powdered aluminium, powdered rust, and a terracotta flower pot...
You're now liable to arrest under the Prevention of Terror Act.
Really, you are.
Actually, I have a huge problem with this act, it's highly illiberal and potentially very dangerous to freedom - it's in my opinion far more dangerous to freedom than the actual terrorists. While the intentions of the act may be good ones, the way in which it is written may allow a future authoritarian government the ability to round up, harass, and arrest entirely peaceful opponents without making a single change to the law. After all "information that may be of use to a terrorist" is taught in every GCSE chemistry lesson. And at the end of the day, even the recipe for a bread roll could be determined as "information... of use to a terrorist", after all terrorists have to eat.
Freedom? That ship sailed when the EU told you how many degrees your bananas are supposed to be bent to be legally sold.
EDIT:
Oh it looks like that was set "Straight"
A majority of EU member states, including Britain and Ireland, have voted to reform rules like EC Commission Regulation No 2257/94, which caused international ridicule by stating that all bananas must be "free of abnormal curvature" and at least 14 cm in length.
Imperfectly-shaped fruit and vegetables may now be back on supermarket shelves by 2009.
I don't think the "bent banana law" (a favorite Daily Mail story) actually prohibited the sale of mis-shaped vegetables and fruits, rather it just said that a "class 1" vegetable must meet certain standards.
Actually, a big problem with the EU isn't so much with the EU but with British civil servants. Many things in the EU have exceptions or are simply guidelines. However, our civil servants like to implement them to the most strict and jobsworthy possible way, then blame the EU "not our fault guv, it's EU regulation". It's a bit like the "health and safety" excuse - often lazy staff blame "health and safety" as why they can't do something, or to enforce some petty jobsworth rule, when the health and safety regulations say no such thing. However these people know the customer will just tut and say "'elf and safety gorn mad", accepting everything at face value, and won't even check that the lazy/jobsworth staff member isn't just being lazy and/or a jobsworth. Citing some dubious health and safety rule is a great way of closing services you can't be arsed to provide, and deflecting any sort of public criticism directly against yourself.
I'm reminded from something from "Yes Minister" which has more than a grain of truth about it. It was the episode about a European-wide identity card. HA remarked to Hacker something like this about the new EU rules:
"The French will ignore it, the Germans will love it, the Italians and the Irish will be too chaotic to implement it, it's only the British who will implement it fully and completely and utterly resent it"
In any case, I'm talking of bigger freedoms than selling bent bananas as Class 1 fruits, but the freedom to not be locked up or harassed just because you like tinkering with electronics but are a public opponent of a hypothetical future government, who perhaps during times of some "emergency" (for example, the increasing squeeze on energy supplies) becomes authoritarian supposedly to maintain order. We've already seen plenty of egregious abuses of the Terrorism Act (including the arrest of an elderly Labour MP for the age old tradition of heckling the Prime Minister (at that time, Tony Blair)) and the uses of the RIP Act (supposedly only supposed to be used for serious crime) to snoop on people to make sure they are sending their children to the right school, so I'm not optimistic that it won't happen.
...and don't think you're immune in the United States. In Houston, you're living in the effectively "constitution free zone", and the TSA are already randomly shaking people down who are travelling by rail - it won't be long till they start on private transport. The incarceration rate in the United States is already obscenely higher than any other developed nation.
In any case, I'm talking of bigger freedoms than selling bent bananas as Class 1 fruits, but the freedom to not be locked up or harassed just because you like tinkering with electronics but are a public opponent of a hypothetical future government, who perhaps during times of some "emergency" (for example, the increasing squeeze on energy supplies) becomes authoritarian supposedly to maintain order.
If they're so bent on harassing straight bananas then I'd expect they'd be even harsher on electronics buffs, Not sure they have the capacitance to monitor it though or the necessary regulation, the whole thing would blow up in their face and end up in circuit court, sorry I couldn't resist(or).
exactly, we're slowly but surely turning into china
Yep! The Daily Mail are currently trying to get the big ISP's to block access to online porn. They can't be bothered to think of a proper solution, so they are demanding a blanket ban for everyone. Just like they did, and succeded with, the VHS Video nasty's of the 80's :-(
Yep! The Daily Mail are currently trying to get the big ISP's to block access to online porn. They can't be bothered to think of a proper solution, so they are demanding a blanket ban for everyone. Just like they did, and succeded with, the VHS Video nasty's of the 80's :-(
well, they are technically asking for an opt-in policy. which means you'll have to ring your provider up and ask them to acess online filth.
their main reason is to stop kids accessing naughty sites. which is a bit daft as you know the dad will be making a sneaking phonecall to get porn back on the computer. :razz:
their main reason is to stop kids accessing naughty sites.
