GIRL BEATEN TO PULP...FOR BEING ENGLISH

A YOUNG woman was brutally attacked for being English – by a hate-filled Scot who heard her accent. Lucy Newman, 22, was punched so hard she suffered a cracked cheekbone, two black eyes and damaged eye nerves. The nursery nurse revealed that the thug told her: “Get back to England.” And moments later she was punched hard in the face. Pretty Lucy, originally from Cheltenham, Glos, has been living in Scotland with her family for 18 years and still has a slight English accent. She was out at night with pals in Aberdeen when the attack happened at around 2am. Two men walked past and made a comment and one smashed her in the face. Lucy said: “I don’t even know what happened after they made the comment because it all happened so fast. But I was hit on the face and I fell over. “I was on the ground with my head pouring with blood.” Her dad Leslie said: “Lucy’s been in Scotland since she was four, but sometimes she’s still got an English twang. “We think that’s why this happened. She was talking and singing with her pal. “The guy heard her accent and just smacked her in the face. It is unforgivable.” Lucy now faces an anxious wait to see if she needs surgery on her injuries. Police are hunting Lucy’s attacker, but have been unable to trace the attack on CCTV footage from the night. A Grampian force spokesman confirmed that inquiries were ongoing. later we arrested the man but let him go without charge.

Big Brother wants into your hard drive

The personal computer may soon be not-so-private, with the U.S. and some European nations working on laws allowing them access to search the content held on a person's hard drive. President Obama's administration is keeping unusually tight-lipped on the details, which is raising concerns among computer users and liberty activists. Almost everyone today owns a music player and a laptop. But what if the Government decided to allow itself to access these personal devices for no specific reason whatsoever? In extreme secrecy from the public, the Obama administration is hammering out an international copyright treaty with several other countries and the European Union. Under the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), governments will get sweeping new powers to search and seize material thought to be in breach of copyright. While the Obama administration calls these secretive plans a development of national security, Richard Stallman, a prominent American software freedom activist, calls it a secret war on sharing: Because we wouldnt like it if we knew, they are trying to do policy laundering, Stillman says. Democracy gets bypassed and they can do to us whatever they want. I can only guess that its going to be nasty, because if it werent going to be nasty, they wouldnt need to keep a secret. Up until now, the breach of copyright has been a civil matter. The Obama administration seems to now want to criminalize it. And even though recent reports suggest that on average more than 800 illegally copied songs can be found on a teenagers music player, this has hardly ever been seen as a reason for national security concerns. One of the things the treaty is said to be aimed at is peer-to-peer sharing, meaning passing on software from one user to another. But what it would do on a larger scale is let Big Brother watch you, this time on a completely different level. Leaks of the text suggest that border guards will get unprecedented powers to search travelers without warning. They will be able to go through, copy and confiscate any digital material people have on their laptop. This means music, movies, and games as well as any other personal material. Some people compare a personal computer and the files it contains to an underwear drawer, and are convinced that the government should not go through it. Or, at least, it should have a good reason to do so. Others add that the whole process of drafting the new legislation goes completely against the policies with which Obama ran for office, notably the policy of transparency. It has also been brought to attention that the countries working on the treaty dont include important international players like China, Russia and Brazil. ,The phrase “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” sounds innocent enough. Who could be against such an agreement? But in fact it appears to be a pretext for a massive invasion of privacy, motivated in part by the entertainment industry seeking to maintain copyrights. But once unleashed, such an assault on freedom will know no bounds. What if Big Brother finds on your laptop that you think ID supports certain traditional moral views, and what if any articulation of such views comes to be regarded as a hate crime? (my view)-THIS IS WHY WE ALL NEED TO ARM OURSELVES WITH GUNS ECT,GOVERNMENTS ARE BECOMING WHY OUT OF CONTROLL AND EVEN THOUGH THEY SAY ITS AGAINST THE LAW FOR YOU TO HAVE ARMS OF WEAPONS AND YOU WILL BE ARRESTED WHEN IN FACT WHAT THEY ARE PLANING AND DOING IS AGAINST THE LAW TO,WE MUST PROTECT OURSELVES FROM THESE CRIMINALS WHO CALL THEMSELVES THE LAW AND GOVERNMENT!IN,IE IF A COP OR OTHER FORCE THEIR WAY INTO YOUR HOME AND TRYING TO TAKE YOUR RIGHTS AWAY AND CONTROL YOU OR EVEN TRY TO TURN YOU INTO A SLAVE(AND IT WILL HAPPEN)YOU HAVE THE RIGHT(BY NATURES LAW)TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND IF THEY MEANS KILLING SAID PERSON WHOS TRYING ALL THIS ON YOU,THEN TO ME....YOU ARE NOT CLASSED AS A KILLER NOR HAVE YOU KILLED AS KILL INSINUATES YOUR KILLING IN COLD BLOOD.......THIS ISN'T TRUE BUT PROTECTING YOURSELF OR OTHER OF WEAKER STATE,SO YOUR ARE INNOCENT OF KILLING BUT IN LAW.YOU WERE PROTECTING YOURSELF/OTHERS....AND THIS....YOU ARE FREE,WE ALL NEED TO ARM OURSELVES!....NOW BEFORE ITS TO LATE!ACTA - Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement(This is YET ANOTHER way to spy on people illegelly)

