Walsingham

You see Britain? You see Austria, you see the industrial heartland of Germany at that time, in North Western Germany? Draw lines between Britain and those locations. One line is short and over open water, and open flat land. This line ends in Germany. The other line is much longer, and goes over either the other location or over the bloody Alps. Meaning they'd either have to be dead set on NOT bombing Germans or very very keen on mountains. And being in the air for a lot longer. Occams' razor seems in order.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14024668 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/cri...ing-claims.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/pr...or-2306961.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/newsoftheworld Strong indications are that News of the World journalists 'hacked' into the phone of a missing teenager, effectively intruding onto a crime scene, and - so early indications insist - actually deleted messages on the phone. The deletion of these messages convinced police and family that the girl might be alive. In fact as was recently shown in court she had been abducted and was either being raped, was dying, or was dead at that time. Deletion or no I don't see how one can regard this as anything but evidence that Murdoch media empire is out of control and beyond the pale. I won't insult anyone's intelligence by pretending I liked the group prior to this incident, but this is a 'smoking gun' moment. News international seems to be closing ranks around the editor at that time, and the only epxlanation I can think of for them not behaving as normal and drop kicking her into the baying mob is that she has proof the action was endorsed at a higher level. This is not so peculiar since the NoW is in many ways the 'Guards Shock Army' of News Int. Their investigators break a lot of stories using unconventional methods, that are then picked up and run with by associated Murdoch media.We know that they have already accepted allegations of hacking politicans' phones, and (of course) the phones of pointless celebrities. I put it to the forum that in a democracy the media must be free. But when the media considers itself completely beyond the constraints and values of the society it claims to serve then that relationship is corrupted. Because information is not information in any abstract way. It is shaped in focus and content by the qualities of the media delivering it. And in this case the media concerned has shown it does not represent our values. It s***s on them.

What kind of work do you do that requires you to do research on these kinds of subjects? Well, I don't work for the Disney corporation... Ah! Pro Kiddie-Fiddler! Totally. I've got endorsement packages and whatnot.

I will enthusiastically defend hereditary silliness over red of claw and black of tongue embodied in an elected head of state.

Are you sure that wasn't more to do with the flight patterns from Britain?

I just feel sorry for the poor bastard who has to chisel the name on the gravestone.

Be fair, aliens with a genocidal superiority complex would be bound to use Macs.

"2 data points?" please tell me you're human. If you're doing requests can you tell me that you want to be my baby, baby? My baby for all time. Beneath the naughty moon.

My top three: Old World Gourmet Handloader Jury Rigger Survive off the grid, baby!

Steam sales win again! Have bought Arma II op arrowhead and all the bollocks about the British and merc DLC. Steam sales and me still being drunk from last night.

How can anyone celebrate WITHOUT fire? Happy birthday you dumb basatrds. As soon as you work out you rejected an insane tree talking bloke in favour of a bunch of greasy tea-stained merchants you are welcome back. Just realised that perhaps this 4th July is the wrong one to be taking the p***, what with things being a bit fethed. I actually think the USA is an awesome country, I'm hellaciously glad you're generally on our side and the side of what I like to call 'freedom'. And I'm glad for words like hellacious, which you probably invented. Rock on, gentlemen. You invented that too.

How can anyone celebrate WITHOUT fire? Happy birthday you dumb basatrds. As soon as you work out you rejected an insane tree talking bloke in favour of a bunch of greasy tea-stained merchants you are welcome back.

Finished piece of pro bono work today. Snuck down to my local for one jar to reward self. If i'd known doing pro bono would get me bought huge quantities of free beer and attractive German women flinging themselves at me (in a chaste way) I'd a' been doing pro bono my whole life. Collapsed in flowerbed on way home. Such a peaceful balmy night. Intend if possible to stay awake until the small hours, eating cake and drinking water, until some booze wears off.

So do I, man. But this is a company we're talking about. They have to make money so they can make games at all. That means making crowd pleasers, not just art for us eggheads.

DSIII, while technically competent and very polished, feels lacklustre and very limited in scope. It's like they had either a too small team or not enough time to develop, or both. It's just not a very ambitious game. Taking devil's advocate here. What has been the number one complaint by people about New Vegas and Alpha Protocol? Over-ambitious, bugs, too hard to understand/control. Are you ssurprised that they'd see how they'd fair by trimming all those down?

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Thanks a lot, you bastard.

I blame the female contraceptive pill.

Don't know why, but I'm incredibly relaxed. I swear I haven't been this relaxed in about twenty years. I think it must be the weather or something. It's like my mind, body, and soul are a tin bucket full of clear spring water. In the shade of a big assed tree. Drugs consumed: one cup of black coffee, no sugar.

Krez makes an interesting point here. In the world of 'free' information exchange, the only defence may be to employ a 'bodyguard of lies'. Something like the one man XX Committee.

Having a lady scream at banshee pitch whenever you swore would be awesome. Like the cannons in the 1812 overture. I also like 'holy pus explosion', for the Batman reference if nothing else.

What kind of work do you do that requires you to do research on these kinds of subjects? Well, I don't work for the Disney corporation...

Note to self: while it is excellent practice to begin the day by immediately setting down to work, it can have drawbacks. Ploughed straight into data on rapes of babies and small children in Africa, by individuals seeking to cure themselves of HIV. Realised I was crying when I went to make coffee. FFS, world.

My intent was not to highlight Open Office, but rather the degree of inventive swearing extreme situations trigger. Do you have a preferred phrase, Gorgo?

My eyesight has started to go with old age, and I can assure you when it does that ALL graphics start to look that way.