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Well fine, if you mean having to go through several doors locked by the same system as Porton Down. Wait over half an hour to talk to a nice lady 'who can't help as much as she should be able as my Work Coach is ill' (I have a Work Coach?). I can claim expenses in travelling to interviews, but not for registration fees for agency (some agents charge you to do nothing but ask silly question?, that I did not know!)...hence the Big Issue comment! 
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glennPattonPUB wrote: locked by the same system as Porton Down
Not seen how they are secured, but if my experiences with other government run facilities is any guide, the doors are wedged open with a rolled up newspaper...
Harwell (the Atomic Energy Research place) regularly had people just walk in, thinking it was the Rutherford labs next door, or leave by just flashing a public library card. The armed security guards seems mostly concerned with preventing the theft of stationary...
A Large Bank in London had impressive access control to the banking computers. As a contractor, there to fix a modem problem, I had to be escorted through the building. Then my escort entered a large metal cylinder which rotated to trap him. His palm prints and password were checked, then the cylinder rotated to let him out the other side.
Then he opened the little wooden door beside it and let me in. Pointed me at the modems rack and buggered off to read the paper... 
Took me twenty minutes of searching to find him after I finished, and wanted to go.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They tend to secured via bored looking 'Security Guards' as they are to secure doors to give them something to do...My experience at Porton Down was odd as the first day on site everything was locked up armed guards (MP's) looking stern. The second day there the door was wedged open, I asked why the reply was "Random Inspection". How was it random if they knew to secure every thing before hand? 
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glennPattonPUB wrote: How was it random if they knew to secure every thing before hand?
This is the Civil Service: http://xkcd.com/221/[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I can attest to Porton Down security, having worked on a database for them.
Getting in is not dissimilar to your bank protocol, although not as high tech. Large automatic weapons replace the metal tube thingy. The biggest difference is that your escort is never allowed to leave you unattended; they either take you back to the guard or deliver to the next link in the chain.
Funny thing though, the scientist (nice chap) that I went to see always took me for a cuppa there and I swear I was unwell every time afterwards.
Of course, you know I have to kill you when you've read this - official secrets and whatnot - nothing personal.
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Our cat used to topple the tree over while we were asleep most every night it was up.
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There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Can we all cancel Xma
Better, cancel the cat...
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Be happy, may be the snow is going to fall!
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
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It's the demon cat from hell!!! I guess he'll be worshipping Satan Claus and needs some bauble sacrifices 
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Sander Rossel wrote: It's the demon cat from hell
Well, yes. But all cats are Fiends From Hell... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Didn't Meat Loaf sing about Cats out of Hell?
"Like a cat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes! Like a cat out of hell I'll be gone, gone, gone..." 
And that other hit he had was sung from the perspective of a cat too (or so I'm guessing).
Owner: "Do you love, do you love me forever?"
Cat: "Well let me sleep on it, baby, baby, let me sleep on it..."
If them darn cats aren't breaking stuff (preferably at night) they're certainly sleeping!
That said I'm really a cat person 
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Must be the owner, our two cats took one look at the tree and immediately settled down under it for a kip other that bashing the low baubles with their heads in passing they have since ignored it.
now the tinsel and Ikea cardboard decorations on the fireplace have undergone constant and co-ordinated attacks
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Yesterday after 70 years that George Junius Stinney, Jr (14 years old) was executed by the electric chair, they found he was not guilty of the murder after-all!
The question they should have asked then is why should he kill the two girls he barely knew just because he was black and he spoke with them for a few minutes. 
George Stinney[^]
modified 18-Dec-14 5:31am.
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Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote: The question they should have asked then is why should he kill the two girls he barely knew just because he was black and he spoke with them for a few minutes.
They probably asked that question and answered it with "because he was black". That's how things worked. Maybe it still is.
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That reminded me of the Green Mile ... sad bad good movie
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Well in Italy the culprit is
- the husband/boyfriend if the victim is female
- the mother if the victim is a child
no other paths are ever explored, only the ones with facts that prove the suspects, leaving out any other.
In a recent case, the prosecution alleged that the suspect must have had blood stains on the shoes and ordered an examination. He didn't have ANY blood trace on any shoe - so it must be him because he obviously avoided the blood on the floor .
And they wanted to jail him because the house of the victim was full of fingerprints and DNA of the suspect - he was her boyfriend since YEARS.
But, since the press and the TV live on the morbosity of people and continually hint at them as the culprits, the justice system follows them. It should be the opposite, but that's too much hope...
Final note: Writing this I understood my police/judicial english sucks.
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For the US friends, I'd mention the case of Sacco and Vanzetti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti[^].
For you, den2k88, I believe you mean the Chiara murder.
I agree, the media often move the people's opinion toward a certain direction, but...you should bear in mind the "evidences" and the "reasonable" way. I personally don't think the murderer was an alien or someone escaped into the 5th dimension.
There were other murders (Perugia, Unabomber, etc) where lots of clues were indicating "a certain person". Sounds you nice seeing those people free as anyone else?
Hope you'll mean.
Ciao
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And the pendulum swings both ways...
In the '90s, the government passed legislation saying the work force must match the ethnic diversity of the region, so, employees were instructed to fill out a survey to determine their gender and ethnic background to ensure compliance.
Note: employees self volunteered information with no verification.
A co-worker (female, ethic minority) identified herself as male, ethnic MAJORITY to skew the results and force the company to hire more females and more ethnic minorities.
So... as a male, ethnic majority, neither of which I had any control over, I was effectively being told I could lose my job to placate political correctness...
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No, it just meant you were a chump for not also lying to abuse the process.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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No, I pointed out that wrongs occur regardless of ethnicity.
There was no comparison implied.
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The UK had James Hanratty (poor sod).
It's these kind of cases that convince me that a death sentence is just plain wrong.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote: he was black and he spoke with them for a few minutes
Yep, sounds suspicious!
Not everyone needs a reason though.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.
Which movie?
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Ed Miliband - Lust For Glory.
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