the ira have said they are ceasing military operations and they are going to destroy their weapons.
isn't that a waste
surely there are other less fortunate terrorist organisations that would appreciate those second hand weapons.
anyway just a thought
Thursday, July 28, 2005
stupid
weather forecast said it would rain today and tomorrow
i texted the girl to tell her and advise her to wear rain jacket
i went out in light summer jacket
i'm in work
cold and wet
i texted the girl to tell her and advise her to wear rain jacket
i went out in light summer jacket
i'm in work
cold and wet
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
a collision
thats what NASA calls a little bird getting creamed by a billion tonne space shuttle
a bit of perspective is called for
a bit of perspective is called for
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
sas training
it seems its not all it cracked up to be
takes 8 shots from close range at a prostrate target to kill
including 7 to the head
now i'm not expert but i doubt therer are many people who would survive even two shots from close range in the head
there ya go
takes 8 shots from close range at a prostrate target to kill
including 7 to the head
now i'm not expert but i doubt therer are many people who would survive even two shots from close range in the head
there ya go
30 people in a room
at a work meeting that tells everybody that the organisation is going to be restructured and not one of them asks what everybody wants to know..............
.....
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what about my job?!!!!
.....
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what about my job?!!!!
Monday, July 25, 2005
london metropolitan police 1 - brazillian electricians 0
following the bush philosophy of 'if you harm a hair on the chiny chin chin of an american citizen we're going to bomb your medievel culture back to the stone age'
does this mean that brazil is going to launch a military campaign against the uk?
or at least send their soccer team over to teach them a lesson.
does this mean that brazil is going to launch a military campaign against the uk?
or at least send their soccer team over to teach them a lesson.
im a lazy guy
in fact im very lazy
not in the standard sense of sitting around watching a lot of tv. i dont do that really at all (except gordon ramsey i like his show)
but i have an ingrained laziness that makes me plan to do loads of things and not any
i dont speak loads of languages
i didn't study so i failed out of college
im not king of the world
i could have achieved all of these things but i didn't bother
now the point of this winge is that i'm unfit and a little over weight oh and i have a sucky diet
every day i promise to change this startign off with improving my diet but every day i go and buy my blueberry scone and moca for breakfast.
maybe it a fear of failure but it pisses me off
obviously not enough to make me do somethign about it but enoguh to make me pissed off
anyway
i thought i'd share
no now junk food for me at all this week
oh and i'm giving up alcohol until my mates going away party in september
not in the standard sense of sitting around watching a lot of tv. i dont do that really at all (except gordon ramsey i like his show)
but i have an ingrained laziness that makes me plan to do loads of things and not any
i dont speak loads of languages
i didn't study so i failed out of college
im not king of the world
i could have achieved all of these things but i didn't bother
now the point of this winge is that i'm unfit and a little over weight oh and i have a sucky diet
every day i promise to change this startign off with improving my diet but every day i go and buy my blueberry scone and moca for breakfast.
maybe it a fear of failure but it pisses me off
obviously not enough to make me do somethign about it but enoguh to make me pissed off
anyway
i thought i'd share
no now junk food for me at all this week
oh and i'm giving up alcohol until my mates going away party in september
my head hurts
probably through lack of work
maybe it's the weather
could be boredom
stress? (only kidding)
oh well
it hurts anyway
maybe it's the weather
could be boredom
stress? (only kidding)
oh well
it hurts anyway
monday in dublin
some idiot thought it was really funny to leae a hoax bomb outside the four courts this morning.
what was he/she trying to do?
get off his trial?
prove that he's just as cool as the 'lads' in london?
that the irish terrorisits are better than the uk ones? "i'm telling yis lads we dont even need bombs"
of that he's a fuckign moron?
answers on a postcard to 'the easiest quiz in the world, po box 12345'
what was he/she trying to do?
get off his trial?
prove that he's just as cool as the 'lads' in london?
that the irish terrorisits are better than the uk ones? "i'm telling yis lads we dont even need bombs"
of that he's a fuckign moron?
answers on a postcard to 'the easiest quiz in the world, po box 12345'
you have to ask a lot of questions about this world
Killer's fate hanging on his IQ
By Matthew Davis BBC News, Washington
The life of a convicted murderer is hanging in the balance while a US jury considers whether his intelligence has increased enough to allow him to be put to death.
