Saturday, 16 August 2008

It's pretty obvious that OFCOM is going to go for the white ones first to achieve the targets. Far better to get an old white man dooing a bit of echo charlie than the black maffia where you might get a knife in the back or bullet in the head.

Political correctness necessitates exercising due care in policing no-go areas.

Eric Tesug <(Address removed)> said:

In article <578133.13835.(Address removed)>,
(Address removed) () wrote:
I am gonna have to teach you to Google:

Or even better: http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=Ofcom+DAB+Lickey+Hills

/Per

You know Chris, this business of presence-sharing just bemuses me. I mean, to put it bluntly, who gives a flying f**k what others are doing in their sad little lives. I know the youngsters go for it, let's face it "Big Brother" is evidence of that voyeuristic tendency gone rampant - me, I just don't get it. What's the point of watching those morons make prats of themselves and build them up into heroes? It's the "15 minutes of fame" bit gone mad.

And it continues. I recall way back,.those Japanese substitute toys that wet themselves, demanded cuddling from those kids that couldn't have a real pet. On that level, I didn't have a problem, but where it got very sinister was when the blasted thing instilled a level of dependency in its owners - I found that spooky.

Now comes another development, which, I suppose is an extension of the presence-sharing thing, except now, it's not even a real person, it's a virtual one. I found out about it from BBC's technology programme "Click" and, amusingly enough, the site name is "onlinecaroline.com". Now Chris, it's not another outlet for mattress Caroline, this is a virtual friend that you sign up for and then she'll send you messages based on your preferences. Why??????????????????????????????????????????

I don't get it.

Alan

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From: Christopher England
To: Anorak Nation
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Subject: Re: [Anorak Nation] Twitter dead?

Neil Gates <(Address removed)> said:
Twitter is total non-sense another digital service about to bite the
dust due to a massive lack of consumer demand.
You have to remember that micro-blogging and presence-sharing seems pointless and crazy to a lot of older stick-in-the-mud folk today who have only just mastered email (Meanwhile kids no longer use email, just micro-blogging and instant messaging as the Ofcom findings pointed out). I'm reminded of the 1960s when the older stick-in-the-mud types couldn't see the point or purpose of ships in the North Sea playing all that racket and thought it was all going to just be a pointless flash in the pan. They were wrong weren't they.
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Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:

Also symbolism of police, soldiers etc. could not be anorak radio,
because anorak radio uses flowers, and hearts and bells and everything
that relates to peace and love and other such sickly things.

What a letdown, it's just some bloody comprod house!

Alan Milewczyk <(Address removed)> said:
Now comes another development, which, I suppose is an extension of the presence-sharing thing, except now, it's not even a real person, it's a virtual one. I found out about it from BBC's technology programme "Click" and, amusingly enough, the site name is "onlinecaroline.com". Now Chris, it's not another outlet for matt

On thingthat we will never be called upon to perform at Anorak Nation is the GROUP HUG. I would opt for the sick bag as an alternative.

Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:
It's pretty obvious that OFCOM is going to go for the white ones first to achieve the targets. Far better to get an old white man dooing a bit of echo charlie than the black maffia where you might get a knife in the back or bullet in the head.
Political correctness necessitates exercising due care in policing no-go areas.

If it wasn't for political correctness there would be no no-go areas and if they are any in the UK the areas concerned should be put under marshall law with a 24 hour curfew and flooded with armed police and cleaned up!

Alan Milewczyk <(Address removed)> said:

You know Chris, this business of presence-sharing just bemuses me. I mean, to
put it bluntly, who gives a flying f**k what others are doing in their sad little
lives.

I hate to say this but at the beginning it was 'interesting' watching well -known radio people telling the world what they were up to. I'd see which global conferences they were attending, and get a feel for what 'important' things they were up to and in to. I'd even learn when they'd bought their iPhones, etc., and what applications they as iSheep were trying out.

Then, this just degenerated into whether or not they were feeding the cat, beating the wife, having a curry, or where they were for their nightly ritual of getting drunk. It was after a few months of this that I indeed thought "What the feck am I reading all this for?" and unsubscribed from the (then) live twitter-texts from them all. Nowadays, now and again, I'll go to the Twitter site and speed read what they're up to / been up to instead!

Until they cancelled it, Twitter was still useful to me as the provider of texts carrying breaking news updates from the BBC, even from radiotoday.co.uk and mediauk.com, and weather updates, etc., so, for me, it had a purpose – the free passing on of news and information. I also use it not to tell people which bollock I'm currently scratching, but I tend to put questions 'out there' like 'Is it me or is Facebook down?' or that sort of thing, so it has a function and purpose rather than telling the world the pointless stuff.

"onlinecaroline.com". Now Chris, it's not another outlet for mattress Caroline,
this is a virtual friend that you sign up for and then she'll send you messages
based on your preferences. Why??????????????????????????????????????????
I don't get it.

Ha ha. It sounds more like a porn service. I'll give it a go!

USAJAIL - SOME INTERESTING READING

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA

COUNTYSHERIFF(ARIZONA) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER

AND OVER AGAIN.

These are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the 'tent city jail' to save Arizona from spending tens of millions of dollars on another expensive prison complex.

He has jail meals down to 20 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He banned smoking and pornographic magazines in the jails, and took away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but 'G' movies. He says:
'They're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can assaultinnocent people when they leave.'

He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city projects and save taxpayer's money.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued fordiscrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel, he replied: 'So these morons will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.'
He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he toldthem, 'This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back.'
He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series that actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record for June 2nd2007), the Associated Press reported: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbedwiresurrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to theirgovernment-issued pink boxer shorts.

On theWednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were overheardchatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees.
'This is hell. It feels like we live in a furnace,' said Ernesto Gonzales, an inmate for 2years with 10 more to go. 'It's inhumane.'
Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. 'Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.'

The same day he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in the tents: 'It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in the sun, wearing full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not committed any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!'

Way to go, Sheriff! If all prisons were like yours there would be a lot less crime and we would not be in the current position of running out of prison spaces.

If you agree, pass this on.
If not, just delete it.

Sheriff Joe was just re-electedas Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona