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General Discussion Area / Anybody else celebrating....
« on: 21 August 2018, 23:38:39 »
where Sharia May has greeted all muslims with the greeting eid mubarak today. It is the start of Eid al-Adha, the 'festival of sacrifice' where a live ram is ritually slaughtered by slitting its throat until it dies from blood loss. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvgeHR4NzYI

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Trump's former ex-campaign chief, Paul Manafort found guilty of eight financial crimes today including tax fraud with him to be retried on another 10 charges after the jury failed to reach a verdict on them.

Trump's ex-head lawyer Michael Cohen was also in court as part of a plea bargain agreement. Rumours are he has flipped and probably knows more about Trump's career as a key partner in his crimes than anybody outside of Trump's immediate family.

As we are only at the beginning of the start with the Mueller investigation indictments which he is aiming to complete by the end of September, I think indictments will start flowing thick and fast over the next 6 weeks.

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The government has been promoting private investment to speed up possible rail improvements. The first to be approved maybe a Windsor to Windsor link that looks like a GWR, Waterloo line connection. This would then be extended for the been proposed forever West loop into Heathrow. The snails pace progress for this shows the taking forever progress on National Rail for improvements to the rail infrastructure. :(

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-6074359/Windsor-track-linked-Britains-privately-funded-railway.html

The fact that you currently have to go into London and return to Heathrow has been a major bone of contention since the 1960s onwards. Will it be built in my lifetime, I won't be holding my breath. :(


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...when cycling through Islamic countries with links to ISIS. A US millennial couple quit their jobs and just did that! What could possibly go wrong? ::) ::) ::) :-[ :-[ :-[

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/world/asia/islamic-state-tajikistan-bike-attack.html

Where five ISIS terrorists killed them, I would think they must now be be top contenders for this year's Darwin award. :o :o :o

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General Discussion Area / Ancestry
« on: 15 August 2018, 22:35:14 »
Lord Opti & STEMO can rest easy, not OOF ones, but past relatives. :P

I never met either of my grandads as one died at 59 from a hemorrhaged aneurysm but I've learn't a fair amount about him including finding his WWI military record.

My other grandad was a Petty Officer in the RN, fought in the Battle of Jutland and suffered from PTSD which got progressively worse along with his violence in the 1920s. He volunteered to go in a mental hospital where he spent the rest of his life where like so many in that era it was a case of out of sight and forgotten. Many RN records were destroyed in the Blitz and so I know nothing about his military record, as it was blank result when I searched, until today. I was discussing on Twitter PTSD with some veterans, when somebody associated with a Battle of Jutland Crew Association asked for his name & has come back with a record and detail which certainly looks a likely fit from the details which I will now check and try to verify. If it is then he served on the light cruiser HMS Caroline during the Battle of Jutland and it is the only surviving ship from the battle and now a floating museum in Belfast. If it all adds up then I will have to pay a visit to the ship and walk on the decks and what must have been a familiar work & living place for him. :y :y :y

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General Discussion Area / State owned and placed malware
« on: 12 August 2018, 14:53:13 »
The Russian PM Medvedev yesterday warned the US against further sanctions due to the chemical warfare attack on the UK. The US due to their international obligations are legally bound to punish any state that breaks international law by using chemical weapons. US Congress in now debating a new law with more punitive sanctions against Russia. The Russian PM has said they will consider this an economic attack on Russia and will retaliate using any means they see fit to use including unconventional ones. You can take this to mean from their attacks multiple times on Ukraine which is a Russian cyberwar testing ground, this will involve placed malware, including power distribution control systems, Internet routers including domestic broadband ones. I was in Ukraine in June 2017 during such an attack that took down their countries airline booking systems and their banks financial systems including their ATM systems. The first thing I knew about it was when I couldn't withdraw any money ready for my trip the following day back to Kyiv's Borispol airport or check in and get my flight boarding pass. These are real attacks affecting many people. Several weeks a go the CIA and FBI detected Russian malware being placed on US routers and requested that SMEs and domestic Internet users to power down all their routers and reboot them to remove the malware they had detected.

We know this from Facebook, probable illegal, sharing of data with Cambridge Analytica and at least one Israeli company they have links to the Russian and Chinese (through Hong Kong front companies) intelligence. Both countries have heavily invested in US tech companies through anonymous front companies for espionage and influence reasons. Again we know from Cambridge Analytica that one of their favourite data collection sources for profiling 'subjects' are quizzes and even better online surveys. If you do either you are not only profiled by the US tech company advertising affiliates, but also by Russian and Chinese intelligence for use in targeted active measures propaganda profiled political adverts but also their useful fool front websites whose SEO ranking is boosted through botnets linked to social media and these routes will be used in cyber warfare attacks in the future. Through advertising profiling we know Facebook makes on average $50 a month for each UK user and $80 in the US. Other US tech companies will be earning similar amounts.

Two things: If something is free you are the product and being forewarned is being forearmed in an area that is likely to turn very nasty over the next six months or so.

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General Discussion Area / STEMO's day in the countryside
« on: 09 August 2018, 18:17:11 »
It was a hot. sunny, summers day.

What better way to spend it than out with friends in the countryside.

He couldn't resist showing off all his tyre swing skill as all his friends sheepishly looked on with indifference.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6042571/What-ewe-think-Sheep-gets-stuck-tyre-swing-video-funny-cruel.html

 ;D ;D ;D

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Warning over 18's content.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6037613/Couple-caught-having-sex-cricket-field-reprimanded-passing-man.html

I guess after 8 hours of moshing, in Germany, they are both feeling like 16 year olds again. ;D ;D ;D

Go on own up. Which of you was humping and the other thumping? ::) ::) ::) :P :P :P ;D ;D ;D

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An analysis of all of the games and referee decisions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45087444

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General Discussion Area / Lord Opti's & STEMO's German day out.
« on: 06 August 2018, 21:44:24 »
Confused, but enjoying themselves so much, they didn't want to go home. :P :P :P

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45087070

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Again an MP and her brother both charged with perverting the course of justice over speeding. :( :( :(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-44957896


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General Discussion Area / The heatwave and caring for animals
« on: 24 July 2018, 18:33:37 »
Many are aware of the problems and make sure there animals are kept in a cool place and given extra water. :y

Sadly, the message had not been absorbed and acted upon by a rotund admin and the poor OOF hamster pounding away on its power wheel collapsed this afternoon from heat exhaustion and took down the OOF server with it. :'( The poor hamster in its confusion trying to find some water, mistook the hard disc array for this and chewed away in earnest trying to get a drink, which destroyed the latest OOF threads. :o

I'm sure the unnamed admin will be on here later to let us know if the poor hamster survived and if so, whether it will make a full recovery and if he has been able to piece together the chewed up bits of the hard disc to restore the lost data. :D

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...like the UK government saying they won't stand in the way of two UK ISIS fighters being tried in the US where they can face the death penalty. :y :y :y

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