Daryl Atkins was named in a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2002 that said it was unconstitutional to execute the mentally retarded.
But the intellectual stimulation the killer got by constant contact with lawyers in the case is thought to have raised his IQ above the threshold of 70, which puts him in line for the death penalty in Virginia.
The 27-year-old's case has divided lawyers and psychologists and has become the latest battleground for those arguing for and against state-sanctioned executions in America.
It raises questions over who should decide on a criminal's competency and whether knowing details of their crime can skew that life-or-death decision.
Capital crime
Atkins is a violent killer, with a string of felony convictions.
It would be easy to deliberately do badly on one IQ test. But it would be very difficult to feign low cognition across time, different settings and multiple examiners Dr Bob Stinson Forensic psychologist
In 1996, he and another man abducted Eric Nesbitt, 21, a US airman from Langley Air Force Base.
They forced him to withdraw money from a cash machine, then took him to an isolated field where Atkins shot him eight times, killing him.
Atkins' IQ was tested in 1998, and was found to be 59, well below the level at which a person is deemed retarded in Virginia.
But when he was retested following the Supreme Court ruling defence experts found his IQ had risen to 74, while prosecutors said it was two points higher.
Dr Evan Nelson, who tested Atkins in 1998 and 2004, wrote in a report last year that "his constant contact with the many lawyers that worked on his case" gave him more intellectual stimulation in jail than he got during childhood.
"That included practising his reading and writing skills, learning about abstract legal concepts and communicating with professionals."
But prosecutors say Atkins was never retarded in the first place, indicated by the fact that he was able to load a gun, direct the victim to a cash machine and identify a remote spot for the killing.
Faking a result
For a person to be legally defined as mentally retarded in the US, the retardation must have been present before the age of 18.
It is expected that the jury will be asked to consider a wide range of evidence to determine Atkins's mental capacity.
This will include records from his childhood, various intelligence and memory tests and interviews with people who have known him as an adult.
An independent forensic psychologist, Dr Bob Stinson, told the BBC it would be "unusual and unexpected" for a person's IQ to rise 17 points in seven years.
"It would be easy to deliberately do badly on one IQ test," he said.
"But it would be very difficult to feign low cognition across time, different settings and multiple examiners."
Psychology tests used to evaluate a criminal's cognition typically include sophisticated traps to catch fakers.
Difficult questions that appear to be easy may be inserted to test whether people answer correctly because they feel they can allow themselves to get a simple answer right.
Other questions that look very different, but which are actually very similar, may be used to test consistency.
'Symbolic case'
But some fear Atkins will not get a fair hearing, because the jury will be told the full details of the murder.
Richard Dieter, of the Death Penalty Information Center, said: "This should be an objective determination, but it will be infected by the jury's knowledge of Atkins' crime.
"The Supreme Court ruled that we should not execute the mentally retarded, it did not say it should be a balancing act with the gruesomeness of a crime."
The DPIC says courts across the country have been struggling to put procedures in place that deal with possible mental retardation cases in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling.
Mr Dieter said that while 19 people with low IQs had been given stays of execution in Texas - the US state that puts the most people to death - they were still on death row.
"This is a symbolic case," he added."There will be a lot of attention around the country to the outcome."
Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/4657897.stmPublished: 2005/07/25 05:35:57 GMT© BBC MMV
By Matthew Davis BBC News, Washington
The life of a convicted murderer is hanging in the balance while a US jury considers whether his intelligence has increased enough to allow him to be put to death.
Daryl Atkins was named in a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2002 that said it was unconstitutional to execute the mentally retarded.
But the intellectual stimulation the killer got by constant contact with lawyers in the case is thought to have raised his IQ above the threshold of 70, which puts him in line for the death penalty in Virginia.
The 27-year-old's case has divided lawyers and psychologists and has become the latest battleground for those arguing for and against state-sanctioned executions in America.
