snafuAh, hello Edgar… Would you hold the door open for me?
snafuAs someone said on the radio the other day – if he wasn’t in the premier league he would already have been banned from football for life for the first two incidents.
Maybe the opposition should insist on him being muzzled if/when he steps back on the pitch?
snafuWhat is there to discuss? Nothing. Period.
Well, you could try discussing the story…
snafuI am not debating with the jury – I am discussing (or trying to, but obviously not with you since you are aiming at me, not the thread) on a discussion forum. I have posed a thread, opening a subject to discuss with; you have decided that you do not wish to discuss the subject but my opinion, my view. You have not chosen to oppose my view with facts or even opinion but with the unusual concept that because I was not on the jury there is nothing to discuss.
No, I don’t get your basic point; the jury came to their conclusion and I came to mine – and you appear to have come to yours based on the fact that I was not on the jury, hence your rant about no discussion to be had rather than whether you felt there was a guilty or not guilty verdict to be had, or even if you care.
Meanwhile you invite me to pose another thread. Why? So that you can ask why anyone should reply because we have no reason to post having no connect to it?
Post a thread, Charlie, and quit dragging other threads off topic – that is my job…
snafuLunchtime!!!
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snafuNo, Charlie. I did not participate in the trial. I did not hear and/or see everything the jury was shown. The conclusion I reached was mine based on the evidence I saw, heard, read, etc, but as I have said all along… this is a discussion forum, and if we can only discuss things that we have witnessed in the flesh then that leaves very little for discussion wouldn’t you say? But no, you don’t care; you just post threads about things you didn’t attend yourself (the Ferrari auction at Goodwood – were you there? I wasn’t, but I was there last year for Fangio’s £20m Merc.) whilst telling me I cannot express an opinion.
What have you witnessed recently, Charlie? Start a thread, please?
snafuUnder The Dome
Ok, it isn’t actually a film but it was on Amazon (formerly LoveFilm) and was written by Stephen King – which was good enough for my wife (despite the utter dreck that usually gets produced from his novels).
A 2013 American TV series with at least 26 episodes in this season, believe me, it is dire. The wife wondered off to put our youngest to bed at around the half hour mark and although I lasted to the end (45 minutes, I ask you!) she didn’t complain when she returned about half way through an old QI that I put on instead of the second episode.
The idea is that somehow an invisible dome has suddenly sprung up around a small town, slicing houses, barns, trees, cows, etc in half cutting (tee hee…?) the town off from the rest of the world. Nothing can pass through the dome except the view (no sound, no radio waves, no power, nothing) and drivers ignore things like wreckage and carry on crashing into the dome, as do birds and a plane.
One guy is burying a body in the woods and gets caught inside the dome; the local newspaper editor discovers her doctor-husband was having an affair since he wasn’t on duty at the local hospital when he’d told her he was. The towns mayor is a used car salesman, the police chief has a pace-maker which is giving out, his deputy is married to a firefighter who is on the outside, the mayors son is a weirdo who has taken advantage of the situation and kidnapped the girl of his dreams, the jolly nurse, the local radio DJ and his producer who rave about their listening figures, the laid back bar owner, the grouchy man, the suicidal teenage boy and his coffee shop waitress sister, another grouchy man, the sexy woman, the others who are just there to die (like the redshirts in Star Trek) to keep the story going, etc etc etc. There is no one who elicits viewer sympathy – with just the one episode viewed I really couldn’t care whether the military and the guys in dark glasses (they were there, of course) investigated the phenomena or just set up diversion signs and carried on with life.
Oh, and it was produced by Steven Spielberg. Keep away, just avoid it.
snafuAnd she wasn’t miming!
Dolly Parton: ‘I was not miming at Glastonbury’
‘My boobs are fake, my hair’s fake but what’s real is my voice and my heart,’ she tells the Sun after accusations from viewershttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/01/dolly-parton-not-miming-glastonbury
snafuWhat about this accusation ?? ; )
Brooks gave the Payne’s a mobile phone – good PR at the time and, of course, might make it easier to subsequently claim that hacking your own phone isn’t illegal. (Maybe that’s why she got off…;o)
Andy Coulson did not know the phone hacking going while he was News of the World editor was illegal and this fact should mitigate the sentence he faces, his lawyer has told the Old Bailey.
Firstly, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Secondly… Doesn’t Squidgygate/Camillagate mean anything to newspaper people anymore? When Prince Charles, Princess Diana and their talkative playmates had their phone calls published it was generally underlined that to intercept phone calls is illegal.
Thirdly, Coulson knew that paying police officers was illegal (which, admittedly, was more than Brooks did) yet seemed to have missed out that breaking and entering someones phone without their knowledge would be just as criminal?
