Moreover, there have been at least two accountable-to-Parliament-and-their-local-electors Cabinet Ministers who have been briefed and were convinced enough that there was a case to be answered in the USA
You believe that we have a system in which ministers are fully accountable to anyone? In which dossiers used as an excuse to start wars (i.e. kill thousands of people) can be "sexed up", in which most of those who might have elected the ministers probably have no idea of the implications of this case? Where cabinet ministers are able to allow such a one-sided extradition agreement? Where can I get whatever you're smoking?
Good point about the tube murder and obvious cover-up and ass-covering
In short, don't let the real baddies distract you by getting you to worry more about the system when it is working transparently
You think that the system works transparently? Some things get uncovered by the media, but when was the extradition deal arranged and how much say did the people get in agreeing with it? Who knows what diplomatic deals or threats were used to arrange it? Calling a hegemony a democracy doesn't change what it really is and a few stories in the news don't tell us what the whole situation is
In UK law, breaking and entering does need some breaking to be done - leave your door unlocked or a key under the doormat and the law says anyone entering is trespassing, which is a civil rather than criminal situation. Surely the lack of a password on the accounts that Gary used is the equivalent of an unlocked door and he can't really be said to have broken into them but to have used publicly available computer resources.
Yeah, well that's a you problem. If your government was silly enough to make that agreement, then that's their problem. I feel you....I'd hate that.
If our government made an ass-kissing agreement to extradite anyone the states wants, I think that's a problem for everyone in the UK - who's next for jail time in a country they may have never visited based on minimal evidence and no serious chance of a just defence in a trial
This was hardly a single incident of bullying - a while grooming the kid, then a period of bullying from the most important person in her life may not have lasted as long as Harris and Klebold's experience (I don't have details of the time either situation lasted), but it was sustained
This is hardly the first case of suicide as a result of bullying - sure most people don't, but others have and some of those have made sure that they aren't the only ones to die - ever hear of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold?
Dude, you're planning on doing something (in this case killing yourself) and you don't want anyone to stop you - do you tell everyone about it? Sounds like the kid spent enough time online to meet people and think she was having a relationship with one - should the parents have had a problem with their daughter having a busy social life? They saw that she was "happier than ever" when she started "going out" with the "boy" and knew enough about what was going on to talk to her about using myspace (maybe even when a rerun of Monk was on) - are you expecting them to live the kid's life for her? Not all parents are the same and they don't all deal with things in the same way. These parents were more involved than a lot are, and from the sound of things, a lot more involved than you're giving them credit for
What sounds like a campaign lasting a few months to build up, then knock down a teenage kid and then spreading malicious gossip about the kid sounds like enough to count for a lot of straws to me. the kid may not have been the happiest ever, but a medium term campaign like the one described is enough to get a stable person onto the prozac. You say you've been there or near enough and seen how to solve your own problems. I'm pleased for you and maybe this doesn't apply to you but problems caused by other people can easily be just as important as personal problems when it comes to someone taking their own life. I've been there too and I know that working on your own problems can only fix things if a person's environment is right - or at least not so bad that a person gets knocked down whenever they try to get up. The environment in this case included someone who was clearly malicious towards the kid, which is hardly a good one in which to fix any problems a person might have. If you're looking for a last straw, I'd go for the argument with her mum about using myspace
Don't you have any harassment or bullying laws over there that the woman could be tried under? A computer was used for these purposes, as well as impersonation - if a cape and mask were used, would there have to be a cape and mask law for the woman to be tried under?
"But I suppose quantum theorists will say that by observing the location of the electron it is also changing it, that had it not been measured it'd be somewhere else, thus proving black is white."
I hope they're careful on zebra crossings if they do
I haven't tried what this website says, but http://www.electricitybook.com/ claims to be able to show people how to make all their own electricity. It looks like it uses used vegetable oil - no rainforest would be cut down or food supplies reduced to supply your fuel - so is green with no negative consequences. Good luck with whatever you try
Ask the Australians, who have been going through the worst drought on record with results including areas becoming uninhabitable and unable to sustain crops.
Without legal status of British resident, immigrants have no right to welfare or housing. If the status is granted, all British residents have the same priority. There are many immigrants who come to the UK to work hard and improve theirs and their family's way of life. There are also many British born layabouts, drug dealers, illiterate ASBO holders and other burdens on society. Do you focus on the immigrants because they are willing to work for what you want and because some of them aren't white?
