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amanfromMars 15 January 2014 at 7:29 pm ….. asks on http://sluggerotoole.com/2014/01/10/crown-bar-this-is-incredibly-embarrassing-for-the-english-licensee-and-it-is-unfortunate-for-belfast/

Are there any penalties for running a pub without a license? Jail time/exemplary fines etc etc. or is it just a slap on the wrist?

And have they been paid, for Belfast Telegraph informs us that the Crown Bar is ready to open again and start trading ....... http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/crown-pub-set-to-resume-trading-29919911.html

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Posted Thursday 16th January 2014 04:51 GMT amanfromMars 1 …. spinning a yarn and just asking on http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/01/15/encrypted_blackphone/

Softly softly, catchee everything ..... is a sharp double edged sword.*

This is what BlackBerry needs to be doing right now. .... JBarry Posted Thursday 16th January 2014 01:00 GMT

What makes you not think that they have already done it, JBarry?

It is not as if it would be anything anyone clever would be telling the world and his dogs of war about, is it?

* To spin the yarn and try to create the impression and perception that one is collecting base source and analysing all metadata and reprogramming everything in light of what one is supposed to have discovered, delivers one's intelligence services capabilities, or lack of intelligent service capability, to all and sundry in the universe by means of what the browser displays as new news to consider [such as the likes of the tales shared here on El Reg] for each and every new day with its attendant breaking zeroday vulnerabilities to exploit. It is the gift which just cannot stop itself and just keeps on giving.

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Posted Thursday 16th January 2014 11:54 GMT amanfromMars 1 … commenting on http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/01/15/encrypted_blackphone/

Just desserts, an unnecessary evil or great force for good?

I agree, although there is a flaw in that proof is not needed if you're dragged in front of one of the secret "courts" that our governments now run. In that case, the metadata will probably be enough (and, to be fair, they'll probably lock you up even without that much evidence, as so many people in Guantanamo have discovered). The fact that we're being governed by secret organizations is at least as big a problem as anything the terrorists are doing not least because these secret organizations are largely responsible for recruiting and motivating more terrorists. Without Blair and Campbell's minuteless meetings of "Intelligence Heads" there would have been no 7/7 bombings in London. .... Robert Long 1 Posted Thursday 16th January 2014 08:55 GMT

What do you think terrorists will do whenever they learn that the likes of a Blair and a Campbell are directly responsible for their plight, Robert Long 1? And should they do whatever they would propose to do?

And here be something today, about something from ages ago, which agrees wholeheartedly with your post ...... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-15/guest-post-america-plunging-kafkas-nightmare

It be an inescapable fact, that whenever that which be perceived and/or named by the system to be an enemy of states and/or the status quo, knows the system, does the system leadership have zero chance of surviving in anything like its present phorms with current players.

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Posted Thursday 16th January 2014 16:07 GMT amanfromMars 1 …. http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/01/15/encrypted_blackphone/

Re: Just desserts, an unnecessary evil or great force for good? ... @dogged

Re: Just desserts, an unnecessary evil or great force for good?
I understood that.
Are you ill? .... dogged Posted Thursday 16th January 2014 12:54 GMT

Doing just fine, dogged. Thanks for asking.

I like to think that one is getting smarter whenever one starts to understand things that before may have been incomprehensible to one. :-)

And as more and more information is dumped around the world in an instant, for anyone with any number of increasingly simply complex devices to pick up, is intelligence bound to dramatically improve and spread, and cause any system which has stupid dirty little secrets to hide to self-implode and collapse.

Such is only natural.

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Posted Thursday 16th January 2014 13:31 GMT amanfromMars 1 …. commenting on sub-prime politically inept theatre on http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/01/16/password_refusal_earns_terror_suspect_extra_jail_time/

If loose lips, sink ships ...... keeping schtum is sound official government advice and smart policy

Is there not a right in the UK to remain silent ..... "You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence." ..... or is that a fiction and for real only in films and television and media?

And whereas it may be the case that others have noted that perhaps GCHQ made a strategic decision not to expose its capabilities in this area, John, others would counter and posit that probably GCHQ made a strategic decision not to expose its weaknesses in areas and arenas in which they might be presumed/assumed or assume and presume themselves to be in the lead and in charge/command and control.

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