It isn’t just Geeklawyer who thinks Internet access is a human rights issue and that “three strikes” and you’re off the Internet is a music industry bullshit way of dealing with copyright infringement and their own broken business models.
More proof that the “War on Terror” is having absurd knock on effects on common sense. Since terrorists take surveillance photographs of targets then anyone taking photographs might be a terrorist. Seems obvious went you put it like that; so PCSOs and proper cops are hassling photographers seen taking pictures and insisting on their deletion.
Amusing: a Maasai warrior chief & marathon runner in the UK to run writes on English novelties. On the Saturday April the 5th he wrote:
“…I miss meat and blood very much. Not vegetables because they are food for a woman…”
Take that you vegans. Geeklawyer is very fond of vegetables himself: they pay his absurdly high fees without complaint.
These fuckwits have got no effing brains…that is why they cannot use common sense.
Spitting Image has much to answer for… the Police force and their paramilitary wing, the PCSOs, seems to have recruited an unusually high number of “Sgt Dimblebys”
The terrorists are winning because of incompetents, morons, cunts and people who can’t even get a baggage handling system at a brand new airport terminal to work.
Erode civil liberties, regulate until not even the greediest law publisher can keep up with new law books, kow-tow to the Chinese, an ugly, repressive and ultimately world destructive regime, pander to the Saudis.…. Christ.…we’re even trying to humour the French.
Spirit of Agincourt?… don’t me larf mate. The only two fingers people in this country seem to be able to use are the ones used to press the fucking remote button on their television remote control to vote on game shows.
Time we got a grip.… I’m going to go on “Britain’s got Talent” and commit an outrage… mind you, the competition seems to be quite high on that programme. Maybe I should see if GMTV will have me on their moronic breakfast news show…
Genghis Charon
Retired warlord now living in Lyme Regis
I knew any mention of PCSOs would get you started Charon
GL: Would the vegetables be the clients, or the solicitors who actually pay?
Charon: I wish you wouldn’t hold back — say what you mean!
I meant my lay, Direct Access, clients. Sadly no solicitor would fall for my overcharging.
I don’t know, some of us aren’t exactly numerate — I had to stop and think what the sum of 7 + 8 was for your spam protection…
Ah, but you’re right to have to stop and think about it, as it doesn’t actually make sense — possibly. You see in this context the “sum” of two or more numbers is the result of adding them together, but “+” also means add them together. So “7 + 8″ = 15, which means that the spam protection becomes “sum of 15″. Really it should either ask for “the sum of 7 and 8″ or simply for “7 + 8″. Either the “+” should be an “and” or “sum of” is superfluous. You can have a sum of a single number, but it’s totally pointless. That’s if I remember my maths right.
I’m really sorry about all that, but I’ve got a dead boring task to do, so any procrastination will do. Hmm… ‘Any Procrastination Will Do’, the new talent show to find Britain’s most inventively lazy people, coming to BBC3 soon.
Well done sir, I am proud to call you a brother lawyer. I haven’t seen the text of the spam protection thingy (since I am immune to it) but your anal answer does your profession proud. One could, I suppose, argue that the text is colloquial and the meaning is implict, nonetheless I like your version and think it right.
In these troubled times we all do what we can to secure the rule of law, hence my humble offering. I expect the government to launch an appeal against my post tomorrow morning.
I’d hate to think what that boring task is…
It gets worse, as that task (some research) is probably going to take up most of today as well. While this is possibly partly due to yesterday’s procrastinations, expect to find me looking for mathematical errors on the PCSO website by noon. I might then record Countdown and watch it on fast forward, just for the challenge.
GL… Indeed… I was inspired to do my own — rather more moderate rant — with a link back, naturally.
I’m not watching The Marathon.… in fact, I am going off to have a light lunch at a cafe and the return to write
Saw a couple of PCSOs yesterday — overweight, eating buns on a street corner.…. hopeless. Batman and Robin on doughnuts. Unfortunately I don’t have any mainstream criminal experience so I couldn’t give them a ‘bank robbery in progress’ to deal with and test their mettle.
John.… when in Rome.
I was ‘brung up proper’.… and was told by my parents to try and fit in when one went to parties…
Here I am, on Geeklawyer’s blog — one must blend in. Quite liberating actually !
I am practising my writing styles — that is my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Charon: I see. That explains it.
It has been a less than fascinating afternoon. I lost the will to live after watching tourists trying to get around London by running between places of interest — televised for hours by the BBC. I appreciate that Terminal 5 is not working and, at weekends, our transport system is often closed for essential maintenance. Today, however, all our transport systems were working.
Despite this, large numbers of people, including six Maasaai, apparently, were not using the offerings of Transport for London. I had no idea the credit-crunch and recession was so bad.
Meanwhile, I was grateful for the advice of The Chief (Supra) on the spam protection. I have to phone 118 118 to get their help whenever I want to post on here. They are very good.…. get an email with the answer within 30 seconds or so.
Yep.… as good as their word.… the answer this time is 11. Excellent
My work for the day is done.…the shadows lengthen and the sun has gone down to re-appear tomorrow, the dawn of a new day.… casting light so I can find my shoes… my cigarette lighter and begin again the miracle that is aily life.
I have written my last on my blawg for today. I recorded Songs of Praise earlier and I am now going to watch it on fast forward — always more amusing that way
Buona notte tutti.…
GL.… can you call a doctor…urgent.
I’ve just been on the PCSO website — linked on my latest post.
I’m worried.. I may want to join.…
Please phone my mate Dr Strangelove… he knows what to do. Several years ago I thought I’d like to row the Atlantic. dr S came over and had a chat. Itwas helpful
I have blogged on exactly the same issue today, following an unsavoury incident when I too was detained in a police car simply for taking photographs.
I trust that all photographers will do something to back Mr. Mitchell’s campaign
if simply taking photographs is unlawful, how long before simply wondering gets me in jail? eek!
this poem by bertolt brecht has been running through my head today,; can;t imagine why. it is rather long and may well breach copyright but i don’t care (and it’s a pretty gakky translation — must do one after exams); your site, your problem…
Truly, I live in dark times!
An artless word is foolish. A smooth forehead
Points to insensitivity. He who laughs
Has not yet received
The terrible news.
What times are these, in which
A conversation about trees is almost a crime
For in doing so we maintain our silence about so much wrongdoing!
And he who walks quietly across the street,
Passes out of the reach of his friends
Who are in danger?
It is true: I work for a living
But, believe me, that is a coincidence. Nothing
That I do gives me the right to eat my fill.
By chance I have been spared. (If my luck does not hold, I am lost.)
They tell me: eat and drink. Be glad to be among the haves!
But how can I eat and drink
When I take what I eat from the starving
And those who thirst do not have my glass of water?
And yet I eat and drink.
I would happily be wise.
The old books teach us what wisdom is:
To retreat from the strife of the world
To live out the brief time that is your lot
Without fear
To make your way without violence
To repay evil with good –
The wise do not seek to satisfy their desires,
But to forget them.
But I cannot heed this:
Truly I live in dark times!
II
I came into the cities in a time of disorder
As hunger reigned.
I came among men in a time of turmoil
And I rose up with them.
And so passed
The time given to me on earth.
I ate my food between slaughters.
I laid down to sleep among murderers.
I tended to love with abandon.
I looked upon nature with impatience.
And so passed
The time given to me on earth.
In my time streets led into a swamp.
My language betrayed me to the slaughterer.
There was little I could do. But without me
The rulers sat more securely, or so I hoped.
And so passed
The time given to me on earth.
The powers were so limited. The goal
Lay far in the distance
It could clearly be seen although even I
Could hardly hope to reach it.
And so passed
The time given to me on earth.
III
You, who shall resurface following the flood
In which we have perished,
Contemplate –
When you speak of our weaknesses,
Also the dark time
That you have escaped.
For we went forth, changing our country more frequently than our shoes
Through the class warfare, despairing
That there was only injustice and no outrage.
And yet we knew:
Even the hatred of squalor
Distorts one’s features.
Even anger against injustice
Makes the voice grow hoarse. We
Who wished to lay the foundation for gentleness
Could not ourselves be gentle.
But you, when at last the time comes
That man can aid his fellow man,
Should think upon us
With leniency.
–Bertolt Brecht, An die Nachgeborenen
A lad in my home town was getting beating up, his mate ran to the bus station where there is a PCSO normally standing. PCSO said he couldn’t help as it was too dangerous a situation for him.
They are a useless waste of tax payers money. Money that would be better spent dressing up scarecrows in policeman uniforms.
a scarecrow can give you a nasty poke in the eye.
couldn’t the pcso have gone and quoted brecht to the miscreant until he realised he was merely the tool of the system and should in fact unite with the lad he was bullying and work together for the overthrow of capitalism?
PCSO’s quoting Brecht… you have a strange notion of the British eduation system.
They only know about the Romans, Tudors, Nazi’s, and First world war.
Brecht plays for Arsenal doesn’t he? Most kids know football players
brecht was nazis, innit?
(woking on the yoof vote for pupillage)
bloody premiership is full of european socialist playwrights using their verfremdungseffekts to baffle english defences. i blame bert trautman.