Yay, some doom

[Menelaus]

I find his music torturous

Understandable but if you've ever seen him live (I've only seen him live once) he puts on an excellent show.

[Pondlife]

Terrorists are known to use multiple identities, but then so does Meat Loaf - does that make him a terrorist?

Well he would do anything for love so who knows.*



*puts coat on and quietly slips out the back

[suityou01]

Good picture of brown on the beeb

Look part way down the story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8033388.stm

[Mich the Tester]

Yep. I wish to remain anonymous, under the radar, off their databases

You can’t. Picture it this way; you have hidden a valuable golden needle in a small pile of hay on a table in your garden, and you wish to avoid it being found by anyone other than yourself. You can’t just make it vanish without losing your valuable needle. What you can do is make the haystack so big that nobody else will ever find it. Obviously, you’ll need to know the precise location yourself, but just forgetting my crap analogy, you’re unlikely to forget your own name other than on Friday or Saturday nights at the pub, when it might be convenient to do so.

[Menelaus]

You can’t. Picture it this way; you have hidden a valuable golden needle in a small pile of hay on a table in your garden, and you wish to avoid it being found by anyone other than yourself. You can’t just make it vanish without losing your valuable needle. What you can do is make the haystack so big that nobody else will ever find it. Obviously, you’ll need to know the precise location yourself, but just forgetting my crap analogy, you’re unlikely to forget your own name other than on Friday or Saturday nights at the pub, when it might be convenient to do so.

...and, scarily enough, some of my work in the past (and some of the research I'm doing in my spare time ) is to identify the one "good" in a sea of "bad" (and the opposite is true, naturally) using Bayesian techniques.

[Pogle]

Understandable but if you've ever seen him live (I've only seen him live once) he puts on an excellent show.

When I was an art student in Cardiff my house mate LOVED meatloaf and played that efffing bat out of hell album all the efffing time.
As a consequence I hate it and him.

I think its called aversion therapy

[Mich the Tester]

...and, scarily enough, some of my work in the past (and some of the research I'm doing in my spare time ) is to identify the one "good" in a sea of "bad" (and the opposite is true, naturally) using Bayesian techniques.

Of course, I don´t have much faith in the British public to actually join in this program of peaceful civil disobedience, seeing as I suspect the general public are a bunch of lily livered wimps who wouldn´t have the spine to stand up to an aggressive earthworm threatening them with a blade of grass. People should not fear their government. The government should fear the people. Unfortunately ´the people´ are collectively about as frightening for the authorities as a herd of sheep on valium.

[Mich the Tester]

...and, scarily enough, some of my work in the past (and some of the research I'm doing in my spare time ) is to identify the one "good" in a sea of "bad" (and the opposite is true, naturally) using Bayesian techniques.

Surely this technique relies on the definition of 'good' and 'bad'. By mixing up identities of each and providing multiple identities for all, the definition of good or bad is shot to pieces as every candidate will be a rough mixture of good and bad. If you get my drift.

[Menelaus]

Of course, I don´t have much faith in the British public to actually join in this program of peaceful civil disobedience, seeing as I suspect the general public are a bunch of lily livered wimps who wouldn´t have the spine to stand up to an aggressive earthworm threatening them with a blade of grass. People should not fear their government. The government should fear the people. Unfortunately ´the people´ are collectively about as frightening for the authorities as a herd of sheep on valium.

The line from V is brilliant. Unfortunately, with the trigger-happy fcukwits (sorry, police), shouting this at the Houses of Parliament would likely ensure a high velocity injection of lead.

[thelace]

I still don't get this whole identity card tulipe....

So potential terrorists will apply for identity cards???

Or will the have forged documents, just like they do with passposts, driving licences, etc?