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Re: Bad reporting

June 28th, 2017, 11:06 am

P.S. To eat an oyster, all you need to do is run a shell script that calls Perl. ;-)
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Re: Bad reporting

June 28th, 2017, 11:11 am

"Luftwaffe ace flies in Spitfire
One of Germany's most highly decorated World War Two pilots has achieved a long-held ambition - to fly in a Spitfire.
Hugo Broch, 95, took to the skies over Kent, where the RAF held the line during the Battle of Britain.
He was credited with 81 victories in 324 missions during the war."

Victories? Do they mean "kills"? Or were they playing tennis?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-4042674 ... n-spitfire
The dad of a friend was in RAF. He was happy that Hitler's darling,  the pompous Fieldmarshall was head of the Luftwaffe and not the Desert Fox.. 
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Re: Bad reporting

June 28th, 2017, 12:00 pm

P.S. To eat an oyster, all you need to do is run a shell script that calls Perl. ;-)
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Well sed.
 
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Re: Bad reporting

June 28th, 2017, 12:04 pm

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Well sed.
Sed he, not without vim.

ad sum mores?
 
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Re: Bad reporting

June 28th, 2017, 12:16 pm

Linux people are a bunch of mutts and pine nuts.
 
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Re: Bad reporting

June 28th, 2017, 12:30 pm

Linux people are a bunch of mutts and pine nuts.
They come from pine cones (UNIX).
 
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Re: Bad reporting

July 23rd, 2017, 6:15 am

Mystery space signal is solved (It’s not aliens)

Ross 128,  a red dwarf 11 light years away
The signal, which has been formally named “Weird!” was interference from a distant satellite.
That sounds pretty definitive
But if you read the article,
“We are now confident about the source of the Weird! Signal,” Mendez wrote.
“The best explanation is that the signals are transmissions from one or more geostationary satellites.”
which means they think but don't know.
And it sounds like they don't even know which satellites are causing the interference, if indeed it is a satellite.
Mystery NOT solved
 
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Re: Bad reporting

October 20th, 2017, 9:04 am

BBC reporter asks JC Drunker, "...people in the UK are worried about no deal. What do you say..."

Some of us are worried about a deal at any cost (as advocated by the Free-Money-For-All-And-The-Moon-On-A-Stick Labour Party). The BBC have given up all pretense at being unbiased.
 
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October 20th, 2017, 9:59 am

Well, it's called contingency planning. It's a very simple question. A 6-year could understand it. Get me a 6-year old.

Did you see Michael Hesseltine on BBC2 last night?

There was a time when the Conservatives were pro-EU big time (even Churchill). Where did it all go wrong?
Another random thought is if UK will still sponsor the EastEuropeanSong Fest?

The BREXITers are afraid of the BBC. They use too many adjectives and adverbs.
 
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Re: Bad reporting

October 20th, 2017, 10:54 am

Ok, show me ten times when a BBC reporter has asked about the fear of "A deal at any cost." 

You want to ask a six-year old, how about "If you want your 10p pocket money then you've got to make your bed, tidy your room, make dinner, clean the toilets,..." You might go for that, Corbyn definitely would, but it would have to be a pretty stupid six-year old who accepted it!

And it looks like there is no contingency planning because all the bubble inhabitees will accept any deal or they'll try to get out of Brexit. They need their slave labour (a.k.a. Eastern Europeans).
 
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Re: Bad reporting

October 20th, 2017, 11:56 am

What BBC needs are programs like this.

After two successful series in 1962 and 1963, the programme did not return in 1964. The reason given by the BBC was that 1964 was an election year and political material could compromise the corporation's impartiality.

Not a risk anymore?

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Re: Bad reporting

December 13th, 2017, 6:10 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42336527

Read about the recent report on the abuse etc. that politicians have to put up with. Read about one Labour politician imagining what might happen to him (nothing actually has). Read about the abuse that another (incredibly stupid) Labour politician receives.

No mention by the BBC that Conservatives are more likely to be abused than Labour. Funny that.
 
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Re: Bad reporting

December 13th, 2017, 6:49 pm

The left is susceptible to illusions of grandeur?
 
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Re: Bad reporting

December 13th, 2017, 6:58 pm

I don't think so. 

More like:

1. Paranoia
2. Belief in conspiracy theories. (Whereas this is shared by the far right even the slightly leftist tend to have this quality.)
3. Know-it-all
4. Belief that someone or some institution knows best
5. Belief in free speech as long as you say what they want you to say
 
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Re: Bad reporting

December 13th, 2017, 11:46 pm

6. The left love slogans (i have some bootleg 80s tapes where AS goes into more detail on these topics 1..5..)

  
7. Political vetting. (can't blame the Tories on that count).