Methinks the lawyer doth protest to much.
snafuJust to keep it all together…
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been jailed for 18 months for conspiracy to hack phones.
The 46-year-old, who went on to become director of communications for Prime Minister David Cameron, was found guilty at the Old Bailey last week.
He was one of four ex-journalists at the tabloid to be sentenced, along with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
Five defendants, including former News International chief Rebekah Brooks, were cleared of all charges last week.
The sentences, all for conspiracy to unlawfully intercept communications, were:
- Coulson, 46, of Canterbury – 18 months
- Former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, 52, of Esher, Surrey – six months
- Former news editor Greg Miskiw, 64, of Leeds – six months
- Former reporter James Weatherup, 58, of Brentwood, Essex – four-month suspended sentence
- Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, 43, of Sutton, Surrey – six-month suspended sentence
- Mulcaire – who faced four counts – and Weatherup also received 200 hours of community service.
Coulson was being taken to Belmarsh Prison in south-east London when he left the Old Bailey, the BBC understands.
snafuI’m bad at maths. Always have been since school. I sometimes cannot work out the
simplest of sums.
You are not alone…
As chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne has faced many a tough question relating to figures but that did not stop him dodging a simple multiplication put to him by a seven-year-old. Sam Raddings asked Osborne what seven times eight equals but the chancellor refused to answer.
“I’ve made it a rule in life not to answer a load of maths questions,” he said. Luckily, Sam, who was part of a child panel interviewing Osborne on Sky News, stepped in to point out that the answer was 56. Osborne’s refusal came just after he had told Sam in response to a question on whether he was good at maths: “Well, I did maths A-level so I have been tested at school.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/03/george-osborne-refuses-boys-maths-test
Wish I could have used that excuse in exams.
snafuUh-oh…
Iranian pilot killed fighting in Iraq
Iran’s official news agency says colonel was killed while defending a Shia Muslim shrine in the city of Samarra.
An Iranian pilot has been killed while fighting in Iraq, in what is thought to be the first military casualty that Tehran officially acknowledged during battles against Sunni fighters led by the Islamic State group.
Iran’s official IRNA news agency said on Saturday that Colonel Shoja’at Alamdari Mourjani was killed while “defending” the Shia Muslim holy sites in the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad.
Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan, reporting from Baghdad, said there were no reports of a plane being shot down in Iraq and the pilot probably died while fighting on the ground.
The death comes after Iran’s declaration that it will provide its next-door neighbour with whatever it needs to counter the Sunni armed fighters who are laying siege to the Shia-led government of Nouri al-Maliki.
Samarra is home to the Shia Al-Askari shrine, which the Islamic State has vowed to destroy. It was bombed by al-Qaeda in February 2006, sparking a Sunni-Shia sectarian war that killed tens of thousands.
The reports of the pilot’s death came as Iranian officials insist their assistance is not in the form of troops, but rather of weapons and equipment if Iraq asks for them.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed last month that Iran, which is predominantly Shia, would protect Shia holy sites in Iraq, including in Samarra.
Our correspondent said that Iran has been keeping its role in fighting Sunni rebels in Iraq a “secret” because they are “very worried” about escalation of the conflict.
But the protection of the Shia shrines “is absolutely key” to Iran’s interest in Iraq.
Earlier in the week, the Iraqi defence ministry said it had taken delivery of five Sukhoi Su-25 warplanes and released video footage of them being unloaded from a cargo plane.
The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said the jets came from Iran.
Reports of the Iranian pilot’s death also comes as Sunni fighters claimed to have demolished Shia shrines and mosques in northern Iraq.
In addition a southern Saudi border post came under attack with two suicide bombers killing four border guards, days after 30,000 troops were sent to the northern border.
snafuWhy is there a full width mirror in that airliner?
That photographer has never been seen since and his entire extended family are in Guantanmo Bay
Had he been seen before, then?
snafuMy theory is that, it is night time. and the setting sun rays are hitting the ice.
Somehow like this.– ice
/O = earth Scarborough
o = sun
Ah, but we don’t know what time this picture was taken and a difference of 50 miles (near enough) vertical surely wouldn’t make that much difference to the sunrise/set times (minutes, probably) at the ice crystal’s height? Light does get, for want of a more effective word, ‘trapped’ in the earth’s atmosphere so that the sky stays illuminated for quite a while after the Sun has gone below the horizon, but if this image was taken several hours after sunset – or several hours before sunrise – then I am eager to learn what is happening.
To illustrate by borrowing your diagram…
———-* ice
———O` Scarborough (with the earth directly between the Sun and the ice crystals)
——O Sun (millions of miles away!)
snafuJust send it to Linc instead.
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