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Govt promises unemployed free laptops, net access, websites

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@ 'Fucktards' AC

Hear Hear, well said, that man.

I too had the pleasure of being unemployed recently, and figured after paying my taxes for 20 years I may as well sign on while looking. The major problem I ecountered was that the staff at the job centre are all clueless fuckwits. I turned up on my first signing day in my best suit, CV in hand expecting to sit down with a professional who would assist me in finding a job. What a got was a blank look, a shuffle of papers and an instruction to return in a fortnight. No assistance, no questions on what I was doing to find a job. Nothing. And dear God, don't ask them for assistance with paying for travelling to an interview; they demand to speak to the person who interviewed you to ensure you turned up. Yeah, I'm sure that having some asshat call up to check you bothered getting there is going to help your chances. It's unbelievable. If you do get to speak to someone about the type of work you're looking for, it gets worse since they know nothing about anything beyond the most basic of job types.

Luckily I found a job after 6 weeks (no thanks to the job centre), but I feel your pain, AC, and wish you well in your search.

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UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files

Cohkka
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@ ForthIsNotDead

As someone else has already said, terrorism is just the fallout from living in a free society. Whilever we have one, there are going to be people that we've either irked, or are just generally nasy pieces of work who want to blow us up/shoot us/drop pianos on our heads. Whatever. Yes, it's a tragic loss of life when it happens, and yes we should take *sensible* measures to prevent them from doing it, and hit them with the full force of the law if we catch them. What we don't do is take *every* measure to stop them, because to do so means you no longer live in a free society, you can't, the two things are mutually exclusive.

What people like yourself need to do is stop pissing in your pants every time you hear boogie-man bin laden or his cohorts is on the prowl again. Suck it up, mate, freedom comes at a price and that price is risk. Last time I checked, you are still more likely to die putting your trousers on in the morning than you are to be killed by a terrorist. Your fear is utterly irrational.

As for the piffle about him getting what he deserved because seemed a bit dodgy. Seriously, wow, that's staggeringly short sighted of you. So he acted suspiciously? Suspect of what, exactly? The police didn't have a clue what they were looking for, they just fingered him as a bit off, didn't like his attitude, and threw not just the book, but the entire library at him.

No, I'm sorry, you're the idiot in this one.

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