Posts by MJI

Juror jailed for looking up rape defendant on Google

Re : Vic

I was pulled for overtaking a Police car doing 20mph in a 30mph limit.

30mph limits are generally residential. Whilst overtaking possibilities exist, they are necessarily limited. The police car doing 20mph is a bit of a giveaway that *he* believes visibility to be limited.

No it is because they wanted to pull someone, no houses, 4 lane road

Then you get grilled for half hour, why did you overtake, what were you doing

If the police driver was correct in his assessment - and many of them are P1s, so that's a reasonable assumption - then he saw you performing a dangerous overtake in a situation where visibility was so restricted as to cause him to drive slowly. I should say you got off lightly.

Rubbish it was a 4 lane road and I was in the right hand lane on our side, he was going slowly to get people to overtake.

Harrasment I think.

Actually, it sounds to me like a copper doing his job. Why do you consider your opinion of the safe speed for that situation to be more appropriate that a professional driver with much more training and experience than you've got?

My opinion was 4 lane road, little traffic, no houses backing on to it, 30mph limit, 20mph is taking the piss.

Actually they were not traffic and traffic I found later didn't like them. Just 2 cops in a car pissing off people.

Re :annihilator

It is these modern shrinking keyboards.

You get spelling mistakes.

Re DaveyDaveDave

What court appearance?

I was pulled for overtaking a Police car doing 20mph in a 30mph limit.

Then you get grilled for half hour, why did you overtake, what were you doing, where are you going ect ect?

Harrasment I think. It happened a lot in that area and time. Only decent Police you came across were traffic division, the annoying ones were not traffic division but did a lot of traffic Policing.

NOTE: later on I had a friend in Traffic and he didn't like the above either.

RE : 5.antiago again

Thanks for understanding what I meant. Sometimes it is difficult to expalin and I am a native English speaker!!!!

Legal system hate I have come across back in the 80s & early 90s where both the first juror and the traffic picking on happened.

What was telling, was that when I visited this area (my parents and friends) I was often pulled for a check (bike or car) but never around what is now home. When you have experienced that you tend to look down on the legal profession.

Poor English & Jury

I think they need to vet and test people before a trial.

Think of it this way.

Do you want an intelligent and dilligent person on the jury?

Do you want someone who does not fully understand what is happening?

Do you want a bigot?

Depends

My ex office manager really enjoyed the process and put a lot of effort into understanding it.

It was eye opening.

I don;t think you need great English to be a lecturer

Unless your subject requires it.

That is who it seems to go.

This isn't my opinion - just what seems to happen.

Heard this too

And what gets told is little more than what the press can get.

And you mainly get told feelings not names and places, ie the first I know of it was disappointment in the case and the feeling of not guilty. the second of being well ran on both prosecution & defence.

You DO NOT get Joe Bloggs did this, or Joe Bloggs is guilty as hell.

Court cases

I have known jurors in two cases. I have heard comments (afterwards) about both.

The first one was a not guilty, Police evidence was lacking, it turned out afterwards the person was actually innocent as opposed to not guilty and was set up. (1980s) Main thing I remember was it was an open & shut case.

The second was related to a RTA, all was very thorough, and results were unanimous. I <u>think</u> it was a fatality hence the court appearance. (2000s) All I remember was my then office manager being impressed with how it was run.

RE: 5.antiago

Actually thinking about it there is.

She doesn't think she deserves the 3 months, she will feel resentment for it, while she is inside she will be with criminals who could teach her how to do certain crimes, she will also have problems getting employment.

Do not overlook the power of resentment.

I am not saying she will but that she could. She will have the feeling that she needs to do something to be worth the three months.

I have seen similar with motoring offences, people picked on* (I did know them, and knew the area - there was targeting and the Police admitted it) and after the fines and points, sort of gave up caring.

Cars doing 60 overtaking bike doing 50 bike was pulled and prosecuted. Me - I solved it by moving to a nicer area, being pulled for "overtaking a Police car" while being fully legal annoyed me.

