I dunno about that. Most of Nokia's sales still seem to come from the low-low-low end, and they're still pumping out good phones for that part of the market. The 1100, a 2003 model I'm sure few people have even heard of, has outsold any piece of consumer electronics you care to name by a comfortable margin. Even if their high-end phones were shunned as absolute lemons (and the runaway success of the N95 in Europe seems to say otherwise) I doubt that it would affect the overall brand all that much.
Man, I hope not. Bush-Blair is one thing, but if their successors spend 90 minutes out of every 5 hours talking about how the war economy leads to a proxy battle between nanonmachines for green collars to the E-I-E-I-O, I'm going to kill myself.
Yeah, it seems he has more, and better pictures on his blog and it's all starting to look a little dubious. (Assuming he's ID'd the right worker, of course.) I still think he's acting like a bit of a dick, but the museum manager severely overreacted.
So your argument is, because the police are in a position of life-or-death responsibility, they should be held to the same sort of standard and accountability as computer programmers? What?
"Conspiracy" would require that you actually conspire with someone. I think you mean "intent to" or "attempted", one of the other inchoate offenses. Again, to actually convict someone you have to have at least circumstantial evidence of the preparation for the crime, as well as some sort of evidence of the intent to perform the crime. Just the circumstantial actus reus part won't cut it.
After digging some more, I'd like to redact at least part of my argument in my post, "context context", above. The Independent's version of the story explains in more detail, and in particular how the authors of the game came to realise it had been taken in the raid.
Following a series of raids on the climate change camp near Kingsnorth power station, officers displayed an array of supposed weapons snatched from demonstrators: knives, chisels, bolt cutters, a throwing star â" and a copy of the satirical game, which lampoons Washington's "war on terror".
Okay, making off with the balacalva, I get it. Maybe taking the board game as well, because it's a whole set, sure. Making off with them, then displaying the board game as part of the success story?! Are you kidding me? At what point does "satirical board game" become a serious part of the investigation?
True, but sadly the law doesn't agree, and it's not just the stupid anti-terror laws. However justifiable the raid is, there's a pretty obvious reason for them to leave with the balaclava as evidence.
The Independent's version of the story actually says the board game wound up photographed for the media as part of the collection of things the police had taken in the raid, alongside the aforementioned bolt cutters etc., though, and suddenly it gets a whole lot weirder. I'm starting to wonder what the heck they were thinking.
Actually, looking at the Independent story, it seems that the board game was spotted as a Police display of items collected at the raid. So yes, they made off with it, and even stranger, decided it was important enough to put on display. What, the, fuck.
Ha ha, yes. There is something dodgy about them taking the whole board game. Maybe they assumed it was some "terrorist material" or something. Maybe they took off with half the stuff at the camp. There's certainly a sound rationale for them making off with the balaclava, though, and that's the only thing the story actually bothers to explore in any detail.
Even the police's official stance is actually that he was wearing a light demin jacket and jeans, walked the whole time, used his Oyster card to enter the station, walked down the steps, then ran across the platform to board the train before it left, and at no point did they identify themselves. Surprisingly this version didn't get nearly as much press coverage as the "parka-wearing lunatic dives across ticket barriers as armed police yell at him to stop" version. Guess the media are too busy to run corrections?
No kidding, I don't seem to be condoning their actions as a whole when I say what I say. If they've got enough spare manpower to launch a raid, they could surely use the same manpower to check for people actually breaking in, and respond to them accordingly.
Indeed, the lofty positions and training of all involved just makes it worse. They're supposed to be the anti-terrorist elite, and they stalk some random guy around London for an hour, let him onto a train, and shoot him to bits in front of the passengers? Begging their pardon, but even if he had been a terrorist, their reactions would've showed a staggering degree of ineptitude. From investigation to execution, it was just plain bad policing.
Actually, making preparations to perform certain crimes may be considered criminal. I'll be damned if I can remember what the law's called, and it depends heavily on demonstrating mens rea (because merely having bolt cutters isn't evidence of intent to use them on someone else's lock), but they're crimes nontheless. I really doubt that there's going to be any conviction out of this, and in all likelihood the protestors only had bolt cutters because they were chained to a fence and might lose their keys. The justifiability of the raid doesn't affect their decision to take the balaclava, though. In the context of the raid, it's a perfectly reasonable action.
