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Entry tags:
Underpaid MPs, Libel online, motivated bikers and some aliens
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A few assists and pointers on writing about real people online and how to avoid being sued for libel. My legal consultant talls me it's fairly accurate...
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Not a bad little selection - reposted for those bikers not already reading Jennie (you should be, damnit)
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Duncan does his whole 'look, the most popular song won' analysis (again) with good reasoning (again). Pretty sure he's right as well, yes, there are blocks, but El Tel's predictions came next to bottom.
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Pay peanuts, get monkeys. That's why most British MPs are useless apparatchiks (well, that and the voting system). While they get way above median, they get way below what the most talented 0.001% of us should earn.
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Paleontologist SF geek isn't happy with CGI SF aliens - even Dr Who and Trek did weird better, let alone nature.
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Um, yeah. Having a copy of the contents of this can get you thrown into jail. Well, if you've got brown skin or you attend a mosque. But the US air force is free to host it on a public website, right? GAH!
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The idea of the Al Quaeda manual being on the US Dept of Justice website I thought very VERY funny.
I heard on the news tonight that George Monbiot is chasing John Bolton, to arrest him for war crimes. I googled it and here's a link... http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/05/27/arresting-john-bolton/
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Moonbat can be useful, but he's mostly hyperbole wrapped up in misunderstanding, most annoying when he's notionally on "my" side.