oddly my post here seems to NOT have shown up.

So here goes again.

The war on drugs is policy and as such can be changed by you lot voting in reformers.

As for this incident...

If you weren't all armed for bear, then you'd have one live copper and one illegal search and seizure/arrest.

As it is, dead police and a guy off for a ride on Old Sparky.

The gun thing is like some sort of localised dementia with you US types.

All politicians should face stiff prison time if they intorduce a bill and then subsequently go to work for the company that their bill has benefitted, as should the CEO of saifd company.

Asset seizure of all of a politicians assets if found to have doen this.

Ignominy and ruin are the only deterents we could use.

Aside from all of the usual tit-for-tat anme calling.

You guys in the US really need to get this TSA DHS stuff scrapped.

It does nothing at all, as ide from bleed you lot of tax dollars.

The FBI didn't fail pre 911, your govt did.

And adding a couple more behemoth intell agencies of this staggering levl of stupidity and ineptitude will never help.

Le the FBI and the CIA do their thing, and scrap the DEA TSA and DHS.

for the life of me I can not work out how this thing operates?

Might I be the Euro to point out again that iof you weren't all armed to the teeth then this wouldn't happen.

Your war on drugs is a farce, and a very expensive one. But that is political policy, irrespective of that, if you were not armed then there'd be a live cop and a bogus drugs charge.

Not ideal but a helluva loe better than dead cop and an imminent ride on old Sparky.

http://www.drugfree.org/

Partnership for a drug free america.

Funded by big tobacco.

Nuff said.

@ rtcarroll2

"blah blah blah big bad company. If someone were stealing your things and giving them to charity, I'm sure you'd be ok with that, right? Well, neither are those who hold stock in comic corporations. Would you expect Time Warner to allow charities to sell pirated copies of their movies? This is really no different."

Pardon me, but WHAT SORT OF A TARD ARE YOU?

How is it stealing?

Theft reqires an item to be taken , so that the owner no longer has the item.

This , at the absolute limit of judicial stupididty could be considered copyright infringement. But it'sd have to be by a tard of a lawyer in cahoots with an equally backwards judge.

Your moral comparison from drawing Batman for a charity auction and commercially running a counterfieting operation beggars credence.

And finally, I weep salty tears of grief for the poor benighted DC stock holders.

Oh woe is them.

NO one has ever boot legged a comic, they cost a dollar or 2, so your point is absurd.

0.3% of fuel used in cars actually moves the driver.

All the fuel in a Cyclist, moves the cyclist around.

And if people try and nimminy piminniy about that , well then they are arseclowns.

the bottle lock is like a single bottle tantalus.

Good idea.

Here's his email address

Charlie.Mc-Creevy@ec.europa.eu

He's the only McCreevy listed in the EU directory and his portfolio includes copyright, so I can only imagine that this is the lad.

Fire Away!

"Time Warner objected to the selling of the pieces featuring their copyrighted and trademarked characters"

Here's an idea, why not oblige these legal beagles by not buying any of the caped cavalcade AT ALL.

Not the comics, not the movies, not the luch box nor the PJ's.

Screw them.

I don't think Einstein was FANATICALLY anything.

Aside from human.

There is no god.

Heroin actually has few physical down sides apart from constipation.

People shoot heroin because thay are after more from less, most would smoke it.

Addiction is the bit that destroys people and communities.

If we can find a cure for the addiction regardless of the substance then i think all drugs should be allowed.

That includes booze & fags.

Wendy

Love the vid

Dunno how much of the wardrobing was your doing but I noticed one thing...it's a bit convoluted.

Ska came out of Jamaica and got on a boat to England, where the white boys got rude styled,little baby skin heads all moon stomping away, and now you have Jamaicans dressed up in Skin head finery, 18 hole docs levis afred perry's and braces.

My how the world turns.

Great film

All ill in India pours forth from the caste system

If it was not for that malignancy all the world would be speaking Hindi.

Marvellous people, profound culture, benighted with the cancer of caste.

What ever people want to put into their bodies is fine with me.

Just don't then get behind the wheel is all i ask.

All drugs effect people in different ways, some will smoke a number, eat and go to bed.

Others will be pulling billies* 'til their head caves in.

It's the varying addiction response.

I have friends in Melbourne who are no different in their heroin use to the junkies in the lane ways, but they don't "need" it, they want it.

The research should be into how to control addiction rather than policing individual substances

ah, now here's the thing, the footage would be from a fixed perspective, but there are several zooms.

