Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread

[gwnn]

great night in CL, both ties could have been turned around until the very last minute.

 

unfortunately it is all but certain that Barcelona will win it, I saw Manchester as a last possible contender.

[Aberlour10]

ManU seemed to forget once again that a match vs Bayern has always fully 90 min a not 45, no matter you lead vs them 3-0, they always try to fight back.

[gwnn]

Alcoholic and racist wow? :)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fWLjrWfYQ0

[gwnn]

I thought this was pretty funny

 

http://irishsoccerinsider.wordpress.com/20...r-box-incident/

[jjbrr]

lol if real

[Aberlour10]

Is There Anybody Out There? :)

[jjbrr]

Is There Anybody In There?

[jjbrr]

Just Nod If You Can Hear Me

[Aberlour10]

Hypothetical case:

 

Somebody has a CD with  swiss bank account-data of 1500 US-citiziens and want to sell it for 1 mill bucks US authorities (IRS?)

The question is: Is US treasury authorities allowed to buy such stolen material and use it legal to investigate trespasses.???

 

There is a real, similar case in Germany at the moment.

I think that generally if police purchase information then that may make the information suspect but if it turns out to hold up then I don't think the fact that it was purchased makes it unusable in court. But then usually purchased information is on a small scale, like from a stoolie. I guess the cited case is really large scale stool pigeoning and maybe scale matters. Or not. If the guy trying to sell this info is still alive, I'm impressed.

In the real case in Germany, somebody offers 1500 files with accounts data from the swiss UBS bank....all germans customers....the price for the deal = 2,5 mill €

The finance authorities checked for example 5 of these files...they mean each of these 5 germans should pay about €1 million on taxes etc...

The experts mean the whole deal will bring german state about 100-200 mill ....if the minister of finance decide to buy it.

 

Two years ago they bought stolen data in Lichtenstein...it brought more then 100 mill on taxes till now.

post scriptum, 3 months later...

 

1 CD has been really bought by german goverment,

 

and this small piece of plastic sparked off till now:

 

-more then 1000 preliminary inquries

-12000-13000 self-indictments

-800 - 1000 mill € on taxes

[gwnn]

oh the world is just spinnin and spinnin

[Winstonm]

Because the world is round

[Al_U_Card]

Because the world is round

More an oblate spheroid..... <_<

[Al_U_Card]

Because the world is round

If we consider that the gravitational constant "g" applies, we could consider the earth to be "g"round.... <_<

[blackshoe]

There is no gravity - the Earth sucks. -- The Black Hole, superhero.

[jjbrr]

If it didn't suck we'd all fall off

[Winstonm]

Because the world is an oblate spheroid

it turns me on

 

I don't know....just doesn't have the same ring to it....

[gwnn]

in footie they should award more indirect FKs for fouls in the penalty box, it just seems they dive too much and "force the foul" and there is this ridiculous notion of "well yes it was a foul but it wasn't really enough to warrant a penalty"

[Lobowolf]

If it didn't suck we'd all fall off

Only the people on the bottom. If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, you'd be fine.

[y66]

For Andrew Bacevich fans: April 9 interview with Bill Moyers on Afghanistan.

 

Andrew Sullivan quotes this part on his blog today:

Osama bin Laden is not Adolf Hitler. Al-Qaeda is not Nazi Germany. Al-Qaeda poses a threat. It does not pose an existential threat. We should view Al-Qaeda as the equivalent of an international criminal conspiracy. Sort of a mafia that in some way or another draws its energy or legitimacy from a distorted understanding of a particular religious tradition.

 

And as with any other international criminal conspiracy, the proper response is a police effort. I mean, a ruthless, sustained, international police effort to identify the thugs, root out the networks and destroy it. Something that would take a long period of time and would no more succeed fully in eliminating the threat than the NYPD is able to fully eliminate criminality in New York City.

[Al_U_Card]

Gee, religion and religious philosophies being perverted and leading to conflict....how can that be???

[gwnn]

I never knew how multilaterally talented these lads really are!

 

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/bl...icle385585.html

[Winstonm]

For Andrew Bacevich fans: April 9 interview with Bill Moyers on Afghanistan.

 

Andrew Sullivan quotes this part on his blog today:

Osama bin Laden is not Adolf Hitler. Al-Qaeda is not Nazi Germany. Al-Qaeda poses a threat. It does not pose an existential threat. We should view Al-Qaeda as the equivalent of an international criminal conspiracy. Sort of a mafia that in some way or another draws its energy or legitimacy from a distorted understanding of a particular religious tradition.

 

And as with any other international criminal conspiracy, the proper response is a police effort. I mean, a ruthless, sustained, international police effort to identify the thugs, root out the networks and destroy it. Something that would take a long period of time and would no more succeed fully in eliminating the threat than the NYPD is able to fully eliminate criminality in New York City.

Please, do not litter the landscape with facts and rational conclusions - Liz Cheney

[Winstonm]

If it didn't suck we'd all fall off

Only the people on the bottom. If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, you'd be fine.

That is, unless it snows. They always turn those globes upside down and shake them to make it snow.

[Lobowolf]

For Andrew Bacevich fans: April 9 interview with Bill Moyers on Afghanistan.

 

Andrew Sullivan quotes this part on his blog today:

Osama bin Laden is not Adolf Hitler. Al-Qaeda is not Nazi Germany. Al-Qaeda poses a threat. It does not pose an existential threat. We should view Al-Qaeda as the equivalent of an international criminal conspiracy. Sort of a mafia that in some way or another draws its energy or legitimacy from a distorted understanding of a particular religious tradition.

 

And as with any other international criminal conspiracy, the proper response is a police effort. I mean, a ruthless, sustained, international police effort to identify the thugs, root out the networks and destroy it. Something that would take a long period of time and would no more succeed fully in eliminating the threat than the NYPD is able to fully eliminate criminality in New York City.

Please, do not litter the landscape with facts and rational conclusions - Liz Cheney

Perhaps, in the words of Officer Tom Hansen, they could issue "a stern warning."

[jjbrr]

stupid question:

 

can someone educate me about roasting pans?

 

will a $25 thing from walmart work or should i get a good one for an extra $50 bucks or something? what's the difference?

 

i'm craving chicken ldo.