h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Crikey, what have you done so naughty it warrents the possibility of Capital Punishment? Bit of Corporeal stuff not suffice instead

>>It frightens me that 40 people have started petitions calling for
the return of the death penalty.<<

Well, it seems to me that there are a few here who don't mind the
concept of delivering death if it involves dropping bombs somewhere
overseas.

I'd rather dish it out, norti.

I hope you don't think I'm one of those people, tarantoes!

I'm sure you're a good person Mr ACE , but what I think doesn't
really matter - I'm just a monkey tapping on a typewriter

Oh, Mister D, were you thinking of killing someone?

~jwf~

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/9175827.Volunteer_lock_keepers_are_loving_their_work/

This is a 'watered down' (excuse the pun) version of the EA original plan to sack it's lock keepers, sell off the houses, and staff it's waterways with volunteers.

Can't wait until the home office and NHS see this, and my fire engine and ambulance arrive staffed by Walter Mitty, Billy Liar and any other 'wannabe'.

No, jwf. Just a bit of heavy discipline now and then... Do try to keep up.

Aside: Why do people always seem so happy when they say "I made a killing on the deal"?

Because it's not enough to harm others financially.
To truly savour greed one must do people harm and injury;
perhaps even rob them of life!
It's called capitalism because it's a capital crime.

~jwf~

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8679630/Swedish-man-arrested-after-trying-to-split-atoms-in-his-kitchen.html

I recommend in future He confines his practical tests to dropping a few thermonuclear devices overseas.

It wouldn't surprise me if some on these boards went from splitting
hairs to splitting atoms

Only kidding - great story

More on Shell Oil's destruction of the Nigerian Delta:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14398659

NATO kills Libyan woman and children during their Ramadan bombing of Zlitan:

"Local residents said three people had been killed early on Thursday morning in a Nato air strike.

Afterwards they were then taken to a local mosque to see three bodies in coffins.

Local people said that the coffins contained the bodies of a woman and her two children - aged five and three."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14413157

It seems almost impossible to get detailed news from the standard
western media of NATO targets in Libya. So this is an example of
news on the internet regarding the apparent NATO targeting and
destruction of Libyan water supplies (needs to be verified by
western sources):
http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/23-07-2011/118577-nato_war_crimes-0/

World markets appear to be slumping:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14414669

Building economies on debt can't be sustainable (both government debt
and private debt).

If we ran our household budgets the way some Governments do, the Banks would have pulled the rug out long ago and we'd have the baliffs at knocking at our door

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14407680

And they conducted their own defence That went well then

Well yes, because running a country isn't the same as running a household! I do get exasperated at hearing that comparison used over and over

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14417362

Dutch Christians doing it right instead of blindly following 2,000 years of dogma.

Global Finance:
"The response of governments around the world to the financial crisis
and recession was to keep or even increase public spending, at a
time of falling tax revenues, to compensate for the collapse of
household consumption and private-sector investment.

In other words, they ran abnormally high public sector deficits -
peaking at deficits in the UK, US and parts of the eurozone at 10%
or more of GDP - to prevent a global recession becoming a global
depression.

In that sense, it is fair to argue that the recent increases in the
public-sector indebtedness of many developed economies is the
consequence in large part of the decisions taken in 2007 and 2008
not to let the banks and the financial system collapse.

Arguably the deleveraging of the banks, the shrinkage in their
balance sheets, has been transferred to the state.

The overall volume of indebtedness in the economy is therefore still
with us - although it has been shuffled from financial sector to
public sector."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14416959