Photography In Public Areas Early Day Motion
I just emailed my MP the following letter:
Dear David Lepper,
I would just like to thank you for signing Auston Mitchell's Early Day
Motion 1155 Photography In Public Areas. I have been increasingly
concerned with reports of police action against innocent photographers,
including most recently a man assaulted by several security guards in
Stoke (http://www.flickr.com/photos/happyaslarry/2420960125/). I'm sure
you appreciate Brighton's reputation as an artistic city and your
support for this motion shows your continued support for the
photography community in Brighton.
Yours sincerely,
David Pashley
If your MP hasn't signed this EDM, I recommend you contact them to urge them
to sign it and if they have, contact them again to thank them.
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BREAKING NEWS
Breaking news on BBC New24. Just confirmed in the last few minutes.
Very few details.... Last night, Tony Blair converted to Catholism
Why is this news? Who cares? Why is the BBC treating this like it's
the biggest news item of the year? Why have they rolled out Anne
Widdecomme to do a phone interview? His wife is a catholic, his children
are catholic, it's been on the cards for a while. He isn't in power any
more. It remains to be seen if he has any relevance any more. So why
does it matter what denomination he is.
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Separation of Church and State
Andrew,
yet at the other end of spectrum, given that America is constitutionally
secular, they have "in God we trust" on their currency and don't trust
atheists. Their "Pledge of Allegiance" was changed
in 1954 by Dwight
D. Eisenhower to include "under God". This pretty means I'm unable to
visit the country. I think that's worse than trying not to offend
anyone, no matter how misguided.
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UK Acts online
I can't believe in this day and age that OPSI (formerly HMSO) still don't have
copies of UK acts of parliament before 1988 online. According to their
website:
Q. Why do you only display legislation back to
1988?
A. The website was launched in 1996. Initially, legislation was only
available from that year. In 2000 we took the decision to include older
legislation for which we had electronic files. These files only dated
back to 1988. Prior to this, legislation is only available in its
original print format.
I don't think it's acceptable to say "Oh it's a bit of work to make them
available." If Project Gutenberg
can make 17,000 out of copyright works available, I fail to see why the
government, who have resources at their disposal, can't make the text of
approximately 3000 acts from the last 100 years available. This makes
several key acts which govern us today unavailable to the UK public,
including the Telecommunications Act 1984, Sale of Goods Act 1979,
Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 and Unfair Contract Terms Act
1977.
On a similar note, they have only just started making PDF files
avilable for download (since October 2005). They don't appear to be
planning on making existing documents available in PDF. Again, I don't
think it would be too hard to make all their content availble in
alternative formats.
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Body scan machines to be used on Tube passengers
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20409-1686151,00.html
“But there will be huge civil liberties questions because you will have
to accept that people will see you walking round semi-naked.”
Mr Stringer said there were various techniques for protecting people’s
privacy.
“We can solve the modesty issue by overlaying the body with graphics
except for the area which causes concern.
“The computer can also be set only to show those people who are carrying
something suspicious.”
Eh?
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Michael Howard on refugees
Michael Howard would pull out of the 1951 Geneva Convention on refugees.
Fucker.
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