Posts by moonface 267 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Nov 2009
Call me a bit cynical but should the skies be closed to all forms of air transport? Would be a bit pissed off myself, if I was stuck on some oil rig and losing out on my shore leave.
BBC Helicopter footage of erupting volcano in Iceland
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8586442.stm
I am no expert in aviation or volcanology but I would even have a bet that there would be more particles of ash in the air in the footage above, than could ever be encountered today, drifting at low alititude hundreds of miles away, over the North Sea.
A conspiracy of ignorance but sadly without the black helicopters.
I suppose a Murdoch golden stream is preferable to an old Maxwell golden shower!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jul/17/pressandpublishing.city
Looking forward to yet another media tycoon being added to the list, of being tripped up by hubris and a sense of his own invulnerablity?
This is not wrong at all. The Dalai Lama sounds like a fascinating character. A real life modern day regenerating Oriental Time Lord. A bit like Dr Who but exiled to Earth for a bit longer and without the gadgets.
Until Wikileaks gets hold of them we can only speculate on his recorded high jinx's with various celebrities and reminiscing on past lives and being back in the old days.
IT gaffs aside from the Tech savy Tory. I just find it, not so incredible, that this MP totally misses the whole "twitter to the masses and a solution will be found" point and dismisses the true costs in his example!
The Duncan Bannatyne story is a very poor example of motivated people power. The initial stupidity of the wife leaving her dress on the train was always going to cost dear old Duncan £1000 as soon as he tweeted the reward. I wonder how many people would be motivated to retweet the message on, if the original £1000 reward was not on offer, or if the tweet itself, wasn't an opportunity to curry favor with a multi-millionaire?
Therefore, It has got NOTHING to do with with running a 21st century government!!!
If anyone had the money and twitter account that offered £1000 incentives in each tweet for doing small favours . They would quickly have a lot more followers than all the Dragons Den twatters and any prospective Government Dept. It is doubtful howevere whether anyone could frivously lose their cash quicker than MP's lose public money.
Agree ageist nepotism has been going on for generations.
I.e. All those various quotes.....the young are hearty liberals....the old are mad, if not conservative...etc.
The young do not start with an equitable share of the world’s resources and want to change the system, to demand their share more quickly.
Gradually, they become older and over time acquire a greater proportion of resource, they understandably support the system, as they wish to hold on to what they have.
These reports are just the spurious outbursts, of the propaganda war.
Simples...
If these Islamic terrorists were not so horrible to cartoonists! Then maybe a cartoonist may be inclined to start a pro Jihad propaganda strip.
Visions now of JihadJane running around in various pro Jihadist exploits wearing a rather sexy burqa. Would do wonders for Terrorist's morale....
She must be a computer expert. I mean she has her very own Facebook page.
Can someone befriend her and recommend this group.
Opera Users Against New Facebook
Also if there are any Opra users out there. Can they just check the official David Essex and The Osmond sites to see if they are Opra friendly.
I would hate to think she would implement this across the whole Government infastructure, to later find some unforeseen gotchas.
This reminds me of the media hysteria back in early 2001 of the Hainan Island incident, the missle testing furore and all that media speculatation of the US entering into a war should the Chinese ever invade Taiwan. This then took a back seat after 911 and the news reports just dried up.
Interestingly, I see arms sales to Taiwan are once again in the news. Obviously, the Chinese are the bad guys in all this. I mean the US have the lovely peaceful Dalai Lama on their side.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/local-news/beijing/2010/02/03/243385/China-warns.htm
Cynical thoughts of an arms dealer "With not so many weapons being deployed in the Middle East these days, I wonder if those fearful Taiwanese might be interested in purchasing some."
There's some pretty good stuff on Controversial tv - SKY Channel 200, now and again.
Christopher Barnet Challenging Reality was great and the scene with him struggling to cross a small river was comedy gold.
There was another program that follows a tour guide round a Jack the Ripper tour which was also good and pretty informative. I would imagine Camcording tour guides could actually provide quite good TV content.
Also, there's some great comedic content on that channel.
To quote Theo Chalmers "watching this may change your life"
Proof that the madness of crowds can infect even the most academic minds.
Not sure of the psychology at work here but it appears to be lead by a group of sexually repressed males. A type of collective grudge for prognosticated rejection, that is expressed using the veneer of moral outrage and loss of honor, as an excuse to victimize an attractive female,
I just wonder if the police were not called, whether the mob would have shown their moral outrage by eventually stripping her of her offending mini skirt.
On many parallels, it just reminds me of the death captured on mobile of Du'a Khalil Aswad.
I'm a male and it titilates me! God I do hope I have more sense, than to follow the mob around, if something like this happens around me.
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