of whom allows 500km extra travel between points A and B to allow for priate avoidance (going an extra 200km out to sea form the Horn of Africa, for example). That's $20000 extra on your shipping charges. Your insurance company will pay if your cargo is stolen. Will you, out of the goodenss of your heart, pay an extra $20000 of shipping charges to protect the seamen that you've never met? Are you going to pass that charge on to your customers? Like fuck you are. You're going to go with the lowest bidder. And the shipping company is going to fire the most expensive captains.
Oh, just for completeness, the article mentions a lot of piracy off the Nigerian coast ; certainly true ; but they don't mention the Damnation Alley of piracy : the Mollucca Straits. With Singapore not far from one end. Channeling lots of shiploads of high-value goods into one congested area. A journalist friend of mine was writing articles about this for 'Lloyds List' for the last ten years until his retirement ; it's not a new problem, it's just a better-known problem these days.
unless you're saying that the mere fact that the mom and her son are from Mexico somehow implies they're undocumented, i really don't see how you could even come close to the conclusion they're not here legally.
Well, why was their nationality even mentioned, if it wasn't relevant? Someone thought that it was relevant enough to mention it in the article, and since the largest two issues that I hear Americans complaining about in a "Mexican" context are illegal immigrants and low-level drug dealers (the high level dealers all of course being American through and through) one can only conclude that the article's authors wanted people to draw the inference that mother and child are illegal immigrant drug dealers. If that's the inference that a foreigner can draw, then I think the woman has a pretty good case for smacking the newspaper with a good solid libel suit ASAP.
if anything, the mother's hounding of the police for not finding her son sooner could be seen as evidence that she and her son are in the US legally, as it's usually the undocumented folks who are reluctant to even speak with law enforcement.
That is a good point in her defence, though not a knock-out blow.
Should the mother turn out to be an illegal immigrant drug dealer, I assume that the child will be put back onto the subway to await her release after judicial murder? Or perhaps used as live bait in a NYC-Subway KiddieFukker entrapment programme? Get some use out of him before he gets old enough to be jailed?
Wouldn't the cool part be that we can see a supernova go kablooey in our lifetime? I wonder if this one would be close enough to see with the naked eye.
That has happened at least twice in the last few years. A 1999 GRB was associated with a magnitude 8 optical transient at 14 seconds after detection, which bodes well for it being naked eye visible ; one last year (IIRC, and currently a record-holder for distance and brightness) peaked at about magnitude 6, so again was almost certainly naked eye visible.
Oh, you wanted something that'd be naked-eye visible for more than a few seconds. Well, if you'd asked for that first off... I'll just hyperwave to the fire-stirring crew around Eta Carinae and get them to light the blue touch paper to set that one off 10,000-odd years ago. That should put the shock wave and radiation cone from the hypernova just tickling our location. That'll make life exciting, not knowing if the radiation blast will be intense enough to sterilise the planet through the atmosphere, and if it'll last long enough to cover the whole globe and penetrate deeply enough into the subsurface to sterilise that too.
Be careful what you wish for ; you might just get it.
Which is, to a sufficiently good approximation, what one of the prosecutors has said about the case - that he (the prosecutor) wants to see him (McKinnon) "fry". And since the US is a country that still has the barbarity of the death penalty, that is likely why, when the appeals get high enough, the extradition will be blocked. The Americans can't be trusted to not murder him, therefore they shouldn't be allowed to get their hands on him.
When are those half-dozen CIA terrorists going to return to Italy to face their sentences?
... but does imply that the family in question are illegal immigrants. Which would raise interesting and significant issues other than the simple incompetence of subway staff who didn't spot a child sleeping rough and report it.
One country's terrorist is another country's freedom fighter.
That's a very rude thing to say to a country that was founded by freedom fighters and which currently thinks that it's under threat from terrorists. Somehow, they fail to see the hilarious irony of the situation.
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Well, maybe, maybe knot (sorry!) ; but it shouldn't take a rocket surgeon or brain scientist to work out which is more likely to kick you in the nuts - a field of wheat or a horse that doesn't know you.