10 of life's mysteries solved

1,Why is the sky blue?--- Good question. The sky is blue because of a process called Rayleigh scattering. When light from the Sun reaches the atmosphere, it strikes the molecules in the air and is scattered in all directions. The extent to which light is scattered depends on its frequency. Blue light, which has a high frequency, is scattered many times more than other colours. As more blue light is scattered, it becomes the dominant colour, causing bright blue skies on clear days 2,Why are rain clouds grey?--- It's usually pretty easy to tell when it's about to rain because the clouds in the sky turn an ominous grey colour. Clouds that are full of water or ice particles absorb light so that they appear grey from below. Those that contain relatively small amounts of water reflect more light, so that they appear bright white from the ground. 3,Why is a new moon invisible?--- Just as half the Earth is always in daylight and the other half is in darkness, so around 50 per cent of the Moon's surface is always illuminated by the Sun. The degree to which the sunlit portion of the Moon is visible from Earth depends on the Moon's phases, which change as it orbits the Earth. In the phase called the new moon, the area of the Moon that faces the Earth is completely in shadow, so it cannot be seen. 4,What causes tides?--- Have you ever wondered what causes the rise and fall of the tide? When the Moon is directly over a given point on the surface of the Earth, its gravity exerts a powerful pull on the water of the oceans below, causing them to rise above their normal level. Water covering the parts of the Earth furthest from the Moon is also subject to this pull, and forms another axis of high water. At both crests, the condition known as high water prevails, while along the circumference of the Earth perpendicular to the direct-opposite tidal axis, phases of low water occur. 5,Why do cockerels crow at dawn?--- Most birds like to take part in what is known as the "dawn chorus". For around half an hour after sunrise, birds make more noise than at any other time of day, although all birds, including cockerels, continue to crow throughout the day. The reason for the chorus is largely territorial, and is stimulated not just by light, but also by a biological response (even cockerels that are shut up in coops without light will crow at dawn). 6,Why do planes suddenly plunge during storms?--- During normal flight conditions, the lift force produced by an aeroplane is equal to its weight, so the plane flies at a steady level. Most of the lift is produced by the wings, which are set at a slight angle to the oncoming wind. If the angle increases, the plane produces more lift and will climb, and if the angle decreases, the plane will descend. When a plane flies into stormy conditions, it will often encounter patches of rapidly rising or descending air. As the plane flies into these patches, the angle at which the wings meet the wind changes, causing the plane to suddenly climb or descend. 7,Why do leaves turn brown in autumn?--- Throughout the summer months, the leaves of a deciduous tree are like miniature chemical factories. Using a process called photosynthesis, they capture energy in the form of light and convert it into chemical energy. This process is made possible by the presence of chlorophyll, the substance that gives leaves their green colour. As autumn approaches, shortening daylight hours and falling temperatures induce trees to prepare for winter. They grow a corky membrane between the branch and the leaf stem, which interferes with the flow of nutrients into the leaf. The production of chlorophyll declines, and this causes the green colour in the leaf to fade to a yellow. 8,Why do we yawn?--- The traditional explanation for this phenomenon is that it's your body's way of obtaining more oxygen when you are tired or when there is a lack of fresh air. The problem is that we don't only yawn under those circumstances. Top athletes may yawn before a big race and we're just as likely to yawn when there's a plentiful supply of fresh air as when we are sitting on a crowded bus. Perhaps the answer to the next question can help. 9,So why is yawning contagious?(no picture)--- If you've ever sat on a crowded bus and yawned, you've probably noticed that this causes some of your fellow passengers to yawn as well. It's almost as if yawning is contagious. The short answer is that we still don't know why yawning causes other people to yawn, but this phenomenon may help us to explain why we yawn in the first place. The fact that we are so sensitive to the impulse suggests that there must be a reason for our ability to detect and respond to other people's yawns, but scientists have been unable to reach a conclusion. One likely explanation is that at one time in evolutionary history, yawning was a way of coordinating the social behaviour of a group. 10,Why do men have nipples?--- Many great thinkers have pondered this -- even Aristotle had a crack at answering the conundrum! The answer is that in the first few weeks of development in the womb, male and female embryos look exactly the same. Every embryo has the potential to be either male or female -- the determining factor is the chromosomes that it carries. Chromosomes are like little packs of instructions which determine aspects of the development of an embryo, including its sex. The male embryo has an X and a Y chromosome and the female has two X chromosomes.

Sexism complaints over Glenister ad

Philip Glenister's role in Marks and Spencer's new Christmas TV advert has been hit by complaints of sexism. The Advertising Standards Authority confirmed it was looking into six complaints, which generally say they find his part of the ad - which features stars discussing what they can't do without at Christmas - offensive. Actor Philip, shown propping up a bar, says towards the end of the advert: "Oh come on, it's Christmas... That girl prancing around in her underwear", before the ad cuts to French model Noemie Lenoir wearing a bra and knickers. M and S campaign regular Noemie asks in reply: "Moi?" before twirling round in a wooded winter scene. The star-studded campaign also includes Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry, Jennifer Saunders and Myleene Klass. The watchdog will assess the complaints before deciding whether or not to launch an investigation. Philip is best known for playing non-politically correct cop Gene Hunt in the hit BBC1 show Ashes To Ashes.(my view)-What about the COUNTLESS ads of woman drooling over men just to sell produces to woman/or gay men,straight men or all three! IE: the coke ad wear a woman steals the blokes towel so he came out of the shower covering his cock with his hand and they stare at his ass giggling and drinking diet coke?......and i bet all the complaints were made by woman(not being sexist here but"whats good for the goose is good for the gander"so shut the fuck up...you girls get away with murder with everything and most times escape jail for committing a REAL murder by saying"HE was trying to kill me"even if the bloke is in a wheel chair ect.....you know you do.