I doubt they took the time to actually look over the game, read the list of contents, and decide that the balaclava went with it, during the raid. Perhaps the rest of the game was collected afterwards? Maybe it wasn't collected at all? The police's statement only mentions the balaclava itself.
They don't have guns. Firearms Units are the only police officers authorised and trained to use firearms. Jean Charles de Menezes wasn't shot by some random bobby who took the law into his hands, he was shot by a specialist Firearms Unit which had been readied for possible use against a terrorist suspect in his neighbourhood, whose superiors should've known what they were doing.
NASA are crazy MacGuyverish bastards, it's true. You wouldn't think you could correct for a damaged tape reel or radiation defects in your LEDs over the end of a million-mile radio link, but somehow they pull it off.
Indeed, the Fahrenheit system was based on the coldest (0F, ice and salt) and hottest (100F, armpit) temperatures that Fahrenheit could concoct from his immediate surroundings, without resorting to extremes like fire. Therefore it's a comfortably human-sized temperature scale. I've only been on this side of the Atlantic for 2 months and I'm already adapting to it nicely.
This was a raid (of uncertain provenance) on a protest outside a power station. The other items seized are "knives, chisels and bolt cutters". It seems to me that the police took the balaclava under the quite reasonable assumption that someone was going to put it on and break into the station using some of the tools. That it was part of a board game is entirely incidental.
If the police seize a pack of ladies' stockings from your home, that's absurd. If they seize a crate of ladies' stockings, bank plans, and a toy gun from your car outside a bank, that's reasonable.
I mean to say, that he hadn't taken pictures yet, or was merely using his eyes, isn't particularly reassuring for the manager. If Hawk had simply explained that he's not perving at her, in a calm manner, I'm sure it would've worked out okay, but Hawk's version of events indicates that he jumped straight to the persecution card with no attempt to clear things up. FWIW, it's not just the manager that was concerned - the museum's response states that he manager was acting in the interests of "another staff member who according to witnesses on our staff and among the general public was being photographed in an inappropriate and harassing manner."
I mean to say, that he simply hadn't taken any pictures yet, or any pictures at all, wouldn't necessarily reassure the manager that he wasn't staring at her boobs.
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I dunno about that. Most of Nokia's sales still seem to come from the low-low-low end, and they're still pumping out good phones for that part of the market. The 1100, a 2003 model I'm sure few people have even heard of, has outsold any piece of consumer electronics you care to name by a comfortable margin. Even if their high-end phones were shunned as absolute lemons (and the runaway success of the N95 in Europe seems to say otherwise) I doubt that it would affect the overall brand all that much.
Who ever knew that 1960s sci-fi would get it so right?
Man, I hope not. Bush-Blair is one thing, but if their successors spend 90 minutes out of every 5 hours talking about how the war economy leads to a proxy battle between nanonmachines for green collars to the E-I-E-I-O, I'm going to kill myself.
So this is what they meant by "hearts and minds".
What if controls the horizontal, and the vertical?
Yeah, it seems he has more, and better pictures on his blog and it's all starting to look a little dubious. (Assuming he's ID'd the right worker, of course.) I still think he's acting like a bit of a dick, but the museum manager severely overreacted.
So your argument is, because the police are in a position of life-or-death responsibility, they should be held to the same sort of standard and accountability as computer programmers? What?
"Conspiracy" would require that you actually conspire with someone. I think you mean "intent to" or "attempted", one of the other inchoate offenses. Again, to actually convict someone you have to have at least circumstantial evidence of the preparation for the crime, as well as some sort of evidence of the intent to perform the crime. Just the circumstantial actus reus part won't cut it.
After digging some more, I'd like to redact at least part of my argument in my post, "context context", above. The Independent's version of the story explains in more detail, and in particular how the authors of the game came to realise it had been taken in the raid.
Following a series of raids on the climate change camp near Kingsnorth power station, officers displayed an array of supposed weapons snatched from demonstrators: knives, chisels, bolt cutters, a throwing star â" and a copy of the satirical game, which lampoons Washington's "war on terror".
Okay, making off with the balacalva, I get it. Maybe taking the board game as well, because it's a whole set, sure. Making off with them, then displaying the board game as part of the success story?! Are you kidding me? At what point does "satirical board game" become a serious part of the investigation?
True, but sadly the law doesn't agree, and it's not just the stupid anti-terror laws. However justifiable the raid is, there's a pretty obvious reason for them to leave with the balaclava as evidence.
