Sense at Last

It seems that common sense has prevailed at last as teacher Aishah Azmi has lost her case about wearing a veil in school. This is a crazy situation as the veil is nothing more than a religious symbol that creates a barrier in UK society. Aishah has made comment that it does not create a barrier, well sorry love but 99% of Britsh society doesn't agree with you. If you want to wear such a garment then go live in a country where it's more acceptable. This is England and the vast majority of people are against such acts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6068408.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/6066726.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6069012.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/6046992.stm

Fetch My Gun

The piece of scum that is Peter Voisey has been convicted of taking a six year old from her bath at home, raping her, and then dumping her naked in the snow. This is not the first time he's been convicted of abusing young girls. This country is far too gentle of this sort of scum, he's now going to spend a chunk of his like in prison... and that's a nice cozy British prision with colour TVs, hot food, and heating. The UK tax payer is now going to pay in excess of 35,000 pounds per year to keep this shit behind bars. I've a better solution, give me a gun and a bullet and I'll save the UK tax payer a fortune. Why should the honest UK tax payer cough up cash to keep serial paedophiles alive, when society is better off without them?

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6071402.stm
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,0-1238023,00.html?f=rss
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=411640&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/20/upredatorbackground.xml

There is no God

Just as I've always suspected, God is a delusion. In fact in my opinion all "gods" are just imaginary figures invented by humans to explain away something they don't understand. My theory is that the less scientifically advanced a race is, the more religious it is.

The God Delusion @ Amazon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/09/richard-dawkins-god-delusion_27.html
http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/10/richard-dawkins-on-colbert-report-you.html
http://www.venganza.org/

Crime Pays

Crime certainly does pay in the UK. Criminals in the Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire are being paid to play ping-pong and go to the gym. Yes, you read this correctly... while law abiding people have to pay a fortune to go to a gym, prisioners get paid to go. What is this country coming to... these people have been locked away to protect the public and to act as a deterrent... how the hell is this a deterrent? Prisons should be unpleasant places that people don't want to be... these people are criminals, fuck their "human rights", introduce hard labour in prison that benefits the community.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13547511,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/6061380.stm

Victim or Gold Digging Ex-Hooker?

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Punishing Voters?

The UK Government are taking a lesson out of Robert Mugabe's guide on how to punish voters that don't support you. If the story in todays Times is anything to go by, it looks like hospitals in areas that do not back the government are being lined up for closure. This is not the only similarity... in 1998 Mugabe had a hand in the war in Congo so that he could have a controlling interest in the diamond mines... Not a million miles away from the situation today in Iraq with Oil. Nice one Tony!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2405932,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1642704,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe

What do Islamic Ninjas Wear?

Hey religous fanatics... it's a joke. You guys do have a sense of humour don't you?

http://askaninja.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6053298.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5414098.stm
http://muttawa.blogspot.com/2006/01/cartoons-offense-level-raised.html

SPECS are blind!

Our wonderful power crazy government are in the process of rolling out SPECS speed cameras that measure your average speed between between two points, and if that is more than the speed limit they take a picture and nick you! Well, a flaw has been discovered in the SPECS system... it seems that the cameras only work on one lane at a time, so if you move lanes between cameras they cannot track you! This is wonderful news for the much persecuted British motorist... but you have to ask yourselves that how can such a simple thing be overlooked when designing this system. Looks like yet another instance of the Government making a complete fuckup of implementing a computer system, but this time I'm not too mad as it's the public that benefit.

In the meantime, make sure you change lanes between cameras... or just get a motorbike, which doesn't have front number plates! ;-)

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23370879-details/Drivers+can+avoid+speeding+tickets...by+changing+lanes/article.do
http://www.safeplate.co.uk/
http://www.uk-driving-secrets.com/
http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/how.htm

Sex Dolls

Korea's a strange old place. Up in the north you've got Kim Jong-il playing around with Nukes and generally annoying the fuck out of America. While in the south you seem to be able to rent inflatable women by the hour!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/korean_legal_poser/

This is ENGLAND, we speak ENGLISH!

The world has officially gone mad. A 14 year old girl, Codie Stott, has been arrested for asking to sit with English speaking pupils rather than a bunch of non-English speaking Asian pupils. What has the world come to when a child is arrested for making such a simple request as to ask to sit with people who she can communicate with. The teacher that called the police should be fired and charged with wasting police time, it's ridiculous.

This is ENGLAND, where we speak ENGLISH... what are non-English speakers doing in English schools anyway? Slowing down the learning of the majority of pupils that's what! I'm all for the passing of a law making speaking English a mandatory requirement for entry in the publicly funded school system. In fact, speaking English should be mandatory for anyone wanting to come and settle in this country.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=410150&in_page_id=1770
http://www.metro.co.uk/home/article.html?in_article_id=21147&in_page_id=1
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23370623-details/Schoolgirl+arrested+for+refusing+to+study+with+non-English+pupils/article.do
http://www.itv.com/news/britain_e9065a5ba412b11d557d3f49f3b233f7.html
http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=1181

Are Muslims Insecure?