That would be for use on Mondays, Wednesdays and alternating Fridays? Decimal for Tuesdays, Thursdays and the other Fridays. And for the nostalgic amongst us, bring back duodecimal on weekends.
By "parts of the UK", I take it that you mean Scotland, as that's the only part of the UK that has a different legal system to the rest of the UK (Northern Ireland has a separate legal system to the remainder of the UK, but I don't believe that it's significantly different). But you're wrong ; it has never been illegal to own a model gun, or even to make one, in the same way that it has never been illegal to own, make or repair a chair leg.
However, it has always been unwise to carry a model gun (or a chair leg) in public, or in circumstances where you could come into conflict with the police. People have died in the past for this, and will die in the future.
Two examples :
It's a crazy world.
You're glad you don't live here? Well, I suspect that I'm glad you don't live here either.
[SIGH] A compass points to the local magnetic north (or south), not to "north" in any other sense.
OK, it may seem trivial to some people, but there's about 5 degrees difference here, and 7 degrees of difference at my last work site. And that site, the magnetic variation changed by nearly 3 degrees across the site, due to the presence of magnetic rock intrusions nearby which hardened under a different magnetic field orientation and remember that orientation.
"Simply" and "magnetic compass" do not go together except for the crudest of applications. A 7 degree steering error from the summit of Ben Nevis, for example, would put you either freefalling down Tower Gully or avalanching down Five-Finger Gully, depending on which way you made the error.
So, I wouldn't be justified in publishing information about Mark Thatcher being involved in trying to steal a country, solely on the basis that he's the child of Margaret Thatcher, milk snatcher?
New product coming out of the software division ; we needed to print off around a hundred sets of manuals for upgrading existing clients. Quote from the print shop that we've used previously was around £5000 ; CapEx for an appropriate colour laser printer was around £2000 ; OpEx (paper, toner, comb-binding) brought the costs to a quite close match to the printers.
We got the colour laser. (We still use the printer for marketing materials, brochures, etc.)
Each major revision, we did the same calculation ; the previous time the price difference was about 3:1 ; the time before that it was implausible to do such a job outside a print shop, which we didn't want to set up.
If the sums work for you, get the colour laser ; if they don't, don't.
(I write that in the certain knowledge that the HP colour inkjet that I got in response to the wife's demands for something she can print photos on is currently dead, and has printed something like 200 pages at £0.50/page for CapEx and the same in OpEx in it's 3 years of life. I still don't understand why she insisted on that, but she understands the sums now.)
... but I'd be lying.
Have you ever tried wiring up the interior of anything built into a shipping container? It seems like a quite reasonable build speed to me, having been involved with the building/ rebuilding of a half-dozen containerised laboratories over the years.
Firstly, if you're using a standard shipping container to simplify movement issues, then you've got to stick to the dimensions, weights and stiffnesses specified for such containers. Otherwise you also need to specify special transport arrangements, unusual crane lifts. Bang goes your "standardisation" justification.
That requirement limits the number, size and area of doors you can use to access the interior. Sure, you can build it on an open frame, then put it on the back of a lorry, ship it, and spend the next 6 months ripping it apart on site to find out what got damaged in transit.
That in turn constrains the number of technicians that you can get working inside the unit at one time. Personal experience says that you can't realistically get more than 4 people working in one at once before elbows clash enough to slow things down. If you need more people on the job, dump the 8-hour working day for two or 3 shifts.
That these units contain lots of standardised 19" racks will help in one respect - you can build and test the racks in the workshop, haul them into the unit, wire them up to the test loom (don't "save time" here, please ; "short cuts make long delays") and if they pass, connect them up fully. But this would be counteracted by the high rack density, and the need for cooling pipework (gas or liquid).
The plumbing is going to be "fun". For suitably small values of "fun". I'd be strongly tempted to plan on building the plumbing and commissioning it before anything more than basic power and lighting goes into the shell. which begs the question of building and testing the interconnects as the first (hardest to remove) racks go in. You really don't want to pour water all over the back racks when testing the penultimate racks. Details depend on the technology chosen.
