buster81
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Good luck at the library.
Good luck at the library.
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Actually, you Colonials can help we undeserving Brits.
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David Turner
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I just checked with the library' on-line. Would you believe it? The book is not on the stock-list.
So, I ordered it. They will check whether it is available anywhere within the library service.
Ho hum!
I just checked with the library' on-line. Would you believe it? The book is not on the stock-list.
So, I ordered it. They will check whether it is available anywhere within the library service.
Ho hum!
Task Force 16
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David Turner wrote:
David Turner wrote:
Given the content of teh book, I'd be rather surprised if it hasn't been banned in GB.
David Turner
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I'll check out Amazon. Nearly Chrimbo, now, and I always ask for books...or stuff to do with model planes. (another facet of my sad, English, life)
Yep, it's there. About £35 and posted all the way from...New York.
It's on my wishlist.
The last time that I bought something from the US, I was absolutely hammered by our Customs and Postal services.
I'll check out Amazon. Nearly Chrimbo, now, and I always ask for books...or stuff to do with model planes. (another facet of my sad, English, life)
Yep, it's there. About £35 and posted all the way from...New York.
It's on my wishlist.
The last time that I bought something from the US, I was absolutely hammered by our Customs and Postal services.
marshaul
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David Turner wrote:
David Turner wrote:
One of the more odious features of being a foreigner in the UK. I know from tortuous experience.
buster81
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It's available online for free. Just search for the title. Downloadit, memorize, and discard. You wouldn't want to get caught with such rebellious contraband. You would be forever labelled as a radical lunaticfor wanting freedom.:uhoh:
It's available online for free. Just search for the title. Downloadit, memorize, and discard. You wouldn't want to get caught with such rebellious contraband. You would be forever labelled as a radical lunaticfor wanting freedom.:uhoh:
David Turner
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Got it!
Thanks.
Now, I really must get some sleep. I have to be up in 32 minutes.
Got it!
Thanks.
Now, I really must get some sleep. I have to be up in 32 minutes.
David Turner
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Started to read Mark Jefferson's book. Only at page 10, but most impressed. He could be describing the UK, right now.
It's a bit unsettling, tbh.
Started to read Mark Jefferson's book. Only at page 10, but most impressed. He could be describing the UK, right now.
It's a bit unsettling, tbh.
buster81
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I've heard it's a good piece of fiction...kindof like a spy novel. I've never read it, but someday, maybe I'll have the time.
I've heard it's a good piece of fiction...kindof like a spy novel. I've never read it, but someday, maybe I'll have the time.
suntzu
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David Turner wrote:
But if we don't exercise our rights--they will take them away.
Of course I visit various LE boards to get a feel for the way the people are viewed--and the things they say are very revealing.
David Turner wrote:
I'm sure the CIA monitors this site as well--as does most likely the FBI, and various LE agencies trying to get a feel for what the people think, although legally the CIA is forbidden to carry out domestic intelligence, I don't see anything stopping a citizen from exploring a website--so more than likely they do monitor the site.
But if we don't exercise our rights--they will take them away.
Of course I visit various LE boards to get a feel for the way the people are viewed--and the things they say are very revealing.
suntzu
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David Turner wrote:
David Turner wrote:
Go to a local book store--pay cash--no library, no records--no trail and no red flags. That is if you are security conscious.
suntzu
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buster81 wrote:
Don't forget to erase your hard drive--and if you have the proper utility--zero fill the drive--that and then low level format it and then re-zero fill it.
You remember Orwells' 1984--subversive, freedom loving, freedom wanting individuals who question what their government tells them are dealt with harshly...
Personally I think V For Vendetta describes the UK much better though at this point in history.
buster81 wrote:
Don't forget to erase your hard drive--and if you have the proper utility--zero fill the drive--that and then low level format it and then re-zero fill it.
You remember Orwells' 1984--subversive, freedom loving, freedom wanting individuals who question what their government tells them are dealt with harshly...
Personally I think V For Vendetta describes the UK much better though at this point in history.
buster81
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suntzu wrote:
No need. I've never downloaded, read, seen, or otherwise even thought about this piece. Of course, I've been told it's a good read.
On another front, I use a milspec, 7 pass disk eraser just to make sure my collection ofReese Witherspoonpictures doesn't get discovered.
suntzu wrote:
No need. I've never downloaded, read, seen, or otherwise even thought about this piece. Of course, I've been told it's a good read.
On another front, I use a milspec, 7 pass disk eraser just to make sure my collection ofReese Witherspoonpictures doesn't get discovered.
David Turner
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V for Vendetta.
Do you read Old Holborn's blog spot, then?
http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/
V for Vendetta.
Do you read Old Holborn's blog spot, then?
http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/
suntzu
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David Turner wrote:
BUT I like it
When the people have had enough--things will change. HOWEVER, as our founders noted so well in the Declaration of Independence that : all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
And so we see today that a combination of both Orwells 1984 and V for Vendetta coming alive before our very eyes--not just in the UK, but in the US as well. And as the enemies of our Constitution are vigilantly going about to strip us of our unalienable rights, so we must be vigilant to challenge them at every opportunity. Tyranny will prevail as long as the people will put up with it.
David Turner wrote:
I have never seen his blog..until today...
BUT I like it
When the people have had enough--things will change. HOWEVER, as our founders noted so well in the Declaration of Independence that : all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
And so we see today that a combination of both Orwells 1984 and V for Vendetta coming alive before our very eyes--not just in the UK, but in the US as well. And as the enemies of our Constitution are vigilantly going about to strip us of our unalienable rights, so we must be vigilant to challenge them at every opportunity. Tyranny will prevail as long as the people will put up with it.
DMWyatt
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DEROS72 wrote:
DEROS72 wrote:
Animal Farm is an interesting read, but I'd say both the U.K. and U.S. are beyond the point where the pigs are walking upright. In the U.S. poor old Boxer was used to hold together the NFA in 1934, a decade before Animal Farm was even published.