Also there are quite obviously a film crew(however small) takingthe incidental parts.

Doesn't make it bad, just not quite as lo-fi as it purports.

ITSUMISHI

It's Britain, not England.

SPAZZM

yes we do have tarde unions in the UK.

We Invented trade Unionism

It was Thatcher and her Chicaago School moentarist bastards who broke the unions here.

and lastly

JACKASIMOV

"What the hell is happening to Britain? Can the loss of American civil liberties be far behind?
"

For the love of god please tell me you're joking.

the guy does scat vids?

jail time for obcenity for 2 girls 1 cup?

In Australia we call people like you WOWSERS

Proffessionally OUTRAGED, and you love it.

Didn't the german army just drive right into sweden and take over without a shot fired?

Anyway,I remember at a comix con in Glasgow in about 1991 a guy brought along a full scale sherman tank made entirey of cardboard.

He set it up on George Square but it seemd to cause a lot of bad feeling amongst the locals.

the last time there was a tank on George Square was when the city was put under Martial Law in the 1930s

I read this when it happenend, and the same day cancelled my Virgin account.

I went to ADSL24 but you do need a BT phone line to get ADSL.

So who ever upthread was decrying Cory for being mad to have a BT line while advising him to go to an ADSL ISP provider would appear to be....wrong.

Anyway, I hope all Virgin customers jump ship and leave that shower of Knuts high and dry.

I know there are ways around the non USAsian territiry bind, but has it struck anyone else as being against the idea of the internet to put such bars in place in the first place?

It's applying old media paradigms to the new mdia that has already operated very nicely thank you without them.

Always seems to spring up in relation to the US.

If I try to buy a levis jacket online I can not buy it because I am outside the US, but the US is constantly badgersin and hectoring it's way into other markets under the banner of free trade.

Sorry, went off on a spiral. But if you are in the US you are probably unaware that these obstacles exist.

KATEQ

Ah man that was hilarious.

Gawd Bless the Rhomb

If it was not for the caste system the world would be Indian.

I firmly believe this to be true.

It has blighted india at every turn.

The upshot is that the country is blighted by remedial dynastic governmet.

As Thomas Payne said "The idea of hireditary kings is as absurd as hireditary MATHMETICIANS"

I think the stance that

"Hey they're being recycled, what's the big deal"

Is somewhat missing the point.

Make a car certainly, and in the process consume a HUGE amount of energy and water.

To then turnround a scrap them is to use another great amount of energy .

So a tremendous amount of energy was consumed for no actual benefit to anyone.

twice.

simply cut out the roof so they are always identifiable as right offs, and donate one to every school shop class.

Offset the loss as a charitable donation.

did they change their name due to the rise of Leslie Feist?

The signs to watch for wouldn't be someone taking photos of fully clothed kids.

More likely to be the people who have had kids.

Most abuse is within families.

Thus it can be deduced that child abusers are most likey to be the children's parents/near relative.

I am off to the park and I'm calling 999* on the gangs of peados who take their kids there to "play".

(* FYI emergency services in the UK)

Hilarious that so much chatter is about the size of the copper.

Delightfully missing the point.

She broke the law twice.

That's all there is.

Cops are bound by the law, all laws.

Sure if they are excused in the course of duty but that doesn't pertain here.

The retired cop is a total idiot to think that cops can't be filmed.

The guy who filmed this is a collosal arse for wasting so eveyone's time.

I have to admit that I'd be very reticent to remonstrate with a US copper.

It's the being armed thing.

UK Filth* I'd be happy to shout the odds with.

Though not Aussie Cops, as I was once stopped by a cycle cop in melbourne for not wearing a cycle helmet (big head you see) and she snapped the catch on her holster and began to draw her gun when I suggested they go find some criminals.

Then the Victoria cops once shot a guy who was "resisting arrest". He was found with a hole through the palm of each hand and the back of his head.

Basically the problem with cops is that the job attracts the sort of people who are ill suited to weilding authority.

JAMESGYRE

Man that is depressing.

Witless feckless authority is one thing, conspiracy to destroy for thought crime quite another.

MAY press charges?

MAY? MAY?

HAng the bastards out to dry.

Like the Picture, three screw ups in one shot.

1) Middlesborough

2) Northern Rock

3) That Security Muppet.

If this actually happens there'll be a PETA splinter group who will happily kill people to stop the production and consumption of VAT MEAT.

PETA are a complete shower of mental cases.

I was amking these back in the 80's using letraset and the college alminator.

But I doubt I was the first to do it.

They are considering an appeal?