The timescale doesn't sound too unrealistic to me ; I've done similar jobs, and while they're not as bad as scraping up guinea-pig shit, they're harder work than my present job.
Oh, to be young again, and devoid of imagination!
Actually, seriously, I lost my virginity to one of my sister's girlfriends with her propped up against the typewriter which she was meant to be teaching me to type with. On. Using. Something.
It seems that it is.
Come on, SlashDot younglings, ask what PiHex is/was and why?
Of course the "massa" wouldn't get out the whip at every random opportunity. What do you think he ("Massa") gives his overseer slave a better hut and an extra serving of food for? It's to energise his whip arm.
As the old joke goes - you don't buy a dog and then bark for yourself.
Reasonable enough for most environments. Of course, it rather breaks down when you have staff working at remote locations, whose network access (if they have ANY ; 'no internet access for contractors' is still a common policy) is through a client's network and it's attendant firewalls which are set up to block exactly this sort of data leak.
Oh, come on, you're joking aren't you? For our IN-HOUSE specialist software we have about 4 versions in use at the moment (depending on the whims and licensing of particular clients) ; commodity software like MS-Orifice means that we get whatever was the default when a particular machine was brought, so we've at least 3 different versions of Word going around in the office, and it's a complete dice-roll whether a particular machine has PowerPoint, or even the PowerPoint viewer.
Things may be different in a mega-corp with 28000 identical desktops in each of 14 cubicle farms, but most people work in much smaller companies with much more piecemeal environments. (And even in the mega-corp, the localisation can screw things up ; getting the right currency symbols across a multi-language, multi-script document is another lottery.)
Seriously?
They could impound any servers in America, arrest, try, convict and kill any staff and/ or users. And for the rest of the world? Who gives a fuck ; they'd only have taken down one country's access to it's local WikiLeaks mirrors.
Anything worth seeing on the telly tonight?
I don't know, and I'm slightly thankful that I can't think of anyone I know who is likely to know at the moment.
On the other hand, I can think of several people who might relish the challenge. There's a zoo a couple of hundred miles away which I think has some camels.
Tell you what, you go and blow a camel over the weekend, and I'll round up the various bestiality homos I can think of and see if I can persuade them to go to the zoo one night.
We can compare notes next week?
Drink it straight down. No noticeable problems with drying out the throat. You're not drinking the stuff by the litre, after all. (What would the lethal dose of pure ethanol be? In the order of a half-litre?)
Hmmm, my braincell tells me that injection of significant quantities of high-grade ethanol into the stomach has been used as a method of inducing stomach cancers in rodents. Don't know where I know that from.
But so what? It's not as if anyone was unaware that the "toxic" in "intoxication" is the same "toxic" that you see in "toxic", and means "toxic".
Confirmed, from personal experience. A friend would bring a 250ml bottle of absolute ethanol down to the mountaineering club's new year meets to see the old year out with a kick. Biological grade reagent - several hundred pounds per bottle at the time. The exact concentration is a bit dubious, because it's hygroscopic (absorbs water from the atmosphere), but it's close enough to "100%" to satisfy the chemist in my background.
It's more like "inhaling" than "drinking" ; you can barely taste it and it's main progress is a wave of cold fire into the back of your throat.
Give me a still and a fire to fuel her by ... (to mis-quote Earendil, or the Ancient Mariner, or someone).
35% - witout RTFA, I know it'll be a "fortified drink", which is perfectly respectable as long as that's how it's described. Is that those nutters from Peterhead again? I'm still trying to get some of their "Speedball".
Pere Trappistier for the Belgians ; "Shotgun" for me ; nothing wrong with a Penguin joining the illustrious company though.
Yeeeeah. He was... fishing... at night, in stormy weather, a thousand miles off the coast of Somalia, but within 300 yards of the only merchant ship within 50 nautical miles.