The Independent's version of the story actually says the board game wound up photographed for the media as part of the collection of things the police had taken in the raid, alongside the aforementioned bolt cutters etc., though, and suddenly it gets a whole lot weirder. I'm starting to wonder what the heck they were thinking.
Actually, looking at the Independent story, it seems that the board game was spotted as a Police display of items collected at the raid. So yes, they made off with it, and even stranger, decided it was important enough to put on display. What, the, fuck.
Ha ha, yes. There is something dodgy about them taking the whole board game. Maybe they assumed it was some "terrorist material" or something. Maybe they took off with half the stuff at the camp. There's certainly a sound rationale for them making off with the balaclava, though, and that's the only thing the story actually bothers to explore in any detail.
Even the police's official stance is actually that he was wearing a light demin jacket and jeans, walked the whole time, used his Oyster card to enter the station, walked down the steps, then ran across the platform to board the train before it left, and at no point did they identify themselves. Surprisingly this version didn't get nearly as much press coverage as the "parka-wearing lunatic dives across ticket barriers as armed police yell at him to stop" version. Guess the media are too busy to run corrections?
No kidding, I don't seem to be condoning their actions as a whole when I say what I say. If they've got enough spare manpower to launch a raid, they could surely use the same manpower to check for people actually breaking in, and respond to them accordingly.
Indeed, the lofty positions and training of all involved just makes it worse. They're supposed to be the anti-terrorist elite, and they stalk some random guy around London for an hour, let him onto a train, and shoot him to bits in front of the passengers? Begging their pardon, but even if he had been a terrorist, their reactions would've showed a staggering degree of ineptitude. From investigation to execution, it was just plain bad policing.
Actually, making preparations to perform certain crimes may be considered criminal. I'll be damned if I can remember what the law's called, and it depends heavily on demonstrating mens rea (because merely having bolt cutters isn't evidence of intent to use them on someone else's lock), but they're crimes nontheless. I really doubt that there's going to be any conviction out of this, and in all likelihood the protestors only had bolt cutters because they were chained to a fence and might lose their keys. The justifiability of the raid doesn't affect their decision to take the balaclava, though. In the context of the raid, it's a perfectly reasonable action.
And you're the bank's architect or plumber or something. ;)
I doubt they took the time to actually look over the game, read the list of contents, and decide that the balaclava went with it, during the raid. Perhaps the rest of the game was collected afterwards? Maybe it wasn't collected at all? The police's statement only mentions the balaclava itself.
They don't have guns. Firearms Units are the only police officers authorised and trained to use firearms. Jean Charles de Menezes wasn't shot by some random bobby who took the law into his hands, he was shot by a specialist Firearms Unit which had been readied for possible use against a terrorist suspect in his neighbourhood, whose superiors should've known what they were doing.
I jinx you!
NASA are crazy MacGuyverish bastards, it's true. You wouldn't think you could correct for a damaged tape reel or radiation defects in your LEDs over the end of a million-mile radio link, but somehow they pull it off.
Indeed, the Fahrenheit system was based on the coldest (0F, ice and salt) and hottest (100F, armpit) temperatures that Fahrenheit could concoct from his immediate surroundings, without resorting to extremes like fire. Therefore it's a comfortably human-sized temperature scale. I've only been on this side of the Atlantic for 2 months and I'm already adapting to it nicely.
This was a raid (of uncertain provenance) on a protest outside a power station. The other items seized are "knives, chisels and bolt cutters". It seems to me that the police took the balaclava under the quite reasonable assumption that someone was going to put it on and break into the station using some of the tools. That it was part of a board game is entirely incidental.
If the police seize a pack of ladies' stockings from your home, that's absurd. If they seize a crate of ladies' stockings, bank plans, and a toy gun from your car outside a bank, that's reasonable.
I mean to say, that he hadn't taken pictures yet, or was merely using his eyes, isn't particularly reassuring for the manager. If Hawk had simply explained that he's not perving at her, in a calm manner, I'm sure it would've worked out okay, but Hawk's version of events indicates that he jumped straight to the persecution card with no attempt to clear things up. FWIW, it's not just the manager that was concerned - the museum's response states that he manager was acting in the interests of "another staff member who according to witnesses on our staff and among the general public was being photographed in an inappropriate and harassing manner."
I mean to say, that he simply hadn't taken any pictures yet, or any pictures at all, wouldn't necessarily reassure the manager that he wasn't staring at her boobs.