It raises questions over who should decide on a criminal's competency and whether knowing details of their crime can skew that life-or-death decision.
Capital crime
Atkins is a violent killer, with a string of felony convictions.
It would be easy to deliberately do badly on one IQ test. But it would be very difficult to feign low cognition across time, different settings and multiple examiners Dr Bob Stinson Forensic psychologist
In 1996, he and another man abducted Eric Nesbitt, 21, a US airman from Langley Air Force Base.
They forced him to withdraw money from a cash machine, then took him to an isolated field where Atkins shot him eight times, killing him.
Atkins' IQ was tested in 1998, and was found to be 59, well below the level at which a person is deemed retarded in Virginia.
But when he was retested following the Supreme Court ruling defence experts found his IQ had risen to 74, while prosecutors said it was two points higher.
Dr Evan Nelson, who tested Atkins in 1998 and 2004, wrote in a report last year that "his constant contact with the many lawyers that worked on his case" gave him more intellectual stimulation in jail than he got during childhood.
"That included practising his reading and writing skills, learning about abstract legal concepts and communicating with professionals."
But prosecutors say Atkins was never retarded in the first place, indicated by the fact that he was able to load a gun, direct the victim to a cash machine and identify a remote spot for the killing.
Faking a result
For a person to be legally defined as mentally retarded in the US, the retardation must have been present before the age of 18.
It is expected that the jury will be asked to consider a wide range of evidence to determine Atkins's mental capacity.
This will include records from his childhood, various intelligence and memory tests and interviews with people who have known him as an adult.
An independent forensic psychologist, Dr Bob Stinson, told the BBC it would be "unusual and unexpected" for a person's IQ to rise 17 points in seven years.
"It would be easy to deliberately do badly on one IQ test," he said.
"But it would be very difficult to feign low cognition across time, different settings and multiple examiners."
Psychology tests used to evaluate a criminal's cognition typically include sophisticated traps to catch fakers.
Difficult questions that appear to be easy may be inserted to test whether people answer correctly because they feel they can allow themselves to get a simple answer right.
Other questions that look very different, but which are actually very similar, may be used to test consistency.
'Symbolic case'
But some fear Atkins will not get a fair hearing, because the jury will be told the full details of the murder.
Richard Dieter, of the Death Penalty Information Center, said: "This should be an objective determination, but it will be infected by the jury's knowledge of Atkins' crime.
"The Supreme Court ruled that we should not execute the mentally retarded, it did not say it should be a balancing act with the gruesomeness of a crime."
The DPIC says courts across the country have been struggling to put procedures in place that deal with possible mental retardation cases in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling.
Mr Dieter said that while 19 people with low IQs had been given stays of execution in Texas - the US state that puts the most people to death - they were still on death row.
"This is a symbolic case," he added."There will be a lot of attention around the country to the outcome."
Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/4657897.stmPublished: 2005/07/25 05:35:57 GMT© BBC MMV
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
ten reasons why i like top ten lists
1 - they are the perfect length to read in work without feeling your taking the piss
2 - you get to dissagree with them
3 - you can call the author an idiot just because they didn't include your favorite variety of pasta / computer game etc
4- they're lists
5- you get to wow your friends with info on the busiest shopping street in the country (henry street)
6- its saves me putting together my top ten lists
7- there's not too many words so i don't get bored reading them
8- my friends don't like top ten lists
9- they always lose their edge at around 8 or 9 in the list
10- i can't think of any more
2 - you get to dissagree with them
3 - you can call the author an idiot just because they didn't include your favorite variety of pasta / computer game etc
4- they're lists
5- you get to wow your friends with info on the busiest shopping street in the country (henry street)
6- its saves me putting together my top ten lists
7- there's not too many words so i don't get bored reading them
8- my friends don't like top ten lists
9- they always lose their edge at around 8 or 9 in the list
10- i can't think of any more
Monday, July 04, 2005
miss castaway
i just came across a site for this movie 'miss castaway and the island girls' in which michael jackson has a part. really weird.
check it out
www.misscastaway.com
check it out
www.misscastaway.com
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