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I do think that the level of complaints surfacing is evidence of poor damage control on those bugs. But that's kind of what I'm arguing in favour of. If you can't stop the bugs, you have to be ready to pounce on problems like a herd of pumas.

I just finished reading the loonwatch report (although I'm slightly mistrustful of a site which has the sole aim of placating my concerns about muslim terror offerring a balanced analysis). Far from backing mkreku up it suggest that after separatist attacks left wing, not right wing attacks are the main. Which is presumably the relic of left wing terror in the 60s and 70s. The key point here is that no mention is made of plots which were thwarted, nor casualties. The former is important because jihadist terror is receiving massive priority from the security services. The latter is important because while separatist movements do kill, they tend not to engage in mass casualty attacks on civilian targets. The IRA or ETA are not going to do a Mumbai, or let off a dirty bomb.

I have heard several very sober people this last year saying we should just buy all the drugs in Afghan, give whatever needs to be given to our own addicts, and give the rest in the form of medicines to Africa where they are desperately short of analgesics. Keeps the Afghan farmers happy, removes the profits from Terry Taliban, and helps sick people. But the real point I don't want to distract from is that prohibition doesn't work, it never has worked, and it never will work.

I know. It's weird. My father and I were trying to buy ingredients, and it turns out that in the Land O Lardass you can't buy gokking suet. Although the odds of his wife letting use suet in the pudding were slim to none. I hate people who try to be healthy at Christmas. It's one gokking day, ye halfwits.

From the excellent Old Foodie Another opportunity to mock the enfeebled vegetarians:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12005824 Didn't I say Bob was a decent lad?

Paranoid much? Instead of moaning about other people's anti-Americanism, I'd instead be worried of how your country is perceived by foreigners. Absolutely. Racism has nothing to do with it.

HI Numbers. I didn't read the link this evening, as was working till 8 then shooting zombies soon after.

I didn't know kelverin much from posting. But I instantly recognised the name. Interesting thing to say about fear. Definitely agree. Would have been good to talk about it with him, but of course can't now. Bone observation: dying sucks.

Thanks for the links. I'll have a read this evening.

Slightly let the side down by having three bowls of soup for dinner. But it was awesome soup. Couple slices smoked bacon, a half hand sized chunk of beef shin, dried beans, a few lentils, one carrot, one potato, one onion lots of water. A little rosemary and thyme. Still have enough for tomorrow. Cost two quid, the lot.

Felt like sparking up a bit, so listened to the imminent .

Interestingly I've now established to my own satisfaction that I can get through both morning and afternoon on just five oatcakes, and three cups of coffee, without losing concentration or getting angry. Assuming I can keep this up I'd say my chances of losing weight are pretty high. I've already dropped a belt notch in the last six weeks.

This post would be a good deal more impressive if you actually posted the link. And for the record it's more of an atonal farting noise. Not bleating.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11989225 Seriously, WTF? Again, I'm still baffled by the priorities this government shows. Forensic evidence is now taken as an inescapable part of prosecution. Yet we continue to fund junket toothless bodies like OFGEM!

Bomb making is like any chemistry, or even cooking, combined with electrics. He himself claimed he had been trained in the mideast. But it's not so hard for bombs to go awry. The IRA had extremely 'professional' training in bomb manufacture. But even their bombs went awry occasionally. Getting lucky once does not mean the threat isn't serious. I honestly don't understand how it is that we react firmly and almost uniformly when some right wing white power ****holster sets fire to something. But if some right wing beard power ****holster actually blows up we pretend it's not important.

We should have an Obsidian Peace Prize and give it to Volo.

Bizarre.

Kaft, would you mind indulging me by reading a bit more about this guy? Because the steer we're getting in the UK is that he was well known to his local mosque as an extremist nutloop. It's one thing to say we can't do anything about some guy no-one knew was in a bad way. It's another thing entirely to say we can't do anything if someone is stamping about saying they wish to 'take matters into their own hands' and preaching violence. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ter...calisation.html AFrom the article: This is not something we can just wish away, Kaft.

Isn't the problem, as I've already said (not that you have to absorb my every word) there are at least two kinds of lawbreakers, and only one kind of penal system?

Sorry to hear your dad's so fragile. But it's cool that you saw the opportunity to people watch. I don't think I've been in ER since a travelling companion got malaria. Silly bastard claimed that because he was black it wouldn't affect him. Nearly died. Sounds like Raithe has got one of what I call 'Charlie Parker' moments. When you breath in air, and breath out light.

Been reading more of those autocorrects. I don't know why I find them so hilarious, but I was shaking so much from the laughter that I've hurt my back too bad to stand up! Damnit, now that's making me laugh too.

I've said this before: the more open you make a game engine and world, the more possible combinations of behaviour, storyline, etc you create. It is simply impossible for a commercial body to test drive (QA) all of those combinations before release. Just my thoughts.

Most people find the concept of being locked up and having their normal personal freedoms restricted quite distressing enough. I'm sure all the people who have served in the military in some capacity can certainly grasp that concept. p.s. The problem with human rights is that they apply to humans. 1. I've said before that I found my time in uniform, even in basic training, remarkably civilised. I may have been treated harshly, but always fairly and with certainly more respect than any commercial or charitable training course I've been on. 2. Having known at least two victims of rape (that I know of) I can attest to the way such crimes imprison the victim. For life. Yet the 'tariff' for committing them may be as little as four years. This does not appear to me to deter many of those people who are inclined to commit. I'm not saying rape (which is a notoriously difficult crime to prosecute) should carry a death penalty. I'm simply saying that the argument that incarceration is absolutely awful is unsound. 3. In situations where incarceration is appallingly awful, such as in many maximum security prisons, it seems to me that we are applying double standards in the worst way. We accept incarceration because it essentially involves torture. But at the same time the people who most desreve the torture (if such a thing can be deserved) are those least likely to receive it. ~~ 4. Several UK Home Office reports over the last years have described a distinction between career 'predatory' criminals, and what you might call 'ordinary decent criminals', and the disturbed. The overwhelming majority of serious crimes being committed or controlled by the former. If this is the case, then ought we not, as free citizens react to defend ourselves from what are effectively sworn enemies? And if we are to do so then we must not apply the same sanctions to those persons that we do to the latter two groups?

Frosty. Jets.