how many times? There is no such thing as "British" justice. There is a Court for England and Wales, and a SEPARATE legal system and jurisdiction for Scotland, and a CONSTITUTIONAL legal system and court for Ireland.

...until the implementation of the US Constitution, the American legal system was in fact a clone of the English legal system (there is no such thing as a "British" legal system, the Scottish legal system is slightly different and the Irish legal system is based on a single written Constitution), itself based on the Code of Alfred 870 and Magna Carta 1297. The Constitution of the United Stated is loosely based on the 1689 Bill of Rights and the 1688 Constitution. These days the American legal system is further from that of England than it has ever been (in that laws can be nullified by a simple jury decision in the US, whereas in England Parliament is Sovereign, therefore nullification is only possible by using case law to set and follow precedents - most often based on technicalities - until such time as Parliament itself changes the Law. Notable exception being the Poll Tax riots which resulted in the Poll Tax being repealed as an emergency measure, them almost immediately replaced with a more personally costly and insidious Council Tax which would have covered water rates as well had not the (PUBLICLY OWNED) Water Authority been chunked and privatised.

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We are all figments of a deranged imagination.

The difference between blogs and mass media:

The Chilcott Report, if it were posted on a blog, would be posted in its entirety. As it is, it is but a claim right now that it exists; we know a fuckload of public money was diverted and spent on the inquiry, and absent proof to the contrary, claims in MSM that the report implicates former Prime Minister Anthony Blair in war crimes, is itself grounds to issue a warrant for his arrest - at which point full public disclosure is an inevitability as it becomes evidence in a criminal trial. My question on that, is just who exactly originated that claim and have they actually read the Chilcott Report?

Blogs: are generally prepared to furnish evidence to claims made.
MSM: reports what Government tells them to, evidenced or not.

Alyssa Rowan is a pretty senior figure in the CFRG (Crypto Forum Research Group) which offers advice and technical assistance to IETF and other bodies in matters crypto. They recently had (through December 2013) had a bit of a set-to in attempting to remove a co-chair based on the suspicion that he worked for the NSA. This attempt failed when the (unsurprisingly balanced) decision was made in January not to remove him.

I have one.

If you've attracted the attention of the security services (and if you haven't I'm VERY disappointed in you!), they'll be looking for encryption. If they see a hard drive with only half its capacity in use yet the system reads full, they'll be wondering what's in the hidden container. Assuming you're not about to give them the key to your cat porn collection, they're gonna assume it's something much more insidious.

Security 101: if it's not meant to be on a network, don't store it on a network. If you want to hide something, don't hide it where you're gonna glance at it - encrypted/hidden partitions are going to do nothing but raise suspicions. There's good situations to have secure partitions, for example in medium to large business networks where onion security is easily implemented, those without proper credentials are not going to be able to access data in readable form. Period. There's no reason for the mail room to have access to financial data, but they might need the mail database. Secure them both, pass out credentials on a need to know basis. If you want to hide data from outside parties, don't put it in an obvious place like a Truecrypt container (hidden or not) on your fucking laptop.

the last time a British monarch actually got to use the Veto prerogative was in 1708 (Queen Anne on the Scottish Militia Bill). There has been no effective Royal Veto since 1911 when it was practically abolished (the Parliament Act), the final nail was in 1999 when Blair abolished Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords (House of Lords Act, which as was pointed out by Baroness Jay of Paddington in Hansard HL Deb 14 October 1998 vol 593 cc921-1042, could *not* be opposed by any member!) at the same time as he abolished capital punishment for the only remaining crime that was until then still on the Statute books as punishable by death - felonious treason against the reigning Monarch.

Basically, the Queen has zero say in how the country is governed, her speeches are written for her - by the Government, and proofread by the Prime Minister! Plus, just take a look at what the papers reported when Pope Benedict graced her with his presence in 2010 - she not only held the door for him(!), in her own house(!!), she allowed him to pass through *first*, which as anyone who has ever been in the presence of any member of the Royal Family will tell you is entirely against protocol, as staff *always* hold the door and staff *always* enter a room first, followed by the Royal Member followed by the guest and his/her entourage. I wonder how many doors she held open for the President of South Korea last November 5th on her State visit to Buckingham Palace?

I'm pretty sure Thatcher, not Elizabeth Windsor, was calling the shots when the British kicked the Argies off the Falklands.

what else do flamingo eat, Mister Attenborough?

it just strikes me as unbelievably odd behaviour considering the Fed's stance on other countries it reported as having prepped human shields using children, and the timing is just too perfect to have been a coincidence.

owie! I just headbutted my desk through laughing so hard!

"Do you like our owl?"
"It's artificial?"
"Of course. Do you think I would be working here if I could afford a real one?"

ok, so remove the ferry shrimp, and what do you have?

In six months, you're knee deep in a toxic sludge, is what you have.

They move and convert nutrients. They're food for something else. What else is hurt by their removal? Waders, for one. Flamingoes, as an example, feed exclusively on shrimp. Remove the shrimp from their habitat, every flamingo will starve to death. Which is why salt lakes and marshes are important for brine shrimp and for flamingoes.

ok, hands up anyone who ever listened to a word Greenpeace had to say, considering their ships drink fuel oil pumped probably from the same wellheads they try to blockade with their fucking boats?

Thought as much.

mechanical control is the only way to control blackberries. I've seen vines blast across ground obliterated by a Roundup treatment as if it were virgin laid potting compost. My method involves liberal application of machete followed by incineration. Leaves me with a lovely fertile ash which gets turned back into the soil. Cow parsley gets the same treatment, that stuff is evil (not to mention highly toxic to humans and aggressive in growth/spread), incineration is the ONLY way to dispose of that.