WTF?

Your tax dollars at work there.

This prosecution will have cost a FORTUNE already.

But then the District attorneys office anywhere in the US is usually very reticent to walk away with out a conviction when they have spent large.

Nice to know that this college proffessor could still be put away for bio terrrorism because otherwise it's make the cost to convictions ratio look bad.

Hurrah for the bean counters.

looks like a tiajuana bible to me.

I would say that the vast majority of Jamacians while respecting Bob Marley's work and music would balk at being described as being Bob Marley's Tribe.

Jamaicans are by an large Christians, protestant in particular and Anglican in specific.

Marley was a Rastafarian, he worshipped The Lion Of Juddah, Haile Selassie.

Which doesn't fly with most Christian doctrine.

It's all flying spaghetti moster to me, but I thought I should make the point.

oh also it is impossible to die when the cable of a lift is severed.

They have inetia brakes on them.

These are so simple that they can NOT fail.

As soon as the speed downwards gets beyond a certain point the wedges slide under the wheels and bring the carriage to an abrupt stop.

The most you can fall is a few meters.

3 things.

1. He went 41 hours without any water. Isn't that at the limit of human endurance. I thought we couldn't last 2 days without?

2. He was in there for the best part of 2 days ansd at no point took a shit?

3. These things have smoke detectors, why not have a cigarette and set of the smoke alarm. Folks would be there like a shot.

#38

"So if BMW wants to sponsor The Onion to have faster downloads.....I'm happy."

So if they want to speed up the site you're content eh?

What if they want to slow down to a crawl your "BMW cars explode and burn people alive" expose?

Corporate sponsorship always demands compromise.

In australia a few years back there was a furore that the McDonalds monopoly based game had been found to be rigged.

This was reported in full and with the Judges comments, which were not exactly complimentary to MacD's.

Except on one major network, where it was not reported at all.

The news there is sponsored by McDonalds.

It's not about you getting info a bit faster, it's about latrge companies effectively payig to have the data stream controlled to their benefit.

I think a lot of Virgin customers are like I was, actually NTL/Blueyonder customers who suddenly found themselves kidnapped by these clows.

Well that's me just having cancelled my subscription to Virgin Media.

Now I am off to get my land line reconnected so I can get the current pick of the litter ADSL24 to be my new ISP.

Oddly when I told them why I was cancelling they wanted to know where I had read about the "total bollocks" statement.

I said Boing Boing, and the guy actually wrote it down to forward to the powers that be.

Completely ignoring that that the intervew was with Royal Television Society’s Television magazine.

Seems mad to be persuant of who is reporting something rather than which idiot CEO is shooting his mouth off.

Im love love love Jaime Hernandez

Of course the financial sector should self police.

It would be insane to suspect that the voracious greed mongers would ever dream of doing anything fool hardy that would make them billionaires again but leave john Q Public to carry the can.

I would like to present the new CEO of the Chicken Coop, Mr Fox.

Well done america.

#8- Clif M

"Quite a few people believe he has killed."

Actually that is such a nothing statement as to almost not deserve answering.

Some people believe I can fly, some people believe the world sails through the ether on the back of elephants.

None of the above are admissable in law.

"being able to convince others to kill for you is far far far worse than ever being able to kill someone."

So that would cover every single leader of every single country?

What about every officer in every army?

Agaion your point is not pertinent to the law.

Oh it's the reason why he is still in jail, he scares the shit out of people, but that is not actually illegal.

On the one hand you say...

"I'm not a fan of the death penalty"

And then go on to say that...

"So no...he hasn't "fulfilled any reasonable tarrif for the crime" and never will."

So he shouldn't be killed by the state, but has been in prison for getting on for 40 years now but still that wouldn't satisfy you.

So which is it?
Respect the law and the sentencing of said law, or can the governent just throw away the key as and when it pleases?

The govt can not be above the law.

Interestingly Linda Kasabian did not participate in any of the murders either, she was however a co-conspirator, but was granted TOTAL immunity from prosecution if she turned states evidence.

So she walked on charges, that had they been brought,would have put her away for the same term as Manson.

See there is no law against being a charismatic manipulative swine, same as there's no law against being an easily manipulated sap.

I would suggest a quick refresher course n Democracy Hamish old boy.

it most certainly isn't "appease the mob", coz otherwise we'd have internment without trial.......hang on

Let's look at the facts re Charles Manson?

Juvenile reform school rapist, thief, pimp and all round scum bag sure.

But he never killed ANYONE.

His little friends did the killing.