When you select a gadget, you get a screen for that gadget. To the right of the gadget picture (if there is one) the is a "View source" option. Click this link and copy / paste the source into your web page. It's just a few lines for each gadget from the look of things
One the bright side: legal digital music and video distribution should get cheaper. Those of us who actually pay for our stuff will see a benefit.
Be realistic - they won't bring down any prices even if they do manage to significantly reduce illegal filesharing / copying / whatever. I doubt that more CDs will be sold if they eliminate filesharing - people mostly download music they probably wouldn't buy anyway (people I know like the inlay and printed CDs too much to download music they really want) - but even if they sell more CDs, the only people who would be affected will be the record company execs and maybe some of the top artists
People with babies like to take a ready made bottle for the baby on board with them (they're having to drink from the bottle to show that it isn't explosive, I hear)
I like the idea of a living will, but I'm not sure about its legal status here in the UK, let alone anywhere else. If I make a living will, would a doctor be obliged or even allowed to follow it? My option would be that if I'm going to have a significantly reduced quality of life (almost certain after a head injury like that), pull whatever plug you need to and use any part of my body that can be of help to someone, but I'm not sure that doctors and the law here would see that as anything other than euthenasia, which is currently illegal. Do any lawyers here know the situation any better than this?
The full saying is "the pen is mightier than the sword under a benevolent master". Choose your own opinion about whether or not the second part of that applies right now
Space is big. Really big. You might think it's a long way to the chemist on the nearest non-Milky Way Nuptune-sized planets 41 light years away, but that's peanuts compared with space
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This is interesting - can you cite any references
The belief that the US was unfairly subsidizing Europe was not unheard in US circles, so sock puppet, not, taken advantage of, absolutely.
Or using any excuse they could find to fight or assist in the fight against a perceived or real enemy
Moreover, there have been at least two accountable-to-Parliament-and-their-local-electors Cabinet Ministers who have been briefed and were convinced enough that there was a case to be answered in the USA
You believe that we have a system in which ministers are fully accountable to anyone? In which dossiers used as an excuse to start wars (i.e. kill thousands of people) can be "sexed up", in which most of those who might have elected the ministers probably have no idea of the implications of this case? Where cabinet ministers are able to allow such a one-sided extradition agreement? Where can I get whatever you're smoking?
Good point about the tube murder and obvious cover-up and ass-covering
In short, don't let the real baddies distract you by getting you to worry more about the system when it is working transparently
You think that the system works transparently? Some things get uncovered by the media, but when was the extradition deal arranged and how much say did the people get in agreeing with it? Who knows what diplomatic deals or threats were used to arrange it? Calling a hegemony a democracy doesn't change what it really is and a few stories in the news don't tell us what the whole situation is
In UK law, breaking and entering does need some breaking to be done - leave your door unlocked or a key under the doormat and the law says anyone entering is trespassing, which is a civil rather than criminal situation. Surely the lack of a password on the accounts that Gary used is the equivalent of an unlocked door and he can't really be said to have broken into them but to have used publicly available computer resources.
Yeah, well that's a you problem. If your government was silly enough to make that agreement, then that's their problem. I feel you....I'd hate that.
If our government made an ass-kissing agreement to extradite anyone the states wants, I think that's a problem for everyone in the UK - who's next for jail time in a country they may have never visited based on minimal evidence and no serious chance of a just defence in a trial
This was hardly a single incident of bullying - a while grooming the kid, then a period of bullying from the most important person in her life may not have lasted as long as Harris and Klebold's experience (I don't have details of the time either situation lasted), but it was sustained
suicide is not a natural response to bullying.
This is hardly the first case of suicide as a result of bullying - sure most people don't, but others have and some of those have made sure that they aren't the only ones to die - ever hear of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold?
