First time in 6.5 million flying hours for Boeing 777
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:06:15 +0100
"The BA plane that crashed at Heathrow in January was probably brought down
by ice in its fuel system, a report says."
It said nothing about running so low on fuel it got down to the "ice" or
just air.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7598267.stm
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SOCA stupes
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:42:15 +0100
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/04/nhtcu_cybersnatch/
The lapsed website of the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has been
snapped up by an opportunistic German marketeer.
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Re: [OT] How about taking the "No Sock Puppet" pledge?
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:26:55 -0400
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:18:55 +0100, hummingbird wrote:
>>A juror uses his judgement to decide if there's enough time to evaluate
>>the evidence before lunch.
>>
>>I have been called up for Jury service twice in my life, and have
>>sat through a decent number of trials, and nobody, judge, police,
>>learned bri ...
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Re: Richard must be on Holiday
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:12:54 +0100
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:16:04 +0100, Big Les Wade <Les@nowhere.com>
wrote:
>>>>The State has no control whatsoever over the number of people who can
>>>>become barristers (same for solicitors).
>>>
>>>It prevents people other than barristers representing others in court
>>>(to a reasonable approximation).
>>
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Re: Why Cops should not be armed
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:03:53 GMT
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:10:59 +0100, "\"The Rifleman\""
<survivor@northland.com> wrote:
>This comes after they lost guns by driving down the A303 in a van with the
>door open and let a load of guns fall out, many have not been recovered. And
>when they are not shooting brasilian tourists, mini drivers, people ca ...
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Office Theft
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:17:40 +0100
You work in an office, and money is stolen from your wallet while your
jacket is hanging on your chair. This happens while you are away from your
desk, and the only likely culprits are those who work at nearby desks. You
suspect one particular employee, whom others have previously accused of
theft but nothing ...
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Legal Basis of Building a Free Hong Kong 20080903
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:11:39 -0700 (PDT)
Legal Basis of Building a Free Hong Kong
http://www.hkfront.org/reason-en.htm
http://www.hkfront.org/plaen.htm
Chinese War Criminals
Hong Konger Front, calling for Hong Kong independence and the
establishment of the Republic of Hong Kong
http://www.hkfront.org/index-sub-en.html ...
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Cardiff?s 140 unborn babies at risk from their parents before birth
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:09:23 -0700 (PDT)
Cardiff?s 140 unborn babies at risk from their parents before birth
Jun 23 2008 by Andrew Dagnell, South Wales Echo
MORE than 140 unborn babies have been put on the child protection
register in Cardiff ? before they were even born.
Social workers have taken the steps to protect children who they
believe wou ...
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Man accused of assaulting a smoker
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:00:02 +0100
"Police today defended their decision to investigate after a smoker was
left "quite shaken" when a disgruntled man snatched a cigarette from her
hand at a bus stop. The attacker was waiting at the shelter in
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, beside the 61-year-old victim when he
complained that the fumes were blowi ...
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Film Production Company - Help Required - Op Ore
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 07:21:36 -0700 (PDT)
"A London-based production company, Green Lions, is looking for people
who were arrested under operation ore and suffered some combination of
personal, reputation, family and work distress as a result. They are
making a documentary film about privacy and surveillance in the UK and
the director David Bond (who I've ...
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