http://www.anonymong.org Blind in one ear and deaf in one eye Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:52:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.anonymong.org/2012/02/03/photographing-buses/ http://www.anonymong.org/2012/02/03/photographing-buses/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:41:21 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=2230 I was recently linked to an article that seemed to be bad news for photographers (sorry I forget who by), which I reposted on Facebook. I would have left it there, but for one of the comments I got which observed that the judgement was based on not the similarity of the pictures but on [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2012/02/03/photographing-buses/feed/ 0 http://www.anonymong.org/2012/01/18/internet-black-out/ http://www.anonymong.org/2012/01/18/internet-black-out/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:07:10 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=2193 I didn’t take part in the Internet blackout today, as I’m a lazy sod and also I’m just back at work after a very hard weeks drinking. However I would note that as many many people have observed: This is very similar to our RIPA act, but from a country with more power to break [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2012/01/18/internet-black-out/feed/ 0 http://www.anonymong.org/2012/01/12/sneaky-sneaky-very-sneaky-2/ http://www.anonymong.org/2012/01/12/sneaky-sneaky-very-sneaky-2/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:43:28 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=2165 Once again a significant “consultation” that no body new about. It would seem that to they’d like to give the police yet more power: “This three-part consultation seeks your views on the areas of police powers which the government is committed to reviewing: – the relevance of the word ‘insulting‘ in section 5 of the [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2012/01/12/sneaky-sneaky-very-sneaky-2/feed/ 5 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/12/17/how-laws-really-work/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/12/17/how-laws-really-work/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:48:22 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=2124 Once more I’m stealing content via the much better informed Katabasis, but hey it’s easier than writing my own content :) So without further ado, “The Ugly Face of Tyranny” by Matt Giwer (which means Katabasis borrowed it as well). Any law the electorate sees as being open to being perverted from its original intent [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/12/17/how-laws-really-work/feed/ 0 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/11/09/a-new-bill-of-rights/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/11/09/a-new-bill-of-rights/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:51:04 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=2057 Friday see’s the end of the consultation period for our new bill of rights, or as Mr Cameron would have it our bill of rights, as he seems to be unaware of the existing documents which form our constitution (H/T]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/11/09/a-new-bill-of-rights/feed/ 0 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/09/01/breaking-the-seal/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/09/01/breaking-the-seal/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:40:47 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1922 Over in Ireland they are apparently going to remove the legal protection afforded to things told in the confessional – for the sake of the children of course. At the moment it’s just in the case of someone confessing to “sexual abuse” where there is planned to be mandatory reporting required. Now I’d hope that [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/09/01/breaking-the-seal/feed/ 1 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/08/18/how-to-bring-back-smoking-in-pubs/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/08/18/how-to-bring-back-smoking-in-pubs/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:30:48 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1907 An article in the register the other day has given me an idea as to how one might bring back smoking in pubs without any need for a change in the law. The article reports that an American bar has gone self service by use of RFID cards (contactless payment cards) and flow control pumps. [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/08/18/how-to-bring-back-smoking-in-pubs/feed/ 5 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/06/14/happy-birthday-magna-carta/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/06/14/happy-birthday-magna-carta/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:47:15 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1749 Today is the 796th anniversary of the first great charter – the magna carta of 1215. Now some people think that it’s pretty much a busted flush these days, having been all but entirely repealed. Others seem to think that it’s irrelevant because we’re now a parliamentary democracy though the evidence suggests that despite them [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/06/14/happy-birthday-magna-carta/feed/ 4 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/05/23/the-rule-of-law/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/05/23/the-rule-of-law/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 23:21:19 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1656 Hat tip to the good Captain Ranty for the following two videos. This is a very interesting development by The Runnymede Institute to address the constitutional fuck up that the last couple of Governments have made by tinkering badly with how parliament and the union are formed. The Videos cover their cahllenge to the illegal [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/05/23/the-rule-of-law/feed/ 1 http://www.anonymong.org/2011/02/07/were-all-just-a-pack-of-cards/ http://www.anonymong.org/2011/02/07/were-all-just-a-pack-of-cards/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:40:18 +0000 Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/?p=1478 Via the erudite pen of Captain Ranty it would seem that at least one Judge is inclined to agree with the freeman argument that it’s out legal fictions created with our birth certificates that are liable for Council tax and the like and not us. The Judge is at the very least uncertain enough to [...]]]> http://www.anonymong.org/2011/02/07/were-all-just-a-pack-of-cards/feed/ 2