Sure he can be seen as a conspiritor before and after the fact but he isn't actually a murderer.

The US seems to have this total blind spot to this fact.

Manson will never be realesed despite having fulfilled any reasonable tarrif for the crime.

Much the same way Myra Hindley in the UK was a conspirator to murder but never actually killed anyone, yet would never have been released from prison if she'd lived to be a thousand.

Don't get me wrong, I am not keen for Chuck's release,nor particularly for the late Ms Hindley for that matter, but it does constitute the suspension of the law to appease the hysteria of the public.

As if taking a pic of anywhere will aid terrorism.

Properly funded terrorists have the schematics of where they want to go not some crappy cell phone pic of Spitalfieilds.

And besides, the current crop of London bombers only have to turn up and blow up, no pics required to explode on Oxford street.

Almost enough to make one oine for the old days of IRA bombings.

At least they gave phoned warnings sometimes.

That is a really crappy home made looking thing.

Then I am not a fan of this conversion for TV,

It seems to have been done by people with no insigght into the books.

The Hogfather was rubbish.

And also David Jason (68)as Rincewind? Good gravy no.

One, he is about40 years too old to play Rincewind, secondly he is entirely the wrong appearance, and thirdly Nigel bloody Planer is there already, playing the wrong part.

Considering that Planer did the audiobooks and the computer game voices for Rincewind it would seem a bit obvious that he should play the part he made his own.

Sky One, missing the point again.

yes Chavez was democratically elected, he is also an arse.

But here's the thing, arse or not, it is not the USA's business to go do anything about it.

Basically every single time the USA has had a south american adventure it has been to contravene the democratic wishes of south american sovereign states or to bolster the share value of american companies.

Sure, have nothing to do with Chavez, but stop meddling.

Self determination, right or wrong is the affair of the state in question.

she is made!

Four days without water could have easily killed her.

Seven figure settlement easily.

Minus the fine for selling bootleg CDs obviously.

folkclarinet #9

I hate to say it but I saw on a TV show in the UK (imaginatively named AIRPORT) a US citizen arriving from Chicago with a violin case, being stopped and frisked when he said "sure I'm from the Windy city, it's a tommy gun in here."

He'd just ARRIVED! so it'd be a bit late to try and get any 911 style ideas.

God save us from the little wizards that seem to work the levers in security people's heads.

re John Hancock and sundry other items of the North American vernacular.

I an so conflicted when it comes to this.On the one hand ou have the simply startlingly brilliant way that a smart Namerican speaks, and then the simply nauseating way that the Tardo Namerican foes.

"John Hancock", "like white on rice", "and what not" etc on one hand,"utilise", "actioning" and the full schmeer of bizniz speek on the other.

Rarely heaqrd the language worked so well or so poorly.

So I pick the tall poppies and pepper my speech with them.

Very similar reaction to the US laws.

On the one hand the undeniable brilliance and soul enrichment of the bill of rights and the separatiiopn of church and sytate. Whilst subsequent muppets have done their damndest to reverse the good for their imaginary friend on the cloud.

It strikes me, being a Scot in the UK, that the whole notion of signing a loyalty oath is preposterous.

It performs absolutely no function.

If I was to be loyal that would be demonstrated in my actions, if disloyalty was my intention then I would have no compunction about signing a document that was as nothing to me.

If millions of Californians did wage war against the State Of California, I think whether or not they'd popped the old John Hancock to some flap doodle document would be the least of anyone's worries.

Likie that question you have to answer to get into the USA, have you ever been a Communist or a NAzi, I think they've added terrorist organisation now.

If you were a terrorist, you only have to say "no, not me", then go right ahead and hijack those planes and pilot them into the WTC

All such documents are pointless.

TAKUAN, or whatever the spelling was, your agruments are shabby unfocused scattergun polemics.

Showing a pic of the twin towers side by side with Aby Ghraib, does not excuse torture.

The USA must be better than it's enemies, not worse.

to paraphrase..

What does it benefit a country to win a war but lose it's immortal soul.

Saying "But the muslims did much worse" is not actually any sort of a defense.

If you find a rape victim do you give her one gently, cause after all the other guy did much worse?

If you join in torture you don't get the motral higher ground.

and you just know that if they thought for one second that they could get away with it that most of the uber capitalists would be making child pornography.

Think about it, the "staff" would work for gummy bears and the profits would be astronomical.

Ah to live in so free a market, and be so free of CONSCIENCE.

#34 andythebrit

"If they are pussy Europeans who don't own guns, they can be issued one at departure (after clearing security so there are no hassles with limpdick Europansy gun control laws)."

