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  1. Re:Slander? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    defamation act 2013.

    You're welcome.

  2. Re:This is a complete farce on UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database · · Score: 1

    mod up. Still waiting to hear from PS on that.

  3. Bad story on UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database · · Score: 1

    Headline should read: VIP Paedophile Ring Given Boost With Stolen Data

    I would like to post survivors' inputs into this story, but the ones I know personally and have already contacted are still in open-mouthed shock at the audacity of it.

  4. This would only work if on Is a "Wikipedia For News" Feasible? · · Score: 2

    you (or we) don't allow Government to get its regulatory paws on it as a journalistic source - because that means they can control what goes out, like every other regulated news agency out there. What's left at the moment are fringe agencies who have given such regulators as ATVOD the big fuck-you biscuit, like UKColumn and TPV. These are what a lot of people (read: sheep, for you populists) would term lunatic agencies yet you tools completely trust the BBC, Daily Mail, etc - two State-controlled agencies that respectively told us that Tower 7 had collapsed (23 minutes BEFORE it fell on its own footprint) and that living is bad for us. I would rather trust an agency that offers the first hand evidence - such as UKC and RT (I know, it's controlled by Moscow but they cover UK stories the BBC won't touch which is fine by me but they do get the facts rather than rely on op-eds from random Government copier monkeys from the Department of Redundancy). Perhaps I'm a little biased in recommending the UKColumn because I do regularly send them information (no I don't get paid by them).

  5. Re:Slander? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    Oh, and the maxim holds: He who claims must provide proof.

  6. Re:Slander? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    no, it's not. Defamation is intentional harm caused by a statement whether true or not in an unsuitable forum. Defamation Act 2013. Slander is uttered falsehood, libel is printed falsehood.

  7. Re:Copyright filter? on Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it'll have a filter for a meta "Licenc(/s)e" field. Not all images will have this meta field, they'll be hidden from search results. Instant hit for those companies that have a deal with MS to fix the filters so their images are at the top of the return listings every time...

  8. Re:Wait till they see water! on Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth · · Score: 1

    that's roughly equivalent to the wax layer on the skin of an apple.

  9. Re:Wait till they see water! on Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    actually the total amount of water would only cover the entire surface with a uniform layer one fifteenth of one percent the total radius of the planet. Water is in fact, therefore, pretty scarce on Earth.

  10. Re:Logical next stop if his conviction is reversed on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Rap Lyric Threats Are Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Season 2 episode 5 "Mukozuke, the CSI I referred to is actually an FBI special investigator, Beverly Katz. The episode does reference Bodies, and another one from 1986 (the NLM Visible Human Project). The prop is as awesomely disturbing as it is spectacular. Has to be seen to be believed - in fact, take a weekend and watch the whole series.

  11. Re: Knee-jerk... on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    ketoacidosis can have a fairly long precursor period where acetone is detectable by smell before physical symptoms appear.

  12. Re:Everyone? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 2

    OK, you can be the one to order him to land his Apache helicopter. I'll be behind this fucking big wall.

  13. Re:Slander? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    with slander and libel, it is a defence if the statements made are factual.

    The stumbling block here is defamation. There is no justification for defamation, at all. Defamation is the utterance of a statement, whether based on fact or not, which is intended and does demonstrably cause harm.

  14. Re:Slander? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    if a police officer commits a criminal act such as perjury or perverting the course of justice, like say by fixing a BAC or falsifying statements, then he can be charged as an individual and prosecuted by name and not by uniform - his union won't be able to protect him and neither will section 71 of the serious organised crime and police act (which is what local authorities, including police, use to wriggle out of civil suits every single day by turning evidence in any other proceeding hence earning blanket immunity in civil matters (and most criminal matters as well, for that matter, except for racketeering (referred to as "cartel activities") and chamber offences such as civil contempt [of court], perjury and perverting the course of justice. Oh yes, even murder is covered). Quote of section follows)

    2005 C. 15 Section 71 Para. (1) "If a specified prosecutor thinks that for the purposes of the investigation or prosecution of any offence it is appropriate to offer any person immunity from prosecution he may give the person a written notice under this subsection (an “immunity notice”)."

    *Personal experience in docket NC10C10148 in that Mitchell J, acting as a judge of the High Court, stated in his judgement that the complaint would not be heard for the simple reason that under section 71(1) the public authority had gained immunity from the civil [extraordinary damages] claim and that the individuals named in the criminal action were acting in public capacity hence were covered under the same immunity. Please don't ask for any more information.

  15. Re:Slander? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    slander: spoken falsehood intended to cause harm or injury
    libel: printed falsehood intended to cause harm or injury
    defamation: spoken or printed statement of fact intended to cause harm or injury (outside the normal judicial route, in the context case). The fact that someone who does not normally interact with police suddenly finds himself in cuffs in the back of a wagon is no justification for the kind of treatment the police are proposing here. In fact, it is injurious to the point of being actionable in itself.

  16. Re:Slander? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    if you're found not guilty by a jury, that's the end of it as far as the court is concerned, they won't entertain a damages claim. It's up to you to put your own life back together.

  17. Re:Knee-jerk... on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    Terry Stop... that the precedent set by the 1967 Ohio case?

  18. Re:Knee-jerk... on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    This.

    Actually, why isn't this happening already?

    Police are public servants after all, they have no expectation of privacy while going about their public duty, there is no law against filming in a public place and no law against identifying a public servant.

  19. Re: Knee-jerk... on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    or that you're diabetic.

  20. Re:Accused? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 2

    taking it to the other extreme - hypoglycaemia. Often there is zero warning of an attack. Hell, you might not even be diagnosed, but it could well happen that your blood sugar falls so dangerously low you simply keel over. Such happenings can be caused by high stress situations.

  21. Re:Birds Get Drunk Too, and maybe the squirrels on Ability To Consume Alcohol May Have Shaped Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    an associate of mine in Kenya lives near a herd of elephants, he often tells of problems they have keeping them away from the squash plantation - they'll only go for the very ripe pumpkins, and get extremely pissed on them.

    Apparently, the sight and sound of ninety tonnes of inebriated proboscidea is something to behold.

  22. no chance to cross examine? on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 1

    Damn.

  23. Re:Accused? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 3, Interesting

    actually, there is a lot. If you're having a hyperglycaemic episode, for instance - actone on the breath due to ketoacidosis causes false positives. Challenge in court and beat a BAC if you're diabetic. You're welcome.

  24. Re:There's no point in shame on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 1

    ONS has lots of information about conviction rates for schedule 1 offences. That's the go-to place for Home Office statistics.

  25. Re:Slander? on UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas · · Score: 2

    yeah I think the word he's looking for is "defamation". Section 2 para. 4 of the Defamation Act 2013 abolished the common law defence of justification, so even if true, using an arrest to defame someone (as in cause them harm in *any way*) is an actionable injury.