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Mr. Brooks (2007) - I've seen this before, still a good watch, serial killer tale with a couple of good twists, don't let the lead Kevin Costner , Demi Demi Moore put you off, John Hurt there too. Worth a watch. ----- Straw Dogs (2011) - A little low brow, southern redneck vs city slicker tale, quite watchable, worth a watch. ----- Pi (1998) - very Lo Fi, black and white shake camera. Any more and it'd be unwatchable. A good movie never the less. Worth a watch. IMDB"Max is a genius mathematician who's built a supercomputer at home that provides something that can be understood as a key for understanding all existence. Representatives both from a Hasidic cabalistic sect and high-powered Wall Street firm hear of that secret and attempt to seduce him."

55555 very funny

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Filth (2013) - James McAvoy, very good performance - this movie is good, hard arsed Scots cop and a whole lot of issues, good twists. Well worth a watch - I give it and I don't normally do

... put a drop of Nam Pla in each bottle for that authentic aroma

Like all ideas that are making someone a good buck, if I'd done it it would'a sunk like a stone, even if the air came from here - where I spent the Xmas break

And a tangential story involvuluting farce book and the 'wisdom of the Thai masses' - Thainess Two comments - 1 - The Thai farcebookers are going after the non-Thai Harvard University, when it's the Thai person that's (purportedly) done wrong. 2 - Farcebook's adherence to the concept of 'Truth by Popularity' is working out well for Harvard. Thousands in Thailand are trying to tank Harvard’s Facebook rating. They say a Harvard dental professor failed to repay her tuition debt. Thousands of people in Thailand are trying to tank Harvard University’s Facebook rating over a dental professor’s alleged failure to repay tuition debt. Dolrudee Jumlongras received her Ph.D. in dental medicine from Harvard in 2003. According to the Bangkok Post , her tuition was funded by her alma mater, Mahidol University in Thailand, under an agreement that she would return to the university to teach. Instead, Jumlongras took a position at Harvard and allegedly neglected to repay her debt, which has grown to 30 million baht with interest and fees, the equivalent of around $850,000, the Post reported. The controversy went viral after one of the guarantors of her loan—a fellow dentist at Mahidol—took to Facebook last week and claimed she broke the scholarship’s contract. Since then, thousands of people in Thailand have been voicing their outrage on Harvard’s Facebook page in an attempt to tank the university’s rating, which had dropped to 1.3 stars as of Sunday morning. While the page boasts 9,000 five star reviews, it currently has an overwhelming 43,000 one star reviews. Prior to the incident, the rating was above four stars, The Crimson reported. Hundreds of recent reviews were made by users whose profiles say they’re from Thailand, and many are posting the same plea to the university to remove her from her position. “This is a personal matter not in any way related to Harvard University and Harvard School of Dental Medicine,†Jumlongras said in an emailed statement. She said the allegations against her aren’t an accurate account of the situation, as she had asked for flexibility in repaying the loan and sent $50,000 as a “good-faith†payment to Mahidol University last April. “The allegation that I tried to escape and dodge the payment obligation is untrue,†Jumlongras wrote. Harvard did not comment on questions about the dropping Facebook rating and referred requests to Jumlongras. While users in Thailand continue to bombard the page, it’s unlikely that their efforts will have a negative impact on the university, according to Gerald Kane, an information systems professor at Boston College. “Harvard has one of the most recognized brand names in the world,†he told Boston.com. “I find it hard to believe that people would let their perception be colored by Facebook reviews.†While bad reviews have the potential to harm small businesses, people viewing Harvard’s page would likely find the low rating strange and read the comments, he said. Once they saw the majority of negative attention revolved around an isolated incident, they’d likely shrug it off, he said. Despite the strength in numbers the reviewers have, there’s a possibility that the rating won’t stick. Harvard could ask Facebook to clear out the negative reviews, as they don’t accurately reflect the institution as a whole. “Facebook is in these sort of dicey situations all the time,†Kane said. “They don’t want to be seen as censoring people. Facebook wants you to trust their reviews. To that extent, they’d say 10,000 people from Thailand all with one beef is not entirely reflective of the situation.†There’s also the possibility that Facebook would delete the bulk of the reviews to prevent the campaign from dominating the university’s page, but keep a few available, Kane said. “They also don’t want to be seen as caving to the interest of a large organization,†he said. “They don’t want to be seen as a puppet that just jumps when Harvard says jump.†http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2016/02/15/thousands-thailand-are-trying-tank-harvard-facebook-rating/o06W5G2lLxNNXytNDFmm2N/story.html