Unless not Untill

As above

Maybe but not as serious

as rape.

As above I reckon non custodial is better, she has now been introduced to the best place to learn how to commit crimes.

She will also have the resentment of 3 months wasted for being stupid as opposed to being evil.

High chance she will come out and be a criminal now.

Contempt punisments

I have noticed that often they are stricter than punishments for the original crimes.

What good would 3 months in jail do?

Apart from learning crime.

I think non custodial punishments are better here (eg community service).

These are lapses of judgements, not going out, hurting people/robbing people ect.

Watchdog bites Nokia over Lumia 800 TV 'flash ads'

C5 advertising

I expect it is cheap.

October 2007

They went from being a normal TV channel to a moron marker TV channel.

They managed 5 years of being a normal TV channel.

And looks like they lost about 10% of their viewers looking at the figures I found earlier.

Gadget show

I have noticed that.

Definately very biased

Who watches C5 anyway?

Channel 5 - unwatched since October 2007

(Look up the date)

Also I noticed viewing figures dropped in the same period

Sony SVR-HDT1000 Freeview+ HD DVR

PS3 PVR ?

No thanks

It would mess up my after tea gaming while recording Great British Railway Journeys.

Time for the real question

Is it better than the Humax?

Some questions

Does sound get transcribed to Dolby Digital?

Who actually made it?

This is not a silly question, TVonics are often made by Sony manufacturing, and the older Sony Freeview boxes were not made by Sony.

Sony vs Humax

Funny really this is a similar price to the Humax Freeview HD PVR.

Freesat for under £175?

Cost me more like £400

Humax box £290

dish and LNB £60

dish adjustment £50 or so

Dinosaurs were super mums, nest find proves

megalothermy?

Did a search - which lead straight back to here (only)

Were they cold blooded?

Or warm blooded as a form of bird/reptile intermediate form?

Man vanquishes robot cop in hand-to-hand combat

Wrong sort of robot

Haven't they seen Robot Wars, now that would scare them - I used to watch this a lot.

Good examples, Terrorhurts - had a pnuematic axe, one demo operation and they would come out running.

Image the reaction to a spinner (eg Hypnodisc) beware your legs.

Flippers - not sure about them, but wasn't one of them powerful enough to flip a car?

Crushers - again difficult to use against people, but lethal to other robots.

This was a sport for geeks!

Fanboi Wars

Veal

Looks like British rose veal is animal friendly according to John Craven

I hate processed meat

Pigs are not wonderfull.

They produce some things I hate

Ham

Bacon

Cheap sausages

People think I am odd but I do not like bacon, yet I like pork.

Beef is best, chicken is good as well.

I noticed the auto acceptance

I decided it must be because I play nice and don't cause too much trouble.

@BristolBachelor

Cutting down to plant ethanol crops is just stupid.

Also I am pleased to say my petrol use is minimal, just for starting as I have a large propane tank in the boot.

@Trevor

Breaking up of hydrocarbons (natural gas) has been muted as a way of making hydrogen for cars, whereas I think it would be more sensible to use the methane.

Beef, I like it too, but not to the detriment of rain forest, therefore I always buy British beef.

Trees can be used for building materials, also buried trees became coal (eventually).

I am definately pro nuke.

Have you noticed this is much nicer wothout the trolls?

Climate change

Yes it is changing - it always has. But I get the feeling that trying to control it we will use our enrgy supplies up quicker.

Personally I am of the opinion we should be using less resources and tackling pollution first.

As to CO2 best thing to do as far as I am concerned is plant lots of trees.

There seems to be unsure about warming or cooling, what effects there will be.

The idea that we break up fossil fuels to remove the carbon before burning seems ludicrous, wasted energy.

CO2 is plant food, we need to capture it in wood.

We do not need massive beef ranches do we?

Fanboys

Very interesting subject.

Now I am NOT a fanboy but due to historical reasons have more than the average amount of Sony kit, more to do with 1980s quality, chosing Beta in the format war, and pleased with the brand.

