The impact of terrorism; new research demonstrates that people who survive terrorist attacks think more highly of themselves. Terrorism causes arrogance. Meanwhile, I enjoyed this Bartholomew’s Notes post, in which a self-made terrorism expert who is currently doing the Nazi-memorabilia circuit with his Barack Obama-is-a-foreigner act turns out to have been a pusher of 1990s…
Read More the science of drivelSpeaking of industrial innovation, which we sort of were, Sadly, No finds Mark Steyn being even stupider than I thought possible. He is arguing with every appearance of seriousness that a) General Motors should invest in bigger cars and b) that otherwise family sizes in the US will shrink and TEH NIGRAS!!! Seriously; he’s got…
Read More artefact = ideology, againA lot of other countries who are small economies compared to the USA or China, industrialised, and heavily dependent on foreign trade have a government policy of keeping a substantial local ownership stake in important businesses or important technologies. This may or may not be held by the State. Examples of such so-called “core investor…
Read More the Harrowell optionCCTV Camera: a device that detects police misconduct and informs its operator by turning the screen black.
Read More definitionIronic to think of it now, but before the police were filmed beating the shit out of Ian Tomlinson and assorted members of the public, there was some sort of media push on against “citizen journalists”, the Internet, Google, etc, and in favour of Good Old Local Newspapers. Well, there must be some explanation for…
Read More the local ragSelf-satirising ID card madness. So they’ve actually got as far as issuing some significant contracts. We’ll begin by noting that one of them has gone to CSC, last seen introducing the joy of Cerner software to the NHS National Programme for IT. But much more to the point, what is this talk about using the…
Read More it is now absolutely certain that the national ID card will be compromisedI note that no-one has yet anonymously accused Ian Tomlinson of an indictable offence in a national newspaper. Are our standards in truly shameful, underhand, repellent duplicity slipping? However, a lot of Tories who were OUTRAGED about Sir Ian Blair‘s term as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police seem to be…how can I put this? frit…
Read More The Conservative Party in six linksThe thing that pisses me off about Al-Qa’ida is that they insist on egging the government on. That said, I can’t think of anything more ridiculous than Phil Woolas wanting to have reports of any foreign student who misses ten lectures. I can’t think of many things more ridiculous and contemptible than Phil Woolas anyway,…
Read More HOWNOTTO be caught as a student terroristA little news from the rialto. We’re seeing more and more movements using the name “Sky Cabs”, with either Phoenix Aviation/AVE’s call sign PHW or else 2E. Interestingly, the company of this identity was shut down in Colombo after a horrible accident back in 2000. The matching ICAO code was SCB; we’ve not seen that…
Read More a remarkable number of Soviet celebritiesTelling. 29 (Commando) Light Regiment RA haul a 105mm gun by hand up a rock pinnacle in Afghanistan, to a feature called Roshan Tower. Yes, Roshan as in the mobile phone operator. We can offer you 900MHz GSM service, and some things that go with it, but far from all of them, or we can…
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