Seeing Beyond The Hubris Of Facebook’s Free Basics Fiasco an excerpt - "Facebook’s Free Basics was an ill-conceived effort to bring Internet access to the poor in India. It created a walled garden in which Facebook and the Indian telecom providers selected which websites people could visit. Rather than being able to do Google searches and explore the web as we are able to, users of Free Basics would find that Facebook was the center of their virtual universe and would experience only what it allowed them to." http://techcrunch.co...-basics-fiasco/ So << Is Connectivity A Human Right?>> it would seem to be, especially if such connectivity is limited to Farcebook

Oh wait, there's a site for this - http://www.farang-deaths.com/ And it's 40 so far this year. 84 last year this site may not be the definitive source however.

"so...you want Hillary to pose nude to even it up " Already done you may want to avert your eyes... http://www.huffingto...4b0411d30724467

It's not just the UK, it's everywhere in the "Enlightened" world. When asked why I chose to up stix and go to Laos, I often say "because I'm tired of being the enemy". In NZ the feminazis still trot out the statistic that 1 in 4 men are rapists, despite the study, on which they base this claim, doesn't say that, and was discredited for other reasons many times. I have female relations, who were right in the feminist movement in the '70s and are now in their dotage, who often find a man to blame, for anything. i.e. Mrs so and so keeps a nice house, 'That's cause her (now dead) husband was an utter utter bastard'. SEA, sometimes paradise is where you find it.

Why don't they just throw a dart at the map, and whoever's house it lands closest to, gets to be President?

A walk through one of the busiest train stations in the UK changed Mark Pearson's life forever. It took him just half a second to pass an award-winning actress in her 60s but that was enough for prosecutors to charge with him sexual assault. When the case finally got to court, a jury needed only 90 minutes to reject the allegations, but by then the damage had been done to Pearson, a 51-year-old artist and picture framer. It was claimed he assaulted the TV, theatre and radio actress penetratively for "two or three seconds" as he walked past her at London's Waterloo station, before landing a heavy blow to her left shoulder as he pushed past her, The Telegraph reported. CCTV footage could not establish if Pearson and the woman, who can not be named for legal reasons, made physical contact as they walked quickly past each other. A forensic expert for the defence told Blackfriars Crown Court Pearson had passed the actress in half a second, saying any assault was a logistical impossibility. Specialist CCTV forensic expert Jacob Blythe showed Pearson was carrying a newspaper in his left hand - the one he was alleged to have used in the assault​ - and holding his bag in his right. The Telegraph said the case raised more questions about the decision-making in sexual assault cases by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), in particular pressing ahead with improperly investigated prosecutions with gaping holes in the evidence. In Pearson's case, the woman failed to pick him out of an identity parade, there was no forensic evidence, and there were no witnesses despite the train station being crowded with commuters. The actress was wearing a coat and jacket and a thin dress over "training pants" following a yoga class. The CPS also produced the CCTV footage during the three-day court hearing last week at half its normal speed - a critical change, given the case rested on whether Pearson had enough time to commit the assault. "They said they did it for technical reasons; what they were we weren't told," Pearson said. The CPS had the CCTV evidence right from the start, and from it could have realised the complainant's statement was "total crap" and dismissed the case, he said. He believed the CPS was overly keen to get convictions at all costs, after high-profile mistakes in cases such as those involving broadcasting personalities Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris. more at http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/76770117/mans-life-destroyed-by-preposterous-sexual-assault-charge

Not for posting here go to - thediplomat.com if it's not on the main page do a search for 'Staying Power'

"four Australian experts in law and DNA. " - good on them.

