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" joining the Labor Club at LaTrobe University in 1969."
I commiserate with you.
Presumably in a Labour club you were encouraged to drink port?
After all you always pass the piss to the left
"mine's the coat with the bottle of Marlborough sauvignon blanc in the pocket"
You have low expectations then
"And it's the authoritarian stance you espouse that irks"
Well as you're a pompous git I guess everything irks you. I bet not having a schooner of sherry for breakfast irks you. You essentially accused me of being a Nazi, I pointed out I was not. If you can't understand that, then your pompous brain is in your pompous posterior
"Ah, so you're an expert then?"
I suspect I have more experience to you, but as you insist on posting as "anonymous communist" its difficult to separate your effuvium from that of the other cowards here, meaning its impossible to get a feeling for your real feelings or mendacity
"Right, yes, and then paint a big target on the back of *every* journalist in the world because they're obviously working for the security services."
why not? If the idiot journalists are interfering in areas they're not wanted then they deserve everything that happens to them
they are interfering in a war - and should accept the inevitable consequences, death included.
"the likes of x7 want the Britain of today to be precisely like wartime Nazi Germany, but even more effective."
not at all, I'm no right wing sympathiser. If you read the other current threads you'll see that I felt it unfortunate that a Nazi fellow-traveler such as Oswald Mosley wasn't shot
"Hold on, did you mean to say "he needs to be prosecuted, and the death penalty needs to be reintroduced" or do you really think extrajudicial execution is a good thing?"
I never mentioned extrajudicial killing. However I can see that under certain circumstances of warfare it could be necessary for certain categories of enemy sympathiser - essentially to encourage the others
@ Apathetic Canuck
I'm not really too sure what you're trying to say - your argument seems too rambling.
However to try to get to the core of what I think you're asking, there is a possibility that laptop contains records, conversations, photos or other data which may help our security forces locate and eliminate the enemy. The idiot journalist was already in breach of UK law by entering Syria, and arguably further in contravention by speaking to ISIS / ISIL members. In which case he deserves every piece of legal action thrown at him. He deserves prison. As to the idea that he should be free to publicise the terrorists views on the BBC, then that is simply obscene.
"Who the fuck died and made you the sole arbiter of what I need to know?"
no-one. Its just damned obvious. When amateurs like you start trying to dabble with domestic security its when things go wrong. Idiots like you just confuse things. By pressing for "knowledge" all you do is make that knowledge more freely available on behalf of our enemies. It makes you complicit in their recruiting.
Now go open your mind and shut your mouth
"Well, f*ck that. I want to know what drives these people because it means I can fight them better. It means I can work out what exactly they do to get innocent teenagers to throw their lives away in a fight where they are nothing more than cannon fodder. It means I need to know what means they use to communicate so that if I come across it I can alert authorities as any upstanding citizen should (no, this is not something you pursue by yourself).
In other words, I need the knowledge that such journalists gather and that blockheaded idiots like you try to keep away from me because some of what happens over there starts right here, and has to be stopped."
Don't be such an idiot. You've no chance of carrying out such work. YOU fight them better? Yeah, sure. Idiot journalists don't help in that sense anyway - we will already have ISIS / ISIL penetrated and having journalists around just complicates things by making the Islamic terrorists more sensitive to the spy risk.
YOU don't need any such knowledge. Our security authorities do. Journalists should shut up, get out of the way and let the professionals do their job.
"He and his wife were the subject of much media attention."
Yep, he did get much attention - he was vilified. His views weren't reported, just what a twat he and his wife were (and his wife's family - remember one of them shagged Hitler)
He was lucky he wasn't lynched.
Dan Paul
You're right on the money every time
ISIS / ISIL / Daesh have declared war on the western world and wish to destroy us, and our way of life. They want an Islamic year zero.
ANY communication with them is communication with the enemy. ANY reporting of their words or views is promulgating the message of people who are sworn to genocide against our civilisation.
Anyone who communicates with them is guilty of treason.
"and a smiley face for marketing"
that smiley face saved Numatic from bankruptcy. They were on their uppers, no sales, some shop floor worker painted a smiley face on one for a laugh. Someone in sales thought "why not.....?" and got a batch made. The rest is history
Personally I prefer Henrietta - the eyelashes are better
"If you're technically competent a Dyson will last for decades"
WTF needs to be technically competent to push a vacuum cleaner around?
