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This is the Conversation Forum for Ask h2g2 << The Xbox One Looking for helpful info on Riga, Tallinn, and Saint Petersburg >> Subject: What News Story Has Caught Your Attention Today? Posted 6 Days Ago by ~ jwf ~ This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 14841 I'm on premod so sorry if this takes a while to see the Light. Need to say... SA seems to have a grasp on reality regarding the nature of dribbling along the roadways. And there is no question a man should be free to roam and espouse a cause to help create a better whirled. It was the guy's name, his age and the means of his death that got belly larfs outa me. I am so easily amused; even if it's not quite up to crucifixion standards he has a fair shot at immortality over roadside-diner coffee or a TV dinner. Now... if the ball ends up on Ebay I may yet shed a tear but not for him or his cause which should be celebrated and never monetized. ~jwf~ Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: What News Story Has Caught Your Attention Today? Posted 5 Days Ago by ~ jwf ~ This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 14842 PS: I should also have mentioned the irony of the location of the dribbler's encounter with death, Lincoln City. Besides being reference to an assassinated president, Lincoln has another meaning as mentioned in today's BBC story about the top ten euphemisms: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22545351 >> 10. In the 70s a lot of LSD seemed to be produced in or around Lincoln and it was common when asking what someone was doing at the weekend to have them reply "I am going to Lincoln" meaning they were going to be dropping acid. - Bee Wyeth, London << ~jwf~ Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: What News Story Has Caught Your Attention Today? Posted 5 Days Ago by Nosebagbadger {Ace} This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 14843 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-22553341 Mother has to repay compensation given to her by NHS as her son didn't survive for the 10 years that the compensation had been given for Particuarly harsh as I'd have thought since there would have been a big outlay at the beginning and only then would the money have been start being used at a more level rate Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: What News Story Has Caught Your Attention Today? Posted 3 Days Ago by Stone Aart - the saturnalian Sybarite currently perched on Galbraiths Roost. This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 14844 New technology ... microwave card readers can read your bank cards while still in the wallet or purse. Marks & Spencer have this technology and it is causing problems with money taken from cards without the owner agreeing to it and without entering a PIN number. The technology is called Near Field Communication and more and more payment cards are being adapted to include this new technology: Quote from article "Paula, from London, ended up paying for the same items twice. Like Rosemary, she put her NatWest card into the chip-and-pin terminal but had her HSBC contactless card she was holding in her purse in her other hand debited instead, before she could enter her PIN. She did not realise that she had a contactless card, and so then paid for the same items by entering the PIN for her regular debit card. It was only a month later when she looked at her bank statement that she realised that her HSBC card was contactless, and that she had paid twice." So in this case the terminal took money from her HSBC card without any ID or security check, it just happened to be close to the terminal when someone was being billed (the same person in this case). With this type of technology taking over it is easy to see how criminals could shortly be making use of it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22545804 Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: What News Story Has Caught Your Attention Today? Posted 2 Days Ago by swl - Genetically Modified This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 14845 9 tons of radioactive material, 4 tons of explosives on a burning ship in a major Western port two weeks ago. http://rt.com/news/hamburg-radioactive-ship-fire-464/ Funny we never saw it on our news here eh? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: What News Story Has Caught Your Attention Today? Posted 21 Hours Ago by swl - Genetically Modified This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 14846 Massive tornado hits Oklahoma http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22604251 Without wanting to appear crass in the face of such loss and devastation, does anybody else hear the name and think " OhhhhhhhKlahoma where the winds come rushing off the plains Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: What News Story Has Caught Your Attention Today? Posted 14 Hours Ago by Stone Aart - the saturnalian Sybarite currently perched on Galbraiths Roost. This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 14847 BBC reporting on the Oklahoma Tornado 20th May 2013. The BBC were reporting yesterday evening and into the morning of "at least" 91 dead including "at least" 20 children dead. Then they reported "at least" 51 dead and another 40 likely dead. Now they are reporting "at least" 24 dead with "at least" 7 children dead. These numbers figured strongly either in the heading to the story or in the first paragraph of the story. Is this just another example of sensationalist reporting ... rather than reporting known facts. They even had a list of the top ten US tornadoes for casualties and the reporters were hopeful that this tornado would make a dent in the list ... as if this tornado "competition" for death and destruction was a key selling point for the story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22611019 << < Conversation list << < Conversation list

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