Ah dear god please tell me this is a joke, or a troll at least.

If not,christ on a bike what kind of tard are you?

I've never been able to fathom the US Americans reactions to Fidel Catro and Cuba.

They had a revolution to force out the corrupt overlords who treated the people like chattle.

So did the US.

They were never particularly soviet communists, until the US embargo forved them between the sheets with Kruschev.

The US has been openly scheming to assasinate their leader on and off for the last 40 years.

And before anyone jumps down my neck about how the Communists have killed their political enemies, so did the previous administration.

And truth be told if a government iss going to go about killing people if they do it from a political conviction that they are trying to help the people, surely that is less repugnant than killing people to protect Dole fruits share price or at the behest of the mafia?

If the US had not had an embargo with Cuba it would have fallen in 15 years.

Peole's avarice would have brought it down.

If you never get a "Happy Meal"*, you never miss one.

But if you have one it is pretty hard to take being told that you can't ever have another.

* obviously happy meal is short hand for all the western consumer crap that suddenly none of us could live without, despite it not existing 5 minutes ago.

Sky Marshalls.

What a load of balls.

It has been nigh on impossible to get a gn onto an international flight since the 1970s,now in one fell swoop planes will come equipped with them.

How difficult will it be for terrorists to find out who the "sky marshall" is?

walk past armed passenger, stab armed passenger in the eye/jugular with a ball point pen, take gun.

And we're all back to Entebe.

the thing about police forces is they tend to attract elelments least suited to wield power, let alone fire arms.

This guy's aggression is totally at odds with the incident.

All security knows that bellowing and attacking people escalates the situation...oh but of course it can't elelvate can it, he's only a skinny little 14 year old riding his skateboard, the cop is a bully, he was probably hard by the time he was head locking the kid.

And as an aside, if you want to get rid of skate boarders, change every second paving slab to one with a heavy textured finish.

It's not rocket science FFS.

4 years of art school and I gotta say that if the thing actually worked as a bike it would improve the Art.

No point in doing less than kinetic, kinetic sculpture.

Wouldn't this Ford Iveco Cargo actually be...now let's see...the name is on the tip of my tongue...or grill in this instance.

who said they lived in the same town?

Well, contrary to popular belief the lielihood of bith abnormalities from a sibling pregnancy are quite low.

Obviously this is dependent on the grand parents and great grand parents not having "rolled their own" as it were.

I think it is unfortuneate but no big thing really.

Ok legally their marraige has been annulled, I'll come back to THAT, they should just continue as before. They love each other and are very CLOSE.

I don't think that the marriage should be annulled, as it is not their fault,the adoption procedures and the law is at fault, and should be modified after this case, but to simply recind a wedding seems unfair.

They should be allowe dto adopt too, hell it they were both adopted so they should have no difficulty on that front.

Hell, it'd be a family tradition!

SIMON GREENWOOD.

No mate you misunderstand me. All the plug sockets (electrical outlets) in the UK are like the 3 pin Squre pattern shown on the far left of the picture.

But the one there is installed the wrong way round.

The two horizontal holes are at the bottom whie the vertical central hole goes to the top.

I assure you this is the way it is done here.

In fact it's been done that way MILLIONS of times in the Uk.

really.

The one nearest the camera is the UK socket, but oddly it has been installed upside down.

And yeah I looked for the Aussie/Kiwi plug too Alsen, but remembered it's the EBU, the clue being the E for European.

d'OH

MAURIK, the 3rd from left is a 2 pin socket whilst Oz/NZ plugs are 3 pins.

In Australia, they employ a simple solution.

You put up a NO JUNK/UNSOLICITED MAIL sign.

I put one on my mail box and BAM, no more Junkmail.

What a crazy idea.

in my wastrel youth I did some spray can grafitti, a friend had a can of spray cheez he'd brought back from the states so as a joke he "wrote" on the wall with it.

My paint has long since faded and gone but the cheez is engrained in the concrete at a molecular level and is still there over 20 years later.

And people eat that crap?

There are posts here from someone by the name of MACHINE, the like of which beggar credence.

Displaying epic ignorance he suggests that all of the problems,both in Pakistan and from reading his other posts apparently the rest of the world, by the judiscious application of bullets.

This crusader style advocacy of "Kill em all and god will know his own" sits rather uncomfortably with the notion that it is an "ethical clean up".

A real display of frankly monsterous stupidity,willful ignorance and erroneous ethical hubris.