Dude, you're planning on doing something (in this case killing yourself) and you don't want anyone to stop you - do you tell everyone about it? Sounds like the kid spent enough time online to meet people and think she was having a relationship with one - should the parents have had a problem with their daughter having a busy social life? They saw that she was "happier than ever" when she started "going out" with the "boy" and knew enough about what was going on to talk to her about using myspace (maybe even when a rerun of Monk was on) - are you expecting them to live the kid's life for her? Not all parents are the same and they don't all deal with things in the same way. These parents were more involved than a lot are, and from the sound of things, a lot more involved than you're giving them credit for
Sorry, Mongoose - my personal experience is different. Less likely I agree with, but still to be considered
What sounds like a campaign lasting a few months to build up, then knock down a teenage kid and then spreading malicious gossip about the kid sounds like enough to count for a lot of straws to me. the kid may not have been the happiest ever, but a medium term campaign like the one described is enough to get a stable person onto the prozac. You say you've been there or near enough and seen how to solve your own problems. I'm pleased for you and maybe this doesn't apply to you but problems caused by other people can easily be just as important as personal problems when it comes to someone taking their own life. I've been there too and I know that working on your own problems can only fix things if a person's environment is right - or at least not so bad that a person gets knocked down whenever they try to get up. The environment in this case included someone who was clearly malicious towards the kid, which is hardly a good one in which to fix any problems a person might have. If you're looking for a last straw, I'd go for the argument with her mum about using myspace
Don't you have any harassment or bullying laws over there that the woman could be tried under? A computer was used for these purposes, as well as impersonation - if a cape and mask were used, would there have to be a cape and mask law for the woman to be tried under?
Rent the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car".
Rent it? If you can find it, sure - otherwise, get it on bittorrent
"But I suppose quantum theorists will say that by observing the location of the electron it is also changing it, that had it not been measured it'd be somewhere else, thus proving black is white."
I hope they're careful on zebra crossings if they do
I haven't tried what this website says, but http://www.electricitybook.com/ claims to be able to show people how to make all their own electricity. It looks like it uses used vegetable oil - no rainforest would be cut down or food supplies reduced to supply your fuel - so is green with no negative consequences. Good luck with whatever you try
Many formats for
the poetry called haiku
all are just as good
Many formats for the poetry called haiku all are just as good
Ask the Australians, who have been going through the worst drought on record with results including areas becoming uninhabitable and unable to sustain crops.
Try telling that to the natives of Tibet which the Chinese have annexed, chucking out their rightful leader and installing a puppet in his place
Not only for terrorists, but also for drink drivers if this is anything to go by
Without legal status of British resident, immigrants have no right to welfare or housing. If the status is granted, all British residents have the same priority. There are many immigrants who come to the UK to work hard and improve theirs and their family's way of life. There are also many British born layabouts, drug dealers, illiterate ASBO holders and other burdens on society. Do you focus on the immigrants because they are willing to work for what you want and because some of them aren't white?
Maybe you do, but does the cake run linux and can you have a beowulf cluster of them?
When you select a gadget, you get a screen for that gadget. To the right of the gadget picture (if there is one) the is a "View source" option. Click this link and copy / paste the source into your web page. It's just a few lines for each gadget from the look of things
One the bright side: legal digital music and video distribution should get cheaper. Those of us who actually pay for our stuff will see a benefit.
Be realistic - they won't bring down any prices even if they do manage to significantly reduce illegal filesharing / copying / whatever. I doubt that more CDs will be sold if they eliminate filesharing - people mostly download music they probably wouldn't buy anyway (people I know like the inlay and printed CDs too much to download music they really want) - but even if they sell more CDs, the only people who would be affected will be the record company execs and maybe some of the top artists
People with babies like to take a ready made bottle for the baby on board with them (they're having to drink from the bottle to show that it isn't explosive, I hear)
I like the idea of a living will, but I'm not sure about its legal status here in the UK, let alone anywhere else. If I make a living will, would a doctor be obliged or even allowed to follow it? My option would be that if I'm going to have a significantly reduced quality of life (almost certain after a head injury like that), pull whatever plug you need to and use any part of my body that can be of help to someone, but I'm not sure that doctors and the law here would see that as anything other than euthenasia, which is currently illegal. Do any lawyers here know the situation any better than this?
The full saying is "the pen is mightier than the sword under a benevolent master". Choose your own opinion about whether or not the second part of that applies right now
Space is big. Really big. You might think it's a long way to the chemist on the nearest non-Milky Way Nuptune-sized planets 41 light years away, but that's peanuts compared with space