Careful with that text, Eugene

I mean, obviously, that's why it took so long, because they were filtering through a month's worth of text flirting and requests for a pint of milk on the way home.

"I fought the law and - the law accepted my explanation and let me go, but not before suggesting that I be careful about where I send such messages in future."

Doesn't quite have the same ring (tone)...

= "I am outnumbered by the yankee imperialist soldiers"

and I can't find the milk! xoxoxoxox"

= "please send more ground-to-air missiles now thx"

tinfoil fucking hat already

read the Human Rights Act, UK'ers
GCHQ does not have the time or the legal right to observe your communications
I'd be more bothered if I was Irish and bought a 3G mobile recently

Well, make that tinfoil hats for two, then. Three, counting the person from the Sun who wrote the article, and four for the person at the Register who reprinted it.

average daily text message traffic for the UK, two years ago:
http://www.mda-mobiledata.org/resource/releases/images/2003December.gif

You're not that important, first of all. A highly trained linguist or computer scientist or engineer working to try and sniff out actual threats, on a government paycheck nonetheless, doesn't frankly have the fucking time to read your piddling stupid paranoia and alert the police when it's maybe possible some total nobody is talking about a prison break involving airplanes with no correlating info whatsoever.

Second of all much as it disgusts you all to believe it there are LAWS such as the 4th amendment and the HRA which expressly prevent the government from intercepting or monitoring the communications of its citizens, and government employees are required to abide by them.

Third of all MarkH should be getting a knock on his door any second now I'd imagine, shouldn't he.

"That's it, I've had enough of these weak bastards. Send some people round. We'll plant some uranium in his freezer and get him sent down."

"Righto!"

(x-post, clash lyrics = teh sukc)

The Clash are awesome.

Cheeseboiger!!

Anyway, I think we can both agree that, despite the cliche-edness of it, September 11th did "change everything," including law enforcement and intelligence gathering.

"A big boy did it and ran away."

he's gone very quiet. = he's obviously be grabbed by the rozzers.

You know what? There are laws about who gets to invade what country and when. There are laws about the treatment of civilians, and military prisoners during said invasions. There are laws about all sorts of things that the US and other governments DISREGARD EVERY SINGLE DAY, so if they can ignore International Law they can ignore whatever law it suits them to ignore. Including the "fourth amendment" which we don't have in this country, by the way, it not being America. You should know this, having actually been here now.

There are laws about all sorts of things that the US and other governments DISREGARD EVERY SINGLE DAY

indeed - but another way of looking at international law is - what's the point of writing laws if you have no police?

What is the point of writing laws if the self-proclaimed "police of the world" are totally corrupt and self serving?

Saying "there are laws against that thing!!!" does not negate the fact that people can and still do it.

xpost The neat thing about those golf balls is that inside they're just regular dish antennae! the covers are there so you can't see where they're pointing and to keep the weather off.

xpost Jon is it possible there are any small images on google?

http://cndyorks.gn.apc.org/mhs/wpc/wpc2.jpg
http://www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org/menwith%201.gif
http://archiv.greenpeace.de/GP_GRAFIK/PHOTOS/MENWITH.JPG
http://ayup.co.uk/00/08pic/menwithgolfball.jpg

x-post. I'm not insulting anyone. Who am I insulting if I say "there are laws against murder, but people get killed every day!" ?

Laws exist. Not everyone follows them.

STOP USING DEODERANT

I wrote a piece on Alcoa's development of a $1 BN alumina facility in Trinidad for this week's issue.

Aw, man.

What do chemtrails, water pollution, and toothpaste all have in common. You guessed it. In fact, the exposure to the metal is reaching epidemic proportions. So what's the big deal you might ask. Well, new studies have suggested that aluminum may be the most toxic substance known to man, even more deadly than mercury or plutonium. Aluminum and heavy metals in your brain may also be acting as an antennae to receive mind control suggestions from the government.

OK, so finally, proof positive that vegetarianism is caused by an obsessive belief in conspiracies, and not the other way around! Hurrah!

A) You are both the biggest egomaniacs alive to think that anyone besides maybe some crazy ex you had, 3 years ago, is interested in reading your emails
B) YOU ARE BOTH TERRORISTS

I mean, seriously, do you know how much manpower that would actually take anyway? There is absolutely no way in hell that, if the governments of our respective countries were partaking in massive-scale texting/email reading of the citizens, they could keep it secret because it would just require the utilization of far too many people to get the job done. Think of how much effort it takes for major corporations to start putting in email filtering/monitoring programs in place--and that is just for ONE server/domain and ONE company and only, at most, several hundred thousand people, not an entire globe of people...

I also hate to posit this, but I am somewhat baffled that a two-word reference to Echelon can inspire so much bile yet making jokes about your breasts somehow is funny? Please explain that to me, or don't, I don't really care, but I do admit I find it puzzling.

freakin insane! this guy's name wasn't even explicitly written in any of the liner notes... the intell. people would have had to systematically delve and delve hard to find out who this guy was.

which, if any of this is remotely true, there's somebody out there who hangs out and is into fringe music specifically to have all the ins and outs on who's saying what about the government. somebody gets paid to analyze born against lyrics.

weird. paranoid?
m.

THOUGHT CRIMINALS.

I'm sure that's banned under the Geneva Convention.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost

Right, and guys hauled off the street *are* apparently worth 'interrogating' at some length in Guantanamo, etc. Why the fuck should the fact that these people are ex-co-workers of yours mean shit-all to anyone else?

"Guys hauled off the street"

DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- A few hours after NBA star Kobe Bryant had sex with a Vail-area hotel worker last summer, the woman exchanged cell phone text messages with a former boyfriend and someone else.

What's in those messages could help determine whether the sex was consensual or whether Bryant is guilty of rape as charged. The judge himself said the content may be "highly relevant" to the case.