Posts by Oz 170 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2007
"A mention too to Keith Vaz, MP, who continued to claim that the killers of British schoolboy Stefan Pakeerah had been influenced by the video game Manhunt, despite police evidence that they had probably never seen it."
To be fair, it wasn't Keith Vaz who said this, but the parents of the lad concerned, and Keith Vaz just spouted this to all and sundry, as you might expect of an MP. Disappointing, this is detailed in the link you provide in your article!
"Silly question,
By Alex Posted Thursday 9th April 2009 19:51 GMT
but how does one get a heart attack from getting pushed an hour earlier? I cannot for the life of me understand this. Anyone with a medical degree care to shed some light on the subject?"
He didn't. He had interaction with the police at some stage, and then later on had further interaction. After being pushed to the ground, he made it (staggering, laterly) 50 yards up the road before collapsing completely.
That said, it is probably possible to get a blood clot (as stated by another poster) and this take time to travel to the heart and cause the blockage. I guess it could take an hour?
Not quite - some of the ice caps are above water; otherwise we wouldn't see them. Oversimplifying it somewhat, let's use an iceberg as an example - 10% of the berg is above water. Therefore, there is an extra 10% water to be released if the icecaps melt, which definitely would affect sea levels. Obviously this does ignore that water expands a bit when frozen, but it's nowhere in the magnitude of 10% for salt water.
"Quite how this fits in with Australian attempts to trial firewall technology that would effectively censor the internet remains to be seen."
If the government is the majority shareholder of this company, then I'd have thought it makes it a lot easier. You piggyback introduction of the filtered service with the BB rollout. Of course, if the government sells their shares, then the next majority shareholder could then opt to rip it out again
"Police ad urges: 'Trust no one'"... Indeed - especially not Wacky Jacqui and her cronies.
Ratting on your neighbours was quite popular in the Second World War. The "perps" were taken away, without trial, and mostly killed. Here we are in 2009 doing pretty much the same thing - innocent people being held without trial or recourse, and it f**king stinks. At least the majority won't be killed, but there's always time.
I may have missed a trick here, but doesn't the site owners categorising illegal material mean that they had to download and vet it first? In which case, they would be guilty of the very crime they are trying to prevent. As they have no legal standing or powers, it's likely the defence of "we were downloading it to vet and report it" won't wash with the judiciary. It's either a joke or rather short-sighted in my opinion
Yes, the UK site has the same info as the American and Netherlands sites, so it does seem like the whole lot has been compromised. I've not been looking for jobs recently so have just cancelled my membership - not that it'll help now my details are already lifted. Hopefully, if enough people vote with their feet, they (and others) might take security seriously!
" They are trying to work out what the situation is for customers who have paid for goods but not received them."
Easy - they won't see any of it back. Banks will get the first shout, then suppliers, and there'll be nothing left for customers. Sad, but true, and it happens nearly every damn time a company goes down. I just hope the punters used credit cards to purchase - they'll at least have some comeback.
"public sector cannot understand work working more than 9am to 3pm."
The rest of your post was fine, but this sentence is, sadly, yet more uninformed and stereotypical nonsense. As a public sector IT worker I can assure you that I have spend periods of time working 10-12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and sometimes even more hours where projects dictate.
And yes, I'd love to work 9-3 every day - it would be bliss. If you can point me in the direction of these Public Sector IT jobs, I'd be well happy!
It may be that the web page (I'm assuming that is the page to which you refer) is merely a summary of the full T&C but I'd agree with what you are saying there. They are also in breach in that they claim to be blocking images of child abuse, and in this picture the child is not getting abused, merely posing. It's also apparent that the child involved did not do this under duress (from comments in the media), so therefore Sky may be over simplifying the role of IWF somewhat!
(Paris, because she's courted controversy by "posing" on the internet too!)
I was offered Safari as an update by the Apple Updater a couple of days ago. Needless to say I didn't download it - and I fail to see quite how a new product is an update. I can only assume that Apple are now following the Microsoft school of updates and peddling all their stuff via the update service - at least Apple had the decency to make it obvious what they wanted to install!
My girlfriend will sympathise with you, Evil Graham. She has exactly the same problem, and once she's got on the net, she's shuffled off again in about 10 minutes. It's utter cr*p, and yet I still get the door-to-door salesmen trying to flog the damn service.
"The company strongly advises customers to use the official PayPal payment system when making purchases."
What a surprise.... there's more money in it for them that way!
Let's be honest, there's not that much extra protection once you take into account that most of the time they won't do anything if you've been stung.
Your calorie assessment is wrong. According to my BMR calculator it's nearer 2850, which is far more reasonable, and practical to maintain on Tesco Value Cheese and Pork Pies.
Ironically, I arrived home from work yesterday to find a police car, ambulance and fire engine blocking my road. Yep, you've guessed it - they were extracting a rather large lady from her house via the downstairs bay window. By the gathering of onlookers outside the house, it was a sport the whole neighbourhood could enjoy.
"That really brought out the wackos. If you had mentioned evolution too we could have had ourselves a ho-down!"
Shouldn't that be a hoedown?
Having a ho-down would be something completely different, but most likely far exciting than an square dancing session.
I would offer to join you with your ho but my girlfriend would probably object!
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