I'm beginning the think that Muslims are very insecure and spend most of their lives looking for things that they could be insulted by. Not a day goes by in the UK without some religous nut coming out and saying that the Muslim community is being picked on. Well, that maybe is true... it's because (and listen very carefully) YOU'RE BEING ASKED TO CONFORM TO TRADITIONAL BRITISH VALUES AND STANDARDS. The Muslim community in the UK is a very small percentage of the British population (about 2.7%), and the other 97.3% is getting pretty pissed off with your complaining... don't like the British way of life? Well, fuck off to a country that operates according to your beliefs. The British people are very tolerant of other cultures, but when a particular group seems to take offence at almost everything we lose our patience.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5411954.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6036377.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/11/apple_ny_store/
http://www.mcb.org.uk/media/presstext.php?ann_id=223
http://www.mcb.org.uk/media/presstext.php?ann_id=226
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy

BT Outsources Spam to Sun?

So here I am, sitting down going through my email, when I spot a bit of spam that didn't get filtered in the same way hundreds of other items do every day. This item came directly from Sun's network (btmx1.sun.com) - not normally a place where I'd expect to get spam from. Upon further examination, it looks like the source machine is 150.143.60.6 - an address owned by "Syntegra (USA), Inc." - who are (as a quick trip to http://www.syntegra.com/ will tell you) BT. What's more embarrasing for Sun is that it looks to have come from a Windows machine... something that I thought was highly discouraged within Sun.

Anyway, enough of my ranting, here's the email:


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Coming to the UK anytime soon

Following revelations that the Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admitted telling a bunch of lies, there has been violent protests in Budapest. So for once I'm kinda glad that Tony Blair doesn't admit to lying about:

- WMD in Iraq
- NHS statistics
- School results
- "Cash for honours"
- Party funding
- ...and everything else that comes out when his lips move.

So Tony, for the sake of our country, please keep quiet about all of your lies. Our cities are in a bad enough state as it is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5359250.stm
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13543161,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1115803,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/31/nblair131.xml
http://education.guardian.co.uk/alevels2003/story/0,,1019084,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/funding/comment/0,,1776464,00.html
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_white/2006/07/levygate_what_are_the_cops_up.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/931708.stm

Yarr!

Ye'll be joining in!

20 inch Lap Dance

How big's you lap? More to the point, what's the ideal size for a laptop? I've got a 17" Powerbook which is wonderful when sitting on a desk, but just a little too big to carry around all day. But those crazy people at Dell have gone completely mad... a 20" laptop!

http://laptopmag.com/Features/Attack-of-the-20-inch-Notebook.htm

Smug Pope

Couple of days ago the Pope quoted some 14th century emperor saying that everything the Prophet Muhammad brought was evil "such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached".

Well, this pissed off a whole bunch of Muslims... who then went and firebombed a bunch of churches in the West Bank.

The Pope appeared at mass on Sunday saying "See, told you so!"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5353208.stm
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/09/17/somalia.nun.reut/index.html
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mujahedeen_Army_issues_threat_of_attack_on_Vatican_City

George Clooney Brings World Peace

We are so lucky that George Clooney exists in this world, if it was not for his protesting about genocide in Darfur, who knows, thousands of people would have died. Hold on, wait a minute, thousands of people have died... that must mean... yes, folks, it's hard to admit, but nobody cares about the opinions of actors!

When more than 100 celebrities sent a letter to George Bush in 2002 protesting against the Iraq war, did he take much notice? No, of course he didn't, he probably laughed so hard his cowboy hat fell off and he accidentally invaded another (oil rich) country.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2561133.stm

When Sean Penn visited Baghdad to highlight the suffering of the Iraqi people, did it change the opinions of the world's polititians? No, of course if didn't... but it got him in the press (wonder what film he was about to star in).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2577981.stm

But wait a minute, surely someone with as much respect as the UK's Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, can change things through the medium of poetry... don't make me piss myself laughing!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2641477.stm

I just wish movie stars, musicians, and other so called celebrities just shut up and get on with what they're good at, rather than trying to change the world... Most of the world doesn't care what you think, and the parts of the world you're talking about have never heard of you. In an effort to cut down on this in the future, there should be a law passed that for a celebrity to have an opinion on a subject, they must experience whatever it is they're complaining about first hand. So, for Clooney to complain about Darfur, we should send him out there for a couple of months... just George, a camera, and a notepad... then when, or rather if, he comes back, maybe I'd listen to him.

The very real problem in Darfur is that the likes of China, Russia, Belarus, and even France are supplying them with arms. Genocides are a little harder to pull off with no weapons.