Kids can't access naughty sites anyway... They'd have to be allowed on the computer unsupervised and/or no filtering installed. Clearly anyone who does that is an unfit parent and should be hung, drawn and quartered.
(or you could just blame the nasty internets, cause clearly it's their fault that the entire world isn't wrapped in cotton wool at vast expense and turned into a giant play pen) :smile:
I suppose all porn being blocked could be handy it means you won't get those annoying pop-ups for colombian cam whores whilst you're persuing legitimate things online.
Like cloning credit cards and Pyramid scamming people :D
All this talk about parents and porn. Reminds me of this conversation archived at bash.org...
<LordChewy> so my dad found my porn folder
<LordChewy> and he was getting all pissed
<LordChewy> so its all like "does this surprise you? i'm not stupid you know"
<LordChewy> "i know dad"
<LordChewy> "what do you have to say for yourself?"
<LordChewy> at this point i stare at him straight in the eyes and say
"C:Documents and SettingsRickyMy Documentsfaxessent faxes"
<LordChewy> and he just shut up
<kingKahn> what is it?
<LordChewy> its his porn folder
I suppose all porn being blocked could be handy it means you won't get those annoying pop-ups for colombian cam whores whilst you're persuing legitimate things online.
What even when fat Juancita's arse pops up onscreen, and she looks like something rubberkeys would get a slavvery helmet over? Think again! They are annoying, especially when you're looking at a videogame site (I assume the companies that run said cam-porn sites assume video game nerds will be single so pay the slightly less legit game sites a few pennies to let em' pop up all over the place? :D).
What even when fat Juancita's arse pops up onscreen, and she looks like something rubberkeys would get a slavvery helmet over? Think again! They are annoying, especially when you're looking at a videogame site (I assume the companies that run said cam-porn sites assume video game nerds will be single so pay the slightly less legit game sites a few pennies to let em' pop up all over the place? :D).
Good boobs take prescidence over Miner Willy, but I'd like to look at them when I want to not have them shoved in my face whenever some greedy little trojan ridden porn site feels like I should look at them.
Right all this talk of boobs makes me want to go and look at some ;)
Piratebay was fine this morning, but it's not now:
Sorry, the web page you have requested is not available through Virgin Media.
Virgin Media has received an order from the Courts requiring us to prevent access to this site in order to help protect against copyright infringement.
But there's a Pirate Party in the UK that's mirroring the site so it's still accessible through that and web proxies.
I doubt this ban will really have that big of an affect.
Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
In just a few weeks the block of The Pirate Bay will be implemented and despite all the coverage and millions of extra visitors to the site, thousands of users will remain unprepared. Those patient enough to type a question into a search engine will regain access to the site in a few minutes.
That's all I've seen with a "date" but I haven't really been bothered to read most things about the block.
Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
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Ah, that explains why you're mad as a hatter! ;)
:lol:
I used to pass this when going to manc many moons ago
http://www.hatworks.org.uk/
beanz you lived near there at some point ? hehe
You're now liable to arrest under the Prevention of Terror Act.
Really, you are.
Actually, I have a huge problem with this act, it's highly illiberal and potentially very dangerous to freedom - it's in my opinion far more dangerous to freedom than the actual terrorists. While the intentions of the act may be good ones, the way in which it is written may allow a future authoritarian government the ability to round up, harass, and arrest entirely peaceful opponents without making a single change to the law. After all "information that may be of use to a terrorist" is taught in every GCSE chemistry lesson. And at the end of the day, even the recipe for a bread roll could be determined as "information... of use to a terrorist", after all terrorists have to eat.
EDIT:
Oh it looks like that was set "Straight"
A majority of EU member states, including Britain and Ireland, have voted to reform rules like EC Commission Regulation No 2257/94, which caused international ridicule by stating that all bananas must be "free of abnormal curvature" and at least 14 cm in length.
Imperfectly-shaped fruit and vegetables may now be back on supermarket shelves by 2009.
