Things Noticeable this week

[Greenman]

Originally Posted by rewbear

That used to crack me up - when Roadrunner ran down the tunnel into the mountain, but when Wile E Coyote came along he splashed himself on the side of the mountain because, you've guessed it, the tunnel was painted on!! Ah, good times, good memories. Thanks scounds

Or a train came through it to either chase him or mow him down. Not forgetting the amount of money spent on Acme products- where did he get that from? The one instance he does catch Road Runner was when going through a series of pipes he finally grabs it's leg only to discover it has grown to huge proportions. He turns to camera, holds up a sign and it reads " Well? what do I do now?" Incidentally he never spoke in his cartoons BUT did when called Ralph paired with a sheepdog called Sam who would try to stop him stealing sheep, but both would clock off at the end of the as friends rather than enemies.

[vannax]

Originally Posted by haroldeye

No she had a lot more murdered for her own profit.

Quite true, however there was a media-fueled 2 minutes hate against the dentist who killed a lion with a bow and arrow, and there was and is none against Grace.

I wouldn't call killing animals murder, though. Murder is a form of homicide. Killing an animal isn't homicide.

[haroldeye]

Murder is killing with malice aforethought and is not restricted solely th mankind. Homicide is the killing of a member of the human race whether illegal or not, though I think the American penal code does confuse the two.

The senseless killing of animals for body parts which is forbidden by international treaty is murder. It is a double crime because small groups of people make vast profits out of this when properly looked after the game could attract large numbers of tourists and raise the standard of living of all the local people.

[vannax]

Originally Posted by haroldeye

Murder is killing with malice aforethought and is not restricted solely th mankind. Homicide is the killing of a member of the human race whether illegal or not, though I think the American penal code does confuse the two.

The senseless killing of animals for body parts which is forbidden by international treaty is murder. It is a double crime because small groups of people make vast profits out of this when properly looked after the game could attract large numbers of tourists and raise the standard of living of all the local people.

mur·der
ˈmərdər/
noun
1.
the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
"the stabbing murder of an off-Broadway producer"
synonyms: killing, homicide, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre; More
verb
1.
kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation.
"somebody tried to murder Joe"
synonyms: kill, put to death, assassinate, execute, liquidate, eliminate, dispatch, butcher, slaughter, massacre, wipe out;

Murder is term for killing humans unlawfully.
Otherwise, I guess I'm guilty of murdering flies and mosquitoes with malice aforethought, not to mention a few squirrels, raccoons and chipmunks, and all my friends who hunt and fish are also guilty, as is the entire meat industry.

There is a reason that homicide detectives exist, not murder detectives.

Creeping post-modernism.
Even if the entire human population believed that birds were in fact fish, birds would still be birds and fish would still be fish.

[rupertramjet]

Gendarmarie officer Lt col Arnaud Beltrame, who selflessly and heroically exchanged himself for a hostage during yesterdays terrorist siege, lost his fight and died during the night. This right here is what a hero looks like. This isn't the movies. This is real life. This man showed bravery far and above what could've been expected, and paid with his life. He is a national hero and deserving of every single honour that should be rightly bestowed.

Merci, Monsieur, pour votre sacrifice, nous demandons à nos agents
de police de mettre systématiquement des vies d'héritiers sur la ligne,
c'est seulement dans la tragédie, nous réalisons votre vraie valeur

Thank you , Sir, for your sacrifice, we ask our Police Officers to
routinely put their lives on the line, it is only in tragedy, we realise
your true worth.

From the 'One Police' World website.
Sorry I felt that needed to be in French out of respect for a true Hero.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ms-allegiance/

[bloke57]

Originally Posted by Greenman

Incidentally he never spoke in his cartoons BUT did when called Ralph paired with a sheepdog called Sam who would try to stop him stealing sheep, but both would clock off at the end of the as friends rather than enemies.

He also speaks with a refined accent in a few cartoons with Bugs Bunny - Operation Rabbit and Compressed Hare - there may be others.

[Devius]

British scientists think DNA could be used to solve a global problem - where to store all our data.

They have developed a technique to store computer files on DNA code.

Details:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science...-computer-data

Sorry - as much as I like "Johnny Mnemonic" the movie, I dont fancy a future with real life Johnny Mnemonics carrying data around the globe...

[Brecht]

Originally Posted by Devius

Sorry - as much as I like "Johnny Mnemonic" the movie, I dont fancy a future with real life Johnny Mnemonics carrying data around the globe...

I don't like the film but I like the story by William Gibson.

Anyway, what's wrong with, say, storing VEF content in your DNA?

[CARLTON BROWN]

Originally Posted by scoundrel

What we should be doing is taking stock very quietly of all the dirty Russian money, and particularly of any money or assets which can be matched to politically exposed persons from the Russian Federation. The best way to handle it would be to mark down the targets and then strike them all on the stroke of midnight, impounding as much as possible the ill-gotten gains of Russian public officials, parliamentarians and other associated low-life. I suspect this would make a few people wonder whether they should have been quite so keen to support extra-judicial assassinations on British soild

I would suggest the reality is that MI5 already have an entire section of people studying the activities of every wealthy Russian, or Russians of interest in the UK. GCHQ will have full analysis of their financial movements, phone calls, internet activity and contacts, with supercomputers providing predictive assessments. There is no stock to be taken.

And I dare say there are people in the UK only too willing to have all these people and their wealth in the UK and couldn't care less about what's gone on in Salisbury if it doesn't affect their business interests.

Without doubt, HMG will know a good deal more that the general public about the two Russians who were attacked in Salisbury and are probably dead, but maintained on life support equipment.

However, if our government expect the general public to support them when they have a long track record of withholding the truth and sometimes misleading the public with nonsense like the WMD saga, they are going about this all the wrong way and appear to have nothing to show us.

Right now, HMG should stop playing games, because it's starting to look as if the FSB (assuming they are responsible), are running rings around us.

As for any (low-life?) actually supporting professional hits on UK soil, I've no idea who these people are, as nobody appears to have voiced any support for what has the look of an operation that would not be out of place in a James Bond movie.

And isn't it somewhat surprising that the normally outspoken President Trump, has been relatively restrained in his remarks about all this?

[judy84]

Russia unleashed an “extensive” operation in Britain after the Salisbury spy attack, with thousands of suspected robotic accounts spreading doubt and conspiracy on the internet, officials believe.
It is understood that an estimated 2,800 such online accounts are suspected of posting material about the attempted murder of Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, according to monitoring reports prepared for the government. Messages posted by the suspect accounts are thought to have been interacted with 75 million times and to have reached at least 7.5 million people in Britain.


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2...acks-zf6lvb3nc