Grooming Fears End Ice Rink Plan BBC NEWS | England | Somerset | Grooming fears end ice rink plan
Plans for a Christmas outdoor ice rink in Bath have been scuppered over fears it could be used by paedophiles to groom children.
I think Brasseye were right all along..
DISNEY… if anyone can give me any insight today on this i will be very grateful...
what media sector does disney deal with?
who owns the company and has overall control? (roy and walt are dead..)
what is the geographical scope?
I cant just look on wikipedia... or i will be shot :weee:
Communications Data Bill. The purpose of the Bill is to: allow communications data capabilities for the prevention and detection of crime and protection of national security to keep up with changing technology through providing for the collection and retention of such data, including data not required for the business purposes of communications service providers; and to ensure strict safeguards continue to strike the proper balance between privacy and protecting the public.
The main elements of the Bill are:
• Modify the procedures for acquiring communications data and allow this data to be retained;
• Transpose EU Directive 2006/24/EC on the retention of communications data into UK law.
The main benefits of the Bill are:
• Communications data plays a key role in counter-terrorism investigations, the prevention and detection of crime and protecting the public. The Bill would bring the legislative framework on access to communications data up to date with changes taking place in the telecommunications industry and the move to using Internet Protocol (IP) core networks;
• Unless the legislation is updated to reflect these changes, the ability of public authorities to carry out their crime prevention and public safety duties and to counter these threats will be undermined.
Doesnt sound to bad untill i read this...
The all-seeing state is about to end privacy as we know it
Plans for a vast central database of our emails, phone calls and texts will see everyone monitored as a potential suspect
You might suppose that the economic tornado hitting Britain would cause the government to focus its energy and resources very tightly on the political projects that are of undoubted value. This is not, after all, the moment to be wasting either political or financial capital. But you would be wrong. Faced with a crisis that it patently can't control, the government is instead seeking to exert power where it still can: over us.
The state's latest plan to watch us makes every other imminent intrusion seem limited. Next month's Queen's speech will contain a brief reference to an innocuous-sounding communications data bill. But what this means is the development of a centralised database that will track, in real time, every call we make, every website we visit, and every text and email we send. That information will then be stored and analysed - perhaps for decades. It will mean the end of privacy as we know it.
In the name of the fight against crime, and the fight against terror, we are all to be monitored as if we could be suspects. Computers will analyse our behaviour for signs of deviance. The minute we become of interest to anyone in authority - perhaps because we take part in a demonstration, have an argument with a security guard at an airport, spend too long on a website, or are witness to a crime - the police or the security services will be able to dip into our records and construct a near-complete pattern of our lives.
The shocking element to the new plan is that the authorities want their own database only because they find the current limitations frustrating. Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act rules, the 700 or so bodies already licensed to watch us must make a certified request to phone or internet firms for individual records. More than 500,000 such requests were made last year. But the companies are reluctant to hang on to the data, and the security services would find a single, accessible database so much more convenient.
Stop and consider this for a moment. Think about how happy any of us would be to have our lives laid out to official view. All our weaknesses, our private fears and interests, would be exposed. Our web searches are guides to what is going on in our minds. A married man might spend a lot of time on porn websites; a successful manager might be researching depression; a businessman might be looking up bankruptcy law.
We all have a gulf between who we really are and the face we present to the world. Suddenly that barrier will be taken away. Would a protester at the Kingsnorth power station feel quite so confident in facing the police if she knew that the minute she was arrested, the police could find out that she'd just spent a week looking at abortion on the web? Would a rebel politician stand up against the prime minister if he knew security services had access to the 100 text messages a week he exchanged with a woman who wasn't his wife? It isn't just the certainty that such data would be used against people that is a deterrent, it's the fear. As the realisation of this power grew, we would gradually start living in the prison of our minds.
This is only the worst manifestation of an official intrusion into our lives that is just about to hit us, but of which we seem strangely unaware. The UK's network of speed cameras will soon be able to track every journey we make by road under the automated number-plate recognition system. Mobile network records can already place us, at any time, within 100 yards of our phone's location. The ID database will record every time we go to a hospital or a benefit centre, fill in a prescription or a draw a large sum from a bank. The children's database will give access to every piece of gossip or fact about our children or their family, perhaps in perpetuity. It will record that an older sister may be alcoholic, or that a father is in jail, or that a 14-year-old is thought to be having sex. Nobody will be able to break free of this information about their past.
Most alarming of all, for its breadth of knowledge about us, the NHS database will give hundreds of thousands of staff the ability to discover when we lost our virginity, the drugs we're on, our mental health history. And none of this information will be safe, because we know three things about the mass collection of data. The first is that the authorities will mine it where it suits them. The second is that the data will be lost. And the third is that it will leak.
Only last month a Revenue & Customs worker was jailed for twice passing the address of a battered woman to her current boyfriend - the woman's husband. On each occasion, the battered woman and her children had to flee to a new address. That's the tip of an information iceberg. A couple of years ago the trial of journalists who had hacked into royal phones revealed the existence of a web of hackers, private detectives and dodgy policemen who could effectively gather all there was to be known about a person's private life. In a very few years there will be much more that could be known, and far fewer defences against it.
The information commissioner, Richard Thomas, warns these changes must be debated because of the dangers that excessive surveillance poses to our way of life. Liberty's Shami Chakrabarti says the latest proposals are "seismic", and that they will "transform the relationship between the individual and the state". I'm all for the targeted pursuit of crime and terror, but this isn't it. This is a multibillion-pound misuse of the state's time and our money which will fundamentally damage our freedom to think and to act
Who knows what to belive... :you_crazy:12
"hottest thinker in the world" loves parties! it’s all about the Black Swan… sometimes u buy a book, and u get lucky... i bought a book along the lines of Freakonomics, an interesting look at the new lines of thinking opening up in the world of economics.