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=230
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/26.htm
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR541392004
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=28923B364DFF998B85256F4E005C3649

(Not The) Only Gay in Holywood

Great news for David Walliams and Matt Lucas - looks like they're off to Hollywood to make a "Little Britain" film. The two of them have also signed a deal to produce a US version of Little Britain for HBO.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5348188.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/littlebritain/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/5175712.stm

I'm the bloody Pope!

Ooops, the Pope's in trouble now.. he's been quoted as saying that "Muhammad had bought the world only evil and inhuman things". Which apparently has pissed off lots of Muslims. A spokesman for the Prophet has responded by saying: "That may be true, but at least we don't bugger choir boys". We'll see how this one plays out... the Pope will later today be dining at "Hitler's Cross" on the outskirts of Mumbai.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5347876.stm
http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/picture_gallery/0,,70141-1234005-8,00.html

Mad Anti-Blairian?

It seems that our wonderful leader Tony Blair is launching an attack on people who are "mad anti-Americans". Maybe he should look into why people are holding such views. It's not that there's a lot of "anti-American" feeling, it's more "anti-American foreign policy" feeling. It seems to be the policy of the current American government to stick its nose (or troops) into the business of any country that has a differing culture than the USA... and of course, Blair follows closely... well, you have to follow close when your lips are permanently glued to somebodys arse!

Hey Tony! Here's a radical idea for you... stay in the UK for a few months and listen to your own people... the British people. Close the borders, let nobody else in until you've got this country in order. Once there are no NHS waiting lists, every child in school can read, write, respects others, and there's full employment, then and only then open the borders again to welcome in others. And if there are people in the UK who back terrorism against the country... deport the bastards... regardless of their "human rights". Shouldn't the (human) rights of the British people to live in safety be more important than those of some scumbag who wants to blow up trains and planes?

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=13480878

State Sanctioned Microsoft Tax

News today that the UK government have struck a deal to save lots of money on licences for Microsoft software... good for them! What I want to know, is what the hell are they buying, and why are they not getting better value for money by utilising free and/or open source (FOS) software?

In my experience, a lot of FOS stuff is of equal or better quality than the Microsoft equivilent, so as a tax payer I feel that the Government is yet again squandering our money.

Don't get me started on the amount of money pumped into failing government computer projects... EDS must love this stuff... they take the money, deliver something that's "not fit for purpose", and then get away with it!

Want to make government computer projects a success? Well, start by not giving the fucking contracts to the same people who have a track record of screwing things up!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/uk_bulk_purchase_ms_licences/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4717400.stm
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2695
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/08/government_cocks_up_another_computer/
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39164600,00.htm
http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/outsourcing/eds.html

Grumpy Thursday

It's official today is "Grumpy Thursday"... the baby's crying, computers are crashing, insect bites are itching... bah!!!

No Movies for Me!

Apple are now offering movie downloads from the iTunes music store... just as long as you're in the USA! Gee, thanks Apple, Disney, and the rest of the MPAA bunch... there is a world outside of the USA you know... and if you give us a chance we'd like to be your customers, but by discriminating against non-USA residents you're only giving us more reasons to visit The Pirate Bay.

So hurry up Apple, kick the movie studios into action and let you distribute stuff worldwide... I still have space on my iPod for plenty of stuff... and looking at the new iTV device, I can see that I'll be spending plenty with you next year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5339470.stm

Crikey!

Proving that there are complete morons in the world, it looks like some people in Australia are taking revenge on Stingrays following the death of Steve Irwin. Steve died after a Stingray barb stabbed him in the heart.

What sort of stupid braindead idiots are now going out killing the fish?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5338118.stm

Rupert's Annoying Things

Look like Rupert Murdoch, or rather his company, News Corp, is about to buy the company than inflicted the Crazy Frog ringtone on us. What's he trying to do? He's now got 2 really annoying things... the Frog and MySpace... I predict that next he'll buy a couple of Indian call centres!... can't stand them either!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/12/crazyfrog_murdoch_ringtone/

McUpsell

Ever been to a fast food outlet and wanted just a burger... and the spotty little git behind the counter says:

"Is that a meal?"
"Would you like fries with that?"
"Anything to drink?"
"Would you like to punch me in the face?"

(Ok, I made the last one up)

It would seem there's no stopping them...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8SsFXQ0kmLs

...from the funniest TV show I've seen in a while:

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/

Privacy is Dead...

...Get over it!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5335054.stm

I've spent years telling people that anything you do online can be traced back to you and nothing is really anonymous... It would seem that some people just don't get it!

PaedoSpace

Where Men are Men,
Women are Men,
and Kids are FBI agents...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zzLk9fS360

British Police for Britain?

Is the current shambles of the UK government about to give away the right to run our own judicial system? It would seem so...

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