Cruise Ships? try this - http://www.wired.com/2016/02/conspira-sea-cruise-know-truth/ (also posted in another thread but relevant here too)

And then there are these folk, worth a read - "SAY YOU’RE NOT one to believe the mainstream media. Maybe you think climate change is an elaborate hoax or the medical community is trying to hide the myriad dangers of vaccinations. Perhaps you are utterly convinced the government is overrun by reptilian beings. Where on Earth can you go to get away from it all, and mingle with those who share your views? Well, Conspira-Sea, of course. It’s a seven-day cruise where fringe thinkers can discuss everything from crop circles to mind control on the open sea. Last month’s cruise featured a caravan of stars from a surprisingly vast galaxy of skeptics and conspiracy theorists, including Andrew Wakefield, known for his questionable research and advocacy against vaccines. Also aboard was Sean David Morton, who faced federal charges of lying to investors about using psychic powers to predict the stock market. But they had an outsider among them, and not one from another planet. Harvard-educated attorney Colin McRoberts is writing a book about people who believe in conspiracy theories, and used a crowdfunding campaign to book passage on the cruise. He blogged about his adventure and told us all about it—including the bit where the IRS arrested Morton when the ship returned to port." http://www.wired.com/2016/02/conspira-sea-cruise-know-truth/

How did they know my name is Mr Sir?

Well you could argue that the restrictions on Tobacco, that adult sane voters have to endure, is similar to Prohibition in America. But that's another day. I am not opposed to companies in general, being able to package their products in a normal manner. If the govt wants to stop selling tobacco, do it, outlaw it. but to my point re the TTP - My assertion is that, if a person comes and protests outside my house, and the protest is because I have an illegal swimming pool, then when I show them I have no pool and give them documentary evidence that there is no pool, they still protest and spit tacks, should I accord them the dignity of treating them like sane normal right thinking people?

And that's the point of my first post, it's only arbitrary detention - drum roll - in the opinion of the UN working group. I question the use of the English language by the group. He is Avoiding Detention. On a separate mater - but exhibiting the same disregard for fact, in NZ there have been protests against the TPP agreement. What set the protestors off, was the secrecy around the negotiations during the inception of the agreement. Prior to the release of the details of the TPP, the various groups had many reasons why the TPP was bad. The NZ Labour Party even had 'Bottom Lines' that would result in their turfing out the TPP out if they are elected next time. Since the details have been released, virtually all the concerns about the TPP have been shown to be groundless. But the most vociferous of the protestors are still spitting tacks, even when they're confronted with the issues that they were warning about, not being issues at all. These people held a protest in Auckland and fucked up the travel in the city of a huge amount of people at rush hour, most when asked, didn't even know what the issues supposedly were. These are the kind of people that get on UN working groups. To paraphrase: They'll protest the opening of an envelope.

He's not under house arrest. He's been granted political asylum. That's not a detention.

Owner is not Burmese, 'nuff said...

Quite right, I am not a fan. What Wikileaks did, is as PTBM says 'fantastic, excellent, wonderful'. That's not in dispute. I think more transparency is better. But the point of the OPs is that he is not detained, he is in fear of being detained but not actually detained. So the UN panel is wrong. If they had said, enforced exile, governmental harassment, that would be fine. But FFS he is not detained. If he is detained, who is detaining him? I agree, I'm not dissing the actions of Wikipedia. I just think that Assange is execrable.

A good one here - Dream scenario for self-deluded WikiLeaks One - http://www.scotsman.com/news/celebrity/dream-scenario-for-self-deluded-wikileaks-one-1-4022925