Walsingham

Case link?

Well, it looks like the PS4 is going to be DRM lite, free resale etc etc. Essentially it comes down to us consumers now. Do we want to be held down and pay pay for the priviledge of being proverbialed, or do we want to NOT. I could be overblowing this, but I think a LOT of industries are going to be watching this intently. If people choose x-box raping them then that will green light every one and their dog doing so.

essentially it just LOOKS ultra good. A lot of purchasers choose based on that. Modern military uniforms are bloody genius, but a $1000 italian bespoke suit is for some reason 'better dressed;'

For those that need proof of something so evident. So what you do is you speak to the boss two layers up, or you speak to another government department, or you speak to a member of Parliament from an opposition party in a relevant area. What you don't know is skip off to the nearest internet portal and datadump everything you know into the laps of every man and his dog. This isn't the wise musings of Walsingham. We got told this in the _first week_ of my military training. At some length. With examples. Go up the chain, unless you think it's broken, then jump the broken links. I have to say that I think your suspicion of modern democratic government say more about your own poorly veiled agendas and hatreds than it does about government.

What is needed is some kind of tiny laser array, manned by loyal earwigs in steel helmets. They could fire on the - relatively speaking - giant spiders, and it would seem brave, rather than cowardly.

Most Londoners I know treat them as a complete joke. Ever since they picketed the damn cathedral. They just couldn't be bothered to protest outside the banks. Plus doing so for the length of time they chose makes no statement beyond 'look at us, we have literally nothing better to do.' Walsie once again you and I find common ground in people that irritate us immensely What gets me the most is when they are asked questions similar to " so what do you suggest we do to remove Capitalism" They cannot give you a viable alternative or a suggestion that could be realistically sustainable in anyway. So there demands are just popular rhetoric It all comes down to how many animals you've eaten, and how cooked they were. Which reminds me, a friend and I were having a spot contest to name the scariest animal. I chose a relative of the polar bear - the ebola bear. Hardest animal conservationist TV ad ever.

Most Londoners I know treat them as a complete joke. Ever since they picketed the damn cathedral. They just couldn't be bothered to protest outside the banks. Plus doing so for the length of time they chose makes no statement beyond 'look at us, we have literally nothing better to do.'

Hey! When did this thread become an attack on my personal choice of attire?? *Laughs.* *Likes* *Looks aghast* *Hurriedly unlikes*

None of these individuals tried to approach anyone in authority who could have dealt with the matter responsibly. It's pure childishness to suggest that no-one in government is capable of holding the system accountable. I hate to even mention the man, but technically George Galloway is an MP. Any British citizen would be entirely correct to take the matter up with him; and I hoping none of you are desperate enough to suggest he's part of the establishment. Nor is he by any means the only non-establishment Parliamentary member. All this obsession with 'going public' is flatulence emanating from the very real problems of the system pre-1960/70s. But after all the reforms and courage to get protection in law... you ignorant bastards urinate on it.

You're ignoring the issue so you can sound off about The Great Satan. There is a system for reporting problems of conscience. So far as I'm aware, none of these cases used that system. The system exists so that _action_ can be initiated by people with clout and seen through. More importantly, if my 'conscience' is mentally unstable, or factually incorrect then it gets dealt with in a responsible fashion.

The thing a lot of people seem reluctant to 'get' is that Bruce is completely correct when he talks about damage. In a lot of parts of the world a public message can be appallingly inflammatory if revealed. Face matters to billions of people. Refusing to accept this is at best ethnocentric, at worst it's arguing our foreign policy engagement should just be a massive "F*** Y**! GET OVER IT!" In either case it doesn't strike me as consistent with a caring sharing let's all feel smug and read the Guardian perspective.

Again, it is the legend.

That's kind of what I was driving at. Can they make it work by attracting publishers?

I think for my next holiday I should just go visit Ros, posing as his eccentric uncle.

What I find mental is the notion that the Pure and Holy Light of Freedom will somehow keep us all safe while we divulge every secret we possess to any genocidal goat-bastard* who wants it. *Rules of information in warfare snipped for clarity* The problem with both Prism and Assange et al is that the problem isn't information. The problem is what is done with information. Prism feeds information to a justice system that only works when it isn't democratic - i.e. Gitmo. Assange et al. feed information indiscriminately out in a format which is sensationalist and legally moot. Both give the thrilling illusion and no substance. The only ones who benefit from either are likely to be those misusing the information in illegal ways. *It's a thing

If they urinated on it first, then it's possible they were just Norwegian. I think it's some kind of delicacy.

"Fondleslabbers"? Wals, sometimmes I think you're too English for me to understand without a translator. I picked up the use from tech news site The Register. Yes, it's English. It's less syllables than "tablet computer". Yeah. I'm sorry. I got carried away and tried to be hip. Won't happen again, for a while.

Yeah. I think it's important to remember that we are dealing with different technologies and different technologies impact the law. 100 years ago the driving limit was (something like) 20 miles an hour. That limit increased but we also got surveillance, traffic cops, speed cameras...

I am a firm fan of the principle that there are some things one is not meant to watch.

If anyone cares to get an interesting perspective I would heartily encourage them to read the House of Commons debates on the original forming of the first regular police force. In brief the argument against was that it was obviously a tool of government oppression. But the counter-argument was that an urbanising population could not rely on traditional mechanisms to protect them from the actions of their fellow citizens. Of course what they couldn't know was that a professional police force would eventually enable standards of conduct to be applied meaningfully to that police force, and by extension apply criminal justice to the state itself. On balance I think the vast majority of people are pleased we have professional police now.

I've been trying to remember the name, but I can't. There's a shop online which sells Dredd and other 2000AD graphic novels. In electronic format. Which I know will excite you fondleslabbers.

They're rocking out, you fool.

I keep and breed scorpions for more than 12 years already and with the exception of desert ones most are pretty decile. Especially the biggest of them - emperor scorpions. My God! You're the bastard breeding all the scorpions! You swine!

Manning and Assange would indeed be patriots if 1) We weren't living in democracies 2) Those democracies didn't already have mechanisms for whistle blowing responsibly In a nutshell the rules are you go up your chain of command. If you think that's corrupt then you go to an _elected representative_. Because, and I can't emphasise this enough, they're elected. Their opinion on what's right or wrong is BETTER THAN YOURS because a whole bunch of people say so. Assange and Manning aren't defending democracy. They're ****ing ignoring it. You know who I regard as making a genuinely heroic stand for democracy? The Afghan and Iraqi interpreters and informants ratting out the sectarian murdering bastards who are wrecking their countries. People who _might die_ for speaking out.

I watched it with the sound off. Much better.