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Moose..noose...hudes.NEWS! News updatey type thing
Posted Jun 10, 2006
One week ago, while my one brother and his son were up staying with us we decided we'd go out for lunch and meet up with my other brother as the whole family are rarely all in the same place. Anyway, we decide to go to this cafe/shop/visitor center expecting to have a nice quiet family get together when what do we find when we get there? Loads of flipping German LARPers walking round dressed as Elves and shi..er..stuff.
My iPod has died 
but then it had been up mountains and stuff and it probably withstood more of a pounding than it was ever designed to.
Also I am considering turning to The Dark Side. I've found a place where you can do an MCSE and they guarentee to find you a job, earning a minimum of 18-22k within 12 weeks or your qualification is free. It will mean I have to move back to Brum though.
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Metropolis
Posted May 13, 2006
Today I bought a copy of the Times, why, you ask? I shall tell you for why. I comes with a free copy of metropolis on DVD. Yes boys and girls for only £1.10 you can have your very own DVD of one of the greatest films of all time.
One thing however confused me. On the back of the DVD it states "The copyright proprietors have licensed the material in this DVD for private and domestic use only..."
Surely Metropolis has fallen out of copyright?
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Ok, that kinda freaked me out...
Posted May 4, 2006
I was watching The Ring, the modern US remake not the Korean/japanese originals, and just after the bit where she watches the video, when she gets the phone call saying she's got 7 days, my computer tried to connect it's self to the internet with no assistance on my behalf. Later, when she shows the tape to her ex, my computer once more tried to connect to the internet. It then continued to keep trying to dial up until, realising I was going to keep getting the film interupted, I closed down the DVD player...
...
..At which point my computer gave up trying to connect to the internet 
!!!!!
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And those crazey japanese peeps are at it again
Posted Apr 14, 2006
This time it's the sign on toilets
http://www.fugly.com/pictures/11508/japanese-toilet-signs.html
This one is a teeny, that is not very much at all really, bit risque, but if you're reading my journal you should be able to cope with it
http://www.asianjoke.com/pix/asian_sport_bras.htm
And for those of you who feel you need a few extra unsightly skin blemishes
http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=warter-supplies.jpg&category=Signs/Posters&date=2006-02-06
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Latest reply: Apr 14, 2006
To all you lucky bar stewards in England
Posted Mar 26, 2006
Those of you who are dreading the aproaching smoking ban should take comfort in the following. Taken from the Bill of Rights 1689, the larger exerpt can be found at the bottom.
"That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void;"
So say good bye to fixed penalty fines, or indeed any fine or fixed penalty, including bank charges, which were not handed out as punishment after you had been tried and convicted.
"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted;"
The cost of taking someone to court to convict them of doing 5mph over the speed limit or smoking in a pub is likely to be excessive in relation to the offence and so therefore will make a loss as a fine covering the costs would be unconstitutional and illegal
"And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties, and that no declarations, judgments, doings or proceedings to the prejudice of the people in any of the said premises ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into consequence or example"
Or to put it another way these rights supercede all future laws and judgments. Not Law and/or judgement can go against these rights, nor can they be revoked.
The larger exerpt follows:
And thereupon the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, pursuant to their respective letters and elections, being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties declare:
That the pretended power of suspending the laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is illegal;
That the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal;
That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious;
That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time, or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal;
That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;
That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law;
That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law;
That election of members of Parliament ought to be free;
That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament;
That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted;
That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders;
That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void;
And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the laws, Parliaments ought to be held frequently.
And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties, and that no declarations, judgments, doings or proceedings to the prejudice of the people in any of the said premises ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into consequence or example; to which demand of their rights they are particularly encouraged by the declaration of his Highness the prince of Orange as being the only means for obtaining a full redress and remedy therein.
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