If I stick up I get labelled a Fanboy, no I am just a happy customer like I am of say Pioneer, or Humax, or Sanyo Beta VCRs.

Now due to reason of more children games (basically Rachet & Clank & others vs Viva Pinata) we went PS3 rather than Xbox360, basically there was one game suitable in the early years for Xbox so was rejected. FOR US it was the right reason and also returned me to console games. Now if I defend it against attacks from Xbots I get labelled fan boy, now they are the real fan boys, who pick on competing products simply because they are NOT the product they own.

I suppose I am the fan as I do not attack their products just defend myine against their attacks, I suppose a Mr Shitpeas would be a fanboy.

Ten... IPTV set-top boxes

A few things

BT Vision with BT Replay - I have one of these, quite simply a Freeview PVR for £30 at the time, originally with FREE BT Replay of TV programmes.

However it is a clunky thing to use, IPTV is OK but you now have to pay over £3 per month for BBC ITV and C4 replays. Quality is better than normal Iplayers, but the web based BBC method is clunkier than the BT Vision method before, we cancelled the replay package and use it exclusively as a PVR.

Humax Freesat BBC Iplayer, works but slow.

PS3 TV stuff - we use this, free, got the 3 main broadcasters, ITVs player is horrid, a suitable punishment for forgetting to set a timer, (or filling the HDR HDD). Quality is sub BT Replay, however as it has a decent CPU it is more responsive.

Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN, helps resist stress

Brewpubs

First came across mentions of them in a game.

Didn't realise they were different to a normal American Bar.

BTW it was in St Louis.

No searching - what is the game?

Apple

Pressed and fermented please.

And not the horrid mass produced ones.

Nearest to a mass produced I like is Westons Stowford Press or Healeys Cornish Rattler.

Kodak's moment: Camera biz files for bankruptcy

GEC

I remember the death of it, so sad, a company who could survive well basically killed.

They were big in the railway industry*, now nothing is left but a few parts of the engine plants.

* English Electric mainly, but one of their constituents was a company created by the Rocket builders.

APS

Was stupid.

I remember the hoo haa.

First question was why should a user swap from 35mm to APS if it was going to be worse.

Answer was a better film.

Reply was that film will go to 35mm as well and kill APS.

APS was dead at birth, and if Kodak had kept the best films for APS Fuji would have taken the 35mm market.

I was a long time user of Tri-X and Fujichrome, unfortunately my camera has a light leak.

Murdoch slams White House over SOPA in Twitter row

I have had a NI boycott for years

Actually I have never bought the Sun nor NotW, had a free copy of Times, 2 were too rubbish, the other I found boring.

Will not have Sky on principle (NI owners and I do not want to encourage pay TV).

Stopped with Fox films due to the locked in piracy warnings and locked in trailers.

Mornington Crescent

Never heard of it

What is it?

Is any...

Carriage Returns

If it was me it is the ability to have text on new lines with no blank lines, like a "<br>" rather than the "<p>" we get now for every CR.

0118 999 881 999 119 725

Which service was this?

Yes I have used this myself, our local paper web site was on about an alternative number so of course I posted it.

I liked IT Crowd, probably best though to finish while it was good.

Teen net addicts pee in bottles to stay glued to WoW

Budweiser

Who has got rights to the name now in the UK?

One is wee, the other a nice Czech lager

Peeing in the middle of the night on holiday

Mine is get out of bed, walk to toilet, pee, get back in bed. All I need to do is empty it once a day.

No luxuries these tents.

Nothing like having your own loo while on holiday.

(Owner of large white box on wheels)

SOPA is dead. Are you happy now?

The Freeloaders

Who exactly are they?

If they had to pay would they? Or would they do without.

If it was easier to buy than obtain would they switch what they did?

Availability seems to be the main issue, the out of print album, the film in the wrong format, the TV programme not in your region.

It is less hassle to buy a CD than download one for free. DVDs still punish the purchaser for not downloading.

Fans goad Valve for Half-Life 3 gen

@Annililator

Only that I am playing it at the moment and it is still as good.

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