But cos it was a 'bogohp' i bought another interestin book called 'The Black Swan' by Nassim Nicholas Taleb... and it turned out to be a far more interesting read.
after months of battlin thru the challenging material, a combination of probability and philosophy, and findin some really fascinating ideas, i finally finished the book last week. :weee:
This mornin i looked 2 see wot the rest of the world made of this frighteningly relevent (think global credit crisis!) attack on the lazy use of statistical theories... and it turns out the guy is 'the hottest thinker in the world', according to some, and his book is a bestseller! how good is that... :love:
i'm not saying that he has everythin right, but he sure has made an impact. I'd be interested to see wot other people think...
Perhaps the best thing in it for PV'ers is that the man loves parties, it is one of his top tips. go to parties, and if u cant go... send a friend! :laugh_at:
Taleb is good mates with some bloke called Mandelbrot, apparently, a name some of you might be familiar with... :wink:
here's a nice profile...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom - Times Online
here is his recent essay on the global credit crunch
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb08/taleb08_index.html
here is his homepage
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/
wiki on the book
The Black Swan (book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
and wiki on the theory
Black swan theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inside Out returns with the South East under water and illegal raves! This could be quite interesting. looking forward to it. Lets hope it's not to biast. Surprised i haven't heard anything about it already if regular party organisers are involved though. Lets hope it's not some kids trying to make themselves look big even though they have no idea what the scene is actually about!
this is fucking wrong. The Day The Music Stopped | Mixmag
A Dj and club owner have been put in prison for 5 years because dealers were found in the club. The management had previously shopped 50 dealers to the cops and some only got community service...
'Early on in the proceedings the prosecution bafflingly suggested that Tom could have cut down on drug use by taking to the mic every half an hour and shouting "Hey! Don't take drugs, kids". But even that zinger was later trumped by the Judge's own idea. "At some points in court it got comical," says Carl. "He kind of half-laughed and said ‘you could have changed the music to Strictly Come Dancing or maybe line dancing – something that isn't associated with drugs to attract a different crowd'.
Be afraid. Be aware. Be careful.:hopeless:
Party For Thatcher
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Party When Margaret Thatcher Dies ( 7th June 2006)[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]6pm, Trafalgar Square - on the First Saturday After her Death![/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Yes dear, tis a coffin...now stroll on, we've been waiting long enough!
It cannot be long until the most reviled Prime Minister Britain has ever had does the decent thing and pops her clogs!
For some 18 months now Class War have been planning a massive party in Traflagar Square to mark the occasion - scene of course of the most famous riot against Margaret Thatcher's policies!
Unlike the Labour student "leader", Richard Angell of Birmingham University, who recently proposed such a party then lost his bottle at the first whiff of grapeshot, we don't go back on our commitments. This party is on!!!!!
So if you were ever on strike in the 1980s, supported the miners, fought apartheid, lost your job to the Tory cuts or just hated Thatcher and all she stood for, we look forward to seeing you in Trafalgfar Square, very soon, with a bottle of the bubbly stuff!
Further press information for this event, including promotional posters, is available from Joe on 07986 041 207.
As for Richard Angell, with a spine like his a long career in the Labour party surely beckons![/FONT]
Gonna be a wicked party when the old cow finally kicks the bucket, anyone else interested in coming? She's gotta go soon (i hope)
Large Hadron Collider? Just been browsing various websites and came across this. Not scaremongering but this has the potential to fuck the earth up if some scientists are to be believed!
Heres more info bout this event http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39458691,00.htm
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39448040,00.htm
Even found a doomsday warning from Nostradamus, I don't really believe in such warnings but it's pretty close to the mark and what with all these UFO sightings recently maybe something dark is approaching. :hopeless:
Nostradamus quatrain 9 44:
Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,
Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,
"Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him,
Before the coming the sky will show signs.
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Labor Party Confrence Large protests from many factions planned for the labor party conference in Manchester this weekend. Stop the war Coalition, Manchester no borders, Manchester anarchist federation & Coalition Of The Left.
Go have Your say If your not doing other things. Dont stay in and do nothing or just waste your weekend.
letter i wrote to the socialist party Dear Sirs
I bought your paper from a stall in Manchester upon reading your petition against post office closures. It is not usually something I'd read as I'm not traditionally Socialist.
I'm replying as to the letter concerning the WWII renactments and I couldn't agree more. My small Northern town is annually subjected to the annual 'Yanks' weekend where we are invaded by American army trucks, tanks and jeeps. Not only this but British and German militaria the later is not the German Wehrmacht/Army offering but is of the full on SS kind. This sickens me and has sinister connotations. What would people say if I was to dress up in striped panamas, shave my head and stencil a number on my arm and offer this as my contribution to renacting WWII? I'd probably be accused of ruining the weekend or arrested for some public order offence.
Why don't we go the whole hog and smash the town up and say we're renacting the British bombing of Dresden that these Allied actors seem to forget in there romantic illusion of WWII.
It seems funny that all this war material is floating around when our government is sending British youths there deaths in there trumped up war without the proper equipment. Someone should remind these re-enactors of this while they do there jive dancing round my local pubs each summer.
Bill Hicks Movie In brief: Russell Crowe may play Bill Hicks | Film | guardian.co.uk
Russell Crowe as Comedian Bill Hicks Screenhead
Apparently the late, great Bill Hicks is to be further immortalised in a movie of his life. About time too really... but... Russell Crowe??! WTF? Too old, too shit, too wooden. It's an insult imo, they need someone intense and talented. I think Christian Bale would do a fantastic job.
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