All I want to do with a vacuum is plug it in and have it work. As for sticking it in the dishwasher, yep really hygenic, and I don't fancy abrading the guts of the washer with grit
"Those who fail the interview process end up in a padlocked sports bag under their bathroom sink"
You don't have to work for GCHQ for that to happen......there was that chap who was the editor of "Defence Helicopter Review" who asked too many questions about Exocets for Argentina, another chap who was close to Gerald Bull and Matrix Churchill, and at least three employees of British Aerospace / BAE Systems
this isn't a graduate starting salary
this is a paid degree course - a damned sight cheaper than massing up the usual student loans. On that basis its an easy start for any student who wants an IT degree. Presumably GCHQ also pay the student fees to the sponsoring University
Effectively its like the old company-sponsored degree schemes, with the exception the Manchester based full honours degree is three years (not four) while the Cheltenham based foundation degree is only two (with an optional third year Honours)
I can think of several kids who would jump at the chance, assuming they recruit in the same way in subsequent years
Whats not clear is who are the sponsoring Universities - I'd guess at Manchester and Cranfield/Shrivenham but thats really only a guess
I can see a problem here. When filling in CVs its easy to disguise a short term job which you don't want people to know about, but disguising academic credentials is harder.
Suppose you wanted to apply for a job overseas......having a first degree as BSc (Hons) awarded by GCHQ could be a heck of a stigma. Would make a lot of sense if they awarded it through Cranfield instead
thanks for the correction.....its what happens if you believe Acer salesmen. I should have checked.
I think there may be a grain of truth there somewhere - I strongly suspect that when the Israeli company purchased the name from Teledyne to use on PCs it was with a view to create confusion with HP's products.
Whatever, the point remains their products were crap and they are now part of the Acer range of crud.
"What ever Win13 will be it wont be called Win13 for the same reasons there is no Win9, possibly be called Win14?"
well actually.......Windows 9 was skipped to prevent versioning numbers problems with respect to Windows 95 / 98 / Me
but if you think out it, there has already also been Windows 1-3, with several subreleases, so by the same logic anything new named Windows 1x - 3x should also be blocked. I wonder if there are any programs left from Windows 1.0 which will run on Windows 10?
we've got the thugs - they're called the Royal Navy. We just need to give them enough ships and aircraft to do the job. We now have NO realistic airborne attack capability against surface ships (theres a complete absence of air to surface missiles, and conventional bombing of ships isn't taught by the RAF), and minimal against submarines (just a handful of Merlins which are probably in use elsewhere).
the hot money has it that the commies are actually building their own SOSUS lines near western port entrances - e.g. the mouth of the Clyde. They'll be able to monitor our subariness leaving port
with the scrapping of the Nimrods, and the run down of the Sea King sub hunter fleet, we now have NOTHING to stop them. There aren't enough Merlins to protect our ships and ports - and most of the Merlins are required for other duties anyway.
The situation is soon approaching where the commie attack subs will be able to monitor and constantly threaten OUR fleet: the reverse of whats been happening for the last 50 years
you got the cause wrong: its really that the sun is so hot it dries the skin to shrunken leather.
If you take a look at an old Australian who's not had a facelift you'll see a remarkable resemblance to a headhunters shrunken head (even down to the depleted cranium size)
"Nooooooooo! You mean you store your beer in a plastic bag?"
Absolutely
the beer keeps working in the polypin producing CO2 and keeping is mildly gassed. Over gassing isn't a problem as pressure is released as you draw the beer off. The benefit is no oxygen gets into the polypin, so less chance of the beer going off.
Its naturally conditioned, its not pressurised, and it keeps fresh.
FWIW if you buy cider direct from the farm its how it comes
in many cases even the genuine ones are after money.....
I've had relationships (short term) with a number of Thai girls and without exception the first thing they try to work out is how much you earn, so they can calculate how much of it they can send home to support their children / parents / siblings. Marry an oriental girl and you are in danger of becoming breadwinner for their whole family
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