If you care to learn a little geography (yes, I know that it'll make your penis smaller and attract the unwelcome attention of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities ; but that's a small enough price to pay), you'd learn that the "Horn of Africa" sticks out into the middle of one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world - the stream of traffic going to and from the Suez Canal. Which is why it's one of the busiest areas for piracy in the world. ...) because it's cheaper. Put yourself in the position of someone paying 1$ per tonne-kilometre to ship your 40-tonne container of goods from point A to point B which are 5000km apart (great circle distance); you look at the tenders from two shipping companies, one of whom allows 500km extra travel between points A and B to allow for priate avoidance (going an extra 200km out to sea form the Horn of Africa, for example). That's $20000 extra on your shipping charges.
I'll give you another hint : ships, just like airplanes, strive to travel great circle routes between the geographical constraints of their route (start, finish, headlands
Your insurance company will pay if your cargo is stolen.
Will you, out of the goodenss of your heart, pay an extra $20000 of shipping charges to protect the seamen that you've never met? Are you going to pass that charge on to your customers? Like fuck you are. You're going to go with the lowest bidder. And the shipping company is going to fire the most expensive captains.
Oh, just for completeness, the article mentions a lot of piracy off the Nigerian coast ; certainly true ; but they don't mention the Damnation Alley of piracy : the Mollucca Straits. With Singapore not far from one end. Channeling lots of shiploads of high-value goods into one congested area. A journalist friend of mine was writing articles about this for 'Lloyds List' for the last ten years until his retirement ; it's not a new problem, it's just a better-known problem these days.
Well, why was their nationality even mentioned, if it wasn't relevant? Someone thought that it was relevant enough to mention it in the article, and since the largest two issues that I hear Americans complaining about in a "Mexican" context are illegal immigrants and low-level drug dealers (the high level dealers all of course being American through and through) one can only conclude that the article's authors wanted people to draw the inference that mother and child are illegal immigrant drug dealers. If that's the inference that a foreigner can draw, then I think the woman has a pretty good case for smacking the newspaper with a good solid libel suit ASAP.
That is a good point in her defence, though not a knock-out blow.
Should the mother turn out to be an illegal immigrant drug dealer, I assume that the child will be put back onto the subway to await her release after judicial murder? Or perhaps used as live bait in a NYC-Subway KiddieFukker entrapment programme? Get some use out of him before he gets old enough to be jailed?
Exactly what I was thinking too.
That has happened at least twice in the last few years. A 1999 GRB was associated with a magnitude 8 optical transient at 14 seconds after detection, which bodes well for it being naked eye visible ; one last year (IIRC, and currently a record-holder for distance and brightness) peaked at about magnitude 6, so again was almost certainly naked eye visible.
Oh, you wanted something that'd be naked-eye visible for more than a few seconds. Well, if you'd asked for that first off ... I'll just hyperwave to the fire-stirring crew around Eta Carinae and get them to light the blue touch paper to set that one off 10,000-odd years ago. That should put the shock wave and radiation cone from the hypernova just tickling our location. That'll make life exciting, not knowing if the radiation blast will be intense enough to sterilise the planet through the atmosphere, and if it'll last long enough to cover the whole globe and penetrate deeply enough into the subsurface to sterilise that too.
Be careful what you wish for ; you might just get it.
Which is, to a sufficiently good approximation, what one of the prosecutors has said about the case - that he (the prosecutor) wants to see him (McKinnon) "fry".
And since the US is a country that still has the barbarity of the death penalty, that is likely why, when the appeals get high enough, the extradition will be blocked. The Americans can't be trusted to not murder him, therefore they shouldn't be allowed to get their hands on him.
When are those half-dozen CIA terrorists going to return to Italy to face their sentences?
Obviously no-one cares about Twitter. I've not even got an account. And I still don't understand what it's for.
... but does imply that the family in question are illegal immigrants.
Which would raise interesting and significant issues other than the simple incompetence of subway staff who didn't spot a child sleeping rough and report it.
Errr, why?
That's a very rude thing to say to a country that was founded by freedom fighters and which currently thinks that it's under threat from terrorists. Somehow, they fail to see the hilarious irony of the situation.