Actually, a big problem with the EU isn't so much with the EU but with British civil servants. Many things in the EU have exceptions or are simply guidelines. However, our civil servants like to implement them to the most strict and jobsworthy possible way, then blame the EU "not our fault guv, it's EU regulation". It's a bit like the "health and safety" excuse - often lazy staff blame "health and safety" as why they can't do something, or to enforce some petty jobsworth rule, when the health and safety regulations say no such thing. However these people know the customer will just tut and say "'elf and safety gorn mad", accepting everything at face value, and won't even check that the lazy/jobsworth staff member isn't just being lazy and/or a jobsworth. Citing some dubious health and safety rule is a great way of closing services you can't be arsed to provide, and deflecting any sort of public criticism directly against yourself.
I'm reminded from something from "Yes Minister" which has more than a grain of truth about it. It was the episode about a European-wide identity card. HA remarked to Hacker something like this about the new EU rules:
"The French will ignore it, the Germans will love it, the Italians and the Irish will be too chaotic to implement it, it's only the British who will implement it fully and completely and utterly resent it"
In any case, I'm talking of bigger freedoms than selling bent bananas as Class 1 fruits, but the freedom to not be locked up or harassed just because you like tinkering with electronics but are a public opponent of a hypothetical future government, who perhaps during times of some "emergency" (for example, the increasing squeeze on energy supplies) becomes authoritarian supposedly to maintain order. We've already seen plenty of egregious abuses of the Terrorism Act (including the arrest of an elderly Labour MP for the age old tradition of heckling the Prime Minister (at that time, Tony Blair)) and the uses of the RIP Act (supposedly only supposed to be used for serious crime) to snoop on people to make sure they are sending their children to the right school, so I'm not optimistic that it won't happen.
...and don't think you're immune in the United States. In Houston, you're living in the effectively "constitution free zone", and the TSA are already randomly shaking people down who are travelling by rail - it won't be long till they start on private transport. The incarceration rate in the United States is already obscenely higher than any other developed nation.
Along with every other person in the country who's ever watched braniac. Or a BBC4 documentary about chemistry.
If they're so bent on harassing straight bananas then I'd expect they'd be even harsher on electronics buffs, Not sure they have the capacitance to monitor it though or the necessary regulation, the whole thing would blow up in their face and end up in circuit court, sorry I couldn't resist(or).
Yep! The Daily Mail are currently trying to get the big ISP's to block access to online porn. They can't be bothered to think of a proper solution, so they are demanding a blanket ban for everyone. Just like they did, and succeded with, the VHS Video nasty's of the 80's :-(
You mean they're going to open some car factories and create jobs for young people? ;-)
Thought not :)
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its called mugging old people
They have no money to nick.
well, they are technically asking for an opt-in policy. which means you'll have to ring your provider up and ask them to acess online filth.
their main reason is to stop kids accessing naughty sites. which is a bit daft as you know the dad will be making a sneaking phonecall to get porn back on the computer. :razz:
Kids can't access naughty sites anyway... They'd have to be allowed on the computer unsupervised and/or no filtering installed. Clearly anyone who does that is an unfit parent and should be hung, drawn and quartered.
(or you could just blame the nasty internets, cause clearly it's their fault that the entire world isn't wrapped in cotton wool at vast expense and turned into a giant play pen) :smile:
Like cloning credit cards and Pyramid scamming people :D
but guesser you are right it is up to the parent.
<LordChewy> so my dad found my porn folder <LordChewy> and he was getting all pissed <LordChewy> so its all like "does this surprise you? i'm not stupid you know" <LordChewy> "i know dad" <LordChewy> "what do you have to say for yourself?" <LordChewy> at this point i stare at him straight in the eyes and say "C:Documents and SettingsRickyMy Documentsfaxessent faxes" <LordChewy> and he just shut up <kingKahn> what is it? <LordChewy> its his porn folderI've never found those popups annoying.
What even when fat Juancita's arse pops up onscreen, and she looks like something rubberkeys would get a slavvery helmet over? Think again! They are annoying, especially when you're looking at a videogame site (I assume the companies that run said cam-porn sites assume video game nerds will be single so pay the slightly less legit game sites a few pennies to let em' pop up all over the place? :D).
Sloppy boobs or Miner Willy...hmmm
Good boobs take prescidence over Miner Willy, but I'd like to look at them when I want to not have them shoved in my face whenever some greedy little trojan ridden porn site feels like I should look at them.
Right all this talk of boobs makes me want to go and look at some ;)
Again we disagree.
If they were real boobs actually getting thrust in my face I would step away from the computer for some action, but they're not, Mr. Outofcontext ;)
I doubt this ban will really have that big of an affect.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
From Torrent Freak's 12 million more users article (near the end):
That's all I've seen with a "date" but I haven't really been bothered to read most things about the block.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP